Quoted: “Unfortunately, there isn’t enough public housing for everyone,” said Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater distinguished professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “In the short run, we have got to put the brakes on milk production. Processors are telling farmers, ‘We can work through this … but don’t compound the problem by expanding milk output dramatically,” said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted, featured photo of May Day Pole dance in 1917 on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, possibly as part of the graduation day pageantry. (Photo: Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives)
Noted: In a report, University of Wisconsin-Madison economists estimated that farms of 500 or more cows accounted for 40% of state milk production in 2013 compared to 22% in 2007.
Radio broadcasts by famed Wisconsin conservationist Aldo Leopold 80 years ago have been recreated as part of this year’s Earth Day celebration.
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved one-year contract extensions for six coaches.
DePuy Synthes Products, part of Johnson & Johnson, has acquired 3D printing technology from Tissue Regeneration Systems, a Michigan company based in part on research from the lab of William Murphy of UW-Madison.
Quoted: Canada has indicated its prices would be competitive with the world market but offered no specifics, according to Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison.
The co-chairman of the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee says he is open to ending the freeze on University of Wisconsin System tuition in the next two years.
An engineering professor who has been at UW-Madison for almost 20 years has been selected as the new director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.
Since the Virginia Tech shooting 10 years ago, more Americans are speaking up for strong gun policies across our nation. But we have miles to go in terms of reducing gun deaths and injuries that occur every day in cities, towns and neighborhoods.
Noted: A Wisconsin native, Boran received her bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison in 1980 and both her master’s in developmental studies and doctorate in reading, language and literacy from National-Louis University.
Dean Oliver was a four-year starter at point guard for Iowa, so it was no surprise to those that know him best that he ended up on the sidelines once his playing career ended.
A man whose vehicle struck and killed a UW-Madison graduate student last weekend was driving with nearly twice the legal amount of alcohol in his blood, and had a packet of methamphetamine in his jacket pocket, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
Dear Editor: In his op-ed, “UW doesn’t need state law to ensure free speech,”Tom Loftus raises an important point about the problems that can arise with legislative intervention regarding the internal decisions of higher education. Academic freedom partly entails sufficient institutional autonomy.
Quoted: Susan Carpenter, the Arboretum’s native plant gardener, said queen bees that hibernated over the winter are beginning to emerge.
Noted: After studying Spanish and English at the University of Mount Union in Ohio, she did not choose to go to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rather, she said, “Madison chose me. Out of desperation. They needed one more actor in their program, and it was the only place that offered me a position.”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student from Beijing, who was to receive her master’s degree in economics next month, died over the weekend after she and two other pedestrians were struck by an SUV as they were walking on a sidewalk south of campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police have given the “all-clear” after an earlier report that a man with a knife was in the parking lot of the H.C. White Library.
Yes, a fire last Saturday night destroyed the Mainstage Theatre’s scene shop in the arts complex at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. And yes, the restoration will take months. But what has happened in the days since then, that’s a different kind of story.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison, believes it won’t be easy to find a solution because there is an excess of milk and not a big enough market.
Noted: Elliott played four years for Eaves at the University of Wisconsin before embarking on a professional career in which he has emerged as the great hope for the Flames in this first-round series.
Noted: Anne P. Massey, the new dean at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, is particularly interested in encouraging more women to enter traditionally male dominated industries like tech, science, engineering, and math. It’s an issue she about which she speaks from personal experience: “I’m proud of the fact that we can get young women to do these things … I still have the fondest memory of a female math professor at RPI who made me realize that [women] can do whatever we want.” (The Badger Herald)
The Midwest is the best — at least when it comes to cracking the job market in consumer packaged goods. Eight of the top nine business schools for sending newly graduated MBAs into the CPG industry in 2016 are based in the region, from public stalwarts like the University of Minnesota to the private halls of Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. Leading them all: Wisconsin School of Business, which sent 27% of its Class of 2016 to the likes of General Mills and PepsiCo.
Noted: Wisconsin School of Business is ranked 30th.
Lauren Carlini, the only four-time All-American in University of Wisconsin volleyball history, was named the 2017 AAU James E. Sullivan Award winner on Tuesday night at the New York Athletic Club.
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests not only are Pokémon Go players walking more, they’re happy people.
When University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Matthew Desmond won a Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction Monday, it came as no surprise to anyone who has read his 2016 book “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.”
Noted: The new fund will be managed by Rock River Capital Partners, a venture capital firm started by Andrew Walker and Christopher Eckstrom, both of whom grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a news release.
New dean. The University of Wisconsin-Madison named Anne P. Massey as the dean of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Last Saturday was the biggest talent showcase of the semester for the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Matthew Desmond, who earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on Monday won the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for a book based on research conducted in Milwaukee.
