Long-time tenured right and libertarian-leaning UW-Madison professors Donald Downs and John Sharpless elaborate in Politico Magazine on their worry that Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed changes to tenure “will silence the very voices he claims to support.”
Quoted: “It’s a critical turning point for the law,” said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the UW Population Health Institute. “But people will continue to nitpick at the ACA at least until the next presidential election is history.”
“If you strike down the subsidies, you strike down the expansion of health insurance,” Assistant Professor Justin Sydnor said. The UW-Madison economist believes, that in turn, could leave thousands of Wisconsin residents out of health insurance.
500 shots a day. That’s what former Badgers forward Sam Dekker estimates he’s been putting up since he began training for the NBA. “It’s been a grind. Time has flown through even since the end of the season,” Dekker said.
Noted: The only non-union state employees the plan wouldn’t impact are University of Wisconsin workers. The UW System is in the process of creating its own personnel system that will devise a separate compensation plan for its employees.
(Video) Football 101 is a fun evening for women to go behind the scenes of Badger football, in the locker room and on the field at Camp Randall Stadium. The event is a fundraiser for Susan G. Komen South Central Wisconsin.
Ahead of the NBA draft, Frank the Tank Kaminsky has suited up for a new endorsement deal. The video shows the former Badger sporting a light blue J.C. Penney linen suit and a few other casual outfits.
A new clinic coming later this summer to UW Health at the American Center is placing special emphasis on men’s health. “A lot the problems unique to men are very personal,” UW Health Urologist David R. Paolone says while walking the halls of the new facility.
University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named recipient of the nation’s first endowed chair focused on plant breeding for organic crops, with $1 million in funding from Clif Bar, a maker of sports nutrition products, and Organic Valley, a farmer cooperative in La Farge. Clif Bar, based in California, says it’s working with various organizations to raise $10 million for organic plant breeding research.
We’ve introduced legislation to decrease tuition debt for higher education. They’ll be passing a budget with a $250 million cut to our University of Wisconsin system.
Danny Westerman, a former All-Big Ten Conference player for the Badgers, was named coach of the University of Wisconsin men’s tennis team on Monday. He returns to UW after nine years as coach at the University of Denver.
Highly touted University of Wisconsin running back Jordan Stevenson did not arrive to Madison with the rest of his recruiting class, but Badgers head coach Paul Chryst still expects to get the freshman on campus before the season begins. All freshmen, except Stevenson, enrolled in summer classes earlier this month and began summer conditioning workouts.
The great K-12, undergraduate and graduate education systems of Wisconsin have been built by the hard work and investment of generations. But to destroy them, the Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker need only to continue swinging the hammer of their destructive legislation.
Noted: Dixon Kaufman, transplant chairman at UW Hospital, one of the nation’s largest transplant centers, opposes the liver redistricting proposals, which could force Madison to export more livers and do fewer transplants.
Bo Ryan is a man in high demand since leading his Badgers on back to back trips to the Final Four. Ryan loosely estimated he’s signed 10,000 autographs for charities since Wisconsin’s latest trip to the Final Four in April. Sunday Ryan made a stop at the Capital Brewery in Middleton to help promote the 2nd annual Rock & Read Fundraiser to benefit summer reading clubs in the Madison area.
The largest organ in your body is one that needs extra protection as we approach the official start of summer. UW Health dermatologist Apple Bodemer was a guest on Wake Up Wisconsin Weekend to talk about how to keep your skin safe and looking young.
(Video) With the new movie Jurassic World setting box office records, biologist and retired UW Professor Stan Temple talks about emerging bio-technologies and the possibility of bringing back extinct animals.
Privately-run prisons in the U.S. have become an increasingly popular way for states to cut costs, but a recent study finds that inmates actually stay longer in private prisons than in state-run correctional facilities.
A study by Wisconsin School of Business assistant professor Anita Mukherjee found that inmates held in private prisons in Mississippi from 1996 to 2004 served 4% to 7% longer than inmates serving similar sentences in public prisons. Mukherjee’s study, which is currently under review, appears to be the first to compare time served between public and private prisons.
A new study by Paul Hoban, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business, and Randolph Bucklin of UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, suggests that if you are targeting consumers simply because they have spun through your Web site like wind through the trees, you might as well toss your money into the wind, as well. Rather, the best display ad ROI is to be had from targeting people who are new to your site, or have been there and done something.
