Noted: The University of Wisconsin?s creative writing program is such a powerhouse that it?s hard to believe it?s only been around for 35 years … To mark this anniversary, the program is celebrating at the Overture Center?s Wisconsin Studio on Thursday, Nov. 14, from 8-9:30 p.m.
Barry Davis scoffed at the notion that he?s now the longest-tenure coach at the University of Wisconsin.
A year ago at this time, about the only thing causing Taylor Wurtz more agony than her aching back was the idea of not playing basketball.
“The Potawatomi and Ho-Chunk are far wealthier than the Menominee. The Potawatomi are one of the wealthiest in the country,” said Richard Monette, director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “They should have gotten together to help the Menominee run the casino, not let Hard Rock in and debate portions of the revenue.”
At UW-Madison, Joseph played right tackle for the UW-Madison football team, and played in the 1953 Rose Bowl against the University of Southern California.
The irony is hard to miss as regards the departing president of the University of Wisconsin System.
An associate dean for academic affairs and the campus child care coordinator at UW-Madison have been honored for advancing the status of women on campus.
He obtained a faculty position at UW-Madison, where he worked for more than three decades, advancing to Professor of Urology and Chief of Urology at the Veterans Hospital. During his tenure at the University of Wisconsin he mentored dozens of European research physician-fellows from Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Together they authored many scientific papers and textbook chapters in urology … For his contribution to medicine, Queen Margarethe of Denmark made him a Danish Knight. Ever loyal to his Danish heritage, Dr. Madsen donated generously to UW-Madison to assure continuance of Scandinavian Studies there.
David Hookstead appears to be at the top of his game. And his game is ticking people off.
With a culinary style he likened to improvisational jazz, Charlie Trotter changed the way Americans view fine dining, pushing himself, his staff, his food and even his diners to limits rarely seen in an American restaurant. Yet it was his reluctance to move beyond those limits that may have defined the last years of his life.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ? With as dominant as the University of Wisconsin men?s cross country team has been in the Big Ten Conference over the past few decades, it would take the Badgers not winning a league championship to make headlines.
Jeff Sauer retired from coaching hockey at the University of Wisconsin-Madison almost 12 years ago, talking about how other opportunities were out there for him in the hockey world after 20 seasons and two national championships with the Badgers.
I was pleased to see the UW-Madison graduation ceremony will be back at Camp Randall.
UW-Madison will share in a $3.2 million grant designed to help address a nursing shortage and receive another $2.4 million for a tech startup program under an initiative meant to spur job growth across the state.
At the time of his death, he was Professor Emeritus at UW-Madison, where he spent more than 30 years.
Ed was offered a position as a herdsman/researcher by Dr. Edward Hauser of UW-Madison?s Department of Ag and Life Sciences. His work in beef research and physiology (most notably with the Twin Project) took Edward around the United States.
The dairy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has unveiled its first two lactose-free ice cream flavors, catering to customers who may have a hard time digesting milk sugar.
Blake Pluemer played a lot of hockey in his life but never while strapped to a sled.
When the acceptance letter arrived in June, her children and husband weren?t around. So Melissa Guth unleashed her euphoria on the mail carrier.
That was the intriguing question Robert Enright, a professor of educational psychology at UW-Madison, brought to oncologists, nurses, social workers and others at a recent symposium at Monona Terrace.
It started as a magazine cover, then became a gift from a major corporation to a prestigious university. It brought together a famed American artist and a great college athlete, both dead too early. It had a name change, and, later, spent years away from view, presumed lost.
What is it with glitchy websites these days? UW-Madison is extending its “first notification deadline” for freshmen applicants by three days due to computer problems.
More than half of the faculty and professional academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh are getting raises averaging about $2,600.
Nic Kerdiles is working on one of the most prolific offensive streaks in University of Wisconsin men?s hockey history, but the sophomore center is focused on other things.
It was no big upset that the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team wasn?t among the top three teams in the preseason polls released Thursday at the Big Ten Conference?s annual media day.
For three years, he?s been the most physical defender in the nation?s most physical conference.
Wadsworth is one of several creative thinkers making use of the state?s historical records that provide a digital window into the past. UW-Madison student Kait Vosswinkel is documenting the “timeless” aspects of campus through a photo essay series called “Moving Forward. Looking Back,” using images from UW Digital Collections. And Megan Costello, a School of Library & Information Studies master?s candidate who is also the director of communications for the College of Letters and Science, and Vicki Tobias, an images and media archivist for the archives, used scrapbooks from the early 1900s to bring the stories of two alumnae to life on the UW Archives “Found in the University Archives!” Tumblr.
