Scientists at the UW-Madison have helped to make this eye into the past possible.
Tom Still: How Wisconsin has added to mankind’s knowledge of the heavens
Wisconsin State Journal
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Who got paid — and who didn’t — in Wisconsin’s bonuses for football, volleyball, soccer
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin volleyball coaches got rewarded for another trip to the Final Four with bonuses totaling more than $115,000.
UW grad’s documentary finds hope in Cambodian immigrant’s story
The Capital Times
Solomon was working in video production for StoryBridge after graduating from UW-Madison when he happened to mention to one of the other tenants in the building that he was traveling to Thailand. The neighbor suggested he stop over in Cambodia to see the school projects that Garms and Ou were working on through their organization, the Cambodian School Project.
UW-Oshkosh faculty rebuke chancellor with a vote of no confidence
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW-Oshkosh Faculty Senate released results of the no-confidence vote Friday, which had an 81% participation rate. Out of all 281 faculty members, 58%, or 164 faculty members, indicated they had no confidence in Leavitt’s leadership. Approximately 23% of faculty, or 65 people, voted in favor of Leavitt’s leadership. The remaining 18.5% did not vote.
Northland College falls far short of its fundraising goal, but delays decision on closure
Wisconsin State Journal
Northland College’s last-minute bid to stay open by raising $12 million in less than a month didn’t work: The board of trustees announced late Thursday that the school had raised just $1.5 million.
Universities of Wisconsin overhauls website as it tries to reverse declining enrollment
Wisconsin State Journal
“(With the old website) you find out about the Board of Regents, you may find out a little bit about me, but you don’t find out how you apply to a school or what schools are available to you,” UW system President Jay Rothman said. “The best analogy I’ve figured out is that … when you go to a bank’s website, you don’t find out about the board of directors, you find out how to open a checking account. And that’s the same kind of consumer-friendly focus that we want to have for our students.”
Polzin: Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan is a Hall of Famer … FINALLY
Wisconsin State Journal
Bo Ryan always said he would have been content coaching junior high school basketball for 40 years in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, not far from where he grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs.
UW-Madison wraps up 175th anniversary celebration with ‘ultimate campus experience’
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is celebrating its 175th anniversary with a weekend of open houses and events on campus, for what the university is calling “the ultimate campus experience.”
Eviction filings in Dane County skyrocket amid housing crunch
The Capital Times
In addition to the UW Law School and Legal Action, the report was compiled by the Tenant Resource Center in Madison and Community Justice Inc.
UW system undergrad tuition to increase for second straight year
The Capital Times
UW system President Jay Rothman proposed the 3.75% increase last week, and the Board of Regents unanimously approved the hike Thursday at a meeting at UW-Platteville. No one spoke in opposition to the increase during the meeting.
State Bar of Wisconsin agrees to change diversity definition in lawsuit settlement
The Associated Press
On its website, the bar association says the program is for University of Wisconsin and Marquette University law school students “with backgrounds that have been historically excluded from the legal field.” But the lawsuit alleged that is a new focus and that the program has historically been touted as a way to increase racial diversity among attorneys at law firms, private companies and in government.
UW system Board of Regents approves tuition hike; paid parental leave is coming
Wisconsin State Journal
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Thursday approved tuition increases that average 3.75% for the system’s 13 universities, about $387 more per year. With annual tuition and segregated fees factored in, the increase amounts to 4.4% for 2024-25, the university said.
UW-Madison’s Dr. Mikhail Kats Talks Solar Eclipse Safety
WORT-FM
UW-Madison’s Dr. Mikhail Kats is an expert on optics and photonics. He shared some advice with our News Producer, Faye Parks, earlier this afternoon. Dr. Kats says there are a lot of safe viewing options – but standard sunglasses don’t provide enough protection.
UW Board of Regents vote to raise tuition system-wide
Wisconsin Public Radio
The base tuition rate for resident undergraduates will increase by 3.75 percent. This is the second increase in two years since a tuition freeze was lifted. Tuition increased by an average of 5 percent for this school year.
UW Regents give chancellors 6% pay raises, boosting salaries by as much as $46,000
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The UW Board of Regents on Thursday handed out raises to all University of Wisconsin chancellors, bringing leaders in line with 6% salary increases taking effect for all UW employees.
Test-optional admissions extended at UW-Madison, other UW campuses
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Freshman applicants to University of Wisconsin System schools can forgo standardized tests for another two years under a policy extension expected to be approved by the UW Board of Regents on Friday.
