Matthew Desmond, who earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on Monday won the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for a book based on research conducted in Milwaukee.
Profile of student Steven Kelly
Profile of student Cady Severson
Noted: This isn’t the only accolade for the five-member student team, which will be competing at the Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament on Saturday, Apr. 22 in Madison. The first place winner will receive a $2,000 cash prize, a free one-hour consultation with the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the UW Law School, up to $25,000 in funding, and paid travel to Silicon Valley and an opportunity to present at the International Business Model Competition in California.
After years of going to work on their adversaries, Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Republican Robin Vos have gone to work on each other — both in public and in private.
Two transgender University of Wisconsin employees sued state entities Friday in federal court over their refusal to pay for their gender transition surgeries.
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and start-up expert, said all rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. “When you look at these rankings, you need to realize there are a variety of ways of measuring entrepreneurial activity,” Posen said.
Richard Wells says he did nothing as chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh as a “frolic of his own.” But the legal battle between Wells and the UW System is looking more and more like a hot mess for both him and UW.
Andre Taylor, the father of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus, was shot Monday in Macon, Ga., and is reportedly in critical condition.
Working on little sleep, Lamont Paris was in the midst of a mental juggling act Monday as he prepared to fly to Tennessee to start his new job.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation bought Chancellor Richard Wells’ home for roughly $120,000 more than it arguably was worth before he retired — the same foundation he’s accused of illegally using to help cement his legacy.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting six women and groping, stalking or sexually preying on four others could face additional charges, UW police announced Monday.
Noted: Gonda graduated in 1998 from Winona State University in Minnesota, then completed her master’s of public affairs degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the city’s intergovernmental relations office in 2004 after about four years in the budget office.
Noted: Paula Niedenthal, professor of psychology, quoted
The pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right of all people. The U.S. Declaration of Independence makes that very clear. But as everyone discovers at some point, happiness is not so easy to achieve — unless, perhaps, you’re in a place where it is not only a state of being but also a way of life.
Noted: He remembers the old days, when Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and the Braves owned Milwaukee. He’d take his bicycle or catch a car ride from high school to the ballpark, later working games during the summers while on break from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Anne Massey was appointed dean of the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Ms. Massey is associate vice president for university academic planning and policy at Indiana University at Bloomington and a professor of information systems in its Kelley School of Business.
Noted: In separate testimony, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross praised Walker’s budget, which provides $100 million in new money to the university as well as $35 million in additional state tax dollars to fund a 5% tuition cut.
The Legislature’s audit committee has authorized a review of University of Wisconsin System schools’ relationships with their private foundations.
Noted: Police circulated a photo of Anderson from the security camera to other law enforcement departments. University of Wisconsin-Madison police recognized Anderson from a previous contact when he allegedly harassed a worker at Union South the previous week and provided Madison police his name.
Noted: I went to UW-Madison, my interests were journalism and archaeology. I spent a long time in the school of education, thinking I was going to be a high school teacher. I left with a history degree. There is really no set path to becoming a cheesemaker.
Deja vu is looming over the University of Wisconsin System. Thursday morning, UW System President Ray Cross will make a pitch to the Legislature’s powerful Joint Finance Committee for more than $100 million in additional state funding in the next biennium.
Noted: Anne P. Massey has been selected as the next dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Massey, currently at Indiana University Bloomington, is a professor of information systems at the Kelley School of Business as well as associate vice president for academic affairs. Massey will succeed François Ortalo-Magné, who has been named dean of London Business School. She begins her new role at Wisconsin on August 7.
Noted: Yang graduated from University of Wisconsin Law School in 2009. After a few years in legal services and at Hawks Quindel law firm, she opened her own practice in 2014, concentrating in family law, mediation and Social Security disability and worker’s compensation.
Noted: Bob Harlow, a 25-year-old Stanford University graduate who has lost a Democratic primary bid for Congress in California. Harlow, the only Democrat who’s committed to a run so far, is the grandson of famous UW-Madison psychologist Harry Harlow.
As clouds billowed like smoke rising from a forest fire, a twirling white funnel suddenly snaked downward.
Quoted: “What is interesting is that they found, yes, we have a type. But when we think about the idea of having a type, we think it is internal, only our unique preferences. That is not really true,” said Christine Whelan, clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the study.
The Wisconsin School of Business named a veteran professor at rival Kelley School of Business at Indiana University as its new dean. The school today (March 23) announced that Anne P. Massey, 56, who holds the title of dean’s research professor of information systems at Kelley, will succeed François Ortalo-Magné, who will depart Madison this summer to become dean of London Business School.
Poor customer service and repeated mistakes can cause consumers to “lose confidence in their banks,” says Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: Airbnb stands to gain through agreements like these, said Hart Posen, an associate professor of management at the Wisconsin School of Business on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Noted: Greg Nemet is a University of Wisconsin professor specializing in energy policy. He says Wisconsin lags despite cost drops for renewable energy.
Wisconsin point guard Bronson Koenig said his team is thinking a lot about the legacy they want to leave these days.
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.
Though the weather was cold, the colorful costumes of Runways of the World at Union South Thursday night made the night warmer.
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.”
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.
Zak Showalter has experienced the zenith and nadir of the NCAA Tournament.
Wisconsin sophomore guard Khalil Iverson sensed trouble as he walked off the Verizon Center floor Friday night in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.”
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.
It would be a disaster to shut down the federal Sea Grant program, said University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Steve Ackerman.
Kristen Roman thought she was headed toward a career in broadcast journalism when she studied at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the mid-1980s.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free throw shooting has been anything but free for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team this season.
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.
Members of the Associated Students of Madison will soon be paid by the hour in order to adhere to federal minimum wage.
More students may stay on campus this summer due to university attempts to make Summer Term more accessible through scholarships and flexible courses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Noted: Owens is a political science professor who teaches constitutional law and judicial politics at UW-Madison
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.
Noted: Moira Kelley is a senior career counselor in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.
The emotions started to hit the six University of Wisconsin women’s hockey seniors when they got to LaBahn Arena on Saturday.
