Just over a year ago, Frank Kaminsky announced on his blog he was returning to the University of Wisconsin for his senior season. In the era of one-and-dones, he told the NBA to wait while he went for one last go-round in college.
Wisconsin lawmakers aren’t the only ones considering major funding cuts to higher education.
Despite suffering significant personnel losses after making a second consecutive Final Four run, Wisconsin has drawn a marquee program for the 2015 Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
Noted: The company bought Cellular Dynamics International Inc. in Madison for $307 million this month. Cellular Dynamics International, known as CDI, employs about 150 people and was co-founded in 2004 by James Thomson, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the most influential scientists in stem cell research.
Students cramming for finals aren’t the only ones in the University of Wisconsin System losing sleep this week.
A print and online magazine produced by students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named Best Student Magazine in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Noted: Unfortunately, Noah Williams of the University of Wisconsin-Madison violated this principle last week in a Journal Sentinel op-ed on the state of the Wisconsin economy. Williams opinion is that the states economy has performed “quite well” under Gov. Scott Walker. He is perfectly entitled to make that argument, although as I have argued elsewhere, the evidence is overwhelming that he is wrong.
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: A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Piraino also previously worked as a special assistant for state relations at the UW System.
Authority over a decades-old agreement that allows college students from Minnesota and Wisconsin to avoid paying nonresident tuition when they cross the border to attend a public school is up for grabs Tuesday in the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing Joint Finance Committee.
On any given day, Lavern Georgson could be helping a farmer with a sick cow or troubleshooting a problem with someone’s backyard Koi pond.
A group of seniors are keeping their minds young by attending college courses.
UW-Madison interim vice provost and chief diversity officer Patrick Sims now has the title on a permanent basis.
UW-Madison police used a Taser in the process of arresting an intoxicated man who created a disturbance Wednesday at Memorial Union.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face defending national champion Penn State again in the Big Ten Conference opener in one of the highlights of the 2015 schedule released Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves plans to reconnect with an old associate before deciding how to rebuild his staff.
Noted: The comments were made Wednesday during a roundtable discussion on the perceived militarization of police, hosted by UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy.
One of two Jewish fraternities at UW-Madison has been kicked out of campus life for repeated misconduct, the university announced Wednesday. Alpha Epsilon Pi is the second fraternity ousted by the university this semester after no terminations had occurred since 2006.
Quoted: The state law governing the right of people — civilians and officers alike — to use deadly force in self-defense wouldn’t be superseded by a city use-of-force policy, according to David E. Schultz, a UW-Madison law professor who studies criminal law.
Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that legislative consideration of a financing plan for a new arena in downtown Milwaukee will have to wait until other big-ticket issues such as K-12 school funding and cuts to the University of Wisconsin System are dealt with first.
A fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been kicked off campus after breaking the terms of its suspension.
Tixora, a ticketing service for intercity buses started by four University of Wisconsin – Madison students, has won first place and $10,000 in the school’s G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will deliver a high-profile lecture Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., as this year’s winner of the Moynihan Prize.
Five years can seem like an eternity in the world of major college athletics.
Dr. Richard Page, George R. and Elaine Love Professor and chair of the department of medicine in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, has been elected as a member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP). AAP is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious professional organizations of physicians. It is devoted to the advancement of scientific and practical medicine.
As conversations continue about police shootings and accountability nationwide, some Madison area law enforcement agencies are grappling with how and whether to move forward with body cameras.
Noted: Noah Williams is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Enologist Nick Smith and the 2015 vintage are both getting started in Wisconsin.
Republicans in the state Legislature are abandoning a proposal by GOP Gov. Scott Walker to spin off the University of Wisconsin System as a separate government authority, but said they are committed to giving campuses more flexibilities to manage budget cuts.
Chancellor Blank has a blog that talks about the need to weaken the University of Wisconsin-Madison to make room for state budget cuts.
They became teammates and friends at Kenosha Bradford High School, inseparable on and off the field.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was charged Thursday with third-degree sexual assault for an incident at a campus dorm, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Noted: The candidates endorsed by the unions are: Ann Hoyt, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who is an expert on cooperative businesses; Bill Oemichen, president and chief executive officer of Cooperative Network; and Judy Ziewacz, a former Group Health director.
