Long before Josh Gasser left Port Washington and donned a Wisconsin uniform for the first time, he was fascinated watching UW coach Bo Ryan stalk the sideline and banter with the officials.
Noted: After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he went to the Medical College of Wisconsin, then located on Milwaukee’s west side, and graduated in 1971.
Noted: Donald Downs was a guest.
Noted: A Journal Sentinel analysis of 2016 workforce data found that Wisconsin is worse than most states in its per-capita workforce of all types of mental health professionals: nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. Data were compiled by researchers at County Health Rankings & Roadmaps based at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that the shift of more than 7 million acres into cropland led to massive releases of carbon emissions into the atmosphere after a 2007 federal law mandated ethanol in gasoline.
Quoted: Neeraj Arora, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, said engaging in politics should not be a business’s main goal. “Ideally, a company is in the business to actually serve the customers and they kind of stay out of the politics,” Arora said.
Noted: Dr. Randy Brown, MD Ph, is an addiction specialist at the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He is Director of the American Board of Addiction Medicineand the Addiction Medicine Foundation, as well as the President Elect of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship Directors’ Association.
Co-founders of Madison-based startup EatStreetMatt Howard and Alex Wyler were named to the Forbes 2018 30 Under 30, released Tuesday. Howard and Wyler were selected in the consumer technology category. Their company, an online and mobile food ordering and delivery service, started in 2010 in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ESPN College GameDay, the popular pregame television show, returns to Madison on Saturday for a battle between nationally-ranked Big Ten foes Wisconsin and Michigan.
Noted: Greco holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning it in 1995. She has been recognized as an instructional leader and advocate for student learning at the state and national level.
Noted: A coalition opposing restrictions on fetal tissue research called Cures for Tomorrow includes BioForward, representing the state’s bioscience industry, the Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Madison, UW Health and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
A forum this month put on by the new policy center at UW-Madison named for former Gov. Tommy Thompson will feature speakers from across the political spectrum.
While a majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel welcome, safe and able to thrive on campus, worrisome disparities exist among students of color, and those with non-conforming gender identities or disabilities, according to results of a campus climate survey released Wednesday.
Quoted: “I would say that algorithms and mathematical modeling are fairly pervasive and ubiquitous, from the time someone wakes up in the morning until the end of the day,” said Anthony Gitter, an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics and medical informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Daniel Feiler, Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business’s assistant professor along with his co-authors Jordan Tong, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business and doctoral student Anastasia Ivantsova investigate this paradox in a recent study.
Wisconsin will start from the No. 9 position in its quest to secure one of the four spots in the College Football Playoff.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is already world renowned for its food science programs, said Shelley Jurewicz, executive director of FaB, Food and Beverage Wisconsin, an industry cluster organization based in Milwaukee.
“A dictionary is never done,” said George Goebel, the third and, it turns out, final editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, also known as DARE.
Noted: Health care providers can protect babies by testing women of childbearing age for hepatitis C and curing those with the infection, said the research team led by Theresa Watts, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.
Noted: David Andes, MD, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, says the term he likes for this imbalance is “dysbiosis.” “It’s not that there weren’t fungi there before, but now there are different fungi and different bacteria, in different proportions,” Dr. Andes says. “And when they experimentally combined the fungi and bacteria they found in patients with Crohn’s disease, they provoked inflammation, which may contribute to the disease process in Crohn’s.”
Noted: A second study, from the University of Wisconsin School of Business and economics researchers from two additional universities, focused on property values in Denver and found that homes near retail cannabis outlets — within just 0.1 miles — gained 8.4 percent more in value than houses just steps further away, from 0.1 to 0.25 miles. That big increase amounted to almost $27,000 for an average house.
Noted: A study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found property values in the immediate vicinity of Denver’s retail marijuana establishments showed an 8 percent increase since Amendment 64 took effect in January 2014.
There’s a lot of buzz in some parts of the dairy industry — and among consumers — about A2 milk. A CBS News story recently highlighted the push toward A2 milk and how some people think it relieves them of dairy intolerance symptoms.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is suspending the planned revamp of its master’s of business administration program after a backlash over an imminent cutback.
Quoted: For example, in the death care services industry (10.8% profit margin), which includes businesses such as funeral homes and crematories, price wars are less intense because customers make decisions more quickly based on emotions and are less likely to shop around, says Dan Olszewski, director at the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Wisconsin Badgers basketball head coach Greg Gard and his wife, Michelle, issued the challenge and UW-Madison students answered. At the sixth-annual “Swish Upon A Cure,” UW students helped raise the Gard’s donation to $20,349 in the fight against cancer.
A man with a gun was reported near Union South, according to a tweet sent out by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department on Monday at 8:15 p.m.
UW-Madison students joined in some fun and philanthropy at the Kohl Center on Monday
Madison Police tell 27 news a Subway restaurant on University Ave. was robbed at gunpoint around 8:00 pm Monday night, prompting UWPD to issue a campus alert.
