The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations has begun an online UW Business News Wire.
UW Starts Online Business News Wire
Wisconsin State Journal
Category: Business/Technology
Arts groups to mull Overture Center effects (Capital Times)
Capital Times
Several local performing arts groups and presenters (including the Wisconsin Union Theater) will meet Monday night to find ways they hope will help them from drowning in the tidal wave of publicity generated by the new Overture Center.
$5 lunch: Union’s Lakefront a smorgasbord
Capital Times
The recently remodeled Lakefront on Langdon isn’t billed as a food court, but pleasant similarities exist. Continue reading
UW students show winning hybrid car
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin students showed off their retrofitted sport utility vehicle that recently won them the FutureTruck competition for the third year in a row….UW-Madison ran away with the competition, beating 14 other universities.
Ban on all happy hours? (Capital Times)
Not to be deterred by a drink special lawsuit already pending against local bar owners, the chair of the Alcohol License Review Committee is floating a citywide ban on happy hours and drink specials. Ken Kamp said Thursday morning that he’s going to present the idea to his colleagues, but is not inclined to fight if there is opposition. (See Capital Times home final print edition for more details.)
Wire service to connect UW-Madison to business (Wisconsin Technology Network)
Wisconsin Technology Network
MADISON ââ?¬â?? The University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched a new service to help the Wisconsin business community keep abreast of university happenings.
UW dorm rezoning approved
Over the objections of downtown landlord Steve Brown and the Apartment Association of South Central Wisconsin, the City Council approved rezoning property in the 100 block of North Park Street for a large-scale UW-Madison dormitory.
Stem cell issue divided along party lines
Capital Times
WASHINGTON – When UW-Madison researchers established a collection of human embryonic stem cells six years ago, “Wisconsin became the epicenter of the scientific universe,” according to a recent letter sent to candidates running for state office in November. Despite the breakthrough for the university, however, many of Wisconsin’s Republican candidates view the research as a step in the wrong direction – and are seizing on the issue in their campaigns.
Mike Ivey: High business tax myth dupes Wisconsin
Capital Times
Keep repeating a lie long enough and the public starts to believe it…. The lie is that high taxes in Wisconsin are strangling business development here.
Quoted: UW-Madison economics professor Andrew Reschovsky
Keen on clean: Letting hydrogen flow
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The company’sprocess – developed at engineering labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – has a complex technical name but a simple result. Called aqueous phase reforming, it essentially amounts to extracting hydrogen from the sugars found in corn plants and other plants, without increasing emissions of carbon dioxide
University Book Store Makes Changes
The best recent news is that University Book Store is moving its general book department in its 711 State St. location from upstairs to the first floor of the three-story building.
‘It’s Where Most Of My Hope Lies’
Wisconsin State Journal
It’s been nearly two years since David Busta held a book in his hands, combed his hair, pedaled a bike or took a step from his bed or wheelchair.
The 29-year-old UW-Madison graduate is limited by the injuries he sustained in a freak 30-foot fall outside the Marcus Amphitheater in Milwaukee. Likely paralyzed for life, Busta looks ahead in part by focusing back on his alma mater, where he believes scientists can solve the puzzle of reanimating his arms and legs through the promise of human embryonic stem-cell research.
Adult Stem-cell Research An Alternative
Wisconsin State Journal
Critics of human embryonic stem-cell research say they aren’t insensitive to the suffering of paralyzed people and those with debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Magnet Aims To Keep Young Professionals In Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
At age 21, entrepreneur Daniel Guerra Jr. knows firsthand how difficult it can be to succeed in a business community dominated by well-established, older professionals.
Steve Brown: UW dorm project could cost taxpayers, students, landlords
Capital Times
On Tuesday night, the Madison City Council will consider a University of Wisconsin housing project that I believe will directly and adversely affect Madison taxpayers, UW students and private property owners in the downtown area.
Dollars for scholars
Milwaukee Business Journal
Five months into a 12-month scholarship campaign, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation members find their message is resonating with alumni and businesses.
Quality improvement: In two years, Knetter makes a difference at UW’s School of Business
Milwaukee Business Journal
The improved ranking of the MBA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business earlier this year affirms the school’s progress since the hiring of dean Michael Knetter two years ago, school alumni and faculty say.
JS Online: The Morning Mail
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Third parties, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have conducted environmental impact studies at the site in question. The studies show that water leaving the cranberry marsh is actually cleaner when it re-enters the lake in Sawyer County because of the marsh’s natural ability as a wetland to clean and filter water.
