Badger fans have been anticipating the Wisconsin and Ohio State game that kicked off on Saturday.
Badger fans show game day excitement
NBC-15
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UW’s Nigel Hayes makes statement with sign, raises money for local kids
WKOW-TV 27
UW basketball star Nigel Hayes is using his status to send a strong message about compensation for college athletes, while helping kids in our area.
UW-Madison spends $24M to keep 200 professors from leaving
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says it spent nearly $24 million in its latest fiscal year to persuade about 200 faculty members not to leave after other universities ramped up their efforts to lure professors away in the wake of budget cuts and tenure changes.
Badger football game brings energy, challenges to Madison
WISC-TV 3
While the University of Wisconsin football team will play six games this season at Camp Randall Stadium the 7 p.m. kickoff against second-ranked Ohio State brings with it both energy and a challenge.
UW-Madison offers free meningitis vaccinations starting Thursday
WISC-TV 3
Campus health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending that UW-Madison undergraduate students become vaccinated against meningococcal disease serogroup B.
UW-Madison countered more outside job offers to faculty last year
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last academic year spent $23.5 million to counter job offers and hang on to a growing number of faculty who had opportunities to leave, and most of that money came from federal funding that supports research overhead and the university’s private research foundation, according to university officials and a report released Friday.
UW-Madison urges new meningitis vaccine for all undergrads
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday issued a rare recommendation that all undergraduates get immunized against a type of potentially deadly meningococcal disease that put two students in the hospital a week ago and announced it will set up a special clinic starting Thursday to offer the expensive vaccine to students at no charge.
Healthy fall snacks with pumpkin
NBC-15
Amy Caulum, a clinical nutritionist with UW Health Pediatric Fitness Clinic, joins NBC15 to talk about healthy fall snacks for adults and kids alike.
College Game Day Prepares for Saturday’s Game
WKOW-TV 27
Officials from ESPN are working on the final touches to their College Game Day stage, getting ready to put UW-Madison on the national stage for the Badgers vs. Ohio State game Saturday.
UW has a game plan if severe weather disrupts OSU-UW game Saturday
WKOW-TV 27
Officials at UW-Madison are closely watching that forecast for Saturday night.
UW Carbone Cancer Center doctor, a cancer survivor, leads research
WISC-TV 3
Fight Colorectal Cancer and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center are working together to train survivors and caregivers to advocate for further research. The Colorectal Cancer Research Academy has drawn survivors and caregivers from across the country for two days of training.
Speakers from New York, San Francisco inspire student entrepreneurs at Showcase
Badger Herald
Presenting to a room of about 500 students at the fourth annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase Thursday evening, four prolific entrepreneurs, all University of Wisconsin graduates themselves, touted the qualities that make for successful endeavors in entrepreneurship.
Letters & Science’s lease in Bookstore gets approval
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison’s College of Letters & Science Career Initiative program received approval last Friday to move into the third floor of the University Bookstore.
David Canon and Susan Yackee: The Wisconsin Idea hits the campaign trail
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Canon is a professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at UW–Madison. Susan Yackee is a professor of public affairs and director of the Board of Visitors of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
EatStreet, Titan Spine raise millions
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: EatStreet’s funding round follows the company raising $15 million in December and brings to more than $40 million the total amount of outside capital Madison-based EatStreet has raised since it was founded in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. The company will use the money for general corporate purposes, according to the filing.
UW-Madison teams snag innovation awards
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Two research teams — one with a potential vaccine for the Zika virus and the other with a new way of monitoring sedated patients — have won $10,000 each in an innovation competition organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Wisconsin Energy Institute Seeks Renewal For Vital Federal Grant
Wisconsin Public Radio
The Wisconsin Energy Institute is buzzing with about 400 scientists, graduate students and staff.It boasts the University of Wisconsin System’s largest grant, $265 million over a decade. But, its sunsets next year, and the Energy Institute is at a pivotal point, both in leadership and funding.
Reported bias incidents nearly triple
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Bias Response Team released a report Wednesday that found students reported nearly three times more campus bias incidents in the first half of 2016 than in the last half of 2015.
Ban on camping instituted on Bascom ahead of College GameDay
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Police Department will institute some added restrictions surrounding Bascom Hill in preparation for ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday.
State building commission green lights Witte Hall renovation
Daily Cardinal
Fifty-two-year-old Witte Residence Hall will receive a $47 million renovation, after approval Wednesday from the State Building Commission.
