Noted: One of the sisters, Madelyne, is a UW-Madison junior.
Sisters’ HPV vaccine injury claim heads to federal court
Wisconsin State Journal
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Acclaimed Chicago chef, UW-Madison graduate Charlie Trotter dies
Wisconsin State Journal
With a culinary style he likened to improvisational jazz, Charlie Trotter changed the way Americans view fine dining, pushing himself, his staff, his food and even his diners to limits rarely seen in an American restaurant. Yet it was his reluctance to move beyond those limits that may have defined the last years of his life.
Faculty Senate hears annual reports
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate heard annual reports from the Committee on Access and Accommodation in Instruction as well as the Information Technology Committee and reviewed an amendment on UW-Madison Faculty Policies and Procedures at a meeting Monday.
Rethinking Medical Programs
New York Times
Noted: During World War II, the University of Wisconsin shortened pre-med to two years. I was accepted to the program in 1947. I graduated four years later. Much of what I learned in my fourth year of medical school was of use to me in my medical practice.
CryptoLocker malware demands ransom for computer files held hostage
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The University of Wisconsin Madison sent out an alert to students in October, warning that the IT help desk had “received numerous reports” of the software.
UW Alumnus Shawn Kelly prepares to take over as new Langdon neighborhood officer
Daily Cardinal
Shawn Kelly, an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is gearing up to take over as the new Langdon neighborhood police officer next week and wants to communicate with students by using social media to help keep them safe.
UW System awards grants to UW-Madison
Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin System granted funding to two proposals involving UW-Madison Friday as part of a systemwide program meant to encourage economic growth and a stronger workforce in the state.
Faculty Senate to hear annual reports, review amendment
Badger Herald
While they will not vote on any policy changes, University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate will review the efforts of several committees to administer a campus-wide diversity survey and improve information technology services at a meeting Monday.
UW banners stolen from Bascom Hill
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin campus experienced a minor theft, the second in recent weeks, on Bascom Hill Thursday.
Doug Moe: The artist and the All-American
Wisconsin State Journal
It started as a magazine cover, then became a gift from a major corporation to a prestigious university. It brought together a famed American artist and a great college athlete, both dead too early. It had a name change, and, later, spent years away from view, presumed lost.
Babcock Hall introduces two new, dairy-free ice cream options
Daily Cardinal
Babcock Hall Dairy Plant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison started producing two lactose-free ice cream options this fall, vanilla and hazelnut cafe, according to a news release.
UW researchers advance on cure for common colds
Badger Herald
With the cacophony of lecture hall sniffling here to stay on campus, University of Wisconsin scientists are one step closer to finding a cure to the common cold.
Rodney Dangerfield in ‘Back to School,’ first Bucky Badger among gems on Lost Madison site
Capital Times
Wadsworth is one of several creative thinkers making use of the state?s historical records that provide a digital window into the past. UW-Madison student Kait Vosswinkel is documenting the “timeless” aspects of campus through a photo essay series called “Moving Forward. Looking Back,” using images from UW Digital Collections. And Megan Costello, a School of Library & Information Studies master?s candidate who is also the director of communications for the College of Letters and Science, and Vicki Tobias, an images and media archivist for the archives, used scrapbooks from the early 1900s to bring the stories of two alumnae to life on the UW Archives “Found in the University Archives!” Tumblr.
Babcock rolls out first lactose-free ice creams
Wisconsin State Journal
People who can?t tolerate dairy can now get a taste of one of UW-Madison?s most beloved products.
Former UW student shares memories of stampede at Camp Randall
WKOW-TV 27
20 years ago, 70 people were taken to the hospital after a stampede at Camp Randall. A woman in the student section at the time says she still gets nervous when she sees crowds trying to rush the field.
Stadium ?crush? prompts lasting safety changes
WISC-TV 3
When the Badgers play football at Camp Randall Stadium, over 80,000 fans pack the stadium, but 20 years ago the fan experience was shaken to the core.
Library Mall projects to connect State Street, campus
WISC-TV 3
A majority of University of Wisconsin-Madison students have never seen the Hagenah fountain in Library Mall turned on, nor have they been able to walk directly through the space on their way to Memorial Union, and it is unlikely that they will be able to see or do these things anytime soon.
Democrat Ernie Wittwer joins race for Dale Schultz’s senate seat
Madison.com
Wittwer worked as the DOT?s budget director in the 1980s and also as chief of staff to the secretary. For the past 13 years, he has worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Center, and has served as the center?s director.
UW-Madison to host Paralympic games
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to offer a day of Paralympic sports and activities this weekend.
UW-Madison scientists create model that could help cure the common cold
Daily Cardinal
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have constructed a three-dimensional model of the rhinovirus C pathogen, which will help increase the likelihood drugs can be designed to effectively prevent colds, according to a news release.
