Author: WTN News

Scientific research at UW-Madison is being transformed into thriving start-up companies that are playing a key role in the knowledge-based economy. This is the story of one such spin-off, Quintessence Biosciences, and a young graduate student named Laura Strong....

MADISON—It's PGA Championship Week in Wisconsin, which means the golfing world will beat a path to one of the state's most spectacular doorsteps, the 7,514-yard Whistling Straits course in Kohler. With lake-hugging holes named “Grand Strand,” “Cliff Hanger” and “Voyageur,” it's an inspiring place for...

Recently I read a provocative editorial in the New York Times by Giuliano Hazan, a cooking instructor and author, entitled, "You Are How You Eat". In it, he draws an intriguing contrast between how Italians view food and the eating rituals they follow versus Americans....

Most corporations, when giving birth to a new product, behave just like parents jumping in frenzy in a maternity ward. This typical hysterical hoopla of the incubation wing is often replaced by a subtler, cubicle behavior and at times becomes a subdued Dilbertish style revolution....

MADISON, Wis. — With the University of Wisconsin System and the state's Department of Administration on the verge of creating two separate statewide networks, Gov. Jim Doyle has stepped in and asked them to combine their efforts....

MADISON—Sonic Foundry Inc., a Madison-based media solutions company, announced Tuesday that in third-quarter 2004 they have for the first time exceeded $1 million in sales. This reflects the dramatic upturn the company has taken in growth strategies, having increased its revenue by 250% from last...

Nobody will ever admit to buying technology for technology’s sake. And yet a visiting space alien that is watching most companies acquire and deploy technology could be forgiven for believing that’s what most of us are doing. We put almost all our energy into specifying,...