UW-Madison

February 4, 2013

The opening line was decidedly off-hand for a performance that has run for more than three decades on Broadway and off: “Gak, this is disgusting, I can do it for $5,000!” Even “Watson, come here, I want you,” the imperative that founded the Bell Telephone empire and ultimately AT&T, had a bit more resonance. But […]

November 5, 2012

Wisconsin’s logging business is following the same trend as many other industries: Fewer, larger, more mechanized operations. That’s according to a survey of owners of Wisconsin logging enterprises conducted last year by a team led by Mark Rickenbach, professor and extension specialist in the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. “One of the challenges […]

November 5, 2012

The good news: Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) continue to grow and offer better pay than non-STEM jobs. The bad news: There aren’t enough people graduating with STEM degrees to fill them. The nation’s workforce will face a shortfall of one million college STEM graduates over the coming decade, according to a […]

November 5, 2012

A lot of parents want their kids’ schools to serve more fresh and local food for lunch, and schools would like to oblige, but that’s no simple task. It’s enough of a scramble to be ready to serve hundreds of hungry kids when the lunch bell rings without having to stop to take a lot […]

November 5, 2012

Paul Barford, a UW-Madison professor of computer science, has a proposition, and he’s got five minutes to make it. He’s consciously mimicking the “product pitch” that entrepreneurs make before venture capitalists, except his audience is undergraduates in a class on starting a software company. Time is tight, so Barford lunges ahead. “Google is earning $40 […]