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.
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.
