University of Wisconsin campuses handed out more than 80% of the hourly pay raises awarded this year under the states merit pay program to employees such as custodians, information services workers and food service administrators.
Two University of Wisconsin buildings will be without water until Monday after a water main broke Sunday morning, according to a campus alert.
Noted: What started as a casual conversation with University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Lalita du Perron — the guest speaker who caught her attention — turned into a cause that spurred Dogra to film a documentary that was shown at the Milwaukee Film Festival in the fall. Earlier this month, on the anniversary of the tragedy, Dogra organized a dinner in Milwaukee that drew 180 people and raised $15,000.
Before Barry Alvarez could return to the sideline for his second stint as Wisconsins interim head coach, he had to fill the role of counselor.
Running truck convoys through the wilds of Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew Stoppenbach drove on roads that resembled rocky trails and desert paths where blowing sand, deep ruts and searing heat took a toll on vehicles and troops.
A water main break in Madison has left two buildings on the UW-Madison campus without water at least until Monday.
When Gary Andersen was late to the meeting room — an unusual occurrence — several of Wisconsins seniors decided to engage in some humor.
For more than a decade, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have tracked hundreds of state residents with a family history of Alzheimers disease, collecting information about everything from their dietary and exercise habits to whats inside their brains, blood and genes.
Noted: The incident occurred at 12:17 a.m. at Equinox Apartments, 409 W. Gorham St., a complex where many University of Wisconsin-Madison students rent units.
“The Sweet Scientists” from the University of Wisconsin-Madison claimed a cool million dollars in the final of “The Amazing Race,” which aired Friday night on CBS-TV.
The oldest tree on the University of Wisconsins Madison campus, beloved by some of its youngest students, is coming down.
Quoted: “I think its going to be a gangbusters Saturday,” said Jerry OBrien, director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Im very confident it will be bigger than Black Friday.”
Noted: ComScore Inc., of Reston, Va., said in August it had purchased MdotLabs, co-founded by Paul Barford, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor. Twitter last year bought Locomatix Inc., a company started by Jingnesh Patel, a UW-Madison computer science professor.
Noted: Steve Carell is getting serious awards-season buzz for his performance as du Pont, as are Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as the Schultz brothers, with Ruffalo, a Kenosha native, playing Dave, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach who winds up at odds with du Pont over how his brothers career is being steered.
Noted: The Audit Bureau says tips cover a wide variety of topics including the use of parking fees and fines at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, difficulty filing unemployment insurance claims and welfare fraud.
The director of a group that advocates for religious and private schools was named Thursday as the new lobbyist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison at a salary 14 percent higher than his predecessors.
David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist who was named by UK Wired Magazine as one of 50 people who will change the world, is leaving his post as director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at UW-Madison.
After practice ended Thursday morning, four University of Wisconsin football players gathered around their new coach.
When new University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst said Wednesday the offense he ran during his three seasons at Pitt was basically the same as the one he ran as UW’s offensive coordinator before that, it was music to the ears of several Badgers.
Paul Chryst has secured perhaps the most important piece of his staff.
Long before the tract of land next to Lake Mendota became the University of Wisconsin, an acorn embedded itself in the soil not far from some burial mounds created by the original occupants of the land.
Students going to UW-Madison are getting their money’s worth.
Noted: It’s a familiar path for Cusatis, 24. He founded the Badger Brewing Association when he was an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a way to bring together students, professors, brewmasters and other beer professionals for lectures, tastings and camaraderie.
Noted: We have seen a dramatic cultural shift since 1984. Nowhere has this been more evident than at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Back then, few researchers were entrepreneurially minded, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation WARF refused to license its patents to start-ups and most students aspired to find secure career paths in large companies. We had to seek permission from the chancellor to help organize a campus seminar on entrepreneurship, a process that took more than a year. There were no buildings in the University Research Park.
With 42 starts on his Wisconsin résumé, former offensive lineman John Moffitt understands as well as anyone what Paul Chryst brings to a football program.
Paul Chryst, 49, returns to UW after three seasons as the head coach at Pittsburgh, where he compiled a 19-19 record. The announcement came as excitement to most, including current and former UW players, Pittsburgh players and fans. Here is some of their reaction.
In the early 1990s, Robin Chryst was a newlywed working as a pharmacist in Racine when her husband, Paul Chryst, took a coaching job with the San Antonio Riders of the World League of American Football.
After seeing Wisconsin slump to a 7-6 finish in 2008, a season marred by subpar quarterback play, then-redshirt junior Scott Tolzien knew someone had to emerge and lead the offense.
Meet Wisconsin’s new head football coach and homecoming king: Paul Chryst.
Noted: The company — which was formed in June by Peter Qian, a statistics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — will use the proceeds for research, development and general corporate purposes, according to the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Imagine a football helmet with brain wave probes and a device that measures acceleration forces to detect concussions on the field and directly communicate the information to medical staff.
