Noted: And over at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a rooftop camera at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences also recorded brief footage of a zooming burst of light Monday evening. That video, posted to YouTube, had more than 36,000 views as of Wednesday morning.
While much of the nation is steadily boosting state funding for higher education, several recent reports suggest the opposite is true in Wisconsin, though the governor’s office argues that’s not the full story.
Quoted: UW-Madison professor of marketing Thomas O’Guinn said the goodwill write-down is not surprising.”Lands’ End, the name in the marketplace, just isn’t very competitive,” he said. “The name is worth about 20 percent less than we used to think it was.”
Quoted: “They’re pretty remarkable,” Will Jones, a labor historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said of the numbers.
Noted: The Milwaukee County effort will include staff with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and researchers with the Urban Canid Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Howard started the company with two friends when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. EatStreet provides more than 15,000 restaurants in 250 cities across the country with around the clock support.
This year’s winner of the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science is Sean B. Carroll, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of several books including, “Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2009.
Wisconsin head football coach Paul Chryst has filled the lone vacancy on his staff.
A recent article, “UW-Madison sex assault discipline process leaves both sides crying foul,” raised questions about how the university responds to allegations of sexual violence.
Noted: After graduation from Washington High School, John Galanis earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — money from his father helped him make ends meet — and he got his law degree from the University of Michigan.
Justin Wilcox, who served as defensive coordinator at USC for two seasons before being fired last month, appears poised to replace Dave Aranda at Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is returning to the Big Apple in 2017.UW is scheduled to participate in the Big Ten’s second “Super Saturday – College Hoops and Hockey” event next winter.
Quoted: And, according to Andra Ghent, associate professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at UW-Madison’s School of Business, baby boomers will be flooding the market in five to 10 years, creating even more demand.
Quoted: Joseph Glass, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in addiction and treatment, said expanding access to ADFs is not a panacea for the problem.
A new paper says that the first tests confirming transmission of the Zika virus in Colombia were carried out by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Colombia’s Universidad de Sucre.
Noted: Que El-Amin, 31, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an art degree and received a master’s degree in geography from Chicago State University. Khalif El-Amin, 29, has a sociology degree from the UW-Stevens Point.
Noted: Faulkner grew up in New Jersey and earned an undergraduate degree in math at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. In the 1960s, she came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for graduate school in computer science — and now is one of the best examples of the economic benefits of a state’s having a respected university.
A state appeals court says a man didn’t have a constitutional right to view pornography on a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire library computer.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s vice chancellor for finance is leaving to take a job at the University of Texas.
Quoted: Barry Burden, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied third-party runs, notes how it is slightly easier for an independent candidate to get on the ballot in Wisconsin than it is in, for instance, North Carolina. But independent candidates often have to collect more signatures and pay higher fees than the presidential candidates from the two main parties.
Michelle Loke is one of the lucky ones.With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 23-year-old must pay off debt accumulated to keep up with historic increases in the cost of higher education.
A Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinic in 2010 provided heart and brain tissues from aborted fetuses to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers for studies aimed at understanding the growth of babies with and without birth defects.
Quoted: Those consumers just might be one of the answers to investors’ woes, said David Silberman, who is pursuing a master’s degree in finance and participating in the Applied Security Analysis Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Richard “Buz” Cooper, a Milwaukee native and physician who was dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1985 to 1994 and who later became a respected voice in health policy, died Jan. 15 in New York City from complications from pancreatic cancer.
Students, alumni and faculty from three campuses met for two hours this week with University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross to discuss what can be done to improve campus climate and support for black students and other underrepresented students.
Certain types of debt that parents take on may have adverse effects on children’s socioemotional well-being according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Dartmouth published by the journal Pediatrics. The study sheds new light on the link between debt and family well-being, as previous research on debt has typically focused on how debt affects the mental health and well-being of adults and has yet to explore how parents’ debt may impact a child’s well-being.
While past studies have examined the ways in which debts affect the mental health and well-being of adults, new research led by professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Dartmouth College examines the problem from the child’s point of view.
Quoted: But one of his former students, Jihae Shin–who is now a professor herself at the University of Wisconsin–challenged him on his “pre-crastination” tendencies. The results of her research are quite promising (you know, if you ever get around to reading it).
Noted: BluDiagnostics was formed by Katie Brenner, a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The app, called the BluDiagnostics Fertility Finder, analyzes hormones found in saliva and displays results through the app.
Amber Epp, associate professor of marketing in the Wisconsin School of Business, quoted: “Whether the airlines or consumers benefit most depends on how the programs are structured (e.g., blackout dates, types of rewards, points expiration, reward structure). For airlines, the profits are not so much related to the business they gain directly from consumers, but rather from the money they make on selling miles to other companies (e.g., credit cards, restaurants, etc.) for consumers to cash in as rewards.”
Noted: Explore a three-year degree program that would start in state high schools and continue at University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Noted: Gener8tor, which recently partnered with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to train more University of Wisconsin-Madison entrepreneurs, runs start-up training classes in Madison and Milwaukee. It made 17 investments in 2015, according to Pitchbook.
