Noted: Kubicek has a graduate degree in atmospheric science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also has undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering from UW-Madison and in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Reset of letter to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from Matt Hora, an assistant professor of adult teaching and learning in the department of liberal arts and applied studies.
A 2014 graduate of UW-Madison has been selected as one of 35 Americans to win a prestigious scholarship to the University of Cambridge in England, only the second UW-Madison graduate to do so.
Noted: While expensive, it’s projected to have already saved nearly $10 million, according to an analysis by the Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison professor is speaking out in support of the four American journalists who were arrested in Bahrain on Sunday after accusations they lied – claiming to be tourists.
Freelance journalist Anna Therese Day, a 2010 UW-Madison graduate, and three members of her crew were charged with participating in unlawful protest and lied about being journalist, according to initial reports.
Lindsay Palmer, a journalism professor at UW-Madison, said she realizes the challenges an independent journalist faces when covering conflict in foreign countries.
UW-Madison alumna and freelance journalist Anna Day left Bahrain on Tuesday, one of four arrested Sunday for covering demonstrations in the Middle Eastern country commemorating the fifth anniversary of Arab Spring.
Note: Dane County and City of Madison election officials want to know exactly how much longer [it will take]. That’s why they are working with the UW Political Science Department to time out every part of the process Tuesday. That data will then be entered into a computer model.
A lawyer for four American journalists who were detained in Bahrain, including UW-Madison graduate Anna Day, says they are leaving the country soon despite facing charges.
Madison voters might notice that they’re being timed when they visit the polls on Tuesday. County Clerk Scott McDonell said in a Facebook post that voters shouldn’t be alarmed. He said the city is working with the University of Wisconsin political science department to collect data on the effect of the voter identification law on lines at the polls.
Noted: According to an article from the Summer 2014 issue of OnWisconsin, Anna Therese Day is a 2010 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Monday, Associated Students of Madison, the campus student government organization, dropped off 450 paper valentine hearts at Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ office to represent the 450 UW–Madison students registered to vote by special registration deputies this year.
Jim Leary, the UW-Madison professor of folklore and Scandinavian Studies and Mount Horeb resident, was nominated in the category of Best Album Notes. Leary’s project, “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946” was released by the University of Wisconsin Press and Dust-to-Digital in July. The Grammy went to Joni Mitchell for “Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to be Danced”
Noted: Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell and Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl are collaborating with the UW-Madison Political Science Department to time the vote at Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary so adjustments can be made prior to the April 5 presidential primary and spring election, the fall primary in August and the general election in November.
Independent journalist Anna Therese Day, who graduated from UW-Madison in 2010, was arrested on Sunday along with three members of her camera crew, a statement from the Frontline Freelance Register said.
Academics from across the country are listed,they include UW-Madison’s Eleanor Neff Powell on campaign finance, Aili Mari Tripp on gender politics and Kathy Cramer on public opinion.
A woman killed in a skiing accident at the Cascade Mountain Ski Hill in Columbia County was identified by authorities as Bethany L. Rieth, 24, of Oconto Falls, WBAY-TV reported Tuesday.
Lorna Jorgenson Wendt, a UW-Madison alumna, who was a champion for women’s equality before, during and after marriage, died at the age of 72 on Thursday.
James Rawlings, Brian Kelley and Adam Diedrich Steltzner are now members of an organization that’s part of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the science part chartered by Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
Capitol Times Editor Paul Fanlund’s interview with Darrell Bazzell, who is departing in April as UW’s vice chancellor for finance and administration to assume a similarly high-ranking post at the huge University of Texas campus in Austin.
Noted: UW-Madison’s outdoors group Wisconsin Hoofers has snowshoe rentals available through its location at Memorial Union, including for students, Union members and guest users. For guests, prices range from $15 for one overnight of use to $30 for a full week.
Noted: Joers said she met O’Kroley in eighth grade when they rode the same bus to school in Cottage Grove. She became pregnant by O’Kroley when she was a sophomore in high school, she said, but noted she went on to graduate from UW-Madison with a double major in physics and philosophy — in May 2015, according to the university registrar’s office — “while mental illness prevented Christopher from maturing into a functional adult.”
