The first breakthrough in stem cell research happened in labs at UW-Madison, creating an entirely new branch of medicine.
“People kind of knew what stem cells were,” said Kevin Walters, an associate with Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that patents and licenses research done at UW-Madison. “The question was, how do you use them?”
UW Board of Regents member Jack Salzwedel has stepped down from the board, five years before his term ends, citing family medical issues.
Molly Reinhard, director of UW-Madison’s center that advises students aspiring to work in health and law professions, said the changes will affect students through their school selection decisions, career progression and housing.
It’s unlikely these kinds of dreams will ever go away, even in retirement. Meiller reflected on a story Maury White told him — Meiller began his radio career in 1967 after subbing in for a summer for White, a UW-Madison professor who hosted a farm show:
“He told me — and he was like 90 at the time — he said, ‘I still have that dream every once in a while,’ and it had been 50 years since he’d been on the air.”
Rayburn, a UW-Madison graduate who got his start in radio in 2001 when John “Sly” Sylvester hired him at WTDY-AM, says he will bring his own personality to the chair with the “Lee Rayburn Show.”
A preliminary hearing was pushed back for a man accused of poisoning a UW lab worker.
The UW-Madison Police Department will not renew its contract with Flock Safety and is in the process of removing the company’s controversial cameras from campus.
Dave Krueger with UW PD Lake Rescue and Safety says their service will be available between 11 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. this week and weekend and can be reached by phone, through 911 or on VHF radio channel 16.
The UW-Madison Police Department has decided not to renew its annual contract with Flock Safety, which ended June 26.
That’s how much five public safety agencies — Madison police and fire, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office, UW-Madison Police and the county’s 911 Center — spent for overtime related to babysitting the annual spring bacchanal, which this year took place on April 25.
At UW-Madison, it was Steven Babcock, who in 1890 developed his groundbreaking butterfat test, according to the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The Babcock Tester paved the way for higher standards in milk quality and reduced the practice of watering down milk.
The first dairy school in the U.S. was established at UW-Madison in 1890.
At first, only two students attended the first class, before the program’s enrollment jumped to 75. The enrollment jump was around a year after Prof. Stephen Babcock developed an inexpensive and practical test that measured the butterfat content of milk. The “Babcock test” provided an incentive to produce high-quality milk and allowed farmers to be paid accordingly.
Local leaders and UW-Madison alumni are demanding answers from UW-Madison’s athletic department after the university announced Shawn Eichorst as its new athletic director without interviewing at least two qualified Black candidates who applied for the position.
The University of Wisconsin announced Shawn Eichorst as its athletic director July 1 and among his first-day duties was to make a telephone call to Badgers football coach Luke Fickell.
Incoming Wisconsin athletic director Shawn Eichorst has gained experience seemingly everywhere since he last worked with the Badgers.
The University of Wisconsin’s athletic director hire is official.
Shawn Eichorst will start as Wisconsin’s athletic director with a higher annual salary than his predecessor.
On a hot and humid Wednesday afternoon, Barry Alvarez was at poolside reading one of his favorite authors, Lee Child, the creator of the Jack Reacher series of novels.
The shifting, expanding, competitive and sometimes confusing world of college sports finances is a place where people have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
“Athletics has been like that over a number of decades,” Shawn Eichorst said. “There’s always been change.”
The UW-Madison lost renowned history professor Jeremi Suri to the University of Texas some 15 years ago at the height of then Gov. Scott Walker’s war on state and university workers.
Doctors are warning people to pay close attention to hydration this 4th of July weekend as temperatures climb into the 80s.
Jeff Pothof, an emergency medicine physician at UW-Health, said mixing alcohol with heat is a dangerous cocktail.
But John Gross, a criminal defense attorney who teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School, argues it’s misleading to compare Dugan’s circumstances to those other cases.
“Those included people who have lived in what we call Wisconsin for time immemorial,” University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor John Hall said, including the Ojibwe, Dakota, Menominee and Ho Chunk. It also included the Sauk and Meskwaki, who were not indigenous but had migrated over the preceding century.
Athletes like Henry Aaron, Bart Starr and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weren’t born here, but they helped deliver trophies to our state.
“The state of Wisconsin was a part of their journeys to the hall of fame,” said Ashley Brown, the Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society at UW-Madison.
Vernon Thomson was born in 1905. He went to Richland Center High School and eventually earned a law degree from UW-Madison. He practiced in Richland Center and became active in the Republican Party.
In 1963, Lloyd Barbee, a UW–Madison Law School graduate and NAACP attorney, called on Milwaukee Public Schools to desegregate.
