Is Greg Gard adequately prepared to take over the Wisconsin men’s basketball program when Bo Ryan retires after the 2015-16 season?
Greg Gard gets vote of confidence from Bo Ryan
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan to retire after next season
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Bo Ryan, who established the Wisconsin men’s basketball program as a national power and led the Badgers to the NCAA title game in April, has decided to step down after the 2015-16 season, which will be his 15th as the school’s head coach.
Scott Walker tests academic freedom
Madison.com
One hundred years ago this month, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin dedicated a bronze plaque commemorating a historic victory for academic freedom.
NBA draft: Ex-UW guard Josh Gasser excited about uncertain future
Madison.com
Josh Gasser can’t help feeling like he hit the rewind button and landed back in 2009.
Invasive jumping worms on the move across state
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Since the initial discovery — by accident, during a field tour at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum — jumping worms have been positively identified in five Wisconsin counties, including multiple spots in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties, according to the DNR.
Reform regent selection process
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The issues in the debate over proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System are fundamental and important. I do not to wish undercut this discussion but to expand it to include the ways that members of the UW Systems Board of Regents are selected. The current process is archaic and needs extensive reorganization.
UW researchers X-ray project helps map skeleton of galaxy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Thousands of years before humans invented agriculture, a bright burst of X-rays left the dense neutron star Circinus X-1, located in the faint Southern constellation Circinus. A year and a half ago, those X-rays were detected by the International Space Station, prompting a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madisons Sebastian Heinz to investigate the source.
70 years ago, World War II claimed a Badger football hero
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By the time the letter arrived at the Schreiner home in Lancaster, their son was dead.
Former Badger star, brother sentenced for robberies
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison football standout and his twin brother were sentenced Friday to nearly 10 years federal prison for a series of armed robberies last fall motivated by a need to buy heroin.
The University Book Store to open at Brookfield Square this fall
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University Book Store, a retailer selling University of Wisconsin-Madison apparel and gifts, plans to open its first permanent metro Milwaukee location at Brookfield Square this fall.
Prominent forestry advocate moonlights as keyboardist for the Rolling Stones
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Leavell’s tree plantation occupies 2,900 acres in Georgia. He has written books on woodland management, testified on logging legislation before Congress and likes to quote legendary Wisconsin conservationist Aldo Leopold.
Outgoing leader of Wis. State Employees Union says he’ll continue fight against Act 10
WKOW-TV 27
Quoted: William Powell Jones, a Professor of History at the UW-Madison specializing in labor history, said union membership in Wisconsin has been declining since the 1980s. He said that’s due in part to a lack of enforcement of federal labor laws.
Different D.A. may consider UW Police bike theft ring case
WKOW-TV 27
Grant County’s district attorney may be asked to lodge criminal charges in a UW Police bike theft ring case, after Dane County’s district attorney declined to take action.
How much would you pay for Badger season tickets?
NBC-15
Whats a trip to Camp Randall worth to you? Badger season tickets went on sale to students this week. Some are now skirting the law to make an extra buck off the Badgers popularity.
Wisconsin ranks 35th in U.S. for job creation over Walker’s first term
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: When the Madison area — which benefits from the presence of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as health-care software giant Epic Systems Inc. — is taken out of the equation, Wisconsin looks like a lagging state in technology entrepreneurship, said Meier, who has cofounded his own start-ups in the past.
Building with LEGO kit instructions makes kids less creative
Psychology Today
A paper in the Journal of Marketing Research by Page Moreau of the Wisconsin School of Business and Marit Gundersen Engeset of Buskerud and Vestfold University in Kongsberg, Norway asks a question we’ve all pondered at some point: Is it better for kids to free-build with LEGOs or to follow the instructions of kits?
Lindberg launches a quest for high-performance computing projects
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nick Lindberg is young, highly educated and technically savvy — and he’s aiming to bring more people like him to southeastern Wisconsin. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a masters degree in computer engineering, Lindberg had internships with Cisco Systems and Lockheed Martin. Then he moved to Rochester, N.Y., where he designed next-generation processors for IBM.
Tenure decision could drive away faculty
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
We are currently earning our doctorates in economics at universities in California and Massachusetts, but we left our hearts in Wisconsin.
Freedom From Religion founder Anne Nicol Gaylor dies
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Gaylor grew up in rural Tomah and earned an English degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1949, the same year she married Paul J. Gaylor. He died in 2011.
Herbert Goetsch – Longtime public works chief left mark on Milwaukee, Summerfest
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Goetsch served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Army Reserves until 1964, retiring as major in the Army Corps of Engineers. He worked for Milwaukees Department of Public Works for about 30 years after receiving his bachelors degree in civil engineering in 1949 and masters degree in 1954, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW researchers find mood improvement in menopausal hormone therapy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Women seeking relief from menopause with hormone replacement can breathe a sigh of relief — and perhaps wear a bigger smile, too.
