The T-shirt was created by the apparel company Sconnie Nation and Underground Printing-Wisconsin, and was for sale at an annual end-of-the-school-year party that draws hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
Noted: The Madison decline in particular “reflects the slow pace of progress at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in creating spin-out companies from its research and expanding its own venture capital activity,” Hefty said.
Noted: The shirt pokes fun at what was viewed as the curmudgeonly flip-flopping of Soglin, who was a student protest leader at UW-Madison and city alderman when he was arrested at the first Mifflin Street Block Party in 1969. But in recent years he has called for an end to the annual celebration.
Hall was bullish about WEDC?s future, praising a meeting he had on Tuesday with the new University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank where they discussed ways to partner on economic development. Blank came to UW this summer after working as the acting U.S. Commerce secretary.”She has a wealth of information about Commerce and economic development,” Hall said.
Jabbari did not have an exact number of employees the company could have working in the new office but said Google wanted to stay in close proximity to the wide talent pool from UW-Madison. The company currently has more than 30 employees in Madison.
Schupp, a 30-year-old former accountant who completed his residency at the UW medical school … Richard Roberts, a UW professor of family medicine, says Schupp is likely filling some gaps.
Kayakers venturing out on a thrilling but potentially dangerous paddle to the Apostle Islands sea caves on Lake Superior can now check conditions from shore on a kiosk developed by UW-Madison researchers with the Sea Grant Institute.
But with the recent unveiling of his portrait at the Chazen Museum of Art, the two-term governor sat down for an exclusive interview about his own legacy and the enduring progressive spirit of the state that may be slowed ? but not reversed ? by the conservative policies of his successor.
Noted: Madison?s Daily Page reported that only 11% of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s 2012 computer science graduates were women.
At the UW Education Research and Development Center during the 1970?s Jim helped pioneer elementary school educational methods so revolutionary that he was selected as one of the first Americans to enter communist China just three months after President Nixon in 1976.
The technology is an important part of the program that drives the students? interest, said Kathleen T. Horning, director of the UW-Madison?s Cooperative Children?s Book Center. Her organization helps run the program with Whitehorse, the UW-Madison School of Education?s department of curriculum and instruction and Read On Wisconsin.
The driver of the Meriter Hospital ambulance that crashed last month, killing a UW-Madison doctor on board, was fined $213 for failure to keep the vehicle under control, according to the final accident report released Friday.
Andy is originally from Spring Green, and works in a cancer research lab at UW-Madison. Jen is from Iowa, and works as an art teacher at Madison West High School.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin touted her legislation to bolster funding for early-stage companies during a stop on the UW-Madison campus today, saying Wisconsin ranks near the bottom in entrepreneurship despite “some really innovative startups that are in this area.”
More than 45,000 dogs and 68,000 monkeys have been killed in Madison at UW-Madison and Covance over the past 10 years, according to reports submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture by each facility. Many of these animals have endured multiple experimental procedures and profound environmental and social deprivation.
Gov. Scott Walker announced plans Wednesday for new University of Wisconsin buildings for dairy and meat science, according to a release.
He is co-chairman of Hackfest, a golf tournament fundraiser for brain cancer research at UW-Madison.
Aeromedical evacuation is one of the world?s riskiest professions and accident rates are going up. But, the UW College of Engineering Flight Simulation Lab is working to reverse that trend.
The nations largest dairy research center is getting a big makeover.
The archives are now stored at the museums or the Historical Society building on the UW-Madison campus, Risser said.
Actress Lynne Stewart flew all the way to Madison from Los Angeles last week to star in “Bingo Night,” a short comedy being filmed here by an L.A.-based team with UW-Madison roots.
His description is echoed by Bob Schwoch, a UW-Madison professor of public relations who was an aide in the late 1980s and early 1990s to conservative Democratic Rep. Peggy Krusick and later moderate Republican Sens. Peggy Rosenzweig and Carol Buettner. …(Schultz) claims partial credit, for instance, in Walker?s decision to veto a GOP-authored budget provision to bar the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from operating on the UW-Madison campus.
The bill also prohibits the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and any two- or four-year UW System school from imposing certain sanctions on students who commit an underage violation if they are exempt from a citation
Last month, the Egans were back in Madison, a particularly meaningful return visit, in that David spoke at a seminar at the Waisman Center on the UW campus, where more than three decades ago he attended preschool and was first challenged to keep up with his non-special needs peers, a practice today known as mainstreaming.
A prime example he cites is the Teaching Assistants Association at UW-Madison, a union that once upon a time had full-time staff to deal with issues of collective bargaining, but has now essentially become an advocacy group for grad students.
