In her first few months on campus, new UW–Madison chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin has crisscrossed the state on a listening and learning tour. A number of her stops included visits to several of UW–Madison’s long-time …
Jason Gohlke
Jason Gohlke is a Marketing and Communications Strategist in University Communications at UW–Madison.
Experienced innovator to lead new Technology Entrepreneurship Office
A partnership among the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS); the College of Letters & Science; and the College of Engineering, TEO will accelerate the commercialization of UW–Madison science and technology advances by increasing the speed and frequency at which UW research is translated into usable technology. TEO will support STEM-based innovations from any faculty, staff or student at UW–Madison.
OBE’s Spring 2022 Update
OBE’s quarterly e-newsletter keeps businesses connected to UW–Madison’s forward-thinking community of students, faculty, staff, and researchers. In this issue: Kemper Foundation champions diversity and inclusion work with five-year pledge; Industrial and System Engineering (ISyE) students learn while solving real-world business problems; Chancellor honors entrepreneurs; and more.
School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences Career Fair proves popular
The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences job fair on Feb. 15 at Union South featured a variety of employers offering opportunities to talented, innovative UW–Madison graduates and recent alumni. This year’s participating companies range from rapidly growing start-ups to industry-leading enterprises, firms whose primary products are software to those using technology to support infrastructure.
Keeping you up to date on UW industry engagement
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Chancellor Rebecca Blank to become president of Northwestern University
Chancellor Rebecca Blank will leave the University of Wisconsin–Madison at the end of the 2021-22 academic year to assume the presidency of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
Northwestern University announced Blank’s selection on Monday, October 11. She will succeed Morton Schapiro as the university’s 17th president in summer 2022.
Trek partners with UW–Madison to show health, climate benefits of bicycling
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have teamed up with global bike company Trek Bicycle on a new research endeavor that demonstrates the potential health and environmental benefits of cycling. Partially funded by Trek, the research conducted by the Health Oriented Transportation Initiative (HOT) at the UW-Madison Global Health Institute shows that increasing cycling and decreasing routine driving is an effective way to improve human health and combat climate change.
Department of Chemistry and Johnson Controls pivot in key partnership to improve indoor air quality
Wisconsin-based Fortune 500 company Johnson Controls and the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry showed extraordinary creativity and flexibility in the face of the pandemic. Find out how they quickly focused their collaborative work improving indoor air quality on reducing the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
UW–Madison’s impressive economic impact
We’re proud to share UW–Madison’s most recent Economic Impact Report, which reinforces UW–Madison’s impact in both the private and public sectors and demonstrates the many ways we support prosperity across the state of Wisconsin. We thank all of our partners that have helped accomplish this achievement.
Supported by UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product (D2P) office, startups show resilience in an unprecedented time
While economic uncertainty and the changes to daily life caused by the global pandemic have created countless challenges for business owners across many sectors, startup companies founded by UW–Madison innovators have managed to demonstrate resilience. Since its inception in 2014, UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product (D2P) office has helped launch or grow 56 startup companies led by campus innovators. This number includes 27 existing startups that received assistance over the past fiscal year (July 2019 – June 2020), and 8 new startup companies recently launched during that same period.