Category: UW-Madison Related

An effort by a UW campus group is helping a group of people that probably didn’t expect it. “Love Your Melon” is selling hats–for each one purchased, another hat went to a child with cancer. Through the program, some area police officers are helping those kids and other needy people in the community.

At least for today, officers Jessica McLay and Emily Samson are fashion experts. They’re handing out these knitted hats, to the city’s homeless.

“Not only did we get to help a child at UW but we got to help UW Madison Love Your Melon crew, someone in the community who needs some help staying warm,” said officer Samson.

There were so many things about Bo Ryan that made him a great head basketball coach. From the day he was hired at UW-Madison in 2001, Ryan was a coach with confidence.

He said at the time, “People have expectations. We hope their expectations are met, but we have expectations also and the funny part about that is they might be higher than anybody else’s in this room.”

Noted: Rifelj earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the latter in 2003. He lives in Wauwatosa.

Noted: Laugen said the service, owned by Trek, worked with city and UW officials to come up with a network of bike stations that would serve riders but not interfere with snow removal operations.

A UW-Madison graduate has received a big honor for helping discover a drug that’s saved tens of millions of lives worldwide.

William Campbell received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a Nobel Day ceremony on Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden.

The squash, corn, peppers, carrots, kale — just about all of the ingredients that went into the dishes — were some of the early results of a UW-Madison program that has brought professors, plant breeders, organic farmers and some of the city’s top chefs together with the goal of creating more flavorful fruits and vegetables for local agriculture.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has extended the deadline to fill its managing director position until June, a WARF spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Noted: Dr. Richard Ralston, professor emeritus in African and Caribbean History in the Department of Afro-American Studies and Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles when Kwanzaa’s origins developed in southern California. Ralston heard about the celebration after the Watts rebellion and understood that something wonderful and positive had come out of the destructive event.

Live from Paris, researchers and leaders from UW-Madison and Wisconsin will report from COP21, the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

It’s not easy for U.W. Rheumatologist Dr. Abdul Halabi to talk about Syria.

“That’s how I visit nowadays,” Dr. Halabi points to pictures he finds from Google Earth of his home.

“It’s basically how you see your place of birth.”

Noted: The Village of Shorewood Hills received $22,400 for the University Avenue Trail extension connection between City of Middleton’s and UW-Madison’s trail system.

Trumbo’s fight against the blacklist comes to life in a new movie, “Trumbo,” opening Wednesday at Point Cinemas, and starring Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”) as the author. The film, which is already getting some Oscar buzz, may also draw attention to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Trumbo donated 45 boxes of his materials, including screenplays, drafts, personal letters and photographs.

With general safety protocols set in place for students abroad, the University of Wisconsin IAP office was put to the test in wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.

To ensure the safety of UW students, the university has many security measures in place for students traveling abroad.

Noted: Driving home to Wisconsin, he realized “I really was a Woodland Indian,” says seventy-one-year-old Truman Lowe, professor emeritus at UW–Madison and an internationally renowned artist whose work has been shown in the White House garden. “There’s a certain aroma about the water and the land.”

It’s a sentiment echoed by Lowe’s former project assistant, Janice Rice, a Ho-Chunk who retired in 2015 from her longtime position as an outreach librarian at UW–Madison.

Noted: The list of scientists calling for delisting includes former or current University of Wisconsin professors Scott Craven, Tom Heberlein and Tim Van Deelen, as well as Scott Hygnstrom of UW-Stevens Point, Ed Bangs of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Montana, and Gary Alt, former deer and bear ecologist in Pennsylvania.

Science has learned that the letters, sent by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), targeted U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and NIH researcher Stephen Suomi, revealing their home addresses and phone numbers and urging their neighbors to call and visit them. The tactic is the latest attempt by the animal rights group to shut down monkey behavioral experiments at Suomi’s Poolesville, Maryland, laboratory, and critics say it crosses the line.

University of Wisconsin graduate students Chris and Katie Hardwick’s love story began when she saw him blindfolded, solving a Rubik’s cube.

The two met at a Mensa Convention — an event put on by the world’s largest high IQ society, Mensa International — in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Geographic Information Systems Capstone Certificate Program student Katie Hardwick said Chris Hardwick was delivering a talk on the process of blindfolded Rubik’s cube solving.

Q&A with John Young, UW-Madison meteorology professor for 49 years and former chair of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department.

Noted: Gruener is a student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying abroad and living in Britain. He was visiting Henken over the weekend when the attacks occurred.

“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place,” written by Craig Werner (who teaches literature, music and culture in the Department of Afro-American Studies) and Doug Bradley (retired academic staff member and distinguished lecturer), suggests that popular protest songs included in depictions of the war — like Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” — weren’t the only music on the mixtapes service members played to lift their spirits in the face of isolation from loved ones and physical danger.

Noted: In a telling article Click wrote for a University of Wisconsin publication, The Antenna, in 2010, she discusses her feelings about the role of television newscasters during a crisis.

(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.

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.

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.