UW-Madison published Tuesday its first campus-wide policy for research assistants, the largest group of graduate student workers on campus whose work conditions are under heightened public scrutiny.
David MacNeil was so grateful to University of Wisconsin-Madison’s veterinary school for saving his dog Scout’s life that he’s thanking them in the biggest way possible — with a Super Bowl ad!
Fortunately, Scout was taken for treatment at The University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, where heroic staff put together a cutting-edge treatment plan to shrink Scout’s tumour, with incredible results.
Scout was eventually brought to University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) where he immediately underwent chemotherapy and radiation to target the tumour on his heart.
MacNeil’s family took Scout to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where an intense, experimental procedure consisting of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy shrank the tumor to nearly nothing, according to the university.
WeatherTech CEO David MacNeil is grateful that veterinarians saved his dog from a deadly form of cancer. He bough a Super Bowl ad to thank the veterinary school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
’Scout’s story is amazing. There is nothing like this… certainly not for a school of medicine’ UW Dean says.
The spot, ’Lucky Dog,’ features WeatherTech’s beloved and unofficial mascot, Scout, telling the story of his journey from a devastating cancer diagnosis, to going through aggressive treatments that have helped get him back on his paws. It celebrates the work and research being done at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.
The Bolingbrook-based manufacturer of automotive accessories tells the tale of the company mascot’s battle with cancer in a new Super Bowl commercial.
I’m a sucker for dogs in Super Bowl commercials (remember the Budweiser dogs?!?) and WeatherTech is going to have people talking about this ‘Lucky Dog’ ad that’s designed to drive donations to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s veterinary school.
The spot, “Lucky Dog,” features WeatherTech’s beloved and unofficial mascot, Scout, telling the story of his journey from a devastating cancer diagnosis, to going through aggressive treatments that have helped get him back on his paws. It celebrates the work and research being done at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. The ad also hopes to inspire millions of animal lovers to support the school’s research efforts that will ultimately save not only dogs, but pets and even humans, from life-threatening diseases.
So he took Scout to the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where MacNeil says they implemented an aggressive treatment program.
But MacNeil, who had lost three other dogs to cancer before adopting Scout, refused to accept that diagnosis. On the advice of his local vet, he rushed his dog up from WeatherTech’s Bolingbrook, Illinois, headquarters to the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison the very next morning. There, doctors at the School of Veterinary Medicine began an aggressive attack on the tumor that had invaded Scout’s body.
Scout may be an Illinois dog (and essentially the face of Illinois-based WeatherTech), but he’s going national to support the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine during the Super Bowl.
After David MacNeil’s dog collapsed last July and was given a grim cancer diagnosis with a life expectancy of one month, he took the 7-year-old golden retriever named Scout to the University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, hoping for a minor medical miracle.
“Scout’s illness devastated us,” MacNeil said. “We wanted this year’s Super Bowl effort to not only raise awareness, but also financial support for the incredible research and innovative treatments happening at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, where Scout is still a patient.”
“Scout’s illness devastated us,” MacNeil told WMTV. “We wanted this year’s Super Bowl effort to not only raise awareness, but also financial support for the incredible research and innovative treatments happening at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, where Scout is still a patient,”Mark Markel, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine says this is an incredible opportunity, not only for the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the School of Veterinary Medicine, but for veterinary medicine worldwide.
In a story now going viral, the Wisconsin State Journal reports that a a top executive, David McNeil, has bought a 30-second ad during the 2020 Super Bowl for $5.2 million to praise the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
He took Scout, who serves as his company’s unofficial mascot, to the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.
A dog named Scout being treated for cancer at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine will be featured in a Super Bowl ad on Sunday, February 2nd.
As student employees’ relationship with the university continues to fray, TAA co-president Robert Christl said the union’s priorities remain what they have been all along — a greater commitment to shared governance and tangible protections from workplace abuse or overwork.
For the first time, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is going to be featured in a Super Bowl commercial thanks to Scout, a 7-year-old golden retriever, and the School of Veterinary Medicine.
While the Graduate Assistantship Policies and Procedures previously applied to teaching and project assistants, it now includes language covering research assistants. Together, TAs, PAs and RAs make up about 80% of graduate student employment at UW-Madison as of fall 2019.
A 30-second commercial featuring UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine will air Sunday during the game’s second quarter. WeatherTech, an automotive accessories, home and pet care products manufacturer, is footing the bill and also supplying the star talent — company founder and CEO David MacNeil’s dog, Scout.
Madison is both the Wisconsin state capital, with about 250,000 residents, and a spirited college town, home to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with about 40,000 students. You can’t miss either aspect. The carefully planned area around the Capitol building, called Capitol Square, is packed with trendy restaurants, bars, shops and music venues that appeal to residents as well as visitors. And the campus? It’s a straight shot down State Street, past about a mile of beer and coffee bars, restaurants, boutiques, ice cream shops, a modern art museum and performing arts center.
The UW System Board of Regents is eyeing a tuition increase in the next budget biennium, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross told a legislative committee Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers would be permitted to request funding from the state to recover missing Wisconsin soldiers under a bill the state Senate overwhelmingly approved Tuesday.
AUW-Madison investigation into a longtime ecology professor found he engaged in sexual harassment — an investigation that the university is withholding in its entirety.
The University of Wisconsin System’s presidential search committee is casting a wide net for applicants in not stating a preference for candidates with a doctoral degree, opening the door for a non-academic to potentially lead the state’s public colleges.
