University of Wisconsin-Madison’s vice chancellor for finance is leaving to take a job at the University of Texas.
Both schools posted news releases Tuesday saying Darrell Bazzell will leave Wisconsin in March and begin a stint as senior vice president and chief financial officer at the University of Texas at Austin on April 18.
Live at Four talks to UW-Madison’s Kristen Bernard and Matthew Aliota, both experts on Zika virus. Aliota is part of team that confirmed the Zika virus in Columbia and is working to find a way to stop it.
Though computer science skills applicable to broad range of disciplines, women make up less than 15 percent of the major at this university.
For the second-straight week, Ethan Happ of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team has earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors from the league office, as announced on Monday.
After scoring the game-winning basket two weeks ago against No. 4 Michigan State and being named Co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week, the freshman forward from Milan, Illinois, followed up with a career-high 20 points and 11 rebounds to power UW to a 66-60 road win at Penn State last Thursday.
The Wisconsin Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Russ Feingold, spent Monday evening discussing college costs with the UW-Madison Chapter of College Democrats.
This is all part of a two-day tour of college campuses throughout the state of Wisconsin by the Feingold campaign. The candidate is addressing students at each stop on the burden of high cost of student debt.
Noted: The bill is supported by Attorney General Brad Schimel and University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, who said avoiding citations for victims and their supporters is already policy on campus.
“We have been telling them if you are drinking but helping a friend we will focus on the sexual assault issue and not the drinking issue,” Blank said. “But I think being able to say under the law of Wisconsin this is not just our practice but this is the law does have a certain depth of convincingness to it.”
Students part of University of Wisconsin’s BadgerLoop are preparing for a national SpaceX competition that challenges them to bring transportation technology to life.
The BadgerLoop team is creating their version of SpaceX’s Hyperloop concept, a new technology that uses air pressures to propel a transportation pod down a tube for fast travel.
Quoted: “It’s an important topic to show that we are not abiding, supporting or even sympathizing with ISIS or ISIL,” said Madinah Community Center member and University of Wisconsin Microbiology Professor Adel Talaat.
Nearly 400 people attended the panel, many of them non Muslims.
“This is actually a good thing.. when you see a lot of non Muslims coming here,” Talaat said.
Quoted: “The rationale the governor and Legislature is giving is they’re streamlining the process, making positions easier to fill,” said Will Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in labor history. “The question is, do you want to just fill them or put the most qualified people in those positions?”
Tim Browning was at it again Sunday morning near the Monona Terrace, putting together his latest display. This year he built a large, wooden sculpture he’s calling a “Madison-don”, a play on a mastodon on exhibit at a UW-Madison museum.
The UW Athletic Board has approved proposed contract extensions for several fall sports head coaches. Paul Chryst, Kelly Sheffield and Paula Wilkins had their contract extended by a year.
Don Featherstone’s flamingos are forever linked to UW–Madison thanks to a couple pranksters, a columnist and an official ruling.
The UW Athletic Board extended the contract of head football coach Paul Chryst through January 31, 2021 Friday.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross plans to issue a statement addressing the system’s diversity shortcomings.
Students, alumni and faculty from UW-Parkside, UW-Madison and UW-Fond du Lac met with Cross on Thursday. They asked Cross to acknowledge a lack of progress on diversity, create diversity training and re-commit to Plan 2008, which laid out diversity goals calling for enrolling more students of color and boosting their graduation rates.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, director at UW’s Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence, said the proposal would benefit consumers.
“Consumers get more bang for their buck, retailers get an opportunity to draw more people into their store,” O’Brien said “It might be easier to plan sales, you know that’s going to be a big day.”
On the afternoon of Friday, January 17, about 30 people filled the Walnut Way Conservation Corp. (2240 N 17th St) to discuss UW-Madison School of Medicine’s TRIUMPH programand showcase its accomplishments.
