The PGA Champions Tour will come to University Ridge Golf Course starting next June. The announcement was made at the golf course Monday morning. Steve Stricker will host the American Family Insurance Classic. Steve Stricker and Jerry Kelly turn 50 in time to play in the tournament in 2017.
Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham said a motion from the Joint Finance Committee that would authorize the UW System to create independent charter schools is an “alarming sign” of the Legislature prioritizing private schools and politics over public education.
State lawmakers approved reducing a planned cut to the University of Wisconsin System to $250 million, and making multiple changes to how tenure and shared governance are included in state law.
Quoted: “What this poll does is suggest the Governor has held steady,” said Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison Professor of Journalism and Political Science. “It also shows other people who were near him in the polls have fallen off a bit.”
The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted to reduce Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System by $50 million. Committee members approved the change Friday evening.
The University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross made the following statement on the proposed Joint Finance Committee motion.
Quoted: Dr. Keith Poulsen, clinical assistant professor of veterinary medicine, said, “As the weather is getting dryer and warmer, influenza is relatively weak compared to other viruses. We’re predicting that new infections are going to go down.” He continued, “As the weather cools down in the fall and the migratory birds start going back south, we’re expecting to see more cases.” He stresses that all of this is fluid and hard to be determined at this point.
A town of Madison man and a Muscoda man were facing charges of possession of stolen property, but UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott told News 3 Wednesday afternoon that the DA’s office rejected the case, citing lack of evidence.
The Wisconsin football team’s multiyear Academic Progress Rate of 998 is the top mark of all FBS teams in the country according to the NCAA’s release on Wednesday. The Badgers lead a top five that includes Northwestern (992), Duke (992), Michigan (990) and Stanford (987).
Two monthslong construction projects will hamper traffic and parking near the Wisconsin Union Theater beginning this week, officials said. Wisconsin Union Theater spokeswoman Esty Dinur said the construction of an underground loading dock at Memorial Union and a city of Madison Langdon Street utility project will close UW-Madison’s Parking Lot 1 beginning Tuesday. Parking Lot 1 is off Langdon Street and adjacent to Memorial Union.
(Video) SVM clinical assistant professor Keith Poulsen from the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory visits News 3 This Morning about what the UW is doing to assist with trying to control a bird flu outbreak.
When the avian flu first surfaced in Wisconsin in April 2015, the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory was testing 100 or more samples a day. On Wednesday, less than 50 samples were being tested.
Multmedia feature of notable commencement speeches, including Katie Couric.
A group of UW-Madison student leaders [the Wisconsin Experience Bus Tour] is touring Wisconsin this month to learn more about the state’s culture. Friday, their bus rolled into the Chippewa Valley in northwestern Wisconsin for a stop in Chippewa Falls.
Former UW basketball player Frank Kaminsky wrote his goodbye to Wisconsin in a post on his blog Friday. After four years at UW-Madison, the college player of the year is preparing for the NBA.
Quoted: Karl Rosengren, a professor of Psychology and Human Development Family Studies at UW Madison said even though we are making strides in equality between men and women, we’re still facing some obstacles.
“I think things have changed for girls where they haven’t changed for boys.” said Dr. Rosengren. “It’s okay for girls to cross those typical gender boundaries.”
While experts say they’ve already heard of an uptick in, well, ticks, it’s too early to say just how bad bug season will be here. “But this year the ticks seem to have rebounded, and they seem to be out in force,” PJ Liesch of the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab said.
Paul Chryst’s debut as Wisconsin’s head coach can’t get much bigger. UW’s opener against Alabama, set for Sept. 5 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, will start at 7 p.m. and be televised by ABC.
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre will appear at the Legends Game July 19 at Camp Randall Stadium. Details of the game were released at a news conference Wednesday at Camp Randall Stadium. Donovan McNabb and Ron Dayne are among the players scheduled to appear.
Bill Eisch has spent the past two decades scouring Department of Defense reports and other historical documents trying to find answers. A new project at UW-Madison aims to help reunite people like Eisch with the remains of those declared missing in action. The effort is inspired by the case of PFC Lawrence Gordon, a man who fought for the United States, died in France, and never made it back home.
A University of Wisconsin student will get his stolen $700 bicycle back after police were able to track it by using the bike’s serial number.
Of the 434 positions cut, 70 would be faculty, 108 would be academic staff and 66 would be graduate assistants, according to documents provided to News 3. No faculty would be laid off.
