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New farm-to-school project aims to make it easier for public schools to serve Wisconsin vegetables
A lot of parents want their kids’ schools to serve more fresh and local food for lunch, and schools would like to oblige, but that’s no simple task. It’s enough of a scramble to be ready to serve hundreds of hungry kids when the lunch bell rings without having to stop to take a lot […]
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Class aims to birth software companies at UW-Madison
Paul Barford, a UW-Madison professor of computer science, has a proposition, and he’s got five minutes to make it. He’s consciously mimicking the “product pitch” that entrepreneurs make before venture capitalists, except his audience is undergraduates in a class on starting a software company. Time is tight, so Barford lunges ahead. “Google is earning $40 […]
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Innovation abounds at UW College of Engineering
The UW-Madison College of Engineering is among the nation’s top colleges of engineering.
