The company also hires 50 to 60 college students a year in a nine-month cooperative program with UW-Madison and several other universities, in which the students earn school credit for their paid employment.
Since FluGen was founded in 2007 — based on the research of UW-Madison scientists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann — the company has raised $22 million from investors and has received $13 million in federal funds.
It wasn’t that long ago when Pokémon Go exploded onto the scene.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say players of Pokemon Go tend to be happy people.
If you spent a significant portion of last summer knocking into lampposts in pursuit of a wiley Bulbasaur, cursing wildly because you walked five miles to hatch an egg that turned out to be a dingy-old Pidgey, or patiently explaining to your parents that you are indeed a single 25-year-old playing a video game on her phone and yes, you do believe this is time well-spent, I have good news for you. This week, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison released a study which suggests “Pokemon Go” players are happier, friendlier, and more physically active than their non-”Pokemon Go” playing peers (or, Poke-muggles, as I have been repeatedly asked to stop calling them).
Noted: Anne P. Massey, the new dean at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, is particularly interested in encouraging more women to enter traditionally male dominated industries like tech, science, engineering, and math. It’s an issue she about which she speaks from personal experience: “I’m proud of the fact that we can get young women to do these things … I still have the fondest memory of a female math professor at RPI who made me realize that [women] can do whatever we want.” (The Badger Herald)
The Midwest is the best — at least when it comes to cracking the job market in consumer packaged goods. Eight of the top nine business schools for sending newly graduated MBAs into the CPG industry in 2016 are based in the region, from public stalwarts like the University of Minnesota to the private halls of Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. Leading them all: Wisconsin School of Business, which sent 27% of its Class of 2016 to the likes of General Mills and PepsiCo.
Noted: Wisconsin School of Business is ranked 30th.
A new University of Wisconsin-Madison research study finds that Pokemon Go players are happy people. Investigators discovered playing the game enhanced participants emotional and social lives and improved their level of physical activity.
Noted: The new fund will be managed by Rock River Capital Partners, a venture capital firm started by Andrew Walker and Christopher Eckstrom, both of whom grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a news release.
New dean. The University of Wisconsin-Madison named Anne P. Massey as the dean of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Profile of student Steven Kelly
Profile of student Cady Severson
Noted: This isn’t the only accolade for the five-member student team, which will be competing at the Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament on Saturday, Apr. 22 in Madison. The first place winner will receive a $2,000 cash prize, a free one-hour consultation with the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the UW Law School, up to $25,000 in funding, and paid travel to Silicon Valley and an opportunity to present at the International Business Model Competition in California.
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and start-up expert, said all rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. “When you look at these rankings, you need to realize there are a variety of ways of measuring entrepreneurial activity,” Posen said.
Though she was entering a male-dominated field, Anne Massey knew she and other women were no less than any businessman.
Jeff Oelke, a member of the engineering professional development staff at UW-Madison, said working with Kraft’s management team through the years helped them to recognize the benefits of lean principles. Seeing the big picture helped them overcome any resistance to change.
Noted: I went to UW-Madison, my interests were journalism and archaeology. I spent a long time in the school of education, thinking I was going to be a high school teacher. I left with a history degree. There is really no set path to becoming a cheesemaker.
On Oct. 11, 2014, an unidentified flying object appeared over Camp Randall.
Noted: Anne P. Massey has been selected as the next dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Massey, currently at Indiana University Bloomington, is a professor of information systems at the Kelley School of Business as well as associate vice president for academic affairs. Massey will succeed François Ortalo-Magné, who has been named dean of London Business School. She begins her new role at Wisconsin on August 7.
The Wisconsin School of Business named a veteran professor at rival Kelley School of Business at Indiana University as its new dean. The school today (March 23) announced that Anne P. Massey, 56, who holds the title of dean’s research professor of information systems at Kelley, will succeed François Ortalo-Magné, who will depart Madison this summer to become dean of London Business School.
An Indiana University professor specializing in information technology has been named the dean of the UW-Madison School of Business.
Human beings are pretty darn versatile, but we still have plenty of limitations when it comes to the way we sense the world. Case in point are metamers: colors which appear to our eyes to be identical, but which are actually composed of slightly different wavelengths of light. While sensors can spot metamers with ease, our eyeballs just aren’t fine-tuned enough to spot the difference.
It’s sometimes practically impossible to tell similar colours apart. Even side by side, they look the same. A special pair of spectacles gives us new power to see more distinct colours, and could one day help to spot counterfeit banknotes or counteract camouflage.The glasses, devised by a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, basically enhance the user’s colour vision, allowing them to see metamers – colours that look the same but give off different wavelengths of light – as recognisably distinct hues.
The top craft beer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison student beer-brewing competition went into full production Wednesday.
Noted: Moira Kelley is a senior career counselor in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.
Legislators on the Assembly Committee on Jobs and the Economy peppered speakers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in addition to officials with companies like Uber and General Motors, with questions on the emerging technology.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying to better teach students how to become entrepreneurs. It comes at a time when the state fares poorly in national rankings for its lack of business startups.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying to better teach students how to become entrepreneurs. It comes at a time when the state fares poorly in national rankings for its lack of business startups.
A new center dedicated to providing executives, and subsequently their businesses, with the skills and tools they need to be more innovative and excel in an increasingly competitive and fast-changing business climate is now open at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: An Assembly committee will hold an informational hearing next week on the state of self-driving vehicle testing in Wisconsin, which got a jumpstart earlier this year when the UW-Madison College of Engineering was picked by the federal Department of Transportation as one of 10 institutions nationwide that will test self-driving cars.
