University of Wisconsin-Madison officials released a campus climate progress report Wednesday outlining a plan for increased diversity and inclusivity training for teaching assistants, hiring more mental health staff and opening a campus black culture center.
Noted: Months later, she enrolled in UpStart, a free 11-week entrepreneurial program for women and people of color developed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and taught by instructors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Small Business Development Center.
Noted: The University League, Inc. is a nonprofit membership organization open to all who are interested in supporting the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: On Wednesday, UW Health Registered Dietitian, Julie Andrews stopped by Wake Up Wisconsin to share a few recipes.
This weekend’s Lambeau Field Kick-Off Classic game between Wisconsin and LSU is expected to be a big money-maker for businesses in the Green Bay area.
Noted: The program is a collaboration of Public Health, the Madison School District, UW-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center, the Dane County Immunization Coalition and Culver’s restaurants.
The University of Wisconsin announced eight new members as part of its Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2016 on Monday.
Local Madison business owners say they are disappointed in the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents’ approval of a plan to allow Amazon set up an online order pickup point in the historic Red Gym on the UW-Madison campus.
Quoted: “Just as an example, maybe 20 years ago we had between 250 and 275 students applying for our elementary education program,” said Jeff Hamm, associate dean of academic services at the UW-Madison School of Education. “Last year we had 105 students apply to that same program.”
Quoted: “The new regulations remove the requirement for a pilot’s license with a new license called the remote pilot command license, which is really just a written exam,” said drone expert Chris Johnson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor and pilot. “It’s not actually flight training, which has been the requirement up to now.”
Noted: Lacy played college football at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Air Force Academy, his family said. He received a bachelor’s degree in business from UW-Milwaukee in 1968.
Noted: Biluge, who was born in the Congo, said she knew just three words of English — yes, no and maybe — when she immigrated with her family to Milwaukee four years ago. This summer, she told the crowd, she took part in a University of Wisconsin-Madison program for gifted students and an NAACP competition in Cincinnati.
Fifty years ago this November, a B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed into a hill in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, killing all nine people on board.
Noted: Neeraj Arora and Thomas O’Guinn from the Wisconsin School of Business are quoted.
Quoted: According to Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the idea of embryo adoption is morally acceptable to most people. Even those who consider in vitro fertilization objectionable often consider the leftover embryos as humans deserving dignity and life. The Catholic Church, for example, has been at the forefront condemning in vitro fertilization, but has no official position on embryonic adoption.
Video: The author of “100 things Badger fans should know and do,” Jesse Temple, visits Live at Four.
A recent incident of what authorities say was a 25-year old man groping and fondling several women at a campus area bar reveals some of the reasons sexual assault victims are reluctant to report.
UW-Milwaukee is being accused of trying to censor the speech of students.
Law enforcement agencies from around the state got ready for Badgers football game days at Camp Randall Stadium with a special training session.
Noted: Are you squirming a little? Curiosity piqued? If you’re still reading to find out the answer to the riddle, you may exemplify a form of motivation identified in many psychology research findings, more recently a study led by Evan Polman, Ph.D., an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The campaign chairs for this year’s Partners in Giving fundraising campaign for state employees, including UW-Madison and UW Health employees, held their orientation meeting Tuesday to get ready for their work encouraging their co-workers to support some 520 charities and it was an impressive event.
Noted: Interview with Professor Cecelia Klingele. Private prisons are less safe and less effective than government-run prisons, according to the United States Department of Justice, and will soon no longer be used by the federal government.
Wisconsin’s Dan Voltz spent the last several days seeking advice from trusted sources and pondering arguably the most difficult decision of his young life:Keep battling the injuries that had battered his body for most of his time at UW. Or walk away from football?
Noted: Ten Eyck grew up working at the orchard but left the farm to get a biology degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-La Crosse. He lived in Wyoming and Alaska after school and even spent two years working at Epic Systems. Spending time away made him realize he missed being a part of the family business.
Noted: One example cited earlier this year would be to transfer forest genetics work to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The DNR could also merge some duties involving boat and snowmobile registration with the Department of Transportation.
A new study from UW-Madison suggests not all women should get mammograms on the same schedule.
Noted: Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl said early voting will start in her city on Sept. 26. Officials are hoping to make voting available to people around the city, including at public libraries and on the campuses of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College, she said.
Noted: Ankit Agarwal, who founded Imbed in 2010 with five professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the company’s chief executive officer. Imbed raised $683,000 of equity and debt funding in 2014 in a round that was led by WISC Partners LLC.
The best hope for averting a projected physician shortage in Wisconsin is starting new residency programs in rural areas and filling them with graduates from the state’s medical schools.
It’s a $4.8-million project that will make UW-Madison police headquarters look a lot different.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department will break ground on an expansion project for its downtown headquarters soon.
There was nothing special about Jordan Elsen’s start or finish at the 96th Wisconsin State Open, but the former University of Wisconsin golfer owned the middle rounds to hold off his college coach.
The big question is, will Lee Corso put Bucky Badger’s head or the Tiger head on top of his balding pate?
