Everett Mitchell, director of community relations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on Tuesday received the Difference Maker Award of the Madison chapter of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute. Mitchell – an attorney, pastor and community leader – brings varied experiences to his work of bridging the gap between the university and the community.
The University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team is predicted to finish ninth in the Big Ten Conference, according to the league’s preseason coaches poll released Wednesday.
Letter to the editor from UW Foundation President Mike Knetter regarding the Wisconsin Partnership Program endowment.
Column from Grant Petty, a professor and chair of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Noted: Comments from Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the UW Population Health Institute, on the similarity of the plan to parts of Obama’s law.
Letter to the editor from School of Medicine and Public Health Dean Robert Golden regarding the Wisconsin Partnership Program endowment.
The study of 166 UW-Madison students found that, on average, students who did not drink lived nearly a half-mile further from the nearest alcohol outlet than drinkers, and that more than double the number of alcohol outlets were within a half-mile of where drinkers lived compared to nondrinkers.
Organizers of UW-Madison’s drive to reduce waste during the busy mid-August move-out believe the project collected more than 100,000 pounds worth of donated items last weekend.
The project lands center stage in Madison on Aug. 30, with a full day of performances and lecture/demonstrations. Audiences can experience — for free — little-performed works just being brought to light, ranging from early 20th-century chamber music to a cabaret act written by four young Czech Jews in the Terezin ghetto. Shows will take place in UW-Madison’s Mills Hall, the First Unitarian Society Meeting House and at Overture Center.
Kerment worked in the Physical Plant at University of Wisconsin for 39 years, retiring in 1998.
Fred worked at the UW Department of Physical Plant, Planning and Transportation. He retired from the UW on Aug 2, 2011.
Joanne worked in gastroenterology research at UW Hospitals and as a cytotechnologist with the State Lab of Hygiene.
Robert was a full professor in teh University of Wisconsin’s Department of Botany, retiring in 1997.
The political reflex to the creepy possibility that people are illegally selling organs and tissue from aborted fetuses is understandable. The rush to pass overly broad legislation that would outlaw and even criminalize legitimate, longstanding medical research is not.
College students are increasingly staying away from buying textbooks as a way to keep their spending down as the sticker price for books continue to soar, along with other college costs. Textbook prices have climbed some 1,000 percent over the past four decades, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with some titles now costing $400 or even $500. But students have been spending less on course materials in each of the past few years, according to a survey of the National Association of College Stores. Students’ average annual spending on course materials dropped from $701 in 2007-2008 to $563 in 2014-15, according to the association.
(Smal) departments could soon be merged with similar-size programs or much larger departments — the victims, some say, of state budget cuts that are forcing the university to reduce administrative costs. Others note such mergers have happened before and reflect the normal ebb and flow of small academic programs. The mergers don’t mean the fields of study will disappear from UW-Madison. Officials are working to merge the departments of Scandinavian, German and Slavic studies, while history of science could join the larger Department of History.
A proposed merger of Wisconsin’s two-year and technical college systems will be a disaster if state officials don’t carefully study if and how to do it, argues UW-Madison professor Michael Apple. “That is what has happened elsewhere,” Apple, a professor of curriculum, instruction and educational policy, told Joy Cardin on Wisconsin Public Radio Thursday. “There are many hidden effects that appear only in the long term.”
The daylong conference is Sept. 25 at UW-Madison’s Fluno Center, with a registration deadline of Sept. 16.
Wrap-up of the civil rights leader’s visits to Madison, including several stops at UW.
Ryan left the door open to coaching beyond the upcoming season during an interview with the Appleton Post-Crescent on Wednesday night in Kaukauna, where Ryan was a guest speaker at a charity event. “Well, I needed to get a statement out there knowing I wasn’t able to tell recruits I could guarantee them four years and I wanted to be fair to our staff and (UW athletic director Barry Alvarez) and the athletic department,” Ryan said.
The bill, spearheaded by Reps. André Jacque, R-De Pere, and Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, and Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, would ban selling, donating and experimenting with fetal body parts resulting from abortions in Wisconsin.
While incoming college roommates are haggling over who will bring the microwave and who’s responsible for the TV, Gov. Scott Walker and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are squabbling over solutions for college affordability.
The Badgers, who won their first Big Ten title since 2001 with a 19-1 conference record last year, were picked to finish behind reigning NCAA champion Penn State, Nebraska and Illinois.
UW will host the Orange at Camp Randall Stadium on Sept. 12, 2020, and will travel to Syracuse on Sept. 11, 2021.
A public fund at UW School of Medicine and Public Health is worth $47 million less than a similar fund at Medical College of Wisconsin, largely because UW Foundation has taken some $40 million out of the fund in extra management fees, critics say.
Wisconsin legislators have begun quietly and unofficially discussing how the state’s 42 public universities and colleges—the 26 UW System campuses and the 16 technical colleges—might be realigned to deal with dwindling state aid. If approved, any shift would be the biggest realignment of higher education since the UW System was stitched together in 1971 by merging state colleges, the Madison and Milwaukee campuses, and two-year centers.
The new, 313-unit Hub Madison complex at State, Frances and Gilman streets opened last week for early move-ins. But Aug. 14 and 15 are the traditional moving days in downtown Madison as leases expire, so the apartment’s managers have an elaborate plan in place to get through the crush of those days.
A group of Republican legislators will meet this week to discuss the possibility of merging the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension, lawmakers said Monday.
A research team led by a UW-Madison professor has received $2.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve solar power technology and make the alternative energy source more competitive with fossil fuels. Also: UW Police, Athletics join Snapchat.
