A cure for Usher syndrome is far from reality. But Dr. David Gamm of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center is among those working on it. UW System Regent David Walsh, whose family is affected by the disease, helped raise more than $1 million for Gamm’s research. The money jump-started the ophthalmologist’s lab and brought in other grants.
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester and state Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, addressed changes they would like to see made to the UW System budget in a Wednesday press conference.
UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has been given its largest grant ever, a $70 million, seven-year grant to continue research on asthma in inner-city children. The grant is from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Then there is Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, threatening to tie University of Wisconsin funding to job creation. The university is not a job training school; it is a world-class research institution that is providing us the evidence to implement policies to combat climate change and eradicate disease through stem cell research.
Noted: One resignee, Julia Sherman of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project, called the sit-down with Gottlieb productive, saying “we all left with a feeling that we had been heard.”
In a city of 8.4 million, the Kettle of Fish can be an escape to Wisconsin, just a subway-ride away.
Noted: Q. You have a degree in interior design from UW-Madison, but lighting design is your specialty. How did you get involved in lighting?
A. When I was in college I heard about an internship at a lighting studio in Madison, and it was the only paid internship that was being offered at the time.
Notes domestic abuse prevention efforts on campus, including the Lamba Beta Phi-Latin Fraternity Inc., and University Health Service collaboration with the School of Social Work, Domestic Abuse Intervention Services and fraternities to offer a for-credit class each spring called “Greek Men for Violence Prevention.”
The metal sunburst chairs that color the Union Terrace at UW-Madison and announce the end of winter when they arrive in April began disappearing into storage this week with a different message: Winter’s almost here.Their departure brings a seasonal gloom and, this year, a mystery: Why did so many of the terrace chairs get stolen?
UW Health will fully implement a ban on the sale of sugary beverages, including soda, sweetened juices, energy drinks and sweetened teas and coffees at UW Hospital and Clinics, American Family Children’s Hospital and UW Medical Foundation buildings by the end of the year.
Noted: Those who have known him the longest say fashion has always been a priority. The restaurateur Gabriel Stulman, who owns Fedora, Montmartre, Jeffrey’s Grocery and Joseph Leonard in Manhattan, was Mr. Abloh’s roommate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a co-host of numerous parties there.
UW-Madison is instituting a 2015 Campus Master Plan to update and evaluate previous campus development efforts.
Report from the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, collaboration with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Many props to UW Health for deciding to stop selling soda and other sugary drinks … (but) … UW’s decision to ditch the cafeteria deep fryers, on the other hand, feels rash.
Noted: UW-Madison political scientist Barry Burden says midterm elections can be a little odd when it comes to who shows up at the polls. You have some highly engaged voters, but others who tend to only tune-in during presidential years. There’s also less buzz around a race for governor. Burden says “there are, believe it or not, fewer ads and there are actually fewer ads this time than in the last midterm election. There’s also less of the phone calls and door knocking that go along with a presidential year.”
A lawsuit against the NCAA and major conferences now includes University of Wisconsin athlete Nigel Hayes as a plaintiff, CBSSports.com reported Thursday night.
Janet Hagen, 65, is a retired UW-Madison office assistant.
If you’re craving a Pepsi or sweet tea, it may be more difficult to find one
Many schools and businesses across the country have chosen to stop selling sugar-sweetened beverages. Now UW Health plans to do the same.
UW Health plans to stop selling sugar-sweetened beverages by the end of the year, becoming one of the first health care organizations in Wisconsin to eliminate sugary drinks as a way of encouraging patients, employees and visitors to consume healthier alternatives.
UW Hospital and the American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison are two of four hospitals selected in Wisconsin to care for Ebola patients.
Wisconsin health officials have set up a plan for moving Ebola patients in the state to one of four hospitals.
Oscar Mayer’s roots date to 1883; the company opened in Madison in 1919, 95 years ago, and the first Wienermobile debuted in 1936 when UW-Madison graduate Carl Mayer, nephew of the company’s founder, Oscar F. Mayer, suggested using a 13-foot metal hot dog on wheels to transport the company spokesman around Chicago.
Alex Wehrley — Wisconsin native, 2009 UW-Madison graduate — was working on-air for an entertainment and lifestyle television show called “Oklahoma Live.”
Noted: How those crystals are heated and cooled can make all the difference, said Rich Hartel, a food-science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies candy-making.
Column notes that members of blue-collar and graduate employee unions at UW-Madison will march at 4 p.m. Wednesday from the Institutes for Discovery to Bascom Hall to ask for raises for all campus employees. Authors Eleni Schirmer and Michael Billeaux are graduate students at UW-Madison and co-presidents of the Teaching Assistants’ Association, Local 3220 of the AFL-CIO.
Amy Alida, a UW-Madison student and a First Wave Urban Arts scholar, also is featured in the song.
Photo caption from story features UW-Madison students John Baynton, Tony Schmitz, Megan Jass and Katie Schultz slicing and packaging bacon at Bucky’s Butchery. UW meat specialist Sindelar also comments.
For their 2014 campaign Partners in Giving is putting into effect a new online pledging system that allows employees in Dane County to donate money through payroll deductions or credit cards, according to the organization?s website.
