UW-Whitewater Chancellor Dwight Watson will step down as university leader at the end of this month because of a recent cancer diagnosis, the University of Wisconsin System announced Thursday.
UW-Madison professors at the forefront of sequencing COVID-19 strains in the community are expanding their research tracking the virus’ spread while fostering closer ties with more public health agencies with the hope of improving future pandemic response.
UW-Madison professors at the forefront of sequencing COVID-19 strains in the community are expanding their research tracking the virus’ spread while fostering closer ties with more public health agencies with the hope of improving future pandemic response.
Among a number of changes to both coaches’ contracts, defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard will make just under $1 million each of the next two years — a raise of 25% — while run-game coordinator and offensive line coach Joe Rudolph’s pay dipped 6% to $675,000.
She then worked as a librarian for several years at the University, and as an International Law Librarian at the UW Law School, where she combined her love of languages, helping students, and libraries. She became a lifelong friend to many of the students she worked with, especially the international students, as she was a “mother” away from home for many of them.
Wilson was Conference USA Coach of the Year in 2020 and 2021. He directed the Blazers to a 24th-place finish at the NCAA meet this year after the team was ranked No. 5 in the country last November.
Jack pursued dual careers in medicine and the military spanning more than 33 years. He completed residencies in internal medicine and psychiatry at the UW, then practiced psychosomatic medicine and joined the academic faculty, receiving tenure in 1969. He became associate chief of staff of Ambulatory Care at the Madison VA Hospital in 1976, while continuing to consult in the UW’s pain clinic. Jack retired as a full professor in 1998.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will open the Big Ten season on the road, then return home for a Border Battle with Minnesota, according to the schedule released Friday by the conference.
In 1966, the University of Wisconsin’s School of Library and Information Studies invited Jerry to create a graduate education program in archives administration. The initial one-course offering expanded to a full degree program, and over the years he trained hundreds of students in the profession.
His research and teaching career is outlined in the University of Wisconsin MacArdle Lab Tribute found at the following address: https://mcardle.wisc.edu/2021/05/11/tribute-to-professor-emeritus-michael-nathan-gould/.
Ann Sheehy, a member of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board who has worked with the Big Ten on its response to the pandemic, told the board Friday that the league’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors met last Sunday to set the course for the upcoming season.
Mark Eppli, director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at UW-Madison, said the current climate is unlike anything he’s seen in three decades of studying the real estate market.
When Dr. Laura McDowell finishes her obstetrics and gynecology training at UW Health this month, she will be the first person in the country to complete such a residency program focused on caring for women in rural areas.
Nearly 33,000 University of Wisconsin System employees, including about 20,000 at UW-Madison, are moving to a new pay schedule next month that some staff say has caused confusion and raises concerns for campuses’ lowest-wage workers.
Dr. Jeff Pothof, UW Health’s chief quality officer, joins the call at the end to encourage everyone to get their shot.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison System Board of Regents named epidemiologist Dr. Malia Jones as one of three recipients of the 2021 Academic Staff Excellence Awards. The award, which recognizes staff members and academic programs based on superior performance and creative, personable approaches to education, presents winners with a $7,500 cash prize. It is the highest honor the UW System can bestow upon their academic staff.
The funds will also allow MadREP to update its comprehensive economic development strategy, called Advance Now 2.0, as well as the extensive accompanying reports on industry sectors. The 900 pages of reports, released in 2019 after years of research by MadREP and University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, examined several key sectors for the region. Now, with new data released since, the agency would like to refresh those reports before acting on their findings. The agencies have not yet determined what contractors they will hire to conduct the studies.
From 1995 until 2009, Michael served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, where he taught courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, and a seminar on sentencing and corrections.
In light of the new projections, Evers also announced that an estimated $300 million in cost savings across 18 state agencies — which the governor called for during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — would be returned to those departments. That includes more than $45 million to the University of Wisconsin System, $5 million to the Wisconsin Technical College System and nearly $25 million to the Department of Children and Families.
Highly decorated players from University of Wisconsin football, women’s hockey and men’s hockey lead a group of 12 who will be inducted into the school’s athletics hall of fame in September.
