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The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to recruit up to 150 new faculty members over the next three to five years for a research initiative focused on artificial intelligence. UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced the creation of the Wisconsin Research,...
In Business Magazine: UW opens online portal for degree programs across all 13 universities
UW is launching a new one-stop-shop for online degree programs spanning its 13 universities, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Officials hope it will boost enrollment and graduation rates, particularly for adult learners and traditional-age students seeking virtual...
InsideWis: Trends in tech startups can be spotted in Biz Plan Contest entries
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – I could call the Governor’s Business Plan Contest a canary in the coal mine of entrepreneurship in Wisconsin, but coal mines are out of favor these days so perhaps the more apt analogy is a canary in a gold mine. That’s certainly true for...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Universities of Wisconsin launch website to market online degrees
The Universities of Wisconsin want to make it easier for students seeking online degree programs. And in turn, market those programs to prospective students across the country. For years, the online-only University of Phoenix has marketed its degree programs across...
WisBusiness: UW-Whitewater: U.S. news and world report rants UW-Whitewater top in Wisconsin for online business education
The 2024 U.S. News and World Report Best Online Programs rankings were announced February 7, 2024. One Wisconsin college is the top-ranked, single-business college in all business school categories. That school is the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of...
MKE Startup News: Urban farm operates ‘green assembly line’ in the city
Hundred Acre founder, Chris Corkery, has created an endless summer in Milwaukee’s Century City neighborhood. Founded in 2022, Corkey operates one of Wisconsin’s largest vertical hydroponic urban farms. Tucked inside of a 5,000 square-foot former factory, the company...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Sad tomatoes in space: Wisconsin scientists develop TASTIE experiment to grow plants without gravity
From the care of Wisconsin researchers to the International Space Station, a group of tomato plants rode on a rocket last week with the goal of brightening astronauts’ days — and their diets. But first the tomatoes are trying to find their own joy. Growing without...
Insight on Business: Wisconsin Tech Summit set for Lambeau Field March 18
The 11th annual Wisconsin Tech Summit, taking place in-person at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field, will offer emerging companies to meet with major firms and explore potential business relationships around technology needs and innovation. The day-long event will be held...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Delafield-based Synthetaic completes $15 million Series B funding round
Delafield-based data company Synthetaic has closed a $15 million Series B financing round led by Green Bay-based TitletownTech and New York-based Lupa Systems. IBM Ventures and Booz Allen Hamilton also participated in this funding round, which will help Synthetaic...
What are 2024 trends in early stage investing? Learn more at Feb. 27 Tech Council luncheon
Investing in early stage companies nationally was significantly down in 2023 across the country, Wisconsin included, but the new year is still young. How do veteran investors view the prospects for the remainder of 2024? Join us Tuesday, Feb. 27, for a preliminary...
Wisconsin Inno: Delafield AI startup Synthetaic plans to nearly double staff after raising $15 million
An artificial intelligence startup with its headquarters in Delafield plans to nearly double its staff this year after raising $15 million in its latest venture capital round. Synthetaic Inc. announced its Series B raise Tuesday. It currently has 47 employees and...
BizTimes Milwaukee: We Energies plans $2 billion in natural gas power projects in Oak Creek, Paris
Wisconsin Electric is planning to build a 1,200-megawatt combustion turbine natural gas power plant on its Oak Creek campus and will also seek approvals for a new liquefied natural gas facility on the campus. The utility’s plans also call for a 130-megawatt...
26 Northeast Wisconsin: Microsoft helps the Lakeshore, and tech students, through grant
Lakeshore Technical College is one of fourteen schools in the country awarded a grant from a company you may be familiar with. Microsoft Foundation awarded Lakeshore Tech's cyber security program $20,000. The school says the money will be used for scholarships and...
Wisconsin Public Radio: UW-Madison researchers uncover hint for cause of cleft lips and palates in developing babies
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are one step closer to understanding how and when cleft lip and palates form during pregnancy. The discovery, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could mitigate the risk of the...
Madison Startups: Cellectar Reports First Patient in Phase 1B Clinical Trial
Cellectar Biosciences enrolled its first patient in its Phase 1b clinical trial evaluating iopofosine I 131 in pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory malignant high-grade gliomas (pHGG), the company announced today. According to a release, the open-label study...
WisBusiness: UW–Milwaukee: Scientist lands $542,000 NSF award for modeling virtual tumor tissues
Mahsa Dabagh, a biomedical engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development award by the National Science Foundation to build a virtual model of a human tumor that can reveal biomarkers of cancer formation and...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Founder of Milwaukee-based health tech startup Food FiXR launches sister nonprofit
The language of science doesn’t necessarily translate into the language of business. That’s the problem Dr. Grace Hameister has continually run into over the last two years as she’s sought to gain financial support for her first health-tech startup, called Food FiXR....
Cap Times: Wisconsin’s video game industry could get a boost with tax credit
As layoffs sweep the booming video game industry, a new bill aims to support and grow Wisconsin’s gaming companies with a tax credit for wages and other eligible expenses. The bill, authored by Republicans Sen. Patrick Testin of Stevens Point, Rep. Clint Moses of...
WisBusiness: Milwaukee manufacturers more optimistic about 2024 than other businesses, survey finds
Milwaukee-area manufacturers are more optimistic about 2024 than other businesses in the region, according to the latest Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce survey. Seventy-one percent of surveyed manufacturers expect sales to increase this year, while 13%...
MKE Startup News: Poeschl joins MKE Tech Hub
The MKE Tech Hub Coalition announced that Joe Poeschl has joined the organization as its Director of Engagement. The non-profit organization was formed in October 2019 by a group of local businesses focused on advancing technology and innovation in the region....