Adin Palau, 38, a UW-Madison recruitment manager, came to Madison from Cuba in January 2001. “This announcement sends an unprecedented message of hope to Cubans around the world,” he said, and will cheer Cuban citizens “who are suffering the consequences of these senseless policies.”
For many, Paul Chryst taking the reins for the Badgers football team is more like a welcome home.
Federal authorities have charged 10 people in a scheme that allegedly used stolen credit card numbers to purchase $1.7 million worth of sports and concert tickets and then resold them at venues across Wisconsin and the U.S.
Food science grad students advance in TV reality show.
Quoted: It’s not known how much the Menominee will actually benefit from a casino run by Hard Rock International. Richard Monette, a casino law expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, estimates the Florida tribe could take 30 percent to 40 percent of the casino’s total revenue.
A University of Wisconsin international law professor said international law cannot be ignored as government officials continue to digest the Senate Intelligence Report detailing torture techniques the CIA allegedly used to interrogate terrorism detainees.
The idea for Wintersong came from (Anna) Vogelzang’s husband Andrew Young, a UW-Madison Ph.D. student in psychology and part-time bass player who often performs with her.
Noted: The chemicals, customarily derived from petroleum, are instead sourced from beet sugars in the Virent process. Virent is a technology company founded more than a decade ago and spun out from the chemistry labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The mayor’s ideas include an ad-hoc committee composed of people now serving on relevant committees such as the Plan Commission and Downtown Coordinating Committee plus representatives of the UW-Madison community, property owners, existing retailers and other businesses, and people who don’t go to State Street or the Square.
High poverty levels reported in census tracts near the UW-Madison campus — more than 80 percent in some areas in the latest estimates — likely contribute to the higher-than-average level of poverty for Dane County young adults.
Noted: Stanley caught the journalism bug early, winning an Associated Press sportswriting contest that a teacher had entered him in at Abbot Pennings High School in De Pere. He studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and started his career at the Lake Geneva Regional News, Ducks Unlimited magazine and the Wichita Kan. Eagle. Stanley returned to Wisconsin in 1989 as a state reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Noted: Market observers have long suggested that window dressing leads to more stock volatility around the ends of quarters, and a recent study by the Wisconsin School of Business seems to confirm that is a real phenomenon.
“The stocks that rank high on intermediate-term momentum and that are purchased at the end of a quarter experience large positive returns at that time, followed by large negative returns in the next month,” says the report, written by David P. Brown, a professor in the school’s department of finance, investment and banking.
The program, Shop with a Cop, now in its 14th year, is a partnership between the police departments of Madison, Monona, town of Madison, UW-Madison, Middleton, Oregon and Waunakee along with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.
Three University of Wisconsin campuses in northwest Wisconsin are hoping to open a cooperative engineering program to meet the regions needs.
The Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCDC says state officials have designated UW Health as an Ebola treatment center, one of 35 hospitals nationwide. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services made the announcement Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank stressed the importance of being transparent with state legislators about what a recently announced $100 million gift will mean for UW at a Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
A former University of Wisconsin football player and his twin brother were arrested Wednesday for allegedly committing five armed robberies in Madison and Middleton over a nearly two-week period last month.
Members of the campus community are invited to submit nominations to permanently fill the vice provost for diversity/chief diversity officer position.
Recently, in discussing the University of Wisconsin System’s request for $95.2 million more in state funding, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker and former UW System regent Robin Vos, R-Rochester, commented on the research being done at the University of Wisconsin. He said UW should have “research done in a way that focuses on growing our economy, not on, you know, ancient mating habits or whatever.” Although this comment could be dismissed as a malicious statement against UW, it is important that we discuss why this sentiment is false and potentially detrimental.
A leading researcher on the interface between science communications and politics is Dietram Scheufele of the UW-Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication. In a recent paper for the National Academy of Sciences, Scheufele said the “knowledge deficit model” of science communications misses the boat.
As a lifelong Badgers fan, I knew (Pat) O’Dea as an Australian who showed up on the Madison campus in the late 1890s and proceeded to astonish the nation with his kicking exploits on the football field. He could punt the ball 110 yards, and in 1898, O’Dea made a 62-yard field goal against Northwestern. He drop kicked it.
