Noted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor, Rick Brooks, liked the idea, and, working with Bol they built a website with blueprints and instructions for people to build their own Little Free Library. Average cost is $75.
Officials say the blood donation program, which has been operating since early 2007, helps the vet school hospital avoid shipping costs of ordering blood, but also provides a way for the school to connect with the community. It also serves as an important teaching tool and as a backup to other area clinics.
A week from today, more than 400 people will be responding to a planned fake bombing at Camp Randall Stadium. The event, “Operation Wisconsin Dawn,” will be the largest and most sophisticated emergency response exercise in Wisconsins history.
More controversial will be the possible sale of 32 heating and cooling plants, an idea that was previously debated and dropped. One of the plants is UW-Madison?s Charter Street facility. Is selling the plants and contracting for their operation a good deal for taxpayers in the long run? That will require more convincing.
Noted: Haupt is a University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing and management graduate who directed regional operations and sales for The Onion. Bartlett also worked for The Onion, was assistant general manager of the Mallards baseball team in Madison, and most recently was a national account executive at Adams Outdoor Advertising.
Veteran publisher Vince O?Hern has sold Isthmus Publishing Co. to Jeff Haupt, Craig Bartlett and Mark Tauscher. O?Hern and his wife, associate publisher, Linda Baldwin, will retire from the media company.
Noted: Among those showing significant increases from 2008 to 2012 were University of Central Florida, with 66 percent growth; University of Wisconsin-Madison, with 30 percent growth; Arizona State University, with 24 percent growth; University of Nevada, Reno, up 100 percent; and Florida A&M University, up 168 percent.
By March, our landscape is brown. Our moods are gray. Things start to change when signs of spring emerge. In Madison, chief among them is the metal sunburst chairs reassuming their position on the Union Terrace at UW-Madison in late April.
The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District is working on becoming more energy independent by transforming table scraps from UW?Madison into an energy resource.
They both save lives, but do so in very different ways. From the moment an accident happens, firefighters and emergency responders are on scene helping victims in the field. Meanwhile, emergency room physicians are waiting at the hospital for patients to arrive.
CUNA Mutual Group has promised more than $1 million to a new program aimed at training and keeping new teachers developed by the Madison School District and the UW-Madison School of Education. When the Madison School Board approved the partnership in March, the university?s School of Education said it would commit $452,000 worth of faculty and staff time and program materials, while the district would commit $498,000 worth of district staff time for the project.
UW-Madison named Steven Smith as the new Secretary of the Faculty Friday. Smith previously served as the associate director of the Global Studies program, and will take over his new position beginning July 7.
In an attempt to fortify recruiting efforts in the Midwest, University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen is looking to work multiple summer camps at sites outside Madison starting in 2015. Andersen would prefer to have prospects participate in his instructional camps at Camp Randall, but that?s not always feasible. As such he?s looking to hook up with a small college or two that will put him and his assistants in front of potential recruits in Minnesota and, perhaps, Illinois.
And UW-Madison?s Sara Goldrick-Rab is at the center of media skepticism about the coffee giant?s tuition reimbursement offer for classes taken online from Arizona State University.
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Participants Wednesday will include University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor William P. Jones, Alder Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Centro Hispano executive director Karen Menendez Coller, and Gee.
Wisconsin?s summer could be cooler than normal this year, according to a Wisconsin meteorologist, leaving it in uncertain territory when it comes to severe weather.
Ben Miller, a former assistant to retired Sen. Herb Kohl, will be University of Wisconsin-Madison?s lobbyist in Washington, D.C., UW-Madison News reports.
A former University of Wisconsin football recruit was found guilty of third-degree sexual assault Wednesday. Dominic Cizauskas, a former Mukwonago High School football star, was on his official recruiting visit to the Madison campus on Dec. 13-15 when the assault occurred.
The violation of UW-Madison’s recruiting policies came out when sophomore linebacker Leon Jacobs testified in the sexual assault trial of former recruit Dominic D. Cizauskas. Jacobs told jurors his job as the student host of Cizauskas was to “show him a good time.”
