A larger than normal increase in what University of Wisconsin Athletics will pay for salaries and benefits drove the department to ask for an 8 percent increase in spending authority next year.
Even the person who lived it has a hard time believing the Frank Kaminsky story really happened.
The University of Wisconsin has played men’s basketball for 119 seasons and it wasn’t until a year ago that a player’s jersey was hung in the rafters of the Kohl Center.
Thousands of state workers, including University of Wisconsin System employees, will receive raises over the next two years under a new compensation plan a legislative committee approved Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students staged a protest at a campus dining hall Tuesday, briefly blocking entry to it, to demonstrate their outrage at a mandatory purchase program they say will strap low-income students and shortchange those with dietary restrictions.
Taylor Currie was a middle-school student — and a long way from a Division I scholarship — when he became enamored with Frank Kaminsky.
There’s red in the red, white and blue. There’s red in the Canadian flag. And when Team USA and Team Canada face off in a women’s hockey preliminary game Thursday at the Pyeongchang Olympics, they’ll be seeing red.
A protest on the UW-Madison campus Tuesday took an angry turn.
Quoted: UW Madison’s Dr. David Fields, a historian who actually lived in South Korea on and off, was living in South Korea in 2010 when the country found out it was not selected to host.
“I remember they had a countdown through Seoul, and countdowns all over the place, until the day the decision was going to be made. I can remember a feeling of disappointment among many of my friends when they didn’t get it that first time, nor did they get it the second time,” recalled Fields.
Quoted: “They have to really account for thinking about it to a much higher level,” said Director of Performance Nutrition for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nick Aures.
A swastika and the homosexual slur “FAG” were discovered written in the snow between Botany Gardens and Chamberlin Hall early Tuesday morning.
Once the Nicholas Recreational Center is completed, the Division of Recreational Sports will change to University Recreation and Wellness, John Horn, director of the Division of Recreational Sports said at a student finance committee Monday.
Legislators hope to convince out-of-state students to remain in Wisconsin after graduation by offering them some of their tuition money back, in an attempt to bolster the state’s struggling workforce numbers.
Lena Waithe, an Emmy award winning screenwriter, producer and actress, spoke as the Black History Month keynote speaker, fielding questions on her experience in the entertainment industry and identity as a queer woman of color.
Approximately 100 UW-Madison students and community members gathered in Gordon Dining Hall Tuesday evening to share their outrage over the university’s meal plan for incoming freshmen.
Jim Mathews, educational director of a team of game designers and education researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, gave a speech Monday night on how games can be used to increase empathy, raise awareness on important issues and leverage a child’s learning ability.
In an effort to help staff and faculty deal with intimidating behavior on campus, University of Wisconsin announced the creation of a “Hostile and Intimidating Behavior” website to address workplace bullying.
Nearly 100 formal complaints of sexual misconduct have been made against University of Wisconsin System faculty since 2014, a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed.
University of Wisconsin students gathered at the entrance of Gordon Dining and Event Center to protest the new resident meal plan Tuesday evening.
On Feb. 8, the University of Wisconsin announced a pledge to “cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for any incoming freshman from Wisconsin whose family’s annual household adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less, roughly the median family income in Wisconsin. Transfer students from Wisconsin meeting the same criteria will receive two years of tuition and segregated fees.”
Though the University of Wisconsin is known as a sports and research haven, the institution’s classrooms are teeming with art forms and artists of all kinds.
Frank Kaminsky went from unheralded recruit to role player to star to national player of the year during his four-year career with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
Noted: Dialogue is the centerpiece of what Upper House, a Christian nonprofit group located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, aims to do in Madison. The group considers itself broadly Christian and has both evangelicals and non-evangelicals on its board of directors. It hosts events on a variety of Christian faith issues, often looking at how it informs other disciplines.
“We were raised for generations that in polite society, you don’t talk about politics or religion because they’re polarizing,” said Jon Dahl, a campus minister at UW, who is on the boards of Upper House and Blackhawk Church. “We’re living with the consequences of that sort of attitude because what it means is that we don’t know how to talk about politics or religion constructively.
University of Wisconsin will have huge influence in USA-Canada women’s hockey game: Gary D’Amato of USA Today Network writes: “There’s red in the red, white and blue. There’s red in the Canadian flag. And when Team USA and Team Canada face off in a women’s hockey preliminary game Thursday at the Pyeongchang Olympics, they’ll be seeing red. Or, if you want to be picky about it, cardinal. That’s the vivid shade of red associated with the University of Wisconsin, represented on the two heavyweight hockey teams by nine players — four on Team USA, five on Team Canada. That means nearly 20 percent of the players on the combined rosters are products of UW’s women’s hockey program, led by coach Mark Johnson.
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, a UW-Madison Law School professor who specializes in criminal justice issues and has studied juvenile corrections in Wisconsin for decades, said the Assembly has proposed “a great plan.”
Noted: U.S. captain Meghan Duggan, one of four former University of Wisconsin players on the team, had an assist and was plus-1.
Taylor Currie was a middle-school student — and a long way from a Division I scholarship — when he became enamored with Frank Kaminsky.
It started as a joke, Zach Bohannon says — the guarantee that he would attend every game, home and away, during younger brother Jordan’s freshman basketball season at the University of Iowa.
Quoted: Kenneth W. Potter, a storm water expert and professor emeritus of environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that the rollback comes as the Upper Midwest is experiencing more precipitation.
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
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
VIDEO: UW Health Dermatologist Dr. Apple Bodemer gives information on how to avoid frostbite, and what to do if you get.
Although injuries forced him to give up football, quarterback Jon Budmayr impressed the Wisconsin staff with his intelligence and high football IQ.
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.
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.
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.
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.
