UW-Madison’s controversial new policy center, named after one of the state’s leading Republican figures, announced that its first event this month will feature speakers with varying political views.
Weiss is a junior studying business at the UW-Madison. He said he launched CupsOver in 2016 after he was inspired by what he heard from a professor about entrepreneurship.
Wisconsin State Patrol and the Department of Natural Resources are learning on how to fly a drone.
A ton of students lined up to get free donuts from Google on Thursday outside the Engineering Building on the UW Campus.
Business schools are facing a tough business problem. While graduate schools of management can make money for the institutions that house them, their M.B.A. programs sometimes bring in little more than prestige. (Subscription required.)
Jacob Eugster was in 9th grade when he asked his parents if they could turn their family’s farm into a haunted house for Halloween. Now it’s one of the scariest and most elaborate Halloween attractions around.
“I think there’s no question the Madison region is on the national radar screen a lot more than it was a few years ago,” MadREP president Paul Jadin said. The area’s growing reputation as a technology hub and the strength of the University of Wisconsin are contributing to that, he said.
Computer experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say illegal downloading has gone down over the years.
Noted: A second study, from the University of Wisconsin School of Business and economics researchers from two additional universities, focused on property values in Denver and found that homes near retail cannabis outlets — within just 0.1 miles — gained 8.4 percent more in value than houses just steps further away, from 0.1 to 0.25 miles. That big increase amounted to almost $27,000 for an average house.
Noted: A study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found property values in the immediate vicinity of Denver’s retail marijuana establishments showed an 8 percent increase since Amendment 64 took effect in January 2014.
Apple Inc has asked an appeals court to either reverse or reduce a judgment that it owes $506 million to the licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for infringing on a patent relating to computer processing technology.
The question put to the venture capitalist was: How do you juice up the Wisconsin startup scene when the state is judged the absolute worst in the nation for fostering new businesses?
Wisconsin School of Business officials are reversing course on suspending the Master of Business Administration program for a year.
Just one week after news broke that the University of Wisconsin Business School was considering suspension of its full-time MBA program — and following a swift backlash among alumni and current students — the school is backpedaling.
The decision today (Oct. 25) to backpedal on a non-sensical proposal to shut down the full-time MBA program at Wisconsin’s School of Business is a welcome relief to many students, alumni and company recruiters of the school’s graduates. The mea culpa couldn’t have been clearer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business has decided to end discussion of the one-year suspension of the full-time MBA program, according to officials.
Wisconsin School of Business leaders say they are no longer pursuing a proposal that would have suspended the school’s full-time Master of Business Administration program for a year, and could have led to the program’s closure.
Officials at the Wisconsin School of Business have proposed suspending admissions to its full-time master’s in business administration program for a year.
A petition is circulating after a proposal that would suspend admissions to the full-time Master of Business Administration Program degree for one year surfaced last week.
UW-Madison faculty are reviewing a proposal that calls for the Wisconsin School of Business to suspend admissions into its full-time Master of Business Administration program for one year while leaders undertake a long-term review of program offerings, officials said Monday.
The Wisconsin School of Business is considering shutting down its full-time Master of Business Administration program, officials say, in a move that would make UW-Madison the latest university to stop offering a traditional MBA.
The main barrier to taking more is a lack of faculty to educate more students without diminishing the quality of the experience for all. Private gifts help, but the core funding for faculty hires comes from state government support and student tuition. Neither source has grown much for years.
In a change sure to send shockwaves through the college, the Wisconsin School of Business may eliminate its full-time Master of Business Administration program if a proposal from its administration is accepted.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is considering changes to its master’s of business administration program that could include a greater focus on older, part-time students.
When it comes to voting, UW-Madison students have regularly reigned Big Ten champs. There’s never been a formal competition for the highest voter turnout among the 14 universities, but reports from nine of the schools show UW a clear leader.
KIINCE—shorthand for Kinetic Immersive Interfaces for Neuromuscular Coordination Enhancement—is a Madison-based corporation that has emerged from the research of Kreg Gruben, associate professor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison department of kinesiology.
One of the country’s oldest business schools is considering closing its M.B.A. program, the latest tremor in the troubled market for graduate business degrees. (Subscription required.)
Jadin would not name the sites, but three are in Madison — one on the East Side, another on the Far West Side in the as-yet unused University Research Park 2.
Noted: EMSI, an economic consulting firm, calculates that workers in only five of the nation’s 100 largest cities experienced healthy average annual pay increases of at least 2 percent, adjusted for inflation, from 2012 through 2016: San Jose; Seattle; San Francisco; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Madison, Wisconsin. The first four are tech hubs, while Madison is the home of the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Jacob said because of his business, he’s on track to graduate the University of Wisconsin-Madison debt free.
Noted: This article is by Robin J. Tanner, associate professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Navy has awarded a team of computer science researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over $6 million to work on developing technology for better performance, management and security of container software.
Over a thousand students and recruiters jostled about the Varsity Hall conference room in Union South on Tuesday afternoon. Lines of varying sizes snaked throughout the space, some even winding outside of it, as students — many wearing formal wear, almost all clutching resumes — waited to chat with potential employers from almost 50 different startups, tech firms and government institutions. Local institutions like Epic Systems and American Family Insurance had booths side by side with global brands like Facebook and Bloomberg.
