Category: UW-Madison Related

Column by Melanie Matchett Wood, an assistant professor of mathematics.

Column by Erika Marin-Spiottam an assistant professor of geography.

Column by Katie Hustad, a professor of communication sciences and disorders. Her research centers on people with significant speech intelligibility problems.

Column by Catherine Arnott Smith, an associate professor of library and information studies and a Discovery Fellow at the Living Environments Lab, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.

Column by Stephen Meyers, an associate professor of geoscience whose research centers on climate change, controls on the global carbon cycle and the measurement of geologic time.

Column by Alfonso Morales, an associate professor of urban and regional planning who studies food systems, public marketplaces and street vendors, and their role in community and economic development.

Column by Monica Macaulay, a professor of linguistics who studies Native American languages.

Column by Névine El Nossery, an associate professor of French and Italian and African Culture Studies.

Column by Young Mie Kim, an associate professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Column by Karl Rohe, an assistant professor of statistics.

Column by Edgar Spalding, professor of botany at UW-Madison who studies the biology of seedling growth and development.

Column by Ann Smart Martin, the Stanley and Polly Stone Professor of Art History at UW-Madison.

Column by Craig Werner, professor and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies. He teaches literature, music and cultural history.

Column by John Dunne, professor of East Asian Languages & Literature. His work focuses on Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice.

UW-Madison Assistant Professor Kathleen (Katy) Culver has been named the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Fast-moving wildfires spread farther across the Alberta oil sands region on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of three more communities south of Fort McMurray and the work camps north of the city. Thousands of people who fled the flames earlier in the week had to evacuate for the second time in three days. UW-Madison’s SSEC helped interpret satellite imagery of the fires.

Noted: You may recall that the Wisconsin Innocence Project, based at the University Project, based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison law school, freed Avery from prison after 18 years based on new DNA evidence proving that another man had committed that sexual assault, which occurred in Manitowoc County in 1985.

Noted: The foundation managed and funded by Grainger also has been a generous donor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The business school building was named for Grainger after he and the Grainger Foundation together gave $10 million for its construction. And last year, the foundation made a $47 million gift to the UW-Madison engineering program from which David W. Grainger graduated.

Noted: Ryan met this woman at his UW Law School 10-year reunion in 2014. Her name, she said, is Marie Packer.

University of Wisconsin-Madison student Megan Mengelt thought it was a compassionate gesture when College of Letters and Science assistant dean Tori Richardson reached out to her after Mengelt’s mother was killed by a driver who was drunk and texting.

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin- Madison have received a four-year, $5.5 million grant to better understand how communication between parts of the brain changes as the result of normal aging or of dementia.

It doesn’t look good for the state’s foremost institution of learning to be cracking down on one student while continuing to employ a staffer who deceived another.

The daughter of a jogger killed in a drunken crash has filed a lawsuit against a university adviser who had been texting with the driver. The woman contends the adviser offered to counsel her in an attempt to gain information about his friend’s prosecution.

In April 2013, four days after her mother was struck and killed by a car driven by former Lutheran bishop Bruce Burnside, UW-Madison student Megan Mengelt received an email from a UW administrator she had never met, asking if she needed help. What College of Letters and Science assistant dean Tori Richardson didn’t tell Mengelt, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month, was that he had been at the other end of a text message conversation with Burnside as he was driving, shortly before Burnside struck and killed Mengelt’s mother, Maureen Mengelt, in Sun Prairie on April 7, 2013.

It was a simple error that led to University Communications using a photo of an employee who no longer works at University of Wisconsin-Madison to publicize a new website designed to improve communications with campus workers, said executive director John Lucas.

Andy Rooney once said, “Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” I know of one such teacher. His name is Tim Gattenby, faculty associate in the kinesiology department at UW-Madison and the director and coordinator of adapted fitness and personal training. His program and the students he supervises have changed my life and the lives of many others in ways we never could have imagined.

The number of officers has continued to expand despite plateauing crime rates at universities.

Noted: Building on previous studies, The Wisconsin HOPE Lab released its latest analysis of AVID TOPS for the 2014-15 school year and shows continued success of the program.

(Video) The highly anticipated UW Varsity Band spring concert kicks off Thursday. The show isn’t just known for its music but also UW Band Director Mike Leckrone’s unconventional flying entrance. News 3 This Morning reporter Eden Checkol got a lesson from the band director himself.

Almost 20 years in remission, a Madison woman is celebrating being cancer free and having her mobility back.

Courtni Kopietz is the communication specialist at the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin’s Discovery Building. “Science can sometimes seem inaccessible or not approachable,” says Kopietz. “I wanted to help translate research for the public so they can see how this work is impacting their lives.”

Noted: Under the leadership of its inspirational founder, retired UW–Madison ophthalmologist Dr. Suresh Chandra, Combat Blindness International and a team of dedicated volunteers and staff have restored sight for more than 260,000 people in India, Africa and South America since 1984. It does so by performing cataract surgeries for roughly $25 per patient.

Infographic detailing UW–Madison rankings.

The UW2020 program, backed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, will provide $5 million in support for 14 early-stage research and infrastructural proposals from UW-Madison.

Hubatch is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and Sheboygan native, and when she moved, she knew very little about Oregon wine. “When I left, the chance of me finding a bottle of Oregon wine in Madison was not super great,” Hubatch said. “There was not a ton of Oregon wine making it to Wisconsin 15 years ago, and if it was, it wasn’t small boutique producers like myself.”

Noted: First Tee executive director Joe Loehnis, 31, seems almost blueprinted for the job. He’s an accomplished golfer with a shag bag full of other interests, including the cello. He played with the Green Bay Symphony as a teenager, and studied music at Lawrence University while starring for the golf team. He’s currently working toward a master’s in business at UW–Madison.

A UW student is still trying to make her way home after experiencing the aftermath of the Brussels attack first hand.

Niky Green was visiting a friend studying abroad in Brussels. She was boarding a flight on her way to go skiing, when in a split second, everything changed.

(Video) Three hundred UW student musicians are taking a Mike Leckrone bobblehead on the road with them and sending in photos. Check out where he’s been!

The attacks in Brussels are impacting many all over the world. Closer to home, a UW professor has ties to the area.

UW Geography professor, Kris Olds, says when he heard of the attacks, his mind immediately went to his friends in Brussels and family in Paris.

Sitting on a box in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Geology Museum is a rock. It’s a thin slice, subdued in its color and pattern. It’s not as big, colorful or sparkly as other items on display, but the title above it—“The Oldest Piece of Earth”—certainly catches the eye.