Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden … says … If they can’t capitalize on advantageous circumstances this fall — in the context of the last six years, and with a larger turnout that typically works to their benefit — the consequences would be disastrous, Burden said. “If that were to happen, the Democratic Party would be not much more than a shell,” Burden said.
UW-Madison researchers continue to study Zika in rhesus macaque monkeys. Since February, they’ve infected 11 monkeys with the virus to examine three questions: how long Zika persists in blood, urine and saliva; if infection protects against future exposure; and whether the stage of pregnancy in which infection occurs impacts the effects on offspring.The bodies of nine non-pregnant monkeys have gotten rid of the virus in an average of about 10 days, said David O’Connor, a UW-Madison pathology professor who is part of the research team. But two pregnant monkeys infected in the first trimester have retained the virus so far for two weeks and more than a month, O’Connor said.
Andy Rooney once said, “Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” I know of one such teacher. His name is Tim Gattenby, faculty associate in the kinesiology department at UW-Madison and the director and coordinator of adapted fitness and personal training. His program and the students he supervises have changed my life and the lives of many others in ways we never could have imagined.
Amy Franceschini, a California-based social practice artist who founded a group called Futurefarmers in 1995 to explore alternate farming methods, is finishing up a semester residency in Madison as the Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence sponsored by the UW-Madison Arts Institute.
The garden — it is singular — at Babcock and Observatory Drives may be the most accessible classroom on campus, with the most diverse syllabus. Even on a recent chilly Sunday, the walkers in the 2.5 acres surrounding the vintage 1896 Agriculture Dean’s House ranged from an old man and his dog to curious children to students from the nearby Lakeshore dormitories.
Noted: The possibility of illness varies so widely because the results assume that pathogens are always present in the manure, which isn’t usually the case, said Becky Larson, a UW-Madison professor, UW-Extension biological waste specialist in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, and workgroup member.
(The clinic) was started by Dr. Mary Landry, a UW School of Medicine and Public Health obstetrician-gynecologist who works at Meriter Hospital and UW-Madison’s University Health Services, and Dr. Katherine O’Rourke, an OB-GYN resident at UW.
An award-winning, globetrotting science writer will soon be landing in Madison. Alexandra “Alex” Witze, has been named the spring 2016 Science Writer in Residence at UW-Madison, on campus next week to talk with journalism students about the diverse world of science writing.
An art installation protesting rape culture on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and the response from authorities to reports of sexual assault appeared Thursday at the Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St.
Orchestrate a night out for the UW-Madison Varsity Concert Band’s year-end show at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights at the Kohl Center, 601 W. Dayton St. Director of Bands Michael Leckrone initiated the annual extravaganza in 1975. This year’s theme is “We’ve Done it Our Way.”
Supporters of a Madison Area Technical College proposal to bring a new, comprehensive campus to the city’s South Side are hoping they can convince members of the college’s board, who punted on a similar plan last year, to vote in favor of a shift toward the diverse but historically under-served area.
A UW-Madison student was arrested Thursday for allegedly creating a string of anti-racist graffiti that has marred buildings across the campus in recent months, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage.
The MATC south campus would be very close to UW and Edgewood College in a developing residential, business and medical corridor. It would be located in neighborhoods where students, professional workers and families are thriving and is very accessible to transportation routes.
Hwang comes to Madison on April 20 for a Center for the Humanities lecture in the Elvehjem Building, connected to the Chazen Museum of Art.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have developed a way for New Yorker magazine to use crowd-sourcing to judge captions in its weekly cartoon caption contest.
Dana Tackes and Keith Reagan both attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and share a love for Badgers athletics. The two were engaged in January 2015 and Tackes thought to design their wedding invitation like a ticket to a Badgers football game at Camp Randall Stadium after seeing something similar on Pinterest.
April 12 is this year’s national Equal Pay Day — the day when, because of the gender wage gap, women’s pay for the previous year equals men’s. The gender pay gap highlighted today also means greater student loan debt burdens for women. The latest update of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) report, Graduating to a Pay Gap, finds less pay translates into women taking longer to pay off student loan debt.
Following his surprise retirement as coach of the Badgers in mid-December, Ryan and his wife, Kelly, spent the winter at their condo in Palm Springs, California, watching UW from afar as it turned its season around and eventually made the NCAA tournament under then-interim, now-permanent coach Greg Gard.
University of Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez said that ESPN’s College GameDay will take place at Lambeau Field when the Badgers play Louisiana State University in the 2016 season opener on Sept. 3.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach announced Tuesday that Lamont Paris and Howard Moore officially have been retained as assistants. They join former UW athlete Joe Krabbenhoft, who was added to the staff last week following three seasons at South Dakota State.
Jonathan Barry, who has served on the Wisconsin Technical College System board and the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents … has joined with former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley in calling for the college to instead stay in the Downtown campus, make a smaller expansion on the South Side and more thoroughly study its space needs.
