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.
“The objectives of this class are to explain the interactions between the ingredients we use in confections and the processes we use to make them,” said Rich Hartel, the UW-Madison food science professor who directs the course. “We don’t make anything that looks good or that’s artisanal at all. We’re all about the commercial side of candy.”
State of Wisconsin CIO David Cagigal has a simple goal: To “never spend another dollar” on laying optical fiber cable for data projects involving state government and its partners. If that sounds unrealistic, consider that millions of miles of “dark fiber” — meaning, high-bandwidth fiber not in use — already exist in the United States. … Finding and lighting dark fiber will help Wisconsin prepare for the predicted bandwidth crunch brought on by the “Internet of Things” and the explosion in mobile devices, Cagigal and UW-Madison Chief Information Officer Bruce Maas told a July 28 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
hile at UW-Madison, Larry was instrumental in assisting faculty in their scientific endeavors as the Rennebohm Cardiovascular Research Laboratory delved into a host of different areas of investigations, including heart failure, vascular function and cell contraction mechanics. He also helped expand the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory into a University resource with involvement from a variety of departments and the medical school basic curriculum. Larry was also able to further broaden the focus of the Laboratory with collaboration for start-up companies from the University. He retired from UW-Madison in 2010.
The Catholic student center at UW-Madison has slightly downsized its proposed new building, dropping the number of stories from six to five. The revision is a further cut from the initial 14-story proposal.
The Big Ten will go to nine conference games starting in 2016, and Delany said the league’s athletic directors are committed to the non-conference portion of the plan: Annual games against programs from the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 or SEC.
Richard Moll, a retired UW-Madison professor and product safety expert with a whimsical bent who encouraged good deeds by example, died Thursday. He was 79.
Dr. Ian Duncan received the 2015 Lifetime Excellence in Research Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association. Duncan, 67, is world-renowned for his work on the development and disease of myelin, a material that protects nerve fibers and is essential for proper nervous system function, according to university spokesman Nik Hawkins.
Although Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez says that a change five years ago in the appeals process for prospective UW athletes has not hurt the Badgers’ ability to compete athletically, school officials are working to return to the previous process.
Despite spending a significant portion of his first appearance at Big Ten Media Days talking about a player who will never take the field for the Badgers, Chryst didn’t appear bitter on Thursday and even said that he was glad (Texas prep running back Jordan) Stevenson landed at a quality program so late in the recruiting process.
Lakeforecast.org is the creation of a collaboration of the Clean Lakes Alliance, software company MIOsoft, city and county officials and UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology and the Space Science and Engineering Center.
The poll, released Thursday morning, saw defending Big Ten and national champion Ohio State take the top spot. UW (No. 18) and sixth-ranked Michigan State were the only other Big Ten teams to make the top 25.
Babcock Hall is well-known as a mecca for ice cream and cheese making, but it’s also where candy makers from across the nation and even the world come for two weeks each summer for an intensive, hands-on education in the science of commercial candy making. The course that started last week include students who traveled from Germany, Chile, Mexico and Canada.
At a press conference Thursday, Soglin said the proposal is needed because the city’s posture of compassion with no rules toward the homeless and drifters leads to behavior problems including violence, drunkenness, drug use and trading sex for drugs. The problems are interfering with the use of public space and straining emergency and other resources, Soglin said.
Ray Taffora, general counsel for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he doesn’t believe the law currently allows for a deliberative process exemption, but said it’s important to preserve a “fairly nimble, flexible” exclusion for drafts and notes under the law.
Recounting of panel discussion that included School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor Michael Wagner.
NeuWave, 3529 Anderson St., was founded in 2008 based on technology developed by UW-Madison professors Fred Lee and Daniel van der Weide and licensed from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Madison attorney David Walsh, in his last meeting on the board, urged Regents “to develop a strategy of taking the message to the people.” “You have to frame the message so the public knows what they’re going to lose if the state doesn’t continue to fund the university,” he said.
Of the approximate 85,000 students in Wisconsin involved in high school athletics, it’s estimated that two to five percent don’t have health insurance to pay for the sports physicals required by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. To help those athletes out, the Dane County Sports Medicine Council is partnering with the UW Health Sports Medicine and UW School of Medicine and Public Health to offer free sports physicals from 6-9pm on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
A unique agreement between the state’s flagship university, its public two-year colleges and a Madison technical college aims to increase the number of residents who hold at least an associate degree. The new “reverse transfer” agreement will allow students who transfer to the flagship before completing an associate degree to complete the requirements and pick up that degree while also working toward a bachelor’s degree.
Senior Taylor Morey, sophomore elli Bates and sophomore outside hitter Lauryn Gillis traveled abroad this summer. Morey was part of the U.S. Collegiate National Team, while the sophomores played with the U.S. Junior National squad.
University of Wisconsin–Madison sophomore golfers Becky Klonglan and Gabby Curtis finished first and second in the Wisconsin Women’s State Amateur tournament in Watertown. Klongland won the tournament for the second year in a row.
Column from Merluzzi, a doctoral student in the neuroscience and public policy program.
Q&A with Pedro Albiter, a UW-Madison alum who founded Latinos United for College Education Scholarships, or LUCES, (Spanish for “lights”) 10 years ago in Madison and serves as its president.
