Josh Cameron is from Racine, Wisconsin. While you may think he would go easy against his home state, think again. The senior says, “I’ve never been a Badger fan.”
A Wisconsinite will be playing against the Badgers in Friday’s basketball game
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Author: Kelly Tyrrell
Enough blame to go around in Robinson shooting
Madison Magazine
Here in “idyllic” Madison, Wisconsin, we are regularly told we have one of the most “livable” cities in the U.S. … but livable for whom? It was apparently not livable for Tony Terrell Robinson. Post written by Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor and Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education.
Local man has ties to Badgers, Chanticleers
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Coastal Carolina is a small liberal arts college with just 8,800 students, but for the second time in two years they’re in the big dance. What are the odds of meeting someone in Madison who went to both schools? Susan Siman found one in Grainger Hall.
UW alumni in Omaha rally for the Badgers
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Susan Siman meets the head of a UW alumni group in Omaha as the team arrives to play in the NCAA tournament.
Students react to shutdown of UW-Madison fraternity
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UW-Madison terminated the Chi Phi fraternity chapter Wednesday after allegations of hazing.
Focus on impact of Chris Borland’s retirement has missed the point
Channel3000.com
Borland’s announcement that he was leaving the game after one very successful season playing professional football could have a profound impact if we look at is an example of a young man making an educated, principled decision about his life and his future.
Keeping up with the Badgers
NBC15
Coach Bo Ryan and his team are on their way to Omaha. They headed out around 2 p.m., taking a bus to Dane County Regional Airport, where they’d take a chartered flight to Nebraska.
Former Badgers, pros and doctors react to early NFL retirement of Chris Borland
WKOW TV
The news of Chris Borland’s retirement from the NFL after playing just one year in the league has sparked a nationwide discussion about concussions in pro sports. Borland played linebacker four years at UW-Madison and was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 3rd round of the NFL draft. Quoted: Greg Landry, professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation.
Jackson returns to practice for the Badgers
WKOW TV
Traevon Jackson returned to practice for the Badgers. However, that does not necessarily mean the senior will suit up for the NCAA Tournament opener Friday against Coastal Carolina.
Badgers arrive in Omaha for NCAA Tournament
WKOW TV
The squad arrived in Omaha shortly before 5 pm CST, ahead of their Friday night game against Coastal Carolina.
Borland’s former teammate says he understands retirement decision
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Chris Borland’s former Badgers teammate, who served as his backup inside linebacker for three seasons, said based on the person he knew off the field, he understands Borland’s concussion-based decision to retire from the NFL at age 24. Quoted: Greg Landry, professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation.
Campus frat terminated for alleged hazing violations after student suffers concussion
Badger Herald
After investigating an initial report in January, the dean of students found the chapter had “engaged in food deprivation and stints of hooded isolation,” along with other instances that endangered or put new members’ health at risk during initiation practices in December, according to the statement.
Badger fans feeling lucky ahead of NCAA tournament
NBC15
As Badger fans across the country are getting ready to travel to Omaha, one local family says they hit the March Madness jackpot, before the tournament even started.
Barry Alvarez makes statement on Chris Borland’s retirement
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UW Director of Athletics, Barry Alvarez, is making a statement on the retirement of former Badger Chris Borland.
NCAA Tournament tickets hard to come by for Badger fans
WKOW TV
UW-Madison officials have run out of tickets after the NCAA allotted them 550 tickets for the first round of the tournament that will take place later this week in Omaha Nebraska.
Celebrate National Ag Day
WKOW TV
Wednesday is National Ag Day, and members of the UW Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences stopped by Wake Up Wisconsin to talk about the importance of agriculture to Wisconsin’s economy. Video features two students and Bruce Jones, professor of agricultural and applied economics.
Frank Kaminsky recognized as USBWA first team All-American
NBC15
Wisconsin men’s basketball senior Frank Kaminsky was named to the 2014-15 USBWA Men’s All-America First Team, as announced by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association on Monday.
