UW-Madison’s Center for Real Estate will be renamed this month to honor real estate education pioneer James A. Graaskamp.
The April 25-26 event will be at the university’s Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave. The Center for Real Estate is in the Fluno Center.
Stem cells get the publicity, but the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s cash cow continues to be vitamin D.
The bone-enhancing nutrient used in fortified milk and several drugs brings in about two- thirds of the money at WARF, UW-Madison’s tech transfer arm.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – University of Wisconsin-Madison business students learned a painful lesson about supply and demand Friday when their tuition was increased by $1,000 for next year.
Saying demand for business education was increasing faster than state support, the UW System Board of Regents raised business majorsâ?? tuition by $500 per semester to boost teachersâ?? pay and hire more faculty and staff.
â??The differential is needed to maintain the high quality of the program,â? Regent Charles Pruitt of Shorewood said before the regents voted at a meeting in Oshkosh.
The UW System Board of Regents came one step closer to officially passing the UW-Madison School of Business differential-tuition proposal when it approved the policy in committee at its Thursday meeting at UW-Oshkosh.
A report meant to shine the spotlight on Dane County’s high-tech economy shows that technology jobs increased in the Madison area by 5.5 percent from 2005 to 2006.
The 2007 Greater Madison Wisconsin Area Directory of High-Tech Companies, released this week, lists about 500 technology firms with combined revenues of $5.5 billion.
“The way people consume news has fundamentally changed” with the advent of the Web, creating a new media landscape that will be dominated by niche Web sites rather than general interest newspapers.
That prediction came Thursday from Jim VandeHei, a former high-profile political reporter for the Washington Post, who caused a minor sensation in the journalism world several months ago when he announced he’d be leaving the venerable paper to build an online news site from the ground up. He was in Madison through the University of Wisconsin’s writer-in-residence program and spoke to local journalists at Capital Newspapers.
Efforts by universities to turn inventions into quick cash has bogged down innovation, a new study concludes.
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The study, unveiled Thursday at the Innovation Policy and Economy Summit in Washington, contends that universitiesâ?? â??home run mentalityâ? creates a focus on technologies that offer the â??biggest, fastest payback,â? but keeps much intellectual property buried on campus and away from the ma
The UW Board of Regents is expected to approve a tuition hike this week for all UW-Madison undergraduate students majoring in business or enrolled in the Certificate in Business program.
A look at the facts in the dispute over three important University of Wisconsin stem cell patents – and the history behind similar disputes – shows a strong likelihood that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will retain all of its patent rights, even if some of its claims are changed or cancelled.
Gov. Jim Doyle, along with nine other governors, sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Wednesday, urging them to vote to alleviate President Bushâ??s limitations on embryonic stem cell research.
Two days ago, La Crosse County joined a small contingency of Wisconsin localities, including Dane County, that provide full domestic partner benefits to its employees.
Despite a threatened second veto, the U.S. Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would end President George W. Bushâ??s federal funding ban on embryonic stem-cell research.
For students at the University of Wisconsin, a Motion W on clothing around campus doesnâ??t get a second glance.
Like many of her peers, recent UW-Madison graduate Melissa Sandgren wears her Badger pride on her sleeve, literally.
She’s written the word “Bucky” in bleach pen on a red top and painted pawprints on a T-shirt with “Property of Bucky” scrawled across it. She’s cut off collars, ripped and re-tied Wisconsin shirts in creative ways to give her school spirit an ’80s flare. On football game days, she’s never had a problem creating a unique Badger look.
It was this extreme school spirit that inspired the 22-year-old journalism and marketing graduate to start her own business, U-DUB.
Concern apparently has been voiced across the state that the recent U.S. Patent Office decisions rejecting three patents held by the patenting and licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin could be a devastating blow to the state’s acknowledged leadership in stem cell research.
As one of the parties who lodged the thus-far successful challenge against the overreaching patents on human embryonic stem cells held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, let me reassure you that is simply not the case. And despite what WARF officials say, that’s not at all because appeals will be successful. A column by John Simpson.
