Noted: Nominations with Wisconsin ties included Mark Ruffalo, who was nominated for best supporting actor for his performance in “Foxcatcher,” as former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach Dave Schultz; and “The Boxtrolls,” nominated for best animated feature, with West Bend native Curt Enderle as art director.
Madison’s celebration kicks off this month. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Cinematheque will present Welles’ first film, Citizen Kane, in a free screening on Jan. 24.
Noted: Amazon won its first two Golden Globes, both for “Transparent.” The show, created by University of Wisconsin-Madison grad Jill Soloway, won for best TV comedy or musical series and best actor in the same category for Jeffery Tambor, whose résumé includes time on stage with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
Noted: Ruffalo, a Kenosha native, lost out on the nights first award — best supporting actor — which was won by J.K. Simmons for “Whiplash.” Ruffalo had been nominated for his performance as former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach Dave Schultz in “Foxcatcher.”
Interview with Prof. Michael Coen and Associate Lecturer Angela Dassow regarding their research on Gibbon language.
A selection of monotypes is on view at the Chazen Museum of Art as part of an exhibit from the Baker-Pisano Collection … To celebrate these unique pieces, UW-Madison graduate Joann Moser, senior curator and specialist on American monotypes at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will lecture on Jan. 29 in the Chazen auditorium.
The UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology has decided running two preschools as a teaching and learning laboratory is too expensive, so the 67 children enrolled at its Mineral Point Road site will have to find care elsewhere or move to the remaining facility on campus after this summer.
UW graduate Jill Soloway’s Amazon Prime series “Transparent” won the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy/Musical series on Sunday night.
Conducted by UW-Madison’s Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the analysis also found that being in the program for all four years of high school significantly boosted graduation rates for male students of color.
Mulhern, who primarily covered the University of Wisconsin football team, previously won the award in 2005 and ’10. Mulhern was 56 when he died Oct. 3 from complications due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease … It was announced last month that the first recipient of the Tom Mulhern Scholarship for Sports Journalism at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be named April 10.
Since 2008, the exhibition’s organizers — Nancy Marie Mithlo Chiricahua Apache, chairwoman of American Indian studies at the Autry National Center, and Tom Jones Ho-Chunk, a professor of photography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — have painstakingly restored Mr. Poolaw’s fragile black-and-white negatives and made prints.
The legislation also asks that UW-Madison’s Value-Added Research Center provide the new board a list of alternative tests “acceptable for statistical comparison” with the tests adopted by the superintendent. It also requires the research center to work with the board and DPI to review alternative tests proposed by schools, and asks that it equate the scores between the different tests. Brad Carl, associate director of the center, said while it’s possible to do that, the most accurate way to compare test takers is to have all students taking the same test on the same academic standards.
MIAMI BEACH — Media coverage of debates over the Bible, the origin of life and God can mischaracterize many people by suggesting there are only two sides — creationists and evolutionists. There are at least six different overlapping categories, according to professor Jeff Hardin, an evangelical biophysicist and chair of the zoology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen” will begin on Feb. 1, less than a year after Wisconsin Public Radio announced it would no longer broadcast the program that had been on since 1978.
Niebruegge, a 2003 UW–Madison grad with a degree in journalism, has published her debut novel titled “Mistake, Wisconsin.”
Lynda Barry might call herself an accidental professor in the title of her graphic syllabus, but she’s clearly just being modest. Whatever Barry didn’t know before being a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she made up for in sheer talent and creative thought. An unusual and unorthodox book that refuses to fit squarely into any category is it a syllabus? graphic novel? memoir?, Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor, is a talent-filled examination of how the arts and humanities can provide relevant and powerful thought within the university setting.
Claudia Card attended UW-Madison and has taught philosophy at her alma mater since 1966.
Noted: Other tributes are expected in 2015, including celebrations in Welles’s home state, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Cinematheque beginning Jan. 24 and at the Wisconsin Film Festival in April. No doubt there will be others.
On a campus full of classes teaching ancient wisdom from science and philosophy, a new class at UW-Madison is offering lessons of the practical sort, reminding students about wants — bad! — and needs — OK!
