Noted: The company — which was formed in June by Peter Qian, a statistics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — will use the proceeds for research, development and general corporate purposes, according to the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Imagine a football helmet with brain wave probes and a device that measures acceleration forces to detect concussions on the field and directly communicate the information to medical staff.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation launched a new $1.6 million dollar ad campaign last month to lure businesses to Wisconsin, but according to a University of Wisconsin economics professor, the campaign won’t likely result in an influx of new companies into the state.
Noted: Virent is a spinout from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The company is attempting to commercialize the processes that produce a plant-based substitute for transportation fuels and chemicals that are now derived from oil.
Noted: A growing number of law school clinics for entrepreneurs have formed during the last decade, said Anne Smith, co-founder and co-director of the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: StartingBlocks goal is to accelerate the expanding entrepreneurial activity that is happening as more University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates and former Epic Systems employees choose to stay in Madison, said George Austin, a former city of Madison planner who has been tapped to manage the StartingBlock project.
Johnson Controls Inc. will partner with the University of Wisconsin’s Madison and Milwaukee campuses in a first of its kind collaboration.
If you believe industry insiders—and a considerable amount of media hype—desktop 3D printers are about to become the proverbial next big thing, as companies like MakerBot, 3D Systems, and Solidoodle find ways to create more reliable, user-friendly printers that consumers and most professional designers can afford.
MyUW Redesign Team launched a new beta version of the MyUW portal for university students Tuesday.
A team of UW-Madison students and recent graduates who devised a new way to add colors to 3-D printing won the $12,500 top prize in the Collegiate Inventors Competition.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin at Madison has run open textbook pilots since early 2012, and offers instructors $1,500 stipends to participate. Speaking as a slideshow presentation showed a picture of a hedge maze, James M. Jonas, academic librarian at the university, stressed the importance of building faculty support for open resources.
Tweets across the world of words like “haze, sunny, cold” are being analyzed by researchers at University of Wisconsin to determine areas of high pollution.
Milwaukee-based wealth management firm Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. has partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business to fill an expected talent gap in its industry.
Cellular Dynamics International, which has used the cell-reprogramming techniques of University of Wisconsin – Madison scientist James Thomson to manufacture large quantities of human cells, has taken a first step toward the ability to rebuild an actual organ.
Diversity is good for business, which makes it an imperative for U.S. business schools, say Wisconsin School of Business administrators.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank doesn’t have much patience for talk about any academic rivalries between UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee. “We have to get past this whole discussion about competition between these two cities,” she said during a panel discussion at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, held Wednesday and Thursday at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.
Cellular Dynamics, founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, said costs were up due to increased research and development, and expanded sales and marketing of CDI’s stem cell products.
When the UW-Madison Business School wanted to launch an MBA course in brand strategy and marketing, Lindsay was recruited to design and teach it.
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 earlier this year.
Noted: Compared to the top schools, more modestly priced programs at public universities offer a larger payoff. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a two-year degree costs out-of-state students $56,000, and the average student earns back nearly 60 percent of what was spent on school within a year after leaving campus.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the technology transfer arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has granted a license to and taken a stake in Xylome Corp., a privately-held Madison biotech company.
A controversy in the world of video-gaming has spilled over to stories of online harassment and real-world threats against women. The former U.S. video game czar,Constance Steinkuehler, joins the show to speak out about the Gamergate debate.
Noted: The Wauwatosa office was chosen because it was already doing research into hot-melt adhesives and because of a strong talent pool, including the chemical engineering program at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition gathered on Bascom Hill Friday for a “die-in” to protest UW-Madison’s affiliation with JanSport.
“What do employers want?” If you’re combing the want ads, you’d probably answer “experience.” In many ways, that’s code for the ability to fit in and get things done.
Publicly traded CDI was founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson in 2004 and manufactures large quantities of human stem cells for drug discovery, safety screening and for stem cell banks.
Noted: Thanks to exploding technological developments, retailing is continually more challenging and competitive. Those were among the topics discussed Wednesday at the third annual Future Perfect Retail Conference, sponsored by the Kohl?s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison within the School of Human Ecology.
Noted: A native of Madison, Lardy grew up in an academic family, went to a Madison high school and earned an undergraduate degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His mom, sister and two brothers all live in or near Madison.
Major research universities such as UW-Madison have developed their research bases over the course of a century and research parks over a span of 30 years. Leaders at UWM figured they didn?t have that kind of time.
Among the panelists were Dr. John Lucey, director, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research and a food scientist, Kate VandenBosch, dean, UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and Mark Stephenson, director, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability.
?Sector67? sounds like an ominous setting from a sci-fi story ? perhaps a secret government laboratory or an unexplored part of a recently discovered planet. But it?s a real place in Madison, Wis., and the things that eventually come out of it just might make some of the most outlandish technologies in science fiction seem downright prosaic.
