University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema would probably love the chance for his team?s fans to become tired of yearly trips to the Rose Bowl.But for now, Bielema doesn?t expect there to be any problem for Badgers fans getting excited about a third straight trip to Pasadena, Calif., and a game against No. 8 Stanford on Jan.
A: Since we live in a country with a famous Tornado Alley right in its center, it is easy to forget that severe weather can occur, though with substantially less frequency, in other parts of the world.A recent example of this is the flooding in Venice, Italy in early November and the strong tornado that roared through Teranto, Italy on Nov. 28.
As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares for another visit to Pasadena, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking a little more caution in planning what can be an expensive trip to California and buying their tickets to the Rose Bowl.Tickets to last year?s Rose Bowl sold out within 15 minutes of becoming available to student season ticket holders. The year before it had taken 20 minutes until the only place a student could find a ticket was from someone who had bought it at the original face value.
Wisconsin?s first recreational hunt for wolves is nearing an end and as the hunt itself winds down, attention will turn to analysis and to what is, hopefully, a scientific assessment of the season and its impact on the state?s wolf population. Much of that work will focus, appropriately, on population densities in the wake of the hunt and implications for future quotas….Not long after the hunt started, UW-Madison researcher Adrian Treves released a study that confirmed what most suspected ? public attitudes toward the wolf deteriorated in the months and years prior to approval of the hunting season.
The Search and Screen Committee for the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor met with Madison community members earlier this week to further its outreach efforts to university constituencies, according to the committee?s chair David McDonald. McDonald said the committee met Wednesday with the greater Madison city and business community because the university relies heavily on its support and partnership.
America?s passion for The Nutcracker ?is not as old as time,? said Li Chiao-Ping, chairwoman of the dance department at UW-Madison and artistic director of Li Chaio-Ping Dance company, which is staging its third annual production of ?The Knotcracker? at Overture Center this weekend. The American ?Nutcracker? rage came about in the 1950s, when a Balanchine production caught on with the dance world, Li said.
?It became something of a staple for ballet studios. Actually, the story?s a little dark,? Li said. ?But perhaps there was something about the way it was dressed up, the music itself, maybe the fantasy aspect to it.? When she created ?The Knotcracker,? an all-ages production with aerialists, dancers and lots of ?serious fun,? Li said, she wanted to stage ?a celebration of community.?
The Milwaukee Common Council voted Wednesday to support University of Wisconsin-Madison activist groups in urging Chancellor David Ward to terminate the university?s contract with adidas.
Five University of Wisconsin-Madison professors were named as fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Thursday. UW-Madison faculty that will be recognized include Professor of Plant Pathology Paul G. Ahlquist, Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Kyung Mann Kim, Professor of Psychiatry Ned H. Kalin, Professor of Chemical and Biological engineering Thomas F. Kuech and Professor of Life Sciences Communication Dietram A. Scheufele.
?Study abroad is a great way to regain a sense of the world outside of this campus,? reads one student?s testimony on the website of UW-Madison?s Study Abroad Office. For those studying abroad in Israel this semester during the assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari and the ensuing week of rocket exchanges between Hamas in Gaza and the Israeli Defense Forces from Nov. 14 to 21, the experience in a society both at war and under siege was less out of a brochure in the Red Gym than a front page of the New York Times.
….UW-Madison?s safety policies for students studying abroad are largely determined by the advice and travel advisories of Cultural Insurance Services International, which provides insurance to study abroad students, and the U.S. State Department, according to UW-Madison Communications spokesperson John Lucas.
MADISON (WKOW) — The death of a pedestrian in a collision with a Madison Metro bus has spurred Metro officials to equip half a dozen buses with left-turn alarms, with plans to outfit Metro?s entire two hundred bus fleet with alarms, if the pilot project demonstrates more safety. In June 2011, UW-Madison librarian Maureen Grant was killed when hit by a bus turning left onto University Avenue as Grant legally entered a crosswalk. Officials determined the bus driver failed to compensate for a blind spot on the bus affecting left turns, and Grant did not see the turning bus in time.
