During Melvin Gordons freshman year at Wisconsin, then-teammate Montee Ball noted the graduate of Kenosha Bradford High School had more talent than any running back on the UW roster.
Melvin Gordon named Heisman finalist
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Gundersen Health energy independence efforts aim for better environment
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Quoted: Thompson is showing “the moral case for doing things right as a business leader,” said Eggert, a professor of sustainable business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The budget tool Gov. Scott Walker should not use
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Wisconsin yet again faces mounting budget deficit projections. The danger is that Gov. Scott Walker will now sell off the publics property to fill the fiscal potholes created by his tax policies. Chanting the GOP refrain of “lower tax rates good, higher tax rates bad” as if it were a magic incantation, he seemed to believe Arthur Laffers infamous cocktail napkin “Laffer Curve” depicting lower tax rates delivering higher tax revenues.
How taking a small business risk creates rewards
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Quoted: Self-employment increases household consumption by 8% over a 10-year period, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant business professor Sarada, who uses only one name.
Marquette may soon decide whether to form own police force
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Noted: The university began exploring the possibility in earnest in recent months after the Legislature approved a pathway for the creation of a police force for Marquette similar to those maintained at public schools including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and UW-Madison.
Buckeyes demolish Badgers to win Big Ten title
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Wisconsin fans have seen this type of mismatch in the Big Ten title game.
Badgers will play Auburn in the Outback Bowl Jan. 1 in Tampa
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As the Wisconsin players and coaches left their locker room Saturday night, the 59-0 thrashing at the hands of Ohio State hovering over them, everyone tried to turn their attention to the upcoming bowl game.
UWs Cross says system will launch cost-savings measures
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Sweeping cost-saving measures are on the horizon for the University of Wisconsin System and its campuses that could affect everything from how student fees and capital projects are approved to how many credits are required to graduate.
UW System campuses at odds over engineering program additions
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A dispute is brewing between University of Wisconsin System campuses that have comprehensive engineering programs and campuses in northwestern Wisconsin that want to add engineering programs due to demand from businesses in that part of the state.
UW’s Kyle Costigan shares a moment with his mom
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The last week has brought tears of joy and smiles to the face of fifth-year senior offensive lineman Kyle Costigan.
Duke 80, Wisconsin 70 – Hot-shooting Duke too much for Badgers
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Youth trumped experience Wednesday night at the Kohl Center.Led by sensational freshmen Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor, No. 4 Duke outplayed No. 2 Wisconsin for most of the night and secured an 80-70 victory in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
Badgers basketball fans warned of counterfeit game tickets
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Basketball fans hoping to attend the game between the Wisconsin Badgers and the Duke Blue Devils on Wednesday are being warned against purchasing counterfeit tickets.
Melvin Gordon named Big Ten running back of the year
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Wisconsin redshirt junior tailback Melvin Gordon, a graduate of Kenosha Bradford High School, on Monday was named the Big Ten’s Ameche-Dayne running back of the year.
Former UW Badger standout and twin brother arrested in series of armed robberies
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A former University of Wisconsin Badgers football standout out and his brother have been arrested as suspects in a series of armed robberies in Madison and Middleton.
Wisconsin herbarium uncovers plant from field of Civil War battle
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As men in blue and gray uniforms fell dead and artillery shells whistled overhead, Capt. John Cornelius McMullen noticed a flower growing outside his tent while his unit laid siege to Atlanta.
Wisconsin 34, Minnesota 24 – Badgers advance to Big Ten title game after beating Gophers
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If anyone can find a college football team more resilient than Wisconsin, please let UW coach Gary Andersen know.
Mystery solved: Badgers photo was from 1953 game vs. Penn State
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A few weeks ago, we resurrected an old photo from our archives of a University of Wisconsin Badgers football game from more than 60 years ago but didnt have much more info on that game other than what could be deduced from the image.
Cranberries get new, lower-calorie treatment, thanks to UW graduate
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Perhaps youve heard about all the flak The New York Times food staff received last week for publishing its “United States of Thanksgiving,” a state-by-state collection of Turkey Day recipes.
Rose Bowl Parade float to carry message from Laylah Petersen’s family
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Noted: The Blood Center of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the only two organ procurement organizations in the state and are among the 58 organizations in the country.
UW’s Michael Caputo stays in despite hit
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Michael Caputo had no intention of taking himself out of the Wisconsin lineup.
