Story regarding status adjunct instructors at MATC, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College.
Second class: Madison’s adjunct professors lack wages, job security of their full-time peers
Capital Times
Category: UW-Madison Related
Here are the facts on Wisconsin’s economy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Unfortunately, Noah Williams of the University of Wisconsin-Madison violated this principle last week in a Journal Sentinel op-ed on the state of the Wisconsin economy. Williams opinion is that the states economy has performed “quite well” under Gov. Scott Walker. He is perfectly entitled to make that argument, although as I have argued elsewhere, the evidence is overwhelming that he is wrong.
Cellectar Biosciences postpones quarterly earnings report
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts. The company moved back to Madison in 2014.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin names replacement for staffer demoted in Tomah flap
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Piraino also previously worked as a special assistant for state relations at the UW System.
Dictionary of Regional American English funded through summer 2016
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Facing a severe financial crisis, the half-century-old Dictionary of American Regional English, one of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s most renowned humanities projects, has received an influx of donations in the past month and a half — roughly $60,000.
UW-Madison could not sell University Ridge Golf Course for revenue until 2021
Capital Times
University Ridge, a top-ranked public golf course at County Road PD and County Road M in the city of Madison, was developed and given to the university by the University of Wisconsin Foundation in 1991, university officials reported in response to a records request … the terms of this gift contain an automatic reversion provision that returns the property to the Foundation if sold within 30 years of the gift, Lisa Hull, a special assistant to the vice chancellor in the Office of University Relations, said in an email.
Teyanna Loether crowned as the next Alice in Dairyland
Madison.com
Loether grew up on a dairy farm and is set to graduate from UW-Madison with a degree in animal sciences, focusing on reproductive psychology.
Doug Moe: Putting a period on a Playboy puzzle
Madison.com
Columnist tries to once and for all settle the debate over whether the magazine printed this statement touting UW–Madison’s party school status: “Of course we did not include Wisconsin in this list because it would be unfair to rank professionals with amateurs.”
Madison assistant police chief defends use of tactical gear in policing
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The comments were made Wednesday during a roundtable discussion on the perceived militarization of police, hosted by UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy.
The best brain exercise may be physical
Chicago Tribune
(From 4/30/15) Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found that people who said they exercised for 30 minutes five times a week in late-middle age did better on cognitive tests and showed less accumulation of the beta amyloid plaque, the protein that builds up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Clean Lakes Alliance launches website program for lake quality in Madison
WKOW TV
Noted: The Clean Lakes Alliance will also get reports for its website from signals in the lakes from a partnership with the UW Department of Limnology.
Tech and Biotech: WISC Partners looks to boost promising Wisconsin companies
Wisconsin State Journal
WISC Partners plans to establish a $25 million fund and use the money to invest in eight to 12 Wisconsin companies, at about $2 million to $3 million each. With its eye out for health care, information technology and the intersection between those two, the group will zero in on companies that are past the starting gate, that already have won over some individual The other thing that’s unique about WISC Partners: It was created by UW-Madison alumni.
At least 54 UW employees report being victims of tax fraud
Capital Times
54 UW-Madison employees this year who have reported to university officials that they’ve been victimized by tax fraud scammers. UW-Madison officials say that’s an uptick from previous years, but they’ve found no data breach on campus to explain the increase.
Repositioning Scott Walker
New York Times
An editorial about Walker’s shifting stances mentions a recent paper, “The Whiteness of Wisconsin’s Wages,” by Dylan Bennett, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, and Hannah Walker, a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Washington, which argues that “Governor Walker and his allies activated the racial animus of white workers.” The piece also mentions Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the UW system.
After anxious wait, Madison residents hear news from Nepal earthquake survivors
Madison.com
After a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday, decimating villages, turning houses upside down and triggering an avalanche, Madison residents anxiously awaited news from their loved ones in the devastated country.
