Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied fluorescent pink’s visibility for the bill’s authors, backed up that assertion. He told the committee pink stands out more than orange in a fall landscape.”If pink is more visible, shouldn’t it be a good choice? Shouldn’t it be allowed to save lives?” Sarmadi said.
Noted: Shine, which grew out of technology developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, signed a long-term agreement in 2014 to supply moly-99 to GE Healthcare. Tests conducted by the two companies in November showed that moly-99 made with Shine’s proprietary method worked with GE’s equipment and processes, proving its market viability.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will close its dairy sheep research program and disperse the flock of about 300 ewes in the fall, as the university rethinks how it serves the state’s broad agricultural sectors in light of state budget cuts.
Quoted: The technology behind the robots is mature and reliable, said Bilge Mutlu, associate professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. So obstacles to more widespread use are the rate of adoption and infrastructure challenges, like WiFi coverage, he said.
Citing what it sees as systematic abandonment of the state’s largest city, faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday called for an immediate change to the way state funding is divided among Wisconsin’s two research universities.
New LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda wasn’t going to let recent uncertainty surrounding his new boss dissuade him from seeing what he could do with a Southeastern Conference defense in Death Valley.
The No. 2 administrator for the largest campus in the University of Louisiana System has been tapped to be the top academic officer for the University of Wisconsin System.
Noted: AFIRE members are among the largest international institutional real estate investors in the world and have an estimated $2 trillion or more in real estate assets under management globally. The survey was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2015 by the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: Lukas, who was struggling to do his homework, said he has realized that many students could do better at school if they just finished their assignments. Now, he gets help twice a week staying on task and understanding his assignments better from his tutor, Andrew Meyerhofer, a UW-Madison student. Meyerhofer volunteered for the program after hearing about it from his fraternity, Alpha Sigma Phi.
When Alex Illikainen packed up his bags late in the summer of 2014 and left one vacation hot spot for another more than 1,500 miles away, it was strictly business.
Noted: It would be the state’s third medical school, joining UW School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison and the Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin, which is opening campuses in Central Wisconsin and Green Bay.
Noted: The latest study included researchers from several government agencies and universities, including the University of Michigan, UW-Madison and the University of Notre Dame.
Noted: And while some secrecy provisions were pulled from the budget, one sailed through, creating different rules for the University of Wisconsin System than for all other state agencies regarding the naming of finalists. Henceforth, the UW can pick athletic coaches and fill key academic positions without revealing which applicants were passed up.
The op-ed piece, “Tenure reforms needed,” by John Behling, vice president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents was unconvincing.
Noted: Stanley Kutler, 80. University of Wisconsin-Madison historian and pre-eminent American legal and constitution scholar who waged successful battle to make public Richard Nixon’s secret White House recordings. April 17.
Noted: “A Hard and Heavy Thing” (Tyrus Books), by Matthew J. Hefti. Hefti, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law student, spent 12 years as an explosive ordnance disposal technician. His debut novel takes the form of a desperate letter from a guilt-stricken former sergeant to the friend whose life he saved. Jan. 1.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents can’t have it both ways when it comes to tenure, says UW-Madison professor Chad Goldberg.
Noted: It wasn’t until 1988 — after working in the Legislature as a budget analyst and aide, among other jobs — that he graduated from the UW-Madison in history and secondary education.
Noted: The women, most in the early third trimester of their pregnancies, are part of Centering Pregnancy, a UW Health program that replaces individual prenatal care with a series of group visits.
Noted: The two UW-Madison graduates — Fernandez, with a degree in biomedical engineering, and Rusk, in electrical and computer engineering — had been trying to start a company for the last couple of years “in various forms and inclinations,” Fernandez said.
On a campus famed for its breakthroughs in biotechnology, engineering and agriculture, a much smaller department is exerting an outsized effect on the Wisconsin economy – and beyond.
Noted: A UW-Madison graduate, Shirek also teaches watercolor painting at UW-Madison Wheelhouse Studios and is a commissioned artist. With watercolor as her core medium; she also works with oil, acrylic, gouache, serigraphy (silk-screen), and ceramics. Her art reflects her life experiences that she expresses in pieces as realistic as a photo to pieces as abstract as shapes. Shirek does not limit herself to painting on paper or canvas, but paints on furniture and walls as well.
Quoted: UW-Madison law professor Dave Schultz said his recollection was that criminalizing such activity is “based on the idea that selling fake controlled substances while representing they are real can lead to the same sort of violence, use of guns, etc., that may attend ‘regular’ drug transactions.”
Noted: In December, Faulkner and Epic set up an endowment to fund three faculty associate positions in the UW-Madison’s computer sciences department, where student enrollment has nearly doubled over the last five years.
The University of Wisconsin System is a world-class educational organization that plays a critical role in our state’s economy and society. As the needs of the workforce change, our campuses must have the flexibility to reallocate resources and staff when necessary.
