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Navigating new tech: Kael Hanson earns Draper Technology Innovation Fund award

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Celestial navigation — charting a course through a combination of identifying star positions in the sky and knowing the time  — has existed for centuries and is considerably low-res compared to modern GPS systems. So why did physics professor Kael Hanson recently receive a Draper Technology Innovation Fund (TIF) award for an invention that is …

Federal grants to 2 Wisconsin startups highlight UW’s leading role in fusion energy

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A pair of startups with University of Wisconsin–Madison roots — one spun out of Department of Physics technology — have received large federal grants to support their efforts to develop clean energy through fusion. Realta Fusion and Type One Energy Group, both based in the Madison area, were two of eight ventures from across the nation that …