Faculty and staff at UW-Madison can apply for $500 grants to spread awareness of the Wisconsin Idea, which aims to ?improve people?s lives beyond the classroom,? Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said in a UW-Madison release Thursday.
Wisconsin?s homecoming football game at Camp Randall approaches with concern over a repeat launch of a drone over thousands of fans.
Noted: After graduating from the Monona Grove School District, Meinert studied jazz under renowned UW-Madison music professor Jimmy Cheatham.
Noted: A graduate of Memorial High School and UW-Madison (and the University of Michigan), Kennelly has the chops to dish local history and neighborhood knowledge.
Noted: Mr. Bussey, 60, began by copying classic reference books like S. A. Beach?s ?The Apples of New York? and W. H. Ragan?s ?Nomenclature of the Apple,? both published in 1905. But his weekend jags to the agricultural library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began to turn up sources his forerunners had never seen. Almost without planning, he eclipsed them in scope.
Cable network C-SPAN selected Madison as a featured city of its 2014 Cities Tour, showcasing historical and literary aspects of Madison on its nationwide network.
A UW-Madison Police spokesperson says the product of investigations into reported, sexual assaults at campus residence halls last month have been referred to Dane Countys district attorney.
Noted: At Foley, Aprahamian was a litigator in complex civil cases, and the partner in charge of ethics training at the firm. He graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale Law School and clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prior to joining Foley.
In a statement from Lions spokesman Bill Keenist he said, ?I spoke with Wendy Margolis from the UW Marching Band around 1 p.m. today and indicated to her that Dominic?s contribution to the UW Band will be sent to her attention via over-night mail either tomorrow or Monday and she will receive it early next week.?
In the first results of the ACO program, released in September, UW Health didn?t gain or lose.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Christopher Daly started reading every day. He would nag friends with information about environmental and social issues or the food they were eating, eventually spurring the question: So what are you going to do about it? His answer: Run for mayor.
UW-Madison didn?t experience the sharp drop in the number of rapes last year that a look at the campus police department?s latest report suggests.
Among the panelists were Dr. John Lucey, director, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research and a food scientist, Kate VandenBosch, dean, UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and Mark Stephenson, director, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability.
During the debate, when asked if humans have a role in global warming, (U.S. Rep. Paul) Ryan answered, ?I don?t know the answer to that question. I don?t think science does either.? He may well be correct in his first response, but he is certainly wrong in his second.
In Oaxaca, Mexico, the Day of the Dead is ?the biggest party all year,? according to Carolyn Kallenborn, an associate professor of design studies at UW-Madison. ?… Now thanks to Kallenborn, there will be a celebration in Madison, too, on Nov. 1 ? the traditional date of Day of the Dead celebrations across Latin America.
The interviewer who challenged Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella when he muffed a question about women?s raises will be speaking at UW-Madison on Friday.
While thousands of students walk across the terrace in front of Bascom Hall each week, very few realize what lies just a few feet below their own: the remains of two men whose story dates back to the beginning of the city of Madison itself.
Noted: This safety protocol is more restrictive than what is required of DNR-approved sharpshooters within a chronic wasting disease control zone in southern Wisconsin or at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum where the deer population is controlled to reduce damage to plants, Meyer said.
A study at UW-Madison involving testing on monkeys is at the center of an ethical debate.
Center on Wisconsin Strategy was a partner in the report.
UW-Madison police have revised a crime prevention tip sheet sent out earlier this week after readers were alarmed by language they said blamed victims for crimes such as sexual assault.
The union lost about 250 chairs to theft last year, which amounts to about $60,000 worth of the brightly colored metal chairs that students, alumni, tourists and others can?t seem to keep their hands off.
UW-Madison gets prominent mention as a school that says no to plastic.
Cartographers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working with the Department of Natural Resources to update the states land cover map.
The Oral History Association Conference is holding the first Madisonian event of its kind this upcoming weekend to explore the city?s unique oral tradition and historical meaning.
John Oliver takes on one of the more boring but insidious scandals in Our Republic today: the phenomenon of civil asset forfeiture. (UW is mentioned.)
San W. Orr Jr., of Woodruff, Wis., and Village of Golf, Fla., died on Sept. 30, 2014, at his home in Lake Tomahawk, Wis., at the age of 73.
UW-Madison poli sci doctoral student Brad Jones developed a model of polling for the gubernatorial election for The Capital Times to show the level of support for the candidates as the election cycle goes on.
At UW Healths West Clinic, there are a group of women who have given the phrase “good catch” new meaning.
Burt, who went to UW-Madison for the rowing and gravitated instead to radical politics, has been sought by the FBI for 44 years, since J. Edgar Hoover was the bureau?s director.Leo Burt could be here or abroad. He could be alive or dead. He could be lucky or smart. All authorities know for sure is that he has eluded their grasp.
A prominent UW-Madison professor received the Wilderness Society?s highest honor last Thursday for his environmental protection efforts, joining an elite group of conservation thought leaders.
P.J. Liesch takes a vial or two with him when he goes for a walk outdoors.
