….Crow?s death brought many tributes from the scientific world. This weekend, the music community gets its turn. A free concert by the Pro Arte Quartet at the Wisconsin Union Theater is dedicated to the memory of Jim Crow. The printed invitation describes Crow: “violist, scientist, humanist ? dear friend and long-time supporter of the Pro Arte Quartet.”
Bo Ryan and Jim Boeheim go back a long ways, having served together for years on the board of directors of the National Association of Basketball Coaches ? where they introduced legislation that helped rein in the Wild West environment of recruiting, for instance. But did you know that Bo counts on a licorice snack from Boeheim?s wife at every Final Four when both are sitting in the stands?
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball players haven?t set foot in many classrooms recently, but that doesn?t mean they have put their studies on hold during the NCAA tournament. With all of the excitement of advancing to the Sweet 16 for a second straight season, it?s easy to forget the players? academic obligations do not change.
A UW-Madison group of faculty and staff says the university may have been holding illegal, private meetings to develop new personnel policies for its 16,000 employees. The Wisconsin University Union, which is an employee education and advocacy organization of faculty and staff, filed a petition Monday asking Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to determine whether the meetings should be public under the state?s Open Meetings Law.
Agronomists believe farmers should stick to their schedules even though the ground is warming up quickly and there are no signs it?s going to cool down anytime soon. “This weather is odd,” said Shawn Conley, an assistant professor in the UW-Madison agronomy department. “I think we have to be cautious and just know what the risks are out there.”
Students can have a strong impact in politics. Nationally, they were a major part of the coalition that carried Barack Obama to victory over Hillary Clinton and later John McCain in 2008. And many Democrats in the state Legislature with districts near college campuses had students to thank for their victories in 2006, when young people turned out in droves to oppose the state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which ultimately passed. But in local politics, unless there is a hotly contested mayoral race or massive protests at the Capitol, students are hardly a blip on the radar. In fact, turnout in the County Board election for the student-dominated 5th District seat has steadily declined in recent years.
It may not salve the wounds of potentially losing the WIAA state basketball tournaments but Dane County has landed one of the state?s most prestigious farm shows for 2015. County officials on Monday said they filed an application to host Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, which old-timers might remember as ?Farm Progress Days.?
The record-tying streak of record high temperatures ended on Monday in Madison, but record warmth is forecast to return for three more days this week.
“This is to me the most unusual weather event I’ve witnessed in my lifetime,” Jonathan Martin, chairman of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison, said in an interview.
A Madison man was arrested early Saturday morning after he allegedly snatched a purse from a woman walking on Dayton Street. Jerry Lee Jones Hoffman, 19, was tentatively charged with strong-arm robbery and resisting/obstructing following his arrest by UW-Madison police.
Despite frustrations on campus over higher education funding cuts and faculty pay woes, UW-Madison still has a reputation as one of the top universities in the world. UW-Madison is ranked 27th in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings. This list is based on reputation alone and uses an international survey of nearly 18,000 academics who ranked institutions on their teaching and research.
In the never ending battle for customers, Wisconsin?s largest telecom providers are touting their investment in new equipment as the number of official consumer complaints are falling. Fewer complaints are a bit of a surprise to Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at UW-Madison. He maintains it?s more difficult than ever to tell what companies are doing following the telecom reform bill passed here in 2007. Orton speculates that consumers today may have become numb to problems or simply change providers rather than filing a complaint. He also admits it?s possible companies are actually providing better service.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? One sequence Saturday night at The Pit summed up why the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team is still standing after one weekend of the NCAA tournament.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? For Jordan Taylor, the NCAA men?s basketball tournament is reminiscent of the start of the regular season. A relief.
People know me as: John Arnold. I am a professional singer in the beginning stages of a career and am also finishing my studies at UW-Madison. Coming up next: University Opera presents Mozart?s masterpiece ?Don Giovanni,? sung in Italian with English supertitles at 3 p.m. today and at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Music Hall.
The time is ripe for con artists on Madison stages. At the Bartell Theatre, Alexa Vere de Vere stalks young artists on the brink of fame, flattering and robbing them in OUT!Cast Theatre?s ?As Bees in Honey Drown.? Alexa?s predecessor, the great seducer himself, is at work a mile further east on the UW-Madison campus. Don Giovanni leers and laughs like a frat boy from the Music Hall stage in University Opera?s spring production, which runs once more on Tuesday night with an alternate cast.
Next to a simulated clinic and hospital unit in UW-Madison?s new School of Nursing will be a space not found at most nursing schools: an “apartment.” The mock living area will be wired for the latest in home health technology, such as shoes with computer chips that transmit data about an elderly patient?s mobility and stride.
“We’ll be able to simulate almost an entire cycle of care,” said Katharyn May, dean of the nursing school. “That’s critically important as we try to reform how care is given.”