Ab and Nancy Nicholas donate $50 million for UW-Madison scholarships
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received its largest student-aimed gift from individual donors in its history this week: a $50 million donation from Albert “Ab” and Nancy Nicholas, the school’s foundation announced Friday.
Are allergy problems worse this year? No — but yes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “This year has really been an average year, meaning that it’s been very robust but not particularly worse or better than an average year,” said Mark Moss, an allergist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Kevin Reilly: Don’t trash the UW brand that keeps and attracts talent
Wisconsin State Journal
Regardless of what you think about the current struggle for power over the University of Wisconsin, it is sending messages about our state and especially its flagship campus across the country and even internationally. American citizens and big media outside Wisconsin have become embroiled in our UW Badger Civil War.
Chris Rickert: Tenure-for-all not a compelling argument for tenure’s importance
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System’s tenure policies would more make sense if every university professor were like the one this newspaper profiled on its front page on Sunday.
Taking music to illegal limits
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: “We find artists through word of mouth and recommendations. There are no auditions,” said Jutt, a professor of flute at UW-Madison. “Friends will say, ‘This person is amazing. You’ve got to get this person.’ And if you can, you do it. So over the last 24 years, our circle of acquaintances and music friends has gotten really big.”
UW chancellor: Tenure changes not the disaster that some people want to portray
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin leaders moved forcefully on Monday to stem the fallout from lawmakers’ plans to strip tenure protections from state law as UW-Madison faculty planned an emergency meeting on the matter for Tuesday.
Naming rights for new Bucks arena could generate up to $4 million a year
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Kohl has pledged $100 million to help build the new arena and also donated $25 million for the Kohl Center, where University of Wisconsin-Madison’s basketball and hockey teams play.
Anthony McHenry finds purpose, passion as Silver Spring director
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Impossibly, he’s everywhere, at all times, at the Silver Spring Neighborhood Center. Perhaps it is a skill he picked up when he covered receivers and chased down running backs as a safety on the University of Wisconsin football team in the early 90s.
Wisconsin Pharmacal launches water purification device
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Wundrock, a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy, acquired Wisconsin Pharmacal in the early 1970s.
UW-Madison chancellor vows fast action on tenure protection
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday she will work with faculty to quickly draw up tenure protections for the state’s flagship campus “that would be the equivalent of any of our peers.”
Search for possible drowning victim in Lake Mendota to resume Sunday morning
Wisconsin State Journal
A search will resume Sunday morning for a man who reportedly jumped into Lake Mendota from a sailboat near the Union Terrace on Saturday and didn’t surface, authorities said.
Bovine gathering offers reminder of state’s dairy roots
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Cows on one side of the Square came from several farms in Jefferson County, while cows on the other side were provided by the UW-Madison Department of Dairy Science.
Q&A: Wisconsin wine gets tech support in UW’s Nicholas Smith
Capital Times
Technically, Nicholas Smith’s title is simply “associate outreach specialist” in the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Faculty reaction to proposed UW System tenure changes generates one of weeks most-read stories
Capital Times
Changes to tenure and shared governance at University of Wisconsin System schools that were passed by the Legislatures Joint Finance Committee aren’t sitting well with university faculty members.
Musical ‘Violet’ launches new theater company
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Abrams, who founded Capital City Theatre along with managing director Stef Dickens, education director Gail Becker, and communications director Chris Giese, is already a well-known figure in city theater circles. A Madison native, he earned his bachelor’s of music degree at UW-Madison and a master’s in musical theater from University of London-Goldsmiths.
What are straight-line winds?
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
Blue Sky Science: Is it possible to bring back extinct animals?
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Stanley Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation at UW-Madison and former chairman of the Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
State Debate: Would you invest in Wisconsin?, asks Bill Wineke; Bloggers debate Bucks arena deal
Capital Times
Channel 3000 contributor Bill Wineke, citing the huge cuts to the University of Wisconsin system, wonders if investors would buy stock in Wisconsin these days. The UW is the state’s biggest public asset, he says, and actions by this Legislature are weakening it, along with another huge asset, the states public schools. Investors, he adds, would be loathe to send money here.
Caroline Levine: Don’t believe the lies about UW and tenure
Capital Times
On May 29, the Joint Finance Committee decided to fix the University of Wisconsin in its budget bill. The problem is, the university wasn’t broken.
Faculty uneasy about working at UW after cuts, tenure changes
Wisconsin State Journal
Mahesh Mahanthappa and Gray Jackson both grew up far away from Wisconsin but came here to pursue their passion for chemistry at UW-Madison, a national leader in the field.
