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Congratulations to Yi Hu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who advanced to the finalist round of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest with his submission for My Hearing Care, which makes better hearing more accessible and more affordable for the millions of people suffering from mild to moderate hearing loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In March, Hu was named one of 55 semi-finalists in the competition; Only 26 projects (10 percent of the initial pool) advanced in April to the final round. More<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hu was also featured April 5 in the WisBusiness article \u201c51ÁÔÆæ engineer developing more accessible hearing aid.\u201d More<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Yi Hu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who advanced to the finalist round of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest with his submission for My Hearing Care, which makes better hearing more accessible …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19687,"featured_media":11987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[94,25,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biomedical-health","category-news","category-research"],"yoast_head":"\nCollege of Engineering & Applied Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yi Hu advances to the finalist round in the WI Governor's Business Plan Contest with his OTC hearing aid\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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