Stan also graduated from UW-Madison and retired Professor Emeritus in 1993 holding appointments in both the College of Letters and Science, and the School of Medicine. In addition to teaching medical students, interns, residents, and staff in the Medical School he served as director of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and was coordinator of the Inter-disciplinary Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Anomalies Clinic also at the UW-Madison. He served as research advisor to grad students at the Master’s and Doctoral levels.
A cross-discipline team of researchers at UW-Madison is working to develop a “teaching machine” that would develop ideal lesson plans, UW-Madison News reports.
Kay worked at UW Hospital for many years before joining the UW Athletic Department in 1994. There she served as a member of the facilities management team.
The Wisconsin Idea is going high-tech, as UW-Madison works to leverage distance education to reach more students and generate more revenue. Outreach to non-traditional students reflects a bedrock value of the university and responds to a national trend in higher education, say UW-Madison officials.
A bill to ban the sale and use of aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin could halt important medical research, UW-Madison and biotech leaders say, but sponsors of the bill say such research could continue with other tissue.
Q & A with associate professor in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health David Vanness.
Paul Chryst was a picture of comfort on the morning of the final day of July, his legs stretched out as he sat in a booth at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago.
Letter to the edtor from UW-Madison professor emeritus of theater and drama and Jewish studies
He was an employee of the UW-Madison Grounds Department and retired in 2004.
Vahldieck is a former professor of nursing at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin’s defensive coordinator has spent the past two years elevating his charges to become one of the top units in the Big Ten Conference.
Jones, a senior inside linebacker, is a graduate transfer from Clemson University.
Noted: includes analysis from Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and mass communication and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Emeritus political science and constitutional law professor Donald Downs comments.
Former UW-Madison chancellor John Wiley levels some pointed criticism at Gov. Scott Walker in an essay in Madison Magazine.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will face Georgetown in a semifinal of the 2K Classic on Nov. 20 at Madison Square Garden in New York, and could get a rematch with defending national champion Duke if both teams win their first round games.
UW-Madison should consider this recommendation and cut the campus police department and contract with the Madison Police Department. The same should be done for Madison Area Technical College and any other public entity that separately has established its own police units.
Instituting a college free lunch program, like the one that feeds low-income students in K-12 schools, is one way to help more students access the “great anti-poverty tool” of a college education, UW-Madison’s Wisconsin HOPE Lab said in testimony submitted Wednesday to the National Commission on Hunger.
He worked for UW-Madison at University Hospital, UW Housing, UW Physical Plant, working as a facility repair worker, retiring in July 2013 for a total of over 28 years with the State.
Brooke Ferrell became the third Badgers golfer to win of Wisconsin amateur golf’s three major championships Tuesday when she shot her second straight 72 to win the Brown Deer Women’s Amateur tournament.
A university engineering study in 2013 revealed numerous structural problems with the four-decade-old bridge. In some places, concrete had fallen off, exposing steel reinforcing bars. Officials concluded it was time to either replace the bridge, which would cost about $1.5 million, or demolish it, which would cost about $180,000, director of campus Gary Brown said.
A Tuesday news release from UW News stressed the installation a few years ago of a traffic signal at East Campus Mall a block away has reduced bridge use.But Gary Brown, director of campus planning, added that deterioration of the bridge built in 1971 has led to repeated repairs in the past few years and an engineering report last year recommended its removal or replacement, Brown said.
University of Wisconsin senior Courtney Burke, junior Jenny Ryan and sophomore Annie Pankowski are among the 83 players invited to the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival, which will be held Aug. 11-16 in Lake Placid, New York. In addition, former UW players Brianna Decker, Meghan Duggan, Hilary Knight, Alex Rigsby, Karley Sylvester and Jessie Vetter will participate in the six-day camp.
Noted: Anne Reynolds, a food policy council member and director of the Center for Cooperatives at UW-Madison, comments.
In 2014, 22,472 high school students took college-level courses, which give them both college and high school credit, according to system figures. That’s an increase of more than 75 percent over the past five years — 12,729 students took those classes in 2010. Plus: an item on a Web site tracks launched by two UW-Madison centers that monitors water quality in the Yahara chain of lakes. LakeForecast.org uses data from dozens of sites in lakes Mendota, Monona, Wingra, Waubesa and Kegonsa to tell swimmers what kind of water quality they can expect.
University of Illinois, University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin-Madison were ranked 1-2-3, followed by Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and last year’s No. 1, Syracuse University in New York.
In 1966, Moll moved to Madison with their children for Dick’s first teaching job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he remained as a professor in the Department of Engineering for over 40 years. He also was a world-renowned product safety consultant who helped create better safety standards globally. Many in the industry recall him as a straight-shooter who would often turn down product safety cases if he didn’t believe a company was acting ethically.
Robert Pierce, director of the South Madison Farmers’ Market, in partnership with Anthony Cooper, director of reentry services for the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development, Growing Power, Inc. Milwaukee, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, will provide an underemployed group of men with the skills to create a business feeding an under served population.
Export Abroad, a software company that helps other firms with market research and sales leads in foreign countries, will be part of the first-ever White House Demo Day on Tuesday. Willy Hakizimana, 35, who co-founded Export Abroad in May 2014, said a San Francisco company that he works with nominated him for the event. Hakizimana came from Rwanda for an advanced degree in information systems at UW-Madison. “It’s just going to give us exposure and bring customers our way.”
The situation in the family immigration detention centers near the U.S.-Mexico border may be changing quickly following a federal court order, but the underlying issues inspiring some University of Wisconsin Law School students to volunteer to help the people being held there are unlikely to be resolved any time soon.
A look back at protests on campus in the 1960s.
