Education

Gov. Jim Doyle is urging the Wisconsin Legislature to act on his proposed investments in colleges and universities across Wisconsin. The governor said his plan would increase the number of college graduates, teachers, nurses, and engineers....

Timothy Jump, perhaps the most renowned high school teacher in the United States, will be in Milwaukee for the annual Wisconsin Entrepreneur's Conference, where he will describe his nationally acclaimed teaching method. Two years ago, a team of high school students instructed by Jump bested...

The Enron scandal was symbolic of a wave of corporate malfeasance that shook the American business community and led to legislative fixes like Sarbanes-Oxley. In this edition of Boardroom Perspectives, Edgewood College business professor Denis Collins, who has written a book about the Enron debacle,...

Knowing that current malware solutions aren't going to be self-sustaining, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are involved in a collaboration to help the good guys stay one step ahead in the computer virus Cold War. They have developed new software to combat the “on-the-fly"...

Research into brain disease that is being led by principal investigator Jeannette Vasquez Vivar, assistant professor of biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, will be supported by a $377,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke....

Future technologists are on the way for IT labor-starved Wisconsin businesses. This June, fourteen Madison area high school students will receive Certificates of Graduation for completing an intensive information technology training program through the University of Wisconsin-Madison called the Information Technology Academy....

Three executive technologists, including two from the University of Wisconsin System, are finalists to replace Anne Stunden as CIO of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The CIO oversees the UW's Division of Information Technology and its 500 employees. ...