The UW-Madison School of Education has worked with Favor Hamilton for “several years” in a one-week summer camp to encourage middle school-age students to pursue college, Associate Dean Dawn Crim said. Favor Hamilton had been scheduled to lead the “Movin? Minds” camp in July. Her name was on the camp?s website Thursday, but by Friday it had been removed.
The Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association has revoked its contract with its spokeswoman Suzy Favor Hamilton.
In spring 2011, UW-Madison researcher Craig Schuff had a lot going for him ? not the least of which was his work in the College of Engineering where he was on the verge of perfecting a much-anticipated device that can be used to detect explosives and even nuclear material in suspicious packages.
Today, after an accident in Lake Monona, Schuff is paralyzed from the neck down.
A few days after Wisconsin set a school record for rushing yards in a 62-14 victory over Indiana, offensive line coach Bart Miller received an unexpected gift. Waiting on the desk in his UW office was a homemade T-shirt.
The wonder drug that relieves everything from headaches to joint pain, and lowers the risk of heart disease may come with risks for the eyes.
MADISON, Wis. – Two of the three men accused of assaulting Wisconsin running back Montee Ball this summer pleaded guilty to battery charges Wednesday, but both were given a chance to avoid prison.
Assembly Speaker-elect Robin Vos recently warned the University of Wisconsin-Madison budget might be affected after some classes on Bascom Hill were cancelled the day of President Obama?s pre-election rally on campus.
MADISON, Wis. ? Two squares of sticky tape remained where Bret Bielema?s nameplate had been. Barry Alvarez moved back into the head football coach?s office overlooking Camp Randall Stadium at the University of Wisconsin this month for convenience, but he has no plans to settle in. Alvarez took only one significant thing from his athletic director?s office with him: a glass candy jar filled with gumballs of assorted colors.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez stepped a bit outside the box in selecting Gary Andersen of Utah State to take over the UW football program.
A little less than three weeks after he announced he would remain at Utah State, Gary Andersen has accepted an offer to become the new coach at the University of Wisconsin, The Salt Lake Tribune confirmed late Tuesday.
After declaring publicly that he will be staying at Utah State, head football coach Gary Andersen may very well be on the move.
A new law restricting how the University of Wisconsin System provides Internet access could make things difficult for students and raise costs for taxpayers, school officials told auditors in a report released Tuesday.
Barry Alvarez and the University of Wisconsin are poised to hire Utah State?s Gary Andersen as the new head football coach.
A key legislator is asking state and University of Wisconsin-Madison officials to review the process through which a subcontractor was selected to build a new scoreboard and sound system at Camp Randall Stadium, to see if the jobs should be rebid.
Quoted: “It?s almost a death-by-a-thousand-cuts syndrome,” said Peter McIntyre, a coauthor of the study and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Center for Limnology.
MADISON ? Wisconsin?s controversial Act 10, it appears, created a wave of double-dippers, with many public employees retiring before the law?s implementation only to return to the public sector, according to data from a recent audit.
ARLINGTON ? A $3 million renovation project to dairy facilities on the UW-Madison campus is nearing completion and should be ready for students by early 2013.
On Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland is holding a second day of talks about whether and how to continue funding some controversial scientific experiments.
The exodus of Wisconsin football assistants continues and once more the coach trimming the UW staff is a familiar face. Tight ends coach Eddie Faulkner has accepted a job offer from North Carolina State coach Dave Doeren.
Noted: Since 2005, I have served as a dean and provost at two regional campuses in the University of Wisconsin System, a time of extraordinary change, disruption, even upheaval, where political leadership has been a significant driver of change, not just in how we fund public colleges and universities but in how we deliver college degrees. These have been tumultuous years for higher education in the state of Wisconsin, with 2011 our annus horribilis, beginning with UW Madison?s move for independence and ending with the UW system intact but redesigned to allow more independence for, and increased competition among, campuses within the system.
