Through struggles and inconsistency this season, the University of Wisconsin offense still landed four players on the list of All-Big Ten Conference teams that were released Tuesday night.
University of Wisconsin junior Lauren Carlini was named Big Ten Setter of the Year as the conference announced its postseason volleyball awards Tuesday. Carlini also was a unanimous selection for the All-Big Ten team, where she was joined by UW junior middle blocker Haleigh Nelson.
Column from Caroline Levine, a professor and chair of the department of English at UW-Madison and co-chair of a UW committee on post-tenure review. “Tenure protects the independence of research. Rigorously peer-reviewed research helps us to make informed decisions about our world. It creates jobs and grows the economy. And one day it just might save your life.”
Proposed new University of Wisconsin System policies on the layoffs and termination of faculty don’t meet accepted standards and threaten academic freedom, say Wisconsin leaders of a national academic professional group.
Letter to the editor from Bruce Thomadsen, president of Wisconsin University Union.
Letter to the editor from Professor John Sharpless, and emeritus professors Donald Downs and Mary Anderson. “Top UW-Madison administrators issued a directive to all faculty and staff on Nov. 13 intended to prevent the racial confrontations that beset the University of Missouri earlier this month. Without questioning their intentions, we are concerned the statement may inhibit the free exchange of ideas on campus and that it is contrary to basic constitutional protections.”
Faculty are again pushing back against proposals for new University of Wisconsin System tenure policies, saying rules laid out in draft documents last week would violate professors’ rights to due process and threaten academic freedom. The draft policies outline layoff protections for tenured faculty and the review process professors must go through after they have received tenure. They led to a lively discussion Monday at a meeting of the UW System Tenure Policy Task Force, the body charged with writing new faculty protections. The task force will meet again later this month before sending its recommendations for a new tenure policy to the UW System Board of Regents next year.
Schobert also was the only UW defensive player named a first-team All-Big Ten selection by the media and coaches Monday night. Junior Vince Biegel, Schobert’s partner at UW’s other outside linebacker spot, was a third-team honoree by the coaches and the media.
Pellegrino was a Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at the UW-Madison Medical School where he trained several generations of residents in orthopaedic surgery.
Noted: “More wetlands are being created than are being destroyed (nationally), which is good news until you look at the fine print, which was most of the ones being created are shallow ponds,” said Quentin Carpenter, a senior lecturer at UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. “Sedge meadows take millennia to create. There’s no way to hurry that process.”
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team earned the No. 6 overall seed for the NCAA tournament and will face Oregon in a first-round match on Thursday at the UW Field House.
Live from Paris, researchers and leaders from UW-Madison and Wisconsin will report from COP21, the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
A California man who pranked UW-Madison police by sending them 240 coconut doughnuts after he was kicked out of Camp Randall Stadium has helped organize a more desirable gift: A $1,000 donation to the Salvation Army of Dane County.
There was something fishy about the dozens and dozens of coconut doughnuts delivered this week to the campus police at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Everyone knows cops love doughnuts. “We call them energy rings around here,” said police spokesman Marc Lovicott. But coconut? “That raised some red flags,” he said. “Who does that? It seemed kind of bizarre.” So he got in touch with the doughnut shop, which told him they needed to order extra ingredients to fill the order for 20 dozen doughnuts. The shop gave him an email address for the person who sent them—a man who Mr. Lovicott said had been ejected by campus police from last Saturday’s Wisconsin-Northwestern football game.
A University of Wisconsin football fan who was ejected from Saturday’s game signaled his disapproval to UW police by sending them 20 dozen coconut doughnuts.
Carol (was) an Electron Microscopist and well published cancer researcher while working for the University of Wisconsin-Madison for over 30 years.
Smith, 40, worked in biotech research for UW-Madison.
Various kinds of cranberry juices, dried berries and supplements contain different levels of the compounds thought to promote health. That can make research findings unclear. “They’re not drugs, but we’re using a paradigm that has been really designed for clinical studies of drugs,” said Jess Reed, a UW-Madison animal sciences professor who studies cranberries.
Wisconsin has won a competitive federal grant to study why some state schools have had more success than others in narrowing achievement gaps across racial lines and income levels. The $5.2 million U.S. Department of Education grant will fund joint research over the next four years between the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, part of UW-Madison’s School of Education.
