For students looking for a way to stream Thursday night?s Badger basketball game, a collaboration between Charter and University of Wisconsin?s Division of Information Technology allows students to access TV for free on Apple mobile devices using campus wifi.
The Badger Men?s Basketball team may be hundreds of miles from home, but there are still plenty of fans inside the Kohl Center.
A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, UW-Madison researchers who developed the tool found.
University of Wisconsin students have taken to Tumblr to voice their opinions on what it is like to be a student of color on campus.
A program to turn UW-Madison discoveries into commercial companies, created just four months ago, already has more than five dozen prospects to consider.
Susan LaBelle wasn?t seeking a job when she heard about the opening for a new head of the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations. But the more she thought about it, the more the post intrigued her.
World-class computer science and electrical engineering schools at the UW-Madison and other colleges are a part of that picture, as well as the availability of former Epic and Sonic Foundry employees who leave and wind up working for young companies.
Depending on where you live or work in the state, you might have a very different perspective on the aging face of Wisconsin.
Noted: Bob Aschenbrock, chief judge of the competition, said the success by Wisconsin cheesemakers goes back to the quality of the milk produced by the state?s farmers and the work of the state agriculture officials and the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison.
IF A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better? What if it glanced into the distance when you asked it a question, as though pondering its response?
Professors who change lives inspire their students to give back. And in many cases, those students give back money to their alma mater.
The former chief executive of several early-stage technology companies has been named to head the Discovery to Product project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: If there is resistance to competency-based education, Aaron Brower, interim provost and vice chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Extension said during the session, it?s not coming primarily from faculty members.
Wisconsin?s larger companies held onto their employees in 2013, putting the brakes on plant shutdowns and big layoffs, if the number of reports to the state is any indication.
Politics have always been a passion for newly elected Associated Students of Madison student council member Derek Field.
3D printing is generally a monochrome affair. Full-color printers are expensive, so the more casual user is likely stuck printing in one or two colors.
The newly formed Digital Lab for Manufacturing will develop a variety of digital tools to enhance efficiency and lower the cost of manufactured products. The Defense Department kicked in $70 million to the effort, with companies and research universities throughout the country joining as partners.
The SSTI (State Science and Technology Institute) praised the UW-Madison?s investment in its ?Discovery to Product? initiative to help move good ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace. That?s an idea funded, in part, by the Legislature?s UW System Incentive Grants. Only this month, the UW System and WEDC announced creation of a $2 million fund to help transfer technology from other system campuses.
After a factory collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 workers last year, the University of Wisconsin is in the process of reviewing workers? safety in factories around the world that produce clothing emblazoned with Bucky and the Motion W.
A company started by a Cohasset college student has undergone an important name change ? from Cbay to Canary. The change was made to avoid confusion with that ?other? online auction site that starts with an ?e.? Unlike that other site, however, Canary sells goods on a client?s behalf and donates a portion of sales to charity.
The University of Wisconsin is part of a new effort to make the United States more competitive in manufacturing.
UW-Madison is a research partner with the new “Digital Lab”, based in Chicago.
A material developed at UW-Madison could lead the way toward cheaper, faster cleanups of oil spills and other environmental hazards.
Rockwell Automation Inc. and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among 73 companies, nonprofits and universities that are investing in building a Midwest Digital Lab for Manufacturing at the University of Illinois.
Some day, putting your smartphone on the car seat next to you while driving could recharge the phone?s battery.
Qian, 36, an associate professor of statistics at UW-Madison, founded Metamodeling Analytics, a Madison company developing software to speed the process for designing new industrial products.
Chicago has won a $70 million grant from the Defense Department for a research center for digital-manufacturing technology, a new facility that could dramatically raise the city?s profile beyond being a hotbed for startups.
While it?s already possible to wirelessly recharge smartphones in cars, those cars need to be equipped with a special charging pad that the phone has to be placed on. Thanks to a newly-developed “nanogenerator,” however, it might eventually be possible to place the phone anywhere in any car, letting the vehicle?s vibrations provide the power.
With the rise of social media, a public figure?s personal critics are never more than 140 characters away.Student-athletes are among those who feel the sting of ill-advised or critical social posts, which has raised the question as to whether universities should take steps to regulate the sites.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s technology department presented a plan to change the campus email system from WiscMail to Microsoft Office 365, to Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council Wednesday.
A unique way of adding color to 3-D created products was the winning entry in the 20th annual Innovation Days competition at UW-Madison.
