University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone told faculty, staff and students at a campus forum Thursday that he remains bullish and confident about the future, though realities of the new state budget will make the next two years “immensely challenging.”
An outspoken University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is under fire for finding future Badgers on Twitter and allegedly harassing them — as well as for comparing Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler.
Noted: Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist specializing in Venus at the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Space Science and Engineering Center, shared his views on the mission and the ongoing debate about whether Pluto still counts as a planet.
Traveling through time, talking to animals, and saving the day — they’re all video game staples.
Madison Police are investigating an attempted sexual assault on a bike path near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, according to a crime warning posted on the campus police department’s Facebook page.
A new study by two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students examined the impact of violent video games, finding that they can relieve stress, but boost aggression.
Vacant job openings will remain unfilled, and some staff cuts are coming, as the result of a reduction in state spending for the University of Wisconsin Extension.
As he prepared to kick off his presidential campaign, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed the state budget Sunday after using his veto powers to excise grants for conservation groups and a provision that would have given payday lenders new authority.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to come up with the millions of dollars needed to keep the Wisconsin Energy Institute — a hub for UW energy research — operating.
The BerbeeWalsh Foundation has comitted $300,000 over five years to create a protyping program for creation of clinical devices with the University of Wisconsin-Madison clinicians, students and the Morgridge Advanced Fabrication Laboratory.
With just a few minutes to midnight, Senate Republicans passed the two-year $72.7 billion state budget Tuesday after voting to repeal salary minimums for workers on local government projects but abandon proposals that would have gutted the state’s open records law.
Greg Gard or the field?
The final budget numbers that University of Wisconsin campuses have been dreading for months were released late Monday, prompting a mad scramble on campuses to figure out the winners and losers.
Noted: School of the Arts at Rhinelander, offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies, features nearly 40 three-day workshops in visual arts, culinary arts, mind/body/spirit, performing arts, and writing. This is the event’s 52nd year of fostering creativity and camaraderie in the Northwoods.
Quoted: Bassam Shakhashiri, professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been sharing what he calls “the joy of science” for decades as he gives demonstrations of the chemistry behind fireworks each year on the Memorial Union Terrace at the university.
Noted: Neren figured out many of those things while running Munchie Delivery, an on-demand grocery delivery service that operates out of Capitol Centre Market in Madison, Vosseller said. Neren started Munchie Delivery in 2006, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a history degree.
Seeing a group of reporters waiting, Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan moved gingerly down the main concourse at the Kohl Center.
Noted: Shine, whose technology was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in the process of building a $100 million production facility in Janesville. The company raised $2.4 million in September in a funding round it called a stepping stone to raising more funds to get the plant up and running.
With more voices joining the highly charged debate over tenure protections in the University of Wisconsin System, it has become increasingly clear that at least in education circles, what’s happening here is perceived as a bellwether for public universities across the country.
Is Greg Gard adequately prepared to take over the Wisconsin men’s basketball program when Bo Ryan retires after the 2015-16 season?
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.
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.
Josh Gasser can’t help feeling like he hit the rewind button and landed back in 2009.
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.
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.
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.
By the time the letter arrived at the Schreiner home in Lancaster, their son was dead.
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, a retailer selling University of Wisconsin-Madison apparel and gifts, plans to open its first permanent metro Milwaukee location at Brookfield Square this fall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
We are currently earning our doctorates in economics at universities in California and Massachusetts, but we left our hearts in Wisconsin.
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.
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.
Women seeking relief from menopause with hormone replacement can breathe a sigh of relief — and perhaps wear a bigger smile, too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Noted: Wundrock, a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy, acquired Wisconsin Pharmacal in the early 1970s.
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.”
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.
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.
Technically, Nicholas Smith’s title is simply “associate outreach specialist” in the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
