As expected, the University of Wisconsin football team will face TCU in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. “It?s our championship game,” Badgers coach Bret Bielema said Sunday evening. The Badgers (11-1) beat out Ohio State in the final Bowl Championship Series standings to earn the Big Ten Conference?s berth to Pasadena, while the Horned Frogs (12-0) were unable to play their way into the BCS championship game.
Looking for a Rose Bowl ticket? If you?re not a season ticket-holder or donor at the University of Wisconsin, you?re on your own. The Badgers have sold out their entire, unspecified allotment for the Jan. 1 matchup with TCU through a reserve sale to those groups. Those who have applied will receive an e-mail regarding the status of their request no later than Monday.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema says he?s not much of a dreamer. Yet, standing on the Rose Bowl field last season, Bielema had the foresight to believe the Badgers were close to making it to that game. It?s a story Bielema shared with his seniors for the first time a week ago. He flew out to Pasadena, Calif., for the induction of UW athletic director Barry Alvarez into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, catching a red-eye flight after the Badgers? victory in the Champs Sports Bowl following last season.
A female prosecutor who was once the victim of sexual assault was named Friday to replace a district attorney who resigned in disgrace after trying to strike up a relationship with a domestic violence victim. Gov. Jim Doyle said his appointment of Jerilyn Dietz as Calumet County district attorney will restore the community?s faith in the office and ensure crime victims have a strong advocate. In 1997, while an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dietz was sexually assaulted by a man who broke into her apartment and attacked her at knife point. Dietz said that experience changed her life and made her decide to become a prosecutor who would work with sensitive cases like rape, incest and sexual assault.
Q: Chad Boruch, 24, a UW-Madison junior, was charged last week in Lincoln County with killing his mother. He is being held on a $2 million bond. What happens to his enrollment status? A: UW-Madison Associate Dean Kevin Helmkamp said he could discuss only general policies ? federal student privacy laws preclude UW-Madison from commenting on Boruch?s status, he said.
It all started when some jerk punched Lauren Meyer in the face. The UW-Whitewater freshman, an out lesbian, was wearing a “Legalize Gay” T-shirt that day in September.A t the time, the assault was an anomaly. But then a string of other hateful acts followed, and not just at UW-Whitewater but at UW-Platteville and UW-Stout, too. “All I know is it shouldn?t be happening, but it is, and it?s kind of a little disconcerting,” said Meyer, 18, as she sat in the campus gay-pride center at UW-Whitewater one day last week. Each new incident raised questions ? why now, and why these campuses?
So, what did we learn from University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema?s tour of the ESPN talk shows on Thursday?
When it comes to collective brains, Madison is pretty smart. The Wisconsin capital, which is home to the University of Wisconsin, comes in 8th place in a list of the ?brainiest cities? in America, according to Portfolio magazine.
Chase Boruch left central Wisconsin for the war in Iraq as a devoted son who cared for his ailing mother.
We?re glad University of Wisconsin System leaders have issued a joint statement on the importance of civility on campus, even as it is deeply unfortunate such a message was necessary in the first place.
Quoted: Dr. Megan Moreno, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, was among researchers who conducted a 2009 study relating risky behavior among adolescents, such as underage drinking and smoking, and posting about it on social media websites such as Facebook or YouTube.
For the second straight year, TCU is unbeaten, untied ? and unable to play for the national championship.
Noted: In 1997, while an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dietz was sexually assaulted by a man who broke into her apartment and attacked her at knife point. Dietz said that experience changed her life and made her decide to become a prosecutor who would work with sensitive cases like rape, incest and sexual assault.
These are the four scenarios for the end of the American Century by 2025, says Alfred W. McCoy.
UW-Madison alumnus Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has experienced his fair share of danger reporting from the Middle East. A few years back, he was shot in the back while covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The BCS Standings were revealed Sunday night confirming Wisconsin will face TCU in the Rose Bowl. The Badgers remained at #5 in the BCS rankings. Since they stayed ahead of Ohio State and Michigan State, they win the Big Ten tiebreaker and will represent the conference in the Rose Bowl.Badger fans can now truly smell those roses.
The Badgers aren?t officially in the Rose Bowl yet, but that?s likely to change Sunday night. And as you might expect, retailers are gearing up for what they hope will be a rush on Badger bowl merchandise.
The BCS Standings were revealed Sunday night confirming Wisconsin will face TCU in the Rose Bowl.