In the month since (Lisa Kamal) made the speech — a poignant meditation on belonging, resilience, diversity, mental health and kindness toward oneself — the video went viral, garnering 3.5 million views across multiple social media platforms and a lot of attention, especially from her home country of Malaysia.
A two-minute video made by students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was meant to promote school spirit and bring the campus together during homecoming festivities a couple of months ago. But some students there had a very different reaction as they watched scene after scene of students working and playing around campus, since almost every one of the students shown was white.
On this year’s list, UW-Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is No. 8, Adam Gamoran is No. 97, Stacey Lee is No. 176, and Jerlando Jackson is No. 177.
The assignment for a group of UW-Madison students: Find a way for this two-legged dog to walk more easily.
The video was just two minutes long: a sunny montage of life at the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison. Here were hundreds of young men and women cheering at a football game, dancing in unison, riding bicycles in a sleek line, “throwing the W” for the camera, singing a cappella, leaping into a lake.
There’s a rich history of running backs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jonathan Taylor is the latest Badger to add to that legacy.
In addition to fans donning their “Beat Oregon” pins, the pep rally drew University of Wisconsin-Madison dignitaries like Chancellor Rebecca Blank and athletic director Barry Alvarez. Monday marked Alvarez’s 73rd birthday. Fans sang to him before he gave a rousing speech.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fell just short of winning “the Granddaddy of Them All” on Wednesday.
Some Badgers fans spent their Sunday at the airport, catching flights to California for the Rose Bowl.Families sporting red crowded Dane County Regional Airport Sunday afternoon.
The countdown is on for the 2020 Rose Bowl as the Wisconsin Badgers prepare to take on the Oregon Ducks. At the same time, preparation is well underway for the Rose Parade, airing New Year’s Day on NBC15.
College football is all about traditions. As the sport celebrates the close of its 150th anniversary, the Wisconsin Badgers are headed to the Rose Bowl for the 10th time on New Year’s Day, where they will play the Oregon Ducks.
As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares to play against the Oregon Ducks football team in the Rose Bowl in California, fans in Wisconsin are cheering on the Badgers with Rose Bowl merchandise.
Badgers fans are on their way to Pasadena.
Data provided by UW-Madison earlier this month show the extent of the university’s rebound in faculty recruitment and retention in the three school years since 2015-16 when officials said budget cuts and controversial changes to tenure policies led to a decline in the number of new faculty hires and a spike in other institutions poaching UW-Madison professors.
The University of Wisconsin fell short of winning its first national championship in volleyball Saturday.
Lawmakers on a Republican-controlled legislative committee approved a state compensation plan Wednesday giving University of Wisconsin and state employees a 2% pay bump next year and in 2021.
One-hundred University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Oregon students and alumni will take part in a service project supporting senior nutrition in the Los Angeles community before next month’s Rose Bowl game.
Badger fans don’t need a ticket to take in the Rose Bowl experience. A new UW-Madison website can take fans to Southern California virtually.
UW-Madison nursing student Cassie Dietrick graduates Sunday, and she cannot pinpoint the School of Nursing building on campus.
Raise a glass to freedom. Raise a glass to all of us. Telling the story of today. Those slightly modified lyrics to “The Story of Tonight” from the musical “Hamilton” kicked off Lisa Kamal’s speech to her fellow graduates and a crowd of more than 7,000 people Sunday at the Kohl Center for UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement ceremony.
Lisa Kamal shared the story of how she got to UW-Madison in front of her classmates, as the chosen student speaker at the commencement ceremony.”I came here on a scholarship, a long way from my home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,” Kamal told her peers.
Student speaker Lisa Kamal shared her story, of how she get a full-ride scholarship from the Malaysian government.”I think in college, truthfully there’s going to be a lot of times where you get bummed down, things get really hard. You just have to keep going. Take it one day at a time, and you’ll get to the end,” Kamal said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison conferred 1,770 degrees Sunday to undergraduate, graduate and professional school students at the winter commencement in the Kohl Center.
The keynote speaker Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal sports columnist and University of Wisconsin alum, began his speech by taking a selfie with the graduates.
Renovation at the new site will begin in January of 2020. Work is expected to be finished in late spring.
Madison is primed to become the next great technology hub in the country if it receives federal financial help to drive such economic growth, according to a new report.
The explosion of top-tier tech jobs has clustered in a handful of coastal hubs, expanding the wealth and innovation differential that’s draining talent from the rest of the nation, new research shows. Madison is noted prominently in the study as an area that could become a major tech hub.
There are about a dozen industries at the frontier of innovation. They include software and pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and data processing. Most of their workers have science or tech degrees. They invest heavily in research and development. While they account for only 3 percent of all jobs, they account for 6 percent of the country’s economic output. Madison is noted prominently in the study as an area that could become a major tech hub.
Brookings suggests intensive government investment — direct funding, tax preferences, workforce development — to stem future regional economic divergence. The report lists a number of areas like Madison, Wisconsin; Albany, New York; and Provo, Utah, that have existing assets like universities that could potentially make them future innovation hubs, but this will only happen if there’s a concerted effort.
UW-Madison’s national research ranking, cemented for nearly 45 years as one of the top five in the country, has dropped in recent years, with the latest figures placing the university eighth among hundreds of institutions.
Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding the university fire a professor who reportedly created a toxic work environment in his lab.
