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Entrepreneurship

Grad student knocks down obstacles to succeed in business and school

By Kathy QuirkJuly 9, 2021Campus & CommunityStudents

Erica Herrera has persevered through problems that would sink many people, getting a degree from UWM and building a successful business. Now, she’s enrolled in the Executive MBA program and looking for more.

Strategic partnerships are helping UWM prepare for the future

By Laura OttoJune 3, 2021Campus & CommunityCampus News

UWM is building future-focused strategic partnerships with both local and international companies and engaging with them in new ways, Chancellor Mark Mone told a committee of the UW System Board of Regents meeting at UWM on June 3.

Student entrepreneurs win seed funding in New Ventures competition

By Laura OttoMay 24, 2021Business & World AffairsEducation

Winners of the New Ventures Business Plan Competition hosted by UWM’s Lubar School of Business include a tool handle to aid female do-it-yourselfers, a 360-degree-view digital product and a company that helps women find their path in life.

UWM scientists find an artificial intelligence solution for stubborn wounds

By Laura OttoMay 20, 2021Health

Health professionals treating hard-to-heal wounds have long been saddled with inadequate tools. Now, two UWM researchers have invented a better way.

UWM Research Foundation awards bridge grants to 5 startups

By Laura OttoMay 13, 2021Campus & CommunityCampus News

Five UWM startup companies have been awarded the first round of funding from the UWM Research Foundation’s new bridge grant program, which leverages a $200,000 matching grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation that was announced last year.

Historian tells a story of Black capitalism through beer

By Kathy QuirkMarch 12, 2021Business & World AffairsBusiness

For John Harry, a graduate student in history at UWM, the story of Peoples Brewery in Oshkosh, Wisconsin’s first and only Black-owned brewery, is a way to tell the history of how Black entrepreneurs tried to make a place for themselves in society.

Federal grant advances tool to evaluate home environment for people with disabilities

By Laura OttoJanuary 8, 2021Health

The pandemic has prompted an explosion of remote work. But for those with disabilities, working from home can be fraught with challenges. UWM researchers are helping create a tool to identify those problems.

UWM physicists to work with Argonne National Lab on a breakthrough battery material

By Laura OttoDecember 1, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded funding to a startup launched by two UWM professors for a collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago on research that will help their company commercialize the material.

UWM Research Foundation announces new Catalyst Grants

By Laura OttoAugust 24, 2020Campus & CommunityCampus News

The grants totaling $200,000 back projects focused on 3D concrete printing, removal of PFAS contamination from the environment, better aquaculture filtration, a novel biological pesticide for crops and a smartphone app for wound healing.

Company licenses drug development compounds from UWM Research Foundation

By Laura OttoAugust 13, 2020

The newly licensed compounds, developed by the laboratory of James Cook, act on a particular neurotransmitter receptor in the brain, which has shown promise for treatment of epilepsy and other convulsant disorders. 

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