Foxconn is planning to give up to $100 million to UW-Madison for engineering and innovation research. We discuss how that money may be used, how the partnership would work and reaction to the development.
Foxconn on Monday announced it was giving the University of Wisconsin-Madison $100 million in matching grants as part of a new partnership to invest in engineering and innovation research. Company officials said it was another sign of their investment in and long-term commitment to Wisconsin.
As students begin to congregate around campus at the beginning of another school year, UW students of Latinx and Asian American heritage will find dedicated spaces to call their own.
Social media managers need to be sensitive to the environment they are in, said Liz Gross, director of Campus Sonar, a social media and marketing consultancy for higher education institutions. The University of Wisconsin Madison, for example, used to have a pretty cheeky social media persona. “They wanted to be ‘the smartest person in the room,’”
A photo gallery tracks the legacy of the longtime band director.
Foxconn Technology Group continues to make its presence felt in the Wisconsin business community. The latest move: The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is forming a $100 million early-stage venture capital fund with three of the Badger State’s leading companies and organizations.
In another case, two transgender women employed by the University of Wisconsin and covered by the state insurance program have sued the Group Insurance Board and the university’s board of regents, among others, accusing them of discrimination based on their inability to get coverage for gender confirmation surgery. The case is scheduled to go to trial in October, before the same judge who ruled in favor of the patients on Medicaid.
The paper didn’t include healthier nursing home residents who are strong enough to undergo outpatient surgery, said Dr. Heather Neuman, a surgeon and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. These women might fare better than those who are very ill.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter soon will do what some other Epic medical record customers have done: let patients see doctor notes summarizing their visits.
Friday night’s game will be the first major event of the Badgers athletic department’s five-year deal with Pepsi-Cola of Madison that went into effect in July.
Chancellor Blank and other university leaders should see the giant strings attached to this gift and proceed with tremendous caution. In fact, they would do well to consult with faculty and students in UW-Madison’s highly ranked classics department. The Trojan horse was presented as a gift as well.
“(Even) if we get a little bit more rain,” said University of Wisconsin assistant research scientist and hydrologist Eric Booth, “It’s still going to add to this massive water that is slowly moving through the system and creating more problems.”
In the midst of political squabbling over state subsidies for the Racine County plant, Foxconn has continued to press forward with strategic investments in some of Wisconsin’s most valuable assets, including collaborating with the UW in, as Chancellor Rebecca Blank put it, “pushing the boundaries of knowledge.” We welcome the partnership.
And now, Madison. Add it to the growing list of communities across Wisconsin that are sharing in the economic surge brought by Foxconn’s immense plans for its $10 billion Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park; construction is underway on the Mount Pleasant campus that will build ultra-high-definition display panels for use in medicine, self-driving vehicles, security and television sets.
The combined $200 million is part of the university’s ongoing $3.2 billion All Ways Forward fundraising campaign. Foxconn’s funding will primarily support a new building for the College of Engineering on the UW-Madison campus, while any facilities related to the FIRST initiative are still to be determined, the representative said, noting that “there is no predetermined list” of university departments that will have access to the interdisciplinary program. Foxconn’s contributions will also help provide opportunities for internships and applied learning in campus labs.
Quoted: What does the economy have to do with violence? “For decades, we’ve seen poverty, unemployment, segregation and lack of economic opportunities strongly correlate with higher violent crime and murder rates,” says sociologist Emily A. Shrider, a research associate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Without economic options, for some people, desperate times call for desperate measures. You commit an armed robbery and maybe murder someone in the process.”
Quoted: “(Even) if we get a little bit more rain,” said University of Wisconsin assistant research scientist and hydrologist Eric Booth, “It’s still going to add to this massive water that is slowly moving through the system and creating more problems.”
Shalala, 77, served eight years as President Bill Clinton’s Health and Human Services secretary. She also was president of both the University of Miami and the University of Wisconsin.
