His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke in Madison Wednesday about nurturing unconditional love and compassion, and joked with moderator ABC News correspondent Dan Harris about his meditation habits.
Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds and a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Dalai Lama’s main message to the audience was that “we need to take responsibility now for cultivating positive qualities like kindness and compassion.”
A national grant will help researchers at UW-Madison study concussions in soccer players.
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health received $300,000 from the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment.
The University of Wisconsin announced Friday that women’s head coach Bobbie Kelsey will not be retained.
Noted: The Rusty Batch Bumble Bee was first discovered at the Arboretum a few years ago and researchers said it works harder than any other bee species. They said its an important part of our State’s agriculture.
“They are crucial,” said Susan Carpenter, ranger unit coordinator at the U-W Madison Arboretum. “They are important for our food system.”
The UW Board of Regents approved the contract for Greg Gard, making him the 16th head men’s basketball coach in UW history.
Noted: The Dalai Lama is also a longtime friend of the Center for Healthy Minds’ founder, Richard Davidson. The UW-Madison neuroscience professor, who is a participant, is looking forward to seeing the Dalai Lama.
Said Davidson, “He may not have any formal scientific training, which he clearly does not have, but he has an extraordinarily sophisticated understanding of how the mind works, because he’s been so attentive to his own mind.”
(Video) Camp Kesem is a college student run camp at UW Madison for kids whose parents have cancer. Camp counselor Joey Seliski visited News 3 This Morning to talk about it.
Quoted: “These immunotherapy treatments are unquestionably game changers,” said Dr. Mark Albertini, an oncologist with the Carbone Cancer Center at UW Health.
Albertini said the courage patients like Daly showed in participating in the early trials of immunotherapy played a key role in the success now being seen.
“Those patients were both incredible and those patients were vital in getting where we are today,” Albertini said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletics Department officially announced Greg Gard as the basketball team’s head coach Monday. The UW Board of Regents approved Gard’s contract at a meeting Monday night, which made Gard the 16th head men’s basketball coach in UW history.
A founder of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, Matthew Braunginn works to close the achievement gaps as a coordinator with UW’s PEOPLE program. He’s also a regular columnist for Madison365.
Deadspin reporter Kevin Draper has had a busy 48 hours.
Saturday morning, his internet news publication story went viral. “I got a few hours of sleep last night, but most of the hard work was getting everything, no so much the writing.”
Printed (with all the source-documents), it’s 36-pages. Draper started working it a month ago after Ryan first announced his retirement. “We started hearing the same rumors a lot of people heard, so we got together a public record request that we thought might get us something, and we did, we got an email that blew this open.”
An attorney for former Badger Men’s Basketball Coach Bo Ryan released the following statement to 27 News Saturday afternoon, in response to allegations of misconduct and a UW investigation that cleared Ryan of any wrongdoing.
A UW-Madison investigation into former Badgers Men’s Basketball Head Coach Bo Ryan has cleared him of allegations that he used university funds while having an affair.
After practice on Friday evening Greg Gard acknowledged that he had heard about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report, that stated UW officials are preparing to offer Gard the full-time UW men’s basketball position.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s head basketball Coach Bobbie Kelsey “will not be retained,” Athletic Director Barry Alvarez said Friday. According to the Badgers Athletics website, the school terminated Kelsey’s multiyear contract.
Retired University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan was cleared of allegations that he misused university resources, according to a statement from Chancellor Becky Blank Saturday.
Greg Gard has been picked to replace Badgers basketball coach Bo Ryan, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Quoted: “You have to be pretty sick to get it in the first place,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, Medical Director for Infection Control at University of Wisconsin Health. “so that’s why already, the deck is stacked against you. And then once you get it, because it causes infections like bloodstream infections, which are as severe of an infection as you can get, it increases the death rate even further.”
After breaking the NCAA single-season shutout record last weekend, Wisconsin women’s hockey goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens has been recognized for her historic season as one of the three finalists for the 2016 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, USA Hockey announced Thursday.
Hours after being named a top-three finalist for the 2016 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, Wisconsin women’s hockey goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens continued receiving honors on Thursday, becoming only the second goaltender in WCHA history to be named the WCHA Player of the Year.
The junior wasn’t the only Badger to take home hardware, as for the seventh time in his career, UW head coach Mark Johnson was named the WCHA Coach of the Year, while seven Badgers earned spots on All-WCHA teams.
Quoted: UW Infection Control Medical Director Nasia Safdar says those with underlying medical issues need to pay attention to the information.
“I think organ transplant, dialysis individuals or nursing home residents.”
Dr. Safdar says the symptoms of Elizabethkingia include a fever.
