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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
In a city of 8.4 million, the Kettle of Fish can be an escape to Wisconsin, just a subway-ride away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The text no one wanted to receive came Tuesday night from the phone of Wisconsin cornerbacks coach Ben Strickland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky is now a member of a small and elite basketball fraternity.
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.
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.
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.
Noted: Joan attended Smith College, while Spector went to Harvard Law School after his graduation from UW-Madison.
Quoted: “The exchanges really werent designed for those people,” said Tom Jackson, co-chair of the health and policy committee of the Wisconsin chapter and an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: The 2013 upturn in the rates among black teen girls and slight increase among white girls are “bumps in the road” that are typical in all statistical downward trends, according to Geoffrey Swain, medical director for the Milwaukee Health Department and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: • UW Health, including University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, and the American Family Childrens Hospital in Madison for pediatric patients.
Quoted: The ratcheting up of this by making objects or people sexy that usually aren’t or shouldn’t be, like the sexy Ebola nurse is perhaps a way to differentiate ourselves now that va-va-voom costumes are the norm, says Markus Brauer, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an expert in human social behavior. After all, no one wants to be the third sexy cop at a party. We want to be sexy and stand out.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has played a major role in the rise of regenerative medicine, which uses our own cells, tissues and organs to promote healing. The field came of age with the isolation of human embryonic stem cells by James Thomson at UW-Madison in 1998 and the successful reprogramming of mature human cells back to their embryonic origin in 2007 by Thomson and Shinya Yamanaka in Japan.
Noted: Schimel, 49, has spent his career in the Waukesha County district attorney’s office. He earned an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and got his law degree from UW Law School.
A group that claims proposed research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will amount to “psychological torment” of young monkeys has sued to obtain a university commmittee’s notes about the project.
Spring commencement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will return to Camp Randall Stadium.
Noted: Shively, who died Sept. 30, at 83, at home in Cambridge, is best remembered as a longtime state government reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel. It was from the Sentinel that he retired in 1992. But after getting his degree in journalism from UW-Madison, in 1958, Shively?s career started with the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque, Iowa.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Entomology professor Chris Williamson said he was not aware of that aspect either. He said he would like to see the city treat some park trees as well but that he doesn?t know enough about the details of the park forests to make an informed analysis of the plan.
Noted: Representatives from the Ready for Hillary super PAC, as well as volunteers from UW-Madison?s College Democrats, handed out promotional materials and encouraged students to support Clinton and Burke.
UW-Madison will see major campus changes on campus in upcoming years under the 2015 to 2017 university capital budgetary plans that Madison?s Joint West Campus Area Committee discussed at a meeting Wednesday.
Noted: After graduating from the Monona Grove School District, Meinert studied jazz under renowned UW-Madison music professor Jimmy Cheatham.
The 2015 UW-Madison spring commencement ceremony is scheduled to be held in Camp Randall Stadium for the second year in a row, according to a university release.
Culinary innovator Dave Arnold spoke with UW-Madison students and community members about new techniques and changing culinary mindsets Wednesday.
The pomp and circumstance of homecoming week is colored by scores of red and white balloons and flowers, hoards of alumni returning to their old stomping grounds and a slate of events celebrating all things UW-Madison.
For students like UW-Madison junior Becca Mischel, Wisconsin Men?s Basketball head coach Bo Ryan?s Shooting Down Cancer means more than meeting Wisconsin?s basketball players and taking advantage of the event?s free t-shirts, food and other giveaways.
Former Wisconsin Badgers defensive tackle Tim Krumrie is on the 2015 ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, the fourth time in five years Krumrie has made the ballot.
Noted: A graduate of Memorial High School and UW-Madison (and the University of Michigan), Kennelly has the chops to dish local history and neighborhood knowledge.
Noted: Thanks to exploding technological developments, retailing is continually more challenging and competitive. Those were among the topics discussed Wednesday at the third annual Future Perfect Retail Conference, sponsored by the Kohl?s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison within the School of Human Ecology.
Quoted: John M. McKeller, a senior lecturer at UW-Madison?s Grainger School of Supply Chain Management, said secretly providing information to one bidder ?goes against everything that the government procurement process is supposed to preserve for the taxpayers.? In a process involving bidding or requests for proposals, all bidders should be given the same information to preserve fairness, transparency and competitiveness, he said.
Bo Ryan believes there is a secret to the art of swishing a half-court shot in basketball.
As soon as Kelly Sheffield heard the question, a puzzled expression creased the face of the University of Wisconsin volleyball coach.
Quoted: The 2014 electorate could be a fundamentally different group than it was for the 2012 gubernatorial recall election.UW-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner pointed that out during the Cap Times? panel on polling on Monday, noting that there was a segment of the voting population in 2012 that voted against the idea of a recall and for Gov. Scott Walker.
Quoted: But University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism and mass communication professor Michael Wagner, an expert on political messaging, finds the silver lining. For one thing, he says, the ads in Wisconsin have not been as personal or harsh as those in other states.
Noted: She would work with the University of Wisconsin System to build on UW-Madison?s Discovery to Product initiative with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. She would take steps to boost the number of college degree holders ? including providing more state money to universities and creating a way for students to refinance their college loans and raising the college tax deduction.
Noted: On the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Burke rallied several dozen college students and supporters, urging them to “be part of something incredible” and seek to advance her candidacy and vision for the state.
Noted: At Foley, Aprahamian was a litigator in complex civil cases, and the partner in charge of ethics training at the firm. He graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale Law School and clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prior to joining Foley.
Noted: A native of Madison, Lardy grew up in an academic family, went to a Madison high school and earned an undergraduate degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His mom, sister and two brothers all live in or near Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Yoshi Kawaoka was researching influenza viruses that were killing chickens in the mid-?90s when he picked up a new bestseller, “The Hot Zone.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who was the driving force behind the giant neutrino telescope at the South Pole, known as IceCube, has been named the winner of a prestigious national award conferred by Smithsonian magazine, the university announced Friday.
The anticipation continues to build for Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan and his players.
Each time Josh Gasser hears Wisconsin fans talk about a second consecutive trip to the Final Four ? and that is a regular occurrence at home in Port Washington or on the UW campus ? the fifth-year senior guard offers a blunt and instructive response.
A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has figured out how to measure mindfulness, which they say could add credibility to the practice of focusing on awareness of the present moment and help push it into the mainstream.
Interview with Dean François Ortalo-Magné.
Quoted: Even with the recent ups and downs, a UW professor of finance says it?s not time to pull your money out of the market. “Even if you are close to retirement, you should not remove money out of the stock market just because you see a lot of volatility. In fact, most of the time we think that volatility will actually give you high rates of return going forward,” says Bjorn Eraker.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison: Relative Effectiveness of Learn to Hunt Programs in Wisconsin, $9,984.
Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., will discuss ways to increase women?s participation in science and technology careers Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
And the team expected to win the Big Ten mens basketball title this season is?Wisconsin, of course.
Quoted: Still, there?s a big difference between a 40-bed community hospital and a 900-bed hospital like Texas Presbyterian or a big medical center affiliated with a university, said Dr. Dennis Maki, a University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist and former head of hospital infection control.
