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To wrap up a great Startup Chippewa Valley Week, we hosted the Fall 2022 Red Letter Grant awards last Friday night. Congrats to this cycle’s Red Letter Grant awardees! Each of these recipients received $2,000 grants to launch their big idea here in Western Wisconsin!...

The two-year campus' enrollment is currently just 60 degree-seeking students. The last state campus that was closed down was UW-Medford Center in 1981 when it had less than 100 students. Rothman in an email to interim Chancellor Tammy Evetovich said she would have...

Dr. Eric Compas and Steve Muller met while in college. The pair shared a passion for geography and outdoor adventure. They developed a lifelong friendship while scaling mountains and battling currents in their kayaks. Life took them in different directions. Steve...

Justin Mortara, the former CEO of Milwaukee's Mortara Instrument Inc. that was sold for $330 million in 2017, is now the CEO of Madison health care artificial intelligence startup EnsoData. Effective Nov. 16, Mortara succeeds EnsoData co-founder Chris Fernandez as...

Small Business Saturday is Nov. 26, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. While small business owners appreciate a day that is dedicated to mom-and-pop shops across Wisconsin, they also want to remind consumers that they should support small business every day of the year...

The board chair for Milwaukee Women inc says a new Nasdaq rule requiring annual disclosures of diversity statistics will improve representation among business leadership. “As we begin to see these organizations really making it an intentional business strategy to add...

Justin Mortara, the former CEO of Milwaukee's Mortara Instrument Inc. that was sold for $330 million in 2017, is now the CEO of Madison health care artificial intelligence startup EnsoData. Effective Nov. 16, Mortara succeeds EnsoData co-founder Chris Fernandez as...

Milwaukee venture capital firm Gateway Capital Partners and the local digital medication storage cabinet company CareDirect are among the tenants in the Eagleknit innovation hub, according to a recent announcement. Wangard Partners Inc. redeveloped the former Eagle...

Developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers, a lightweight, ultra-shock-absorbing foam could vastly improve helmets designed to protect people from strong blows. The new material exhibits 18 times higher specific energy absorption than the foam currently...

Ideadvance might be the solution for innovators affiliated with the UW System who are looking for help with their startup businesses. The program is a partnership between the UW System’s Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) and the Wisconsin Economic...

It’s a mixed bag for the Milwaukee metro area when it comes to economic indicators tied to innovation. The Wisconsin Policy Forum has updated its Innovation Data Tool, which was created to gauge the Milwaukee metro area’s performance in several categories often linked...

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will host a series of town halls in December for community residents to hear about new possibilities sparked by technological developments that could increase well-being in local neighborhoods. The town halls, sponsored by...

Natalie Harris and her husband Cal love waffles. At home, they make them all the time for friends and family. Eight years ago, Natalie bought Cal a commercial waffle iron for his birthday. And the Superior couple always had a secret dream to one day open their own tea...

An expert with UW-Oshkosh says Wisconsin’s farming and food production industries present a “tremendous” opportunity for biogas in the state. UW-Oshkosh Director of Biogas Systems and Research Development Brian Langolf spoke Friday during an Appleton event hosted by...

UW-Madison is planning to enroll 500 fewer freshman students for next fall as it seeks to balance out a larger-than-planned class this fall. University admissions is aiming for a freshman class size of 8,100 in 2023, UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas said. It’s a...

A Brown County dairy farm with thousands of cows could soon be home to one of the nation's first biogas refineries that converts manure to liquid vehicle fuel. The $20 million project's supporters, including University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, say it will help pave the...

On November 17, 2022, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development held an online media briefing following the release of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) preliminary employment estimates for October 2022. The briefing covers the statewide unemployment rate,...

Wauwatosa-based real estate company Wangard Partners today named 10 businesses that will be tenants at Converge, a new innovation hub at the Eagleknit building in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood. Eagleknit, located at 507 S. 2nd Street, is on the site of the...