First things first: Hoverboards don’t actually hover. They are two-wheeled, battery-powered, skateboard-like scooters that can reach speeds of up to 13 miles per hour.
Noted: Roberts, who grew up in Wisconsin Rapids but was in Wausau with Ruder Ware for 43 years after graduating with a University of Wisconsin-Madison law degree in 1973, said government service is a new phase for him but one he’s thought about for a while.
Wisconsin’s remarkable run under Greg Gard continued Sunday night in the second round of the NCAA East Regional, thanks to one of the more remarkable comebacks in recent memory.
Noted: During the debate, Journal Sentinel Editorial Page Editor David D. Haynes will moderate an online panel featuring former Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske; Michael Wagner, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor; and Wisconsin Vote reporters Scott Gordon and Gil Halsted. Look for that on JSOnline.
An image of human tissue and blood cells that looks like an Impressionist painting, a blood-red moon, and a batch of stinkbug eggs are among the 10 images that won the 2016 Cool Science Image contest.
Mike Eaves’ run as men’s hockey coach at Wisconsin’s is over. One day after the Badgers suffered a 5-2 loss to Penn State in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament and were eliminated from contention for an NCAA berth for the second consecutive season, UW officials announced Friday that Eaves will not return for the 2016-’17 season.
Quoted: Erwan Quintin, associate professor at Wisconsin School of Business, said liquidity was a concern, as were a shortage of opportunities. Nevertheless, conviction plays a role, he said: “People are investing in those sectors because they feel that the sector has a future that justifies investing in it.”
Noted: Both University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Terry was a junior majoring in computer science; Cowdrey, a sophomore in business and marketing. Cowdrey’s father, for one, was taken aback, but came to understand why his son did it.
Noted: Favor Hamilton is one of the greatest middle-distance runners in U.S. history, a three-time Olympian who won 23 Big Ten and nine NCAA track and cross-country titles at the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin tailback Corey Clement started out 2016 in style.”I took almost a month off my legs just to recuperate,” Clement said Tuesday morning after UW finished the second practice of the spring. “No lifting at all. I’m getting back to it.”
Word spread quickly through the Wisconsin roster, one phone at a time. Shortly after UW returned from Evanston, Ill., where a Jan. 12 loss to Northwestern left the Badgers 1-4 in the Big Ten and 9-9 overall, junior forward Nigel Hayes sent out the communiqué: Players-only meeting. Attendance mandatory.
Noted: Grigsby graduated from Madison Memorial High School and received a bachelor’s degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville canceled classes Monday afternoon after a report of a gun in the building where the chancellor’s office is located.
Teams that aren’t eager or capable of suffering a few bruises from wrestling with coach Jamie Dixon’s Pittsburgh teams generally don’t fare well.
Gary Bennett, chief of staff for Republican Sen. Alberta Darling, has been tapped to lead the University of Wisconsin System’s school chartering agency, which lawmakers created last year to authorize new independent schools in Milwaukee and Madison.
Noted: In July, the GOP governor and Republican legislative leaders spearheaded an effort to gut the open records law, but they backed off within days after facing a public backlash. Walker has defended a decision to withhold some records about a budget provision — a proposal later disavowed by the governor — that would have rewritten the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, removing from it the Wisconsin Idea that says its purpose is to improve people’s lives beyond the classroom.
Noted: Shane Driscoll retired in 2014 from his job as a detective with the UW-Madison police department. With more time on his hands, he thought about what to do with the old skiff.
Greg Gard’s seamless transition — from interim head coach to undisputed leader of the Wisconsin men’s basketball program — received the final stamp of approval Sunday: the Badgers reached the NCAA Tournament for the 18th consecutive season.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents sent a clear message Thursday that cost cannot be separated from educational merit when deciding whether to shut down an academic program and potentially lay off faculty members.
A Ho-Chunk elder was heckled with stereotypical “war cry sounds” by a group of people in a UW-Madison dorm room while performing a healing ceremony Wednesday night, according to campus officials.
Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts. The company moved back to Madison in 2014.
Noted: Donald Moynihan is a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and chair of the Social Studies Divisional Committee.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez watched intently.He was intrigued to see Greg Gard implement several changes immediately after Bo Ryan’s retirement Dec. 15.
Gov. Scott Walker signed new legislation today that will let districts hire vocational education teachers who do not hold traditional teachers licenses.
Noted: A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who learned the business through the Credit Unions Executives Society and gained experience in various credit union executive roles, Sponem is one of the industry’s most visible leaders in the state.
Wisconsin teammates Nigel Hayes and Ethan Happ proved during the regular season they were among the better players in the Big Ten Conference.
When Greg Gard leads Wisconsin into the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament later this week he will do so as the Badgers’ full-time head coach.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, the outspoken University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who vowed to leave Wisconsin after state lawmakers changed tenure protections last year, announced on her blog Monday night that she has accepted a job at Temple University and will start July 1.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last semester doled out $726,436 in raises and $8 million in research support to retain 40 faculty members who brought outside job offers to the central administration, according to information obtained by the Journal Sentinel through an open records request.
