Before leaving the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March, Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for finance and administration, was able to secure $1.9 million in university funds to move forward on 24 projects.
Kelsey Card’s Olympic dreams came true after the University of Wisconsin senior finished third in the discus at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials to earn a spot on Team USA for the 2016 Rio Summer Games.
Noted: He said Schumacher graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison but soon after he finished his mental illness began to manifest itself. He said he was legally prohibited from disclosing Schumacher’s medical diagnosis.
Italian police say they have arrested a homeless man in the death of UW-Madison student Beau Solomon, whose body was found Monday in Rome’s Tiber River.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health said Thursday that they had agreed to explore combining their operations in Madison.
Noted: Crimes committed in Wisconsin have landed six men plus Minor on the most wanted list. Four were added the same day, Sept. 4, 1970, for the bombing of the Army research center at Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that killed a researcher, Robert Fassnacht.
Noted: And the Hamels are serious UW-Madison boosters.Pamela and George Hamel Jr., (UW B.A. ’80) have made a gift of $15 million for the upcoming performing arts center, with groundbreaking expected this fall. The Hamel Music Center will be next to the Chazen Museum of Art.
Despite an increase in jobs, there was no reduction in poverty in Wisconsin between 2013 and 2014 under a broad measure developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Consumers should be skeptical of the health-benefit claims, said John Lucey, a professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Center for Dairy Research.
Universities across the country have closely watched the Supreme Court affirmative action case as pressure builds on campuses to nurture diversity, both for the benefit of underrepresented minority students and for white students who will live and work in a diverse world.
Noted: Silatronix got its start in Venture Investors’ Venture Igniter program, which was formed to encourage and support academic and student-led start-ups from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The company is based on technology developed by chemists at UW-Madison, Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and Quallion LLC, a Palo Alto, Calif., battery maker.
Quoted: “This time of year, we get turtles going back and forth to lay eggs,” said Laura Wyatt, program manager for the Lakeshore Nature Preserve. “It’s wonderful to share the land with wildlife, but we have to do what we can to protect them.”
Ivy Martin got things off and running for Badgers at the 2016 U.S. Swimming Olympic Team Trials with a lifetime-best performance in the 100-meter butterfly on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska.
Noted: On Monday, Dr. Matthew Tattersall, UW Health Cardiologist stopped by Wake Up Wisconsin to talk about the importance of having a healthy heart.
Noted: Interviews with Terry Warfield and Bjorn Eraker from the Wisconsin School of Business.
The Minnesota Wild picked University of Wisconsin center Luke Kuninin the first round of the National Hockey League draft Friday night.
Noted: In “40: Collages by Kevin Henkes,” the Madisonian best known for authoring award-winning children’s books shows another creative side. He uses paper saved from the 1980s, when he was an undergraduate at UW–Madison, and arranges them in ways that highlight stark and jagged lines, curved forms, muted shades and texture. Presented in long, tidy rows, with uniform white matting and frames, the collages offer an opportunity for quiet and contemplation.
Noted: New research (by Evan Polman of the Wisconsin School of Business) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that might be key: If you can’t make up your own mind, pretend to make up someone else’s.
Kelsey Card, who throws shot put and discus, and Zack Ziemek, a decathlete, will head to the U.S. Olympic trials next month with the hopes of joining team U.S.A in Rio this summer.
Four finalist began their presentations in an effort to be hired to lead a new cultural competency program. The initiative comes after several racist instances this past year.
Cultural competency training could be in store for 1,000 new students at UW- Madison.
VIDEO: If you’re thinking about selling your home, now is the time. Andra Ghent is a professor of real estate and urban land economics at UW-Madison.
Noted: Giorgio, who went on to earn degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Vermont College of Fine Arts, not only writes every day, she teaches daily, too, through the AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop she founded in Waukesha; her faculty includes her husband, mystery writer Michael Giorgio.
Quoted: “The dairy industry has experienced one less year of trying times than what cash-grain farmers have dealt with,” said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It took years of hard work to achieve, but now, newly tenured faculty members in the University of Wisconsin System aren’t exactly sure what they have earned.
Noted: ?UW System tenure: Changes to the tenure process in the UW System have sparked angry reactions across the state’s four-year campuses in recent months, with faculty at many campuses passing resolutions of no-confidence in UW System leaders.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross this week will urge the Board of Regents to seek a 33% biennial boost in need-based financial aid from the state to help resident students better afford to attend a public university in Wisconsin.
Noted: Recently, that method of playing changed thanks to the help of engineers at UW-Madison. They made a device for Roy so he’s able to play the instrument by himself.
The Wisconsin men’s rowing team wrapped up its 2016 season with a 10th-place team finish on the strength of its depth.