A little less than half of the GOP proposal, or nearly $629 million, is earmarked for the University of Wisconsin System. Evers had asked for about $1 billion for UW campuses. Humanities is on track to be demolished by 2030 because the committee approved $88 million for a new academic building that will move many academic departments housed in Humanities to the new facility. A quarter of the cost will be covered through fundraising with the rest supported through state borrowing.
The building projects Evers wants funded are spread out over 31 counties and include $1 billion for the University of Wisconsin System.
The Badgers will face Notre Dame on Sept. 5, 2026 at Lambeau Field, a makeup date from a game wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. That game rounds out the nonconference portion of the schedule in 2026, with UW already slated to play Western Illinois (Sept. 12, 2026) and Pittsburgh (Sept. 19, 2026).
Marquette University’s announcement Monday makes it the third private institution in the state to impose a vaccine mandate as the University of Wisconsin System continues its stance of encouraging but not requiring vaccination.
For 26 years, Dave Black’s name has been nearly synonymous with WSUM 91.7. Few can think about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus radio station without recalling the man who helped create and manage the station since its inception.
In just the sixth contested election in University of Wisconsin System history, the UW Board of Regents elected an appointee of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers as board president for the next year.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank solicited feedback from a select number of voices on what qualities and characteristics in the next Badgers athletic director mattered to them. School officials have declined to reveal who was invited to offer input, but it has emerged that Blank held listening sessions with Badgers coaches, some UW players and a group dedicated to equity and diversity in the athletic department.
A group of Wisconsin Republicans is joining the nationwide conservative push against teaching about aspects of race and gender in classrooms.
Terrace season is on with live, outdoor music, films and art activities at the Memorial Union Terrace, just at a reduced capacity.
The draft bills introduced Thursday would prevent University of Wisconsin System campuses, state technical colleges, public K-12 schools and independent charter schools from teaching “critical race theory,” which argues that racism is baked into social structures and policies.
Some Black community leaders in Madison are arguing that naming Chris McIntosh as UW-Madison’s new athletics director is a lost opportunity to address concerns of Black students, and that Chancellor Rebecca Blank did not adhere to her own guidelines in making the high-profile hire.
It is the first contested election for president of the Board of Regents in nearly a decade and comes as the board prepares to launch a search for a new UW System president. Only about one in 10 of the past 51 board president elections has been contested.
The UW System Board of Regents on Wednesday morning approved a contract with McIntosh, 44, a former Badgers football player who will be only the third UW athletic director in 32 years.
Dane County residents could cast aside their face masks and gather without limits Wednesday after nearly 15 months of COVID-19 restrictions. But experts said that while the pandemic has clearly eased up here and around the country, the threat is not over. “The ‘officially over’ likely will be when the world sees a decline like the U.S. has seen,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director for infection control at UW Health. “That isn’t likely anytime soon.”
The walkway to the main entrance of University of Wisconsin athletic department offices at Camp Randall Stadium passes between statues that could be intimidating to someone in the position Chris McIntosh is about to fill.
It was the summer of 1996, Chris McIntosh’s second training camp with the University of Wisconsin football team, and he was starting to doubt whether he had what it took to play for the Badgers.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to blast off Thursday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center will carry 48 seeds from the UW-Madison botanist’s lab to the International Space Station, where astronauts will attempt to grow them in a system developed in Madison.
That rapid change began to show up across the globe between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, around the same time people began clearing land to grow crops, said Jack Williams, a UW-Madison geographer who uses fossil records to study how life adapts to climate change.
UW Health, the county’s largest private employer, says it has encouraged those who can to work remotely throughout the pandemic and will continue to support telecommuting into the future. “At UW Health, remote work is not confined strictly to non-clinical roles,” said spokeswoman Emily Kumlien. “As telehealth and video visits become a major component of UW Health’s patient care, many providers are now able to perform much of their work outside of a hospital or clinic setting as well.”
The University of Wisconsin plans to name its new athletic director Wednesday, with Chancellor Rebecca Blank revealing her pick to replace the retiring Barry Alvarez.
Saeed Khalif, who served as the director of player personnel, has left and a State Journal source said he was accepting a similar position at Michigan State. The Spartans just lost director of player personnel Scott Aligo to Kansas.
