The Wooden Award completes a sweep for Kaminsky of all the major player of the year awards.
Badgers men’s basketball: Frank Kaminsky wins Wooden Award
Madison.com
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“We are making progress:” UW Board of Regents discusses Walker’s budget cuts
FOX6Now.com
The UW Board of Regents met at UW Waukesha on Thursday to discuss the looming cuts if Governor Walker’s proposed budget goes through unchanged.
UW-Madison’s Rebecca Blank brings tuition hike plan to Board of Regents
Capital Times
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is taking a long-promised plan to raise tuition for nonresident and professional students to the Board of Regents this week.
What Badgers Hoops Means For The University Of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Public Radio
The Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team came up a little bit short in the national championship game against Duke on Monday. Joy Cardin and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank discuss what the program means for the university, especially its great run in 2015.
Heartbreak hits again: Duke defeats Wisconsin in championship
Daily Cardinal
No one in the Wisconsin locker room was ready. Not one.
Déjà blue: Wisconsin’s historic season ends in heartbreaking loss to Duke in national championship game
Badger Herald
The best season in Wisconsin men’s basketball history will end on the most disappointing of notes.
Duke holds off Wisconsin to win national title
WISC-TV 3
The package deal has delivered Duke another national championship.
Badgers fall to Duke in title game, ending record-breaking season
WKOW-TV 27
The Wisconsin Badgers are devastated after their loss in the NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Game.
Badgers lose heart-breaker to Duke in NCAA title game
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Final Four heartbreak. A remarkable season — arguably the most memorable in the history of the Wisconsin basketball program — ended in the same gut-wrenching manner as last season.
UW wants higher tuition for grad students, out-of-staters
Madison.com
Most of the eight satellite campuses’ plans call for raising tuition by at least several hundred dollars starting next year. UW-Madison has drawn up a four-year plan that calls for raising non-resident undergraduate tuition by $10,000 by 2018-19 to $35,523 per year. International students would see an $11,000 increase to $36,523 by 2018-19.
On State Street, fireworks and dance beats, despite a bummer of a game
Madison.com
UW-Madison fans, so hopeful this was the year, took Monday’s 68-63 loss to Duke in the NCAA championship game with varying amounts of sadness, grief and frustration.
Duke Defeats Wisconsin to Win N.C.A.A. Men’s Basketball Championship
New York Times
INDIANAPOLIS — This Duke team was forged not over years but months, weeks, days. Its genesis was a Friday afternoon in November 2013, when the star high schoolers Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor coordinated their commitments to Coach Mike Krzyzewski and a Blue Devils program that was changing before his eyes.
UW wants higher tuition for grad students, out-of-staters
AP
Nine University of Wisconsin System schools plan to ask regents this week for permission to dramatically raise tuition for graduate and nonresident students to help offset big cuts Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed in his state budget.
Final Four schools hype academics with #Final4Research
Capital Times
The Final Four schools represented in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are powerhouses not only on the court, but also in the research lab.
UW-Madison, police officials prepare for Monday madness
Madison.com
UW-Madison officials and local police are preparing for potentially one of the most historic parties the city has seen if the Badger men’s basketball team wins the national championship Monday.
Wisconsin basketball to play for first championship since 1941
WISN-TV, Milwaukee
INDIANAPOLIS —The scene will bring smiles to many for a long time. Players chest-bumping and hugging. Fans on the fringe of delirium. A celebration perfect for highlight reels and posters.
Wisconsin’s path to the NCAA championship game couldn’t be tougher
USA Today
INDIANAPOLIS — When the NCAA tournament bracket was unveiled on Selection Sunday minutes after they’d outlasted Michigan State in overtime to win the Big Ten tournament, the players for the University of Wisconsin were thrilled – then a little concerned.
Badger fans erupt as UW heads to NCAA final
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison— On Saturday night, the roars echoed from Union South to State St.
Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin deny UK perfection, advance to title game
ESPN.com
INDIANAPOLIS — Nobody ever said they were perfect. Now, the Kentucky Wildcats aren’t undefeated, either.
Wisconsin ends Kentucky’s perfect season with Final Four stunner
Sports Illustrated
Wisconsin avenged last year’s heartbreaking Final Four loss to Kentucky and ended the Wildcats’ perfect season with a 71-64 victory in the national semifinals in Indianapolis on Saturday night.
Kentucky fan thankful for University of Wisconsin student who saved his life
Lexington Herald-Leader
Scott Logdon is a tried-and-true, blue-bleeding University of Kentucky basketball fan. He doesn’t think there’s much chance UK could lose to the University of Wisconsin in their Final Four matchup Saturday night, but in that unlikely event, he would go ahead and cheer for Wisconsin in the NCAA men’s championship game Monday night.
