No mention of UW-Madison but a germane and particularly good examination of the use of fetal tissue in research: The National Institutes of Health alone funds about $76 million in fetal cell research each year. This type of scientific study has gone on for decades.
According to reporting by The New York Times, Donna Shalala, 74, who is also a former cabinet secretary under President Bill Clinton, fell ill after closing ceremonies of the Clinton Global Initiative’s fall meeting in Manhattan.
Mary Carbine is leaving her job as director of Madison’s Central Business Improvement District to become managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Alumni Park.
Donna Shalala, a former UW-Madison chancellor and a cabinet secretary under President Bill Clinton, has suffered a stroke. Clinton and his daughter Chelsea Clinton issued a statement saying the 74-year-old Shalala was stricken Tuesday evening following a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, the foundation’s spinoff organization which seeks solutions to international problems. Its 2015 meeting began Saturday in New York.
A former UW-Madison student was charged Tuesday with giving another student the hallucinogenic drug LSD in June, before the man fell or jumped from the third floor of the Downtown apartment building where he lived.
In the second half of the show, UW Foundation President and CEO Mike Knetter talked to host Greg Neumann about a $250 million donation that will go towards faculty endowments.
UW grad Matthew Desmond, who spent months living in a mobile home park and a rooming house in Milwaukee to study eviction, is one of 24 fellows, including four in New England, announced Tuesday by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked pretty far down the list — 116th of 179 — on the New York Times College Access index, which seeks to measure economic diversity at top U.S. colleges. But don’t look for a university press release on this college ranking, said Noel Radomski, director of UW-Madison’s WISCAPE, a think tank on educational policy.
A few months after making the largest individual donation in the history of UW-Madison, what’s next for benefactors John and Tashia Morgridge? “Raising funds from others,” Tashia Morgridge says with a laugh.
With median earnings for alumni at $51,000, the U.S. Department of Educations’s new, interactive scorecard ranks the University of Wisconsin at No. 7 in the Big Ten.
The data on median salaries of university alumni comes from information the Obama administration gathered to demonstrate earnings of alumni after graduating from universities. It measures the salaries of alumni who are 10 years into their career.
Noted: In May 2012, the Senate Finance Committee opened a bipartisan investigation into the financial ties and requested records from 10 organizations, including a University of Wisconsin-Madison group, as well as some individuals with financial ties to several companies that make opioids.
Noted: Reidar Aamotsbakken, who co-founded Swift with Heidenreich, is Cellara’s chief technology officer. Along with many other technical positions, he was previously director of the medical device program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cellara, which is developing software for stem cell researchers, said in May it had raised $470,000 of funding.
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Noted: Reilly attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a degree in political science with a certificate in environmental studies. He was interested in energy policy analysis. But this was in the early 1980s and there were few jobs in the field since the country was in a steep recession.
Noted: Comments from UW–Madison education experts.
Over the past two years, an international team of scientists has discovered more than 1,500 mysterious fragments of bone in a tiny cave in South Africa. Thursday morning, the team announced that the fossils are from a new species of ancient human that is believed to have lived 2 to 3 million years ago: Homo naledi.
The young philanthropist is the son of Seth Pollak and Jenny Saffran, both psychology professors at UW-Madison.
A Middleton woman has filed a lawsuit against the UW Board of Regents, alleging she is a victim of wage discrimination.
According to court documents, the plaintiff, Nian-Qing Shi, has five years of experience in her current position as senior scientist and lead principal investigator on three national-level research grants and industrial contracts. She says her current annual salary is $62,004 and says her salary is less than that of male employees in the same or similar job position.
Royalties from sales of licensed merchandise totaled just over $3.8 million in 2014-15, up 10 percent from the previous year and second-highest in school history to the record $3.85 million in 2012-13.
Profile of head football coach. The Badgers football team opens its season on Saturday at 7 p.m. vs. Alabama.
At one end of State Street on Saturday afternoon, thousands of UW-Madison students were moving into dorms and preparing to begin their school year. Several blocks away, at the Overture Center for the Performing Arts, 16 students were at the end of an academic experience. They were graduating from the YWeb Career Academy.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and American Family Insurance announced an expansion of their partnership Thursday with AmFam pledging $40 million to the school over 10 years.
