Noted: “The Zonderling” (KN), by Kersti Niebruegge. A small-town Wisconsin college grad, trying to gain a foothold in New York, lands in an old-fashioned residence hotel for women. Comic complications ensue. Niebruegge is a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad who has worked for “Conan” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers.”
Live from Paris, researchers and leaders from UW-Madison and Wisconsin will report from COP21, the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Noted: Trumbo tries to talk rings around HUAC in his testimony (drawn from the actual transcripts, which are archived along with 45 boxes of other Trumbo materials at the UW-Madison), but he’s found in contempt and sentenced to prison.
Laura Albert McLay, a professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, has been using her knowledge of math models and sports analytics to predict which teams are most likely to make the four-team tournament crowning college football’s national champion. She posts the weekly rankings on her blog, Badger Bracketology.
It’s not easy for U.W. Rheumatologist Dr. Abdul Halabi to talk about Syria.
“That’s how I visit nowadays,” Dr. Halabi points to pictures he finds from Google Earth of his home.
“It’s basically how you see your place of birth.”
Noted: The Village of Shorewood Hills received $22,400 for the University Avenue Trail extension connection between City of Middleton’s and UW-Madison’s trail system.
Trumbo’s fight against the blacklist comes to life in a new movie, “Trumbo,” opening Wednesday at Point Cinemas, and starring Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”) as the author. The film, which is already getting some Oscar buzz, may also draw attention to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Trumbo donated 45 boxes of his materials, including screenplays, drafts, personal letters and photographs.
Students in the UW-Madison’s Department of Geography, home of the nationally renowned Cartography Lab, which was founded by a man who headed the Office of Strategic Services’ mapping division during World War II, started Maptime Madison as a way to study industry concepts outside the classroom.
Noted: The company is a “substantial economic driver” for southeastern Wisconsin, and is “a significant employer of graduates from engineering schools such as MSOE, Marquette, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison,” Jim Paetsch, vice president of the Milwaukee 7 economic development group, said in a statement.
With general safety protocols set in place for students abroad, the University of Wisconsin IAP office was put to the test in wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
To ensure the safety of UW students, the university has many security measures in place for students traveling abroad.
Noted: Driving home to Wisconsin, he realized “I really was a Woodland Indian,” says seventy-one-year-old Truman Lowe, professor emeritus at UW–Madison and an internationally renowned artist whose work has been shown in the White House garden. “There’s a certain aroma about the water and the land.”
It’s a sentiment echoed by Lowe’s former project assistant, Janice Rice, a Ho-Chunk who retired in 2015 from her longtime position as an outreach librarian at UW–Madison.
Noted: The list of scientists calling for delisting includes former or current University of Wisconsin professors Scott Craven, Tom Heberlein and Tim Van Deelen, as well as Scott Hygnstrom of UW-Stevens Point, Ed Bangs of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Montana, and Gary Alt, former deer and bear ecologist in Pennsylvania.
Science has learned that the letters, sent by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), targeted U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and NIH researcher Stephen Suomi, revealing their home addresses and phone numbers and urging their neighbors to call and visit them. The tactic is the latest attempt by the animal rights group to shut down monkey behavioral experiments at Suomi’s Poolesville, Maryland, laboratory, and critics say it crosses the line.
Noted: Some groups are already trying to open up those conversations and are investing significant money into those efforts.
The budget for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s group Sex Out Loud was just approved Monday night. A little more than $103,000 is allocated for the 2016-17 school year, all going toward the organization’s sex education workshops, World AIDS Day events and other outreach efforts.
University of Wisconsin graduate students Chris and Katie Hardwick’s love story began when she saw him blindfolded, solving a Rubik’s cube.
The two met at a Mensa Convention — an event put on by the world’s largest high IQ society, Mensa International — in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Geographic Information Systems Capstone Certificate Program student Katie Hardwick said Chris Hardwick was delivering a talk on the process of blindfolded Rubik’s cube solving.
