Category: Business/Technology

Grant will bring prominent speakers to UW System campus.

The technology stems from research by Bill Murphy, a UW-Madison biomedical engineer who is the company’s co-founder and chief scientific officer. It is based in part on archaeological studies that showed proteins in fossils could remain stable for centuries if associated with calcium-based minerals.

In 2016, the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison became the first business school to win STEM classifications from DHS.

Noted: Plans for the institute surfaced in August 2018 as part of the unveiling of Foxconn’s partnership with UW-Madison, a partnership best known for the company’s pledge of $100 million to the university.

Foxconn’s donations to date stand at the previously reported $700,000, university spokesman John Lucas said Tuesday by email. He directed questions about the research institute to Foxconn.

A University of Wisconsin student is changing the tailgate game — literally.

Many CEOs are at or nearing traditional retirement age, says Fabio Gaertner, associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Generational change is creating more churn,” he said. The average age of S&P 500 CEOs is 58, a point at which many CEOs, especially if successful, might think about packing it in.

Some experts have said that trying to follow the ITEP analysis was difficult. “It was hard to tie their numbers to the financial statements I looked at,” says Mary Vernon, a PhD candidate and tax researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business who is part of a research team currently looking at effective tax rates.

Long known as a biotech and health care hub–from which university graduates often fled to bigger cities–Madison today is home to rising wages, plenty of incubators, and booming upstarts. And, finally, there’s financing for all the innovation.

While airlines haven’t exactly been scandal-free over the past few years, the net effect of negative press hasn’t had any measurable effect on profit, said Kaplan. Grounded Boeing planes might mean fewer seats in the sky for some airlines, but that can both drive up prices and offer unaffected airlines the opportunity to pick up new customers and increase capacity.

-Kathryn Lundstrom is a reporter covering breaking news. Before joining Adweek, she wrote about politics for The Daily DONUT, analyzed policy at the Texas Capitol, worked as a fellow for The Texas Tribune and checked facts at Sports Illustrated. She holds an M.A. in journalism and a master of global policy studies from the University of Texas at Austin and got her B.A. in international studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her success has been recognized by Amazon. She was one of the finalists for “Woman owned small business of the year.” She finds out at the end of November if she won!

Similarly, the University of Wisconsin-Madison features for-credit classes, workshops and individual consultations in its Badger$ense Financial Life Skills program.

School also plans to have data science certificate in future.

MILWAUKEE — Foxconn Technology Group promised to make a splash in Wisconsin beyond the sprawling manufacturing facility it is building in the southeast of the state, but there’s little evidence that plans to build the so-called “innovation centers” are moving forward.

Diverse Thinking in Design partners with local organizations and high schools with marginalized communities to offer access into the design industry.

WARF spokesperson ’disappointed’ in Supreme Court decision.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal Monday by UW-Madison’s patent licensing arm to reestablish a legal victory against Apple in a dispute over computer processor technology.

Introduced in Fall 2019, the degree hopes to optimize experiential learning through real-world computing projects and a variety of industry specific analytics courses — a skill many students feel they lack coming out of undergrad.