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Winners have been announced for this year’s Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year awards program and six out of the nine companies being recognized are located in southeastern Wisconsin. The MOTY program seeks to recognize the state’s top manufacturers, including...
WisBusiness: Wisconsin Hospitals Association: Wisconsin hospitals applaud resources to address mounting supply and labor costs and sustain access
Since 2019, Wisconsin hospitals have experienced a year-over-year annual expense increase of nearly $2.2 billion just in labor and supply costs. While expenses continue to rise, reimbursement from government and private insurance companies are not keeping pace with...
InsideWis: Evolution in public-private early stage investment has bipartisan roots
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – For at least 20 years, Wisconsin policymakers have taken a bipartisan road to making the state a more welcoming place for angel and venture capital investment. That was evident during the birth of Wisconsin’s early stage investment tax...
WisBusiness: the Podcast with Maurice Thomas, president of Forward 48
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Maurice Thomas, president of Forward 48. This growing leadership development program recently announced it’s taking applications for its spring cohort, which includes 120 spots reserved for emerging leaders in...
Early stage investing: Statewide, local trends will be examined March 9 in Whitewater
The state of angel and venture capital investment in Wisconsin and southeast Wisconsin’s Whitewater region will be examined Thursday, March 9 at a Tech Council Innovation Network luncheon at the Whitewater University Innovation Center. Tech Council Investor Networks...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin needs more young people to prevent worsening the labor shortage, but there’s no easy solution
Twenty-five-year-old Matt Gill grew up in the Fox Valley. After a stint at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, he left Wisconsin last June. "The reason I left is because I started working remotely after COVID, and my girlfriend got a job in Utah," he said. "We will...
WisPolitics: 2023 Budget Address
On February 15, 2023, Governor Tony Evers delivered his 2023-25 state budget address before a joint session of the state Senate and Assembly in the state Capitol. The speech took place at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly chambers. Click here to watch the address.
BizTimes Milwaukee: Milwaukee startup ITA wants to make international travel more accessible
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...