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UW-led research into neutrinos unlocks clues to massive cosmic rays
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has observed 28 neutrinos that traveled millions of light-years through space, crashing into the South Pole ice and emitting a flash of blue light the size of six city blocks.
Icy South Pole Lab Reports 28 High-Energy Neutrino Events
Wisconsin Public Radio News
Since opening a couple years ago, a particle detector in Antarctica has been spotting nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos, in ice or in the atmosphere. Now, however, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory says it has also detected 28 high-energy neutrinos from beyond our solar system.
An Icy Observatory Detects Neutrinos From Far, Far Away
New York Times
At the bottom of the world, an observatory embedded in ice and designed to catch bountiful but elusive subatomic particles could give astronomers a brand-new look at the universe.
Panel wants more details on UW reserve plan
Madison.com
The Legislature?s Audit Committee wants more information from the University of Wisconsin System before it will vote on its plan for how much money it will keep in reserves.
Underwood: Celebrate great public schools, and make them available to all
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If you are paying attention to legislative debates or media reports, you may get the impression that our schools are failing and that many people have turned their backs on this uniquely American public institution.
UW’s Flexible Option gives credit for what you can show you know
Capital Times
Learned a lot on the job but don?t have a college degree to show for it? If you can show what you know, you might be able to get academic credit for knowledge and skills picked up outside the classroom with the new UW Flexible Option program.
On Campus: Targeted raises will go to UW-Madison employees under new plan
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison will give another round of targeted pay raises to some faculty and staff, the second such effort following an initial rollout of pay bumps in 2012.
Admission opens for UW flex degrees
Madison.com
University of Wisconsin officials launched their new online flexible degree program Monday, promising the initiative will help adults get college degrees and find better jobs faster.
Report: Much of UW 2012 reserves committed
Madison.com
University of Wisconsin System officials planned to spend a large chunk of their 2012 reserves on several items including scholarships, construction projects and staff salaries, according to a state report released Friday.
‘Undocumented’ fund balances at UW-Madison held to help cover research costs
Capital Times
More than three-quarters of the $142 million in UW System fund balances for which state auditors say they could not document a spending plan is on the books for UW-Madison.
On Campus: Targeted raises will go to UW-Madison employees under new plan
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison will give another round of targeted pay raises to some faculty and staff, the second such effort following an initial rollout of pay bumps in 2012.
Report: Much of UW 2012 reserves committed
AP
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin System officials planned to spend a large chunk of their 2012 reserves on several items including scholarships, construction projects and staff salaries, according to a state report.
A Caldera in the Making?: The Curious Story of Laguna del Maule
Wired
The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting is always chock full of fascinating science and this year?s meeting was no exception. However, if one talk really caught my attention, it was one presented by Brad Singer on Laguna del Maule. I?ve mentioned the restless volcano before in this space, but after hearing his description of just what is going on down there in Chile, it really has me thinking about how we can look for the candidates for the next massive eruption on the planet.
Community members say they sometimes feel at home at UW-Madison, and sometimes not
Capital Times
How does UW-Madison make you feel? UW officials asked that question of some 25 community members, faculty and staff ? many of them African-American ? who gathered Wednesday evening for the second of four scheduled community listening sessions on diversity and inclusion at the university.
New partnership to help entrepreneurs on UW campus
Madison.com
A new partnership focusing on entrepreneurship has been launched on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison launches $3.2 million program to encourage entrepreneurship
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Seeking to push more of the results of its vast research efforts into the marketplace, the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday announced a $3.2 million program to encourage both dorm-room and faculty-driven entrepreneurship.
Unwelcome: UW-Madison has work to do in building a comfortable workplace for minority faculty
Capital Times
Michael Ramsey-Musolf recalls a time that his colleagues in the UW-Madison physics department, entertaining seminar visitors, walked past his door on the way out to dinner without inviting him to join them.
UW-Madison ranked 6th in number of students studying abroad
Madison.com
Over 2,000 UW-Madison students studied abroad in the 2011-2012 academic year, ranking it sixth among peer universities and colleges in the U.S.
Is elitist image preventing UW-Madison from connecting with minority communities?
Capital Times
Does UW-Madison have a snobby image to overcome before it can connect with parts of the greater Madison community?
UW-Madison eye research center lays off entire staff amid $4.6 million deficit
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has laid off all 60 employees from a nationally known eye research center after learning the center had run up a deficit of $4.6 million.
