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.
?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.