Businesses cash in on Badger fever
NBC15
From t-shirt sellers, to bakers, to local drink makers, businesses are cashing in on March Madness.
Being too healthy takes a toll on mind, body and soul
NBC15
Paula Cody, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UW Health, says there needs to be much more in-depth research done on orthorexia in order to define it. “All eating disorders have been growing especially since the 1950s. Even though orthorexia isn’t a specific eating disorder, it is following the same trends as the diagnosed eating disorders.”
Exclusive sit-down with Badger Head Football Coach Paul Chryst
WKOW TV
Paul Chryst spent much of his young life near the place he’ll now spend every day: Camp Randall Stadium. In fact, his first job was there. Or near there. As a kid, he delivered newspapers to the stadium.
Training the next generation of farmers
NBC15
Quoted: Nadia Alber, outreach coordinator, and Dick Cates, director, of the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers.
Badger fans dreaming big after team earns no. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament
WKOW TV
UW students have lofty ambitions for the Badger Men’s Basketball team after Wisconsin defeated Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament title game Sunday afternoon.
Cost-saving steps at UW campuses ahead of expected budget cuts
WKOW TV
Chancellors at the University of Wisconsin’s Eau Claire and Whitewater campuses are making cost-cutting plans to deal with a proposed $300 million reduction in state funding for the UW System included in Governor Scott Walker’s budget, even though the Wisconsin Legislature has yet to consider the cuts included that proposed budget.
Cycle for Sight raises money for UW research
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Cycle for Sight is an indoor cycling event that raises money for vision research at the McPherson Eye Research Institute at UW-Madison. Quoted: David Gamm, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences.
U.S. Department of Education investigates UW-Madison Title IX compliance
Daily Cardinal
The U.S. Department of Education added UW-Madison to a list of more than 100 schools under investigation for potential Title IX violations regarding the handling of sexual assault on campus, according to a Wednesday Washington Post article.
Proposed state budget could decrease student financial aid opportunities
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison’s director of financial aid said Wednesday need-based aid could be in trouble if the biennial budget passes. Susan Fischer, the Office of Student Financial Aid director, thanked the council for its advocacy on behalf of student aid with the recent announcement of the proposed budget cuts.
Walker wants to eliminate funding for UW renewable energy program
Badger Herald
Gov. Scott Walker plans to eliminate $8.1 million in funds to the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative implemented by the Wisconsin Energy Institute, one of multiple cuts to environmental projects at the University of Wisconsin System.
High speed chase results in multiple charges
Daily Cardinal
UW Police Department engaged in a 20-minute high-speed chase Thursday at 2:20 a.m., resulting in the arrest of a Madison man, according to a UWPD press release.
Medical experts work toward developing effective brain disease treatments
Daily Cardinal
Experts across disciplines collaborated Thursday to explore neurodegenerative diseases and how to treat them as part of UW’s Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Research Day.
Simon Balto provides glimpse of history, stresses change still to be made during Black Lives Matter talk
Daily Cardinal
The last year’s outrage over police brutality and racism that has led to the national Black Lives Matter Movement is not a recent development, but part of a long history of inequality in the justice system, according to Madison musician and historian Simon Balto.
Board of Regents pass new resolution in response to proposed budget
Daily Cardinal
A new resolution asking state Legislature to reduce the proposed $300 million biennial budget cuts and provide the UW System with greater flexibility over operations, passed unanimously at the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
Wisconsin claims outright Big Ten title
The Sports Xchange
Wisconsin did something Thursday night that hasn’t happened in seven years. With forward Frank Kaminsky carving up the Minnesota defense, the No. 6 Badgers led wire to wire in a 76-63 win in Minneapolis that clinched the outright Big Ten regular-season title.