Apartment blaze near UW hurts 3, sends dozens fleeing
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An apartment fire over the weekend near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus injured three people, including two firefighters.
Madison apartment fire injures 3, displaces dozens
Wisconsin State Journal
A fire at a three-story apartment building on Madison?s Near West Side late Saturday night injured three people and displaced dozens of residents, many of them UW-Madison students.
Close call in the ER: How one desperate young doctor became a surgical visionary
Slate.com
Noted: More than a decade after Pugh?s emergency-room heroics at Howard University, I?m in her lab at the University of Wisconsin hospital finishing up a hernia operation. Just about done?all I need to do is put in the last few stitches. The miniature camera attached to the end of the two long needles I?m clumsily manipulating doesn?t lie: I?m a lousy surgeon. Fortunately, the patient isn?t alive. In fact, he never lived?he?s actually a cloth box with different layers of mesh?which look like the internal organs of a human?and laparoscopic tools, all of which sit on a base consisting of two Frisbees.
Soda or Pop? Dictionary of American Regional English Getting an Update
Time NewsFeed
In 1965, bands of surveyors drove their Dodge vans every which way out of Madison, Wisc., starting a project that would take nearly a half century to complete. Their work?going door to door and asking what people called that strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk or those delicious round things you put syrup on and eat for breakfast?became the Dictionary of American Regional English, a six-volume catalog of the things that are only said in Maine or Appalachia or Southern Texas.
Citizen Dave: Madison will miss Mark Bugher
Isthmus
Last Friday was Mark Bugher?s final day on the job as director of University Research Park. He has headed it since leaving Governor Tommy Thompson?s administration, for which he served as secretary of the Department of Administration.
Multi-million-dollar booster shots for UW-Madison nursing, tech start-up programs
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison will share in a $3.2 million grant designed to help address a nursing shortage and receive another $2.4 million for a tech startup program under an initiative meant to spur job growth across the state.
Eight kids, hour commute? No problem for 33-year-old UW-Madison undergrad
Wisconsin State Journal
When the acceptance letter arrived in June, her children and husband weren?t around. So Melissa Guth unleashed her euphoria on the mail carrier.
UW-Madison extends freshman application deadline due to computer problems
Wisconsin State Journal
What is it with glitchy websites these days? UW-Madison is extending its “first notification deadline” for freshmen applicants by three days due to computer problems.
Rebecca Blank comes “back home” to UW-Madison
Isthmus
Spend a few moments chatting with Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison?s new chancellor, and you may wind up as dizzy and out of breath as you would be if you followed her around for a day. She talks fast and thinks faster, delivering rapid-fire, perfectly articulated responses while maintaining a cheerful demeanor and welcoming smile.
New UW website charts migration in US for past 60 years
Madison.com
The migration of people to and from a community tells a lot about the character of the place, and can be used to plan for future development.
Camp Randall crush remembered as frightening call for stadium changes
Wisconsin State Journal
Twenty years ago Wednesday, a UW-Madison freshman and sophomore, sisters from New Jersey and second-generation Badgers, got ready to storm the field with thousands of others to celebrate an epic University of Wisconsin football victory over Michigan.
Unmasked: UW researchers reveal what mystery cold virus looks like
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Turns out the reason why there?s no cure yet for the common cold is that no one knows exactly what the cold virus looks like.
No cure for common cold, but UW scientists make major breakthrough
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison scientists haven?t cured the common cold, but they may have explained why nobody has ? in a discovery that could lead to better drugs against sneezes and sniffles.
UW-Madison model of common cold virus could lead to better drugs
Madison.com
UW-Madison scientists haven?t cured the common cold, but they may have explained why nobody has ? in a discovery that could lead to better drugs against sneezes and sniffles.
Madison police arrest suspect in armed robbery
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison police are investigating whether a suspect in an armed robbery Wednesday is linked to dozens of similar crimes.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she’ll fight for flexibility to pay faculty more
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is continuing her campaign to boost pay for faculty and staff.
On Campus: Expect 60s, clouds and a similarly long ceremony at Camp Randall graduation, says history
Wisconsin State Journal
Lingering questions related to UW-Madison?s change next spring from four weekend graduation ceremonies indoors at the Kohl Center to one outdoors at Camp Randall Stadium:
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank consolidates graduation to one Camp Randall event
Capital Times
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank plans to consolidate graduation ceremonies this spring into a single event at Camp Randall, the university revealed Wednesday.
