After nearly four decades as a coach at the collegiate level, Bo Ryan has finally decided to hang up the whistle for good.
Bo Ryan announces his retirement, Greg Gard named interim head coach
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Bo Ryan retires as head coach of the Badgers
NBC15
The Bo Ryan era at Wisconsin has come to an end.
Bo Ryan retires immediately from Badgers
WKOW TV
Following the Badgers’ victory over Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Badgers head coach Bo Ryan announced his immediate retirement as the Wisconsin men’s basketball coach.
Badgers basketball head coach Bo Ryan retires effective immediately
Channel3000.com
Badgers basketball head coach Bo Ryan announced he will be retiring effective immediately, instead of at the end of the season.
Ryan retires at midseason, ending successful Wisconsin run
Channel3000.com
The methodical brand of basketball that Bo Ryan ran at Wisconsin rarely surprised opponents as it piled up wins and two trips to the Final Four over the last two seasons.
Ryan saved the biggest shocker of his career for his final game.
The 67-year-old coach abruptly retired on Tuesday night, 12 games into the season after his Badgers beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi two weeks before Big Ten play begins.
Bo Ryan steps down as Wisconsin basketball coach
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Bo Ryan’s 494th game as Wisconsin’s head men’s basketball coach was his last.
UW-Madison researchers sign letter opposing ban on fetal tissue research
Wisconsin State Journal
The letter, which was written by three UW-Madison scientists, contends that the bill “would severely restrict promising avenues of biomedical research for conditions such as diabetes, Down syndrome, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury and more.”
Badgers men’s basketball: UW coach Bo Ryan announces retirement
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced his retirement following the Badgers’ 64-49 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday night.
UW Basketball Coach Bo Ryan Announces Retirement
Wisconsin Public Radio
Longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison basketball coach Bo Ryan announced on Tuesday that he was retiring, effective immediately.
There’s a Wausau connection to Nobel winner
Wausau Daily Herald
Doug Todd of Wausau treasures the astonishingly gracious letter he received from Nobel Prize-winner William C. Campbell.
UW committee passes free speech resolution inspired by controversies at other campuses
Wisconsin State Journal
A committee of the UW Board of Regents reaffirmed its support for free speech Thursday by unanimously approving a resolution inspired by debates over how colleges should handle sensitive or divisive subjects.
Regents approve resolution supporting free, and offensive, speech on UW campuses
Wisconsin State Journal
Ideas that are unpopular or even offensive should not be shut out of debates over controversial topics at University of Wisconsin System schools, the System’s Board of Regents affirmed Friday, when its members passed a resolution restating their commitment to free speech.
UW Board of Regents approves free speech policy
Wisconsin Radio Network
The UW System’s Board of Regents has approved a resolution aimed renewing a commitment to free speech and academic freedom on its campuses.
Wisconsin Regents Back Free Speech
AP
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin has become the latest university system to officially affirm the right to free speech and academic freedom for all students amid concerns that academia is trying to protect students from being offended by classroom lectures and discussions.
Wisconsin university panel endorses free speech
Associated Press (Madison.com)
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee unanimously approved a resolution Thursday affirming a commitment to free speech, following the lead of schools around the country that have faced protests over racial tensions and other social issues.
UW committee passes free speech resolution inspired by controversies at other campuses
Wisconsin State Journal
The resolution, which was written by a group of Regents with help from some UW-Madison professors, states that the university may not suppress the free exchange of ideas, even if some on campus find those ideas “offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed.”
University of Wisconsin regents panel endorses free speech
St. Paul Pioneer Press
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee unanimously approved a resolution Thursday affirming a commitment to free speech, following the lead of schools around the country that have faced protests over racial tensions and other social issues.
As black students demand to be heard, UW regents prepare to affirm free speech, set limits
Capital Times
As African-American students at UW-Madison join others at universities across the country in demanding inclusive campuses, the UW System Board of Regents developed a statement reaffirming its commitment to free expression that also sets limits on acceptable responses to offensive speech.
