Madison is primed to become the next great technology hub in the country if it receives federal financial help to drive such economic growth, according to a new report.
The explosion of top-tier tech jobs has clustered in a handful of coastal hubs, expanding the wealth and innovation differential that’s draining talent from the rest of the nation, new research shows. Madison is noted prominently in the study as an area that could become a major tech hub.
There are about a dozen industries at the frontier of innovation. They include software and pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and data processing. Most of their workers have science or tech degrees. They invest heavily in research and development. While they account for only 3 percent of all jobs, they account for 6 percent of the country’s economic output. Madison is noted prominently in the study as an area that could become a major tech hub.
Brookings suggests intensive government investment — direct funding, tax preferences, workforce development — to stem future regional economic divergence. The report lists a number of areas like Madison, Wisconsin; Albany, New York; and Provo, Utah, that have existing assets like universities that could potentially make them future innovation hubs, but this will only happen if there’s a concerted effort.
Sitting on a laboratory shelf on the third floor of the state-of-the-art Wisconsin Institute of Discovery building are a collection of small vials, each containing a primordial chemical soup. They are all a part of University of Wisconsin botany professor David Baum’s experiment that may change the way scientists study the origin of life.
Policy now requires UW to enroll minimum 5,200 in-state students.
This grant will go towards new initiatives including All Learning Counts, UW Extended Campus.
UW Madison Academic Staff Assembly Chair calls the move “short sighted.”
This was last meeting of the semester, meetings will resume Jan. 23.
From the campus level to the city to the state, here are the biggest headlines from Fall 2019.
Most of the researchers who reported conflicts of interest work in academia. The University of Wisconsin-Madison filed 1,015 conflict disclosures for its researchers since 2012, the most of any institution. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was second with 358 disclosures, and the University of California, Los Angeles, was next with 294.
Program will process some citations in municipal instead of county court, reducing cost to students.
FoodChain provides online marketplace, handles delivery.
DeWalt, who mentored Clifton throughout her undergraduate career at UW-Madison and beyond, was not only a mentor to Clifton, but also an inspiration and a true friend.
Frederic “Ric” Ransom serves as Vice President and President, UW Hospitals, Madison Region, where he provides overall direction for American Family Children’s Hospital, UW Health at the American Center and University Hospital.
Quoted: As winter asserts its dominance with a new cover of white over major portions of Wisconsin, Brody and Jill Thein-Nissenbaum offer tips about how to stay safe while shoveling. Thein-Nissenbaum is an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Doctor of Physical Therapy Program.
The message from the university is: don’t wait. UW-Madison expects tickets and travel packages to sell out very fast, possibly within the week.
Junior setter Sydney Hilley became the first player in the history of the University of Wisconsin volleyball program to be named to the first-team Academic All-America team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Quoted: Tim Donohue is a bacteriology professor at the University of Wisconsin — Madison who studies renewable energy. Donohue told me that corn ethanol does have advantages over other fuel sources because it burns better, releasing fewer pollutants into the air. He said there are indirect factors to consider as well.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Maria Muniagurria said the retaliatory tariffs will have long-term effects beyond that $12 billion. They give other countries a chance to swoop in and take America’s spot in China’s supply chains, like Brazil did when China put tariffs on American soybeans, she said.
“Suppose we end the trade war with China, and China removes the tariffs. Well, we are not sure we are going to be able to recover the market again,” Muniagurria said.
Noted: Not everyone agrees. A 2017 survey at the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked 1,600 members of the general public about their attitudes toward gene editing. The results showed 65 percent of respondents think gene editing is acceptable for therapeutic purposes. But when it comes to whether scientists should use technology for genetic enhancement, only 26 percent agreed.
Quoted: Quantifying the ramifications of more-limited water vapor measurements to meteorological models is difficult, says meteorologist Jordan Gerth of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Short-term weather forecasts for areas far away from cities where these 5G networks exist may not be impacted substantially,” he says. “Long-term forecasts downstream of big cities and populated areas may be impacted more.”
Noted: Ebben earned his Air Force commission in 1982, the same year he received a bachelor’s in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1984 he joined the 176th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Truax Field in Madison as an A-10 aircraft commander.
