Groundbreaking entrepreneurship science lab fosters student entrepreneurs February 26, 2021 By Clare Becker
From February through June, we will highlight the ways that UW–Madison powers the state’s economy through research and innovation, educates the next generation and reaches out to Wisconsinites to improve their lives. February’s theme is Economic Prosperity. Watch for more at #CantStopABadger and #UWimpact on social media. Your support can help us continue this work.
A new lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is mobilizing the entrepreneurial ecosystem by working to identify the conditions that foster student entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurship Science Lab at UW–Madison, housed within the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, is using data science to bolster student entrepreneurship on college campuses and by extension, create greater opportunity for young innovators and increase economic prosperity for local communities.
Michael Graf pivots from making commercials to writing movie scripts
In early December the International Screenwriters’ Association named Graf to its Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch In 2021.
January 23, 2021 7:00 AM Joel Patenaude
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Michael Graf spent the past 26 years in Madison shooting television commercials for businesses including Jimmy John’s, Batteries Plus Bulbs and the Wisconsin Department of Tourism earning a regional Emmy Award and other accolades along the way. But when the pandemic upended the advertising business early last year, he put his production company Spot Filmworks Ltd. on hiatus and pivoted to writing movie screenplays.
And he’s getting noticed in early December the International Screenwriters’ Association named Graf to its Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch In 2021.
Sampling cichlid fish tissues for genome and transcriptome sequencing in Tanzania and Zanzibar Archipelago. Tilapia and haplochromine cichlid fish species were sampled for associated studies on characterising genomic signatures of domestication and adaptation. Credit: Dr Graham Etherington and Dr Tarang Mehta, Earlham Institue (EI). Read Time:
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BMC Genome Biology, an Earlham Institute study, with collaborators at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, shows that âgenetic rewiringâ at non-coding regions - rather than mutations to protein-coding regions of genes - may play an important role in how cichlid fish are able to rapidly adapt to fill a staggeringly wide range of environmental niches in the East African Rift lakes.
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Credit: Dr Graham Etherington and Dr Tarang Mehta, Earlham Institue (EI)
Genetic rewiring could have driven an evolutionary explosion in the shapes, sizes and adaptations of cichlid fish, in East Africa s answer to Darwin s Galapagos finches.
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BMC Genome Biology, an Earlham Institute (EI) study, with collaborators at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, shows that genetic rewiring at non-coding regions - rather than mutations to protein-coding regions of genes - may play an important role in how cichlid fish are able to rapidly adapt to fill a staggeringly wide range of environmental niches in the East African Rift lakes.
A biological tool that may improve crops, make mosquitoes resistant to malaria and treat genetic diseases could also help fight against the growing problem of human resistance to antibiotics. Learn more about CRISPR from Wisconsin scientists 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, during a live webinar.
The webinar is hosted by the Wisconsin Technology Council and is the latest in the Tech Council Innovation Networkâs continuing webinar series, âCrossing the Coronavirus Chasm.â
Tech Council Innovation Network and Investor Networks members may register at no charge; the price for non-members is $20 for general admission and $10 for students and returning veterans. The Tech Councilâs Julie Johnson will be sending webinar credentials prior to the event.