University of Wisconsin administrators are reminding employees not to use their state e-mail accounts and computers for political purposes. A flurry of e-mails last week by UW Colleges and Extension faculty caused university relations director Teri Venker to remind employees to do their political organizing on their own time.
Meghan Duggan has won the Patty Kazmaier Award, becoming the third University of Wisconsin player to be named the nation’s best women’s college hockey player.
Maggie Meyer has become the University of Wisconsin women?s swimming program?s first national champion. The senior won the 200-yard backstroke event in record time at the NCAA championships Saturday night, clocking in at 1 minute, 50.76 seconds ? almost a second ahead of the runner-up, Dominique Bouchard of Missouri.
The coach says he’s yet to ponder the opening at Penn State or other jobs.
The Badgers survived a 38-point onslaught by Kansas State and secured the fourth Sweet 16 berth of the Bo Ryan era for a 70-65 victory on Saturday night.
UW-Madison?s College Library recently touted a new acquisition, and it wasn?t the complete works of Dostoevsky or Byron. It was the video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops. The undergraduate library has had a video game collection since 2008. Since then, it?s grown to about 300 titles. Students checked them out nearly 5,000 times last year.
Butler is beating up on college basketball?s big boys, taking down No. 1 seeds, booking tickets for big-city destinations and winning the hearts and minds of college basketball fans with a long NCAA tournament run. Again. After beating ninth-seeded Old Dominion on Matt Howard?s last-second tip-in Thursday, the Bulldogs (25-9) upset top-seeded Pittsburgh in one of the wackiest finishes in tourney history Saturday to set up a Sweet 16 matchup against the University of Wisconsin this Thursday in New Orleans.
Another late March, another welcome home celebration for the NCAA champion University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team. This year?s edition will be held Monday at the Nicholas Johnson Pavilion adjacent to the Kohl Center. The event, which starts at 6 p.m., is free and open to the public, and free parking is available in lots 88 and 91 starting at 5:30 p.m.
The top-ranked Badgers women’s hockey team finished off one of the greatest seasons in history with a dominating 4-1 victory over Boston University in the NCAA championship game before a crowd of 3,956 at Tullio Arena.
Looking lost after the Big Ten tournament, the Badgers now have an air of confidence.
The hardest thing to do when you?re in the middle of a great moment is to fully appreciate it. Mark Johnson knows this better than most. For the first time in months, the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey coach could completely exhale Sunday, secure in the knowledge that something truly extraordinary had unfolded before his eyes. The top-ranked Badgers won their fourth NCAA title on his watch thanks to a dominating 4-1 triumph over Boston University at Tullio Arena.
Quoted: James Dennis, an emeritus professor of art history at UW-Madison, who has written the book, “Robert Koehler?s ?The Strike?: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest,
It?s great that the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team will have a civic celebration Monday to celebrate its fourth NCAA title in the last six seasons, as well as Patty Kazmaier Award winner Meghan Duggan. One way to make the 6 p.m. get-together at the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion even more special is to include UW swimmer Maggie Meyer. Meyer, a senior from White Bear Lake, Minn., won the 200 backstroke to become the first NCAA individual champion in program history over the weekend.
They left the McKale Center battered and bloodied Saturday night.
Wisconsin seniors Jon Leuer and Keaton Nankivil were knocked out in the first half after absorbing blows to the head that required stitches.
Yet all that mattered was that coach Bo Ryan?s players were not beaten.With Ryan getting contributions from up and down his roster, fourth-seeded UW moved on to the NCAA Tournament?s Sweet 16 for the first time since 2008 with a 70-65 victory over fifth-seeded Kansas State.
We now have a pretty good idea of what at least one judge thinks of the way Republicans handled the budget-repair bill last week: They probably handled it poorly, according to Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science and public affairs.
Steenbock?s on Orchard, the high-end Food Fight restaurant inside the new $210 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building on the UW-Madison campus, is nearly as world class as the facility itself.
Twenty-six states are challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law because it compels all Americans to have qualified coverage starting in 2014. As that case and others move forward, it is important to remember how profoundly Medicare and Social Security altered the lives of senior citizens and middle-class families. [A column by former UW-Madison Chancellor Donna E. Shalala, former U.S. secretary of health and human services].
They went public within three months of each other, each with a host of eager investors buying into the promise of their radiation therapy systems.
Four years later, one is about to swallow the other.Accuray Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., said this month it will purchase TomoTherapy Inc. for about $277 million.
Four New Your Times reporters, including two graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were released Monday to the custody of Turkish diplomats, according to the Times.
