Bill was an instrument maker for the UW-Madison Electrical Engineering Dept. for 30 years, where he was credited in many research publications.
Meier, William J. “Bill”
Madison.com
Author: gbump
Students, alumni celebrate university’s history through Founder’s Day
Daily Cardinal
One hundred sixty-eight years ago, the inaugural group of Badgers sat down for the first classes at UW-Madison. Now, every Feb. 5, current Badgers celebrate the university’s founding.
Chancellor calls free tuition plan ‘real incentive’ for first-generation transfer students
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chancellor wants more first-generation students coming to campus and has announced an effort to offer some of them free tuition if they do.
UW-Madison students organize refugee rally
WISC-TV 3
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UW-Madison wants to offer free tuition for first-generation transfer students
WKOW-TV 27
Officials of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have proposed to offer at least one year of free tuition to first-generation students transferring from one of the several two-year colleges in Wisconsin.
Students, mental health experts discuss what a healthy relationship looks like
Badger Herald
While all relationships are different, fostering healthy communication is an important step to creating a healthy one, according University Health Services mental health experts at a student discussion Thursday.
University of Wisconsin sees pushback on admissions proposal
Madison.com
The League of Women Voters has joined those who are fighting against the use of criminal background checks as part of the admissions process at University of Wisconsin campuses.
Robert VanSumeren: Higher ed can help people overcome their pasts
Capital Times
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the controversy surrounding Daniel Dropik. In subsequent moves to prevent further such incidents, admission’s staff should note that there are on campuses throughout the country many students who have criminal records. For many former offenders, higher education offers a clear path from a dark past toward a brighter future. An educated ex-con can do a lot of good in the world.
Donald Trump could bring big changes to higher education, but plans are mostly unknown
Wisconsin State Journal
Donald Trump’s administration could reshape the way millions of Americans pay for college by changing the federal government’s role in student loans, and loosen regulations on universities and their researchers.
Former Wisconsin hockey coach Jeff Sauer dies
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jeff Sauer, who embraced the challenge of replacing legendary men’s hockey coach Bob Johnson at the University of Wisconsin in 1982 and went on to win two NCAA titles in 20 seasons, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer.
Club baseball coach petitions to make baseball varsity sport
Daily Cardinal
A UW-Madison club baseball coach pitched an idea to bring varsity baseball back to the university’s list of Division One sports for the first time since 1991.
UW System report: Degrees offered meet state workforce needs
Capital Times
The array of degrees offered by schools in the University of Wisconsin System is aligned with the projected workforce needs of the state, according to an internal report that the UW Board of Regents will hear Thursday.
White Anti-Racist Graduate Students: UW must do more to counter racial oppression
Capital Times
Column by eight members of White Anti-racist Graduate Students (WAGS): Kathryn Boonstra, James Gleckner, Tyler Hook, Julie Kallio, Lauren Lauter, Amato Nocera, Erica Ramberg, Rob Timberlake and Glen Water.
Former UW Hockey coach Sauer dies
WISC-TV 3
Former University of Wisconsin hockey coach Jeff Sauer died Thursday morning, according to a spokesperson for USA Hockey. He was 73.
Cardinal View: Campus health services vital in light of threats to Planned Parenthood
Daily Cardinal
Among a myriad of other injustices, the overall health of our nation faces stomach-sinking danger, and the threats to U.S. sexual, reproductive and women’s health are substantial. But we, as students at UW-Madison, are in a privileged position to access services and education to protect our minds and bodies and it will become increasingly important to protect and support them as threats to public health rise.
Badgers football: Wisconsin hires Jim Leonhard as new defensive coordinator
Wisconsin State Journal
A year ago, Jim Leonhard hadn’t coached a day of his life. After elevating the Badgers’ secondary in 2016, though, the 34-year-old Leonhard already proved himself enough for Chryst to choose him as UW’s next defensive coordinator. Leonhard’s promotion was announced Thursday afternoon.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank floats free tuition idea for transfer students
Capital Times
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may be grabbing headlines with a call to lower tuition as part of a campaign to cut the cost of attending University of Wisconsin, but UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has an ambitious proposal of her own.
Rebecca Blank: University of Wisconsin at ‘crucial point’ with next state budget
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is at a “crucial point” as Wisconsin prepares to debate its next state budget, and badly needs new public funding to stay competitive with its peers and reverse a slide in research rankings, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday.
Tom Oates: Former UW coach Jeff Sauer was a class act on and off the ice
Wisconsin State Journal
When Sauer was eased out as the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach after 20 tremendously successful seasons, he could have fired back at school administrators or quietly faded into the background knowing full well his prominent place in college hockey history was secure.
UW’s new ‘Badger Promise’ program is a nice gesture, but it isn’t going to happen
Badger Herald
Earlier today, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced plans for UW-Madison to make several changes to existing policies regarding incoming students.
