Everyone knows the University of Wisconsin-Madison doesn?t do much to work with companies and institutions in Milwaukee, and its relationship with UW-Milwaukee is practically nonexistent. Right?Wrong.
Wisconsin farmers earned about $3.75 billion in profit last year, coming close to the record $3.8 billion earned in 2011.
Noted: The division also worked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in connection with the construction of the Kohl Center and was named the owner?s representative for the new $975 million Minnesota Vikings football stadium in Minneapolis.
Quoted: ?The construction is short term,? said Steven Deller, a UW-Madison economist who has studied the economic impact of hospitals across the state. ?Once the project is done, those impacts go away.?
Quoted: Robert Batt teaches operations management at UW-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business and has studied the health care industry. He notes that many hospitals get low marks for keeping people waiting when in fact the waits are quite short.
Quoted: Thus, companies such as Campbell have to “think pretty hard” before removing traditional products from grocery store shelves or making substantial changes to them, said Barbara Ingham, professor in the food science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank proposed initiatives to help expand access for low-income students to the state?s flagship university during a White House summit Thursday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison employee died after a truck backed into her as she was walking near campus Thursday morning, a news release from the Madison Police Department said.
Quoted: “It’s a very convincing study” and large enough to give a clear answer, said one independent expert, Dr. Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Davis was recognized as one of the premier bassists in jazz history and an “eclectic musician” who has performed on some 3,000 recordings, including albums by Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison. In his acceptance speech, the bassist noted some career highlights, including working with jazz legends Sarah Vaughan and Sun Ra, performing with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The selection committee for the University of Wisconsin-Madisons common-reading program, Go Big Read, is seeking suggestions of both fiction and non-fiction books that could fit the 2014-15 academic year theme of service.
Its a sign of the times that the first stop for the new University of Wisconsin System president after a news conference Friday was the state Capitol to meet with lawmakers.
The University of Wisconsin System didnt have to look far, after all, for its next president.
One team performed with the efficiency, poise and scoring balance of a top-five team.
The most unconventional and potentially controversial finalist for president of the University of Wisconsin System is out of the running, just one day before the Board of Regents was to announce its selection.
Robert King is out as a candidate for president of the University of Wisconsin System, leaving Ray Cross and Peter Garland as finalists, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Wednesday.
Noted: 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. He received a doctorate in 1986, a master?s degree in 1984, and a bachelor?s degree in 1979, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.1
Noted: Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the state-based schools that received marketing materials, Burke said.
New research from scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has linked a protein to the spread of breast cancer to the brain.
Mostly empty lecture halls at University of Wisconsin System campuses across the state greeted three finalists for system president on a frigid Monday as they took questions via video conference on topics ranging from how they would rebuild trust with lawmakers to how they would balance the different needs of 26 campuses.
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.
