Quoted: There are plenty of ugly apples in Wisconsin this fall because of the hard frost that struck last May. But, overall, the quality of the apples is excellent across the state and the harvest is on schedule, according to Amaya Atucha, an assistant professor in horticulture for UW-Madison and the state fruit specialist for UW Extension.
Noted: Sandi Torkildson, who helped found A Room of One’s Own in 1975, has invited a representative from the UW-Madison Center for Cooperatives to give an informational presentation Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the bookstore, located at 315 W. Gorham St. Torkildson, who announced in June that she was putting the store up for sale, said she has had several customers inquire about the feasibility of a co-op, but there was no organized effort. The meeting is simply a way to bring those interested in a co-op model together and to learn about that type of business model.
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.
Noted: One of those is glass artist Helen Lee, for whom the timing of the 2016 Triennial has a lot of significance. It marks three years since Lee moved to the Midwest, after a lifetime on the East and West Coasts, and settled here to become head of the esteemed glass program at UW-Madison.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin System approved a budget request in August that asks lawmakers for an additional $42.5 million over two years to fund a range of new initiatives, including increased advising services and programs to connect students with state businesses. The System also stands to receive a $50 million increase over its current state funding if lawmakers restore $25 million that was lapsed from UW in the current fiscal year.
Anyone close to Derrick Tindal — particularly those from his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — wanted to make sure the cornerback’s absence from the University of Wisconsin football team in 2014 didn’t extend any further than it had to.
Quarterback Alex Hornibrook said he didn’t feel pressure when making his collegiate debut for the University of Wisconsin in the second half against Akron last week — not a particularly strong statement when his job was protecting a 23-point lead.
The University of Wisconsin fell two spots to No. 11 in the Associated Press poll after an unimpressive 23-17 win over Georgia State on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Noted: Marian Mateling is a graduate student and research assistant in the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It all seemed like a fairly straightforward process.The shipping giant Amazon sought out an agreement with UW-Madison to land one of its Pickup Points, which allows customers to pick up their orders on-site, inside the campus’ historic Red Gym.
mtvU’s RateMyProfessors.com, the largest online destination for college professor ratings, released its toplists.ratemyprofessors.com ranking this week, the nation’s top professors and universities, based entirely on students’ input.
The article “Republicans voice contempt for UW ‘political correctness’ as budget process begins” consists of a long spiel of quotes wherein Rep. Robin Vos and Sen. Steve Nass are allowed to state their case repeatedly and at length. “Balance” is provided in five paragraphs at the end of the story which talk about the UW’s proposed diversity initiative, and provide no substantive response at all to the accusations voiced by Vos and Nass earlier in the piece.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank issued a charge Friday to members of the UW Athletic Board to support the school’s sports teams but to be a critical eye on the department’s activities.
When Tsela Barr and her husband were in the market for a Madison home where they could raise their two sons, all it took was a drive through the Regent neighborhood, with its streets lined with mature trees and turn-of-the-century homes, for Barr to realize she had found the right neighborhood.
Dr. Jenna Sebranek, a freshly minted doctor at Richland Medical Center, entered a room to greet one of her first patients — and paused, because she recognized the face.
To help create a safer campus at UW Madison, the university Taekwondo club held a women’s self defense seminar.
Quoted: The new law will likely raise the cost of production on farms, said Paul Mitchell, associate professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“When you have to harvest quickly, you work more than the standard work week,” he said. “Now that’s all of a sudden going to get more expensive.”
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is projecting another 3% to 4% drop in enrollment and loss of millions of dollars in tuition revenue this fall, mainly because shifting demographics are producing smaller high school graduating classes in Wisconsin, Chancellor Mark Mone said.
Some students at UW-Madison got free coffee to start their day while meeting with the school’s police department.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a University of Wisconsin-Madison dormitory over the weekend, a campus spokeswoman said.
Quoted: David Williamson Shaffer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in educational psychology, said if used correctly tablets have proven to boost test scores, help kids learn faster and make school more enjoyable.
Quoted: “The story (in Wisconsin) sounds similar to the national story,” said Timothy M. Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Essentially, we’re not back to where we started (before the recession). We seem to be following a hopeful pattern.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked 14th among all universities in the world in a count of how many venture capital-backed entrepreneurs it has spawned, according to a report by Pitchbook Data, a Seattle-based deal tracker.
Noted: A group of East educators recently attended a reading institute titled “Literacy by the Lakes,” coordinated by the Literacy Education faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Among the nominees with Wisconsin ties still in the running for trophies are “Modern Family,” the ABC sitcom created by University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Steve Levitan, up for outstanding comedy series and best supporting actor in a comedy series, for Ty Burrell; and “American Crime,” created by Mequon native and Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley, with four nominations, including outstanding limited series.
Noted: HealthMyne was founded in 2013 by Rock Mackie, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist, and a team of people who previously created three successful imaging-related companies. It has more than 20 employees, a spokeswoman said.
Quoted: Robert Batt, a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor, said he liked how CMS included reporting from patients.”Surveys tend to have people with extreme opinions, but even at that, it’s real data of real patients who were there and who can say something,” he said.
