In a candid, emotional video, Patrick Sims, chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, demanded an end to the racist messages that have tarnished the campus in recent weeks. “Enough is enough. I’m done,” Sims said in an eight-minute video posted Thursday on You Tube that was quickly shared on social media.
“This is another tool for us in the state,” Walker said before signing the bill at the Wisconsin Energy Institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Laura was employed as a chemist at Badger Ordnance Ammunitions plant in Baraboo and University of Wisconsin Cancer Research Lab in Madison.
Romberg clerked in the admissions office for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Barry Burden, a political scientist at UW-Madison, said it’s unprecedented for a presidential front-runner to come into Wisconsin and assail a governor who’s a nationally prominent member of the same party.
Baughman joined the UW journalism faculty in 1979. He revived and regularly taught the History of Mass Communication lecture course and frequently taught reporting classes. A popular instructor, Baughman won the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. Baughman served two terms as director of the journalism school, from 2003 to 2009. He oversaw the School’s successful centennial celebration in 2005 and helped to establish the Center for Journalism Ethics several years later. As director, he gave many public service talks. He was the first recipient of the Ken and Linda Ciriacks Alumni Excellence Award in 2005, sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
A sexual assault was reported to UW-Madison police early Sunday morning, the assault happening at a fraternity house.
A month in which UW-Madison launched several investigations into racially charged incidents and minority students complained in public forums about the university’s climate came to a close Thursday with yet another high-profile incident on campus.
In his third visit to the progressive hub of Madison this week, Bernie Sanders failed to fill the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Kohl Center — but succeeded in firing up the supporters who heard his get-out-the-vote rallying cry. Sanders drew 4,400 people to the arena for a Sunday evening rally, two days before Wisconsin’s presidential primary. That number came from UW-Madison police, who had expected a capacity crowd of 17,000.
Sanders spoke to a crowd of 4,400 at the Kohl Center on the UW-Madison campus Sunday night.
The Badgers had an opportunity to practice at the Don Hutson Center with 13 championship banners watching over them Saturday — 154 days before they face LSU on Sept. 3 at Lambeau Field to open the 2016 season.
Noted: “Twenty years ago, if someone had told us that we would all have a tiny little device that tracks our information … we would’ve said, ‘That will never happen,’” said UW-Madison professor Dietram Scheufele. “Twenty years later, we all want to have it.”
Called the Agriculture Dean’s Residence but also the Fred House, the Lake Dormer House, Building No. 0072 and “the house formerly known as 10 Babcock Drive,” the 120-year-old Queen Anne at 620 Babcock Drive has Gothic details and no known ghosts. UW-Madison’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is seeking to raise $2 million for interior renovations to turn its 10,000 square feet into a center for agriculture-related student organizations.
The No. 1 priority for Gard is filling out his staff. Gary Close informed Gard earlier this week that he was resigning after 13 seasons as an assistant at UW.
University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox is set to earn $1.45 million over the next two years, according to his compensation package that UW released to the State Journal on Thursday via an open records request.
Jonathan Tsipis hit the ground running in his new job as head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team.
Jonathan Barry, a former president of the Wisconsin Technical College System, and John Wiley, former chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison, met with MATC president Jack Daniels and raised concerns about the wisdom of selling the facility at 112 N. Carroll St.
Alvarez and the athletic department pulled off an ambitious coup in hockey circles, plucking Tony Granato from an NHL assistant coaching job to be the team’s new head coach and getting two coaching veterans to serve alongside him.
U.S. News and World Report has stripped UW-Madison’s graduate engineering program of its top-15 national ranking after learning the university submitted incorrect figures for its acceptance rate that made the program seem more selective than it actually was.
Former University of Wisconsin standout Hilary Knight scored two goals while current UW sophomore Annie Pankowski had a goal and an assist in the United States Women’s National Team’s 8-0 win over Russia in its final round-robin game of the International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship.
The powwow is organized by Wunk Sheek, a UW-Madison student group that promotes awareness of indigeneous issues and cultures. The event is free and open to all, said Emily Nelis, a Wunk Sheek leader and one of the event’s coordinators.
The four bills increase grants for technical college students; create grants to help two-year students deal with financial emergencies; require the Department of Workforce Development to coordinate internships with colleges and employers; and require colleges to provide students annual information about their debt levels.
The Executive Committee of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will hold a teleconference Tuesday to approve contracts for new coaches to lead the UW men’s hockey and women’s basketball programs.
