Education

Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) will receive a $500,000 grant from the Department of Commerce to establish a $5.5 million nanotechnology incubator on their Gateway Manufacturing Technology Center in Eau Claire. Nanotechnology is the study and design of systems at the scale of the atom....

The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation has awarded the Biomedical Engineering department at UW-Madison a five-year, $580,000 annual grant for pursuing translational research. The grant will assist with transfer of early-stage technology for commercial applications in the private sector. ...

Ann Stunden, chief information officer and director of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has announced plans to retire in summer 2006 after six years at the helm....

Kurt Squire, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Education, hopes to bring a new dimension to education and learning with “augmented reality” games, which combine aspects of physical activity, traditional reading and math problems, and video-game simulations....

Bruker AXS Inc. announced an agreement to acquire the Princeton Gamma-Tech X-ray microanalysis business, with annual revenues of $5-6 million, from Princeton Gamma-Tech Instruments, Inc. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of...