This upcoming October and November, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will host a four-part discussion series that explores the cycle and advancement of innovation, according to a university release.
Lectures will cover topics like the rationale for basic research, steps to a successful invention, investing in research and the working relationship between education and industry.
“Some of the university’s leading innovators have never met,” WARF Managing Director Carl Gulbrandsen said in the release. He added that these sessions will celebrate the partnership between the UW campus, its leading innovators and the WARF organization over the past nine decades.
WARF is a nonprofit organization that commercializes groundbreaking research and inventions by offering financial and intellectual support to UW-Madison researchers. The sessions will be held in honor of WARF’s 90th anniversary.
These free lectures are not only open to campus faculty and students, but to the general public as well. Both the discussion and the following receptions will be held in the H.F. DeLuca Forum of the Discovery Building.
Speakers for the sessions will include the president and CEO of a cancer screening company, an award-winning biochemist, a startup founder, a paleoanthropologist and vitamin D researcher Hector DeLuca.
Each talk will touch on WARF’s four foundations of innovation: research leading to discovery, invention, commercialization and investment, according to the release.
“It is an opportunity for us to learn as we honor WARF’s legacy of support for UW-Madison,” Marsha Mailick, vice chancellor for research and graduate education, said in the release.
