Noted: These 10 programs have the best salary-to-debt ratio in the US:
1. University of Wisconsin-Madison: Avg. salary = $122,532; avg. debt = $52,568
You won’t believe how much grads from these top business schools rake in
Moneyish
Author: knutson4
Chicago flower delivery startup Flowers for Dreams moves into Milwaukee, just in time for Valentine’s Day
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Steven Dyme, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, started Flowers for Dreams in 2012. It started filling orders in Milwaukee last year and has assembled a small team based here.
Milwaukee’s new top health official: ‘The science is still out’ on vaccine, autism link
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “Unfortunately, she couldn’t be more incorrect,” said James H. Conway, a pediatrics professor at University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine and Public Health. “The science is clear and has been reviewed over and over not just by the CDC, but by NIH and numerous studies. The information is clear that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine does not cause autism.”
Also quoted: Maureen S. Durkin, a professor of public health and chairman of the department of population health sciences at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, said, “The scientific evidence is very clear at this point in showing no association between childhood vaccines and the risk of autism.”
UW-Madison pledges four years of free tuition and fees for state students whose families earn $56,000 or less
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If you’re a Wisconsin resident admitted as a new student to the University of Wisconsin-Madison next fall — and your family’s adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less — you’ve just been given a free ride.
Big Food Versus Big Chicken: Lawsuits Allege Processors Conspired To Fix Bird Prices
National Public Radio
Noted: Because these lawsuits are private litigation, they will likely not result in structural reform to the poultry sector, says Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches competition and regulation in the meat sector. He says the lawsuits probably won’t have “much effect” on the “very serious problem” of how processors “exploit the farmers who raise their chickens.”
Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst and both coordinators in line for pay raises
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After helping Wisconsin record the most successful season in the history of the football program, head coach Paul Chryst and his top two assistants are in line for pay raises.
Faculty groups slam UW System President Ray Cross for secretly planning sweeping restructuring
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Another faculty backlash is brewing against University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross because Republican lawmakers got a heads-up about his far-reaching plans to restructure the two-year colleges while faculty, staff and students were kept in the dark.
Vitamin D May Help Ease Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Healthline
Quoted: Dr. Arnold Wald, a professor of gastroenterology at the University of Wisconsin, is one of many who regularly request tests of patients’ vitamin D levels. “I do check vitamin D deficiency in many of my GI patients and I’m often rewarded by finding it,” he told Healthline. “It’s very inexpensive to order and very inexpensive to treat.”
UW System gets $2.3 million grant to help students struggling with math stay on track to graduate
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System has received a $2.3 million grant from a Madison-based student loan servicer to help students who struggle with math and to boost their chances of earning a college degree.
UW System president’s chief of staff resigns after arrest for drunken driving
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An executive for the University of Wisconsin System arrested on a charge of first-offense drunken driving while out of town for a regents meeting in October has resigned.
‘Pleasant togetherness:’ Hygge might be the answer for those looking to beat the winter blues
FOX 6
It’s pronounced “hoo-ga” and it’s a Danish world with no direct English translation — but Denmark native Dr. Claus E. Andersen teaches the concept to students of Scandinavian Studies at UW-Madison. So what does it mean? “The definition I use the most when I talk about it is pleasant togetherness,” said Andersen.
Here’s a sweet recipe for cheap, green plastic—sugar and corncobs
Science
Plastic has a huge carbon footprint: Producing the petroleum-based material accounts for at least 100 million tons of carbon emissions each year. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has invented an inexpensive way to make plastic with a much lighter touch, from sugar and corncobs. If it can be made cheaply enough, the material could one day replace one of the world’s most common plastics—polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—found in food packaging, soda bottles, and even polyester fabric.
How to Write a Business Plan
Manta
Quoted: “(Starting a business) is something brand new, and it’s hard, and you are always going to learn from your customer,” said Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin.
UW students accuse teachers of sexual harassment in more than half of all campus cases
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay investigated allegations that an instructor forced students to wear two-piece swimsuits and that an assistant coach inappropriately texted a female student-athlete.