Clement on Tuesday received two citations for disorderly conduct in connection with the incident, while two men from the opposing group, and a girlfriend of one of those men, received one citation each for disorderly conduct. The incident occurred in the early-morning hours after the Badgers’ victory the previous night against Maryland. Clement, who has been struggling to recover from a sports hernia operation, did not make that trip.
In an unprecedented collaboration, the state and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will work together to identify classroom practices proven to narrow gaps in student opportunity and achievement levels, the UW-Madison news service reported.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Jonathan Patz doesn’t focus on looming risks to the planet when he talks about climate change. Patz talks instead about the tremendous health benefits of policies to curb it.
Funding cuts by the Federal Aviation Administration could compromise the consistency of nearly seven decades of Madison snowfall data, weather experts say. “Anytime you’re doing record keeping where you want to look at long-term trends, you need a continuous data set,” Steven Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at UW–Madison, said. “Once you stop doing that — even for a year — you’ve lost the statistical significance and the continuation of that. Even though it seems like a small decision, it actually has big impacts on the data set.
Top biological research institutions in Wisconsin fought a proposal to ban the use of fetal tissue obtained through abortion and nearly half the state’s voters agree it’s a bad idea, according to the latest Marquette University Law School Poll.
As the vendors passed me with the warm chocolate for sale at $8.25, I realized coming to this game was like being invited to a friend’s house and entering a dirty home. UW had the ability to minimize the snow with some effort, they just chose not to. They were a very poor host.
Laura Albert McLay, a professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, has been using her knowledge of math models and sports analytics to predict which teams are most likely to make the four-team tournament crowning college football’s national champion. She posts the weekly rankings on her blog, Badger Bracketology.
UW-Madison students were joined by community activists Thursday in demanding that the university divest itself of investments in fossil fuel companies to support efforts to slow the pace of climate change.
Column from Andrew Kydd, a political science professor at UW-Madison who studies international security issues including terrorism, nuclear weapons, conflict resolution, and war and peace.
UW-Madison’s growing Department of Computer Sciences will benefit from a $7 million alumni donation, university officials announced Friday. The money, including $5 million from Sheldon and Marianne Lubar, will endow two faculty chairs and two professorships, and will establish a discretionary fund “to meet key needs” in the department, officials said.
There may be no better example of American meritocracy than higher education, where intelligence, good grades and athletic prowess are among the prerequisites for getting into elite colleges like UW-Madison.
Friday and Saturday’s winter storm brought about 4 inches of snow to Madison. With snowfall ending around noon Saturday, crews did not have time to clear seating sections before the 2:30 p.m. game against Northwestern. Fifty people were ejected from the stadium for throwing snowballs and other hard objects, according to UW-Madison police.
In ways big and small, those who work and study at UW-Madison are feeling the sting of a 2015-17 state budget that reduced funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $250 million over two years, with $58.9 million of that cut falling on the flagship campus this year.
The alumni association sent an email to UW-Madison parents Friday morning encouraging them to “have a conversation in your family about campus safety and the impact this legislation might have on learning.” Although the email does not directly encourage parents to lobby against the proposal, it points them to an alumni association website that asks visitors to contact their state representatives and “express your concerns about the proposed concealed carry legislation.”
Sunday’s event on the sixth floor of UW-Madison’s Humanities Building on Park Street was its 11th outing since 2008. By midday, it was on pace to attract about 100 people.
Noted: Comment from Hart Posen, a UW-Madison associate professor who studies business strategy and innovation.
Colin Higgins of Middleton received the honor, becoming UW’s 32nd Rhodes scholar since the program was founded in 1902 — the most among Big Ten schools. The program offers a scholarship valued at about $50,000 per year to study for two to three years at Oxford University in England.
Trumbo’s fight against the blacklist comes to life in a new movie, “Trumbo,” opening Wednesday at Point Cinemas, and starring Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”) as the author. The film, which is already getting some Oscar buzz, may also draw attention to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Trumbo donated 45 boxes of his materials, including screenplays, drafts, personal letters and photographs.
Students in the UW-Madison’s Department of Geography, home of the nationally renowned Cartography Lab, which was founded by a man who headed the Office of Strategic Services’ mapping division during World War II, started Maptime Madison as a way to study industry concepts outside the classroom.
