The University of Wisconsin?s athletics department begins its Badger Days tour on Wednesday with a stop in Milwaukee. The event at the Harley-Davidson Museum includes many of Wisconsin coaches and administrators, including athletic director Barry Alvarez, football coach Bret Bielema, men?s hockey coach Mike Eaves and women?s hockey coach Mark Johnson. Similar stops will be made on Friday in Wisconsin Dells and Tuesday in Green Bay.
Quoted: A UW-Madison electrical engineering professor pointed out that wireless Bluetooth devices emit similar frequencies as cell phones, but with less power. Nader Behdad says people who are concerned should use wired headsets.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema has always expressed only the utmost respect for former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel.
The new book “Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN” contains a fair number of references to people and events with connections to Wisconsin sports. The former chairman of ESPN, Steve Bornstein (left), is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
Women made a strong showing in recent law school dean searches, accounting for about 40 percent of the deans named in recent months.
Quoted: “It?s hard for me to believe there won?t be a handful of travelers who ate contaminated food in a restaurant,” said Dr. Dennis Maki, an infectious disease expert and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine. “I?ll be surprised if we don?t have a few cases.”
Noted: The episode was a reminder of the stakes involved in data security?and an indicator that many organizations are not protecting themselves well enough. “When it comes to all of these security problems, companies aren?t spending up front but have to spend a lot of money on the back end to fix things,” says Thomas Ristenpart, a computer security researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: “It shows historically that the military and civilian society are trying to bridge the gap,” said Donald Downs, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and coauthor of a new book about the ROTC.
Quoted: The shortage ?is concerning,? said Dr. Herbert Chen, leader of the endocrine cancer disease group at the University of Wisconsin, who estimates he prescribes the drug to 75 percent of his patients before treatment. ?We want to be able to offer the best therapies to our patients, and Thyrogen is part of that algorithm.?
Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, wins the most unsurprising quote of the week this week for voicing his skepticism about UW-Madison splitting from the UW System. “I don?t think there?s a lot of support for the split and I think the Legislature should take their time before allowing these academicians any more responsibility in business dealings,” he said.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky, an expert on school finance.
This was one more miserable and misguided decision that further proves that UW animal research is above the law.
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of UW-Madison?s Bolz Center for Arts Administration.
Quoted: James Smith, who conducts the University Symphony Orchestra at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Thirty local kids completed a youth marathon Sunday, some at the finish line of the Madison Marathon. Cumulatively, in the last four to 10 months, they completed 26 miles of running, read 26 books and did 26 random acts of kindness. The idea was the brainchild of UW-Madison medical school student Katelin Krystowiak. She started the ?Ready, Set, Go! Youth Marathon? this year, modeled after a similar program in St. Louis. Kids from kindergarten through eighth grade were invited to take part.
Quoted: Hussain Bahia, a paving expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison.
Quoted: John Hall, UW-Madison?s military historian.
What?s love got to do with it, this coupling of plant and passion? You can blame, or credit, the other Darwin, said Theresa Kelley, a UW-Madison English professor, expert on plants in romanticism and author of the forthcoming book, “Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture.”
Noted: A 2009 study by the UW-Madison Program on Agricultural Technology Studies that says immigrants account for 40 percent of the state?s dairy labor force, up from 5 percent 10 years earlier.
Parker Dietry didn?t know what he was in for when he walked away as the state?s champion speller in March.In the past two months, the 14-year-old Waunakee eighth-grader has exchanged video games for word lists and gets to shoot hoops only if he?s simultaneously spelling words such as ?feijoada? and ?ferrochromium.? But he?s optimistic the time he?s devoted to studying and spelling ? about 25 to 30 hours a week ? will pay off this week as he heads to Washington, D.C., for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. His efforts have meant working with Jeff Kirsch, director of the Spanish and Portuguese Independent Learning program in the UW-Madison division of continuing studies.
Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to break off the Madison campus from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System is dead. UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said Friday it?s now clear there?s not enough support for the UW-Madison split at this point, though she?s optimistic a similar plan could be studied. “I don?t think anything is foreclosed,” Martin said. “I think there?s a huge amount of interest that?s been demonstrated in change, I just don?t know what the ultimate outcomes of these various efforts at change will be.”
The Wisconsin athletic director admits he?s curious to see how it works out at West Virginia if the Mountaineers athletic department opts to sell beer at football games.
The proposal to split UW-Madison from the University of Wisconsin System may be dead, but UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said she hopes another plan will rise in its place to give the university more freedom from oversight. Martin said she?s ?accepted the improbability? that Gov. Scott Walker?s controversial budget proposal will pass. ?I?m actually delighted by the potential in some of these compromise plans we?ve seen to get forms of decision-making and authority, as well as flexibility, for UW-Madison and the other campuses,? Martin said. ?It would be unprecedented obviously to have that kind of progress.?
A University of Toronto professor has been awarded with a prestigious prize for his work in the sciences.
Inspired by vegetarian and vegan festivals such as Chicago?s Veggie Fest and Portland VegFest, University of Wisconsin-Madison music-education student Hannah West decided, ?Madison should totally have one of these.?
Now that the political winds at the state Capitol are blowing against separating the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the UW System, a new idea has surfaced that is just as ill-advised.
American environmental scientist Stephen Carpenter won the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize ? given to someone who?s worked to improve the state of the world?s water resources. Carpenter?s focus ? freshwater lakes.
Quoted: That?s in line with other polls, said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founder of the polling site Pollster.com.
Quoted: “Detecting antibodies to the virus is important because that will tell us much more about the infectivity of the virus and also tell us if the fish has been exposed to VHS in the past or just recently,” said Anna Wilson, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a researcher in the VHS project.
UW-Madison will not be splitting from the rest of the UW System, according to lawmakers. But a similar plan could be in the works.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, an economics professor at UW-Madison?s La Follette School of Public Affairs, understands why people get confused about Wisconsin?s budget deficit. “The concepts are complicated, and the terms get defined differently by different people.”
MADISON – Wisconsin legislative leaders are considering a task force to study the idea of letting U-W Madison run itself, separate from the rest of the university system.
Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to break off the Madison campus from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System is dead.
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells is in no mood to celebrate the demise Friday of Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to break off the Madison campus from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System.
MADISON, Wis. — Under the state?s current proposed budget, the University of Wisconsin-Madison faces more than $125 million in funding cuts.
MILWAUKEE – Friends and family of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student killed as she was struck by a vehicle fleeing police, gathered Saturday to honor her memory, and to call for people to take a stand against police pursuits.
As state legislators move through the arduous process of drafting a two-year budget, the lingering economic recession creates difficult political choices and significant financial challenges.
MADISON, Wis. — There are many activities to do on Memorial Day weekend. One of the most pleasurable for many ? as long as the weather holds out ? is taking a simple bike ride.
MADISON, Wis. — A plan to spin off the state?s flagship school from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System appears to be dead.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s chancellor acknowledged Friday that it?s unlikely that a plan to split the flagship campus from a board that oversees the rest of the state?s public universities will get approval from lawmakers this summer.
Republicans are already referring to the New Badger Partnership as roadkill.
Gov. Scott Walker isn?t chasing star professors away from UW-Madison.Just the opposite. The Republican governor, along with UW-Madison chancellor Biddy Martin, is fighting to give UW-Madison more flexibility and autonomy so it can keep its star professors and attract new ones.
A large-scale workshop this summer examining the boundaries of academic freedom can take a long stride toward enhancing understanding and restoring credibility between the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the public.
A Wisconsin circuit court judge has invalidated a controversial law designed to limit the power of public-sector unions in the state ? legislation that prompted massive protests in Madison, the state capital and brought international attention to Wisconsin earlier this year.