Supervisors Leland Pan and Heidi Wegleitner: To honor workers, UW should dump JanSport contract
Capital Times
Letter to the editor from Dane County Board members Leland Pan and Heidi Wegleitner.
International delegation visits Madison-area centers of innovation, technology
Wisconsin State Journal
A foreign delegation featuring 47 government ministers from 28 countries spent Wednesday touring Madison-area centers of technology and entrepreneurship, starting with a tour of healthcare software giant Epic Systems Corp. in Verona and moving on to many examples of UW-Madison-related innovations.
Just Ask Us: Who orchestrates behind the scenes of the UW Varsity Band Spring Concert?
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW Marching Band hosted its annual Varsity Band Spring Concert on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Kohl Center, featuring local talent, a celebration of the 75th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz” and plenty of tuba section jokes.
Programmers, designers descend on UW-Madison for 24-hour ‘hackathon’ competition
Wisconsin State Journal
The student hackers — computer programmers and/or designers — were gathered for MadHacks 2015, the UW-Madison’s first ever large-scale, public hackathon. Collegiate hackathons, competitions in which college students get together to design and build new computer programs over a set time frame, have become increasingly popular in recent years.
U.S. Patent Director visits Madison
WKOW
A leader in the U.S. business world visited Madison on Wednesday in hopes of fostering more innovation.
Michelle K. Lee, the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, toured the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Lee said she wants to identify ways that her office can better serve the innovators and entrepreneurs in the Madison area.
UW part of longest kidney transplant chain
Madison.com
A Wausau woman who received a kidney transplant last month at UW Hospital was part of the longest kidney transplant chain ever completed, hospital officials said.
Walker signs deal with German researchers, meets with Merck
Madison.com
Gov. Scott Walker agreed Monday to increase collaboration between researchers in Germany and at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to combat Alzheimer’s disease and other similar ailments
Dog flu confirmed in Madison area; not transmittable to humans
Madison.com
Canine Influenza, which can be fatal to dogs, has been confirmed in a dog in the Madison area, according to officials at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Know Your Madisonian: Javier Velasco
Wisconsin State Journal
Q&A with Javier Velasco, a returning Ph.D. student at UW-Madison finishing up a dissertation studying sea turtles, which combines his former career with his lifelong passion.
Does Scott Walker apply political litmus tests for judicial picks?
Capital Times
Editorial on Gov. Scott Walker’s prospective picks for appointment to replace Dane County Circuit Judge John Albert, including Nick Schweitzer, a Madison lawyer and adjunct professor of law at UW-Madison.
John Nichols: Stanley Kutler challenged the ‘luxuriant privilege’ of the powerful
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin professor of history, Guggenheim fellow and Fulbright lecturer, who has died too soon at age 80, recognized that the history that mattered was the history that political and economic elites preferred to keep concealed. That is why he fought, sometimes for decades, to open the closed doors of the past and reveal the dark doings of the powerful.
Looking back at 1941 NCAA title: Badgers Bring Home Bacon; Victors Return at Midnight : Wsj
Wisconsin State Journal
Rerun of front page Wisconsin State Journal story on the return of the basketball champion Badgers, published March 30, 1941.
Controlled burns on tap Sunday on UW campus nature preserve
Madison.com
Controlled burns of prairie land are scheduled on Sunday in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the far western edge of the campus, the university said in a news release on Friday.
Engineers buttress Wisconsin industries
Wausau Daily Herald
Quoted, in a story on the importance of engineering jobs and education, John Archambault, assistant dean for engineering student development at the UW-Madison College of Engineering: “It’s really about wanting to help people. It’s a helping profession.”
Mark Pitsch: Final Four isn’t good enough for Kentucky
Wisconsin State Journal
Column contrasting UW, KU athletically and academically. Snippet: As a reporter in Kentucky, I often heard from higher education leaders and politicians that they wished UK had paid less attention to basketball over the last several decades and more attention to academics. At the time, UK was just exploring creating a university research park like the one UW-Madison launched three decades ago.”