UW-Madison police say there is no longer a threat on campus after a man was seen near Union South with a gun.
Wisconsin basketball head coach Greg Gard and his wife, Michelle, issued the challenge and UW-Madison students answered. At the sixth-annual “Swish Upon A Cure,” UW students helped raise the Gard’s donation to $20,349 in the fight against cancer.
A man with a gun reported on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Monday night after a robbery has left the area, according to UW-Madison police.
Noted: The gun incident, which happened near campus, was addressed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison police Tuesday. UWPD said that it didn’t send an all-campus alert because by the time police confirmed the gun incident was not a hoax, there was no longer an imminent threat.
With wet weather heading our way, UWPD has a plan to make sure football fans stay safe at Saturday’s Badger football game.
Noted: Jacob said because of his business, he’s on track to graduate the University of Wisconsin-Madison debt free.
University of Wisconsin Police Department says they’ve seen an increase in use of a safety app after recent attempted kidnappings.
Noted: This year she collaborated with an outside group for the first time, working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum to create a maze in the shape of a trilobite, the state fossil.
Noted: The Treinen Farm corn maze in Lodi, Wis., features Wisconsin’s state fossil, the trilobite. The idea behind the famous award-winning corn maze came from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum
Noted: Justin Sydnor, an associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business, was part of a contingent who studied new gym memberships. They found incentives to join gyms did not help people maintain exercise habits.
Noted: This article is by Robin J. Tanner, associate professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: In fact, Hora pointed to the Wisconsin School of Business as an example of a school that has an excellent internship system because of the college’s strong coordination with employers. As the director of career services at the school’s undergraduate program, Jamie Marsh attributed their success to staff as well as size.
Noted: Private-equity investments can be a good way for a company to let owners diversify their assets, making their exposure to the company’s risks more palatable, UW-Madison School of Business associate professor Oliver Levine said.
In a one-year partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dane County will attempt to harness the university’s resources by working with students and professors to develop possible solutions in four challenging areas the county faces.
The University of Wisconsin System has not yet crunched the numbers on its plan to reorganize state college campuses, according to spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis.
Noted: Because the conference emphasized collaboration between cities and universities, the panels were comprised of both university representatives and representatives of home-city governments. For instance, both Paul Soglin, the mayor of Madison and Charles Hoslet, the vice chancellor for university relations at UW-Madison attended the event.
With UW-Madison’s Homecoming Week upon us, the Wisconsin Homecoming Committee’s events are once again set to benefit charities and organizations across the country.
A University of Wisconsin student has stepped forward to report an alleged sexual assault at a fraternity house on Langdon Street.
Noted: Ed Churchwell is a faculty member in the astronomy department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Student journalists Sam Coutu and Julie Spitzer, and Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism staff members Cara Lombardo and Dee J. Hall contributed to this report. This story was produced as part of an investigative reporting class in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication under the direction of Hall, the Center’s managing editor
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday publicly launched a $200 million private fundraising campaign to support student scholarships, research and community engagement.
A study released Monday estimates 16,800 or more people in Dane and Milwaukee counties were deterred from casting ballots in November because of Wisconsin’s voter ID law.
Noted: The essay, a roughly 500-word sermonlike meditation called “Individual Influence,” was found at the New York Public Library by Jonathan Senchyne, an assistant professor of book history at the University of Wisconsin. The document, which will be published in October in PMLA — the journal of the Modern Language Association — appears to be the first prose essay in Horton’s handwriting to come to light, and one of only a handful of manuscripts in his own handwriting known to survive.
Crayola’s new color, “Blue-tiful,” has sparked up quite the debate. Majid Sarmadi is an expert on color theory and technology, looks into the conversation.
Interview with Peggy Olive, financial capability specialist from the School of Human Ecology.
Top Republicans in Wisconsin are backing a sweeping, final-hour effort to repeal Obamacare and hold down spending in other health care programs for the needy that existed prior to Obamacare.
A new program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to increase access to the state’s flagship university by promising to cover tuition and fees for first-generation college students from Wisconsin who transfer from partner two-year state colleges.
Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday signed the two-year, $76 billion budget, providing $600 million more for K-12 schools, cutting property taxes, keeping a freeze on instate University of Wisconsin System tuition and doubling fees on hybrid drivers.
The Milwaukee Bucks were quick to sign players to two-way contracts this summer, inking rookies Bronson Koenig and Jalen Moore in early July.
A video produced by University of Wisconsin-Madison students showing police officers in pig masks hanging a black male with an American flag is drawing widespread attention — and the ire of at least one state lawmaker.
Noted: Kapenga, Nass and Stroebel’s hoped-for changes include requiring a referendum before local governments can impose wheel taxes; allowing local governments to continue to regulate quarries; prohibiting diversity training for University of Wisconsin System students, and speeding up the repeal of the state’s prevailing wage law that determines the minimum pay for those working on publicly funded infrastructure projects.
