Noted: Greg Nemet is a University of Wisconsin professor specializing in energy policy. He says Wisconsin lags despite cost drops for renewable energy.
State lags in climate fight against carbon dioxide
WISC-TV 3
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Koenig: Getting to a Final Four would improve team’s legacy
WISC-TV 3
Wisconsin point guard Bronson Koenig said his team is thinking a lot about the legacy they want to leave these days.
Top-ranked Wisconsin Badgers upset by No. 2 Clarkson in National Championship Game
Daily Cardinal
It wasn’t supposed to end this way for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team. The nation’s top-ranked team—statistically and in the polls all season—which also had the best player in women’s hockey fell short of a national championship Sunday afternoon as No. 2 Clarkson defeated the top-seeded Badgers 3-0.
In Photos: Runways of the World promotes cultural awareness through fashion
Badger Herald
Though the weather was cold, the colorful costumes of Runways of the World at Union South Thursday night made the night warmer.
Wisconsin sent ruthless tweet after upset
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
This is brutal. The official University of Wisconsin-Madison Twitter account brought Villanova’s famous “crying piccolo girl” back after the Badgers upset the Wildcats in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. And the tweet was one word: “SWEET.”
La Crosse considers banning ‘all you can drink’ specials at bars
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute, 26% of La Crosse County adults report excess drinking. That’s one of the highest percentages in Wisconsin.
UW seniors ready for one last NCAA run
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Zak Showalter has experienced the zenith and nadir of the NCAA Tournament.
In wake of cousins’ deaths, Khalil Iverson tries to focus on basketball
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin sophomore guard Khalil Iverson sensed trouble as he walked off the Verizon Center floor Friday night in Washington, D.C.
A ‘Sunshine Week’ panel vows vigilance on public records during a Milwaukee Press Club luncheon
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty regularly uses the state open records law, said Tom Kamenick , deputy counsel. Examples include the group’s efforts to learn about the content of courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and attempts to compare the performance of public and voucher schools.
Sexual assault defendant Alec Cook expelled from UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting six women and groping, stalking or sexually preying on four others has been expelled after a non-academic misconduct hearing committee found him responsible for violating student conduct policies related to “a crime of violence.”
Paul Fanlund: Defending science, without picking fights
Capital Times
Noted: The city’s University of Wisconsin campus has more than 1,200 faculty in the biological and physical sciences, plus an uncounted number of academic and university staff who are scientists, according to UW spokeswoman Meredith McGlone. And as of last fall, there were more than 19,000 students, including graduate students, in those sciences out of a total of some 43,000.
UW-Madison administrator: Scrapping Sea Grant program would hurt state business
Capital Times
It would be a disaster to shut down the federal Sea Grant program, said University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Steve Ackerman.
Q&A: UW-Madison Chief Kristen Roman wants to recognize all the factors leading up to tragedies involving police
Capital Times
Kristen Roman thought she was headed toward a career in broadcast journalism when she studied at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the mid-1980s.
From a local business to a franchise – WISC
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: “When you buy into a franchise, you are buying a system of operations and you are buying an accepted brand,” says Michael Williams, director of entrepreneurship activities and director of the business and entrepreneur clinic and faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship. “Franchising ebbs and flows with the economy; when we have a slowdown or recession and people are laid off, there may be an uptick in franchising as people look to replace their incomes.”
Strada serves up pizza in environmentally-friendly containers
WISC-TV 3
Visitors to an Italian-style restaurant inside the Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may notice a different kind of carry-out container is being used.
Warm weather spurs early pollen, algae growth
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: “We had about 65 days of lake ice on Mendota this year,” Hilary Dugan, a postdoctoral researcher studying limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said.
Badgers get No. 8 seed in NCAA Tournament, will face No. 9 Virginia Tech
WISC-TV 3
After losing the Big Ten Championship game title to Michigan, the Badgers get the No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Wisconsin will face No. 9 Virginia Tech on Thursday in the Buffalo, NY regional matchup.
Outlook in 2018 Election Season
NBC-15
Quoted: “It’s all just so polarized right now and I think that’s going to continue in to next year,” UW Political Science Professor David Canon says.
Wisconsin slated as an 8th seed in the East Region
NBC-15
he Wisconsin Badgers have been slated as an 8th seed in the East Region. The Badgers will face Virginia Tech on Thursday in Buffalo, N.Y. The seed is much lower than previous projections for Wisconsin after UW finished second in the regular season and Big Ten conference tournament. If the Badgers beat Virginian Tech, they will have to go up against top overall seed and defending champion Villanova. Duke is the 2nd seed and Baylor is the 3rd seed in the region.
Men’s basketball: Free throw woes an added problem come tournament time
Badger Herald
Free throw shooting has been anything but free for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team this season.
Cook’s defense attorneys file motion to compel prosecution to release thousands of pages in evidence
Badger Herald
After weeks of withholding evidence from University of Wisconsin student Alec Cook’s defense team, his attorneys filed a motion to compel the court to have the prosecution release at least 2,800 pages worth of police reports and other documents, according to court records.