Q&A with John Young, UW-Madison meteorology professor for 49 years and former chair of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department.
Noted: Gruener is a student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying abroad and living in Britain. He was visiting Henken over the weekend when the attacks occurred.
“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place,” written by Craig Werner (who teaches literature, music and culture in the Department of Afro-American Studies) and Doug Bradley (retired academic staff member and distinguished lecturer), suggests that popular protest songs included in depictions of the war — like Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” — weren’t the only music on the mixtapes service members played to lift their spirits in the face of isolation from loved ones and physical danger.
Noted: In a telling article Click wrote for a University of Wisconsin publication, The Antenna, in 2010, she discusses her feelings about the role of television newscasters during a crisis.
Noted: Wald was born in Shorewood and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, so she said Wisconsin is a fond place. She founded the retail printing company Great Big Pictures Inc. in Madison in 1973 and returns to the state to visit relatives several times a year.
The Dane County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to charge a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was accused of sexually assaulting another student last fall.
The UW Police Department said a 22-year-old UW student was driven to the department by a local food delivery driver on Oct. 25. The woman had asked the worker for a ride saying she needed help. She had been sexually assault outside.
Noted: Before opening Simply Savvy, Dubas completed entrepreneurial training at the UW-Madison School of Business. She recognized the need and benefits of clothing consignment as a mom, when she often sold her children’s clothes at a local consignment shop. When that shop was closing, she helped the owner clear out her inventory and discovered a knack for the retail niche. The business also fits her organizational and design skills, she said.
Noted: Boston-area native and current UW-Madison graduate student in applied economics Greg Englehart, 23, won the marathon in 2:39:40. It was the second marathon Englehart has run after completing his undergraduate degree at Colgate University in New York, where he was a member of the track and cross country teams. He manages his busy life as a grad student by training daily at the UW Arboretum.
Greg Englehart had a strategy for the Madison Marathon, but it didn’t take long before he realized he’d have to adjust on the fly.
Noted: The solitary confinement cell replica ties into Go Big Read, UW-Madison’s annual campuswide reading program. Organizers wanted a book this year that fit into a theme of inequality in America. Chancellor Rebecca Blank chose Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy,” which centers on race and the criminal justice system.
Noted: Since 2014, the UW-Madison chemistry department has been conducting crystal growing contests among high school students in the state of Wisconsin. In 2016, the contest will be for both middle and high school students.
Noted: The pitch contest capped off the Wisconsin Technology Council’s two-day conference, which drew about 575 attendees. Also at the conference, Jeff Rusinow was inducted into the Investor Hall of Fame, and Thomas “Rock” Mackie received the 2015 Excellence in Entrepreneurial Education Award. Mackie, a professor emeritus of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-founded Healthmyne and TomoTherapy Inc.
Noted: The Portage Daily Register reported that Amy Kerwin founded Primates Inc. after seeing the need for monkey sanctuaries more than a decade ago in her work in the primate lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She got to know 97 research monkeys and learned there were no plans to retire them.
Noted: It’s all part of the environment that is being explored at this weekend’s Tales from Planet Earth Film Festival, a collection of international films that thematically explore the concept of “environment.” It’s hosted by the Center for Culture, History and Environment at UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
(Video) Veteran’s Day is one week away. A special event is set for next week to help the brave men and women who have served our country find jobs. Bill Schrum, the vice president of human resources at UW Health, talks about the event.
Quoted: Q: Since you joined the University of Wisconsin, what has the university done to address the needs of people of color? A: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a place full of passionate, concerned and motivated men and women who are hopeful for the least of these in this community. My office opened the South Partnership Space in South Madison that allows for programs such as Odyssey, Family Voices, the University of Wisconsin Law School, Dementia, Medical School, partner with the community to offer our resources. Even this past week, I worked with a team, Deb and Shelia, to ensure that teenagers from MMSD, NIP and Verona were given VIP access to the Bryan Stevenson presentation at the University. In partnership with WARF, we started a program called UpStart that allows for entrepreneurship education for men and women of color. [Mitchell is director of community relations.]