MADISON, Wis.-The University of Wisconsin-Madison is mourning a student?s death. Madison police went just after 11 a.m. Wednesday to an off-campus apartment in the 600 block of Langdon Street. Police would only say that they?re working a death investigation.
Madison is home to tons of history and sentimental hotspots. We have the big ones such as the Capitol, Memorial Union, Bascom Hill and many others. However, it?s the smaller, more unnoticed areas that are under attack. Real estate developers have made plans to destroy the Stadium Bar on Monroe Street and put a six-story apartment complex in its place. The Minneapolis-based OPUS Group plans to create a complex with retail space on the first floor and five floors of apartments. This brings the entire building to a total of 100 units and 150 bedrooms with 40 underground parking spaces.While it is extremely important that every student finds a place to live while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this continual construction of more and more apartment complexes is getting out of control.
Sports Illustrated announced Tuesday that fans voted the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ?Jump Around? as the greatest in the nation, following a season-long campaign to find the best gameday tradition in college football. UW-Madison students and fans alike have celebrated the Badgers by ?jumping around? before the fourth quarter of every home football game since a 1998 game against Purdue.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison senior died Wednesday, according to Dean of Students Lori Berquam. Berquam said there is no threat to the community but did not have any additional details Wednesday evening. ?We are going to have to try to make sense of it,? she said, ?and we are going to mourn the loss of what could have been a potentially amazing leader.?
It looks as if UW-Stevens Point could give its students a taste of that ancient to them piece of constitutional history known as the 18th Amendment, which ushered in Prohibition. Among the options before a task force created last year on campus alcohol and drug use is banning booze in all dorms, even for dorm residents of legal drinking age. The UW System is not aware of any such efforts at its other campuses, system spokesman David Giroux said.
Quoted: Richard Brown, director of the UW-Madison Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles.
MADISON (WKOW) — University police arrest a man for stealing bicycles on campus. Officers arrested Ryan J. Loughrin, of Madison, in connection with bicycle thefts from campus. Loughrin admitted to investigators that he stole bikes from campus, focusing mainly on those that were secured with cable locks. Loughrin then sold the bicycles on Craigslist.
If you?re looking for a fresh, live Christmas tree and want to help education as well, head on down to the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion this weekend. The Forestry Club is having its 39th annual Christmas tree sale on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with proceeds from the sale used to support educational opportunities in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.
American Disability Research scholar Kim Nielsen visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday to discuss the history and repercussions of disabilities in the U.S., as part of an event put on by UW-Madison Disability Studies. Nielsen, author of ?A Disability History of the United States,? is a professor in the department of disability studies at the University of Toledo. Her research is one of the first scholarly attempts to examine the history of disabilities dating back to the period prior to European arrival.
The University of Washington and Rutgers University announced plans Tuesday to cut ties with adidas following allegations of labor violations from a factory contracted by the apparel company, a move some members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have encouraged Interim Chancellor David Ward to pursue. The issue began January 2011 when a factory contracted by adidas suddenly shut down without compensating over 2,700 workers. Since then, other colleges and universities, including Cornell and Oberlin, have cut ties with the company for violating contracts with the schools to ensure all workers are paid.
Starting next fall, working adults will be able to earn degrees online, at their own pace, in nursing, diagnostic imaging and information technology from UW-Milwaukee. They?re the first degrees offered under a new University of Wisconsin System effort, announced with Gov. Scott Walker in June, to make college more accessible and affordable to state residents.
America needs more workers with expertise in science and math. America needs more entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to start businesses and create jobs here. And that?s why America needs Congress to pass the bipartisan Startup Act 2.0 bill ? with or without a larger package of immigration reforms. The proposal would provide more visas to foreign students who graduate from American universities with advanced degrees in science, math, technology and engineering.
