…To survive the workplace now, many young people have had to start over on the bottom rung – not exactly the position many expected to be in five years after graduation. According to Alexandra Levit, a Northwestern University graduate who recently wrote the book “They Don’t Teach Corporate in College,” her age group has aspirations that are “way out of whack with reality.”
The city could take in a total of $125,000 in fines if all the 519 charges stick after two nights of Halloween trouble on State Street, police said. And, while the mayor was making noises about canceling it next year, State Street business people were looking on the brighter side of the annual Halloween bash.
NimbleGen’s advantage, Palay said, is using technology developed at UW- Madison
It’s not hard to guess what State Street merchants will be talking about at their meeting this morning…But Downtown Alderman Mike Verveer tells WIBA News they’ll likely take a less negative view things than say…the Mayor.Ã?Â
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? James Thomson avoided talking politics in a public lecture on the eve of the presidential election, explaining instead the science behind his research into stem cells.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? That giant sucking sound you hear on Wednesday might be a good chunk of the countryââ?¬â?¢s stem cell scientists ââ?¬â?? including some from Wisconsin – being drawn to California.
UW-Madison plays a pivotal and unique role in the economy of Madison by attracting people who can command relatively high salaries, said Kevin Reilly, University of Wisconsin System president.
All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush’s three-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection by the immune systems, diminishing their potential as medical treatments, new research indicates. (Login required.)
…The regular-season finale – Formerly Known As The Big Game – will soon be formally addressed as the SBC Michigan-Ohio State Classic….For a local reference point, TDS Telecommunications is presenting the Border Battle Cup to the winner of the all-sports competition between the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin.
If we’re all driving around in hydrogen-powered cars some day, a Madison company could be primarily responsible for producing the fuel. Virent Energy Systems, a fledgling UW-Madison spin-off, has received about $1.4 million in federal grant money for further development over the next three years of its system that derives hydrogen from biomass such as corn stalks.
UW-Madison alumni John J. Oros and Anne Wackman Oros have given $1 million to the university’s School of Business, officials for the school said Wednesday. The gift from John Oros, president and chief operating officer of Enstar Group, and his wife will help establish a fund to bring executives from major companies to address students.
The possibility of a repeat of last year’s Halloween riot has many State Street businesses spooked, but this holiday some owners are hoping for as many treats as tricks.
(Madison) The UW Athletic Department finds itself without a substantial sum of money.
Over the next two year, $900,000 the Department was counting on receiving from bond payments for Camp Randall, is being allocated elsewhere.
California voters on Nov. 2 will decide whether to authorize a powerful burst of state funding for stem cell research there. Proposition 71 on the ballot would provide about $3 billion in tax-free state bonds for stem cell research in that state over a 10-year period.
In order to attract the high-tech jobs that are fueling the new economy, Wisconsin needs to protect its vaunted education system and do a better job branding itself, according to a group of academic and business panelists who spoke Wednesday night at the Kohl Center on the UW-Madison campus. .
Halloween is increasingly a treat for cities that can turn local attractions and celebrations into revenue….Yet, some cities find Halloween has more tricks than treat. For example, Madison, Wis…. (USA Today)
Wisconsin�s head start in stem-cell research could be challenged by the intervention of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? ââ?¬Å?Brain drainââ?¬Â in Wisconsin, educationââ?¬â?¢s effect on the state economy and fewer graduates qualified for jobs in the technology industry were a few of the many topics covered yesterday in a public discussion with the Education Access Panel.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Virent, a University of Wisconsin-Madison spinoff working on hydrogen energy sources, has received a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy for continued research.
Quoted: James Thomson, a professor of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the first to extract human embryonic stem cells. (Login required.)
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has appointed Maliyakal John to serve as general director for the WiSys Technology Foundation, which licenses University of Wisconsin System technologies.
Put your car on a high-carb diet. That’s almost literally what technology developed by Virent Energy Systems, 3591 Anderson St., would do. With oil prices above $50 a barrel, a U.S. Department of Energy official Thursday announced a $1.94 million federal research grant for Virent and several partners to produce hydrogen that could power vehicles from water and sugar that could be produced from corn.
Virent Energy Systems of Madison on Thursday received a federal grant of nearly $2 million to continue pursuing research aimed at making cars run on hydrogen instead of gasoline. The company was created to bring to market technology patented by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
The new owners of the Hilldale mall are optimistic they can negotiate the tangle of city approvals to transform the property into a “lifestyle center” but are tight-lipped about how much they will invest in the project.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, UW-Madison professor of applied economics and public affairs.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Regional cooperation is the way to attract venture capital to Wisconsin, according to the Coalition for Capital Growth and Research, which held its first conference on Friday at UW-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Grainger Hall.
Wisconsin is one of the 20 states best-positioned to expand its biopharmaceutical industry, but it’s not among those that will add the most jobs in that sector, according to a report being released today.
After a year and a half of planning and fundraising, the University of Minnesota is moving forward with its plan to open a bioscience research incubator in St. Paul’s Midway area.
Quintessence Biosciences, Inc., has been tested on lab mice with no apparent harm, company Vice President Laura Strong said at a recent conference. Information supporting this conclusion was presented on October 7 at BioContact Quebec 2004.
