UW-Platteville men’s and women’s soccer coach Enzo Fuschino remains hospitalized in Dubuque after suffering a heart attack Saturday, the school announced Tuesday afternoon in a statement.
Fuschino formerly served as the boys prep soccer coach at Stoughton (1996-99) and Madison La Follette (2001-06), and coached at the club level with the Princeton Soccer Club and Madison 56ers.
Bill Carollo has already plunged head-first into his new assignment as the head of Big Ten football officiating. With the intent of educating officials, coaches and players on how the rules will be interpreted and called, he also plans on targeting the headhunters, who may be guilty of using their heads as “sledgehammers” in helmet-to-helmet collisions — a point of emphasis again this season.
Mentions that Gov. Jim Doyle’s budget also provided insurance and other benefits for same-sex couples who work for the state, which the University of Wisconsin-Madison has said will help attract and retain top faculty and researchers.
MADISON, Wis. — If you’re a woman and you just don’t get football, University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema can help.
Bielema plans to host an event called Football 101 for Women on Thursday at Camp Randall Stadium. The event is a breast-cancer fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Here’s a swell idea (or maybe not) for you recent college grads who are having trouble finding a job … Just sue the school from which you earned your degree. That’s what Trina Thompson did, according to this New York Post article. The 27-year-old Thompson reportedly filed a lawsuit last week against Monroe College in Bronx Supreme Court and is seeking the $70,000 she spent on tuition.
….The new Post-9/11 GI Bill, which went into effect Aug. 1, is modeled after the highly successful post-World War II Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, the original GI Bill, which is credited with making education affordable for eight million World War II veterans. Like the original GI Bill, the current version also has the added bonus of keeping returning veterans from adding to the jobless ranks.
….”Veterans are coming back with real-world experience,” says Gerald Kapinos, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, UW-Madison student and the Midwest regional director of Student Veterans of America. “Give them just a little more education, and hopefully we can be part of the solution and help turn this economy around.”
“Being Bucky” is a tough ticket no more.
The documentary, which was named the Audience Winner last spring at the Wisconsin Film Festival, just came to DVD. It chronicles a year in the life of the seven students who put on the Bucky Badger suit and represent the University of Wisconsin-Madison at functions throughout the state.
(Producer John Fromstein and director Scott Smith are UW-Madison alumni)
A 31-year-old Milwaukee woman was mugged early Saturday morning while walking back to her hotel in downtown Madison, police said.
The incident took place about 2:20 a.m. in the 20 block of Langdon Street.
MADISON (WKOW) — Police say a UW-Madison student fought off a would-be robber downtown on Friday evening, with pepper spray.
The victim, a 21-year-old woman, told police that around 8:30 p.m. a man on a bicycle riding on the 200 block of North Frances Street tried to steal her purse.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student was mugged as she walked near campus Friday night, but her yells during the attack attracted the attention of police who arrested the 17-year-old alleged attacker.
Angel Garcia Montes was tentatively charged with attempted armed robbery following his arrest at about 8:30 p.m. Friday at the corner of Park and Regent Streets.
Madison police said the victim was walking in the 200 block of North Frances Street when the suspect, riding a bicycle, tried to steal her purse.
The National Republican Congressional Committee is harassing Wisconsinites with computerized “robo-calls” that refer to the emergency stimulus plan as a “failed” initiative.
We’ve had our criticisms of the stimulus, which we think was weighted far too heavily in favor of tax cuts for upper-income Americans.
But before a bunch of Washington insiders tell Wisconsinites the initiative is a failure, they might want to consult with researchers on the state’s university campuses — whose work keeps this state on the cutting edge of health and behavioral research and positions it to reap the economic benefits that go with being a scientific leader.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison goalie Jessie Vetter, the all-time NCAA division 1 leader in victories and shutouts in women’s hockey, is a finalist for the Women’s Sports Foundation sportswoman of the year award.
The foundation’s finalists for the award are on an online public voting ballot.
One of the lasting questions of World War II is, when faced with unimaginable evil all around them, what did ordinary people do?
The consensus generally says that, in Nazi Germany, they did nothing. But a new book about resistance efforts by ordinary citizens of Berlin prior to World War II not only shows that some people tried, but that some who did so had strong Wisconsin ties.
