Days/Times: Wednesdays 1-3pm, starting January 21 Instructor: Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel Location: 3545 Engineering Hall Credit: 1 credit (InterEGR 797) Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning: Course Description Improv requires the ability to listen carefully, think quickly, and communicate …
NSF I-Corps Great Lakes Region Impact Report – December 2025
The NSF I-Corps Hub: Great Lakes Region has released its 2025 Impact Report, highlighting more than a decade of outcomes from research-driven entrepreneurship across the Midwest and beyond. Since 2012, I-Corps–trained teams affiliated with Great …
New National Team Solicitation
The NSF I-Corps™ Great Lakes Hub has circulated a new solicitation for National Teams that introduces several notable changes to program structure, funding, and participation rules. These updates affect timelines, team capacity, travel, and prototyping …
How 3D Powder Tech is Revolutionizing Metal Manufacturing
Laboratory testing delays and inconsistencies aren’t usually a good thing. But sometimes, those very frustrations can cause innovation to spark. UW–Madison Mechanical Engineering PhD graduate and 3D Powder Tech startup co-founder Luis Izet Escaño Vólquez talks startup formation, product development, and how to shift between being a researcher and an entrepreneur.
Startup Story: Galasys does Food Science Entrepreneurship with George Huber
Engineering professor and co-founder George Huber discusses the science of turning dairy waste into sweetener, and shares his best advice for young entrepreneurs hoping to take their academic innovations from the lab to the market.
Transcend UW Welcomes Collaborative Entrepreneurial Spirit at Inaugural Kickoff Event
On September 12, 2025, Transcend UW hosted over 250 attendees at their inaugural Kickoff Event, which brought together many of the amazing entrepreneurial programs at UW into one common space.
The Business Model Canvas for Tech Entrepreneurship with Director Dan Olszewski
We asked UW–Madison’s Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship director Dan Olszewski’s about business model canvases and how correctly applying them can help you ask the right questions about your innovation and deliver not only valuable tech, but a sound startup ready for success.
From Lab to Launch: How Entrepreneurship Amplified Emily Bick’s Impact on Global Agriculture
It is hard to find anyone who knows more about insects than Emily Bick. Not only does she possess an award-winning encyclopedic knowledge of insect trivia, but she has an extensive understanding of how bugs …
5 Questions with Professor Dan van der Weide: From Early Research to Acquisition
Celebrating UW–Madison’s Legacy of Research-Driven Innovation Before the Technology Entrepreneurship Office (TEO) was established at UW–Madison, faculty like Professor Dan van der Weide were already demonstrating how groundbreaking research can turn into marketable products …
How UW–Madison’s Startup Ecosystem is Shaping the Next Generation of Innovators: Faculty and Graduate Student Q&A
At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Technology Entrepreneurship Office (TEO) plays a pivotal role in helping graduate students and faculty translate their research into real-world impact. Through programs like WARF Accelerator, Discovery to Product (D2P), …