Noted: UW-Madison is among the campuses with a strong InterVarsity presence. There are more than a dozen InterVarsity chapters there, serving a variety of demographic groups.
Author: gbump
As young evangelical, he finds God’s call in focus on climate ‘crisis’
Profile of Riley Balikian, a UW-Madison graduate student studying sustainable community development and water resource management and one of 12 members of the steering committee for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action.
UW prof Robert Glenn Howard talks tools, trust and truth in the digital age
Capital Times
Q&A with Robert Glenn Howard, director of the Digital Studies Certificate Program and professor of communication arts and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies.
Fans rally, former Badgers reunite in advance of Final Four
Madison.com
What for thousands of festive Badgers fans was a gigantic “Final Four Tailgate and Pep Rally” doubled as an ultimate family reunion for dozens of former University of Wisconsin basketball players from multiple generations.
On, Wisconsin! Badgers basketball has come a long way
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The composed, resilient, never-say-die Badgers outscored the supposedly unbeatable Wildcats, 15-4, over the last 4 1/2 minutes and won, 71-64, in the NCAA Tournament semifinals at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday night.
Schneider, Mayvis G.
Madison.com
Mayvis’ career included working in various capacities at UW-Madison. She worked for and with such notable campus pioneers as Drs. Harry Waisman and Paul Carbone.
Plopper, Jim
Madison.com
He was a Spanish instructor at his beloved UW-Madison.
Badger fans erupt as UW heads to NCAA final
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
On Saturday night, the roars echoed from Union South to State St.
Madison fans root en masse to cheer Badgers to victory
Wisconsin State Journal
Thousands of rabid fans sporting the Cardinal and White chose to publicly commune as their team made history Saturday night.
The early Badger gets the…best seats in the bar
Capital Times
Though the tip-off for the Wisconsin Badgers’ Final Four face off against the Kentucky Wildcats was several hours away, dutiful fans began claiming seats as early as 8 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Badgers men’s basketball: Bo Ryan’s influence extensive on fellow UW coaches
Madison.com
For coaches up and down the UW athletic department, Bo Ryan is a constant source of information. And his ring of influence extends well beyond longtime friends and colleagues such as football coach Paul Chryst and men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves.
Stuhr retires as UW-M/WC dean
Marshfield News-Herald
Patricia Stuhr, the dean and campus executive officer of the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County, announced her retirement on Friday.
Controlled burns on tap Sunday on UW campus nature preserve
Madison.com
Controlled burns of prairie land are scheduled on Sunday in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the far western edge of the campus, the university said in a news release on Friday.
Mark Pitsch: Final Four isn’t good enough for Kentucky
Wisconsin State Journal
Column contrasting UW, KU athletically and academically. Snippet: As a reporter in Kentucky, I often heard from higher education leaders and politicians that they wished UK had paid less attention to basketball over the last several decades and more attention to academics. At the time, UK was just exploring creating a university research park like the one UW-Madison launched three decades ago.”
UW’s Frank Kaminsky named Player of the Year in college basketball
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Kaminsky, who had scholarship offers from UW, DePaul, Northwestern, Bradley, Northern Illinois and Southern Illinois, on Friday morning won the Oscar Robertson Trophy as the college basketball player of the year. The award is voted on by the United States Basketball Writers Association. Kaminsky is expected to be named The Associated Press player of the year later Friday
UW students to protest budget cuts at Capitol rally
Madison.com
The rally, and statewide letter writing campaign against the cuts, has been organized by a student group called UW Students Against Education Cuts.
‘Order doesn’t work for us’: Young, Gifted and Black embrace radical role
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Insight from Pamela Oliver, a UW-Madison sociology professor who has researched the dynamics of protests.
Badgers men’s basketball: Last year’s learning experience in Final Four motivated Frank Kaminsky’s decision to return
Madison.com
When the Badgers 35-3 face Kentucky 38-0 for the second consecutive season in the Final Four — the teams meet on Saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium — it’ll be a shot at redemption for Kaminsky.
Doug Moe: A scary diagnosis, and a special graduation
Wisconsin State Journal
Story of Maggie Stewart, a UW–Madison undergraduate who overcame a brain tumor diagnosis in 2013 to earn her degree in wildlife ecology in December.
When is it reasonable for an officer to use deadly force?
Madison.com
Noted: Includes perspective from Stan Davis, an adjunct instructor at UW Law School, from a forum sponsored by the African American Council of Churches and the NAACP of Madison.
Badgers men’s basketball: Travel stipend eases load for players’ families
Wisconsin State Journal
A pilot program initiated this year by the NCAA that allots a travel stipend of $3,000 to the family of each player in the men’s and women’s Final Four, with another $1,000 for those who advance to the championship game.
Organizers plan legal forums ahead of decision in Tony Robinson shooting
Wisconsin State Journal
The forums are being organized by the African-American Council of Churches, the NAACP of Madison and the UW-Madison law school.
