Noted: It took three years (“you can?t rush a good thing”), but with help from the Dairy Business Innovation Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Williams and Shaw managed to reproduce the once-popular cheese.
When Great Oaks Venture Capital decided to expand its reach and build digital start-up companies in Wisconsin, it didn?t take long for the New York firm to figure out where to begin: Madison. Andy Boszhardt Jr. and John Philosophos, two University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, turned to their alma mater?s highly regarded computer science department to collaborate on a venture that invests in and supports technology companies launched by student entrepreneurs.
College students at UW-Madison are making up to $1,000 a month with a new on-campus job opportunity.
Activity monitoring doesn?t work on all cows because some don?t show signs of heat, and others may not ovulate at all without a hormonal boost. Klessig said it has been effective with 95 percent of his herd ? well above the 70 percent that Paul Fricke, a UW-Madison dairy science professor, said is typical.
Howard Bremer, one of the founders of Modern Technology Transfer at University of Wisconsin and a prestigious alumnus at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, died late last week.
University of Wisconsin business students are helping people ?fetch? their groceries and receive automatic savings with the creation of a new smartphone application.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison wants to see if it can track flu better by using social media.
A few weeks into the fall semester, Bruce Maas, chief information officer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, received an e-mail from his chancellor: A junior living in campus housing was frustrated with the wireless network, which he said often left him unable to connect to the Internet. Mr. Maas, who describes the university?s wireless capacity as “very robust,” asked his networking staff to investigate.
However, Rezin is adding Hyreds, developed at UW-Madison, which average 400 to 500 barrels per acre.
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation on archiving commemorative African fabrics, through the course of which I learned about the University of Wisconsin?s Digital Collections Center. As a historian-in-training and digital archive enthusiast, I became immediately intrigued by all the resources and projects described by Melissa McLimans, a digital librarian who works with the Center and helped digitally archive the fabric. After the talk, I decided to reach out to Melissa via e-mail to learn more about the UW Digital Collections Center. I also spoke with the Center?s resident audio expert, Steven Dast. I do work for the Oral History Review, after all.
Well, this is a big breakthrough for young Madison techies. A New York venture capital firm is pledging to invest up to $500,000 over the next three years in early-stage UW-Madison startups.
4490 Ventures will invest in early-stage information technology companies, mostly in Wisconsin. It is being organized by the State of Wisconsin Investment Board and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Matt Hanson, co-founder of Madison-based company LowDrag Productions, helps bring artists? talent to life by creating a variety of videos for them.
Presumably, the federal government will resume operations. But as of late last week, the federally funded Madison-based Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) was closed due to the government shutdown.
?It wasn?t until 2007 that we really started to recognize our export opportunities. That wasn?t very long ago. We?re still learning,? said Mark Stephensen, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at UW-Madison.
With help from University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation released an economic development impact map Tuesday to demonstrate individual investments made by WEDC across the state.
The University of Wisconsin System plans to move to a new high-speed data network over the next 18 months.
Unlike a clinic or hospital setting, school nurses aren?t surrounded by their peers. In addition, some may not have had a lot of course work on kids with chronic health conditions, said Lori S. Anderson, assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Nursing.
Noted: CDI was founded in 2004 by Dr. James Thomson, a pioneer in human pluripotent stem cell research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After 31 years of public service ? most recently as director of University Research Park for the past 14 years ? Mark Bugher will retire Nov. 1.
GenCell USA moved into its 1,000-square-foot suite at University Research Park?s Innovation Center a few months ago, Roeven said
Lynne M. Thomas, curator of rare books and special collections at Northern Illinois University Libraries, used to maintain two work-related Facebook pages and a blog. This past summer, she put them on hiatus?and took to social media to explain why.
Three weeks before the grand opening of his company?s new, $120 million biotech manufacturing facility, Promega Corp. chief executive Bill Linton said he?s starting to think about what the Fitchburg company ? founded in 1978 ? will be doing on its 100th anniversary.
?There need to be women who are championing change through political policy as well as those who are pioneering change within the roles they have taken in the workplace,? said Pat Alea, a strategic planning consultant who co-founded the Women?s Executive Leadership Summit at UW-Madison?s business school. ?Every woman, in my opinion, should address issues of fairness and equity in whatever way she can, and it?s critically important to the sanity of all of us that we not pretend inequity is ?not a problem? for us.?
Matthew Wilcox, a University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore studying computer science, works for Wiscohub, a new company founded by UW-Madison students on the idea of building a single student-to-student online alternative to websites such as Craigslist and Ticketmaster.
Founded in 2008 based on UW-Madison research, NeuWave?s minimally invasive Certus 140 thermal ablation system attacks cancerous lung, liver or kidney tumors with microwave energy.
There?s nothing new or even unexpected about the love-hate relationship between religion and science.
The University of Wisconsin system has introduced an alternative way to finish your degree by earning credits based on what you already know. It?s the so-called Flex Option.
Noted: Helping to educate cheesemakers about Hispanic cheeses is the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Researchs Luis Jimenez-Maroto, a native of Mexico City.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has the best real estate education program in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin at Madison, for example, has been doing flipped classroom teaching for almost a decade, combining online content with active learning in the classroom. They have demonstrated significant success in reducing the student failure rate in introductory engineering courses.
