Jackson, who returned to the lineup last week after missing 19 consecutive games while recovering from a broken right foot, said he’s feeling more comfortable now that he has two games under his belt.
With 116 victories in his four seasons as a starter he missed the 2012-13 season due to knee surgery, Gasser has played in more wins than anyone who has worn a UW uniform. Fellow senior Duje Dukan, who redshirted the same year Gasser did, has been there for every one of those wins, though he played sparingly his first two seasons. Another teammate, senior Frank Kaminsky, has played in 113 victories, but he didn’t get major minutes until his junior season.
She spent her working career as a business administrator for the University of Wisconsin housing department.
Column State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma.
Ryan, 67, takes a 357-124 record at UW into tonight’s championship game. His quest for the Hall of Fame was built largely on the profound impact he has had at the Division I and III levels.
Columnist’s take on Yik Yak. Sources include UW professors Dominique Brossard and Kathleen Culver.
UW-Madison officials and local police are preparing for potentially one of the most historic parties the city has seen if the Badger men’s basketball team wins the national championship Monday.
What’s Bo Ryan’s secret? Barry Alvarez, the University of Wisconsin athletic director, gets asked that a lot. People want to know how Ryan does it, how he wins and wins with players some big-time college basketball programs wouldn’t touch, how his teams consistently display toughness and character.
Rerun of front page Wisconsin State Journal story on the return of the basketball champion Badgers, published March 30, 1941.
A look at UW–Madison emeritus professor Wildman and her role with the Madison Music Collective MMC, a volunteer group of musicians and others in the Madison music scene, devoted to promoting jazz and other forms of improvised music, including increasing performance opportunities at reputable venues.
UW-Madison psychology lecturer Michael Caldwell comments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He was a Spanish instructor at his beloved UW-Madison.
On Saturday night, the roars echoed from Union South to State St.
Thousands of rabid fans sporting the Cardinal and White chose to publicly commune as their team made history Saturday night.
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.
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.
Patricia Stuhr, the dean and campus executive officer of the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County, announced her retirement on Friday.
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.
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.”
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
The rally, and statewide letter writing campaign against the cuts, has been organized by a student group called UW Students Against Education Cuts.
Noted: Insight from Pamela Oliver, a UW-Madison sociology professor who has researched the dynamics of protests.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The forums are being organized by the African-American Council of Churches, the NAACP of Madison and the UW-Madison law school.
White began at the UW-Madison’s Waisman Center in 1986 and now runs Community Outreach Wisconsin COW,
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.
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.
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.
Ryan has changed a lot of people’s opinions since he was hired on March 29, 2001.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The former head of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center has been selected as the university’s first vice chancellor for research and graduate education.
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.
Includes a quote from Mike Samuel, a UW-Madison associate professor of wildlife ecology who studies CWD.
University Bookstore has pulled a T-shirt based on Nigel Hayes’ now famous words for stenographers at the NCAA basketball tournament.
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.
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.
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.
In which Moe reminisces about Badger b-ball glories.
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.
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.
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.
In light of Hayes’ vocabulary exercise at the NCAA tournament, a follow-up story about Madison Area Technical College stenography program.
Noted: Cellular Dynamics was founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson in 2004.
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.
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.
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.
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 worked at the UW Department of Ophthalmology.