A: Our high temperature of 78 degrees Farenheit on March 14 set the all-time record for the date and established a new record for the first 78-degree F temperature of the year, breaking the standing record of March 23, 1910 ? over a century ago.
On Saturday night, all of Madison is invited to Union Theater to hear ? free of charge ? the world premiere of composer William Bolcom?s Piano Quintet No. 2. The celebrated Bolcom wrote the piece as a commission for the Pro Arte Quartet, the UW-Madison-based string quartet that turns 100 years old this year, making it perhaps the oldest continuously performing quartet in the world.
An attorney for former UW senior athletics administrator John Chadima claimed a review of accusations against Chadima by two men failed to confirm sexual or workplace misdeeds. “As we always expected, after an exhaustive investigation the interim chancellor?s committee concluded there were not ‘any other allegations of sexual impropriety or abuse of authority by John Chadima,?” said Chadima?s attorney, Charles Giesen.
While March Madness is now underway with the NCAA men?s basketball tournament, the city of Madison?s own annual version of basketball mania also began on Thursday. The first rounds of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association?s high school basketball tournament officially began on Thursday morning. However, while the tournament has called the state?s capital city its home for years, ongoing questions about whether this year could be Madison?s last as host hover over much of this year?s activities.
It feels like summer, and, yes, that itch you feel is the mosquito bite you just got. Right along with the weather, the bugs are back. “We have some mosquitoes that winter over in caves and the like, and those have woken up,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension entomologist Phil Pellitteri.”I hear so many people concerned that it?s going to be a terrible insect year, and I don?t see anything to suggest that right now.”
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin officials are expected to release a report on Friday that looked into allegations of improper conduct leveled against a former Athletic Department official. Three people have come forward to accuse John Chadima, UW-Madison?s former senior associate athletic director, of misconduct.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? Right there on ESPN for the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team to see Thursday morning was analyst Doug Gottlieb predicting an early exit from the NCAA tournament for the Badgers. Besides the fact that UW rarely loses its opening game under coach Bo Ryan, there was one other major factor that Gottlieb ? and anybody else who thought Montana would pull off the upset ? failed to consider. Jordan Taylor.
With hindsight being 20/20, cartoonist Mike Konopacki isn?t laughing at the fake press release he sent the Capital Times in February, now that he knows his forgery of a state representative?s official document could cost him $10,000 and three-and-a-half years in prison.
According to Wisconsin State Statute 946.69, a person commits a Class-I felony if they ? assume to act in an official capacity or to perform official functions.? It is this law could be used to implicate Konopacki, though its application would be ?nitpicking,? according to UW-Madison journalism and law professor Robert Drechsel.
As the Badgers advanced in the NCAA basketball tournament Thursday, UW-Madison won a social media ?tournament? that pits schools against each other in a competition similar to March Madness.
A statement by John Chadima?s attorney claims that there are not “any other allegations of sexual impropriety or abuse of authority” in a report on a second investigation into the former senior UW athletic official.
DULUTH, Minn. ? Knowledge is power and, at the moment, it?s a force exclusive to members of the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team. When the NCAA Frozen Four begins its run here today at Amsoil Arena, top-ranked UW will have 13 players who have played in one national championship game and four who have been on that stage twice.
Public workers in Wisconsin aren?t alone in facing changes to their pension plans. The New York state legislature at 3 a.m. Thursday morning approved an overhaul of its retirement system, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 63 for new hires and requiring employees to increase by up to 3 percent more the portion of their salaries that goes toward their pension. It also allows some higher-paid new hires to opt out of the system in favor of personal accounts, like a 401(k).
You could win a state high school championship in any city in Wisconsin. All you need is the right facility. Baseball crowns its champions in Appleton, gymnastics and cross country in Wisconsin Rapids and track and field in La Crosse. There are soccer titles crowned in Milwaukee and volleyball in Green Bay. But you can?t replicate in Green Bay what took place Thursday with the WIAA boys state basketball tournament in Madison.
The Student Transportation Program introduced its budget, which could significantly increase student fees toward SAFEride services, to the Student Services Finance Committee Thursday.
Mozart rocks. So when I heard that the University Opera was staging Wolfgang?s classic ?Don Giovanni,? I knew it would be a must-see.
The daily traffic jam on University Avenue is expected to get much worse on Monday when work begins on the final stretch to reconstruct the major west-side arterial. Work on the two-mile stretch from Segoe Road to Allen Boulevard is expected to continue through the end of October, and while the work is in progress, drivers should expect “severe delays,” according to a news release from the Madison Traffic Engineering Division.