Hate mail sent through the Internet was printed out on UW-Madison printers last week, part of a cyber assault on campuses across the country, university officials said on Tuesday. The flyers, sent from an off-campus site, were racist, anti-Semetic and anti-gay, and started appearing on campus on Thursday.
Instead of gathering dust in a storage unit, boxes of articles and photos by a late Wisconsin State Journal reporter that detail one of the biggest transition periods for agriculture in Wisconsin are becoming resources for students at UW-Madison.
Hillary Clinton on Monday urged a small crowd at UW-Madison to consider future rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court when casting a ballot in Tuesday’s presidential primary and in November’s general election.
Facing a room full of students the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, professor James Baughman distilled decades of studying the history of mass communications into one assignment: Write about it, he told the class. Like Ernie Pyle writing about the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. Or CBS News radio correspondent Edward Murrow reporting from London as the Nazis’ bombs fell. Baughman “just came in and scrapped everything and said this is what you’re doing,” recalled Jason Stein, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter who took one of Baughman’s classes as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She ended her teaching career at UW-Madison, retiring as a Senior Lecturer Emerita in 2002.
Gov. Scott Walker has had a bigger impact on Wisconsin’s public universities than any governor in decades, and he is among the most aggressive governors in the country in reshaping higher education, experts say.
Erik Iverson, who will become managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation this summer, helped get (the Gates Foundation) fund off the ground during his seven-year stint at the foundation. Launched with about $400 million, the fund is now in the billion-dollar stratosphere and reaping returns on its early investments.
The only guaranteed departure from a team that went 22-13 and advanced to the Sweet 16 — UW’s fifth trip to the second weekend of the tournament in the past six seasons — is former walk-on Jordan Smith. The fifth-year senior guard finished with four points and two rebounds in nine games, meaning the Badgers could return 99.8 percent of their scoring and rebounding in 2016-17.
If everything had followed the script, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program would be in a state of upheaval right now … Instead, the heavy lifting has been done. After a year of extreme transition involving coaches and players, the program is largely intact and the future looks comfortably familiar, which is to say it looks very bright.
Pinfold touched the wall in 1 minute, 33.79 seconds in the B final after posting the second-best mark in school history in the preliminaries. He was UW’s only competitor in Friday’s finals, helping the Badgers finish the day in 22nd place out of 42 scoring teams with 25 points.
Bayer, a former All-Big Ten Conference setter and assistant coach with the Badgers, will become director of operations. She succeeds Jessica Williams, who is leaving the program after three seasons in that role.
Tony Granato is set to be named the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach, according to multiple reports.Granato, a two-time second-team All-American as a player for the Badgers from 1983 to ’87, will succeed Mike Eaves, who was fired on March 18 after 14 seasons.
James Baughman, a longtime journalism professor at UW-Madison, died Saturday morning from lung cancer, according to university officials. He was 64. Saturday had been deemed James Baughman Day with a proclamation signed by Mayor Paul Soglin that said the day was to celebrate “the love and intellectual passion (Baughman) has inspired in his current and former students, and for his contributions to scholarship, history, journalism and education.”
Clinton will make remarks to invited guests at UW-Madison’s Gordon Commons, 770 W. Dayton Street, at 3:45 p.m. Doors open at 2:45 p.m. A UW-Madison news release says the event is not open to the campus community or the public.
A source close to the UW program on Sunday confirmed reports that Tony Granato, who played at UW from 1983 through 1987 and has coached in the National Hockey League for more than a decade, has agreed to take over the Badgers program. An announcement on the hiring is expected this week.
In a conference room overlooking Lake Mendota, pictures of tumors and lists of gene names flash on a screen. Doctors discuss treatments, not based on where in the body a patient’s cancer started but on genetic mutations in their tumors. The doctors are working as a “molecular tumor board,” a new service by UW Carbone Cancer Center in Madison to help doctors and patients at UW Health and around Wisconsin benefit from a hot topic in cancer: precision medicine.
In 2012, two weeks after Dr. Dustin Deming started his dream job treating and researching gastrointestinal cancers at UW Carbone Cancer Center, he was diagnosed with his specialty: colorectal cancer. The cancer had spread to his lymph nodes, making his prognosis grim. Deming was 31, with a 3-year-old son and 6-week-old daughter. He had no family history of cancer. After surgery and chemotherapy, he is doing well today, with a much better prognosis.