Milwaukee orthopedic surgeon Michael Kubly was philanthropist and jokester
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Kubly was a Wisconsin kid. He was born in Monroe on Oct. 28, 1935, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and married, Billie, his childhood sweetheart, in 1957. He followed through on his youthful desire to be a doctor by entering Marquette Medical School, now known as the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Majic Productions stages pre-Super Bowl festivities in Minneapolis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A husband-wife team, the Jurkens met while planning events as students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.The pair teamed up on planning all-campus parties through the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board. For one, they set up a tent dubbed “Club Bucky” and threw a 4,000-person dance party inside. The Jurkens graduated in 2010 and wed two years later.
Left behind: Who looks out for children when their parents go to prison?
Isthmus
Quoted: “The children of incarcerated parents have been invisible for a long time because of stigma,” says Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, UW-Madison professor of human development and family studies. Poehlmann-Tynan has researched this population since 1996. She’s done the first ever observational study of children visiting incarcerated parents. Her work focuses on what will help children cope and thrive while a parent is incarcerated.
Beer school – and U.S. Brewers Academy – coming to Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Ryder, who teaches fermentation sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wants the class to be geared to “regular people.” Ryder doesn’t imagine he’ll make brewers out of his students. He just wants to round out their knowledge “so they won’t feel intimidated about some of these beers. People don’t know what’s a good beer and what’s a bad beer and why.”
Martin Luther King spoke to UW-Madison and UWM students 1 year after winning Nobel prize
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
More than four decades ago, a crowd estimated at almost 3,000 packed the Stock Pavilion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to listen to the wisdom of the most recent Nobel Peace laureate.
Klement’s Sausage names industry veteran as new CEO
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “Being a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and a resident of Wisconsin for most of my life, I understand the passion and dedication that the Klement family and all our current and former employees have shared to make Klement’s one of the leading sausage brands in the U.S.,” Danneker said in the statement. “I look forward to continuing to grow Klement’s strong position in Milwaukee and Wisconsin and to sharing our love of sausage with consumers throughout the country.”
Farmers worry Trump could leave them in tough spot on immigration, trade
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “I don’t think the Trump administration has really done anything related to agriculture at all,” said Steven Deller, a rural development economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
London Beats New York Among Foreign Investors in Real Estate
Bloomberg News
Noted: The survey was conducted in the fourth quarter of last year by the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Badgers swept up in lawsuit for staying at Trump hotel during Orange Bowl
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Orange Bowl accommodations for the University of Wisconsin football team at a Florida resort owned by President Donald Trump may draw the Badgers into a lawsuit alleging the president’s private business ventures violate the Constitution.
How Wisconsin is working to keep people in the state
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: UW-Madison professor of economics Noah Williams said this has been happening for years. “Since the recession, since 2008, it’s been net out-migration, so more people moving out than moving in,” said Williams.
Madison artist chosen for emerging artist-in-residence program
WISC-TV 3
Noted: Maddox is a graduate of University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received his M.A. and M.F.A. He currently focuses on book art projects and installation work.
What to do to avoid frostbite
WISC-TV 3
VIDEO: UW Health Dermatologist Dr. Apple Bodemer gives information on how to avoid frostbite, and what to do if you get.
Jon Budmayr, who had to give up football because of injuries, named UW quarterbacks coach
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Although injuries forced him to give up football, quarterback Jon Budmayr impressed the Wisconsin staff with his intelligence and high football IQ.
All UW campuses can offer two-year online degrees under reorganization
Capital Times
All University of Wisconsin System four-year campuses will be able to offer online associate degrees under a proposal that members of the Board of Regents approved Wednesday.
Hunter tree stand falls likely to cause spinal fractures, UW study says
Wisconsin State Journal
More than half of hunters treated for falls from tree stands at UW Hospital suffered one or more spinal fractures, including at least five who had paralyzing injuries, a new study says.
UW study combines pill, patch to help smokers quit
Wisconsin State Journal
Up to 1,000 smokers from the Madison and Milwaukee areas are being sought for a study of whether using a pill and a patch together, or taking the pill twice as long as usual, makes it easier for people to quit smoking.
