In a flurry of activity Wednesday, University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves rounded out his staff of assistants, added a top recruit for next season and got an official measure of the Big Ten Conference schedule for 2015-16.
A Madison startup whose device is aimed at helping women struggling with infertility took the grand prize in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan contest.
On May 27, the Capital Times published a column by 13 students representing the Associated Students of Madison, “UW cops Tweetalong shows disregard for students realities.” Below, Susan Riseling, associate vice chancellor and chief of UW-Madison Police, responds to the students.
The “fearless sifting and winnowing” that is the core of the Wisconsin Idea would be squelched by the erosion of support for tenure in state law proposed by legislative Republicans, say leaders of a lobbying organization of UW-Madison faculty.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors is appealing to the UW Board of Regents to preserve tenure protections and standards of shared governance.
An assistant professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison is under siege amid allegations of illegality and dishonesty in her acclaimed book about the lives of young black men in urban Philadelphia.
Already dismayed by prospective cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, higher education observers now suggest the state could become an academic pariah if the Legislature scales back two treasured tenets of academia — tenure and shared governance.
Noted: A coalition working group co-chaired by professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, a nationally noted education expert at UW-Madison, and Dawn Crim, the dean of external relations in the UWs School of Education, proposed four goals:
Nearly two months into a labored international search, University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves has found what he’s looking for close to home.
Dear Editor: The letter writer who thinks that if part-time faculty at Madison College and UW are paid substantially less than full-time faculty, they can simply apply to become full time, I have two comments. First, it’s extremely difficult to get one of those full-time teaching positions because those position come with generous pay packages. Second, many of those part-timers are women, so if women do the same job as men, shouldn’t they get equal pay?
Noted: He benefited greatly from taking a writing class from Christine DeSmet of UW-Extension. “This isn’t a police report,” she noted of one early scene, asking him for richer detail. Chiarkas began calling her “the mean woman from the university.” But the revising and cutting paid dividends with the publication of “Weepers” this week.
UW-Madison doctors have approved a plan to merge UW Medical Foundation and UW Hospital, which is expected to go before the UW Board of Regents later this week.
Quoted: If the offender chooses to take part, he or she will have to admit to the crime — anyone contesting a charge would go through the normal court system, said Jonathan Scharrer, director of the UW-Madison law school’s Restorative Justice Project. From there, Johnson and others will meet with the offender and any victims of the crime, and assign the case to a team of trained neighborhood residents who will help resolve it.
The Evjue Foundation has donated more than $44 million to UW-Madison and area nonprofit organizations since 1989. Heres a look at the grants in that time, updated with more than $1.4 million distributed in June 2015.
The Capital Times’ charitable arm, The Evjue Foundation, announced Wednesday that its directors have approved more than $1.4 million in grants to 86 area nonprofits plus funding for 27 programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW sociology professor Alice Goffman has gained rare acclaim for her scholarly work, “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.” But with the success comes criticism.
Heroes serving heroes was the theme of the first inaugural “Hero Games” hosted at the Tomah VA Monday afternoon.
Craig Jansen, a lieutenant with the Manitowoc Police Department, will graduate June 5 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Law Enforcement Command College, a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Two central Wisconsin police lieutenants will graduate June 5 from a University of Wisconsin course designed to help law enforcement officers become better leaders and managers.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross could appoint a director to approve independent charter schools in Milwaukee and Madison, and other agencies could approve charter schools in more than 140 school districts, under a provision tucked into a Joint Finance Committee motion on higher education issues last week.
Several University of Wisconsin System officials and business leaders say the system would benefit from giving more authority to campus leaders, according to a report released Monday that called for decentralization of the system.
A no-confidence vote taken last week against new University of Wisconsin Colleges Chancellor Cathy Sandeen has failed, but the message sent by the results remains open to interpretation.
Citing a need for highly qualified pharmacists and an uneven distribution of pharmacists in the state, Medical College of Wisconsin trustees have approved development of a school of pharmacy.
The room rotates. You stand there, shelves, walls, furniture slowly circling before your eyes. A bed decorated with throw pillows passes. The kitchen approaches. A microwave juts out from a shelf close enough to touch, a refrigerator at your back.
Noted: It also would house offices for FaB Wisconsin, which has 135 companies among its members; support services, such as law and accounting firms; and possibly satellite offices for the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and other institutions, Jurewicz said.
Police are looking for a 55-year-old man who walked away from a university medical facility in Madison Friday morning.
The University of Wisconsin System would see $250 million in cuts and sweeping changes in its operations, under a proposal put forward by GOP lawmakers Friday that will still be less dramatic than changes proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
Noted: Christle was an outstanding student at Rufus King International School and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a full scholarship. She received bachelors and masters degrees in social work before heading to Marquette for law school.
As America’s Dairyland, Wisconsin expectedly tops most lists related to bovine byproducts: No. 1 in cheese production, No. 2 in milk production, more master cheesemakers than any other state. Prairie du Sac even hosts the worlds largest cow chip festival.
