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Deciding to visit another country doesn’t mean just hopping on the next available flight and hoping for the best. Depending on the country, there are often several requirements that need to be met and additional documentation for those hoping to stay and work for...
BizTimes Milwaukee: First teaching health center in Wisconsin coming to Milwaukee’s northwest side
Milwaukee Health Services, Inc., the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Health and Children’s Wisconsin announced today plans to develop a new family medicine residency on Milwaukee’s northwest side. The North Side Milwaukee Health Centers Family Medicine...
Green Bay Press Gazette: Microsoft expands digital jobs program with Green Bay-area roots to all 50 states
A Microsoft Corp. initiative to increase computer science education and digital job opportunities will expand beyond its northeast Wisconsin roots into all 50 states this year. The company announced the expansion in a blog post this morning that notes while talented...
High quality, average costs make health care competitive edge worth touting for Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s consistently strong rankings for quality health care are a tangible marketing asset in the competition to attract and retain workers and businesses from other states, regions and nations. Top-quartile rankings for health-care quality and cost figures...
Business Wire: New Study Illuminates Strategies for Bioluminescence Imaging of the Brain
Research published in Nature Chemical Biology demonstrates a new tool for scientists studying conditions such as autism and Alzheimer’s disease. Promega R&D scientists, alongside co-authors from Stanford Medicine, have published a paper describing the development...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Johnsonville Ventures raises $99.5M for transaction not yet disclosed
Johnsonville Ventures, the venture capital arm of sausage company Johnsonville Holdings, raised $99.5 million that an executive said will go toward re-capitalizing an undisclosed company in its investment portfolio. The transaction will close by the end of February...
Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy to address crowd at March 20 Tech Summit
Mark Murphy, the president and chief executive officer of the Green Bay Packers, will speak in-person mid-day Monday, March 20, at the 10th annual Wisconsin Tech Summit at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Murphy is in his 16th year at the helm with the Packers. The...
WEDC Blog: From a humble start, a telehealth solution with wide-ranging implications
The idea grew from a need that arose at the beginning of the pandemic: screening people for COVID-19 to prevent outbreaks in homeless shelters. Operating out of a utility trailer plugged into a lamppost, with nursing students as staff and with initial equipment...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Are Wisconsin colleges worried about students using AI to cheat? Not really.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students in Professor Paul Stoy's class late last month stared up at the screen, mesmerized as a new technology called ChatGPT wrote a computer code to calculate planetary temperature. The task would normally take students several...
WisBusiness: the Podcast with Rose Oswald Poels, Wisconsin Bankers Association
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Rose Oswald Poels, president and CEO of the Wisconsin Bankers Association. She discusses the economic outlook for the rest of 2023, describing bankers’ perspective as optimistic but cautious. “The banking...
WisPolitics: Panel on the Health Care Worker Shortage
On February 9, 2023, WisPolitics.com, WisBusiness.com and UW-Milwaukee hosted a lunchtime event in Milwaukee exploring the issue and potential solutions regarding the health care worker shortage. Many industries are struggling with finding qualified workers as the...
WISN: Marquette students create beer company, learn entrepreneurial skills
Blue and Gold Brewing started as an idea on social media, but it's grown to a full-blown company created by four Marquette University students. "It came from a Twitter thread. Someone was at a bar drinking. They saw the menu that there was a UWM Panther beer and...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: UW-Madison expands tuition promise for low-income students to cover room, board and other college costs
he University of Wisconsin-Madison is expanding its tuition promise program to cover not only tuition for some low-income students, but nearly all other college costs that can derail progress toward a degree, such as room and board. The new Bucky's Pell Pathway...
Wisconsin Public Radio: The pandemic caused Wisconsin manufacturers to shore up domestic supply chains
Pandemic-induced supply chain hurdles caused many of Wisconsin’s manufacturers to reevaluate where they are getting materials, and industry consultants expect that trend to continue. Some companies already moved some of their supply chains back to North America, but...
InsideWis: Although most university enrollments in flux, private colleges have economic role
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – It shouldn’t surprise anyone that higher education enrollment patterns have changed, and not necessarily for the better in the eyes of those who run colleges and universities. Or employers who need what those schools produce -- talent. The...
MKE Startup News: Spaulding Medical: On the rise
Spaulding Medical CEO, Amanda Baltz, is getting ready to showcase what the Menomonee Falls based MedTech company has been working on behind closed doors. “The last couple of years we’ve been heads-down, developing our next-gen product and we are so excited about what...
The White House: FACT SHEET: The Biden Economic Plan: Delivering for Wisconsin
For decades, the U.S. exported jobs and imported products, while other countries surpassed us in critical sectors like clean energy, semiconductors, and biotechnology. Thanks to President Biden’s economic plan – including his American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan...
Baker Tilly, CGI added to major firm list for March 20 Tech Summit at Lambeau Field
The other participating major firms thus far: Advocate Aurora Research Institute, American Family Insurance, Exact Sciences, Findorff, Google, J.P. Morgan, Kimberly-Clark, Kwik Trip, OEM Fabricators, Oshkosh Corp., Promega, Rockwell Automation, RSM US, Schreiber...
WisBusiness: Stoughton Trailers development project aims to benefit community, attract more workers
The head of Stoughton Trailers says a new corporate headquarters and community park project will attract more workers to the local community. In a recent interview, President and CEO Bob Wahlin said the company aims to be “more of a destination employer” in the years...
MKE Startup News: FOR-M winners announced
FOR-M alumni, mentors and supporters gathered Monday evening at the Global Water Center to congratulate FOR-M Grant Recipient Winners. Each winning company received a $10,000 grant to support the growth of the business. FOR-M has graduated more than 200 emerging...