Paige Peters, a doctoral student in the Opus School of Engineering, was the grand prize winner of the 20th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Enterprise Approach Contest with Quick Radicals Technologies, her Milwaukee-based mostly company which is revolutionizing treatment of merged sewer and storm overflows to avert untreated sewage from remaining dumped into our lakes and rivers throughout floods.
Quick Radical’s ground breaking technological innovation lowers existing wastewater remedy time from 8 several hours to 30 minutes, allowing for municipal scale management where by there is a spill level confluence of storm and sanitary sewers. Peters is founder and chief know-how officer for Rapid Radicals, which was among 13 “Diligent (Baker’s) Dozen” finalists to present to judges and other folks all through the 20th yearly Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Meeting. The enterprise is commercializing technological know-how made at Marquette.
Rapid Radicals was also the winner of the contest’s Sophisticated Producing class.
“It is always tremendous interesting to see technological know-how transfer doing the job this way: from an academic creation to a item that will gain the public and is also great for the Earth,” explained Dr. Kalpa Vithalani, govt director of technological innovation transfer at Marquette and a member of the Tech Council’s Board of Directors. “Through her investigate and innovation, Paige is bringing investigation to existence. She is also a fantastic instance for many others at Marquette who aspire to bring their improvements to market and Be The Variance.”
The contest is created by the Tech Council, which is the non-earnings and non-partisan science and technological innovation adviser to the governor and the Wisconsin State Legislature. Just about every program explained the core products or support, outlined the consumer base, estimated the size of the sector, discovered level of competition, explained the management workforce and offered essential money knowledge.
Peters graduated with a B.S. in environmental engineering from Marquette and returned to the university to pursue her M.S. in Environmental Engineering with an emphasis on h2o and wastewater treatment method. Originally supported by the National Science Basis-funded H2o Equipment and Policy – Business/University Collaborative Study Centre, the exploration concentrated on producing a significant-amount state-of-the-art wastewater therapy approach. Marquette has filed patent purposes on this essential technological innovation. Speedy Radicals has obtained in excess of $1.6 million in grant awards that are supporting transform the startup’s foundational technology into a feasible solution.
Paul Jones, vice president for college relations and basic counsel at Marquette, was also a finalist in the competition with a firm he co-established, ReinventAuctions, which offers frictionless digital buying and selling platforms for dealer-to-dealer wholesale car exchanges in qualified industries. The corporation took 2nd place in the “Business Services” group and took house the “Bright New Idea” award.
Sponsors for the contest are contributing hard cash, office place, authorized support, accounting, information technology consulting, advertising, party house and far more. About $2.5 million in hard cash and in-type prizes have been awarded considering the fact that the inception of the contest in 2004. The Wisconsin Economic Growth Corp. is a main sponsor.