A week ago in this space, I told you why I thought Kentucky would beat the UW on Saturday night. As I pointed out, good, mature, well-coached teams usually find ways to win. I suggested if the Badgers could hit three-point shots like they did a week earlier, “they can send the NBA feeder program otherwise known as Kentucky to its first defeat of the season. I wouldn’t bet on it. Neither would I bet against it, however.”
Ray Cross’ stated willingness to resign as president of the University of Wisconsin if the GOP-controlled legislature and Gov. Walker don’t relent on the $300 million cut to his budget demonstrates just how much he needs to reposition the university in strategic terms.
Scott Logdon is a tried-and-true, blue-bleeding University of Kentucky basketball fan. He doesn’t think there’s much chance UK could lose to the University of Wisconsin in their Final Four matchup Saturday night, but in that unlikely event, he would go ahead and cheer for Wisconsin in the NCAA men’s championship game Monday night.
This Saturday when the University of Kentucky basketball team faces off with the University of Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament semi-finals, die-hard Kentucky fan Scott Logdon may think twice about rooting against the Wisconsin Badgers.
Frank Kaminsky, star center for the University of Wisconsin basketball team, sat on a dais with four of his teammates before last year’s Elite Eight matchup with Arizona and fielded questions from the news media.
Since the 19th century, one of the grandest of scholarly projects in the humanities has been the making of historical dictionaries. These are comprehensive multivolume dictionaries that aim to cover a language in all its historical depth and contemporary breadth. The best known of these is the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, published in installments from 1884 to 1933, and when completed amounting to 13 massive volumes.
INDIANAPOLIS —The scene will bring smiles to many for a long time. Players chest-bumping and hugging. Fans on the fringe of delirium. A celebration perfect for highlight reels and posters.
Several universities on Wednesday began distributing a survey to measure rates of sexual violence on college and university campuses, developed by the Association of American Universities.
INDIANAPOLIS — Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski was talking Thursday afternoon about his team’s November game in the Champions Classic against Michigan State, the Blue Devils’ opponent on Saturday night in the first game of the Final Four. Amid the usual cliches about how much Tom Izzo’s team has improved and how wonderful the annual made-for-TV extravaganza has been for the four schools involved, he suddenly paused when a realization hit him.
Quoted: James Ver Hoeve, a scientist with University of Wisconsin’s ophthalmology department put it more bluntly in an email: “administering drops is not a particularly effective way to get drugs to the retina.”
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota converted more wetlands into farmland than any other state when crop prices spiked between 2008 and 2012.
t’s never a ho-hum affair – the annual visit of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Varsity Band to the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts in Green Bay. This year, that hoopla will likely be heightened. The concert comes on the heels of band members being in the thick of the energy surrounding tonight’s Monday, April 6 men’s basketball national championship run for the Wisconsin Badgers. CBS is televising the game, and coverage starts at 7:30 p.m. on WFRV, Channel 5.
TOWN OF BELOIT — Sophia Stevenson has been to every Badgers mens basketball game for the last two seasons.
University of Wisconsin officials are caught between different constituencies: communicating to legislators, students, faculty and the public. This week’s cover story explores the balancing act of campaigning for the best possible outcome while preparing for the deepest possible cuts and endeavoring to protect core academic offerings.
INDIANAPOLIS — When the NCAA tournament bracket was unveiled on Selection Sunday minutes after they’d outlasted Michigan State in overtime to win the Big Ten tournament, the players for the University of Wisconsin were thrilled – then a little concerned.
The Final Four schools represented in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are powerhouses not only on the court, but also in the research lab.
INDIANAPOLIS — Shortly after midnight, Traevon Jackson sat in a Wisconsin locker room that was neither euphoric nor delirious but rather filled with a calm. Less than an hour earlier, the Badgers had ended Kentucky’s 38-game winning streak and avenged a heartbreaking loss to the Wildcats in a national semifinal last year.
INDIANAPOLIS — On Monday night, Wisconsin will face a team with at least eight former McDonald’s all-Americans for the second consecutive game.
Madison— On Saturday night, the roars echoed from Union South to State St.
INDIANAPOLIS — Nobody ever said they were perfect. Now, the Kentucky Wildcats aren’t undefeated, either.
Wisconsin avenged last year’s heartbreaking Final Four loss to Kentucky and ended the Wildcats’ perfect season with a 71-64 victory in the national semifinals in Indianapolis on Saturday night.
Kate McCoy was out with her 4-year-old son when she got a call from her husband. Their 5-month-old son, Neil, had started having trouble breathing, and they were both now at American Family Children’s Hospital.
Scott Logdon is a tried-and-true, blue-bleeding University of Kentucky basketball fan. He doesn’t think there’s much chance UK could lose to the University of Wisconsin in their Final Four matchup Saturday night, but in that unlikely event, he would go ahead and cheer for Wisconsin in the NCAA men’s championship game Monday night.
As the University of Wisconsin System seeks to pare back its spending wherever possible, one means of mitigating the cuts is likely off the table: the often-floated possibility of merging the two-year UW-Waukesha and four-year UW-Milwaukee campuses.
Die-hard Kentucky basketball fan Scott Logdon may think twice before rooting against the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday night. Nearly two years ago, Logdon received a life-saving stem cell donation to combat his acute myeloid leukemia. 22-year-old University of Wisconsin student, Chris Wirz, donated those cells.
