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During the past fiscal year, a reorganization of UWM's research activities has resulted in the largest total amount of external funding ever earned for research at the university, and now we know how large. The university has announced that it has raised $125 million as...

Following an examination of what went wrong with several large-scale information technology projects, the Assembly Speaker's Task Force on Information Technology Failures has made a series of recommendation on how to fix the problems. Among their fixes are smaller project sizes, less software customization, and...

Another reprieve for Merge Technologies was announced today as the financially troubled company received a stay to a previous decision to suspend trading of its securities. The NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council's decision to stay the suspension is subject to further review, and the...

Although the IPOs of Midwest life-science companies (such as TomoTherapy) do not yet position them as large-cap companies, the large amount of funding they received is encouraging for the Midwest, according to columnist Michael Rosen. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, Rosen says the...

With more healthcare costs shifting to employees, healthcare organizations are looking for ways to help their patients better understand their bills. It is the premise behind Health Payment Systems, a new Milwaukee-area company that has announced a contract with Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. ...

Depending on your current definition of broadband network connectivity, you might want to update your high-speed frame of reference, advises columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he suggests that trying to explain real high-speed broadband, the one-gigabit variety, to the "powers that...

Citing increased membership, the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association, which represents the state's bioscience industry, has moved its headquarters to University Research Park in Madison. The organization's membership had grown from 46 companies in 2001 to 225 by the end of 2007. ...

What are your business etiquette pet peeves? Melanie Holmes has a few and describes them briefly in this edition of Contemporary Working. The Manpower executive also expounds on gender matters, e-business etiquette, lessons learned from 83,000 quitters, and the workforce impacts of elder care....