Madison police are looking for two men who allegedly pushed a woman to the ground, displayed a knife and took her purse, identification and cell phone.
The incident occurred at the corner of Spring and Charter streets near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus around midnight Friday, the Madison Police Department reported.
A judge Friday dismissed the 29-year-old first-degree murder case against Ralph Armstrong, citing what he said were repeated violations by prosecutors of a court order concerning evidence in the case and a failure to tell Armstrong’s lawyers about his brother’s purported confession nearly 15 years ago.
But Armstrong, 56, who has been in prison for nearly 30 years, won’t be immediately released. Reserve Judge Robert Kinney stayed his order for 20 days to allow prosecutors to decide on an appeal. Armstrong’s legal status in New Mexico is also in question, although his attorney, Jerome Buting, said he believes authorities there will ultimately decide not to hold him.
Armstrong was convicted in the rape and murder of UW-Madison student Charise Kamps, 19, who was found dead in her Downtown apartment on June 24, 1980, after a night of partying with Armstrong and others.
The term “season tickets” is changing to “half-season tickets” for University of Wisconsin-Madison students wanting to jam the Kohl Center for men’s basketball games.
The UW-Madison Athletic Department rolled out its ticket sale and allocation process for the 2009-10 men’s basketball season on Thursday, with students allowed to buy either the “white” or “red” half-season package, and not a full season of games.
Larry Brown is 12 years old and fast — so fast that he won Allied Drive’s first one-mile race this week, running in his socks. The crowd in Marlborough Park was cheering when he finished in 6 minutes, 30 seconds. And it kept on cheering as 43 other neighborhood children crossed the finish line behind him.
….”It’s not about who came in first or who came in last. It’s about finishing the race,” says the children’s proud trainer, Molly Kloosterboer, a University of Wisconsin Medical School student who started the Miler in Training program at Allied Drive this summer with the help of the Madison Schools and Community Recreation (MSCR) summer program, the medical school and Fleet Feet Sports, a locally owned store on Old Sauk Road.
Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics, is taking a leave from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become a senior advisor in the Office of the Commissioner at the Food & Drug Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana spent 10 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, helping to crack the genetic code, pioneering the field of synthetic biology and earning a Nobel Prize.
UW’s annual Steenbock Symposium, which started Thursday and runs all weekend, honors Khorana’s work with a four-day program on synthetic genes, synthetic life and biological systems.
A forum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday is focusing on the risks and benefits of nuclear energy.
A Wisconsin Rapids medical center took the national stage this week after becoming the first facility in the world to begin administering what some call a breakthrough skin cancer treatment.
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University of Wisconsin Cancer Center Riverview’s chief medical physicist, Yi Rong, presented the new process this week at the 51st annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Anaheim, Calif.
Riverview was treating three patients with the process as of July 1, said Dr. James Welsh, the center’s radiation oncologist, who initiated the new, less-invasive treatment.
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s nearly $840 million research portfolio, one of the top three in the country, will become even larger as federal agencies begin to dole out new stimulus grants.
Already, 90 awards totaling more than $26.5 million have been made to UW-Madison faculty under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Wisconsin projects ranging from stem cell research and new genetic models for cancer to Antarctic weather stations and bioenergy have been funded by the various federal agencies disbursing stimulus funds.
MADISON, Wis. — Some University of Wisconsin-Madison band parents are fuming over the UW Athletic Department’s decision to move their seats and increase tickets prices for the 2009-2010 Badger football season.
In a letter to band parents, the UW-Madison Band Department explained that seats for parents will be moved from the north end zone — directly behind the band — to the south end zone. In addition, ticket prices increased to $273 per season ticket, which is what the general public pays. That’s up from $133 per ticket.
A branch of US Bank near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was robbed Thursday morning by a thief who apparently fled the scene riding on a bicycle, Madison police reported.
Police said the robbery took place at about 9:40 a.m. at the bank at 389 East Campus Mall.
UW-Whitewater has introduced a new program encouraging former undergraduates to return to school and complete their bachelorâ??s degrees.
UW-Whitewater has identified about 330 students who attended the university since 2001 and dropped out, for whatever reason, with one semester of coursework to complete.