In 1971, the Wisconsin State Legislature narrowly passed, and Gov. Patrick Lucy signed into law, the merger of the Wisconsin State University system with the University of Wisconsin system.
A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the law from taking effect because of a lawsuit that contends Republicans violated open-meetings laws to enact it. “This is far from over,” says Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Although the risk right now is “fairly minimal,” officials should be cautious because there is “no safe level of radioactivity” and it?s much too early to tell how far radioactive material can travel, said Jeffrey Patterson, a radioactive exposure expert and professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: The situation is unprecedented, making it difficult to gauge whether the maneuvers are a desperate Hail Mary pass or whether they are on solid legal footing. There is not enough of a legal precedent ?to have any good sense on how to handicap the case,? says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Blogress Ann Althouse, a university of Wisconsin law professor, is half of the husband-and-wife team that has done a better job than any journalist of reporting on the skirmish in Wisconsin over government union privileges. Yesterday she posted a link to a bizarre threat against her and hubby Laurence Meade that was posted on Scirbd.com:
Quoted: ?This area has a long history of earthquakes, but [the Sendai earthquake] doesn?t fit the pattern,? says Harold Tobin, a marine geophysicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?The expectation was high for a 7.5, but that?s a hundred times smaller than a 9.0.?
“If we didn?t have the recall, I don?t know what would happen,” says Jane Collins, a professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at University of Wisconsin, Madison. “The day Republican senators separated the bill, people were so angry and exhausted, that some had to prevent individuals from erupting in the crowd.”
“The spike in asthma attacks in the fall, which is associated with colds and other viral airway infections, disappeared in the kids in the omalizumab (Xolair) group,” said study author William Busse, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A Wisconsin state judge temporarily blocked a law that would strip government employee unions of most of their collective-bargaining power.
Quoted: “This is far from over,” says Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
So now, Gov. Scott Walker is Tailgunner Joe McCarthy come back to life. Truly, the shamelessness of today?s Left knows no limits — or history! Yet, this is how a tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison stretches logic and ignores facts to further his political agenda, by slandering Scott Walker and his supporters as McCarthyites.
UW-Madison labor scholar Joel Rogers believes that opponents of Gov. Scott Walker?s anti-union budget bill need to avoid a general strike and turn instead toward recall efforts to anticipate the upcoming redistricting.
The New York Times said four of its journalists who were reported missing while covering the Libya conflict have been found.
Noted: On that same day, the UW Madison African Studies Program will initiate a three-day conference at the Memorial Union, “Peace Corps & Africa: Honoring 50 Years.” The program is packed with numerous speakers and discussions, including an address by Peace Corps director Aaron Williams on the impact of the Peace Corps “on Africa and beyond.” You can find out more about this at africa.wisc.edu/peacecorps.
Quoted: Dhavan Shah, a UW-Madison professor who runs the Mass Communication Research Center, said the public became more aware of the bill?s contents after Feb. 18. And some of the most controversial events ? such as the now-contested vote on the bill with less than two hours? notice ? happened after then.
A Dane County Judge says there is reason to believe the Legislature may have violated the state open meetings law when it convened a conference committee last week to pass an amended version of the budget repair bill. As a result, Judge Maryann Sumi on Friday morning issued a temporary restraining order stopping the collective bargaining law from being implemented until the court says otherwise.
Thousands are dead and thousands more missing after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan about a week ago.UW Madison Geoscience Professor Harold Tobin came in to Wake Up Wisconsin Weekend to discuss the earthquake and the tsunami.
University of Wisconsin administrators are reminding employees not to use their state e-mail accounts and computers for political purposes.
A Dane County judge issued a restraining order on Friday to block publication of the state?s collective bargaining law.
On Monday, Wisconsin?s Attorney General will take a ruling that blocks the publication of the budget repair law to the appellate court.
In January, as protests turned chaotic in Cairo, New York University hastened to evacuate 50 students and staff members from three sites across Egypt. Less than a month later, when an earthquake hit New Zealand, Cornell University quickly relocated students whose heavily damaged campus there had suspended classes.
Quoted: But Kris Olds, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin, says that Americans also have a lot to learn.
While major American universities ?may have the international networks in place to fund-raise, they don?t always have the broader knowledge base to assess political, economic and cultural risk,? he said. ?For example, administrative entrepreneurs, as I call them, are rarely forced to work with regional area studies experts who really know what is going on.?
The state Building Commission has approved Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s construction and renovation projects around Wisconsin over the next two years. Projects included include the new Badger Performance Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to house a variety of programs, an education building at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and $360 million for basic repair and maintenance of state buildings statewide. The proposal also includes a new School of Nursing in Madison. That building had been left off the list when it was unveiled last week, but the governor added it on Wednesday morning, WISC-TV reported.
