The head of the board that oversees Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television says he has “a lot of work” ahead of him as he fights a $5 million state funding cut that Gov. Scott Walker proposed Tuesday when he unveiled his two-year budget plan.
Gov. Scott Walker laid out his $68 billion budget proposal for the next two years Tuesday, calling for major changes at the University of Wisconsin System and an extension of the tuition freeze for in-state undergraduates.
University of Wisconsin School of Business marketing professor Thomas O’Guinn is a commentator in several episodes of a new cable television series about iconic, brand-savvy American business leaders.
Noted: Kirsten Kukowski, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, will serve as “Our American Revival” communications director. Kukowski previously worked for the Republican Party of Wisconsin in 2007-2008 and since 2011 has been Republican National Committee press secretary.
The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism www.WisconsinWatch.org collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
“Dairy agriculture in Wisconsin is a big deal, and we have landscapes where we can maintain it. We just have to be wise in how we do it,” said Fred Madison, a UW-Madison soil science professor emeritus, who has been aware of groundwater problems in Kewaunee County for 40 years.
UW graduate Chad Gracia’s documentary “The Russian Woodpecker” won a big prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Recognizing the importance of Wisconsin’s Native Americans to the state, University of Wisconsin faculty members are reaching out to those communities to strengthen the connection between the state’s flagship university with Wisconsin’s original inhabitants.
In an effort to further research in veterinary medicine, the University of Wisconsin is looking to expand a newly created animal shelter medicine program with a newly acquired $1.3 million in funds.
The Classified Staff Executive Committee discussed the possible effects of the upcoming state budget Thursday.
While the University of Wisconsin’s Massive Online Open Courses had high worldwide enrollment numbers last year, they will have a more local focus this year, including a hands-on aspect at the end of the semester.
Changes could be on the way for the UW System in the next state budget.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says there is no proposal under discussion that would give her campus independence beyond that of the university system.
The season’s first MOOC brings together the DNR, UW-Madison, the Aldo Leopold Foundation and thousands of students via the Internet. The end of class get-together features venison stew. “What an opportunity to sort of marry this digital free content to face-to-face engagement around the state,” said EI spokeswoman Lika Balenovich.
The UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine raised $1.3 million in grants, gifts and pledges to help fund a Shelter Medicine Program, according to a university press release.
Days after The Wisconsin State Journal reported Gov. Scott Walker was considering splitting UW-Madison from the rest of the UW System in his budget proposal, neither state Republicans nor System officials have confirmed or denied the allegation.
University of Wisconsin graduate Kersti Niebruegge translated her passion for learning into a profession by becoming a footage researcher for popular television stations and shows, such as Late Night with Seth Meyers.
A University of Wisconsin graduate and Madison local landed on this years’ Forbes 30 under 30 under the Enterprise Technology category.
University of Wisconsin rewarded exceptional staff performances with more than 1,637 merit payments in 2014, the most awarded by any state agency.
Noted: In college, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Klunder found a group of like-minded friends and joined the multicultural student coalition. After receiving a master’s degree in social work, she took a job at Macalester College in Minnesota, advising minority and feminist groups and working on the school’s response to sexual assault.
Barbata, the UW Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence for Spring 2015, will stage a major parade in downtown Madison on May 2.
The free on-campus film series starts this weekend, including “Citizen Kane” on Saturday night.
Takeaways from the “UW Voices” series will inform the implementation of the new campus diversity plan.
But he won’t expand on the internal discussions until his Feb. 3 budget address.
A debate about whether or not police should wear body cameras took center stage at UW Thursday night.
Bud Selig never had to break up any craps games as Major League Baseball’s Commissioner like he did back in the days as fraternity president in Wisconsin.
Six have been unveiled in the past 48 hours — including the two all-important coordinators — but that’s not quick enough for some. But there’s something to be said for making certain you select the right people to spread your message.
A former Fort Benning soldier convicted with his wife of crushing their three-day-old infant’s skull in June 2008 is set to have a mid-July hearing on a new-trial motion, with his defense aided by new medical evidence and an attorney from the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
Madison has benefited greatly from its building boom Downtown and elsewhere. This includes the central city, the East Washington corridor, the UW-Madison campus, State Street and beyond.
UW graduate Jill Soloway’s Amazon Prime series “Transparent” won the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy/Musical series on Sunday night.
Its creator is a University of Wisconsin graduate, by the way.
Noted: There’s even a UW-Madison program that trains and certifies new coaches. In 2013, the school’s Division of Continuing Studies began offering a Professional Life Coaching Certificate PLCC. Lead instructor Darcy Luoma, a life coach herself, says she and program director Aphra Mednick saw the program as a way to make the university a regional pioneer.
Ed Nuttycombe, 62, the hugely successful 26 Big Ten conference championship teams recently retired University of Wisconsin men’s track and field coach, was inducted into the track coaches Hall of Fame, and the man who presented Ed for induction was his father, Hall of Fame member Charlie Nuttycombe, 84.