Noted: Prange, a UW-Madison journalism and public relations graduate, is almost three years into her role as the executive director. Prior to her time at the zoo, she spent more than 10 years working for the American Cancer Society and worked a variety jobs in Washington, D.C.
Evan Jager knows steeplechase history about as well as anyone.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department has been struggling to find office space on campus for years.
Noted: “UW-Madison professor of arboriculture Dr. Richard Allison has been working with the state to monitor the health of the trees at Capitol Park for over 20 years,” the statement said. “Dr. Allison inspected the tree after yesterday’s incident again, noting that the tree did not exhibit any outward signs of rot or distress.
Noted: Technology of all types is still the No. 1 theme, but this year, new events include a talk on “Earth Futures” by Paul Robbins, director of the UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Code Madison Forward, where student teams compete to create an interactive website; and Microbrews for Microfinance, a fundraiser hosted by Madison nonprofit Wisconsin Microfinance to raise awareness and funds for entrepreneurs in Haiti and the Philippines.
Noted: Locally, Twitter activity using the #TheRealUW hashtag spiked in April, following a series of race incidents on the UW-Madison campus and the arrest of a student whom police entered a classroom to question about anti-racist graffiti.
Noted: Today, it’s easy to picture the 25-year-old University of Wisconsin–Madison doctoral student with deeply carved dimples, llama-like eyelashes and dark, swishing ponytail as the kindergartner she once was. What’s hard to imagine is the journey itself, which certainly didn’t stop at the border and—like that of so many thousands of other Mexican immigrants—led to Wisconsin.
Quoted: That kind of ending is not uncommon, said Hart Posen, UW-Madison School of Business associate professor of management and human resources.
ESPN College GameDay will kick off the 2016 season at Lambeau Field.
The steeplechase has carried the stigma of being a last resort for American distance runners who can’t quite cut it in the faster 1,500 meters or the nobler 5K. Few actually aspire to run the 3,000-meter race, with its 28 leg-sapping barriers and seven water jumps. It’s always tough. It’s seldom pretty.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has negotiated a tentative agreement with Amazon for a brick-and-mortar shop in the historic Red Gym, where students, faculty and staff could pick up online purchases at a central, secure location — a deal that would earn the university at least $100,000 in commissions annually.
Noted: With fortune cookies in hand, American researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University approached 100 people and offered them the choice between the plain cookie and the chocolate-dipped one, at first without the promise of a revealing fortune. In this control group, the less-healthy cookie was far more tempting — with around 80 per cent of participants picking it.
The defending Big Ten Conference co-champion Wisconsin women’s soccer team was picked to finish third in league play, as the conference released its preseason coaches poll on Monday.
A quartet of Wisconsin women’s hockey players will compete for their countries this week as the United States Women’s Under-22 Team travels to Calgary, Alberta, to take on the Canadian National Women’s Development Team in a three-game series.
Noted: The Wisconsin School of Business was ranked 27th.
It was a bittersweet night for Kelsey Card.
The University of Wisconsin System’s 2017-’19 biennial budget request hits on all the major themes for meeting the state’s workforce needs and helping more first-generation students earn a college degree, but it offers few details about how an additional $42.5 million requested from the state would be spent.
The Green Bay Packers will pay the University of Wisconsin $3 million to play Louisiana State University at Lambeau Field.
Noted: “It used to be that innovations that spawn or destroy entire industries would happen very infrequently,” said Witek, who has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Now major disruptions that can be life-threatening to industries or companies are emerging almost annually.”
Cedarburg pediatrician Dan Hagerman hasn’t personally treated meningococcal disease, but one of his daughters was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when a fellow Badger died three years ago from the fast-moving bacterial disease that begins with flu-like symptoms.
Ron Vander Kelen will forever be remembered for guiding the 1962 Wisconsin team to the brink of a national championship, only to see that dream fade with a 42-37 loss to USC in the ’63 Rose Bowl.
For Kelsey Card, throwing the discus wasn’t exactly love at first flight.
Quoted: Dr. Majid Sarmadi, a professor of textile science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reported that blaze orange offered a good contrast in the woods in the spring and summer, but that pink was better in the autumn because of the orange found in fall leaves.
Noted: Stratatech was founded by University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Lynn Allen-Hoffmann in 2001. After watching a surgeon operate on a farmer who had suffered third-degree burns across 95% of his body, she transformed her research into a company that would focus on developing a skin replacement created with actual human cells.
It’s a good day to be a Badger.The University of Wisconsin-Madison football team was recently ranked 24th in the Associated Press’ all-time Top 100 rankings. The AP has been ranking college football teams since 1936 and determined its top 25 of all time by counting how many times a team appeared on the poll (one point), the number of No. 1 rankings (two points) and AP championships (10 points).
A few days after Pittsburgh’s 2014 season ended with a one-point loss to Houston in the Armed Forces Bowl, then-freshman tailback Chris James began mulling a change of scenery.
Imagine a smartwatch that’s powered by the sun rather than a lithium-ion battery. Or a contact lens that taps solar energy to adjust its focus automatically to help you see better.