The Big Squeeze: More juice bars in Madison mean more ways to cleanse
Capital Times
Noted: Sarah Van Riet, a dietician at UW Health, sees no long-term benefits to doing a juice cleanse. Neither she nor Kohls would recommend it to patients, though they understand the appeal of a quick fix.
With candidate field set, state Supreme Court race ramps up
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: State judicial races are officially nonpartisan. Still, the primary is likely to center on Burns and Dallet courting Democratic and liberal voters, said Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison political science and law professor who studies the courts.
Badgers hockey: U.S. women’s Olympic team has 4 former Wisconsin players; men’s roster shut out
Wisconsin State Journal
Tony Granato’s U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team doesn’t have any former University of Wisconsin players on the roster, but four former Badgers players are on the American women’s hockey squad.
UW wins $7 million grant to study ways to improve the odds of quitting smoking
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Four years ago, Inda Lampkins, a 42-year-old Milwaukee mother diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, took one of the most difficult and most important steps to improve her health. She quit smoking.
Acidic soil won’t make your green spruce blue
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: I searched my resources and the internet and found nothing on St. John’s wort susceptibility or resistance to verticillium wilt. So I consulted Brian Hudelson, director of diagnostic services for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic. He did find one report of verticillium wilt on Hypericum from Poland. So he is assuming Hypericum is technically susceptible but feels it might be more like serviceberry (Amelanchier) that is technically susceptible but seems to be quite resistant.
Clayton Chipman survived Iwo Jima, taught school children American history
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: He returned to West Allis in 1946, went to college but dropped out to play professional baseball. Chipman was still a catcher in the minor leagues when his father died in 1950 and he felt he needed to help his mother at home. After earning a degree at Milwaukee State Teachers College in 1952 — plus a master’s degree in education in 1957 at University of Wisconsin-Madison — he was hired by Milwaukee Public Schools.
Corporate investments will determine pace of long-term growth
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: The long-term gains will come from what businesses spend on equipment and technology, said Noah Williams, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “And that’s been true for many years,” said Brad Chandler, director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at UW-Madison.
Wisconsin School of Business Dean Steps Down
Wall Street Journal
Wisconsin School of Business Dean Anne Massey will step down this month, after just one semester steering one of the country’s oldest business programs.
Lower birth rates among Millennials following the recession is one reason school enrollments are dropping in the Milwaukee suburbs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The Applied Population Laboratory is a group of researchers and outreach professionals within the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which provides enrollment projections. Many factors go into student population counts, according to Kemp, but births and migration — families moving from one district to another — are the two main ones.
‘Mexicans in Wisconsin’ tells a sweeping story of hardship and success stretching 130 years
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was a triple major in secondary education, history and Spanish. For several years, he taught social studies and science in a dual language immersion program at a middle school in Madison.
Packing picnics for Mars: UW astrobotanist launches seed experiment in space
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If humans eventually travel to Mars and beyond, scientists must figure out how to feed them.
ATF mum on report of agent being arrested in women’s restroom incident at UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives refused Tuesday to confirm that a male special agent was arrested for taking photos in a women’s restroom at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
CEOs’ Risk Jobs if Taxes Differ Too Greatly from Competition
CPA Practice Advisor
Noted: Enacted in 2002 in response to jolting financial scandals at Enron, WorldCom and other major companies, SOX instituted a considerable tightening of federal corporate regulation. In the words of the study, by James A. Chyz of the University of Tennessee and Fabio B. Gaertner of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the “post-SOX period coincided with increased IRS scrutiny of aggressive tax positions and legislation that led to increased regulatory scrutiny over the tax function. Consistent with increased pressures to be less tax-aggressive, we find that being in the lowest quintile of benchmarked tax rates [became] influential in predicting CEO turnover… This is consistent with boards responding to…increase[d] political and reputational costs surrounding tax avoidance.”
Wisconsin will raise Frank Kaminsky’s No. 44 to Kohl Center rafters
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ab Nicholas’ uniform number will have company in the rafters of the Kohl Center. Wisconsin officials on Monday announced they plan to honor Frank Kaminsky, the consensus national player of the year as a senior, on Feb. 15 when UW hosts Purdue.
