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 But UW police say they’re outdated and it’s why they’re offering a new method right at your fingertips.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.
Noted: On Monday, a report by a UW-Madison economist found the massive manufacturing complex could generate nearly $4 in gains for the state for every $1 in taxpayer subsidies.
WARF is blazing forward with efforts to turn UW-Madison discoveries into products on the market, and will triple its spending on entrepreneurial programs over the next several years.
A massive manufacturing complex planned by Foxconn Technology Group could generate broad gains for Wisconsin “that go far beyond the direct job estimates and tax revenue costs which have dominated the recent discussion,” according to a report by a UW-Madison economist released Monday.
For most patients, the ability to send an email to their doctor can feel like a quick way to get their health concerns addressed. For doctors, these “e-visits” were touted as both a potential time-saver and a way to bring down health care costs. However, an updated study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Madison-Wisconsin found e-visits were less of a time and money saver than previously believed.
Quoted: Benjamin Cox is an assistant engineer in the Morgridge Institute for Research fabrication lab at UW-Madison and a graduate student in the medical physics department who has been working in 3D printing for seven years. He said comparing printing Filamet on a home 3D printer to the larger metal printers is “a bit of a false comparison”.
A new study by UW-Madison researchers finds there can be such a thing as “too many fish in the sea”: having so many romantic options, you’re less satisfied with your choice.
Noted: The funds would go to the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, a UW-Madison master’s degree of business administration program with a focus on arts administration, to partner with the village.
Quoted: All things considered, talking about past pay can offer employers some insight into a candidate, says Barry Gerhart, senior associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “You can glean useful information from knowing [an applicant’s] salary history, because it does show the degree to which, or whether, a person has successfully moved through positions of increasing responsibility,” says Gerhart.
Noted: Well, “sharing” to the extent that two people have matching copies of the same object. “The fact that a gift is shared with the giver makes it a better gift in the eyes of the receiver,” says Evan Polman, marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They like a companionized gift more, and they even feel closer to the giver.”
Noted: Neis points to GE Healthcare, which employs 6,800 people and has 870 suppliers in Wisconsin, supporting another 21,000 jobs. GE has worked closely with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he noted, and executives have left the company to start their own ventures, including TomoTherapy, NeuWave Medical and Healthmyne. Foxconn could have the same halo effect.
MADISON, Wis. – Most experts agree, driverless car or autonomous vehicles are coming. Just when it will happen remains up for debate.
After lawmakers finished grilling members of the Walker administration over the details of a proposed incentive package to bring Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin, the mood in Thursday’s public hearing audibly changed.
More than 15 million American adults — 8.4 percent of men and 4.2 percent of women — suffer from some form of alcohol-use disorder, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (NIAAA). The federal health agency estimates that the annual economic cost of alcohol misuse hovers around $249 billion once one weighs the tolls on our health care system, public safety and productivity, to say nothing of the inestimable emotional cost.
SHINE is an offshoot of UW-Madison research that Piefer began as a graduate student in the lab of Gerald Kulcinski, now professor emeritus of engineering physics and director of the UW’s Fusion Technology Institute.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers two 16-week courses for one credit that teach money management. One offering is directed at freshmen and sophomores and the other for juniors and seniors. These courses are supported by peer counselors from the personal-finance major who conduct small group sessions. The UW alumni association also has long-offered a free one-day workshop for graduating seniors in cooperation with local financial professionals that draws up to 300 attendees.
The University of Wisconsin System says with more state money, it can boost engineering enrollments and training for other workers needed by a Taiwanese electronics company that has big plans to build a factory in southeastern Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross also told lawmakers he believes the Foxconn project would be “transformative” for the state and would “catapult” the state university system into a “position of global prominence.”
Noted: Like several other sources, Gonzalez pointed to UW-Madison as an important factor for Foxconn in considering Dane County. In addition to the research there, UW is also an alma mater for executives and scientists in Taiwan who are connected to Foxconn, sources said.
Rebecca Blank, the UW-Madison chancellor, has already proposed strategic partnerships with Foxconn that could result in funding for research and development at the university.
