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UW-Madison warns public of a Bucky Badger impostor
Wisconsin State Journal
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Republican leaders say UW faculty has too much say on money matters
Capital Times
Republican legislative leaders are suggesting that University of Wisconsin faculty have too much say in policies related to finances and personnel, according to a report in The Daily Cardinal.
UW-Madison alums who?ve made it big on Broadway return for Madison concert
Wisconsin State Journal
The way that Nathaniel Stampley and Jamie Schmidt started making music together almost sounds like the subplot of a Broadway musical.
On Campus: Pocan bill could shrink student loan debt
Wisconsin State Journal
Graduates trudging through life post-college with student loan debt could see the millstone lightened a bit.
UW faculty say GOP gunning for shared governance
Capital Times
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are bracing for a full-out attack on shared governance after a Republican legislative leader called for empowering campus chancellors to ?truly be the chief executive officers.?
Scientists help farmers create greener dairies
Madison.com
Scientists based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have started a slew of studies to determine how dairy farms can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Wolf hunting still divides Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
Despite last year?s successful hunt and plans for another this year limited to 251 wolves, a UW-Madison survey found public opinion remains entrenched.
Andy Baggot: Arizona State coach fumbles with comment about Saturday’s game vs. Badgers
Madison.com
We have long associated football with military combat, which helps explain how blitzes, bombs and trenches have become part of our gameday vocabulary … So it wasn?t a surprise to read the following quote from Arizona State coach Todd Graham heading into a non-conference meeting Saturday night with the University of Wisconsin: ?It?s going to be a war.?
UW-Madison 41st overall again in best college rankings
Madison.com
UW-Madison has maintained its high standing among the nation?s 270 doctoral universities, tying for 41st overall once again.
Sample, Virginia Louise (Bogert)
Madison.com
She went on to work as an Interior Designer for the Department of Planning and Construction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for many years.
Regents question policy limiting reserves to 15 percent of operating revenue
Wisconsin State Journal
A new Legislature-mandated policy to set guidelines on how much cash reserves each state campus can carry forward met significant resistance at a Friday meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
UW System salaries increased 1 percent in 2012-13
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System budgeted $1.63 billion in salaries for the 2012-13 academic year, a 1 percent, $16.3 million increase over the previous year, according to a State Journal analysis of System data.
Wisconsin?s booming grape crop at risk from herbicide drift
Capital Times
?The issue is that grapes, in particular, are very sensitive to growth regulator herbicides,? said Jed Colquhoun, UW-Madison horticulture professor. ?So it only takes a very low dose to cause damage and ? that can be quite expensive when it does happen.?
Officer injured in crash on route to escort Tennessee Tech football team
Wisconsin State Journal
A UW-Madison Police officer was injured in a crash Saturday while on his way to escort the Tennessee Tech football team to Camp Randall Stadium.
Critics see partisan politics in funding of nonprofit groups
Wisconsin State Journal
?People are going to scream about the insider politics, but every administration has insider politics,? said John Witte, professor emeritus of political science and public affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
Get moving: Lakeshore Nature Preserve
Wisconsin State Journal
It?s a valuable natural resource right in the middle of Madison ? the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the UW-Madison campus. The area protects 300 acres of undeveloped land along Lake Mendota, including Picnic Point, Lakeshore Path and Muir Woods.
Dane County to launch parks endowment fund, dedicate E-Way to Lewis family
Capital Times
Libby Lewis died in 2012 after serving on the Dane County Park Commission for 26 years but her husband, UW-Madison professor emeritus Phil Lewis, is going strong at age 88.
Underage drinking arrests nearly double at Badgers game
Madison.com
UW-Madison police arrested nearly twice as many people for underage drinking at Saturday?s football game than they did during the Badgers? opening game Aug. 31.
Plain Talk: Fans come last in big college sports
Capital Times
The fiasco with the new concessionaire at the Badgers? first football game this season served to underscore just how low on the totem pole the fans in the stands have fallen.
Badgers football: Two shutout streaks intact
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin football team has opened the season with consecutive shutouts, which is uncommon.
UW System Salaries Search
This database contains the budgeted salaries for all University of Wisconsin employees for the fiscal year 2012-13, released annually by the university as part of the universitys Redbook budget publication.
Chancellor @BeckyBlank reaches out on Twitter
Capital Times
She?s only been tweeting with the handle @BeckyBlank for 10 days, but new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank had racked up 1,532 followers by Thursday.
