To Ken Cameron, vanilla is a lot sexier than its name implies.The worlds leading expert on the biology of vanilla orchids sees the popular spice, not as plain or ordinary, but as a beautifully complex and valuable commodity produced from the worlds largest family of plants.
Kelly Sheffield turned around and ecstatically hugged his assistant coaches as the ball hit the floor for match point Thursday night.In his first year as Wisconsin coach, Sheffield guided the UW women to the NCAA volleyball title match.
Noted: According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison-based Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a nonpartisan national think tank that promotes “high road” solutions to social problems, about 8,000 workers in Milwaukee County would get higher wages as a result of the living wage. For the vast majority of those workers, their standard of living would rise. This would lift them out of a vicious cycle of being part of the working poor who work hard to make a living but still rely on public assistance to keep ahead of the bills.
Noted: A study by the Center On Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the county living wage plan would result in $38 million in higher pay that would be spent in the Milwaukee area.
Noted: Three centers were launched in 2007 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and through a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan State University. Housed at the Wisconsin Energy Institute in Madison, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center was the only one of the three not to be tied to an existing federal laboratory.
Laughlin, who played football at Milwaukees Washington High School and attended Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Thursday in Thousand Oaks, Calif., his family announced Sunday.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison employee accused of embezzling more than $140,000 has been charged with felony theft.
Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, according to newly published research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two charges against a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher have been dismissed after a plea of no contest to a third charge of disorderly conduct, according to state court records.
Noted: Kathryn Jeffers is author of “The Long Trip To Arlington,” a personal memoir of her father’s service in World War II. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business in Executive Education.
My father woke at dawn a contented man on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, at Wheeler Field, 15 miles from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Listening to Wisconsin Badgers football games on the radio is as much a fall tradition as raking leaves.
Noted: Wisconsin?s richest 1% enjoyed a boost of $168,773 in 2012 dollars from 1996 to 2010, according to the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The bottom 40%? They saw their real income fall by $2,407.
Wisconsin farms this year generated the largest volume of manure spills since 2007, including an accident by the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s flagship research farm in Columbia County that produced a mile-long trail of animal waste.
The University of Wisconsin System announced Friday it is ramping up its new competency-based Flexible Option degree program for working adults to learn skills in demand among Wisconsin employers.
Quoted: ?This is a major speech on a topic that American presidents normally stay away from,? Tim Smeeding, an expert on inequality at the University of Wisconsin, tells me, adding that it compares in some ways to Franklin Delano Roosevelt?s addresses. ?The fact that a sitting president faced with a crowded agenda had the courage to discuss this overarching problem is historic.?
Although Wisconsin closed the regular-season schedule with arguably its most disappointing performance of 2013, the players and coaches can take solace in this:Senior linebacker Chris Borland was named the Big Ten?s Nagurski-Woodson defensive player of the year on Tuesday.
PETA has launched eight-week ad campaign featuring graphic images of animal testing on more than 130 Metro Transit buses in Madison.
A new book that details the extensive and toxic party culture at the Princeton Review?s Top Party Schools blames not just the students who explain away drunken behavior as “stuff that happens, ” but also administrators who fail to do anything significant about it.
A 72-year-old woman was cited for misdemeanor theft for taking a painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Union South and said she took the painting only to show her interior designer color ideas, police said Tuesday.
Clear Channel announced it has entered a five-year contract with Learfield Sports to carry Wisconsin Badgers sportscasts on its stations WOKY-AM 920, WRIT-FM 95.7 and WISN-AM 1130.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first adjuvanted vaccine for the prevention of H5N1 influenza, a virus commonly known as avian or bird flu that has been at the center of an international research controversy the past couple years.
The scheme wasn?t as elaborate as The Thomas Crown Affair, but the result ? a stolen piece of art ? was the same.
Aaron Apel dropped out of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville halfway through his second year, got a factory job, married his college sweetheart and later completed an associate?s degree to become a computer specialist.
If you are paying attention to legislative debates or media reports, you may get the impression that our schools are failing and that many people have turned their backs on this uniquely American public institution.
Two weeks ago, we published an opinion piece in Crossroads on the perils of the national debt, purportedly written by a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.I?m writing today because there was a serious problem with the article: The student didn?t write it. As a result, we have removed it from our website.
While Wisconsin continues to lag in the creation of net new companies, directions in sectors that are sources of young, high-growth companies promise to help over time. Here are 10 trends shaping the future of Wisconsin?s tech-based economy.
A man in camouflage who alarmed Madison neighbors when he walked down a street with an uncased shotgun Saturday morning turned out to be a hunter thwarted by city parking.
Seeking to push more of the results of its vast research efforts into the marketplace, the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday announced a $3.2 million program to encourage both dorm-room and faculty-driven entrepreneurship.
A record number of international students studied at American colleges and universities last year, including in Wisconsin, driven largely by an influx of young scholars from China, according to U.S. data released Monday.University of Wisconsin-Madison enrolled 5,291 international students last year ? 12.5% of its total 42,463 enrollment.
