UW hasn?t exactly been a tournament bust during Ryan?s first 12 seasons. The Badgers have compiled a 16-12 record while making the field every year. They have reached five Sweet 16s and one Elite Eight. Still, it hasn?t been enough for some people.
Re ?Go West, Young People! And East!,? by Nicholas Kristof (column, March 16), about the need for more American students to gain experience abroad. (Writer is a UW student in Cape Town.)
The Weather Channel visits the UW-Madison’s Dairy Research Center at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station to look at the science of keeping cows happy and healthy though the winter.
An article Tuesday in the Local section about fines against the University of Wisconsin-Madison for violating USDA animal care regulations mischaracterized a citation involving the death of a dog as being more serious than it really was. The dog was treated correctly by researchers, but they failed to report the incident to an appropriate manager.
A team from The Associated Press has won the 2014 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for a story that revealed the CIA ties of an American who vanished in Iran.
Noted: A widely publicized study by University of Wisconsin researchers even suggested that early voting options, by themselves, actually reduce overall turnout, in part because Election Day hoopla is diminished. The study was published in 2014.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has agreed to pay a $35,000 fine to settle animal welfare violations.
Noted: Of 3,200 children?s books published in 2013, just 93 were about black people, according to a study by the Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin.
[C}andor is not the only characteristic that sets the 20-year-old UW-Madison astrophysics major apart from most politicians. He is a Pirate. Meaning, of course, that he is a member of the Pirate Party.
The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the Great Lakes, has launched its “Eat Wisconsin Fish” campaign to capitalize on the seasonal uptick in demand for trout, whitefish and lake perch.
A 17-year veteran of the UW-Madison police department was fired Wednesday,the department said.
U.S. News and World Report?s has ranked University of Wisconsin graduate programs among the highest in the country again in its 2015 edition of the ?Best Graduate Schools.?
A former accountant accused of stealing more than $144,000 from a university department will spend 80 days in jail, according to a release from UW-Madison police.
UW-Madison art grad Yvette Pino recruited her for the project.
Noted: The measure wouldnt guarantee that Marquette would join public universities such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee in fielding sworn officers to keep the peace on campus ? that would ultimately be a decision Marquette would make together with existing law enforcement agencies.
The 27-year-old will graduate from Madison Area Technical College this spring and will start work on her bachelor?s degree at UW-Madison in the fall. She wants to be a registered dietitian.
An Academic Staff representative raised concerns at an assembly meeting Monday regarding a committee appointment made last month by the Academic Staff Executive Committee.
Noted: In teachers, the practice can reduce stress and burnout and have ripple effects in the classroom, according to a study published last August by the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.
Barbara Wolfe, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said Ryan?s paper simply misstates the findings of one of her papers studying the effect of housing assistance on labor outcomes.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate working group presented a draft outlining changes to a research and graduate school position at a committee meeting Monday, recommending a division between the two roles.
“With plenty of emerging technology, Madison is a great place for women in STEM to make a good living, while also taking advantage of the University of Wisconsin?s many academic forums and opportunities. Wisconsin Women in Government also does great work to advance the number of females serving in political office,” Estately writes.
Instead, Grothman commented on the high-level economic courses Rickman said he had taken while earning a UW-Madison degree by making disparaging comments about the university, which Grothman also attended. ?I took a few classes in economics at UW,? Grothman said. ?And I?d almost consider that a minus.?
The newly formed Digital Lab for Manufacturing will develop a variety of digital tools to enhance efficiency and lower the cost of manufactured products. The Defense Department kicked in $70 million to the effort, with companies and research universities throughout the country joining as partners.
Johnson, a 6-foot-3 center playing her first season for the Badgers after transferring from UConn, was one of 11 players voted to the first team by the coaches. She is the first Badger to be named first-team All-Big Ten since Jolene Anderson in 2008, and 10th in program history.
While it?s foolish to expect the Badgers to win every game in a rout, there have been several times this season when a nice Sunday drive turns into a white-knuckle journey for UW.
The man brought in to fix glitches in the deeply flawed payroll and benefits system used by about 75,000 employees in the University of Wisconsin System has stepped down from his job after two years, the UW System announced late Monday night.
Several University of Wisconsin System schools, including UW-Madison, have been forced to limit the number of students admitted into nursing programs because of a shortage in staff.
It was announced Friday that Rumpel is one of 18 nominees for the inaugural Mike Richter Award, which will go to the most outstanding goaltender at the NCAA Division I level.
Dwindling attendance at sporting events is a growing concern across the college landscape. A wide range of topics were discussed at the first two meetings ? everything from the music played at men?s hockey games to the price of ice cream at the Kohl Center.
Because Oates knows there are others out there who consider coach Bo Ryan a failure because the Badgers haven?t reached an NCAA Final Four on his watch, he would like to review what Ryan has given UW fans in his 13 seasons.
