Category: Business/Technology

A developer is proposing a 12-story, mixed-use project that would include, for the first time, condominiums near UW-Madison.
The project also would include retail, restaurants and a health club.

During the height of the Depression with many bank and business failures, a half dozen UW-Madison professors started a credit union to serve the university faculty. In two years, the institution had 88 members and $2,500 in assets.

A grant was recently awarded to the Entrepreneurship Association, which started in 2003 as networking organization for UW-Madison graduate students.

Memorial Union employees are alleging years of racism from their manager and are launching a weblog in a new effort to end the bigotry.

The University of Wisconsin continues to make progress in the construction of the much anticipated Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, as officials announced the project�s builders Wednesday.

We’re glad to see the rebound of manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin, but were troubled that many employers are still having difficulty filling these high-paying positions.

The Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a research and policy center based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reports that Wisconsin’s economy, private-sector job growth, wages and personal income are all on the rise.

If there were a Dolly Levi of the business world, it might be Joan Gillman. Levi was the heroine of Thornton Wilder’s novel, “The Matchmaker,” later recast as the musical and movie, “Hello, Dolly.”

The UW System Board of Regents voted Aug. 18 to take away all university funds from companies ââ?¬Å?that support or abet acts of genocideââ?¬Â in Sudan, in response to the three-and-a-half-year conflict between Arab and African Muslims in Darfur.

We’re finally luring more venture capital for startup businesses and entrepreneurs. Our large manufacturing base, for the most part, is changing with the times and embracing technology.

Wisconsin also has a blossoming bio-science sector, thanks in large part to dynamic research at UW- Madison, which needs stronger support from state leaders.

In 1970, the UW chancellor informed the University Book Store that its lease would not be renewed. The library wanted the space for its expansion.

The Memorial Library had initially been built around the store in the 1950s without infringing on the bookstore’s space.

The high-tech and biotech firms being developed around the University of Wisconsin-Madison “aren’t enough to overwhelm the larger economy that was already in place and was growing more slowly,” agreed William A. Testa, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which serves most of Wisconsin.

Primorigen Biosciences LLC, a Madison biotech start-up company, has raised $2.45 million in a first round of financing.

Primorigen’s president is Chuck Oehler, who also held executive positions at Promega and other biotech firms, and was president and consulting executive director of the Wisconsin Biotechnology Association during a period of rapid growth.

His firm, the Oehler Group, has helped start-ups and other companies raise about $30 million, according to his biography on the Web site for the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school, where he serves on the entrepreneurship program’s advisory board.

Dear Editor: I am writing to commend letter writer Matthew McNamara for his thoughtful comments regarding the efforts by many to protect the UW Arboretum from for-profit development.

In his letter, he raises several questions and makes a strong appeal that the drive to preserve the UW Arboretum rely on “credible arguments based on facts.” I’d like to assure him that this is exactly how the “Protect the Arboretum” campaign is proceeding.

The drums pounding in any open field the city has to offer, the sound of horns bouncing off downtown buildings, buses clogging traffic around Camp Randall Stadium.

Store those sights and sounds in your head, because Drum Corps International’s World Championships won’t be back for a while. This week, DCI announced it was moving its permanent headquarters to Indianapolis and taking the championships with it beginning in 2008.

A man in New York once drew attention and job bites by walking the sidewalks wearing a sandwich board with his resume on it.
His example highlights the powers of vision and promotion — traits the Collaboration Council is harnessing to draw companies and good-paying jobs to south-central Wisconsin.

In just a few months, the council has raised more than $1 million from dozens of private businesses to help create a regional economic development corporation.

Drums will be beating and cash registers will be ringing in Madison next week.

About 35,000 people are expected to hit town for the 2006 Drum Corps International World Championships Tuesday through Saturday, according to the Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau. That will result in an estimated $3.3 million in direct spending in the area.

Three former executives of the now-defunct Bone Care International are back in the biotech business, hoping to recreate the small Middleton pharmaceutical company’s success.

Marketing professors at the UW-Madison School of Business have been racking up national honors.

As of this fall, four of the faculty members will serve on the editorial review board for the Journal of Marketing, the leading scholarly journal in the field. Only a handful of marketing programs in the country will have as many representatives on the board.

Sixteen elected leaders from Madison and Dane County are asking American Transmission Co. to consider using new technology to boost power on existing high-voltage lines instead of building controversial new lines across the southern half of the county.

….ATC has proposed three routes for a 345-kilovolt line, the north route along the Beltline, the central route through Fitchburg and Verona and the southern route through towns from Christiana to Montrose.