PROFS to ask for national support of shared governance
Daily Cardinal
Following the shared governance changes in 2015, UW-Madison had to rethink its structure of communication between campus groups. According to Jack O’Meara of PROFS, the lobbying arm of the Faculty Senate, UW-Madison still has shared governance but movement among some state political leaders has weakened this structure.
UPDATE: Madison man arrested for stealing snowblower on UW-Madison campus
WKOW-TV 27
After multiple community tips, 52-year-old Michael P. Buckalew of Madison, was arrested for stealing a snowblower from Union South.
Big Ten competitors already consider criminal history in admissions
Daily Cardinal
When Chancellor Rebecca Blank suggested that UW-Madison may begin considering criminal history in its admissions process, backlash from students swiftly ensued.
Beloit College student spray-paints threat on own dorm room door, police say
WISC-TV 3
A Beloit College student faces charges after confessing to spray-painting a bias symbol and threats on his own dorm room door, Beloit police said.
UW-Madison Chancellor Blank proposes free tuition for first-generation transfer students
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin would offer one or two years of free tuition to academically strong, first-generation college students who transfer from UW colleges or technical college partners with associate’s degrees to UW-Madison, according to an announcement coming Thursday from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
LWV opposes using criminal background checks in UW admissions process
Capital Times
The League of Women Voters has joined the voices opposing the use of criminal background checks as part of the admissions process at University of Wisconsin campuses.
Whitlock, Howard William
Madison.com
He became a graduate student in Organic Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, studying under the supervision of Professor William S. Johnson. He received his Ph.D. in 1960, with a thesis on “Approaches to the Synthesis of the Alkaloid Veratramine.” Shortly thereafter, Howard began an academic career that spanned over 50 years at the University of Wisconsin.
Badgers football: Paul Chryst plans to hire Wisconsin’s new defensive coordinator this week
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst said he expects to have a new defensive coordinator by the end of the week.
Free tuition proposed for first-generation transfers
Madison.com
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials want to provide at least a year of free tuition to students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges and who would be the first in their family to get a degree.
University of Wisconsin proposes free tuition for first-generation transfer students
Wisconsin State Journal
Students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges to UW-Madison, and would be the first in their family to get a degree, will receive at least one year of free tuition at the flagship campus under a proposal officials will announce Thursday — but only if the state provides enough new funding to make it happen.
New UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman sworn in
Wisconsin State Journal
In front of current and former colleagues, former Madison Police Department Capt. Kristen Roman was sworn in as chief for the UW-Madison Police Department on Wednesday.
New UW Police Chief sworn in
WKOW-TV 27
Chief Kristen Roman joined the campus police department early January. She had been with the Madison Police Department for 26 years.
Roman sworn in as chief of UW police
WISC-TV 3
The UW-Madison Police Department officially welcomed Kristen Roman as chief on Wednesday in a swearing-in ceremony at Union South.
Helmer, Phyllis Ruth
Madison.com
For 46 years she supported graduate students and professors with their research as a medical technologist in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Anesthesiology at UW Madison. She was awarded Emeritus Status by then Chancellor Donna Shalala in September 1991.
UW hockey team gets donation after carbon monoxide leak
NBC-15
Conney Safety donated carbon monoxide detectors to both the UW men’s and women’s ice hockey teams.
UW-Madison increases number of those affected by Trump ban
Madison.com
UW-Madison said that there are 115 people on campus affected by the ban. That is up from the 88 people, 72 of whom are students, the campus identified on Monday as being from the seven mostly Muslim countries covered under Trump’s executive order.
Hartwig, Richard A.
Madison.com
During his career, he served as a captain with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department; as an investigator with the Dane County Vice Squad; and as chief of police with the Waunakee Police Department.
Coalition to protest against background checks in UW admissions
Capital Times
A coalition of UW-Madison campus and community organizations is preparing for a protest Tuesday over Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s proposal to rethink policies barring criminal background checks from the student admissions process.
Official: Top leaders knew of plans to send UW-Oshkosh money to foundation
Wisconsin State Journal
A former UW-Oshkosh administrator says the financial decisions the University of Wisconsin System is now suing him for making were widely known and once encouraged by UW’s leaders.
Tom Oates: Talent, attitude have rebuilding Wisconsin men’s hockey program way ahead of schedule
Wisconsin State Journal
Lengthy rebuilds by the Milwaukee Brewers and Bucks have conditioned state sports fans to persevere, but no such patience is required for those who follow the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team.
‘We certainly are afraid’: Undocumented children of immigrants hope Trump won’t erase recent gains
Capital Times
Laura Minero learned multiplication from the back of a Ritz cracker box when she was in first grade. “My mom wrote the times tables out by hand, 1 through 9, so I could learn them,” Minero said. With just a sixth-grade education, Minero’s mother was motivated to not just teach her daughter math, but also bring her along as she illegally entered the United States from Mexico to rejoin her husband. Two decades later, Minero is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an outspoken advocate for immigration reform and among more than 750,000 young people nationally given temporary relief from deportation through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Los Angeles Times: Guns on campuses? Really?
