?Macabre? is not an adjective that applies to many blogs of any sort, let alone ones by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalists. In the case of Deborah Blum?s Elemental, one of Wired?s science blogs, it fits ? because her primary subject is poison, and most often poison that?s intentionally administered in the hopes of killing someone.
Noted: In addition to being a security researcher and founder of a consulting firm called Malice Afterthought, he is also a law student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He says he stuck to snooping on himself ? and did not, deliberately, seek to scoop up anyone else?s data ? because of a federal law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The Associated Press reported that the Universityof Wisconsin Board of Regents recently met with General Electric Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt, who spoke with the board about the future of business and its role in growing the economy.
Football season starts in just about a month, and if you?re headed to a UW game, you?ll see some pretty big changes at Camp Randall.
The business school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, submitted inaccurate rankings data to U.S. News & World Report that made it appear more selective than it was, but it won?t cost the school its ranking, the magazine says.
Allen-Hoffmann, who founded Stratatech in 2000 based on research in her UW-Madison lab, said it could take two years to begin the next phase of clinical trials. When that happens, StrataGraft also will be tested on pediatric burn patients.
The School of Business at the University of Wisconsin?Madison has advised U.S. News that it misreported data to U.S. News on the number of acceptances it offered to fall 2012 students entering its full-time MBA program.
Cellular Dynamics International, the Madison stem cell company based on the research of UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, said Tuesday it has closed its initial public stock offering.
The youngest of five kids, Wallman wasn?t thinking of a career in advertising when he came to UW-Madison in 1983. He was weeks away from graduating with a double major in Communication Arts and Afro-American studies when Knupp caught Wallman?s act at a ComedySportz event and suggested he interview for a job.
?From my experience, this is pretty rare,? said Jerry O?Brien, executive director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison. ?If they can stay unique enough in what they offer … they should be strong.?
Proponents of online learning often use train metaphors to describe its growing impact on the educational landscape. Those of us who teach at two-year colleges, especially, are constantly encouraged, prodded, hectored, cajoled?and sometimes even ordered?to get on board. Otherwise, we?re told, we?re likely to be run over.
If a paperback on your summer reading list was published anonymously, you?d probably notice. But if this article lacked a byline, or tonight?s episode of Wilfred didn?t credit a writer, you might not bat an eyelash.
Here?s yet another example of why we?d all be a lot safer if state legislators stayed home, which if we didn?t pay them so much they would have to do. (Commentary on WiscNet issue.)
There are plenty of American Universities on Instagram, but which ones are worth following? (UW-Madison is #2.)
During her final semester in college, recent University of Wisconsin ? Madison alumna Amanda Senkbeil used a combination of her coding knowledge, Google Maps and a third-party app developer to create her own virtual-reality game that takes place on her campus. By traveling to different physical locations and tracking down in-game characters, players cross items off their senior bucket list until they finish the storyline and “graduate.”
The number of cyberattack at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is shocking, even to its top researchers.
General Electric Co. chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt complimented the University of Wisconsin System Friday but said the system needs to be lean and nimble in responding to future work force needs.
General Electric Co. chairman and chief executive officer Jeffrey Immelt will address the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Friday in Madison, the university system said Monday.
Public interest groups that earlier unsuccessfully sought to remove embryonic stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have asked a federal appeals court to reopen the case challenging one of the patents, which they say should be invalidated because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Buoyed by the Supreme Court?s ruling last month invalidating gene patents, two advocacy groups on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to similarly forbid a patent on human embryonic stem cells held by the University of Wisconsin?s research marketing arm.
Two years ago, the state Legislature moved to sever the University of Wisconsin?s ties to a provider of Internet service. Now some lawmakers are outraged that the UW System has picked this same provider to continue serving its campuses.
Taxpayers and employees of state and local governments next year are likely to see yet another increase in the contribution rates they pay to the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Compared to a lot of hard-line conservatives these days, lifelong Republican Mark Bugher almost sounds like a Democrat.
They don?t seem to make ?em like Mark Bugher anymore. And that?s really too bad.
Noted: And finally, so long to Mark Bugher, who, as director, helped to turn University Research Park in Madison into one of the state?s biggest economic success stories. The park now has 126 tenants, many of them high-tech companies. Bugher plans to retire this fall. Well done, Mr. Bugher.
Legal and ethical experts on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus give today?s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on genetic patents mixed reviews. The court ruled unanimously that patents on naturally occurring genetic material are not allowable.
Mark Bugher, who grew University Research Park into a hotbed of economic activity with 126 tenants representing many of Madisons high-tech companies, said Tuesday he plans to retire in October.
When University of Wisconsin athletics officials have addressed declining ticket usage or changes in concessions management, theyve pointed toward a comprehensive look at the “game-day experience.”
The man who guided one of the most successful research parks in Madison for the past 14 years is stepping down.
There are, however, accelerator programs that are trying to change that. One program that I?m intimately familiar with, given my ties to UW-Madison, is called gener8tor and it is launching its third class of startup companies. The program is based in Madison, Wisconsin and is drawing companies from Austin, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, and the Twin cities.
