Education

In the age of dumb and dumber, the United States needs more dynamic leadership in public education if it intends to maintain and build the knowledge-based economy and compete in global markets, asserts columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he laments recent...

Nanotechnology and other ultra small technologies will be the focus of the recently opened NanoRite Center for Innovation on the campus of Chippewa Valley Technical College. The center, which was developed to support and attract industry to Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley, has officially opened. ...

Tushaus Computer Services got into the computing support game just as the Internet wave was beginning to rise, but the company's fast-growth days may only be starting. The Milwaukee-based company, housed in a 55,000-square-foot facility in the Milwaukee County Research Park, believes it can push...

There are some hard rules for companies facing the software “Build versus Buy” decision, but it's not always a cut-and-dried judgment call. In deciding whether to go “off-the-shelf” or design from within, organizations must ask themselves whether software development is a core competency - if...

One of the more productive partnerships in Wisconsin business ended last week when Baird Venture Partners officially exited its investment in NimbleGen Systems through the sale of NimbleGen to Roche. As a result of the Roche acquisition, NimbleGen will return a meaningful percentage of capital...

Jeff Williams, the new chief executive of Platypus Technologies, was brought back to Madison for his expertise in commercializing technology, and his new company will be giving him plenty of practice at bringing products to market. Platypus, which has developed nanotechnology-based research tools, is ready...

Tech transfer has several faces, including the medical informatics so prevalent in the Wisconsin economy, and two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors have developed software to add to that profile. Ray Vanderby and Hiro Kobayashi are pursuing a WARF patent for technology that images and quantifies...

In a recently completed study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers played an integral role in providing new insights into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease. Their study demonstrates the promise of cell-based therapies for diseases, including ALS, that have been difficult to manage for modern...