20-min. high-speed chase ends in Madison man’s arrest
Channel3000.com
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said an officer responded to a report of a truck swerving and running stoplights at 2:20 a.m. The officer spotted the truck at Monroe Street and Woodrow Street and attempted to stop the driver.
Wisconsin Public Broadcasting goes door-to-door amid cuts
Channel3000.com
The first time for the long-planned, but new, Wisconsin Public TV door-to-door campaign, at the same time as their usual membership drive, comes as Governor Walker, who himself has appeared on Sesame Street, proposes cutting the state agency and the UW System — that partner to run public broadcasting — by millions.
Badgers clinch outright Big Ten Championship
NBC15
Following its 76-63 victory at Minnesota on Thursday, Wisconsin clinched its first outright Big Ten Championship since the 2007-08 season.
Driver arrested after high-speed pursuit
NBC15
According to the UW-Madison Police Department, a UWPD officer was responding to a report of a truck swerving and running stoplights at approximately 2:20 a.m. The driver would not stop and took officers on a chase that lasted more than 20 minutes. At times, the driver reached speeds that exceed 100 miles per hour.
Finding a cure for Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases
NBC15
On Thursday at the UW Institute for Discovery, more than 250 of the greatest minds in research joined forces in the hopes of finding a cure to these degenerative diseases. Quoted: Marina Emborg, director of the Preclinical Parkinson Research Program and assistant professor of medical physics; Dorothy Farrar-Edwards, professor and chair of kinesiology.
UW-Madison hands over sexual assault files from last three years as part of federal investigation
WKOW TV
The investigations are being handled by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Federal investigators have asked UW-Madison for all of their files regarding sexual assault cases and policies from 2012 to 2014. Investigators are trying to get a better sense of how the university handles sexual violence cases on campus.
UW men’s basketball clinches outright Big Ten Championship
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Following its 76-63 victory at Minnesota on Thursday, Wisconsin clinched its first outright Big Ten Championship since the 2007-08 season. The Badgers, who captured a share of the title last Sunday, have won 18 Big Ten Championships. With Thursday’s win, Wisconsin also secured the top seed in next week’s Big Ten Tournament.
Alvin “Al” Hovland
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Hovland began his career teaching at U.W. Madison in the Physical Education Department. From 1957 – 1958, he served as assistant basketball coach under Coach Harold “Bud” Foster. Al directed the required and elective physical education programs for men as coordinator from 1960 – 1980. He retired in 1985 after 37 years in the department.
Sexual assault complaint sparks federal investigation into UW-Madison
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is under investigation by a government agency for possibly mishandling a sexual assault complaint last year. News 3 Investigates has learned the complaint is in connection with an alleged incident that took place last May during the Mifflin Street Block Party.
Local drone company supports proposed FAA regulations
NBC15
Noted: UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott says, “These are really neat toys, they’re great pieces of technology, but at a cost to a certain extent. We worry about the people on the ground and what damage it could do.”
Ryan and Kaminsky named Naismith semifinalists for respective awards
NBC15
Ryan among 15 coaches, Kaminsky among 10 players on national shortlist.
Pankowski named WCHA Rookie of the Year
NBC15
12 Badgers were honored by the league on Wednesday when it announced its season awards, including UW freshman standout Annie Pankowski, who was named the WCHA Rookie of the Year, and senior captain Blayre Turnbull, who was an All-WCHA First-Team selection.
Kaminsky, Ryan named Naismith semifinalists
WKOW TV
A pair of Badgers are up for the biggest awards in college basketball. Frank Kaminsky has been named a semifinalist for the Naismith Trophy’s College Player of the Year award. The Naismith committee also named Bo Ryan a semifinalist for the College Coach of the Year award.
UW-Madison under investigation for handling of sexual assault complaints
WKOW TV
According to University Communications, the school was recently notified by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that it had received complaints related to sexual violence. UW officials say the university is working closely with the Office for Civil Rights.
