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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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!
Video story about living donor donation at UW Health.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
University of Wisconsin students, faculty and community members gathered to discuss agriculture’s most controversial topic: genetically modified organisms and crops.
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.
Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an economist and associate professor in the risk and insurance department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, also agreed that the move to self-insuring and having access to claims data could enable the state to make future changes in its health benefits that could encourage competition and help control costs.“You could see this as a move that, down the road, might give the state the ability to bend the cost curve,” he said. “But that won’t come immediately.”
Quoted: “You don’t have to take these extravagant vacations to foreign places. A lot of the value that we get from taking time off just doing something that breaks us out of routine,” said Dayana Kupisk, a PhD candidate, studying human development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “What was strained was the relationship between Netanyahu and Obama…in personal terms,” Nadav Shelef, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Israel Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Teen Vogue. “There was no strain [between the countries] in any other sense of the word.”
Gov. Scott Walker unveiled an $803 million capital budget Tuesday, laying out a series of building projects ranging from a veterans home in King to a crime lab in Milwaukee.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying to better teach students how to become entrepreneurs. It comes at a time when the state fares poorly in national rankings for its lack of business startups.
Quoted: Entrepreneurship is an important part of the economic engine, said Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business. Almost all net job creation in last 20 years has come from companies five years old or younger, he said.“Job creation is very much driven by startups,” he said.
Noted: Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources in the Wisconsin School of Business, was interviewed for a story on Walmart’s quarterly report and its battle with Amazon (at the 1:05 mark).
Noted: The digital ads encourage citizens to write to lawmakers to tell them to approve the proposals in Walker’s budget such as nearly $600 million in tax cuts over two years, an additional $649 million for K-12 schools and a 5% cut to in-state tuition for the University of Wisconsin System.
Noted: Schickel went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a journalism scholarship, and was editor of the Daily Cardinal and did some freelance work for The Milwaukee Journal. (In “Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip,” he says he lost his job as editor of the Cardinal because of his “anti-McCarthyism.”). Schickel left Wisconsin in 1956 for Los Angeles, where he worked as a freelance writer and reviewer.
A former UW-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty.
More than half of undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduated with no debt in 2015-16, the university said in a news release.
Quoted: “Those WHO statistics are just from some very specific health outcomes where we have some known working equations and models to do it,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who participated in the meeting.
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in court Friday.
Noted: Carusi works at UW-Madison in its Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. She said her top issue is creating “just and equitable schools for all children.”
As part of the the University of Wisconsin Multicultural Center’s ongoing festivities of Black History Month, the campus welcomed poet Nikki Giovanni as the celebration’s keynote speaker.
Despite national worries over student debt the last few years, 53.4 percent of UW-Madison’s 2015-‘16 undergraduate class graduated without student debt—a 3 percent increase from the year before, according to a report from the Office of Student Financial Aid.
Mindfulness is an up-and-coming health and wellness technique focused on reducing stress and anxiety. But what exactly does it mean to be mindful, and does it actually work?
Along with science, literature and foreign language, first-year students at UW-Madison will have an opportunity to also study inclusion, diversity and equity through an inclusion program to launch Fall 2017.
The question can be phrased in different ways: Some universities ask about whether prospective applicants have been convicted of a misdemeanor. Others ask about academic violations or if you have a pending sexual offense charge.
Under the Associated Students of Madison bylaws and Wisconsin state statutes, the Student Services Finance Committee is an independent organization. During its meeting Monday night, SSFC will seek to reaffirm their independent status with legislation.
Balancing the newfound energy of city life with academics proved challenging for Emily Nelis, a student who came to UW-Madison after growing up on an Indian reservation in northern Wisconsin.
Noted: The council is one of six organizations jointly presenting the award.The others are the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, the Madison Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Gov. Scott Walker’s latest attempt to micro-manage UW-Madison has hit a new low. Now Gov. Walker wants to meddle with student fees.
A suspended UW-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges.
Quoted: Christine Whelan, a UW-Madison professor in the Department of Consumer Science and director of the School of Human Ecology’s Relationships, Finance and Life Fulfillment Initative, said the idea of boy dolls “isn’t particularly new,” citing “Ken and Barbie back in the day.”
Noted: An Assembly committee will hold an informational hearing next week on the state of self-driving vehicle testing in Wisconsin, which got a jumpstart earlier this year when the UW-Madison College of Engineering was picked by the federal Department of Transportation as one of 10 institutions nationwide that will test self-driving cars.
Quoted: It’s “never a sure thing,” said Steve Carpenter, director of the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, but “the odds are better than even that (Lake Mendota) will thaw in February, in my opinion.
A 22-year-old Madison man was tentatively charged by Capitol police this month for lewd and lascivious behavior after running around inside the Capitol building naked.
Exactly two weeks after James White scored the game-winning touchdown for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI, it’s still hard for him to explain everything that’s happened.
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.
Kathy Cramer’s journey to the center of the political landscape began with road trips to corners of Wisconsin many people only drive through — if they drive there at all.
