OCR Newsroom
Groups prepare proposal for entrepreneurship certificate
November 18, 2009
The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, Initiative for Studies In Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE) and the Wisconsin School of Business are preparing a proposal for a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation.
School of Business launches Global Real Estate Master program
November 12, 2009
The Wisconsin School of Business will attract some of the brightest real estate students from the top business schools in Asia, Europe and Latin America with a highly innovative Global Real Estate Master (GREM) program.
Events planned for Global Entrepreneurship Week
November 11, 2009
The University of Wisconsin-Madison — along with more than 1,000 organizations worldwide — will mark Global Entrepreneurship Week during the week of Nov. 15.
New course shows arts students how to become entrepreneurs
November 11, 2009
Entrepreneurship programs at UW–Madison are supporting innovative thinking and actions. The Wiscontrepreneur program, the Student Venture Seed Grant Program, programs at the Wisconsin School of Business, and other programs and initiatives, recently garnered the university recognition as one of the nation’s top 25 campuses for entrepreneurship.
Author speaks on the power of young entrepreneurs
November 6, 2009
Author and veteran business journalist Donna Fenn will be at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the week of Nov. 9 as the fall Business Writer in Residence, a program that brings nationally known business writers to campus to interact with students.
Collaboration to enhance patient safety during blood collection, transfusion
October 26, 2009
The National Institute of Health (NIH), Health and Human Services has awarded a $1.4 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant to SysLogic Inc., the UW RFID Laboratory and the BloodCenter of Wisconsin.
Working with companies to safeguard foods
October 21, 2009
Kathy Glass, manager of the UW-Madison Food Research Institute’s Applied Food Safety Laboratory, studies how foodborne pathogens spread through the nation’s food system and searches for ways to stop them.
Global food entrepreneur kicks off Gilson Global Impact Series
October 19, 2009
Businesses and ventures that benefit society and solve problems that affect daily living around the world are the focus of this year's Gilson events, hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) under a new name, the Gilson Global Impact Series.
Wiscontrepreneur initiative examines entrepreneurship, athletics
October 2, 2009
The Office of Corporate Relations is sponsoring "Work Hard, Play Hard," a series of special events during the 2009-10 academic year.
Entrepreneurship nurtured with seed grants at UW-Madison
September 28, 2009
Entrepreneurship is thriving across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and four student-run businesses captured that spirit and have been awarded seed grants to nurture their startups.
