Marty Preizler was named the new director of graduate programs for the School of Business at Edgewood College. The college made the announcement in a press release Tuesday.
BOSTON — There is a new crackdown at Tufts University — of the X-rated variety.
The Medford collegeâ??s new guest policy, revised from last year, now includes a section that bars students from “engaging in sexual activity while their roommate is present,” WCVB-TV in Boston reported.
Two decades ago, it seemed that not a month went by without some farmer or another challenging the term “sustainable agriculture.” Farmers wrote letters to editors in farm papers asserting that there was no definition for this ridiculous term; it meant whatever a person wanted it to mean. In fact, then as now, sustainable agriculture advanced straightforward principles – of elevating environmentally sound, economically profitable and socially responsible agricultural systems.
Various farmers and more than one agricultural researcher buttonholed me back then to say that agriculture had to feed the world and this fanciful approach undercut agricultureâ??s serious responsibilities. Some perceived sustainable agriculture as anti-technology and opposed to change. It was a contentious time in agriculture, born of the farm crisis – the terrifying hemorrhaging of farmers during the 1980s – and the growing awareness of environmental damage from many federal agricultural policies.
Into this hostile climate was born the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last week.
Four students were awarded the Student Venture Seed Grant Monday for their business ventures as part of the Wiscontrepreneur program. The SVS program will provide each student with $3,000 to help turn their start-up businesses into successful companies. Charles Hoslet, UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations managing director, said the program is designed to support students interested in pursuing entrepreneurial ventures.
Consistent with the spirit of the University of Wisconsinâ??s top-25 national ranking for entrepreneurship last week, the Wiscontrepreneur initiative announced the winners of the Student Venture Seed Grant Competition Monday. According to Allen Dines, assistant director at UWâ??s Office of Corporate Relations, five applicants presented their ideas to a panel of judges that consisted of university employees as well as local business leaders. Four of those five were then awarded $3,000 to help further their businesses.
Four student-run start-ups have received grants from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Corporate Relations to help grow their businesses. The businesses, all run by UW-Madison undergraduate students, each received $3,000 from the officeâ??s Student Venture Seed Grant Program, the university said Monday.
Quoted: Environmental historian William J. Cronon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thousands of veterans going to school under the new Post-9/11 GI Bill will be eligible for $3,000 in emergency aid if they have not yet received their payments.
As the Cap Times reported earlier this month, veterans locally have been frustrated both with the time itâ??s taking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to process benefits, and the lack of information available to those attempting to check on the status of their claims.
Chemist Ahmed Zewail — the 1999 Nobel laureate in chemistry and a current member of the Presidentâ??s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — will give lectures on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Monday and Tuesday.
A team of Wisconsin researchers will receive $8 million to develop technology that provides new ways to study genes, the National Institutes of Health will announce Monday.The funding will go to the Wisconsin Center of Excellence in Genomics Science, a collaborative effort between the Medical College of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Among the estimated 7,000 students, University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and the public who attended author Michael Pollanâ??s discussion of his latest book, “In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto,” were some 200 Wisconsin farmers.
The farmer delegation came to the Kohl Center on buses chartered by Madison-based feed company Vita Plus to hear for themselves what the much-discussed book was about, direct from Pollan himself.
….Mostly, the farmers attending the Pollan event seemed to be worried about how few of the students know anything about farming and have ever seen a farm up close. They’d like to do something about it.
Some farmers suggested that Chancellor Martin’s next effort might center on “Visit a Farm,” whereby entire classes, special groups or individual students and faculty would take a trip to an actual dairy or livestock farm.
Dear Editor: Thanks for Todd Finkelmeyerâ??s recent article regarding primate research in Madison. The contradicting statements made by members of the Animal Care and Use Committee were astounding.
Eric Sandgrenâ??s position that this isnâ??t some old boysâ?? network is offset by Chairman Norlin Benevengaâ??s statement that it was like your pals deciding whether you are going to do this thing or that thing. Rob Streiffer says that all the researchers here that heâ??s encountered take their responsibilities very seriously, while Sandgren acknowledges that some investigators may not think about ethics at all. Hmm.
UW junior quarterback Scott Tolzien has been named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for his four-touchdown performance in the Badgersâ?? victory over Michigan State on Saturday.
