Where does the money come from for the Research Committee Fall Competition?
The Research Competition is funded largely by a gift from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Since its founding in 1925, WARF has served the UW-Madison scientific community by patenting research discoveries at the UW-Madison and licensing such technologies to leading companies in Wisconsin, the U.S., and worldwide. WARF distributes the income from these commercial licenses in an appropriate manner between the UW-Madison Graduate School, the inventors, and their departments (http://www.warf.ws/). The Research Committee Fall Competition is one means by which the Graduate School distributes its gift to faculty and permanent PI’s on campus. Some state funds are also used in the Fall Competition.
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