This past year a colorful new assortment of notebooks with canine characteristics reached the shelves of the University Bookstore here in Madison. You may have given ?paws? to the WOOF logo as you strolled down the paper aisle in that frantic last-minute rush to fetch some school supplies before the new semester. Perhaps you stopped to admire the howling pup on the cover or even purchased one out of sheer adoration. But you probably didn?t know that ?WOOF? isn?t just what the dog says or merely some vibrant notebook with a dog graphic on it. WOOF Supplies is a charitable organization that seeks to enhance educational opportunities for underprivileged students in the U.S. WOOF is an acronym for ?Working On Our Future,? and it aspires to do just that.
Noted: EatStreet was founded in 2009 by Howard and two other University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, Eric Martell and Alex Wyler.
?This is the dairy farmers? year to enjoy,? said Mark Stephenson, the director of the UW-Madison?s Center for Dairy Profitability.
The University of Wisconsin System is partnering with the state?s chief jobs agency to create a $2 million seed fund to help bring technology ideas developed at UW campuses to the marketplace.
A $2 million fund to help faculty and students on University of Wisconsin campuses commercialize ideas and potentially create new businesses and jobs was launched Thursday by the UW System and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
Three finalists have been selected to be interviewed to lead Discovery to Product (D2P), a new venture at UW-Madison to boost the entrepreneurial efforts on campus.
Three finalists have been named for the job heading the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discovery to Product initiative, which is intended to boost campus entrepreneurism.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation isn?t the only organization accusing Apple Inc. of infringing on a high-tech patent. A few days after WARF filed suit against the technology giant, a Texas-based company did the same based on a different complaint.
Skiers, bikers and other silent sports enthusiasts spent $26.4 million in trips to three northern Wisconsin counties in 2012, resulting in $14.7 million being pumped into the counties economies, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Accounting giant Ernst and Young LLP announced a pledge of $1.1 million to the Wisconsin School of Business Thursday, a gift the company believes will have a significant return on investment.
Ernst & Young’s pledge includes $850,000 for the Global Mindset Leaders program and the remaining funds going to other accounting programs. The global mindset idea has two components: academic and extra-curricular activities for undergraduate business students that demonstrate the value of diversity in the classroom, workplace and business environment, and secondly, scholarships to under-represented minority students.
MADSION, Wis. — The foundation that manages patents for the University of Wisconsin-Madison has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc., alleging the electronics and software giant infringed on one of its patents.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation sued Apple on Monday, claiming that the gadget giant infringed on one of WARF?s computer technology patents.
The last decade has seen a wave of research suggesting consumer behavior can often be determined entirely nonconsciously. For example, salesmen who subtly mimic a customer?s body language are found more persuasive; subliminal exposure to high- or low-end brands can automatically change consumer?s shopping goals.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, has launched a lawsuit against Apple. WARF?s lawsuit alleges that the iPhone maker infringes on a patent held by the University of Wisconsin – Madison, US Patent No. 5,781,752.
trollAnna Bialkowska via FlickrCalled patent trolls or non-practising entities (NPE), companies that make most of their money from licensing patents don?t have the best reputation. WARF is listed as #5.
A new project based in Madison aims to root out software vulnerabilities that can leave the door open for viruses, website hacking or other forms of cybercrime, estimated as a $100 billion industry. The SWAMP, or the Software Assurance Marketplace, is a collaboration of the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research along with UW-Madison, Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against Apple claiming the company?s signature A7 chip infringes upon a WARF patent, according to CNET.
A University of Wisconsin, Madison physics lab will close on April 5, after a decision from the Department of Energy came down in late January.
The organization that manages patents for the University of Wisconsin is filing a lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of using a patented invention in its latest iPhone and mobile devices.
Swedenborg and Ronning are members of two teams from UW-Madison that have been chosen to make presentations in regional competitions in March for the Hult Prize, a contest that draws more than 10,000 applicants from over 150 countries.
Silatronix got its start when two University of Wisconsin professors, both considered experts in their fields, happened to run into each other one day in 2007.
Unity Health Insurance said Thursday morning that a missing hard drive could compromise patient information for more than 40,000 members.
There?s a reason why President Barack Obama called out Rebecca Blank, chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when he spoke at GE?s gas engines plant in Waukesha on Jan. 30.
A team of four engineering students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is among 300 teams chosen from a field of 10,000 applicants to compete for the $1 million, winner-take-all Hult Prize.
Students (and plenty of professors) love snow days. But when they can?t get what they want, is that any reason for a blizzard of hate on Twitter?
Jadin said the UW-Madison is driving much of the local life sciences sector?s advance. He said the university is No. 4 nationwide in federal research funds.
Wisconsin farmers earned an estimated $3.75 billion last year, their second most profitable ever, thanks in large part to strong dairy and livestock sales, University of Wisconsin economists reported Wednesday.
The report is a key ingredient to the Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum on Wednesday at UW-Madison.
It was December 2009 when Heidi Allstop, then a UW-Madison graduate student in psychology and business, needed someone to talk to about the stresses of student life and figured other students probably did, too.
