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Madison, Wis. - The technological advancements surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the new particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland - are not just about the physics. The powerful accelerator is also linked into the world's largest computing grid, a vast infrastructure of shared computing resources...

Milwaukee, Wis. - Gregg Tushaus, owner and CEO of Tushaus Computer Services, has been elected to the UWM Foundation Board of Directors. Tushaus graduated from the UWM in 1986 with a Bachelor of Business Administration. After being elected as a Director to the UWM Foundation Board of...

Two new members have been named to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Research Foundation Board of Directors. Jacquelyn Fredrick, president and CEO of the BloodCenter of Wisconsin, and Daniel Bader, president of the Helen Bader Foundation, have joined a board that is helping to link the...

Carolyn “Biddy” Martin might be an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but that wasn't the only reason she was interested in returning to her alma mater to become chancellor. The university's role in stem cell research, highlighted at last week's World Stem Cell Summit,...

Yahoo! and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will establish a student-staffed technical support center on the Oshkosh campus this fall. The center will employ UW-Oshkosh students and provide technical support to some of Yahoo!'s 17,000 employees. Students will have the opportunity to work part time and...

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will ask the state for a total of $20 million over the next two budget cycles to drive its research agenda, according to a published report. The university, which is attempting to transfer more of its research into the regional economy,...

Milwaukee, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has appointed Melissa as its first director for research cyber infrastructure. Woo, who brings more than 14 years of research-related experience, much of it in research computing, will lead the development of campus-wide research computing strategies. She will also...