Noted: A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who learned the business through the Credit Unions Executives Society and gained experience in various credit union executive roles, Sponem is one of the industry’s most visible leaders in the state.
Wisconsin teammates Nigel Hayes and Ethan Happ proved during the regular season they were among the better players in the Big Ten Conference.
When Greg Gard leads Wisconsin into the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament later this week he will do so as the Badgers’ full-time head coach.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, the outspoken University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who vowed to leave Wisconsin after state lawmakers changed tenure protections last year, announced on her blog Monday night that she has accepted a job at Temple University and will start July 1.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last semester doled out $726,436 in raises and $8 million in research support to retain 40 faculty members who brought outside job offers to the central administration, according to information obtained by the Journal Sentinel through an open records request.
Noted: Let’s get philosophical for a minute: Is the best price always the best deal? A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business suggests that shoppers consider a retailer’s reputation as well as its prices. Savvy shoppers will think twice before buying from a less reputable merchant.
Noted: In 1974, the consortium included Indiana University, the University of North Carolina, the University of Rochester, the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, and Washington University in St. Louis. That year, those six schools graduated 63 black MBA students—more than had graduated from all U.S. business schools combined eight years earlier. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the consortium, which now includes 18 universities that have graduated more than 8,000 MBA students from minority populations.
Quoted: “The idea is that this is a person who brings something very special to the company, who is critical to the organization,” said Joan Schmit, a professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school.
Noted: Author Michael Collins is a professor of Public Affairs and faculty director of the Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin—Madison and editor of the book A Fragile Balance: Emergency Savings and Liquid Resources for Low-Income Consumers, Palgrave Macmillan.
When the Mary B skimmed across the ice of lakes Monona and Mendota in the early 1950s, she shared her exploits in the Wisconsin State Journal sports pages with the University of Wisconsin boxing team, three-time NCAA champion Don Gehr-mann’s ability to run the mile for the Badgers and basketball games at Central High School.
Noted: Edgar Muciño is a Madison resident and father of two students in the Madison Metropolitan School District. Edward D. Vargas is a post-doctoral researcher at UW-Madison examining the effects of immigration policy and deportations on the health and well-being of Latino/a families.
Noted: Other speakers included members of UW-Madison’s Blackout movement, a group formed last year to raise awareness of racial issues on campus.
The University of Wisconsin football team will hold its annual Pro Day on March 9, the university announced on Friday.
Noted: The gala, added in 2012, draws a throng of media and serves as a fundraiser for the graduate studies programs at UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
Five years ago the University of Wisconsin gambled that Bobbie Kelsey’s championship pedigree as a player and assistant coach at perennial powerhouse Stanford could rub off on the UW women’s basketball program.
Before Louis Holland began his battle with Alzheimer’s about five years ago, he was one of the most competitive people Merritt Norvell ever met.
Take a tour of the D.C. Smith Greenhouse at UW-Madison. The greenhouse was completed in 1996 and is used to provide instructional space for plant-growing primarily for undergraduate classes. The greenhouse offers tours and is open to the public.
Wisconsin lawmakers are debating a mixed bag of bills aimed at curbing how much debt college students shoulder once they graduate, a worthy bipartisan cause as the Legislature wraps up its work for this session.
Noted: After high school, she attended UW-Madison to study art on a Ruth DeYoung Kohler Foundation art scholarship. There, she completed a bachelor’s of science in art degree and her teaching certification.
Noted: UW-Madison Police: Last year, the number of officers who received crisis intervention training increased to 72 percent from 5 percent of the 60-officer agency, Chief Sue Riseling said.
Quoted: “There’s a lot of research to suggest that it matters a lot,” psychologist Ronald May said of a father’s presence in a boy’s life. May taught “The Psychology of Men and Masculinity” for 17 years at UW-Madison, and the university lists “raising emotionally healthy boys” as among his areas of expertise.
Quoted: “It greatly reduces the use of force, if we know the reason someone isn’t complying is not because they’re being belligerent but because they’re ill,” said UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling, who co-chaired the local task force. “That’s a huge psychological shift for an officer. We generally want to help those who are ill and control those who are belligerent.”
Noted: Dave Lovelace is a vertebrate paleontologist and scientist at the UW-Madison Geology Museum.
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.
Kenneth Cole began his activism at UW-Madison last fall, when he organized a march in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri, whose protest over race issues on campus ousted two top administrators.
The regular season is over and March Madness officially starts .After starting out just 9-9, the Badgers put together a run of 11 wins in 13 games to finish 20-11 and secure yet another top-4 finish in the Big Ten standings.
During the course of a professional friendship spanning more than two decades, UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson has had many opportunities, formally and informally, to discuss his research with the Dalai Lama.
With the release of a letter written by University of Wisconsin chancellor Rebecca Blank, rumor finally turned into reality Saturday.
UW-Madison investigated allegations last year that then-men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan misused university resources while having an affair with a woman, later clearing him of any wrongdoing, university officials said Saturday.
