A few years ago, Melissa Skala and Joe Carroll didn’t know one another. In fact, their areas of expertise as researchers didn’t seem to intersect — at least, not directly. Today, UW-Madison professor Skala and Medical College of Wisconsin professor Carroll are co-investigators on a project with the promise of helping millions of people who are blind or otherwise visually impaired.
Financial abuse is often paired with domestic violence. A study by the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison indicated that economic abuse occurs in 99 percent of domestic violence cases. This can take the form of an abuser managing family funds, preventing a victim from working, hiding assets or otherwise asserting financial dominance in the relationship.
Heaney and Galle recently completed UpStart, a 10-week entrepreneurial education program for women and people of color supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF.
The PG&E Meteorology Team led development of the program in collaboration with experts in the satellite fire detection field from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC). The system became fully operational in late June.
He took the photo in a session run by the Neuroscience Training Program at UW-Madison during the STEAM Camp at DeForest High School.
This historic refracting telescope is recognized as a small but mighty scientific instrument that was nearly revolutionary for its era. University of Wisconsin Space Place director Jim Lattis recounted its legacy in a Jan. 9, 2018 talk recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place.
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bilge Mutlu, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about design-thinking in human-robot interaction. Professor Mutlu discusses design-thinking at a high-level, how design relates to science, and he speaks about the main areas of his work: the design space, the evaluation space, and how features are used within a context. He also gives advice on how to apply a design-oriented mindset.
Most of the team behind it graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison within the last year, and now, they’re working on getting the new app ready for emerging artists and fans across the country.
New research by University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Nathan Seltzer identifies a link between the long-term decline in manufacturing jobs — accelerated during the Great Recession — and reduced fertility rates. Analyzing every birth in America at the county level across 24 years, Seltzer found that the share of businesses in goods-producing industries better predicted a metropolitan area’s fertility rate than the region’s unemployment rate.
LÜM CEO Max Fergus — a University of Wisconsin–Madison alum, as are several other cofounders of the new music platform — says the idea came out of a desire to make a new streaming service profitable while compensating lesser-known artists.
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” is with Amy Achter, managing director of UW-Madison’s Office of Business Engagement.
Among the reasons, say the partners in business and in marriage, are the cost of living, the young talent-for-hire coming out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the easy access to learning.
Noted: Will Hsu, president of Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises in Wausau, grew up on the family farm doing his share of weeding and picking seeds. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate in finance and Chinese literature who later went on to earn his MBA from Harvard, Hsu joked he’s likely the only farmer out of his 800 MBA classmates. His father started the business in 1974 and today they farm hundreds of acres, all in Marathon County.
Leaders from across the University of Wisconsin System announced a statewide initiative to connect every UW campus in focusing on freshwater resources.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new way of mimicking the complex coordination between our two arms and hands, a development that could one day help robots defuse bombs and allow nurses to care for patients thousands of miles away.
The idea behind the research, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, isn’t to build a two-handed robot from scratch, but simply to create a system that understands and executes the same type of manipulations that we humans do without thinking about them.
The research team led by Daniel Rakita from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, US, set out to find a way to replicate the so-called “gestalt” effect of human two-handed movement, in which arms and hands move together to achieve what each individual limb cannot do alone.
Yuli Liu, a PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, helped develop the device.
After losing his hind legs in an accident, Stubbs the cat is getting a little help from a group of students at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “If the past is any guide, consumers, both households and firms, have taken the entire hit from the tariffs,” says Menzie Chinn, professor of Public Affairs and Economics in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Theory says in principle Chinese producers could absorb some of the cost, but, in practice, recent studies have indicated the entire burden has fallen on U.S. purchasers.”
Noted: To the extent that chains like Dollar General take sales from local merchants, however, they drain money from the surrounding community. In contrast to locally owned businesses, profits from chains leave the area, Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said by email.
Quoted: “It’s going to be very difficult to fine-tune short-term policy rates using sales and purchases of long-term securities,” Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said.
It’s a self-contained electric system that can seamlessly connect and disconnect from the main power grid, said Bob Lasseter, the UW-Madison professor who coined the term in the early 2000s.
Cellular Logistics’ Tandem HF technology, discovered by chief science officer Eric Schmuck in the research labs of cardiologist Amish Raval at the UW-Madison, is based on combining a framework of proteins derived from cardiac fibroblasts — a certain type of heart cell — with cardiomyocytes, or heart muscle stem cells.
“Construction of the Janesville production facility is a critical step toward establishing a reliableglobal supply of life-saving diagnostic and therapeutic isotopes for patients around the world,”said Greg Piefer, SHINE founder and CEO.
Piefer, a Wisconsin native and UW-Madison graduate, said he hadn’t considered Janesville as a potential home until the city made an offer for SHINE to come there.
Pawlik probably isn’t the only one of his classmates who will walk across the stage next weekend at UW-Madison’s commencement and take a job field not related to their major. Less than 30 percent of college graduates are working in a job related to their college major, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The UW Madison Continuing Studies program sponsored the conference, now in its 4th year.
This is the first in a series of columns about UpStart, a free entrepreneurship program for women and people of color supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF.
Quoted: “In demanding aggressive cuts in the Fed funds rate, and a resumption in quantitative easing at a time when economic growth remains solid, the administration is only further demonstrating that it has only the political self interest of Mr. Trump at heart,” said Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: The 2015 price plunge can largely be explained by weakening export demand, according to Mark Stephenson, who directs University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Profitability and chairs a state dairy task force, that seeks to “maintain a viable and profitable dairy industry.”
