THE NEWSROOM

Several utilities in Wisconsin are running pilot projects for electric vehicle charging infrastructure to gather data. Mark Bender, special counsel for the law firm Godfrey & Kahn in Madison, gave an overview of several of these projects yesterday during a...

The announcement Tuesday of a "net energy gain" using thermonuclear fusion at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California was met with excitement across the world, including Wisconsin. UWM Physics Professor Doctor Philip Chang marveled at the conditions that were...

BizTimes Media today unveils Wisconsin 275, a new publication naming the most influential business leaders in the state. This 124-page book profiles 275 Wisconsin business leaders in a variety of industries, doing business in all corners of the state. Industries...

Marshfield Clinic Health System today announced that Susan Turney, MD, MS, FACP, FACMPE, is stepping down as CEO in September 2023. Turney became the organization's first CEO in September 2014 and has guided it through unprecedented growth and expansion while serving...

Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today shared initial clinical validation data for its breast cancer radiation signature, Profile for the Omission of Local Adjuvant Radiotherapy (POLAR), at the 2022 San...

Genes. They’re what control the way living things look and even function, what eye color they may have and even what diseases they may live with. Scientists have worked for decades to understand how some genes get switched on while others are switched off, or...

Nearly three quarters of Wisconsin bank CEOs included in a recent survey expect the state’s economy to weaken in the next six months. The Wisconsin Bankers Association’s biannual Economic Conditions Survey found 72 percent of responding bank executives have a negative...

Real estate tech company Zillow Group Inc. has acquired VRX Media, a real estate marketing company based in Milwaukee. The acquisition, announced Thursday, is meant to strengthen Seattle-based Zillow's real estate software brand ShowingTime+, a platform for agents to...

According to a study published by the healthcare analytics firm Protenus, over 47 million doses of medication were stolen by doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers in 2018. Opioids were involved in 94% of the incidents, with oxycodone, hydrocodone...

As 2022 comes to a close, BizTimes Milwaukee managing editor Arthur Thomas caught up with Rose Oswald Poels, president and chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Bankers Association, to talk about how the state’s banks performed this year, and the outlook for 2023....

Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC), today announced the state will receive $5,952,197 to plan for the deployment and adoption of affordable, equitable, and reliable high-speed internet throughout the state. This investment,...

Eleven Wisconsin companies are included in Newsweek magazine’s third annual list of America’s Most Responsible Companies. Newsweek partners with Germany-based research and data firm Statista to compile the list, which includes 499 companies. Each company is given an...

Ashley Quinto Powell once swore she’d never be her own boss again. At 24, she’d started an online jewelry company, though online shopping hadn’t yet become popular and, as she puts it, she “knew nothing” about retail, tech or merchandising. “I can't even imagine the...

The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Wisconsin District helped the state’s small businesses access nearly $789 million in SBA-supported loans to meet their business needs in the 12 months ending September 30, 2022.  While a drop from the record high FY21 figure of...

Discovery to Product (D2P) has awarded funds to ten campus startups through their new Piloting Research Innovation & Market Exploration (PRIME) grant program. The PRIME funding will allow UW–Madison faculty, academic staff and students with an innovative...

The vast majority of Wisconsin bank CEOs say a recession is likely or very likely in the next six months, according to the latest Wisconsin Bankers Association survey of bank leaders. Conducted Nov. 15 to Nov. 30, the survey included responses from 71 bank executives...

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual announced that Mike Carter has been named chief of staff for the office of chief executive officer John Schlifske and Todd Jones has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1. Carter...