The Bobbie Kelsey era ended Friday, mercifully for fans of the Wisconsin women’s basketball program.
Noted: Charlie Hoffmann is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin officials released a statement Saturday saying that former men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan did not misuse university funds during the course of an extramarital affair while he was coach. The statement also said UW did not force Ryan to resign over the affair.
Mark Mone and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee keep crunching numbers. Over and over, they keep trying to find millions of dollars to cut, while preserving the integrity of their school.
Noted: The State Journal also won a Top 10 honor in the special section category for its preview of the University of Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team’s trip to last season’s NCAA Final Four.
A host of bills pushed by Gov. Scott Walker that are aimed at making college more affordable passed a Senate committee on party-line votes Thursday.
Incurring the wrath of the professoriate, Wisconsin legislators stuck to their guns last summer and removed tenure guarantees from state statute.
In 1904, University of Wisconsin President Charles Van Hise declared, “I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the university reaches every home in the state.”
Noted: The Madison store will be managed by Taren Mansfield, a UW-Madison graduate who most recently worked as an executive with Target on Madison’s Far West Side.
The bond between Kevin Schulze and Eddie Wittchow began forming during their high school days in the Twin Cities area when they trained at the same facility during the summer.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter — which escalated competition against each other a few years ago, before Meriter Health Services became part of UnityPoint Health — are talking about developing a “closer partnership.”
The University of Wisconsin football team hopes to practice at Lambeau Field in Green Bay this spring.
Noted: Be transported across landscapes of Asian and Western identities with Li Chiao-Ping Dance and the UW-Madison Dance Department’s performances of “Fluid Measure,” at 8 p.m. Friday and at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. A reception with the performers will be held following Friday’s performance in the Virginia Harrison Parlor of Lathrop Hall.
University of Wisconsin junior goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens was named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association Player of the Year while Badgers coach Mark Johnson earned the league’s Coach of the Year award, the conference announced on Thursday.
When a job search is being conducted, you often hear the expression, “so-and-so interviews really well.”
Noted: UW Hospital and Madison’s Veterans Hospital haven’t had any cases, and Meriter Hospital has had two since 2014, spokespeople said.
Carmex, a moisturizing lip balm company based out of Franklin, Wisconsin, will be the title sponsor of the Lambeau Field College Classic featuring the University of Wisconsin and Louisiana State University football teams on Sept. 3.
Quoted: Timothy Riddiough, a professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business, also believes that real estate is a healthy sector and that REITs are well positioned for the next few years. “There are a lot of very well-managed firms out there that do the right thing at the right times,” he says.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.” With those words from conservationist and author Aldo Leopold, the start of the Foreword to “A Sand County Almanac,” naturalist Kathy Miner will kick off the annual Madison Reads Leopold event Saturday at the UW-Madison Arboretum.
Noted: EatStreet, which supplies restaurants with software for handling online orders, is one of the state’s fastest-growing start-ups. Howard and his partners started EatStreet in 2010 when they were students at the Unveristy of Wisconsin-Madison. EatStreet raised $15 million of outside funding in late 2015, saying it planned to add 30 employees to its staff of 110 people.
A memorial service will be held in Wheaton, Ill., Saturday for University of Wisconsin football Hall of Famer and business executive Louis Holland, who died Feb. 16 at the age of 74 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, according to his family.
Quoted: The medical community has known about the bacteria for a long time, and its presence in the environment “is ubiquitous,” said Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
University of Wisconsin officials, dazzled by the remarkable turnaround engineered by interim head coach Greg Gard and his staff, are preparing to offer Gard a long-term contract to oversee the men’s basketball program.
Quoted: James M. Johannes, a professor of banking at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business in Madison, Wis., told Bloomberg BNA that consumer debts were not bought and sold when the WCA was enacted more than 40 years ago.
Quoted: James M. Johannes, a professor of banking at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business in Madison, Wis., told Bloomberg BNA consumer debts were not bought and sold when the WCA was enacted more than 40 years ago.
University of Wisconsin regents should review whether faculty tenure is appropriate or necessary on all UW campuses and within the UW Extension, a new report says.
Quoted: “It’s pouring gasoline on the fire of someone who’s got a serious psychiatric disorder,” said Kenneth Robbins, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who reviewed the recording at the Journal Sentinel’s request. “Not only is that a horrible ethical position, but it’s a horrible decision with regard to the safety of society.”
Noted: Fuhrman, who grew up in the former Soviet Union (she was born in 1969), studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in southern California with her family.
One trait has bound the Wisconsin and Minnesota programs the last 14-plus seasons: Consistency.
Quoted: Sarah Orr, director of the University of Wisconsin Law School Consumer Law Clinic, said Wisconsin is loosening regulations on the industry at a time when the federal government and some other states are looking at moving to tighten rules. “It’s another way that debt collectors can really put the screws to our (clients),” Orr said of the legislation.
Reporters in the last few days have tried — with no success – to entice Greg Gard to talk about his role in Wisconsin’s rise in the Big Ten standings and his hope of being promoted from interim to full-time head coach.
