VERONA – Roland Wally Luchsinger died on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at Agrace HospiceCare Inc. in Fitchburg, following a 10-year battle with cancer.
Luchsinger, Roland Wally
Madison.com
Author: Kelly Tyrrell
Andy Baggot: UW shows fan appreciation with no ticket price increases
Madison.com
Until further notice, this is the biggest upset to come out of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department this academic year:There won?t be a price hike for season tickets in football, men?s basketball or men?s hockey in 2013-14.
UW hosts contest that mixes music with science
Badger Herald
A University of Wisconsin Cool Science Image Contest seeks to uncover unique photographs of science research to display.
Spring Career Fair expects to draw unusually large crowds
Badger Herald
Students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin are gearing up for the biannual career and internship fair next week.
May 4 event more likely
Badger Herald
A city decision could mean students will have the opportunity to attend an alternative festival to the Mifflin Street Block Party May 4, leaders from the Wisconsin Union Directorate and the Associated Students of Madison said Tuesday.
UW facilitates animal blood bank
Daily Cardinal
Humans often have access to blood donors in cases of emergency, and now animals have the same luxury because of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary Teaching Animal Blood Bank.
Annual alumni giving campaign exceeds goal
Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni donated $10.2 million during the university?s 2012 first annual ?Share the Wonderful? giving campaign, exceeding the campaign?s target goal by $200,000.
Student leaders continue planning for year-end party
Daily Cardinal
A student-led group will soon officially propose a university-sponsored end-of-the year event on May 4, the same day as the 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party.The event, which has been in its beginning stages since late November, would be a music and arts festival held near Randall Avenue in the Union South area, according to Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Maria Giannopoulos.
Research finds popular study habits not beneficial
Daily Cardinal
From cramming the night before a big test to creating month-long study plans, students utilize different study tactics to succeed in classes. But a new research study released Jan. 10 found some of students? favorite study tactics are not beneficial, and may even hinder their learning.University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Educational Psychology Mitchell Nathan helped conduct the study, which compiled existing research on study methods into one large research project to find which methods benefit students the most and which have a negative impact.
Author and professor Lorrie Moore quietly departs UW-Madison
Capital Times
Celebrated author Lorrie Moore departed her post at UW-Madison much the way she?s carried herself since first moving to town in 1984: quietly and without fanfare.
Ethnic studies requirement topic of debate
Badger Herald
In an effort to weigh possible reforms to the University of Wisconsin?s ethnic studies requirement, the Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee announced plans for a roundtable event on campus.
Leg Affairs, students to lobby for tuition freeze
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin student government, in cooperation with a System group, reviewed a biennial budget campaign to lobby for tuition protection to be included the state?s new funding cycle.
Higher education neglected at great cost
Last year was a rough year for students at public universities, as state legislatures throughout the country continued to cut funding to their universities. Nationwide, states underwent one of the largest divestments in higher education in American history, slashing funding by 7.6 percent. And in 2011, for the second consecutive year, state and local funding to public universities reached a quarter-century low despite the fact that enrollment and the cost of educating students reached near-record highs.
SSFC passes ASM Student Judiciary, WSUM budgets
Daily Cardinal
The Student Services Finance Committee approved budgets for the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary and WSUM Monday
Roundtable to discuss Ethnic Studies classes
Daily Cardinal
An upcoming roundtable dinner will give students and staff an opportunity to provide feedback on the mandatory ethnic studies requirement as part of a student government campaign to reform the current structure.
Higher education neglected at great cost
Daily Cardinal
Last year was a rough year for students at public universities, as state legislatures throughout the country continued to cut funding to their universities. Nationwide, states underwent one of the largest divestments in higher education in American history, slashing funding by 7.6 percent. And in 2011, for the second consecutive year, state and local funding to public universities reached a quarter-century low despite the fact that enrollment and the cost of educating students reached near-record highs.
Dr. Jacqueline Gerhart: If you have prediabetes, what are the chances you get full-blown diabetes?
Wisconsin State Journal
Dear Dr. Gerhart: I was just told I have prediabetes. What are the chances I?m going to get full-blown diabetes?Dear Reader: I?m sorry to hear you have prediabetes, also known as impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance. It is diagnosed in patients with elevated blood sugars that are not yet high enough to be considered diabetes.
Donor announces $50M in System-wide scholarships
Badger Herald
Milwaukee mutual fund manager and former University of Wisconsin basketball Hall of Famer Albert Nicholas announced Thursday he is establishing a $50 million scholarship fund for high school basketball players to attend UW System schools.
Athletic board introduces new badger football coach
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board introduced two new coaches, approved contracts for three coaches and discussed the student athlete alcohol policy during its monthly meeting Friday.
