Higher education observers across the nation are watching this week as the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee takes up funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
Quoted: So how can you be a better health care consumer? Justin Sydnor, one of the researchers and an economist at the University of Wisconsin business school, suggests the dreaded school math-class crucible: the story problem. First consider how much you expect to spend on health care. Then calculate whether your total payments would be higher with a low-deductible plan or a high-deductible plan. Asking people to compare premiums with out-of-pocket expenses helped set his research subjects on the right course.
The Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip with 35 UW-Madison student leaders rolled into the Chippewa Valley Friday to learn from successful entrepreneurs.
Noted: Moulton wrote in his column that the sportsmens caucus met with Majid Sarmadi, a textiles expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said Sarmadi conducted experiments on blaze pink and blaze orange visibility and concluded that blaze pink clothing is equally visible or more visible to the human eye than blaze orange.
Noted: Dudzik graduated from Hamilton High School and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Waukesha and Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Animals go extinct, places too. And stories change.
Quoted: Doug Laube, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physician and past president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said the women involved in these situations want to be pregnant but find out midway through their pregnancies that there are serious problems.
Noted: Those companies, and other prospective employers, look for areas with highly educated populations, something the University of Wisconsin-Madison students, employees and graduates help provide.
Noted: Those companies, and other prospective employers, look for areas with highly educated populations, something the University of Wisconsin-Madison students, employees and graduates help provide.
So you want to see Brett Favre scamper around a football field one more time?
A year after using cutting-edge DNA analysis to identify the remains of an American soldier mistakenly buried with the enemy after World War II, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday it will put its expertise in history, archaeology and forensic and genetic analysis behind the U.S. government’s tedious efforts to identify and recover other missing service members.
A liberal advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Scott Walker over records related to his administrations attempt to alter the Wisconsin Idea, which has guided the mission of the states public higher education system for more than a century.
Noted: Irwin Shadbolt Purtell was born in Milwaukee on May 21, 1936, and earned an economics degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His fathers business was real estate, but Wins interests were in the stock markets, dogs, the outdoors and he even moonlighted for many years as a weekend farmer in rural Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison held its spring commencement ceremony Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Something was missing from the heated debate over the proposed new University of Wisconsin authority and $300 million budget cut for the UW system. The UW leaders have been on a public relations blitz. Layoffs have been threatened. Billions of dollars of economic impact have been claimed.
When Nitia Johnson and her boyfriend moved to Madison, she didn’t know a soul. But she knew she wanted a better life.
Noted: Marc V. Levine is professor of history, economic development, and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Noted: Noah Williams is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and National Wildlife Health Center in Madison have reported that bats with white-nose syndrome use twice as much energy in hibernation as healthy bats.
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.
