Kelly Sheffield doesn’t expect his 2016 recruiting class to be as highly ranked as his 2015 class, which was pegged No. 3 in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com.
Badgers volleyball: Top-5 recruit Molly Haggerty tops 2016 class
Wisconsin State Journal
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Badgers men’s basketball: Return to Kohl Center has Mark Vershaw feeling nostalgic
Wisconsin State Journal
It’s been nearly two decades since Mark Vershaw stood on the mound of dirt that eventually would become center court at the Kohl Center.
Badgers men’s basketball: Longtime relationship bonds Bo Ryan, associate head coach Greg Gard
Wisconsin State Journal
When University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced his retirement plans over the summer, even some in his extended basketball family were surprised by the news.
Kroger to buy Milwaukee-based Roundy’s to expand in Midwest
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison, questioned whether Kroger will keep the well-known grocery names used by Roundy’s or convert the stores to Kroger or some other brand already associated with the company.
The Badger Herald, WORT host panel discussion on student debt
Capital Times
With the average debt of Wisconsin college graduates at $28,810 last year — up 74 percent in a decade — and 70 percent of state graduates leaving college with debt, student loan debt is a hot issue.
No daily newspaper left at UW-Madison as Cardinal cuts production
Wisconsin State Journal
The Daily Cardinal plans to cut production of its print edition to two days per week, leaving UW-Madison without a daily student newspaper only a few years after the campus had two of them.
UW journalism faculty criticize Missouri prof, but not her advocacy for student protestors
Capital Times
A pair of journalism professors at University of Wisconsin-Madison joined a chorus of criticism of Melissa Click, the University of Missouri professor who blocked one student journalist from photographing protesters who forced the resignation of top university administrators, calling for “some muscle” to remove another.
Former UW artist in residence and students will march in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Capital Times
Last May, artist Laura Anderson Barbata turned downtown Madison into a giant parade, as “Strut!” brought puppets, dancers and musicians into the streets of the Capitol Square.
Jeremi Suri: We need more veterans’ voices in policy debates
Capital Times
Noted: Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown distinguished professor for global leadership, history and public policy at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the E. Gordon Fox professor of history, director of the European Union Center of Excellence, and director of the Grand Strategy Program at UW-Madison from 2007-2009, associate professor at UW-Madison from 2005-2007, and assistant professor at UW from 2001-2005.
What UW students should take away from Milwaukee’s GOP Debate
Badger Herald
Republican presidential hopefuls met for the fourth time Tuesday at the Milwaukee Theatre in a smaller, but still lively debate.
UW-Madison rewarding 20% of faculty with merit- and market-based raises
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Up to 20% of faculty in each unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive merit- and market-based pay increases this academic year as part of an effort to retain and reward excellence, the university announced Wednesday.
Durable Wildly Wald placemats add whimsy to dinner table
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Wald was born in Shorewood and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, so she said Wisconsin is a fond place. She founded the retail printing company Great Big Pictures Inc. in Madison in 1973 and returns to the state to visit relatives several times a year.
Architect Brown, green building expert Eggert honored for efforts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An architect who helped lead implementation of green building practices and the founder of a statewide sustainable business organization have won top honors from the Wisconsin affiliate of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Schuff, Craig Martin
Madison.com
Noted: He began graduate studies in 2008 at the University of Wisconsin where he was a researcher at the Fusion Technology Institute and a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering.
Fall in love with a local band Q&A: Lord of the Fly
Capital Times
Noted: Daniel Kaplan, a student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community, chose “Lord of the Fly” as his stage name because it represents “being in control of the things you think are cool or ideal,” he told The Daily Cardinal earlier this year.
Badger fan: Koch recruiting ‘in the wrong pool’ at UW-Madison
Capital Times
If Koch Industries is trying to recruit new hires at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “they’re making waves in the wrong pool,” Kyle Dunn, a Madison resident and UW alumnus, told the Wisconsin Gazette at halftime last Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Tom Oates: Interim college football coaches growing in number
Wisconsin State Journal
When the University of Wisconsin football team plays Maryland today, it will be the second time in three games Badgers coach Paul Chryst will look across the field and see a coach wearing an “interim” tag.
