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Engineering, nursing ‘hackathon’ explores solutions to health care issues

by Francesca
Engineering, Healthcare, News, NSF I-Corps Program
11/03/2017
A National Science Foundation grant is helping UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science work with other disciplines on campus to bring more women and underrepresented groups into innovation. In January, UWM became one of eight National Science Foundation I-Corps sites to receive $30,000 to promote inclusion of underrepresented populations in the National Innovation Network.
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Establishing the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center at UWM

by Francesca
Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, Partnerships
11/02/2017
On this week’s program, a discussion of the critical need for innovation and entrepreneurship in Milwaukee and the region. WUWM’s Dave Edwards talks with UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone; Julia Taylor, president of the Greater Milwaukee Committee; and Sheldon Lubar. Mr. Lubar and his family donated $10 million to UWM to establish the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center.
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How High-Tech Entrepreneurs Are Energizing Milwaukee

by Francesca
Engineering, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, NSF I-Corps Program, Partnerships
10/31/2017
If you sense that something is stirring or hear a buzz, it might just be the sound of Milwaukee’s high-tech community building the foundation for a new entrepreneurial economy. In the past several years, an outcropping of high-tech entrepreneurs has emerged here, universities have gone all out to teach entrepreneurial skills, and established companies are on board to support this emerging startup ecosystem. But perceptions change slowly, as the underlying reality shifts.
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UWM-developed app helps protect patients’ brains during surgery

by Francesca
Engineering, Healthcare, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, Partnerships
10/05/2017
The work of some UWM students is literally helping make people’s lives better. The students in UWM’s App Brewery worked with doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin to develop an app that helps guide doctors during the delicate process of brain surgery. Incredibly, patients are awake during the surgery. The app, called NeuroMapper, is a tablet-based tool that aids surgeons who are removing a tumor or tissue by helping them test whether they are encroaching on tissue that would impair functions if removed.
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Grant funds UWM research to mass-produce water sensors

by Francesca
Engineering, Nanotechnology, News, NSF I-Corps Program, Sensors, Water
09/05/2017
A graphene-based water sensor developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee outperforms current technologies for sensing speed, accuracy and sensitivity – exactly what’s needed to continuously monitor drinking water for miniscule traces of contaminants like lead. But the cost of mass-producing these tiny sensors using traditional methods is high.
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