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.
Wisconsin companies with 500 or fewer employees could receive as much as $4,000 each for hiring an intern from the University of Wisconsin-Madison next summer, the state commerce agency said.
Noted: The group writing the plan includes representatives from agricultural organizations and businesses, environmental groups, the University of Wisconsin, state, federal and tribal governments.
The Wisconsin Idea is going high-tech, as UW-Madison works to leverage distance education to reach more students and generate more revenue. Outreach to non-traditional students reflects a bedrock value of the university and responds to a national trend in higher education, say UW-Madison officials.
Noted: In good times, farmers spend a lot of money on their businesses. Each dollar of net farm income results in an additional 60 cents of economic activity as it flows through the economy, according to UW-Madison research.
Quoted: Steven C. Deller, an economist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the economic impact from “recreational events like this oftentimes are more modest than people think theyre going to be.”
In a paper presented at Robotics Science and Systems in Rome in July, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison describe how they taught a Kinova Mico robot arm to help people do the dishes. The key, apparently, is slowing down and letting human team members take charge. “We want robots to follow our lead, or at least plan their actions with an awareness of ours,” says Bilge Mutlu, associate professor of computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering and an author of the paper.
Amy Wallner studied soil science, horticulture and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After just a few months working at West Madison Agricultural Research Station, she knew she wanted to be a vegetable grower.
Noted: Fetch Rewards has an app that makes grocery shopping easier. It was founded in 2013 by Wes Schroll, who was a University of Wisconsin-Madison student at the time
SmartUQ provides a faster way to do complex computer simulations with its analytics software, which helps companies reduce the complexity, time and cost of design cycles. It was formed in 2014 by Peter Qian, a statistics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It’s go-time tonight for eight college students participating in ImpactU, an accelerator program for college entrepreneurs. Following their ten-week program, they’ll have five minutes to pitch their business models to the start-up community during ImpactU Demo Day at UNC Charlotte Center City.
Here’s a quick look at the class of 2015’s participants, schools and projects:
Wiphala, from Jared Burris of University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Peter Rossi of Davidson College: This venture develops and manufactures llama fleece-based insulation, then sells it to apparel and bedding brands, retailers and manufacturers. This sustainable product can also increase Peruvian- or Bolivian- llama ranchers’ livelihoods.
Export Abroad, a software company that helps other firms with market research and sales leads in foreign countries, will be part of the first-ever White House Demo Day on Tuesday. Willy Hakizimana, 35, who co-founded Export Abroad in May 2014, said a San Francisco company that he works with nominated him for the event. Hakizimana came from Rwanda for an advanced degree in information systems at UW-Madison. “It’s just going to give us exposure and bring customers our way.”
State of Wisconsin CIO David Cagigal has a simple goal: To “never spend another dollar” on laying optical fiber cable for data projects involving state government and its partners. If that sounds unrealistic, consider that millions of miles of “dark fiber” — meaning, high-bandwidth fiber not in use — already exist in the United States. … Finding and lighting dark fiber will help Wisconsin prepare for the predicted bandwidth crunch brought on by the “Internet of Things” and the explosion in mobile devices, Cagigal and UW-Madison Chief Information Officer Bruce Maas told a July 28 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
NeuWave, 3529 Anderson St., was founded in 2008 based on technology developed by UW-Madison professors Fred Lee and Daniel van der Weide and licensed from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Speaking at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon, UW-Madison CIO Bruce Maas and the state’s Department of Administration CIO David Cagigal said the need for increased connectivity will only skyrocket in coming years due to pressure from the “Internet of Things.”
Technology originally designed to study homes and heath with UW-Madison’s School of Nursing is now being used at crime scenes. Researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are hoping 3D scanning will make some of the most complicated crime investigations more efficient. Quoted: Kevin Ponto, assistant professor of design studies; Ross Tredinnick, systems programmer at the Living Environments Laboratory.
In case you haven’t noticed, a startup scene is surging all across Madison. Ideas are taking shape at coffee shops and on campuses, in coworking spaces and accelerators. Emerging new companies and academic spinoffs are launching products and services. They’re attracting consumers and clients and finding and growing resources to give their dreams a go. If local entrepreneurs and civic and business leaders capitalize on the city’s size, location and unique culture—and make inclusivity a priority—Madison has all the makings of becoming a startup city.
Sickening couples’ Facebook posts are a sign of true relationship commitment, according to a study published this week.