Members of UW-Madison?s Ballroom Dance Association are worried the new Gordon Commons will prevent the group from hosting its weekly public dances, most of which take place in the current dining hall?s basement. Dance Association President Amelia VanHandel said the Division of University Housing plans to carpet every room in the new building, rendering several rooms that would be otherwise suitable for dancing unusable. While the group has taken its complaints to Division of University Housing Director Paul Evans, he said in an e-mail to the group DUH made the decision because carpeted floors best suit the majority of prospective customers. He added there are other buildings the group can use for dancing, such as the Memorial Union and Union South.
Dane County officials announced on Thursday a plan to buy and preserve the land along the southern shore of Lake Waubesa for public use….Cal DeWitt, a professor of wetland ecology at UW-Madison, has lived near the marsh since he moved to Madison in 1972. DeWitt teaches a course on the wetland for graduate students and has been working with neighbors to preserve the wetlands south of Waubesa since the mid-1970s.
The UW-Madison faculty is disturbed by columnist Chris Rickert cherry-picking two items from a list of 11 possible solutions to the problem of declining faculty salaries, not one of which has been endorsed by the Faculty Senate, in his March 8 column, “Professors, it shouldn?t be all about the money.”
Researchers working on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus have found a way to use neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells to restore muscle coordination in mice inflicted with a Huntington?s disease-like condition….?This is very exciting, and next we?ll try to move onto different models, particularly in primates, to see whether this actually works in a larger brain,? says Su-Chun Zhang, a UW-Madison neuroscientist and the senior author of the study.
(CNN) — Virginia Tech plans to consider all its options after it reviews a jury verdict that found it was negligent in a 2007 shooting rampage that left 33 people dead, including the gunman, a university spokesman said. The move follows Wednesday?s verdict by a seven-member jury in Christiansburg, Va. that awarded $4 million each to two victims? families who sued the state for wrongful death in the shooting massacre.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? Few people remember, but Freddie Owens was recruited by former University of Wisconsin men?s basketball coach Dick Bennett to be the Badgers? defensive stopper. ?They were grooming me to be the next Mike Kelley,” said Owens, now an assistant coach at Montana, which faces the Badgers in a second-round NCAA tournament game Thursday.
University Health Services, the UW-Madison on-campus clinic for students, is handing out free condoms, lip balm, sunscreen and safety advice on Wednesday, 10 days in advance of the UW?s spring break holiday from March 31 through April 8. The items and advice will be offered at College Library beginning at 5 p.m. and from 6-7 p.m. on the Ogg Hall lawn during the spring break fair.
“If you normally make good choices, keep it up,” said UHS executive director Dr. Sarah Van Orman in a UW-Madison news release.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? Early in his career with the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball program, Jordan Taylor learned a lot just by observing during practice and games. He knew he?d eventually be the starting point guard for the Badgers. Taylor wanted to be prepared once he got to that point, so he paid close attention to the interaction between UW coach Bo Ryan and starting point guard Trevon Hughes.
He?s 23, a relatively recent graduate of UW ? an institution known for its academics and party scene ? and the city?s alcohol policy coordinator. Mark Woulf, named to the position by former Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in January 2011, just eight months after he graduated with political science and sociology degrees, advises and represents the mayor?s office on alcohol policy issues, serves as staff to the city?s Alcohol License Review Committee and advises license applicants.
At least one of the biggest shareholders of Great Wolf Resorts stock is questioning the deal announced Tuesday for Apollo Global Management, a New York private equity firm, to buy the Madison indoor water park company for $5 a share. With the share price above Apollo’s $5 offer, it could be an indication of “investors guessing it’ll be sold at a higher price,” said Jim Seward, associate professor at the UW-Madison School of Business and faculty director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking.
Not only did Wednesday?s high of 78 in Madison break the March 14 record of 75 set in 1995, but the long-range forecast shows continued warmth as far as can be predicted by atmospheric science.”The prolonged nature of how likely it is going to stay nice and warm is even more unusual than breaking an individual day?s record,” said Jonathan Martin, chairman of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison.”It?s very unusual,” he said. “But it?s at the tail end of an unusually warm winter, so maybe it?s just part of the deal.”
The mother of all outdoor patios, the Memorial Union Terrace, was caught off guard this week. The terrace is open, but its 650 signature sunburst chairs, which are in storage in Verona, probably won’t be out until the first week of April.
In 1975, three former University of Wisconsin-Madison students met at a bar in New York City. All three were in their late 40s and feeling adrift in their careers across the fashion industry. After hours of talk ? and a few rounds of drinks ? one asked, ?So now what do we do??
It?s NCAA Tournament time once again and the hoopla surrounding March Madness has been used in recent years by higher education policymakers to help draw attention to the unimpressive graduation rates of college men?s basketball players and the gulf between the academic successes of black and white student-athletes. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES), housed at the University of Central Florida, continued its annual drumbeat on this issue Monday by releasing ?Keeping Score When it Counts: Graduation Success and Academic Progress Rates for the 2012 NCAA Division I Men?s Basketball Tournament Teams.?
