Mid-August is the annual move-out and move-in time for students and others in downtown Madison as leases run out and new ones begin. With that comes the annual “hippie Christmas” where people put their unwanted items on the curb for others to rummage through before the sanitation department gets there.
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Badgers football coach Gary Andersen’s ‘simple living’ finds fans in Madison
Capital Times
Nine queries and more than 17 minutes into a question-and-answer session during a speaking engagement with Downtown Madison Rotarians, new Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen had his demeanor introduced into the discussion.
Badgers football: Dane County farmer gives coach Gary Andersen his biggest welcome yet
Madison.com
Don Schuster, of Schuster?s Playtime Farm in Deerfield, hitched a GPS device to his lawnmower last week and carved a maze in the shape of Andersen?s head, along with the message ?Welcome to Camp Randall,? into an 8-acre plot of corn.
Google among companies to move into East Washington development
Wisconsin State Journal
Jabbari did not have an exact number of employees the company could have working in the new office but said Google wanted to stay in close proximity to the wide talent pool from UW-Madison. The company currently has more than 30 employees in Madison.
Madison doctor breaks new ground with clinic offering primary care for a monthly fee
Capital Times
Schupp, a 30-year-old former accountant who completed his residency at the UW medical school … Richard Roberts, a UW professor of family medicine, says Schupp is likely filling some gaps.
On Campus: Apostle Islands kayakers get real-time view of caves from shore
Wisconsin State Journal
Kayakers venturing out on a thrilling but potentially dangerous paddle to the Apostle Islands sea caves on Lake Superior can now check conditions from shore on a kiosk developed by UW-Madison researchers with the Sea Grant Institute.
Fix more pipes to protect lakes
Wisconsin State Journal
?The algae don?t care where their phosphorus comes from, so any source we can cut off is good,? said Steve Carpenter, a local lake expert who directs the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison.
Langdon Street at UW Union partially reopening on Thursday
A closed half-block of Langdon Street in front of the UW-Madison Memorial Union will reopen eastbound only on Thursday, as traffic starts to increase with the pending fall semester on campus.
Madison moving week madness a logistical challenge at campus high-rises
Capital Times
Moving can be a test of brain and brawn whatever the circumstances, but the managers and tenants of high-rise student apartment buildings near the UW-Madison campus are preparing for the departure and arrival of thousands of students this week.
City, UW seek input on concepts for State Street, Library Mall
Wisconsin State Journal
After months of effort, the city and UW-Madison have preliminary design concepts for a remake of the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall that include more green space, better bicycle and pedestrian routes and changes to the area?s many food carts.
Chris Rickert: Same old Capitol songs a First Amendment, police procedure primer
Wisconsin State Journal
Outside of knowing cops will often let us off with warnings for minor traffic offenses, ?I sense that most people are only dimly aware of just how much discretion police exercise, and over what range of matters,? said Michael Scott, a UW-Madison clinical professor of law. Scott is also a former police officer.
State Street Mall redesign project enters new phase
Capital Times
Back in May, the city of Madison installed three chalk boards on the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street with the intention of capturing ideas that college students and other city residents have for improving the space, better known as State Street Mall.
Groundbreaking this month for six-story student housing tower on former Stadium Bar site
Wisconsin State Journal
In a final obituary for the beloved former Stadium Bar, developers on Tuesday announced they would break ground this month on Varsity Quarters, a new student housing tower to be built on the bar?s former site despite heated objections from neighborhood residents during the planning process.
Badgers football: Big Brothers help UW newcomers earn their Motion Ws
Madison.com
Leon Jacobs didn?t like the look of the helmet he was originally given as a member of the University of Wisconsin football team.
UW football season ticket renewal rate down for second straight year
Capital Times
It seems that not even the buzz of a new coach and the bump from a third straight Big Ten Conference championship last season could keep the renewal rate for University of Wisconsin football season tickets from slipping again.