No matter how well he plays against Auburn in the 2015 Outback Bowl, redshirt junior tailback Melvin Gordon will leave Wisconsin as one of the most decorated tailbacks in the history of the program.
With 42 starts on his Wisconsin résumé, former offensive lineman John Moffitt understands as well as anyone what Paul Chryst brings to a football program.
It’s almost cruel to talk about sweet corn in December. But then, it does give us one more reason to look ahead past winter.
Paul Chryst, who was born in Madison and was a player and coach at Wisconsin, appears to be hours away from being named the 30th head coach in the history of the program.
Quoted: But a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor, who specializes in income inequality and poverty issues, criticized the presentation of the index as misleading.”Those types of statistics have been around for a while,” said Steven Durlauf.
Appearing in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday to promote the Jan. 2 Armed Forces Bowl, University of Pittsburgh football coach Paul Chryst declined the opportunity to say he will remain at the school.
Noted: Virent is a spinout from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The company is attempting to commercialize the processes that produce a plant-based substitute for transportation fuels and chemicals that are now derived from oil.
Noted: A growing number of law school clinics for entrepreneurs have formed during the last decade, said Anne Smith, co-founder and co-director of the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On the day he was introduced as Oregon States head football coach, Gary Andersen had two opportunities to disparage Wisconsins program and athletic director Barry Alvarez.
One day after the Journal Sentinel reported former Wisconsin assistant Paul Chryst is poised to return to his alma mater and replace Gary Andersen as football coach, UW officials denied any candidate has been offered the job.
Although Wisconsin officials must wait until at least Wednesday to announce the hiring of a new football coach — expected to be former UW assistant and current Pittsburgh head coach Paul Chryst — potential assistants for the new staff are coming into focus.
Melvin Gordon still remembers the 2012 season.
Wisconsin’s chances of retaining wide receivers coach Chris Beatty improved Sunday. According to FootballScoop.com, wide receivers coach Brent Brennan will be retained at Oregon State by new head coach Gary Andersen, who was lured away from the Badgers last Wednesday.
Noted: StartingBlocks goal is to accelerate the expanding entrepreneurial activity that is happening as more University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates and former Epic Systems employees choose to stay in Madison, said George Austin, a former city of Madison planner who has been tapped to manage the StartingBlock project.
Hundreds of demonstrators chanting “black lives matter” staged a march at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Sunday night that also included a “die-in” at a popular undergraduate library packed with students studying for finals this week.
Melvin Gordon has studied video of Wisconsins 59-0 loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten title game several times.
Wisconsin tailback Melvin Gordon isn’t expected to win the Heisman Trophy.
Noted: The chemicals, customarily derived from petroleum, are instead sourced from beet sugars in the Virent process. Virent is a technology company founded more than a decade ago and spun out from the chemistry labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Data suggests that binge drinking at University of Wisconsin-Madison is probably worse than at other universities across the country, the Badger Herald reports.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez wasted little time in identifying, pursuing and securing a head coach to replace Gary Andersen.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police this fall issued twice as many underage drinking warnings and citations as last fall with the launch of a new program aimed at curbing dangerous drinking among freshmen, Police Chief Susan Riseling said in a year-in-review report posted on the departments Facebook page.
As expected, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez is returning to the sideline. Again.
Imagine, for a moment, that Wisconsin had a wholly uncontroversial program that allowed low-income students to use a state voucher to attend the private, religious school of their choice. And imagine this program wasnt constantly under attack by public school employees; instead, it is recognized as simply another option allowing flexibility for students and their families.
A battery researcher whos spent time at Rayovac and in academia will lead energy storage research efforts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Deyang Qu will start in January as the Johnson Controls endowed professor in energy storage research at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the company and university are announcing Thursday. He also will be affiliated with the Wisconsin Energy Institute at UW-Madison.
Melvin Gordon finally publicly revealed what everyone associated with the Wisconsin football program has known for months:Gordon plans to enter the 2015 National Football League draft.
Gary Andersen became a trending topic nationally Wednesday afternoon when he left Wisconsin to become the head coach at Oregon State.
Noted: In July, authorities announced the discovery of Asian crazy worm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Since then its popped up in spots across the state, including multiple locations in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties.
For the second time in less than three years, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez is faced with finding a new head football coach and deciding whether to take on the role of interim head coach for a bowl game.
Noted: Stanley caught the journalism bug early, winning an Associated Press sportswriting contest that a teacher had entered him in at Abbot Pennings High School in De Pere. He studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and started his career at the Lake Geneva Regional News, Ducks Unlimited magazine and the Wichita Kan. Eagle. Stanley returned to Wisconsin in 1989 as a state reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel.