Tolzien completed 19-of-31 passes for 243 yards and a career-high four touchdown passes with no interceptions in Wisconsinâ??s 38-30 win. That is the 10th time in school history a UW quarterback has thrown at least four touchdown passes in a game. The last to do so was John Stocco vs. Minnesota on Oct. 14, 2006.
This is Banned Books Week, the annual public awareness event spearheaded by the American Library Association and other organizations that promote the virtues of our freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The ALA has long maintained that intellectual freedom – the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular – is at the bedrock of American democracy.
Yet no year goes by without numerous attempts to ban books from public libraries or from our schools – elementary to college.
University of Wisconsin institutions are reporting unusually high enrollment this fall.
A record high of 13,807 students are in classes at the 13 freshman and sophomore campuses of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, as of Sept. 16. Thatâ??s an increase of 4.6 percent over last fall.
Tuition at the UW Colleges will remain frozen this year, while it increased by 5.5 percent at the four-year campuses.
The president of the UW Foundation has announced he will retire at the end of 2010.
Andrew “Sandy” Wilcox has spent 21 years as head of the foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s $2.5 billion endowment.
Hereâ??s some advice: Donâ??t buy any foods youâ??ve seen advertised on television. That was one of the tips of a controversial author speaking Thursday before more than 7,000 people at the Kohl Center in the heart of Americaâ??s Dairyland.
Itâ??s back.
The H1N1 virus has returned to Dane County with a vengeance, thanks to a nasty outbreak on the UW-Madison campus, and local officials are taking unprecedented steps to control it.
Starting Friday, UW Hospital will use its own lab to test employees with flu symptoms for H1N1 to comply with federal regulations requiring infected health care workers to stay away from patients for seven days after the start of their symptoms.
Two of Madisonâ??s three hospitals have suspended their use of student volunteers.
Gov. Jim Doyle has appointed Ray Wosepka as Dane County coroner, filling a vacancy after the death of John Stanley.
Wosepka was the countyâ??s coroner for 13 years, retiring in 2001 after being diagnosed with throat cancer.
Wosepka, 67, said on Thursday that he has been cancer-free since 2000 after receiving radiation therapy. He said he will begin serving immediately and plans to be in the coronerâ??s office on Friday. Doyle appointed him to a term ending on Jan. 2, 2011.
Since Sept. 1, Wisconsin has had six hospitalizations but no deaths from the novel swine flu virus, H1N1, the state Department of Health Services reported Wednesday. Influenza-like illness is higher than normal for this time of year in Wisconsin. Many of the cases have been in the southern part of the state, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, though flu numbers at the university declined last week.
WAUKESHA, Wis. — A former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student who was killed earlier this month was stabbed dozens of times.
Waukesha County Medical Examiner Lynda Biedrzycki testified on Wednesday that Samantha Peterson, 21, was stabbed and cut 36 times. Arteries in her neck and chest were cut and her lungs were punctured. Biedrzycki said that Peterson died as a result of blood loss and respiratory impairment.
Dear Editor: Thank you for bringing to light the often-neglected topic of animal research. Perhaps it will encourage the university to be more open in answering questions as to what happens behind these closed doors. If the public is to judge the merits of such research, then we are entitled to know how the studies are conducted.
….The Farm Bureau bureaucracy is all hot and bothered because the UWâ??s Go Big Read program – which seeks to promote a campus-wide discussion about a particular book – selected Michael Pollanâ??s “In Defense of Food” as the text students and faculty will be discussing.
“Pollan has narrow and elitist ideas about how you should eat and how farmers should or shouldnâ??t feed a hungry and growing world,” argues the federationâ??s president.
Actually, Pollan, whose work has revolutionized the discussion about food and food production in the United States, argues that Americans should eat locally grown foods – especially plants – and should be wary of the claims of “a 32 billion-dollar food-marketing machine” that keeps telling us the best way to eat just happens to be the way that yields the highest profits for multinational corporations.
….No matter what the motivations, no matter whether the misread of “In Defense of Food” is malignant or misguided, the bottom line is that Pollan is not the problem for working farmers. He may, in fact, be a part of the solution. So it is good that his book is being read by UW students and it is great that he is coming to Madison to further the discussion.