Suggestive flyers pop up on campus, UHS concerned
Badger Herald
Following the presence of flamingos, penis-shaped objects sprung up on Bascom Hill last week. Similarly cheeky flyers have also graced campus buildings and caught students? attentions.
New labor complaint against UW-Madison sponsor Palermo’s pizza
Capital Times
There?s trouble again at Palermo?s, the frozen pizza maker and UW-Madison Athletic Department sponsor and licensee whose labor practices fueled a sit-in at the UW-Madison chancellor?s office last spring.
A Madison family found joy and friendship in the midst of upheaval in Uganda
Wisconsin State Journal
?From the day we arrived, we said everything that happens to us is an adventure, it?s not a hardship,? said Adams, an emeritus professor of sociology at UW-Madison. ?We used that phraseology over and over again.?
Raising out-of-state tuition would limit UW diversity
Badger Herald
All my life up until college I attended private, Catholic schools. And subsequently, relatively similar students have surrounded me all my academic life ? students from affluent families with similar beliefs and of similar ethnicity. This is not to say I do not appreciate the life lessons and values a religious education has to offer, but the system certainly has drawbacks. Growing up, the majority of people around me considered themselves good Catholic citizens, believed abortion, homosexuality and contraception are serious sins and, of course, preferred that sweet and sour mix of Bud Light and twangy, unnecessarily nationalistic country music.
Bedsider’s titillating campus takeover aims to reduce unplanned pregnancies
Capital Times
A bratwurst placed suggestively between two ketchup cups. Two cupcakes nestled side by side. These decorations, among others, adorned UW-Madison?s Bascom Hill on Oct. 18 ? giving a sly wink to the parts of the human anatomy they resembled.
UW, Madison face bike parking crunch
Isthmus
Most people who commute by bicycle probably relish the fact that they don?t have to worry about the hassle of parking a car.But increasingly, Laura Schmidli is having trouble finding a place to stow her bike. Schmidli, a librarian who works at Wendt Commons next to Union South, recently documented her search for bike parking in a video she sent to UW Transportation Services.
Madison police, Frank Productions gear up for most student-involved Freakfest yet
Daily Cardinal
City officials said there will be no major procedural changes to Freakfest policing this year, and Frank Productions thanked students for their unprecedented role in organizing this year?s annual State Street Halloween bash at a press conference Wednesday.
Spring commencement to move to Camp Randall for 2014
Badger Herald
It?s back: Badgers graduating in spring 2014 will be walking across the stage in a single ceremony at Camp Randall.
Baldwin visits UW lab, speaks to research budgets
Badger Herald
A recently-appointed member of a bipartisan budget committee, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin visited the University of Wisconsin campus Tuesday to meet with professors and researchers affected by funding issues created from budget crises.
Senior class officers look toward attracting high profile commencement speaker
Badger Herald
It?s back: Badgers graduating in spring 2014 will be walking across the stage in a single ceremony at Camp Randall.
UW-Madison spring commencement ceremony will be at Camp Randall
NBC-15
Beginning in the spring of 2014, UW-Madison will hold a single commencement ceremony for undergraduates at Camp Randall.
UW to hold commencement at Camp Randall | Education
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin commencement ceremonies will be combined into one large ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium next spring, according to UW officials.
Diversity forum highlights lack of minority participation in STEM fields
Badger Herald
In a University of Wisconsin diversity forum event, participants emphasized the need to increase participation from underrepresented student populations in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
Driver in crash that killed 7-year-old: I blacked out or had seizure
Wisconsin State Journal
Whalen, a UW-Madison employee, was not ticketed for the crash, according to municipal court records, although police recommended in January that she be cited for failure to control speed.
Madison Magazine celebrates city’s high-tech scene
WISC-TV 3
A GPS-enabled asthma inhaler, an online music marketplace and locally crafted and crowd-sourced beer are the products of new Madison companies that could fuel the city?s future. The people behind these innovative ideas, along with 50 others, are being recognized this week in Madison Magazine?s November issue as well as at a series of public events and festivities taking place on Thursday, Oct. 24.
UW Forum explores goals for new diversity plan
Daily Cardinal
The 2013 Diversity Forum kicked off Monday with two keynote speeches in addition to 10 concurrent sessions aiming to improve diversity issues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Annual forum will provide input for new UW diversity plan
Badger Herald
Next week?s 15th annual campus-wide diversity forum will create a venue for students to provide input on the University of Wisconsin?s next diversity plan.
UW expands stem cell research to Waisman Center
Badger Herald
Stem cell researchers at the University of Wisconsin?s Waisman Center hope their ongoing work will eventually allow them to move into human clinical trials to treat degenerative illnesses such Parkinson?s disease and Down syndrome.