Technology originally designed to study homes and heath with UW-Madison’s School of Nursing is now being used at crime scenes. Researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are hoping 3D scanning will make some of the most complicated crime investigations more efficient.
Start-up accelerator gener8tor has launched an effort to pull more promising ideas out of Wisconsin’s colleges and universities and turn them into companies.
Noted: Rostowfske will receive training from the Food Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison extension, organizers said. He has been doing consulting work for nearly two years with Oscar Mayer, Palermos Pizza and other well-known brands. Before that, Rostowfske was director of innovation and new business development at Palermos, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Traveling through time, talking to animals, and saving the day — they’re all video game staples.
With the technology boom over the past decade, more teachers across the nation are taking a digital approach to their lesson plans. At this week’s 11th annual gaming conference hosted by the UW’s Games+Learning+Society department, participants were able to take a look at how games are used as a teaching tool.
The Homeland Security grant provides $23.4 million over five years for the SWAMP program, which is a collaborative effort, based here in the Midwest: Morgridge is the lead institution and is responsible for building and operating the SWAMP; UW-Madison selects the software security tools and brings them into the SWAMP; Indiana University makes sure the SWAMP itself is secure; and, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign manages and stores the identities of those who use the SWAMP.
Noted: “Madison has a really strong talent pool coming out of (UW-Madison),” agreed Forrest Woolworth, chief operating officer of Madison gaming company PerBlue, and co-founder of local industry group Capital Entrepreneurs.
The UW-Madison men’s basketball team rose to fame this year with their final four season, but some players are learning fame comes with a price.
Last night, point guard Bronson Koenig sent a tweet warning people that someone was posing as him on Snapchat. The tweet said, “Once again, there is an imposter running a fake snapchat account of me. If u receive a snapchat thinking its me & idk you its, it’s not me.”
(Video) Planes were grounded, stocks didn’t trade and information was interupted Wednesday thanks to three major computer crashes. UW System’s Chief Information Security Officer Nick Davis talks about what happened on Live at Five.
The BerbeeWalsh Foundation has comitted $300,000 over five years to create a protyping program for creation of clinical devices with the University of Wisconsin-Madison clinicians, students and the Morgridge Advanced Fabrication Laboratory.
High-profile projects like the Madison Public Market could get some of the grant money, MadREP president Paul Jadin said, along with projects aimed at improving rail facilities for moving manufactured products, at developing traceable food supply chains as a competitive edge, and at expanding commercialization of new technologies at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study has found that increasing the amount of women-owned businesses in Wisconsin could be an economic growth and development opportunity.
As of 2011 in Wisconsin, women owned or managed more than 80,000 businesses, employed over 550,000 workers and earned $45 billion in sales, according to the study’s authors, Tessa Conroy and Steven Deller. However, there is a significant lack of women-owned businesses in Wisconsin compared with those owned by men.
Biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, water technology and university research are all promising segments of the Wisconsin economy — and all need a special ingredient to stay in business:
Water that is so ultra-purified and sterile that it will never exist in nature and humans are not even advised to drink it. In 2003, it moved into a larger headquarters in Madison as it began to build water treatment reactors for the fast-growing companies related to biosciences, genomes, stem cells and drug manufacturing. It installed the ultrapure water infrastructure inside the city’s Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, the massive University of Wisconsin-Madison research facility.
Plenty of people use Facebook to keep up with friends. Now, a new UW research project is using social media to keep up with the lives of local foxes and coyotes.The UW Urban Canid Project, headed by David Drake and Marcus Mueller, is reaching out to the community for help in tracking and researching red foxes and coyotes in Madison urban areas.
When tires roll across the road, the energy that’s created due to the friction is simply wasted. But that could soon change — thanks to new technology aiming to convert tire friction that’s usually lost in transit into electricity.
Noted: Neren figured out many of those things while running Munchie Delivery, an on-demand grocery delivery service that operates out of Capitol Centre Market in Madison, Vosseller said. Neren started Munchie Delivery in 2006, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a history degree.
Noted: Shine, whose technology was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in the process of building a $100 million production facility in Janesville. The company raised $2.4 million in September in a funding round it called a stepping stone to raising more funds to get the plant up and running.
Noted: The WiSys Technology Foundation, which handles invention disclosures for all University of Wisconsin campuses outside Madison and Milwaukee, is reporting a record number of invention “disclosures” by faculty and students. There were 56 disclosures this fiscal year, the highest total in 10 years. Disclosures are ideas that can lead to new products, services and startups.
