Compared to a lot of hard-line conservatives these days, lifelong Republican Mark Bugher almost sounds like a Democrat.
Q&A: Retiring University Research Park chief Mark Bugher says Wisconsin’s success hinges on Milwaukee
Capital Times
Category: Business/Technology
Editorial: Mark Bugher hit all the right notes
Wisconsin State Journal
They don?t seem to make ?em like Mark Bugher anymore. And that?s really too bad.
Our View: Scott Walker looks foolish for rescinding appointment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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.
How Do UW Experts Judge Today’s Supreme Court Ruling On Gene Patenting?
Wisconsin Public Radio News
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 to retire as director of Madisons University Research Park
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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.
Satisfaction waning for ticket buyers in two of Badgers biggest sports
Capital Times
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.”
University Research Park director Mark Bugher to retire in October
Madison.com
The man who guided one of the most successful research parks in Madison for the past 14 years is stepping down.
Reich: Innovation And Investment Dollars Turn To A New Region: The Midwest
Forbes
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.
A big week for entrepreneurs
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
UW-Madison drops lawsuit against Adidas
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has dropped its lawsuit against Adidas over alleged missed severance payments to factory workers in Indonesia.
Peck: As Digital Innovation Moves Away From Touch, We’re Letting Go A Powerful Marketing Tool
Forbes
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.
10 Most Popular Business Schools
U.S. News and World Report
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.
Parking lot rates going up 3-10% at UW-Madison
Madison.com
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.
Laborers rally for immigration reform around Capitol
Badger Herald
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.
Campus approves Catholic faith-based housing
Daily Cardinal
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.
Delusional activism by the slice
Badger Herald
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 arrest UW student during protest
Daily Cardinal
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.
Business owners give input on proposed State Street development
Badger Herald
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.
12 students arrested after Palermos rally
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin police arrested 12 students after they barricaded themselves in the chancellor?s office while protesting against Palermo?s Pizza, officers say.
Committee discusses community feedback for State Street and Library Mall reconstruction
Badger Herald
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.
Premilinary approval granted to convert Catholic school into student apartments
Daily Cardinal
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.
Eyeing New Business, Wisconsin Governor Opens State Center In Shanghai
Forbes
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.
Student Labor Action Coalition hosts protest to cut ties with Palermo?s
Daily Cardinal
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.
Plans to demolish Stadium Bar for apartments approved
Badger Herald
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.
Ginseng board signs $200M deal in China
AP
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.
UW pharmacy dean says school poised to help business
WisBusiness.com
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 named next Whitman dean
The Syracuse Daily Orange
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.
Madeleine Para: Push for divestment to get rid of fossil fuels
Capital Times
?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?
Wisconsin public pension manager says yes to UW after saying no thanks to WEDC
Wisconsin Reporter
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.
Ward refuses to cut Palermo?s contract
Badger Herald
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.
Wisconsin Energy Institute to publicly open in early April
Badger Herald
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 questions affordability of housing
Badger Herald
City Council approved plans Tuesday to demolish three downtown apartments and build new student-oriented housing in its place.
PwC donates $1M to UW-Madison business school
The Business Journal of Milwaukee
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 donates $1.1 million to UW business school
Daily Cardinal
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.
Paul Fanlund: UW official pushes back against criticism in column
Capital Times
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.
City committee continues State Street reconstruction plans
Badger Herald
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.
Plan for Stadium Bar replacement proposed
Badger Herald
A Minneapolis-based real estate company released its final proposal for the apartment building slated to replace the Stadium Bar Wednesday.
Student Loan Debt and the Wedding Bell Blues
Forbes
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.
Board approves budget increase
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin?s Athletic Board approved an increased budget in their meeting Friday, in addition to announcing major changes to football scheduling for upcoming seasons.
Far East Side UW hospital project to get under way in April
Wisconsin State Journal
Construction of Madison?s first new general hospital in about 35 years is set to begin in April on the Far East Side, with preparations already under way.
Ward responds to additional allegations about Palermo?s
Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward released a statement Thursday updating campus groups about the university?s involvement with Palermo?s in light of a new report that claims the pizza company violated UW-Madison?s codes of conduct.
Ward says UW will maintain Palermo?s Pizza contract
Badger Herald
The vigil outside the chancellor?s house Wednesday to protest the University of Wisconsin?s alleged exploitation of former Palermo?s Pizza employees appears not to have changed the status quo.
Palermo?s, UW clash
Badger Herald
Frustrated Palermo?s Pizza employees and members of two workers? rights groups held a candle vigil outside the University of Wisconsin chancellor?s mansion Wednesday to protest alleged university code of conduct violations.
Is it Worth it? The Cost of a College Diploma
NBC-15
A new study released by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity CCAP reveals 48% of recent college graduates are working in jobs that dont require a college diploma. While 38% of people surveyed are working in jobs that dont require a high school diploma.
Community members voice housing concerns
Badger Herald
Community members voiced their concerns and support at a neighborhood meeting Wednesday as yet another high-rise apartment building looks to make its way into downtown Madison.
Should UW pick a business leader for chancellor to jump-start job growth?
Madison.com
With Wisconsin closing out 2012 as one of the worst states for job creation, critics are once again rapping the UW-Madison for failing to turn its research dollars into new companies that could offer jobs.
UW Merchandise Sales Hit Record
NBC-15
As you pull on your jersey or take a sip from your favorite UW mug in preparation for the 2013 Rose Bowl, remember every Bucky Badger and Motion W has a grand purpose: real need-based financial aid for UW-Madison students.
Teams drive UW merchandise sales to record | News
WISC-TV 3
The success of University of Wisconsin athletics is driving record sales of UW merchandise, according to Cindy Van Matre, UW trademark and licensing director.