“It’s because you have bacteria in the blood stream, depending on the sight of the infection, if it’s pneumonia you would have respiratory issues, a skin infection, you might see redness at the wound,” Dr. Safdar said.
There are several events planned in Madison to mark the anniversary of the Tony Robinson shooting, including a rally Friday afternoon (4 p.m. on Library Mall).
One of the organizers of the event is UW Blackout Movement, a student group formed in November in response to issues of racial tension on campus and in the community.
Federal Aviation Administration officials say UW-Madison was fined $56,000 after a university researcher put hazardous materials in luggage and checked the baggage onto a flight, only to have TSA screeners intercept the cargo.
Quoted: UW plastic surgeon Dr. Ahmed Afifi, assistant professor of surgery, performs a migraine relief surgery that’s fairly new, and wanted to know how it was working for his patients. So, he went to Facebook.
He searched some support groups and migraine relief pages, and turned six months of patient posts into data. When he analyzed the results, they surprised him.
“81 percent of the patients after migraine surgery are saying that they got better after the surgery,” said Afifi. “And what’s amazing about that is when you compare … to the results from the big scientific articles that have been published, these articles are reporting a success rate of 79 percent, 82 percent, 83 percent.”
Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson is getting another degree from UW-Madison.
Thompson will receive an honorary degree at the spring commencement
He got his bachelor’s and a law degree from UW in the 1960s.
The university will also give honorary degrees to photojournalist Lynsey Addario and biochemist William Rutter.
Students at UW-Madison duked it out Thursday night to find out who’s the best on Bascom.
It was the annual Battle for Bascom, a snowball fight on Bascom Hill on the UW campus.
Quoted: “We have a 50-foot well filled with ice, and at the bottom, we’ve got about six feet of rock. And we’re doing testing of both configurations or both media. So we’ll go through the 50 feet of ice and then drill some rock, which represents what we’ll be doing in Antarctica,” said Chris Gibson, the engineering project manager for the ASIG drill.
The phone sitting on the desk of Dr. Kathleen Antony, a maternal fetal medicine physician with UW Health, has been ringing regularly in recent weeks with calls from people asking questions about the Zika virus.
Five members of the Wisconsin women’s swimming team earned an individual berth to compete at the 2016 Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, as announced Wednesday by the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Committee.
Maria Carlson, Dana Grindall, Jenny Holtzen, Chase Kinney and Danielle Valley each qualified individually for the women’s championship meet, which will take place March 16-19 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the McAuley Aquatic Center. Georgia Institute of Technology will serve as host.
Doctors say a mild winter mixed with an early thaw means mold allergies are back earlier this season.
“When the snow starts to melt once the ground shows up that’s when we have outdoor mold,” Adult Allergist at UW Health, Dr. Tom Puchner, says. (Puchner is clinical assistant professor of allergy and immunology.)
Even though there is snow on the ground and below freezing temperatures, Dr. Puchner says current conditions can still affect those who suffer from mold allergies.
Noted: One of the president’s guests will be Donna Friedsam of the UW Population Health Institute.
She believes Milwaukee’s victory among 20 cities to increase health enrollment will have significant future benefits.
“It saves our employers money. It saves our communities money and it improves our quality of life overall. So, it is very important that we have people get enrolled in the coverage, so they they can get the care they need.”
Friedsam adds Milwaukee’s health coverage victory is a result of a coordinated effort throughout the city by a wide range of organizations.
University of Wisconsin officials are preparing to offer interim head basketball coach Greg Gard a long-term contract, according to a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Quoted: “I’m excited to be able to share their voice, their vision, their creative abilities with a wider audience,” Jose Vergara, a volunteer instructor at Oakhill, said. “I really wanted to get this writing and art out because a good chunk of it is really impressive. And I feel it should have a wider audience. Not simply because it’s made by inmates but because it deserves to be seen–it’s worthwhile art.”
Vergara is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Slavic languages and literature. He started teaching courses at Oakhill Correctional Institution in 2011 after receiving a grant from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities.
Noted: UW Health officials said UW Hospital has not had any of the cases.
University of Wisconsin officials are expected to offer interim head coach Greg Gard a long-term contract, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
After being closed for nearly two years, UW-Madison’s iconic observatory will reopen tonight.
Unexpected repairs are to blame for the closure, but now everything is back up and working better than ever.
Noted: Members on both sides say Super Tuesday was all about getting their members excited for the Wisconsin Primary on April 5th. Wake says they have a lot of phone calls to make between now and then to make sure students register to vote.
He says it’s a big challenge every year, because students are always moving around and they don’t always know where to vote.
Noted: The video features Dr. David Drake, who runs the Urban Canid Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With the help of graduate student Marcus Mueller and community volunteers, Drake tracks the movement of coyotes throughout Madison.