Student employment hours have been drastically cut back because of state funding cuts, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials reported last week to UW System administrators. Those cuts came in addition to paring of undergraduate advising services and reductions in information technology services to students, according to a campus budget impact statement that was to have been presented to the Board of Regents when it met last week in Green Bay.
One of the few remaining empty parcels on State Street is being filled and in a big way. A 5,000-square-foot building is under construction on what had been a small vacant lot in the 600 block of State Street between City Bar and Urban Outfitters. The building is being constructed by M&A CP Towers, owner of The Towers, a student apartment building at North Frances and State streets, and will be occupied by an Under Armour Brand House.
I thought the spring election last week would be hectic with the new voter ID law, since most of the voters in my ward are UW students. But I have to commend the Badger Herald, Daily Cardinal, Associated Students of Madison, WSUM student radio station and the university for getting out the information that was needed so everyone could vote.
The chairman of the Assembly’s higher education committee says he won’t hold a hearing sought by Democrats on the impact of cuts to the University of Wisconsin System’s state funding.
Infographic detailing UW–Madison rankings.
University of Wisconsin outside linebackers coach Tim Tibesar was given the biggest bump in salary among Badgers football assistants this offseason, according to numbers provided by UW. Tibesar is now pegged to make an annual salary of $340,000 — an increase of $90,000 from his original compensation package signed last year.
Institutions across the University of Wisconsin System have laid off employees, consolidated administration, reduced advising services and cut course offerings over the past year, according to documents released Monday summarizing the impact of state cuts to higher education funding.
The victim of an alleged sexual assault near Memorial Union on Friday night is not a UW-Madison student and did not initiate the reporting of the crime, police said.
Column: For decades, our University of Wisconsin has been carefully built block by block into one of the world’s greatest academic institutions. Now, the short-sightedness of the governor and the Legislature is threatening to knock it down. That would be an incalculable loss for our state.
A panel of students from schools across the UW System sat down with the Board of Regents Friday to detail experiences of marginalized student groups and propose recommendations for an improved atmosphere of understanding and inclusion on campus. Five students from schools including UW-Madison, UW-Stout, UW-Green Bay, UW-Parkside and UW-Whitewater participated in the panel.
Mark was an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught 1952-92. He served as Chair during the Vietnam War years, 1963-68.
Lloyd Charles Pray was a loving husband, father, and highly-regarded professor who inspired thousands of students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he taught Geology for nearly four decades.
Between 1972 and 2007, the share of applicants to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the bottom fifth of the income distribution stayed roughly the same at less than 5%, according to a study published last week in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. During the same period, the share of applicants from the second-lowest income quintile declined from at least 20% or more to just 11.5% in 2007. But the share of applicants from the top two highest income levels grew from 42.6% to 64.1%.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said Friday that the university won’t lay off tenured faculty so long as it remains a leading research school.“Top-ranked universities always take care of their tenured faculty,” Blank said in a blog post. “As long as this university is a top-ranked institution we will behave like other top-ranked universities. That means we don’t layoff tenured faculty. Period.”
Noted: UW-Madison professor of journalism and mass communication Robert Drechsel, who specializes in First Amendment issues, said “restrictions on political calls certainly would raise a free speech issue,” but the federal do-not-call registry does not preclude tougher restrictions by the states. “I would assume that if a state operated its own do-not-call registry, it would be able to let its citizens opt out of receiving whatever types of telemarketing or robocalling it wished,” he said.
The First Folio, a printed collection of William Shakespeare’s plays that dates back to 1623, is scheduled to arrive in November. Shipped under conditions of top security and high-tech climate control, the book will be on display for nearly six weeks at the Chazen Museum of Art, with UW-Madison Libraries and UW Arts Institute as co-presenters.
UW-La Crosse, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Platteville, UW-Stout and UW-Whitewater asked the regents for permission to raise their nonresident or graduate tuition rates or both for the upcoming academic year. The Board of Regents adopted the increases on a unanimous voice vote during a meeting April 8 at UW-Green Bay. There was no discussion.
Three items related to UW-Madison — Three UW-Madison spinoffs, using technology patented by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), participated in gener8tor’s gBETA spring class. Another was formed by a team of UW-Madison MBA students … One of the gBETA startups, Linectra, is already a contender in a prestigious statewide competition, the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest … Fourteen UW-Madison research projects will each get about $300,000 over the next two years as part of the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative.
UW helps to improve the human condition with its research to save lives, among other goals. Our university is going downhill, and this must be stopped.
The University of Wisconsin System will create a task force to study the experiences of minority students and make recommendations to improve the racial climate on UW campuses, officials announced Friday.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the university’s new tenure policy approved by the UW System Board of Regents Friday is “workable” and should reassure faculty, according to a post on her online blog.
