One wrinkle that will challenge event officials on Saturday will be the Crazylegs tear-down in a tight time frame, since the Big Ten Network set a 3 p.m. start for its telecast of the spring game.
As fraternities across the country facing heightened scrutiny following racist and violent incidents, UW-Madison is preparing to hire a consultant to conduct a comprehensive study of Greek organizations on campus.
Albee Messing, interim director of the center since May 2014, was named director on April 14, said Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
UW-Platteville and UW-Stout recently became the latest campuses in the University of Wisconsin System to offer buyouts to senior staff to mitigate Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts of $300 million to state campuses in the next two years.
Veronica Berns, 28, was working on her Ph. D. in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. Berns said she long struggled to explain her work to her parents and friends. The self-described comic book fan said she began drafting her thesis on quasicrystals — a subset of crystals that diverge from the usual structural characteristics of crystals. Berns quickly concluded that she would be best able to describe the oddball compounds with illustrations.
The UW Marching Band hosted its annual Varsity Band Spring Concert on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Kohl Center, featuring local talent, a celebration of the 75th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz” and plenty of tuba section jokes.
Noted: Brad Carl, associate director and researcher at the Value-Added Research Center, said the increased scrutiny can be traced to the tests themselves being unpopular, and that the tests are tied to new Common Core academic standards that are unpopular among some parents.
Acclaimed Japanese artist Ikeda Manabu is midway through a three-year residency at the museum, located at 750 University Ave. on the UW-Madison campus. Eight hours a day Ikeda labors on a 130-square-foot artwork, filling it with millions of small, intricate strokes of his ink pen.
Siegfried is a former chair of the History of Science Department. During his UW tenure, he created nine courses, served on a dozen UW committees and published many articles and reviews. His primary focus was classroom teaching, but his commitment to the public understanding of science led him frequently to write and lecture for the lay-audience.
Lee’s visit to Wisconsin — part of a Midwest tour that has included other patent hotspots — came at a time when Congress is again debating how to streamline the U.S. patent system … It also underscored why major research universities such as UW-Madison are vital to the innovation economy, not only nationally but in the states and communities they serve.
The student hackers — computer programmers and/or designers — were gathered for MadHacks 2015, the UW-Madison’s first ever large-scale, public hackathon. Collegiate hackathons, competitions in which college students get together to design and build new computer programs over a set time frame, have become increasingly popular in recent years.
UW-Madison plans to cut 400 jobs across campus — most of them open positions that won’t be filled — as well as drop some programs and collect an additional $3.5 million yearly from its athletics department to deal with Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million, two-year cut to the University of Wisconsin System, chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Friday.
After consulting with a cross section of administrators, finance gurus and publicists at the University of Wisconsin, one thing seems clear about the UW men’s basketball team and its run to another NCAA Final Four. There’s no sure-fire method for measuring its overall impact on the masses.
Just one Madison-area case has been reported so far so far, confirmed earlier this month. The dog is being treated at home and doing well, said Keith Poulsen of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at UW-Madison.
A longtime proponent of public service at UW-Madison has been named director of the university’s central hub for civic engagement and outreach. Kathy Cramer, professor in the Department of Political Science, was named permanent director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service, after serving as interim director since June of 2014.
“We respect and value our student employees and all of the work they do to help our campus run,” said John Lucas, vice chancellor for university relations. He said campus data shows that it would cost $24 million a year to increase wages of the campus’ 15,000 student employees to $15 an hour. The current average student hourly wage is $9.75, he said.
“Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” by Bryan Stevenson will be given to first-year students at the Chancellor’s Convocation for New Students and to students using the book in their classes. The campus will host special events associated with “Just Mercy” as well, including a lecture by the author on October 26.
The assault was reported to have taken place at about 3 a.m. Saturday in a room in a southeast campus residence hall.
The Marquette University Law School poll released Thursday found 70 percent oppose Walker’s proposal to cut University of Wisconsin funding by $300 million, while 26 percent support it.
The columnist, who first met Stanley Kutler in Dec. 2001, says because the former UW–Madison professor was an esteemed author and academic, he had a showman side to him.
The Joint Finance Committee will vote on a proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year budget that would scrap the Educational Approval Board, which oversees about 250 institutions enrolling about 60,000 students. In the 2013-14 reporting period, the schools received a total of more than $350 million in tuition.
Astronomy Prof. Amy Barger, mathematics Prof. Jordan Ellenberg and English Prof. Lynn Keller were among 175 winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship, established 90 years ago by U.S. Sen. John Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga, in honor of their late son John.
Gulbrandsen, 68, plans to retire early next year from WARF, where he has served since 1997 and been managing director since 2000. He said his retirement plans have been in the works for years and he is confident that WARF will remain a vital force long after his departure.
Custer worked for 43 years in the Registrar’s Office until her retirement in 2011.
Williams is a former assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and Bacteriology.
Multiple sources indicated the UW Athletic Department is gearing up to switch to Under Armour, a Maryland-based company that debuted in 1996 and has become a major international force in the athletic apparel business. Alvarez said he met with Under Armour representatives when the UW men’s basketball team played at Maryland in late February. Alvarez said he also has spoken to representatives from Nike and adidas.
Column lauding the former athletic director.