Noted: Nate Pokrass has logged some 10- to 12-hour days in his job as tournament director for the American Family Insurance Championship. No stranger to event administration, Pokrass worked various jobs in the athletic department at the University of Illinois and was a senior director of development at UW–Madison.
Retired Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin CEO Tom Hefty has long called for a major strategic planning effort on the future of Wisconsin higher education.
Quoted: “There’s two sides to a bank — there’s the interest side and the non-interest side. Because of Fed monetary policy and because of trends in competition in banking, the margins on the interest side of the bank are shrinking,” said banking expert James Johannes, a finance professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For aspiring thespians, the coasts typically offer the best opportunities in both training and job prospects.
Quoted: For both child and parent, the best way to improve reading skills is by practicing, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Associate Director Michele Besant.
Believe it or not, there is a science to airport lines and some logistics that can help travelers. Laura Albert Mclay, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about it on Live at Four.
Coming off of a record-breaking season that included an undefeated home slate, a sweep of the WCHA regular season and tournament titles and its ninth NCAA Frozen Four appearance, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team announced its schedule for the 2016-17 season on Tuesday.
Quoted: UW-Madison Real Estate Professor Andra Ghent says we as a society have grown leery of phone calls and door-knockers. It’s why she encourages people to be skeptical, but also open to these offers because deals can be had.
Globe University is consolidating its campuses in Madison.The plan is to merge the East and West campuses into the East location, effective at the end of June.
Written by Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System.
Noted: The tales of duck rescues continued over in Madison, where University of Wisconsin-Madison officers on Sunday saved another seven ducklings — not from a storm drain this time, but from the middle of a city street.
Noted: The process of collaborating on a novel is unusual enough that Pauls and Solomon will be guests at the Write-By-The-Lake writers’ retreat in June, talking about their process at the Pyle Center as part of the UW Center for Continuing Studies.
Officers with the UW Madison Police Department helped seven ducklings.
Gov. Scott Walker has released 82 pages of records he wanted to keep secret after a judge ordered them to be made public.
An eighth grader from Wausau, with dreams of playing in his high school band, is getting some help from a group of engineers at UW-Madison.
The Wisconsin women’s rowing team saved its best for last in the final races of the season on Sunday at the 2016 NCAA Rowing Championships, and earned the team its first top-10 finish since 2011 in the process.
Daniel P Kunene, emeritus professor of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died peacefully at his home on the evening of May 27, 2016 surrounded by his family. He was 93.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos talking tough about UW faculty reminds me of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” where: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
Former University of Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves was named coach at Division III St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota on Friday.
Five players have left the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program, a UW spokesman confirmed Friday.
What if the power of the wind could help villagers in rural India stay in touch via cellphone?
Records released Friday by Gov. Scott Walker’s office in response to a judge’s order make clear he sought controversial changes in 2015 to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, known as the Wisconsin Idea.
Noted: “40: Collages by Kevin Henkes” is the first exhibition of its kind for him. Henkes’ need to be productive with his hands between books yielded 40 abstract paper collages in four years. Components of the collages were created from paper he saved from the 1980s when he was an undergraduate at UW-Madison working with Walter Hamady.
Noted: Noah Williams, an economics professor at UW-Madison, noted Wisconsin’s population has also grown very slowly — from 2010 to 2015 Wisconsin grew 1.5 percent while the country grew 3.9 percent.
A pack of Sherman Middle School students gathered in a circle at Warner Park to share their constructions of cattails, grass, mud and sticks.Anke Keuser, a doctoral candidate in the Nelson Institute’s Environment and Resources program at UW-Madison, pulled out boxes of blue, pink and yellow candy Peeps, saying she thought they made a fitting prize for a bird-nest-building competition.
In a purple building on the UW-Madison campus that once housed Luther’s Blues night club, innovative ideas get a push forward toward the marketplace.
Noted: After graduating from Monroe High School in 2002, and later UW-Madison, Jeremy Beach took a job as a statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Portland, Oregon, a region of the country bursting with craft beer. In 2009 he returned to UW-Madison for a master’s degree in rural sociology and then in 2011 returned to the USDA but at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he was a survey methodologist.
Noted: One might not expect to see an innovative gaming company in Wisconsin, but that’s exactly where you can find PerBlue. It grew from its roots on the UW-Madison campus to become the first mobile gamer to use GPS technology for a location-based, role-playing game.
Ray Cross’s selection as UW System president in 2014 sounded promising. He had a Ph.D. in university administration and experience as an engineer, business owner, consultant, professor and college president. He’d been with the System since 2011 and seemed to be well regarded by colleagues, legislators and Regents.
I am always amazed when the people of Wisconsin are angry at the staff of our wonderful university over salaries and tenure.
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.
