Category: Business/Technology

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school decided to extend its test-waiver policy through next year after initially waiving GMAT requirements ahead of the coming fall semester, said Blair Sanford, assistant dean for full-time M.B.A. and master’s programs. The policy pertains to M.B.A. candidates who apply with at least five years work experience and at least a 3.3 GPA in undergraduate studies or applicants who have a terminal degree.

The UW School of Business will salute 2020 graduates by covering Grainger Hall in red light with inspiring congratulatory messages Saturday night.

The University of Wisconsin Madison launched a new app to help inform the state of Wisconsin on all things coronavirus.

Faculty members and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a free website and mobile app to provide information, social support and resources to Wisconsinites amid the coronavirus pandemic.

With dozens of updates a day tracking positive cases, deaths, and modifications to the safer at home order, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched a COVID-19 app to put all these resources in one spot.

CROWE director said Wisconsin unemployment rate has reached 19% overall.

Bruce Winkler started his innovation skills at UW Madison, and they haven’t stopped 30 years later. He is the founder of Innovation Strategies LLC. where his company is shifting their focus to ways they can help frontline workers battling Covid19.

On Friday, representatives from Detroit hospitals started consulting on the project. On Saturday, the group settled on an open-source design from the University of Wisconsin. Suppliers were identified, the factory deployed and prototypes began materializing.

The company is using an open-source design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the project and is being done in collaboration with the UAW, the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, in response to the COVID-19 health crisis.

Class size of fall 2020 expected to be 80, compared to 67 last year.

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers are working with Madison-area manufacturers on medical face shields for healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients.

Startup company JangoBio develops organoid therapy for hormone imbalances.

COVID-19 is expected to have a major impact on the global economy. Projections have become increasingly pessimistic in recent weeks as the virus has continued to spread, said Ian Coxhead, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor. He noted some forecasts predict negative economic growth in the U.S. during the second quarter or even over the whole year.

As a graduate of Middleton High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Fanning’s local roots are an important part of his business model and larger mission.

Yet the tuition fee of $74,520 for the 54 credit hours required to complete the course is comparable with that for a residential MBA at a school such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison or Texas A&M.

Barnett discovered the plant-based method while working on his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at UW-Madison in professor George Huber’s lab.