I have to be honest ? before his death became news last week, I had never heard of Charlie Trotter.
Quoted: Dairy farmers should benefit from the bumper corn crop if they buy corn to feed their cows. It could result in higher milk production and lower prices on dairy products, said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist with University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Started by two students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988, the free satirical weekly has made people laugh for a quarter-century with headlines such as this one from its latest edition: “Giant burrito to solve all of Area Man?s problems for 6 precious minutes.”
According University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, lead poisoning in minority children may be a large contributing factor for Wisconsin?s achievement gap, which national scores released Thursday showed were the widest in the country.
An apartment fire over the weekend near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus injured three people, including two firefighters.
Quoted: “It?s not healthy, and clearly there are alternatives to trans fats because the levels have been coming down in the food supply,” said Beth Olson, a University of Wisconsin Extension specialist and associate professor of nutritional science at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: From 1998 to 1999, Peterson worked as a law clerk for Judge David Deininger of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. He received a law degree in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin law school and was a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison expects to have a new provost in place sometime during the spring semester.
Chicago chef Charlie Trotter, who left his influential mark on American fine dining, was found dead in his home Tuesday morning, the Chicago Tribune and other media reported. He was 54.
The University of Wisconsin System is investing $22.5 million over the next two years in projects at campuses across the state designed to fuel enconomic growth in Wisconsin.
Noted: CDI was founded in 2004 by Thomson, who is also a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
Young Americans of the rising millennial generation are well aware of the economic challenges facing our generation. Rising college tuition is leading to record high student loan debt, about $27,000 on average per person. Unemployment for young people remains in the double digits, about 12%, due to the lasting impact of the Great Recession. But the most threatening number to our American Dream is likely one you have not heard before: $200 trillion. That?s the true size of our national debt and the full tab our generation is set to inherit if nothing changes.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin Madison sent out an alert to students in October, warning that the IT help desk had “received numerous reports” of the software.
It isnt easy being lactose intolerant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where Babcock ice cream is a rite of passage.
Quoted: David Canon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, says this allows Ribble to stake out more centrist positions, without drawing a strong challenge from the tea party, which cheered the shutdown.
Noted: It?s not as if the liberal city of Madison is new to domestic bombers. For decades, the city has been home to Karl Armstrong, one of the conspirators in the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The bombing, an anti-Vietnam War protest, killed researcher Robert Fassnacht and injured three others. After serving seven years in prison, Armstrong owned a number of restaurants in the Madison area.
Noted: It took three years (“you can?t rush a good thing”), but with help from the Dairy Business Innovation Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Williams and Shaw managed to reproduce the once-popular cheese.
The first time Demar Garrison was in the Racine County Jail he was about 8 or 9. He was there visiting his mom.
Linebacker Nick Hill, who joined the Wisconsin football program as a walk-on in 2009 and was awarded a scholarship in August, recently was dismissed from the team after violating team rules, according to a source.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving its spring commencement for undergrads to Camp Randall Stadium — rain or shine — so all 6,000 graduates can gather at one venue for one ceremony to mark the culmination of their Badger education.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police sent two underage students to a hospitals detox unit over the weekend after they passed out from drinking too much alcohol, according to a press release.
Knowing that football has been a fundamental part of his life for more than five decades, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez wasnt about to turn down the opportunity to be part of college footballs first ever playoff committee.
The state?s college football fans can officially begin planning to watch Wisconsin and Louisiana State meet at Lambeau Field.
Quoted: Land costs are the wild card, said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ten of the 14 University of Wisconsin System?s chancellors will get pay raises of between $6,000 and $10,500 a year under salary adjustments approved by the UW Board of Regents in a closed session Thursday at UW-Parkside.
The University of Wisconsin System may set back efforts to repair its relationship with GOP leaders of the Legislature if proposed increases to the salary ranges of key executive posts within the system are approved Friday by the Board of Regents, the chairwoman of the Legislature?s powerful Joint Finance Committee said Thursday.
Quoted: James Skinner, director of the Theoretical Chemistry Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the approach pioneered by the winners can be used to analyze such things as how drugs bind to the molecules they target in the body, or how large molecules fold.
4490 Ventures will invest in early-stage information technology companies, mostly in Wisconsin. It is being organized by the State of Wisconsin Investment Board and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Thursday will discuss a proposed contract between UW, LSU and the Green Bay Packers in connection with a scheduled football game at Lambeau Field in 2016.
The University of Wisconsin System announced Thursday it will receive a $1.2 million grant from Lumina Foundation to help evaluate its new Flexible Option degree program, and to support development of a blueprint so other universities can build similar programs.
Concerned that current salary ranges may be too low to attract the best talent to fill several key leadership vacancies, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents over the next two days will consider broadening and boosting pay ranges for all top executive positions.
