So Long, Rebecca Blank
After nine years as chancellor, Rebecca Blank will leave UW–Madison in May to become president of Northwestern University. She admits to mixed feelings about packing up her Badger mementos....
12 April, 2022
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Four UW–Madison students awarded prestigious 2022 Goldwater Scholarships
Four University of Wisconsin–Madison students have been named winners of 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarships, one of the most prestigious awards in the U.S. for undergraduates studying the sciences. The UW–Madison winners are sophomore Lucy Steffes and juniors Sarah Fahlberg, Elias Kemna and Samuel Neuman....
11 April, 2022
Bill to improve Wisconsin’s investor tax credit law signed by Gov. Evers following legislative action
Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law AB 759, which will make it easier for young companies to stay put in Wisconsin as they grow and add jobs while expanding beyond its borders. The effort to pass the bill was led by the Wisc Tech...
11 April, 2022
Urban League of Greater Madison breaks ground on $25.5 million Black Business Hub
Urban League of Greater Madison President and CEO Dr. Ruben Anthony said the Black Business Hub and the Urban League, which hopes to be ready to open in early 2023, will help create “a new pipeline of businesses to not only serve South Madison but...
08 April, 2022
WisBusiness: the Podcast with Ayla Annac, co-founder, president and CEO of InvivoSciences
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Ayla Annac, co-founder, president and CEO of Madison-based InvivoSciences. This pre-clinical stage biotech company is developing a method for creating tissue samples from patients’ blood, urine or skin to test treatments for heart failure....
07 April, 2022
Finalists in Gov’s Biz Plan Contest offer innovation in health, environment, more
Twenty-six entries representing sectors such as health care, cleantech, education, software and innovations in products or services are competing in the finalist round of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest....
07 April, 2022
InsideWis: Investors from outside Wisconsin are finding worthy deals here
For years, Wisconsin could be described as a “flyover state” when it came to venture capital funds that historically clustered on America’s coasts. Why invest elsewhere if you could find all the talent and technology you needed in young companies a few blocks away?...
24 March, 2022
Gamma Biosciences Launches Initiative Through Mirus Bio to Develop Lipid-Polymer Nanocomplexes for In Vivo mRNA Delivery
Gamma Biosciences, a global life sciences company serving the advanced therapy market, today announced an initiative through its subsidiary Mirus Bio, a leader in nucleic acid delivery technology, to develop novel, highly active lipid-polymer nanocomplexes for therapeutic mRNA delivery in vivo ....
22 March, 2022
UW–Madison works to protect Wisconsin poultry from avian flu
Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with a team of diagnostic scientists led by Ailam Lim, had been closely tracking the ongoing spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza as migrating wild birds were spreading it across the country this winter and spring....
17 March, 2022
Advocate Aurora and Forward BIOLABS to bring solutions to emerging biohealth startups
Advocate Aurora Research Institute, part of Advocate Aurora Health, is providing support to Forward BIOLABS, a premiere midwestern life science incubator, by offering its significant laboratory and clinical research capabilities to Forward BIOLABS’s network of early stage, biohealth startup companies....
16 March, 2022
Dramatically reducing defects, new technique opens applications for 3D-printing metal parts
“We demonstrate a potential way to solve the quality problem by making metal 3D printing technology much more reliable, enabling it to produce consistent, defect-lean parts,” Lianyi Chen says. “Using our unique method, we were able to 3D print a metal part that has very...
15 March, 2022
Veterinary medicine students launch software startup to serve clinics
Annie Pankowski, a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, never expected to add co-founder of a tech startup to her list of accomplishments. However, during the pandemic, veterinarians noticed a sharp increase in demands for care services and strained to find...
15 March, 2022
CDIS director says tech education can help address workforce issues
The head of UW-Madison’s School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences says technology education can play a key role in addressing the state’s workforce issues....
15 March, 2022
Multiple Morgridge Investigators received prestigious awards in early 2022
Morgridge Investigators Jason Cantor, Kevin Eliceiri, and Melissa Skala received award funding from the American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, and the National Eye Institute for projects in metabolism and biomedical imaging....
11 March, 2022
State needs ‘to do more’ for female entrepreneurs and women-owned startups, WEDC head says
WEDC Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes says the state should do more to elevate female entrepreneurs and women-owned startups. Speaking yesterday during a webinar for International Women’s Day, Hughes said Wisconsin is “keeping pace” with national trends for investment in women-owned businesses, but “we need...
09 March, 2022
Report: Madison’s tech employment numbers grew by 6.2% amid pandemic
Madison gained more technology sector jobs in the first year of the pandemic than in the prior half decade, according to a new report by a Washington, D.C., think tank. While tech employment numbers grew by 3.6% between 2015 and 2019, that number jumped an...
09 March, 2022
A science trailblazer retires: Stem cell researcher James Thomson’s legacy changed the future of biology
James Thomson helped the scientific world turn its attention to the shape-shifting stem cells that give rise to all of the building blocks of complex living organisms, from skin and bone, to hearts and blood, to neurons and brains. After more than 30 years with...
03 March, 2022
From Fontana to Grantsburg, 55 entries advance in 2022 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest
Fifty-five entries from 24 communities have advanced to the semi-final round of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, contest producers announced....
03 March, 2022
Trade experts agree engaging with China still preferable
International trade experts agreed engaging with China is still preferable as the United States and its allies consider how to deal with China’s rise in the global economy. “I’d describe it as engagement with eyes wide open, so that we’re not being taken advantage of,”...
18 February, 2022
Researchers are using machine learning to understand how brain cells work
For something so small, neurons can be quite complex — not only because there are billions of them in a brain, but because their function can be influenced by many factors, like their shape and genetic makeup. ...
17 February, 2022
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