Know Your Madisonian: Paul White
Madison.com
White began at the UW-Madison’s Waisman Center in 1986 and now runs Community Outreach Wisconsin COW,
Should UW-Madison sell University Ridge golf course to weather Scott Walker budget cuts?
Capital Times
A spokesperson for Blank said Thursday that there a no plans to change the operating model of the golf course.“The university is exploring numerous avenues to mitigate the proposed budget cuts, including suggestions on costs savings and efficiencies received from faculty, staff and the public,” John Lucas, executive director of university communications, said in an email.
Badgers football: Future game at Hawaii moved back three years
Madison.com
Hawaii will still travel to Madison for a game on Sept, 17, 2022, but the Badgers’ trip to Honolulu has been pushed back three years and is now scheduled for Aug. 31, 2024, according to the Warriors’ athletic website.
UW’s Ray Cross: Faculty tenure system should include accountability
Capital Times
Cross said at a forum on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget Wednesday at UW-Eau Claire that the review system for tenured professors should include probation if warranted, and dismissal if gaps in performance are not addressed, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.
Badgers men’s basketball: Bo Ryan has silenced the critics over 14 years
Madison.com
Ryan has changed a lot of people’s opinions since he was hired on March 29, 2001.
Leaders of Final Four universities asked about Indiana’s ‘religious freedom’ law
Capital Times
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she is taking seriously concerns of discrimination against gays raised by Indiana’s new religious freedom law while Duke University declares it stands with the LGBT community.
Badgers men’s basketball: Thousands of fans send UW off to Final Four with Kohl Center rally
Wisconsin State Journal
At a pep rally Wednesday, several thousand anxious fans filled about three-quarters of the Kohl Center’s lower seating bowl to catch a last glimpse of the Badgers before they left for the Final Four.
UW-Madison’s Anthony Shadid ethics award goes to Chicago Tribune staff
Madison.com
The UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics announced in a news release that Tribune reporters David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa Eldeib, and photographer Anthony Souffle, are being honored for a five-part multimedia series that revealed hundreds of wards of the state were assaulted and raped by their peers every year.
Second time at Final Four the charm for Bo Ryan? It was for a number of legendary basketball coaches
Capital Times
Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan did not win the national championship in his first trip to the Final Four. Neither did John Wooden, Al McGuire, Bobby Knight, Adolph Rupp or Phog Allen.
Marsha Mailick named UW-Madison research and graduate education vice chancellor
Madison.com
The former head of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center has been selected as the university’s first vice chancellor for research and graduate education.
Badgers men’s basketball: Bo Ryan vigilant about maintaining team’s focus
Madison.com
There are plenty of distractions to deal with during the week leading up to the Final Four, and University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan’s radar is on high alert to make sure the hoopla isn’t having an adverse effect on his team’s preparations.
Bill Lueders: Deer disease keeps worsening in Wisconsin, as predicted
Capital Times
Includes a quote from Mike Samuel, a UW-Madison associate professor of wildlife ecology who studies CWD.
Badgers men’s basketball: University Book Store pulls T-shirt with Nigel Hayes’ words for stenographers due to possible NCAA violation : Sports
Madison.com
University Bookstore has pulled a T-shirt based on Nigel Hayes’ now famous words for stenographers at the NCAA basketball tournament.
Madison low-wage workers prepare for national day of protests on April 15
Capital Times
Four local workers — in fast food, retail, home care and food service at UW-Madison — told their stories Tuesday outside the McDonald’s restaurant on Regent Street during an announcement of plans for local one-day strikes and marches.
4 UW schools offer buyouts to head off budget cuts
Madison.com
Four University of Wisconsin System schools (Oshkosh, Eau Claire, Superior and Green Bay) are offering employees buyouts to help absorb their shares of a $300 million system-wide cut in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
Patrick Durkin: Steven Rinella embodies philosophies of perceptive hunting
Madison.com
That four-week course, “The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold and Conservation,” is part of UW-Madison’s “Massive Open Online Course” series, or MOOC. The course ran from late January to late February, and remains available online at http://moocs.wisc.edu/mooc/landethic/, but interaction with instructors is no longer available.
Doug Moe: Back to back and barely believable
Wisconsin State Journal
In which Moe reminisces about Badger b-ball glories.
Golf: University Ridge to open for season Wednesday … with Final Four t-shirts in pro shop
Madison.com
UW’s golf course opens for the season Wednesday with tee times available after 11 a.m. The practice facility will also open Wednesday, starting at 10 a.m.
Ruby slippers for Mike Leckrone: ‘Wizard of Oz’ on tap at Varsity Band concert
Madison.com
Gee, Toto, it sure won’t look like Kansas when UW-Madison’s Varsity Band gets a hold of “The Wizard of Oz.” The iconic fantasy musical will be the featured songfest at the band’s 41st annual concert, April 16, 17 and 18 at the Kohl Center.
Badgers men’s basketball: Frank Kaminsky leads AP All-America team
Madison.com
The senior center was named a unanimous first-team selection on the Associated Press All-America team. The AP Player of the Year will be announced later this week, as will the winners of the Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy and Oscar Robertson Trophy, and it’s possible it could be a clean sweep for Kaminsky on the award circuit.
