The hosts of the event may have changed, but Greg and Michelle Gard picked up right where things left off hosting the fifth-annual “Shooting Down Cancer” event with the Wisconsin men’s basketball program at the Kohl Center on Monday.
Noted: One thread surrounds Shakespeare, which coincides with the Year of Shakespeare in Wisconsin to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death and the arrival of a First Folio at UW-Madison in November. Some Shakespeare-centric books highlighted include Andrea Mays’ book “The Millionaire and the Bard,” “Performing New Lives” by Jonathan Shailor, and “Much Ado” by Michael Lenehan, about a summer with American Players Theatre.
Noted: Peter Miller, an educational leadership and policy analysis professor at UW-Madison, is providing funds connected to his research project that looks at how organizations work together to support children.
House Speaker Paul Ryan will be in Downtown Madison on Friday for a speech and conversation with UW-Madison’s College Republicans, the group announced Monday.
ESPN’s College GameDay pregame show will come to Madison for the sixth time in the show’s history when the Badgers host Ohio State on Saturday. Here’s a look at each of the previous five times GameDay visited UW.
The University of Wisconsin moved back into the top 10 after its bye week.
As Madison gears up for the biggest University of Wisconsin home football game in years, Badgers fans will be glad to learn that their team has taken care of one of its biggest on-field problems.
The first victory of the season for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team provided rare feats in a pair of historical terms.
A tie didn’t cost the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team the top spot in the USCHO.com Division I women’s poll.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team accomplished a first for the program Monday, earning the No. 1 ranking in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.
Noted: The man who painted “Lumberjack Fight on the Flambeau River,” James Watrous, also painted the Paul Bunyan mural in the University of Wisconsin Memorial Student Union in Madison.
Quoted: “It’s another example of the way in which the criminal justice system, as a human system, can produce errors,” Keith Findley,co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, said in a phone interview.
Noted: HealthMyne — which lists among its co-founders Rock Mackie, the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical physicist who developed the technology behind TomoTherapy Inc. — said in late September that it had raised $6.9 million.
Two University of Wisconsin Masters in Business Administration courses became the first to receive a STEM designation in the country Thursday, which could make the degree more valuable to students and employers.
President Ray Cross announced the formation of a new council aimed at fulfilling initiatives from the 2020FWD strategic framework plan.
College Gameday is coming to Madison as the Badgers take on the Buckeyes in a night game at Camp Randall Stadium.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students are recovering from meningitis.
-University of Wisconsin System regents have approved raising in-state undergraduate tuition in the 2018-19 school year if Republicans lift their tuition freeze.
Dorothy Jutton Pringle, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nutritional sciences professor and a pioneer of independent dietetic practice, died on Monday, Oct. 3 at Oakwood Village University Woods. She was 97 years old.
Noted: “Seventy-five percent of it stays right here in south central Wisconsin,” Heitzinger said. “The remaining 25 percent funds national breast cancer research, including breast cancer research at the UW-Madison.”
University of Wisconsin System regents have approved raising in-state undergraduate tuition in the 2018-19 school year if Republicans lift their tuition freeze.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students were hospitalized with meningitis this week, the university said Friday.
Noted: He was born on Sept. 4, 1951, in Madison, the son of Norman and Faye (Pease) Patchin. He met his soulmate, Tess in 1984 and they spent the next 28 years together. Mike worked for the UW-Madison in maintenance for over 30 years, retiring in 2013.
An expert with UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology said a chemical used to eliminate invasive zebra mussel populations in Minnesota wouldn’t work in major Madison lakes infested by the mollusc.
Noted: Jeremy Hemberger is a graduate student with the department of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a volunteer with the campus Insect Ambassadors organization.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said it remains “quite difficult” for Trump to win the state. Burden said over the past two weeks, polling shows the state moving from a situation where Trump was in striking distance to a more lopsided race where Clinton has a wider lead.
Two UW-Madison students are recovering from the disease that can cause meningitis as officials try to determine if the two cases are related.
Noted: Bernier did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the mailer, but Bernier issued a statement in July 2015 objecting to the state budget and cuts proposed by Walker to the University of Wisconsin System.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents sought Friday to reassert its role in determining tuition by approving a plan that would end a freeze on in-state tuition imposed by the state Legislature with a small increase in those costs for the 2018-19 school year.
Noted: This State Journal editorial ran on Oct. 11, 1916, the day after Bascom Hall, which was then called Main Hall, lost its ornate dome to fire.
College GameDay will be heading to Madison next week for the first time since 2011.
