Author: WTN News

Bill Hendee, dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin graduate school since 1995, will retire at the end of this month to devote more time to a scientific journal he edits, and to a national initiative to teach doctors more about the underlying science of...

Bringing software developers to the workspace, and avoiding "geek speak," is Leslie Hearn's approach to information technology projects at TDS Telecom. She's putting her approach to the test on a project designed to simplify life for the company's call center service representatives....

For their part, consumers love music and the artists who create it. The vast majority will buy and trade music to discover new talent, and when they find a band they like, they're usually willing to support the artist. If only the system really worked...

Following its latest round of angel financing, aOva Technologies, a maker of egg protein products, plans to use $3 million in new funds to drive agricultural sales. But moving up in the pecking order may require upwards of 40,000 egg-producing hens....

In last week's article, I mentioned that the medical device market probably broke the $200 billion sales revenue mark last year. In fact, the market research firm Health Research International reports that 2005 medical device sales topped $220 billion and included 4 market segments....

A generation ago, then-Gov. Lee Dreyfus made a few waves when he suggested that Wisconsin and other Great Lakes states should become "the blue-eyed Arabs of the Upper Midwest" by selling fresh water to the nation's fast-growing Sunbelt. Well, the issue of water as an...

With the announcement of a $1 million grant, researchers outside of UW-Madison will be encouraged to develop their own technology ideas. Some at schools like UW-Milwaukee, UW-La Crosse, and UW-Oshkosh already have....