The U.S. News & World Report ranked UW Hospital and Clinics as the best hospital in the state of Wisconsin in the 2015-16 Best Hospitals edition. It was also ranked among the nation’s top 50 hospitals for 10 specialties.
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is ranked among the nation’s top 50 hospitals in 10 medical specialties, one more than last year in the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. UW also retained its position as the best hospital in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin Band escorted a Madison woman out of her last chemotherapy treatment Monday. Ann Trachtenberg joked about the escort, but little did she know that her niece actually contacted the band.
Professor Bill Tracy got right to the point when asked for his thoughts on a controversy that arose this week involving statements from University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab on Twitter.
“It’s a mess,” said Tracy, a member of the steering committee for PROFS, an advocacy organization for UW-Madison professors.
Stem cell research at UW-Madison typically aims to create skin and organs; this summer, its goal is to create scientists.
Twenty small-town Wisconsin high school students and teachers, alongside UW-Madison students and researchers, donned lab coats and blue plastic gloves at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery to experiment with cryopreservation and live human stem cells.
Redshirt sophomore Connor Senger is no longer with the University of Wisconsin football team, according to a UW official.
Wissports.net first reported the news Saturday, saying that the former walk-on will transfer to UW-Oshkosh.
UW-Madison professor Sara Goldrick-Rab’s tweets comparing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler and suggesting the governor and “many” state lawmakers are “fascists” are the kind of thing you’d expect to see in anonymous online comment sections and other gutters of the Internet.
So it’s a good thing her colleagues at the university are willing to stand up for a smarter, more civilized form of political discourse.
The state budget signed by Gov. Scott Walker last week envisions broad changes to how the University of Wisconsin System is run, experts say, allowing for a more corporate management structure that empowers chancellors while professors with fewer protections take a back seat.
It’s a model that has incensed faculty, drawing national attention to the UW System as legislators stripped tenure from state law, weakened shared governance and expanded justifications for laying off professors.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor emeritus Donald Downs said no-knock searches are only allowed if surprise is needed, for example to protect officers or prevent destruction of evidence. He questioned whether searches, as described by conservative media, were “proportional to the type of crime and what they (authorities) knew about the type of people involved.”
Quoted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
Noted: The county is most concerned about indirect impacts of a $250 million cut to UW-Madison and level K-12 funding, said Josh Wescott, chief of staff to county executive Joe Parisi. Over time, a lack of investment in education, job training and other areas creates “a risk to stunting the growth we’ve seen here locally,” he said.
Q How do we purify dirty water?
— Molly Torinus, 6, home school
A What we use to purify water depends a lot on where the water’s coming from and what we want to do with it. Quoted: Christy Remucal is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison.
A night after being inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame and having his No. 4 jersey retired, Favre enjoyed a return to the playing field at the Brett Favre’s Legends flag football game Sunday at the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium.
Cynics might call it the toughest ticket in college football — the toughest ticket to sell, that is.
But the University of Wisconsin will give it the ol’ college try, putting single-game tickets for home football games on sale Monday morning for a schedule that, outside of maybe the Iowa game, lacks a major drawing card.
Noted: Of course, inconsideration isn’t new, or particular to theaters. But as technology and social media blur lines between personal and public, “there’s been an erosion in people’s norms of public space,” said Lewis Friedland, a University of Wisconsin sociology and communications professor.
Noted: Antonio Freeman said the players appreciated the vibrant atmosphere in the stadium. The UW athletic department said just less than 22,500 tickets were sold.
When University of Wisconsin researchers study stem cells, they typically seek to create skin and organs. This summer, they seek to create scientists.
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that 22 small-town high school students and teachers joined UW-Madison students and researchers in donning lab coats and blue plastic gloves to experiment with live human stem cells. The four-day experience was part of a program that encourages science careers and aims to give small-town students chances they wouldn’t ordinarily get.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor says she now regrets how her views on academic freedom came across on Twitter. Sara Goldrick-Rab is under fire for encouraging prospective students to go elsewhere because she believes academic freedom is in jeopardy at Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ranked 25th in the world and 18th nationally by the Center for World University Rankings. This is the second year in a row UW-Madison has received these rankings, according to a release.
Single-game tickets to Wisconsin’s home games go on sale at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, July 20 that’s according to the UW Athletic Department.
Tickets are available for seven games.
As Corey Clement looks to carry the torch for Wisconsin’s running game in 2015, he’ll also seek to carry on the Badgers’ tradition of taking home the Doak Walker Award.
Clement was named Thursday to the preseason watch list for the honor, which is presented annually to the nation’s top running back. He doesn’t have to look far for an example of what it takes to win, either. Former UW teammate Melvin Gordon claimed the Doak Walker Award last season while rushing for 2,587 yards and scoring 32 total touchdowns.
Wisconsin women’s hockey players Mellissa Channell, Emily Clark, Sam Cogan, Ann-Renée Desbiens, Sydney McKibbon and Sarah Nurse earned invitations to the 2015 Hockey Canada National Women’s Development Team Selection Camp, Aug. 6-16, in Calgary, Alberta.
