OBE’s Fall 2022 Update

OBE keeps you up to date through our quarterly e-newsletter; here’s the latest issue for Fall 2022.

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New chancellor listening, learning throughout the state

Since becoming leader of UW–Madison, Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin has taken a deep dive into all things Wisconsin. In her first days on campus, she took time to meet with students, faculty, administrators, staff, and members of the Madison community. To learn more about UW–Madison’s impact on the state and its economy, she visited Milwaukee and parts of central Wisconsin, southwestern Wisconsin, northwestern Wisconsin, and northeastern Wisconsin—including a visit to OBE partner US Venture, which we’ll highlight in our next newsletter.

PPG, campus partners team up on mural painting

In August, volunteers gathered at the UW South Madison Partnership to paint murals designed by Madison-based artist and UW–Madison alumna Lilada Gee. This project, developed in collaboration with the paint company PPG’s Colorful Communities program, was designed to inspire the community and families that use the location for programming. Read more about the partnership.

Wisconsin School of Business opens new Multicultural Center

On September 9, 2022, the Wisconsin School of Business celebrated the grand opening of its Multicultural Center. Previously, the Kemper Foundation made a generous commitment to help support the Kemper Foundation Multicultural Directorship position and a new undergraduate scholarship program for WSB students from underrepresented populations.

Find out more about the benefits of strategic investment in UW–Madison.

Connect with UW–Madison students at career events

UW–Madison’s Fall Career & Internship Fair, pictured above, connected students and recent alumni of all majors with a wide range of employers. From risk and insurance to nursing, UW–Madison’s fall slate of in-person and virtual career fairs continues through November 4.Keep tabs on our Career Events page for upcoming career fairs, held each spring and fall, and find out more about connecting with UW–Madison students and recent graduates.

MS in biotech pays dividends for Wisconsin

In 2002, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health launched the Master of Science in Biotechnology to prepare students to succeed in the state’s then-nascent industry.

Twenty years later, Wisconsin has emerged as a powerhouse. About two-thirds of the program’s graduates are still in Wisconsin, at established companies such as Promega, Labcorp, Exact Sciences, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Aldevron, and Illumina, as well as startups. Read more about twenty years of biotech at UW–Madison.

Find out how OBE helps connect businesses like yours with UW–Madison research and technology.

Contest celebrates the beauty and wonder of science

UW–Madison’s annual Cool Science Image (CSI) Contest celebrates the connection between science and creativity. Open to students, staff, and faculty and sponsored by Promega Corporation, it features photos and videos of objects or phenomena from any discipline that are striking, amazing, or simply beautiful. See more of this year’s winning images.

• Wednesday, October 12, 5:30 pm, Memorial Union: The Wisconsin Innovation Awards celebrate and inspire innovation throughout the state and across all business sectors. Join sponsors including the UW–Madison Innovate Network and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) at this in-person celebration.
• Thursday, October 13, 3 pm, Computer Sciences building: The School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences (CDIS) free RED Talks series is designed to advance learning at the intersection of technology and humanity. RED Talks continue this fall with Raj Rajamani presenting “How We Created $50B of Value Using Machine Learning in Security”—register here.
• Thursday, October 13, 4 pm, Discovery Building and online: The free Entrepreneurons panel “Lessons Learned: UW–Madison Student Startup Founders Share Their Stories and Where They Go from Here,” hosted by WARF and open to the public, will offer insights for any innovator and illustrate a variety of applications for entrepreneurial thinking and skills.
• Tuesday, October 18 and Friday, October 21, online: UW–Madison faculty, staff, and student innovators: Do you have an innovation or research with potential to be a product, service or social impact solution? Attend a Discovery to Product (D2P) Open House for an overview of available support, including free trainings and mentoring. Visit their website for additional dates, times, and formats.
• Thursday, November 10, 4 pm, Computer Sciences building: Claus Moberg presents a RED Talk entitled “A Primer on the Metaverse: How and Why Roblox is Building the World’s First Large Scale Social Co-Experience Platform”—register here.

• The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (SBDC) presents First Steps to Starting a Business, a free, interactive, online class open to all those getting started as entrepreneurs. The SBDC works with business owners and entrepreneurs to facilitate business growth and improvement and to launch successful new companies, through no-cost consulting and low-cost entrepreneurial education.
• The UW E-Business Consortium and Engineering Professional Development are now part of Interdisciplinary Professional Programs (InterPro), which provides a portfolio of future-focused professional education programs and services for engineers, managers, technical professionals and partner organizations.
• The Division of Continuing Studies offers a wide variety of flexible courses, professional degrees and certificates online, hybrid, and in-person.

Contact us to learn more about how OBE can connect you with the university’s talent solutions, professional development resources, research and technology, or opportunities for strategic investment.

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