Grigsby earned degrees from Howard University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Know Your Madisonian: Tamara Grigsby
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: gbump
UW regents OK $95 million budget request
WKOW-TV 27
The University of Wisconsin System?s Board of Regents has approved asking Gov. Scott Walker for $95 million in additional tax dollars in the next state budget.
Badgers women’s basketball: Big Ten newcomers coming to Kohl Center as part of Big Ten slate
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team will play host to both of the newcomers to the Big Ten Conference, Maryland and Rutgers, as the conference announced its expanded 2014-15 schedule Thursday.
Badgers men’s basketball: UW will open Big Ten season Dec. 31 at home vs. Penn State
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will begin its quest to end a Big Ten Conference title drought with a game against Penn State on New Year?s Eve at the Kohl Center.
Badgers football: Washington home-and-home series canceled; Utah State added to 2017 schedule
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin football team had a home-and-home series with Washington scheduled for 2018 and 2021, but those plans have changed.
Lifelong pursuit leads to newest UW-Madison police officer
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling joked that she?s spent 23 years recruiting the newest member of her force. But she wasn?t really joking.Riseling on Thursday swore in Ryan Bridges as a full-time UW police officer.
UW regents OK $95 million budget increase request
Madison.com
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? The University of Wisconsin System?s regents on Thursday approved asking Gov. Scott Walker for $95 million in additional tax dollars in the state?s next two-year budget after system President Ray Cross assured them the money would help boost the state?s economy.
Physicians Plus drops complaint against Unity
Wisconsin State Journal
Physicians Plus has withdrawn a complaint with the state alleging that Unity Health Plans and UW Health illegally restrained competition for health insurance in south-central Wisconsin.
Harold Olsen: Selling state-owned power plants would be foolhardy
Capital Times
Dear Editor: Why would the state of Wisconsin consider selling some or all of the state?s boiler plants? Would you sell your heating and cooling system for your apartment house or office building to a private party who would operate it and charge you for the heating and cooling provided?
UW plans to ask for $95 million boost in next budget
Wisconsin State Journal
New University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross plans to ask lawmakers for a $95 million funding increase in the next two-year budget cycle to pay for some new initiatives and continue others that he said will help power up the statewide system?s economic development engine.
Thanks to doctor for defending monkeys — Marla Maeder
Wisconsin State Journal
Thanks to Dr. Murry J. Cohen for speaking out against UW-Madison?s planned monkey research in last Thursday?s guest column, “UW-Madison?s monkey experiments are doomed to fail.”
The Badger Herald · Bucky soaks Chancellor Becky Blank in #ALSIceBucketChallenge
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin?s Chancellor Rebecca Blank got a taste of a second ?polar vortex? after accepting her nomination for the Ice Bucket Challenge Tuesday.
Wisconsin retains number 2 spot on ACT test
Madison.com
Wisconsin retains its number two spot among states on the ACT college entrance exam.
Badgers football: Rob Havenstein not just an offensive tackle, he’s the leader of the offense
Madison.com
Rob Havenstein has long viewed leadership as a cut-and-paste process.
Union Corners UW Health project up for final review
Capital Times
On Wednesday, the city Urban Design Commission will consider details on the proposed 60,000-square foot UW Health Clinic at 6th Street and East Washington Avenue. The clinic, which includes 245 parking spaces, 100 below grade, would be the first building constructed on the vacant 11.3 acre site.
Helmet makes no difference in concussion risk for football players, UW study says
Madison.com
The risk of a high school football player getting a concussion is no different when wearing an older helmet than a new one, and the brand of helmet doesn?t matter. That?s the conclusion drawn from a study by researchers at UW-Madison involving more than 2,000 high school football players at 34 high schools in Wisconsin during the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
Badgers sports: UW will no longer print magazine-style programs for football, basketball, volleyball and hockey
Madison.com
Starting with the upcoming football season, the UW Athletic Department will no longer print full-color, magazine-style programs and sell them at Camp Randall Stadium. The same goes for the programs made available at the UW Field House for volleyball and the Kohl Center for men?s and women?s basketball and men?s hockey.
UW primate research plans prompt renewed County Board opposition
Capital Times
Plans by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to resume maternal deprivation experiments on monkeys has prompted renewed opposition on the Dane County Board.
Committee will revisit law aimed at curbing ‘nuisance’ parties
Wisconsin State Journal
While Verveer said he?s been hearing fewer complaints from constituents about out-of-control parties than in years past, he said that?s been more a result of how police and campus officials have handled the problem.