On Saturday, Badger fans were out tailgating for the first football home game of the season.
On Thursday, Wisconsin Operation Lifesaver will be providing presentations to people in Madison and on UW-Madison campus.
Noted: Elkon grew up here and graduated from the University School of Milwaukee. After graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison, he returned to his hometown. Elkon held various jobs before going to work for his family’s business, Jack Gronik Nut Co. After the business closed, artists repurposed its old building; the Nut Factory Open House became one of Elkon’s regular stops.
Quoted: “If you look at global banking models, no countries have as many banks as we do,” said banking expert James Johannes, a finance professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. “So if you believe in the natural order, the natural order is going to be fewer banks.”
Noted: Meanwhile, here in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker just informed the University of Wisconsin System that it will receive no new funding in his next budget.
Noted: Researchers Jihae Shin from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Katherine Milkman from the University of Pennsylvania recently published a study that suggested that simply thinking about a backup plan can reduce performance on your primary goal, and ultimately hurt your chances of success.
Wake Up Wisconsin anchor Brandon Taylor’s dog Bailey picked who will win the game between UW Madison and the University of Akron Saturday.
You could say his face is just as famous as Bucky’s… UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone says the band is rearing to go for this season at Camp Randall.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called her job a “blessing and a curse” while speaking to a packed theater on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus Thursday.
Noted: He graduated from Madison in 1967. He was in Sigma Chi at the university, and wrestled too. He says triathlons are a lot different than wrestling.
UW-Madison Police are alerting the public about a sexual assault this past Saturday.
Derek Johnson, associate professor of media and culture studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about the 50th anniversary of Star Trek on Live at Four.
A sexual assault was reported at an unnamed University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity house last weekend, police said.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a crowd Thursday that the nation should do more to make sure people have adequate legal representation.
Barry Alvarez, the University of Wisconsin’s Director of Athletics since 2004, has signed a contract extension through January 31, 2021.
Many Americans have been noticing that local police and sheriff’s departments have become more and more militarized over the past decade. More and more, students are worried that this is starting to occur in police departments on college campuses, too. The UW Blackout Movement will host an event Wednesday night on East Campus Mall in hopes of starting a conversation with students and to encourage the UW-Madison police and police nationwide to be more transparent about the military-style equipment they have access to.
University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez has signed a contract extension through 2021, according to uwbadgers.com.
Noted: Tuition freeze. Republicans have frozen tuition for four years at University of Wisconsin schools, and Assembly Republicans say they’ll do it again for at least another year. Vos said the freeze could be extended for another year after that but added he would be open to an increase at that point that would match inflation. Assembly Republicans also said they would try to improve the transfer of credits from Wisconsin technical schools to UW schools and work to get more students degrees in four years.
Barry Alvarez, who has served as Wisconsin’s director of athletics since 2004, has signed a contract extension through Jan. 31, 2021.
Noted: The move comes as Virent has continued to develop technology originally developed in the chemistry labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create fuels from the sugars found in plants such as beets.
Generally ignored when votes were cast in the two major preseason top 25 football polls, Wisconsin now has the attention of the folks filling out those ballots.
A daunting schedule that includes five teams ranked in the top 15 of the coaches’ poll?The players were told it was a death march.
Noted: Born in 1940 in Milwaukee, Randa went to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin Law School. He served in the Army in Vietnam for two years, earning the Bronze Star.
The Zika virus is not spreading from vaccines or chemicals. It’s not a part of some big scheme by the U.S. Congress or pharmaceutical companies. Yet, rumors and conspiracy theories like these fill the screens of Facebook users.
If you’ve got something important to say and want a lot of people to see it, buy a billboard.
“It’s happening throughout the life insurance industry,” said Tyler Leverty, Associate Professor of Risk and Insurance at UW-Madison. “Some companies have policies that give them more flexibility. It allows them to ask for premium increases from customers.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is back on top. Of the party world, that is. UW-Madison recently was named the nation’s top party school by the Princeton Review. Madison last claimed that title in 2005.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin–Madison continuing studies department has offered a professional life coaching certificate since 2012. The university is the only academic institution in the Midwest with a program accredited by the International Coaching Foundation.
University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders have set up a multi-pronged plan to give minorities a better experience on campus.
Quoted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria of the Pediatric Department of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine stresses the importance of having regular conversations with kids about how school is going.
Noted: Associate Scientist Stephanie Jones studies how too little sleep affects kids at the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. She says a good night’s sleep is like a re-set for your brain. It can improve problem-solving, fact retention and muscle memory. Plus, it preps the brain for the next day of learning.
With more than 50 hours of sweat and two-a-days, the badger marching band is preparing for a busy weekend ahead.
This is shaping up to be a heck of a party. Or, what might be described in Louisiana as a big ol’ fais do-do.The Wisconsin Badgers and Louisiana State University Tigers don’t even kick off at Lambeau Field until 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, but across northeast Wisconsin, the locals have already started staging a bash for folks from the bayou.