UW-Madison is the fourth-largest research institution in the United States, according to a recent study released by NorthStar Consulting. The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences – CALS – alone has about $102 million in research funding. It’s difficult to quantify direct and indirect economic benefits because of the many complex connections and partnerships across the university and UW-Extension. But certainly several current research projects are contributing value to agriculture in the state and beyond.
Playing host to so many political protests in recent years, the Capitol rotunda saw another June 11, as a coalition of activist groups known as Another Budget is Possible rallied against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed biennial budget. More than 10 speakers challenged the budget cuts, including Sergio González, a doctoral candidate in the UW-Madison history department and a member of the Teachers Assistant Association.
University of Wisconsin faculty continued to speak out against potential tenure changes in the state budget and Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke on her plan to retain tenure protections at a listening session in Union South Monday.
Noted: However, according to a political science professor at University of Wisconsin, calling Feingold’s PAC a slush fund is not an accurate label.
“I don’t think there’s any evidence of any kind of personal use in that way which is implied by the strong label of slush fund,” said Professor David Canon.
Instead, Canon says the focus should be on the bigger issue of efficiency within the PAC.
(Video) This year, the Badgers’ men’s basketball team played in the National Championship Game for the first time since 1941. And now everyone can relive that remarkable season thanks to a new book, “Make Em Believe” by Patrick Herb.
Badger football players got their workouts in a different way on Wednesday, helping improve play spaces for children. Coach Paul Chryst led team members in putting up a large tarp over a playground at the Goodman Community Center on Madison’s east side. Players also spread mulch on the center’s grounds and organized the center’s food pantry.
The Badgers football team set kickoff times for two more non-conference games. Wisconsin will meet Miami (Ohio) at 11 a.m. on Sept. 12. That game will be broadcast on either ESPN2 or ESPNU. The Badgers will host Troy on Sept. 19 at 2:30 p.m. That game will air on BTN.
Following an athletic season full of great accomplishments, the University of Wisconsin has named senior basketball player Frank Kaminsky as the school’s Male Athlete of the Year and senior swimmer Ivy Martin as its Female Athlete of the Year.
An ESPN investigation that looked at 10 colleges to determine if student athletes get special treatment found Wisconsin skewed toward the middle of the schools included.
Five current Wisconsin wrestlers will represent the Badgers at this weekend’s U.S. Senior and Junior World Team Trials at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison on June 12-14.
Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, professor of entomology.
UW Health’s American Center is about two months away from its grand opening. The new facility is striving to promote sustainability in Wisconsin’s environment. In order to do that, they’ve handpicked artists to make special pieces for the center, reflecting that mission.
(Video) Quoted: Mark Reichelderfer, professor of gastroenterology and hepatology.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison genetic discovery, looking at two key brain proteins in mice with the developmental disorder fragile X, has researchers hoping they could one day develop treatments for other neurological disorders, such as autism.
The University of Wisconsin System is under an attack more subtle but perhaps just as dangerous as when “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy declared it to be a “nest of communist traitors.” Unfortunately, the UW System and UW Foundation leadership response to this attack has been a clumsy campaign alternating between denial and a perplexing “trust us” mentality.’ (By David Vanness, associate professor of population health sciences.)
Many UW-Madison faculty members are worried their jobs could be at risk after the Joint Finance Committee recently voted to remove tenure from state law. Tenure offers protection for academic freedom and was designed to make sure people can express ideas without fear of retaliation.
A proposal in the state budget to cut the tenure system from state law is drawing criticism from those who work at the University of Wisconsin. Chancellor Becky Blank said the tenure plans are not a disaster, but faculty members demanded answers late Tuesday at a faculty senate meeting.
Noted: Fellow academy recruit Kristin Collins is a second generation police officer. She has already been hired by the University of Wisconsin-Madison police department, but still has 10-weeks left in her academy training. Growing up in a law enforcement family Collins welcomes the increased public scrutiny and says officers need to embrace this new reality.
“Say hey, this is what the job is, there are no walls up right now. This is what we’re doing. This is what we’re trained to do and you’re more than welcome to see how I perform my duties,” Collins says.
UW-Madison’s Faculty Senate is asking state lawmakers to remove from the state budget legislation doing away with tenure. The Senate passed a resolution with that call to action during a special meeting Tuesday.