Kentucky fan gets life-saving stem cell donation from Wisconsin
WKOW-TV 27
Die-hard Kentucky basketball fan Scott Logdon may think twice before rooting against the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday night. Nearly two years ago, Logdon received a life-saving stem cell donation to combat his acute myeloid leukemia. 22-year-old University of Wisconsin student, Chris Wirz, donated those cells.
Final Four fever hits local businesses, fans
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Final Four frenzy might not be as crazy in Wisconsin Rapids as it is in Madison, but fans and businesses are looking forward to — and preparing for — the Badgers Saturday battle to make it to Monday’s championship game.
Bedspread said to be from Lincoln’s deathbed tested for bloodstains
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison — In the frantic, desperate minutes after John Wilkes Booth fired a fatal shot into the president’s head 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln’s unconscious body was carried across the street from Ford’s Theatre to a rooming house.
UW’s Ray Cross: Faculty tenure system should include accountability
Capital Times
Cross said at a forum on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget Wednesday at UW-Eau Claire that the review system for tenured professors should include probation if warranted, and dismissal if gaps in performance are not addressed, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.
UW System’s Cross hopeful aid cut will be eased
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
UW System President Ray Cross remains hopeful state lawmakers will reduce the proposed $300 million budget cut to Wisconsin public universities after negotiations between “two extremes.”
UW System President Calls For Changes In UW Tenure Policy
Wisconsin Public Radio
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross called for changes in how campuses handle tenured faculty on Wednesday.
Budget Cuts Threaten Unique Programs At UW-Stevens Point, Administrators Say
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is being hit particularly hard by the governor’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System. School officials point to the elimination of entrepreneurial research in so-called segregated programs as one of the toughest hurdles.
Marsha Mailick named UW-Madison research and graduate education vice chancellor
Madison.com
The former head of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center has been selected as the university’s first vice chancellor for research and graduate education.
NCAA, Indy sports world speak out about RFRA
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis
Indianapolis’ sports world is speaking out following the Indiana Legislature’s passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act RFRA.
Duke Comes Out Against Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Law Ahead Of Final Four
Huffington Post
Duke University, one of four teams left in the NCAA’s March Madness tournament, on Monday became the latest institution to publicly come out against the “religious freedom” law recently passed in Indiana. The University of Wisconsin-Madison also raised concern with the law, per a statement from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
Crowds take to the streets in Madison to celebrate win
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The main college partying thoroughfare in downtown Madison was mobbed after the Badgers 85-78 victory Saturday over Arizona, which sent Wisconsin to the NCAA Final Four of March Madness.
Badgers claw past Wildcats again, advance to Final Four
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
So who will be good enough — and tough enough — to take down Bo Ryan’s basketball team?
Stick to the mission: UW is too valuable to cut deeply
Appleton Post-Crescent
In all of the debate over the cuts to the University of Wisconsin System in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan, the group that has the most at stake is the most often overlooked:
A Real Ebola Vaccine May Be on the Way
Popular Mechanics
As worldwide panic over Ebola quiets down to a murmur, researchers are hard at work trying to stop the next pandemic. Now a new vaccine may be on the way, thanks to a group of research scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ebola vaccine ‘effective in monkeys’
AFP
WASHINGTON – An experimental Ebola vaccine has been shown to effectively protect monkeys against the often-deadly virus, according to a study published Thursday.
UW-Madison vaccine protects monkeys from Ebola
Madison.com
The vaccine was created in the lab of campus virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka. It protected monkeys from Ebola virus infection in experiments conducted at a high-level containment facility in Montana, Kawaoka reported in the journal Science.
UW-Madison Ebola virus vaccine protects monkeys
NBC-15
A group led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor developed an Ebola whole virus vaccine that has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the virus, according to a release from UW-Madison.
Badgers rally past Tar Heels and into Elite Eight
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The motto Bo Ryan’s players chose before the first game of the season was brief but telling:”Make ’em believe.”
Group led by UW scientist develops whole virus Ebola vaccine
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Another vaccine has joined the race against the often fatal Ebola virus, and this one was developed by a group led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his colleagues using a novel experimental platform, published Thursday in the prominent journal Science.
More dangerous Ebola strain unlikely, study shows
U.S. News & World Report
Noted: In the same issue of Science, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported positive results from clinical trials of a new “whole virus” Ebola vaccine.
