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Dr. Sandra Hunter, professor of exercise science, and Dr. Christopher Sundberg, assistant professor of exercise science, both in the Department of Physical Therapy in Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences, have been awarded a $3.02 million R01 grant from...

Two of the top 16 finalists in this year's 'Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin' contest have connections to agriculture. The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and Johnson Financial Group are holding the competition for a sixth straight year to highlight the state's...

U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Marisa Lago joined Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Secretary Missy Hughes and local officials today in welcoming Ghana-based Niche Cocoa to Wisconsin. The company is choosing to build its first North...

Venture Investors was part of a $30 million Series D financing round for Delphinus, the company announced today. The Detroit-based Delphinus, a medical imaging company, developed SoftVue, the first circular array transducer technology to help with dense breast...

Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), today announced the next cycle of funding from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) will provide more than $235 million for more than 150 local road and bridge projects in...

Lincolnshire, Illinois-based Nexus Pharmaceuticals, which opened a new facility in Pleasant Prairie last year, has a new president and CEO in Usman Ahmed. The manufacturer of specialty drugs announced Monday that Ahmed has replaced Mariam Darsot, who has been...

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation, a maker of software and products used in production and automation across several manufacturing industries, will acquire Bronderslev, Denmark-based CUBIC, a manufacturer of enclosures for all types of electrical switchboards....

Dr. Nick Turkal, former CEO and president of Aurora Health Care and then Advocate Aurora Health, has taken on a new role as chief medical advisor at Pewaukee-based Lohman Technologies. Turkal left Advocate Aurora Health in 2019, a year after the merger of Downers...

Polco has raised $14 million in funding, the organization announced today. The funding was led by Mercury Fund and included participation from BAT Ventures and Royal Street Ventures. “With our data and insights, Polco is committed to helping local governments win...

DWD Chief Economist Dennis Winters expects manufacturing employment in Wisconsin to exceed pre-pandemic levels in the near future. In an interview Friday, Winters said it “might be a couple months” before that occurs. “The outstanding thing that we don’t know about...

Until recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison had a successful program to compost discarded food. Starting in 2009, the university collected food scraps at campus cafeterias to send to the West Madison Agricultural Research Station for composting. In 2018, the...

Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc. today announced the closing of a $30 million Series D financing to fuel worldwide commercialization of its SoftVue™ 3D Whole Breast Ultrasound Tomography System (SoftVue™). The round drew participation from both new...

ith major advances in the transition to creating safe, clean renewable energy generation, Alliant Energy announces plans to add 175 megawatts (MW) of battery storage in Wisconsin. The plan, filed today (Sept. 30, 2022) with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin,...

To further the reach of the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, while helping them create new funding opportunities, Spotz is donating a lifelong subscription to their facility reservation management software and online marketplace. Spotz, a software startup that...

Milwaukee native Ian McCullough is the creative entrepreneur behind Free Music Land, a peer-to-peer music licensing platform. The company was one of the eight Milwaukee-area startups to receive a $10,000 grant through the MKE Tech Hub Coalition‘s FOR-M incubator...

Did you know there is a NASA spin-out company just a stone’s throw away from Milwaukee? Sheboygan-based VibeTech, headed by engineer and founder Dr. Jeff Leismer, is using technology developed to help astronauts combat the physical effects of space travel to build...

Steve King, a longtime Republican Party operative who was then-President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the Czech Republic, has been named CEO of the Republican National Convention’s Milwaukee host committee. Reince Priebus, who chairs the Milwaukee RNC host committee,...

The University of Wisconsin System is making a new push to encourage more potential college students to apply for federal financial aid. The goal is to get more high school seniors from lower income families to consider enrolling at state universities and ensure...

Marlon Ross was born and raised in Chicago and spent the past seven years living in Dallas. But within the next 45 days, he plans to permanently relocate his early-stage health technology startup to Milwaukee. Ross's company Wellacy Health was one of five startups...

Octopi Brewing is unveiling new facilities in Waunakee as part of a $62 million development that makes it the first solar and battery storage project in Dane County, brewery founder Isaac Showaki said. It's a massive undertaking for the startup. Showaki founded the...