Schimel names business lobbyist as top aide
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Noted: Also on the transition team are Ave Bie, a managing partner at the Quarles & Brady law firm and a former chairwoman of the state Public Service Commission; former Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael Brennan; Mark Cameli, a member of the board of law firm Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren; former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow; Brian OKeefe, the director of law enforcement services for Van Hollen; and Raymond Taffora, vice chancellor for legal affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former deputy to Van Hollen and former Gov. Tommy Thompson.
Procedures altered for awarding axe after Wisconsin-Minnesota game
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If Minnesota defeats Wisconsin on Saturday to secure the Big Ten West Division title, the Gophers will not have the pleasure of sprinting across the Camp Randall Stadium field to the UW sideline to take back Paul Bunyans Axe.
Rivalry recalled: UW and Minnesota last played for Big Ten title 52 years ago
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Pat Richter hasnt forgotten the last time Wisconsin and Minnesota both had legitimate championship aspirations when they met on the football field.
Your Views
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Noted: I am all for research, but the column I read in the Journal Sentinel about two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison being awarded a grant of $1.6 million in the first year and a recommended total of $7.7 million over five years to study the brain action of sleeping fruit flies and mice really irritated me “Are sleep studies a wake-up call?”
Northwestern Mutual uses tower construction as teaching tool
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Noted: Students in the Master Class — who hail from Marquette, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UW-Madison, the Milwaukee School of Engineering, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and Mount Mary University — arent the only ones to get in on the ground floor, or even lower, of the project.
Melvin Gordon disappointed to lose single-game rushing record
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LaDainian Tomlinsons FBS Football Bowl Subdivision single-game rushing record, shattered one week earlier by Wisconsins Melvin Gordon, lasted 15-plus seasons.Gordon held the record, 408 yards on 25 carries against Nebraska, for one week.
Only a little cheesy: How Scott Walker hams it up on Twitter
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Noted: The Badger Herald, one of the student papers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had some fun collecting some of the many tweets Walker has sent out about — ham.
Under pressure, Wisconsin universities boost response to campus sex assaults
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On a crisp fall evening, dozens of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students rallied in the streets for Take Back the Night, the annual march to protest sexual and domestic violence.
UW-Madison journalism student dies over weekend
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A University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student died over the weekend, the Daily Cardinal is reporting.
Madison company, Northwestern researchers move toward rebuilding an organ with manufactured cells
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Cellular Dynamics International, which has used the cell-reprogramming techniques of University of Wisconsin – Madison scientist James Thomson to manufacture large quantities of human cells, has taken a first step toward the ability to rebuild an actual organ.
Sorbet a sweet palate cleanser
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I spent three days at the University of Wisconsin Madisons Center for Dairy Research tasting cheese — at least 80 different kinds.
14 years after fatal shooting, an embrace of forgiveness
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Noted: Imani and Smith held one another in an emotional embrace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School on Tuesday — a reunion brokered by the law schools Restorative Justice Project.
Group that sued Harvard, UNC over admissions says UW-Madison could be next
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More than 100 applicants who were denied admission to Wisconsins flagship public university have contacted a legal group that sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina Monday over affirmative action practices, the groups director said Tuesday.
UW-Madison ranks in top 10 for students studying abroad
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For the eighth consecutive year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked among the top 10 U.S. universities and colleges in the number of students who study abroad in the latest annual Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange released Monday.
Collaboration among states key to jobs growth
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Quoted: “We are only going to move forward if we can work together. And we are already collaborating on a number of fronts,” UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told a conference crowd. “If you are going to have a state and a region filled with entrepreneurs and innovators, you have to have a university close by. Universities are also idea factories.”
Wisconsin 59, Nebraska 24 – Melvin Gordon breaks FBS single-game rushing record with 408 yards
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After four consecutive bowl losses, including three in the Rose Bowl, a disappointing finish to Gary Andersens first season as Wisconsins coach and an ugly meltdown in the 2014 opener against LSU, UW fans pined for a signature victory.
Melvin Gordon’s amazing day fuels Heisman talk
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This is why Melvin Gordon put the National Football League on hold and returned to Wisconsin for one final season.
UW-Madison police play along, take on Fake Bo Pelini on Twitter
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During Saturdays Badgers game, the University of Wisconsin-Madison police force showed up in a big way — on Twitter.
Report questions rigor of teacher training programs
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Noted: Of 13 programs evaluated in Wisconsin, four — Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Stout — met the rigor standard.
