. In 1962 he began his career at UW-Madison as a faculty member in the math department. During the 1960s Howard moved his family to New York to work at the Rockefeller Institute. He returned to UW-Madison in 1968 and retired in 1995.
Beyond politics, Wisconsin should feel blessed by generosity. UW-Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge just announced a $100 million gift to the university to attract and keep top professors and researchers. That’s on top of hundreds of millions more in past gifts by the couple for UW buildings, research and System-wide student grants.
UW-Madison paid full professors an average of $109,300 — 25 percent below the median among 11 comparable schools around the nation.
Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison, said it’s unlikely retailers that open on Thanksgiving will retreat due to competition. But sales are about the same, regardless if a store is open or closed on the holiday, he said.
Neil Damron, a political science and economics major from Syracuse, New York, was a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship, and Rachel Dvorak, a biochemistry major from Rice Lake, was a finalist for the Marshall scholarship.
UW-Madison has started a national search for a new vice-provost for diversity and chief diversity officer.
The flight lasted just minutes and sparked a federal investigation. But a month and a half later, University of Wisconsin police still don’t know who flew a drone over Camp Randall Stadium during a Wisconsin Badgers football game against Illinois.
Jim left the Department of Labor to join the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1969, where he served as Professor of Law and Industrial Relations, until his retirement in 1993. Early in his tenure, he originated the William H. Hastie Teaching Fellowship program. In 1991, he was named Nathan P. Feinsinger Professor of Labor Law.
It’s no secret that Saturday will likely be Melvin Gordon’s last game at Camp Randall Stadium … UW coach Gary Andersen isn’t one to make assumptions, though, and Gordon will not be honored alongside the seniors before the Badgers take on rival Minnesota on Saturday.
Instead of the axe being kept behind the bench of the current caretaker during the game, it will appear for the ceremonial coin toss and then vanish until the game is over. Instead of players from the winning team gathering up the axe and using it to feign the act of chopping down both goal posts, the axe will be made available to the winners in the end zone closest to their locker room.
(Wis. Taxpayer’s Alliance’s) Berry also addressed the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents earlier this month along with Department of Workforce Development secretary Reggie Newson … The two talked about the role of education in Wisconsin’s economic outlook and Newson noted the growing need for more bachelor’s degree-holders in Wisconsin. “The university shouldn’t be figuring out how to fill today’s jobs but how to spawn tomorrow’s quirky thinkers who innovate, who will sometimes succeed and sometimes fail,” Berry told the board.
Concerns over handling of sexual assault reports at UW-Madison prompted students and faculty to join a national day of action last month demanding better practices in responding to reports of sexual assault on campus, the Daily Cardinal reported. … UW-Madison is considering changes to its procedures for investigating reports of sexual assault on campus, the Cardinal reported.
UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College will be closed Thursday and Friday, while Madison Edgewood College will end classes at noon on Wednesday for a 4 1/2-day holiday.
Four UW-Madison professors have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS, the university announced on Monday.
UW-Eau Claire is the only University of Wisconsin System school to have a Rhodes winner other than the flagship UW-Madison, which has had 31 winners.
The increase would raise rates from $1.15 to $1.20 per ride and would affect pass programs for University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, UW Hospital employees, UW Associated Students of Madison, Madison College, Edgewood College, Dane County employees, City of Madison employees, St. Mary’s Hospital and Meriter Hospital.
Stacy Taeuber, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of its Immigrant Justice Clinic, comments.
A team of UW-Madison students and recent graduates who devised a new way to add colors to 3-D printing won the $12,500 top prize in the Collegiate Inventors Competition.
For the record, public events at UW System facilities can’t be closed to the public.
There is no doubt that supporting student debt reform is good politics for Rep. Pocan, whose congressional district is anchored in Madison and features the state’s flagship public university. But it is also a smart for progressives in Wisconsin and nationally, with 40 million Americans, including nearly 1 million Wisconsinites, directly affected by student loan debt that now exceeds $1.2 trillion.
For decades, the school has welcomed a large contingent from around the world — at least compared to its peers. They mix with American-born students who hail mostly from surrounding rural communities.
UW-Madison police are currently investigating a reported sexual assault outside of a campus academic building Saturday night, according to a UW-Madison Police Department report.
The memory of her autistic son — who thrived at Edgewood College in a program for students with developmental disabilities — has led a Middleton woman to make a $500,000 gift for a new residence hall at the school.
That’s a sizable hole for Walker, who is contemplating a 2016 presidential run, to climb out of as he crafts his budget proposal due out early next year. Achieving a balanced budget will require scaling back program requests, especially if he wants to cut taxes further.
Gov. Scott Walker’s administration has contracted with the Segal Co. to study potential cost-cutting changes to the state’s health insurance plans, including moving to a self-insured coverage program, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday.
Students at University of Wisconsin-Madison are trying to open an on-campus food pantry to assist students forced to choose between buying food and paying the rent.
Five more criminal charges were filed Thursday against a former UW-Madison student who allegedly tried to extort three women for sex using ads on Craigslist in which he pretended to be a woman.
The finalists are Gail Hackett, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; Mark Mone, UW-Milwaukee’s interim chancellor; and William “Mike” Sherman, senior vice president and provost and chief operating officer at the University of Akron.
The donation of $100 million to support development of UW-Madison faculty was big, blazon-it-on-the-Camp-Randall-scoreboard news. But its long-term impact will be even bigger, say University of Wisconsin-Madison deans.
