by Tech Council | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
MADISON, Wis. – The board of directors of the Wisconsin Technology Council has voted to urge broad public acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In a resolution adopted by 47 board members who come from...
by Tech Council | Jan 15, 2021 | NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
The venture capital and private equity arm of Milwaukee’s Robert W. Baird & Co. is investing in a San Diego life sciences startup that built technology designed to help researchers better understand human diseases. Baird Capital, which is based in Chicago,...
by Tech Council | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
The U.S. Small Business Administration, in consultation with the U.S. Treasury Department, will re-open the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan portal to PPP-eligible lenders with $1 billion or less in assets for First and Second Draw applications on Friday,...
by Tech Council | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
CRISPR, short for clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats, is a genetic tool used to alter specific genetic codes within organisms to achieve desired changes. It differs from genetic modification, which replaces genes or genetic pairs. But the scope of...
by Tech Council | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at the UW-Madison, has been named a fellow in the Association for Computing Machinery for “contributions to storage and computer systems.” The international ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1%...
by Tech Council | Jan 14, 2021 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – When Gov. Tony Evers declared 2021 to be the “Year of Broadband Access” in Wisconsin, that line in his annual State of the State speech likely resonated with people statewide, especially those living and working in rural Wisconsin. As...