The six Badgers are among 43 invitees vying for spots on the 23-player team that will travel to Lake Placid, New York, for a three-game set against the United States’ Women’s Under-22 team Aug. 19-22.
Wisconsin men’s soccer head coach John Trask announced Thursday the addition of six student-athletes who will join the Badgers for the 2015 season.
Sam Brotherton (Auckland, New Zealand), Elan Koenig (Los Angeles), Abdul Kooistra (Madison), Isaac Schlenker (Milwaukee), Sully Tesch (Park City, Utah) and Jack Wells (Milwaukee) will join the Badgers this fall.
University Communications science writer Kelly Tyrrell speaks with PNM’s Jim Carrier about science at UW-Madison, a biomedical research crisis impacting UW and the rest of the U.S., and the value of basic science. The end of the show is cut off, but can be found at the very start of the following program in the archives, Radio Literature (both on July 16, 2015).
Featured: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, testified that House Bill 589 imposes additional costs on black and Hispanic voters. Blacks and Hispanic voters used such practices as early voting and same-day voter registration at higher levels than whites, he said.
Much of the attention on violent video games is examining how such games affect kids. A new University of Wisconsin-Madison study takes a different approach by looking at ways video games can manage a person’s mood, with a particular focus on frustration.
“We picked frustration first because it’s easy to frustrate people,” said James Alex Bonus, a graduate student in the Department of Communication Arts, who conducted the study with fellow grad student Alanna Peebles and assistant professor Karyn Riddle.
Gov. Scott Walker signed the biennial state budget in Waukesha July 12, revealing the exact effects it will have on the UW-Madison community.
UW System professors no longer have tenure defined by state statutes as a result of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-’17 budget, which has left some worrying that university faculty and researchers will leave to find more secure jobs elsewhere.
Not being rich, our family has allocated much of our financial resources to sending our children to UW schools. But we’re not the only ones who put up dollars. Every Wisconsin taxpayer did also.
Ten of my family members with degrees work in Wisconsin. They pay taxes, buy homes, bring up families and contribute to life here as pharmacists, nurses, teachers, computer specialists and accountants. The taxpayers investment pays off.
He didn’t know it yet, but Kyle Costigan’s hope for an NFL career began falling apart during his sophomore season.
The University of Wisconsin offensive lineman had sat out all but three games as a redshirt freshman because of a foot injury, an experience he wouldn’t stand for during the remainder of his college career.
Having already landed on the Maxwell Award watch list earlier this month, it was no surprise that University of Wisconsin running back Corey Clement was named to the Doak Walker Award preseason watch list Thursday.
The award, given annually to the nation’s top running back, is one the Badgers have taken home two of the past three seasons, and UW is the only school that has produced three different winners of the trophy.
It may not be as familiar of a sight as corn, or soybeans, but the potato season is underway in parts of the area. It’s also a big business in the state. Researchers and growers in Central Wisconsin are looking for an above average year. Quoted: Amanda Gevens, associate professor of plant pathology.
With the 2015 season approaching fast, your first chance to meet this year’s Badgers squad will be at the annual Wisconsin Football Family Fun Day at Camp Randall Stadium. The event is set for Sunday, Aug. 9, from 3-5 p.m.
A group of students at UW School of Medicine and Public Health are taking some time out of the classroom to help kids in the greater Madison area. Their seventh student-run pro clinic offers pediatric care. UW students from the medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy and physician assistant programs man the clinic, as well as social workers from the CFF and UW medical faculty.
(Video) A decade-long journey to the outer reaches of the solar system ended at Pluto’s doorstep Tuesday. Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin Space Place, talks about the achievement on Live at Five.
Watch lists for three national defensive awards have been revealed over the last week, and Michael Caputo’s name has appeared on all three.
The Wisconsin senior safety added another preseason honor to his growing resume on Monday when he was named to the 2015 watch list for the Jim Thorpe Award, which is presented annually to the nation’s top defensive back.
What’s new at the Dictionary of American Regional English? Boneless cats, for one. Badgers and back-budgers. Beach-walks, bodegas, (cellar) bugs, and beelers.
Quoted: “It’s lip service to the poor, in order to get the feds to approve a deal,” said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is a copycat kind of program. First it was Comcast, then Charter, and now AT&T has jumped on board with it,” Orton added.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a $6 billion budget Thursday that incorporates millions of dollars in cuts from the Legislature. Before voting, the regents worried about the effects of deep cuts on the UW System.
“At what point do we say ‘ouch’?” Regent Jose F. Vasquez asked.
Wisconsin sophomore kicker Rafael Gaglianone made his way into the Badgers’ record books last season, with his rookie performance good enough to land him consideration for the title of the nation’s top placekicker.
The 30-player preseason watch list for the 2015 Lou Groza Award, presented annually to the best kicker in the country, was announced Thursday by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission.