UW-Madison representatives will travel to El Salvador Wednesday to visit Hermosa Manufacturing and to meet with previous workers of the Adidas manufacturer. Chancellor John Wiley hopes the trip will help him, along with the universityâ??s Labor Licensing Policy Committee, to make an informed decision on whether the university should cut the contract with Adidas, according to a University Communications release.
University of Wisconsin mid-level administrators will receive a higher pay raise this year than many of their counterparts nationwide, according to a report released last month.
Local officials are applauding the decision by American Transmission Co. to delay construction of a controversial 345-kilovolt transmission line across Dane County, but energy conservation activist Nino Amato said it’s just a tactical move by the company to “reposition” itself in trying to justify need for the line.
Mark Williamson, vice president of major projects for ATC, said today the company needs more time to take a hard look at power usage forecasts and the potential to bury a part of the new line in sensitive areas, such as along the Beltline near the Arboretum.
A representative of the UW-Madison is traveling to El Salvador to investigate workers’ rights at factories that make the university’s athletic apparel, including alleged workers’ rights abuses at a former Adidas Group subcontractor.
The University of Wisconsin contracts with Adidas to provide athletic uniforms and shoes, and the company can sell apparel with the UW logo. Adidas agreed to a code of conduct that stipulated its responsibilities in dealing with workers, factories and suppliers.
….Chancellor John Wiley did not agree to end the contract, but said Adidas should do more to help workers if they were unfairly treated by the subcontractor. Now he is sending Dawn Crim to investigate the situation.
Two UW-Madison Student Wage Committee members are challenging Chancellor John Wileyâ??s refusal to honor the Associated Students of Madison 2006 ballot referendum concerning student employees affected by the living wage initiative.
A Missouri-based company will extend its exclusive media-marketing contract with UW to 2019 for $75 million, if passed by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Friday.
Two University of Wisconsin students sent a dissenting message to Chancellor John Wiley Monday, urging him to approve a controversial wage increase policy for UW workers.
The premier patent management group for the University of Wisconsin announced last Monday it would fight the U.S. Patent and Trademark Officeâ??s decision to investigate and possibly eliminate three valuable stem-cell patents.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office summarily rejected three of five stem cell patents last week that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has held since 1998, after two watchdog groups accused WARF of patenting â??elementaryâ? stem cell propagation techniques.
James A. Graaskamp, the late and legendary UW-Madison real estate professor, will be honored April 25-26 when the UW-Madison Center for Real Estate is renamed in his memory.
Since 2005, almost 600 alumni and friends generated nearly $11 million in donations for the Center and its renaming. The support provides the critical resources to allow the Wisconsin Real Estate Program to remain competitive and to carry on the legacy of Jim Graaskamp, the UW said in a news release.
The recent spate of legal threats from the music industry against the UW campus community apparently has convinced few students to change their file swapping habit, but they’re also using a slew of other tools to find new music.
A stroll down State Street is all one needs to see the pervasiveness of the digital music culture: white wires disappear into students’ ears, an Apple iPod loaded with hundreds, even thousands, of songs on the other end — some tracks likely acquired illegally.
Vowing the Midwest can become “the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy — with Wisconsin at the forefront,” Gov. Jim Doyle today unveiled the new Office of Energy Independence and gave support to a regional renewable energy credit trading system.
“If an oil field in Iran has to compete against a farm field in Wisconsin, that’s a very good thing for the environment, for our economy and for the world,” said Doyle in remarks prepared for an event today on the UW-Madison campus.
MADISON — Harnessing the power of stem cells in previously unexplored ways, Stemina Biomarker Discovery, Inc. is one of the newest startups to spring out of Madisonâ??s thriving biotechnology sector.
Elizabeth Donley, the companyâ??s chief executive officer, presented Steminaâ??s scientific goals and business model at the recent Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco.
Donley explained that when human embryonic stem cells are grown in culture, they can be used for disease diagnosis, screening drugs for side effects and reducing development costs of pharmaceuticals.
Three Members of UW-Madison’s Students In Free Enterprise team will spend their spring break in the Appalachian region this year to help educate people in the area about personal finance and budgeting.
The team members were to leave the region this morning accompanied by six Madison-area high school students, two chaperones and Joyce Waters, a financial counselor from Debtscape, a Maryland-based non-profit that provides debt management and credit counseling services.