In 1962, Richard Nixon conceded defeat in his race for California governor, bitterly telling reporters that the press “wouldn?t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” In the decades since, the belief that the media is a covert ? and in some cases overt ? advocate of liberal ideology has become deeply ingrained in the conservative consciousness. Right-wing bloggers and talk radio personalities regularly depict mainstream reporters as members of an elite leftist clique, dogged in their determination to bring down Republicans and unwilling to challenge Democrats.
James Baughman, a UW-Madison professor of journalism, says he often struggles to convince conservatives that traditional media reporters are not bent on promoting a political viewpoint.”A lot of them really refuse to believe that reporters can be objective,” he says.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students could see screens that show real-time bus arrival times in university housing and dining locations as early as next semester, according to Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee member Ryan Prestil. Prestil said the project, which is a collaboration between ASM?s Legislative Affairs and University Affairs committees and UW Transportation Services, is an attempt to increase safety as well as convenience by allowing students to wait for buses indoors.
Pete Waite is no longer the University of Wisconsin volleyball coach, a move dictated by athletic department officials, multiple sources confirmed Monday. UW announced Waite had resigned after 14 seasons, a stint that included nine NCAA tournament appearances, Big Ten Conference championships in 2000 and ?01 and a runner-up finish in the national tournament in 2000. A three-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, Waite said in the news release he was stepping down “to allow someone else the opportunity to take this program back to the top of the Big Ten.”
One of Madison?s most storied Camp Randall-area watering holes is facing the wrecking ball. Plans are in the works to demolish the Stadium Bar at 1419 Monroe St. and replace it with a six-story mixed-used student apartment complex. The tavern operated for decades as Jingles Stadium Bar before being sold by owner Bill ?Jingles? O?Brien in 1999 for $200,000. O?Brien died in 2010 at age 86. A public meeting on the proposed project is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. at Union South.
MADISON, Wis.- Police want more information in an armed robbery on Langdon Street Monday that apparently happened inside someone?s apartment. The incident happened around 7:15 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of Langdon Street. According to police, officers responded to the apartment after a man and a woman inside the apartment said they were held at gunpoint by three men.
Dear Editor: Almost two years ago Stephan Thompson, the deputy executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin and previous aide to Gov. Scott Walker, filed an open records request. Top-ranking Republicans were infuriated by a UW-Madison history professor?s blog exploring the American Legislative Exchange Council and a subsequent op-ed column in the New York Times critical of Walker. In question was whether professor William Cronon violated UW?s policy by using UW email ?to support the nomination of any person for political office or to influence a vote in any election or referendum.? All in all, the exercise proved futile ? Cronon emerged vindicated and Republican leadership appeared simply vindictive.
Still ingrained in Michael Cobb?s head are the words his grandmother told him shortly before her death. ?You have to find somebody to be with. I don?t want you to die alone,? she told the now 39-year-old English professor from the University of Toronto. ?Coupledom,? as Cobb calls it, has become so much the norm in society and pop-culture that it has stigmatized single life, he argues in his newest book ?Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled.? In his book, Cobb sets out to dismiss the assumptions and scorn that equate being single with loneliness through sharing personal experiences and examining pop-culture. He will bring those same ideas Thursday to UW-Madison with his longtime friend and fellow single crusader Kate Bolick.
Memorial High School senior Sohil Shah is at an academic level above most of his peers. Sohil, 17, who takes classes and conducts research at UW-Madison, also is more advanced than many college students. Findings from his nanoscience research project were published in the prestigious Journal of Materials Chemistry ? a feat that could be expected of third-year doctorate students, said Robert Hamers, chemistry professor at UW-Madison and Sohil?s mentor.
I am not a Black Friday kind of person. Nor do I see myself partaking of any of the increasingly popular shopping opportunities on Thanksgiving Day ? which I am christening Bloated Thursday, as much as for the swelling of the lines at the mall as for the gas and indigestion I imagine one experiences during a sale-crazed shopping spree immediately following a meal big enough to feed a small African village.
“For families with healthy emotional connections and constructive, mature communication, any opportunity to engage in a joint activity such as shopping will generally be experienced as pleasurable, even when stressful,” said Darald Hanusa, a senior lecturer in social work at UW-Madison. But he emphasized it’s not the shopping that makes for happy families; it’s the happy families that make for pleasant shopping.
