University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Chris Ash is following former Badgers coach Bret Bielema to Arkansas after the Rose Bowl game. Bielema, who was named the Razorbacks? head coach last week, announced on Tuesday he had hired Ash as defensive coordinator, his first assistant coaching hire there. That?s only the first move of what could be an exodus of the current coaching staff.
If you want to sell a T-shirt with Barry?s name on it, either shell out for a royalty fee or wait until after the Rose Bowl. That?s what Sconnie Nation found out. On the heels of Barry Alvarez?s announcement that he would coach the Badgers at the Rose Bowl, the printing shop, located on State Street, put shirts reading ?Barry Knows,? and ?Keep Calm and Barry On? up for sale, as well as a third shirt that referenced the Rose Bowl, but didn?t use Alvarez?s name. That was on Thursday. By Friday, the shirts were pulled.
Quoted: Trademark Licensing Director Cindy Van Matre and Financial Aid Director Susan Fischer
As Superstorm Sandy barreled toward the East Coast in late October, it became more urgent for Paula Panczenko, the executive director of Tandem Press, to get to New York. So she jumped on a plane before the start of the 2012 International Fine Print Dealers? Association Print Fair, an important event in the art world ? and the most significant sales venue of the year for the artwork that?s created by UW-Madison?s Tandem Press….Sales for Tandem at that show, Panczenko said, were ?very good.?
The tale illustrates Tandem?s entrepreneurial spirit and the broad reach that Tandem Press, founded 25 years ago, now has across the country. More than 300 university students and 63 early-career and well-established artists have worked at the fine art press, whose very name ? Tandem ? is about the collaboration between artists and master printers.
A: On Dec. 3 the high temperature of 65 degrees F was the all-time highest December temperature ever recorded in Madison. Among the interesting aspects of this record high was the fact that the entire day was cloudy so local sunshine had no role in achieving this record. This prompts an interesting question ? what processes can contribute to changing the temperature at a location? The answer is that there are basically two. Everyone knows that on a sunny, windless day, the fact that the sun is out always contributes to warming the air temperature. At night, in the absence of sunshine, the air cools. These changes are a result of radiative transfer, one of the two mechanisms.
When Lauren Carlini comes to the University of Wisconsin to play volleyball next fall, the West Aurora, Ill., standout will do so as the 2012 winner of the Gatorade National Player of the Year. Carlini learned of the honor during a scheduled news conference this morning at her school where pro beach volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist April Ross surprised her by giving out the award. Ross won the Gatorade award herself during the 1999-2000 season.
Athletic director emeritus and former University of Wisconsin-Madison athlete Pat Richter will join Chancellor David Ward as the keynote speaker at the winter commencement ceremony Dec. 16.
MADISON, Wis. ? University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez will receive additional compensation of $118,500 for taking on Rose Bowl coaching responsibilities, under a plan approved by the Executive Committee of the UW System Board of Regents today. The funds will come from former coach Bret Bielema?s $1-million contract buy-out, to be paid to UW-Madison by the University of Arkansas.
Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator Mel Tucker has no interest “at this time” in becoming the next head football coach at the University of Wisconsin. Tucker, a former Badgers defensive back, said on Monday he spoke to UW athletic director Barry Alvarez on Friday, but insisted “there?s really no news there.”
An alleged drunken driver chased by police in downtown Madison early Sunday morning jumped out of his pickup truck while it was still moving, and the truck crashed into a tree while narrowly avoiding a crowd of about 50 people, police said.
How do you study philanthropy? Through philanthropy, apparently. UW-Madison and two other colleges are sharing a $5 million grant to explore the motives behind philanthropy and what strategies can be developed to get the most dollars. The Science of Philanthropy Initiative (SPI) is a collaboration among UW-Madison, the University of Chicago and Georgia State. The $5 million grant is from the John Templeton Foundation.
“In this era of tight federal and state resources, philanthropy is more important than ever in meeting societal needs, preserving community services and expanding public outreach and engagement,” said SPI co-investigator Anya Samak, assistant professor of consumer science at UW-Madison.
For the last quarter century, college students from Wisconsin have gotten on a plane, landed in Scotland and spent a semester or year together in the most splendid of dormitories: an 18th century castle in Dalkeith, a village six miles from Edinburgh. Starting soon, the castle will get more diverse. Wisconsin students in Scotland will be joined by students from Virginia State University, a historically black college in the shadow of Fort Lee, a key battleground in the Civil War.