In a rare sign of the depth of frustration at the University of Wisconsin Colleges, tenured and untenured faculty on all 13 campuses this week are being asked to consider a no-confidence vote against Chancellor Cathy Sandeen — less than six months into her tenure.
In a final push on the state budget bill, a key legislative panel is scheduled to start voting Friday on how deeply to cut the University of Wisconsin System and key natural resource programs, whether to publicly fund a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks and how to fund highways.
Noted: At the School of Business at University of Wisconsin—Madison, MBA students choose a specialization, such as arts administration or real estate. They can immediately dive into classes that are of interest to them, says Blair Sanford, assistant dean for the full-time MBA program at the school.
Quoted: Now, once again, it looks like Charter will gain control of Time Warner Cable and much of Wisconsins market, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The new chancellor appointed Tuesday to lead the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is being promoted from within.
Faculty would have a diminished role in searches for new chancellors and other top campus leaders — and the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents would have a more prominent role earlier in the process — under a controversial policy change floated this week by the regents.
Noted: Earmark several private projects by providing $15 million in state borrowing for the Confluence Project, a proposed arts complex in Eau Claire; $5 million in borrowing to help build an agriculture education center in Manitowoc County; $3 million in borrowing to help fund a science laboratory for Carroll University; and provide $86.2 million for a new chemistry building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Not only is Wisconsin lagging behind the rest of the country in job creation, the jobs being added in our state are mostly poverty-wage occupations, according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center on Economic Development. The job quality crisis is so severe that the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty recently found that poverty levels are increasing in Wisconsin even as employment increases.
Higher education observers across the nation are watching this week as the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee takes up funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
Quoted: So how can you be a better health care consumer? Justin Sydnor, one of the researchers and an economist at the University of Wisconsin business school, suggests the dreaded school math-class crucible: the story problem. First consider how much you expect to spend on health care. Then calculate whether your total payments would be higher with a low-deductible plan or a high-deductible plan. Asking people to compare premiums with out-of-pocket expenses helped set his research subjects on the right course.
The Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip with 35 UW-Madison student leaders rolled into the Chippewa Valley Friday to learn from successful entrepreneurs.
Noted: Moulton wrote in his column that the sportsmens caucus met with Majid Sarmadi, a textiles expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said Sarmadi conducted experiments on blaze pink and blaze orange visibility and concluded that blaze pink clothing is equally visible or more visible to the human eye than blaze orange.
Noted: Dudzik graduated from Hamilton High School and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Waukesha and Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Animals go extinct, places too. And stories change.
Quoted: Doug Laube, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physician and past president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said the women involved in these situations want to be pregnant but find out midway through their pregnancies that there are serious problems.
Noted: Those companies, and other prospective employers, look for areas with highly educated populations, something the University of Wisconsin-Madison students, employees and graduates help provide.
Noted: Those companies, and other prospective employers, look for areas with highly educated populations, something the University of Wisconsin-Madison students, employees and graduates help provide.
So you want to see Brett Favre scamper around a football field one more time?
A year after using cutting-edge DNA analysis to identify the remains of an American soldier mistakenly buried with the enemy after World War II, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday it will put its expertise in history, archaeology and forensic and genetic analysis behind the U.S. government’s tedious efforts to identify and recover other missing service members.
A liberal advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Scott Walker over records related to his administrations attempt to alter the Wisconsin Idea, which has guided the mission of the states public higher education system for more than a century.
Noted: Irwin Shadbolt Purtell was born in Milwaukee on May 21, 1936, and earned an economics degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His fathers business was real estate, but Wins interests were in the stock markets, dogs, the outdoors and he even moonlighted for many years as a weekend farmer in rural Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison held its spring commencement ceremony Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Something was missing from the heated debate over the proposed new University of Wisconsin authority and $300 million budget cut for the UW system. The UW leaders have been on a public relations blitz. Layoffs have been threatened. Billions of dollars of economic impact have been claimed.
When Nitia Johnson and her boyfriend moved to Madison, she didn’t know a soul. But she knew she wanted a better life.
Noted: Marc V. Levine is professor of history, economic development, and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Noted: Noah Williams is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and National Wildlife Health Center in Madison have reported that bats with white-nose syndrome use twice as much energy in hibernation as healthy bats.
Just over a year ago, Frank Kaminsky announced on his blog he was returning to the University of Wisconsin for his senior season. In the era of one-and-dones, he told the NBA to wait while he went for one last go-round in college.
Wisconsin lawmakers aren’t the only ones considering major funding cuts to higher education.
Despite suffering significant personnel losses after making a second consecutive Final Four run, Wisconsin has drawn a marquee program for the 2015 Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
Noted: The company bought Cellular Dynamics International Inc. in Madison for $307 million this month. Cellular Dynamics International, known as CDI, employs about 150 people and was co-founded in 2004 by James Thomson, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the most influential scientists in stem cell research.