People who can?t tolerate dairy can now get a taste of one of UW-Madison?s most beloved products.
University of Wisconsin running backs Melvin Gordon and James White have combined this season for 1,684 rushing yards and 19 touchdowns.
Running back James White has some unfinished business in Iowa City, Iowa.
Wearing a straight face for the local media earlier this week, Mick Byrne said he doesn?t pay attention to what?s being said on the Internet about him and his University of Wisconsin cross country and track teams.
A geologist with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey who found himself in the middle of a controversy over a proposed open-pit mine in the north woods says he?s resigning after enduring weeks of on-the-job pressure over a rock containing asbestos-like material found at the mine site.
The migration of people to and from a community tells a lot about the character of the place, and can be used to plan for future development.
Ina worked for Rayovac and later on the UW-Madison campus at Barnard Hall as a house mother.
He worked for the State Lab of Hygiene as a chemist for over 39 years, until his retirement in 2005.
Aili Mari Tripp, a UW-Madison professor of political science and gender and women?s studies, said that ?where women have never held a position such as governor, women may be perceived by the electorate as representing something new and may come to symbolize change, even fundamental change.?
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team had just lost three games during the 2011-12 season to dig itself into an early hole in the Big Ten Conference standings, and Badgers associate head coach Greg Gard needed someone to listen to him vent.
Wittwer worked as the DOT?s budget director in the 1980s and also as chief of staff to the secretary. For the past 13 years, he has worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Center, and has served as the center?s director.
Spinoffs often do well, said Jim Seward, executive director of UW-Madison?s Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance. ?Sometimes when you combine businesses, you end up with very complicated businesses and businesses that don?t necessarily belong together,? he said.
Campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have issued a warning about excessive drinking after two students were found passed out with life-threatening levels of blood alcohol.
Turns out the reason why there?s no cure yet for the common cold is that no one knows exactly what the cold virus looks like.
UW-Madison police said Monday that a disturbing trend of life-threatening levels of intoxication among students is continuing, with two students found unconscious Saturday due to excessive drinking.
UW-Madison scientists haven?t cured the common cold, but they may have explained why nobody has ? in a discovery that could lead to better drugs against sneezes and sniffles.
How well do you need to know someone before you?ll step forward and fully vouch for them?
A developer is proposing an eight-story housing, retail and transit project near the Kohl Center that would offer a new home for Greyhound and other intercity buses.
Being captain of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team is an honorary appointment that comes with a lot of responsibilities and stress.
When it comes to football gate revenues, the Big Ten Conference takes from the rich to give to the poor.
There?s trouble again at Palermo?s, the frozen pizza maker and UW-Madison Athletic Department sponsor and licensee whose labor practices fueled a sit-in at the UW-Madison chancellor?s office last spring.
?From the day we arrived, we said everything that happens to us is an adventure, it?s not a hardship,? said Adams, an emeritus professor of sociology at UW-Madison. ?We used that phraseology over and over again.?
Ye Du and Cecilia Miao arrived in Madison four years ago feeling alone and anxious, knowing almost no one, not trusting their English and lacking basic knowledge of their new home.
A big-time school deserves a big-time graduation ceremony. And nothing says big time like Camp Randall Stadium.
Three cheers for last Monday?s editorial, ?Hey, Bucky: Find a new chant.?
Madison police are investigating whether a suspect in an armed robbery Wednesday is linked to dozens of similar crimes.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is continuing her campaign to boost pay for faculty and staff.
Lingering questions related to UW-Madison?s change next spring from four weekend graduation ceremonies indoors at the Kohl Center to one outdoors at Camp Randall Stadium:
Before she became pregnant, Theresa Edelman, a little person from a St. Paul-Minneapolis suburb, consulted UW-Madison?s Dr. Richard Pauli about potential risks.
Brittany Ammerman recently embarked on two life-altering journeys. In one, her eyes were constantly closed. In the other, they were wide open.
A bratwurst placed suggestively between two ketchup cups. Two cupcakes nestled side by side. These decorations, among others, adorned UW-Madison?s Bascom Hill on Oct. 18 ? giving a sly wink to the parts of the human anatomy they resembled.
Jim went on to become a football legend of his time at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The list of 20 secondary violations submitted by the University of Wisconsin to the NCAA for 2012-13 includes two references to social media.
