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.
The Wall Street Journal ranks UW-Madison’s MBA program 33rd . The poll is based on a survey of 2,849 corporate recruiters.
Stem cell research, for all practical purposes, was invented in Wisconsin. But as a national competition for high-tech businesses heats up, the state risks blowing its head start. If that happens, we’ll forfeit thousands of high- wage jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars to more farsighted state
Madison entrepreneurs surveyed believe the University of Wisconsin (69 percent), Madison’s lifestyle (60 percent), population growth (60 percent) and geographic location (48 percent) are the keys to their small business success.
Three out of state investors have acquired 80 percent of Luther’s Blues, with Steve Murphy retaining 20 percent ownership, and John Prigge taking over as general manager. Icon Entertainment president Rich Peterson said in a release that Luther’s would “gear more toward the student crowd, as well as bringing bigger and better names in the industry.”
Ten years from now, if you are diagnosed with a cancerous tumor, a shot in the arm might cure you.
“It may involve two shots, but probably not more than that,” said Jamey Weichert, a UW Medical School radiology professor whose startup company, Cellectar, is developing technology that may hold that promise.
The widening gap between the salaries of UW System employees and those of their peers is causing concern among UW System administrators.
The problem is such that UW Regent President Toby Marcovich recently called for a comparison study of salary information for faculty, academic staff and academic leadership between UW employees and employees of comparable Midwest universities, according to George Brooks, UW System associate vice president for human resources.
With consumers far from tapped out and business spending picking up, the sputtering U.S. economy should keep growing through 2005 and perhaps beyond. That was the reassuring message attendees at UW-Madison’s semi-annual Economic Outlook heard Friday.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin anatomy professor James Thomson attempted to ââ?¬Å?separate hype from realityââ?¬Â on Friday in the controversial field of stem cell research, which in some cases uses tissue from human embryos. The pioneer in stem cell research spoke to about 200 at the UW Memorial Union as part of the Plato discussion series for retired people.
Wisconsin is by and large a suburban state. Most in-state students come from towns characterized by cul-de-sacs, malls and McDonald’s. Virtually the only way to tell if you are in Appleton, Green Bay, or Eau Claire is by looking at what high school is supported by the stickers on the area residents’ bumpers. Madison, being a college town, has thankfully been bereft of such local insubstantialities
It’s been a lively year on campus for labor matters, from striking teaching assistants to the classified employees fighting for raises that will let them break even.
One campus labor organization even folded: There is no union at the Wisconsin Union.
A University of Wisconsin board of trustees member recently made a deal that will give him and a business partner ownership of Penthouse magazines later this month.
Entrepreneurs have reputations as being a finicky bunch.
They can be great idea people, but struggle with getting their companies off the ground. Then, once they get beyond survival stage, many are loathe to take advice from consultants or academics.
The future pace and vitality of embryonic stem cell research in Wisconsin is inextricably linked to the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, experts on both sides of the issue say.
Glaring issues at UW: UW-Madison and its city/county partners are trying — yet again — to take Halloween back from the hooligans. Also at issue: the TA contract dispute and licensing.
A biennial analysis of data on Wisconsin’s economy offers a grim view of growing disparities between white and black residents. “The State of Working Wisconsin,” released Sunday by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents a “decidedly mixed” picture of Wisconsin’s economy.
The owner of the Regent and other private residence halls near campus is blasting UW-Madison officials for “packing students like sardines” into converted lounges in university-owned dorms.
Princeton, N.J. — Starting salaries for new graduates vary greatly, says CollegeJournal.com, the Wall Street Journal’s guide for career-minded college students. (Capital Times, from PRNewswire)
Dane County’s economy powered forward through the recent economic downturn, adding jobs at nearly three times the rate of the country as a whole and making even bigger strides compared to the rest of Wisconsin, a new report shows.
Given the growing number of out-of-state companies presenting, perhaps they should change the name to the Midwest Life Sciences and Venture Conference.
MADISON – Start-up companies come and go, that’s the law of the marketplace.
But over the past two decades, the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference has provided a critical link between fledgling hi-tech and bioscience firms and capital, according to a report prepared by economist David Ward.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Are human embryonic stem cells Democratic or Republican?