MADISON (WKOW) — UW-Madison professor emeritus of computer science David DeWitt is being honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
DeWitt was named the recipient of the 2009 Emanuel R. Piore Award this month. The IEEE cited DeWitt’s work in developing database architecture and his role in building one of the world’s foremost academic database research groups.
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider — hearkening back to a conclusion the company’s co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s.
Quoted: Yahoo CEO and UW-Madison alumna Carol Bartz
“Yahoo’s 10-year deal with Microsoft to battle Google for online search customers and ad sales is the boldest initiative Carol Bartz has made since she became Yahoo’s CEO in January.”
That’s the lead on a USA Today story on Bartz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad who has risen to the top of the business world.
Bret Bielema and his University of Wisconsin offensive assistants have known for months the offensive line will feature three new full-time starters in 2009.
During the Big Ten Conference preseason meetings in Chicago, Bielema acknowledged publicly for the first time freshman Travis Frederick might win one of those spots.
High school students are learning to use high-tech equipment to solve real-world problems in a five-day camp at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Fitchburg.
Most science students are comfortable with theory but may not have as much experience with the technical aspects of science, said Josh Coon, a UW-Madison chemistry professor.
About 20 students from Madison West, Stoughton, DeForest and Evansville high schools spent the beginning of the week learning the basics of chemical engineering with scientists and engineers from UW-Madison and Thermo Fisher.
CNN) — An international search is under way for a 29-year-old Auburn University veterinary student who vanished under what appears to be unusual circumstances in Thailand. Michael Griffin Harrie, 29, disappeared earlier this month during a vacation in Thailand, Auburn University says.
….In a media release, Alabama’s Auburn University said Harrie, a second-year student at the veterinary school, was attending a summer study abroad program in Morioka, Japan. He informed a professor he was going to take a one-week vacation with friends to Bangkok, Thailand, that would begin on July 7.
RICHLAND CENTER (WKOW) — Groups of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders took over parts of the UW-Richland Center campus for the 2009 College for Kids program.
The program, held July 20-24, is an educational enrichment program that offers morning classes and hands-on learning for students from across southwest Wisconsin.
…my jaw dropped a bit when I saw this headline in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “U. of Alaska journalism students to embed with combat team in Iraq.”
According to the article, the journalism department at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks will soon have more reporters in Iraq than many major American newspapers, as three undergrads and a professor leave this week for Diyala Province in Iraq — where they will spend almost a month embedded with U.S. troops.
In order to fill an unusual coaching void on the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, a familiar family legacy has been tapped.
Peter Johnson will serve as a full-time assistant under acting coach Tracey (Cornell) DeKeyser during the 2009-10 season, according to multiple sources.
A formal announcement for the hiring is expected later this week.
Johnson is the younger brother of Mark, the UW coach since 2002 who’s taking a one-year sabbatical to oversee the U.S. women’s team in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison reported that, to date, it has received 90 awards totaling more than $26.5 million in stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Funded projects range from stem cell research to Antarctic weather stations and bioenergy projects, and more could be on the way.
According to Kim Moreland, director of UW-Madison’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, the flow of stimulus money to UW is probably going to increase as more national agencies continue the process of vetting proposals.
Wisconsin’s Garrett Graham is considered one of the Big Ten’s top tight ends, a well-built, 6-foot-4, 252-pounder who is a threat as a blocker and a receiver. Graham has 70 catches for 868 yards and nine touchdowns over the last two seasons. With a solid senior season he could push his way into the first two rounds of the 2010 National Football League draft.
Ben Herbert’s weight room is more than a construction site, more than just a hard-hat area to build and nurture bigger, stronger and faster players for the University of Wisconsin football program. That’s especially true during the summer phase of conditioning — the final step before the opening of fall camp — when every precaution is taken to ensure success.
“There’s a million different things you can do from a program design standpoint,” said Herbert, the first-year UW strength and conditioning coordinator. “But the biggest thing you have to remember is that you want to put the guys in situations where you’re not only helping them get better, but you’re keeping them healthy.
Designed to jolt the nation’s economy, the stimulus package has begun to fuel millions of dollars in research at Wisconsin universities, giving life to projects that otherwise would have been delayed or scrapped.