A real Ebola vaccine may be on the way
Popular Mechanics
As worldwide panic over Ebola quiets down to a murmur, researchers are hard at work trying to stop the next pandemic. Now a new vaccine may be on the way, thanks to a group of research scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW System chief says he’d resign if cuts aren’t reduced, tenure protected
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ray Cross pledged Wednesday to resign as president of the University of Wisconsin System if he fails to secure a substantial reduction in proposed state budget cuts and is unable to protect tenure, shared governance and academic freedom for UW campuses.
Ray Cross says he’ll resign if UW budget cuts, loss of shared governance maintained by Legislature
Madison.com
Cross, facing withering criticism, told a UW-Milwaukee gathering of employees and students that he’d resign if he can’t substantially reduce the $300 million cut and preserve cherished employee protections including shared governance, tenure and academic freedom. He stood by his answer later, saying in an interview that “I don’t believe any higher education leader wants to be any part of an institution that doesn’t have tenure or shared governance.”
In quest for Final Four, Wisconsin can play and is playful
USA Today
When the University of Wisconsin basketball program recruited Bronson Koenig out of high school, the guard recalls hearing about one of the hallmarks that defined every Badgers practice: That the only sound that ever emanates from players is silence.
UW-Madison faculty lobbying group to host public forum on Walker budget
Capital Times
PROFS, a lobbying organization for UW-Madison faculty, will zero in on Scott Walker’s game-changing budget plans for the UW System at a free public forum Wednesday.
Andy Baggot: UW’s run of success in men’s basketball, football is unparalleled national
Madison.com
At first glance they seem like completely different streaks with separate rulebooks, mechanics and personnel.
UW System president crosses state for budget talks
Daily Cardinal
For UW System President Ray Cross, March will be filled not only with basketball, but visits to various state colleges and universities for conversations about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
All-clear after UW-Madison Memorial Union bomb threat
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Police have reportedly given the all-clear after an early Friday morning bomb threat at UW-Madisons Memorial Union, according to Channel 3000.
Bomb threat made at UW Memorial Union; nothing found
Madison.com
UW-Madison police are continuing to investigate a bomb threat made early Friday at the Memorial Union, a threat that closed the facility and area streets for several hours before reopening a few hours later.
Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky Takes Pride in Growing Up
New York Times
LISLE, Ill. — A faded school crest overlooks the A-frame Catholic school gymnasium where exposed metallic heating ducts and off-white bricks run the length of the basketball floor below.
GOP lawmakers will change Walker’s plans for UW System
Wisconsin Radio Network
Two key Wisconsin lawmakers are proposing changes to Governor Scott Walker’s plans for the University of Wisconsin System. Joint Finance Committee co-chair, Representative John Nygren R-Marinette and committee member Representative Dean Knudson R-Hudson announced plans on Wednesday that include a smaller, more manageable cut, instead of the $300 million cut proposed in the governor’s budget.
Budget Committee Chairman Says He’s Working On Eliminating UW Autonomy Plan
Wisconsin Public Radio
The Republican co-chair of the Legislature’s budget committee says he’s working on a plan to remove the proposed public authority from Gov. Scott Walker’s University of Wisconsin budget.
Republican budget committee members announce new UW plan
Madison.com
The co-chair and another Republican member of the Legislature’s powerful budget committee panel said Wednesday that they don’t support giving the University of Wisconsin more independence from state oversight, in another sign of dwindling support for Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to do just that.
Republicans say UW autonomy plan on ‘life support’
AP
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to grant the University of Wisconsin System autonomy from state oversight and laws appears to be on “life support,” although his proposed $300 million cut is unlikely to change, key Republican lawmakers said Tuesday.
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers: Scott Walker plan for UW autonomy on ‘life support’
Capital Times
Other Republicans — and some Democrats — joined Joint Finance Committee co-chair Rep. John Nygren in saying that Walker’s plan is in serious jeopardy as faculty, staff and students at UW-Madison, for example, are opposing the reorganization of the UW System as a public authority.
Republicans says UW autonomy plan on ‘life support’
Madison.com
The Republican co-chairman of the Legislature’s budget committee says Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to detach the University of Wisconsin System from state oversight appears to be on life support.
Chris Borland walking away from football
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Former Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland, who enjoyed a stellar rookie season in 2014 with the San Francisco 49ers, announced Monday he is retiring from the NFL.
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland retires over head injury concerns
ESPN Outside the Lines
BERKELEY, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland, one of the NFL’s top rookies the past season, told “Outside the Lines” on Monday that he is retiring because of concerns about the long-term effects of repetitive head trauma.
No. 1-seeded Badgers will face No. 16-seeded Coastal Carolina in West Region
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin will not have to take down unbeaten Kentucky to reach the Final Four for the second consecutive season.