FROM THE January 25 Wisconsin Ideas E-Newsletter: Wisconsin's entrepreneur culture is starting to take off, and many of those new businesses are generated from UW-Madison. A new Wisconsin Public Television show, Start Up Wisconsin, explores how new businesses are helping the state's economy diversify and grow....
Madwaukee – A new, unprecedented collaboration called Madwaukee Talks is bringing Madison and Milwaukee together to share the costs and benefits of common speakers who will inform, enlighten and motivate our communities. “For Wisconsin to compete on a national stage, Madison and Milwaukee, our two largest...
Fly over this, East and West Coasters: Nat Geo Travel has named Madison one of the top small cities in the United States. The travel magazine looked at cities with populations ranging from 40,000 to 600,000 and ranked them based on “unconventional metrics that we think...
Everyone wants a fresh start in the new year and for many, this means a new job and a new city. Fortunately, there's good reason for job seekers to feel optimistic. Though job creation was 6 percent lower in 2017 than it was in 2016, the...
Getting more women into scientific jobs in the Madison area -- that's the goal of a new effort starting this month. Women in Biohealth launches on January 17 with a roundtable discussion and networking event, organized by BioForward, the state's biohealth advocacy organization. The idea is to...
Stem cells made in Madison are flying high on the International Space Station. Cellular Dynamics International says its iCell cardiomyocytes are part of scientific tests being conducted in NASA’s new Bioculture System. They were launched into space aboard SpaceX’s commercial resupply mission on Dec. 15. “We are...
THE DIGITAL ECONOMY | STUDY BY BROOKINGS INSTITUTION It’s not just Madisonians who are coming to see the area as a burgeoning techno-hub. A study by the Brookings Institution shows the economy of the Madison metropolitan area is more technology-forward than all but nine other metro regions...
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison say they have teased apart, for the first time, the early cascade of events that may eventually cause stenosis, a severe narrowing of the aortic valve that reduces blood flow to body tissues and weakens the heart. The only...
Exact Sciences Corp. — the Madison company whose Cologuard DNA stool test screens for colorectal cancer — is building more than just a big laboratory building at its new campus just off Schroeder Road on the West Side. Exact is submitting plans to the city to...
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) - WITH Research and Development facilities at University Research Park, today announced that it filed a regulatory submission to begin a Phase 1/2 study of ARO-HBV, which is being developed as a potentially curative therapy for patients with chronic hepatitis...
MADISON, Wis. - Madison's Truax Field is the preferred choice to house the next-generation F-35 fighter jet, the U.S. Air Force made official in an announcement Thursday. The decision means the U.S. Air Force intends to replace the F-16 fighter jets currently flown at the base...
Researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth. An epoxy mount containing a...