Category: Business/Technology

Campus Technology interviewed five CIOs about the perceptions of their changing role on campus, asking them to give examples of how they delegate, mentor, collaborate and strategize more than they used to. In part 4 of our series, the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Bruce Maas talks about the organizational changes that enable him to focus on a more strategic role. (Missed parts 1-3? See the Table of Contents on the top left of this article.)

Noted: CDI, which was co-founded by stem cell pioneer and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor James Thomson, said last week it had launched a new cell line, called iCell DopaNeurons, that could aid research into neurological disorders like Parkinson?s disease and schizophrenia.

A new partnership between Johnson Controls and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will explore how the next generation of car batteries will fit into the nation?s overall energy picture.

A student team that?s figured out how to inject color into plastic items made by 3-D printers took the top prize at the UW-Madison?s annual G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition.

MIGHTY MEALworm, a startup company led by UW-Madison graduate students Rachel Bergmans and Valerie Stull, was one of six winners of a nationwide contest to improve global food systems held in Madison last Friday and Saturday.

?When faced with a choice among colleges, go with the least expensive option,? Mark Cuban suggests. ?Most 18-year-olds don?t know what they want to do with their life, nor do most 22-year-olds. Saddling graduates with high debt makes no sense.?

The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce joined a coalition of 44 cities Thursday that will advocate for greater federal spending in research, according to releases from the Madison and Boston Chambers of Commerce.

Noted: In her recent economic plan, Burke noted that life sciences research is one of the strengths of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

While the two have been taking care of business, they haven?t neglected their studies. Both are on pace to earn undergraduate degrees in fewer than four years. Also at UW, they?ve received support through The University of Wisconsin Law School?s Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, which provides free legal services to entrepreneurs and small business owners … They?ve also received office space and other help from the UW Student Business Incubator, based out of the Student Activity Center.

Many companies have moved quickly to patch the code since the problem was discovered earlier this week, but there are likely several services out there that might be slow to respond. Nick Davis, an Information Security Architect with the UW-Madison, says that could sensitive data at risk, if businesses have failed to patch the bug.

Academic institutions are among those players often not addressed in the current patent reform debate. They don?t have the financial resources that big businesses like Apple and IBM, two companies that are part of a coordinated lobbying campaign, do.

Noted: Sanders grew up in Chicago and in 1971 earned his bachelor?s degree in history and economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned a master?s degree in urban and regional planning from the university in 1973.

Noted: In recent months, there has been a surge of interest in, and investors have been willing to pay higher prices for, riskier, higher-debt companies, said Casey Karbowski, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: A year later, the company forged a $20.6 million cost-sharing agreement that has the National Nuclear Security Administration providing half of the funding, with Shine, the Morgridge Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison providing the other half.

The Milwaukee Brewers are reigning supreme in Milwaukee?s sports world Monday, but the Wisconsin Badgers are giving the team a run for its money.

Noted: The flurry of advances in recent years are the culmination of 30 years of groundwork that began with the formation of university technology transfer offices, said Midwest Research University Network co-founder and President Allen Dines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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.

Depending on where you live or work in the state, you might have a very different perspective on the aging face of Wisconsin.

Professors who change lives inspire their students to give back. And in many cases, those students give back money to their alma mater.

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.

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.