The interviewer who challenged Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella when he muffed a question about women?s raises will be speaking at UW-Madison on Friday.
Interview with Dean François Ortalo-Magné.
Bauer, a native of Durand, about 30 miles southwest of Eau Claire, was in Madison on Tuesday to speak to the UW-Madison E-Business Consortium?s annual conference and to receive the Distinguished Fellow Award from the E-Business Institute.
The College of Agricultural & Life Sciences at UW-Madison has received funding to hire a specialist who will help operators of wineries and cider companies with microbial, cleaning and sanitation issues.
Noted: The company employs engineers from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Platteville and Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula, Blada said.
Noted: There is some evidence to bear out those claims, at least in relation to other technologies. A study by the University of Wisconsin in 2013 found that 2-year-olds learned words faster with an interactive app as opposed to one that required no action.
Raising the minimum wage would help not only workers but the state?s economy, the UW-Madison?s Center on Wisconsin Strategy said Wednesday.
Noted: The idea for Thermal Spray Technologies came through a graduate research program in the late 1980s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when a professor approached Richard L. Wilkey, owner of Fisher Barton Inc., about using coatings to make lawn mower blades last longer. The program was founded around the idea with funding from the Wisconsin Department of Development and Fisher Barton.
Noted: Goldman and UW-Madison horticulture professor James Nienhuis have grown giant pumpkins for several years ? though theirs top out at only 400 pounds, which they use for a giant pumpkin regatta for their students on Lake Mendota.
The DHS contributes $23.5 million toward the Software Assurance Market Place to enable software developers to test open source programs and improve software analysis tools.
Noted: Foster co-founded the company as an 18-year-old with his brother, Bill Foster, and friends Gary Bewick and James Bradley, while they attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s.
Noted: Howard and two other then-University of Wisconsin-Madison students founded EatStreet in early 2010.
Noted: Kent, the chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, now has a $500,000 federal grant and is working with a team to develop the app.
A physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has released an app that transforms that ordinary smartphone in your pocket into a device that detects elusive cosmic rays. And it wasn?t even that hard: “It was just one of those hobbies that happened to work out,” said assistant professor Justin Vandenbroucke in a news release.
Physicist Justin Vandenbroucke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created a new app that uses a smartphone?s image sensor to detect cosmic rays — something that has in the past required multi-million pound observatory equipment to achieve.
Listed: Madison, Wis. Despite being home to a Big Ten foe – Go Hoosiers! – Madison plays host to a great tech scene built on the foundation of two big players, Sonic Foundry and Raven Software. Madison is also big into the coworking scene, with locations like madworks coworking combining the power of entrepreneurship with resources from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. You?ll also find groups like gener8tor Investment Group and other members of this list of Madison startups.
Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison got into a strange Twitter spat Tuesday afternoon that involved squirrels and the Taco Bell chihuahua from the 90?s.
UW-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business and Baird, a Milwaukee-based wealth management firm, are teaming up to prepare undergraduate business majors for careers in wealth and financial planning.
ORLANDO — As the higher education IT community meets at the annual Educause conference in search the next big thing, a survey shows IT officials still place training and support for faculty, staff and students at the top of their priority lists.
Noted: The UW-Madison is proving to be a good supplier of the raw talent. Zendesk supports a program through the Division of Information Technology DoIT where students work at the UW?s help desk using Zendesk?s customer service platform. That makes for an easy transition to the private sector.
The UW-Madison is proving to be a good supplier of the raw talent. Zendesk supports a program through the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) where students work at the UW?s help desk using Zendesk?s customer service platform. That makes for an easy transition to the private sector.
In an earlier blog post my colleague Tom Gleeson discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages of co-teaching a blended graduate course to students at McGill University, the University of Wisconsin ? Madison and the University of Saskatchewan.
Google Glass has officially entered the classroom in at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Professors are developing new ways to use the device after the school received a few pairs of the wearable technology more than a year before the public release.
A finance professor has found Google Glass to be an effective way to improve feedback to students. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business?s Michael Gofman developed his idea in February 2014. After only a semester of using the technology to record commentary on student assignments, Gofman saw his student evaluation scores related to the quality of his feedback rise 38 percent from the year before.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke highly of the university?s long-running research partnership with GE Healthcare during her first visit with the company?s top Milwaukee-area executives.
Aaron Olver, the new director of University Research Park, nearly had his promising career cut short, but for a little luck and his new wife?s unwavering support.
Stewart Brand, a counterculture icon of the 1960s, is known for a phrase technologists love to quote: ?Information wants to be free.?
The importance of a second research hub for Wisconsin was part of a message delivered last week in Milwaukee by UW-Madison Chancellor Becky Blank, who spoke to a meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
Noted: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange cash price for butter this time last year was $1.53 a pound, according to figures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