Chris Rickert: A corny alternative to Library Mall’s “O Canada”
Wisconsin State Journal
Nothing says the University of Wisconsin and Madison like … a maple leaf?
UW-Madison students “make Bo pay” at Shooting Down Cancer event
Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan signed a check for $66,130 to be donated toward Coaches vs. Cancer at his Shooting Down Cancer event Thursday.
Blank is right ? UW shouldn’t undersell its degrees to out-of-state students
Badger Herald
Recently, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank called for an increase in out-of-state tuition at UW. Blank has said the university is underselling its product to students who live outside of Wisconsin.
Flamingos flock to Bascom
Badger Herald
In 1979 the Pail and Shovel Party planted more than 1,000 fake pink flamingos on Bascom Hill in celebration of winning re-election to head the Wisconsin Student Organization, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society website. Today, the University of Wisconsin revisits the decades old prank in a new way with the first annual ?Fill the Hill? campaign.
Artist: Madison’s maple leaf has nothing to do with Canada
Capital Times
Wisconsin artist Jill Sebastian?s proposed design for a “memorable and iconographic” sculpture to anchor the State Street Library Mall has been in the works for the better part of this year.
Large maple leaf sculpture considered as centerpiece of State Street renovation
Wisconsin State Journal
The city, UW-Madison and MSA Professional Services of Madison have been working for months on the future of the blocks and Library Mall, the area that connects State Street with East Campus Mall, Bascom Hill and the Memorial Union.
Supreme Court won’t hear Curtis Forbes’ appeal in murder case
Wisconsin State Journal
Attorneys with the Criminal Appeals Project of the University of Wisconsin Law School argued in December that Forbes? conviction should be overturned or that he should get a new trial, saying in part that Forbes was not able to present a full defense.
Chancellor Blank looks for ways to improve university?s national rankings
Daily Cardinal
Chancellor Rebecca Blank is looking to improve the university?s national rankings by raising faculty compensation and increasing the visibility of faculty research, she said in a blog post Tuesday.
UW alum remembered for work patenting university technologies
Badger Herald
Howard Bremer, one of the founders of Modern Technology Transfer at University of Wisconsin and a prestigious alumnus at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, died late last week.
New app helps students “Fetch” their groceries
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin business students are helping people ?fetch? their groceries and receive automatic savings with the creation of a new smartphone application.
Flamingos flock to Bascom
Badger Herald
In 1979 the Pail and Shovel Party planted more than 1,000 fake pink flamingos on Bascom Hill in celebration of winning re-election to head the Wisconsin Student Organization, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society website. Today, the University of Wisconsin revisits the decades old prank in a new way with the first annual ?Fill the Hill? campaign.
New discoveries in colon cancer research
WKOW-TV 27
Research to treat colon cancer is turning towards tailoring treatments to individual patients, according to a doctor at the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
UW research tackling NFL concussion problem with flies
WKOW-TV 27
A team of UW-Madison researchers may be one step closer to finding better ways to combat concussions and they?re doing it by studying the brains of fruit flies.
Barry Alvarez chosen for College Football Selection Committee
WKOW-TV 27
UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez has been chosen to be part of the College Football Selection Committee.
Full Board of Regents approves new compensation ranges
Daily Cardinal
The salary ranges of certain University of Wisconsin System officials will be adjusted due to two policies the Board of Regents approved Friday.
Langdon neighborhood patrolled by city, campus officials on game day
Badger Herald
While Badgers celebrated Homecoming Saturday afternoon, campus and city police officers met with members of the Langdon Street neighborhood as part of a regularly scheduled patrol on game days.
On Wisconsin: Expanding the cranberry’s reach
Wisconsin State Journal
However, Rezin is adding Hyreds, developed at UW-Madison, which average 400 to 500 barrels per acre.
Doug Moe: The Pomeranian and the soufflé
Wisconsin State Journal
Newell ran student housing at UW-Madison and now has a residence hall named for him.
Board of Regents approves raises for 10 UW System chancellors
Daily Cardinal
The full Board of Regents approved a resolution in a closed session Thursday to increase the salaries of chancellors at 10 of the 14 UW institutions.
New policy will increase pay ranges for UW System administrators
Badger Herald
After system officials expressed concern over salaries at competing universities, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a new policy to increase the salary ranges for top System administrators and campus leaders.
UW regents to consider pay-range increases
WISC-TV 3
A proposal that would mean higher pay scales for top University of Wisconsin System employees faces one final hurdle.
Preserving Library Mall?s history a primary concern of city design committee
Daily Cardinal
A city committee overseeing the redesign of State Street met Wednesday to discuss the reconstruction of the 700 and 800 blocks, as well as ways to enrich the ?Library Mall experience.?