Two students (Brandon Alvarez-Carrera of Madison and Miriam Burgos-Febus of Milwaukee) entering the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall through the PEOPLE program joined students from around the country at the White House Thursday for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Beating the Odds Summit.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gregg Mitman was in Liberia last summer to make a film about the African country’s past. And then the present erupted. Mitman is n is the curator of the UW-Madison’s Tales From Planet Earth Festival, a biennial festival that uses film to explore people’s relationship to the environment. This fall’s festival, which takes place Nov. 6 to 8, will explore the intersection of science and faith.
Column from Bill Leuders distributed by the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, a nonprofit group dedicated to open government. Bill Lueders, associate editor of The Progressive magazine, is the group’s president.
After Jeff Shaver survived a devastating fall in 2010, he and his wife reevaluated their lives. They felt he’d been given a second chance, and they wanted to make the most of it by contributing something meaningful to the world. Their son Lee, 30,a UW-Madison graduate student in electrical engineering, had an idea. Years earlier, as a new college graduate seeking a purpose, he had joined the Peace Corps at his parents’ urging. He suggested they do the same.
The $235 million complex includes a 56-bed hospital, a clinic and a wellness center. It’s the first hospital on the East Side and the first new general hospital in Madison since 1979, when UW Hospital opened on the West Side.
Nearly 600 bikes, or at least their frames, that were seized in March as having possibly been stolen remain in the hands of UW-Madison police after they were able to identify only a few as having been stolen.
Stevenson, a four-star prospect who was considered one of the Badgers’ top recruits for the 2015 class, confirmed on Twitter that his recruitment is open to any Division I program.
Noted: Donald Downs, a UW-Madison professor emeritus in political science and constitutional law said no-knock raids are generally justified when a less forceful entry would legitimately pose a danger that evidence would be destroyed, suspects would flee, officer safety would be compromised or the investigation undermined.
Running in front of a home crowd, the former University of Wisconsin runner — racing for Team Canada — used a strong final lap to win the gold medal in the event. Ahmed finished in 28 minutes, 49.96 seconds, besting Team USA’s Aron Rono, who finished second in 28:50.83.
(Sara) Goldrick-Rab’s irresponsible expression of her concern for academic freedom and UW-Madison harmed the very causes she was trying to support. Her remarks about Gov. Walker and legislators allowed their supporters to take the offensive. But most damning of all, when the public should look to UW-Madison faculty for leadership in reasonable discussions of public policies, she offered little more than vitriol.
Wagner is participating in the free event, which takes place Tuesday, July 28, at the High Noon Saloon, 701 E. Washington Ave.
Letter to the editor from former UW and current University of Texas professor. “I have been at three of the best public universities in the country and believe that UW-Madison, with its deeply embedded shared governance approach, exceptionally strong research infrastructure, and its focus on serving the community beyond campus, is unparalleled in the opportunities it opens for student-faculty discovery and the impact it ultimately has on the public good.”
The Badgers are midway through an eight-week session of summer workouts, a valuable stretch for a program that returns just 34.3 percent of its scoring and 38.1 percent of its rebounding from the 2014-15 team.Not to mention all the experience that is gone. Frank Kaminsky, Sam Dekker, Josh Gasser, Traevon Jackson and Duje Dukan combined to play 9,896 minutes over the past two seasons, both of which ended with trips to the Final Four.
Features high tech camps happening here on campus.
The University of Wisconsin Colleges will lay off more than 80 employees in a cost-cutting move that will see the network of two-year schools consolidate administration of its 13 campuses into four regions of the state, officials announced Tuesday.The move is one result of a $5 million cut to the college system’s funding — its share of a $250 million reduction in support for the University of Wisconsin System in the state budget Gov. Scott Walker signed last week.
The executive committee for the UW-Madison Faculty Senate Monday tried to put to rest rumors that it was going to seek to have a professor fired over controversial tweets about Gov. Scott Walker and the worth of a UW degree after legislative Republican laws weakened faculty influence.
The $5.2 million reduction is part of the state budget signed by Gov. Scott Walker. It represents an 8 percent cut in state funding for UW Extension, a university system whose mission includes educating communities that lack a four-year campus.
Matthew Court was killed while biking to daily swim team practice. His father, Ricardo Court, is director of undergraduate studies for the political science department at UW-Madison. His wife and Matthew’s mother, Kristin Phillips-Court, is an associate professor of French and Italian at the university.
One of the prime examples of UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Idea, sharing knowledge in all parts of the state, will be on display starting this week, courtesy of the university’s Agricultural Research Station.
With the technology boom over the past decade, more teachers across the nation are taking a digital approach to their lesson plans. At this week’s 11th annual gaming conference hosted by the UW’s Games+Learning+Society department, participants were able to take a look at how games are used as a teaching tool.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank asked Gov. Scott Walker on Friday to veto provisions in the state budget that strip tenure protections from law and weaken shared governance principles.
Among other provisions, the budget plan extends a freeze on in-state UW tuition for another two years, removes tenure protections for UW professors from state law and imposes no sales or income tax increases.
Betty retired from a secretarial position at the UW-Madison Graduate School of Business.
Jo is a former lab assistant at UW-Madison’s chemistry department.
She joined the UW-Madison Risk Management office in 1976 and retired in 2010 as the Risk Manager of UW-Madison.
Did the UW hoops revival start with the hiring of coach Bo Ryan in 2001? With the surprise trip to the Final Four under coach Dick Bennett in 2000? With the first NCAA tournament bid since 1947 under coach Stu Jackson in 1994? The answer: None of the above. The Badgers’ slow but steady rise to relevance actually had its roots in the 1988-89 season, when a UW team led by scoring stars Trent Jackson and Danny Jones reached the NIT, the school’s first posteason bid of any kind in 42 years.
