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Appointments and Transitions
BizEd
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.
Kelley Prof Wins Wisconsin Deanship
Poets and Quants
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.
Indiana professor named dean of Wisconsin School of Business
Wisconsin State Journal
An Indiana University professor specializing in information technology has been named the dean of the UW-Madison School of Business.
These new lenses give you superhuman sight, let you see colors with greater clarity
Digital Threads
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.
Special glasses give people superhuman colour vision
New Scientist
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.
3rd student brew from UW-Madison goes into full production
WISC-TV 3
The top craft beer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison student beer-brewing competition went into full production Wednesday.
Career Corner: Job loss can be a gain for your career
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Moira Kelley is a senior career counselor in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.
State lawmakers tout self-driving cars at hearing
Capital Times
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.
UW-Madison Program For Future Entrepreneurs Skyrockets
Wisconsin Public Radio
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.
UW-Madison Program For Future Entrepreneurs Skyrockets
Wisconsin Public Radio
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.
Center for Corporate Innovation at UW-Madison Opens
Milwaukee Business Journal
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.
Wisconsin has a chance to get into the race with autonomous vehicles
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
Google, take the wheel: Madison gets ready for a future of driverless cars
Capital Times
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.
UW business group branches out to help firms worldwide
Badger Herald
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.
WEDC to dole out $498K to startup-focused groups
Capital Times
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.
Rebecca Kleefisch: UW grants will help encourage start-ups
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
Researchers and teachers collaborate on educational video games
NBC-15
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.
The view is spectacular!
Isthmus
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.
WEDC awards $500,000 in grants for entrepreneurs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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.
Feds open door for University of Wisconsin researchers to test driverless cars
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
Driverless vehicles could soon be seen on streets near you
WKOW-TV 27
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.
WEDC grants help grow entrepreneurship programs across state
WISC-TV 3
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.
DOT Announces Self-Driving Test Sites On Last Day Of Obama Administration
Manufacturing.net
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.
With university deals, Under Armour aims to fill in its U.S. map
Baltimore Sun
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, Penn State chosen as proving ground for self-driving vehicle technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh will work with Penn State University as a federal proving ground for self-driving vehicle technology. UW-Madison is also involved.
JangoBio joins Madison’s growing stem cell industry
Capital Times
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.
Wisconsin-Madison students hope to shape future of transportation
The Trucker
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.
The Limited offers another sign that some retail stores are out of fashion
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.
Virtual canaries
Isthmus
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.
Using T Cells to fight cancer
Daily Cardinal
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.
Madison draws a startup from Chicago with a novel way to track cancer
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
Madison’s labs of promise seek renewable energy sources
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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.
New UW video games institution will get in GEAR Tuesday
Capital Times
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.
Madison’s labs of promise seek renewable energy sources
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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.
The ‘Internet of Things’ is quietly taking root in Madison
Capital Times
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 plans move to Verona
Wisconsin State Journal
Cellular Dynamics International, the company founded by internationally renowned UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, plans to leave Madison for Verona.
A look back at 2016’s startup sector
WISC-TV 3
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.
Let there be light!
In Business Madison
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.
Law School Victim Of A Cyber Attack, Applicant Data Compromised
Above the Law
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.
UW student combines fashion and engineering to save lives
Badger Herald
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.
Multiplayer game: Video game companies join forces to level up the Madison scene
Capital Times
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.
10 MBAs With the Highest Return for Grads Earning $100,000+
U.S. News and World Report
Noted: Wisconsin School of Business ties for first. MBA grads from these business schools have at least a 250 percent average return, U.S. News data show.
UW student’s invention makes insulin injections more efficient and safe
Badger Herald
A University of Wisconsin business student has invented an add-on to insulin injectors ensuring a safer and surer injection for diabetics.
Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta Hartsfield and Los Angeles International Named Three Busiest Airports for Thanksgiving and Christmas, According to Orbitz.com
Yahoo Finance
Noted: From the September 2016 Orbitz University of Wisconsin US Traveler Compass study. Orbitz and the University of Wisconsin Business School’s US Traveler Compass Study surveyed 711 adults 18-64 who are leisure travelers about their future travel intent. This study is done using Google Consumer Surveys.
Business school dean focuses on on diversity, says there’s work to be done
Badger Herald
Binnu Palta Hill is working hard for a more diverse School of Business.
Tech and Biotech: Madison startups tackle hormone replacement, nerve cell repair and biometric ID
Wisconsin State Journal
Two stem cell companies derived from UW-Madison research are coming out of the woodwork.
Rise of mission investing is trend companies should follow
Wisconsin State Journal
Long known for patenting and licensing inventions rooted in the Madison campus, WARF began investing in some of those companies more than 15 years ago and appears poised to consider doing more.
UW engineers create flooring that produces renewable energy
WKOW-TV 27
Engineers at UW-Madison have created the floor of the future that produces its own power when it’s walked on. It’s made with wood and cardboard fibers that have been treated with a cellulose gel. Because of that, the creators said it’s good for the environment too.
Cellectar drug data possible in 2017
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts. The company moved back to Madison in 2014.
Former MillerCoors chief goes craft
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Ryder will help host dinners that pair foods with beer at the brewery. He continues his work as adjunct professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he hopes to elevate fermentation sciences by making students consider careers in that area.
State economy faces trouble, UW researchers say
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With relatively few college-educated people moving here and an economy that is generating large numbers of lower-skill jobs, Wisconsin faces a challenging future, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension and UW – Madison argue in a new report.
Wisconsin puts inventive art on display
Big Ten Network
Since 1925, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has racked up quite a roster of patents. That’s kind of the point. A nonprofit institution, WARF exists to support scientific investigations and research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by stewarding a “cycle of research, discovery, commercialization and investment.”
Stanford’s Midwestern foray opens discussion on digital future
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “I think that might be code for ’this region is developing economically’ and they’re trying to get into it,” said John Surdyk, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school and president of the Stanford Club of Madison, which has about 550 Stanford alumni members.
U Wisconsin College of Engineering Embraces Flipped Classrooms
Campus Technology
The University of Wisconsin’s (UWISC) first cohort of students to complete a significant number of their undergraduate courses primarily through the flipped classroom model is preparing to graduate in the spring.
Builder of the Week Homes by Towne, Jim Doering
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: I’m a UW grad, so I’m a contributor to the UW-Madison Foundation. We also contribute to Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, where my father received outstanding care. As a company, we are involved with United Way and United Performing Arts Fund along with many other organizations through our Zilber Family Foundation.
Not only sunlight, even your footsteps can be converted into usable electricity
Gizmodo
Since a long time, the world has been going gaga over the benefits of generating electricity from sunlight and water. But if we tell you that even your footsteps can be converted into usable electricity, wouldn’t that surprise you? Thanks to a green flooring invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers. It is with the help of this flooring that footsteps can be converted into usable electricity.
The New Frontier: Jason Fishbain on Personalizing the Student Experience
EdTech Magazine
EdTech speaks with the chief data officer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison about early successes and emerging applications in data analytics.
UW-Madison alumni fire up students with entrepreneurship stories
Wisconsin State Journal
Kenny Dichter was a sociology major when he attended UW-Madison in the 1980s, a “low-SAT, low-GPA guy,” as he describes himself.
UW System in top 20 worldwide for innovation
In Business Madison
The University of Wisconsin System ranks No. 13 in the world according to Reuters’ top 100 most innovative universities list.