Finishing second in the Big Ten for average attendance last season, UW trailed only Indiana (17,359) who claimed the top spot. The Badgers have now ranked first or second in the league in home attendance for 12 straight seasons. UW has finished first in the conference in the category nine of the last 12 season.
Many experts believe the once thriving manufacturing industry is starting to make a comeback in America. The state of Wisconsin is well known as a leader in manufacturing largely due to the successful College of Engineering on the UW-Madison campus. University officials are hoping that the biggest donation ever to the college will take that notoriety to the next level.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Engineering received its biggest donation in history Monday.
UW-Madison and Oscar Mayer/Kraft Foods are hosting the international conference, which brings together the commercial, academic and governmental segments of the industry. This year?s event celebrates the 50th anniversary of AMSA, which was founded at UW-Madison.
The writer believes that “Madison media remain silent while the public is indoctrinated by UW with deceptive promises of breakthroughs for human diseases and false claims that medical progress requires using animals.”
The answer: Ivory Coast. The other 31 countries in the tournament had at least one student at UW in the spring semester that wrapped up last month. That includes undergraduates as well as graduate, professional and special students.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, whose bird flu research sparked international controversy and a moratorium two years ago, has created another potentially deadly flu virus in his lab at University Research Park. Kawaoka used genes from several bird flu viruses to construct a virus similar to the 1918 pandemic flu virus that killed up to 50 million people worldwide. He tweaked the new virus so it spread efficiently in ferrets, an animal model for human flu.
An experimental compound being developed by a Madison company could help doctors better detect and treat many types of cancer, a new UW-Madison study says. The compound, which is thought not to accumulate in healthy cells, ?is essentially a cancer-homing agent to which we can attach many different payloads,? Dr. John Kuo, a UW-Madison brain surgeon and an author of the study, said.
Eleven young companies will participate in a new, 10-week business accelerator program in Madison. Madworks at Campus was developed by the UW-Madison Law School?s Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, with help from University Research Park and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
The accelerator took a cue from D2P, the UW?s Discovery to Product program aimed at moving lab discoveries toward commercialization.
Years from now, when a roll call is made of the most impactful performers in UW men?s track and cross country history, Ahmed?s name will probably be read early. Ahmed is a senior who will compete in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters in the NCAA Outdoor Championships that begin today.
17 cellists are at UW-Madison from points across the country for the two-week National Summer Cello Institute. Their route to better cello playing involves a lot of time away from the instrument, working their bodies in a modified basic training for musicians. The institute is run by cello professor Uri Vardi.
In year two in the program, some things don’t need to be spelled out — like striving to be in better shape than the opposing team every Saturday. This is a much different team than the senior-dominated squad of a year ago. UW had 16 seniors and 25 juniors on its spring roster.
Jordan Ellenberg?s ?How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking? is a miscellaneous romp through the world of quantitative reasoning.
With bold, newspaper ads topped by the question, “Are you DATING?,” UW-Madison researchers are recruiting study subjects to delve into the daily lives of young couples, and the potential impact of prescription drug use, and misuse, on their happiness.
The UW-Madison campus has a new landmark for graduation photos: Jim Dine?s sculpture ?Ancient Fishing,? a 1,500-pound, 6-foot-high work of bronze now outside the entrance to the Chazen Museum of Art.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studied the effect of media on children, said stories such as Slenderman can have a greater effect because children can interact with the tale by viewing pictures, watching videos or posting their own versions of stories or comments.
Gary Miller will start as the new chancellor at UW-Green Bay in August, leaving the same job at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington amid an urgent plea from some on that campus to stay put.
In late April, the CBS program ?60 Minutes? aired an extraordinary report titled ?Saving the Children,? about Sir Nicholas Winton, a 104-year-old (now 105 ? his birthday was May 19) Englishman who in 1939 helped 669 children, mostly Jews, escape Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia through a program called Kindertransports. Renata Laxova was one of those kids. Laxova, 82, is an emeritus professor of genetics at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is bringing its personnel management system into the 21st century to remain competitive and efficient ? a tactic that HR consultants say is being replicated by other higher learning institutions across the nation.
