Quoted: Kenneth Robbins, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said such comments should prompt questions about how psychologists comport themselves when they’re with clients.
Some people think NBA players, with their stop-and-start quickness and above-the-rim acrobatics, are the best athletes in the world. Others think soccer players, with their speed, endurance and foot-eye coordination, or hockey players, who do much of the above on skates, are the best.
Jared Berggren didn’t grow up in Wisconsin, but that didn’t stop the former Badgers basketball player from feeling like a favorite son earlier this week when the Milwaukee Bucks announced the big man would suit up for their Las Vegas Summer League entry.
Wisconsin’s government transparency laws don’t require public bodies such as the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents to immediately disclose the documents that their members plan to discuss at upcoming meetings, a Justice Department official said Thursday.
Noted: The number of rides on Route 80, which serves the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and is typically dependent on bad weather, Beck said, was down 25 percent in the first five months of 2016.
Noted: W. Lee Hansen is a professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison.
Noted: Cassie Vanderwall, with UW Health, said apps can be used to harness health in the modern age by encouraging people to become more aware of and accountable to themselves. They vary in their accuracy and user-friendliness.
Noted: The class that starts this fall at the Consortium’s 18 schools — expanded from the original three, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington University in St. Louis, and Indiana University-Bloomington — will be a record 490 students strong, up from those original 21, says Consortium Executive Director and CEO Peter Aranda. Thirteen members of that first class graduated with their MBA; this year the number was 411.
Quoted: “A lot of the subprime products went to minorities, so I think that was part of it,” said Andra Ghent, associate professor of real estate and urban land economics at the Wisconsin School of Business.
On an offensive line that struggled for the majority of the 2015 season, Michael Deiter emerged as a bright spot for the University of Wisconsin.
Where to begin with Boris Frank? His 84 years have been full of adventures that have included an eclectic childhood, a brief baseball stint at UW-Madison and a long career in television.
Noted: Rivera joined the department in 2013 and was most recently assigned to the Central District. He worked as an officer for UW-Madison Police from 2008 until he was hired by the city.
Noted: Madison Police say Rivera has been with the department since 2013. He was previously an officer with the UW-Madison Police Department from 2008-2013.
The University of Wisconsin saw a total of 54 student-athletes named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for the 2015-16 athletic season, as announced by the Big Ten Conference on Wednesday.
Quoted: “These are sometimes sold in convenience stores where kids can just buy them, basically behind the counter,” UW Health emergency room physician Dr. Aaron Kraut says.
VIDEO: UWPD Chief Sue Riseling is retiring. Neil Heinen talks to her about career.
The death of a UW-Madison student who was studying abroad in Italy has been especially hard to take in the communities the young man called home.
Corey Clement was named to the Maxwell Award watch list Tuesday, the first of many preseason award lists to be released in the coming days.
UW-Madison has been working to ensure the safety of the thousands of students who study abroad each year, campus officials said following the death of sophomore Beau Solomon in Rome last week.
No University of Wisconsin football player has ever won the Bednarik Award, which has been given to the nation’s top defensive player since 1995.
A strained Achilles tendon derailed Greg Stiemsma’s hopes of making the Orlando Magic and playing another season in the NBA last October.
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes she will pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
Noted: The report, called “Strong roots: Building economically stable families mobilization plan,” is the combined effort of a group of more than 40 community leaders co-chaired by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.
Study abroad programs such as the one UW-Madison student Beau Solomon had arrived in Rome to attend before he was killed over the weekend don’t disclose to parents or prospective students how often their participants are injured or die, according to an advocate for greater oversight of the programs.
Mike Honer was about to drive to work at Culver’s here Monday when his parents stopped him to tell him that a body found in a Rome river was presumed to be his good friend and former River Valley High School classmate Beau Solomon.
The recent death of Beau Solomon has sparked fear in some planning to study abroad. As a result, campuses throughout the UW System are preparing students to travel abroad, while reiterating the importance of safety
Wisconsin seniors Vince Biegel and Corey Clement are getting early looks for two of college football’s most prestigious prizes.
The suspected murder of UW-Madison study abroad student Beau Solomon in Rome follows the suspicious death of a University of Iowa student a year ago.
For many students studying abroad is the experience of a lifetime. But being out of the states in a new country with different cultures and language barriers can also present its challenges. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has around 24 students currently studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, this summer. UW-Madison started sending students to JCU in 2012.
He was the luckiest kid in the world.That’s how the family of Beau Solomon felt just over a decade ago, when the young boy from Spring Green got to meet legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre through the Make-A-Wish program.
Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of a U.S. college student whose body was found in Rome’s Tiber river this week, as police tried to establish if the teenager was murdered less than 24 hours after arriving in Italy for summer classes.