Ethan Hemer, a defensive lineman for the Badgers, was treated as a celebrity when he started student teaching at Schenk Elementary School this fall. He is thankful that has changed among the students in the second grade class taught by Kelly Cates and other students. ?Now that I have been here for awhile, I feel more like a teacher,? he said. Hemer also benefits by teaching students so young.
MADISON, Wis.- A Madison man bailed from his truck while it was still in gear, endangering about 50 people in the area early Sunday morning, according to police. A Madison police officer was trying to stop a truck on State Street at about 2:45 a.m. and called off a short pursuit. The officer reported seeing the truck turn onto West Dayton Street and go through two intersections at about 40 mph. A short time later UW-Madison police reported the truck was found at the intersection of Dayton and Park streets.
A fourth suspect involved in the assault on Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball in August could soon be arrested by Madison police. Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain told Madison.com on Monday that detectives working the case have either identified or are in the process of identifying the fourth suspect, and that suspect would be arrested.
Q: NASA?s Curiosity rover was rumored to have found something exciting in Martian soil samples. If there really is ? or was ? life on Mars, what kind of life forms are we talking about?
A: Despite fanciful early descriptions of elaborate “canals” crisscrossing the Martian surface, exhaustive imaging of the Red Planet has revealed no signs of any advanced civilization. Instead, any extraterrestrial life is most likely to be microbial, said UW?Madison geoscientist Clark Johnson.
The Institute for One Wisconsin is out to shame us into doing something to fix the nation?s student debt problem. And that it?s a problem is unmistakable. We?re drowning young college graduates in years and years of unconscionable loan payments, and there?s growing evidence that it?s having a profoundly negative impact on the nation?s economy. The institute, which is the research arm of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, has embarked on a statewide campaign to show the people of Wisconsin just how serious and onerous student debt has become.
MADISON – Wendell Eugene Burkholder, age 84, of Madison, died peacefully surrounded by his family on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. He had Parkinson?s disease. Wendell was a professor of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a research entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture until his retirement in 1996. He was a pioneer in the field of insect pheromones for biological pest control as an alternative to the widespread use of insecticides. His landmark research and product development have preserved countless tons of food supplies particularly in developing countries.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave continues to progress in his return from a broken collarbone, taking part on a limited basis during the University of Wisconsin football team?s practice on Sunday.
I wrote a column posted online that pretty much deifies Barry Alvarez for a terrific, feel-good week of leadership in the wake of Bret Bielema?s departure as Badger football coach. That was before I saw that he is taking $225,000 in added pay for a month?s work.
When patients near the end of life, many doctors say there?s nothing more they can do. But ?there is so much we can do for people at the end of life,? said Dr. Jim Cleary, UW Health?s director of palliative care. Doctors can provide pain relief, comfort care and guidance to families, Cleary said.?For a physician to say, ?There is nothing else I can do,? is really, I think, a neglect of their physician duties.? Cleary?s comments are from ?Consider the Conversation: A Documentary on a Taboo Subject.? The 2011 film by two Wisconsin men has sparked an initiative to expand advance care planning around the state.
Jan Marshall Fox calls the home of her great-grandparents a ?touchstone.? ?Every time I?m in the neighborhood and drive past it, I think about how it used to be.? That corner house at 201 S. Mills St. was torn down by J.H. Findorff & Son on Wednesday to make way for a day care center for the children of nearby Meriter Hospital employees. Fox, who turned 78 on Sunday, said the house belonged to her great-grandparents, Henry and Ella Pickford, who sold their Monticello farm and moved to Madison around 1887 so their two daughters could attend UW-Madison. The emphasis on education has continued through the generations, and Fox notes her daughter, Erica Fox Gehrig, was the fourth generation of women in her family to graduate from UW.
Redevelopment: The Madison Landmarks Commission will consider a proposal to demolish a building and construct a new fraternity at 210 Langdon St., and a proposed addition and alteration to the Williamson Street Co-op at 4:45 p.m. in Room LL-110 of the Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
A bicyclist who crashed Friday while riding on a UW-Madison recreational path died at UW Hospital. Police said they believe the bicyclist had a medical problem that caused the crash. The unidentified bicyclist was riding on the Temin Lake Shore path at about 2:45 p.m. Friday, UW-Madison Police said in a news release.
….Most vocal was UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling, who called her objections “a size issue, a noise issue, and a huge parking issue,” and said she couldn?t envision anything higher than four stories in the location next to the UW police station. “Forty spaces? That?s crazy. I don?t even want to think about game day,” she said, referencing UW football Saturdays, which bring 80,000 people into the neighborhood. “There is nothing about that block that says eight stories makes any sense? I just think it?s completely out of proportion for that block.”