UW-Madison computer sciences professor Jignesh Patel is spending a lot more time on the West Coast lately, after selling his latest business to a California company.
It’s easy for recruitment and retention to get lost in the shuffle among sexier topics like flipped learning, MOOCs, and the ongoing debates over funding and the cost of education. But for most institutions, the two Rs of admissions are still top of mind.
When it comes to social media, UW-Madison can Twitter all about it.
Wisconsin’s flagship university is the top Twitter account in the United States for higher education, according to data from social media research firm Engagement Labs.
Other universities may have more followers than UW-Madison’s 99,000, but when content is factored in, it’s tops.
If there’s one Twitter account UW-Madison students should follow, it’s @UWMadison. UW-Madison has the top Twitter account in U.S. higher education, according to data released by social media research firm Engagement Labs of Toronto.
The University Book Store, a retailer selling University of Wisconsin-Madison apparel and gifts, plans to open its first permanent metro Milwaukee location at Brookfield Square this fall.
Noted: A representative of WARF — the university’s alumni research foundation — attended BIO and UW-Madison’s Office of Corporate Relations sent two people, including Kathy Collins, who describes herself as a business liaison for the university.
The business school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison no longer has a director for a program that admits academically accomplished high school students directly to the highly competitive Bachelor of Business Administration program.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is all over Twitter.
Wisconsin ranks last in the nation for startup activity and Milwaukee ranks second-to-last among large metropolitan areas, according a new report from the Kauffman Foundation. Interviewed: Jonathan Eckhardt of UW’s Weinert Center.
Nick Lindberg is young, highly educated and technically savvy — and he’s aiming to bring more people like him to southeastern Wisconsin. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a masters degree in computer engineering, Lindberg had internships with Cisco Systems and Lockheed Martin. Then he moved to Rochester, N.Y., where he designed next-generation processors for IBM.
The for-profit prison industry sells itself as a cost-effective option for cash-strapped states, but according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin, privatized prisons are keeping inmates locked up longer in order to boost profits.
Giving new meaning to the term “wood chip,” scientists in a woodsy part of the country have come up with a way to make biodegradable computer chips from trees. (Subscription required.)
Illumina, a San Diego-based company that moved into the Madison market in 2012, unveiled Thursday an $8 million, 13,000-square-foot addition to its University Research Park facility on the West Side.
Noted: Kohl has pledged $100 million to help build the new arena and also donated $25 million for the Kohl Center, where University of Wisconsin-Madison’s basketball and hockey teams play.
Noted: Wundrock, a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy, acquired Wisconsin Pharmacal in the early 1970s.
Technically, Nicholas Smith’s title is simply “associate outreach specialist” in the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW–Madison is the fourth-largest research institution in the nation, with awards in 2013 reaching more than $1.1 billion. For the past 20 years, it has ranked among the top five universities overall for research funding from various sources. It also ranks sixth of all the nation’s universities for patents received.
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who watches Lands End, believes Marchionni was brought in mainly to focus on moving the brand upscale.
Noted: A native of St. Paul who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a history degree, Neren knows a thing or two about the delivery business. In 2006, he launched a late night online food delivery venture on campus called Madtown Munchies — later changed to Munchie Delivery — making all the deliveries himself on a bicycle.
A Madison startup whose device is aimed at helping women struggling with infertility took the grand prize in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan contest.
Noted: It also would house offices for FaB Wisconsin, which has 135 companies among its members; support services, such as law and accounting firms; and possibly satellite offices for the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and other institutions, Jurewicz said.
Today’s cast-off gadgets are far more likely to end up in a landfill than they are being responsibly disposed of. In fact, 41.8 million tons of e-waste were scrapped last year alone. To combat this, a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has invented a radically new kind of ecologically-friendly semiconductor chip made from wood. No, seriously.
Noted: At the School of Business at University of Wisconsin—Madison, MBA students choose a specialization, such as arts administration or real estate. They can immediately dive into classes that are of interest to them, says Blair Sanford, assistant dean for the full-time MBA program at the school.
Quoted: Now, once again, it looks like Charter will gain control of Time Warner Cable and much of Wisconsins market, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
We’re one step closer to biodegradable gadgets. These computer chips are made almost entirely out of wood.
