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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Anne Massey will step down this month, after just one semester steering one of the country’s oldest business programs.
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.
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.
If humans eventually travel to Mars and beyond, scientists must figure out how to feed them.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Led by redshirt junior linebacker T.J. Edwards, five Wisconsin players were named to The Associated Press All-American team Monday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Noted: The result wasn’t a total surprise. A 2015 study by University of Wisconsin and US Department of Agriculture researchers found that bumble bee hives exposed to small amounts of chlorothalonil—which is widely used in fruits, vegetables, and orchard crops—”produced fewer workers, lower total bee biomass, and had lighter mother queens than control colonies.”
Noted: Ed graduated from Waukesha High School, where he was involved in football and tennis. He went on to attend the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he graduated in 1957 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Noted: In “An Assessment of When, Where and Under What Conditions In-Store Sampling is Most Effective,” the three authors – Sandeep R. Chandakula of Singapore Management University, Jeffrey P. Dotson of Brigham Young University, and Qing Liu of University of Wisconsin-Madison – find that sampling has both an immediate, if short-term, effect and a sustained impact on sales, but that the impact varies according to the size of the store conducting the event. They also found that repeated sampling for a single product produces increased returns and that sampling tends to expand a category rather than purely substitute for another product.
According to research out of the University of Wisconsin School of Business, buying the same thing for yourself makes the gift even more special to the recipient. There’s even a name for it: companionizing.
“Recipients end up liking the gift more because it’s shared,” says Evan Polman, a UW marketing professor, who conducted the research with Sam Maglio, a marketing professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. They published the results of their study in July in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
When Zach Bohannon was a junior forward on the University of Wisconsin basketball team, his Badgers played in a Thanksgiving tournament at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. During pregame warmups, Zach nearly fell when he slipped on a large Continental Tire decal that had been slapped onto the middle of the basketball court.
From the moment I arrived in Wisconsin last year, I loved the familiar energy, intellect, and passion for doing things well. I was happy to return to my Midwestern roots.
If you are a woman living in Wisconsin, you probably don’t think much about how your obstetrics/gynecology physician was trained; you just expect that he or she has completed a rigorous educational program in med school and then in residency training.
Noted: One small winery that had a close call and is now looking to the future is Hamel Family Wines in Sonoma County. The family has longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison connections and their wines sport a badger on the label, albeit not exactly Bucky.
The dean of UW-Madison’s College of Letters & Science acknowledged this week a failure to provide a safe environment in the wake of a Wisconsin State Journal report on a culture of persistent sexual harassment in a university department.
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UW-Madison got a lot of attention over the weekend. The Wisconsin State Journal published an article about the department’s struggle with sexual harassment surrounding one prominent professor, Harvey Jacobs. The article says Jacobs’ alleged conduct had long been known in the so-called “whisper network” of women in the department. A survey on sexual misconduct at UW-Madison in 2015 revealed that about half of the responding female graduate students had experienced sexual harassment during their time at the university. About one in five of those who experienced harassment said a faculty member was responsible for the misconduct. We talk to an expert about sexual harassment on college campuses.
VIDEO: The past is part of the present for Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst, who is influenced by the teachings of his father, George, who was a longtime coach at UW-Platteville before dying in 1992.
Noted: Three floors of the existing Grainger House will become a vertically connected education space. Set for completion in spring 2018, the $11 million project will include a new computer lab, business library, and finance and analytics lab. The Commons will also contain the Business Learning Center’s five classrooms with wireless displays.
UW-Madison selected design firm Potter Lawson (Madison), and MSR Design (Minneapolis) is serving as consultant and partner. Miron Construction (Neenah, Wisconsin) is handling construction.
When does a picture from a pulp magazine deserve a spot in a museum alongside exquisite fine art? Maybe when it takes the viewer into another world with its rich composition, beautiful technique and evocative detail. Such are many works in “Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection,” an exhibition on view at the Chazen Museum of Art through Feb. 4.
Noted: The Urban League has put on an IT Academy for seniors the last few years in partnership with UW-Madison Continuing Studies. Anthony got the idea after giving his mom an iPad and watching her connect to friends and family members on social media. (So much so that her grandkids blocked her on Facebook, he joked.) The Urban League also takes senior trips to American Players Theater, with golf carts available to transport patrons up the long hill to the stage.
In his UW-Madison lab, Su-Chun Zhang discovered a likely cause of ALS, the deadly neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after turning skin cells from ALS patients into stem cells.
The Wisconsin Union, often referred to as “the heart and soul” of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has enhanced the lives of members and visitors since it was founded in 1907. Since 1928, when the doors to Memorial Union opened, the Wisconsin Union has served as the living room of the UW-Madison campus. It employs 250 full-time and 1,400 part-time staff. At both Memorial Union and Union South, the union connects students, faculty, staff, members and visitors through shared cultural, social and recreational events and experiences.
Check out the State Journal’s gallery of some of the best signs from ESPN’s College GameDay show in Madison.
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.
Leslie Orrantia was not yet director of community relations for UW-Madison in April 2016, when leaders of Madison’s communities of color demanded accountability from Chancellor Rebecca Blank and then-Police Chief Susan Riesling for what they felt was poor treatment of minority students on campus.
The line to enter a pastel pink Google “Donut Shop” on UW-Madison’s Engineering Mall one cloudy morning earlier this month snaked around the grassy quad, filled with students and others who wanted to experience the pop-up promotion for the tech giant’s smart speaker.
In the summer of 1978 when Long Island native Monica Turner was an undergraduate at Fordham University, she volunteered as a naturalist in Yellowstone National Park.
Within a few days of starting a job in UW-Madison’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning, a now-former employee says, she noticed a male professor staring at her chest.
Noted: Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.
The office in Bo Ryan’s condominium on the Near West Side of Madison is small, especially compared to the one he had in his previous home.
The University of Wisconsin remained No. 5 in the Associated Press poll after its 24-10 win over Michigan on Saturday.
Quoted: “Consumer confidence is a big deal during the holidays, so Madison will probably do a little bit better than the national average,” said Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison. “It’s apparent that some people like shopping on Thanksgiving. We may have hit that balance, but the (stores) that are closing (on Thanksgiving) have had some good responses, too.”
Noted: Dan Cobian is a research scientist with Badger Athletic Performance and a faculty member in the physical therapy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s corporate partnerships bring in revenue for the institution but also raise ethical questions.
Quoted: “I think it’s encouraging, because although we might usually think that the more expensive the gift, the better it is, that’s often not the case,” University of Wisconsin marketing professor Evan Polman told CreditCards.com. “As a recipient, you’re usually just as happy to receive an expensive gift as you are an inexpensive gift. There is some truth to ‘It’s the thought that counts.’ “
Quoted: Evan Polman, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, adds that people tend to defer financial decisions when they’re mentally zapped. And of course, the longer you put off something like figuring out how to pay off your debt or when to start investing, the worse off you’ll be.
ESPN College GameDay returned to Madison for the first time in over a year to kick off Wisconsin’s game vs. Michigan at Camp Randall Stadium.