MATC stenography expanding with assist from Nigel Hayes
Wisconsin State Journal
In light of Hayes’ vocabulary exercise at the NCAA tournament, a follow-up story about Madison Area Technical College stenography program.
Japan’s Fujifilm to buy Madison stem cell company Cellular Dynamics for $307 million
Noted: Cellular Dynamics was founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson in 2004.
Spring break is a good thing for selling Final Four apparel at the mall
Madison.com
With last year’s University of Wisconsin basketball team Final Four apparel suddenly out of date, many fans — particularly those away from campus — are buying up Badgers T-shirts, caps and sweatshirts for this year’s title run.
UW does a lot, deserves support — Mark Condon
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin has an exceptional system of technical schools that do just what he proposes. One of the advantages of an education provided by a university such as UW-Madison is the critical thinking skills students hopefully develop — skills that Johnson apparently lacks. If he had such skills, he’d easily recognize how UW is an economic boon to the state because of its work.
Imhoff, Hazel Marie Friedl
Madison.com
Hazel moved to Madison, and out of school began working for the State of Wisconsin at the Memorial Union and also tap dancing at the old Eastwood Theater before she met and married Harry Imhoff on Aug. 18, 1933. In addition to working for the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union, Hazel worked for University of Wisconsin Neurological Hospital as a nursing assistant and as a cook/chef for University of Wisconsin Residence Halls for a total of more than 20 years before retiring in 1976.
Ecstatic Badgers fans celebrate return to Final Four
Wisconsin State Journal
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans packed into State Street taverns and turned March Madness up several notches Saturday night, ecstatic by their team returning to the NCAA men’s tournament’s Final Four next week.
Budig, Barbara J.
Madison.com
Budig worked at the UW Department of Ophthalmology.
Lawmakers eye end to state’s prevailing wage laws
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: UW-Madison professor Awad Hanna, chairman of the Construction Engineering and Management Program in the College of Engineering, comments.
Board overseeing Wisconsin’s for-profit schools fights for its life
Capital Times
The proposal to eliminate the Educational Approval Board is part of Walker’s proposed 2015-17 budget. Since its unveiling in February, the board’s Executive Secretary David Dies has been trying to persuade state lawmakers to reject the idea.
Badgers men’s basketball: Family revels in Sam Dekker’s success
Madison.com
A rematch with Kentucky in a national semifinal — the Badgers 35-3 and Wildcats 38-0 will meet Saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis — wouldn’t have been possible without a brilliant performance from Dekker during UW’s 85-78 victory over Arizona in the West regional final.
Prof who got UW’s Ray Cross to put his job on the line says he meant to help him
Capital Times
English professor Richard Grusin says he never expected UW System President Ray Cross to give him such a straight answer when he asked Cross in a public forum this week whether he would resign if he doesn’t manage to ease the pain of Scott Walker’s budget on the university.
Badgers men’s basketball: The ordinary fan is going to have a tough time getting Final Four tickets
Madison.com
If you’re not a University of Wisconsin men’s basketball donor or season-ticket holder, UW doesn’t have a ticket for you for Saturday night’s NCAA Final Four semifinal rematch with Kentucky in Indianapolis.
Q&A: Nate Moll owns the ‘thumbs of @UWMadison’
Madison.com
UW–Madison Social Media Specialist Nate Moll talked to the Cap Times about how he got his job as the “thumbs of UW-Madison” and how he tries to bring “inspired goofiness” to his work.
Chris Rickert: UW’s Ray Cross a scapegoat for faculty’s refusal to face reality
Madison.com
I don’t usually feel bad for highly placed, well-paid officials, but I felt bad for System President Ray Cross when a UW-Milwaukee English professor was able to extract the resignation promise during his Wednesday Q & A.
UW-Madison professor gets corny with new seed variety called ‘Who Gets Kissed?’
UW-Madison agronomy professor Bill Tracy and his graduate students created a new variety of sweet corn — a non-hybrid with ears that don’t all look the same, as most farmers and gardeners these days have come to expect.
Thomas J. Givnish: Great universities and great communities build each other over generations
Capital Times
Column by Givnish, the Henry Allan Gleason professor of botany and environmental studies.
Badgers men’s basketball: Josh Gasser makes big impact doing little things to send UW back to Final Four
Madison.com
(Gasser’s) defense on Arizona’s 3-point threat Gabe York he hit just two and forward Stanley Johnson and his grab of a baseball pass inbounds toss that glanced off York will be among a whole host of things others will remember from the Port Washington native’s work in another West regional final set in the hostile environment of Pac-12 Conference country.
Union construction to cause early Terrace closure
Daily Cardinal
Moving from its first to second phase, the Memorial Union Reinvestment project will focus on exterior changes, like reviving Alumni Park and “overhauling” the Terrace, causing it to close from the beginning of September until summer 2016, Marketing & Communications Coordinator for the Memorial Union Reinvestment Anna Johnson said.