Ray Taffora, general counsel for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he doesn’t believe the law currently allows for a deliberative process exemption, but said it’s important to preserve a “fairly nimble, flexible” exclusion for drafts and notes under the law.
Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced on Monday that Andy Van Vliet has signed a national letter of intent to attend the University of Wisconsin and play basketball for the Badgers. He will join the roster beginning in the fall of 2015.
Two students (Brandon Alvarez-Carrera of Madison and Miriam Burgos-Febus of Milwaukee) entering the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall through the PEOPLE program joined students from around the country at the White House Thursday for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Beating the Odds Summit.
Noted: But Eric Sundquist, managing director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative, warned against thinking “the only solution is turning on the spigot for more, more, more.” The group is housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and advises states on sustainable transportation policy.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gregg Mitman was in Liberia last summer to make a film about the African country’s past. And then the present erupted. Mitman is n is the curator of the UW-Madison’s Tales From Planet Earth Festival, a biennial festival that uses film to explore people’s relationship to the environment. This fall’s festival, which takes place Nov. 6 to 8, will explore the intersection of science and faith.
Out of 121 institutions surveyed by Inside Higher Ed, the top pick was Bryan Stevenson’s memoir, Just Mercy: A Story of Redemption and Justice, with 10 institutions electing to use the book as its common reading. Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and a law professor at New York University, writes about his experiences trying to help — and sometimes failing — to overturn death and prison sentences for criminals Stevenson believes to be wrongly convicted. The majority of those criminals are black men.
Traditional colleges are working hard to improve their outreach to service members before and after the application process. The U. of Wisconsin at Madison holds numerous orientation sessions for student veterans over the summer. “Our goal,” says John G. Bechtol, assistant dean of students, “is to remove their military affiliation as being any kind of burden.”
Despite making an ill-advised wager on the final clue prior to Final Jeopardy, Jenny Thorngate of Madison nailed that answer and then the final answer to win Wednesday’s episode of “Jeopardy!”
Thorngate, a chemist who works at the University of Wisconsin for the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, will play against two new opponents on Thursday’s episode. “Jeopardy!” airs in Madison at 4:30 p.m. weekdays on NBC15.
A Wisconsin native and UW-Madison graduate has been announced as co-host of the Miss USA pageant just days before the live event Sunday.
Alex Wehrley will co-host the event with Todd Newton, while OK! TV’s Julie Alexandria will provide commentary from backstage. The former Miss Wisconsin USA graduated from UW-Madison in 2009 and grew up in Brookfield.
Quoted: “The technology seems to be irresistible,” observes Maria Triana, who teaches management and human resources at the graduate business school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Even the most conscientious employees admit they spend some time on non-work-related sites, especially between tasks.”
Noted: The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a nonprofit group started by two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors to help prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted, has assisted Todd D. Frost in his attempt to have his first-degree intentional homicide conviction overturned.
Newly named U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera had a residency here in 2008, and spoke to classes at UW-Madison as well as the first and second grades at Lowell Elementary. The residency was sponsored by the UW-Madison Arts Institute. He is the first Latino poet to hold the title.
If there’s one Twitter account UW-Madison students should follow, it’s @UWMadison. UW-Madison has the top Twitter account in U.S. higher education, according to data released by social media research firm Engagement Labs of Toronto.
Profile of UW-Madison director of community relations Everett Mitchell, who is also pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church.
Noted: Wundrock, a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy, acquired Wisconsin Pharmacal in the early 1970s.
Noted: “We see pets that the owners thought would never walk again,” said Kluslow, a 2001 University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary School graduate.
Noted: The alerts are a response to the 2011 accident that killed a longtime UW-Madison Library employee who was hit in the crosswalk by a Metro bus as she crossed University Avenue. As part of a safety initiative, Metro also has repositioned its buses’ rearview mirrors to eliminate blind spots.
Noted: Each knew early they wanted to teach. Schneider grew up in a musical family in a suburb of Minneapolis. “I knew in 10th grade I wanted to teach music,” he said. Sanyer, raised in Madison, began playing violin in fifth grade. “I knew in high school I wanted to teach,” she said. She attended UW-Madison on a music scholarship.
Noted: Brost, a Waunakee resident, earned a bachelor’s degree from Mankato State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees from UW–Madison.
Noted: A native of St. Paul who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a history degree, Neren knows a thing or two about the delivery business. In 2006, he launched a late night online food delivery venture on campus called Madtown Munchies — later changed to Munchie Delivery — making all the deliveries himself on a bicycle.
Noted: The event, which replaces Rhythm & Booms, will feature live music with headliners Shovels & Rope and Charles Bradley, performances by the UW Marching Band and Mad Rollin Dolls and a bike polo exhibition.
Noted: A coalition working group co-chaired by professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, a nationally noted education expert at UW-Madison, and Dawn Crim, the dean of external relations in the UWs School of Education, proposed four goals:
Noted: He benefited greatly from taking a writing class from Christine DeSmet of UW-Extension. “This isn’t a police report,” she noted of one early scene, asking him for richer detail. Chiarkas began calling her “the mean woman from the university.” But the revising and cutting paid dividends with the publication of “Weepers” this week.
Column from Downs, professor of political science, law and journalism: “With increasing frequency, especially on college campuses, speakers presenting unpopular views — or views unpopular with a vocal minority of the audience — are being disrupted or ‘shouted down’ until they leave the stage. This has happened at UW-Madison, where I am a professor, and at many other universities.”
Column about Guy Lowman, who died in 1943 after having served as head coach of Badgers teams in three sports, winning conference championships in two.
Noted: Christle was an outstanding student at Rufus King International School and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a full scholarship. She received bachelors and masters degrees in social work before heading to Marquette for law school.
Noted: University officials provided 420 pages of documents at no charge to USA TODAY. Shortly after the request was filled, university officials pointed to the process as grounds for a new state law that would restrict access to records of university research until that information is published or patented.
Noted: Dudzik graduated from Hamilton High School and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Waukesha and Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Noted: Those companies, and other prospective employers, look for areas with highly educated populations, something the University of Wisconsin-Madison students, employees and graduates help provide.
Noted: As part of the special event, Professor Sissel Schroeder of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Anthropology will provide a brief presentation at the park shelter at 2 p.m. She will discuss her archaeological field school excavations, which will be under way at the time and focus on the residential homes of the prehistoric people who populated Aztalan.
Iris Apfel’s long career began at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was an art education student with a taste for jazz.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association surveyed its members recently and found that about 90 percent of the more than 2,400 respondents had formed companies, with over 800 of those firms located in Wisconsin.
Noted: A’tira Banks, a poet and a Madison East High School alum set to graduate from the First Wave program (through OMAI, the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives) at UW-Madison is interviewed.
Story regarding status adjunct instructors at MATC, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College.
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.
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.
Noted: A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Piraino also previously worked as a special assistant for state relations at the UW System.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Letter to the editor from Dane County Board members Leland Pan and Heidi Wegleitner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rerun of front page Wisconsin State Journal story on the return of the basketball champion Badgers, published March 30, 1941.
