Catching up on some higher education-related news ...
** Having trouble finding a decent job during the Great Recession? Perhaps it's time to start your own business.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that four student-run businesses were awarded seed grants to help their startups. The $3,000 grants, which were handed out by the university's Office of Corporate Relations with the support of the chancellor's office, were announced after UW-Madison was recognized by Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review last week as one of the nation's top 25 campuses for entrepreneurship at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
** The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) announced it has teamed with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) to promote "clean" technologies invented at UW-Madison.
As part of the effort, WARF has developed a new "Cleantech" section for its website that features over 40 summaries of UW-Madison technologies, including several developed through the GLBRC.
** After more than two decades of leading the University of Wisconsin Foundation, president Andrew "Sandy" Wilcox announced he plans to retire at the end of 2010.
During Wilcox's 21 years of leading the foundation, its assets grew from $190 million to $2.5 billion.
Posted in Campus_connection on Monday, September 28, 2009 12:55 pm Updated: 1:32 pm. Warf, University Foundation, Sandy Wilcox, Uw-madison
The paper that helped trigger fear that a routine childhood vaccine might lead to autism was retracted recently by a respected medical journal, but Madison resident Mike Wagnitz still worries about vaccines.
Feb 09, 2010 | 5:00 am | Loading…
As impossibly idyllic as it may sound, members of Madison Fruits and Nuts want fruit- and nut-bearing trees in a public place near you, where you can watch the fruit form and ripen and when the time is just right, reach up and pluck it.
Feb 08, 2010 | 5:40 am | Loading…
Two years ago, Gov. Jim Doyle gathered with officials from an Austrian company to tout a new factory in Madison for manufacturing high-tech medical devices. Things have not gone exactly as planned, however.
Feb 07, 2010 | 4:00 am | Loading…
Critics say school districts will drop sex ed entirely rather than comply with new state law
Feb 06, 2010 | 10:00 am | Loading…
Among the tributes sent to a website after Neha Suri, a UW-Madison junior, died of meningitis was a note from a Wisconsin mother named Gail Bailey. She is a member of Moms On Meningitis, which works to raise awareness about the disease.
Feb 05, 2010 | 5:00 am | Loading…
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