Katie Brenner, a biochemistry postdoctoral fellow in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, won the 5X5X5 pitch competition held Thursday by the Doyenne Group, a Madison organization that advises and encourages women entrepreneurs. It is the second contest that Brenner and her company, bluDiagnostics, have won in two days — both as part of the Forward Fest — and their third victory since June, when they won the 2015 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest.
Kyle Schultz knew it wasn’t going to be easy proposing to a woman who has been studying creative wedding proposals as a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin.
“I talked to couples across the country and tried to get their perspective on marriage and proposals,” said Sunaina Velagaleti, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the Wisconsin School of Business. “I would sometimes come home and tell Kyle about these kinds of really thoughtful proposals that I would hear about and apparently it put a little bit of pressure on him.”
Noted: Mike Moliter works at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison. He developed a membrane filtration system that allows some of the more valuable components, such as calcium and lactose, to be separated from the acid whey [left over from creating Greek yogurt].
Everett Mitchell, director of community relations at UW–Madison, made comments critical of prosecuting shoplifters at “big box” stores. Mitchell, a pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church and a former prosecutor with the Dane County District Attorney’s Office, made the comments on Aug. 18 during a discussion on best policing practices at Vilas Hall, which also featured former Madison Police Chief David Couper and Young Gifted and Black organizer M Adams.
A former Dane County assistant district attorney who serves as the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s director of community relations is facing criticism because he suggested that shoplifters at “big box” retailers with insurance should not be aggressively prosecuted.
Among the winners from Wisconsin was Babcock Hall Dairy’s gouda.
More than $30 million from a gift meant to fund medical research, medical education and public health projects has gone toward fundraising and managing the endowment for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the past decade.
Profile of Nneka Akubeze, UW-Madison alum and the current executive director of the United Council.
Creativity is vital to the long-term health of your business, whether you’re talking about fostering a culture of innovation or the product-specific work of designing and prototyping.
Noted: Altfrid Krusenbaum says, “Here we have a program that combines paid on-job training with related instruction at a technical college and one pasture course at UW-Madison.”
Noted: Sanders grew up in Chicago before attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his bachelors degree in history and economics in 1971 and a masters degree in urban and regional planning in 1973. Sanders worked at the Chicago-based American Planning Association and as a consultant before the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning hired him as an instructor in 1993.
Noted: In Germany, Walker delivered a speech at the Hannover Messe trade show and joined a meeting on possible collaborations between University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and German researchers. In Spain, he held a roundtable discussion about business opportunities in Wisconsin for Spanish companies, and in Paris participated in a discussion hosted by the French-American Foundation.
Wrap-up of the civil rights leader’s visits to Madison, including several stops at UW.
Former UW-Madison chancellor John Wiley levels some pointed criticism at Gov. Scott Walker in an essay in Madison Magazine.
Instituting a college free lunch program, like the one that feeds low-income students in K-12 schools, is one way to help more students access the “great anti-poverty tool” of a college education, UW-Madison’s Wisconsin HOPE Lab said in testimony submitted Wednesday to the National Commission on Hunger.
Kathryn Chappell, a Lake Geneva native who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been tapped to co-anchor the weekday morning news telecast at WDJT-TV (Channel 58).
The situation in the family immigration detention centers near the U.S.-Mexico border may be changing quickly following a federal court order, but the underlying issues inspiring some University of Wisconsin Law School students to volunteer to help the people being held there are unlikely to be resolved any time soon.
State of Wisconsin CIO David Cagigal has a simple goal: To “never spend another dollar” on laying optical fiber cable for data projects involving state government and its partners. If that sounds unrealistic, consider that millions of miles of “dark fiber” — meaning, high-bandwidth fiber not in use — already exist in the United States. … Finding and lighting dark fiber will help Wisconsin prepare for the predicted bandwidth crunch brought on by the “Internet of Things” and the explosion in mobile devices, Cagigal and UW-Madison Chief Information Officer Bruce Maas told a July 28 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
Dr. Ian Duncan received the 2015 Lifetime Excellence in Research Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association. Duncan, 67, is world-renowned for his work on the development and disease of myelin, a material that protects nerve fibers and is essential for proper nervous system function, according to university spokesman Nik Hawkins.