The UW-Madison School of Business is getting a little more respect, moving up two places to 29th in this year’s ranking of business schools by U.S. News and World Report.The ranking, which is eight places higher than two years ago, is the highest the business school has received from the magazine since 1990.
Given how strange the Barbara Hoffman murder case was in real life, it’s fitting that the movie version of the case should have its share of strangeness as well.
According to a story this week in the New York Post, strangeness recently invaded the Schenectady, N.Y., set of the filming of Madison author Karl Harter’s 1990 book on the Hoffman case, “Winter of Frozen Dreams.”
….THE LOS ANGELES Times on Friday had a substantial story about the ongoing attempt in the Wisconsin Legislature to get financial incentives for filmmakers — scheduled to begin Jan. 1 of next year — into effect immediately. The concern is that a $10 million film on the life of a Madison native, poker star Phil Hellmuth, will likely film in Canada rather than here if the incentives aren’t in effect.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked about the same as last year in several of the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings for 2007.
The newly published issue of America’s Best Graduate Schools also includes ratings done in previous years, however, which raised UW’s overall prestige.
The UW just raised thousands of dollars through on online auction of an eclectic assortment of merchandise, much of which was donated by alumni.
Overnight getaways, celebrity-autographed guitars, lunch with football coach Bret Bielema and autographed sports jerseys and equipment made up a chunk of the sales roster, and bidding ended this week. There also was food: six months of ice cream from the Madison-based Chocolate Shoppe, a Fudge Bottom Pie party for 12 and a case of Mojo Organic Beef Jerky.
A case of beef jerky? What’s with that?
Net Nerds has a new leader and a new format, but it’s still about fixing people’s computer problems.
Kristen Berman, who founded Net Nerds in 2004 after she and her roommates bought beer for a neighbor who fixed their computer, graduated in December and landed a job in Silicon Valley working for Intuit, which produces TurboTax and QuickBooks.
Berman…is retaining ownership of Net Nerds but has handed the operational reins to Chris Friederich, a UW junior finance major.
Gillware is a Madison company whose beginning was failure – specifically the failure of the hard drive on the computer of Tyler Gill, one of its founders.
The year was 2003.
The UW-Madison student was faced with what could be called the nightmare of anyone who uses a desktop or laptop computer.
Unable to discuss new business Monday, the Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee listened to a presentation by the East Campus Utility regarding the Peterson and Ogg Hall buildings, which are scheduled to come down this fall.
City officials gathered Monday evening to emphasize the need to bolster support for the UW Transportation Services Initiative and to start work on the East Campus Utility Project.
Though lawmakers and economic forecasters may disagree whether Wisconsin really suffers from a so-called â??brain drain,â? officials across the state are examining the challenge of retaining and recruiting college graduates.
With graduation looming for many University of Wisconsin students closing out their undergraduate careers, business recruiters across the nation begin to appear on campus looking for new employees.
HERE’S MILTON Griepp on Jay Kennedy, the King Features Syndicate editor-in-chief and former Madisonian who drowned at 50 in a rip tide off Costa Rica last week:
“He was pleasant, upbeat, optimistic and a great guy to be around,” Griepp was saying Friday. “Super smart, an encyclopedic memory and relentless in pursuit of his goals.”
Also in this column: ….An art review in Friday’s Los Angeles Times gave posthumous credit to a well-liked and respected UW-Madison art professor in the critical early development of the renowned artist Bruce Nauman.
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to Madison’s controversial ban on drink specials in bars.
The court will hear an appeal by UW-Madison students who claim that a 2002 agreement between city officials and the Dane County Tavern League to ban two-for-one drink specials after 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights constitutes an illegal restraint of trade.
Two UW students are proving their entrepreneurial spirit by running an online business while they work on their degree.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
Farming can be somewhat isolating, says Chris McGuire. Especially during the growing season when there’s so much to do, farmers are in their fields a lot, and much of that time is spent alone.
McGuire knows what he’s talking about. He and his wife, Juli, are CSA farmers near Belmont. Their business, Two Onion Farm, is part of the Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (MACSAC).