….?Having a researcher follow these trends over time has had a positive effect on the academic success of student-athletes,? says Dawn Crim, a former women?s basketball player at Virginia and a former assistant coach at UW-Madison who today serves as the School of Education?s associate dean for external relations.
Among college students who drink heavily, those who black out are more likely to seek emergency care, costing about $500,000 a year at a campus the size of UW-Madison, a new study says. Prevention efforts should be targeted at students whose drinking leads to memory loss, not only at students who drink the most, said Marlon Mundt, a UW-Madison researcher who led the study published Wednesday in the journal Health Affairs.
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) – A jury found Virginia Tech negligent on Wednesday for delaying a campus warning of the first shootings in a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 dead. Jurors returned the verdict in a wrongful death civil suit brought by the parents of two students who were killed on April 16, 2007, in the most deadly mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
A lot of people like the idea of providing shelter for the homeless, but ?no one really wants a homeless shelter in their neighborhood,? Conner Wild writes in the current issue of Street Pulse, Madison?s newspaper about the homeless community. Conflating homelessness with alcoholism and criminal activity, and laziness is the palliative Americans swallow in order to rationalize the increasingly callous treatment of the homeless. It reflects a profound classism and skewed perception of what homelessness is and who is homeless,? writes Wild, a student at UW-Madison. Wild, who has been working with the nonprofit Street Pulse for four years, acknowledges in his column that the shelter attracted some disruptive people, but he goes on to say that homeless people aren?t the only ones who disturb the peace of Madison neighborhoods.
If the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team is going to successfully defend its national championship, it may have to do so with a gaping hole in its lineup. UW coach Mark Johnson said Tuesday that junior defenseman Stefanie McKeough is day-to-day with an apparent concussion, making her questionable for an NCAA Frozen Four semifinal matchup Friday with Boston College at Amsoil Arena in Duluth, Minn.
MADISON – Domenico Sella passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 8, 2012, at his home with family by his side. He taught history courses at various Italian universities before moving to Madison in 1960 to join the University of Wisconsin History Department, where he taught courses on the history of early modern Europe for 35 years.
University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach Mike Eaves knew he probably would lose an underclassman or two from his defensive corps this offseason, but the first to do so caught him off guard. Patrick Daly, who played 11 games as a freshman, met with Eaves and his staff Tuesday and informed them he was giving up hockey to focus on school.
Seven of UW-Madison?s School of Education graduate programs ranked in the top three in the 2013 edition of U.S. News and World Report?s “Best Graduate Schools. “Overall, the school was ranked ninth.
The College of Engineering was ranked 17th overall. Masters of fine arts was ranked 18th. The Law School was 35th and the School of Medicine and Public Health was 27th in research and 12th in primary care. Public affairs was 12th.
U.S. News and World Report released its 2013 edition of ?Best Graduate Schools,? and a number of UW-Madison programs once again earned recognition. The School of Education was the lone UW-Madison program to earn a top-10 ranking this time around, checking in at No. 9 overall. In addition, several specialties housed within that school also earned high praise.
Madison is offering new hotel, food and parking deals to fans as the WIAA state boys and girls high school basketball tournaments return to the city for perhaps the last time. As the tournaments begin on Thursday, 24 hotels are offering “fan packages” with discounted rates and no two-night minimums, 14 restaurants are offering discounts and special offers, and the city is charging $4 for daily event parking at its Overture Center and Lake Street parking garages.
U.S. News and World Report released its 2013 edition of ?Best Graduate Schools,? and a number of UW-Madison programs once again earned recognition. The School of Education was the lone UW-Madison program to earn a top-10 ranking this time around, checking in at No. 9 overall.
Both the men?s and women?s wheelchair basketball teams at UW-Whitewater won national championships Saturday.
Since it opened more than 20 years ago, University Ridge has enjoyed a reputation as one of the country?s best collegiate golf courses. Unfortunately, its greens have never matched that reputation. That?s about to change.
A man thrown out of a campus bar for smoking allegedly attacked the bouncers, sending two to the hospital with injuries. Logan Sloan, 22, Madison, was tentatively charged with battery, substantial battery and disorderly conduct, according to a news release from Madison police. The incident happened at about 3 a.m. Sunday at Wando’s, 602 University Ave.
About an hour after learning that a senior UW athletic official was accused of sexual assault, interim UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward called Athletic Director Barry Alvarez with a mandate. The athletics department should not interfere with an investigation into John Chadima, Ward told Alvarez, nor should Alvarez run a parallel investigation. That?s according to the investigation file from the first inquiry into Chadima, who resigned as senior associate athletic director on Jan. 6.
Virent has hired a new chief financial officer, Jeff White, who has experience working for companies with publicly traded stock. But that doesn?t mean the Madison biofuels company is about to go public, Virent CEO Lee Edwards said.