When he died last October at age 30, Craig Schuff, a quadriplegic, was just a few neutrons short of completing his doctorate in electrical engineering at UW-Madison. He had already earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering, already passed a qualifying examination and prelims, and had already begun preparing to defend his thesis. He had interrupted his graduate studies in the College of Engineering once before, in 2011, when a Lake Monona diving accident damaged his spinal cord and left him motionless, but no less motivated. Now, in death, Schuff rejoins the elite: In May at UW-Madison graduation ceremonies, his parents will accept for him a posthumous doctorate in electrical engineering.
The UW2020 program, backed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, will provide $5 million in support for 14 early-stage research and infrastructural proposals from UW-Madison.
Op-ed by Michael Wagner, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison: From 1979-2016, James L. Baughman was an eminent historian of mass media, a world-class teacher, and a generous colleague at UW-Madison. Since Jim died of lung cancer on March 26, I’ve seen well over 400 tweets, Facebook messages and personal emails claiming “Prof. Baugh” was the best professor anyone has ever had … Baughman understood the primary purpose of the university is not job training; it is to help students learn how to practice good citizenship in our republican democracy.
Pressing a red button that says “no whining” makes light of the seriousness of these cuts. The “facts” are so dire they cannot help sound “overly dramatic” when simply stated. The public needs to hear what has happened, and they need to hear it repeatedly.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to award a graduate student who died last year a rare posthumous degree.
Letter to the editor: A strong case can be made that UW-Madison is the state’s No. 1 asset. Incongruously, it also is clear UW is the favorite punching bag of state politicians.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is investigating a sexual assault that was reported near Memorial Union.
Hubatch is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and Sheboygan native, and when she moved, she knew very little about Oregon wine. “When I left, the chance of me finding a bottle of Oregon wine in Madison was not super great,” Hubatch said. “There was not a ton of Oregon wine making it to Wisconsin 15 years ago, and if it was, it wasn’t small boutique producers like myself.”
The voter ID law does not allow people to vote with IDs issued by other states, and UW-Madison’s student IDs don’t meet the law’s criteria. UW-Madison senior Dylan Edwards was turned away from his Downtown polling place Tuesday morning because he had only a driver’s license from his home state, Pennsylvania. Like thousands of UW-Madison students, Edwards needed to get one of the university’s separate voting ID cards Tuesday morning.It took him about five minutes to wait in line and get a voting ID at an office in the Gordon Dining and Events Center, two blocks from his polling place. “It’s a little frustrating,” Edwards said of the process, before heading back to his polling place for a second attempt.
Supporters of newly elected Dane County Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell made a joyful noise Tuesday evening, joining with him as he called on them to renew their commitment to making Dane County a place where “everybody is somebody!” Mitchell, director of community relations for University of Wisconsin-Madison, pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church, community activist and former assistant Dane County District Attorney, ran unopposed. He spoke to a crowd of some 80 supporters at the Goodman Community Center, recalling how in a recent interview he was asked how it was going to feel “working for the man,” sitting on the bench in Dane County Circuit Court and meting out justice. “I’m not going to be working for the man. I am going to be working for the people,” Mitchell told the crowd.
On Tuesday, Wisconsin’s primary elections drew crowds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students eager to vote. By 3:15 p.m. in the afternoon, the university had issued 3,332 free voter IDs for use in the election, with 750 issued that day, according to a news release … While the College Democrats didn’t have an official party planned, the university’s College Republicans held a watch party Tuesday evening at the Red Zone, 1212 Regent St. Around 40 students attended and of the students surveyed, there was little enthusiasm for Trump; most said they were supporting Ted Cruz or John Kasich.
A UW-Madison professor has developed an exercise plan that gives seniors a chance to maintain their independence in their own homes. The program — called PALS, or Physical Activity for Life for Seniors — is being offered at sites around Wisconsin, with more sites on a waiting list.
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said the embrace of Cruz by the state party establishment was critical for his victory. “It’s probably a lesson for Trump himself,” Burden said. “Coming into a state and taking on the most popular leaders is not the way to win.”
Motorists driving in the UW Hospital area on the West Side should expect traffic delays the rest of spring because of road construction and the expansion of the hospital’s parking ramp.
Sharon retired in 2002 from UW Department of Medicine after 38 years.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2016 was announced Monday in Houston, and the group did not include Bo Ryan.
In a career move he called a “dream come true,” Krabbenhoft will join the UW staff as an assistant coach. Badgers coach Greg Gard announced the addition of Krabbenhoft, who played at UW from 2005-09, in a news release Monday morning.
The UW Board of Regents decided not to make time at its upcoming meeting for a presentation from UW chancellors about how state funding cuts have been felt on their campuses. Officials instead plan to release summaries later this week of the ways each UW institution has dealt with the 2015-17 state budget’s $250 million cut from the UW System’s funding.