Researchers have long debated the reasons behind the rapid rise and swift disappearance of Cahokia, a sprawling, ancient city-state near the modern city of St. Louis. Now an analysis of sediment cores reveals that the city’s ups and downs correspond to the timing of Mississippi River megafloods, according to a recent study from University of Wisconsin geographers Sam Munoz and Jack Williams.
Quotes Randall Wright from the School of Business: “Our idea is that if people live in a country or a decade with high inflation/taxation they will be less disposed to use markets and bring more economic activity in house — which for us means setting up a house and that translates into marriage (as well as roommates, living with parents, etc.).”
This weekend the UW Women’s rowing team heads to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championships. One of the keys to their success may not be the ladies with the oars.
“It’s the old idea to act locally,” UW-Madison Chief of Police Susan Riseling said. With help from the United Way, she is instituting a plan and task force, hoping to address the use of police force in Dane County. (Article also mentions Everett Mitchell, but does not identify him as UW-Madison director of community relations.)
Nearly 6,000 UW students officially became UW alumni this afternoon. Today was a day for many students to cherish their memories at UW and sit together as a class for one last time.
Noted: For instance, when the Governor took office in 2011 there were only 631 cases of UW System employees enrolled in BadgerCare Plus, the state’s Medicaid insurance program for the poor. By April 2015, the number of cases had jumped up 1,667.
That increase has vaulted the UW System from 46th to 3rd on the list of state employers with the most workers enrolled in BadgerCare Plus. Only Walmart and McDonald’s have more employees receiving those government benefits in Wisconsin.
This year, 11 nurses at UW Hospital were recipients of the Nursing Excellence Award, but for one of them the prestige might have been in her blood.
UW-Madison political science researcher Simon Haeder also joined host Greg Neumann to discuss a recent study he and colleagues conducted on the choice and quality of hospital care for people enrolled in state health insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Quoted: Richard Davis, professor of bass; Craig Werner, professor of African-American studies.
The job prospects for those students are looking good. Employers have increased hiring of new grads by 9.6 percent this year, according to the National Association for Colleges and Employers. “We’ve been seeing an increase in employers for the past couple of years,” says Steve Schroeder, assistant dean for UW’s BBA program. “We’re not quite where we were pre-2008, but we’re close.”
Noted: The announcement about WEDC also said the governor wanted to take $55 million from the state budget that had been designated for WEDC and turn it into a worker training program. Walker said he may also be open to other options, including diverting that money to schools or the UW System.
The new UW Health Hospital at the American Center is set to open at the end of summer on Madison’s east side, and one local business is making a big donation to help – but it’s more unique than your typical money contribution.
It all started at UW Health. One Verona man offered to donate his kidney to his sister-in-law. Unfortunately he wasn’t a match but he still was able to donate to someone else, someone he didn’t even know- helping set off a kidney donation chain. Quoted: Karen Miller, senior transplant coordinator for UW Health.
Madison College, UW-Madison, and Edgewood College will all hold their commencements this weekend. Three colleges, and over 8000 graduates. Madison has a lot of people entering the workforce this weekend.
Two UW-Madison students told police they walked in on an intruder in their living room early Friday morning, according to a release from the Madison Police Department.
The Big Ten announced kickoff times for three Wisconsin football games on Thursday. The Badgers’ Homecoming game against Purdue on Oct. 17 will start at 11 a.m. CT at Camp Randall Stadium.
The Boys and Girls Club if Dane County is working to change the undeniable problem of racial disparity in Madison through a paid summer internship program. UW-affiliated groups offering internships include UW Extension Plant Disease Diagnostics, UW Hospital and Clinics, UW Agricultural Lab, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery and the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
With a trip to Madison Square Garden already announced for next season, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team learned Wednesday that it will be making two trips to the state of New York in 2015-16 and travel to face Syracuse on Dec. 2 as part of the 2015 Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
There isn’t a handy record book for this activity, but it’s fair to think that the academic year of 2014-15 produced one of the most decorated groups of UW student-athletes-as-graduates.
Noted: About a dozen people from all faiths gathered Tuesday night for a vigil at the Presbyterian church on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Church officials let people post their thoughts on a wall inside the church. Pastors leading the vigil said they wanted to send the message that we are one community looking toward healing and hope.
The University of Wisconsin and Madison College are offering students resources for reacting to a decision to not charge Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny in the shooting death of Tony Robinson.