Quoted: There haven’t been any formal studies looking at how precisely this interference could interfere with 23.8 GHz weather satellites. “But the more we lose, the greater the impact will be,” says Jordan Gerth, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Noted: Microsoft can’t claim sole ownership of the term. Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has used “machine teaching” to describe a set of approaches to training machine learning algorithms since 2013, though he and Microsoft both agree there’s some overlap in their definitions.
The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, part of the UW-Madison Energy Institute, launched in 2007 to focus on sustainable production of fuels and chemicals from non-edible plant materials such as corn residue, poplar and switchgrass. It is one of four such labs in the country and was recently renewed – with an increase in federal dollars – by the Trump administration.
MarketReady one of many programs in Madison working to assist marginalized business owners navigate barriers, prepare for upcoming Madison Public Market.
American Family Insurance said Friday it will invest $20 million in data science initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expanding an existing partnership between the insurer and university.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos attacked Gov. Tony Evers as naive Thursday and said he wouldn’t be able to win approval of changes to Wisconsin’s job-creation deal with electronics-maker Foxconn Technology Group.
Taiwanese flat screen maker Foxconn has announced that it is purchasing a building on the Capitol Square to make it easier for local protesters to gather at the building to denounce the $4 billion subsidy for the company, its skirting of environmental regulations and its history of backing out on its agreements.
Guests: Julie Margetta Morgan, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, specializing in college affordability and finance issues; Fenaba Addo, assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “We make a great team,” added Karen Nielsen, who heads up Global Dairy Outreach in Madison. “Even though she’s in Vermont and I’m in Wisconsin, we’ve worked a lot to help those in the dairy industry.”
Foxconn Technology Group added to its real estate portfolio across Wisconsin with Friday’s announcement that it has agreed to purchase a landmark office building near the state Capitol.
Foxconn Technology Group announced Friday it will soon buy a building on Capitol Square as its off-campus hub to collaborate closely with UW-Madison faculty and students on research in medical, material, computer and data sciences.
Lloyd has 25 years of experience, previous positions at Harvard, University of California-San Francisco.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the South Dakota State University robotics teams won the Land O’Lakes Bot Shot competition held Sunday afternoon at DeLaSalle High School.
Quoted: Risk management is something that Jon Eckhardt — the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business — said often gets overlooked by the general public.
“When they read about a company that worked out really well, what they’re missing is all the effort and money and energy that went into companies that didn’t work out,” he said.
Novomoto began in 2017 after spinning off from UW-Madison, and the company has grown quickly under co-founders Olson and Mehrdad Arjmand. At the end of 2017, the company had 20 paying customers, and Olson and Arjmand managed to grow that tenfold by the end of 2018.
Quoted: “They are clearly distinguished from the rest of the pack,” said Hart Posen, an associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Quoted: India has already instituted a Warren-like rule to prevent e-commerce platforms from selling their own products on the platform. “We should go back and understand the wisdom of that kind of separation,” said Peter Carstensen, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “We would never want the interstate highway system to be owned by Walmart. It simplifies the market functions if you separate them out.”
Noted: Yi Fuxian is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Big Country with an Empty Nest
Quoted: It’s valued at roughly $5 billion per metric ton or more, according to Gerald Kulcinski, director of the Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former member of the NASA Advisory Council. (Gold’s value is roughly $42 million per metric ton.)
Quoted: Steven Deller, interim director of the Center for Community & Economic Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the report confirms trends seen in Wisconsin as jobs shift away from manufacturing.
“It was possible to barely make it out of high school and land a job at a manufacturing firm making decent wages,” Deller said. “Many of (those jobs) are going overseas and a lot of the jobs that we’re generating now are in the service sector and they simply don’t pay those kind of wages.”
Quoted: “When I started business school, I expected to be supplied with formulas and ample information to always make the right decision,” admits the University of Wisconsin’s Anders Larsen. “In reality, I learned that business is messy, and you never have all the information you want to make a decision. You learn to make decisions based off what information you have; and you learn when that information is enough or when you need to find more.”
Quoted: “It’s very much a matter of your perspective,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison and chairman of Dairy Task Force 2.0, a committee of Wisconsin dairy farmers and others that aims to chart a course for the dairy industry’s future.
This idea—first implemented at a few universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison—is where students are tasked with solving biomedical and clinical problems for a client under the advisement of a BME professor.
Meena Syamkumar, a sixth-year doctoral student from India in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, has completed summer internships at Cisco and Microsoft. Her research interests are in internet measurements and analysis, cloud computing and software-defined networking
Despite the coast-to-coast glut of well-paying jobs in tech professions such as coding, cybersecurity and network management, the pipeline of potential workers is much smaller than what observers would prefer.
There’s a new startup accelerator on UW-Madison’s campus. The Isthmus Project aims to nurture and help commercialize innovations hatched at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics (UW Health) and the university’s School of Medicine and Public Health.
Computer wonks are not the only ones who can come up with good ideas for new technology and companies. So can doctors, nurses and medical school students. That’s the idea behind a new accelerator on the UW-Madison campus that is designed to move inventions specifically from UW Health or the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to the market.
The city and UW-Madison have been key participants in the quest to make autonomous vehicles part of the transportation system. In early 2017, the U.S. Department of Transportation chose UW to be one of 10 automated vehicle proving grounds in the U.S.
While the closings have the potential to disrupt some Wisconsin communities, it also creates opportunities in smaller communities, said Steve Deller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in economic growth and community economic development.