MFD called to Engineering Hall, Steam Leak
Badger Herald
A steam leak broke out in a University of Wisconsin building Sunday night, setting off the fire alarm and alerting the Madsion Fire Department.
Q&A: UW prof says we owe students of color equal faith in their potential
Capital Times
It is not an ?achievement gap,? says Gloria Ladson-Billings. The disparity in test scores and graduation rates between students of color and white students that is frustrating school officials, parents and communities across the country is an ?education debt,? says professor Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education.
Clark, Karen L.
Madison.com
Smith, Patricia Ann
Madison.com
Governments that pay for a UW education: Students promise work in exchange for government scholarships
Daily Cardinal
Sher Minn Chong will graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this Spring with no student debt and a clear post-graduation plan. But unlike many students, Chong, a government scholar from Malaysia, signed on to this plan before she even arrived in Madison.
UW-Madison named 38th top university in world by U.S. News & World Report
Daily Cardinal
U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison 38th overall on a list of the top 400 universities in the world.UW-Madison moved up since last year, when the same organization ranked it 41st overall.
Estranged husband of slain woman found dead; police believe it was suicide
Madison.com
Madison police said Friday morning that they believe the estranged husband of a woman found slain on the Far East Side on Thursday committed suicide.
Badgers football: Surprise commitment for secondary
Madison.com
When Gary Andersen was the head football coach at Utah State, he had a knack for uncovering unheralded recruits and turning them into good players.
Seely on Science: Brain cell study yields unexpected results
Wisconsin State Journal
In his book, ?A Short History of Nearly Everything,? author Bill Bryson sheds interesting light on the remarkable nature of human cells.
Tom Oates: Obvious idea is best idea for Big Ten?s divisions
Madison.com
Last spring, Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz was asked to size up the Legends Division of the Big Ten Conference.?Heh, I have no idea!? Ferentz said. ?Are we in the Legends??
Court erases injunction against UW protester
Madison.com
A Madison judge improperly issued a restraining order against a former legislator?s son, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.The 4th District Court of Appeals rejected University of Wisconsin System officials? argument that Jeff Decker repeatedly disrupted campus meetings, ruling he was legally exercising his constitutional right to protest the use of student fees.
Former UW star Ab Nicholas endows $50M scholarship fund
Madison.com
A former UW-Madison basketball player has endowed a $50 million scholarship fund that will offer up to 250 Wisconsin high school hoopsters per year a major financial boost to attend college in Wisconsin, it was announced Thursday.
Wisconsin budget surplus projected to grow to $484 million
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin?s budget picture brightened Thursday, with new estimates that show a surplus will grow to $484 million, giving Republicans and Gov. Scott Walker even more room to pursue their tax cutting agenda.
UW-Madison Seeks War Veterans For PTSD Research
NBC-15
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
UW-Madison seeks war veterans for PTSD research
WISC-TV 3
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
Police: Bar patron attacks Kollege Klub employees
WISC-TV 3
Madison police said they arrested an out-of-control patron who attacked two employees at a campus bar early Wednesday morning.
PETA claims additional animal cruelty at UW-Madison
Daily Cardinal
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Tuesday urging the board to end a UW-Madison animal research project, presenting new allegations the university practiced animal cruelty in the experiments that began in 2008.
UW bird flu scientist calls for end to research moratorium as other countries prepare to resume studies
Wisconsin State Journal
A year after bird flu scientists agreed to halt sensitive research, they said Wednesday that the work should resume ? except in the U.S. and other places that haven?t specified conditions under which the studies can be done.
Badgers football: Bill Busch thrilled to return to Camp Randall
Madison.com
When Bill Busch left the University of Wisconsin to accept his first full-time football coaching job at Northern Arizona prior to the 1995 season, he was met at the airport by Gary Andersen.
Know Your Madisonian: Sarah Gillmore helps the homeless
Wisconsin State Journal
Sarah Gillmore grew up in rural Eau Claire, but now works to make things better for people in the city. Gillmore, 33, oversees Dane County?s new temporary warming house for homeless men and women on East Washington Avenue.
Badgers men’s basketball: Reliance on 3-pointers plagues UW
Madison.com
It?d be one thing if its horrid performance at the free throw line was the only thing that plagued the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team during a 49-47 loss to Michigan State on Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.
Alleged robber with Bucky Badger hat needed money for debt, complaint says
Madison.com
A man who wore a three-dimensional Bucky Badger hat when he allegedly robbed an East Side credit union last week told police that he wants to go to prison and needed the money because he has $250,000 in student debt.
Badgers football: Gary Andersen a boost to boosters
Madison.com
New University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen was slightly taken aback the first time he met Bill Hahn, the executive director of the Mendota Gridiron Club.”I think we overwhelmed him a little bit,” Hahn said of the 90-minute meeting.
