David Peterson wanted to take his 13-year-old daughter to a UW-Madison men’s basketball game and Dec. 28 seemed to be just the right date.
Conducted by UW-Madison’s Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the analysis also found that being in the program for all four years of high school significantly boosted graduation rates for male students of color.
Mulhern, who primarily covered the University of Wisconsin football team, previously won the award in 2005 and ’10. Mulhern was 56 when he died Oct. 3 from complications due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease … It was announced last month that the first recipient of the Tom Mulhern Scholarship for Sports Journalism at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be named April 10.
The tenant’s attorney, who uses the single name of Mitch, runs the UW-Madison Law School’s Neighborhood Law Clinic.
Gov. Scott Walker and the Legislature should give UW-Madison the right to work without micro-management. Take off the shackles that bind UW’s hands.
Speaking to the Madison Rotary Club yesterday, Cross acknowledged the state is facing a tough budget and the university system shouldn’t be exempt as lawmakers manage scarce resources. But he said the university should be viewed as a partner and investment, rather than an expense.
Keach retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The legislation also asks that UW-Madison’s Value-Added Research Center provide the new board a list of alternative tests “acceptable for statistical comparison” with the tests adopted by the superintendent. It also requires the research center to work with the board and DPI to review alternative tests proposed by schools, and asks that it equate the scores between the different tests. Brad Carl, associate director of the center, said while it’s possible to do that, the most accurate way to compare test takers is to have all students taking the same test on the same academic standards.
A Dane County judge has refused to reissue a restraining order against frequent University of Wisconsin System protester Jeff Decker.
The athletic department paid out more than $2.6 million in bonuses to 90 coaches over the last three full school years, according to data provided by the school.
Upon completing a Ph.D. in mass communications in 1983, he also joined the faculty of the U.W. Agricultural Journalism Department. Professor Schomisch taught advertising, market research and marketing campaign courses. His collegues elected him department chair in 1999. He retired in 2004.
“Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen” will begin on Feb. 1, less than a year after Wisconsin Public Radio announced it would no longer broadcast the program that had been on since 1978.
Wisconsin’s college savings plan, EdVest, now allows contributions to count for 2014’s taxes as long as they’re made by April 15, the deadline to file tax returns.
Sources said Monday that Joe Rudolph is in line to be the offensive coordinator, reprising the role he had as assistant head coach under Chryst when the two were at Pittsburgh from 2012-14.
or multiple reasons I find possibly misleading either the study of economic development marketing by the University of Wisconsin’s department of agricultural and applied economics or Mike Ivey’s brief description of it, “WEDC marketing efforts a waste of money, new report suggests.”
The campus awarded 1,637 raises, more than one-third of the total 4,704 increases from January through October, to employees including custodians, academic department and program staff and information systems workers.
Janice was a founder of Children’s House in Racine, a school for mentally handicapped children, and worked for many years for the medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He offered some possibilities for finding efficiencies. One, he said, was in more flexibilities for the UW System in hiring and financial matters.
Ed Nuttycombe, 62, the hugely successful 26 Big Ten conference championship teams recently retired University of Wisconsin men’s track and field coach, was inducted into the track coaches Hall of Fame, and the man who presented Ed for induction was his father, Hall of Fame member Charlie Nuttycombe, 84.
[High school dropouts are] enrolled in a new program that can provide them the high school diploma they need and up to two years of college at no cost.
Niebruegge, a 2003 UW–Madison grad with a degree in journalism, has published her debut novel titled “Mistake, Wisconsin.”
Generally, taking a college course costs money. But a group of students at UW-Madison wound up making money — $30,000, or theoretically, enough to pay annual tuition and fees for three in-state students — when they took an introductory class on entrepreneurship for non-business majors this fall and had to run a business of their own.
For over 100 years, UW-Madison researchers have conducted dirt, plant and agricultural tests for Wisconsin farmers at a laboratory on Mineral Point Road to further agricultural research in the state. But later this year, the Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory will be consolidated with a second lab in Marshfield.
Tess was employed … as a psychometrist at the Neuropsychology Lab at UW Hospital and Clinics 1967-2000.
Up and coming gaming companies with ties to UW-Madison are one way the university indirectly helps grow the local tech economy, UW-Madison News reports.
The study, from a research group led by UW-Madison botany professor Donald Waller, says deer account for at least 40 percent of the change seen in the forests over the past half-century or so.
After moving to Madison, Margaret worked as a telephone operator at the University of Wisconsin’s telephone office.
This led her to employment in the back shop of the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at the UW where her exposure to electronic composition started her on a career in information technology.
Claudia Card attended UW-Madison and has taught philosophy at her alma mater since 1966.
Badgers defeated Auburn in overtime 34-31 victory at the Outback Bowl.
Somewhere along the road to the Outback Bowl, Cameron Artis-Payne thought it would be a good idea to wave a red cape in front of Melvin Gordon.
It is being funded with a $1.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will be headed by Dr. Jon Temte, family medicine professor at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
He worked as a carpenter at the University of Wisconsin until his retirement in 1989.
