The University of Wisconsin volleyball team?s magical postseason ride came to an end Saturday night with a four-set loss to Penn State in the NCAA championship match.
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Badgers volleyball: Team members ‘just so happy’ as they prep for national title game
For the University of Wisconsin volleyball players, the memories of a lifetime are coming so fast they can hardly remember them.
Dave Zweifel’s Madison: Keith Symon, like his wife, was a pioneer
Madison area folks of my generation remember well the late Mary Louise Symon.
Father of studio glass movement ‘created worlds’
Glass artist Harvey Littleton, the man who took an ancient medium and launched an unprecedented glassblowing movement at UW-Madison a half-century ago, died Dec. 13 at his home in Spruce Pine, N.C.
College student victim of battery
A UW-Madison student was a victim of battery last night, according to police.
Watkins, Patricia Delores
ext, she became the Assistant Director of Admissions at UW-Madison, where she spoke with over 225,000 students and their parents while in charge of the SOAR program. She retired in 1994, after 17 years of dedicated university service … Patricia was the first African American to chair the UW Roundtable Luncheon.
Symon, Keith Randolph
In 1982 and 1983, he was acting director of the Madison Academic Computing Center and from 1983 to 1985, and acting director of the UW-Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center. His textbook, Mechanics, has been a staple in physics classes since publication of the first edition in 1953. It has been published in multiple languages and is still in use around the world.
Around Town: Despite snow, big crowd for UW-Madison commencement
Before addressing graduates on Sunday, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank congratulated the commencement crowd at the Kohl Center for simply showing up.
Health Sense: New meningitis vaccine and other updates
Princeton University is letting students receive a meningitis vaccine not approved in the U.S., following an outbreak of a meningococcal bacteria strain that killed a UW-Madison student this year.
Badgers volleyball: UW’s Lauren Carlini named to All-America second team
University of Wisconsin freshman Lauren Carlini was named Wednesday to the American Volleyball Coaches Association Division I All-American second team.
Former UW-Stevens Point student faces new charges
Prosecutors have added new charges against a former University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student accused of violating a restraining order.
Badgers football: UW linebacker Chris Borland named to AP All-America second team
Senior Chris Borland fell just short in his latest attempt to become the first University of Wisconsin linebacker to be named a first-team All-American.
Badgers volleyball: Regional champion enters Final Four as huge underdog
One of Kelly Sheffield?s mantras in life is to dream big. But the first-year University of Wisconsin volleyball coach admits even he would?ve been hard pressed to dream before the season that his team would end up playing in the Final Four at KeyArena in Seattle.
Union-covered Wis. workers to get 1 percent raise
Five groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker?s administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.
On Campus: New MATC public comment rules vary — a bit — from the original
Also featured: Union sponsors chair photos, urges membership for new UW-Madison grads
UW-Madison study shows impact of poverty on growth of children’s brains
News of research at UW-Madison showing that living in poverty may slow early brain development is the latest piece in a growing body of evidence that poverty is linked to lower school performance.
Verona woman appeals ruling upholding $250,000 malpractice cap against UW doctors
A Verona woman has appealed a Dane County judge?s ruling upholding a $250,000 malpractice cap against UW-Madison doctors in a case the judge urged the state Supreme Court to take.
In the Spirit: UW atheists add ‘Flying Spaghetti Monster’ deity to Capitol display
Hoping to make a point about “ridiculous” religious displays on public property, the Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics at UW-Madison (AHA) added their own display Monday to the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda.
Benefits outweigh negatives to animal research — Denise Beckfield
Regarding several letters in Thursday?s paper, I understand and accept that some people object to animal research. But I?d bet that no neurologists or oncologists belong to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Dane County businesses show the best signs since pre-recession, a survey shows
The UW-Madison?s A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research conduct(ed) the study in September and October.
UW-Madison unions closing for holidays, with one exception
The student unions at UW-Madison will be closed for two weeks for the Christmas and New Year?s holidays, with one very notable exception.
Badgers sports: Athletic Board approves $3 per-seat increase for 2014 football season tickets
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board on Friday gave unanimous approval to a $3 per-seat increase for football season tickets in 2014.
Yelk, Robert H.
