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Dave Gee, an entrepreneurship instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Marquette University, is concerned about his college-aged students. The Launch Pad director said, “the mental health problem is incredibly acute and pervasive across college...

Wisconsin's labor force is continuing its post-pandemic expansion, the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. The total of number of nonfarm-related jobs across Wisconsin grew to more than 3 million as of June 2023. That's a record high and an...

Microsoft Corp. gained another needed approval toward a possible October construction start for its data center in Mount Pleasant, which the company said will support the state’s information technology industry. “The project is needed to address expanding customer...

he Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) job totals for the month of June 2023, which showed Wisconsin's total nonfarm jobs reached a record high of 3,006,900. This is 52,900 more jobs than a year ago and an...

Marquette University’s Educational Opportunity Program has received $799,500 in funding from the U.S. Department of Education to pilot the Seizing Opportunities Academic Readiness (SOAR) Cyber Explorers Pilot Program, which provides teaching and learning activities to...

The Milwaukee chapter of the gener8tor accelerator network has announced its latest cohort of startups, each of which will receive a $100,000 investment. Along with those funds, each selected startup will join a 12-week business development program, which includes...

An early-stage Milwaukee startup building an app that would connect basketball players with indoor courts recently won $5,000 in a local pitch competition. The startup, called I Got Nxt, would have an Uber-like model of pairing idle gyms with competitive or...

Johnson Controls will pay at least $455 million to acquire FM:Systems, a North Carolina-based provider of workplace management technology. FM:Systems has 200 employees and 1,200 customers with more than 2.4 million users across 80 countries. The firm’s software...

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes announced today that it will provide Bayer with its environmentally preferred, non-carrier added (n.c.a.) therapeutic medical radioisotope, actinium‐225 (Ac‐225). “We are very pleased to enter this Ac-225 supply agreement with Bayer, a...

A Madison-based medical technology startup says a personalized heart failure treatment it is developing is nearing the FDA application process. While other areas of disease including cancer screenings have caught up to the advancements in personalized treatment,...

Caire is a member of the Wisconsin Technology Council board.  The early-June compromise that paved the way for the state’s biennial budget may have also saved one Madison charter school, according to its leader. One City Schools Founder and CEO Kaleem Caire said prior...

Dr. Matthew Hearing, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences, has received a R01 grant worth $2,067,753 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to study how the brain changes in...