Worker burned in explosion at Wisconsin stadium settles lawsuit for $22 million, attorney says
The Associated Press
A worker burned in a 2022 explosion during renovation work on the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium has settled his lawsuit against the project’s general contractor for $22 million, his attorney says.
Assistant coach leaving after seven seasons with Wisconsin men’s basketball
Wisconsin State Journal
Badgers assistant coach Dean Oliver will not return to the Badgers bench for an eighth season, he announced on Twitter Wednesday evening. A source close to the men’s basketball program told BadgerExtra that Oliver’s contract was not being renewed.
Wisconsin ‘uninstructed’ vote more than double Biden’s 2020 margin
The Capital Times
“This is not really going to cost him the ability to be the Democratic nominee pretty easily, but it will be something that he and his campaign will have to pay attention to,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison and director of the campus’ Elections Research Center, told the Cap Times last month.
Total solar eclipse: What to know if you’re viewing from Madison
The Capital Times
The total eclipse — which occurs when the moon aligns entirely in its orbit between the sun and the Earth — will begin to be visible in Madison at 12:50 p.m. but will be at maximum coverage at 2:05 p.m., said James Lattis, the director of the University of Wisconsin Space Place.
“The basic astronomy of the eclipse is that the moon comes between us and the sun, and blocks part of the disk or all of the disk of the sun,” Lattis explained. “So if you’re at the right place, that path of totality where the alignment is right for the moon to completely cover the disk of the sun, you get the sight of the total eclipse.”
Erik Iverson: Biden administration patent policy would hurt Wisconsin tech sector
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Erik Iverson, chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
How sheep could be a key to Wisconsin’s solar energy future
The Capital Times
This spring Alliant Energy and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will break ground on a 2.25 megawatt, roughly 15-acre solar array that will be used to study agrivoltaics at the university’s Kegonsa Research Campus 10 miles southeast of Madison.
Researchers will study the soil and water quality of the solar site, its effect on wildlife, and the feasibility of grazing animals and growing crops among the array, said Josh Arnold, UW-Madison campus energy adviser.
Voting hours extended on UW campus due to poll site issue
The Capital Times
Voting hours have been extended from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus due to a management issue at the polling place earlier Tuesday. The extension was opposed by a lawyer who represents the Wisconsin Republican Party, according to court filing.
UW women’s basketball team deserves cheerleaders too — Linda Eisele
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: The Wisconsin women’s basketball team was fantastic Thursday night in their first postseason game in 13 years, but where were the Wisconsin cheerleaders?
Yet another error with the new financial aid form is forcing students to delay college acceptance
Wisconsin State Journal
Up to 20% of students applying for federal financial aid may have to wait even longer to be awarded financial assistance, forcing many to hold off deciding where to attend college next year until they know which schools they can afford.
Madison consumer rewards startup Fetch gets $50 million in funding
Wisconsin State Journal
Founded in 2013 by CEO Wes Schroll and fellow UW-Madison student Tyler Kennedy, Fetch users scan shopping receipts and can earn points based on the items purchased. Those points are converted into redeemable awards, which include gift certificates, charitable donations or contest entries.
Letter | GOP lawmakers aim to deny opportunities at UW
The Capital Times
Letter to the editor: Wisconsin Republican legislators, with one exception, deny the University of Wisconsin staff and programs that help individuals whose economic, cultural, historical and educational backgrounds did not give them the preparations for higher education (“DEI deal votes lead senators to reject two Evers Regent appointees,” March 12).
Universities of Wisconsin, UW-Madison to offer paid parental leave
The Capital Times
The new policies give eligible employees six weeks of paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child. The change comes after UW-Madison faculty and staff lobbied administrators to implement such a policy.
“I’m really happy that we’re in a position to be able to announce this,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin told faculty at a meeting Monday. “This has been something I’ve wanted to bring to conclusion, and there’s been interest in this for a very long time.”
UW-Madison, UW system propose 6-week paid parental leave policies
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison and the Universities of Wisconsin are each proposing a paid parental leave policy granting six weeks of leave for the birth or adoption of a child, following more than a decade of studying its feasibility and increasing pressure from faculty and staff.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said Monday that adding paid parental leave allows the university to stay competitive in recruiting graduate students and employees, and catch up to other local private businesses and governmental agencies that already offer it.