Niebruegge, a 2003 UW–Madison grad with a degree in journalism, has published her debut novel titled “Mistake, Wisconsin.”
Claudia Card attended UW-Madison and has taught philosophy at her alma mater since 1966.
Maybe the GOP has actually convinced voters that we do not need and cannot afford a world-class research university such as the one we have at UW-Madison. After all, it is GOP pols who like to say — to dodge overwhelming evidence that climate change exists — that they cannot opine on it because they are not scientists. So, not grasping the promise of stem cells and other advanced research, maybe they think Wisconsin’s flagship university should stick to training for professions they understand.
Natalie Rudolph is one of 11 recipients for the award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
A security guard at UW Hospital was arrested on suspicion of numerous child sexual assault charges.
Joe Thomas, a standout Badgers lineman from 2003 to 2006, said the state Department of Natural Resources citations, which carry tens of thousands of dollars in potential fines, make things look worse than they are.
UW-Madison doesn’t include graduate earning information to the Department of Education’s College Scorecard, but payscale.com ranks it 166th for bachelor’s degree holders among 1,002 schools.
Some people and organizations are well ahead of the curve in terms of meaningful action. The Rev. Carmen Porco is doing great work on the North Side of Madison, creating new ways to think of low-income housing that defy stereotypes about low-income communities and what they can achieve. UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently stated that diversity and inclusiveness are priorities. Common Wealth Development and Freedom Inc. are two nonprofits doing important work. And of course the YWCA has a track record of encouraging dialogue and understanding.
2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the first awarding of the Bob Richards Consumer Advocacy Internship Award at UW-Madison.
Amy DeJong and Maya Warren will be in Los Angeles watching the show, and can’t talk about who wins the race, out of the four finalist teams.
Adin Palau, 38, a UW-Madison recruitment manager, came to Madison from Cuba in January 2001. “This announcement sends an unprecedented message of hope to Cubans around the world,” he said, and will cheer Cuban citizens “who are suffering the consequences of these senseless policies.”
For many, Paul Chryst taking the reins for the Badgers football team is more like a welcome home.
Federal authorities have charged 10 people in a scheme that allegedly used stolen credit card numbers to purchase $1.7 million worth of sports and concert tickets and then resold them at venues across Wisconsin and the U.S.
Food science grad students advance in TV reality show.
Quoted: It’s not known how much the Menominee will actually benefit from a casino run by Hard Rock International. Richard Monette, a casino law expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, estimates the Florida tribe could take 30 percent to 40 percent of the casino’s total revenue.
A University of Wisconsin international law professor said international law cannot be ignored as government officials continue to digest the Senate Intelligence Report detailing torture techniques the CIA allegedly used to interrogate terrorism detainees.
The idea for Wintersong came from (Anna) Vogelzang’s husband Andrew Young, a UW-Madison Ph.D. student in psychology and part-time bass player who often performs with her.
Noted: The chemicals, customarily derived from petroleum, are instead sourced from beet sugars in the Virent process. Virent is a technology company founded more than a decade ago and spun out from the chemistry labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The mayor’s ideas include an ad-hoc committee composed of people now serving on relevant committees such as the Plan Commission and Downtown Coordinating Committee plus representatives of the UW-Madison community, property owners, existing retailers and other businesses, and people who don’t go to State Street or the Square.
High poverty levels reported in census tracts near the UW-Madison campus — more than 80 percent in some areas in the latest estimates — likely contribute to the higher-than-average level of poverty for Dane County young adults.
Noted: Stanley caught the journalism bug early, winning an Associated Press sportswriting contest that a teacher had entered him in at Abbot Pennings High School in De Pere. He studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and started his career at the Lake Geneva Regional News, Ducks Unlimited magazine and the Wichita Kan. Eagle. Stanley returned to Wisconsin in 1989 as a state reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Noted: Market observers have long suggested that window dressing leads to more stock volatility around the ends of quarters, and a recent study by the Wisconsin School of Business seems to confirm that is a real phenomenon.
“The stocks that rank high on intermediate-term momentum and that are purchased at the end of a quarter experience large positive returns at that time, followed by large negative returns in the next month,” says the report, written by David P. Brown, a professor in the school’s department of finance, investment and banking.
The program, Shop with a Cop, now in its 14th year, is a partnership between the police departments of Madison, Monona, town of Madison, UW-Madison, Middleton, Oregon and Waunakee along with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.
Three University of Wisconsin campuses in northwest Wisconsin are hoping to open a cooperative engineering program to meet the regions needs.
The Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCDC says state officials have designated UW Health as an Ebola treatment center, one of 35 hospitals nationwide. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services made the announcement Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank stressed the importance of being transparent with state legislators about what a recently announced $100 million gift will mean for UW at a Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
A former University of Wisconsin football player and his twin brother were arrested Wednesday for allegedly committing five armed robberies in Madison and Middleton over a nearly two-week period last month.