After UW-Madison chancellor’s email stirred controversy, Regents prepare resolution on free speech
Wisconsin State Journal
The Regents will take up a proposed resolution reaffirming the board’s commitment to academic freedom and free speech when its education committee meets Thursday in Madison. The move comes weeks after UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent students and faculty a controversial message about speech, which critics said was contrary to First Amendment principles, and as colleges across the country weigh how to handle sensitive debates on campus.
Supreme Court Laments How Little It Really Knows About Race-Conscious Admissions
Chronicle of Higher Education
he Supreme Court’s proceedings resembled a debate over educational research more than a fight over constitutional principles as the justices heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a challenge to race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
Virtually real
Isthmus
In February 2014, staff from UW-Madison’s Living Environments Laboratory arrived at a Mazomanie residence where a murder had recently been committed.
William C Campbell warns of decline in scientific research
The Irish Times
Irish-born Nobel Prize laureate William C. Campbell has warned of the great cost of a decline in the kind of scientific research that lead to him beating the parasitic infection that leads to river blindness.
UW System invites public to take an open survey on its priorities for the future
Capital Times
The UW System is conducting an open online survey to gauge public opinion through Dec. 14. The five-minute survey touches on issues identified in a series of public listening sessions held around the state this fall.
UW-Madison chancellor discusses her eventful, challenging year
Inside Higher Ed
UW-Madison chancellor discusses the university’s difficult year, the future of public financing of higher education and racial protests on campuses.
The truth about fetal tissue research
Nature
Every month, Lishan Su receives a small test tube on ice from a company in California. In it is a piece of liver from a human fetus aborted at between 14 and 19 weeks of pregnancy.
‘Substantial gift’ allows new UW School of Music building project to move forward
Channel3000.com
A sign has been sitting at the corner of Lake and University Streets in downtown Madison for years, announcing the site of a new UW-Madison School of Music building.
Now, a large gift from the Wisconsin Rapids-based Mead Witter Foundation will allow the sign to finally come down next fall and construction to begin on a new building that will house both music classrooms and a large concert hall.
“This was proposed before the 2008 financial crisis and we had some wonderful, generous donors, but the fundraising effort stalled out for some time,” Director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison Johannes Wallmann said. “Even the most optimistic among us thought it might be decades away.”
Wisconsin Grad Students Want Pay Parity Across Disciplines
Chronicle of Higher Education
When one of America’s first graduate-student unions was recognized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1969, organizers embraced a key principle: Graduate assistants should get equal pay for equal work. (Login may be required.)
Mead Witter donates $25M to UW music school
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
WISCONSIN RAPIDS – The Mead Witter Foundation announced Thursday it is giving $25 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.
UW-Madison Music School Receives Gift To Help Build New Facilities
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music has received a $25 million gift to help construct a new building featuring performance spaces and a large concert hall.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers generate cells that model primitive leukemia
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a way to generate cells similar to primitive leukemia cells, an advance that will allow researchers to study the disease in a lab dish and perhaps even find better treatments. The new work appears in the journal Stem Cell Research.
Students’ Protests May Play Role in Supreme Court Case on Race in Admissions
New York Times
WASHINGTON — As student protests over racial injustice are exploding at campuses across the nation, the Supreme Court is preparing to hear a major case that could put an end to racial preferences in college admissions.
Professors: Proposed UW System tenure policies threaten academic freedom
Capital Times
Proposed new University of Wisconsin System policies on the layoffs and termination of faculty don’t meet accepted standards and threaten academic freedom, say Wisconsin leaders of a national academic professional group.
Wisconsin Faculty Leaders Oppose Draft Tenure Policy
Inside Higher Ed
Faculty leaders on three University of Wisconsin System campuses objected to proposed new tenure policies ahead of a systemwide task force meeting on the new guidelines Monday.
