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In a move to attract more research funding through industry sponsorships and increase the number of university inventions that get commercialized, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is streamlining its licensing process with a new program called Panther Partnering....

Harley-Davidson Inc. completed a spinoff of its electric motorcycle division LiveWire EV LLC, which was slated to begin trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction, which was announced in December 2021, involved AEA-Bridges Impact Corp. (NYSE:...

Gov. Tony Evers today said he wants the Legislature to increase funding for arts programs at UW System campuses to attract more workers to the state. The Dem guv, responding to student questions at a roundtable event at UW-Milwaukee, said it'll be a "hard sell" to get...

Gov. Tony Evers today joined leaders from SSM Health and the Ripon community for a ribbon cutting celebrating the new mental health outpatient Day Stabilization Services at SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital. The new unit will provide assistance, services, and...

ABC Supply Co. Inc. of Beloit has about 800 locations in the U.S. now, and is working to set up what would become its first in the city of Milwaukee. The building materials supplier gained an endorsement Monday from Milwaukee’s Plan Commission to set up a warehousing...

When Rob Summerfield first ran for the state Legislature in 2016 and began door-knocking in rural Chippewa and Dunn counties, he heard from several people who said it would be “nice” to have improved broadband and internet connections. By 2018, “nice” had been...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture will host a Global Dairy Symposium at World Dairy Expo this fall. The forum will be held on October 6 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison. Presenters will share information on trends in production,...

A new area code is coming to south central and southwest Wisconsin. The change will eventually affect people getting new telephone numbers in the region currently served by area code 608 — a vast swath that includes Madison, La Crosse, Janesville, Beloit and the...

Two researchers at UW-River Falls have been awarded a $250,000 grant to explore the impacts of dairy farms adopting robotic milking technologies. According to a release from the university, Luis Peña-Lévano and Shaheer Burney from UW-River Falls’ Agricultural...

The number of registrations for electric and hybrid vehicles in Wisconsin more than doubled in less than a decade, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum. In 2013 — the earliest year such figures are available — there were 44,178 registrations for...

UW-Madison researchers are studying psilocybin, the hallucinogenic ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” to treat people with opioid and methamphetamine use disorders, in what they say are the first such clinical trials anywhere. In another study of people undergoing...

Britt Gottschalk, the founder and CEO of Geno.Me, is an accomplished, innovative business woman at the helm of a company that is already creating “unicorn” buzz in Milwaukee. Geno.Me made headlines in 2021 when the company became an early investment of Gateway Capital...

The University of Wisconsin System has seen its highest new student enrollment since 2018, before the COVID-19 pandemic, at its main campuses this year, but overall enrollment has dropped 1% compared to last year, according to data released Thursday. Preliminary...

Enrollment at Wisconsin's state universities fell by around 1 percent compared to last fall, according to new estimates from the University of Wisconsin System. While three schools saw more students enrolling this fall, nine reported declines of between 3 and 6...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Wendy Pease, owner and president of Rapport International, a Nebraska company providing translation and interpretation services for businesses. Pease discusses the importance of exporting to foreign markets for...

As the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) begins its final design phase of the Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago (TCMC) passenger rail project it is seeking input from the public on the project. The project will add a second, daily round-trip passenger rail...