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.
The in-state tuition freeze has been in place for years. Now, as part of the University of Wisconsin System’s budget request, it could be lifted.
A UW-Madison fraternity member tackled and held down a burglary suspect late Monday night.
Sean Casey joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to talk about how to make small improvements in your diet that can improve fitness and performance. Casey is a UW Health Sports Performance and Nutrition Specialist.
A college student tackled a teenage burglar Monday night as he caught him in the act, police said.
A 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student is being featured in the September issue of Glamour magazine in an investigation into the rise of homelessness on college campuses.
A UW-Madison student arriving home at his fraternity Monday night stopped a burglary in progress by tackling and holding one of the three suspects, the 16-year-old taken into custody and tentatively charged with a variety of crimes.
Former University of Wisconsin guard George Marshall has signed a professional deal with Aris Leuuwarden in the Netherlands, he announced on Twitter Tuesday.
Madison Police arrested a teenager after they say he and two others broke into a fraternity house on Langdon St. Monday night.
Gov. Scott Walker will include new funding for the University of Wisconsin System that will be tied to how it performs in certain measures as part of his next budget proposal, a spokesman said Tuesday after UW officials laid out their request for tens of millions of dollars in new state support.
Madison Police arrested a 16-year-old Madison resident after he and two other suspects were stopped mid-robbery at the University of Wisconsin Kappa Sigma fraternity house on 124 Langdon St.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans was recently featured in a Glamour article for a less than glamorous reason — she spoke frankly about her six year struggle with homelessness as a student.
Noted: He was united in marriage to Alice McBrian on June 20, 1965, in Springfield, Ill. Richard graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.A. in Art, and he later received his M.F.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a faculty member at UW-Madison in the Art Department for over 30 years.
Quoted: Walker has only run for governor in non-presidential elections, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science and journalism professor Mike Wagner.
Noted: Christopher Murphy, an ophthalmology professor at the University of California-Davis, is EyeKor’s chief executive officer and a co-founder. Ronald Danis, an ophthalmology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is EyeKor’s chief science officer and also a co-founder.
Noted: Nate Moll @natemoll UW-Madison social media guru. Nate is the voice of @UWMadison, which was ranked fourth for most popular university Twitter handle by HubSpot. Through creative posts, Moll engages with a huge social media following, including students, alumni, Badger-fans and more in just under 140 characters.
T.J. Watt’s rise to the top of the Wisconsin depth chart has been anything but seamless.
Sam Dekker has never lacked passion, energy and enthusiasm for the game he plays so well.
The University of Wisconsin System wants to borrow $455 million in the next budget to construct one building and repair others, bringing it into potential conflict with Gov. Scott Walker’s strict limits on new state debt.
The federal government has begun rating hospitals on overall quality, marking another step in an effort begun more than a decade ago to provide patients with better information about the care provided in hospitals and other health care settings.
Noted: Byron Shafer is Hawkins Chair of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has been attending national party conventions since 1980.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is proposing a $42.5 million increase in the 2017-’19 budget, despite Gov. Scott Walker’s warning to expect zero growth in the next two years.
On the frigid central plain of Antarctica, where the sun rises only once a year, a set of 5,160 light sensors encased in a cubic kilometer of crystal clear ice sits poised to register the flash of passing quantum particles.
The Milwaukee Bucks today announced that the team will return to Madison this fall for a week of training camp from Sept. 27 through Sept. 30, and to host a preseason game against the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday, Oct. 8.
Noted: Clinical Nutritionist Amy Caulum with UW Health Pediatric Fitness joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to share how to keep an eye on those sugars and added sugars.
A former UW-Madison athlete is just days away from traveling down to Rio de Janeiro to compete in the Olympics. Zach Ziemek has already earned it on the track and field as he competes in the decathlon, but now he’s working to pay for his way to South America.
Noted: The team announced Tuesday that training camp will be held at the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from Sept. 27 through Sept. 30. Six practices will be held.
Madison Gas & Electric will be performing maintenance work, including pavement replacement, on a gas main on the UW campus.
The popular smartphone game “Pokemon Go!” has swept the country up in a craze to catch them all, but there are other branches of virtual reality from researchers and developers all over the world, and some of the best and brightest are right here in Madison.
Fresh from Iowa, Najeeha Khan came to University of Wisconsin-Madison with a thirst for more diversity.
Gov. Scott Walker is telling state agencies he plans to extend the University of Wisconsin tuition freeze in the next two-year state budget he will introduce in early 2017. Walker says in a letter to state agencies last week that most should submit budgets for the next two years that don’t spend any more money than they were allotted this year.
Susan Riseling is pinning up her badge, retiring after serving a quarter-century as the chief of police at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying out a new diversity program for incoming students. This comes after multiple incidents of racial hate threats plagued the campus last year and fueling social unrest among students.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the campus will test the program on up to 1,000 freshmen to allow students to learn about themselves and others.
Quoted: Believe it or not, this game is not Pokemon Go. It’s actually Kkomamon — an augmented reality game developed as something of an experiment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison four years ago, well before Niantic’s smash hit was even in development.”We were working with this game to increase physical activity in kids,” said David Gagnon, the program director of the Field Day Lab, a team of educational researchers, developers and designers who work at the intersection of education and new technology.
I read with interest W. Lee Hansen’s Cap Times op-ed “Is a new UW ’BlackOut Student Diversity Plan’ the answer?”. I respect Lee’s long-time interest in these issues, but wanted to clarify several points that he made.
Roberto Rivera earned a degree in Social Change, Youth Culture and the Arts – a major he built for himself – from the University of Wisconsin in 2004. He went on to earn a master’s degree in youth development from the University of Illinois – Chicago and is now a doctoral candidate back at UW. He is also the President and Lead Change Agent of The Good Life Organization, which publishes multimedia educational tools and trains educators, youth workers, and parents in connecting positive youth development to community development.