On Campus: Faculty raise concerns about proposed new UW tenure policies
Wisconsin State Journal
Faculty are again pushing back against proposals for new University of Wisconsin System tenure policies, saying rules laid out in draft documents last week would violate professors’ rights to due process and threaten academic freedom. The draft policies outline layoff protections for tenured faculty and the review process professors must go through after they have received tenure. They led to a lively discussion Monday at a meeting of the UW System Tenure Policy Task Force, the body charged with writing new faculty protections. The task force will meet again later this month before sending its recommendations for a new tenure policy to the UW System Board of Regents next year.
Tenure policies violate standards, UW faculty leaders warn
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Policies on tenure protections and job reviews for University of Wisconsin System faculty that a special task force will consider Monday afternoon fail to meet nationally recognized professional standards for academia, according to faculty leaders from three UW campuses.
New Website Aims To Help Educators Teach About Wisconsin Tribes
Wisconsin Public Radio
A new website has been launched to help educators teach their students about Wisconsin’s Native American tribes.
5 UW scientists named fellows of national society
Madison.com
Five UW-Madison scientists have been honored as elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, according to the university.
UW-Madison 4th nationally in research spending despite shrinking revenue
Capital Times
UW-Madison retained its 4th place national ranking in research spending, despite a continuing erosion of federal and state funding, the university’s news service reported Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin wasn’t attracting diverse applicants. So it did something bold.
Upworthy
Ashley Thomas, a Harlem native and senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, never thought she’d end up in the Midwest.When she started looking for schools, she was interested in diversity. But according to UW’s website, over 70% of the school’s students identify as white. So, why did Ashley choose UW? Because of a hip-hop and urban arts program called First Wave. UW is the only school in the country with anything like it.
We Tried A Futuristic Cranberry. It Was Fresh And Naturally Sweet
National Public Radio
Why are cranberries and sugar a seemingly inseparable pair? The typical fresh cranberry is an acrid thing to put on the tongue without sugar to balance it out.But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. Cranberry breeders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an experimental variety that’s naturally sweet. It’s called the “Sweetie.”
Donors give $7 million to UW-Madison computer sciences department
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s growing Department of Computer Sciences will benefit from a $7 million alumni donation, university officials announced Friday. The money, including $5 million from Sheldon and Marianne Lubar, will endow two faculty chairs and two professorships, and will establish a discretionary fund “to meet key needs” in the department, officials said.
From Alzheimer’s research to summer camps, impact of UW-Madison budget cuts sting
Wisconsin State Journal
In ways big and small, those who work and study at UW-Madison are feeling the sting of a 2015-17 state budget that reduced funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $250 million over two years, with $58.9 million of that cut falling on the flagship campus this year.
UW-Madison student from Middleton named Rhodes Scholar
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Colin Higgins of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named a Rhodes Scholar, the university announced Saturday.
UW-Madison student from Middleton named Rhodes scholar
Wisconsin State Journal
Colin Higgins of Middleton received the honor, becoming UW’s 32nd Rhodes scholar since the program was founded in 1902 — the most among Big Ten schools. The program offers a scholarship valued at about $50,000 per year to study for two to three years at Oxford University in England.
UW-Madison student: Winning Rhodes scholarship ‘surreal’
AP
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student said Sunday he plans to use his Rhodes scholarship to study how governments can better focus their environmental policies on meeting people’s needs.
Vocal cords grown in the lab stretch, vibrate, and make sound in scientific first
STAT News
For the first time, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have grown this superhero-like tissue in the lab, using human vocal cord cells as their raw ingredients. Their hope is to one day implant these engineered vocal cords into patients so they can recover their voices.
Scientists have grown human vocal cords in the lab for the first time
BuzzFeed News
In an experimental first, scientists reported Wednesday that they have grown about 170 human vocal cords in a lab, starting from cells taken from four surgical patients and one cadaver. “We never imagined that we would see the impressive level of function that we did,” said study senior author Nathan Welham of the University of Wisconsin Medical School at a briefing for reporters.
