On April 20th, professors and students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Marquette University came together to share their innovative technologies with investors and companies from all over southeast Wisconsin to the Rockwell Automation headquarters in …
LEC Teaching Fellows and other members of the LEC team attended the VentureWell OPEN Annual Conference, which connects STEM faculty and students in an innovative atmosphere. A highlight of OPEN are its presentations – or lack thereof. Participants instead hold …
Last October, the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center in partnership with the Black Student Cultural Center hosted the third annual “Panther Pitch,” a pitch competition that invites student startups to pitch their idea to a panel of judges. For the third year …
The LEC was recently honored to welcome Dr. Richard Davidson for a conversational event on wellbeing. Dr. Davidson is best known for his groundbreaking work studying emotions and the brain, being a confidante and friend of the Dalai Lama, and …
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Foundation hosted an event in May at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center to re-launch a new program named UWM ENGAGE, which was launched in 2020. The ENGAGE program was created to further support UWM innovators who …
February is Black History Month and UWM is proud to celebrate it. UWM has participated in Black activism for many years; in 1965, at the UWM’s Union Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech regarding social and economic segregation. …
Several of the LEC’s own Innovation Interns have been leading Pop Ups on Design Thinking and Lean Launch methodologies. These workshops focus on skills that entrepreneurs can use to plan and enhance both their lives and their startups. Grace Rogers …
On December 4th, the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center kicked off the Pitching and Storytelling Startup Challenge Booster with mingling and refreshments. After each participant arrived, the booster began in full. As with many LEC events, it started with a ‘stoke’ – a short icebreaker designed …
On October 17, students were invited to pitch at a new kind of pitch competition that rewarded practiced participants and encouraged new “pitchers” to test out their skills. The UWM Black Student Cultural Center and Lubar Entrepreneurship Center introduced this new version of the Pitch In at Light Speed competition after the inaugural competition last year. Students …
In 2015 UWM’s Lubar Entrepreneurship Center partnered with Shorewood High School to introduce teachers to design thinking. Fast forward to today and over 15 elective courses have been developed from the program and are being offered at the high school. …
The sixth annual UWM Innovator’s Expo kicked off at 4:00 p.m. on May 7th, marking the second Innovator’s Expo held virtually. The annual Innovator’s Expo is a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship at UWM and in the Milwaukee community. Over …
Participants in the latest Lubar Entrepreneurship Center Pop Up on Systems Thinking, cohosted with the Institute for Systems Change and Peacebuilding, learned about Systems Thinking and how bias influences the exploration of solutions to problems. Systems Thinking is a unique, …
