Six inches of ice, six inches of snow and winds of at least 10 mph. For David Fish, this means it’s time to hoist the sails — or, in this case, the kites.
“Snowkiting is how we get rid of our cabin fever,” says Fish, kiting fleet captain at Wisconsin Hoofers, a UW-Madison outdoor club. While most people might elect to stay inside on a windy, blizzardy day, Fish locks his boots into downhill skis, hooks himself into a size 10 wind kite and speeds around Lake Mendota.
The announcer called Alicia Monson the “fastest coach at this meet.”
Monson, a junior on the University of Wisconsin women’s track and field team from Amery, won the Big Ten championship in the 5,000 meters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday, crossing the finish line in 16 minutes, 18.63 seconds.
It’s more than a little disturbing to know that Trouble in Mind was written in the early 1950s.
The play, which runs through March 9 at the Bartell Theatre, is a witty and poignant sendup of backstage dynamics in a “colored play” headed to Broadway.
Thanks to a first-time collaboration between UW-Madison’s Afro-American Studies department and Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre (KRASS), Madison audiences are getting a chance to see what has changed — and what has stayed the same — in the world of race relations since then.
Noted: Deputy Secretary Elizabeth Kluesner said revisions under former Secretary Cathy Stepp, who now heads the regional office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will be changed. The DNR is conferring with the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the best approach, she said.
Noted: They linked with the Waukesha County Community Foundation to gain 501c(3) nonprofit status. They also were accepted as partners with the UW-Madison Law and Entrepreneur Clinic. They also established an endowment to help fund its operations. With administrative support from the Waukesha foundation and legal affairs handled pro bono by the UW-Madison clinic, all funds raised go to run the programs to benefit vets, first-responders and their families, Falkner said.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin System Office of Educational Opportunity, which was created in 2015 and may authorize independent charter schools over the objection of school district officials, would be barred from authorizing new schools until 2023.
One fraternity got suspended from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for hazing, the school announced in a press release.
A revitalized program aimed at boosting the enrollment of low-income and minority students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison kicks off this week when the PEOPLE program opens its new office at Milwaukee’s Rufus King Middle School.
March Madness is right around the corner, and while the Wisconsin Badgers won’t be a trendy pick to reach the Final Four this year, they wouldn’t be the first defensively savvy UW squad to make an improbable run.
Noted: One study by the University of Wisconsin Extension estimates the four-day Birkie weekend brings an estimated $4 million to the local economy. More than half of the skiers and spectators pay for lodging during the weekend, according to a survey of Birkie participants.
Noted: A study by the Wisconsin School of Business suggests that when you regularly complete clear-cut tasks, it starts to impact your ability to creatively problem solve.
When Alice Childress’ first full-length drama, Trouble in Mind, was first produced in 1955, it ran for 91 performances. Afterward, Childress became the first black woman to win an Obie Award for the play, which was inspired by her own experiences as an actor.
Quoted: Dr. Aleksandra Zgierska, a family doctor who practices and researches addiction medicine at UW Health, remains skeptical of CBD. “The research on CBD oil has not been sufficient to say that this is evidence-based treatment for x, y or z,” she says.
Quoted: “This downward cycle has been brutal,” said Kevin Schoessow, a University of Wisconsin-Extension agent in Washburn County.
Noted: Neubauer was a political science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time and had taken a course in constitutional law.
Noted: Craig, Kapenga and Stroebel were at Tuesday’s news conference to tout a study by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
A man who pleaded no contest to possessing homemade explosives in his Madison apartment appeared to be planning an attack on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, a prosecutor said.
Quoted: Kapinus’ story is not unusual for young female athletes, according to Dr. Pamela Lang with UW Health. “It seems that anywhere from kind of twice as likely to even four times more likely to have ACL tears with women compared to men.”
UW Health distinguished psychologist shares four ways to bring more love into your life.
Quoted: “I think it’s a very significant advance,” said Mike Bassetti, an associate professor in the department of human oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “Up until this point, there has been no way to directly visualize the tumor and the surrounding tissue as we are treating the tumor.”
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday unanimously approved a budget of $159.4 million for the 2019-’20 fiscal year.
Noted: Nelson and Steele both started their journalism careers at the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at UW-Madison.
Noted: He took classes at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then worked with cheesemakers, including Gary Grossen, Andy Hatch and Bob Wills.
The University of Wisconsin student who opted to sit during the national anthem has defended her right to protest and says she is not worried by any of the negative backlash.
A star forward for the University of Wisconsin’s basketball team says she has no regrets amid fury over her sitting down during the national anthem.
Quoted: Indeed, Dr. Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, said news organizations should expect to be held accountable by the public.
While Wisconsin waits to reargue a gerrymandering case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, the state should look to examples of better redistricting procedures, like those found in Pennsylvania, California and Iowa, a UW-Madison political science professor argued Wednesday night to an audience of roughly 75 people at the UW-Eau Claire Forum.
Barry Burden, also director of the Elections Research Center, said those three states have each come up with different solutions to the problem of gerrymandering.
Noted: A University of Wisconsin professor and a pioneer of wildlife management, Leopold compiled a book of ecological essays and observations of nature in the 1940s. Published in 1949, a year after his death, “A Sand County Almanac” has sold millions of copies and influenced waves of conservationists who have followed him, inspired by the principle he expressed in his essay “The Land Ethic”: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Quoted: Jirs Meuris, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, stressed the importance of the loans. According to Meuris’ research, employees who are financially insecure tend to be less productive. This financial insecurity leads to anxiety, making employees unable to focus on work, he explained.
