Badgers head to Australia, New Zealand in August.
UW basketball to play exhibition basketball games Down Under
WISC-TV 3
Author: gbump
Hagenah Fountain on Library Mall reactivated after six years
Daily Cardinal
After six years of inactivity, Hagenah Fountain on Library Mall started to flow again Monday.
UW dining halls ditch Starbucks coffee in favor of Steep & Brew
Daily Cardinal
Students looking for their morning caffeine fix on campus will be sipping freshly roasted, locally owned Steep & Brew coffee instead of Starbucks this fall.
Susan Fiore: UW has long history of nonpartisan integrity
Capital Times
Letter to the editor: Any claims that UW is partisan are just reactions to something the critics don’t want to hear.
Universities need educators, not CEOs — Andrea Thalasinos
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: Given the high status and high salaries of many of these positions, the new preferred hiring pool would likely be heads of major corporations, who would expect CEO-type salaries when they become provosts and chancellors. This is a dangerous path.
UW, Morgridge scientists’ breakthrough in engineered arteries could be used to treat heart disease
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research have taken the first step toward developing laboratory-made arteries that could eventually be used to help combat heart disease.
Ebbe, Kenneth “Ken”
Madison.com
He worked in computer sciences for UW-Madison up until his retirement.
Wisconsin’s budget picture worsens due to Illinois tax hike
Madison.com
Wisconsin’s state budget impasse just got $51 million harder to solve thanks to the tax increases that neighboring Illinois enacted to finally pass its spending plan, state lawmakers learned Tuesday.
Sub-Zero Group opens UW Health clinic on site for employees
Capital Times
The clinic at at 6041 Basswood Drive is part of a partnership with UW Health and Unity Health Insurance, the company’s health insurer. The clinic will be staffed by medical assistants and nurse practitioners, serving as an extension of UW Health. The clinic will be open Monday through Friday.
Video game by UW-Madison group is up for national award
Capital Times
A video game about exploring the cosmos that a University of Wisconsin-Madison institution developed is up for a national award for educational games.
Badgers volleyball: Big Ten overseas tour ‘incredible’ for Tionna Williams
Wisconsin State Journal
Williams was the UW representative on the team that included one player from each Big Ten school on a tour that took them to the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy and Austria from June 17 to 28.
Paul Fanlund: Announcing the Cap Times Idea Fest, a new way to reach a better state
Capital Times
The festival will be staged across three buildings on the University of Wisconsin campus. UW-Madison was our first co-sponsor.
Library Mall fountain restarted after 6 years — a wonder to some, underwhelming to others
Wisconsin State Journal
The Hagenah Fountain, a fixture at the heart of the UW-Madison campus, began operating again Monday after about six years of silence, though it functioned intermittently between 2007 and 2010.
UW-Madison ranks among the best colleges for your money
WKOW-TV 27
Money magazine has ranked UW-Madison 45th out of 711 total schools nationwide in its annual list of best colleges for your money survey.
Wisconsin researchers awarded grant to fix algorithmic bias
NBC-15
Researchers at a Wisconsin university have been awarded a $1 million grant to develop a tool to find and fix algorithmic bias.
UW Health, UnityPoint Health Meriter significantly strengthen partnership
WISC-TV 3
UW Health and UnityPoint Health Meriter, two of the largest healthcare providers in state, have established a new business relationship.
Researchers say happiness can turn dairy cows into cash cows
WISC-TV 3
Sauk City farmer has seen milk production increase.
As PROFS seeks to remove qualification for university leaders in state budget, Behling pushes back
Daily Cardinal
Leaders at UW System schools could be recruited outside of academia if language in the 2017-2019 biennial budget remains, granting new Board of Regents President John Behling’s wish of recruiting leaders from the private sector.
Researchers say happiness turns dairy cows into cash cows
Madison.com
“I think it’s really important that we give them the spa treatment,” said Nigel Cook, who has directed the Dairyland Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine since 2010.
UW moves into Top 50 best colleges for the money, magazine says
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is one of the best colleges for the money, according to rankings released by Money Magazine.
Oscar Mayer helped advance UW research — Robert G. Kauffman
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: Oscar Mayer allowed UW departments to collect tissue samples that led to innovation. An example was the use of pig heart valves to pioneer “bird cage” heart valves for humans. The company’s unpublished discoveries and inventions have been applied throughout the meat industry.
UW-Madison scientists grow functional artery cells from stem cells
Wisconsin State Journal
In a step toward one of stem cell science’s chief goals, UW-Madison researchers have grown functional human artery cells that helped lab mice survive heart attacks.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter, former rivals, become partners
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter, which have long collaborated on some services but became more competitive in recent years — leading to lawsuits and duplicate clinics — have become partners.