Laura Dunn was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. She was out for a night of partying with friends – including two men, who are fellow members of the crew team.
The University of Wisconsin-Madisons ranking as the nations eighth best party school is being met not with a toast but a sigh by those who work to curb underage drinking.
A listing from Buzzfeed.
Madison native and former University of Wisconsin defenseman Gary Suter will be inducted into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame in September.
Football season starts in just about a month, and if you?re headed to a UW game, you?ll see some pretty big changes at Camp Randall.
In Cold War University, Matthew Levin details how the expansion of our eminent Cold War university created a student body of such diversity and vitality that the institution?s very integrity was shaken by its own growth.
Camp Randall gets a major makeover ahead of football season. It?s a project that started almost three years ago, and now the crew is in stage three. It?s the final one of the $86 million dollar face-lift.
Testing the new sound system at Camp Randall Stadium is testing the patience of Near West Side residents.
Among some true believers, Scott Walker is not just governor of Wisconsin. He is America?s governor. (Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism article.)
Researchers who used a thick plastic curtain to divide a northern Wisconsin lake in half are wrapping up their 30-year study on air and water pollution.
Two months later, however ? shortly after the kidnapped infant was found dead ? investigators did reach out to the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) (on the UW campus) in Madison, where Arthur Koehler, a bald, studious looking man who in fact loved the outdoors, worked as a scientist.
A UW-Madison building was partially evacuated Monday after a training grenade was found by a staff member while cleaning a desk.
The Dane County Bomb Squad evacuated a building on the UW Campus Monday afternoon, after a staff member found a grenade inside a desk on campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has selected another interim director for its Farm and Industry Short Course program.
(UW?Madison disability studies professor) Ellen Samuels didn?t choose to be disabled. And when a rare genetic condition began to limit her ability to walk in her early 20s, she did not exactly embrace the experience.
?It?s amazing to see how far we?ve come,? said Kessler, who studied Russian history at UW-Madison and originally hoped to become a Cold War spy.
A Verona woman who won a $1.8 million jury award for her husband?s death in a lawsuit against a UW-Madison doctor is challenging a cap on damages against state-employed doctors, which limits the payment to $250,000.
Construction of a new Catholic student center at UW-Madison, now in the fundraising phase, is his ?most urgent? priority, Morlino said.
A UW-Madison employee accused of sexually assaulting an exchange student will be in court for a status conference Monday.
A professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been chosen to lead the American Dairy Science Association.
Noted: The bicyclist killed Wednesday in a collision with an SUV on Madison?s East Side has been identified as John Primm, 22, of Madison. Primm was riding his bike on South First Street when he rode into the path of an SUV driven by a UW-Madison student in her early 20s.
A program called “Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration” works to change that. Its designed for children three to eight years old. Wisconsin is one of 10 pilot states working with the Corrections Department to help children cope and learn why a parent is in jail or prison.
A Verona man was arrested on multiple tentative charges after leading UW-Madison officers on a high-speed chase through campus, ending in a crash into a light pole on Campus Drive, UW police reported.
A 22-year-old man led police on a chase through the University of Wisconsin campus Tuesday night, leading to a crash and an injured officer, according to UW police.
A man who was freed this month from prison, where he was serving a 102-year sentence for a 1991 rape he didn?t commit, is living in a Madison homeless shelter and doesn?t have enough money to buy the medication he takes for several serious health problems.
A man whose conviction for a rape was overturned is now at a homeless shelter in Madison.
The fourth and final person charged in an attack on former Badgers running back Montee Ball is in custody.
America?s research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with millions of hacking attempts weekly ? including thousands a day at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
It?s a process that University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez has faced with a mix of uncertainty and pride.
Biking in Madison is a pleasure for Devin Giddings, who has traveled on two wheels since childhood. From his home in the southwest of Madison, he makes a 90-minute ride to work in Fitchburg and back every day.
High school sports athletes will be eligible for free concussion testing as part of a research project that is being conducted at the University of Wisconsin.
For many years, Nick Schweitzer thought of the Dane County Fair as simply a place to view farm machinery and eat shaved ice.
The fourth suspect in the Montee Ball attack last August was arrested July 2 in Chicago and is being held in the Dane County Jail.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Odyssey Project has received two major grants that will support a new program called Odyssey Bridges, which provides expanded services to help more low-income adults complete college degrees.
Bill Mellon of the University of Wisconsin said that when he set out to overhaul computer security recently, he was stunned by the sheer volume of hacking attempts.
