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.
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.
