Noted: He underwent tests to see if he would be able to handle a transplant. On Oct. 25, he found out he was too high risk. But UW Health University Hospital agreed to take on his case, and two hours later, he was flying there on Flight for Life. He had to do the same set of tests. This time, he passed.
Noted: Interview with Jenny Kempf, a physical therapist at UW Health.
Noted: Paul Wilson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering professor, disagrees, saying nuclear can play a role in the reduction of carbon so long as the U.S.’s current fleet of about 100 nuclear power plants is maintained and innovation in the field — such as building smaller reactors that are less expensive — is supported.
A growing number of students in the University of Wisconsin System say they are struggling with anxiety and depression while counseling services have increased on campuses but they haven’t kept pace with demand.
Quoted: “They are clearly distinguished from the rest of the pack,” said Hart Posen, an associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Noted: “What’s Wrong with Miss Saigon?” was written by UW-Madison Asian American Studies professor Timothy Yu, who provided it, originally expecting it would be included in the program book of the blockbuster musical.
Quoted: “When you do store things, the information the manufacturer provides can be really important,” said Barb Ingham, who as professor and food science extension specialist for the University of Wisconsin fields questions about food safety from around the state. “The shelf dating is really important … to getting the most for the money you spent for that product,” she said. “You’ll get the most quality for what you consume if you follow that date.
Noted: Now 73, Soglin first entered Madison city politics in 1968 when he was in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after gaining national notoriety as a student protesting the Vietnam War.
A Madison hospital was recognized by Newsweek as one of the best in the world. University Hospital was ranked in the first Top 100 Global Hospitals list, according to a release.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is at the center of the most ambitious medical research project of our time. One that will affect all of us.
Quoted: “Generally young people don’t vote in midterms. They vote even less in spring elections. Spring elections are for school boards and mayors and young people are often a little more transient and less engaged with those local issues,” said University of Wisconsin – Madison journalism professor Lewis Friedland.
In a bit of April Fool’s Day fun, the Wisconsin Athletic Department tweeted that it’s ending the “Jump Around” tradition at Camp Randall, effective immediately.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank released a statement that highlighted the merit of the University of Wisconsin System as a whole, but also focused on UW-Madison’s position as a land grant university Wednesday in response to the nationwide college admissions scandal.
Noted: In fact, a meteotsunami, generated by a 15-minute storm, caused the deaths of seven people at Lake Michigan in 2003, the Sea Grant Institute at the University of Wisconsin reported. The meteotsunami generated rip currents that pulled people away from the shore and put them in a situation that increased their risk of drowning. After the storm passed, the weather became agreeable and sunny. This led people to mistakenly believe it was safe to swim, so they went back into the water.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team is no stranger to success in the world of Division I Women’s Collegiate Ice Hockey. This year’s national title is yet another addition to the long list of accolades the team has garnered under the stewardship of head coach and UW legend Mark Johnson.
Quoted: The three main pollutants of most concern in Earth’s atmosphere are ground-level ozone, fine particulate matter and carbon dioxide, Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin professor and air pollution and public health specialist, said.
“The U.S. is very active and successful in eliminating emissions that affect public health, carbon dioxide is not one that affects public health,” Holloway said.
The president of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is siding with Republican lawmakers in one disagreement of their ongoing legal fight with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Quoted: Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin political science professor and director of the UW Elections Research Center, said the GOP spending increases were not necessarily a surprise.
“Because of the expected ‘blue wave’ and the success that Democrats had in several special elections earlier in the year, there was more sense in 2018 that Republican control was in jeopardy,” Burden said. “This was especially true in the State Senate, where Democrats only needed to pick up two seats to become the majority party. As a result, several key Senate seats saw a tremendous amount of spending by both sides.”
Noted: How a letter addressed to him ended up on a new streetcar in Milwaukee boggled his mind. Dillard lived in Wisconsin from 1982 to 2004; he began his teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during that time.
It’s April Fool’s Day and that means many Wisconsin institutions are taking a break from their daily routine, and sending some humor into the world.