New Regents president calls for UW to recruit chancellors from private sector
Wisconsin State Journal
The new head of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents wants UW institutions to recruit leaders from the private sector, and said Friday that the System is launching a new effort to “streamline” its process for hiring chancellors and other top officials.
Gritzmacher-Duerst, Mary Teresa
Madison.com
She worked as an administrative assistant for ASCS, the State of Wisconsin and the UW Medical School throughout the years, where she made many wonderful friends.
Savion Castro: The missing voices in the free speech debate
Capital Times
Column: Right now there there are 664 African-Americans out of 31,407 undergraduates at UW-Madison. In the entire UW System, there are 4,640 African-Americans out of 151,895 undergraduate students. Yet rather than asking why the percentage of African-American students is so alarmingly low, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is fast-tracking a bill to create safe spaces on Wisconsin campuses for right-wing purveyors of racism, misogyny and xenophobia.
UW software aims to find and fix biased computer programs
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison researchers are trying to root out race bias and other unfairness that has surfaced in computer programs used increasingly by private companies and government offices to decide if you are hired, approved for a bank loan or sent to prison.
UW Board of Regents resolution lets legislature know that free speech is a priority
Capital Times
While lawmakers in the state Capitol debate legislation that would punish University of Wisconsin students who interrupt campus speeches, the UW Board of Regents quickly and unanimously approved a resolution Friday affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
John Nichols: Petty partisanship does not honor Tommy Thompson
Capital Times
Of course, Tommy Thompson deserves to be honored with a University of Wisconsin center that is named for him — and that explores his fascination with politics and the innovative policymaking that can and should extend from the electoral process. But the center must not get bogged down in the petty politics of the moment.
Could Tony Evers shake up the 2018 governor’s race?
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden grouped Evers in with Soglin and McCabe as unexpected candidates, but added he stands out from the list of 11 names in that he has won statewide office multiple times.
Visick, The Reverend Dr. Vernon
Madison.com
Dr. Visick served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Au Sable Institute for Environmental Studies, having planned to attend in August a program honoring its founder and director, a professor emeritus at UW-Madison, with whom he founded the Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists.
UW System task force says university needs to do more for marginalized students
Capital Times
Over a year after University of Wisconsin-Madison students of color protested at a Board of Regents meeting and demanded that the university address what they saw as its institutional racism, the task force formed to hear them out affirmed that the system needs to do more for marginalized students.
‘Hamilfans’ come together in summer class on ‘Hamilton’
Wisconsin State Journal
Sarah Marty, professor with the UW-Madison division of continuing studies, has been in “the room where it happens” to see “Hamilton” four times.Now she’s delving deeper into the “Hamilton” phenomenon in a six-week summer course dedicated to the award-winning musical that highlights a story that is so American.
Baton twirling championship comes to UW-Madison junior
Wisconsin State Journal
Now a junior at UW-Madison, the 20-year-old Harris has several championships under her belt and is the current College Miss Majorette of Wisconsin — which involved winning a pageant event involving a solo baton routine, a strut or dance routine as well as a modeling and interview portion.
43 Leaders from the Community of LGBTQ People of Color, Part 1
Madison365/Our Lives magazine
Several people affiliated with UW-Madison are featured.
The Missing Voices in the UW Free Speech Debate
Madison365
As a person of color studying at the overwhelmingly white University of Wisconsin-Madison, I believe policymakers also ought to hear my story and consider my experience, and the stories and experience of other students of color, before telling us whose voices are and aren’t being heard.
Suspended UW student to face no prison time for sexual assault conviction
Badger Herald
Instead, Nathan Friar will be put on probation for eight years, will register as sex offender.
PEOPLE Program makes adjustments as UW-Madison population diversifies
Daily Cardinal
Recently, the organization announced that it will be cutting back on the number of schools it will be accessible to.
UHS to replace Tonight program for first-year and transfer students
Daily Cardinal
In a continuation of UW-Madison’s efforts to combat sexual violence after a year in which three students were expelled for sexual misconduct, first-year and transfer students will complete a new program to learn about dating violence, sexual assault and violence prevention beginning this fall.
New ASM Student Council Chair Morrison looks to the year ahead after tumultuous spring
Daily Cardinal
“I have so much hope for our campus and I care so deeply about it and so I wanted to be in a position where I could maximize my ability to create change on campus,” Katrina Morrison said.