The greatest benefit that came up in the talks was the discussion of the relationship between the UW system and the state�s research efforts.
When sitting down at a table with co-workers, how often do we ask why someone is not there? This was Ella Bell’s question when she spoke on the final day of the three-day Women’s Executive Leadership Summit at UW-Madison.
Mentions UW-Madison and College of Engineering efforts to emphasize interaction with business.
A number of economists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among 562 economics experts who signed a statement calling for a modest increase in the U.S. minimum wage.
As one of several speakers at the second annual Women’s Executive Leadership Summit at the Fluno Center on the UW- Madison campus, Nancy Chen provided statistical and historical information on the state of working women in America.
by James Edward Mills
Nancy Chen began her remarks to more than 140 female executives Thursday with information that was news to no one. “I am here to confirm what we have been talking about all day,” she said. “There is a glass ceiling and we need to take steps to get beyond it.”
Chen is the regional administrator of the Women’s Bureau, an agency designated by Congress to address the needs of working women through the U.S. Department of Labor. As one of several speakers at the second annual Women’s Executive Leadership Summit at the Fluno Center on the UW- Madison campus, Chen provided statistical and historical information on the state of working women in America. The people at the conference represented companies and institutions from across the state.
At the first-ever Wisconsin Arts Congress next Tuesday at the Overture Center, built in part to revitalize downtown Madison, you can be sure of one thing: Art will be measured by money. (Andrew Taylor, director of UW-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration, is quoted.)
The UW-Extension’s Small Business Development Center has been awarded a $95,000 federal grant to strengthen the technological competitiveness of small businesses.
Carol Bartz, a 1971 UW-Madison computer science graduate and CEO of Autodesk, will be inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame next Tuesday. She will receive this annual award from the UW-Madison Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.
Women in top-level corporate positions around the country will be converging on UW-Madison for the second annual Women’s Executive Leadership Summit.
In one important category, however, Wisconsin brings home its share of the bacon. When it comes to merit-based competition for academic research and development dollars, Wisconsin moves much closer to the head of the class.
Madison-based ConjuGon has raised another $1.1 million from angel investors to fund research and development of its technology that can aid companies in developing new drugs to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which annually are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz wants to hire a tavern coordinator to work with bar owners to help reduce campus area drinking problems. Funding for an “alcohol policy coordinator” is included in Cieslewicz’s 2005 executive operating budget, the mayor announced Monday.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Wisconsin could lose its carefully established position as a nexus for research and development in the Midwest if more money is not channeled into academic and other research institutions, according to a new report.
Together, the two professors of chemistry and biochemistry have brought in about $2.5 million per year worth of federal grants to the UW, and they provide jobs for about 50 people.
The village of Jackson in Washington County is lobbying to become the home of a proposed University of Wisconsin-Madison research park that would be located between Milwaukee and Madison.
State Rep. Spencer Black called the project ‘ill-conceived, … never competitively bid … and sold with a promise to give the university first call on the power produced that was later broken by the PSC. ‘A Dane County circuit judge this week upheld the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s approval of the $180 million power plant that Madison Gas and Electric and the UW-Madison are building on the west side of campus.
Students and graduates had a chance to network around the world outside college at the 2004 Career Links reception, held Thursday night at the Pyle Center. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, the forum offered students of all levels and backgrounds a chance to talk with alumni about finding a career path outside of college.
When it was looking for a new home for its 28 weeks of training programs, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association evaluated 13 universities.
Having won international accolades for food and lodging and since it already housed the Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Fluno Center for executive education got the nod, said Gary Pfann, director of university-based programs for the Arlington, Va.-based cooperative association.
Sean C. McConnell is the kind of budding young researcher who some scientists and politicians fear could develop a permanent case of the blues over the Bush administration’s current policy on stem-cell research. (Subscription required.)
Gov. Jim Doyle is on the far side of the Pacific this week, hoping to mine a rebounding Japanese economy for financing to help fund bio-science firms in Wisconsin.
ââ?¬Å?My goal on this trip is to connect the right people, talk up Wisconsin and tell people about the research that is coming out of the University of Wisconsin and other research institutions in our state,ââ?¬Â he said.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? A new RFID lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will give an advance showing September 29 to attendees of the its e-business conference.
Barry Gerhart, a professor and researcher in the field of human resources, has been named to the Bruce R. Ellig Chair in Pay and Organizational Effectiveness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Nicholas Center for Applied Corporate Finance at the UW-Madison School of Business will host the grand opening of its expansion Thursday at Grainger Hall.
Quoted: Linda Gorchels, director of executive marketing education at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Joel Rogers, UW-Madison professor of law, political science and sociology.
Wisconsin conservatives never die or even fade away, they just go to work for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.
Researchers hoping to sew up rights to discoveries involving human embryonic stem (ES) cells in Europe are facing an uphill battle.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? A new kind of science is revolutionizing technology, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison just received more than $13 million to harness its potential during the next five years.
If Wisconsin is serious about going head to head with other states looking for high-tech jobs – and it had better be – it must not drop the ball on stem cell research. To do so would betray Wisconsin’s scientific legacy in this promising new field of biomedical study.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MBA program ranked 33rd among 44 regional schools in an annual survey done by Harris Interactive and the Wall Street Journal.