Besides partnering with the UW-Madison on autonomous car testing, pursuing smart infrastructure and otherwise researching the issue through the Smart Cities Collaborative, the City of Madison is mostly biding its time on the autonomous cars front.
Looking to take Wisconsin businesses worldwide, University of Wisconsin E-Business Consortium has been working toward increasing the state’s entrepreneurship resources and bringing credibility to the university.
Among the 12 parties receiving grants, two are based in Madison: The University of Wisconsin Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, which provides legal advice to young companies around the state, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which helps protect intellectual properties and research associated with the UW-Madison.
Column by Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor: As the mother of middle schoolers, I’ve supplied my fair share of two-liter bottles to make ecosystems. An ecosystem is that complex, interwoven web of realities and relationships in a particular ecological area. A forest’s ecosystem, for instance, includes the trees and their leaves, the bugs and birds, herbivores, omnivores and carnivores.
Ten middle school teachers from across the state spent the day with University of Wisconsin researchers, co-designing video games that will be used in the classroom.
Noted: UW-Madison has pioneered some of the most cutting-edge developments in VR technology at its Living Environments Laboratory within the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
Noted: For instance, The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic focused on entrepreneurship in the food and beverage sector, whereas the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Foundation’s initiatives pertained to health care.
Madison streets, state highways and the campuses of UW-Madison and Epic Systems could soon be laboratories for driverless cars, after federal regulators gave a team of UW researchers approval to test the emerging technology at sites around Wisconsin.
UW-Madison is now one of ten locations chosen by the U.S. Department of Transportation at a testing site for the autonomous vehicles. The research and tests will attempt to make the self-driving cars safer for public use.
Noted: Through $75,000 in grant funding, the University of Wisconsin Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic will be able to support development in services related to patent guidance rather than cutting services, provide immigration guidance top at least 10 clients who are without services, and double the support provided to entrepreneurs in the food and beverage industry.
The federal Transportation Department announced a network of autonomous driving pilot programs on the final full day of the Obama administration. UW-Madison is involved.
When Under Armour signed UCLA to a 15-year, $280 million outfitting deal last year, the company’s thinking — like that of a prospective homebuyer — centered largely on location, location, location.
Pittsburgh will work with Penn State University as a federal proving ground for self-driving vehicle technology. UW-Madison is also involved.
JangoBio, a University of Wisconsin-connected biotech that announced its launch at the end of 2016, is refining a stem cell-based solution for restoring the flow of hormones in aging patients.
Later this month, the brainchild of a team of UW-Madison students will be loaded into a trailer and driven across country to a site south of Los Angeles, home to the headquarters of tech titan Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX.
Noted: Hart E. Posen, an expert on business strategy from the Wisconsin School of Business, talks about the closing of The Limited and the future of retail.
Imagine an app on your phone that can sense whether there is carbon monoxide in a room. If the display doesn’t change, you’re safe. But if the screen changes, “maybe it’s time to get out of the room,” says Manos Mavrikakis.
Treating cancer is complex as each tumor differs greatly from another. This is due to their genetic makeups. Similarly, each patient responds differently to treatments. This uniqueness stimulates the development of personalized treatment.
Capio Biosciences has developed technology that can identify cancer cells in the bloodstream, said co-founder and president Seungpyo Hong … Hong joined the UW-Madison faculty this week as a professor of pharmaceutical sciences; he had been at the University of Illinois-Chicago campus.
Perhaps the most unusual technology now coming out of UW is the work of Xudong Wang and his team. Wang has invented a floorboard with electrodes that are able to harness a variant of static electricity.
Games Education and Research, or GEAR for short, will be the spiritual successor to the now-defunct Games+Learning+Society group, an institution that pioneered the study of games and their educational properties and made the university a hub of video game scholarship. GLS disintegrated this year after the organization’s leaders — education professors Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler — announced they were leaving for new jobs at the University of California-Irvine.
Renewable energy made from the act of walking on a special nanotech wood floor. A “super yeast” that does a lot more than make bread dough rise. A battery that’s charged by the energy from the sun.
According to University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering and business professor Raj Veeramani, IoT is not just a startup trend. All manufacturers have to adjust to an IoT world if they want to stay competitive, he said.
Cellular Dynamics International, the company founded by internationally renowned UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, plans to leave Madison for Verona.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin–Madison professor and developmental biologist Jamie Thomson had recently made history by isolating the first human embryonic stem cell line. It was among the many notable achievements pushing UW–Madison to the forefront of what Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s former director Carl Gulbrandsen liked to call “the new economy.” Lauded on the cover of Time magazine in 2001 for his revolutionary science, Thomson founded Cellular Dynamics International to produce stem cells used in drug discovery and toxicity testing. That same year, the Wisconsin Technology Council was created by a bipartisan act of the governor and Legislature.
Dimming or turning out the lights seems like a good idea for a magic trick or scary story, not surgery.However, performing surgery in the dark is actually what surgeons are forced to do for some procedures, where darkened operating environments are optimal for utilizing fluorescent compounds that highlight specific tissues — think cancer — in patients’ bodies.OnLume, a Madison company founded in 2015, is aiming to change that with technology designed to shed new light on complicated surgical procedures.
The stress of applying to law school can be intense. The LSAT, the essay, the hassle of it all. Now there’s an additional stress factor — well, if you applied to the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2005-06.
Wearable technology is growing in both the worlds of fashion and medicine, and one University of Wisconsin student is taking an unconventional education path to bring the two together.
On an August evening in 2015, a group of about 80 video game industry insiders and tech gurus crowded into a lounge on the top floor of the former AT&T Building in downtown Madison. The goal of the meetup, organized by the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP), was to bring all the key players in Madison’s video game scene — from studio executives to independent developers to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers — together in the same room.