ASM to switch from stipend to hourly pay
Daily Cardinal
Members of the Associated Students of Madison will soon be paid by the hour in order to adhere to federal minimum wage.
Changes to Summer Term aim to make courses more flexible, accessible
Daily Cardinal
More students may stay on campus this summer due to university attempts to make Summer Term more accessible through scholarships and flexible courses.
Wisconsin Badgers react to NCAA Tournament selection show
Daily Cardinal
Less than an hour after losing to Michigan in the Big Ten Championship game, No. 24 Wisconsin (12-6 Big Ten, 25-9 overall) learned it would be playing Virginia Tech (10-8 ACC, 22-10 overall) in Buffalo on Thursday.
One more shining moment? Wisconsin Badgers’ seniors take final shot at March Madness run
Daily Cardinal
Vitto Brown almost never wears his two Final Four rings. He knows where they are—in a mural of his athletic achievements at his house in Bowling Green, Ohio—but the rings, for now, are just museum relics on display for visitors of the Brown house to marvel at.
Badgers men’s hockey: Former Wisconsin coach Jeff Sauer remembered for compassion, giving
Wisconsin State Journal
When U.S. Paralympic sled hockey goaltender Steve Cash heard of the death of Jeff Sauer last month, he said one of the toughest realizations was that he could never make his coach proud again.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice calls out critics, warns of threat to court’s legitimacy
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison professor and legal expert, said Roggensack was right to defend the court’s institutional legitimacy. Owens said her remarks draw attention to what he described as the need for collegiality among leaders in various spheres, including judicial and political.
UW professor Ryan Owens: Sleeper high court ruling could be monumental
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Owens is a political science professor who teaches constitutional law and judicial politics at UW-Madison
Chris Rickert: Legitimizing state’s high court starts with high court candidates
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Negative ads work, after all. But there also “is evidence for ‘backlash’ against candidates who run negative ads,” although not when third parties run them, according to UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Career Corner: Job loss can be a gain for your career
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Moira Kelley is a senior career counselor in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.
Badgers women’s hockey: Blowout of Robert Morris sends UW to fourth straight NCAA Frozen Four
Wisconsin State Journal
The emotions started to hit the six University of Wisconsin women’s hockey seniors when they got to LaBahn Arena on Saturday.
Madison’s Kelly Financial looks to future under new owner
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Family dynamics can complicate matters when transitioning a family-owned company from one generation to the next, said Sherry Herwig, director of the Family Business Center at UW-Madison.
Tributes to James Brown ‘funky drummer’ Clyde Stubblefield continue
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Fans and musicians who knew Stubblefield were scheduled to gather Friday night in New York City for a tribute concert. Stubblefield, known as the most sampled drummer in history, also will be honored posthumously with an honorary degree from UW-Madison at a May 12 commencement ceremony.
Cold temps, but at least sun shines on St. Patrick’s Day parade
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Katie O’Phelan, a UW-Madison student from Minnesota, started Madison’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1998, when it had a committee of one. Her father, John O’Phelan, had organized a St. Patrick’s Day parade in St. Paul, and she was determined to do the same in Madison.
Ask the Weather Guys: Is carbon dioxide a major contributor to global warming?
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
Tom Oates: Wisconsin’s low seed in NCAA basketball tournaments sprouts many questions
Wisconsin State Journal
Losing to Michigan in the Big Ten Conference championship game was bad enough.The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team didn’t know it was going to get hammered by the NCAA tournament selection committee, too.
Unlocking the Vault
Psychology Today
Quoted: A more potent form of self-deception is dissociation, which occurs on a spectrum, says Charles Raison, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We’ve all arrived at a location without remembering how we got there. Then there are people whose “experience of the world is like Swiss cheese,” Raison says. “They go in and out, and if their personality isn’t well-glued together, they could even start perceiving themselves as being more than one entity.” Nearly all of these people, Raison says, have experienced a trauma.
No. 8 seed UW will face Virginia Tech in East Regional
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard was diplomatic.Senior Nigel Hayes insisted he missed most of the NCAA Tournament selection show on Sunday after the Badgers learned their fate because he was looking for family.
In era of change, Jay Risch becomes Wisconsin’s top financial regulator
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Risch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science major who had been DFI’s deputy secretary since mid-2015, also previously worked as government relations director for the Wisconsin Bankers Association. In addition, he worked for state Sen. Alberta Darling and former state Sen. Cathy Stepp.
Borsuk: Teach for America making its mark in Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Misa Sato was well on her way to medical school and becoming a doctor. The Whitefish Bay native was majoring in medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and had taken the medical college admission test.
GOP health care plan shifts benefits toward higher-income people
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Broadly, the Republican replacement plan — titled the American Health Care Act — would hurt people with low incomes or who are older while benefiting people who have higher incomes or who are younger, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“Those are quite clear effects,” he said.
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers clash on fetal tissue approach
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Republican Wisconsin lawmakers who for years have sought to ban the use of aborted fetal tissue in the state are now bickering among themselves over what to do.
