The state would sell more than 70,000 acres of public land and use the money to create merit scholarships for Wisconsin students attending college in the University of Wisconsin System, under legislation announced by three GOP officials Tuesday.
Noted: Grossman received a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a masters of business administration degree from Marquette University. He leads the company’s UW-Madison campus recruiting team.
Noted: Interview with Jessie Wright of the Wisconsin School of Business
Noted: Erisman, an infantry officer who served 10 years in the Marines, including two tours of Iraq, learned of the reading group through a University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni newsletter. His first meeting was at last month’s book group to discuss “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko.
UW political science professor Ken Mayer asked a group of kindergarteners to come up with the toughest question they could think of. Here’s what they asked
In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on his way to a speaking engagement in Madison, libertarian political scientist and co-author of “The Bell Curve” Charles Murray commented on the climate of college protests against speakers with a conservative viewpoint, efforts to pass new speech laws and his own take on the rise of President Donald Trump.
A couple of protesters blew kazoos and air horns, one pounded on an empty pizza box, and they all chanted that a libertarian speaker inside the Madison Club should go home.
Noted: Helfer, 29, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, and a designer for Kohl’s. Harnack, 27, graduated from Illinois State University and is a product development coordinator.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty from the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy invited Murray to the dinner before things got out of hand at Middlebury in March. Murray, a political scientist and conservative writer, has spoken at Notre Dame, Vanderbilt and two universities in New York since Middlebury, and protests at those campuses have not interfered with his lectures.
It’s rare that huge changes come right before a new dean takes over. But even before London Business School welcomes a dean known for innovative curricular changes — current Wisconsin School of Business Dean François Ortalo-Magné — a recalibration, if not a complete overhaul, of the LBS MBA is underway.
UW-Madison will hold a graduation ceremony this week for a unique program designed to change lives of adults near the poverty leve
Quoted: “We know the CARD Act reduced the use of credit cards by young people,” says Andra Ghent, an associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. “But the public policy benefits of that change are less clear.”
Noted: Interview with Alfred McCoy.
Noted: To find out, I got in touch with Prof. Steven C. Deller at the University of Wisconsin-Madison-Extension, who has followed the state’s economy closely and who dug up a wide range of data for me to review. I also took a close look at a recent Politifact Wisconsin report by Tom Kertscher that rated Walker’s statement — “Wisconsin’s economy is in the best shape it’s been since 2000.” — as only half true.
Quoted: First, it becomes a habit, said Cliff Robb, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Second, you get the advantages of compounded returns. “You are at a unique advantage at a young age,” said Robb, faculty director of Consumer Finance & Financial Planning at the School of Human Ecology.
Quoted: Many, and maybe most, jobs bring rewards that go beyond just earning a living. Most entail making a product or providing a service, notes Barry Gerhart, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: He and his wife have donated tens of millions to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, including the business school, the Peck School of the Arts and most recently a Center for Entrepreneurship. At UW-Madison, the Lubars donated to the law school, the business school and the Department of Computer Sciences. They’ve made endowments at Alverno College, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Carla Lundeen never imagined she’d need to find a way to go back to school for nursing—again. But like many nurses in Wisconsin and around the nation, Lundeen found herself caught between the way nursing education used to be and new expectations that are affecting nursing students, jobseekers and employed nurses alike.
Noted: His remarks came at the first in a series of Muster Across Wisconsin events produced by Bunker Labs Wisconsin in concert with the UW Small Business Development Centers and the Wisconsin Technology Council. In addition to Weber’s talk, the La Crosse event featured seminars on the basics of building a business, finding the right resources and attracting capital. Future Muster Across Wisconsin events will follow similar outlines.
Noted: Domestic milk production is outstripping domestic demand, meaning export markets are increasingly important to U.S. dairy producers, according to UW-Madison professor of agricultural and applied economics Brian Gould.
Noted: Two Wisconsin natives and UW graduates, Andrew Walker and Christopher Eckstrom, have moved back to Wisconsin from Chicago to start the fund. Walker recently was CEO of a data analytics startup in Chicago that was acquired; Eckstrom had worked for an international investment bank.
Noted: The company’s technology began as a project at UW-Madison by Fernandez and EnsoData co-founders Sam Rusk and Nick Glattard.
Noted: Then in 2012 I decamped to Madison for several months. I had an appointment at the Institute for Research on Poverty (at UW-Madison).
Six University of Wisconsin head coaches had their contracts extended Friday by the school’s Athletic Board.
The text messages have been arriving at a steady pace on Dean Oliver’s cell phone, most of them congratulatory in nature.
Hardly any starters played for the University of Wisconsin football team during its spring game, but one of the Badgers’ most important position battles was still on display Friday night at Camp Randall Stadium.
As the nation’s top party school prepares for its annual spring bash, with no campus-sanctioned alternative event this year, there are signs that heavy drinking among UW-Madison students may be declining.
Noted: Blue Sky Science is a collaboration of the Wisconsin State Journal and the Morgridge Institute for Research.
UW-Madison is partnering with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office on a two-year, federally funded study to measure the effectiveness of virtual reality tools and 3-D-capture technology on crime scene investigations.
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.