In a four-part series running through Wednesday, the State Journal will look at how stress affects our lives and what it does to us, physically and emotionally. (Including the work of UW–Madison Prof. Richard Davidson.)
UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson is among the pioneers putting hard science behind the testimonials. His work shows mindfulness meditation can physically alter parts of the brain, and rather quickly at that.
Noted: What started as a casual conversation with University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Lalita du Perron — the guest speaker who caught her attention — turned into a cause that spurred Dogra to film a documentary that was shown at the Milwaukee Film Festival in the fall. Earlier this month, on the anniversary of the tragedy, Dogra organized a dinner in Milwaukee that drew 180 people and raised $15,000.
Mathematics professor emeritus Anatole Beck died Sunday at Agrace Hospice in Fitchburg. Art professor emeritus Frances Myers died Wednesday, a few weeks after suffering a stroke while visiting campus.
The pair — Warren’s voice hoarse from doing so many interviews in the past few days — talked with the Cap Times about how they won, how they were portrayed on the show and how they hope their win inspires young women everywhere interested in math and science.
In Friday’s final episode of “The Amazing Race,” the team of “Sweet Scientists” from UW-Madison was first to the finish line, becoming the second team of Badgers to win the show’s $1 million prize.
Noted: Steve Carell is getting serious awards-season buzz for his performance as du Pont, as are Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as the Schultz brothers, with Ruffalo, a Kenosha native, playing Dave, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach who winds up at odds with du Pont over how his brothers career is being steered.
Amy DeJong and Maya Warren will be in Los Angeles watching the show, and can’t talk about who wins the race, out of the four finalist teams.
Contains perspectives from poli sci profs Kathy Cramer, Barry Burden.
Bri Blue illustrates why it’s such a challenge for school districts like Madison’s to hire a diverse staff. She was one of just four black students in the elementary education program in the UW-Madison School of Education, the most prestigious education program in the state, in the 2013-14 academic year.
The $150,000 Career Ready Internship grant is from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corp., a student loan provider, and will be administered by the L&S Center for Academic Excellence in the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science.
Professor Hemant Shah was a longtime admirer of Tom Mulhern’s work in the Wisconsin State Journal, and it’s clear to the director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication that he wasn’t alone.
A new UW-Madison performance center planned for the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue will be named in honor of alumnus George Hamel and his wife, Pamela Hamel.
UW-Madison School of Music’s new recital center will be named in honor of UW alumnni and advisory board members George and Pamela Hamel, whose $15 million donation will help make constructing the building possible, according to a university release.
On Saturday night, the UW-Madison Dance Department presented the 2014 edition of its annual Kloepper Concert, a showcase of new student works by 10 choreographers solo or in groups and the Freshman Workshop.
Jensen performs with the Johannes Wallmann Quintet, featuring UW-Madison music professors Wallmann on piano and Les Thimmig on saxophone, Nick Moran on bass and Keith Lienert on drums; 8 p.m., Morphy Recital Hall in the UW Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St.; free.
Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison chancellor, echoed those concerns at a November Board of Regents meeting, calling the proposed creation of new programs “really foolish.” UW-Madison, the flagship, has by far the largest engineering program, followed by UW-Platteville, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Stevens Point. The chancellors at River Falls, Eau Claire and Stout — along the Interstate 94 corridor — proposed the Northwest Wisconsin Engineering Consortium in response, they said, to growing demand from business owners for more engineers in the region.
Translation is difficult and a good translator, sometimes, needs a mystical third eye to understand what the author is trying to say, said professor emeritus of Urdu, Persian and Islamic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr Muhammad Umar Memon on Wednesday evening.
If the syllabus is any indication, Lynda Barry’s class at UW-Madison, The Unthinkable Mind, must be fantastic.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently, Christopher Taylor was practicing Bach ’s “Goldberg Variations,” his fingers dancing over 164 keys and two stacked keyboards.
For several decades, Sapoznik has worked to unearth klezmer music, archive it, and bring it to the public. For those efforts, Sapoznik — director of UW-Madison’s Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture — was named one of the Jewish Daily Forward’s “2014 Forward 50.”