Gerit Grimm turns ceramic figures into storytellers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Grimm, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a meticulous and accomplished ceramicist. Her work reflects an accumulation of influences and interests that date back to her childhood in the former German Democratic Republic, her years as a production potter, and her early fascination with the California Funk ceramic movement. She is a voracious consumer of art history and a determined boundary-pusher at the potter’s wheel.
UW-Madison admits first batch of freshmen, getting financial aid offers to them this week in competitive market
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison offered seats to its first batch of prospective freshmen over the weekend and plans to get financial aid offers to them this week — several weeks earlier than in past years for competitive reasons.
T.J. Edwards leads five Wisconsin players on AP All-American team
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Led by redshirt junior linebacker T.J. Edwards, five Wisconsin players were named to The Associated Press All-American team Monday.
Foxconn’s plans to use driverless vehicles points to potential of emerging technology
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “My impression is that Foxconn’s interests are definitely larger than just setting up a plant,” said Peter Rafferty, a researcher in the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW’s College of Engineering.
Centers and Facilities
BizEd
The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has embarked on a US$11 million construction project to convert three floors in its facility into a vertically connected educational space called the Learning Commons. The Learning Commons will become the heart of the building, connecting its east and west wings, with ample natural light to open the space. The first floor will house the school’s finance and analytics lab, and the second and third floors will feature the business library and business learning center with five active learning classrooms equipped with wireless displays for collaboration. The upper floors will include ten breakout rooms, as well as collaborative and casual seating. Construction on the 33,000-square-foot space is due to be completed this spring.
Madison bike-sharing grows in popularity as industry evolves nationwide
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: The economic side of the industry is “where all the questions are these days,” said Hart Posen, a UW-Madison associate professor of business who tracks sharing economies.
Where does Wisconsin rank in paying its football assistants?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Of the conclusions that can be drawn from a USA TODAY study of college football assistant coaches, this much seems clear: the University of Wisconsin gets a pretty good bang for its buck.
How the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ can retool Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Guri Sohi and Jignesh Patel of the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science department, one of the nation’s highest-ranked programs, talked about how computing is disrupting industries such as manufacturing, insurance, financial services, agriculture, biotechnology, healthcare and transportation — all part of the Wisconsin economic fabric.
Keep news outlets insulated from politics
Isthmus
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross recently proposed a major restructuring of the system’s two-year colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
Cincinnati Bengals great Tim Krumrie’s brain: A work in progress
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Such terrors are symptoms of a damaged frontal lobe, which resulted from a 12-year NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals, two years of wrestling and four years of football at the University of Wisconsin that put him in the College Football Hall of Fame and playing linebacker and wrestling in his youth.
Former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow, 83, retiring from UW System Board of Regents
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Less than a month after turning 83, former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow announced Thursday she will immediately retire from the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
If your student applied to UW-Madison and is academically prepared, admission chances are ‘excellent,’ official says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison overshot its freshman enrollment goal for Wisconsin residents this fall by more than 100 seats — good news for those who got in and for “academically prepared” high school seniors hoping to be admitted for next fall.
Pewaukee native and former Badgers standout J.J. Watt named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Pewaukee native and University of Wisconsin alumnus J.J. Watt, who’s been a beast on the field since he arrived in the National Football League, has been given an impressive honor for his work done off of it.
Badgers to play Miami in Orange Bowl on Dec. 30
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Although Wisconsin’s quest for a berth in the College Football Playoff ended with a loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten title game, the Badgers were rewarded with a top-10 matchup in a New Year’s Six bowl.
A generation of scientists could dwindle if GOP tax reform plan passes, universities warn
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said she agrees with the broader effort to reform and simplify the tax code but says the legislation in its current form would increase the cost of attendance for many students. It also could hinder research universities’ ability to train highly-skilled workers and the future leaders of “the ongoing innovation revolution” in science and technology, Blank said.
Why Current Patient-Doctor E-Communication Guidelines are Not Good Enough: One Researcher Speaks Out
Healthcare Informatics
Noted: Researchers from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently stated in a paper that although there are plenty of frequently suggested benefits of “e-visits” and of electronic communication between providers and patients, such as enabling providers to give patients a low-cost alternative to visiting the doctor’s office, there could also be unintended consequences involved.