Rock-picking ritual in Wisconsin farm field turns up 109.5-pound meteorite. Here’s how to see it
Wisconsin State Farmer
Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have verified it as a meteorite made of iron and nickel, created in the solar system’s earliest days. It likely started out as part of an asteroid or protoplanet, says Richard Slaughter, director of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Geology Museum.
Inches are the difference on great scoring chances in Wisconsin men’s hockey’s NCAA loss
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers were close but not quite close enough. That’s the way the game went Friday and the way the season went down the stretch; they went 7-8-2 after a 10-game winning streak that covered parts of November, December and January.
Marjorie “Margie” Flagel
Wisconsin State Journal
Later in her career she worked both at the UW Medical School and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine doing medical transcription.
Patricia Coffey is a forensic psychologist who loves learning about what makes you tick
Wisconsin State Journal
The forensic psychologist is a faculty member in the UW-Madison Department of Psychology. She not only teaches UW-Madison students pursuing their graduate degrees how to conduct court-ordered psychological evaluations or forensic assessments for those who have been charged with crimes — at times quite violent crimes; she also teaches an introductory psychology course at Oakhill Correctional Institution near Oregon, for which incarcerated people can obtain college credit.
Shelley M. Lagally
Wisconsin State Journal
She believed that further education would offer new opportunities and so she earned, with honors, an MA in Public Policy and Administration with a concentration in bioethics from The LaFollette Institute at UW and immediately accepted a position as a staff member in the office of the Health Sciences Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University. Shelley’s charm often won the day in vital ethics deliberations.
Around the world in 95 years, refugee from Nazi Germany celebrates with fundraiser
Wisconsin State Journal
By Emily Auerbach, executive director of UW Odyssey at UW-Madison and a professor of English who co-hosts “University of the Air” on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Next week ‘critical’ for Northland College’s hopes to stay open
Wisconsin State Journal
With just days to go before its self-imposed deadline to raise $12 million, the Northland College Board of Trustees said the coming week will be “critical” to the survival of the small liberal arts college in Ashland.
UW president proposes 3.75% hike in resident tuition next school year
The Capital Times
Resident undergraduate tuition rates would rise 3.75% for the 2024-25 academic year, without including fees or room and board. Seven universities in the UW system are proposing even higher increases on top of the 3.75%, Rothman told reporters Thursday morning.
UW system looks to raise in-state tuition for second year in a row, citing inflationary pressures
Wisconsin State Journal
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman on Thursday announced the intent to raise tuition by 3.75%, saying the increase is in line with inflation and is necessary to maintain the UW system’s educational quality.
Latino Chamber’s new training center gets $5 million in federal budget
The Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which received $2 million to “establish a regional center to combat the fentanyl crisis” and $1 million to improve agriculture research facilities.
UW-Madison police launching new one-button alert for ‘active, deadly threats’ with test today
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison police are launching a new one-button alert for “active, deadly threats” they will test at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Wisconsin football sets up another West Coast trip with home-and-home series
Wisconsin State Journal
The program announced Tuesday that the Badgers will take on the University of California in a home-and-home series in 2029 and 2030. Wisconsin will head to Berkley to face the Golden Bears on Sept. 1, 2029, and Cal will play at Camp Randall Stadium on Aug. 31, 2030. These dates were originally set for matchups against UCLA, but those games were nixed after the Bruins joined the Big Ten.
‘Sense of peace.’ Badgers women lose hockey title but not confidence
The Capital Times
University of Wisconsin women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson has always been inquisitive about what goes into winning, what goes into building and sustaining a championship culture.
Madison Plan Commission again denies State Street development
The Capital Times
The Plan Commission voted 5-3 to stop the demolition of three buildings along the 400 block of State Street which used to house B-Side Records and Freedom Skate Shop, locally owned businesses that had been staples on the block since the mid-1970s.
As winters warm, Wisconsin fruit growers brace for the worst
The Capital Times
“The colder it is during the winter, the more cold hardy they’re going to get and the more heat they’re going to need in the spring to be able to wake up,” said Amaya Atucha, a fruit crop specialist with University of Wisconsin Extension.
UW-Madison sees student interest in public policy skyrocket
Wisconsin State Journal
Leaders in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison are crafting an undergraduate major in public policy due to increasing student interest, at a time when the general public is polarized or largely turned off by the tenor of politics and government.