Wisconsin has had an unprecedented run of postseason success. Now the fourth-ranked Badgers get to play in the Big Ten?s marquee game against undefeated No. 3 TCU in the Rose Bowl.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison now has its own iPhone app.
While many are celebrating Sunday?s official Rose Bowl announcement, workers at one Madison company are simply too busy to party.
Another app is now on the market, and it?s good news for anyone who wants to keep up with what?s going on around the UW-Madison. The University?s free application is now available to anyone who has an iPhone, iPad, or iPod.
The Motion Picture Association of America endorses creativity, in general. But when it comes to laws forbidding students from pirating movies, it would prefer that colleges adhere to the MPAA?s interpretation rather than coming up with their own.
Students can forget running to a computer kiosk to figure out the bus schedule or look up someone?s contact information thanks to the University of Wisconsin?s new smart phone application.
The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating 15 state-owned power plants, including several on University of Wisconsin System campuses, to determine if they are in violation of the federal Clean Air Act. The federal agency sent the state Department of Administration a letter Thursday requesting information about the plants. They include power plants on UW campuses at Eau Claire, La Crosse, Oshkosh, Platteville, River Falls, Stevens Point, Menonomie, Superior and Whitewater. The state?s power plants first came under scrutiny in 2007 when the Sierra Club sued the state for similar violations at the Charter Street Heating Plant on the UW-Madison campus. A finding in favor of the environmental organization resulted in the state signing a consent decree that saw the elimination of coal at Charter and at the Capitol Heating Plant in Downtown Madison.
Andy Baggot has covered a lot of UW teams and has reversed his skeptism of Bret Bielema in part because of the admirable qualities Bielema’s senior players are showing.
Inside the elevator that ascends six floors in the UW-Madison Humanities Building to reach the university?s art department, the aesthetics had sunk low, really low. Over the years the metal walls of the bare-bones, slightly rumbly elevator served as a magnet for 2D creativity, some of it intriguing, but a lot of it slapdash and much of it resembling graffiti more often found on the sides of a bathroom stall. Over and over, the hodge-podge returned ? until a staff meeting gave rise to an idea: Why not turn the elevator into a legitimate design space?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified the state of Wisconsin this week that it was starting an investigation into 15 publically owned power plants to determine if they were violating clean air laws. The EPA sent a letter to the state Department of Administration asking for information about the plants “to determine whether the emission sources at these facilities are complying with the Clean Air Act.” The EPA letter comes after Doyle?s administration acknowledged that as many as eight state-run plants have violated the Clean Air Act in recent years. The state is already spending more than $250 million to convert a coal-fired plant that powers the University of Wisconsin-Madison to run on natural gas and biomass after a federal judge agreed with the Sierra Club that it was violating the Clean Air Act.
Quoted: That huge range of temperatures means the new material could be used in everything from spacecraft to car shock absorbers, said Roderic Lakes, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies viscoelastic materials. Spacecraft equipped with this material could withstand the intense cold of Jupiter?s largest moon, Titan, said Gogotsi, or the heat of the sun in space, said Lakes.
The Wisconsin Badgers aren?t officially Rose Bowl-bound yet, but that?s not stopping people from making travel plans to Pasadena.
Quoted: “If this holds, we will find ourselves at the higher end of [temperature] predictions,” says team member Ralf Bennartz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “What I?ve heard from folks running for office is that they don?t want a ?Pants on Fire,?” says Ken Goldstein, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in political advertising. “Pants on Fire” is the worst rating doled out by PolitiFact, reserved for assertions that make a ridiculous claim and are clearly false. Goldstein admits being surprised that some politicians have even changed the wording of statements in response to criticism from a fact-checker. “If you had asked me before, I would have been dismissive about the impact of these,” Goldstein says. “But I have been hearing some anecdotal evidence that some politicians know that it?s in place and are reacting.”
Sangtae Kim knows a thing or two about technology transfer, having worked as a UW-Madison and Purdue University scientist, a drug company executive and an official with the prestigious National Science Foundation.
Noted: UW-Madison football fans aren?t the only ones cheering at the Badgers? probable Rose Bowl berth. It also means a potential windfall in sales tax revenue for Dane County, as fans buy the latest in Badger fashion.
During an opening ceremony, Gov. Jim Doyle praised the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery as the culmination of UW-Madison?s long traditions of interdisciplinary research, scientific breakthroughs and generous philanthropy.