Early-commitment scholarships — in which a donor offers to pay the way for a class of students to attend college, for example — have been an occasional hallmark of philanthropy. A new study examines making a similar effort with the Pell Grant: telling low-income students as early as the eighth grade that they will receive federal help to attend college, in the hopes that it would encourage them to prepare for and pursue a postsecondary education.
Wisconsin assistants Matt Canada and Charlie Partridge faced the same decision.Should they accept secure offers at other football programs?Or, should they gamble they might be retained by Wisconsin?s next head coach after UW faces No. 8 Stanford in the Rose Bowl?
Surrounded by reporters after Wisconsin?s practice Sunday night, Barry Alvarez displayed a mix of confidence, defiance and frustration as he addressed his search for a head football coach and the impending departure of several assistants. “Everyone gets anxious,” he said of the coaching search that began Dec. 4 when Bret Bielema informed Alvarez he was taking over the program at Arkansas. “But I said all along we?re going to take our time and get the right guy.
A new report found that state agencies and the University of Wisconsin-System rehired 2,783 people who had retired between 2007 and 2011.
Biebs will, in fact, be meeting Aly today at the B96 Jingle Bash in Chicago. After a flood of support from friends, family, strangers and celebrities via Twitter and other social media outlets, Aly Wolff?s dream of meeting pop star Justin Bieber will come true. Wolff, a 20-year-old McFarland native, was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer shortly after completing her first year at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Governor Scott Walker says he?s considering freezing U-W tuition, or putting a cap on the size of any tuition hikes in the U-W system.
Apparently, the place to beat that trend is in the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s athletic stable. Departing head football coach Bret Bielema was making $2.7 million this year. Former coach and current Athletic Director Barry Alvarez was being paid a paltry-by-comparison $1 million. Now, UW regents have decided Alvarez will pocket a one-month salary increase of $118,500 for December as he takes over from Bielema to coach one game ? yes, one game ? at the Rose Bowl.
MADISON ? A contractor hired by the state to manage a $76.8 million renovation of Camp Randall Stadium agreed to accept a higher bid for a new scoreboard over a competing offer that an outside consultant advised was of better quality.
For a brief time Thursday night, it appeared the Wisconsin football program had lost its second assistant coach in less than a week: Offensive coordinator Matt Canada.
An ad for offensive coordinator / assistant football coach was posted on an NCAA website. However, according to UW officials, the posting was premature. All nine assistant positions will be posted by the end of Friday. The move is procedural because their contracts expire Feb. 3.
Interviewed: With the help of Keith Findley, the Wisconsin Innocence Project attorney, and new medical evidence, Audrey was finally set free.
MINNEAPOLIS – Beer and wine sales topped $907,000 in their first season at the on-campus University of Minnesotas TCF Bank Stadium, with beer sales trouncing earlier projections, yet university officials say the trouble some feared never materialized.
The New York Times recently called 2012 “the year of the MOOC,” the strangely compelling (and somewhat ironic) term for massive open online course. MOOCs are taking the world of higher education by storm, as millions have signed up for online, college-level instruction from online vendors like Udacity and Coursera. In a college town like Madison, MOOCs are a very big deal indeed.
Noted: Huffman has been documenting the story of three archaeologists who are working to save the site. He follows Marquis, a French archaeologist leading the effort, J. Mark Kenoyer, an American archaeologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin, and Abdul Qadeer Temore, an Afghan archaeologist who is also trying to preserve his cultural heritage. The documentary will also feature Zhenguo Liu, an MCC manager working in the Mes Aynak compound.
CORAL GABLES ? Miami football coach Al Golden was connected to another high profile coaching job Thursday afternoon, but multiple sources within the UM football program said he?s not leaving.
Madison (WQOW) — The fall semester is winding down at the University of Wisconsin, so the Badgers are taking a break from football to get ready for their final exams. Wisconsin has a practice scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
In 1977, Bruce Chatwin?s ?In Patagonia? and Patrick Leigh Fermor?s ?Time of Gifts? prompted a renaissance in British travel writing, which for 20 years would remain as pre-eminent in the United Kingdom as the memoir was in the United States.