Crews out early to collect massive trash, recyclables in moving week
Madison.com
City of Madison crews were out before dawn Wednesday, trying to keep ahead of a massive amount of trash and recyclables piling up during the annual move-out, move-in week.
Back in the picture: Former Gov. Jim Doyle believes Wisconsin?s progressive tradition will endure
Capital Times
But with the recent unveiling of his portrait at the Chazen Museum of Art, the two-term governor sat down for an exclusive interview about his own legacy and the enduring progressive spirit of the state that may be slowed ? but not reversed ? by the conservative policies of his successor.
Badgers football: Gary Andersen offers frank assessment of first padded practice
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin football team?s first practice in full pads on Friday started and ended with a live-tackling session.
Moser, James “Jim”
Madison.com
At the UW Education Research and Development Center during the 1970?s Jim helped pioneer elementary school educational methods so revolutionary that he was selected as one of the first Americans to enter communist China just three months after President Nixon in 1976.
UW-Madison steps up funding for out-of-state veteran students
Wisconsin State Journal
Last spring, Sam Hughes applied to college after finishing a nearly eight-year stint in the Air Force that included a tour in Afghanistan. The 27-year-old Virginian got acceptance letters from two elite schools ? UW-Madison and Columbia University ? but couldn?t believe the cost difference.
Literacy program encourages students to read, avoid summer slide
Wisconsin State Journal
The technology is an important part of the program that drives the students? interest, said Kathleen T. Horning, director of the UW-Madison?s Cooperative Children?s Book Center. Her organization helps run the program with Whitehorse, the UW-Madison School of Education?s department of curriculum and instruction and Read On Wisconsin.
Terese Berceau: UW System president should be a ‘streetfighting diplomat’
Capital Times
State Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, whose district includes much of the UW-Madison campus, is tired of the university system getting pushed around.
Tech and Biotech: FluGen works with British company on flu vaccine
Wisconsin State Journal
Founded in 2007, FluGen, at 597 Science Drive in University Research Park, has seven employees. Its efforts are based on the work of noted UW-Madison flu researchers Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann.
Driver cited in ambulance crash that killed UW doctor
Wisconsin State Journal
The driver of the Meriter Hospital ambulance that crashed last month, killing a UW-Madison doctor on board, was fined $213 for failure to keep the vehicle under control, according to the final accident report released Friday.
Van Nevel, J. Paul
Madison.com
He began his career at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center as director of public information. …In 1999, Paul also received the Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communications from UW-Madison
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Ald. Shiva Bidar has become a Madison city council veteran. Is she running for mayor?
Capital Times
The third term alder, who represents a district that includes much of the UW-Madison campus and the Regent neighborhood, was a close ally of former Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, and helped shape the public-private ownership of the Overture Center that the Council put together during the final months of Cieslewicz?s administration.
Doug Moe: Rome, romance and a happy ending
Wisconsin State Journal
Andy is originally from Spring Green, and works in a cancer research lab at UW-Madison. Jen is from Iowa, and works as an art teacher at Madison West High School.
Inside Wisconsin: Baldwin seeks federal dollars to aid startups
Wisconsin State Journal
Tammy Baldwin readily admits she has a soft spot for academic researchers and the federal dollars that often help to support them. Her grandfather was a UW-Madison biochemist who worked at the Institute for Enzyme Research for decades.
Find time for fitness as a family
Wisconsin State Journal
Laura Knoll and her husband, Rob Striker, need nothing more than an open space to get their young sons moving.?We go to the track at West High School and have races with the kids,? Knoll said. … ?We have sprint races, where we see who can win once around the track, and then twice, and so on. It gets us all outside,? said Knoll, a professor of microbiology at UW-Madison. Her husband is also a professor at UW, and their demanding work schedules require plenty of play therapy.
Tom Oates: Badgers’ window of opportunity is open
Madison.com
In the world of college football, as in high society, there is old money and there is new money.