Noted: Let’s get philosophical for a minute: Is the best price always the best deal? A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business suggests that shoppers consider a retailer’s reputation as well as its prices. Savvy shoppers will think twice before buying from a less reputable merchant.
Noted: In 1974, the consortium included Indiana University, the University of North Carolina, the University of Rochester, the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, and Washington University in St. Louis. That year, those six schools graduated 63 black MBA students—more than had graduated from all U.S. business schools combined eight years earlier. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the consortium, which now includes 18 universities that have graduated more than 8,000 MBA students from minority populations.
Quoted: “The idea is that this is a person who brings something very special to the company, who is critical to the organization,” said Joan Schmit, a professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school.
Noted: Author Michael Collins is a professor of Public Affairs and faculty director of the Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin—Madison and editor of the book A Fragile Balance: Emergency Savings and Liquid Resources for Low-Income Consumers, Palgrave Macmillan.
When the Mary B skimmed across the ice of lakes Monona and Mendota in the early 1950s, she shared her exploits in the Wisconsin State Journal sports pages with the University of Wisconsin boxing team, three-time NCAA champion Don Gehr-mann’s ability to run the mile for the Badgers and basketball games at Central High School.
Noted: Edgar Muciño is a Madison resident and father of two students in the Madison Metropolitan School District. Edward D. Vargas is a post-doctoral researcher at UW-Madison examining the effects of immigration policy and deportations on the health and well-being of Latino/a families.
Noted: Other speakers included members of UW-Madison’s Blackout movement, a group formed last year to raise awareness of racial issues on campus.
The University of Wisconsin football team will hold its annual Pro Day on March 9, the university announced on Friday.
Noted: The gala, added in 2012, draws a throng of media and serves as a fundraiser for the graduate studies programs at UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
Five years ago the University of Wisconsin gambled that Bobbie Kelsey’s championship pedigree as a player and assistant coach at perennial powerhouse Stanford could rub off on the UW women’s basketball program.
Before Louis Holland began his battle with Alzheimer’s about five years ago, he was one of the most competitive people Merritt Norvell ever met.
Take a tour of the D.C. Smith Greenhouse at UW-Madison. The greenhouse was completed in 1996 and is used to provide instructional space for plant-growing primarily for undergraduate classes. The greenhouse offers tours and is open to the public.
Wisconsin lawmakers are debating a mixed bag of bills aimed at curbing how much debt college students shoulder once they graduate, a worthy bipartisan cause as the Legislature wraps up its work for this session.
Noted: After high school, she attended UW-Madison to study art on a Ruth DeYoung Kohler Foundation art scholarship. There, she completed a bachelor’s of science in art degree and her teaching certification.
Noted: UW-Madison Police: Last year, the number of officers who received crisis intervention training increased to 72 percent from 5 percent of the 60-officer agency, Chief Sue Riseling said.
Quoted: “There’s a lot of research to suggest that it matters a lot,” psychologist Ronald May said of a father’s presence in a boy’s life. May taught “The Psychology of Men and Masculinity” for 17 years at UW-Madison, and the university lists “raising emotionally healthy boys” as among his areas of expertise.
Quoted: “It greatly reduces the use of force, if we know the reason someone isn’t complying is not because they’re being belligerent but because they’re ill,” said UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling, who co-chaired the local task force. “That’s a huge psychological shift for an officer. We generally want to help those who are ill and control those who are belligerent.”
Noted: Dave Lovelace is a vertebrate paleontologist and scientist at the UW-Madison Geology Museum.
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.
Kenneth Cole began his activism at UW-Madison last fall, when he organized a march in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri, whose protest over race issues on campus ousted two top administrators.
The regular season is over and March Madness officially starts .After starting out just 9-9, the Badgers put together a run of 11 wins in 13 games to finish 20-11 and secure yet another top-4 finish in the Big Ten standings.
During the course of a professional friendship spanning more than two decades, UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson has had many opportunities, formally and informally, to discuss his research with the Dalai Lama.
With the release of a letter written by University of Wisconsin chancellor Rebecca Blank, rumor finally turned into reality Saturday.
UW-Madison investigated allegations last year that then-men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan misused university resources while having an affair with a woman, later clearing him of any wrongdoing, university officials said Saturday.
The Bobbie Kelsey era ended Friday, mercifully for fans of the Wisconsin women’s basketball program.
Noted: Charlie Hoffmann is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin officials released a statement Saturday saying that former men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan did not misuse university funds during the course of an extramarital affair while he was coach. The statement also said UW did not force Ryan to resign over the affair.
Mark Mone and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee keep crunching numbers. Over and over, they keep trying to find millions of dollars to cut, while preserving the integrity of their school.
Noted: The State Journal also won a Top 10 honor in the special section category for its preview of the University of Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team’s trip to last season’s NCAA Final Four.
A host of bills pushed by Gov. Scott Walker that are aimed at making college more affordable passed a Senate committee on party-line votes Thursday.
Incurring the wrath of the professoriate, Wisconsin legislators stuck to their guns last summer and removed tenure guarantees from state statute.