He was a lifetime farmer. He also retired from the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance study examines the ‘payoff’ of a college degree
The WisTax study focused on the University of Wisconsin System. Among 2012 freshmen on the 13 UW-System campuses, about 18 percent were required to take remedial math and about 12 percent needed remedial English. Students who needed remedial math exceeded 40 percent at the Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Parkside and Superior campuses. Moving beyond the freshman year, the study examined retention rates. At the Madison, Eau Claire and La Crosse campuses, a combined 93 percent of new freshmen return for their second year. But at the other 10 campuses, a combined 80 percent return for a second year. However, that?s still higher than the national rate.
Despite raises, UW faculty salaries still lag
Even after three years of raises totaling more than $9 million, professors in the University of Wisconsin System still earn less than they could at comparable universities, according to a published report.
In three years, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery has become a crossroads
An internationally acclaimed stem cell researcher, a cartoonist and a fourth-grader walk into a building. What could sound like the setup to a joke is something else to staffers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery: just another day.
Chris Rickert: Protecting the homeless from compassion’s limits
Donald Downs, a UW-Madison law, political science and journalism professor, said adding homelessness as a protected class could make it illegal to refuse to hire someone because he or she is homeless.
EdVest seeks law changes, expansion, holiday contributors
Wisconsin?s college savings plan, EdVest, is expanding its holiday marketing while banking on a law change to increase tax-deductible contributions and contributors.
Union leader on UW Hospital CEO: ‘She’s choosing to ignore us’
Unions representing nurses, x-ray technicians, custodians, food service workers and other UW Hospital and Clinics employees aren?t any happier with hospital leadership than they were last week, when they held a large rally outside the hospital and walked into a meeting of the hospital board to voice their concerns about the pending expiration of their collective bargaining agreements.
UW accountant accused of stealing more than $100,000
Police have arrested a former university employee for felony theft for allegedly embezzling nearly $145,000 while working for UW SWAP in Verona, UW-Madison Police said Friday.
Verona woman accused of stealing $144K from UW system
An accountant is accused of stealing more than $100,000 while working for a University of Wisconsin department.
Prosecutors lacked evidence to prove crimes against researcher
Court documents state prosecutors lacked enough, unspecified evidence to prove a sex assault charge, and a felony false imprisonment charge, against a UW-Madison researcher.
UW-Madison students to vote on $200 million recreation facilities improvement plan
UW-Madison students will vote in March on a proposed $200 million in facilities improvements that could nearly quadruple the recreational sports line item on their segregated fees statements, from $36.78 per semester to $144.78.
UW-Madison ranks as eighth ‘best value’ among public colleges
Kiplinger?s Personal Finance has named the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the eighth best value among public universities, the magazine announced Wednesday.
Poverty conditions may hinder early brain development, UW-Madison study suggests
Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, according to newly published research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Badgers men’s hockey: UW will be host school for 2016 Frozen Four in Tampa
University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials have hosted many NCAA tournament events over the years, but none as unusual as the one they secured Wednesday.
Pneumonia outbreak hits UW-Madison
With final exams starting on Sunday at UW-Madison, the last thing a student wants right now is pneumonia. But that?s just what?s hitting the campus.
Kudos to PETA, Metro Transit for revealing atrocity — Anneliese Emerson
Madison Metro Transit shouldn?t apologize for running a new PETA bus ad showing us all what terrible things happen to animals inside the UW-Madison?s labs.
Alternatives to animal testng are available — Nancy Currell
There are alternatives to using live animals for medical testing. Science has advanced so that tissues can be cultured and used. Computer modeling is also being used successfully.
Chris Rickert: Closing the achievement gap: Not failing, but too slow
A UW-Madison investigation of the program over the last four years shows participation in AVID/TOPS is correlated with higher attendance rates and grade-point averages and other measures of academic success.
Dave Zweifel: Book reveals cops’ role in keeping Capitol protests peaceful
During the height of the crackdown on the so-called Solidarity Singers over the summer, I ran into longtime state Sen. Fred Risser, who for the past several days had watched the Capitol Police arrest dozens of people, handcuff them and haul them off to jail.
UW-Madison 8th in best value at a public university, survey says
UW-Madison is in the Top Ten again, not in sports but as one of the best values in higher education. Kiplinger?s Personal Finance annual survey of almost 600 four-year colleges and universities puts UW-Madison at No. 8, up five spots from the 2012 and 2011 rankings.