Moving Days: Let’s recyle the old stuff, please
Madison.com
One of the annual rites of early fall near the UW-Madison campus arrives this week in the form of ?Moving Days,? that super-charged, super-condensed few days Downtown when thousands of students move out of their apartments and thousands more move in.
WisPolitics DC Wrap: Baldwin touts business startup legislation during UW-Madison visit
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin touted her legislation to bolster funding for early-stage companies during a stop on the UW-Madison campus today, saying Wisconsin ranks near the bottom in entrepreneurship despite “some really innovative startups that are in this area.”
Rick Bogle: Time to revisit experiments on animals
Capital Times
More than 45,000 dogs and 68,000 monkeys have been killed in Madison at UW-Madison and Covance over the past 10 years, according to reports submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture by each facility. Many of these animals have endured multiple experimental procedures and profound environmental and social deprivation.
Cellular Dynamics shares top their IPO price
Wisconsin State Journal
The company, founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, made nearly 3.1 million shares available and raised net proceeds of about $43 million.
Andy Baggot: Trouble with Twitter? UW has guidelines to avoid it
Madison.com
It?s understandable why coaches and administrators might want to strictly manage the social media habits of their student-athletes, but that?s not what happens at the University of Wisconsin.According to Justin Doherty, the UW associate athletic director for external relations, the department has guidelines for its 800-plus student-athletes, not specific demands and restrictions.
A dirty business: Wisconsin native Jeremy Scahill digs into covert ops in ‘Dirty Wars’
Wisconsin State Journal
This weekend, he?ll bring ?Dirty Wars? to Sundance Cinemas in Madison, where he attended school at both Madison Area Technical College and the UW-Madison in the 1990s.
Know Your Madisonian: Jason Guttenberg actively seeking a cure
Wisconsin State Journal
He is co-chairman of Hackfest, a golf tournament fundraiser for brain cancer research at UW-Madison.
State officials say they won’t issue citations to Solidarity Singalong observers
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs said the right to listen is an inherent part of the First Amendment protection of free speech.
State seeking to build major archive preservation facility on the Near East Side
Wisconsin State Journal
The archives are now stored at the museums or the Historical Society building on the UW-Madison campus, Risser said.
Grandma robs a bingo hall — on film, and on purpose
Wisconsin State Journal
Actress Lynne Stewart flew all the way to Madison from Los Angeles last week to star in “Bingo Night,” a short comedy being filmed here by an L.A.-based team with UW-Madison roots.
The last moderate: Dale Schultz might be on his way out of the Wisconsin Senate
Capital Times
His description is echoed by Bob Schwoch, a UW-Madison professor of public relations who was an aide in the late 1980s and early 1990s to conservative Democratic Rep. Peggy Krusick and later moderate Republican Sens. Peggy Rosenzweig and Carol Buettner. …(Schultz) claims partial credit, for instance, in Walker?s decision to veto a GOP-authored budget provision to bar the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from operating on the UW-Madison campus.
Udell, Dr. Gerald G. “Jerry”
Madison.com
During his bachelor?s program at the University of Wisconsin, Jerry was selected to show then Senator, John F. Kennedy, around the Wisconsin campus. The two of them sat in the Campus Union overlooking the lake and enjoyed coffee and discussions of their families.
Wisniewski, Sharyn
Madison.com
Sharyn, with partner and husband of 30 years, Dr. Hugh Iltis, UW-Madison botany professor emeritus, and a dedicated environmentalist, traveled to remote and interesting parts of the world on botanical expeditions and made many friends in Mexico. Sharyn and Hugh enjoyed their book-filled home in the UW Arboretum.
Angela Muñoz: Treat a college education as an investment in the future
Wisconsin State Journal
Last Sunday?s editorial minimized the impact of interest rates on students by suggesting the loan ?deal? approved by Congress is ?reasonable.? (Muñoz is a student at UW?Madison Law School.)
