Noted: Kubicek has a graduate degree in atmospheric science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also has undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering from UW-Madison and in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will hold a “Town Hall on Anti-Semitism” next week in response to an incident last month in which large paper swastikas and a picture of Adolf Hitler were taped to the door of a Jewish student’s room in Sellery Hall, according to university officials.
Quoted: “We’re trying to make the campus more accessible as a destination for the best and brightest students in our state,” said Ilia Guzei, director of the X-ray crystallography lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the organizer of the contest.
Noted: According to a UW study, nearly 90% of Wisconsin’s immigrant dairy workers are from Mexico. Some of them have come here from other states, such as Arizona, that have passed laws cracking down on undocumented workers.
Madison police have a “DNA match” in their investigation into the unsolved 2008 killing of college student Brittany Zimmermann, her parents said this week, but that alone does not appear to be enough to support charges in the case.
Low oil prices are restraining the ability of renewable energy technologies to compete, but work forges ahead on alternatives to petroleum-based fuels.
Quoted: “Yes, sometimes women do need smaller versions of things, and for jeans and other clothing, we want different cuts and different fashions,” says Christine Whelan, director of MORE: Money, Relationships and Equality at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “But the idea that that equates to somewhere between a 30 to 50 percent price hike is simply playing on the socialized culture that says women need to look a certain way.”
Ticket prices for Wisconsin’s 2016 football opener against LSU on Sept. 3 at historic Lambeau Field will range from $48 to $118, according to UW officials.
Hundreds of demonstrators representing various causes converged Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus for the Democratic presidential debate.
Skiers and snowboarders filled the slopes at Tyrol Basin in Mount Horeb on Monday.
Quoted: “Medical education and nursing education is really grappling with: ‘How do we train the health professionals of the future to care for the patient and not for the electronic health records?’” says Katharyn May, a professor and the dean of the UW School of Nursing.
Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an associate professor also at the Wisconsin School of Business, comes at the question from an economic perspective. “It makes a lot of sense that Google would be interested in administering healthcare data,” he says. He suggests their expertise in data storage, data access and data analysis would allow them to provide value in a variety of ways, such as mining large data sets of medical records to find new treatment patterns.
Marjorie Rosenberg, a professor in the Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business, was also quoted.
A branch of University of Wisconsin Extension that provides services in areas such as agriculture, 4-H youth development and family living will cut an estimated 80 jobs — or about 10% of its workforce — starting late this year or in early 2017, it was announced Wednesday.
After enough time passes, there’s no limit to the things that cease to shock us. Take, for instance, parrots. I feel like a larger portion of our daily interactions should be dedicated to discussing the fact that there’s an animal that can talk. And yet there it sits, our unspoken secret, while we discuss less important things over coffee, such as religion and politics.
Noted: In the Journal of Adolescent Research, researchers from the University of Wisconsin and Bowling Green State University describe relationships as “intimate unions” that are “best conceived of as dynamic trajectories involving a heterogeneous and multi-directional array of transitions.” That’s academic for: you don’t really have a clue what’s going to happen. In a study of 792 young adults who were dating, about half of the respondents had tried to rekindle an old relationship; a few more, 57 percent, had at least had sex with an ex.
University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic director Barry Alvarez and his family, who lost $1 million to a $930 million Florida ponzi scheme, have now sued the Madison lawyers they hired to try to recoup some of that investment.
Daronte’ Jones, who recently finished his first season as Wisconsin’s defensive backs coach, is leaving for the National Football League.
Quoted: Addressing the decision during a climate change forum in Madison on Tuesday night, Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison, emphasized the health benefits of tackling climate change, such as preventing 6,600 asthma deaths. “It’s not just energy policy and dollars. We’re talking about lives. We’re talking about people dying,” Patz said.
A woman killed in a skiing accident at the Cascade Mountain Ski Hill in Columbia County was identified by authorities as Bethany L. Rieth, 24, of Oconto Falls, WBAY-TV reported Tuesday.
Quoted: “The primary effect is supply and demand,” says Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Certainly there’s a plan to have a lot of roses available. However, they also know the demand is very high, so the market can absorb some additional price, which helps the growers get through those times of the year when there isn’t such a high demand.”
Noted: The University of Wisconsin School of Business student has collaborated with Askar Choudhury, James Jones and Raquiba Choudhury of Illinois State University, using an innovative statistical approach to analyze data by finding a trigger point that would initiate payment for crop loss through a simplified, index-based insurance policy. The approach is designed to be less costly than traditional agricultural insurance policies.
Noted: SB 276: Allow the UW System to use parking fines and fees to help pay for campus safety. Now, that money can be used only for parking and transportation facilities and enforcing parking regulations. The measure would also bar the UW System from building new parking facilities using bonds backed by general taxes.
Former Wisconsin tailback Montee Ball on Monday was charged with two misdemeanors — battery and disorderly conduct — for his alleged actions during two incidents involving his girlfriend.
Noted: AB 808: Prevent law enforcement from issuing underage drinking tickets to sexual assault victims and those assisting them. It would also bar the University of Wisconsin System from suspending them or taking other actions against them.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee got a boost last week that could not have come at a better time as concerns about its research mission and gloom over budget cuts hang over campus.
Quoted: “Even with the high value of the dollar, we are still exporting, but not as much as we were when the dollar was not quite so strong,” said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The outcome of a highly charged debate over changes in faculty tenure protections within the University of Wisconsin System is a matter of opinion.
Former University of Wisconsin and NFL running back Montee Ball was arrested early Friday after a woman reported he threw her, injuring her leg.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus law professor and researcher who has assisted with cases involving airport transportation issues, said he believes ride-share services such as Uber and Lyft need some sort of regulation.