Tom Oates: Impressions after two weeks of Gary Andersen’s second UW football camp
Madison.com
After a mostly closed scrimmage Monday, the 14th-ranked University of Wisconsin football team has retreated behind closed doors for the rest of its fall camp.
Sparrows? humble lives prove a transformative lesson in resilience
Capital Times
Former investigative reporter Trish O?Kane wrote in The New York Times recently how focusing on the daily activities of sparrows helped her regain her footing after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans in 2005. … Today O?Kane is a doctoral candidate in environmental studies at the Gaylord Nelson Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches basic ornithology.
On Campus: ROTC STEMS off extinction at UW-La Crosse; environmental engineering offered online at UW-Madison : Wsj
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is accepting applications for a new online masters degree in environmental engineering, set to go live next fall. Plus … The UW System Board of Regents will meet Thursday and Friday in Oshkosh. At the top of the agenda will be the System?s initial budget request for the next two-year cycle, from 2015 to 2017. It?s due to the Department of Administration by Sept. 15.
UW-Madison researcher testing noninfectious Ebola strain for possible treatment
Wisconsin State Journal
A prominent UW-Madison scientist is studying the Ebola virus on campus.Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who is better known for flu research, is conducting two types of Ebola studies, said Rebecca Moritz, a campus biosafety manager.
Cellectar Biosciences to sell 3.33 million shares
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The company was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert.
Doug Moe: Eden Girma’s year to remember
Wisconsin State Journal
Her father, Tefera, did a medical residency at Howard University in Washington, and the family came to Madison when he accepted a position at UW Hospital and Clinics, where he?s a vascular surgeon.
UW-Stevens Point to go tobacco-free
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point plans to go tobacco-free this month.
Lathrop, Ruth Eleanor (Reynolds)
Madison.com
She loved her work at UW Hospital as a coordinator for a research project for Parkinson?s disease in the late 1970?s.
Nagle, Francis Joseph
Madison.com
Dr. Nagle taught physiology at UW-Madison for many years.
Drug choice, not race, fuels disparities, experts say
Capital Times
Dr. Randall Brown, an associate professor at UW-Madison and director of the Center for Addictive Disorders, said he does not know if drug courts are necessarily ?avoiding? cocaine abusers. But, he said, ?it just seems like cocaine has faded into the background, and heroin and opiates have come to the fore.?
Interim UW Hospital CEO named
Wisconsin State Journal
Ron Sliwinski, chief operating officer of UW Hospital, was named interim president and CEO Friday, following the announcement Wednesday that Donna Katen-Bahensky is retiring as president and CEO Sept. 1 amid restructuring of UW Health.
UW-Madison’s Jordan Ellenberg hopes to multiply readers’ mathematical power
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ellenberg, who will speak Tuesday at Milwaukee?s Boswell Book Company, has been encouraging people to apply “the power of mathematical thinking” (to borrow his book?s subtitle) for years through his column for Slate, Do the Math, and other newspaper and magazine articles.
Graphic: How Madison Police downsized costs for the Mifflin Street Block Party
Capital Times
The 2011 Mifflin Street Block Party was a turning point in the event?s history, and figures released by the Madison Police Department this week show it.
Madison nursing program expansions could help offset forecasted shortage
Wisconsin State Journal
The $53 million building, to be dedicated Saturday and open for classes next month, won?t only teach students differently. It will teach more of them, in an effort to help offset a projected shortage of nearly 23,500 nurses in Wisconsin by 2035.
QandA: UW prof Jordan Ellenberg says you can think better using math
Capital Times
Jordan Ellenberg is a former math child prodigy who has a PhD in mathematics from Harvard and is a current mathematics professor at UW-Madison.
Badgers volleyball: UW picked to finish third in Big Ten behind Penn State, Nebraska
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team was picked to finish third in the Big Ten Conference race, in a preseason poll of league coaches.
Photos: Moving day on and near campus
It?s time again for the annual mid-August moving days downtown, where thousands of students (and many others) move out of their current residences and into new places for the 2014-15 school year.
UW Health changes driven by partnerships
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health plans to combine its hospital and doctor group into one organization to more easily form partnerships with other health care systems, the leader of the doctor group said Thursday.
United Way: Spend $3,500 each to help families out of poverty
Capital Times
United Way board member Darrell Bazzell says the group?s delegation has seen the figures on minority unemployment and poverty. It has also followed the efforts to start a local conversation around race and decided to shift gears for 2014.
