Education

State leaders believe Wisconsin is rich in biofuel potential, and they have provided a $39,000 grant to help Marquette University's Renewable Energy Research program advance the production of methane. Dr. Daniel Zitomer, leader researcher and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Marquette, says...

Ronald Kraemer, the deputy CIO and associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of Information Technology, has been appointed the chief information officer for the university. Kraemer, who succeeds interim CIO Ken Frazier, will officially take over on Aug. 15....

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has named Colin Scanes as its vice chancellor of research and economic development. Scanes will have the task of advancing university research and maximizing its job-creating potential. ...

uPortal, a broad-based initiative that has developed a free, sharable Web portal for use in higher education, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the winner of 2007 Catalyst Award from EDUCAUSE. The open-source service enables higher education institutions to organize information and deliver it online...

There is a multi- billion dollar gap between the Senate and Assembly budgets, but the real bargaining over the state's two-year spending blueprint has begun in conference committee. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, columnist Tom Still would like to see lawmakers follow a few...

The fate of three stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation hangs in the balance before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and opinions vary wildly as to whether they will be upheld, weakened, or overturned. In this WTN guest column, the...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will not be a finalist for a national disease research facility, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal. The university was one of 14 institutions seeking to build the $450 million National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility. ...