Noted: The conversations are led by volunteer facilitators, recorded on a “digital hearth,” then transcribed and posted on the LVN.org website. In Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer, author of “The Politics of Resentment,” is a partner in the effort.
Quoted: India has already instituted a Warren-like rule to prevent e-commerce platforms from selling their own products on the platform. “We should go back and understand the wisdom of that kind of separation,” said Peter Carstensen, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “We would never want the interstate highway system to be owned by Walmart. It simplifies the market functions if you separate them out.”
Noted: He was placed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he spent 2018.
Noted: She was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in international business. She wanted to go into the Peace Corps and then work in the United Nations. She was a Dean’s scholar. And she was an extremely good singer. Her love was music.
Noted: Some examples of campus-based convenings that I know about are ASU’s ShapingEDU, the Distance Teaching & Learning Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Digital Pedagogy Lab at the University of Mary Washington.
The term “scientific glassblowing” sounds almost aggressively unartistic; step aside marble-makers, this is glassware for science. But Tracy Drier, the scientific glassblower at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, considers it “industrial art.”
Fifteen people are caught in the middle of a legal and political war between Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature.
Noted: Yi Fuxian is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Big Country with an Empty Nest
Noted: Gemma is undergoing extensive treatment and is set to have bone, skin and fur replacement. Help will come from the University of Wisconsin – Madison Veterinary Care hospital, along with a fur donation from a Seattle-based company. UWM doctors will 3D print a section of plastic to repair a hole in Gemma’s snout from the severe caustic burns.
Story includes Timothy Yu, Leslie Bow and Lori Kido-Lopez.
Noted: UW Madison College of Engineering Associate Professor Laura Albert says picking special numbers like birth dates don’t increase your odds of winning.
In fact, if you pick higher numbers in the 40’s and up-it’s more likely you won’t have to share your winnings should you hit the jackpot.
Quoted: “I expect her to win and potentially by a large margin,” Barry Burden, a UW-Madison professor of political science and director of its Elections Research Center, said in an interview last week. He speculated that the decision of outside conservative groups “not to invest in Hagedorn’s campaign tells me that they have concluded that the campaign is in trouble, and don’t want to throw good money after bad.”
Noted: During the four-year period 2008 to 2012, Minnesota lost wetlands at the highest rate in the country and cut down forests at a rate that was second only to Georgia, according to a study from the University of Wisconsin.
Authorities have not released any additional details about Patterson’s treatment of Jayme. It was a move widely seen as aimed at sparing Jayme further pain, and one that University of Wisconsin law professor Cecelia Klingele praised Wednesday.
“People are always interested in hearing salacious details, but there is no ‘right to know’ the details of a crime victim’s suffering,” Klingele said in an email about Patterson’s plea.
Noted: Adamski also has considerable experience as a farm and local foods leader, and has a bachelor’s in microbiology and a master’s in agronomy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: After graduating high school, Hecht attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For three days. Three was enough. Chicago was next.
Quoted: “It’s so important that we see them as an employee of a school district,” said Katie Eklund, an assistant professor of school psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who’s also been a school psychologist and school social worker. “It’s important for them to think that SROs are here as a resource.”
Quoted: “Scientists buy heavily into this argument that to know us is to love us,” said Sharon Dunwoody, professor of mass communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But that just isn’t backed up by empirical evidence. The problem with scientific literacy surveys, she and Besley told me, is that they’re often being interpreted by people who are starting from a couple of inaccurate premises: That everyone ought to know a wide variety of science facts, even if those facts don’t affect everyday life; and that the more science facts people know, the friendlier they’ll be toward science. Neither are true, they said. And, ironically, pushing those incorrect beliefs — and the resulting conclusion that Americans are scientifically illiterate — could actually make people less science friendly.
Noted: In January 2009, Andy took a buyout from the State Journal and launched the WCIJ in a 120-square-foot basement office in the UW-Madison journalism school. Dee stayed on at the State Journal — with two kids in college, it was important for one of them to earn a steady paycheck — but left to become managing editor of the WCIJ in 2015.
Noted: Murphy, a graduate of Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, who received her bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and degrees from Coppin State College and Johns Hopkins University, believed the AFRO belonged to the community. As its publisher, every year she would invite readers to write their family histories and send them in along with historical pictures.
