In 1904, University of Wisconsin President Charles Van Hise declared, “I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the university reaches every home in the state.”
Noted: The Madison store will be managed by Taren Mansfield, a UW-Madison graduate who most recently worked as an executive with Target on Madison’s Far West Side.
The bond between Kevin Schulze and Eddie Wittchow began forming during their high school days in the Twin Cities area when they trained at the same facility during the summer.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter — which escalated competition against each other a few years ago, before Meriter Health Services became part of UnityPoint Health — are talking about developing a “closer partnership.”
The University of Wisconsin football team hopes to practice at Lambeau Field in Green Bay this spring.
Noted: Be transported across landscapes of Asian and Western identities with Li Chiao-Ping Dance and the UW-Madison Dance Department’s performances of “Fluid Measure,” at 8 p.m. Friday and at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. A reception with the performers will be held following Friday’s performance in the Virginia Harrison Parlor of Lathrop Hall.
University of Wisconsin junior goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens was named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association Player of the Year while Badgers coach Mark Johnson earned the league’s Coach of the Year award, the conference announced on Thursday.
When a job search is being conducted, you often hear the expression, “so-and-so interviews really well.”
Noted: UW Hospital and Madison’s Veterans Hospital haven’t had any cases, and Meriter Hospital has had two since 2014, spokespeople said.
Carmex, a moisturizing lip balm company based out of Franklin, Wisconsin, will be the title sponsor of the Lambeau Field College Classic featuring the University of Wisconsin and Louisiana State University football teams on Sept. 3.
Quoted: Timothy Riddiough, a professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business, also believes that real estate is a healthy sector and that REITs are well positioned for the next few years. “There are a lot of very well-managed firms out there that do the right thing at the right times,” he says.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.” With those words from conservationist and author Aldo Leopold, the start of the Foreword to “A Sand County Almanac,” naturalist Kathy Miner will kick off the annual Madison Reads Leopold event Saturday at the UW-Madison Arboretum.
Noted: EatStreet, which supplies restaurants with software for handling online orders, is one of the state’s fastest-growing start-ups. Howard and his partners started EatStreet in 2010 when they were students at the Unveristy of Wisconsin-Madison. EatStreet raised $15 million of outside funding in late 2015, saying it planned to add 30 employees to its staff of 110 people.
A memorial service will be held in Wheaton, Ill., Saturday for University of Wisconsin football Hall of Famer and business executive Louis Holland, who died Feb. 16 at the age of 74 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, according to his family.
Quoted: The medical community has known about the bacteria for a long time, and its presence in the environment “is ubiquitous,” said Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
University of Wisconsin officials, dazzled by the remarkable turnaround engineered by interim head coach Greg Gard and his staff, are preparing to offer Gard a long-term contract to oversee the men’s basketball program.
Quoted: James M. Johannes, a professor of banking at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business in Madison, Wis., told Bloomberg BNA that consumer debts were not bought and sold when the WCA was enacted more than 40 years ago.
Quoted: James M. Johannes, a professor of banking at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business in Madison, Wis., told Bloomberg BNA consumer debts were not bought and sold when the WCA was enacted more than 40 years ago.
University of Wisconsin regents should review whether faculty tenure is appropriate or necessary on all UW campuses and within the UW Extension, a new report says.
Quoted: “It’s pouring gasoline on the fire of someone who’s got a serious psychiatric disorder,” said Kenneth Robbins, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who reviewed the recording at the Journal Sentinel’s request. “Not only is that a horrible ethical position, but it’s a horrible decision with regard to the safety of society.”
Noted: Fuhrman, who grew up in the former Soviet Union (she was born in 1969), studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in southern California with her family.
One trait has bound the Wisconsin and Minnesota programs the last 14-plus seasons: Consistency.
Quoted: Sarah Orr, director of the University of Wisconsin Law School Consumer Law Clinic, said Wisconsin is loosening regulations on the industry at a time when the federal government and some other states are looking at moving to tighten rules. “It’s another way that debt collectors can really put the screws to our (clients),” Orr said of the legislation.
Reporters in the last few days have tried — with no success – to entice Greg Gard to talk about his role in Wisconsin’s rise in the Big Ten standings and his hope of being promoted from interim to full-time head coach.
Noted: Coincidentally, the switch from film to digital was one of the themes of the play “The Flick,” which was staged earlier this month by Forward Theater Company. Forward and the UW-Cinematheque are presenting a free screening of the documentary “The Dying of the Light,” which looks at the transition from film to digital, at 2 p.m. Saturday at 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave. The film’s director, Kevin Flynn, will chat with UW film professor and author David Bordwell after the screening. (Ironically, the documentary will be shown on digital, not film.)
Quoted: But as the race continues and Sanders earns more exposure, his standing may change, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Noted: Eventually, Greg Bothwell, Cambridge’s young vineyard manager and a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s horticulture program, plans to help with winemaking too.
Noted: UW Hillel, which is part of a worldwide Jewish campus organization, offers programming for Jewish students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with film festivals, workshops, a fitness center and opportunities for volunteer work.
Lydia Diamond wouldn’t mind seeing a brawl break out during a talkback of one of her plays.
Keep your fingers crossed for clear skies Wednesday night, because UW-Madison’s Washburn observatory will be open for public stargazing for the first time in nearly two years.
An analysis of Census data by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Laboratory showed some troubling trends on poverty in the state.