Noted: Wendy DeMartini is a professor and chief of breast imaging in the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Tim Tibesar has emerged as the likely replacement for Dave Aranda as Wisconsin’s defensive coordinator, according to sources familiar with the program.
Quoted: And business students are in demand because they have a great balance of hard and soft skills, according to Amanda Earle, associate director of career advising at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Business students are trained to be able to dive into data, make meaning and connections with the data, and then tell a clear and concise story through written and oral communications to both internal and external stakeholders.” Earle says the ability to understand data and know how to effectively communicate it is crucial to helping businesses make important decisions for the bottom line.
Laura Albert McLay is an associate professor of engineering and an expert on mathematical modeling and analytics at the University of Wisconsin. She talks about the chances of winning the Powerball jackpot on Live at Four.
Quoted: UW-Madison associate business professor Justin Sydnor says while it’s fun to imagine yourself buying a yacht or a new house, the first thing you should do after winning a lottery of any amount is hire a financial adviser and a lawyer, then pay off any outstanding debts.
Madworks Seed Accelerator, which operates in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, has begun taking applications for its sixth start-up training class.
Quoted: “For 2016, I think the consensus of the industry is there’s going to be downward pressure on prices,” said Brian Gould, an economist with the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability.
As anti-abortion advocates put pressure on Wisconsin lawmakers to pass a bill banning research on aborted fetal tissue, a top Senate Republican says it’s uncertain whether it will be brought to the Senate floor by the end of the legislative session.
Noted: The bill applies to the state’s civil service, which includes nearly all state workers except in the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin National Guard. It would replace the state’s use of hiring exams with a resume-based job application system, among other changes.
Noted: Author Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison. Pressprich helps adults with career transitions and continuing education through individual sessions and workshops.
Artist Stephanie Hunder’s exhibit, “Realm of the Forget-me-nots,” reflects her own scrutiny of the natural world and was inspired by a Pablo Neruda poem, “Entrance to Wood.” The exhibit of monoprint collagraphic prints is currently on display in Gallery 1308 at UW-Madison’s Union South.
When persnickety German customs agents kept saying “baloney” to American artisan butchers trying to get their best cured meats to Frankfurt for a prestigious competition, event organizers answered the challenge by creating a satellite event in Madison.
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.
Noted: She moved to Madison in 2004 to go to UW-Madison and for six years afterward worked at Epic Systems. She has focused entirely on music for the past year and a half, but recently started a consulting job.
The UW-Madison law professor who helped free Steven Avery after a wrongful conviction in the 1980s says “Making a Murderer,” the Netflix documentary about his 2007 homicide trial, illustrates problems in the criminal justice system that affect many cases beyond Avery’s.
Tom Oates’ column on Friday, “Don’t fret, UW playing it right,” was interesting but highly subjective. His basic contention was that UW athletics cannot compete because of cultural differences at other schools.
Noted: Henkes, who grew up in Racine, first moved to Madison to attend UW-Madison. At age 19, he headed to New York and was signed by Greenwillow Books.
Borrowers paying back their student loans would get a bigger break on their taxes and more students at Wisconsin’s technical colleges could receive need-based aid under bills Gov. Scott Walker unveiled Monday that are aimed at making higher education in the state more affordable.
Gov. Scott Walker announced a legislative package on college affordability Monday that would eliminate the cap on student loan interest that borrowers can deduct from their state income tax, putting an average $165 extra in taxpayers’ pockets
Quoted: “It’s a limited, unlimited plan. This is an offer that’s going to have so much fine print, you will need a lawyer to understand it,” said Barry Orton, a recently retired telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Late in “A Hard and Heavy Thing,” University of Wisconsin-Madison law student Matthew J. Hefti’s debut novel, Levi Hartwig is drinking with his dad in a bar, more than a year after returning from stints as a soldier in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anyone who watched Tim Krumrie anchor the middle of Wisconsin’s defensive line as a nose guard from 1979-’82 marveled at the numbers he posted.
Noted: The Plankinton Arcade’s remaining upper floors, including apartments and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Continuing Education, are controlled by other owners, including the UW System and developer Ken Breunig.
Companies less than a year old accounted for all of Wisconsin’s net new job creation in 2012, according to a new study conducted by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Quoted: File your patent early or opt for secrecy. Martin Ganco, associate professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business, advises, “A small-business owner should consider filing a patent as early as they have a patentable technology. It can be in the early stages. It is a common mistake to think that a fully functioning prototype is needed to apply for a patent. In rare cases, if the patent provides weak protection, it may be better to opt for not patenting and opt instead for secrecy.”
Noted: Griffie graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in economics and spent three years training high school volunteers to do home repairs in Appalachia.
Noted: Phoenix was founded in 2005 by Greg Piefer, who received his PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Shine Medical Technologies Inc., a Middleton company that is seeking approval from federal regulators to build a medical isotope production plant in Janesville, was spun out of Phoenix in 2010.
Dean Strang grew up wanting to become an editorial cartoonist for a newspaper.