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building on the UW-Madison campus will be a hive of activity Oct. 20-23 during the 6th annual Wisconsin Science Festival, where thousands of people will engage in science, often in unique ways.
Noted: Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “Each state has a number of (Electoral College) votes, equal to the number of seats it has in the House of Representatives,” said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at UW-Madison. States get two additional Electoral College votes for their U.S. senators.
Before she shows social work students a video about post-traumatic stress disorder that includes graphic images, UW-Madison professor Angela Willits warns them about the upsetting scenes.
Quoted: “I think Madison is a vibrant economic community,” said James Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the UW-Madison School of Business. “It has the lowest unemployment rate and the highest population growth in Wisconsin, based on last year’s data.”
Wisconsin students sell ‘all whites are racist’ hoodies: Blake Neff of the Daily Caller writes: “Several students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to sell a line of hoodies carrying provocative messages like, ’All White People Are Racist,’ and another variation that seems to promote anti-cop violence.
Wisconsin’s D’Cota Dixon has pointed to Ohio State’s visit to Camp Randall Stadium for weeks, though the source of his anticipation isn’t what you suspect.
About a dozen years ago, Willie Jude, a longtime Milwaukee Public Schools administrator who was principal of Custer High School at the time, told me that many Custer grads who went on to higher education (and there weren’t that many) realized quickly they were way behind many other students when it came to academic preparation.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to extend into a fifth year a tuition freeze for resident undergraduates, but drew the line for the following year, stating its intent to raise tuition for 2018-’19 by up to the rate of inflation.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students were hospitalized this week with meningococcal disease, and one has been confirmed to have a type of the rare, potentially deadly form that most students have not been immunized against.
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has released a report that may have imagined the most painful college experience in America, and the institute is hoping to bring it to Wisconsin.
Noted: PerBlue, which has about 40 employees, was founded by Beck and Andrew Hanson in June 2008. They funded it themselves, then raised $72,000 from family and friends in July 2009. Both graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with computer engineering degrees in 2009.
On a snowy Friday morning in 2005, Jeri Lake was riding her bicycle to the clinic where she worked as a nurse and midwife when a car suddenly drove into her path.
When veterans seek out legal help from the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Veterans Law Center, Laura Smythe says they often tell the lawyers and students they’re working with, “I don’t even know what my first step should be.”
Noted: Research from Anita Mukherjee of the University of Wisconsin, School of Business found no reduction in recidivism rates when using private prisons, indicating that the benefits touted by private prisons, such as higher efficiency and better results is tenuous at best.
Quoted: Cross-selling — in which bankers try to draw customers who had signed up for one account into starting other accounts or products — is part of most banks’ strategies, said Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the University of Wisconsin.
A 48-year-old Milwaukee man exonerated by DNA evidence in a sexual assault case was released from prison on Wednesday after serving 24 years for a crime he did not commit.
Preliminary fall enrollments are in for University of Wisconsin campuses and while many held steady or saw slight gains, the two-year colleges collectively took a 22.3% hit, UW-Stevens Point fell 6.8% and UW-Milwaukee lost 4.7%, compared with final enrollment numbers from last fall.
Controversial tuition money carried over by the University of Wisconsin System and its campuses now would cover about 45 days of instructional expenses in the event of an emergency or other unforeseen circumstance, according to a report the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will discuss Thursday and Friday at UW-Eau Claire.
The UW-Madison chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has been terminated due to violations of Student Organization Code of Conduct policies.
After three years of an in-state tuition freeze, University of Wisconsin System officials are considering lifting the cap after the 2017-18 academic school year.
Pending approval of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents this Thursday, the College of Letters and Science and Career Initiative and Career Services may take residence above the University Bookstore.
It took getting a Ph.D. in genetics for Nadia Drake to realize she was more interested in writing about science than practicing it.
The University of Wisconsin’s Committee on Student Organizations has terminated Sigma Phi Epsilon after receiving evidence the fraternity had violated its suspension.
Graham Washburn from AT&T joined NBC15’s Meredith Barack for this week’s Tech Tuesday.Washburn shares a new Badgers Game Day app that gives fans a whole new inside look for Wisconsin sporting events.
– University of Wisconsin System regents are set to consider a resolution this week calling for raising in-state tuition after next year.
A new report shows the University of Wisconsin System’s balances have shrunk.
A fraternity chapter at UW-Madison has been terminated for violating the university’s code of conduct policies.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization for violating student organization code of conduct policies, according to a release.
