Bunker Labs @ Wisconsin aims to support veteran entrepreneurs
By Ellie Herman | Nov. 30, 2015UW-Madison began a partnership Nov. 10 with Bunker Labs @ Wisconsin, an outlet that allows veterans pursue entrepreneurial interests in high-tech startups.
UW-Madison began a partnership Nov. 10 with Bunker Labs @ Wisconsin, an outlet that allows veterans pursue entrepreneurial interests in high-tech startups.
Global indigenous crafts often have no demand in their own communities, where developing societies can’t afford or have no need for upscale decorative art. A group of UW-Madison students help to connect those crafts with more profitable U.S. markets.
Last semester in an entrepreneurial management course, UW-Madison students Michael Braun and Chad Gaffney aced their assignment to create an entrepreneurship project that eventually turned into an actual startup.
The Henry Vilas Zoo plans to add two new animals in 2016—a young male harbor seal and an adult female orangutan—with the help of donations from the community, according to a press release.
Wisconsin’s 2015 gun deer season resulted in three deaths and looks to be the deadliest in the past five years, with only one death having resulted in the prior five years’ hunting seasons combined, according to the Wausau Daily Herald.
Madison police are looking for a suspect after an altercation on State Street early Sunday morning.
Wisconsin Democrats could have a chance at gaining control of the Senate after state Sen. Rick Gudex, R-Fond du Lac, announced Monday that he will not seek re-election.
The holiday season is beginning, and no one is more excited than professor Bassam Shakhashiri as he prepares for his annual Christmas lecture, which sold out this year after less than four days of going on sale.
As part of the largest-ever research collaboration between the Department of Public Instruction and UW-Madison, education researchers will aim to decrease ethnic and economic disparities in student opportunity and achievement across the state.
UW-Madison faculty members and state business leaders will extend their environmental research internationally Thursday at the United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties.
Members of the student organization Wisconsin Black Student Union are using their first year as a General Student Services Fund group to further their goal of fostering an environment on campus that better suits the needs of black students.
A federal court moved last Tuesday to strike down part of a controversial 2013 abortion law, saying it is unconstitutional and poses a threat to women’s health.
Elected officials in Wisconsin’s statewide offices could face term limits within five years under a bill proposed in the state Assembly that is currently circulating for co-sponsors.
As the holiday season approaches, national retail revenues skyrocket, leaving some local businesses in the dust.
Supporting Peers In Laidback Listening, a student organization focused on helping students maintain mental health, aims to use its recently raised budget to aid the group as it accommodates a recent spike in usage, according to its president Adela Tomsejova.
UW-Madison graduate student Colin Higgins’ commute to class will be longer than most next fall when he travels nearly 4,000 miles to Oxford, England, after being awarded with a Rhodes Scholarship.
Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval defended MPD’s traffic ticket citations in a blog post on their website Thursday, detailing the process of issuing tickets and the factors taken into account.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Thursday awards totaling over $764,000 for the expansion of bike trails in the Madison area.
Although many Badgers’ prayers were not answered Saturday in a tough loss to Northwestern, three super fans clad in red and white habits blessed Camp Randall to lift fallen spirits.
More than 100 people gathered Thursday night in Library Mall for a candlelight vigil to honor the lives lost in recent tragedies around the world and to promote unity on the UW-Madison campus.