He worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Physical Plant as a maintenance painter for 28 years before retiring in 2011.
Gates, James “Jim”
Madison.com
Author: gbump
Wisconsin university fires ex-police chief
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has fired a former police chief who was placed on administrative leave and demoted to police captain after he traded sexual Internet messages with a student.
UW-Madison issues free Voter ID cards for students
Capital Times
As of this week, University of Wisconsin-Madison students who lack the proper identification to vote in the Nov. 4 election can get a free ID card on campus that will allow them to vote.
On Campus: Voter ID card drive starts today at UW-Madison; extended hours tomorrow
Wisconsin State Journal
Students at UW-Madison can pick up free voter ID cards starting Monday, as promised last week.
On Campus: UW fan protests vile slurs at a soccer game
Wisconsin State Journal
Shawn Peters, who coordinates teaching and learning at UW-Madison?s Center for Education Opportunity … said he?s neither a saint nor a prude and normally lets bawdy chants and rowdy fan behavior slide. But a UW-Madison men?s soccer game two Fridays ago, when new Big Ten member Rutgers traveled to Madison for its first-ever game in the conference, stands out to him.
UW researcher: Cost cutting will increase use of packaged college courses more common
Capital Times
UW-Madison won?t be turning anytime soon to ready-made online courses produced by big educational publishers, says Noel Radomski, director and associate researcher for the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE). But the situation may be different at the UW System?s smaller schools, where rising tuition and sometimes dropping enrollment has administrators searching for ways to cut costs.
UW police suspect arson in portable toilet fire
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW-Madison Police Department is investigating an incident in which two portable toilets were destroyed and a vehicle badly damaged by a fire early Saturday morning in Lot 51 on North Mills Street.
Doug Moe: Liberia visit sparks Ebola documentary
Wisconsin State Journal
Gregg Mitman was in Liberia in June, thinking he was finishing one film. In fact, he was starting another. Mitman holds a distinguished research chair at UW-Madison and curates the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies? annual film festival, Tales from Planet Earth.
Catching Up: How is UW-Platteville doing after tornadoes?
Wisconsin State Journal
In mid-June, two tornadoes hit UW-Platteville. In early September, a record number of students hit campus, which had been transformed from a place of ruin back to a functioning campus in just more than two months.
UW-Madison substance abuse recovery group awarded $10,000 grant
Madison.com
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student group dedicated to helping students recover from substance abuse received a $10,000 grant from the university to further their efforts Thursday, according to a UW-Madison release.
Chris Rickert: Voter ID and the Nov. 4 election: An experiment in (un)democracy
Wisconsin State Journal
Political Science Prof. Barry Burden comments.
Badgers football: Melvin Gordon rejoins Heisman conversation with huge effort against Bowling Green
Madison.com
Gordon had a career-best 253 yards rushing on 13 carries ? the most productive outing by a Football Bowl Subdivision back this season ? and set a single-game program mark with a staggering average of 19.5 yards per attempt.
UW, MU business schools focus on skills they want students to have
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A recipient of multiple teaching award nominations, University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor Hart Posen did not think he had much to learn about the craft.François Ortalo-Magné, however, thought differently. Ortalo-Magné, dean of UW?s School of Business, asked Posen ? “forced” is the way Posen puts it ? to participate in training workshops aimed at helping the school achieve the right outcomes.
UW-Madison researchers take their sweet science to ‘The Amazing Race’
Wisconsin State Journal
Starting at about 3 a.m. at Times Square on a June morning, the UW-Madison graduate students took their sweet science backgrounds in a new direction, starting an international odyssey as teammates on ?The Amazing Race.?
There must be a better way to research anxiety — Paula Fitzsimmons
Wisconsin State Journal
Anxiety and depression are serious. I?m well aware of the despair it can cause. I don?t believe harming monkeys will lead to a treatment so novel it will have a major impact on humanity.
Just Ask Us: Why is the upper level of the Field House closed?
Wisconsin State Journal
The upper level has been closed for a number of years because of code problems regarding the height of railings and the need for kickboards to fill the gaps between the seats and floorboards, according to Jason King, UW-Madison associate athletic director for capital projects and operations.
Q&A: UW-Madison?s man in Washington says lobbying is about relationships
Capital Times
These days, Ben Miller talks higher education issues and multi-million-dollar research with Washington policy-makers as a lobbyist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But as a kid growing up in upstate New York near Cooperstown, Miller dreamed of a career as second baseman for the Mets and was the first in his family to attend college, he recalls. But when, in his junior year at tiny Union College in Schenectady, he landed an internship with U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, it set a course for his professional life.