Ten years ago this month, my life changed. The security blanket of high school had been removed, and I was going away to college. Being a person who tends to fear the unknown, I was initially terrified. A decade later, I can honestly say that college was the best time in my life, at least so far.
A UW-Platteville student whose family will be featured on ABCâ??s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” will get a full scholarship for the 2009-2010 academic year thanks to an anonymous donor.
Joey Stott, who is in her first semester at UW-Platteville, and her family were chosen to be featured in the show earlier this month.
On the day he announced tailback John Clay had been elevated to the No.â??1 tailback, University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema explained the staff was eager to see how the third-year sophomore would respond to the promotion, which was both an opportunity and a challenge.
Only hours before UW took the field against Wofford last week, running backs coach John Settle saw signs in Clay that were so disconcerting he wondered whether to give the start to junior Zach Brown, who had started the first two games of the season.
“I was hoping heâ??d be excited, champing at the bit, ready to go out and attack and show everybody that he deserves to start,” Settle said of Clay. “But I didnâ??t see that excitement. I didnâ??t see the focus once we got to the stadium Saturday morning.
MADISON (WKOW) — Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Business School call it the “perfect storm”.
Home values are declining and unemployment is rising.
Authors of a new study at the business school say President Barack Obamaâ??s foreclosure rescue plan doesnâ??t adequately address both problems.
Authors: Morris A. Davis, Stephen Malpezzi and François Ortalo-Magné
MADISON (WKOW) — University Health Services is reporting a decrease in the number of students contacting UHS with flu-like symptoms.
In Week #3 of school (September 13-19), UHS evaluated 168 students for influenza-like illness (ILI), UHS reporting that ILI visits made up 12.6 percent of the total visits to the primary care clinic for the week.
By comparison, in Week #2 of school, 345 students complained of ILI; and in Week #1, 198 students came to UHS complaining of ILI.
Instead of lugging around hundreds of dollars in books in strained backpacks, 20 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have little more than a pound to keep with them this fall for one class. They are part of the universityâ??s $10,000 pilot program introducing online retailer Amazon.comâ??s electronic reader gadget, the Kindle.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student was “sucker” punched early Thursday morning while standing at a chicken stand on State Street, Madison police reported.
The victim told Madison police he lost consciousness for a short period of time after being struck at about 12:30 a.m. Thursday at North Broom Street and State Street.
The average American is disconnected from the food they eat every day. That is one of the few statements from Michael Pollan that doesnâ??t give me heartburn.
The Big Ten Network announced that it will double its commitment to several Olympic sports this season by streaming at least 200 live events on www.BigTenNetwork.com — more than double the 100 last season.
All events on www.BigTenNetwork.com will be available for just $2.99 per event, which BTN said in a news release was “significantly” less expensive than the cost of most other collegiate streaming services.
Of the 200-plus events, there will be 21 non-conference menâ??s basketball games, plus all exhibition games. Unlike any other conference, the Big Ten will receive TV or Internet coverage for every single home menâ??s basketball game for the third straight year. Once again, nearly 90 percent of Big Ten home regular season games will be televised.
Author Michael Pollan says we shouldnâ??t eat anything our great-grandmothers wouldnâ??t recognize as food. I donâ??t know about your great-grandmothers, but much of what mine would have recognized as food was deep-fried in grease or boiled into mush in hopes it might still be safe to eat after sitting around all day in an unrefrigerated cupboard.
Nicole Griffin, the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball programâ??s biggest recruiting target, has chosen instead to play for Oklahoma.
Griffin, a 6-foot-6 senior center from three-time WIAA Division 1 champion Milwaukee Vincent, verbally committed to Oklahoma after making her official visit there this past weekend.
MADISON (WKOW) — The Department of Natural Resources and a team of UW-Madison students are set to begin separate studies of lakes in southern Wisconsin following the discovery of a new invasive species.
On September 11, a team of limnology students cast a net into Lake Mendotaâ??s University Bay and pulled out spiny water fleas. The discovery was a shock to limnology professor Jake Vander Zanden. The invasive species had earlier only been seen in Lake Michigan and portions of Ontario, Canada.
MADISON, Wis. — As summer turns to fall, many feel the pain of seasonal allergies, but is this yearâ??s weather making matters worse for allergy sufferers?
