University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have come up with a smart phone app for addicts that’s getting recognition from Harvard’s Innovation in American Government competition.
The Governor’s Steering Committee on Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Testing and Deployment will advise Walker on how best to advance the testing and operation of self-driving vehicles in Wisconsin. It will include a mix of industry, technology, regulatory and academic members, and build upon the selection of the UW’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory as a test bed.
Noted: Shaken by the tragedy, the University of Wisconsin-Madison senior business major vowed to invent a lightweight, minimalist life vest that would appeal to triathletes, surfers, kayakers, anglers, standup paddle boarders, sailors and anyone else who should, but probably doesn’t, wear a personal flotation device.
UW researcher David Gagnon from the Field Day Lab gives us new ways to think about the utility of screen time and how to make the most of it for ourselves and our children.
UW-Madison students considering a career in retail will soon have access to a 38-year veteran of the retail and apparel industry. The Kohl’s Center for Retailing has announced that Lorna Nagler will serve as the Alumni Executive in Residence for the fall semester.
The committee will be headed by a Department of Transportation official and include representatives from the Department of Transportation, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the state insurance commission, the Wisconsin State Patrol, the UW-Madison, the Wisconsin Technology Council, the governor’s office, local law enforcement, a motorcycle advocacy organization, the trucking industry and three or more members from the “automated and connected vehicle technology sector,” as well as six appointees chosen by legislative leadership from both parties, according to the executive order.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Twitter account, @UWMadison, was hacked early Wednesday morning and published some bizarre tweets before the university regained control of it, according to a university news release.
The $1.5 million research station is being paid for through a public-private partnership that includes $750,000 in private funds and $650,000 from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. The property will include 30 acres of production cranberry beds to generate revenue to help support research, along with another five acres of beds for further research studies by faculty at UW-Madison and the USDA.
Noted: Grossman received a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a masters of business administration degree from Marquette University. He leads the company’s UW-Madison campus recruiting team.
The project was among the projects to recently win funding from UW2020, an initiative backed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to provide resources for innovative academic research.According to Jeremy Morris, the communications professor who launched PodcastRE, the project is saving cultural artifacts that are at risk of being lost. Unlike film reels or canvas paintings, podcasts are not vulnerable to decay, fire, humidity or mold. The threat they face is simply getting deleted from a server.
Computer scientists and dairy experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW Extension are collaborating to create a suite of computer programs that can help with dairy farming — a “virtual brain” that uses artificial intelligence to help farmers with day-to-day decision-making.
It’s rare that huge changes come right before a new dean takes over. But even before London Business School welcomes a dean known for innovative curricular changes — current Wisconsin School of Business Dean François Ortalo-Magné — a recalibration, if not a complete overhaul, of the LBS MBA is underway.
Competition for an acceptance letter from the Wisconsin School of Business is already high—the college is one of the top 30 business schools in the nation, according to Businessweek’s 2016 rankings.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced its latest group of projects for the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative, which funnels millions of dollars into research.
Noted: His remarks came at the first in a series of Muster Across Wisconsin events produced by Bunker Labs Wisconsin in concert with the UW Small Business Development Centers and the Wisconsin Technology Council. In addition to Weber’s talk, the La Crosse event featured seminars on the basics of building a business, finding the right resources and attracting capital. Future Muster Across Wisconsin events will follow similar outlines.
Noted: Two Wisconsin natives and UW graduates, Andrew Walker and Christopher Eckstrom, have moved back to Wisconsin from Chicago to start the fund. Walker recently was CEO of a data analytics startup in Chicago that was acquired; Eckstrom had worked for an international investment bank.
Noted: The company’s technology began as a project at UW-Madison by Fernandez and EnsoData co-founders Sam Rusk and Nick Glattard.
Noted: In a report, University of Wisconsin-Madison economists estimated that farms of 500 or more cows accounted for 40% of state milk production in 2013 compared to 22% in 2007.
DePuy Synthes Products, part of Johnson & Johnson, has acquired 3D printing technology from Tissue Regeneration Systems, a Michigan company based in part on research from the lab of William Murphy of UW-Madison.
Members of Congress were at UW-Madison Thursday to discuss the future of the economy.
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.