Wide receiver Quintez Cephus, who is scheduled to stand trial on sexual assault charges in July, no longer is enrolled at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Neubauer, 61, grew up in Minneapolis and, after stints at other colleges, followed a family tradition of attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The college admissions scandal which broke earlier this month — federal prosecutors on March 12 charged 50 people with taking part in a scheme where unqualified students were admitted to prestigious universities, allegedly because their parents paid bribes and the students cheated on standardized tests — angers us because it seems unfair, other students’ hard work and ability taking second place to Mommy and Daddy’s bank balance.
Quoted: His attorneys, Charles Glynn and Richard Jones, have probably advised him against pleading guilty, said Keith Findley, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a former defense attorney.
“It’s highly unusual for anyone to plead guilty at an arraignment,” Findley said.
More than 120 University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni, students, and friends, from across the country gathered in Washington, DC, to let their voices be heard as part of the third annual UW–Madison Day.
Noted: John Holovoet of the Wisconsin Dairy Business Association told of the proposed UW Dairy Innovation Hub $7.6 million funding request. The proposal focuses on four areas: land and water resource stewardship; enrichment of human health; growth of farm businesses and communities and animal health.
The governor included a request of $88 million of state funding for the expansion of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine that was built in 1983 to see 12,000 patients a year, a figure that has since risen to 27,000. The always top five rated school of Veterinary School in the nation has trained over 50 percent of the veterinarians practicing in the state. The $128 million project includes some $38 million from private donations in addition to the state funds.
Quoted: Steven Deller, interim director of the Center for Community & Economic Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the report confirms trends seen in Wisconsin as jobs shift away from manufacturing.
“It was possible to barely make it out of high school and land a job at a manufacturing firm making decent wages,” Deller said. “Many of (those jobs) are going overseas and a lot of the jobs that we’re generating now are in the service sector and they simply don’t pay those kind of wages.”
Although the restructured contract of Wisconsin’s Paul Chryst includes a raise of $300,000, he is set to enter the 2019 season no better than the ninth-highest paid head football coach in the 14-team Big Ten Conference.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will pay the federal government $1.5 million to settle a claim that the university “overcharged” for several research projects between 2007 and 2017.
Quoted: “When I started business school, I expected to be supplied with formulas and ample information to always make the right decision,” admits the University of Wisconsin’s Anders Larsen. “In reality, I learned that business is messy, and you never have all the information you want to make a decision. You learn to make decisions based off what information you have; and you learn when that information is enough or when you need to find more.”
The No. 1 Wisconsin women’s hockey team won its fifth national championship Sunday with a 2-0 win over No. 2 Minnesota.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee lecturer and researcher is facing child pornography charges.
Suzy Favor burst on the scene with state track and cross country titles as a freshman at Stevens Point Area High School and continued that success over the next three years to become one of the most dominant distance runners in Wisconsin high school history.
Quoted: “It’s very much a matter of your perspective,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison and chairman of Dairy Task Force 2.0, a committee of Wisconsin dairy farmers and others that aims to chart a course for the dairy industry’s future.
One of the pleasures of leading the University of Wisconsin System is listening to students describe how our campuses have improved their lives.
Noted: The Environmental Law & Policy Center commissioned the study by researchers from several universities, including Daniel Vimont, director of the Nelson Institute Center For Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
List includes Dr. Sherri Ann Charleston, Assistant Vice Provost & Affirmative Action Officer, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: With a Madison school board election coming up April 2, and with conversations around charters and vouchers affecting the last several school board races, we feel it’s important that voters be fully informed. So I spoke with Dr. John Witte, an expert on educational policy at the LaFollette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Witte has studied charter and voucher policies and their effects for more than 30 years.
The pain was searing initially, almost unbearable. It dissipated over the course of a long offseason, although it never disappeared.
Noted: In addition to striking down the lame-duck laws, Niess’s decision vacated 82 appointments by Walker that senators confirmed during the same session. The ruling gives Evers a chance to fill appointments, including ones on the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents and Public Service Commission, and to appoint a new head at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