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Hospitals allergist Dr. Mark Moss
Two former University of Wisconsin basketball recruits were formally charged Monday with burglary for allegedly walking into unlocked dormitory rooms and taking electronic equipment.
Jeremy C. Glover, 18, allegedly told police that it was the idea of teammate Diamond K. Taylor, 18, of Bolingbrook, Ill., to go into the rooms and take the items, and that he was just going along with it.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court, Taylor told police the two had been drinking at a party, then went from floor to floor in Sellery Hall checking doors to find open rooms, taking cash and small electronics.
UW-Madison is expanding its focus for graduate students in the area of sustainability, said Thomas Eggert, associate director of the Business, Environment and Social Responsibility Program at UW-Madison School of Business. The school has launched a graduate certificate program in sustainability, both for business school students and for students at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
That the University of Wisconsin whipped Wofford, an overmatched Football Championship Subdivision opponent, was expected. The final score – 44-14 – Saturday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium was irrelevant.
Dear Editor: Thanks to Todd Finkelmeyer for his article about experiments on monkeys.
Because most local media outlets and editorial boards, including the Wisconsin State Journal, have avoided the ethical, scientific, and financial arguments against these experiments, the public remains uninformed. So cruel, expensive, unnecessary, and fruitless research continues, while more useful and productive research goes unfunded.
Madison businessman Winslow Sargeant seems all but certain to secure the position as federal Small Business Administration counsel to which he was nominated by President Barack Obama. And rightly so.
Itâ??s no secret farm groups in Wisconsin are in a froth over the UW-Madisonâ??s invite to Michael Pollan to visit campus.
The best-selling author of “The Omnivoreâ??s Dilemma,” Pollan has emerged as the leading critic of mainstream agriculture, factory farming and the meat-heavy diet of Americans. His call to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” has enraged cattle, pork and dairy producers nationwide — not to mention its various front groups like the Center for Consumer Freedom.
Pollan will visit Madison on Sept. 24 for a lecture at the Kohl Center. He also will participate in a panel discussion on Sept. 25 as part of the UWâ??s “Go Big Read” campus-wide book reading program where his 2008 work “In Defense of Food” will be discussed.
Yet while farm groups have openly criticized UW chancellor Biddy Martin for approving the Pollan book for the “Go Big Read” effort, Martin is also taking some behind-the-scenes heat from left-wing foodies.
University Square owner Greg Rice isnâ??t sure where to go next with the large restaurant space at the corner of West Johnson and Lake Streets.
But heâ??s grown frustrated now that Scott Acker has abandoned his plans for a sports-themed bar/restaurant to fill the 24,000 square feet of space in the mixed use development.
Two months ago, Michael Pflanzer was hoping to take advantage of the federal governmentâ??s new Post-9/11 GI Bill to go to Madison Area Technical College.
….But Pflanzer’s college plans fizzled before classes started at MATC on Aug. 24. The more he looked into things, the more he became convinced that a growing backlog of those applying for GI Bill benefits meant the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would be unable to get living stipend payments to those who qualify in a timely manner.
Quoted: Assistant dean of students John Bechtol
(Gerald Kapinos, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, UW-Madison student and the Midwest regional director of Student Veterans of America is also quoted in the story.)
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin System is awarding more than $1 million in grants for 18 projects to help graduate more students.
The projects are meant to boost pre-college preparation, promote partnerships between UW faculty and high school math teachers, improve services for veterans and increase access and achievement among minority students and others.
If youâ??re looking for a place to party on game day, State Street Brats is one of the best, according to Playboy magazine. The Madison bar made Playboy magazineâ??s top 10 list of the best college sports bars.
Badger fans can optimize their game-day experience and support a local high school business club with the purchase of pre-tuned earpiece radios that let users hear the play-by-play in real time with action on the field, court or ice rink.
Hawked by students in LaFollette High Schoolâ??s DECA Club as a fundraiser and a business learning experience, the headsets cost $20 and are good for the current season of Badger football games, home and away, and the home games of the menâ??s hockey and basketball teams.
The Chronicle of Higher Education took another look at “research results that donâ??t surprise us.”