Noted: But the site, led by Milwaukee architect and preservationist Richard Perrin and UW-Madison landscape architect Bill Tishler, opened in 1976 in time for the national bicentennial. It has continued to endure despite state budget cuts, a damaging 2011 tornado and competition from other tourist attractions like water parks and amusement rides.
About 200 people gathered at the football stadium at River Valley High School in Spring Green for a candlelight vigil to remember Beau Solomon.
Kelcy McKenna, the head women’s tennis coach at New Mexico, has been named the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s tennis team, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced Friday.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have confirmed a type of bacteria can completely block the transmission of the Zika virus.
Cierra Runge is officially Rio bound.An incoming transfer that will be a redshirt sophomore for the Wisconsin swimming team this fall, Runge received official word from U.S. Swimming on Saturday that she had earned a spot on its team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Before leaving the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March, Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for finance and administration, was able to secure $1.9 million in university funds to move forward on 24 projects.
Kelsey Card’s Olympic dreams came true after the University of Wisconsin senior finished third in the discus at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials to earn a spot on Team USA for the 2016 Rio Summer Games.
Noted: He said Schumacher graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison but soon after he finished his mental illness began to manifest itself. He said he was legally prohibited from disclosing Schumacher’s medical diagnosis.
Italian police say they have arrested a homeless man in the death of UW-Madison student Beau Solomon, whose body was found Monday in Rome’s Tiber River.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health said Thursday that they had agreed to explore combining their operations in Madison.
Noted: Crimes committed in Wisconsin have landed six men plus Minor on the most wanted list. Four were added the same day, Sept. 4, 1970, for the bombing of the Army research center at Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that killed a researcher, Robert Fassnacht.
Noted: And the Hamels are serious UW-Madison boosters.Pamela and George Hamel Jr., (UW B.A. ’80) have made a gift of $15 million for the upcoming performing arts center, with groundbreaking expected this fall. The Hamel Music Center will be next to the Chazen Museum of Art.
Despite an increase in jobs, there was no reduction in poverty in Wisconsin between 2013 and 2014 under a broad measure developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Consumers should be skeptical of the health-benefit claims, said John Lucey, a professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Center for Dairy Research.
Universities across the country have closely watched the Supreme Court affirmative action case as pressure builds on campuses to nurture diversity, both for the benefit of underrepresented minority students and for white students who will live and work in a diverse world.
Noted: Silatronix got its start in Venture Investors’ Venture Igniter program, which was formed to encourage and support academic and student-led start-ups from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The company is based on technology developed by chemists at UW-Madison, Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and Quallion LLC, a Palo Alto, Calif., battery maker.
Quoted: “This time of year, we get turtles going back and forth to lay eggs,” said Laura Wyatt, program manager for the Lakeshore Nature Preserve. “It’s wonderful to share the land with wildlife, but we have to do what we can to protect them.”
Ivy Martin got things off and running for Badgers at the 2016 U.S. Swimming Olympic Team Trials with a lifetime-best performance in the 100-meter butterfly on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska.
Noted: On Monday, Dr. Matthew Tattersall, UW Health Cardiologist stopped by Wake Up Wisconsin to talk about the importance of having a healthy heart.
Noted: Interviews with Terry Warfield and Bjorn Eraker from the Wisconsin School of Business.
The Minnesota Wild picked University of Wisconsin center Luke Kuninin the first round of the National Hockey League draft Friday night.
Noted: In “40: Collages by Kevin Henkes,” the Madisonian best known for authoring award-winning children’s books shows another creative side. He uses paper saved from the 1980s, when he was an undergraduate at UW–Madison, and arranges them in ways that highlight stark and jagged lines, curved forms, muted shades and texture. Presented in long, tidy rows, with uniform white matting and frames, the collages offer an opportunity for quiet and contemplation.
Noted: New research (by Evan Polman of the Wisconsin School of Business) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that might be key: If you can’t make up your own mind, pretend to make up someone else’s.
Kelsey Card, who throws shot put and discus, and Zack Ziemek, a decathlete, will head to the U.S. Olympic trials next month with the hopes of joining team U.S.A in Rio this summer.
Four finalist began their presentations in an effort to be hired to lead a new cultural competency program. The initiative comes after several racist instances this past year.
Cultural competency training could be in store for 1,000 new students at UW- Madison.
VIDEO: If you’re thinking about selling your home, now is the time. Andra Ghent is a professor of real estate and urban land economics at UW-Madison.
Noted: Giorgio, who went on to earn degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Vermont College of Fine Arts, not only writes every day, she teaches daily, too, through the AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop she founded in Waukesha; her faculty includes her husband, mystery writer Michael Giorgio.
Quoted: “The dairy industry has experienced one less year of trying times than what cash-grain farmers have dealt with,” said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
