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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.
On February 10, Aldevron hosted a virtual celebration of its lab facility expansion in Madison. Aldevron produces the raw materials that allow clients to make groundbreaking therapies, and its protein business unit has operated within University Research Park since 2009. The facility’s growth from 8,000 to nearly 30,000 square feet includes a new 3,500-square-foot fermentation …
Nine teams of University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty and collaborators have been awarded nearly $1 million through the American Family Funding Initiative, a research competition for data science projects. The emerging field of data science is the study, development or application of methods that reveal new insights from data. The successful projects will further research ranging from third-wave artificial intelligence to student entrepreneurship.
Chemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are working to better understand how air quality fluctuations outside of a building affect the composition of air inside. The project is a collaboration between the Department of Chemistry and Johnson Controls, which works in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and smart building technology. Changes in indoor air pollution can lead to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and cancer, and can also adversely affect pregnancies, according to the National Institutes of Health.
As part of its generous $20 million gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, American Family Insurance announced the creation of the David R. Anderson chair to direct the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute (DSI). The company’s investment in data science initiatives at UW-Madison, which was first announced in April 2019, includes $10 million in …
For more than five years, Promega has supported the annual Cool Science Image contest at UW-Madison. Campus members are invited to submit images that depict an object or phenomenon from any discipline, which could have been captured via microscopy, photography, medical imaging, schematics and science as art. Entries continue to grow year after year as …
Six first-generation students were awarded $16,000 scholarships from The Coca-Cola Foundation. Introduced in 1993, The Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship program supports students who are the first in their immediate family to attend college. The program has paid upwards of $37.5 million in scholarships to more than 3,200 students at more than 520 campuses around the …
As the field of quantum computing grows, American Family Insurance and the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin Quantum Institute (WQI) keep pace, announcing plans to work together in partnership to expand quantum computing research at UW. American Family’s new relationship with WQI is part of the company’s ongoing partnership with UW–Madison supporting students, academic programs, research, …
Four large Midwestern businesses take the stage at Day on Campus event to give an inside look at how they established and profited from their partnership with UW-Madison.
In the last year, nearly 8,500 companies have sought out students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison for their talent needs. This includes Chicago-based Morningstar Inc, contract research organization Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), Inc. and global medical technology and life sciences company GE Healthcare. Whether looking for students earlier in their college career to fill internships or recent graduates for full-time positions, these companies report that UW provides a goldmine to meet their workforce needs.