Lab-grown vocal cords offer hope of treating voice disorders
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
From mom’s comforting croon to a shout of warning, our voices are the main way we communicate and one we take for granted unless something goes wrong. Now researchers have grown human vocal cords in the laboratory that appear capable of producing sound – in hopes of one day helping people with voice-robbing diseases or injuries.
Students abroad encourage peers to not let fear tactics deter them
Channel3000.com
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has sent a record 2,276 students overseas for study abroad programs in the last year, and in light of recent terrorist attacks, students currently studying abroad are telling their peers those fear tactics shouldn’t deter them.
UW is ranked 10th in the country for the number of students studying abroad, according to the 2015 Open Doors Report on international educational exchange. Daniel Gold, of the university’s study abroad center, said safety has always been top priority.
Wiley: Patent infringement is theft, plain and simple
The Washington Post
Personal computers, cellphones, GPS devices, e-mail, the Internet — all of the technology driving today’s economy traces its origins to two inventions: the 1947 transistor from Bell Telephone Laboratories and the 1958 integrated circuit from Texas Instruments and Fairchild.
On Campus: More Badgers studying abroad, report finds
Wisconsin State Journal
The campus sent 2,276 Badgers abroad in the 2013-14 school year, the 10th-highest total of any American college or university, according to the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. The number of students abroad was up 5 percent over the previous school year, UW officials said Monday.
UPDATE: Madison community gathers in support of France
WKOW TV
The French House, near the UW-Madison campus, hosted a gathering in solidarity with the people of France on Monday evening.
UW students and staff members, many of whom have ties to France, said coming together helped them cope with last week’s attacks in Paris, which killed roughly 130 people and were carried out by militants of the Islamic State terror group.
Muslim UW students hope immigration not curtailed
WKOW TV
Some Muslim UW-Madison students take personally moves by Governor Walker and other governors to try to suspend the resettlement of refugees from war-torn Syria to the U.S.
“I understand people’s concerns that they don’t want the terrorism attacks that happened in Paris to come back and happen here in the U.S.,” Syrian-American and UW-Madison student Rama Shoukfeh says. Authorities say one of the Paris terrorist suspects had credentials as a refugee from Syria.
UW French House opens doors in solidarity with Paris
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Andrew Irving never imagined so many people would show their support in Madison.
“What’s been nice is the unexpected messages we get from people we barely know just saying we want to reach out and say we’re sorry or we’re thinking of you,” Irving said.
Irving, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison French House, decided the community needed a place to come together to mourn and stand in solidarity.
UPDATE: Gathering in solidarity with France scheduled for Monday in Madison
WKOW TV
Noted: Andrew Irving, Director of the French House in Madison, said the attacks have taken a toll on locals who study and immerse themselves in French culture, as well as on French students currently living here in Madison.
“Emotions were very high Friday and also on Saturday. A lot of people just didn’t know what to think,” Irving said.
Irving said the French House, a private residence hall run by the UW-Madison’s Department of French and Italian, houses both American and French students.
“All of our residents speak French here almost all of the time,” Irving said.
Wisconsinites feel impact of Paris attacks
WKOW TV
Noted: UW-Madison has several students studying abroad in Paris and all of them are accounted for and safe.
UW-Madison students in Paris are safe
WKOW TV
UW-Madison says all of its students known to be studying in Paris are safe and accounted for.
The university made the announcement on its Twitter page Friday night.
Wisconsin colleges report their students in Paris are safe
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One by one, colleges and universities across America, including in Wisconsin, took to social media to tweet the relief that all of their students studying in Paris were safe after Friday night’s terrorist attacks.
For The Record: UW campaign
WISC-TV 3
Neil Heinen talks about the University of Wisconsin comprehensive campaign that’s aiming to review the UW’s focus on its goals and raise money to help reach those goals.
No daily newspaper left at UW-Madison as Cardinal cuts production
Wisconsin State Journal
The Daily Cardinal plans to cut production of its print edition to two days per week, leaving UW-Madison without a daily student newspaper only a few years after the campus had two of them.