UW-Madison police are treating as a hoax a threat called in to the Dane County 911 center Saturday night that caused the evacuation of a campus library and the cancellation of a July 4 UW Band concert on the Memorial Union Terrace.
For decades, surgeons around the country have preserved organs in a cold solution as the organs are shipped in coolers to transplant recipients hundreds of miles away. Developed at UW Hospital, the fluid is known simply as “UW Solution.” Now, UW Hospital and other transplant centers are looking at a different way to keep organs healthy outside of the body: pumping them with blood at or just below body temperature.
The cut to the Madison campus was reduced slightly when lawmakers restored $50 million in state funding to the System as part of changes to Gov. Scott Walker’s executive budget. The budget now calls for cutting System funding by $250 million over two years. UW-Madison will receive $4 million of that restored funding in the 2015-16 fiscal year.
We do this because we care about our students, many of whom first-generation college students. Higher education is one of the few vehicles for social mobility, and we want to give them the best possible boost for their futures.
Noted: Two years ago, as a 21-year-old UW-Madison student, Mackaman died from meningitis. His family supported the recovery of his organs, knowing he had authorized donation, said Meredith Leigh, Mackaman’s mother. Seven organs went to five recipients, including Walter Goodman, a UW-Madison professor, who received his heart … First-person consent makes donation easier on families because they can honor a choice the deceased person made instead of having to decide themselves, said Mike Anderson, executive director of UW Organ and Tissue Donation, the Madison-based organ procurement organization for most of Wisconsin. “It has been the best thing that’s happened for donation,” Anderson said.
UW Hospital is a leader in donation after circulatory death, an alternative to donation after brain death. The procedure, which is somewhat controversial, allows people with severe, irreversible brain injuries or in late stages of terminal illnesses to donate organs after a controlled death.
Campus Police Lt. Aaron Chapin said buildings in the area were emptied including a popular Memorial Union terrace where students and others were sitting outside waiting for a University of Wisconsin band concert, which was cancelled as a result. After a methodical search throughout the building, no one was found and police let activity continue in the area at 10:30 p.m.
Myron retired from farming in 1988 and worked at the UW Research Farms in Arlington, Wis., until 2005.
Madison Police were looking for a man who allegedly entered a UW-Madison student’s apartment early Sunday morning and attempted to sexually assault her.
He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 15 years.
UW-Madison academic units are preparing to absorb nearly $23 million in cuts under Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-2017 budget, a campus spokesperson said this week. Administrative units will cut $9 million in expenses.
Fox Sports Wisconsin on Tuesday posted Jesse Temple’s exhaustive article, “An oral history of how Barry Alvarez transformed the Wisconsin Badgers football program.”
When he sat down for an end-of-the-season chat with University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan this spring, athletic director Barry Alvarez wasn’t prepared for a bombshell.
Palmer, who served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Syracuse the past two seasons, replaces Stacy Cantley, who left UW to take a job at Western Carolina.
Ryan’s announcement Monday that 2015-16 will be the 15th and final season of his legendary career at UW eliminated that problem once and for all. However, the Badgers now face another potential hindrance in recruiting: The uncertainty of recruits not knowing who the head coach will be, especially during the current recruiting cycle for the class of 2016.
As a group of reporters awaited Bo Ryan’s arrival at a news conference in the Kohl Center concourse Tuesday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach slowly rounded a corner using a cane to help him along. “Be right there,” he said. The prop was a lighthearted jab at reports on the Internet over the weekend that he was set to retire due to failing health. Ryan did end up announcing his retirement in a statement on Monday — he’ll coach through the end of the 2015-16 season, his 15th with the Badgers — but he made it clear in his first public comments a day later that the decision had nothing to do with his health.
Gard is the associate head coach of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, and he’s not looking beyond that role despite his profile getting a major boost after Ryan’s announcement on Monday that he would retire following the 2015-16 season.
Sweeney spent the bulk of his UW career — nearly 18 years — in the athletic department, developing communications, branding and fundraising programs, university spokesman John Lucas said.