Three years ago, Sam Dekker took an inbound pass in the closing seconds of the Wisconsin high school basketball championship game.
Noted: It’s like a cell phone data plan, in which people are charged different flat rates depending on their typical usage, energy analyst Gregory Nemet of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told BuzzFeed News.
Quoted: Many adults bank online, but kids still benefit from visiting a branch, says Elizabeth Odders-White, an associate dean at the Wisconsin School of Business in Madison.
WAUSAU – If Nathan Fetting and his coworkers at Greenheck do their job right, the fans and vents they develop should fade into the background, unremarkable to the people breathing the air recirculated by the company’s products.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Final Four frenzy might not be as crazy in Wisconsin Rapids as it is in Madison, but fans and businesses are looking forward to — and preparing for — the Badgers Saturday battle to make it to Monday’s championship game.
Madison — In the frantic, desperate minutes after John Wilkes Booth fired a fatal shot into the president’s head 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln’s unconscious body was carried across the street from Ford’s Theatre to a rooming house.
Early today, the National Association of Basketball Coaches facilitated a conference call between the four coaches playing this week in the 2015 NCAA Men’s Final Four in Indianapolis to discuss concerns expressed regarding the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The widening divide between rich and poor is impacting more than the bank accounts of the have and have-nots. It’s also putting measurable stress on Americans’ health.
They are traveling en masse from the Dairy State — it’s not that far of a drive — so you’d better have on hand plenty of cheese curds and butter burgers.
It will be a record-setting weekend in Indianapolis. Not only is this year’s Final Four jam-packed with on-the-court storylines, but ticket prices are also reaching historical highs on the secondary market. Add that to the relatively close proximity of each school and the biggest cumulative alumni class in at least the last five years, and you’ve got a recipe for one of the most anticipated NCAA Tournaments in recent memory.
Hundreds of people packed the Kohl Center in Madison to send the team off in style.
UW System President Ray Cross remains hopeful state lawmakers will reduce the proposed $300 million budget cut to Wisconsin public universities after negotiations between “two extremes.”
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross called for changes in how campuses handle tenured faculty on Wednesday.
One of the Wisconsin campus bookstore’s best-selling Final Four-themed shirts no longer is available for purchase.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is being hit particularly hard by the governor’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System. School officials point to the elimination of entrepreneurial research in so-called segregated programs as one of the toughest hurdles.
Some bad news for Michigan State and Wisconsin fans: Their respective Final Four foes, Duke and Kentucky, are getting hot at just the right time. In merchandise sales, that is.
Noted: Holly Gibbs, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says it is possible to identify some of the more successful policies. She and her colleagues found that deforestation was higher in areas not covered by the soya-bean moratorium, including on properties that are already on the federal land registry.
All four universities participating in this weekend’s Final Four tournament have issued statements in response to Indiana’s new “Religious Freedom” law:
Timothy Van Deelen, an assistant professor of forestry and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the practice is associated with putting the deer at risk of contracting CWD. He said baiting and feeding puts deer in close contact with one another, allowing the disease to spread.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students — angered by proposed university system spending cuts — invited other UW students from throughout the state to participate in a rally Thursday in Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker proposed a biennial state budget in early February that called for large cuts to education. So what does that mean for Madison College and our students?
UW-Oshkosh officials hope an early retirement option will help the school deal with Governor Scott Walker’s proposed funding cuts.
The University of Kentucky weighed in on Indiana’s controversial “religious freedom” law Tuesday, following the three other schools heading to Indianapolis this weekend for the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four games.
Quoted: Richard Simpson, the student health-insurance manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, contends, however, that student health plans are a better deal for students.
At the height of her career, just a few years after winning a Tony Award, Karen Olivo walked away from Broadway and headed west – not to Hollywood, but to Madison, Wis.
NCAA president Mark Emmert said Monday the organization is “surprised and disappointed” about a new Indiana law that could allow businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians, and that the NCAA is keeping a close eye on possible changes — if not a total repeal — before it is scheduled to go into effect in July.
Quoted: Michael G. Thomas, a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a chair of the session in Denver, said he was impressed by how much of an impact this simple peptide could make.
One week of extreme temperatures in Antarctica isn’t something to worry about by itself, but it’s something to watch closely in the coming months and years, says a meteorological expert at the the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Indianapolis’ sports world is speaking out following the Indiana Legislature’s passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act RFRA.
Duke University, one of four teams left in the NCAA’s March Madness tournament, on Monday became the latest institution to publicly come out against the “religious freedom” law recently passed in Indiana. The University of Wisconsin-Madison also raised concern with the law, per a statement from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
You may not even think twice about turning on the radio in your home to start or end your day, but your cat may have noticed it for completely different reasons.
Noted: Gianofer Fields studies material culture at UW-Madison and is the curator of “Radio Chipstone” – a project funded by the Chipstone Foundation, a decorative arts foundation whose mission is preserving and interpreting their collection, as well as stimulating research and education in the decorative arts.
Science on Tap this week is looking at water quality in the Great Lakes.Director of UW Madison’s Aquatic Sciences Center Jim Hurley says the nature of Great Lakes pollution has changed over the years, now coming from more diffuse sources instead of point ones.
MADISON – MD-to-be Trista Stankowski-Drengler smiled after she opened the envelope on Match Day and saw she’ll be serving her residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
The Dictionary of American Regional English, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, may soon end its work documenting regional language differences due to a lack of funding.