The DNR took of blue-green algae on Lake Monona last week. It can irritate skin if touched, but can do even more damage if ingested. Quoted: Professor Jake Vander Zanden, from the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, says, “Some of the main symptoms are vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, some pretty severe reactions can be seen.”
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank plans to meet with the university’s faculty senate Tuesday to address concerns about the changes to tenure.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted Friday to add faculty tenure protections to its policies, as state lawmakers prepare to drop those assurances from state law. The Journal Sentinel reports Regent Mark Bradley says the board is doing what it is able to do to protect tenure.
The Lake Rescue Team assisted divers from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and officials with the UW-Madison’s Life Saving Station in searching for a 22-year old man reported missing on Lake Mendota on Saturday evening.
A study by University of Wisconsin researchers suggests that poor sleep in middle age could be one of the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Senior author Dr. Ruth Benca said in a release that despite correlation, the study doesn’t show whether poor sleep causes amyloid plaques to develop in the brain or whether amyloid plagues prevent quality sleep.
(Video) And to think we started this year with the goal of reinvigorating The Wisconsin Idea. Now we are afraid it is in danger of being destroyed.
Authorities are searching an area of Lake Mendota near Memorial Union for a man who reportedly fell into the water. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office told News 3 crews were called to the lake about 6 p.m. on Saturday.
The Big Ten announced on Wednesday the 28 honorees named Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winners for the 2014-15 academic year. These standouts were chosen from a group of more than 350 students honored throughout the academic year who had displayed positive sportsmanship. Joel Rumpel, Hockey, and Aja Van Hout, Swimming, represented the Badgers.
Just hours after Capitols head coach and general manager Luke Strand announced his decision to accept the position of associate head coach with the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program, one of his stars from the Capitols followed suit. Winger Will Johnson announced his commitment to the Badgers on Wednesday afternoon, where he will begin play in the 2015-16 season.
The University of Wisconsin has weathered years of budget cuts, but many faculty members believe the elimination of tenure would be a tipping point. The elimination of tenure is being recommended in legislation adopted by the Joint Finance Committee. Quoted: Don Moynihan and Pamela Herd, both professors of public affairs.
This will be about 120 miles,” said Officer John Deering. A team of officers from UW-Madison’s Police Department are trading in their typical uniforms for running gear. They are running relay-style from the steps of the Capitol to Stevens Point.
More than 360 professors who have won some of the university’s most prestigious research awards signed a letter they plan to send to the UW-System Board of Regents before their meeting Thursday.
Athletes with UW-Madison ties include Barry Richter, who helped lead the University of Wisconsin hockey team to the 1990 NCAA Championship before embarking upon a professional career that took him to the NHL and overseas; volleyball coach Pete Waite, who led Wisconsin to nine straight NCAA Tournaments in his 14 seasons; and Jackie Zoch, who rowed for the Badgers before joining the U.S. National Team.
Noted: Experts note there is an issue with the propellant, the tool that inflates the airbag. Glenn Bower, a faculty associate and senior scientist in UW’s Mechanical Engineering Department, detailed this process to 27 News. He says some of the airbags have been replaced with a propellant that’s still not up to par, continuing to put those drivers at risk.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering research and development team thinks a computer chip made mostly of wood could be the answer to potentially toxic, non-biodegradable electronics filling up landfills.
Everything that affects the university affects us all, and should be of concern to every Wisconsin citizen. This state has invested a great deal in the university since its very founding, and has a lot at stake in preserving that investment.
(Video) On Wednesday, Connie Eibergen and Jessica Cederquist, from UW Madison Dairy Herd along with her cow, Planet, joined us on Wake Up Wisconsin.
Greg Van Emburgh, the head men’s tennis coach at the University of Wisconsin for the last 10 years, has resigned his position, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced today.
Question of the day: If Wisconsin was a corporation and not a state, would you invest in its stock? If, as I would argue, one of Wisconsin’s major assets is a world-class public university, why would management decide to undermine it?
The announcement that the Professional Golf Association’s Champions Tour will hold an annual event at Madison’s University Ridge Golf Course is a big deal. It adds some “big league” status to our city.
Before he even played a single game in a Madison Capitols uniform, Sheboygan native Tony Stillwell already made a name for himself in Madison and the entire state’s illustrious hockey upbringing.
A man missing from a university medical facility was found late Saturday night, campus police said.