Quoted: ?Some state senators who were involved in passing the legislation have to be wondering whether or not taking action in June is the right thing or wrong thing politically, a month before facing voters,? says Barry Burden, who teaches political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
DETROIT — Could the University of Wisconsin help the Red Wings once again?
In yet another twist in Wisconsin?s bitter fight over the unions, a judge Thursday struck down the Republican-sponsored bill to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights, moving the battle to the state Supreme Court. Quoted: Charles Franklin, professor of political science.
Quoted: UW-Madison meteorology professor Gregory Tripoli says the jet stream is being further energized by temperature contrasts on the other side of the globe, in Asia.
A judge has struck down the collective bargaining bill, ruling that the state?s open meetings law was violated.
I recently joined with my colleagues Mike Lovell, the new Chancellor of UW-Milwaukee; UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer, and the leaders of other UW System campuses in signing a letter renewing our request to state legislators for new leadership flexibility.
In a decision issued this morning, Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi ruled that Republican lawmakers violated the Open Meetings Law when they scheduled a conference committee meeting to advance a stripped down version of the Governor?s collective bargaining bill with less than two hours notice.
Gov. Scott Walker?s controversial proposal to split UW-Madison from the UW System and grant the university public authority status through Chancellor Biddy Martin?s New Badger Partnership is dead, Republican officials said Thursday.
Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to award the University of Wisconsin-Madison public authority status is dead, Republican officials confirmed Thursday.
Nina Leopold Bradley is being remembered as a visionary who inspired many to respect the world in which they live. Bradley, 93, died Wednesday at her home in Baraboo. She was the middle of five children to Aldo and Estella Leopold. Aldo Leopold is the renowned author of “A Sand County Almanac,” which was inspired by the Leopold family?s restoration of a worn-out farm in the town of Fairfield along the Wisconsin River. Bradley grew up in Madison and attended UW-Madison. She conducted research from Hawaii to Botswana on wildlife issues with her first husband, William Elder, Huffaker said.
The Academic Progress Report measures classroom performance of student-athletes on every Division I team. Teams scoring below the 925 cutline in one year can face immediate penalties. Those scoring below 900 or with low scores for several years face tougher historical sanctions.This year?s data covers 2006-07 through 2009-10. A perfect score is 1,000. Every University of Wisconsin program posted a passing score, ranging from 1,000 (women?s golf) to 956 (wrestling). Women?s basketball scored a 997, while men?s basketball was at 970 and football at 967.
A photo of people enjoying the summer-like weather at the Memorial Union Terrace on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A legislative committee cleared the way Wednesday for a full Senate vote on a Republican bill that would allow concealed weapons in Wisconsin, brushing aside concerns the measure would lead to more gun violence. The measure?s fate is murky. It doesn?t require any training or permits, a nod to gun advocates who believe they have the absolute constitutional right to bear arms without restrictions, but Assembly Republicans are pushing a separate bill that calls for instruction and licenses. The two Democrats on the committee, Sens. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, and Fred Risser, D-Madison, raised all manner of what-if scenarios, from whether University of Wisconsin-Madison students could carry concealed weapons into class to whether people could carry concealed around the Madison zoo.
Undergraduate enrollments increased by more than a third, to 17.6 million, in the first decade of the 21st century, with the most dramatic growth occurring at for-profit colleges, a federal report out today shows. It was the fastest decade of growth since the 1970s. The for-profit higher education sector posted a number of highs ? and lows? in other findings, including the highest average price of attendance after grants are factored in, highest average loan amounts and the lowest spending per student on instruction, according to the report by the National Center for Education Statistics.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Gov. Scott Walker signed into law Wednesday a requirement that voters in Wisconsin show photo identification at the polls, marking the end of a nearly decade-long push by Republicans to enact it.
A change to Gov. Scott Walker?s Minnesota-Wisconsin reciprocity agreement is being called a “reasonable and fair compromise” by State Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar).