University of Wisconsin’s “All Ways Forward” fundraising campaign hopes to get donors to make something happen on campus that wouldn’t happen otherwise, UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank said.
The last of the four comprehensive fundraisers of this kind, “Create the Future,” took place in 2006 and raised a total of $1.8 billion. “All Ways Forward” hopes to nearly double this amount by the end of the decade. The campaign aims to increase private support of the university in addition to the support from taxpayers, families and alumni donations gifts.
From the blog: After posting earlier today about Cyclone Chapala, I wasn’t intending to do another one — until I spotted the unusual animation above over at the blog of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. Being a child of the ’60s, well, I just could resist its psychedelic draw.
Quoted: Dr. Paula Cody is an assistant professor of pediatrics at UW-Madison who specializes in adolescent sexual health. She said missing that face-to-face follow up with a doctor could be detrimental.
“If they have new onset headaches, or their blood pressure has increased, or moods have changed, I want to know that within a couple of months,” said Cody. “That’s one thing that if they’re getting online prescriptions, I’m not sure they’re following up.”
Bobbi Cordano, a vice president at the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul, is heading to Washington, D.C., in January to become president of Gallaudet University, the nation’s premier university for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
University of Wisconsin’s “Go Big Read” author Bryan Stevenson chronicled his experiences working in the justice system to a packed room in Varsity Hall Monday, and explained how changing narratives will lead to tangible change.
Stevenson worked as a lawyer at the Southern Center for Human Rights representing death-row inmates after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1985.
Noted: Benbow, 38, got his masters and doctorate in educational policy studies at UW-Madison and now works as a researcher at the university. He is responsible for writing the lyrics and a majority of the music for Drive to the Ocean.
Noted: Redox is one of several digital health companies that are emerging in Madison. With Epic Systems Corp., which has more than half the market share in the electronic health records market, and a strong computer science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Dane County area is becoming known as a center for this industry segment.
Lawyers for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation wrapped up their case for damages on Wednesday against computer maker Apple, a day after a jury found that Apple had infringed on a technology patent that WARF manages.
For what has been a divided and on-and-off issue for months, University of Wisconsin College Democrats and College Republicans now agree on what should qualify for student voter IDs.
But, the university says otherwise.
Though all three groups offer a variety of alternative IDs, each are determined to do what they believe is best for students to be able to vote when election time comes.
Fans at Lambeau Field for the Packers-Rams game got a special show this Sunday.
The UW Marching Band made the trip up to Green Bay to perform their traditional Badgers favorites during, and of course after, the game, with the Fifth Quarter.
The visit is always a treat for both the fans and the band.
Noted: During his work on the committee, [Maj. Bradley] Podliska [an intelligence officer in the Air Force Reserve] said he worked closely with [UW-Madison alumnus] Rep. Jim Jordan, a conservative Republican who often bucks GOP establishment leaders. And long before joining the committee, Podliska was chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College Republicans during his time there and later interned at the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog.
Noted: The vests are developed by Virginia Tech. The DOT says it would consider the vest, since worker safety is a top priority. The DOT works with a lab at UW-Madison to test safety innovations.
Quoted: The UW-Madison police have put out a video to help educate students on what to do.
“So you know what it is you should do if you’re confronted with this terrible situation,” UWPD Chief Sue Riseling said.
The five-minute video recommends what to do steps by step. First, run if you can. . . .If all else has failed the police recommend fighting back.
“Don’t just sit and believe you’re going to talk your way out of this because you’re not. The folks who do active shooting are interested in one thing and that is death,” Riseling said.
This year’s Holmen Viking Alumni Award winner is a fervent believer in the power of learning. “Education opened all kinds of doors for me that I never expected,” Merle Evenson said.
Former Wisconsin and NFL player Chris Borland, who weighed the potential for brain trauma in deciding to retire from football after one pro season, will receive an award from a leading concussion research advocacy group.
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.