Republican legislators want to pass the six bills that make up Governor Walker’s college affordability package, but new budget projections could put it in jeopardy.
The average student loan borrower in Wisconsin pays off about $3,300 dollars in debt each year, but can only deduct up to $2,500 of the interest on those loans from their state income taxes.
(Video) Barbara Ingham, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and food safety specialist, talks about the implications of the food safety issues Chipotle has been dealing with.
(Video) Last year, Space X and Tesla announced an exciting engineering competition for university students. The goal of the competition is to come up with a mode of transportation that is faster, safer, less expensive and more sustainable than planes, cars or trains. A team from the University of Wisconsin is in the competition this year.
(Video) Lily’s Luau is known for its tropical food, music and attire, but it’s all for a great cause. The event raising money for epilepsy research on the University of Wisconsin campus is this weekend. Quoted: Antoine Madar, research assistant in neuroscience; Mathew (Matt) Jones, associate professor of neuroscience.
Jobs could be on the chopping block as the UW Extension undergoes major restructuring this year.
The 2015 state budget included $3.6 million in cuts for the Extension this year, according to a press release. Restructuring will include merging some county locations into regional outlets, as well as reducing the number of specialist and support positions.
“Where [H5N2] was a Eurasian strain, this [H7N8] actually is of North American lineage. We think that it was present as a low pathogenicity strain in chickens and it actually mutated or changed,” said Dr. Keith Poulsen, an assistant professor at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have worked with colleagues at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection on a plan to help the state’s honey bees.
“What Trump said is consistent with what we found,” said Scott Gehlbach, a co-author of the study and a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The national conversation on how to reduce gun violence has continued after more than 300 mass shootings in 2015, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker. In Madison, the debate has resulted in proposed legislation that would allow concealed weapons in university buildings.
For the second time this year, Wisconsin women’s hockey sophomore Emily Clark was named the WCHA Offensive Player of the Week, the conference announced on Tuesday.
Noted: “We are also excited to work with the University of Wisconsin System to explore providing a three-year degree that would start in our high schools and continue on many of our UW campuses. This would help reduce costs and move people into the workforce sooner,” said Gov. Walker.
Along with that plan, the Governor called for expanding the UW Flex Degree option to a number of students that would be equal to a new UW campus.
All of that follows last week’s unveiling of a college affordability package, which he urged legislators to pass with bipartisan support.
Noted: University of Wisconsin’s Hope Lab says the program has proved its success over the years. In a new evaluation to be released next month, the study found 73 percent of AVID/TOPS students go to college compared to 62 percent who go to college who are not in the program. Those statistics are credited to expanding opportunities and increasing attendance.
“It’s reducing the number of absences that they have and as any parent knows, showing up for class is a hard task and getting them there is so important because that’s where the learning happens,” said Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, of Wisconsin HOPE Lab.
Noted: Gov. Walker said during the 40-minute address that his administration plans to spend more on grants for on-the-job training for high school students, work with the University of Wisconsin System on a three-year degree that would start in high school and expand the system’s flex option program.
WAUSAU – Children live in families, said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria on Tuesday. It’s not a new revelation, he said, but it’s an important detail to remember as the county tries to tackle the challenges that face kids here.Navsaria spoke Tuesday morning to a full house at the Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County about the release of the 2015-2017 LIFE in Marathon County report.
To watch the evolution of Hurricane Alex between January 6 and 14, click on the screenshot above. That will launch an animation of false-color imagery acquired by the GOES-13 weather satellite showing water vapor in the atmosphere. Blue, white and green colors show where water vapor is highest. (The animation is from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, which runs the ever-awesome CIMSS Satellite Blog.)
As colleges across the country debate diversity on campus, students and leaders at UW grapple with the definition of free speech
Fresh off scoring the game-winning layup against No. 4 Michigan State on Sunday, Ethan Happ of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team was named Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week by the league office on Monday.
The spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior was alive and well on the UW-Madison campus Friday night.