Profile of student Steven Kelly
Profile of student Cady Severson
Noted: This isn’t the only accolade for the five-member student team, which will be competing at the Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament on Saturday, Apr. 22 in Madison. The first place winner will receive a $2,000 cash prize, a free one-hour consultation with the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the UW Law School, up to $25,000 in funding, and paid travel to Silicon Valley and an opportunity to present at the International Business Model Competition in California.
After years of going to work on their adversaries, Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Republican Robin Vos have gone to work on each other — both in public and in private.
Two transgender University of Wisconsin employees sued state entities Friday in federal court over their refusal to pay for their gender transition surgeries.
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and start-up expert, said all rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. “When you look at these rankings, you need to realize there are a variety of ways of measuring entrepreneurial activity,” Posen said.
Richard Wells says he did nothing as chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh as a “frolic of his own.” But the legal battle between Wells and the UW System is looking more and more like a hot mess for both him and UW.
Andre Taylor, the father of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus, was shot Monday in Macon, Ga., and is reportedly in critical condition.
Working on little sleep, Lamont Paris was in the midst of a mental juggling act Monday as he prepared to fly to Tennessee to start his new job.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation bought Chancellor Richard Wells’ home for roughly $120,000 more than it arguably was worth before he retired — the same foundation he’s accused of illegally using to help cement his legacy.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting six women and groping, stalking or sexually preying on four others could face additional charges, UW police announced Monday.
Noted: Gonda graduated in 1998 from Winona State University in Minnesota, then completed her master’s of public affairs degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the city’s intergovernmental relations office in 2004 after about four years in the budget office.
Noted: Paula Niedenthal, professor of psychology, quoted
The pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right of all people. The U.S. Declaration of Independence makes that very clear. But as everyone discovers at some point, happiness is not so easy to achieve — unless, perhaps, you’re in a place where it is not only a state of being but also a way of life.
Noted: He remembers the old days, when Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and the Braves owned Milwaukee. He’d take his bicycle or catch a car ride from high school to the ballpark, later working games during the summers while on break from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Anne Massey was appointed dean of the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Ms. Massey is associate vice president for university academic planning and policy at Indiana University at Bloomington and a professor of information systems in its Kelley School of Business.
Noted: In separate testimony, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross praised Walker’s budget, which provides $100 million in new money to the university as well as $35 million in additional state tax dollars to fund a 5% tuition cut.
The Legislature’s audit committee has authorized a review of University of Wisconsin System schools’ relationships with their private foundations.
Noted: Police circulated a photo of Anderson from the security camera to other law enforcement departments. University of Wisconsin-Madison police recognized Anderson from a previous contact when he allegedly harassed a worker at Union South the previous week and provided Madison police his name.
Noted: I went to UW-Madison, my interests were journalism and archaeology. I spent a long time in the school of education, thinking I was going to be a high school teacher. I left with a history degree. There is really no set path to becoming a cheesemaker.
Deja vu is looming over the University of Wisconsin System. Thursday morning, UW System President Ray Cross will make a pitch to the Legislature’s powerful Joint Finance Committee for more than $100 million in additional state funding in the next biennium.
Noted: Anne P. Massey has been selected as the next dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Massey, currently at Indiana University Bloomington, is a professor of information systems at the Kelley School of Business as well as associate vice president for academic affairs. Massey will succeed François Ortalo-Magné, who has been named dean of London Business School. She begins her new role at Wisconsin on August 7.
Noted: Yang graduated from University of Wisconsin Law School in 2009. After a few years in legal services and at Hawks Quindel law firm, she opened her own practice in 2014, concentrating in family law, mediation and Social Security disability and worker’s compensation.
Noted: Bob Harlow, a 25-year-old Stanford University graduate who has lost a Democratic primary bid for Congress in California. Harlow, the only Democrat who’s committed to a run so far, is the grandson of famous UW-Madison psychologist Harry Harlow.
As clouds billowed like smoke rising from a forest fire, a twirling white funnel suddenly snaked downward.
Quoted: “What is interesting is that they found, yes, we have a type. But when we think about the idea of having a type, we think it is internal, only our unique preferences. That is not really true,” said Christine Whelan, clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the study.
The Wisconsin School of Business named a veteran professor at rival Kelley School of Business at Indiana University as its new dean. The school today (March 23) announced that Anne P. Massey, 56, who holds the title of dean’s research professor of information systems at Kelley, will succeed François Ortalo-Magné, who will depart Madison this summer to become dean of London Business School.
Poor customer service and repeated mistakes can cause consumers to “lose confidence in their banks,” says Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: Airbnb stands to gain through agreements like these, said Hart Posen, an associate professor of management at the Wisconsin School of Business on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
