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EVENT Aug 30: Entrepreneur Rob Arnold Shares "the Roadmap from Innovation to Start-up"
Posted on July 30, 2012
Join us on Aug 30 for a talk on navigating the road to start-up. Sure, inspiration and hard work are essential ingredients of a...
11 University of Washington Professors Recognized for Successful Commercialization
Posted on July 02, 2012
University of Washington President Michael Young today announced the appointment of 11 new members to the university’s prestigious Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows (EFFs) program....
UW Launches Technology Start-up Incubator, aims to double start-ups over three years
Posted on February 08, 2012
The University of Washington today unveiled a new business incubator that will provide startup businesses access to critical lab and office space on the...
UW project that recycles forest slash piles selected for NSF commercialization grant
Posted on January 12, 2012
Students at the University of Washington have teamed up on a startup that promises to turn slash piles of forest refuse into biochar, a...
Professor Buddy Ratner's Latest Device Delivers Nutrition Diagnosis in Minutes
Posted on December 14, 2011
UW Bioengineering Professor Buddy Ratner believes his lab’s latest device could be a powerful tool, capable of addressing health and child development issues by...
Tom Clement leads Cardiac Insight in targeting stroke risk
Posted on November 28, 2011
Tom Clement has a strong history as one of the region’s top medical device entrepreneurs. In 1998 he co-founded Pathway Medical Technologies and served...
UW’s Oren Etzioni Calls for a Search Shake-up
Posted on October 04, 2011
University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Professor and 2011 UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow Oren Etzioni’s recent article in the Journal Nature calls...
Shwetak Patel Featured in July Cover Story of Wired Magazine and Named a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Posted on July 25, 2011
Wired magazine profiled UW Computer Science and Engineering Professor Shwetak Patel, focusing on the research that led him to develop his startup Zensi, now...
Voltaic Electric Vehicle Drive Train Takes First Place at UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
Posted on April 06, 2011
The winners of this year’s University of Washington Environmental Innovation Challenge were announced at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall this past week. The winning...
University of Washington Announces New Entrepreneurial Fellows Program
Posted on April 01, 2011
SEATTLE – A new program initiated by Interim President Dr. Phyllis Wise recognizes the University of Washington’s most entrepreneurial faculty researchers. Eight UW faculty...