The King Coalition hosted its 29th annual free community dinner at the Gordon Dining Center on campus.
Quoted: “The reason we formed was we noticed there was an absence of input from Black professionals and we wanted to help groom, recruit and retain Black professionals in this community,” says Dawn B. Crim, [Madison Network of Black Professionals] president for the 2016-18 term and associate dean for external relations in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Crim says Madison can be a transient place. People come here for school, graduate and decide to stay and enter the workforce. But for some African Americans, they become the one Black professional there. “So we thought it made sense to try to build a network across the city so professionals feel supported and connected as well as informed on what’s happening in the community.”
Also: Madison Magnet has partnered with the University of Wisconsin–Madison to join its new graduate student resource fair.
Former Badgers football coach Bret Bielema will reportedly star in a web-based reality series, according to a sports website.
In an article Thursday, The Bleacher Report said that Bielema, who is now the head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, will star in “Being Bret Bielema.” Trailers teasing the program were posted to YouTube, one on Dec. 29 and another Wednesday.
Quoted: “I think no animal should be outside when it is that cold,” says Dr. Sandi Sawchuk, a clinical instructor at the UW Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. “You’re looking at pretty instant flesh freezing and even though dogs tend to have more padded feet and have hair on their feet they can still get very cold and get frost bit quite quickly.”
Noted: Once at UW Health, Klett was immediately put into emergency laser surgery to repair the tears.
“We were essentially spot-welding around a tear to create an adhesion,” explained her doctor, UW Health Ophthalmologist (and professor of ophthalmology) Michael Altaweel.
University of Wisconsin researchers say they’ve found a treatment to clean up the plaques that form in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease.
The research published in the journal Brain shows that compounds that inhibit two cellular proteins can help clean up the plaques found in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The proteins work inside the cell to remove toxic material.
Quoted: Luigi Puglielli, of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Following standout performances during Wisconsin’s dual meet at USC on Tuesday, four Badgers were recognized with weekly Big Ten Conference honors. Matt Hutchins and Danielle Valley claimed their respective Big Ten Swimmer of the Week honors, Clark Carter earned both the male Big Ten Freshman and Diver of the Week accolades, and Jess Unicomb was named female Big Ten Freshman of the Week.
Quoted: “The bottom line is people are still getting sick the way that they usually are but it’s not influenza that’s causing it,” UW Dr. Nasia Safdar, said. [Safdar is associate professor in the department of medicine.]
According to UW Health, Dane County is seeing a surge in something else.
“There’s a lot of other respiratory viruses that are going around,” Dr. Safdar said.
Wisconsin women’s hockey associate head coach Dan Koch was named the American Hockey Coaches Association Women’s Hockey Assistant Coach of the Year, as announced by the group on Thursday.
Every year, the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences give out an award to those who have outstanding work in the agricultural industry.
Associate Dean of External Communications Heidi Zoerb says the awards have been given out for more than 100 years.
Noted: An epidemiologist at UW Health says all over Dane County, doctors have seen a lot of acute respiratory tract infections this week. Dr. Jonathan Temte, professor of family medicine, says most of the ARI cases were caused by Rhino/Enterovirus and Parainfluenza.
(Video) Karin Swanson gets a first-hand wardrobe demonstration from Wisconsin scientists on Live at Four. Quoted: Matthew Lazzara, principal investigator for the Automatic Weather Stations Project.
Noted: The conference and city will partner locally with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems; Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection; and Community GroundWorks bring broad farm to cafeteria and on-site garden experience, workshop and training expertise, and local perspective to the conference planning committee.
Noted: “The Hunting Ground” takes a withering look at how the finest universities in our land, staffed by pedigreed academics espousing the purest of values, callously marginalize female students who dare report rape or sexual assault on their campuses. The film illustrates how too often image protection trumps justice. The film stars a handful of brave young victims who smartly bring legal action against more than seventy colleges and universities for Title IX violations. Schools under federal investigation include Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
(Video) For the first time, an international competition is being held on American soil. The competition judges the quality of sausages and ham, and is being held at the UW’s Institutes for Discovery hosted by the UW Meat Sciences Extension. Over 2,500 sausages and hams were submitted for evaluation.