Wisconsin State Journal
LA Times editorial: College, we like to think, is a time of intellectual inquiry. But it is also, as anyone who has spent any time on a campus knows, a time of boundary-testing, experimentation and alcohol-fueled parties. Not exactly the kind of place where it makes sense to let folks wander around carrying hidden weapons.
Beloit College students targeted by anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic messages
Wisconsin State Journal
An anti-Muslim threat and an “offensive symbol” were spray-painted inside a Beloit College dormitory Monday, three days after an anti-Semitic note was slipped under a student’s door in another dorm.
Former UW-Oshkosh exec says regents knew about transfers
Madison.com
A former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh business officer accused of illegally transferring millions from the university to its foundation claims the Board of Regents never objected to the moves.
2 UW System individuals, 1 program winners of ninth Diversity Awards
Wisconsin State Journal
Two UW System employees and a program are the winners of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regent’s ninth annual Diversity Awards.
UW-Madison advises students, staff affected by Trump executive order not to leave country
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System is telling about 130 of its students not to leave the country as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring people from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States.
Rebecca Blank calls for reconsideration of Trump immigration ban; some colleges go further
Capital Times
Some 88 faculty, staff and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are affected by President Donald Trump’s executive order barring entry to the United States by nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, university officials said Monday as they called for reconsideration of the policy.
UW-Madison turns Monsanto-donated facility into crop research center
Wisconsin State Journal
A $10 million commercial biotech plant laboratory in Middleton that helped develop genetically modified plants and crops was donated by Monsanto Co. to UW-Madison, which has made it the hub of a new crop research center.
UW System students ask foundations to divest
Daily Cardinal
When Robby Abrahamian stepped onto the UW-Stevens Point campus as a freshman in 2013, he immediately began passing petitions, dropping banners, and asking the student government to take an initiative in divesting from fossil fuels. At that time the movement was only a few years old, but interest in clean energy had already spread to college campuses and other institutions across the country.
Wisconsin farmers wondering what’s next after TPP withdrawal
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural & applied economics professor Paul Mitchell said without the TPP, the United States will have to negotiate individual trade deals with the countries involved, a process that could take a great deal of time.
University of Wisconsin students warn against using criminal records in admissions
Wisconsin State Journal
Members of UW-Madison’s student government on Friday criticized Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s call for officials to revisit their policy of not asking about applicants’ criminal records.
WEDC to dole out $498K to startup-focused groups
Capital Times
Among the 12 parties receiving grants, two are based in Madison: The University of Wisconsin Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, which provides legal advice to young companies around the state, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which helps protect intellectual properties and research associated with the UW-Madison.
Rebecca Kleefisch: UW grants will help encourage start-ups
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor: As the mother of middle schoolers, I’ve supplied my fair share of two-liter bottles to make ecosystems. An ecosystem is that complex, interwoven web of realities and relationships in a particular ecological area. A forest’s ecosystem, for instance, includes the trees and their leaves, the bugs and birds, herbivores, omnivores and carnivores.
Changes to Wisconsin’s Medicaid program could be wide-reaching
Wisconsin State Journal
Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute, said Medicaid’s relatively rosy budget situation this year could make reform even more likely.
Students slam Chancellor’s consideration of background checks
WKOW-TV 27
Student leaders at UW-Madison slam Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s consideration of criminal background checks in the university application process, as Blank responds to the campus presence of a student with federal, felony convictions for setting fire to African-American churches.
Researchers and teachers collaborate on educational video games
NBC-15
Ten middle school teachers from across the state spent the day with University of Wisconsin researchers, co-designing video games that will be used in the classroom.
Q&A: Taylor Kilgore wants to grow the pipeline to leadership for aspiring journalists
Capital Times
When Taylor Kilgore joined the Simpson Street Free Press as an eighth grader, she did not see herself as a writer. Nine years later, as she prepares to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, she continues to give back to the organization that helped cultivate her voice.
Chris Rickert: UW-Madison diversity won’t always look pretty
Madison.com
As you might imagine, there’s a lot to unpack when a UW-Madison student who’s been convicted of setting fire to black churches starts passing out invitations around campus to join a “pro-white student club.”
Student worker rally held at UW-Madison
WKOW-TV 27
Student’s with the Student Action Labor Coalition at UW-Madison were out in full force Saturday afternoon, rallying for the rights of working students.
ASM to reexamine Student Legal Services proposal
Daily Cardinal
This fall, former Associated Students of Madison representative Zach Provato brought a proposal to the members of Student Services Finance Committee to add a $15,000 line item to the 2017-’18 segregated fees budget and create a Student Legal Services.