“These interest-free loans are trying to create these safety nets for these workers … providing these safety nets can reduce a lot of the psychological strain that comes along with financial insecurity,” Meuris said.
Quoted: Jirs Meuris, an assistant professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin at Madison said that while the rest of the country may have moved on, many federal workers, not to mention critical safety programs, have not.
“The first shutdown created very long-term problems,” Meuris said. “It posed threats to our security — and those effects will be felt for a very long time if we have a second shutdown.”
Noted: Jason Fletcher, a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research includes child and adolescent health policy, found that when comparing siblings, one who had ADHD and one who did not, the sibling with ADHD earned approximately 33 percent less as an adult.
Quoted: According to Dan Hummel, a historian of Christian Zionism and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Christian interest there grew after Israel gained control of the site in 1967. This interest included evangelicals and fundamentalists who believed the future Third Temple would “play a role in the events in the lead up to Jesus’ return,” he wrote in an email to The Daily Beast.
Quoted “We expected a decrease in mortality as a result. That is not what we have seen,” said Gina Bryan, an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing who worked with the Governor’s Task Force on Opioid Abuse.
Saturday will be a great day for hockey at the University of Wisconsin, one that no doubt would make Bob Johnson proud.
Noted: Craven, 70, is a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison. In a more than 40-year association with the university system, including as UW-Extension wildlife specialist, he advanced the public’s understanding and appreciation for Wisconsin’s wildlife and natural resources, WCHF officials said.
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Gerald Lenoir remembers the Black Strike of 1969 as both a exhilarating and frightening experience as a Black student at UW-Madison. It marked the beginning of his life as an activist.
Seven UW-Madison students presented their research on the Hmong American College experience to a group of students, staff and faculty last Friday. Their findings suggest the university needs to make Hmong students feel more welcome.
All University of Wisconsin System employees and 87 percent of students have completed sexual assault and harassment training, officials told the UW Board of Regents Thursday at Union South on the UW-Madison campus.
When it comes to funding for facilities operations and maintenance, the University of Wisconsin-Madison lags behind other universities. The Board of Regents got briefed on the state of the system’s flagship campus during a board meeting this week.
The first time Jim Leary was nominated for a Grammy, it went to Joni Mitchell. This time around, Joni isn’t part of the competition, though an homage to Bob Dylan is probably a crowd-pleasing favorite. Even so, who says there isn’t time to throw some Grammy love at yodelers? That’s the hope of Leary, a folklorist who is up for his second Grammy Award nomination for Best Album Notes for a release of archival music with a Wisconsin connection.
Madison police have arrested a 22-year-old man that they say is responsible for an apparently random and unprovoked attack that severely injured a UW-Madison student near campus early Sunday.
The elevators in UW-Milwaukee’s student union frequently break down, leading to multi-day or even multi-week failures in one of the university’s busiest buildings that brings more than 20,000 people through it on a single weekday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching a review of fraternity and sorority life.
A new video game created at UW-Madison is helping teachers in Wisconsin generate excitement in the classroom.
Noted: Noah Williams, an economics professor from the University of Wisconsin at Madison whose fiscal analysis supported the Walker administration’s case for the project, says the state ought to redo the math.
One of the more familiar faces in recent Wisconsin sports history will be back at his old stomping grounds in the spring. NFL star JJ Watt will serve as commencement speaker at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin System is touting a record number of graduates in the latest academic year.
The Black Student Strike at the University of Wisconsin – Madison began 50 years ago today. This is a history of that strike and surrounding events, excerpted from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press’s new book, Madison in the Sixties, by Stuart D. Levitan.
NFL star and former Badger football player J.J. Watt will deliver the spring commencement address to UW-Madison’s class of 2019, the university announced Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents are set to consider changes to football coach Paul Chryst’s contract this week.
After more than three months, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has lost its hold on the top spot in the national rankings.
The number of students of color graduating from University of Wisconsin System campuses increased 75 percent over the past decade, reaching a record of 4,919 graduates in the 2017-18 academic year, according to UW System figures released Wednesday.
Noted: Answer by John Hawks, paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Noted: A group of girls who assisted in the task are sophomores at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and they’ve handed out the Losar rice and tea ever since they were little, they said. They said the rice is made with cashews, pistachios, almonds, raisins, butter, pecans and droma, a special root found in Tibet.
Noted: Olivarez and Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, worked for hours on behalf of detainees. They called ICE to see where the detainees had been taken, started intakes to see who could be eligible for relief and worked with other immigration attorneys to find out who could take cases pro-bono or at a low cost, referring families who could afford it to private attorneys.
Noted: Undocumented immigrants are also less likely to commit serious criminal offenses, according to research conducted by Cato. Using government-supplied data from the Texas Department of Safety, the libertarian think tank concluded that in Texas the murder arrest rate for native-born Americans was “about 46 percent higher than the illegal immigrant homicide rate,” according to a June 2018 research note. Another study, performed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, found that “increased concentrations of undocumented immigrants are associated with statistically significant decreases in violent crime.”
Noted: The University of Wisconsin–Madison will be honoring Harbison throughout February. An exhibit on display all month at the Memorial Library will focus on Harbison and his career. The first performance of Harbison’s music will be of “Wind Quintet” by the Imani Winds, Feb. 1 at the Union Theater. And Harbison will take up a one-week residency at UW–Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music to coach students in composition.
Noted: Donna Friedsam, the health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute, spoke on the Jan. 25, 2019, episode of Wisconsin Public Television’s Here & Now about the bill and how it compares to the regulations set out in ACA.
Leave it to a University of Wisconsin-Madison math professor to notice a special intersection in Madison: the corner of North Baldwin and East Johnson streets.
