I-Corps Team Feature: STEAM Milwaukee

This I-Corps Team Feature focuses on Leah Rosenbaum and Katie Schober, the minds behind STEAM Milwaukee. STEAM Milwaukee works to make science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics-based materials accessible to any student that seeks them. Read on to learn more …

NSF Program: Research Experiences for Teachers

The Lubar Entrepreneurship Center hosts many programs, the most recent of which being the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Teachers (RET). RET is a year-long program broken up into three segments focused on improving lesson plans and helping teachers …

Deep Dive: NEXT.cc

In 2007, Professor Linda Keane and Professor Mark Keane founded NEXT.cc with 15 journeys for Milwaukee Public Schools students on Saturdays. Today, NEXT.cc has grown into a global non-profit that delivers free design curriculum online with more than 350 journeys …

Deep Dive: NUMiX Materials

Founded in 2018, NUMiX Materials was created by Katie Kolhoff, Matt Heise, Ian Wiese, Olivia Lugar, and Laurelle Banta. Several team members also participated in the Innovation Corps program in order to improve themselves and their project. Read on to learn …

Exciting News for I-Corps™

Exciting News for I-Corps™ Site: UWM is part of $15M Great Lakes Innovation Hub To nurture a regional innovation ecosystem and move more discoveries from the research lab to the real world, the National Science Foundation has established a Great …

Deep Dive: MyPath

Project MyPath was created with help from Drs. Vaskar Raychoudhury, Md Osman Gani, and Roger O. Smith. Drs. Raychoudhury, Gani, and Smith all participated in the Fall 2021 Innovation Corps program in order to improve themselves and their project.  Read on to learn more about the MyPath team and …

Featured Faculty: Rebecca Holderness

Rebecca Holderness is the founder of 2 Foot Design Data (2Ft.D), a software as a service company that aids small-scale entrepreneurs in designing real estate plans. Rebecca also developed the very successful UWM Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Acting program …

Deep Dive: RoddyMedical

Lindsey Roddy, RN founded RoddyMedical after she almost lost a patient in the ICU due to a medical tubing hazard. After the close call with this patient, Lindsey discovered that her experience was not unique and that medical tubing accidents …

Summer Summary 2021

The Lubar Entrepreneurship Center was once again filled with activity this summer and buzzing with innovation and creativity. With one month of summer remaining and a new academic year rapidly approaching, we’d like to take a minute to look back …