Half Price Books
WKOW-TV 27
Half Price Books will be presenting 8,500 books to the UW Children’s Hospital.
Holding pattern: Madison travelers long for more direct flights
Capital Times
Nobody has to remind David McCune about the frustrations of flying into Madison.
Madison plans to revitalize Villager Shopping Center
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison is poised to make a huge cash investment that could create a “village square” with shopping, learning and social services on the resurgent South Side.
New Web site aims to help firms recruit in state
Capital Times
The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations has created a new Web site that aims to help companies identify potential interns and employees at Wisconsin’s universities and colleges.
Trade Mission To China Pushed State Business Leaders Want Another Trip
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin needs to send another trade delegation to China and shouldn’t wait too long to do so, business people who took part in the March trade mission agreed Monday.
Conference targets career barriers for women
Wisconsin State Journal
When Stephanie Cota received her master’s degree in business administration from UW-Madison this May, she almost immediately took a high-paying job and bought a four-bedroom house
Pabst Farms is wrong for UW research park (The Business Journal of Milwaukee)
Milwaukee Business Journal
Regarding your June 11 editorial “Saying ‘yes’ to parking, regional cooperation” and your cartoon depicting former Mayor John Norquist as Mayor “No,” here are points worth considering.
Group pushes Midwest biotech (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
Quoted: David Beebe, an associate bioengineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, said the ability to build structures smaller than.
Bike Ride for New Dairy Farmers Kicks-Off on Friday
Wisconsin Ag Connection
A bicycle ride to raise awareness about the crucial need to help Wisconsin’s next generation of dairy farmers begins its journey on Friday.
Participants share views on Downtown’s positives
Wisconsin State Journal
Diversity, congestion and free events are among the keys to the economic success of Madison’s Downtown, according to attendees of a public meeting Tuesday at the Concourse Hotel, 1 W. Dayton St.
Event Targets Debate On Taxes, Spending Some Who Came Criticized The Media For Not Doing A Better Job Of Analyzing The Effects Of Tax Cuts.
Wisconsin State Journal
More than 200 people attended a Tuesday forum on state finances sponsored by UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy and the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families at Memorial Union.
Reaction Mixed To Plans For South Side
Wisconsin State Journal
Plans to spruce up an area one person called the “gateway to the university” were scrutinized at an open house Tuesday.
CEO: Third Wave Doing Well Tech Company Head Speaks To Shareholders
Wisconsin State Journal
Third Wave Technologies is “having a great year,” president and chief executive officer John Puisis told about 50 people at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday.
Local pharma supplier bought by public firm
Capital Times
Madison-based Tetrionics, a contract manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients, has been acquired by St. Louis-based Sigma-Aldrich Corp., a publicly traded firm that makes chemicals for research laboratories. Terms were not disclosed.
Biotechs deal for profile, new markets
Capital Times
Two local biotech companies have signed deals with much larger companies that they believe boost their credibility while giving them access to much larger markets.
State biz taxes near bottom
Capital Times
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economics Professor Andrew Reschovsky during the “Financing Wisconsin’s Future” conference at the Memorial Union.
Planning for a vibrant central city
Wisconsin State Journal
What do a pizzeria owner, a historic preservationist and a mass transit advocate have in common? Like most of us, they’re fans of a vibrant Madison.
Facelift planned for South Madison (NBC15.com)
NBC-15
(Madison) A newââ?¬â??andââ?¬â??improved shopping mall, a children’s spray park and better roads, that’s what two redevelopment committees say South Madison needs. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz gave the group $2.5 million to work with to improve the face of the south side of the city.
UW, allies stump for stem cells
Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin and its allies in the business community are going on the offensive in the effort to keep state lawmakers from limiting human embryonic stem cell research.
Downtown positive
Capital Times
Don’t expect to hear a lot of carping about retail turnover, historic preservation, chain stores and restaurants, panhandling or other issues this week during Downtown Madison Inc.’s Business Summit.
Madison biotech establishes research advisory board
Milwaukee Business Journal
Quintessence Biosciences Inc., a Madison biotechnology firm working to develop biological research products, has established a scientific advisory board to guide the company’s cancer products research.
Tom Still: Lyall’s accomplishments include a UW System more attuned to economic growth
www.wisbusiness.com
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Katharine Lyall’s legacy as president of the University of Wisconsin System can be told, in part, by the numbers.