Noted: But the hiring of Chris Murdoch as a special advisor marks the first state resident hired by the company. Murdoch brings an unusual background to the job as a Navy pilot who until last month ran the Naval ROTC program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dreaming big can pay off — if you are passionate and persistent. That was the message from four University of Wisconsin alumni who told their stories to several hundred students Thursday night at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase at Gordon Commons.
One is a series of articles highlighting innovation in the Madison area marketplace series. Many of the stories have UW-Madison roots.
The percentage of U.S. hospitals that rely entirely on paper records to document information on their patients now stands at 1 percent, down from 69 percent in 2003, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
Walking alone at night can make anyone nervous. But many students at UW-Madison don’t have a car, so they don’t have a choice but to walk. For those who are concerned about safety, they currently depend on the 140 emergency blue light stations that are scattered around campus. But UW police say they’re outdated and it’s why they’re offering a new method right at your fingertips.
The School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has begun an $11 million remodel to convert its three-story building into a “learning commons.” The new facility will include a state-of-the-art finance and analytics lab, active learning classrooms and ample numbers of collaborative spaces. The project, which covers 33,000 square feet, is expected to be done in spring 2018. The business school and the university’s libraries worked together to develop the main themes for the renovation.
Bees aren’t necessarily welcome at picnics and outdoor events, but they are essential for pollinating crops worth millions of dollars to the Wisconsin economy. To that end, UW-Madison and UW-Extension staff in Dane County are working with the Dane County Environmental Council to increase bee education and get the most out of bee-friendly land use and development.
University of Wisconsin researchers are behind cutting edge technology in the field of renewable energy, and they’re collecting data with the help of thousands of Wisconsin Badgers.
If you recall, yesterday we told you about Michigan State engineer Dr. Nelson Sepúlveda and his groundbreaking ferroelectret nanogenerator, or FENG, device which can produce energy anywhere there is mechanical movement, such as the soles of your shoes.
Snapchat is introducing hyperlocal news coverage with help from college and university newspapers.The social media app announced that it was partnering with four college newspapers to expand its news coverage to a younger audience. University of California, Berkeley’s The Daily Californian, Texas A&M University’s The Battalion, Syracuse’s The Daily Orange, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s The Badger Herald will begin publishing weekly news highlights, called Stories, on the app.
While Hurricane Harvey washed through neighborhoods in and around Houston last week, a small group of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists noticed something unusual off the coast of Africa.
Dairy farms generate massive amounts of data every day – too much for a farmer to analyze alone. But a new app being developed at the UW-Madison Department of Dairy Sciences called Virtual Dairy Farm Brain aims to collate all that data in real time to help the farmer make better decisions.
The interim director of a cell and gene product development facility at UW-Madison is now the permanent managing director.Carl Ross began his new duties on July 1 after more than a year as the Waisman Biomanufacturing interim director.
Noted: Marquette University came in second in salary potential ($54,300 early; $103,100 mid-career), followed by UW-Madison ($53,400 early; $98,400 mid-career), Lawrence University ($47,000 and $95,100); UW-Platteville ($53,600 and $92,800); St. Norbert ($47,800 and $90,400), UW-Eau Claire ($49,100 and $87,500) and UW-Milwaukee ($47,700 and $84,900).
Noted: After launching at Marquette, the site started hosting listings for housing near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where about 80% of the 30,000 students live off campus.
Noted: The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau has projected that taxpayers won’t recoup their payments to the company until 2043, even assuming a substantial positive ripple effect in the local economy from the project. Another report by former Walker campaign adviser and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Noah Williams has pointed to other benefits of the project such as the more than $700 million in annual payroll it could bring to the area.
Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor Menzie Chinn’s research also suggests lawmakers in the United States should look to domestic fiscal policy if they want to reduce external imbalances.
Noted: In a separate study, Professor Menzie Chinn from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said that the Trump administration will likely not be able or willing to reduce the US foreign debt, as, amongst other reasons, the Treasury notes’ safe-haven status supports capital inflows in the US.
A new program will start this fall, aimed at turning more UW-Madison students into entrepreneurs and boosting the state’s tech economy.
One of Anne Massey’s main areas of expertise during her more than 20 years at Indiana University-Bloomington was how technology impacted the performance of teams. Now she’s taken that knowledge to work for her new team: Massey assumed the role of dean at Wisconsin School of Business on August 7.
Startup accelerator gener8tor is launching a new program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to help students build products and start companies.
Quoted: “We are not quite there yet, but that’s what the next level will be,” said Raj Veeramani, founding director of the Internet of Things Systems Research Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This weekend, about 25 teams of students from different universities from around the world will travel to Hawthorne, Calif. to test their hyperloop pods on SpaceX’s 1 mile Hyperloop test track during the second Hyperloop Competition Weekend.
Medical “e-visits”—electronic communications between patients and physicians, primarily via secure messaging—have been touted as a low-cost method for doctors and patients to stay in touch without the time and expense involved with office visits. But, so far, they seem to be doing more harm than good, according to new research from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Gener8tor is bringing its latest series of training programs for entrepreneurs to Madison, WI, as part of a new partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s computer sciences department.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s tech transfer office plans to invest $60 million in startups affiliated with the school over the next eight years and has launched a separate $50 million initiative aimed at commercializing UW-Madison research and discoveries in human therapeutics.