What’s more painful – getting a deep-tissue massage, or finding out that you can’t trust a professional wrestler? The UW #SweetScientists team of Amy DeJong and Maya Warren got to experience both traumas during Friday’s episode of CBS’ “The Amazing Race,” and still managed to survive and make the Final Four for the globe-trotting reality competition show.
Beyond politics, Wisconsin should feel blessed by generosity. UW-Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge just announced a $100 million gift to the university to attract and keep top professors and researchers. That’s on top of hundreds of millions more in past gifts by the couple for UW buildings, research and System-wide student grants.
(Wis. Taxpayer’s Alliance’s) Berry also addressed the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents earlier this month along with Department of Workforce Development secretary Reggie Newson … The two talked about the role of education in Wisconsin’s economic outlook and Newson noted the growing need for more bachelor’s degree-holders in Wisconsin. “The university shouldn’t be figuring out how to fill today’s jobs but how to spawn tomorrow’s quirky thinkers who innovate, who will sometimes succeed and sometimes fail,” Berry told the board.
Concerns over handling of sexual assault reports at UW-Madison prompted students and faculty to join a national day of action last month demanding better practices in responding to reports of sexual assault on campus, the Daily Cardinal reported. … UW-Madison is considering changes to its procedures for investigating reports of sexual assault on campus, the Cardinal reported.
The increase would raise rates from $1.15 to $1.20 per ride and would affect pass programs for University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, UW Hospital employees, UW Associated Students of Madison, Madison College, Edgewood College, Dane County employees, City of Madison employees, St. Mary’s Hospital and Meriter Hospital.
That’s a sizable hole for Walker, who is contemplating a 2016 presidential run, to climb out of as he crafts his budget proposal due out early next year. Achieving a balanced budget will require scaling back program requests, especially if he wants to cut taxes further.
Gov. Scott Walker’s administration has contracted with the Segal Co. to study potential cost-cutting changes to the state’s health insurance plans, including moving to a self-insured coverage program, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday.
A report published by a Dallas-based libertarian think tank and Wisconsin’s conservative MacIver Institute calls for changes to the state’s health care benefit program for public retirees.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison could be next, warns the conservative organization that sued Harvard and University of North Carolina this week over affirmative action policies in admissions.
Madison is a national symbol of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender inclusivity, according to a recent report by the Human Rights Campaign. However, for LGBT activists in the city, there is still work to be done.
Its small and looks a bit like R2 D2, but a new and powerful robotic device is helping UW hospital keep their rooms clean from dangerous bugs like MRSA. It could even eliminate the Ebola virus.
Through stem cell research, two Madison men who suffer from a genetic condition that causes blindness and hearing loss are receiving experimental treatment.
After a record-breaking weekend, Chancellor Rebecca Blank expressed excitement over both Melvin Gordon’s performance Saturday and the announcement of a $100 million donation to the university.
[T]he press box at Camp Randall Stadium was making noises a press box shouldn’t really make.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates have given the school $100 million, the largest gift from individual donors in the schools history.
UW Credit Union says it may be affected by a fraudulent loan case involving Pennant Management, a Milwaukee investment services firm.
In an effort to improve financial transparency, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank released a simplified breakdown of the university’s $2.9 billion budget this week.
The Federal Perkins Student Loan Program is in peril.
That is nothing new, of course. Perkins, the nation’s longest-running student-loan program, has been in the cross hairs of budget-cutting and reform-minded presidents and lawmakers for decades. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush tried to kill it; President Obama wants to overhaul it.
Don’t get mired in the enormity of trying to calculate how to make reparations to African-Americans for past centuries of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and discrimination, says a prominent UW-Madison professor. Instead, says Richard Davis, renowned bassist and professor of music, take the opportunity to make amends for the segregation and discrimination that marks American life today.
In an effort to increase the transparency and accessibility of UW-Madison’s expenditures and revenues, Chancellor Rebecca Blank asked staff to design the Budget in Brief, a summary that breaks down the university’s $2.9 billion annual budget.
When the UW-Madison Business School wanted to launch an MBA course in brand strategy and marketing, Lindsay was recruited to design and teach it.
Brad Jones, the UW-Madison political science doctoral candidate who designed the model and provided updates on it as new polling was released, said the big problem was in the model’s assumption that adjustments for results from previous races would carry over to this election cycle.
UW Credit Union will build a second Wauwatosa branch at 6510 W. State St.
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.