Holistic medicine goes to the dogs — and cats, horses, birds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: “We see pets that the owners thought would never walk again,” said Kluslow, a 2001 University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary School graduate.
UW regents vote to protect tenure in system policies
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to add faculty tenure protections to regents policy in anticipation of them being dropped from state law.
Missing boater feared to have drowned in Lake Mendota
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison authorities are searching for a man who is feared to have drowned in Lake Mendota on Saturday.
Kopp graduates from UW Command College
Carol Kopp, Oconto County Jail administrator, will graduate June 5 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Law Enforcement Command College, a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Residents fuming over Metro bus alerts
Capital Times
Noted: The alerts are a response to the 2011 accident that killed a longtime UW-Madison Library employee who was hit in the crosswalk by a Metro bus as she crossed University Avenue. As part of a safety initiative, Metro also has repositioned its buses’ rearview mirrors to eliminate blind spots.
UW cut wont help attract young people — Maxwell Love
Wisconsin State Journal
My great-great-grandmother, Anna Norsman, graduated from UW-Madison in 1902. More than a century after she matriculated, I graduated from that very same school. A member of my immediate family graduated from UW-Madison every generation in between.
Board of Regents approves tenure language into policy amid state budget talks
Daily Cardinal
The UW System Board of Regents centered Thursday meeting discussion around a recent update to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget, which included a detailed description of a multiple-request motion passed during the May 29 Joint Finance Committee meeting.
Ray Cross: No plans to resign as UW System president
Wisconsin State Journal
Earlier this year, University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross vowed at a UW-Milwaukee forum to resign if three conditions weren’t met by the state Legislature: a substantial reduction to Gov. Scott Walker’s $300 million budget cut and the preservation of faculty tenure and shared governance policies.
Dont hide finalists for top UW jobs
Wisconsin State Journal
Another secrecy provision has been slipped into the state budget with virtually no discussion or public input.
Doug Moe: Last notes for dual music teaching careers
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Each knew early they wanted to teach. Schneider grew up in a musical family in a suburb of Minneapolis. “I knew in 10th grade I wanted to teach music,” he said. Sanyer, raised in Madison, began playing violin in fifth grade. “I knew in high school I wanted to teach,” she said. She attended UW-Madison on a music scholarship.
State Debate: James Rowen says Regents ducked on tenure; Beloit Daily News fears for I-90/39 project : Ct
Capital Times
Political Environment blogger James Rowen accuses the UW Regents of dodging their responsibility Thursday when they voted against asking the Legislature to remove the changes in UW tenure from the state budget. Instead the board decides to set up what Rowen calls a do-nothing task force solution.
UW System Regents committee rejects proposal to fight controversial tenure changes by Legislature
Madison.com
Facing national attention and an onslaught of petitions and lobbying by University of Wisconsin professors, a Board of Regents committee on Thursday voted against formally opposing controversial changes to faculty tenure proposed by Republicans in the state Legislature, neglecting another motion asking lawmakers to strip the tenure changes from law.
Prof says Regents failure to protect tenure is the beginning of the end of UW
Capital Times
A University of Wisconsin faculty member, who presented more than 2,500 petitions to the members of a UW Board of Regents committee Thursday asking them to restore protections to tenure imperiled in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, said he was shocked when the panel voted to recommend a policy that gives administrators greater leeway to dismiss tenured faculty.
Move to strengthen hand of regents in chancellor searches advances
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Board of Regents committee advanced a policy change Thursday that gives the regents a greater role in the process of searching for campus leaders.
Struggling Lands End could see major changes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who watches Lands End, believes Marchionni was brought in mainly to focus on moving the brand upscale.
Debate over tenure roils UW Board of Regents
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With angry faculty members from several campuses looking on, a committee of University of Wisconsin System regents voted Thursday to go along with the intent of Republican legislative leaders in broadening the reasons in which tenured faculty can be dismissed.
Monona Groves Paul Brost is among Wisconsin principals of the year
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Brost, a Waunakee resident, earned a bachelor’s degree from Mankato State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees from UW–Madison.
More reason for calm than panic in South Koreas MERS scare
Quoted: Viruses like MERS “remind us all that the globe is indeed a small place when it comes to the rapidity with which infected people can move over large geographic distances, bringing viruses they may be incubating with them,” Christopher Olsen, a virus expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email.
Medical emergency exception in Wisconsin’s 20-week abortion ban leaves room for confusion
Capital Times
Noted: In a conference call with reporters in May, Dr. Doug Laube, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physician and past president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said all pregnancies at all stages require physicians to monitor and balance the welfare of a mother with the welfare of her developing fetus.