Q: How will the Chamber become policy proactive?
A: After one year on the City Council, in 2004, Mark Bugher (then chairman of the city’s economic development commission) and I initiated a report on how to make Madison more business-friendly. I think we’re at that point again….Madison is an under-performing city, based on its potential. It’s about the right leaders, the right vision. There’s a significant overhaul in our leadership system now, with a new school superintendent, UW-Madison chancellor, U.S. senator and U.S. representative coming in and a new leader of Thrive (the eight-county regional economic development organization). People are not entrenched; they will be willing to think differently.
The number of student veterans in the University of Wisconsin System has doubled since 2005, and is expected to continue to increase. While UW-Milwaukee is home to the most student veterans receiving GI benefits in the state, educating more than double the number enrolled at UW-Madison, all UW schools are involved. This has caused the UW System Board of Regents to give the situation more attention than before.
(Kathleen) Hansen is one of eight female police chiefs in the state. Those departments are at UW-Madison, Whitewater, Chippewa Falls, Menomonee Falls, South Milwaukee, UW-Stout and Woodville, a village of 1,354 people with a four-person department in St. Croix County…The ranks of women in law enforcement continue to grow, according to Susan Riseling, hired as UW-Madison?s chief in 1991, but children can sometimes interrupt careers or prevent climbs to the upper levels of the profession. “It takes time but it also takes a unique family situation,” Riseling said. “That?s why (Hansen?s) story is so unique. Starting out (with six children) and climbing all the way to the top is pretty remarkable.”
….The Wall Street Journal this past week called the SWIB purchase the most expensive college campus housing purchase on record. It also referenced the American Campus Communities Inc.?s $165 million purchase of an Austin, Texas, student housing property known as ?The Block.? The presence of UW-Madison has led to similar ? though not as large ? high-end complexes for millennial college students here, like Grand Central and Lucky Apartments. Vicki Hearing, spokeswoman for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, says the pension fund purchased the dormitory in large part because of its value as a rental property.
I want to take some time today and move away from the routine talk-about-something-that-happened-over-the-weekend column and discuss an issue on campus I believe is very important. This issue has the potential to affect everyone on campus, but for the most part has largely stayed out of discussing among students and faculty.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. ?Bud? Selig will give the keynote address for Ethics Week to Wisconsin School of Business students and faculty Tuesday, focusing on ethics and professionalism in the business world. The 1956 UW-Madison alumnus has served as the MLB Commissioner since 1988 and will discuss his efforts to build ethical principles within the Milwaukee Brewers organization and MLB?s headquarters.
Cardiovascular diseases cost $444 billion in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Taking low-cost aspirin to prevent heart disease and strokes seems like a no-brainer. In some cases, it is. But even aspirin, as harmless as it seems, illustrates an important maxim of health care: Every drug or procedure carries potential risk. Aspirin helps prevent dangerous clotting of the blood but increases the risk of bleeding, especially in the intestines. Too few Wisconsin residents who could benefit from preventive aspirin therapy are taking it, but so are too many people who could be harmed, a UW-Madison study found.
UW-Madison?s Clark Johnson, a geoscientist, has spent years thinking about and studying extraterrestrial life ? where we are most likely to find it and what it is probably going to look like. Don?t expect little green men.
“When I give talks,” Johnson said, “I Photoshop a dinosaur onto Mars? surface. If we saw that, there?d be no doubt about life. But it is a much more cryptic message that we?re looking for.”
Also quoted: John Valley, a UW-Madison scientist who specializes in geochemistry.
A: In 1803, British pharmacist and chemist Luke Howard devised a classification system for clouds. It has proved so successful that meteorologists have used Howard?s system ever since, with minor modifications. According to his system, clouds are given Latin names corresponding to their appearance ? layered or convective ? and their altitude. Clouds are also categorized based on whether or not they are precipitating.
