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UW-Whitewater has introduced a new program encouraging former undergraduates to return to school and complete their bachelor’s degrees. UW-Whitewater has identified about 330 students who attended the university since 2001 and dropped out, for whatever reason, with one semester of coursework to complete...
U.S. Representative Ron Kind announced Wednesday that both the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and the University of Wisconsin-Stout have been selected to receive funding under the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. UW-La Crosse will receive $219,964 and UW-Stout will receive $220,000 in funding. The grants will be used to prepare and provide assistance to low-income, first generation students pursuing doctoral study programs...
UW-Eau Claire's Foundation just finished one of its best years for donations, and other area foundations have reported solid numbers despite the lingering recession. The UW-Eau Claire Foundation had $4.74 million in gifts for the fiscal year that ended in June. It was the foundation's second best year for donations, eclipsed only by 2004's $6.26 million, which included a $2 million estate gift...
UW-Eau Claire's Foundation just finished one of its best years for donations, and other area foundations have reported solid numbers despite the lingering recession. The UW-Eau Claire Foundation had $4.74 million in gifts for the fiscal year that ended in June. It was the foundation's second best year for donations, eclipsed only by 2004's $6.26 million, which included a $2 million estate gift...
Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, and Rep. Nick Milroy, D-Superior, are pleased that the $32 million University of Wisconsin-Superior academic building project will begin this week. On Monday crews began preparatory work to put up fences and cut down trees in advance of excavation work which should soon begin. A local firm, Northern Interstate C out of South Range, is responsible for the excavation component of the project. Noting the high rate of unemployment amongst the building trades profession, the two legislators expressed delight that the long awaited academic building will provide a critical economic boost to the city and region. The project will create between 100 and 200 jobs over the course of the next two years. It is expected that a majority of the skilled workforce will come from northern Wisconsin...
Girls can become engineers, architects or scientists if they stick with math and science classes now, educators say. "They get scared away," said Pam Mazur, associate dean of trades and technology at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. "I think it's the whole math and science thing. Girls at some point, for whatever reason, tend to lose interest. It's really important we turn that around"...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison reported that, to date, it has received 90 awards totaling more than $26.5 million in stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Funded projects range from stem cell research to Antarctic weather stations and bioenergy projects, and more could be on the way. According to Kim Moreland, director of UW-Madison's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, the flow of stimulus money to UW is probably going to increase as more national agencies continue the process of vetting proposals...
Entrepreneur magazine’s August issue ranks Madison as the eighth-best start-up city in America.... Entrepreneur calls Madison the “Diversifier” among the top 10 cities. The magazine said Madison’s economy has traditionally been built on state government, the University of Wisconsin and agriculture, but now has added biotech, gaming, medicine and software to the mix. “It certainly hasn’t been by accident,” Matthew Mikolajewski, manager of the city’s office of business resources told the magazine. “It has taken lots of concerted effort to grow that entrepreneurial spirit.” Entrepreneur said those efforts include a renewed focus on entrepreneurship by UW’s business school, the establishment of a fast-growing UW research park, half a dozen business and arts incubators, and plans for a new food science lab and incubator developed with the Environmental Protection Agency...
...“I also want to make sure that Wisconsin is a center for research and development,” Doyle said, adding that the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the biggest public research institution in the United States. The university gets more National Institute of Health dollars than any other university except Johns Hopkins, he said...
Colleges around the country are laying off employees, freezing or cutting back travel and otherwise reining in their budgets in response to the down economy. And those cutbacks are having a direct and adverse effect on the many national associations that represent the institutions and their employees...