Noted: Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison communications professor who studies presidential politics, said Republican candidates may be drawn to Janesville because there’s a concentration of conservative voters in the district of U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who isn’t endorsing in the race.
Letter to the editor from Dane County equal opportunity director: Though I can understand the rationale for the UW Police to issue municipal citations rather than criminal charges against the intoxicated young man who pushed and spit on my daughter, and pushed two other young ladies in their college dorms. I question whether this student will learn anything from his affluent parents paying a few fines.
Investigators reviewing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s compliance with federal anti-sex discrimination laws will be on campus next month to talk with students about the climate around sexual assault and harassment.
Erik Iverson, president of business and operations for the Infectious Disease Research Institute in Seattle, has been hired to head the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Iverson will succeed Carl E. Gulbrandsen, who since 2000 has been managing director of WARF, the licensing and patenting organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He will start July 1, following Gulbrandsen’s retirement on June 30.
The WARF board of trustees announced the appointment Wednesday, to take effect July 1. Iverson’s salary was not disclosed. He will succeed Carl Gulbrandsen, who has led WARF since 2000 and plans to retire on June 30.
Walker has launched an attack on the University of Wisconsin that can be described only as vandalism. He initially tried to change the mission statement of the university to make it, in effect, a job training arm of Wisconsin business. He had to back off in the face of universal outrage. He then pushed through legislation to eliminate statutory tenure in the University of Wisconsin System. What remains is so-called “fake tenure,” which is subject to the will of the Board of Regents.
[T]he Badgers have built a winning tradition on a foundation of 18 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and back-to-back Final Fours. When a program wins year after year, players develop a healthy conceit about success: We’re supposed to win, and we’ll find a way.
Student outrage expressed on social media over a series of reported hate incidents on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is demanding a new level of response from university officials, said Patrick Sims, vice provost and chief diversity officer. “It is forcing administrators to respond in ways we haven’t in the past to the kind of challenges students have experienced for some time,” Sims said Tuesday morning in an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio. “I’ve been hearing about these kinds of things for over a decade.”
Former attorney general Eric Holder will be the featured speaker at a ceremony for UW-Madison law school graduates during this spring’s commencement weekend.
Letter to the editor: UW has maintained a global presence and has been considered one of the top ranked public universities for decades. We are rapidly losing that status due to the unwillingness of the majority of our elected state representatives to invest in UW and the System, and by stripping our professors of the right to academic freedom. This decision systematically allows chancellors the “right” to dismiss faculty and eliminate programs to align with Gov. Scott Walker’s policies to defund the System.
For reporting on the use of slave labor in the Southeast Asian fishing industry, the Associated Press will receive the 2016 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics.
When junior point guard Bronson Koenig made a step-back 3-pointer from the right corner as time expired to give the Badgers a 66-63 victory over Xavier, it set off eruptions from UW fans in the (St. Louis) Scottrade Center and beyond.
Two UW-Madison students’ idea for a low-cost test to help people with HIV manage their treatment has advanced to the second round of a Clinton Global Initiative competition of ideas from colleges across the country.
Jonathan Tsipis, the women’s basketball coach at George Washington University, has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Bobbie Kelsey as coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, according to multiple sources.
Donors and season ticket-holders bought up all of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s allotment of tickets to see the Badgers take on Notre Dame in the Sweet 16, Athletic Department officials said Monday, meaning members of the general public will have to look elsewhere for a seat at the game.
Yvonne had a long and productive career as an academic staff member at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. She joined Ophthalmology, then a Division of the Surgery Department in 1960 and, using her innate artistic talent, quickly mastered the then new techniques of binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy and stereoscopic retinal photography.
UW-Madison police said early Sunday morning that Olive Martin has been found.
The assistant coach made the drive from Ohio, where his mom is recovering from a stroke, to be at the Badgers’ game Friday night in St. Louis
With each professor’s resignation, loss of research dollars, and loss of related jobs, the citizens of Wisconsin and UW alumni worldwide can hold Walker’s appointed Board of Regent minions accountable.
“Intersectionality” may sound like an arcane academic theory, but Keisha Lindsay says the term might be closer to home than many believe. It refers to the way people’s identities — gender, race, class — intersect to shape their experiences, particularly the experience of oppression … Lindsay, an assistant professor in political science and gender and women’s studies at UW-Madison, says her students sometimes are surprised to realize the ways in which it applies to them.