A regional labor relations board?s decision that Palermo?s did not violate workers? rights in firing a group of employees will likely not change student labor activists? approach to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ties with the pizza company, one activist said Sunday.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema sounded like a road-weary traveler on Sunday who might have taken a few wrong turns, gotten a little lost along the way, stubbornly refused to ask for directions, then happily tumbled out of the car at his final destination. No apologies and no regrets for the route taken, just thankful to end up in the right spot.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are conducting an ongoing investigation from Nov. 20, when a man approached a UW-Madison student at Memorial Library and demanded her cell phone and other items in the library?s study carrels. In what police are calling a strong armed robbery, the student gave her items to the suspect when he approached her at 10:04 a.m., according to UWPD spokesperson Lt. Mark Silbernagel. She was not harmed during the incident.
Madison officials mourned the loss of booming Epic Systems to Verona in the mid-2000s, but the medical software colossus is having a huge, unexpected impact on its original hometown. Smart, young Epic employees with cash in their pockets and an affinity for Madison?s culture, restaurants and nightlife are fueling demand for rental apartments in the Downtown area. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of visitors to the Epic campus are booking Madison-area hotel rooms, boosting city room tax revenues in a tough economy.
A higher number of students from around the world, especially from China and India, have enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the past five years, as the school continues to gain international recognition. But such trends are not unique to UW-Madison, as indicated by the 2012 Open Doors Report, which documented trends in international education exchange with an emphasis on international students studying in the U.S. over the past year.
Quoted: Assistant Dean and Director of International Student Services Laurie Cox and Vice Provost for the Division of Enrollment Management Joanne Berg.
The anti-Black Friday shoppers didn?t have to line up in the cold outside of Best Buy or Toys R Us with their sprinting shoes on. They weren?t looking for the best deals on electronics or toys made in China. Dedicated to buying homemade gifts made locally, these shoppers simply moseyed through the UW Arboretum?s Visitor Center on Sunday looking over the mostly handmade arts, crafts and edibles sold by 41 vendors during the ?Close to Home: Arboretum Local Products Fair.?
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said the latest expansion of the Big Ten Conference is more about preparing for the future than fortifying the present. It was announced Monday that Maryland will be leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference and joining the Big Ten beginning in 2014-15. It?s expected Rutgers will follow suit as early as Tuesday, bolting the Big East Conference to give the Big Ten 14 members spreading across 11 states.
MADISON – Lloyd H. Bruer, age 85, of Madison, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012, under the care of Agrace HospiceCare. Lloyd worked at Madison Kipp Corp, and then the UW Waisman Center until his retirement in 1992. He took great pride in his 30 years at the Waisman Center and the contributions he was able to make in the facilities research advancement.
We all know Walker’s not a fan of the health reform law. But pretty much every group that will be affected by it ? including his strong ally Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce ? was telling him that if the law is to be a reality, let’s at least pick the kind of exchange we want by designing it ourselves.
….Granted, Walker?s primary argument against the state setting up the exchange would be good if it were true. He thinks that because federal money to help states set up their own exchanges will dry up ? it?s allocated only through 2014 ? those states will end up having to flip the bill for a service that years from now (presumably) has become established and popular. But Donna Friedsam, a UW-Madison health policy researcher and expert on the new law, said the exchanges ? no matter who runs them ? have to be self-sufficient by Jan. 1, 2015. “There is no bait-and-switch plan by the federal government here,” she said.
A: As the remnants of Superstorm Sandy approached us on Oct. 29, people in Wisconsin observed a halo on two consecutive nights. These halos resulted from the ice clouds generated from the storm. A halo is a whitish ring that encircles but does not touch the sun or moon. It is an optical phenomenon that owes its existence to the bending of light by ice crystals, much like the ?rainbow crystals? you may hang in your windows.
A: Sort of, said Susan Nitzke, UW-Madison emeritus professor of nutritional science. But let?s start by eliminating from consideration an amino acid commonly known as tryptophan. ?Tryptophan and sleepiness probably deserves classification as an urban legend,? Nitzke said. ?It?s true that tryptophan can make a person tired if it?s ingested on its own on an empty stomach. In truth, it doesn?t happen that way for anybody ? especially on Thanksgiving.?
