Education

The National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, has extended funding for the Medical College of Wisconsin's biomedical center. The Medical College facility will receive $5.6 million over the next five years to continue its work to...

Ten years and 260 graduates later, Madison Area Technical College celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Cisco Networking Academy regional center, a public-private partnership designed to stimulate interest in computer networking careers. Since its inception in 1997, the Cisco academy has served more than 12,000...

Michael Lovell, an associate dean at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. ...

The Carmel, Ind.-based ITT Educational Services, which already has more than 95 technical institutes in 34 states, has opened its newest technical institute in Madison. The institute offers career-focused, technology-oriented programs that reflect U.S. employment trends and employer needs. Among its four schools of study...

For the second time in a week, a major technology company has opened an office in downtown Madison. Following Microsoft's decision to open an office in Wisconsin's Capital City, Google has opened an office here to focus on hardware and software systems design and take...

For the first time, a Fortune 500 company has set up stakes in Wisconsin for the purpose of tapping university talent. Microsoft, which already had established a commercial presence here with its acquisition of Jellyfish.com, now plans to open a database research lab to leverage...

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students are getting ready to launch the first electronic game on a mobile phone platform that uses global positioning to allow players to physically interact with the surrounding virtual world. The game, Parallel Kingdom, is being developed by PerBlue, a technology...

They say going green has its advantages, and a real green company has won the 2008 G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition. Sky Vegetables, which plans to build greenhouses on the rooftops of supermarkets to save on transportation (and energy costs and carbon emissions), claimed...

Erik Forsberg, formerly the senior director of scientific development at Pharming Group, has been appointed to the new position of executive director of the WiCell Research Institute. Forsberg, who has ties to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be responsible for supporting the UW's stem cell...