State cheese producers face more scrutiny after recall
Wisconsin State Journal
Less than 1 percent of food-borne illness outbreaks in the United States involve dairy products because dairy plants use sophisticated processing and cleaning protocols to prevent contamination, according to Marianne Smukowski, an expert on food safety and quality for the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison.
Executive Q&A: Michael Jenkins makes drugs out of hamster cells at Catalent Biologics
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison is the flagship facility for Catalent Biologics. Our facility here was founded based on great technology that came straight out of the UW-Madison ? GPEx technology ? evolved from Nobel Prize-winning cancer researcher Howard Temin?s lab.
At Issue: Underage drinking
Wisconsin State Journal
The bill also prohibits the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and any two- or four-year UW System school from imposing certain sanctions on students who commit an underage violation if they are exempt from a citation
Turnover at the top: Kevin Reilly just latest top higher ed leader in Madison to depart
Wisconsin State Journal
When University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly departs at the end of the year, he?ll be just the latest top administrator in Madison higher education to hop off the carousel. Of the six top jobs in this higher education mecca, four will have turned over in about a year, making way for new blood but also raising concerns the exodus holds ominous signs.
Doug Moe: David Egan has developed mainstream appeal
Wisconsin State Journal
Last month, the Egans were back in Madison, a particularly meaningful return visit, in that David spoke at a seminar at the Waisman Center on the UW campus, where more than three decades ago he attended preschool and was first challenged to keep up with his non-special needs peers, a practice today known as mainstreaming.
Constitutional experts dispute protesters’ argument that they don’t need a permit
Wisconsin State Journal
?Is it permissible to have a permit system in the Capitol?? UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs said. ?The answer to that is clearly yes, both on constitutional grounds and on common-sense grounds.?
After Walker attack, a new labor movement in Wisconsin?
Capital Times
A prime example he cites is the Teaching Assistants Association at UW-Madison, a union that once upon a time had full-time staff to deal with issues of collective bargaining, but has now essentially become an advocacy group for grad students.
Ed Garvey: Yet again we see college sports out of whack
Capital Times
Remember the University of Wisconsin?s old fieldhouse? It was steeped in tradition. The players and the fans enjoyed the ambiance, but the university raised money to build the Kohl Center. Now basketball is played in facilities that look the same in Madison, Champaign or Louisville, except Chihuly glass makes UW?s arena unique.
UW-Madison professor’s invention becomes part of Twitter
Wisconsin State Journal
Locomatix, a company co-founded by UW-Madison computer sciences professor Jignesh Patel, is becoming part of Twitter.
UW-Madison awarded grant to study menthol
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention has received a $368,000 grant to study the use of menthol cigarettes.
How about a UW System president with a strong business background?
Capital Times
They haven?t formed a search committee yet to replace Kevin Reilly as president of the UW System, but already there are calls to hire someone with private sector credibility who can work with a Republican-controlled statehouse.
Badgers football: First practice doesn’t offer many answers
Madison.com
It?s unwise to try to draw any lasting conclusions from the first football practice of preseason camp.
Langdon Street at Henry Street closing next week for utility construction
An underground utility construction project will result in the shutdown of the Langdon Street and North Henry Street intersection Downtown from Monday through next Friday.
Hockey: Gary Suter, Vic Levine to be inducted into state Halls of Fame
Madison.com
Madison native and former University of Wisconsin defenseman Gary Suter will be inducted into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame in September.
Cartoonist Lynda Barry leads a brainy ‘drawing jam’
Capital Times
Cartoonist Lynda Barry, who guest taught a course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring and now has a professorship, will host a “Drawing Jam” this Saturday at the Image Lab located in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Badgers football: UW ranked 23rd in preseason USA Today coaches poll : Sports
Madison.com
The Wisconsin Badgers are No. 23 in the preseason USA Today coaches college football poll that was released Thursday.