Best-selling author Bill Bryson kept audience members laughing while discussing his books at the Memorial Union Tuesday as part of the University of Wisconsin’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
There’s a lot of attention right now on diversity in children’s books – or, more accurately, the lack of it. It’s not a new problem. White people have been talking about this issue since Nancy Larrick published “The All-White World of Children’s Books” in Saturday Review back in 1965. People of color have been aware of it for much longer.
The young adults who make up the Wisconsin Singers — a show group that travels the state, entertaining audiences with high-energy singing, dancing and polished showmanship — all have full-time commitments as UW-Madison students. Their majors range from education to bioengineering.
Don’t get mired in the enormity of trying to calculate how to make reparations to African-Americans for past centuries of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and discrimination, says a prominent UW-Madison professor. Instead, says Richard Davis, renowned bassist and professor of music, take the opportunity to make amends for the segregation and discrimination that marks American life today.
Henry Sapoznik, who heads the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is featured in the Jewish Daily Forwards 2014 list of newsworthy and notable American Jews.
Upon her death, Winston had been giving to the University of Wisconsin Foundation for more than three decades. She directed funds to, in part, the Wisconsin Union, the Chazen Museum of Art, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection in the School of Human Ecology, the Medical Genetics Department and Medicine and Public Health.
A devoted opera lover, Winston gave directly to UW Opera and the School of Music’s new Performance Center. In 2003, through the UW School of Music, Winston funded a fellowship for a graduate student in voice.
John Karl Scholz, dean of the College of Letters & Science, is launching a large new program to improve career planning and job outcomes for students in his college, by far the largest at the university with more than 16,000 undergraduates in 39 departments.
What if you took the idea of a chair and stood it on its head?You might be inside the brain of Tom Loeser, professor of art at UW-Madison and considered to be one of the finest art-furniture makers in America.
The “Voices for Peace and Justice in the Holy Land” regional conference is at the UW-Madison Pyle Center on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8.
Report from the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, collaboration with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Following the lead of attorneys general in different states, outgoing Wisconsin attorney general J.B. Van Hollen has sued a now-closed for-profit college in Milwaukee for misleading students about job placement rates and other outcomes. Also: UW-Madison English professor Emily Auerbach’s work with nontraditional students for more than three decades won her a distinguished service award from a division of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.
When it was announced that author Danielle Evans would join the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s creative writing program, one new UW colleague noted she’d have to up her “shoe game” to match the Washington D.C. writer’s penchant for fashionable footwear.
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s upcoming lecture at UW-Madison … is part of a larger event, “The Anthropocene Slam: A Cabinet of Curiosities,” a three-day event sponsored by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Hans Schneider, a UW-Madison professor for more than 30 years and a mathematician whose research in classical linear algebra led to algorithms that would help develop Google, died of esophageal cancer at age 87 Tuesday.
The Madison-based group, founded by UW-Madison ophthalmology professor Suresh Chandra, treats people in the developing world and has helped fund free community eye care clinics in Madison
Schneider, 87, who taught mathematics at UW-Madison from 1959 to 1993, died Tuesday of cancer.
Alex Wehrley — Wisconsin native, 2009 UW-Madison graduate — was working on-air for an entertainment and lifestyle television show called “Oklahoma Live.”
University Opera opened its 2014-15 season with the novelty of Benjamin Britten’s chamber-opera comedy Albert Herring. The production is the first mounted under acting director David Ronis, visiting assistant professor for the 2014-2015 season, following the retirement of longtime director William Farlow.
The “Odyssey” may be the greatest travel story ever told. For 10 years after the fall of Troy, the warrior-king Odysseus struggles to make his way home to the Greek island of Ithaca, encountering monsters and sirens and preternaturally stormy seas along the way.
The difference between the Isthmus in Downtown Madison — an “urban heat island” — and collar towns outside the city can be as much as seven degrees on average at night in August, according to UW-Madison researchers. During the day the gap is smaller, at three degrees.