Noted: All of the artwork was accounted for except a piece by Bohrod, a former UW-Madison artist-in-residence who died in 1992. The painting in its gold and velvet frame was missing from the security room of the residence, the complaint said.
Members of the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin Higher Education Council gathered before the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting at Union South at UW-Madison in Madison. The rally aimed to draw attention to the need for a strong tenure policy and academic freedom in the UW System.
Quoted: James Hurley, a UW-Madison professor and expert on groundwater contamination, said Janesville’s approach is adequate.
Noted: Badgerloop, the University of Wisconsin’s largely undergraduate team, laid claim to one of the event’s most impressive booths. Throughout the weekend, team members, who were clad in matching red-and-black polo shirts and khakis, built an Oculus Rift-like headset out of cardboard to help explain their pod’s unique technology to the steady throng around their eye-catching display.
The most questionable piece of the University of Wisconsin’s 2016 football recruiting class, it turns out, wasn’t even all that much in doubt.
Noted: The bills would lay out $50,000 to purchase licenses for a virtual dementia tour; $50,000 in additional funding annually for Alzheimer’s research at UW-Madison; and $1 million in additional money annually for the state’s Alzheimer’s family and caregiver support program.
Noted: Also on Lake Mendota this weekend, UW-Madison’s Hoofers student organization hosts its annual Winter Carnival at Memorial Union, featuring broomball and pond hockey tournaments, turkey bowling, snowshoeing and a lakefront social.
Noted: UW-Madison’s outdoors group Wisconsin Hoofers has snowshoe rentals available through its location at Memorial Union, including for students, Union members and guest users. For guests, prices range from $15 for one overnight of use to $30 for a full week.
Noted: Joers said she met O’Kroley in eighth grade when they rode the same bus to school in Cottage Grove. She became pregnant by O’Kroley when she was a sophomore in high school, she said, but noted she went on to graduate from UW-Madison with a double major in physics and philosophy — in May 2015, according to the university registrar’s office — “while mental illness prevented Christopher from maturing into a functional adult.”
A new partnership with UW-Madison promises to deliver Monona officials a wealth of information on how to improve the city’s transportation infrastructure, housing and amenities.
Noted: UW-Madison Prof. Majid Sarmadi helped with research and is featured in photo.
Noted: BluDiagnostics was formed in 2015 by Katie Brenner, a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It raised $600,000 of the money in January, when it said it was trying to raise $800,000. That goal has been amended to $1.2 million, according to the recent filing.
Chris McIntosh, director of development at the University of Wisconsin since December of 2014, on Thursday was named Associate Athletic Director for Business Development.
Count former Maryland coach Gary Williams among those who are impressed with the work done by Wisconsin interim head coach Greg Gard.
Senior class officers at University of Wisconsin-Madison didn’t choose a famous entertainer, author or politician to give the Class of 2016 commencement address May 14.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will receive about $50,000 to cover expenses, plus priceless global exposure, for hosting the Democratic presidential debate on campus next Thursday night, according to an agreement obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison spent $8 million the last six months of 2015 fending off attempts to raid some of its most productive and accomplished faculty after international attention over state budget cuts and possible changes to tenure protections created faculty unrest.
Noted: In addition, Johnson says she’ll work with UW-Madison to get funding to watch for the particular mosquito that caries the virus.
A UW-Madison team that designed a pod for transporting people at futuristic speed finished third in SpaceX’s first worldwide Hyperloop competition, hosted at Texas A&M University Jan. 29 and 30.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said she spent $8 million in six months protecting top faculty from poaching by other universities.
UW-Madison has spent at least $8 million since last summer to retain top professors after state legislators cut higher education funding and changed faculty tenure policies, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday.
The Legislature’s budget committee is set to vote on five bills to help people cope with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.The bills would lay out $50,000 to purchase licenses for a virtual dementia tour, a program that simulates dementia; $50,000 in additional funding annually for Alzheimer’s research at UW-Madison; $1 million in additional money annually for the state’s Alzheimer’s family and caregiver support program; $465,000 in ongoing funding to support four more dementia care specialists spread across counties with fewer than 150,000 people and a state specialist trainer; and an additional $250,000 in fiscal year 2016-17 for state grants for training county and regional crisis teams on providing help to dementia sufferers.
Noted: Author Robert Misey is chair of the International Department at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C. and adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Law. He previously worked for the IRS Chief Counsel (International) in Washington.
When Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst interviewed Daronte’ Jones last year, he asked one critical question: “Do you think the guys on the East Coast would come to Wisconsin?”
Next week, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will both host a Democratic presidential debate and move a step closer to deciding tens of millions of dollars in budget cuts for next academic year.
The lead “investor” in a student-run drug business that bought marijuana in California and Colorado to sell around University of Wisconsin-Madison has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.
The University of Wisconsin says Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson will return to Madison this spring to give the school’s commencement address.
Quoted: The zip code that a child is born into oftentimes determines their life chances,” said Nick Hillman, an author of the study and assistant professor of education leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Place matters because it reinforces existing inequalities.”
Quoted: Dr. Thomas O’Guinn of the University of Wisconsin has written several books on advertising and brand promotion. He has consulted with a wide range of corporations on advertising campaigns. He worked on public service announcements for the American Cancer Society, so he knows that advertising is not always about puppies and horses.
Noted: Huntsman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who got his master’s degree from Louisiana State University, explains that there are just two hard-and-fast rules about gumbo.
Justin Wilcox’s coaching career, which began discreetly when he took a job as graduate assistant at Boise State in 2001, was trending upward for more than a decade.