Sinking with old economy: Wisconsin lags in developing 21st-century companies
Capital Times
Wisconsin, we?ve still got a problem. Despite private businesses receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, tax credits and other incentives since the 2007 recession, the state?s economy continues to sputter…The Center on Wisconsin Strategy in its latest “Wisconsin Job Watch” says the state remains down 161,000 jobs since the 2007 recession as well as lacking another 86,500 jobs needed to keep up with population growth since then….”It’s not just that we’re giving out so much money to business, it’s that our job creation remains so much worse than the rest of the nation,” says Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS, a liberal UW-Madison economic think tank.
Nass seeks Camp Randall renovation process review
Wisconsin State Journal
A key legislator is asking state and UW-Madison officials to review the process through which a subcontractor was selected to build a new scoreboard and sound system at Camp Randall Stadium, to see if the jobs should be rebid. Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, chairman of the state Assembly?s Committee on Colleges and Universities, ?is very concerned with the appearance of how this bidding process worked out,? said Mike Mikalsen, Nass? spokesman.
Cellular Dynamics reaches deal to license stem cell patents
Wisconsin State Journal
Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), Madison, has agreed to license stem cell patents from GE Healthcare Life Sciences. Terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. GE Healthcare has had a long-term agreement, recently expanded, to license the stem cell technology developed by Geron Corp., a biopharmaceutical company in Menlo Park, Calif.
New manager of Farm Technology Days named
Wisconsin State Journal
A UW-Extension manager with a wealth of experience working with county government was named Monday as the next general manager of Wisconsin Farm Technology Days Inc. Matt Glewen, 56, who has worked for the UW-Extension for the past 32 years, said he is excited to lead an organization that must decide soon whether to continue to hold its show at a different county each year or create a permanent location.
On Campus: UW-Madison engineering student wins national inventors prize
Wisconsin State Journal
An idea for a printable prosthetic hand, first dreamed up when Eric Ronning was bored during an entry-level freshman engineering course, has now been recognized with a national inventors prize for the UW-Madison junior, who?s also parlayed it into a start-up company. “I feel like you could change the world with this idea,” said Ronning, a mechanical engineering major from the Chicago suburbs, in a university release. “And that?s what keeps me going.”
Contractor for Camp Randall renovation called ‘unethical’ over scoreboard bid process
Wisconsin State Journal
A contractor hired by the state to manage a $76.8 million renovation of Camp Randall Stadium agreed to accept a higher bid for a new scoreboard over a competing offer that an outside consultant advised was of better quality. The contractor, J.P. Cullen & Sons of Janesville, is a listed subcontractor on the winning bid, for which it stands to receive more than a half-million dollars.
Downtown church seeks to turn school building into student housing
Wisconsin State Journal
A large Downtown Madison Catholic church wants to convert a historic school building on its property into rental housing for college students, three years after a different housing proposal by the church hit snags and was abandoned. The latest proposal by leaders of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 120 W. Johnson St., would turn the former Holy Redeemer School into apartments at an estimated cost of $4.2 million, according to Monsignor Kevin Holmes, Holy Redeemer?s priest….The student housing would be open to anyone but targeted especially for students of St. Paul’s University Catholic Center on the UW-Madison campus, Holmes said. St. Paul’s recently had to eliminate a student housing component to its proposed new building due to concerns over the building’s mass and height.
Barry on? Licensing issues keep him off Sconnie Nation T-shirts
Capital Times
If you want to sell a T-shirt with Barry?s name on it, either shell out for a royalty fee or wait until after the Rose Bowl. That?s what Sconnie Nation found out. On the heels of Barry Alvarez?s announcement that he would coach the Badgers at the Rose Bowl, the printing shop, located on State Street, put shirts reading ?Barry Knows,? and ?Keep Calm and Barry On? up for sale, as well as a third shirt that referenced the Rose Bowl, but didn?t use Alvarez?s name. That was on Thursday. By Friday, the shirts were pulled.
Quoted: Trademark Licensing Director Cindy Van Matre and Financial Aid Director Susan Fischer
Around Town: Home full of history is torn down
Wisconsin State Journal
Jan Marshall Fox calls the home of her great-grandparents a ?touchstone.? ?Every time I?m in the neighborhood and drive past it, I think about how it used to be.? That corner house at 201 S. Mills St. was torn down by J.H. Findorff & Son on Wednesday to make way for a day care center for the children of nearby Meriter Hospital employees. Fox, who turned 78 on Sunday, said the house belonged to her great-grandparents, Henry and Ella Pickford, who sold their Monticello farm and moved to Madison around 1887 so their two daughters could attend UW-Madison. The emphasis on education has continued through the generations, and Fox notes her daughter, Erica Fox Gehrig, was the fourth generation of women in her family to graduate from UW.
Plan for 8-story building near Camp Randall draws opposition from neighbors, police
Wisconsin State Journal
….Most vocal was UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling, who called her objections “a size issue, a noise issue, and a huge parking issue,” and said she couldn?t envision anything higher than four stories in the location next to the UW police station. “Forty spaces? That?s crazy. I don?t even want to think about game day,” she said, referencing UW football Saturdays, which bring 80,000 people into the neighborhood. “There is nothing about that block that says eight stories makes any sense? I just think it?s completely out of proportion for that block.”
Students, residents voice concerns about future of Stadium Bar
Badger Herald
A neighborhood meeting Thursday night allowed students and city residents to voice their opinions about the unknown future of the Stadium Bar.
Architect speaks on vision for new campus development framework
Badger Herald
A university architect detailed the process of planning future construction projects on the University of Wisconsin campus at a Thursday-evening talk.