Discovery to Product: Emerging Technologies at UW-Madison get boost from state funds

Emerging technologies produced at UW–Madison will benefit from a $300,000 matching grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and an on-campus award program administered by UW–Discovery Madison’s to Product (D2P) (WEDC). D2P’s annual State Economic Engagement and Development (SEED) initiative will support eight startups formed by UW–Madison researchers pursue innovative research and commercialization. WEDC’s contribution […]

Here’s where Harvard’s engineering dean sees medtech research going

Surgical robots, artificial intelligence, and climate change mitigation are just a few of the priorities that the dean of Harvard’s engineering school is enthusiastic about. In Boston’s Allston area, the university built a 500,000-square-foot Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) for SEAS in 2020. A $500 million grant from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to establish […]

Students pitch promising business ideas to investors at VCU Demo Day

Yosef Mirakov Cohen, a senior marketing major in the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University, is concerned about animal rescue and environmental protection. C’est Lä Vé, his company, manufactures vegan snack boxes in environmentally friendly packaging. He presented his idea to investors and members of the Richmond business community last week in the hopes […]