Anyone can volunteer via Drake’s website, and tracking season runs through April. Drake has encourages citizens to report coyote and fox sightings via iNaturalist.
MTV’s reality show “Real World” will be holding casting calls in Madison next week, according to a release.
Wisconsin interim coach Greg Gard has never actively campaigned to become the permanent successor to the retired Bo Ryan. The Badgers’ win-loss record sends a strong message without saying a word.
The Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation awarded UW-Madison with a $360,501 Career Ready Internship Grant, according to a Monday university release.
The grant is expected to support 205 new paid internships during the 2015-’18 academic years.
Wisconsin women’s hockey sophomore Emily Clark, along with alums Meaghan Mikkelson and Blayre Turnbull, have been selected to Canada’s 23-player roster for the 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship, as announced by Hockey Canada Monday.
Clark will make her second appearance for Team Canada at the 2016 IIHF World Championship, while Turnbull is making her first appearance at the tournament. Mikkelson, a two-time Olympian, will play in her sixth IIHF World Championship.
Noted: As strong supporters of the Madison Commons, we also love the partnership with the UW School of Journalism and the Commons, and the support of the Madison Community Foundation and MG&E.
Here’s how six people at UW-Madison’s Library Mall answered this week’s question posed by Capital Times freelancer Kevin Murphy.
Gratton is a professor of entomology at UW-Madison.
They teach English and chemistry, genetics and computer sciences, sociology, geography and math.
But the dozen UW-Madison instructors selected for the 2016 Distinguished Teaching Awards all possess outstanding dedication to their scholarship and students.
University of Wisconsin sophomore forward Emily Clark and former Badgers Meaghan Mikkelson and Blayre Turnbull were named to Canada’s roster for the 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship, Hockey Canada announced on Monday.
University of Wisconsin women’s basketball senior guard Nicole Bauman received All-Big Ten Conference honorable mention from both the league coaches and media, the Big Ten announced Monday.
It is the second consecutive year that the 5-foot-10 Bauman received honorable mention. She was the only UW player honored.
Texas prep defenseman Max Gildon verbally committed to play for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team, he tweeted on Monday.
Gildon, a 6-foot-3, 172-pound defenseman, plays for the U.S. National Team Development Program. He is originally from Plano, Texas.
No, it wasn’t a road victory over a top-10 opponent.
But UW’s win over Michigan on Sunday might have put the Badgers into the NCAA tournament no matter what happens the rest of the way.
It’s weeks like this that the ability to focus on the next task at hand — a strength inside the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program for years — comes in particularly handy.
Glance too far ahead, and the Badgers might get caught up in the fact that they enter the final week of the regular season with a wide array of possibilities waiting for them at the end of the tunnel.
Quoted: “The best-practice thinking these days has been to start providing access to these services earlier, before children are victims of abuse or neglect and before they have to be removed from their homes,” said Ellen Smith, the child welfare training coordinator at UW-Madison’s School of Social Work.
“There is a lot of interest in supporting biological families to prevent abuse and/or out-of-home placements rather than spending all of our limited funding to pay for out-of-home care costs.”
Noted: More than 160 colleges and universities are under investigation by OCR for alleged violations of Title IX, including UW-Madison and UW-Whitewater.
Flanagan said Monday that Edgewood College was under no such scrutiny.
Noted: Sally Rohrer, Associated Students of Madison’s University Affairs Committee chair, said eliminating special registration deputies would be detrimental to ASM’s efforts to register students at UW.
Rohrer said ASM voter drives brings the registration process to students, helping them, especially out-of-state students, become eligible to vote. ASM sent an open letter to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, defending SRDs.
University of Wisconsin is looking at increasing its non-need-based financial aid for students earlier in their academic career, but some say it is just another move in the “arms race” among schools competing for top students in the nation.
Long time University of Wisconsin professor James Rawlings joined a group of scientists across the country that have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to science throughout their careers.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank detailed data about enrollment, retention and educational outcomes for students of color on campus in a Friday blog post, saying although there is still work to be done, the university has improved its efforts in these areas.
UW-Madison spin-off organization Stemina Biomarker Discovery is attempting to create a biological method to diagnose autism by screening blood samples.
CEO Elizabeth Donley and UW-Madison professor in the Department of Animal Sciences Gabriela Cezar founded the company in 2006, according to a university release.
The Rathskeller dining room and Subskeller station in Memorial Union closed Sunday for further renovation, according to a press release from the Wisconsin Union.
The closing is part of a larger, ongoing construction project that began in 2012. According to the release, the project will preserve and enhance the union as a campus icon and is funded through student segregated fees, private donations and Wisconsin Union operating revenue.