A Wisconsin Dells native whose loss of a coin flip kept him off the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Albuquerque, N.M., at the age of 92. Leon D. Smith left UW-Madison as a student and was drafted into the Army in 1943. Two years later, he was an electrical engineer and one of three “weaponeers” on the Pacific island of Tinian preparing the atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” for delivery. He played an integral part in assembling the bombs that ended the war, having transferred from the Army to the Army Air Force after suffering extensive hearing loss. The transfer and his UW-Madison background in electrical engineering placed him on the Manhattan Project, where he was assigned to the Army Air Force?s 509th Composite Group, specifically training to deliver the atomic bomb.
Barry Alvarez bringing back Barry Alvarez to coach the University of Wisconsin football team in the Rose Bowl was a slam dunk. It will make everyone ? UW players and fans, Rose Bowl directors and ESPN executives ? extremely happy. But of all the nuggets from Alvarez?s first public appearance since coach Bret Bielema bolted unexpectedly for Arkansas, the most important was this: Although he is relishing this moment, Alvarez will coach only one game before he resumes his duties as UW?s athletic director full-time. And while Big Game Barry?s decision to coach made the Rose Bowl infinitely more interesting, his ability to find a replacement who can perpetuate or even improve upon what Bielema did will have a far greater impact on the program.
Terry Gawlik has always been good at multi-tasking. She was a multi-sport athlete during her high school and college days in her native Texas and then went on to coach multiple sports over 11 years at three small colleges in Texas. Those experiences have served her well in her current job as senior associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin. Among her duties is oversight of eight sports ? women?s basketball, volleyball, softball, men?s and women?s swimming and three rowing programs. She also represents UW as Senior Woman Administrator on both the Big Ten Conference and national levels.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will coach the football team in the Rose Bowl, the State Journal has confirmed. A source close to the UW football program said the team?s captains reached out to Alvarez and asked him to coach the team. Alvarez said he would be “honored” to do so.
The UW-Milwaukee student newspaper, the Post, announced last week that it will no longer be available in print, shifting in January to an exclusively online news model. It?s not necessarily bad news, since news online is better than no news at all. But the paper?s dueling headlines reflect the ongoing upheaval in the media industry, even at the collegiate level: The headline announcing the news to readers ? THE POST IS DEAD ? does not exactly inspire confidence of a bold, new era of online student journalism. The adjacent headline ? LONG LIVE THE POST ? suggests brighter days may be ahead for the 56-year-old weekly.
University of Wisconsin-Madison could admit more out-of-state and international students in upcoming years if the UW Board of Regents approves a proposal at its meetings Thursday and Friday, when the Regents are also scheduled to cast the deciding vote on the Human Resources redesign project.
Five University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers were named fellows in the American Physical Society Wednesday in recognition of significant research contributions using physics in science and technology.
The search for departing Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema?s replacement has already begun and UW-Madison officials are promising it will be a more open, inclusive process than the one that got Bielema hired seven years ago, which was widely criticized on campus for being secretive and swift. “It?s not our desire to slow the process or interfere,” said Dale Bjorling, the chairman of the UW athletic board and an associate dean in UW-Madison?s School of Veterinary Medicine. “But it is our role to be actively involved.”
A higher percentage of non-resident students would be allowed to enroll at University of Wisconsin campuses under a proposal being considered this week by the UW System Board of Regents. The plan, which would raise the cap on non-resident undergraduate enrollment from 25 percent to 30 percent over a three-year rolling average, has stirred criticism over whether it would make it harder for Wisconsinites to attend UW-Madison. The cap increase would not apply just to new freshmen but the entire undergraduate student body.
Bret Bielema will collect a base salary of $3.2 million in his new job at Arkansas, with $700,000 in incentives available yearly plus extra unspecified payouts arranged in a separate contract between the coach and a booster group, The Razorback Foundation, Inc.
UW-Madison?s next chancellor could be the campus? first paid more than half a million dollars per year, if the University of Wisconsin?s Board of Regents approves a salary bump for the position. One faculty and staff representative was concerned that pushing the chancellor?s pay past $500,000 each year ? along with perks like a university car, a generous health and retirement package and living cost-free in Olin House ? could send the wrong message on a campus tightening its belt amid cuts in state funding, increasing tuition and stagnated faculty and staff wages.
Sports reporters and columnists who regularly interact with Wisconsin?s football program will have lots to say about Bret Bielema?s startling departure for the coaching job at Arkansas. I lack an insider?s perspective into the offices at 1440 Monroe St., but as a 30-year season ticket holder, I probably have company in the view that Bielema should be thanked for his performance, yet consider news of his exit to be welcome.