Ray Taffora, general counsel for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he doesn’t believe the law currently allows for a deliberative process exemption, but said it’s important to preserve a “fairly nimble, flexible” exclusion for drafts and notes under the law.
Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced on Monday that Andy Van Vliet has signed a national letter of intent to attend the University of Wisconsin and play basketball for the Badgers. He will join the roster beginning in the fall of 2015.
Two students (Brandon Alvarez-Carrera of Madison and Miriam Burgos-Febus of Milwaukee) entering the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall through the PEOPLE program joined students from around the country at the White House Thursday for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Beating the Odds Summit.
Noted: But Eric Sundquist, managing director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative, warned against thinking “the only solution is turning on the spigot for more, more, more.” The group is housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and advises states on sustainable transportation policy.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gregg Mitman was in Liberia last summer to make a film about the African country’s past. And then the present erupted. Mitman is n is the curator of the UW-Madison’s Tales From Planet Earth Festival, a biennial festival that uses film to explore people’s relationship to the environment. This fall’s festival, which takes place Nov. 6 to 8, will explore the intersection of science and faith.
Out of 121 institutions surveyed by Inside Higher Ed, the top pick was Bryan Stevenson’s memoir, Just Mercy: A Story of Redemption and Justice, with 10 institutions electing to use the book as its common reading. Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and a law professor at New York University, writes about his experiences trying to help — and sometimes failing — to overturn death and prison sentences for criminals Stevenson believes to be wrongly convicted. The majority of those criminals are black men.
Traditional colleges are working hard to improve their outreach to service members before and after the application process. The U. of Wisconsin at Madison holds numerous orientation sessions for student veterans over the summer. “Our goal,” says John G. Bechtol, assistant dean of students, “is to remove their military affiliation as being any kind of burden.”
Despite making an ill-advised wager on the final clue prior to Final Jeopardy, Jenny Thorngate of Madison nailed that answer and then the final answer to win Wednesday’s episode of “Jeopardy!”
Thorngate, a chemist who works at the University of Wisconsin for the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, will play against two new opponents on Thursday’s episode. “Jeopardy!” airs in Madison at 4:30 p.m. weekdays on NBC15.
A Wisconsin native and UW-Madison graduate has been announced as co-host of the Miss USA pageant just days before the live event Sunday.
Alex Wehrley will co-host the event with Todd Newton, while OK! TV’s Julie Alexandria will provide commentary from backstage. The former Miss Wisconsin USA graduated from UW-Madison in 2009 and grew up in Brookfield.
Quoted: “The technology seems to be irresistible,” observes Maria Triana, who teaches management and human resources at the graduate business school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Even the most conscientious employees admit they spend some time on non-work-related sites, especially between tasks.”
Noted: The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a nonprofit group started by two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors to help prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted, has assisted Todd D. Frost in his attempt to have his first-degree intentional homicide conviction overturned.
Newly named U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera had a residency here in 2008, and spoke to classes at UW-Madison as well as the first and second grades at Lowell Elementary. The residency was sponsored by the UW-Madison Arts Institute. He is the first Latino poet to hold the title.
If there’s one Twitter account UW-Madison students should follow, it’s @UWMadison. UW-Madison has the top Twitter account in U.S. higher education, according to data released by social media research firm Engagement Labs of Toronto.
Profile of UW-Madison director of community relations Everett Mitchell, who is also pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church.
Noted: Wundrock, a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy, acquired Wisconsin Pharmacal in the early 1970s.
Noted: “We see pets that the owners thought would never walk again,” said Kluslow, a 2001 University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary School graduate.
Noted: The alerts are a response to the 2011 accident that killed a longtime UW-Madison Library employee who was hit in the crosswalk by a Metro bus as she crossed University Avenue. As part of a safety initiative, Metro also has repositioned its buses’ rearview mirrors to eliminate blind spots.
Noted: Each knew early they wanted to teach. Schneider grew up in a musical family in a suburb of Minneapolis. “I knew in 10th grade I wanted to teach music,” he said. Sanyer, raised in Madison, began playing violin in fifth grade. “I knew in high school I wanted to teach,” she said. She attended UW-Madison on a music scholarship.
Noted: Brost, a Waunakee resident, earned a bachelor’s degree from Mankato State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees from UW–Madison.