Interactive page showing enrollment by high school.
University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen has been named one of 20 semifinalists for the Maxwell Football Club Collegiate Coach of the Year Award.
A report published by a Dallas-based libertarian think tank and Wisconsin’s conservative MacIver Institute calls for changes to the state’s health care benefit program for public retirees.
For several decades, Sapoznik has worked to unearth klezmer music, archive it, and bring it to the public. For those efforts, Sapoznik — director of UW-Madison’s Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture — was named one of the Jewish Daily Forward’s “2014 Forward 50.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison could be next, warns the conservative organization that sued Harvard and University of North Carolina this week over affirmative action policies in admissions.
The mansion may be sold by the Wisconsin Department of Administration, but officials have been vague about what they’re considering. The potential sale has some fretting about the landmark’s future.
To be clear, we realize there continue to be major gaps in achievement in schools across Wisconsin, and we must continually strive to find better and more effective ways to make sure every child has access to a free, high-quality education. But disinvesting in public education is not the answer.
Doug Jorenby, clinical services director at UW-Madison’s Tobacco Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, told the State Journal in September that “it’s a no-brainer” that switching from regular cigarettes to e-cigarettes reduces harm to the user. But the science on secondhand vapor isn’t clear, he said.
Those who attended Wisconsin’s win over Nebraska on Saturday may have missed the fun unfolding on Twitter involving the UW-Madison police department, a well-known college football parody account and whether polar bears are allowed in Camp Randall Stadium.
In a word: Wow!
The message coach Mick Byrne delivered to his University of Wisconsin women’s cross country team Friday afternoon was simple.
Although just a sophomore himself, Malachy Schrobilgen had more experience with the 10-kilometer distance than four of his University of Wisconsin men’s cross country teammates that joined him on the starting line for the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet on Friday.
The members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team couldn’t go anywhere the past month or so without seeing or hearing the hype.
I am a UW-Madison student studying elementary education. To earn my degree and follow my dream, I borrowed $17,000 and I will be paying back $46,000 with interest over the next 20 years. To me, it’s worth it. I
Joan accepted the position of supervisor and instructor in the Occupational Therapy Department of the UW Hospitals – a position she held for fourteen years.
[T]he press box at Camp Randall Stadium was making noises a press box shouldn’t really make.
Whyte, who is from the Toronto suburb of Ajax, Ontario, prepared for the season by playing for the Canadian National B Team that won the Jones Cup this summer in Taiwan.
Madison Area Technical College will add a new $15.6 million culinary training center at its main Truax campus, allowing the school to increase enrollment in some degree-seeking programs and also expand offerings for other would-be gourmets, be they high school students or “Top Chef”-loving adults, college officials said.
Gordon’s stat line in the Badgers’ 59-24 victory at Camp Randall Stadium will go down in college football lore: 25 carries, 408 yards, four touchdowns. No one has ever rushed for more yards in a Football Bowl Subdivision game, and the player whose record Gordon beat by two yards was among the first to send along congratulations through Twitter.
Anyone interested (in) the use of animals in research at UW-Madison can now go to its animal research page and read about incidents involving the escape of 36 primates, deaths of three monkeys and burning of another that brought four citations this fall for failing to comply with USDA standards. But that’s only because of the work of an Ohio-based animal rights group with tactics that Eric Sandgren, director of UW’s Research Animal Resources Center, says are “inappropriate.”
UW Credit Union says it may be affected by a fraudulent loan case involving Pennant Management, a Milwaukee investment services firm.
Thumbs Down: To Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, for disparaging University of Wisconsin research.
Connie was a current member of the UW Foundation board and a distinguished alumna of the year for the School of Nursing. She was an active supporter of the school, endowing a student scholarship and funding Curran Commons, a student gathering-area in the new the school’s new facility.
University of Wisconsin tailback Melvin Gordon set a Football Bowl Subdivision single-game rushing record Saturday, rushing for 410 yards and four touchdowns in just his first three quarters of work as the Badgers jumped out to a 52-17 lead on Nebraska at Camp Randall Stadium.
Since taking over as UW-Madison chancellor in July 2013, Rebecca Blank has repeatedly stressed the need for significantly more money to attract and keep top professors and researchers. Saturday, the focus on faculty pay got a massive infusion of hope and dollars, with a $100 million gift announced from John and Tashia Morgridge.
Pugh, director of UW Health’s clinical simulation program, is a champion of haptic technology, the science of touch.
As Melvin Gordon and the Badgers secured their victory over conference-rival Nebraska Saturday afternoon amid snow showers, the UW-Madison Police Department doled out 33 citations to fans in attendance, according to a UWPD report.
Diversity is good for business, which makes it an imperative for U.S. business schools, say Wisconsin School of Business administrators.
The UW-Stout Police Department, with support from the Menomonie Police Department and other law enforcement agencies, Wednesday executed a search warrant at an off-campus residence that resulted in the seizure of more than six pounds of marijuana, marijuana-based candy, other controlled substances and $5,200 in cash.
The young adults who make up the Wisconsin Singers — a show group that travels the state, entertaining audiences with high-energy singing, dancing and polished showmanship — all have full-time commitments as UW-Madison students. Their majors range from education to bioengineering.
Joan worked at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison for 36 years as a medical technologist and laboratory supervisor.