After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought
Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 students from around the globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence, starting what was widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early results for such large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethinking of how college instruction can best use the Internet.
Student activist sues UWM for public records
A member of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee?s now-dissolved student government has sued three UWM officials and the Board of Regents after repeated denials of his public records request for specific emails.
Bucky’s no-shows: 17 percent of Badgers’ home football tickets went unused in 2013
The Wisconsin football regular season finale against Penn State this season was a recipe for thousands of no-shows.
On the BadgerBeat: Jared Abbrederis winning Burlsworth Trophy speaks to power of an opportunity
I remember standing with Scott Abbrederis near the finish line at Veterans Memorial Stadium in La Crosse, both of us wondering what more his son Jared had to do to get the chance to play major college football or, specifically, football at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison community reflects on Nelson Mandela’s legacy
As President Barack Obama praised Nelson Mandela as a ?great liberator? at a massive memorial service in Johannesburg Tuesday, members of the UW-Madison campus community with ties to the Nobel Prize winning statesman shared their reflections with Inside UW.
Cellular Dynamics stem cells to be used to test for toxic responses
Madison stem cell company Cellular Dynamics International will work with the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences in North Carolina?s Research Triangle Park in creating tests to see if chemicals and drug candidates will result in toxic side effects.
Link, Steven Earl
(Link) farmed and then later worked at the University of Wisconsin in the Agriculture Department until his early retirement.
Badgers men’s basketball: UW up four spots to No. 4 in AP poll
The first time the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team moved into the top five of The Associated Press? Top 25 poll, the Badgers did their part to ensure their stay near the top of the rankings was an extended one.
Vandenburgh, Anne
Anne was a librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for more than 30 years. She spent four years at Steenbock (Agriculture) Library, seven years at Memorial (Humanities) Library. Then, she worked two years at the Medical Library and 18 years at Wendt (Engineering) Library … After she retired, Anne wrote books on history including a book on Charles Lindbergh?s days as a student at the University of Wisconsin entitled Lindbergh?s Badger Days.
The University Club: More than a century of hospitality
The stately, historic building at the bottom of Bascom Hill on State Street has been home to The University Club since 1907.
Undergrad student loan debt lower than average at UW-Madison
UW-Madison students are usually above average in many areas, but are below average in one area that affects the pocketbook: student loans.
On Campus: Wisconsin ranks in top 10 in student debt
Wisconsin made the top 10 last year in one measure of student loan debt, according to a state-by-state report published last week. Sixty-eight percent of graduates coming out of Wisconsin colleges left with bills to pay in 2012, ranking eighth among all states.
Study: AVID/TOPS students show gains
High school students enrolled in a college readiness program offered by the Madison School District and the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County again showed stronger academic progress last year compared to other students of similar academic standing and demographics, according to a study released Monday by UW-Madison researchers.
Wisconsin Assembly committee to convene climate science panel behind closed doors
The forum will include testimony from a number of experts, including two UW-Madison climate scientists ? Dan Vimont and Galen McKinley ? and other environmental experts, such as Michelle Miller, associate director of the UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, and David Liebel, a UW engineering professor who specializes in storm water systems.
Krikelas, Joan E. (nee Gottfried)
Joan worked for 17 years in the Office of International Studies and Programs at the University of Wisconsin, first as foreign visitor coordinator, and later as fellowships advisor. Joan worked for 17 years in the Office of International Studies and Programs at the University of Wisconsin, first as foreign visitor coordinator, and later as fellowships advisor. She retired from the University in 1995.
Four new campuses, including Madison, to offer flexible option certificates
Four more Wisconsin universities have signed up to start offering certificates in the nascent flexible degree option program, designed to offer a more convenient route to a college degree for working adults and set to roll out with its first batch of five degree programs in January.
Chris Rickert: Shock not the only value to PETA bus ad
Two not-very-breaking-news-like observations from the hoo-ha over Metro Transit?s decision to allow People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to put a graphic ad on its buses: 1. PETA is not known for its subtlety. 2. Humans are not known for embracing ugly truths.
Wood, Frances Kostka “Fran”
She worked several years on the UW-Madison campus with the University Industry Research Program, and later, with the Engineering Library Information Services Division.