Reports of hate and bias more than triple on campus
Daily Cardinal
The number of hate and bias incidents reported on campus has increased from 18 in Fall 2015 to 66 in the spring, according to university officials.
Renovation approved for UW-Madison’s Witte Hall
WKOW-TV 27
Governor Scott Walker announced Wednesday a renovation project for Witte Residence Hall on UW-Madison’s campus has been approved.
Fitness class aims to get new moms active again
NBC-15
Quoted: “There’s a great study published, actually by a set of Physical Therapy students in a very small journal where they looked at moms pushing a stroller and they looked at them and compared that to jogging and they found that you get the same cardiovascular benefits from actually pushing the stroller as you do with light jogging,” said Dr. Liz Chumanov, with the UW Health Sports Rehabilitation Clinic.
College students sell racially charged sweatshirts
NBC-15
Sweatshirts are causing a stir on the UW campus. A group of students are selling shirts with racially charged statements.
Walker approves renovation of UW-Madison residence hall
WISC-TV 3
Gov. Scott Walker Wednesday approved a request to renovate the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s largest residence hall, according to a news release.
State building commission approves renovation of UW-Madison’s Witte dorm
Wisconsin State Journal
The State Building Commission signed off Wednesday on a $47 million renovation that will bring air conditioning and other creature comforts to UW-Madison’s Witte residence hall.
Discrimination reports more than tripled at UW-Madison in first half of 2016
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison students reported more than three times as many instances of discrimination to campus officials through the first half of 2016 than they had during the prior six months, according to a report released Wednesday.
Badgers football: Players excited for second shot at Ohio State after embarrassing 2014 loss
Wisconsin State Journal
The game University of Wisconsin football players would rather forget has resurfaced as the eighth-ranked Badgers prepare to take on No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday night at Camp Randall Stadium.
Voice of the Badgers at home in Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
Matt Lepay grew up in Ohio and graduated from Ohio State, but the voice of the University of Wisconsin’s football and men’s basketball teams for the past 28 years says the hue of his blood changed from scarlet red of the Buckeyes to cardinal red of the Badgers a long time ago.
Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig lead off the court
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin teammates Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig met earlier this year for a frank discussion that had nothing to do with basketball.
Sensitivity to bias incidents rising at UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Shortly after Lori Berquam became dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 20 years ago, she encountered a female student on a moped covered with stickers.
Uncovering the Secrets of Mammoth Island
Discover Magazine
Noted: Each meter of cored sediment reaches further back in time. As team member Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin-Madison guides the sixth segment into a tube, he notices the mud changes from a warm brown with a pudding-like texture to a blacker, firmer consistency. The team estimates it corresponds to deposits from roughly 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, spanning the period when Graham’s mammoth died in the cave. That means this segment could include the period of extinction, if mammoth DNA is present in its lower, older layers but absent from the top. “There’s mammoth in there,” Williams predicts.
UW-Madison study first to assess teacher pay post-Act 10
Daily Cardinal
The first critical assessment of changes in teacher compensation published in Wisconsin since Act 10 was released this fall in a study by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
New UW bias reporting policy earns ‘green light’ from free speech group
Badger Herald
A national free speech organization has given the University of Wisconsin’s newly updated bias reporting policy a “green light.”
UW student challenges ‘quiet’ conversations about racism
WKOW-TV 27
A UW-Madison student says he’s received death threats in reaction to his movement to end racism on campus.
Most students not immunized for meningitis type found in sickened UW students, University Health Service says
WISC-TV 3
-Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students were hospitalized with meningitis this week, the university said Friday.
2 UW students with meningococcal disease had rarely vaccinated form, officials say
Wisconsin State Journal
Two students at UW-Madison who were hospitalized last week have both been confirmed to have meningococcal disease B, a form of the bacterial disease few students are vaccinated against, according to a statement from university officials.
Don’t limit stem cell research
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Writer Ian D. Duncan is a professor of medical science at UW-Madison
American Family Insurance reaching out to 3.7 million policyholders to approve structure change
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Long term, the new structure would make it easier for American Family to expand into other states, said Peter Carstensen, a professor of law at UW-Madison.
Badgers men’s basketball: Nigel Hayes named Big Ten’s preseason player of year
Wisconsin State Journal
For the second time in three seasons, a member of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is the Big Ten Conference preseason player of the year.