How technology is making treatment more comfortable and accessible
WKOW-TV 27
Noted: Dr. Monika Roots is a psychiatrist, a professor at UW and VP of Health Services for Teladoc. She’s found there’s a comfort and convenience with telemedicine for PTSD patients.
DIGGING DEEPER: Threat of algae blooms in our local waters
WKOW-TV 27
Quoted: Tyler Tunney, a fish researcher with the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, was taken aback by the bloom when he saw it biking by the Yahara River.”I looked over and I was shocked,” Tunney tells 27 News. “Instead of this sort of clear, green water you can see plants through, the whole river just looked like someone had dumped a bunch of teal, blue paint.”
UW neurosurgeon saves 2 lives with 1 surgery
WISC-TV 3
Mother names child after neurosurgeon.
UW-Madison to receive smaller share of funding from System budget
Daily Cardinal
Despite a boost in state funding for the UW System in the upcoming biennium, UW-Madison will receive less than its usual share as system officials look to direct it elsewhere.
Keely, Dr. Patricia J. “Patti” Ph.D.
Madison.com
Patricia worked as the Chair and Jan and Kathryn Ver Hagen Professor of Translation Research for UW-Madison Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology in the School of Medicine and Public Health. She founded the Keely Lab in the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research which explores how cellular interactions with the extracellular matrix result in invasive, metastatic carcinoma.
Regents to vote on resolution affirming free speech
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin System regents plan to vote on a resolution affirming their commitment to free speech as legislators consider a bill that would punish UW students who disrupt campus speakers.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee now has first accredited public health school in Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Thursday it received accreditation for its public health program, making it the first in the state.
University of Wisconsin Regents freeze tuition, OK student fee and housing increases
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System Regents on Thursday approved a budget that will freeze resident undergraduate tuition for a fifth straight year but increase student fees and housing costs on all campuses.
UW ranked third in Big Ten in revenue, expenses in 2015-’16
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin athletic department ranked in the top three of the Big Ten Conference in operating revenue and expenses for the 2015-’16 fiscal year.
Driver charged in pedestrian crash in January that caused UW-Madison student’s death months later
Wisconsin State Journal
A Waunakee woman accused of striking a UW-Madison student as she crossed a campus-area street in January was charged Thursday with homicide by drunken driving, after injuries the student sustained in the crash led to a medical condition that caused her death in March.
Regents approve budget moving $6.5M from UW-Madison to other campuses
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison did not have to make the deep staff and program reductions other University of Wisconsin System institutions faced through years of state budget cuts, supporters of those campuses say.
Know Your Madisonian: Waisman Center director focuses on Alexander disease
Wisconsin State Journal
Albee Messing is director of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center, a hub of nearly 60 faculty members who do biological and behavioral research on conditions such as autism, Down syndrome and Parkinson’s disease.
Badgers men’s basketball: Assistant coach Howard Moore works to counter violence in Chicago
Wisconsin State Journal
Back when Howard Moore was growing up on Chicago’s West Side in the 1980s and early ’90s, he could play basketball with his friends at the playground until dusk.
Trendy plant based diet comes dietitian approved
WKOW-TV 27
Noted: Chef Julie Andrews RD at UW Health at the American Center explains three-quarters of your plate should be compromised of items that are grown like vegetables, fruit, beans, grain and legumes.
Alvarez Makes Adjustment to UW Athletics Senior Staff
NBC-15
Adjustments to roles and areas of oversight among the University of Wisconsin athletics senior staff are being made, University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced.
Stroke camp gives Blanchardville farmer a new outlook on life
WISC-TV 3
The camp sponsored by UW Health gives survivors and caregivers a chance to see beyond the limitations, where they can rock climb, zip line and most importantly, heal.
UW scientists improve protein-based drug stability
WISC-TV 3
Scientists at a Wisconsin university have created a mineral coating that mimics bone and keeps protein-based drugs more stable.
Prosecutors: Kidnapping suspect attended victim’s vigil
WISC-TV 3
Prosecutors say the suspect in the kidnapping of a University of Illinois scholar from China attended a vigil for the victim a day before his arrest.
5 Madison beaches close Wednesday due to blue-green algae
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The week of June 16 saw the worst outbreak of algal blooms in decades, said Jake Vander Zanden, an aquatic biologist at the UW Center for Limnology, and Stephen Carpenter, limnology center director.
Prairie dogs protected from plague by vaccine developed in Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
The three-year study, involving 58 colonies of the grassland rodents in seven Western states, tested a vaccine developed at UW-Madison and the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center on Madison’s West Side.