Noted: Patrick Nowlin won $41 million in 2007. He admits he’s proudest, though, of his contribution to end diabetes.
“We were able to set up a $2 million trust fund to research diabetes right up here at the UW, basically paying for a researcher’s salary for the past couple of years,” he said.
Separate studies have been released that look at mercury contamination in the environment.
One shows scientists can track the type of mercury pollution that gets into the Great Lakes. The other shows global mercury pollution is declining.
T.J. Edwards’ debut season with the Wisconsin football team was an unqualified success.
At least that’s the way the Football Writers Association of America saw it.
Edwards was recognized Monday for his efforts as a key contributor to a Wisconsin unit that ranked No. 2 in scoring defense and No. 3 in total defense in the FBS this season, earning a place on the FWAA Freshman All-America Team. A starter in all 13 games as a redshirt freshman, Edwards led the Badgers in tackles with 84. He also logged 6.5 tackles for loss, broke up four passes and forced a fumble.
A brief period of lake-effect snow was spotted Monday morning by the UW’s Atmospheric Oceanic Space Sciences rooftop camera.
The lake-effect snow event was reported over Lake Mendota, which is quite unusual, according to News 3 meteorologist Karin Swanson.
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Madison have won a four-year, $5 million federal grant to study the brain networks of epilepsy patients. Their study, called the Epilepsy Connectome Project, will involve state-of-the-art brain imaging of about 200 adult temporal lobe epilepsy patients from across the state.
Q – Can stem cells be used to repair brain damage or help someone with Alzheimer’s, dementia or Parkinson’s?— Kate Krueger, 47, Madison
A – The simple answer to the question is yes. It is possible to regenerate parts of the brain with stem cells, just like we can in other organs.
Tim Krumrie’s long wait is finally over. Some 24 years after becoming eligible for the game’s highest honor, the man who set the standard for defensive players at the University of Wisconsin is set to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Krumrie’s election became official Friday with the National Football Foundation’s announcement of the 16 members — 14 players and two coaches — that comprise the College Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016.
More and more colleges across the country are saying no to hoverboards.
But UW Madison spokesman Marc Lovicott says the university is hovering over what to do.
“You’re allowed to possess them for now but you can’t use them here.”
Noted: Frostbite can result in loss of limbs in extreme cases, and that’s one of the reasons UW Health Dermatologist [and clinical assistant professor] Apple Bodemer is reminding people to bundle up.
“Hats – face masks – mittens – multiple layers,” she suggests.
Noted: But the Governor is still fighting the release of other records that shed light on the process his administration went through when it altered the Wisconsin Idea – a part of the UW System’s mission statement – as it put together the 2015-16 state budget early last year.
In the initial release of his budget plan, Gov. Walker changed the UW System’s mission to “meet the state’s workforce needs.” He also proposed striking language about public service and improving the human condition, and deleting the phrase: “Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth.”
Gov. Walker scrapped the changes after a strong public reaction against them, blaming it on a “drafting error.”
Noted: Issues of tuition, room and board, grants and loans, public support and more require fundamental fixes. The whole system has become the focus of a growing body of research, some of the best being done at UW-Madison.
Noted: “I think it’s a little more strict than it used to be, but it’s the same message, the same key messages that you want to take home,” said Julie Andrews, UW Health chef and registered dietitian. “The FDA suggests reducing the intake of added sugars, and so that means any sugars added during the processing of the food.”
Andrews is the coordinator for UW Health’s Learning Kitchen program, which offers cooking classes to those looking to learn how to cook healthier meals. Classes are held at UW Health at The American Center building on Madison’s northeast side.