This season did not play out quite how the University of Wisconsin football team — or anyone else, for that matter — expected it to.
Howard Moore could have quietly eased into his second stint as an assistant coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
On Thursday morning, the Catholic student center at UW-Madison did not feel like a place about to be demolished.
The buttons and baubles neatly arranged on Jennifer Angus’ work table don’t seem unusual for an artist who specializes in textile design.
Noted: Jim Lattis is the director of UW Space Place in the UW-Madison astronomy department.
Dave Aranda, the architect of Wisconsin’s nationally ranked defense for the last three seasons, is leaving to run the defense at LSU.
Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst is prepared to move as quickly as possible to hire a defensive coordinator to replace Dave Aranda, who on Friday agreed to a lucrative package to take the same position at LSU.
When a dealer at a New York coin show showed astronomer Michael Molnar an ancient Roman coin minted in Syria that featured a picture of Zeus on one side and Aries the ram on the other, he bought it for $50.
The Catholic student center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison holds its final Mass on Sunday before its demolition.
A federal complaint against the University of Wisconsin-Madison about its handling of a sexual assault report — one of three such complaints filed against UW-Madison in 2015 — alleges the victim was subjected to a sexually hostile environment because the university failed to respond promptly and equitably.
Dane County Circuit Judge candidate Everett Mitchell has racked up more than 450 endorsements from government officials, attorneys, judges, law enforcement officials, pastors and community leaders in the two months since he announced his candidacy.
Michael Caputo’s teammates used to watch him play more often than listen to him speak.
Federal authorities have launched another investigation into UW-Madison’s handling of a sexual violence allegation, bringing to three the number of cases on the campus now under review by the U.S. Department of Education.
A bill that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring guns into college and university buildings probably won’t come up for a vote during this session of the state Legislature, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday.
One is old money, one is relatively new money, but Southern California and the University of Wisconsin are big names in college football.
A little more than one year after he lured Paul Chryst away from Pittsburgh and back to Wisconsin, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez believes the football program he rebuilt in the 1990s is again in good hands.
As they prepare for the 2015 Holiday Bowl, Wisconsin’s players can empathize with their counterparts from USC.
Noted: National security quite rightly has dominated our political debate in recent weeks, but I can’t think of a more important issue for Wisconsin and the nation than economic security. The Journal Sentinel opinion pages will focus on this concern as we close out 2015 and move into the presidential election year of 2016. That conversation begins Sunday in Crossroads when we will publish commentary on the Pew report by Salim Furth, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, and from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A long-awaited bipartisan compromise to extend the federal Perkins Loan Program for two years is on its way to President Barack Obama’s desk for his signature after sailing through both houses of Congress this week.
In response to a list of demands from a student organization, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone said this week that it would be impossible to exclude academic programs from looming budget cuts.
We’ve learned a lot about Bo Ryan over the years, as his career has spanned Platteville, Milwaukee and Madison. But, few people know him like a retired UW wrestling coach does.
A University of Wisconsin researcher known worldwide for his work on influenza and ebola is the winner of a prestigious award from the United Nations.
Paul Chryst, a native of Madison, returned home last December to take over a football program that needed stability and the guidance of a coach familiar with Wisconsin’s history and the roots of the Badgers’ success.
Dick Bennett walked off the job three games into the 2000-’01 season, less than nine months after leading Wisconsin men’s basketball team to the Final Four.
Greg Gard believes working by Bo Ryan’s side for 22-plus seasons has prepared him for his next professional challenge: replacing Ryan as Wisconsin’s head men’s basketball coach.
A University of Chicago professor who fanned a firestorm over tenure with a recent survey of University of Wisconsin System faculty members revealed his results Wednesday, including responses to his hot-button question about how much money it would take for faculty to give up their tenure protections.
Quoted: “Every detail of this plan is as solid as Jell-O,” said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bo Ryan’s 494th game as Wisconsin’s head men’s basketball coach was his last.
Noted: Rifelj earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the latter in 2003. He lives in Wauwatosa.
Noted: The group this year included members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band, two busloads of musicians from local schools and a cadre of individuals who drove in from out of town — or out of state.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking on projects that represent, at least for now, long-range dreams for the city while also offering ideas worth discussing outside the classroom.
Noted: Haley Vlach is a professor in the UW-Madison department of educational psychology and director of the Learning, Cognition & Development Lab.
Noted: City and county governments, the nonprofit community, the public school system, the media, philanthropic entities, the University of Wisconsin, faith-based organizations, the private sector and the arts community have all demonstrated a deepened commitment to helping.
Freedom of expression at the University of Wisconsin does not need to be protected from black student movements and a free speech resolution before the UW Board of Regents should not be weighed as such, says the head of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
University of Wisconsin and former Monona Grove offensive lineman Jaden Gault will end his football career after doctors found blood clots in both his lungs during a hospital visit Wednesday night.