Doug Moe: A scary diagnosis, and a special graduation
Wisconsin State Journal
Story of Maggie Stewart, a UW–Madison undergraduate who overcame a brain tumor diagnosis in 2013 to earn her degree in wildlife ecology in December.
Organizers plan legal forums ahead of decision in Tony Robinson shooting
Wisconsin State Journal
The forums are being organized by the African-American Council of Churches, the NAACP of Madison and the UW-Madison law school.
Know Your Madisonian: Paul White
Madison.com
White began at the UW-Madison’s Waisman Center in 1986 and now runs Community Outreach Wisconsin COW,
Badgers arrive in Indianapolis for the Final Four
WKOW TV
Team members wasted little time posting pictures and videos of the road trip to their official Twitter feed, which you can visit right here.
Badgers men’s basketball: University Book Store pulls T-shirt with Nigel Hayes’ words for stenographers due to possible NCAA violation : Sports
Madison.com
University Bookstore has pulled a T-shirt based on Nigel Hayes’ now famous words for stenographers at the NCAA basketball tournament.
Madison low-wage workers prepare for national day of protests on April 15
Capital Times
Four local workers — in fast food, retail, home care and food service at UW-Madison — told their stories Tuesday outside the McDonald’s restaurant on Regent Street during an announcement of plans for local one-day strikes and marches.
UW-Madison alum makes waves in LA
Channel3000.com
There’s been a movement over the last few years to get more Badgers into the entertainment business in Los Angeles. News 3 talked to Richie Schwartz, whose Madison connections got him started in LA.
Q&A: Nate Moll owns the ‘thumbs of @UWMadison’
Madison.com
UW–Madison Social Media Specialist Nate Moll talked to the Cap Times about how he got his job as the “thumbs of UW-Madison” and how he tries to bring “inspired goofiness” to his work.
Dane County ranks among healthier counties in state
Channel3000.com
Dane County ranks among the healthier counties in Wisconsin, according to an annual ranking released by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
State workers should pay more for health care, consultant says
Wisconsin State Journal
State employees should pay more of their health care costs, but shifting from a competitive HMO model to self-insurance isn’t feasible next year, according to a consultant hired by the state.
WIAA tourney brings millions of dollars to Madison
Channel3000.com
More than 82,000 tickets are sold for games at the Kohl Center – and more than 6,000 cars park around the venue, bringing in $30,000 for UW Transportation Services.
Student battling cancer finds match at hospital where he is being treated
Channel3000.com
In January, UW medical student Matt Hoffman began six months of chemotherapy treatment at UW Hospital. It also made UW Hospital his one and only choice for residency.
UW System won’t cover full tuition for Course Options next school year
Madison.com
Cash-strapped Wisconsin school districts next year will have to cover costs of high school courses that earn students college credit after the University of Wisconsin System decided it could not continue to pay for them.
UW fraternity chapter terminated after alleged hazing
Madison.com
The Chi Phi fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization after a university investigation found the organization hazed members.
Investigation: UW-Madison frat made pledges sleep in attic, wear pillowcases over heads, eat discarded food
Madison.com
UW-Madison said Wednesday that it shut down a fraternity for the first time since 2006 after learning of a hazing weekend in December that included a freshman pledge suffering a concussion when an older member hit his head accidentally as the freshman lay in a closed crate meant to simulate a grave, a university official said.
Tech and Biotech: Madison Vaccines adds muscle to its fight against prostate cancer; bb7 boasts a honey of a brew
Wisconsin State Journal
MVI-816 is aimed at men who have been treated for prostate cancer and show a high risk that it will spread. The trial is underway at UW-Madison; now, The Johns Hopkins University and the University of California-San Francisco will participate, too.
