Noted: Haupt is a University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing and management graduate who directed regional operations and sales for The Onion. Bartlett also worked for The Onion, was assistant general manager of the Mallards baseball team in Madison, and most recently was a national account executive at Adams Outdoor Advertising.
Former Wisconsin and Kansas offensive lineman Brad Thorson declared in a blog post on the Fourth of July that he is gay.
A fisherman is credited with rescuing an intoxicated man trying to swim across Lake Mendota.University of Wisconsin-Madison police say firefighters, paramedics and divers responded to the lake near the Porter boathouse about 7 p.m. Monday on a report of a man in the water calling for help.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child?s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion.
Noted: Christensen has had ownership roles in seven clinics across the state and in Michigan and has practiced in many others. Christensen was a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for decades and taught students to perform abortions in his clinic in Madison. He said the medical community, though not always inclusive, accepted and appreciated his practice.
As anyone who has been online since Tuesday knows, Team USA goalie Tim Howard can save Bambi, Blockbuster Video and singer Taylor Swift from Kanye West. He?s even been dubbed the Secretary of Defense.
Noted: David Wallinga, M.D., is director of Healthy Food Action, a network of 15,000 health professionals trying to make health the future of food and farming. Gerald Ryan, M.D., is medical director of University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It?s only fitting that a college town would host an annual demonstration of the science of fireworks on the Fourth of July.University of Wisconsin-Madison chemist and stage master Bassam Shakhashiri has entertained and enlightened the public for decades at standing-room-only demonstrations, which are free and do not require tickets.
The state has hired seven firms to help it analyze whether to sell an array of state properties, including a former governor?s mansion, a workshop for the blind, a shuttered school for juvenile offenders and plants that supply heating and cooling to state facilities.
Six new massive open online courses, or MOOCS, on topics ranging from the relationship between climate change and public health to Shakespeare?s dramas will be offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting in 2015, the university announced Tuesday.
Quoted: Some of the growth in hot spot locations has been fueled by more people working in nontraditional settings, including freelance contractors who hang out at coffee shops with a laptop computer and mobile phone as their office tools.If you can work like that, it might as well be in a place with good coffee and food, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About half of all young adults are struggling to achieve financial security in their transition from college to adulthood and are continuing to rely on family for financial support, despite being employed full-time, according to the latest report from a longitudinal study.
Noted: A former DRS Power executive, Alan Perlstein, is the executive director of the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium, a nonprofit group that includes energy, power and control companies and research institutions such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Marquette University.
Noted: O?Brien is an academic, an epidemiologist with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Menzie Chinn, a professor of Public Affairs and Economics at UW-Madison, recently looked into whether Governor Walker?s pro-business policies spurred employment growth. As we all remember, Walker claimed that his tax cuts and his dismantling of public sector unions would lead to an employment boom for Wisconsin. But as Chinn?s data shows, Walker?s policies have done nothing to improve job growth. The rate of growth when Walker took office in 2011 was 1.3%, and now after three years of his policies being in effect, the rate is still at 1.3% and weaker than the country?s growth as a whole.
Noted: Meanwhile, start-up ventures have arisen to provide online-ordering software – among them EatStreet Inc., a rapidly growing Madison company. Launched by three UW-Madison students, EatStreet has raised $8.65 million from outside investors, and recently increased the number of restaurants using its system to 10,000.
The South American electric eel and hundreds of other electric fish evolved in six distinct lines over a period of 400 million years, developing an electric organ from what had once been muscle and providing a fascinating laboratory for the study of evolution.
Noted: Cohen studied business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then went to the University of Pittsburgh for a masters degree in business.
Many University of Wisconsin-Madison students don?t want to leave campus in the summer because there?s so much free, fun stuff to do around town.
Quoted: “If we look at what you can buy on the Internet today vs. what was available even five years ago, it?s a night and day difference,” said Jeff Sindelar, a professor in the Meat Science & Muscle Biology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a certified barbecue contest judge. “Today, you can buy any ingredients, essentially, that a small, medium or large meat processor can buy, just in much smaller quantities.
Quoted: “To get a tornado, you need just the right conditions,” said Steven Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Once again, University of Wisconsin-Madison food science students are finalists in a national collegiate food product development competition. Two teams will compete for top honors and cash prizes at the Institute of Food Technologists annual meeting and food expo Saturday through Monday in New Orleans.
Power was restored around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to the University of Wisconsin-Madisons DoIT data center, but the campus spent much of Wednesday without wireless Internet or email due to an early-morning electrical interruption.
A new trans-disciplinary research institute will be created within the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, allowing the college to hire 25 new faculty and pursue technological advances aimed at boosting the nations economic competitiveness, the university announced Monday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said a bomb squad was sent to a university building shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday after a beeping sound was heard coming from a trash can outside the building.
Noted: While the mascot part of the business generates about 10% of revenue for Olympus, Adam has a special place in his heart for it. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate in marketing and accounting, Adam said he was a Bucky Badger mascot for four years of college.
Noted: Possible investors cited by sources include former Bucks star Junior Bridgeman, a successful businessman in the fast-food franchise business; Ted Kellner, a prominent benefactor to University of Wisconsin-Madison sports who runs a Milwaukee-based investment business; and Jon Hammes of the Hammes Co.
Madworks at Campus, a summer accelerator program that is being launched at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Friday it has chosen 11 start-ups to participate from a field of nearly 70 companies.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison nurse has been arrested on suspicion of stealing morphine meant for patients ? an act she reportedly told hospital staff she had been doing since October.