UW grad and SunPower CEO Tom Werner touts solar industry growth
Capital Times
UW-Madison grad Tom Werner is returning to his college roots this weekend with a dual purpose: to see the Badgers win a football game and dispel some myths about solar energy.
UW, lawmakers seek common ground at sometimes contentious meeting
Wisconsin State Journal
Following state budget negotiations in the spring that were variously described as ?a few bumps in the road? by Sen. Sheila Harsdorf to ?a big blowup? by Sen. Alberta Darling, lawmakers and state university officials spent Thursday afternoon talking out their problems in surprisingly blunt terms.
Badgers football: Upgrades an impetus for new vendor
Madison.com
In wake of the poor concession service University of Wisconsin football fans received during the season opener at Camp Randall Stadium last week, a popular refrain has focused on why a new vendor was brought onboard in the first place.
‘A Black Odyssey’: New Chazen exhibit transports epic Greek tale to Africa : 77-square
Wisconsin State Journal
When artist Romare Bearden set out to create a series based on Homer?s epic poem ?The Odyssey,? he recast the myth of the Greek warrior as ?happening possibly in Africa.”
Hellenbrand, Darell R.
Madison.com
He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was employed for 35 years with the UW West Madison Agricultural Research Center, enjoying the work he did, his co-workers, and most proud of his perfect compost rows. He retired in 2010.
Former state Justice Steinmetz dies at 88
He graduated from UW-Madison in 1949 and the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1951.
On job growth, Wisconsin still lagging behind in recovering from recession
Capital Times
Despite strong improvements in manufacturing hiring, Wisconsin still lags the nation as a whole in recovering from the 2007 recession, says a new report from a UW-Madison economic think tank.
UW police warn students about excessive drinking
Wisconsin State Journal
UW police are warning students about excessive drinking after a high number incidents involving alcohol ? including some dangerous levels of intoxication and incapacitation ? in their first week back on campus.
Know Your Madisonian: Melissa McLimans
Wisconsin State Journal
McLimans is the digital services librarian at the UW Digital Collections Center, which since 2000 has scanned images and documents so they are available for free to researchers and Web surfers worldwide.
W Club’s changing dynamics leads longtime director Terry Murawski to resign
Capital Times
As the University of Wisconsin athletic department looks for solutions after an inauspicious start with its new concessions manager, the group that used to run game-day food services is experiencing a change at the top.
UW-Madison professor studies peaceful primates’ capacity to adapt
Capital Times
A UW-Madison professor?s work tracking how muriquis ? a species of monkeys found in the coastal forests of Brazil ? are adapting to population growth is featured in the current issue of Smithsonian magazine.
On Campus: Expect more vendors in stands at Camp Randall Saturday
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin Badgers fans can expect “a substantially larger number of vendors in the stands” at this Saturday?s game, a UW-Madison athletic department spokesman said in an email late Tuesday. It?s not yet clear where the new vendors will come from or how they?ll be trained.
Soglin offers $225.3 million capital budget for 2014
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is proposing a $225.3 million capital budget for 2014 that advances major initiatives and addresses some acute problems.
What’s being done to address homelessness in Madison?
Capital Times
When dusk falls, Phalen Pierson, 53, puts down a couple of layers of cardboard with a thin foam pad in between and settles in to spend the night on the steps of Madison?s City-County Building.
Weible, Evelyn Vesta Burke
Madison.com
I worked at several libraries in Madison, The University of Wisconsin Library in cataloging
Gedye, Charles Alden
Madison.com
He began his career as an electron microscopist at the University of Chicago in 1978. He then worked at the University of Illinois and later at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a research technician in various fields ranging from cancer research to plant pathology.
On Campus: UW-Madison hires familiar face as its interim D.C. director
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison has hired a former Capitol Hill staffer and university administrator as interim director of federal relations, a job vacant since the July retirement of longtime director Rhonda Norsetter.
13 arrested at Badgers game on Saturday
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Police made 13 arrests, issued 13 citations and ejected 27 people Saturday at the Wisconsin Badgers? 45-0 blowout of UMass at Camp Randall Stadium.
UW fans squawk over long lines, lack of hawkers
Wisconsin State Journal
From his sun-drenched perch in the top row of Section KK in the upper deck of Camp Randall Stadium, Jeff Tracy kept one eye on the action on the field between the University of Wisconsin Badgers and their opening game opponents from UMass, and one eye on the lookout for a vendor bringing some liquid refreshment.