Those who donâ??t pay close attention to such things might be amazed at the amount of research that goes on at an institution such as UW-Madison. To get an idea of the range of work taking place across campus, check out the universityâ??s “Ideas and Discoveries” web page. This page is especially cool because it lets one search for “Ideas and Discoveries” by subject. For example, there are 2,244 articles related to UW-Madison “research” going back to February of 1997.
While most of these findings are both important and interesting, there certainly are studies which cross this desk — or computer screen — that make one wonder why a researcher was given a significant amount of time and money to find the answer to X, Y or Z.
Itâ??s a big day for UW-Madisonâ??s North Hall today. The universityâ??s oldest building is turning 158 years old. It opened for the first time on Sept. 17, 1851.
Hereâ??s a campus mystery: Four puppets used by the UW-Madison Javanese musical ensemble disappeared at the end of July and havenâ??t been seen since.
They may not have been worth much money, but are of great sentimental value to the owners, Sakti and Steve Laronga.
“For us, those are one of the very valuable things we have,” said Sakti Laronga, who is affiliated with the universityâ??s Javanese ensemble.
College students were reporting flu-like symptoms just a few days into the start of fall semester classes but, two weeks into the school year, many area school districts serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade donâ??t report anything out of the ordinary.
The difference between the two groups of students was forecast in warnings issued by the federal government in preparation for the return of the H1N1 flu virus for the 2009-â??10 school year.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Yale lab technician was arrested Thursday at a hotel and charged with murdering a graduate student whose body was found stuffed in the wall of a research building on what would have been her wedding day.
…”It is important to note that this is not about urban crime, university crime, domestic crime but an issue of workplace violence, which is becoming a growing concern around the country,” (New Haven Police Chief James) Lewis said.
MADISON (WKOW) — Students in a Zoology class at UW-Madison discovered spiny water fleas in a sample of water from Lake Mendotaâ??s University Bay.
The students were about one-quarter mile offshore on September 11 when they dipped a small net into the lake and started poking through its contents. The net was intended to catch plankton and when the students asked associate professor Jake Vander Zanden to take a look, he was surprised at what he saw.
MADISON, Wis. — The leaves arenâ??t the only thing changing in the Badger state. Wisconsinâ??s evolving climate is at the center of a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study.
A group of scientists at the university said they have documented proof that changes are on the way for Wisconsinâ??s climate in the next century — changes that could make it feel like down south.
UW-Madison officials would like your help spending millions of dollars.
Remember the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates? Thatâ??s the tuition surcharge of $250 this year for in-state UW-Madison students – which will ultimately grow to $1,000 in four years – to boost undergraduate education and financial aid.
An oversight committee, made up of students, faculty and staff, are looking for proposals to make use of the funds generated by the initiative.
Writing in the Washington Post on Sunday, Zephyr Teachout argues online classes, which can be produced relatively cheaply, will someday soon completely change what “going to college” means.
In the lead of her commentary, Teachout writes: “Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which â??going to collegeâ?? means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.”
Flu is spreading on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, with 74 percent more cases reported in the second week of classes than in the first week.
University Health Services reported that 345 students with flu-like symptoms were evaluated in week two Sept. 6-12 of the fall semester, compared to 198 in the first week Sept. 1-5.
While the number of flu cases is up, UHSâ?? executive director, Dr. Sarah Van Orman, said she didnâ??t think the outbreak was growing exponentially.
“The good news is the level of activity is fairly similar to the first week,” Van Orman said.
Rick Marolt has spent parts of the past three years trying to get someone associated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to answer one question: Is experimenting on monkeys ethical?
Itâ??s a hot potato few are interested in handling directly.
So Marolt was a bit surprised this past spring when UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin sent him a letter that directed the 48-year-old business consultant and part-time business lecturer at Edgewood College and UW-Madison to take his inquiry to the All Campus Animal Care and Use Committee, a federally mandated body that must approve all experiments on animals within the university.
Playing a little catch-up with some higher education-related news …
*** Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., released a statement late last week reporting that one of the school’s students had “died of complications related to H1N1 influenza.”
UW-Madison officials earlier last week said there already was a rather large outbreak of those infected with the H1N1 flu on campus, but that for most students it is a mild to moderate illness.
*** Wisconsinâ??s weather could undergo some significant changes in the future if the scenarios being calculated by the “worldâ??s most sophisticated computer climate models” are on the mark, UW-Madison announced in a news release.