An international team of researchers led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist created a life-threatening virus in a high-containment lab in Madison nearly identical to the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic that killed a staggering 50 million people worldwide, according to an article published Wednesday in a major science journal.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they have found a group of agents that can seek out and find dozens of kinds of solid tumors, a finding that may lead to new treatments.
Noted: Researchers are just beginning to recruit volunteers. One of the locations is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; others are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Northwestern University and Rush University Medical Center, both in Chicago.
Noted: Kathie, 53, is an author and owner and founder of AllWriters? Workplace & Workshop, a writing studio that offers online and in-person classes. A longtime resident of Waukesha and the mother of three grown children from a previous marriage, Kathie graduated from Waukesha North High School in 1979 and UW-Madison.
Noted: 23. Visit the Babcock Hall Dairy Store on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Arrange a tour or just stop in for the signature orange custard chocolate chip ice cream or another flavor…or purchase cheeses made on site. If you?re there at lunchtime, try the Bucky Melt sandwich: Salami, Wisconsin-style havarti, pickles and onions on lightly buttered white bread.
The University of Wisconsin System will have 3.3% of its overall budget ? less than $200 million ? in true cash reserves a year from now to cover any unexpected expenses or shortfalls at its 26 campuses, UW System President Ray Cross said Thursday as the Board of Regents unanimously approved the system budget.
Noted: Herzog, grandson of Milwaukee Sentinel columnist Buck Herzog, is a graduate of Brookfield East High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also produced “Killing Lincoln,” based on the book by Bill OReilly.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin and Health First Wisconsin should have participated in that effort, the four wrote.
Noted: Donald Moynihan is a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.
Noted: Among her co-founders at Elucent are two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors who also have worked with NeuWave, which already has gone to market with a cancer-fighting treatment that uses microwave energy to destroy tumor cells.
Noted: It all began with Peter, who earned a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore.
Facing ongoing scrutiny of cash balances in tuition and other accounts not involving state or federal money, the University of Wisconsin System is poised to spend down about $112 million ? roughly 15% ? of those amounts through its 2014-?15 budget.
One of the most important processes in the human body occurs inside the cellular machines that make the proteins we need to live. Now a team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has produced high resolution images of these machines called spliceosomes.
In many ways, Heather Johnston is an anomaly.A mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Phoenix native took a different career path than most of her college friends: She stayed in Wisconsin.
Noted: The group is scheduled to meet in Minocqua on Thursday. Panelists will include Craig Benson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor; Ann Coakley, a state Department of Natural Resources regulator; Cyrus Hester, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewas environmental specialist; and Dominic Parker, an assistant professor in UW-Madisons agriculture and applied economics department.
A UW-Madison student from Saukville has been charged with attempted sexual assault on accusations he pretended to be a woman in a Craigslist personal ad in order to force another woman into a sex act with him, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
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 Newton, Mass.
Noted: Possible investors cited by sources include former Bucks star Junior Bridgeman, a successful businessman in the fast-food franchise business; Ted Kellner, a prominent benefactor to University of Wisconsin-Madison sports and a Milwaukee businessman; and Jon Hammes of the Hammes Co. Craig Leipold, a Racine resident who owns the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League, said last year he might be willing to be a minority investor in the team.
Quoted: The plaintiff’s expert, Doug Laube, argued admitting privileges are unnecessary for outpatient care providers.”There are physicians there at a hospital who are often more capable of dealing with complications than the physician doing the outpatient procedure him or herself,” said Laube, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madisons police chief says a captain she fired took thousands of photos and video of unsuspecting women over the course of six years.
Stan Temple looked out from atop a bucolic bluff in central Wisconsin on Sunday and imagined the sky darkening, the sound of wings flapping as millions of passenger pigeons passed overhead.
Quoted: Jane Collins, chairwoman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s women studies program, said that, for some women, traveling to Chicago would create enough added cost that they would decide against getting an abortion.
Noted: The museum will also host a series of related events in June and July, including a lecture on Jewish rock entrepreneurs by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jonathan Pollack, and a concert presented by School of Rock.
Noted: Lucey was credited with pushing to merge the University of Wisconsin in Madison with the state college system, a fierce battle that created today?s system of 13 four-year state colleges. He also was responsible for breaking the all-male dominance of the state?s high court when he appointed now-Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson to it in 1976.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank?s annual pay is a far cry from what former Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee took home in the 2012-?13 academic year because of deferred compensation in his contract when he retired.
Students who are military veterans using the federal GI Bill have more than quadrupled in enrollment at UW-Madison since 2005.
Noted: “This is really a big piece of my life, and it took a lot to give it up. But now that I see that they appreciate it, it was worth it,” said Schellpeper, 28, who is graduating this summer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Happily, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, that bastion of liberal thinking, has bucked the trend a bit this year by having as its commencement speaker, Jon Huntsman, a generally conservative Republican candidate for president in 2012, as well as former ambassador to China and governor of Utah. To my knowledge, his invitation has not stirred any unrest. Well done, Madison.
A new office for student veterans is opening this week on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Noted: He often said that he had trouble choosing between music and meteorology, said his wife, who met him when both were students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Zandt chose meteorology because he figured he?d make a better living, she said.
Quoted: “There are quite a few small jerky companies that are sprouting up across the U.S.,” said Jeff Sindelar, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies the meat industry and is an extension meat specialist. “I would expect the trend to continue.”