UW fraternity raises money for childhood cancer research
WKOW TV
The Theta Chi Fraternity at UW-Madison is once again raising money for childhood cancer research. “Ski For Cancer” has been running annually since 1969, raising money for childhood cancer research. This year the event will be held on Saturday, March 7.
Upcoming Supreme Court decision could impact thousands in Wisconsin
WKOW TV
Noted: If the Supreme Court rules that tax subsidies only apply to states that operate their own health insurance exchange, more than 180,000 people in the state would lose financial assistance. And Donna Friedsam, the health policy programs director at the UW Population Health Institute, says that would, in all likelihood, mean people would not afford their health insurance plans.
UW Police seize hundreds of suspected, stolen bicycles
WKOW TV
UW Police spokesperson Marc Lovicott says the execution of search warrants Tuesday is part of a months-long investigation into bicycle thefts.
Faculty Senate passes resolutions for shared governance, public authority
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin’s Faculty Senate passed resolutions Monday for shared governance and public authority, and members said they were unable to support a public authority until a commission has had time to evaluate its implications.
SSFC approves Wisconsin Union budget of more than $10,000,000
Badger Herald
With little debate, the Student Services Finance Committee approved the Wisconsin Union 2015-16 budget of $10,586,316 with a vote of 11-0-1. The budget includes a 2 percent increase in segregated fees for the organization which provides recreational, cultural and educational opportunities through offering events and services around campus.
UW researchers study why well informed people have more polarized views
Badger Herald
Dietram Scheufele, professor of life sciences communication, and Dominique Brossard, life sciences communication department chair, partnered with the Morgridge Institute for Research. Their study shows people who feel the most informed in terms of politics tend to interpret information differently.
Cross asks state budget committee to reduce proposed $300 million UW cut
Badger Herald
Criticisms alluded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank at the state’s Joint Finance Committee hearing Tuesday amid discussions of the proposed budget cuts and autonomy for the UW System.
UW Health American Center president shares personal connection to new hospital
Channel3000.com
As president of UW Health’s American Center, Sheehan shares the goal of providing the health care that you’d like loved ones to have with his associates. Sheehan said his wife’s experience taught him a lot about health care.
UW System praises public authority, asks for smaller cut
Daily Cardinal
Representatives from five state agencies, including the University of Wisconsin System, testified before the state’s budget committee Tuesday.
UW System president offers performance-based model in exchange for guaranteed funding
WKOW TV
The president of the UW System told the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) Tuesday he is open to performance-based funding based on a set of certain criteria. “Graduation rates – both four-year and six-year, number of degrees granted – total degrees, STEM degrees, retention rates – first to second year,” Cross told JFC members, listing off a total of eight standards.
UW fruit scientist says more research needed on non-browning apples
WKOW TV
A UW crop scientist says it’s going to take the FDA’s blessing before you bite into the genetically modified fruit. Amaya Atucha, assistant professor of horticulture, says the browning is a natural phenomenon known as polyphenol oxidase. “When we cut the apple, the flesh is exposed to the oxygen and this enzyme reacts with the oxygen.” Dr. Atucha said.
UW professors honored with NAE nominations
Daily Cardinal
Conducting great research and making exceptional advancements in the field of engineering has earned two UW-Madison professors — Raymond J. Fonck and Thomas M. Jahns — recognition by membership into an elite institution known as the National Academy of Engineering.
Proposed budget cuts present issues for diversity programs, international students
Daily Cardinal
If UW-Madison falls under Public Authority status as a part of the budget, certain provisions would be under control by the Board of Regents and no longer backed by state law, Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee Chair Dolly Wang said during a meeting Tuesday.
Settle returns to round out Wisconsin Football coaching staff
NBC15
Wisconsin head football coach Paul Chryst announced Tuesday that John Settle has been hired to coach the Badgers’ running backs. Settle, who spent last season coaching running backs at Pitt under Chryst, previously spent five seasons as the running backs coach at UW when Chryst served as offensive coordinator.