Madison is under a winter storm watch starting Friday evening and ending at 3 p.m. Saturday, not long after the 2:42 p.m. kickoff, with the forecast calling for a snow accumulation of between 4 inches and 7 inches.
Letter to the editor: Students have no right to a college education. They have no right to be liked. They have no right to define their environment. No administrator should acquiesce to rude demands suggesting that they do.
UW-Madison students were joined by community activists Thursday in demanding that the university divest itself of investments in fossil fuel companies to support efforts to slow the pace of climate change.
Associate head coach Greg Gard is on a mission. Well, two of them, actually. There’s his job as Bo Ryan’s right-hand man, and Gard is doing everything he can to help the young Badgers … grow up in a hurry. The other objective is more personal for Gard, whose father, Glen, died last month at the age of 72 of glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer.
Editorial cites UW-Madison police department equipping its officers with body-worn cameras.
Every chief of police in the University of Wisconsin System opposes a proposal in the Legislature to allow concealed carry permit holders to bring weapons into college and university buildings, the law enforcement officials said this week.
Meriter-UnityPoint Health has signed an agreement to become a partner in the UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital that opened in September on Madison’s Far East Side. The 50-bed rehab hospital, adjacent to the new UW Health at the American Center complex that includes a general hospital, is currently owned and operated by UW Health and Louisville, Kentucky-based Kindred Healthcare.
UW-Madison scientists have grown human vocal cord tissue in a dish, which made sound when transplanted into voice boxes from cadaver dogs — a development that could lead to better treatments for people with voice disorders.
By a show of hands in two classes Monday, Andrew Kydd helped illustrate why last week’s terror attacks in Paris have resonated so profoundly across the United States.Kydd, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on terrorism and nuclear arms, is teaching undergraduate classes on each topic this semester.
About 100 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students and their supporters rallied outside Bascom Hall Wednesday to demand that Chancellor Rebecca Blank scrap a change in how they are paid for their work as assistants, a measure they say will amount to unequal pay for equal work.
UW-Madison officials are planning several changes to how graduate students are paid, including new rules that let departments decide how much money their research, teaching and project assistants make, and limit how many hours those students can work.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is well positioned to work with African-American students on campus climate and other race-related concerns, chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday. “We do have students who experience real isolation on this campus. The question is what we can do to reduce those experiences,” Blank told members of the University Committee, the executive committee of the Faculty Senate.
Chris Walker, a professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walker, says in Marley songs like “No Woman, No Cry,” “Three Little Birds,” and “One Love,” a message of “love and redemption and equal rights and justice comes through that caused the world to be so in love with the music, those basic human ideas.” In “FACING Home: Love & Redemption,” to be staged Thursday through Saturday in Lathrop Hall on the UW-Madison campus, Walker and choreographer Kevin Ormsby put those stated values “in dialogue” with Jamaica’s rampant homophobia.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would have been better off if graduate students had been included in the process of developing a new pay scheme for their work as assistants, says Graduate School Dean William Karpus.
Op-ed from Jeffrey Russell, vice provost for lifelong learning and dean of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Noted: Includes comment from Sara McKinnon, a UW-Madison communication arts professor and an expert on refugee and asylum law. She said governors don’t have veto power in whether refugees come here but they can deny state money and resources to the volunteer agencies that provide job, health care and other assistance to refugees, “which could make the resettlement of refugees in these states much more challenging,” she said.
With concussions cut in half among high school football players in Wisconsin this year, a new study from UW-Madison is recommending athletic trainers be on the sidelines at games and practices, to better manage injuries.
The campus sent 2,276 Badgers abroad in the 2013-14 school year, the 10th-highest total of any American college or university, according to the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. The number of students abroad was up 5 percent over the previous school year, UW officials said Monday.
The average college debt for students graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison rose 3.8 percent last year to $28,768, while debt for some graduate and professional school students rose more sharply, according to a new report.
For the second consecutive season, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team unfurled an NCAA Final Four banner prior to its opener.Unfortunately, the similarities between last season and this season ended once the banner took its place in the Kohl Center rafters.
After years in the private sector (CUNA, Full Compass, Great Lakes Higher Education) he joined his beloved UW-Madison as a contract administrator in RSP, and spent the last seven years as the Astronomy Department Administrator.
Q&A with John Young, UW-Madison meteorology professor for 49 years and former chair of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department.
