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All the news including "Tech Council News Service" and "Inside Wisconsin"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Steve Booth, chairman and CEO of Baird, selected as Business Leader of the Year by Harvard Business School Club of Wisconsin
Steve Booth, chairman and CEO of Baird, has been named the 2021 Wisconsin Business Leader of the Year by the Harvard Business School Club of Wisconsin. The annual award honors a Wisconsin business leader who makes an impact within their organization, produces business...
WisBusiness: The head of the Wisconsin Technology Council says embedding high-voltage transmission lines in highway rights-of-way could help avoid construction delays despite higher costs
In a recent column, Tech Council President Tom Still says this approach to electricity transmission has several benefits such as making room for new broadband infrastructure, improving electricity grid resiliency and adding capacity for "moving large amounts of wind...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Wisconsin is helping create a 1,100-mile EV route along Lake Michigan
Wisconsin, along with three other midwestern states, has entered into an agreement to begin a collaborative project that will create a route for electric vehicles stretching along 1,100 miles of drivable shoreline around Lake Michigan. Described as an electric Route...
InsideWis: Passage of ‘CHIPS and Science Act’ will help U.S., Wisconsin over time
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – In an age of deep partisan divides, it was perhaps surprising that Congress passed the “CHIPS and Science Act” by wide margins – roughly two-to-one in the Senate and by more than 50 votes in the House of Representatives. It is less...
PR Newswire: German Study Group Announce New Study to Validate Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients
Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS), a global leader in cancer diagnostics, announced today that it has entered a collaboration agreement with the West German Study Group (WSG), an international research institution that focuses on practice-changing clinical studies...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Nashville Metro Council nixes RNC agreement, paving way for Milwaukee as host city
In a decision that likely clears a path for Milwaukee to host the Republican National Convention, the Nashville Metro Council voted Tuesday night against a last-ditch motion for Music City to host the 2024 event. The vote was ten in favor, 22 against and three...
Madison.com: Exact Sciences reduces loss, beats analysts’ expectations in Q2
Madison-based Exact Sciences reduced its second-quarter loss compared to a year ago and beat analysts’ expectations in results announced Tuesday. The biomedical giant best known for its Cologuard test reported a second-quarter net loss of $166.1 million, or $0.94 per...
Tech Council support for RNC convention bid
Tom Still, Tech Council president, wrote a letter to Reince Priebus on May 25 in regards to Milwaukee hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention. Read the letter below. The board of directors for the Wisconsin Technology Council wish you and the host committee...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Utilities set to spend more than $2B on new transmission lines in Wisconsin
Three new transmission lines that are estimated to cost around $2.2 billion will cross through Wisconsin under a large expansion approved by the Midwest grid operator that’s designed to facilitate the clean energy transition. The board for the Midcontinent Independent...
Wisconsin Inno: RoofMarketplace raises $5 million to scale company, hire in Milwaukee
Property insurance technology company RoofMarketplace Inc. announced July 27 that it completed a $5 million Series A funding round. Whitewater-based RoofMarketplace, which has an online platform for insurance carriers and roofing contractors to fulfill roofing claims,...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Materion to develop advanced chemicals for EV batteries, semiconductor chips in Milwaukee
Materion Corp., an advanced materials company in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, is establishing a facility on Milwaukee's northwest side to accelerate the growth of advanced chemicals for the semiconductor and electric vehicle battery markets. The 150,000-square-foot...
WisBusiness: Xcel Energy: Proposes expanding electric vehicle programs and high-speed public charging options in Wisconsin and Minnesota
To help drive toward the future of clean transportation, Xcel Energy proposed today new and enhanced electric vehicle (EV) charging programs and high-speed public charging options in Wisconsin and Minnesota to make charging at home and on the go easy, fast and more...
Office of the Governor: Gov. Evers Joins Fellow Midwest Governors in Announcing Collaboration to Build the Lake Michigan Electric Vehicle Circuit Tour
Gov. Tony Evers, together with three Midwest governors, today announced a collaboration to build America’s next iconic road trip route, specifically for electric vehicles (EV). The Lake Michigan EV Circuit Tour will consist of a network of EV chargers spanning over...
WisBusiness: SHINE moving from R&D into the commercial stage for cancer therapy product, exec says
The head of SHINE Technologies’ therapeutics division says the company is moving from research and development into the commercial stage for a precision cancer treatment product. The Janesville company recently submitted its “drug master file” to the FDA, which...
PR Newswire: BMO Announces New $650,000 Investment in Madison, Wisconsin
BMO Financial Group today announced a $650,000 investment in several Madison community programs and organizations. These contributions will support the Urban League of Greater Madison's Black Business Hub, The Center for Black Excellence & Culture, and Boys &...
WEDC: Entrepreneurship Partner Grant
SUPPORTING THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT ENTREPRENEURS The goal of the Entrepreneurship Partner Grant is to encourage the formation of entrepreneurship support programs and to develop startup and emerging growth companies in the state of Wisconsin. HOW IT WORKS This...
La Crosse Tribune: UW-La Crosse hires first sustainability program manager
Andrew Ericson remembers his first exposure to sustainability and environmental science. “I was in the second grade … and we made a song called ‘Pollution Solution,’” Ericson recalls. “It wasn’t the greatest song ever made, but we got on the radio and performed it at...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Region’s manufacturing sector contracts for first time in two years
Southeastern Wisconsin’s manufacturing sector contracted for the first time in two years in July amid growing concerns of an economic slowdown. The Marquette-ISM Report on Manufacturing’s Milwaukee-area PMI came in at 49.42 in July. A reading above 50 suggests the...
SHINE Technologies: SHINE Submits Drug Master File for n.c.a. Lu-177
SHINE Technologies, LLC (SHINE), a next-generation nuclear technology company, today announced the company has submitted a Drug Master File (DMF) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for non-carrier-added lutetium-177 (Lu-177) chloride, a radiopharmaceutical at...
Wisconsin Inno: SHINE Technologies’ FDA filing for radioisotope clears way for commercial use
Nuclear fusion technology company SHINE Technologies LLC announced Friday that the company had submitted a drug master file (DMF) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a radioisotope used in cancer treatment. The cancer-killing radioisotope,...