36 arrests, 61 ejections at UW football game
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Police made 36 arrests, issued 36 citations and ejected 61 people during the Badgers? 68-17 romp over Bowling Green on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Fritsche, Arthur O.
Madison.com
Fritsche worked in the Physics Department at Sterling Hall for 30-plus years.
UW-Madison food science grad students will compete in ‘The Amazing Race’
Capital Times
Food science Ph.D. students Amy DeJong and Maya Warren will compete against 10 other teams in various physical and mental challenges as vie to be the first to arrive at the final destination and win $1 million.
UW chancellor praises GE Healthcare partnership
Milwaukee Business Journal
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke highly of the university?s long-running research partnership with GE Healthcare during her first visit with the company?s top Milwaukee-area executives.
New effort, Dane 1 in 4, seeks to integrate mental health care with primary care
Capital Times
Created through a broad partnership between the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, the Center for Patient Partnerships, Health Innovation Program, Access Community Health Centers, Group Health Cooperative and UW Health, patients now are being asked to join the conversation.
Wisconsin given deadline to respond on voter ID
Madison.com
Wisconsin officials have until Tuesday to respond to a request that a federal appeals court reconsider its decision to reinstate a requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls.
UW System campuses will issue student voter IDs
Madison.com
UW-Madison students should be able to pick up the new cards beginning early next week, spokesman John Lucas said. The university recently launched a website to help students understand the new state voting regulations.
Police search Wisconsin fraternity after party
Madison.com
Police are investigating a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fraternity where they say members may have slipped date-rape drugs into partygoers? drinks.
Badgers men’s basketball: ESPN, CBS to feature UW frequently
Madison.com
The Big Ten Conference released a full schedule of ESPN/CBS games for the 2014-15 season on Thursday, and the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will be featured prominently.
UW-Madison ranks No. 1 worldwide in media and communications studies
Daily Cardinal
The 2014 QS World University Rankings survey named the University of Wisconsin-Madison first in the world for media and communications studies, according to a university release.
New provost dons Badger red for latest ?tour of Big Ten? stop
Daily Cardinal
Among the 6,279 freshmen the University of Wisconsin-Madison ushered in this fall, the campus also welcomed a newcomer of a different variety in academic leader Sarah Mangelsdorf. The newly appointed provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs arrived in Madison months before the start of the 2014-?15 school year, after serving as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University since 2008.
UW-Madison tops global rankings in media, communications education
Capital Times
UW-Madison ranked first in media and communications among 100 universities worldwide in the QS World University Rankings, which assess international reputation and draw, the Guardian reports from London.
UW-Madison to issue separate voter IDs starting next week
Wisconsin State Journal
Students at University of Wisconsin System campuses will be able to request free voter ID cards from their schools to meet new photo ID requirements at the polls, System spokesman John Diamond said Wednesday. At UW-Madison, the cards will be available for pickup starting early next week at Union South, spokesman John Lucas said.
Andy Baggot: Feedback from UW season ticket-holders mostly positive
Madison.com
The typical general public season ticket-holder for University of Wisconsin football games is male, age 55 to 64, married and an empty-nester. He has a college degree, an annual household income between $100,000 and $149,999 and travels less than 25 miles to Camp Randall Stadium for games.
Know Your Madisonian: Near-death experience taught Aaron Olver power of relationships
Madison.com
Aaron Olver, the new director of University Research Park, nearly had his promising career cut short, but for a little luck and his new wife?s unwavering support.
UW-Madison to issue photo IDs to students to vote
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison students without an acceptable form of identification to vote this fall may soon have a new option.
Dr. Sujatha Ramakrishna: Let’s not monkey around with kids’ brains
Capital Times
Researchers at UW-Madison are preparing to use maternal deprivation to create a primate model of adversity-induced anxious and depressive disorders in human children. Led by Ned Kalin, they hope to discover new therapies by dissecting and analyzing the brains of baby monkeys who have been intentionally traumatized.
Outreach in action: The Wisconsin Science Festival
Capital Times
?We want to enrich the public discourse around what science is and why it matters,? says Laura Heisler, director of programming for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. WARF produces the festival, now in its fourth year, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research.
Science to the people: UW-Madison?s outreach efforts aim to reinforce the value of research
Capital Times
DIY Science is just one of an array of programs at UW-Madison designed to inform the public about scientific research on campus. Roughly 375 academic staff members work in science outreach, which helps fulfill the Wisconsin Idea, UW-Madison?s guiding principle to share the university?s resources to improve the lives of state citizens.
St. Mary’s, UW patients might have enterovirus D68
Wisconsin State Journal
Samples from one UW patient with suspected enterovirus D68 were sent to the CDC late last week, said Dr. Nasia Safdar, an infectious diseases specialist at UW Hospital.