Sweeney, 64, said his new consulting firm, Sweeney & Associates LLC, will provide strategic communications counsel and other public relations services to executives and others in leadership positions.
The online ad, from liberal advocacy groups One Wisconsin Now, Wisconsin Jobs Now and the Agenda Project Action Fund, depicts a person drowning in open water while “Pomp and Circumstance” plays, an image the groups say is meant to symbolize the plight of student loan borrowers. At the end of the ad, a mortarboard washes ashore.”Americans are drowning in student debt,” the ad says.
Ryan, who will turn 68 in December, announced plans for his retirement in a statement Monday morning, endorsing Badgers associate head coach Greg Gard to be his replacement in the process.
After 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, seven Sweet 16s, four Big Ten titles, two Final Fours and a berth in last year’s national championship game, the hard-charging 67-year-old Ryan has only one more season left in him.
The initial phases of the Union Corners project includes a $20 million, two-story, 60,000-square-foot UW Health clinic at East Washington Avenue and Sixth Street.
The 2015 class includes volleyball player Lizzy Fitzgerald, men’s soccer player Mike Gentile, men’s basketball’s Devin Harris, football star Jim Leonhard, men’s hockey player Brian Rafalski, women’s hockey player Kerry Weiland, and longtime administrator Paula Bonner.
Several former UW players also endorsed the longtime assistant basketball to take over the program following the 2015-16 season, Ryan’s 15th and final campaign with the Badgers.
The Ideadvance Seed Fund has identified seven projects that could receive a total of as much as $200,000. The $2 million Ideadvance fund was established in 2014 by the UW System and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp amd provides grant recipients up to $25,000 for the first stage of determining the marketability of an idea or technology, and up to $50,000 for developing a business model. Faculty, staff, students and companies licensing technology from all UW campuses but UW-Madison may participate.
Ruth worked many years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Education Placement and Career Services.
Noted: The WiSys Technology Foundation, which handles invention disclosures for all University of Wisconsin campuses outside Madison and Milwaukee, is reporting a record number of invention “disclosures” by faculty and students. There were 56 disclosures this fiscal year, the highest total in 10 years. Disclosures are ideas that can lead to new products, services and startups.
The UW Urban Canid Project, headed by David Drake and Marcus Mueller, is reaching out to the community for help in tracking and researching red foxes and coyotes in Madison urban areas.
UW-Madison computer sciences professor Jignesh Patel is spending a lot more time on the West Coast lately, after selling his latest business to a California company.
Newly named U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera had a residency here in 2008, and spoke to classes at UW-Madison as well as the first and second grades at Lowell Elementary. The residency was sponsored by the UW-Madison Arts Institute. He is the first Latino poet to hold the title.
Letter to the editor from Harry L. Peterson, an emeritus president of Western State Colorado University who served in the chancellor’s office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1978 to 1990, the last two years as chief of staff to former UW Chancellor Donna Shalala.
The coaches for men’s and women’s golf, softball, men’s and women’s rowing, and track and cross country were each approved Friday for three-year extensions through 2018.The women’s tennis coach was approved for a one-year extension through 2016.
She worked for the office of University Relations, University of Wisconsin System in Van Hise Hall for 15 years. After her retirement she worked in the office of the Board of Regents and the Office of Equal Employment for the University of Wisconsin System, and for the WisconsinNicaragua Partners. She also had served as secretary to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Board of Visitors, and the Sons of Norway.
Republican legislative leaders remain deadlocked — even sparring publicly last week — on key parts of Wisconsin’s next state budget with just over a week left until a deadline to have the two-year spending plan in place.
Jack Ikegwuonu, a former Badger football player, and his twin brother William were sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for a string of robberies motivated by heroin addiction.
She was an assistant clinical professor in the UW School of Nursing.
Morgridge Center for Public Service director’s letter to the editor thanking the Evjue Foundation for its support of the Badgers Volunteer program.
Interview with Lattis,manager and outreach specialist for the Washburn Observatory, as well as co-founder of the UW Space Place, about the Washburn Observatory closure and the public’s interest in astronomy. Te observatory closed unexpectedly in May 2014, when the National Register of Historic Places site encountered some unforeseen structural problems.