The company is looking for a 20-acre site in the Madison area on which it can build a 700,000-square-foot manufacturing plant that could employ as many as 650 people over the first five years of operation, according to the July 26 email the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP) sent to city, county, UW-Madison and business officials around Dane County. July 26 was also the day Foxconn’s Wisconsin project was announced in Washington, D.C.
Specifically, Foxconn would need 1,600 process equipment engineers, 463 integration engineers and 300 computer-integrated manufacturing engineers. Ian Roberston, the dean at the College of Engineering at UW-Madison, said he believes that UW System, along with other schools in the area, would be able to address Foxconn’s workforce needs — as well as those of other companies in the state — but it would require growing the number of engineering students enrolled at undergraduate institutions.
Over the past few years, UW-Madison’s engineering school has completed a series of renovation projects on its laboratory and facilities, Robertson said, and it has the capacity to handle an additional 500 to 600 students.
What it doesn’t have is the necessary faculty and staff numbers to handle an influx of students that large, he said.
“I’m confident that we can increase our capacity, with an appropriate investment, in order to meet that demand,” he said.
John Biondi, who since 2014 has directed Discovery to Product—a program that helps students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison turn ideas into companies—says he’s leaving the organization later this month.
Noted: In another local connection, the head of the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently met with representatives of the medical equipment division within Foxconn about potential collaboration with cancer researchers in Taiwan. “I will hope and expect that there will be a give and take … such that patients in Taiwan would benefit and patients in Wisconsin would benefit,” Howard Bailey, the center’s director, said in an interview.
Last week, Governor Scott Walker announced that Foxconn would open its first U.S. plant in Wisconsin and in turn, the state would provide $3 billion in incentives. WUWM spoke with UW-Madison economics professor Noah Williams about why states offer deals to companies.
As a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bob Lindner used to develop artificial intelligence to better understand the stars, programming ways to analyze the data collected by massive telescopes.
There are 75,000 graduates produced each year by the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin Technical College System and the state’s private colleges and universities. That’s a likely source for some of the workers who will eventually fill Foxconn’s Wisconsin labor force. Wisconsin colleges and universities are also home to a research and development structure that rivals what can be found in most states – although it’s time to reinvest in that asset before quality wanes.
U.S. patent No. 5,781,752 may not sound special: It’s a “table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer.” But for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — the research arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison — it’s now worth half a billion dollars.
In an effort to connect black-owned businesses in Milwaukee and Madison, the Heymiss Progress Business Expo and Job Fair returned to Madison late July, this year featuring a University of Wisconsin student’s clothing line which drew headlines for its controversial message.
Apple has gotten itself into a bit of a pickle. U.S. District Court Judge William Conley pounded the gavel on Monday ordering Apple to pay $506 million to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
MADISON – Foxconn executives have met with staff of the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — a sign of how far the economic ripples of a deal with the company might eventually extend.
Paul Jadin, president of the Madison Region Economic Partnership, said there would be potential links for local medical-device manufacturers and for UW-Madison. “Certainly there would be opportunities for our supply chain. We also would be a very significant player in research and development” at UW-Madison, Jadin said.
(Reuters) – A US judge on Monday ordered Apple Inc to pay $506 million for infringing on a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm, more than doubling the damages initially imposed on Apple by a jury.
A spokesman for Chancellor Becky Blank would not confirm a meeting had taken place, but said in a statement that ” UW-Madison supports economic development efforts in the advanced manufacturing or tech sectors that will provide more opportunities for Wisconsin and its citizens.”
MADISON, Wis. – A deal for a major tech company to come to Wisconsin could be imminent, according to reports.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a big-idea powerhouse.
A video game about exploring the cosmos that a University of Wisconsin-Madison institution developed is up for a national award for educational games.
Buzz about a massive Taiwan manufacturer setting up shop in Wisconsin seems to be getting louder. That could have tremendous ripple effect, says University of Wisconsin economist Hart Posen.
UW-Madison researchers are trying to root out race bias and other unfairness that has surfaced in computer programs used increasingly by private companies and government offices to decide if you are hired, approved for a bank loan or sent to prison.
