Education

Milwaukee businesses continually miss out on the new waves of technological change that move through the American economy, according to Mason Wells' John Byrnes. But by focusing attention on the "grand challenge" problems in local industries, and by providing collaboration tools to encourage more interdisciplinary...

John Wiley, the outgoing chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will serve as director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on an interim basis, beginning on Nov. 1, 2008. Wiley, who announced his retirement as chancellor earlier this year, will take over for Marsha Mailick...

A family of compounds developed by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor James Cook may someday be used to treat alcohol addiction and other disorders thanks to a license agreement between the UWM Research Foundation and the Wauwatosa biopharmaceutical company MPP Group. The compounds could derive significant...

The Medical College of Wisconsin has created the position of associate dean for research, and will fill it with the director of its Cardiovascular Center. David Harder, a professor in cardiovascular research, will be entrusted with improving the productivity of faculty-based lab research for the...

A Platteville nanotechnology start-up is out to prove that sophisticated discoveries are being made on University of Wisconsin System campuses outside of Madison. The start-up company, Graphene Solutions, has won the annual Governor's Business Plan contest with a technology that could disrupt the electronics market...

Seven promising research projects, all of which have commercial potential, will receive a total of $500,000 in funding from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Research Foundation. The research projects, which range from nanotechnology applications for biomedicine to the development of an advanced retinal imaging system, received...

Carolyn "Biddy" Martin is the choice of a Board of Regents committee and Gov. Jim Doyle to be the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Martin, who has been provost at Cornell University in New York, would succeed John Wiley if the full Board...

Due to business model issues with the BadgerNet Converged Network, more public school districts and libraries are going to private Internet service providers outside the BCN when adding broadwidth to their networks. The BCN's pricing dilemma is raising questions about the viability of its business...

The first-ever First Look Forum, to be held during the 2008 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference, will introduce promising university innovations to venture capitalists and other investors. The conference, to be held June 9 and 10 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, will feature new innovations from researchers...