Bicycle use and abuse on Picnic Point will be the subject of a listening session at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Memorial Union from 7-8:30 p.m. on Monday, March 21. “Bikes and pedestrians sometimes come into conflict on the narrow path running down the spine of Picnic Point,” says Bill Barker, chair of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee. To deal with the issue, Barker said, the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee will reconsider the appropriateness of bicycle access to Picnic Point at the session.
A festival that started five years ago is now an institution in the Greenbush Neighborhood. The fifth annual Greenbush Day Celebration, which honors the neighborhood?s past, present and future will be held Tuesday, March 22 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Welcome Center located at 21 North. Park St.
Projects include the new Badger Performance Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to house a variety of programs, an education building at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and $360 million for basic repair and maintenance of state buildings statewide.
Walker added plans for a new $52 million nursing school at UW-Madison and a new $63 million physical education building at UW-River Falls during the commission meeting in the governor?s conference room.
For the past decade, women have outpaced men on key measures of college success. They attend college and graduate at higher rates, according to several studies, and they tend to earn higher grades. Yet on many campuses, student government is dominated by men, echoing gender gaps in state and national politics. At the 50 colleges ranked highest by U.S. News & World Report, less than a third of student presidents are women. Three of 12 major colleges in the Washington area have female student presidents: the University of the District of Columbia, Marymount University and Trinity Washington University, where nearly all students are women. The American Student Government Association estimates that 40 percent of student presidents nationwide are female, including those at community colleges. The share is believed to be lower at four-year colleges, though precise figures were unavailable.
The UW women’s hockey team is using a scheduling slight for motivation as they prepare for the Frozen Four.
OK, I ask you, what?s wrong with this picture? The UW-Green Bay women?s basketball team has a 32-1 record; the University of Wisconsin has a 15-14 record. UWGB is ranked 13th in the nation; UW is unranked. UWGB is a No. 5 seed in the NCAA tournament; UW is playing in the NIT, starting Wednesday night against Butler.
Two Pulitzer Prize winners who are UW-Madison graduates are among four New York Times journalists missing in Libya, the Times is reporting. They are reporter Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and photographer Lynsey Addario, who has won a Pulitzer and a MacArthur Fellowship, the Times is reporting.
Three stem cell researchers have been awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research for their pioneering work in human stem cells. The winners announced Wednesday are Elaine Fuchs of Rockefeller University in New York City; James A. Thomson of the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco.
A UW-Madison committee is considering banning bicycles from Picnic Point ? a beloved recreational spot in Madison ? due to continued conflict between pedestrians and ?irresponsible? cyclists.
The state Building Commission on Wednesday approved Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s $1.2 billion proposal for construction and renovation projects around Wisconsin over the next two years. The spending request rings in at about 22 percent less than what was spent in the state?s previous two-year budget. Projects include the new Badger Performance Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to house a variety of programs, an education building at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and $360 million for basic repair and maintenance of state buildings statewide. Walker added plans for a new $52 million nursing school at UW-Madison and a new $63 million physical education building at UW-River Falls during the commission meeting in the governor?s conference room.
A new $52.2 million UW-Madison School of Nursing building is still alive after university officials promised to use less taxpayer-supported borrowing to fund the project. The state?s Building Commission approved it Wednesday as part of a slate of $1.2 billion in state building projects, which will now go to the state Legislature for approval with the next two-year budget.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates are among four New York Times journalists missing while covering the fighting in Libya. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony Shadid and photographer Lynsey Addario are both UW-Madison graduates.
More than 28,000 students applied to be part of UW-Madison?s freshman class in the fall, a record number and the biggest increase in at least 20 years. It?s a bump of 3,214 students, or 12.6 percent, from last year?s 25,522 applications. Adele Brumfield, UW-Madison?s director of admissions, attributes the increase to a number of factors: an increased presence internationally with UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin?s trips to China, prestigious awards for professors, $1 billion in research expenditures and more recruiting trips.
The State Building Commission gave the green light on Wednesday for the University of Wisconsin-Madison to move forward with plans to construct a new $52.2 million School of Nursing facility.
Labor tensions are running so high right now in Wisconsin that the idea is not far from anyone?s mind.
The state has seen calls for a general strike, although they have died down in recent days. Labor is focusing its efforts on recalling state senators who voted for a new law to significantly weaken the power of public employee unions. Still, the situation remains volatile. More than 100,000 people attended a Capitol protest Saturday, including farmers who ringed the square with dozens of tractors.
William Cronon, a professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues in a lengthy blog post that Republican-sponsored legislation that has spurred protests in Wisconsin did not original in the state.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