Radiolab producer, UW-Madison writer in residence says key to science writing is failure
Capital Times
Radiolab, an award-winning radio show and podcast based in New York City, has an unexpectedly strong tie to Madison.
Dickey Chapelle brought images of war home to Wisconsin, America
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: In the past year, the Milwaukee Press Club has worked with UW-Madison students to interview people who worked and served with Chapelle. Those interviews will become part of the historical society’s collection.
Madison Style: Finding a new home for ‘better brands’
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Before opening Simply Savvy, Dubas completed entrepreneurial training at the UW-Madison School of Business. She recognized the need and benefits of clothing consignment as a mom, when she often sold her children’s clothes at a local consignment shop. When that shop was closing, she helped the owner clear out her inventory and discovered a knack for the retail niche. The business also fits her organizational and design skills, she said.
Connecting art to social justice
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: “Racism is Highly Adaptable” consists of four large wood carvings, inspired by the carvings done by slaves that Parks Snider had read about during one of her frequent visits to the Kohler Art Library at UW-Madison.
For neighborhood next to Oscar Mayer, a fabled history gives way to an uncertain future
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The neighborhood was developed in the 1940s and today represents a remarkably preserved example of the kind of postwar, mass-produced housing that would proliferate in the following decades, according to Anna Andrzejewski, a UW-Madison professor of art history who has written about the neighborhood.
Local, national activists and adademics explore racial justice in Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The conversations also involved UW-Madison students and faculty, as well as voices from other parts of the country, including Cedric Robinson, professor in the departments of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and activist and author Jamala Rogers of St. Louis, who wrote “Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion.”
3,700 runners flock to Madison for Marathon
Daily Cardinal
Noted: Boston-area native and current UW-Madison graduate student in applied economics Greg Englehart, 23, won the marathon in 2:39:40. It was the second marathon Englehart has run after completing his undergraduate degree at Colgate University in New York, where he was a member of the track and cross country teams. He manages his busy life as a grad student by training daily at the UW Arboretum.
Ask the Weather Guys: Will this mild November weather continue?
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.
Lots of spirit, ideas to narrow achievement gap
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: UW-Madison education professor Gloria Ladson-Billings assured a crowd of well over 100 that the problem is “not insurmountable.” Most important are highly effective, fully qualified teachers. Three really good teachers in a row, she said, citing research, will pull young students out of failure.
Fall 2015 Science Writer in Residence aims to make scientific writing more approachable
Daily Cardinal
Soren Wheeler, the senior editor at Radiolab, will be on campus all week to work as UW-Madison’s Science Writer in Residence in an effort to help students improve their science writing in a new age of journalism.
Longtime UW-Whitewater dean of students dies
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Whitewater’s longtime dean of students died Friday, the university reported.
Madison Marathon: UW grad student Greg Englehart, Chicago native Jessica Bird win events
Wisconsin State Journal
Greg Englehart had a strategy for the Madison Marathon, but it didn’t take long before he realized he’d have to adjust on the fly.
Around Town: Solitary confinement crisis brought home by model cell
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The solitary confinement cell replica ties into Go Big Read, UW-Madison’s annual campuswide reading program. Organizers wanted a book this year that fit into a theme of inequality in America. Chancellor Rebecca Blank chose Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy,” which centers on race and the criminal justice system.
Blue Sky Science: How are crystals made?
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Since 2014, the UW-Madison chemistry department has been conducting crystal growing contests among high school students in the state of Wisconsin. In 2016, the contest will be for both middle and high school students.
Eli Bovarnick: Walker misplaced taxpayers’ priorities, GOP candidates can’t do the same
Capital Times
On Tuesday, an hour before the GOP presidential candidates’ debate about the economy in Milwaukee Theatre, the Milwaukee Bucks will tip-off their NBA game in the soon-to-be-replaced Bradley Center, directly across the street. As a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and for most Wisconsinites, the symbolism surrounding the debate’s location is almost too fitting.