Asia accounted for an estimated 2,162 in-migrants to Dane County yearly from 2007 to 2011. It’s safe to say that UW-Madison is responsible for a large portion of that, in particular because of a rapidly growing number of Chinese students.
The TAA raised the question of athletics? contribution to the project last week when it blasted an email campus-wide urging students and staff to petition Athletics Director Barry Alvarez to have his department pay half the cost of the rebuild.
Human behavior in environmental policy was a key topic at Thursday?s Sustainability Forum held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
After a factory collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 workers last year, the University of Wisconsin is in the process of reviewing workers? safety in factories around the world that produce clothing emblazoned with Bucky and the Motion W.
When the staff of the Daily Cardinal, a student newspaper at University of Wisconsin-Madison, started tossing around ideas for ?unreported stories important to the campus community,? it wasn?t long before they hit on diversity as an issue, says editor Abby Becker.
The University of Wisconsin is part of a new effort to make the United States more competitive in manufacturing.
UW-Madison is a research partner with the new “Digital Lab”, based in Chicago.
Three candidates selected as finalists for the UW-Madison Arboretum director post will be meeting with the campus community over the next two weeks.
As the vote nears on the Rec Sports Master Plan, which includes updates and renovations to the Southeast Recreational Facility, the Natatorium and the Near East and Near West Fields, the TAA called for UW Athletics to foot half the bill for any Rec Sports updates in a statement Friday.
The state Assembly has approved a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
Harris said he also plans to file a complaint against UW-Madison, to challenge its hiring practices for black faculty and staff.
A University of Wisconsin committee proposed a new budget model for the university that would allow for more flexibility and the ability to drive funding to departments as students flock to certain majors.
A unique particle accelerator housed in a University of Wisconsin physics lab has attracted scientists from across the world and nation for years, but due to federal cuts the lab has officially been slated for closure on March 7.
New solar panels created by Sunpreme and tested at the University of Wisconsin have passed preliminary tests and could be on their way to usage at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in South Pole.
A community college education ought to be free, University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor Sara Goldrick-Rab tells NPR for a report on the funding challenges confronting the schools nationwide.
Patrick Sims, interim vice provost and chief diversity officer at UW-Madison, said the university is committed to partnering with the coalition?s efforts
University Health Services Executive Director Sarah Van Orman outlined a new policy regarding alcohol service and consumption at university affiliated events at an Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee meeting Thursday.
The student-athletes participated as a part of the Beyond the Game program. The program aims to improve student-athlete graduation rates, post-graduation prospects and activity involvement with classes, seminars and hands-on experiences, such as Science Saturday.
Noted: Formed in 2006 around University of Wisconsin-Madison technology, AquaMost was named one of 13 “frac water” firms to watch in the March issue of Global Water Intelligence, an industry publication.
It?s a brotherhood nearly 40 years in the making and Joe Pavelski is thrilled to be a part of its exclusive ranks. Since 1976, every U.S. men?s hockey team to take part in the Olympics has included at least one player from the University of Wisconsin. That streak of 11 consecutive Winter Games will come to life Thursday when Team USA ? which has six former UW players serving in some capacity ? will open the tournament against Slovakia (6:30 a.m., NBC Sports Network) in Sochi, Russia.
Mike Cerniglia has worn a badge as a Dane County sheriff?s deputy, worked for two of the most accomplished coaches at the University of Wisconsin and been a face of the Badgers on radio and television. Somewhere along that career path are lessons that should help him now. Cerniglia is six weeks into his role as executive director of the National W Club, a nonprofit that represents men and women who have won varsity letters competing in sports sponsored by UW Athletics.
Three finalists were named for the position of director of Discovery to Product, a new partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, according to a Tuesday university press release.
A provision to exempt University of Wisconsin System research from open records requests was removed from a bill to allow classified research on campus Monday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank thinks the Board of Regents should consider raising tuition for out-of-state students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has the most alumni currently volunteering in the Peace Corp according to the organizations annual school rankings.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Erin Luhmann discussed her experiences and newly gained insights after traveling abroad with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof at a lecture Monday.
A bill that would allow University of Wisconsin System campuses to conduct classified research that would be exempt from state open records law was taken up in committee Monday.
The commissioner of baseball told us again this month that this is it. Really. Seriously. He?s not kidding. He?s not messing with us. His time is up. And he means it.
She won two WIAA state golf titles, played on the University of Wisconsin?s 1994 Big Ten Conference championship team and twice won the Madison City tournament.
University of Wisconsin System campuses are Nos. 1, 4, 10, 17, 19, 23, 30, 36, 39 and 41 in a national ranking of the most on-campus alcohol arrests per 1,000 students.
A month without alcohol was the challenge. For UW-Madison alumna Sarah Probst, “Dry January” tested her more than she anticipated.