Quoted: UW legal expert Steven Wright joined the Wake Up Wisconsin anchors Wednesday morning to talk about what a civil suit would mean for Robinson’s family. “I think one of the motivations perhaps for the family, is they will get to conduct their own investigation,” Wright said. “They won’t necessarily have to rely upon the findings of the state.”
“Forest Hill Cemetery: A Guide” — the web address is foresthill.williamcronon.net — is a remarkably lively and varied look at the Speedway Road cemetery. It focuses almost not at all on who is buried at Forest Hill — a two volume biographical guide published by Historic Madison has that handled — and instead looks at aspects of a cemetery that are, if not ignored, at least often taken for granted.
Members of UW-Madison’s Black and Latino Law Student Associations are hoping a video they created will help as the community awaits a charging decision in the death of Tony Robinson. Qortney McLeod, co-president of the Black Law Student Association explains, “When you look around the country, and a lot of the things that are happening in, whether it be Ferguson or Baltimore or anywhere else, I think a part of the reason why people are so upset is because there’s not really an understanding of the process and the law behind what’s going in to making these decisions.”
Former Badger and Hobey Baker Memorial Award-winner Blake Geoffrion announced today that ESPN’S John Buccigross will host the second annual Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic on Friday, June 26 at LaBahn Arena. The event will raise money to benefit the UW Health Burn Center. Tickets for the Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic go on sale online to the general public Monday, May 25.
“We saw around the country that there was a lot of confusion, frustration, sometimes anger when decisions like this come and I think a large part of it was the fact the public wasn’t aware of the law, how it was applied and how the investigations were conducted,” said Stan Davis, an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Davis worked with six Latino or black law school students to create a 14-minute video explaining the law in a way the general public can understand.
“When I met Ted and Tabea it was an obvious positive match,” said Debbie Bebeau, a clinical instructor in the program. Bebeau immediately recognized Ted’s commitment to help Tabea and his willingness to learn the skills necessary to provide her therapy at home.
A group of UW law students released a video Monday called, “Understanding Police use of Deadly Force.” They’re hoping this 14-minute educational video will help community members better understand the laws that surround deadly use of force and the legal review process that comes after an officer-involved shooting.
The video was put out by the University of Wisconsin Black Law Students Association and the Latino Law Students Association in response to the officer-involved shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson.
“I think we’ll also hear if Mr. Robinson was on mushrooms at the time,” [instructor] Steven Howard Wright told 27 News. “I suspect there will be some sort of toxicology report that may be able to tell us whether it contributed to some erratic behavior.”
Sales is often associated with competition, which, in a sense, negates the idea of cooperation. But recent research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business suggests that incentives offered to teams might be more effective than those offered to individuals, when members of those groups have established a social connection.
Noah Lim and Hua Chen, both marketing professors at the school, were unsatisfied with existing research on incentives. Much of it suggested that groups enable freeloaders to thrive.
Quoted: “We get multiple eggs from a woman, we fertilize all those eggs and create many embryos, then what we do is grow them in a lab and select the very best ones for transfers,” says Dr. Jeff Jones, lab director at UW Health Generations and associate professor of obstetrics.
A study out of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Washington demonstrates that your Facebook profile might reveal more about you than you think. Quoted: Jon D’Angelo, lecturer (doctoral student) in communication arts.
Video: Students working with the Office of Sustainability are separating recyclables for trash to see how much is being mistakenly mixed with waste.
The American Innovation Act co-sponsored by Senator Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin will provide more money to a variety of research agencies to incentivize innovation across the country. UW–Madison is the fourth largest research institution in the nation, and would be a part of this funding bill.
An events organizer is talking to the University of Wisconsin about bringing a celebrity flag football game to Camp Randall Stadium on July 19. The game would feature Brett Favre and other former NFL players.
The Badger Herald student newspaper in the University of Wisconsin campus will go from printing twice a week to once a week. In a note from the editor published Thursday, Aliya Iftikhar said the change will “foster creativity among the staff by continuing to move away from the stagnant structure of daily print newspapers.”
In the meantime, no one thinks the lawmakers can undo the $300 million cut the governor wants to give the University of Wisconsin schools. They have decided the added flexibility Walker proposed as a means of having the schools find ways to cut costs should be dumped. So the UW will get all the negatives of the Walker budget and none of the proposed positives.
When a group of freshmen at University of Wisconsin-Madison signed up for an introduction to engineering design class they expected to get a grade, but they got more than that. They got an understanding of life. Quoted: David Bohnhoff, professor of biological systems engineering.