Leaders of small electric companies from around the nation will be coming to Madison for training, providing what could be an infusion of millions of dollars to UW-Madison and the local economy and taking home ideas that could boost their own communities.
MADISON — After spending nearly two years scrutinizing 13 universities nationwide, the head of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association said it is the dedication to the cooperative business method plus academic excellence that put the University of Wisconsin-Madison out front.
In the last two years, it has become easier for researchers throughout the UW System to get legal and other help with the to-market process.
Local business leaders, including some who questioned the need for universal health care coverage less than a decade ago, say they need help from the federal government to cope with skyrocketing health care costs. (Chancellor John Wiley is quoted in this story.)
In three small Wisconsin towns where barhopping is a primary pastime, they’re fighting drunken driving in an innovative way.
“People know they aren’t supposed to drink and drive, but they do it anyway,” said Michael Rothschild, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor whose idea was to use social marketing to give drinkers “a better product.”
I was honored recently to be elected to the presidency of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board. This leadership position comes at a critical time for a technical college system that we can all be proud of and that has a reputation as one of the nation’s finest.
MADISON – With a name like Platypus, itââ?¬â?¢s clear that the founders of this nanotechnology start-up possess a quirky sense of humor, to say nothing of the confidence that what they have to offer is sound enough to overcome the off-beat name.
QUoted: CEO Barbara Israel, a University of Wisconsin virologist who earned her PhD in medical microbiology.
President Bush’s 3-year-old restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research have probably hurt Wisconsin workers in that field, Gov. Jim Doyle says. Continue reading
Developers have proposed a business technology park that would draw participation from the University of Wisconsin’s Madison and Milwaukee campuses and from Marquette University at 1,500-acre Pabst Farms mixed-use development in western Waukesha County. But Carpenter argues the park should be in Milwaukee.
Quoted: Sandra Kelzenberg, assistant dean for the master’s program at UW-Madison’s School of Business, said applications for the school’s MBA program are down substantially, she said a shift this fall in the program means the school will not be affected negatively.
Students entering the UW-Madison School of Business MBA program in September will encounter a revamped curriculum that has thrown off its generalist past to concentrate on 14 specific career tracks.
Two years after soaring to record levels, applications to the nation’s M.B.A. programs have dropped for the second straight year, according to a report by the Graduate Management Admission Council. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: Tim Sell, business manager for SWAP, the surplus sale operation for the University of Wisconsin and the state
The University of Wisconsin School of Business has persuaded two utility groups to relocate training programs to the Madison campus.
For the past five years, private and public actors have been putting some of the pieces together in the puzzle that is South Madison economic revitalization. Since at least the early 1980s, various city administrations have tried to put the right configuration together to spur private investment. A lot of groundwork has been laid in place.
Quoted: LaMarr Billups, special assistant to the UW Chancellor and advisor to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz,
The UW System tied with Harvard University’s Harvard College for first place in educating the most chief executive officers of companies included in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Kevin Reilly will make $320,000 as president of the UW System, on the high end of the position’s pay range. Reilly sounded familiar themes Thursday in his first news conference….
July 30 (Bloomberg) — Ryan Hertel, a student tour guide at the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus, pauses before the Old Red Gym, a former armory firebombed by Vietnam War protesters in 1970. That same year, homemade explosives killed a graduate student in physics working late into the night.
Wisconsin’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention cast its 87 votes for John Kerry for president — and, in the process, stem cell research. (7/29/04 Capital Times print edition)
Deltanoid Pharmeceuticals, a Madison-based startup founded by University of Wisconsin-Madison medical researcher Hector F. DeLuca, is gaining steam in its attempt to develop a way to rebuild bone.
Voice of the People: There has been a lot of press lately concerning the merits of building additional residence halls on the UW-Madison campus. (Letter to the Editor from ASM chair Emily McWilliams in 7/28/04 Capital Times print edition)
BOSTON -� Backers of stem cell research in Wisconsin, where scientists pioneered the work, said the push at Tuesdayâ��s National Democratic Convention to lift restrictions on federal funding could help bring the state economic and scientific results.
MADISON, Wis. — At the Democratic National Convention, Democrats have seized on Ron Reagan’s plea to further stem cell research. The son of late president Ronald Reagan spoke to the Democrats and it certainly perked some ears in Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison associate dean Tim Mulcahy, who is overseeing stem cell research