Noted: BluDiagnostics was formed in 2015 by Katie Brenner, a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It raised $600,000 of the money in January, when it said it was trying to raise $800,000. That goal has been amended to $1.2 million, according to the recent filing.
Noted: Huntsman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who got his master’s degree from Louisiana State University, explains that there are just two hard-and-fast rules about gumbo.
Noted: And over at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a rooftop camera at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences also recorded brief footage of a zooming burst of light Monday evening. That video, posted to YouTube, had more than 36,000 views as of Wednesday morning.
Inspired by other popular podcasts that bring science to the masses, such as Radiolab from New York Public Radio, UW-Madison’s “Science Narratives” is aimed at “people who aren’t going to be interested in sitting down and reading an academic article,” said Lika Balenovich, who oversees the project.
Six business students or graduates of UW-Madison have also entered guilty pleas for their roles with the ‘investors group’ that included arranging the purchase, transportation and sale of 19 loads of marijuana from California. The packages ranged in size from 5 to 50 pounds.
A group of health care providers from Dean Clinics recently returned from a 10 day trip to Nicaragua.
Dr. Trent Thompson made the trip along with Physician Philip Bain and Physician Assistant Jeff Welsch. They were accompanied by a cardiologist from Oconomowoc and undergraduate students from the University of Wisconsin and University of Virginia.
Noted: The Milwaukee County effort will include staff with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and researchers with the Urban Canid Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Howard started the company with two friends when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. EatStreet provides more than 15,000 restaurants in 250 cities across the country with around the clock support.
UW Urban Canid Project leader and professor of forest and wildlife ecology David Drake provides strategies and tips for hazing coyotes.
Noted: After graduation from Washington High School, John Galanis earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — money from his father helped him make ends meet — and he got his law degree from the University of Michigan.
At the University of Wisconsin in the early 1960s, Mr. Lipofsky was a student of Harvey K. Littleton, a ceramist who created the first glassblowing classes in the United States. “He asked me if I was interested in glass, and I said, well, I’ve never heard of it,” Mr. Lipofsky recalled in an interview at the Oakland Museum of California, describing his first day in Mr. Littleton’s ceramics class.
Noted: Que El-Amin, 31, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an art degree and received a master’s degree in geography from Chicago State University. Khalif El-Amin, 29, has a sociology degree from the UW-Stevens Point.
Noted: Faulkner grew up in New Jersey and earned an undergraduate degree in math at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. In the 1960s, she came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for graduate school in computer science — and now is one of the best examples of the economic benefits of a state’s having a respected university.
A proposal from Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, would increase the funding available for need-based grants awarded to University of Wisconsin System and technical college students. Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, introduced a proposal with Sen. Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, to make college debt-free for Wisconsin residents.
Tim Browning was at it again Sunday morning near the Monona Terrace, putting together his latest display. This year he built a large, wooden sculpture he’s calling a “Madison-don”, a play on a mastodon on exhibit at a UW-Madison museum.
Don Featherstone’s flamingos are forever linked to UW–Madison thanks to a couple pranksters, a columnist and an official ruling.
Feature on professor of educational policy studies and sociology Sara Goldrick-Rab.
A new study from the HOPE Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison argues that policy makers need to test the impact of the state’s premier college financial aid program before deciding how to distribute funds going forward.
Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of WARF since 2000, has been named the recipient of In Business magazine’s lifetime achievement award.
“What Trump said is consistent with what we found,” said Scott Gehlbach, a co-author of the study and a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
To watch the evolution of Hurricane Alex between January 6 and 14, click on the screenshot above. That will launch an animation of false-color imagery acquired by the GOES-13 weather satellite showing water vapor in the atmosphere. Blue, white and green colors show where water vapor is highest. (The animation is from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, which runs the ever-awesome CIMSS Satellite Blog.)
(Video) For the first time, an international competition is being held on American soil. The competition judges the quality of sausages and ham, and is being held at the UW’s Institutes for Discovery hosted by the UW Meat Sciences Extension. Over 2,500 sausages and hams were submitted for evaluation.
Noted: Patrick Nowlin won $41 million in 2007. He admits he’s proudest, though, of his contribution to end diabetes.