The 2-year-old, $80 million human resources system for the University of Wisconsin System is loaded with risks and weaknesses in how it manages payroll and benefits, according to a report by a national accounting firm released Friday.
She?s only been tweeting with the handle @BeckyBlank for 10 days, but new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank had racked up 1,532 followers by Thursday.
Some organizations that used to partner with the W Club on football Saturdays also wont be returning this year, saying there are just too many loopholes to go through to allow their kids to work.
UW-Madison grad Tom Werner is returning to his college roots this weekend with a dual purpose: to see the Badgers win a football game and dispel some myths about solar energy.
Fans can expect more vendors in the stands at the football game this Saturday.
A Madison construction company announced they would be building a new apartment complex along the waterfront of lake Mendota.
Founded in 2006, AquaMost?s technology grew out of research in the laboratory of UW-Madison engineering professor Marc Anderson.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez sent an email to Badger football season ticket holders Saturday night, apologizing for issues with concessions.
The iPhone continues to be an unambiguous smash hit product, especially in North America. But Android-powered smartphones, notably those from Samsung, have become a vibrant and dangerous competitor. While the phones are ultimately similar on many dimensions, screen size has become an ever-increasing differentiator. While the screen size of Android phones seem to grow on an almost daily basis, the iPhone has increased in size only once during its life, and remains considerably smaller (and especially narrower, likely to facilitate one -handed use) than its plethora of Android rivals.
Hector DeLuca, Rock Mackie and Richard Davidson have the kind of academic credentials admired by their academic colleagues at UW-Madison and far beyond.
Lynch said there aredisadvantages to locating a company in Wisconsin if an entrepreneur is trying to raise money. But those may be overshadowed by the advantages. The biggest reason to be here, he said, is UW-Madison.
As I seated myself among more than 100 established or would-be entrepreneurs at the Badger Startup Summit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday, I began to conduct my own unscientific poll. Motivating me was an article in The Wall Street Journal two days earlier about a recent study by Ross Levine and Yona Rubenstein indicating that entrepreneurship seems to be linked with mischievous tendencies such as shoplifting, marijuana use, skipping school, etc. as a teenager.
Still, Madison?s somewhat lackluster performance in the Kauffman report highlights the need for a change of mindset both for the city and on campus, says Tom Hefty, a frequent critic of the UW-Madison and its record on converting research dollars into job-creating new companies.”This is an old story ? the slow decline of Madison,” says Hefty. “Hopefully, the new UW-Madison chancellor will reverse the trend.”
More cutting edge is Radiant Fabrication, a UW spin-out that makes 3D printers and uses Sector67 tools to build some of its prototypes. ?Three years ago as a student, there were five 3D printers on campus, and nobody could touch them.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s patent licensing arm on Wednesday responded to critics who claim a stem cell patent it holds should be invalidated in light of the U.S. Supreme Court?s recent Myriad Genetics Inc. decision, telling the Federal Circuit the patent was the result of a biologist?s pioneering research. (Subscription required.)
Noted: In other news, Hall said he had talked about boosting job creation in a meeting this week with Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of UW-Madison and a former federal commerce secretary under President Barack Obama.
Hall was bullish about WEDC?s future, praising a meeting he had on Tuesday with the new University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank where they discussed ways to partner on economic development. Blank came to UW this summer after working as the acting U.S. Commerce secretary.”She has a wealth of information about Commerce and economic development,” Hall said.
Opus Group?s Milwaukee office is partnering with a Chicago developer on a six-story building with 162 beds for University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is partnering with two Wisconsin Indian tribes in an effort to increase enrollment and graduation rates of Native American students.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are convinced the tests of the future will look like Crystals of Kaydor, a role-playing video game about aliens.
Tammy Baldwin readily admits she has a soft spot for academic researchers and the federal dollars that often help to support them. Her grandfather was a UW-Madison biochemist who worked at the Institute for Enzyme Research for decades.
Founded in 2007, FluGen, at 597 Science Drive in University Research Park, has seven employees. Its efforts are based on the work of noted UW-Madison flu researchers Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann.
Tammy Baldwin readily admits she has a soft spot for academic researchers and the federal dollars that often help to support them. Her grandfather was a UW-Madison biochemist who worked at the Institute for Enzyme Research for decades.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin touted her legislation to bolster funding for early-stage companies during a stop on the UW-Madison campus today, saying Wisconsin ranks near the bottom in entrepreneurship despite “some really innovative startups that are in this area.”
The company, founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, made nearly 3.1 million shares available and raised net proceeds of about $43 million.
Forget No. 2 pencils, or even the new computer-based common-core exams that have schools across the country scrambling. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are convinced the tests of the future will look like Crystals of Kaydor, a role-playing video game about aliens. (Registration required.)
The Association of University Technology Managers has released highlights from its latest annual survey of patenting and licensing activity by colleges and other research organizations, and said total income from royalties and other sources for the 194 organizations that responded to the survey was in excess of $2.6-billion for the 2012 fiscal year.
Madison is the flagship facility for Catalent Biologics. Our facility here was founded based on great technology that came straight out of the UW-Madison ? GPEx technology ? evolved from Nobel Prize-winning cancer researcher Howard Temin?s lab.
Locomatix, a company co-founded by UW-Madison computer sciences professor Jignesh Patel, is becoming part of Twitter.