On a campus full of classes teaching ancient wisdom from science and philosophy, a new class at UW-Madison is offering lessons of the practical sort, reminding students about wants — bad! — and needs — OK!
For the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all focus for the upcoming legislative session is on the state budget. The university doesn’t traditionally promote or oppose specific bills in the Legislature, said Charles Hoslet, associate vice chancellor of government and corporate affairs. “Ninety percent of what we’re interested in happens in the state budget,” Hoslet said.
Alvarez, who retired as UW’s coach after the 2005 season, also coached UW against Stanford in the Rose Bowl after Bret Bielema bolted for Arkansas two years ago … When Bielema’s replacement, Gary Andersen, took off for Oregon State on Dec. 10, Alvarez again came out of the bullpen to coach UW when it plays Auburn on Thursday. He did so after UW’s seniors, recalling their Rose Bowl experience two years ago, asked him to come down from the athletic director’s box one more time.
Maybe the GOP has actually convinced voters that we do not need and cannot afford a world-class research university such as the one we have at UW-Madison. After all, it is GOP pols who like to say — to dodge overwhelming evidence that climate change exists — that they cannot opine on it because they are not scientists. So, not grasping the promise of stem cells and other advanced research, maybe they think Wisconsin’s flagship university should stick to training for professions they understand.
University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig was hired to the same post at Vanderbilt, multiple outlets reported Sunday night.
Natalie Rudolph is one of 11 recipients for the award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Why not cut it down to just a large stump, perhaps three feet high. It could be sealed over the top using some of the good lumber from the tree to make a monument and statement.
In a four-part series running through Wednesday, the State Journal will look at how stress affects our lives and what it does to us, physically and emotionally. (Including the work of UW–Madison Prof. Richard Davidson.)
There were two very different hiring processes for arguably the two most important people on UW-Madison’s campus. Make up your own minds as to which ranks No. 1.
A water main break near Linden and Babcock Drives on the UW-Madison campus could make for hazardous walking conditions until it is repaired Monday morning, UW-Madison police report.
UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson is among the pioneers putting hard science behind the testimonials. His work shows mindfulness meditation can physically alter parts of the brain, and rather quickly at that.
[S]enior center (Frank Kaminsky) … has proven to be a valuable resource for Vitto Brown because Kaminsky has walked in the sophomore’s shoes.
Badgers assistant coaches Chad Kauha’aha’a and T.J. Woods were named Tuesday to Andersen’s staff along with strengh coach Evan Simon. All appointments are contingent on Oregon State administration and human resources approval, according to an athletic department news release.
In June, 1994, Tom returned to Madison to serve as director of the Forest Products Laboratory FPL. After 37 years in the Forest Service, Tom retired in 2001.
His 52 year teaching career included Chair of Mathematics at London School of Economics, Visiting professor at Cornell University, Hebrew University, Gottingen University, University of London, University of Warwick, Imperial College, Williams University, London School of Economics, University of Erlangen, Republic of Germany, Tulane University, and was assistant professor, associate professor, professor of math at the University of Wisconsin. During his time at the University he was co-founder and he served as president of the Wisconsin University Union, and was a longtime activist member of University Faculty Senate.
Laura worked for the UW Hospital in the housekeeping department for 30 years.
(Joe) Ferguson, a redshirt freshman safety on the University of Wisconsin football team, has spent the past two weeks experiencing the rare opportunity of having his grandfather (Alvarez) as a coach.
Six months into Deborah Tobin’s battle with breast cancer, she finally got to meet … Lynn Malayter, a breast-cancer survivor now helping other women cope with their diagnoses. Malayter is one of 20 volunteers at the University of Wisconsin Health Breast Center’s Patient Survivor Advocate Program that connects those at the front end of treatment with those who have been through it.
John Magnuson, UW-Madison professor emeritus and the first director of the Center for Limnology, told the CLA in the last 30 years, Lake Mendota has frozen as early as Dec. 3 and as late as Jan. 20. Article also chronicles hockey playing exploits of some UW faculty and staff.
A security guard at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison has been charged with five counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child.
My hope for 2015 is that Madison Mayor Paul Soglin will finally have the courage to close the hideously cruel University of Wisconsin Primate Center.
The capital city and its flagship university, research-based UW-Madison, will play a prominent role, but the founders want it to reach statewide. “The idea is to make it primarily Wisconsin-based,” said David Nelson, a retired UW-Madison biochemistry professor. “Not just the university but the whole state.”
A former UW Hospital nurse who may face criminal prosecution for stealing morphine could also face a reckless homicide charge for allegedly fatally infecting a patient at the hospital with a pathogen in March, according to court documents.
Comments from professors Will Jones and Pam Oliver, references campus “die-in” demonstration.
Controversial reforms proposed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, for the University of Wisconsin — like monitoring professors’ workload and rethinking tenure — may not even be applicable at UW-Madison, says faculty advocacy group PROFS.
This is the story of a rare disease that was diagnosed in a rare young woman, and what happened before, and after.
A joint venture announced Tuesday by UW School of Medicine and Public Health and Swoop Search, an information technology in Madison, seeks to identify better tests and treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