Whitcomb Technologies wins top honors in pitch competition at Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The pitch contest capped off the Wisconsin Technology Council’s two-day conference, which drew about 575 attendees. Also at the conference, Jeff Rusinow was inducted into the Investor Hall of Fame, and Thomas “Rock” Mackie received the 2015 Excellence in Entrepreneurial Education Award. Mackie, a professor emeritus of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-founded Healthmyne and TomoTherapy Inc.
Federal department awarded Badgers $170,000 to host patriotic events, report reveals
Badger Herald
According to a report released Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Defense spent $6.8 million on sports marketing contracts since 2012.
Community members voice concerns on UW Extension mission change
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin Board of Regents gathered Thursday to listen to public opinion on UW Extension’s mission change, which includes granting special degrees in business and management to “nontraditional” students in Wisconsin and beyond.
Desbiens receives WCHA Defensive Player of the Month honors
NBC-15
After receiving two consecutive WCHA Defensive Player of the week nods, Wisconsin women’s hockey netminder Ann-Renée Desbiens was named the WCHA Defensive Player of the Month, announced by the conference on Thursday.
What does the future hold for manufacturing in WI?
NBC-15
Quoted: “Madison lost out on this one,” Steven Deller said.Deller teaches Agriculture and Applied Economics at UW and he says this week’s job loss could be a sign where this state is going.”I think the days of big manufacturing plants that employ thousands of people in Wisconsin are limited,” he said.
UW scientists travel to Antarctica to study planet’s past, present, future
WISC-TV 3
Karin Swanson found a group of UW scientists willing to go to the ends of the Earth to find clues into the planet’s past, present and future.
Group raising funds to open monkey sanctuary
WISC-TV 3
Noted: The Portage Daily Register reported that Amy Kerwin founded Primates Inc. after seeing the need for monkey sanctuaries more than a decade ago in her work in the primate lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She got to know 97 research monkeys and learned there were no plans to retire them.
UW-Madison students balance training and schoolwork in preparation for Madison Marathon
Daily Cardinal
Students across the UW-Madison campus have juggled many different responsibilities in preparing for the Madison Marathon that will take place this Sunday.
Department of Workforce Development, Madison College team up to help displaced Oscar Mayer workers
Badger Herald
Quoted: Oscar Mayer has not confirmed what type of severance packages or benefits they will provide to the displaced workers, Barry Gerhart, University of Wisconsin professor of management and human resources, said. But regardless of the compensation, the closure will be a major challenge for displaced employees.
Alex Kulstad: UW-Madison should make WisCard valid for voting
Capital Times
Dear Editor: UW-Madison is home to upwards of 40,000 students, all of whom play a crucial role in our local government. However, a great number of UW-Madison students are not from Wisconsin. In fact, UW-Madison is expected to increase its number of out-of-state students. On balance, having out-of-state students is a good thing for the university and for the state. It increases diversity, contributes to a growing and talented workforce, and improves the social and economic fabric of our community and state. However, this does not come without unintended consequences, specifically the challenge many students have in participating in our great democracy through the electoral process.
Badgers men’s basketball: Eligibility issue sidelines freshman Andy Van Vliet
Wisconsin State Journal
Freshman Andy Van Vliet did not dress for Wednesday night’s game while a pending eligibility issue is resolved.
Forum at Edgewood College to explore achievement gaps
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Panelists will include: Gloria Ladson-Billings, faculty member in the UW-Madison School of Education.
Venture capitalists nod to Epic Systems, UW-Madison for Madison’s burgeoning startup scene
Capital Times
Venture capitalists are optimistic about Madison’s future as a startup hub, according to a panel of experts speaking at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium on Wednesday.