Doug Moe: So little time, so many books
Wisconsin State Journal
Jim Dast’s life has been books, but the other day, he found himself talking numbers. It couldn’t be helped. Dast was trying to quantify his work over the past decade managing the biannual book sale of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, the largest used-book sale in Wisconsin.
Know Your Madisonian: Karen Walsh
Madison.com
Noted: Karen Walsh and her husband, Dr. Jim Berbee, $10 million to the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to increase the size of the UW Hospital emergency facility from 34 treatment areas to 50. Dr. Berbee, a Madison native, founded Berbee Information Networks Corp., went on to medical school and now works in emergency medicine in Madison and rural Wisconsin. Walsh, a UW-Madison graduate, spent 23 years with the university.
Kids, weirdos and supper clubs: What’s coming to the 2015 Wisconsin Film Festival
Wisconsin State Journal
The festival takes place from April 9 through April 16 at several UW-Madison locations, including Union South and the UW-Cinematheque, as well as the Capitol Theater and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
UW Madison Police seeks help finding bike owners
WMTV NBC-15
Police discovered over a thousand bicycles, and confiscated 600 of them with identifiable serial numbers. The bikes are now sitting in a storage unit, owned by UW Police.
UW Police suspect 600 stolen bikes; probe target denies wrongdoing
WKOW-TV 27
The searches took place across two counties and include a Muscoda bike shop, an apartment in the Town of Madison, a storage unit in the City of Madison, and a farm in the Town of Windsor.
UW police have about 600 bikes, now seeking their owners
Wisconsin State Journal
With nearly 600 bicycles sitting in storage, UW-Madison police are hoping that people who have had bikes stolen from them anywhere in Dane County will come forward and reclaim them.
UWPD recovers hundreds of stolen bicycles
Daily Cardinal
After a 10-month-long investigation, the UW-Madison Police Department is seeking charges against two men for stealing hundreds of bicycles around the Madison area, Chief Susan Riseling said at a news conference Tuesday.
Madison health IT start-up, HealthMyne, draws investors
Established in early 2013, several of HealthMyne’s cofounders are serial entrepreneurs, well-known in Madison. Thomas “Rock” Mackie is director of medical engineering at the UW-Madison’s Morgridge Institute for Research. He was a cofounder of TomoTherapy, whose radiation machines are used to treat cancer and are now part of California-based Accuray.
UW grad David Koepp talks about his ‘Jurassic’ movie career
Capital Times
Noted: Koepp, a Pewaukee native and UW-Madison graduate, has become the go-to writer for a series of wildly successful blockbusters, including “Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Spider-Man” and the upcoming adaptation of Dan Brown’s “Inferno” starring Tom Hanks.
Madison court condemned racial discrimination nearly a century ago in city’s first civil rights case
Wisconsin State Journal
William R. Harris, an African-American hotel doorman, sat down for a meal on Feb. 25, 1917, in the newly remodeled Boston Cafe at 207 State St. in Madison.
Doug Moe: Inspiring tale reaches from Liberia to Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
There is much more to the story, but Youlo’s long ago dream has come true. He will finish his medical residency in orthopedic surgery at the UW Hospital and Clinics in June.
Local students planning to walk out of class for Monday rally to protest Tony Robinson shooting
Madison.com
Brandi Grayson, a leader of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, told Madison.com about 300 to 400 UW-Madison students are planning to march from campus to the Capitol, and students from all of Madison’s public high schools and Sun Prairie High School are also invited to come down to the Capitol to join in the protest.
Report: Donna Shalala to head Clinton Foundation
Capital Times
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala is taking over as the head of the Clinton Foundation just as the charity’s fundraising practices are under the microscope ahead of Hillary Clinton’s likely presidential run.
Catching up: Plan to combine UW Hospital, doctor group continues
Madison.com
A committee working on the integration of UW Hospital and UW Medical Foundation plans to release a reorganization proposal by April, with the goal of approving it by July, said David Walsh, chairman of the UW Hospital board.