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Three companies share how UW–Madison students fit their talent needs
Research: Successful student internships require careful design
Based on student experiences at three diverse colleges, the paper describes what works in successful internships and provides demographic data on the students who take them. It also identifies key barriers to student participation in internships and recommends that more and differently designed programs be developed to meet student demand in a more equitable way.
Organic-grain field day offers ‘tremendous opportunity’ to farmers
UW and WARF again rank high in patents
A survey of the world’s top universities placed the University of Wisconsin–Madison as the seventh-greatest source of U.S. patents, with 157 issued in 2018 to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for UW inventions.
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