Two years ago and thousands of miles from home, Jesse Davis envisaged a new kind of Internet business. The idea struck Davis, a UW-Madison senior at the time, as he read Thomas Friedman?s bestseller The World Is Flat while traveling by bus through Israel.
A UW-Madison campus building intended to further scientific knowledge kicks off a series of grand openings today (12/2) The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is designed not only for researchers, but also to spark interest in science among the general public.
Twin research institutes and a space designed for all to engage in science opened Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A new UW-Madison campus building opened Thursday housing twin research institutes with both public and private sector involvement.
Nearly three dozen protesters decried the absence of union jobs for food service workers in a new UW-Madison building, interrupting the speeches of Governor Doyle and Chancellor Biddy Martin.
Gov. Jim Doyle, along with university leaders and supporters, celebrated on Thursday the grand opening of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After initial doubts, this local scribe is coming around on the fifth-year UW football coach. The moment took place weeks ago, long before anyone knew for certain that a special season was truly at hand for the University of Wisconsin football team.
The grand opening of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Thursday afternoon was a little more raucous than some had hoped.
If there?s anybody who knows what the Michigan State players and coaches are feeling this week, it?s University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema. The Badgers went 11-1 in the regular season in 2006 ? Bielema?s first year at the helm ? and were kept out of the Bowl Championship Series games by a rule that doesn?t allow more than two teams from one conference.
To say that Kirk DeCremer was intense as a football player would be an understatement.”I?d always been taught that it?s full-go,” he says. “You get on the field and you turn that on.” Until in the blink of an eye, it was over. The former Verona athlete?s promising career was stopped cold heading into his sophomore season in 2008 when he herniated two discs in his back – the same two that had popped out roughly 16 months earlier in his first year at UW, when he redshirted.
Quoted: UW-Madison School of Business assistant professor Kersi Antia.
Justin Richardson is president of the board of directors of WORT community radio, which marks its 35th anniversary this week. Richardson, 34, works as facilities manager for the UW-Madison School of Music and plays trombone and euphonium in bands and orchestras in Madison.
It?s still not official, but Badger fans are already making plans to attend the Rose Bowl. The University of Wisconsin Alumni Association is offering tour packages to Pasadena, including lodging, charter air service, game-day transportation, exclusive souvenirs and more.
Badgers fans have had to wait 11 long years since the last time the University of Wisconsin football team went to the Rose Bowl. Now with another bid so tantalizingly close, die-hards are making plans for a trip to Pasadena ? even though it?s, well, not quite official.
Costs to local police and fire departments for President Barack Obama?s late September pre-election rally at UW-Madison were significantly higher than they were for his visit to a Madison elementary school in 2009.
Quoted: Dave Riley, professor of human development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Doctors diagnosed autism in children by using MRI to track brain circuit activity, according to research that suggests the method may help speed up detection and add to knowledge of the disorder?s biological base.
Noted: Dave Schroeder, a systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, penned an open letter to Jobs a few weeks ago and posted it online, asking this very thing. As much of a hassle as it is for a lot of people, if Apple has to cancel Xserve, could Apple please allow virtualization, he asked.
Quoted: “I think that?s pretty standard,” Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications expert, said about the new approach. “In cities where they don?t meter water, for example, you can use as much water as your family needs — and New York City is a classic example. But if you start a brewery in your apartment, and you start carting our millions of gallons of beer that you?ve made from free city water, the city?s going come back and say, ?No, that?s a commercial operation.?”
Quoted: Primates have traits that may help shield them from seasonal ups and downs, Karen Strier, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said.
Quoted: “It?s a mixed bag,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in evaluating the potential clout of the new delegation. “Losing Obey obviously is a case of clout lost. But you?re gaining Paul Ryan on the budget committee. He?s certainly in a position to be influential.”
A Wausau native accused of killing his mother to collect $1 million in insurance money will need $2 million to get out of jail.
Quoted: Dave Riley, professor of human development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said whatever was bothering Hengel likely was related to his peers or family members or possibly biological mental health problems.
A UW Madison student and Iraq war veteran has been charged with killing his mother in Lincoln County this summer, a crime which may have been motivated by a desire to collect a life insurance settlement. Prosecutors have charged Chase Boruch with first-degree intentional homicide in the June 6th death of his mother Sally Mae Pergolski.
Developers of the $205 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery expect as many as 2,000 people at two receptions Thursday to celebrate the opening of the public/private research center in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