“$15 and a union!” protesters shouted as they gathered at Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus. The demonstrators, organized by Wisconsin Jobs Now, AFSCME, Industrial Workers of the World and the Workers’ Right Center, earlier marched down East Washington Avenue, where they were joined by workers from fast food outlets.
Previews “Humorology,” a long-standing UW-Madison tradition featuring three nights of original mini-musicals.
Q&A with Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
The idea to radically remake the UW as a so-called public authority — with dramatically less state involvement and support for the system — is unpopular for a number of reasons, some good, some bad.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Rochester Republican, said Tuesday that the cap makes sense because parents wouldn’t have to worry about huge tuition hikes. But he says he still doesn’t support autonomy because he doubts the regents will use it to run the system more efficiently and cheaply.
In a rare move for the normally nonpolitical organization, the Madison area’s lead economic development agency on Tuesday came out against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
UW-Madison took one more step in its effort to update its Campus Master Plan by unveiling a new website to incorporate more community input into the process.
The state’s flagship campus, UW-Madison, and its affiliated entities contribute $15 billion a year to the Wisconsin economy, according to a report commissioned by the university and funded by its foundation.
A University of Wisconsin professor of astronomy was one of the original developers of the Hubble Space Telescope, which changed the way people think about astronomy. Prior to his talk at the Space Place in Madison Tuesday, John Gallagher spoke to The Badger Herald about his involvement in the Hubble Space Telescope project.
For every taxpayer dollar spent on the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university generates $24 for the state economy, according to a new consultant’s report.
The state’s flagship campus, UW-Madison, and its affiliated entities contribute $15 billion a year to the Wisconsin economy, according to a report commissioned by the university and funded by its foundation.
Vicki was employed as a teacher at UW-Madison Preschool Lab.
A study conducted by NorthStar Consulting Group found UW-Madison, UW Hospital and Clinics and startup companies sustain 193,310 jobs and more than $847.5 million in both state and local taxes.
A Wausau woman who received a kidney transplant last month at UW Hospital was part of the longest kidney transplant chain ever completed, hospital officials said.
In nearly four decades on campus, from 1951 to 1990 and as dean of students from 1970 to 1987, Ginsberg witnessed such historic events as the post-World War II arrival of GIs and the Vietnam War protests. Ginsberg died Monday in Madison at age 90.
A canine flu outbreak that has sickened hundreds of dogs in the Midwest over the past couple of weeks is caused by a different strain of the virus than was earlier assumed, researchers have now concluded.
Sen. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) on Tuesday criticized UW System Board of Regents Vice President Regina Millner for what he called “a deceptive statement intended to justify and spin” tuition increases requested by the UW-Madison chancellor.
Gov. Scott Walker has officially asked the Legislature to keep the University of Wisconsin’s guiding principle known as the “Wisconsin Idea” intact.
The first votes on Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year state budget will come this week, but the most difficult decisions, including whether to reduce cuts to public schools and the University of Wisconsin, aren’t expected to be made until later in May.
Gov. Scott Walker agreed Monday to increase collaboration between researchers in Germany and at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to combat Alzheimer’s disease and other similar ailments
I think we can agree that Frank Kaminsky just completed the most impactful career in University of Wisconsin men’s basketball history.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the latest UW school to offer employee buyouts to help absorb massive cuts Gov. Scott Walker has proposed for the system.
Gov. Scott Walker is using a cleanup letter on his budget to propose limiting tuition increases at the University of Wisconsin System to the rate of inflation once the current tuition freeze expires.
Gov. Scott Walker lent his support Monday to an embattled plan to decouple the University of Wisconsin System from state control with added state protections against tuition hikes for Wisconsin residents, but a key lawmaker still sees no hope for its passage this session. “I think it is dead in our caucus,” said Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, who’s co-chairman of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee. “I believe there will be enough support to remove it.”
UW-Madison animal sciences professor Mark Cook, an expert on avian health, comments. Noted: the UW-Madison Poultry Research Laboratory has been in lockdown mode since word got out that an avian flu virus was found in turkeys in Arkansas and Missouri several weeks ago.
Taylor, the featured performer in the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s “Piano Genius” concerts happening at Overture Hall, is a professor in the School of Music.
Hartshorne worked for the University of Wisconsin’s Archives and was head of The Oral History Project.
What started out as a dorm room joke two years ago was in the process of becoming a world record Saturday on the UW-Madison campus.
A senior winger with women’s hockey team, Ammerman played in four NCAA Frozen Fours and owns a national championship ring from 2011. She also was a top-10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2014 and finished her 160-game career among the top 10 goal scorers in UW history.
The UW System Board of Regents voted Friday to approve tuition increases for some students at UW-Madison as well as at schools in La Crosse, Milwaukee, Parkside, Platteville, River Falls, Stevens Point, Stout and Whitewater during a meeting at UW-Waukesha.
For fans, this is an emotional decision. For Dekker, it’s a business decision, plain and simple. That’s why it’s hard to find fault with Dekker’s announcement that he will pass on his final year at UW to enter the draft.
Nelson joined the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in September 1961 where he was elevated to the rank of professor in 1969. He served as a member of the faculty at Wisconsin until he retired in 1995 as Professor Emeritus.
Noted: UW-Madison law professor Donald Downs comments.