Two Madison labor groups released a new kind of dining guide Tuesday that rates 139 central Madison restaurants on how they treat workers. The guide awards up to seven stars based on factors such as starting wages, health insurance coverage and sick pay. Food quality doesn?t play a role. The big winners: Ian?s Pizza, Ancora Coffee, the Dayton Street Grille, the Plaza Tavern, all of the Food Fight restaurants and the numerous public dining establishments operated by UW-Madison.
Madison craft brewer Ale Asylum has more than doubled its staff this year and online apparel retailer Shopbop has added 50 employees, mostly in Madison. But they are the exception to the rule. More Dane County businesses say they expect to show a profit for 2012 and their sales are higher than last year?s. But most have not added workers. Those results are part of the 2012 First Business Economic Survey being released Wednesday. “I?d call this a positive report,” said Scott Converse, director, project management for the UW-Madison School of Business.
Bret Bielema always had the look of an upwardly mobile coach, a go-getter who would never stay in one place for long. Still, it was a stunner when Bielema left the University of Wisconsin football program to take the coaching job at Arkansas, if only because it looks like a lateral move at best. The Bielema-to-Arkansas bombshell exploded Tuesday, just three days after his Badgers won the Big Ten Conference title and a trip to the Rose Bowl for the third consecutive year. Despite that run of success, Bielema was a polarizing figure in Wisconsin, where his approval rating never matched his win total.
One recent report from UW-Madison?s Applied Population Lab projects the number of deer hunters in the state could fall to 400,000 by 2030. That?s nearly a 40 percent decline from two decades ago when more than 650,000 Wisconsinites would head out in pursuit of a trophy buck ? or at least a good time at deer camp with the buddies. But the implications are significant and go well beyond the estimated $1.4 billion economic boost and 25,000 jobs hunting provides to the state.
Imagine holding a state-of-the-art research laboratory in the palm of your hand. The device can go anywhere you go, and nearly anyone can operate it. What would you do with it?A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison already have a plan. They hope to use the device to create a faster and cheaper diagnostic test for necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. NEC is a medical condition that causes the death of intestinal tissue and is primarily seen in premature newborns.
Quoted: Katie Brenner, a post-doctoral researcher in Douglas Weibel?s lab at UW-Madison
Within the past year, issues surrounding diversity have been hugely controversial throughout the university. From the Center for Equal Opportunity?s allegations that UW-Madison unfairly takes race into account in admissions, to individuals at a fraternity throwing beer bottles and yelling racial slurs at African American students walking past, it is clear that the university needs to strive for improvements in diversity on campus. What is not so clear, however, are the means through which the university is currently striving for these improvements. For this reason and more, we strongly support the initiative to create a new campus diversity plan.
Some of the people closest to Bret Bielema had absolutely no idea before the news broke on Tuesday afternoon that the University of Wisconsin football coach was leaving for Arkansas. The news stunned not only Badgers fans but several people in Bielema?s inner circle.
A UW-Madison student magazine turns 10 this week. Curb Magazine, which in 2010 became the first college publication in the nation to include an iPad version, will launch its latest edition Wednesday. The launch is being preceded by a “10 Days of Curb” lead-up on Facebook, in which editors created a puzzle out of the magazine?s cover, filling in a new piece each day. More at facebook.com/curbmagazine.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent letters to several U.S. politicians Monday urging them to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health, an organization that funds animal research at many universities across the country, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the letters, PETA condemns UW-Madison among other universities ? including Columbia University and the University of California-San Francisco ? for conducting ?costly? research studies which ?do nothing to advance human health? when the money could be spent on ?safe? research.
I have been to hell. I have faced down the forces of evil. I have descended into the darkest reaches of existence and I have seen the blackness which resides in the hidden corners of men?s souls. What I mean to say is that I?ve gone to the comments section on an online article related to religion. I will never find a more wretched hive of belligerence and stupidity. Or at least I hope I won?t. Honestly, I don?t really want to talk about it, but I will.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Odyssey Project was featured Sunday on the Big Ten Network?s television show ?Forward Motion,? which is produced by the university. The episode focused on the project?s impact on the participants involved in the program.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of the Climate Action 350 and Madison residents joined in a protest Monday presenting the UW Foundation with more than 1,200 petition signatures requesting the foundation end its investment in fossil fuels to help decrease the threat of climate change. Climate Action 350-UW is a student group that works to reduce climate change resulting from the unsafe amount of carbon dioxide currently in the atmosphere, according to UW-Madison junior Emmy Burns.