Wisconsin has a low ?business birthrate.?Fewer people than in most states ? about 180 out of every 100,000 adults ? started businesses in Wisconsin last year, according to a recent Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has dropped its lawsuit against Adidas over alleged missed severance payments to factory workers in Indonesia.
These days, you can?t go online or watch the news without hearing about a new product that removes touch from the user experience. The recently released Samsung Galaxy S4 is generating buzz with touchless features including text scrolling that responds to users? eye movements and video that automatically pauses if you look away from the screen while watching. Google Glass ? the most talked-about device of the year?removes touch from the smartphone experience entirely, using eye movements and voice commands to make calls, send email and surf the web.
The School of Business at University of Wisconsin?Madison edged out the top-ranked private school, enrolling 90.4 percent of accepted students in fall 2012 to Harvard Business School?s 89.3 percent, according to data reported by the schools in an annual U.S. News survey.
UW Transportation Services said Tuesday that parking rates will increase from 3 to 10 percent, beginning Sept. 1, to pay for increased operating and maintenance costs, as well as making up for lost revenue from stalls lost to building projects.
About 100 workers rights activists and immigration reform advocates held a May Day rally on the Capitol Square Wednesday to speak, chant and sing against unfair labor conditions for undocumented workers.
An historic Catholic school will reopen as faith-based housing for University of Wisconsin-Madison students August 15 following a slim vote of approval by the city Council Tuesday, despite ongoing concerns about the future tax exemptions for the building owners.
On Monday, as a dozen protesters staged a sit-in at Interim Chancellor David Ward?s office, the dispute over labor violations by Palermo?s Pizza was thrust into the campus spotlight.
Police arrested and detained a University of Wisconsin-Madison student Monday after he engaged in a sit-in protest and rally with student and community groups to encourage the university to cut ties with Palermo?s Pizza following allegations of labor violations.
Local business owners and city residents voiced concerns over a proposed development at the corner of State Street and North Frances Street at a neighborhood meeting Monday.
University of Wisconsin police arrested 12 students after they barricaded themselves in the chancellor?s office while protesting against Palermo?s Pizza, officers say.
A city committee worked to incorporate community feedback into the designs for the reconstruction of Library Mall and State Street at a public meeting Tuesday.
City officials approved plans Monday to convert a downtown Catholic school into a student-oriented apartment complex Monday and permitted Essen Haus to build an outdoor volleyball court.
Looking to deepen its business ties to China?s growing economy, the state of Wisconsin yesterday opened the Wisconsin Center China in Shanghai in a ceremony led by Governor Scott Walker.
The Student Labor Action Coalition hosted a protest and sit-in at Bascom Hall Thursday to demand Chancellor David Ward cut ties with Palermo?s Pizza Company, citing allegations of labor violations.
On Tuesday, Madison?s City Council approved a project that will build a six-story apartment building where the soon-to-be demolished Stadium Bar is currently located.
MADISON ? One of China?s oldest and biggest medicine companies agreed Monday to sell only genuine Wisconsin ginseng at its 1,800 retail stores, an estimated $200 million deal that was finalized during Gov. Scott Walker?s trade mission to the world?s second-largest economy.
The UW-Madison School of Pharmacy has experts at every level of drug development ? from the lab bench to clinical testing to use in the real world. And those experts are available to help companies large and small, the school?s dean told a state bioscience industry meeting of the trade group BioForward on Wednesday.
Ken Kavajecz was named the next dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina announced Friday morning. Kavajecz is currently chair for the Department of Finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a professor of finance. He will begin his time as dean in July.
?It?s wrong to profit from wrecking the planet.? So says Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. Climate change has become, front and center, a moral issue: Will human society turn away from burning fossil fuels in time to prevent catastrophic changes to the Earth?s climate, human society and the ecosystem? What kind of world will we leave for future generations?
MADISON ? The State of Wisconsin Investment Board?s announcement this week that it would help capitalize an early-stage venture capital fund focused on information technology had a bit of a ?Bachelor? feel to it.
Students called for Interim Chancellor David Ward to cut the University of Wisconsin?s ties with Palermo?s Pizza at an administration luncheon on Wednesday in an ongoing workers? rights dispute which has sparked controversy from student groups.
The Wisconsin Energy Institute, which represents the sustainable and collaborative research it houses to find new ways to reduce and conserve energy, will open to the public in early April.
City Council approved plans Tuesday to demolish three downtown apartments and build new student-oriented housing in its place.
PricewaterhouseCoopers US is donating more than $1 million to the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Business. The money will pay for a professorship and support programs for students.
PricewaterhouseCoopers presented the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school with over $1.1 million Wednesday to help pay for another professor within the school and programs to support students.
In my column this week, retired business executive and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Thomas Hefty contended that UW has under-performed in helping re-engineer the Wisconsin economy.
A city committee convened for the first time in nearly a year to begin making plans for reconstruction of the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street.
A Minneapolis-based real estate company released its final proposal for the apartment building slated to replace the Stadium Bar Wednesday.
Fenaba Addo, a fellow at the University of Wisconsin, recently took a look at the mating habits of college graduates to determine if their tuition bill financing methods impacted their future romantic lives. The result? Ladies with student loans, it appears, are less likely to marry than their gal pals lacking debt. Men still paying their college tuition bills suffer no such fate.