UW shoots for another Final Four
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Lofty preseason rankings, appearances on the cover of national magazines and constant talk of a second consecutive trip to the Final Four have neither expanded the egos nor dulled the drive of Bo Ryan’s players.
Frank Kaminsky shows his dance moves on the court
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Our UW basketball season preview Sunday was on Frank Kaminsky the basketball player – and the goofball.
Cellectar Biosciences narrows 3Q loss
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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 earlier this year.
UW-Madison’s Henry Sapoznik among 2014 Forward 50
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Henry Sapoznik, who heads the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is featured in the Jewish Daily Forwards 2014 list of newsworthy and notable American Jews.
African-American traditions reborn in doula training program
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Noted: “It was just a lot more peaceful, relaxed,” said Sahar Mahdi of Milwaukee, who has a nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and gave birth to two of her three sons with midwives. “The body could just do what it was intended to do.”
Nebraskas Ameer Abdullah should be ready to face friend Melvin Gordon
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When Melvin Gordon slips on his Wisconsin uniform and steps onto the Camp Randall Stadium field Saturday he expects to see a close friend on the opposite sideline:Nebraska tailback Ameer Abdullah.
WARF grants license, takes stake in biotech company Xylome
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The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the technology transfer arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has granted a license to and taken a stake in Xylome Corp., a privately-held Madison biotech company.
Kettle of Fish a slice of Wisconsin in NYC
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In a city of 8.4 million, the Kettle of Fish can be an escape to Wisconsin, just a subway-ride away.
Designer’s apartment is all about the lighting
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Noted: Q. You have a degree in interior design from UW-Madison, but lighting design is your specialty. How did you get involved in lighting?
A. When I was in college I heard about an internship at a lighting studio in Madison, and it was the only paid internship that was being offered at the time.
Court rejects UW students claim to in-state tuition
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An Illinois native who says shes now a Wisconsinite for life has lost another round in her effort to pay in-state tuition for graduate school in Madison.
Badgers goofy giant Kaminsky making most of his time in Madison
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Tailback Corey Clement was strolling through the Wisconsin campus last fall when he encountered a stranger, a towering stranger with an elongated face, droopy eyes and a passive persona.
Gov. Scott Walker’s ambitions, and what it means for us
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Noted: He also should keep a watchful eye on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., the statewide economic development agency that faltered badly on his watch during his first term; push for a larger state venture capital fund $25 million is paltry; advocate for better alignment between the jobs that exist and the training workers need; push the University of Wisconsin System to be more focused on entrepreneurs; and commit to developing a true alternative campus to UW-Madison in Milwaukee, the industrial center of the state.
Badgers cornerback Derrick Tindal mourns loss of his mother
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The text no one wanted to receive came Tuesday night from the phone of Wisconsin cornerbacks coach Ben Strickland.
UW researchers win multi-million dollar grant for sleep study
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Two researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison have been awarded a five-year, multi-million dollar federal grant to study the brain activity of fruit flies and mice during sleep.
UW researcher is one of five female scientists in the U.S. to receive special fellowship
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Katie Brenner, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin – Madison who is developing ways to help the early diagnosis of illnesses in premature infants, has been selected for one of five Women in Science Fellowships across the country.
After football, new careers bring Mark Tauscher home
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Noted: When he was released nine months later by the Green Bay Packers, it marked the end of one of the great football stories and careers of anyone to come out of the state of Wisconsin, after three years of varsity at Auburndale High School, five years at the University of Wisconsin after walking on, and 11 years with the Packers as a seventh-round draft pick.
UW System Board of Regents President Emeritus remembered
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Board of Regents President Emeritus Michael Spector passed away from complications with cancer Friday at the age of 74, according to UW System spokesperson Heather LaRoi.
Badger’s Frank Kaminsky named preseason All-American
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Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky is now a member of a small and elite basketball fraternity.
Bostik holding global innovation gathering in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa
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Noted: The Wauwatosa office was chosen because it was already doing research into hot-melt adhesives and because of a strong talent pool, including the chemical engineering program at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison Halloween partying leads to busy night at detox center
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Halloween weekend was relatively safe in Madison, but the detox center was already filled to capacity by 6 p.m. Saturday, an hour before the gates opened for the annual Freakfest costume party and music festival on State St., according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Police.
Hans Schneider made the study of intricate math a winning equation
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Its a good thing Hans Schneider didnt listen to detractors of linear algebra, a once-obscure field the research mathematician from the University of Wisconsin-Madison devoted his life to reviving.