The last 100 days: Obama still has lengthy to-do list
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “Presidents actually have a lot of things that they can do,” said Kenneth Mayer, who studies executive orders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “What was once considered to be a low point of presidential activity actually has high levels of presidential activity.”
Nigel Hayes named Big Ten’s preseason POY
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With every significant contributor back from the team that reached the NCAA Sweet 16 last season, Wisconsin coach Greg Gard understands the lofty expectations his team will face in 2016-’17.
UW-Madison confirms both students have same type meningitis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
No new cases of meningococcal disease have been reported at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since last week, when two students were hospitalized with the rare, potentially deadly bacterial illness.
Panel highlights effects of UW system budget cuts
Daily Cardinal
After $250 million in funding was cut from the UW System in the state’s last biennial budget, many different members of the campus community condemned the effect the cuts would have on universities. At a panel in Union South Monday, faculty, staff and students came together to discuss the ways in which the cuts are proving harmful.
Wunk Sheek, supporters promote Indigenous People’s Day with ‘die-in’ on Bascom
Daily Cardinal
For many students, meeting the statue of Abraham Lincoln after a trek up Bascom Hill is part of a normal day at UW-Madison. However, some students of indigenous descent view Lincoln’s post overlooking campus as a reminder of the suffering of their ancestors at his command.
Men’s basketball team, students aim to shoot down cancer
Daily Cardinal
Hundreds of students stepped onto the Kohl Center floor for the fifth annual “Shooting Down Cancer” Monday in an event that brought together the Wisconsin basketball program and its student body.
Blank looks to increase out-of-state tuition to help fund faculty
Badger Herald
Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s request to increase tuition for out-of-state and professional students has been met with mixed reviews.
$8.6 million awarded to team working with UW scientists to treat heart disease
Badger Herald
Stem cell research might be the key to treating heart disease.Researchers at University of Wisconsin, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Duke University are developing “heart patches” — collections of fabricated heart cells — that will be used to mend unhealthy hearts.
Soglin plans to reintroduce ordinance to limit downtown sleeping hours
Badger Herald
Quoted: Peter Miller, a professor in educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin, said it can be difficult to treat all people with respect while developing public policy that is appealing to the broader public.
UW regent defends Trump after lewd remarks
Badger Herald
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, condemned the recent comments of presidential candidate Donald Trump, but many Wisconsin Republicans have not followed suit.
UW advocates hold “teach-in” to bring light to implications of budget cuts
Badger Herald
Addressing how cuts to education affect students, Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, said everyone has to come together to address systemic funding problems at “Fund the Freeze” “teach-in” Monday at Union South.
New website looks to connect UW System Graduates with Wisconsin jobs
Badger Herald
Last month, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unveiled a new initiative to help businesses around the state tap into the talent of UW System graduates.
UW music professor finds keys to success through new invention
Badger Herald
Adding to his catalogue of achievements, Christopher Taylor can now call himself an inventor of an instrument that is the only one of its kind: the hyper piano.
ASM grants funding to Working Class Student Union, chicano student group
Badger Herald
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the eligibility of two student organizations — Working Class Student Union and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán — to get funding from student segregated fee.
#DecolonizeOurCampus campaign looks to give Native American students a voice
Badger Herald
Kicking off its #DecolonizeOurCampus campaign, student organization Wunk Sheek held a die-in protest at the top of Bascom Hill to promote the rights of indigenous people and condemn Columbus Day Monday.
UW student receives death threats after debuting new clothing line
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin sophomore and First Wave scholar Eneale Pickett is no longer saying, whispering or asking “Can I please be given access to this space?”
Two Wisconsin residents cover Bascom Hill in anti-Trump art
Badger Herald
On most crisp, fall days in Madison, students and families spend their afternoons enjoying a walk along Lake Mendota, or a Spotted Cow on the Terrace at Memorial Union.
How the University of Wisconsin investigates sexual assaults
Badger Herald
The headline of the email reads “UW-Madison Crime Warning,” but it is the subhead that details the crime itself — sexual assault.
Woman arrested after attacking 26-year old near UW-Madison campus
NBC-15
A Madison woman was arrested on Sunday for attacking a 26-year old victim near the UW- Madison campus.
Badgers lead poll for first time in program history
NBC-15
For the first time in program history, the Wisconsin volleyball program is ranked first in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Top 25 Coaches’ poll, the association announced Monday.