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.
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.
