by Tech Council | Aug 15, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Before writing her award-winning 2016 book on “The Politics of Resentment” in Wisconsin, UW-Madison political scientist Katherine Cramer spent a lot of time talking with people in diners, gas stations and other gathering spots across rural... by Tech Council | Aug 7, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – With the carnage of World War I just over, a popular 1919 song was “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree)?” The lyrics captured the worry that American soldiers who had grown up on farms or in small towns would... by Tech Council | Aug 1, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – In the not-so-distant past, the preferred exit ramp for young health-tech companies in Wisconsin was to be purchased by a bigger firm in California or elsewhere. The planned acquisition of Genomic Health by Madison-based Exact Sciences has... by Tech Council | Jul 26, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Some people in Wisconsin assume the rest of the country knows all it needs to know about us. That’s a faulty assumption, especially in an era when competing for talent knows no borders. Cheese, beer, Northwoods lakes and big-time sports... by Tech Council | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still WAUWATOSA, Wis. – A few years ago, Melissa Skala and Joe Carroll didn’t know one another. In fact, their areas of expertise as researchers didn’t seem to intersect – at least, not directly. Today, UW-Madison professor Skala and Medical College of... by Tech Council | Jul 11, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The U.S. economy set a record July 1 for the most consecutive months without a recession – 121, to be precise – a streak that began in mid-2009 as the financial crisis underlying the Great Recession hit bottom. Cause to celebrate, yes....