Jim Berbee, founder of Madison-based Berbee Information Networks Corp., will receive the 12th annual Ken Hendricks Memorial “Seize the Day” award at the 2015 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference, organizers said Wednesday.
Officials in Gov. Scott Walker’s administration advocated on Tuesday for state lawmakers to pass a bill to eliminate the board in that oversees for-profit colleges in Wisconsin.
Quoted: “We can call it a kind of legal fiction that Walker is not a candidate, even though he’s done lots of things that candidates do,” says campaign finance expert Ken Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: On Aug. 8 and 9, Rickaby ran through the Downtown and UW campus areas, attacking and grabbing the breasts and buttocks of women he encountered.
Their spacious, state-of-the-art home sits on the shore of one lake in Madison and offers relatively easy access to two more.
Noted: Spencer Black represented the 77th Assembly District for 26 years and was chair of the Natural Resources Committee. He currently serves as the vice president of the national Sierra Club and is an adjunct professor of urban and regional planning at UW-Madison.
Noted: Wall has been interested in development since earning an economics degree from UW-Madison in 1987. He then completed a master’s degree in real estate appraisal/investment analysis where he studied under Professor James Graaskamp, considered a leader in the field of urban land economics and risk management.
A new online masters degree is expected to be offered this fall in the fast-growing field of data science, the University of Wisconsin System announced Tuesday.
Noted: The drug Co-D is developing, called Triolimus, was developed by professor Glen Kwon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It contains three proven anti-cancer agents in a nontoxic, nanoparticle carrier, the company said. Patients with the blood vessel cancer, called angiosarcoma, have an average survival rate of less than a year.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, said the Marquette and MMAC polls were limited in different ways.
Noted: She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelors of nursing in 1977. She earned a masters in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1996.
Quoted: Whatever Marchionni’s reasons for working mainly in New York rather than the Lands End headquarters in Dodgeville, the arrangement poses issues, said Hart Posen, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Members of the Nepal Student Association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are brainstorming on how to help relatives and friends in the aftermath of the earthquake that has killed 3,700 in their home country.
With 15 spring practices in the books, Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst possesses a better handle on the football team he will lead into the 2015 season.
Where some see a tech bubble, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Sam Jacobsen sees opportunity.
When Jay Gallagher saw the first fuzzy image, he figured the camera simply needed focusing.
Noted: Students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Oregon State University; and other campuses around the country also make beer on campus.
While he’s still hurting from the defeat that ended his career with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program, there have been some moments over the past two weeks that have put a smile on the Josh Gasser’s face.
An economic recovery dominated by the creation of low-wage jobs means that the percentage of Wisconsin residents living in poverty rose in 2013 despite increases in employment, says a new report by the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison.
Police at UW-Madison are working toward becoming the latest Wisconsin law enforcement agency to equip officers with body-mounted cameras, and will hold public forums to solicit feedback on how the department should use the technology.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department has scheduled two public forums on the use of body cameras by its officers, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Tuesday.
Despite modest improvement in employment, poverty rose slightly in Wisconsin between 2012 and 2013, according to a study released Tuesday by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
A lively debate underway in Wisconsin and across the nation questions the value of public research universities to the state taxpayers who help support them. This debate indicates that many do not understand the role these universities play in driving innovation and keeping the state and U.S. competitive.
Noted: “We believe the deal flow in Wisconsin is more than sufficient,” said David Guinther, a founding member of WISC Partners, an early stage fund launched by UW-Madison graduates who made their mark in Californias Silicon Valley. “Ive seen amazing changes in our ecosystem in Wisconsin since I came back five years ago.”
One philosophical difference between Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst and his predecessor, Gary Andersen, has emerged this spring.
Quoted: Despite the UW System budget cuts now before the Legislature, he remains optimistic. As he said in December, after being named chancellor: “The best test of leadership is tough times.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will eliminate about 400 positions, most of them vacant, and will close or restructure several academic programs across campus over the next two years in response to anticipated state budget cuts, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced on her blog Friday.
