Noted: She earned her master’s degree in Educational Administration from UW-Madison. She also has more than 45 graduate credits toward a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from UW-Madison. In 2013, she received the Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership Outstanding Achievement Award.
As expected, Joe Rudolph will be Wisconsin’s offensive coordinator and Dave Aranda will run UW’s defense in 2015.
Paul Chryst’s first staff at Wisconsin will have at least two more faces familiar to UW fans.
Bob Bostad, who coached some of the more decorated offensive linemen in the history of Wisconsin’s football program, likely wont be a member of Paul Chryst’s first staff at UW.
Noted: Carolyn J. Heinrich is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin formerly at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has worked with Milwaukee Public Schools in an external research and evaluation capacity since 2006.
Noted: Amazon won its first two Golden Globes, both for “Transparent.” The show, created by University of Wisconsin-Madison grad Jill Soloway, won for best TV comedy or musical series and best actor in the same category for Jeffery Tambor, whose résumé includes time on stage with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
Noted: Ruffalo, a Kenosha native, lost out on the nights first award — best supporting actor — which was won by J.K. Simmons for “Whiplash.” Ruffalo had been nominated for his performance as former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach Dave Schultz in “Foxcatcher.”
Noted: The results from different tests would have to be compared by UW-Madisons Value-Added Research Center, which studies how to measure student learning. Brad Carl, associate director and researcher at the center, said while that was technically possible, it would not be the most reliable way of comparing the performance of different schools.
Paul Chryst’s first coaching staff at Wisconsin is slowly being pieced together and one of the more critical targets has been secured.
Quoted: Comcast Corp. has proposed buying Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion, a deal that could be approved by regulators early this year, according to Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With his duties as Pittsburgh’s interim head coach completed, Joe Rudolph appears poised to rejoin the Wisconsin staff.
For the past three years, Teresa Piraino of South Milwaukee has diligently filled out the federal application for financial aid for her son Anthony, who is studying criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Frank Kaminsky didn’t allow the hype to expand his ego.
Noted: In 2013-14, the MPS tutoring program targeted 42 schools for after-school sessions, with services provided by Cardinal Stritch University and Educate Online Learning, according to the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin’s Barry Alvarez wasnt kidding when he said he would take a more active role in play-calling in his second stint as interim head coach.
To label Wisconsin’s offensive line a MASH unit would be an understatement.
Barry Alvarez, Wisconsins full-time athletic director and two-time interim head coach, passed the baton to new head coach Paul Chryst in style Thursday.
First impressions, second thoughts and the third degree: By the time good friends Paul Chryst and Jim Harbaugh match tactical wits as members of the Big Ten Conference football coaching fraternity, we should have a pretty good sense of where their new programs are headed.
The Badgers head to Florida having lost four straight bowl games for the second time in their history. They also dropped their first four in 1953, ’60, ’63 and ’81.
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.