Profile of UW-Madison director of community relations Everett Mitchell, who is also pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church.
– A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors is appealing to the UW Board of Regents to preserve tenure protections and standards of shared governance.
Noted: Glenn Bower, a faculty associate and senior scientist in UW’s Mechanical Engineering Department detailed this process to 27 News.
Noted: Comments from Everett Mitchell, pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church and director of community relations at UW–Madison.
Noted: Political Science Prof. Ken Mayer comments.
Regent Farrow: “Madison has money. Madison is our flagship and should be well supported. I don’t argue with that at all. But they are also in a position to support things with their size and with their foundations and with their various other sources of money.” UW spokesman Lucas: “Our understanding is that no final decisions have yet been made on how the additional $50 million would be allocated across the System. Chancellor (Rebecca) Blank has been in communication with the leadership of System and the Board of Regents to stress the importance of adequate funding for UW-Madison to the extent possible amid the $250 million budget cut.”
This year instead of houses, the buildings featured in the group’s annual tour are landmarks of the UW-Madison campus. Part of the reason is to throw a spotlight on a campus threatened with budget cuts, said Historic Madison board member and program chairman Barbara Essock. Saturday’s self-guided tour: University Club, Wisconsin Historical Society, Music Hall, Bascom Hall, Carillon Tower, Washburn Observatory, Science Hall, Memorial Union and the Armory and Gymnasium, more commonly known as the Red Gym.
The designation has various benefits, including qualifying for grants and for rehabilitation income tax credits.
Letter to the editor from Richard D. Legon, president of the Association of Governing Board and Universities, and Susan Whealler Johnston, executive vice president of the Association of Governing Boards.
June retired from the University of Wisconsin Biochemistry Department in 1992.
“Make ’Em Believe” is billed as the inside story of the men’s basketball team and its run to the NCAA championship game. Not only did Patrick Herb, an assistant director with the UW Athletic Communications staff, execute a timely turnaround of the yearlong odyssey, his 160-page project put its brightest spotlight on all the student-athletes involved.
Profile of Katie Brenner, a post-doctoral biochemistry fellow at UW-Madison, who along with Doug Weibel, an associate professor of biochemistry at UW-Madison, is developing a urine test to monitor the health of preterm babies.
Story detailing some of the ideas submitted to the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration’s site suggesting cost savings and efficiencies.
Wisconsin’s budget committee remains at a standstill and won’t meet on Wednesday, as previously suggested … Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said GOP leaders will “tentatively” resume their meetings again tomorrow to reach an agreement on the state’s transportation budget and a proposal to publicly finance a new Milwaukee Bucks arena.
Rothschild made the remark on For the Record, a public affairs show on WISC-TV hosted by Neil Heinen. Asked for comment from Cross on Monday, a spokesperson offered instead a comment from Board of Regents president Regina Millner: “I completely support President Cross and Chancellor Blank, and my regent colleagues and I appreciate their leadership throughout the budget process and as the UW System moves forward.”
Gary worked at UW Photo Media Center for 30 years, and then for seven years at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
UW-Madison hired its first enologist — a scientist who studies wine and wine making — in March, and he’s been traveling the state to improve Wisconsin’s cider and wine industry … Although the cold Wisconsin climate can be hard on wine grapes, wine and cider outreach specialist Nick Smith is confident there’s a market for the drink.
A Milwaukee business operator and his family have pledged the largest household donation ever to UW-Madison for student scholarships, the university’s foundation announced Friday.
Wittich joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in 1944 and became the director of the Bureau of Audio Visual Instruction, a 16mm film lending library that served the entire state. While a faculty member of the School of Education, he became an innovator of using media to enhance classroom teaching, and with his exhaustive research he and his co-author published Audio Visual Instruction, Their Nature and Use.
Editorial condemning the legislative Joint Finance Committee’s amendment to the state budget bill exempting the UW System from the requirement that names of five finalists for key jobs be made public.
Recap of Chancellor Blank’s appearance on the Sunday program “UpFront with Mike Gousha.”