On Campus: Census data center coming to UW-Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
Starting next fall, researchers at UW-Madison will have access to a bigger and deeper pool of data about people?s jobs, salaries, educational levels and other factors.
Badgers volleyball: Unbeaten UW stays at No. 4 in coaches poll
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team remained No. 4 in this week?s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.
Confessions, and a homecoming
Wisconsin State Journal
Back in 1990, UW-Madison freshman Jen Rudin chose 53706 over 90210. Sort of.
Despite comparable use, police sanctions for smoking pot fall far more on blacks
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison professor Pamela Oliver, who has researched the impact of the criminal justice system on communities of color, said the harsher enforcement of drug laws in certain neighborhoods has been a by-product of the broader war on drugs.
Hauser, Edward R.
Madison.com
In 1949, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Meat and Animal Science at UW-Madison.
Aragno, Pietro
Madison.com
After teaching at Princeton for two years, he relocated to Wisconsin and taught Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1970 until his retirement.
On Politics: Gov. Scott Walker unveils plan on jobs, benefits and education
Wisconsin State Journal
Plans include continuing the freeze on University of Wisconsin System tuition and expanding the Flexible Option.
Undercover students used in drug busts at some University of Wisconsin campuses
Capital Times
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism checks at the UW System?s 13 four-year campuses turned up two additional sites ? UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire ? at which officials also acknowledge using students arrested for drug activities to make controlled buys.
Paul Fanlund: In year two, the spotlight will land on UW?s Rebecca Blank
Capital Times
When Rebecca Blank moved into her corner Bascom Hall office last summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor also stepped into a state political environment rife with ill feelings and mistrust that, in recent years, had washed over onto campus affairs.
Tom Still: Multiple centers for research will help Wisconsin?s high-growth economy
The importance of a second research hub for Wisconsin was part of a message delivered last week in Milwaukee by UW-Madison Chancellor Becky Blank, who spoke to a meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
Erickson, Ruth M.
Madison.com
Ruth was a homemaker and had worked as a library aide at schools in the Appleton area and as a librarian at the Helen C. White Library at UW-Madison.
Cropland rent still rising as grain prices keep dropping
Wisconsin State Journal
Farmers need to get around $5 a bushel for their corn to meet rent payments at 2014 prices, said Bruce Jones, a UW-Madison agriculture economics professor.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson headlining UW-Madison lecture
Wisconsin State Journal
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson is delivering the annual Paul Offner Lecture on Sept. 30, UW-Madison announced Thursday.
The Onion, ‘Mystery Science Theater’ founders to revisit ‘Our Funny University’
Madison.com
What?s so funny about the University of Wisconsin-Madison? UW grads went on to create two of the most influential comedy franchises of the last 30 years ? The Onion and ?Mystery Science Theater 3000.?
California biotech firm to hire 100-plus to make cancer drugs in University Research Park
Wisconsin State Journal
A California biotech consulting firm that pledged to create at least 103 local jobs by 2017 will get a $1 million low-interest loan from the state to help it buy an under-used pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in University Research Park where it plans to make cancer-fighting and other types of drugs for other companies.
Drug arrest violation rates at UW System campuses
Capital Times
Graphic of UW System campuses drug arrest rates.
Suter, Robert Allen “Grandpa Bobby”
Madison.com
He graduated from Madison East and later attended University of Wisconsin where he won a National Championship in 1977. Bob was a member of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Hockey Team that won the gold medal. He returned to Madison where he opened Suter?s Gold Medal Sports and started his coaching career.
Scientists warn of faulty Wisconsin wolf estimates
Madison.com
The researchers were led by Adrian Treves, a UW-Madison environmental studies associate professor who studies the interactions between humans and carnivores.
National AFSCME president says Scott Walker is a top target
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said he expects Burke will need strong national union support in order to defeat Walker, who has already appealed to voters and donors by saying that ?big union bosses? are backing Burke.
UW-Madison power outage prompts backup website, updated communications plan
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison has finished building a backup website and changed some emergency communication practices in response to a power outage in June that darkened the university?s website and disabled nearly all electronic communication for a day.
UW-Madison misses the cut in ranking of economically diverse colleges
Capital Times
UW-Madison was not among three public institutions that made the cut in a new ranking of colleges and universities for the economic diversity of their students.
Matthews, John Philip “Jack”
Madison.com
He taught at UW-Madison?s School of Business for 40 years and was professor emeritus at the time of his passing.
Badgers sports: Kinley McNicoll is named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week in soccer
Madison.com
Kinley McNicoll has been a driving force behind the ninth-ranked University of Wisconsin women?s soccer team?s strong start, and the accolades have begun coming her way.