“We were able to set up a $2 million trust fund to research diabetes right up here at the UW, basically paying for a researcher’s salary for the past couple of years,” he said.
A brief period of lake-effect snow was spotted Monday morning by the UW’s Atmospheric Oceanic Space Sciences rooftop camera.
The lake-effect snow event was reported over Lake Mendota, which is quite unusual, according to News 3 meteorologist Karin Swanson.
Gloria Ladson-Billings leads a list of five UW-Madison professors who are ranked in the top 200 nationally for their influence on education policy and practice … Ladson-Billings ranked 5th; Sara Goldrick-Rab 13th; Adam Gamoran tied for 69th; John Witte 138th and Geoffrey Borman tied for the 150 spot.
Kahala Brands announced that Dr. Maya Warren will join the company as tastemaster and food scientist for portfolio brands Cold Stone Creamery and Pinkberry. Says Michael Serruya, chairman and chief executive officer of Kahala Brands: “Maya, who received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Food Science, has vast knowledge of frozen aerated products, so we are really excited to have her on board.”
Noted: Griffie graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in economics and spent three years training high school volunteers to do home repairs in Appalachia.
Noted: Phoenix was founded in 2005 by Greg Piefer, who received his PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Shine Medical Technologies Inc., a Middleton company that is seeking approval from federal regulators to build a medical isotope production plant in Janesville, was spun out of Phoenix in 2010.
Schmidt, 40, elected in the spring of 2009 to represent the 11th District on the West Side, is a researcher with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the Space Science Engineering Center at UW-Madison.
The UW-Madison law professor who helped free Steven Avery after a wrongful conviction in the 1980s says “Making a Murderer,” the popular Netflix documentary about his 2007 homicide trial, illustrates problems in the criminal justice system that affect many cases beyond Avery’s. Professor Keith Findley, a co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, said his organization is not currently representing Avery, whose supporters say he was wrongfully convicted in the 2005 death of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach.
For over four years, scientists have been arguing over whether or not to do experiments that could make more dangerous forms of certain viruses — influenza, SARS, or MERS — that could potentially start a pandemic in people if those creations got out of the lab.
CIMSS total precipitable water product is shown, with logo, around 47 seconds into the video. You can find it hovering over Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Noted: And while some secrecy provisions were pulled from the budget, one sailed through, creating different rules for the University of Wisconsin System than for all other state agencies regarding the naming of finalists. Henceforth, the UW can pick athletic coaches and fill key academic positions without revealing which applicants were passed up.
Noted: It wasn’t until 1988 — after working in the Legislature as a budget analyst and aide, among other jobs — that he graduated from the UW-Madison in history and secondary education.
Noted: In December, Faulkner and Epic set up an endowment to fund three faculty associate positions in the UW-Madison’s computer sciences department, where student enrollment has nearly doubled over the last five years.
Just when we think we’ve seen every concept for custom wallpaper, University of Wisconsin professor Jennifer Angus puts a creative twist on an ancient medium. With an extensive background in textiles, a love for insects and a universal message of ecological insight she has lovingly pieced together these brilliant wallpaper patterns. The designs are so precise that newcomers to the WONDER exhibit at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum could be forgiven for mistaking the walls for a printed pattern, and not some masterpiece of taxidermy.
Noted: National security quite rightly has dominated our political debate in recent weeks, but I can’t think of a more important issue for Wisconsin and the nation than economic security. The Journal Sentinel opinion pages will focus on this concern as we close out 2015 and move into the presidential election year of 2016. That conversation begins Sunday in Crossroads when we will publish commentary on the Pew report by Salim Furth, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, and from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Columnist delves into race and free speech issues.
An effort by a UW campus group is helping a group of people that probably didn’t expect it. “Love Your Melon” is selling hats–for each one purchased, another hat went to a child with cancer. Through the program, some area police officers are helping those kids and other needy people in the community.
At least for today, officers Jessica McLay and Emily Samson are fashion experts. They’re handing out these knitted hats, to the city’s homeless.
“Not only did we get to help a child at UW but we got to help UW Madison Love Your Melon crew, someone in the community who needs some help staying warm,” said officer Samson.