Noted: So far this week, police in the Madison area have responded to three threats. On Saturday, a man claimed he was armed and inside a UW campus building. Wednesday, a bomb threat forced an evacuation at the Capitol, and later, a woman claimed she had a bomb at the Dutch Mill Park and Ride near Stoughton Road. All of the threats were determined to be unfounded.
Madison Water Utility is monitoring a well in the area of the University of Wisconsin campus for radium. The utility said Thursday that recent testing on a well on North Randall Avenue showed radium levels exceeding the federal standards.
Critchley joined the UW Madison Risk Management office in 1976 and retired in 2010 as the Risk Manager of UW Madison.
The financial burden of college holds many Americans back from pursuing a higher education but a bill introduced by Sen. Tammy Baldwin Wednesday may make the first two years free.
Despite making an ill-advised wager on the final clue prior to Final Jeopardy, Jenny Thorngate of Madison nailed that answer and then the final answer to win Wednesday’s episode of “Jeopardy!”
Thorngate, a chemist who works at the University of Wisconsin for the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, will play against two new opponents on Thursday’s episode. “Jeopardy!” airs in Madison at 4:30 p.m. weekdays on NBC15.
Dr. Jeffrey Grossman has been named interim CEO of UW Health. The UW Hospital board approved the appointment this week, UW Health announced Thursday. Grossman has been president of CEO of UW Medical Foundation, UW-Madison’s doctor group, since 2001.
Noted: “Madison has a really strong talent pool coming out of (UW-Madison),” agreed Forrest Woolworth, chief operating officer of Madison gaming company PerBlue, and co-founder of local industry group Capital Entrepreneurs.
Video games can improve your mood but playing a violent video game could increase aggressive outcomes, a UW-Madison study shows.
Madison Water Utility officials say they will keep a close eye on a water well near the UW-Madison campus after recent tests showed radium levels higher than federal limits.
Well 27 on North Randall Avenue tested at 6.2 picocuries of radium per liter, exceeding the federal maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 5 picocuries per liter, officials said Thursday.
Vintage movie fans enjoy stories about the bizarre screenplay changes during the late 1930s and early ’40s after Hollywood studios imposed the Motion Picture Production Code, in an effort to clean up their image and remove content some audiences would find objectionable.
It now seems our Republican legislators have adapted the same philosophy in crafting their state budget bill. In the past couple months we’ve seen them propose and then summarily discard language that would abolish the Legislative Audit Bureau, eliminate the Wisconsin Idea from the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, weaken the state’s pioneering open records law and politicize the board that oversees the nation’s best-run public pension system.
Quarterback Joel Stave, tailback Corey Clement and defensive back Michael Caputo will join new University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst for Big Ten Conference media day in Chicago later this month.
The league announced Thursday the player representatives for the annual two-day gathering, to be held July 30 and 31 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.
A task force that will work to add tenure protections to University of Wisconsin System policy will meet for the first time later this summer after legislators voted to remove tenure from state law.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday approved a budget that will absorb the first of two years of deep cuts in state aid to higher education and reduce funding for UW-Madison by nearly $60 million.
The UW-Madison Police Department is investigating a theft incident involving stolen chairs from the Memorial Union Terrace.
This week, the UWPD was notified that 16 chairs disappeared sometime between June 11 and June 13, according to a release from the UWPD. Each chair is worth approximately $250, making the total loss $4,000.
The UW-Madison men’s basketball team rose to fame this year with their final four season, but some players are learning fame comes with a price.
Last night, point guard Bronson Koenig sent a tweet warning people that someone was posing as him on Snapchat. The tweet said, “Once again, there is an imposter running a fake snapchat account of me. If u receive a snapchat thinking its me & idk you its, it’s not me.”
(Video) Planes were grounded, stocks didn’t trade and information was interupted Wednesday thanks to three major computer crashes. UW System’s Chief Information Security Officer Nick Davis talks about what happened on Live at Five.
University of Wisconsin police said someone took 16 of the iconic chairs from Memorial Union Terrace. UW police said the chairs were taken between June 11 and June 13. Each chair is worth $250, making for total loss of $4,000.
Dr. Jeffrey Grossman has been named interim CEO of UW Health. As CEO, Grossman will lead UW Hospital and Clinics, the UW Medical Foundation, American Family Children’s Hospital and UW Health at The American Center.
A Wisconsin native and UW-Madison graduate has been announced as co-host of the Miss USA pageant just days before the live event Sunday.
Alex Wehrley will co-host the event with Todd Newton, while OK! TV’s Julie Alexandria will provide commentary from backstage. The former Miss Wisconsin USA graduated from UW-Madison in 2009 and grew up in Brookfield.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study has found that increasing the amount of women-owned businesses in Wisconsin could be an economic growth and development opportunity.
As of 2011 in Wisconsin, women owned or managed more than 80,000 businesses, employed over 550,000 workers and earned $45 billion in sales, according to the study’s authors, Tessa Conroy and Steven Deller. However, there is a significant lack of women-owned businesses in Wisconsin compared with those owned by men.