As community relations director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Everett Mitchell builds strong bonds between the university and the many members of the Madison and Dane County communities.
Rep. Steve Nass R-Whitewater, chairman of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee, is supporting a compromise on the number of non-residents that can be admitted annually to the UW system and a binding commitment that requires the University of Wisconsin-Madison to admit at least 3,500 Wisconsin high school graduates annually, according to a release from the legislators office.
Gov. Scott Walker is mindful of University of Wisconsin tuition increases that have outpaced the rate of inflation ? and wants to do something about it.
The way the Big Ten Conference commissioner and the presidents of his newly snatched-up member universities were talking last month, one might think there was nobody under the sun who took issue with the University of Maryland at College Park and Rutgers University joining the traditionally Midwestern athletic league.
UW senior tailback Montee Ball on Tuesday accomplished something that eluded Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne. Ball was named a first-team All-American by The Associated Press for the second consecutive season.
Not long after Arkansas coach Bret Bielema announced he had hired defensive coordinator Chris Ash away from Wisconsin, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez raved about the strength of the UW staff and revealed he hoped to extend an offer to a head-coaching candidate in the next two weeks.
First while working from home Tuesday morning and then again in the afternoon while watching men?s basketball practice at the Kohl Center, I couldn?t stop thinking about Barry Alvarez?s search for Wisconsin?s next football coach.
Barry Alvarez will get an extra $118,500 for one month?s work. That?s on top of his annual salary of $1 million.
Just three years after David Wilson was named president of Morgan State University, the Maryland institution?s Board of Regents voted last week not to renew his contract.
FAYETTEVILLE ? Bret Bielema?s first official Arkansas Razorbacks hire is the coach coordinating Bielema?s last two defenses at Wisconsin.
Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator Mel Tucker has no interest ?at this time? in becoming the next head football coach at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON AP – Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will earn $118,500 for returning to the sidelines to coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl and a win against Stanford will mean a $50,000 bonus.
Quoted: ?There is some degree of heritability,? said Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, a senior research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has done some of these twin studies. But she notes that the effect is small: ?There is no gene for empathy, there is no gene for altruism. What?s heritable may be some personality characteristics.?
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said he plans to put a clause in the contract of the next UW football coach that requires the coach to inform Wisconsin if another school contacts him for a job.
As he talked about his desire to finish out his first season at Wisconsin with a victory in the Rose Bowl, wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni acknowledged he has to monitor opening at other schools. “Absolutely you?re putting feelers out,” he said. “You?ve got to feed your family.”
Swarthmore College biologist Scott Gilbert, known for his ability to relate complex biological concepts to everyday life, will deliver two free public talks in Madison on Wednesday and Thursday.
Mel Tucker, who played defensive back at Wisconsin and is the defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars, told reporters Monday he has spoken with UW athletic director Barry Alvarez about the Badgers? vacant head-coaching position.
Work by UW?Madison psychologist Paula Niedenthal is included by New York Times columnist David Brooks in a roundup of social science research.
Pulling off a great dangle that sends a defenseman to the ice like a first-time skater is one thing. Pulling off two in a row and finishing with a goal is a whole other matter.
Class and pornography are pretty much the same thing. As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said about pornography, “I have trouble defining it but I know it when I see it.”
Quoted: ?[You] work with those that are in your corner,? said Vince Sweeney, vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ?? strengthen your bonds with the people that are with you and make sure that they?re with you through thick and thin.?
David McDonald planned to be on sabbatical next semester, but instead finds himself at the center of the search to fill the most important job on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow has been nominated as a candidate for the top leadership role at UW-Madison, but Gow said Saturday he has no interest in seeking the job.
The U-W Board of Regents has signed off on a plan to increase enrollment limits for out-of-state students.
