Education

Susan Carlson, who has served as director of operations for the WiCell Research Institute, has left WiCell to pursue opportunities in educational publishing. WiCell, a non-profit organization and a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, was established in 1999 to advance stem cell research...

The “sport” of engineering will take over the U.S. Cellular Arena March 13-15 as 54 area high school teams to compete in a regional robotics competition. The competition, developed by Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, is a nationwide event designed to stimulate...

Milwaukee's private sector is trying to bridge the gap between local universities and businesses, and one catalyst in that effort will be a new cyber infrastructure that is being developed by the new Milwaukee Institute. The institute is launching the computational power initiative to spur...

Is there anything wrong with a little business acumen in academia? Not according to columnist Tom Still, who cites several prominent examples of successful business-academia pairings, including former Madison area CEO Erroll Davis, Jr., who now runs the University System of Georgia. In this edition...

Famed University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher James Thomson has accepted the position of director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research. The new facility will house the twin Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the private Morgridge Institute for Research and the public Wisconsin...

During the past fiscal year, a reorganization of UWM's research activities has resulted in the largest total amount of external funding ever earned for research at the university, and now we know how large. The university has announced that it has raised $125 million as...

Following the news that scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Japan can turn human skin cells into stem cells, the WiCell Research Institute has indicated to the National Institutes of Health that it would like to house and distribute lines created with the...