How Wisconsin wrestlers fared at the NCAA Championships
Wisconsin State Journal
Along with being named an All-American in 2021 and 2022, Barnett finished with a 106-41 career record. He also is one of only nine Badgers wrestlers at 118, 126 or 125 pounds to finish fourth or higher at the NCAAs.
Share right-sizing plan to close Wisconsin’s superfluous campuses — Tim Haering
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: Rothman might do us a favor by openly owning his right-sizing plan, instead of shocking us with out-of-the-blue campus closures.
This Wisconsin swimmer stands tallest again at NCAA swimming and diving championships
Wisconsin State Journal
Phoebe Bacon is a national champion once again. The University of Wisconsin senior on Saturday won her second career NCAA title in the 200-yard backstroke at the national swimming and diving meet in Athens, Georgia.
Pain from championship loss hits Wisconsin women’s hockey players hard
Wisconsin State Journal
A 1-0 loss to the Buckeyes was a cruel way for the Badgers to have to pack things for the season and fly home Sunday night. But turnabout was fair play: Ohio State had to do the same a year earlier, wondering about all the things that could have been different in a one-game championship decided by one goal.
Wisconsin’s presidential primary has already been decided, but it’s not the only thing on the ballot April 2
Wisconsin State Journal
Without a competitive Republican primary spurring conservative voters to the polls, “turnout will be lower and more balanced between the parties,” predicted UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Richard Davis film looks at the teacher behind the jazz master
The Capital Times
Davis, who moved to Madison in 1977, never rested on his laurels, and didn’t talk much in interviews about a career that included collaborations with Sarah Vaughan, Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen. Never one to look backwards, Davis preferred to look ahead. He loved to talk about his career in Madison as an educator, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who founded the Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists to inspire future generations of musicians.
Robert A. Herbsleb
Wisconsin State Journal
He was employed by the University of Wisconsin Madison Space Science and Engineering Center for over 30 years. Robert received Emeritus status July 20, 2001.
5 UW campuses are gone, showing lapse in public duty, trust
Wisconsin State Journal
From the UW Board of Regents to the Legislature and governor, those chargedg with the care and preservation of the public’s investment in higher education watch idly by while UW system President Jay Rothman wields his ax to make the system’s budgetary ends meet.
A small, northern Wisconsin college must raise $12 million in 3½ weeks — or face closure
Wisconsin State Journal
Raising the money by the board’s April 3 deadline would give leadership the fiscal stability for the 2024-25 school year to reimagine a “new” Northland with a yet-to-be-seen sustainable model. Without the infusion of cash, the 132-year-old college will be forced to close at the end of the year, displacing hundreds of students and dozens of faculty and staff.
UW’s Tandem Press director is retiring after leading it for 30 years
Wisconsin State Journal
Paula Panczenko, director of the UW-Madison’s Tandem Press for more than 30 years, will retire this summer, the university announced this week.
West Madison plan sparks outrage over city’s answers to big question
The Capital Times
To Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there’s no question the city faces a critical shortage of housing to meet the needs. Paulsen’s research focuses on housing and land use.
“It absolutely is accurate to call it a crisis,” he said. “It’s the basic facts: Jobs are growing really quickly. Lots of young people are moving here. All those things mean housing demand is off the charts.”
DEI deal votes lead senators to reject two Evers Regent appointees
The Capital Times
Lawmakers rejected two of Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Tuesday after the regents voted against a deal to freeze positions related to diversity, equity and inclusion in exchange for funding for the UW.
Wisconsin Senate approves bills restricting transgender athletes, giving Legislature control over federal funds
Wisconsin State Journal
The Senate also for the first time passed Assembly Joint Resolution 109, a constitutional amendment that’s Wisconsin Republicans’ latest step in their fight against government-run diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Republican lawmakers last year struck a deal requiring the Universities of Wisconsin to restructure its DEI programs, and GOP legislative leaders have said they plan to scrutinize similar programs in state agencies.
Wisconsin football’s latest assistant coach’s salary revealed
Wisconsin State Journal
E.J. Whitlow’s contract to be the University of Wisconsin defensive line coach includes a raise and two bonuses in the second year that boost the overall value of the deal to $650,000 over two years.
Sophomore guard headlines Wisconsin men’s basketball’s group of All-Big Ten honorees
Wisconsin State Journal
Four players on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team earned All-Big Ten honors following a fifth-place finish in the conference standings, the Big Ten announced Tuesday.