Palermo?s Pizza reached a settlement agreement Friday with the National Labor Relations Board acknowledging it committed labor law violations, following allegations of labor practice violations from employees. The agreement came after workers from Palermo?s factories went on strike, accusing the pizza company of unlawfully firing workers for their attempts to unionize, as well as over immigrant audit threats.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate approved a resolution in support of the Human Resources redesign project Monday amidst debate over an amendment to give more power to shared governance bodies affected by the plan. The amendment, which was proposed by Sen. Noah Feinstein, aimed to require affected governance bodies, such as the Academic Staff Assembly and a future university staff governance body, to vote to approve all future results and recommendations of the HR redesign.
As she notes on her blog, Deborah Blum?s latest piece of nonfiction writing is one to be read with the lights on. Blum, a UW-Madison professor of journalism and author of ?The Poisoner?s Handbook,? tells the true-crime story of Albert Fish, by all appearances a harmless old man who harbored a history of kidnapping, killing, and sometimes eating children. His is the story of a deranged serial killer-cannibal who took directions from the voices of angels who came to visit him, a man who felt that each victim he claimed was a sacrifice to God to atone for his sins.
Going to the Rose Bowl: once-in-a-lifetime or not again? It?s a question facing many Wisconsin Badger fans, who so far have appeared a bit tepid in booking tickets to Pasadena, Calif., for this year?s edition of the New Year?s Day game. “I don?t want to say the frost is off the pumpkin but this is the third year they?ve gone,” said Michael Lee, owner of Concorde Travel. His company, which again is selling all-inclusive trips for about $2,300 a person, had received about 40 calls about booking trips by Monday afternoon, he said.
Dear Editor: My Lemond was stolen downtown and posted two days later on Craigslist. With the help of the police, I was able to get it back and get a few other bikes returned to their owners as well. I thought I?d add some details to Bill Novak?s story on bike theft since I think it is a story that is really relevant to a bike city like Madison. I?ve had lots of friends with bikes stolen, and this information ahead of time would probably have been helpful. My bike was stolen in the middle of the day, on campus near Humanities.
Around 400 Badger fans gathered at Union South to watch the game on Saturday. UW-Madison junior Lorna Cagann says if the Badgers win it would be the third Rose Bowl trip during her college career. “It?s super exciting,” Cagann said. “We were talking about it earlier. It would be like three years in a row and we?ve been here for all three of them.”
MADISON (WKOW) — Thousands of fans got back into town Sunday afternoon after a surprise blowout against Nebraska. And many of them are already making plans to attend the Rose Bowl, to watch the Badgers play in that game for a third straight year. “I think nobody believed in the team and we?re for real,” says Badger fan John Haas.
MADISON, Wis.- Madison city alder Scott Resnick, representing District 8, said there is a committee looking into the need for high-rise student housing around the city and the impact of those residences on surrounding neighborhoods. As discussions continue about potential redevelopment of the Stadium Bar property on Monroe Street, Resnick said the city continues to look at housing markets and how many student apartments may be too many around town. Resnick adds that students are often looking to be close to campus no matter the cost.
MADISON, Wis. -The Wisconsin Badgers? lopsided victory and a Rose Bowl berth that seemed unlikely one week ago was enough to convince some fans to make travel plans for the Tuesday, Jan. 1 game. The Badgers beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers, 70-31, in the Big Ten Championship game Saturday in Indianapolis. The team will make its third-straight appearance in the Rose Bowl for the first time in school history.
A: Rescue or salvage archaeology, according to UW-Madison anthropology Professor Sissel Schroeder, is undertaken under two major circumstances: ?The first is when an archaeological site has already been inadvertently damaged through construction, mining, quarrying, or other forms of ground disturbance,? she explained. ?The second is when some kind of construction or other form of disturbance is planned, including proposed dams that will cover sites with water.?
An innovative device that will allow doctors to externally monitor brain pressure in children with hydrocephalus ? thereby avoiding invasive and dangerous surgery ? is inching its way toward commercial use. The tiny implant was invented at UW Hospital by a neurosurgeon who loves to tinker with electronics and cobbled the prototype together on a coffee table in his basement with parts from Radio Shack.
Downtown Madison?s rental housing boom is continuing with a $40 million-plus, 12-story project being proposed for a third of a city block near State Street. Developer David Schutz is seeking to demolish three existing apartment buildings to construct a project with 320 to 340 apartments and 215 underground parking spaces catering to students and young professionals on the 400 blocks of West Dayton and West Johnson streets and the 200 block of North Broom Street.