Noted: Doughty called the Read Up! funding project “fantastic” and said she and her husband were quickly motivated when they read about the first two years of the Madison summer school program. Wood is a computer science professor at UW-Madison, and Doughty is a former computer database specialist who is “effectively retired” after stepping out of the work world to raise the two boys.
Noted: Sean, 32, and Stacey, 29, are both UW-Madison graduates. They met in 2011 and married in 2014, and have taken over a business with a dedicated customer base and a strong stable of employees, one of which has been with the company since 1979. They had been contemplating buying a business for years but when Sean, who works as a broker connecting business owners with potential buyers, began talking with Bauer about the future of the business, the talks ultimately led to the Scannells making an offer.
Noted: Agencies involved in the project include the Sheriff’s Office, State Patrol, District Attorney’s Office, Wisconsin Hygiene Lab, state Department of Justice and police departments of Madison, Verona, Fitchburg, Stoughton, DeForest, Oregon, Middleton and UW-Madison.
The popular Rathskeller dining room at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union will close for several months Sunday, as crews continue their work on a major renovation project that has shut down much of the campus hang-out spot.
Noted: For more than 20 years, Cook was a research scientist at UW-Madison, specializing in allergic and infectious eye diseases. Cook, 59, retired in late 2013 and was awarded emeritus status in 2014, which allowed her to continue her affiliation with the university.
A former New York Times reporter and UW-Madison graduate living in the Dominican Republic committed suicide, The New York Times reported Friday.
Retired UW-Madison plant pathologist Vaughan James probably did not realize he was planting seeds for a small business when he put in gardens at his home in 2000. The 1,100 perennials provide a profusion of inspiration and photography subjects for his silk screening and sublimation printing business, R.V. James Designs.
There are 115 universities in the United States that can lay claim to an “R1” rating from the national organization that ranks research institutions, and Wisconsin is now home to two of them: UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, which joined the elite Research Level 1 list in February.
Quoted: “If the document a worker presents ‘reasonably’ appears valid, they have to accept it,” said Stacy Taeuber, a law professor and director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the UW-Madison Law School.
Republicans in Wisconsin have frozen tuition at University of Wisconsin System schools and pushed legislation to increase financial aid and give a tax break to some borrowers paying back their student loans.
Noted: Humanities courses taught by volunteers at Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon form the core of the project. The classes are taught mostly by UW-Madison graduate students and faculty members. And like the teachers, inmates choose whether to participate.
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: Zanichkowsky will be among the some 200 artists, scientists, architects and educators who have taken the trip since 2009. Those alumni include artist Stephen Hilyard, professor of digital arts at UW-Madison, who did the Arctic residency in 2012.
Noted: Jim Lattis is the director of the UW Space Place, which is part of the astronomy department at UW-Madison.
Noted: Among the changes, the DNR would transfer management of some properties to other organizations and turn over work to others. One example would be to transfer genetics forest work to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It might also merge some duties with the state Department of Transportation. DOT handles registration of trailers; DNR registers boats, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles.
Noted: Manhattan-based Crown Publishers, which also is publishing a mass-market edition for British readers, chose Milwaukee for the national book launch, which takes place Tuesday. Desmond will speak at Marquette University Law School and Boswell Book Co., followed Wednesday by an appearance at his grad-school alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Julie Olson is an engineer at GRAEF, a Milwaukee-based engineering, planning and design firm. She received her degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Even as the nation’s economy was recovering from the Great Recession, the number of Wisconsin residents living in poverty averaged 13% — the highest since 1984, according to a trend analysis by UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
Quoted: “It’s just been a bad decision to associate your fantastic brand with something that was polarizing,” said Neeraj Arora, marketing professor at UW-Madison and executive director of the A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research. “From a marketing standpoint, I think it’s fair to say that there was a misstep.”
Also: But Hart Posen, a UW-Madison professor of management and human resources and a Lands’ End observer, said by email that the Steinem episode suggests “a substantial gap in the top management team’s understanding of the current Lands’ End customer base.”
Shake Sarah Nurse’s family tree and an elite athlete will fall off of most every branch.
The freshman season in any sport generally is a trying experience even in the best of circumstances. But when it is accompanied by persistent and painful losses, it can become overwhelming.
Noted: Piefer was in the UW-Madison’s nuclear engineering Ph.D program, and after getting his degree, he developed the technology, he said, and forged a partnership with the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research on the UW campus.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department has officially posted a job opening for the men’s basketball head coaching position.
Noted: Bradley teaches a course on the war at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Werner, a professor and chairman of the university’s Afro-American Studies Department. A decade ago, they began talking about music at a Christmas party at the Vet Center in Madison and were quickly surrounded by a group of guys sharing stories of the music they listened to in Vietnam.
Quoted: James Johannes, a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor with expertise in banking, said he didn’t know enough about North Milwaukee State to say why it is struggling years after the recession. But speaking generally, he said, “The one thing we can say for sure is that some of the fallout from the Great Recession has been very much localized. Certain banks in certain areas of the country have just not done well. Certain areas of counties have not done well. But most of that has been flushed out of the system by now.”
University of Wisconsin officials on Friday officially posted the opening for the position of men’s basketball coach.
Poverty in Wisconsin hit its highest level in 30 years during the five-year period ending in 2014, even as the nation’s economy was recovering from the Great Recession, according to a trend analysis of U.S. census data just released by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Op-ed by Jaime Luque, Assistant Professor, Real Estate & Urban Land Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
UW-Madison students who also work for the university say pay raises announced Tuesday won’t help them make ends meet.