The old Gordon Commons has given way to the new, and a city street will need to be closed to bring the old eatery down. The old dining hall for UW-Madison dorm students on the southeast side of campus is being torn down, resulting in the closing of one side of the 200 block of North Lake Street from Nov. 19 through Dec. 14.
UW-Madison Middle East Studies expert Jennifer Loewenstein says the people of Gaza have lived under control of the neighboring Israeli government since 1967. They?re now under an economic blockade….The Israeli government has not ruled out a ground invasion, now assembling tens of thousands of troops near the Gaza border. Meanwhile, Egyptian leaders are working on a cease-fire agreement in hopes of peace. Loewenstein says it won’t come easy.
“I think what could solve or begin to solve this problem would be negotiations, face to face negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians of all different factions,” she says.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are conducting groundbreaking research on ?lake mixing? as a tool to control fish species composition.Deep lakes tend to stratify into two layers, the upper layer warm and the lower layer cold. Different fish species require different water temperatures, so mixing the lake can have major implications for some sensitive fish species.
?Nothing like this has been done before,? said Jake Vander Zanden, professor of limnology and zoology at UW-Madison, referring to mixing up the lake?s temperature zones.
UW is now invested in climate change. Our professors? well-deserved pensions are paid partially from the revenues of the fossil fuel industry. Accordingly, any positive activism we do surrounding climate change, sustainability or environmentalism must be accompanied by a crucial push for divestment or else we?re simply betting against ourselves. We just opened an Office of Sustainability. We have a wide variety of departments, classes and programs which highlight the dangers and moral hazards of climate change. As an institution, we must put our money where our mouth is.
The Wisconsin Union announced Monday that Union South was awarded a LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council for its use of sustainable energies. LEED is one of the nation?s leading environmentally-friendly building programs, which allows projects to earn points to satisfy green building requirements. The number of points the project earns determines its level of LEED certification.
….Of course, we?ll continue to fight the most egregious projects, from the Keystone XL pipeline to drilling in the Arctic, and we?ll continue to hope that the administration will take more than half-hearted moves to keep carbon in the ground. But we?re not counting on our politicians anymore. After 20 years of general inaction on climate change, while the world?s emissions and the planet?s temperature have continued to soar, it?s time to engage the real power: a reckless fossil fuel industry that has known for years the damage they?re doing. Until they cease exploring for new hydrocarbons and begin the rapid conversion to energy companies installing renewable energy on a vast scale, they don?t deserve the social license our silence grants them.
A car hit a University of Wisconsin-Madison student while she was biking near East Campus Mall and West Johnson Street on her way to class Monday morning, leaving her hospitalized with a fractured back. UW-Madison junior Stephanie Castillo, who is a reporter at The Daily Cardinal, said she was at the south end of West Johnson Street crossing toward East Campus Mall at approximately 9:45 a.m. when a car struck her.
UW-Madison will play host to a power couple in international human rights on Monday, as Carrie Hessler-Radelet, the acting Peace Corps director, and her husband, Steve Radelet, chief economist of USAID, the U.S. international aid program, visit campus. Hessler-Radelet will give a free public lecture from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26 in room 158 in the Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall. She?ll discuss the Peace Corps? role in promoting sustainable solutions in global health.
A Maryland sports website is reporting that the University of Maryland Board of Regents is going to recommend the university apply for admittance to the Big Ten Conference. InsideMDsports.com reported that “a source with knowledge of the situation” has confirmed the board?s decision to leave the Atlantic Coast Conference to become the 13th member school of the Big Ten.
Tensions between unions, business owners and the government started long before Wisconsin?s recall election or the more recent demise of the Twinkie. The University Theatre?s current production, Marc Blitzstein?s ?The Cradle Will Rock,? directed by Norma Saldivar, highlights these tensions in both the drama onstage and the history of the musical itself.
