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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wisconsin fans have seen this type of mismatch in the Big Ten title game.
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.
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.
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.
The last week has brought tears of joy and smiles to the face of fifth-year senior offensive lineman Kyle Costigan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If anyone can find a college football team more resilient than Wisconsin, please let UW coach Gary Andersen know.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Caputo had no intention of taking himself out of the Wisconsin lineup.
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.
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.
Pat Richter hasnt forgotten the last time Wisconsin and Minnesota both had legitimate championship aspirations when they met on the football field.
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student died over the weekend, the Daily Cardinal is reporting.
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.
I spent three days at the University of Wisconsin Madisons Center for Dairy Research tasting cheese — at least 80 different kinds.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
This is why Melvin Gordon put the National Football League on hold and returned to Wisconsin for one final season.
During Saturdays Badgers game, the University of Wisconsin-Madison police force showed up in a big way — on Twitter.
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.
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.
Our UW basketball season preview Sunday was on Frank Kaminsky the basketball player – and the goofball.