UW System salaries 18 percent below average
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin System faculty are earning 18 percent less pay than the national college and university average, UW System President Kevin Reilly revealed to the Board of Regents in December.
UHS urges prevention measures as flu season begins
Badger Herald
Sitting in her four-hour lab in late November, University of Wisconsin senior Madeline Krasno suddenly felt achy, shifted between being freezing and boiling hot, then told her teaching assistant she felt like she had been hit by a bus and burst into tears.
UW addresses mental health in light of shootings
Badger Herald
In line with a series of new gun control laws introduced on the national scale and a number of mass shootings leaving the country on edge, the University of Wisconsin will bring on two new staff members specifically to aid in threat assessment efforts on campus, but the threat assessment team remains understaffed.
Severa Austin: State pension money shouldn?t be invested in gun companies
Capital Times
Dear Editor: Did anyone notice the column, ?Investing in Guns,? in the Jan. 19 issue of the New York Times? The author, Joe Nocera, describes the creation of an equity firm that sought university and pension fund investments and it appears that many of these billions of dollars were invested gun companies, which are now the Freedom Group; it is the largest manufacturer of guns and ammunition in the U.S.
Sherron, Carol
Madison.com
MADISON – Carol Sherron, age 68, formerly of Madison, passed away on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, at Alden Meadow Park Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Clinton.
Rodman, Betty S.
Madison.com
MADISON – Betty S. Rodman, age 94, of Madison, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at Oakwood Village West in Madison, after a brief illness.
Andy Baggot: Barry Alvarez on Bret Bielema, Rose Bowl loss: ‘I’ve moved on’
Madison.com
Barry Alvarez wants you to think the wound is healed all while peeling back a blood-stained bandage.The University of Wisconsin athletic director is a couple weeks removed from an emotional, tumultuous month in which he held down two demanding jobs and made one of the most important personnel decisions of his career.
State auditor to start review of UW System’s payroll, benefits
Wisconsin State Journal
The state auditor will immediately start a comprehensive review of the University of Wisconsin System?s payroll, benefits and human resources systems after a joint legislative committee unanimously approved the measure on Tuesday.
Tom Oates: Spartans are like Badgers ? only better
Madison.com
As rivalries go, it has no equal in Big Ten Conference men?s basketball.Michigan State and the University of Wisconsin have been circling each other?s name on their schedules for more than a decade now, or ever since Bo Ryan became coach of the Badgers.
Chris Rickert: Gun rights, free speech cut from same cloth
Turns out that “infringing” on the Second Amendment has a long and legally based history, according to a 2008 Supreme Court decision referred to me by UW-Madison assistant law professor and constitutional law expert Andrew Coan.
Nancy Ann Malz
Nancy Ann Malz (née Burton) died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, at Oak Park Place in Madison.Nancy was a firm believer in the power of education. She began employment at the UW-Madison in 1977 and went on to earn her master?s from the University in 1990. She was the ADA Specialist for UW-Madison beginning in 1991, retiring in 2006. A trip to Paris with her son and granddaughter in Spring 2008 fulfilled a lifelong dream.
Badgers football: Regents approve contracts for three coaches
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday approved the contracts for football coach Gary Andersen and his two coordinators. As previously reported, Andersen has a five-year deal that will pay him $1.8 million his first year (with a $400,000 base) and go up $100,000 the next four years. That means he will be paid $2.2 million in his fifth year.
On Campus: Hearing to examine benefit overpayments, ‘double dipping’ at UW System
Wisconsin State Journal
Tuesday?s public hearing at the State Capitol about mismanagement of $33 million in University of Wisconsin System health and pension funds is actually a twin bill. Also on the agenda: so-called “double dipping” by public employees including thousands in the UW System.
Dr. Jacqueline Gerhart: Is the US really sicker than other countries?
Dear Dr. Gerhart: I read a report on CNN?s website last week that Americans are sicker and die younger than people in other countries. On what is that based?
Suspect in Montee Ball attack has plea/sentencing hearing today
WKOW-TV 27
One of the suspects charged in the attack on Montee Ball will be sentenced Friday.
Fourth Person Charged In Attack On Montee Ball
NBC-15
A fourth person is charged in an attack on Wisconsin star running back Montee Ball last summer.
4th arrest warrant issued in Ball beating case
WKOW-TV 27
An arrest warrant was issued for a fourth person who police believe was involved in the attack on Montee Ball.
Walker touts income tax cut, job push in speech
WISC-TV 3
Gov. Scott Walker said during his State of the State speech that hes doubling down on efforts to meet his 2010 campaign promise to create 250,000 jobs over four years.