Graduation moving to Camp Randall next spring
Wisconsin State Journal
After nearly a quarter-century away, UW-Madison?s graduation ceremony will return next spring to Camp Randall Stadium, a move that will consolidate nearly 6,000 graduates and 40,000 guests at the same outdoor event, scheduled for noon on May 17.
Badger commencement moving to Camp Randall in the spring
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving its spring commencement for undergrads to Camp Randall Stadium — rain or shine — so all 6,000 graduates can gather at one venue for one ceremony to mark the culmination of their Badger education.
Badger commencement moving to Camp Randall in the spring
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving its spring commencement for undergrads to Camp Randall Stadium — rain or shine — so all 6,000 graduates can gather at one venue for one ceremony to mark the culmination of their Badger education.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says hike professors’ pay or watch them leave
Capital Times
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank believes professors here are likely to take jobs at other universities if they don?t get a pay hike.
Doug Moe: A passion for patents
Wisconsin State Journal
Howard Bremer never knew what was coming when he answered his phone across half a century at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
Baldwin says another shutdown can be avoided
AP
Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she “certainly” believes that another federal government shutdown can be avoided.
Tammy Baldwin Visits With UW-Madison Faculty
Wisconsin Public Radio News
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) met with faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday to hear about what effect flat-funding, the sequester, and the shutdown has on research.
UW-Madison chancellor says faculty pay raises are a must
WKOW-TV 27
Rebecca Blank has been on the job as UW-Madison?s chancellor for three months and if there?s one thing she believes has to change, its how little the school pays its professors.
Our view: UW chancellor sets proper tone
La Crosse Tribune
Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, isn?t afraid to concede that her institution hasn?t done a very good job of educating the people of our state about the positive impact of its flagship university.
Badgers men’s basketball: Bo Ryan, UW students team up to raise over $66K in fight against cancer
Madison.com
University of Wisconsin men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan?s arm was a little sore after spending five hours shaking hands and posing for pictures with the 2,090 students who showed up for Thursday?s ?Shooting Down Cancer? event at the Kohl Center.
Wisconsin Democrats pitch ‘Higher Ed, Lower Debt’ student loan relief bill
Capital Times
A bill that would tackle student loan debt ? a topic Congress has been unwilling to touch ? was introduced Wednesday by two Democratic lawmakers. Whether it will gain support among Republicans remains unclear.
UW-Madison Chancellor tours new Gundersen expansion
WXOW-TV, LaCrosse
A special visit on Wednesday at Gundersen Health System.
Chancellor: UW-Madison impacts entire state
LaCrosse Tribune
The top official at University of Wisconsin-Madison wants people to know how the university impacts communities across the state.
UW students 10 times better at paying off loans than national average
Madison.com
Defaulting on student loans is a national problem, but apparently not on the UW-Madison campus.
Wis. GOP lawmaker criticizes UW System pay plan
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin System?s board of regents on Friday approved large increases in the pay ranges for certain top positions, drawing swift criticism from a top Republican lawmaker.
Howard Bremer, influential UW patent attorney, dies at 90
Wisconsin State Journal
Howard Bremer, who was instrumental in extending UW-Madison?s prowess in the worlds of research and invention, died Friday at the age of 90.
Federal shutdown threatens $36 million in monthly payments to UW-Madison
Capital Times
The shutdown of the federal government is threatening $36 million in monthly payments for research at UW-Madison, says PROFS, an advocacy group for faculty.
GOP lawmaker criticizes UW System pay plan
AP
MILWAUKEE ? The University of Wisconsin System?s board of regents on Friday approved large increases in the pay ranges for certain top positions, drawing swift criticism from a top Republicanlawmaker.
Wis. GOP lawmaker criticizes UW System pay plan
AP
A Republican state lawmaker says the University of Wisconsin System?s Board of Regents are out of touch for tentatively approving large increases in pay scales for certain top positions.
UW Regents advance salary increase plan
Wisconsin Radio Network
The next president of the University of Wisconsin System could make almost $600,000 a year, under new salary ranges endorsed Thursday by the Board of Regents? business committee. The full board will consider new pay scales for a number of top officials today, during a meeting at the UW-Parkside near Kenosha.
UW-Madison campus tech pursuits on upswing
Isthmus
Well, this is a big breakthrough for young Madison techies. A New York venture capital firm is pledging to invest up to $500,000 over the next three years in early-stage UW-Madison startups.