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Scott Converse, UW-Madison School of Business, on the innovation mind-set

, he addressed information techno...

UW-Oshkosh launching Global MBA with schools in Germany, India

The program further expands upon the Wisconsin Idea - that long-held approach that the borders of the state are the borders of the universi...

While schools combat low tech enrollment, are businesses contributing to IT workforce woes?

Judging by the growing number of technology activ...

High schoolers to graduate from UW's IT Academy

Fourteen Madison area high school students soon will graduate from an intensive information technology training program offered through the University of Wisconsin-Madison's ITA is a four-year pre-college progr...

What does business want from the schools? Some answers may be surprising

Those skills represent part of what Wisconsin business leaders want to see in graduates of the state's K-12, technical college, and university systems. However, a set of attributes loosely described as life skills and the ability to cope and learn may b...

Scott Converse, UW-Madison School of Business, on IT workforce development

is at the forefront of trends in information technology workforce development. In part one of this interview, he talks about the market need for courses that help IT professionals in their progression f...

Florida schools employ Johnson Controls technology to stop sex predators

Johnson Controls, known more for its attempts to develop hybrid car batteries and energy-efficient building systems, said the security sys...

UW links with Israeli school to locate genes

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Medical College grad school dean Bill Hendee to retire

Hendee, who also will retire as president of the MCW Research Foundation, announced his retirement on June 19. While the Medical Co...

High schooler's concept wins Eau Claire business contest

The announced that Ryan Pederson, a senior a...

StrandVision markets digital signage to K-12 schools

will market a Web-based signage system that uses existing televisions to distribute daily school annou...

Measuring what works and what doesn't in the prototypical school

If you're looking for an ambitious mission statement, consider this pledge from the bipartisan Wisconsin School Finance Adequacy Initiative: "We will not simply propose adding new dollars on top of current dollars, but propose a complete new reuse of all dollars first those currently in the (K-12 public school) system, and then any additional dollars if that is the...

UW-Madison medical school names new dean

Golden, 52, will assume the SMPH top leadership position in July. He will succeed Philip M. Farrell, who had announced that he would s...

Milwaukee investor gives $10M to business school

The endowment is the largest the university has received and will fund business professorships, scholarships, and a discretionary fund. Lubar also said he would help the university raise another...

With flawed schools exposed, real-world experience is needed

What kind of school systems are our taxes supporting? This question becomes very critical given the fact that jobs are being outsourced to other countries by the thousands and many leaders of public schools have lost touch with whats important. Educators better get with the program and start teaching real skills along with the ability to learn and compete. The latest decision to...

Online school to lose $1.2 million, instead of expected gain

Wisconsin's first statewide online high-school program may close unless administrators can fix the problems that led to a massive shortfall on initial expectations, the IQ Academies was supposed to generate $1 million for the Waukesha school district where it is operated by the 2006-07 s...

School districts contract with Lawson for new data processing software

for a suite of applications that will allow the districts to replace legacy data processing systems. The four districts-- Madison Metropolitan School District, Verona Area School District, Oregon School District and Middleton-Cross P...

GE Healthcare, Harvard medical school to collaborate on nervous system research

using GE Healthcare's cellular imaging system, the IN Cell Analyzer, to enhance research of the human central nervous system and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, th...

Before deciding how to pay for K-12 schools, let's determine what to buy

- It's not surprising that Gov. Jim Doyle and the Republican-led Legislature are still at odds over how the state's latest budget will treat public school districts across Wisconsin. Doyle thinks he saved K-12 districts from cuts without hurting taxpayers; the Republicans believe Doyle abused his veto power and put more spending on the credit ca...

Madison, Milwaukee med schools to collaborate on tech transfer

The The medical schools' respective tech-transfer foundations...

Madison high-school student wins Intel prize

High-school senior Po-Ling Loh at Memorial High in Madison, Wisconsin, won a $20,000 scholarship for a project that could find use in security and cryptography applications. She took 10th place in the Intel Science Talent Search for her project on "closed embeddings of finite groups in finite groups." The awards were handed out in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to 40 U.S. high-school stude...

UW Medical School dean to return to research

is a pediatric pulmonologist whose studies focus on cystic fibrosis, an...

Business-school IT director points to reasons for wireless trend

is dedicated primarily to looking ahead for new social and technological developments, Scott Converse showed them how looking to the past can also be important if they want t...

Appleton school installs biometric security

has started to use hand-geometry scanners to secure its key point of entry. Children at the Academy wait indoors to be picked up by their parents, who must now, along with the faculty members, use the biometric HandReader in order to gain access to the school. A different component of the technolo...

Will mobile phones go back to school?

That has some school administrators worried. Last week, in one example local to Silicon Valley, administrators at San Mateo Union High School District debated new policy to ban the use of...

Wisconsin Virtual School selects eClassroom to power its program

Tomahauk, Wis. The , the K-12 division of eCollege, to power its online program starting in August for the fall term. WVS, in its fifth year, is a statewide online program based in Tomahawk that serves students in ap...

UW Medical School to build Health Sciences Learning Center

MADISON The Part of this is about creating the future of medicine, said <a hre...

Waukesha to Offer Virtual High School

WAUKESHA, Wis.- The Waukesha school district is launching an online distance-learning program as part of a national network of virtual high schools called iQ Academies. The distr...

UW Journalism School Software Expands Web-Based Research

MADISON - A homegrown software innovation born of "creative laziness" in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is saving time and money and opening doors to a new world of online survey research. "It allows us to conduct research at a much more rapid pace, and also allows us to bring technology into the classroom much more readily," says...