Community members, as well as business and property owners, will have an opportunity Thursday night to help determine the future of the Regent Street south campus neighborhood.
A new research institute will be established on the west side of the University of Wisconsin campus, the university announced Wednesday.
A University of Wisconsin alumnus or benefactor has an opportunity to help send a UW student to a summer internship at Google.
MIDDLETON — In the latest employment coup for the suburbs, the UW Medical Foundation is consolidating its administrative operations here in a new $20 million building in the Discovery Springs development.
Some 800 employees of the medical group could eventually be accommodated in 200,000 square feet of office and warehouse space west of the Beltline and north of U.S. 14. It includes 775 surface parking spaces.
The state Public Service Commission today denied a request by Dane County and the city of Madison for an independent study on the need for new power lines in the area.
….American Transmission Co., the power line company for Wisconsin, has proposed constructing a controversial 345-kilovolt line across southern Dane County, with one of the three possible routes going along the Beltline freeway.
Global warming is a threat second only to all-out nuclear war and America has to act now, a famed environmentalist and geneticist told a Madison audience Tuesday night.
To not take action against climate change would be un-American for a country that put a man on the moon, said David Suzuki, 70, who has hosted the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s natural science series “The Nature of Things” since 1979.
Suzuki spoke to crowd of about 500 in the Union Theater as the last speaker in the 2006-07 UW-Madison Distinguished Lecture Series and got a standing ovation when he finished.
A further foray into attracting “knowledge economy” businesses â?? biotech and computing, for example â?? to the state in the coming years and decades is one way for Wisconsin to become more successful economically in the future, the dean for the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school said Tuesday.
While that change won’t happen overnight, Mike Knetter, a Rhinelander native and dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school, said the state needs to focus on finding those industries.
With the help of projections, hundreds of figures and statistical graphs, economic experts presented data at the University of Wisconsin Friday on the outlook for the economic future of the nation.
Executive Development Program Director Chuck Krueger organized the event and said the dozens of business professionals in attendance represented a cross section of people from Wisconsin and Illinois.
The State of Wisconsin Building Commission approved a slew of multimillion dollar University of Wisconsin System projects Tuesday, including UW-Madisonâ??s new Union South and a renovated Memorial Union.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is defying a request from the music industry to pass along settlement offers to alleged copyright violators who use the UW’s computer networks.
Certain computer users have been pinpointed by the Recording Industry Association of America for allegedly violating copyright – that is, sharing music files on the Internet with others – for free – using peer-to-peer software.
Instead of trying to carry on with work as usual, offices across Madison showed their spirit by turning the afternoon into a chance for employees to celebrate their Badger pride.
For employees at Quarles & Brady law firm, the game was a chance to support both the team and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure fund. The firm threw a pre-game pizza party to raise money, and, for $5 a person, employees could sport Badger gear rather than suits and skirts.
NimbleGen Systems — a Madison biotechnology company and UW spinoff that created a new way to make gene chips — plans to raise up to $75 million in an initial public stock offering.
Featured: Donald A. Nichols, UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics and public affairs and a member of Gov. Jim Doyle’s Economic Advisory Council.
You may think you know of all of the colorful characters who passed through Madison in the blur of the 1960s, but you don’t, at least you don’t if you haven’t heard of Harley Lewin, who might be loosely described as the Wyatt Earp of intellectual property attorneys.
MADISON — The U.S. economy is approaching the brink of recession and the stumbling housing market could drag it over the edge, UW-Madison emeritus economics professor Don Nichols said Friday during an economic outlook forum at the Fluno Center.
But Nichols said he could not predict what will happen with housing during the rest of 2007.And because Wisconsin’s economy is based more on the export of manufactured goods, the Badger State could have a “relatively good” year and even beat the national growth average if “the housing bust becomes huge,” he said.
University of Wisconsin basketball fans hope that Bucky Badger will be very busy in Chicago on Sunday afternoon.
But supporters of Columbus Mayor Dave Bomkamp, who is locked in a race with council member Nancy Osterhaus in the April 3 election, are disappointed that Bucky won’t also be in Columbus at that time to help them cheer on their candidate, which is something that the mascot apparently is not allowed to do.