Executive Q&A: An electrifying new way to clean contaminated water
Wisconsin State Journal
Founded in 2006, AquaMost?s technology grew out of research in the laboratory of UW-Madison engineering professor Marc Anderson.
At Issue: Selling or leasing facilities within Camp Randall Stadium
Wisconsin State Journal
Currently, with certain exceptions, the Department of Administration, with the approval of the Building Commission, may sell or lease state-owned property if DOA determines the sale or lease is in the best interest of the state.
On Campus: UW-Madison lets students pick a new name
Wisconsin State Journal
College presents a lot of choices. Pick your classes. Pick your friends. Pick your name.
Chris Rickert: Dissing the poor and the high cost of low-wage work
Wisconsin State Journal
There?s a case to make that raising the minimum wage will hurt the people it?s supposed to help. If you go above $9 or $10 an hour, said Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, employers start cutting jobs. They also might start automating jobs out of existence.
UW System summit a good step
Wisconsin State Journal
If ever there was a need for a ?can?t we all get along?? moment, this is it.
UW-Madison gets $1.9M grant to work with VA doctors on whole health concept
Madison.com
The Veterans Administration has given a $1.9 million grant to the UW-Madison integrative medicine program to work with doctors to improve the whole health of America?s veterans.
City proclaims Friday John ‘Vietnam’ Nguyen Day
Wisconsin State Journal
The city of Madison has proclaimed Friday to be John ?Vietnam? Nguyen Day, which marks the one-year anniversary of the death of the 19-year-old UW-Madison student and Chicago-raised hip-hop artist who drowned in Lake Mendota.
Chris Rickert: Forget time to make the donuts. It’s time to pay a better wage
Wisconsin State Journal
Hiking the minimum wage too much might actually hurt workers, in part by reducing employment opportunities, said Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, but actions like this are ?worth doing.?
A student’s guide to Downtown dining
Wisconsin State Journal
Humbling as it is to admit, when I was a college student here in the Neolithic era, I was provincial in my dining habits. I had a meal plan at the Memorial Union and on weekends basically lived on Rocky Rococo?s and frozen yogurt.
Badgers football: Joel Stave finds comfort zone as UW’s starting quarterback
Madison.com
So many things changed for University of Wisconsin quarterback Joel Stave on the first offensive play of the second half in the game against Michigan State last season.
Andy Baggot: Peter Tegen can find closure in UW Hall of Fame induction
Madison.com
The incoming class of inductees in the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame is a pretty extraordinary bunch, their achievements a mix of the bold and the enduring.
Here’s a preview of UW-Madison’s new halftime commercial
Capital Times
If you haven?t already flipped the channel by the time halftime programming starts during college football games, you may have noticed that the schools playing usually get a 30-second spot in which they can promote their institution.
UW regents, state lawmakers to meet for conference
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will host a conference next week aimed at improving university relations with state lawmakers, which frayed publicly during the recent state budget discussions.
UW-Madison student injured in moped crash
Wisconsin State Journal
A 21-year-old UW-Madison student was injured after his moped was struck by a car early Tuesday evening, police said.
Badgers football notes: No decision yet on starting center, right guard
Madison.com
Offensive line coach T.J. Woods was asked after the University of Wisconsin football team?s practice on Tuesday if he had a timetable for naming his starting center and right guard for the season opener Saturday against UMass.
7,000 students moving in at UW-Madison
Madison.com
Navigating streets around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus could take a bit more patience Wednesday and Thursday.
A year later, no end in sight for Capitol crackdown on protesters
Wisconsin State Journal
?Many police administrators look at this situation and are scratching their heads,? said Michael Scott, a UW-Madison law school professor and expert on police procedures. ?The protests had dwindled down to nothing. Why would you fan the flames and get it cranked up again??
Interview with new UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank
Daily Cardinal
Chancellor Rebecca Blank sat down Monday with The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald and answered questions on a range of student issues. (Interview transcription)
The view from Bascom: Chancellor Rebecca Blank?s thoughts on tuition, fundraising, working with students
Daily Cardinal
In a meeting with campus press Monday in her recently unpacked office atop Bascom Hill, new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank stressed the importance of building relationships with the campus community and legislators, upholding responsibility to the state and utilizing new revenue streams.