Food manufacturing jobs dropped 40 percent in Dane County between 2001 and 2014
Capital Times
Noted: In an October 2014 report on the area’s agriculture, food and beverage industry cluster prepared for the Madison Region Economic Partnership, Matt Kures of the UW Extension Center for Community and Economic Development wrote that a loss in food manufacturing employment was a result of changes at individual companies rather than declining regional competitiveness.
Chancellor Blank elected to Internet2 Board
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank was elected to the Internet2 Board of Trustees this week, a panel made up of various university presidents, chief information officers, researchers and industry partners.
Report: Badgers, Packers, Brewers among recipients of military’s ‘paid patriotism’
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brewers have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Wisconsin Army National Guard for ceremonies honoring soldiers and their families, renditions of “God Bless America” and other military promotions, according to a report from two senators who deride the marketing strategy as “paid patriotism.”
Badgers volleyball: UW players love interaction with courtside kids
Wisconsin State Journal
The 1997 season was something of a watershed for the University of Wisconsin volleyball program. The Badgers posted a 30-3 record, advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight for the first time and shared the Big Ten Conference championship, beginning a five-year run that would include three titles.
Film festival seeks to broaden understanding of the world
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: It’s all part of the environment that is being explored at this weekend’s Tales from Planet Earth Film Festival, a collection of international films that thematically explore the concept of “environment.” It’s hosted by the Center for Culture, History and Environment at UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Oscar Mayer plant’s height could have been its undoing, union leader says
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW School of Business professor Robert Krainer said he thinks more than a consolidation, the changes represent a contraction. “They are producing a product that fewer and fewer people are consuming,” he said.
Airbnb flexes new political muscle with plans for 100 home-sharing clubs
USA Today
Quoted: New technologies such as “sharing economy” companies such as Airbnb and Uber tend to create windows of opportunity for new business models during which the old regulatory regime no longer fits and new regulations will be needed, said Hart Posen, a professor of business at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Paul Ryan’s speakership could pose some risks back home
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “It does mean Paul Ryan (as speaker) needs to continue to pay attention to the district,” says political scientist David Canon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If Ryan is “painted into a corner” by conservatives in his caucus, “that might not play very well back home,” says Canon.
Exact Sciences scraps downtown Madison plan in favor of research park
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Exact Sciences Corp. is stepping away from plans to build a new headquarters in downtown Madison and is in discussions with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a biotech campus in University Research Park on the city’s west side instead.
UW-Madison chancellor seeks to reassure faculty on tenure policy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It won’t happen as quickly as hoped, but University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday she expects the UW System and its campuses will end up with a new tenure policy that offers the same protections as what the governing body of the flagship campus unanimously endorsed Monday.
Voter ID foes strike out again
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Perhaps the ACLU should pick a new target. Say, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which refuses to make the changes necessary to make its student ID cards acceptable for voting, despite a joint request to do so from the College Democrats and College Republicans.
UW patent and licensing arm forges partnership to boost new companies
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patenting and licensing arm for the state’s flagship university, will announce Tuesday that it is partnering with gener8tor to produce more start-ups out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Tom Still – State’s health-tech start-up sector recovering nicely
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A prime example is the ongoing 90th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Founded in 1925 as an independent patent and licensing office for the University of Wisconsin, WARF began with the campus discovery that ultraviolet radiation can produce vitamin D in food. That led to vitamin D milk and the virtual end to rickets, a disease that once scourged millions of children. Today, WARF is the oldest academic tech transfer organization of its kind in the United States and has returned more than $1 billion over time to the UW-Madison campus.
How To Attract New Talent To Your Practice
Trust Advisor
Noted: Hoping to nab young talent even earlier, Baird is also working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school on the curriculum for a capstone wealth management course to launch this fall. Their goal is to sign up 20 to 30 students.
Madison-made device gives the blind more independence
WISC-TV 3
Noted: About 30 years ago, Jones was involved in a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a device that processed images and used vibrating pins on a fingertip to translate that image to a person who can’t see. The machine wasn’t mobile, but it was the start of what would become the BrainPort v100.