Noted: The process of collaborating on a novel is unusual enough that Pauls and Solomon will be guests at the Write-By-The-Lake writers’ retreat in June, talking about their process at the Pyle Center as part of the UW Center for Continuing Studies.
Noted: “40: Collages by Kevin Henkes” is the first exhibition of its kind for him. Henkes’ need to be productive with his hands between books yielded 40 abstract paper collages in four years. Components of the collages were created from paper he saved from the 1980s when he was an undergraduate at UW-Madison working with Walter Hamady.
A pack of Sherman Middle School students gathered in a circle at Warner Park to share their constructions of cattails, grass, mud and sticks.Anke Keuser, a doctoral candidate in the Nelson Institute’s Environment and Resources program at UW-Madison, pulled out boxes of blue, pink and yellow candy Peeps, saying she thought they made a fitting prize for a bird-nest-building competition.
Noted: After graduating from Monroe High School in 2002, and later UW-Madison, Jeremy Beach took a job as a statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Portland, Oregon, a region of the country bursting with craft beer. In 2009 he returned to UW-Madison for a master’s degree in rural sociology and then in 2011 returned to the USDA but at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he was a survey methodologist.
Noted: One might not expect to see an innovative gaming company in Wisconsin, but that’s exactly where you can find PerBlue. It grew from its roots on the UW-Madison campus to become the first mobile gamer to use GPS technology for a location-based, role-playing game.
Noted: The company already has scored two significant cash awards on the UW-Madison campus. WeightUp won the Perkins Coie Innovative Minds Challenge, with an $11,000 prize, beating out seven contenders.
Noted: Both Hoffmann and Borowski obtained undergraduate degrees from UW-Milwaukee and law degrees from UW-Madison, Hoffmann in 1991, Borowski in 1990.
Noted: Laugen’s presentation to the commission showed a clear intent to make Madison’s BCycle program an indispensable part of the city’s transit system. And to do that, the bike share has to expand. Currently anchored by UW-Madison and downtown traffic, BCycle wants to embed itself on the larger community.
Noted: The town of Westport, UW-Madison engineering staff, MG&E and the sewage district collaborated on the project.
School is almost out for summer, but that’s not stopping a Madison non-profit from raising awareness about wellness in education communities. Breathe for Change started as a passion project for UW Madison Ph.D. student, Ilana Nankin. Now it’s helping educators in Madison and around the world.
Recognize: Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s speech at UW-Madison
Noted: He also co-founded Sharendipity, a programming environment for non-programmers that failed in the recession in 2009; UltraVisual Medical Systems, a radiology imaging system maker that merged with another start-up and had a $400 million public offering in 2005; and Geometrics, which commercialized radiation treatment planning software Gehring developed at UW-Madison and is now owned by Philips.
Noted: The company is among a growing number of start-ups bringing technological innovations to the grocery industry. Fetch was founded in 2013 by Wes Schroll, who was a University of Wisconsin-Madison student at the time.
With the aim of helping make electricity more available in rural parts of India, a team of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has designed a wind turbine that could provide power to cellular phone towers.
Slichter’s familial link to UW-Madison ran deep. He was great-grandson of Charles Sumner Slichter, a mathematician and physicist, and namesake for Slichter Hall on the UW-Madison campus. Slichter graduated from the university in 1980 with a degree in mathematics and having been first chair violist of the UW orchestra.
Metro level data was aggregated from county level data provided by County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program.
Noted: The spotlight remains on local governments when it comes to equity. Madison and Dane County are still reeling from the very damning Race to Equity report published nearly three years ago. Violence among people of color has reared its head recently. Tension between communities of color and police remain high. Incidents of hate and bias on the University of Wisconsin campus continue, to say nothing of the near-constant microagressions students there report.
Meet the largest neutrino detector in the world. IceCube, located at the South Pole, uses 5,160 sensors distributed over a billion tons of ice to spot high-energy neutrinos from extremely violent cosmic sources like exploding stars, black holes, and neutron stars.
UW student and 21-year-old Seymour resident Ty Majeski has formally signed on with a NASCAR team. Area media report Majeski is joining Roush Fenway Racing as a development driver, with expectations that he will make his ARCA Racing Series debut for Roulo Brothers Racing next month.
Milton Pettit Griswold should have walked across a stage in his cap and gown with the rest of his classmates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Insulete was founded and is headed by Hans Solinger, a well-known transplant surgeon and University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who has helped bring pharmaceutical drugs to market. Sollinger and Tausif Alam, Insulete’s chief financial officer, discovered and patented a DNA sequence that is glucose responsive and promotes the activation of the human insulin gene.
The land manager at the UW-Madison Arboretum found a tiny painted turtle earlier this week.
According to their Facebook post, painted turtles this small are extremely rare to see. After they took a quick picture comparing it to a quarter, they took the turtle back to the pond.
Noted: Agriculture Secretary Ben Brancel will be among state administrators joining the governor, as well as representatives from Wisconsin businesses and the University of Wisconsin Madison and River Falls campuses.
Noted: Walker also is set to participate in the 2016 CIGAL Dairy Trade Show, which focuses on the dairy production sector and draws exhibitors from throughout Mexico and the United States, the governor’s office said. The Dairy Trade Show will be held in Guadalajara June 15-17, and Walker will be joined by a delegation that includes Wisconsin businesses, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-River Falls and DATCP.
Column by Lisa Martin, a professor of political science whose research centers on the role of institutions and international organizations in world politics.
Column by John Hawks, a professor of anthropology who studies the bones and genes of ancient humans, traveling to archaeological sites in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Column by John Karl Scholz, the dean of the College of Letters & Science and the Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy.
Column by Barton P. Miller, a professor of computer sciences.
Column by Aliko Songolo, a professor of French and Francophone Studies and a professor and of African Languages and Literature.
Column by Rebekah Pryor Pare´, executive director of the College of Letters and Science Career Initiative.
Column by Jon E. Sorenson, managing senior director of development at the University of Wisconsin Foundation, leading 11 development professionals working on behalf of the College of Letters & Science.
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.
Noted: Riendeau previously worked at UW-Madison, but was fired, and is currently banned from campus.
Records in connection to the revocation of Riendeau’s probation from a past, criminal case, show he sent emails to a state worker evaluating his bid to try to regain his job, that included threats against the university. “I can assure the Commission that as soon as my unemployment runs out, I will be running amok on campus,” Riendeau wrote in July 2013.
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.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball great and NBA all-star Devin Harris is a secret owner of a company that owns more than 60 Milwaukee rental properties that racked up $193,636 in fines for building code violations from 2012 to 2014, according to sources and records obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
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.
The rusty-patched bumble bee used to be abundant, including in Wisconsin. This story starts at UW-Madison’s Arboretum. A nature photographer from South Carolina was searching far and wide for the Rusty-patched – and finally observed his first here.
Bud Selig is just not the retiring type.So even though it’s been 15 months since he stepped down as commissioner of Major League Baseball after nearly 23 years on the job, it would be a stretch to say he’s retired.