After months of county-wide caps on gatherings, capacity limits and face covering requirements, COVID-19 restrictions in Wisconsin’s second-biggest county have come to an end.
As a University of Wisconsin Photo Lab photographer, Sandy was an official Team USA photographer for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, working in conjunction with photo lab director and filmmaker, Professor Walter Meives. They traveled with the team, first in Denver during pre-Games altitude conditioning, then in Mexico City and Acapulco.
“People continue to ask for proof that climate change is already affecting our health. This attribution study directly answers that question using state-of-the-science epidemiological methods, and the amount of data the authors have amassed for analysis is impressive,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Senior Olin Hacker finished second in the 5,000 meters Saturday to lead the University of Wisconsin contingent at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field West Regional in College Station, Texas.
Attention this week turns to the UW Board of Regents, which finds itself at an interesting inflection point in the political power struggle over control of the University of Wisconsin System with the board holding its first contested election in nearly a decade.
From 1966-1994, Norm worked as a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he researched improving fuel economy for motor vehicles through energy storage techniques using flywheel or hydropneumatic accumulators and was the advisor for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) student racing group.
In 1969 she received a Ph.D. from the Department of Nutritional Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison and subsequently served on the faculty in the department for over 20 years, including a joint appointment with University of Wisconsin- Extension.
In 1963, John joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic staff as head tennis coach and assistant basketball coach. In 1967, he married UW grad, Sheree Williams of Wauconda, Ill. In 1968, he stopped coaching UW men’s tennis and became the Wisconsin men’s head basketball coach.
Madison’s economy used to be driven by state government and UW-Madison. But the region’s technology sector has fueled much of the growth over the last decade. Young technology workers for Epic Systems, Exact Sciences and countless start-ups like to live, eat, shop and be entertained Downtown.
Isolation, job losses and economic uncertainty are major causes for more patients seeking services, UW Health director of behavioral health services Beth Lonergan said. Others, particularly people of color, have sought treatment following the death of George Floyd and the protests over police brutality and racial injustice, said Myra McNair, executive director of Anesis Therapy.
With its $100 million proposal for the 300 block of State Street, Core Spaces, a real estate development firm specializing in apartment buildings near college campuses, is talking about affordable student housing in a new way. But the model it’s using has some wondering who will benefit, and how.
Restricting dietary intake of certain amino acids may reduce obesity and diabetes while increasing longevity, even though many athletes build muscle and derive other health benefits from supplements of the compounds, UW-Madison research suggests.
The Wisconsin Legislature’s powerful budget committee declined to extend a tuition freeze for in-state undergraduate students, a move that would allow the University of Wisconsin System to raise the costs for attending its institutions for the first time in eight years.
The Republican-controlled budget-writing committee declined to extend a tuition freeze at University of Wisconsin System schools for the next two academic years, setting the stage for students to potentially pay more for their education as soon as this fall.
The two proposed bills cover K-12 athletics and college athletics, and would prohibit schools from allowing students to join teams that don’t correspond to their biological sex assigned at birth unless schools created a “coed” sport opportunity. The bills are almost sure to receive a veto from Gov. Tony Evers if they make it through the Legislature.
University of Wisconsin officials warned a Republican-backed bill aiming to bar employees from performing or assisting with abortions as part of their work would pose “a serious threat to the future of our ob-gyn residency training program.”
The Wisconsin bills would allow students to join teams only that correspond to their biological sex as assigned by a doctor at birth, unless the sport is classified as “coed.” It would apply to public and private schools, as well as the University of Wisconsin and technical colleges.
The nurses at UW Hospitals and Clinics have been among the greatest heroes of the coronavirus pandemic that is finally beginning to ease after an often overwhelming year of infection and death, testing and treatment, recovery and vaccination. Nurses have been widely praised for their humanity, for their caring, for their sacrifices. We have no doubt about the sincerity of those words. But now it is time to honor these heroes with something more than words. They need a place at the bargaining table.
All University of Wisconsin System and UW health workers would be banned from performing abortions or training others to perform abortions under a Republican bill up for a public hearing Wednesday in a state legislative committee.