Otto Puls didn?t wear his Yankees gear to Miller Park. How could he? The Brewers were his host, the night of May 9. Puls, 81, is assistant equipment manager for University of Wisconsin men?s basketball. He is also the official scorer at home games, a post he has held for 50 years. Puls is as much a Kohl Center fixture as Bucky Badger or Mike Leckrone. But make no mistake, he?s also a Yankees fan.
Noted: One such case is that of William J. Cronon, a pro-labor professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2011, during battles over the future of organized labor in that state, the Republican Party of Wisconsin requested copies of Cronon?s email correspondence containing various terms, including Gov. Scott Walker, who pursued legislation cracking down on unions.
Records from an investigation reveal a University of Wisconsin police captain was fired for taking thousands of inappropriate photos and videos.
Checks totaling nearly $1.1 million have been sent to 83 area nonprofits and to 25 project managers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
A UW-Madison Police Department captain took thousands of photos and videos of unsuspecting women over more than six years before he was fired in March, according to an internal investigation, and could face criminal charges.
Last month?s forum on race had just begun when moderator Keith Woods asked the eight panelists what really gets in the way of honest conversation about the racial divide in Madison. Everett Mitchell, with jarring honesty, set the tone for the rest of the evening. Mitchell, an African-American, is Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and pastor at Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church. At 37, he?s a dynamic leader with a growing record of selfless community service, one already too long to catalog quickly.
Noted: Tigers may signify strength and dominance, or suggest the hunt?all cues male daters might wish to convey, said Catalina Toma, assistant professor of communication science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose research focuses on self-presentation in online dating. A tiger snapshot from an exotic location may also signal that a person has the means to travel, Dr. Toma added.
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is proposing a one-year plan to cover tuition costs of high school students who take UW classes offered in their schools for college credit.
A Dane County judge denied a motion to suppress evidence from sexual assault exam in a sexual assault case against a University of Wisconsin football recruit.
Among northern muriqui monkeys in the Brazilian rainforest, both sexes are co-equals and there?s little conflict. Karen Strier started studying this species in 1982 after conducting field research on baboons, and she fully expected that higher-ranking monkeys would get better food, have more friends and family, and have more reproductive success. But she observed no spats over food, even though males hung out close to one another, and she was shocked to see that when a female was ready to mate, the males waited patiently in a line for their turn to copulate. No particular male got to go first, and a study of 22 youngsters showed that 13 different males had become fathers.
A task force established by the Environmental Protection Agency to curtail farmland pollution that flows into the Mississippi River said Wednesday it has reached an agreement to work with 12 universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the problem.
The author, a Virginia psychiatrist and member of Alliance for Animals, argues that “UW needs to at once ? and forever ? eliminate maternal deprivation from its research activities.”
In an effort to combat illiteracy in their area of Stockton, a community group is refurbishing old newspaper vending machines into kiosks that will let anyone borrow a book ? for free.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced Zoey Brooks, of Waupaca, has been chosen as the state?s 67th Alice in Dairyland.
In March, Indianhead Community Action Agency, Inc. (ICAA) offered eight students from UW-Madison an opportunity to experience the programs and services provided by ICAA, Inc. and to learn from the staff about how they strive to help clients to achieve self-sufficiency.
Thursday the Wisconsin men’s and women’s track and field teams headed to Purdue University for the Big Ten Championships. The Badgers will be led by first year program director Mick Byrne. Byrne inherited the men’s program from legendary Wisconsin coach Ed Nuttycombe who announced his retirement in June 2013.
The center consists of business offices and specially designed spaces for use by federal and state officials, employers, and other agencies to assist student veterans, active duty students and more. Campus officials say there are around 600 prior-service veterans and current military members enrolled during a typical semester.
Agrace, Wisconsin?s largest nonprofit community hospice and palliative care agency, is adding Michael Johnson and Everett Mitchell to its board, effective May 1, 2014.
As the college class of 2014 prepares to receive its diplomas, NPR took a look at the national mix of bachelor?s degrees awarded over four decades and graphed them.
Noted: He spent two years studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before he was accepted into the Naval Academy.
In Wisconsin, he will perhaps be remembered most for pushing to merge the University of Wisconsin in Madison with the state college system, a fierce battle that created today?s system of 13 four-year state colleges.