With ice cover gone, you could row a boat across Lake Mendota. But not safely.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The state climatology office has been maintaining lists of dates when ice covers three Madison lakes — Mendota, Monona and Wingra — since the mid-19th century, based on observations made by various individuals, including at Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Orangutan Mahal’s mysterious death sparks fear about greater threat to humans, animals
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “The fact that we share so many diseases with primates tells us about evolution,” explains Tony Goldberg, the UW professor of epidemiology who led the investigation into Mahal’s death. “There are an awful lot of primate pathogens that don’t really care whether they’re in a human or a chimpanzee or an orangutan.”
UW-Madison wins, UW-Milwaukee and Parkside lose under Walker’s performance funding plan
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Madison would win big, and UW-Milwaukee and UW-Parkside would be the biggest losers, if performance measures proposed by Gov. Scott Walker to divvy up $42.5 million in new state funding over the next biennium are approved by the Legislature, according to a new analysis.
Local friends tell all about ‘Bachelor’ Nick Viall
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: After graduating from Waukesha North High School in 1999, Viall started college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ran for the track team. He later transferred to UWM.
Private green energy deal did not mean gold for UW-Oshkosh
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
More than $4 million in university funds that were used to convert livestock waste into electricity play a key role in exposing the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation to potential bankruptcy as rapidly changing markets have dulled the allure for some sectors of renewable power.
Tambor: It all started in Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Now in “Transparent,” I’m still putting lessons learned at the Rep to work on the show. I also can’t seem to get away from people with connections to the Badger State. I’ve reunited with Judith, and our cast includes two graduates of UW-Madison, Jill Soloway and Amy Landecker, as well as Madison native Brad Whitford. Now if they’d only bring brats and cheese curds to the set, I’d be one happy guy!
Catching up with little girl who needed a kidney and her teacher who gave the life-saving gift
World News Tonight
Video story about living donor donation at UW Health.
Nichols, Brannon: Help kids succeed before they get to college
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System is supposed to be one of the state’s most effective paths to helping children of lower- and working-class households join the middle class. Unfortunately, it’s not working out that way.
Wisconsin rural voters will be key again in 2018 when Scott Walker, Tammy Baldwin run
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “It’s the nature of politics today that it has been more efficient for the Democratic Party to focus on urban areas. That’s where their base of support is. In some respects, they have neglected rural places in the state and across the country,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Katherine Cramer, whose recent book on rural politics in Wisconsin (“The Politics of Resentment”) has drawn national attention in the wake of Trump’s rural landslides. Democrats in both the U.S. House and Senate invited Cramer this year to share her insights with them on what happened last fall in the small counties and towns of the battleground Midwest.
UW’s Ethan Happ a Naismith player of the year semifinalist
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MADISON – Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ is among the 10 semifinalists for the 2017 Naismith Trophy, given annually to the top basketball player in the country.
Former UW-Oshkosh chancellor pushed his legacy in slow economy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in turmoil over allegations that a former chancellor broke the law and covered his tracks to get high-profile building projects done, attention has turned to funding of projects going on at the same time at other campuses.
Bostad returns to Wisconsin coaching staff
NBC-15
Bob Bostad is back at Wisconsin for the 2017 season, returning to a program he helped reach unprecedented offensive success during a six-year run that saw the Badgers claim a pair of Big Ten championships.
Student organizations plan Sexual Assault Awareness Month events
Daily Cardinal
A range of UW-Madison student organizations—from the Campus Women’s Center and Women’s Studies Club to Black Woman Heal and Muslim Student Association—exchanged ideas Thursday for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April, in the spirit of the month’s theme: “Engaging New Voices.”
Student organization encourages female students to ‘find their fit’
Daily Cardinal
By gathering more than 100 UW-Madison women together, a new student organization is striving to make fitness a fun component that fits into female students’ lives.
It’s On Us brings campuses together to combat sexual assault
Daily Cardinal
Lynn Rosenthal used to leave the White House gates every day thinking it was her last and that she would be fired. Little did she know that her work would spur the national campaign “It’s on Us.”
Showtime: Showalter’s tireless motor takes center stage for UW
Daily Cardinal
For years, in the driveway outside of Zak Showalter’s house in Germantown, Wis., the Badger guard played basketball with a clear disadvantage. When the family game of pickup broke out, it was always 2-on-1. Zak played alone while his younger brother, Jake, played alongside their dad, Steve.
Agriculture experts attempt to dispel myths, inform public on GMOs
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin students, faculty and community members gathered to discuss agriculture’s most controversial topic: genetically modified organisms and crops.
What happened when UW Hospital cafeteria made eating healthy easier?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It started with the removal of sugar-sweetened drinks and deep-fat fryers back in 2014.Poof! They were gone. But the culinary staff for the University of Wisconsin Hospital system were just getting started. By the time they were done with a major overhaul of their cafeterias’ food offerings, healthy salads, alternative grains, ethnic specialties and local farm-fresh fruits and vegetables would rule the day, and the plate, for the system’s nearly 15,000 employees and other diners.