New D2P program chooses UW campus inventions for fast track to the market
Wisconsin State Journal
The partnership between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, announced last November, is aimed at taking some of the most promising campus inventions and helping to speed their entry into the marketplace, boosting the economy and creating jobs.
Cost to police Mifflin Street Block Party falls under $100,000
Wisconsin State Journal
The cost to police for the Mifflin Street Block Party fell for the second straight year in 2014, authorities said, with a total price tag of just over $94,000.
Ross, Dean Charles
Madison.com
He worked for several private companies before he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979 as a steamfitter. He specialized in welding and then became a service steamfitter, working on campus which he enjoyed.
UW campuses in region expect to hit enrollment targets
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
Though local UW schools received fewer applications than last year, representatives of UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stout and UW-River Falls said those schools are on track to meet this year?s admissions goals.
In push to reduce move-out waste, groups focus on high-rises
Wisconsin State Journal
As thousands of leases on Madison homes and apartments turn over this week, organizers of a drive to reduce waste in the big move hope the bins at the Embassy ? and others at a dozen more high-rises ? will soon be full of those gently used and perfectly good items that are often thrown away
Runner finds big money Downtown, turns it in
Madison.com
A UW-Madison student out for a run last week found an envelope filled with hundreds of dollars, and then did what the envelope loser probably thought wouldn?t happen: the finder turned it in to police.
Rieder, Robert Henry
Madison.com
Rieder was a president of the University of Wisconsin Orchestra.
Exact Sciences wins FDA approval for non-invasive colorectal cancer test
Wisconsin State Journal
Publicly traded Exact Sciences has 300 employees, about 200 of them in Madison, with headquarters in University Research Park, at 441 Charmany Drive, and a new lab in the Novation Campus, off Rimrock Road.
Trash and traffic don’t mix, crews to work early on East Johnson Street
Madison.com
Few streets Downtown, near the UW-Madison campus or on the isthmus are easy to negotiate during moving week, but East Johnson is especially difficult this year, thanks to the road construction.
On Campus: New UW dorms not happening, prompting questions from lawmaker
Wisconsin State Journal
Construction of two new dormitories at UW campuses in Eau Claire and Whitewater was scheduled to be done this year but hasn?t started, and a state representative is asking questions.
Sen. Baldwin introduces bill to create more VA doctors
WKOW
The legislation introduced Tuesday has support from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gloria Ladson-Billings: School suspensions mark kids as not fit for societ
Capital Times
School suspensions don?t just take children out of the classroom where learning takes place, they label kids as not fit to function in regular society, says Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair of Urban Education at UW-Madison.
Badgers men’s basketball: UW’s non-conference schedule is set
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will open the 2014-15 season with four home games in a span of nine days before beginning what should be the most challenging stretch of its non-conference schedule.
Badgers sports: UW legend Robert ‘Red’ Wilson dies at age 85
Madison.com
Longtime Madison resident Robert ?Red? Wilson, a former University of Wisconsin football and baseball star who went on to success in the major leagues, passed away on Friday morning at Agrace Hospice in Madison. He was 85.
Foy named vice chancellor at UW colleges
Reedsburg Times-Press
Greg Lampe, provost and vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the University of Wisconsin Colleges, today named Joe J. Foy as associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at UW Colleges.
Will national media’s view of Mary Burke give her a boost over Scott Walker?
Capital Times
UW’s Cramer, Burden, Canon and Wagner quoted.
Wilson, Robert J. “Red”
Madison.com
While at Wisconsin, he played baseball and football and was the Big Ten MVP in 1949 in football.
Body of WWII soldier passes through Wisconsin
Madison.com
The DNA Sequencing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center analyzed the DNA, along with a private lab on the East Coast, and concluded it belonged to Gordon.
State to film tourism ads with coach Bo Ryan
Madison.com
The commercial will be directed by David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams.
Wisconsin doesn’t need a third medical school — Dr. Robert N. Golden and Dr. John R. Raymond, Sr. : Wsj
Wisconsin State Journal
The Wisconsin Hospital Association’s Nov. 2011 report, ?100 New Physicians a Year: An Imperative for Wisconsin,” called on the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin to graduate 100 more physicians each year, especially in primary care and in rural areas of Wisconsin.
State to film tourism ads with coach Bo Ryan
Sun Prairie Star
The state Department of Tourism is going to be filming a commercial with University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan.
WWII Soldiers remains on way home after 70 years
WQOW
DNA research, done at the UW-Madison identified the remains of Private First Class Lawrence Gordon back in February.