The process of funding has just begun, but so far projects totaling $35 million have been approved at Wisconsin universities. UW-Madison has won the most grants, with nearly $27 million in funding for 90 proposals. Medical College of Wisconsin projects total about $3.9 million. Marquette University has received almost $3 million, and UWM has awards surpassing $1.6 million.
MILWAUKEE — Researchers at Marquette University have a $1.4 million grant to study treatment for cocaine addiction.
The Milwaukee scientists are trying to develop chemicals that can be used to break a cocaine addiction.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) chose three UW System campuses to pilot a national initiative to enhance student learning.
UW-Eau Claire, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Oshkosh, and six universities from Oregon and California, were chosen to participate in the pilot program, â??Give Students a Compass: A Tri-State LEAP Partnership for College Learning, General Education and Underserved Student Success.â?
The goal of the project is to increase the participation and success of traditionally underserved students, such as racial and ethnic minorities, low-income and first-generation students. The project will also evaluate the performance of transfer students, who may have missed a universityâ??s orientation for incoming freshmen.
ROANOKE, Va. — Families of the Virginia Tech shooting victims asked Gov. Tim Kaine on Tuesday to reopen a state commission’s investigation of the 2007 mass killings in which 32 people died.
A group of parents of many of those killed and injured in the rampage by student gunman Seung-Hui Cho issued a statement urging Kaine to reopen the review because of inaccuracies in the report.
The families’ statement followed disclosure last week that the former director of the university’s counseling center recently found missing mental health records for Cho at his home.
….Although the Big Ten has a 10-9 bowl record against the SEC since the 2002 season, it doesnâ??t have the national titles or the BCS bowl victories to show for it like the SEC does. That has caused many experts to conclude the conference has fallen behind the SEC, Big 12 and Pac-10.
And despite what Illinois coach Ron Zook said when asked if the Big Ten had an inferiority complex regarding the SEC â?? â??I think itâ??s more just the mediaâ? â?? the problem is very real. A number of coaches admitted as much Monday by revealing they have discussed the reasons for the Big Tenâ??s fading image.
MADISON (WKOW) — In the event of a widespread and severe outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu virus, a pandemic committee has doubled its efforts this summer to prepare the UW-Madison campus for any and all effects.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State University is now the nation’s No. 1 party school.
The school known partly for its football tailgate weekends and fraternity and sorority scene snatched the title away from the University of Florida in the 2009 Princeton Review survey of 122,000 students nationwide. Florida, last year’s winner, finished second in the annual survey released Monday. The University of Wisconsin is ranked 8th, one behind the University of Texas and one ahead of Florida State.
The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics has warned 53 patients that they have an “extremely small” risk of contracting a rare, fatal brain disorder because of the instruments that were used in their operations.
Students registering for fall classes this summer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will see a 30% increase in the number of online classes, but the convenience comes with a price: as much as $275 per course on top of regular tuition.
For more than a decade Madison has basked in rankings that tout its lifestyle. It might seem inconceivable that the city could be worst for anything.
But — and this won’t be news to those who pop a daily Claritin-D — the amount of pollen in Madison’s air each spring and fall makes it among the nation’s least hospitable places for seasonal allergy sufferers.
Quoted: Mark Moss, associate professor of allergy and immunology in the School of Medicine and Public Health
….When a complication results from a physician’s negligence or not being knowledgeable, it is important to acknowledge this to the patient or family in the form of an apology even though most malpractice insurance companies and their lawyers actually discourage admission of guilt. Under these circumstances I believe an out of court settlement is more likely to occur when financial compensation for lost time, pain and further medical costs are required.
(Pellegrino is an emeritus UW clinical associate professor of orthopedic surgery)
As Congress debates the reform of the American health care system, nurses and the nursing profession must be at the table. Regardless of the health care model that we eventually decide on, nurses can and should be key players in reducing health care costs and increasing efficiency while maintaining the quality of patient care.
The nation is facing a major shortage of primary care and family practice doctors. Health care coverage will potentially be offered to millions more Americans, but the question remains: Who will provide primary care? The answer: nurse practitioners. From private practice to nurse-managed health centers, NPs have proven their capacity to take on this role.
Douglas Fevens is the first to admit he has little chance of altering the business practices of Internet giant Google.
This isn’t a David vs. Goliath kind of mismatch. Think more gnat vs. oncoming Mack truck.
“I realize I can’t do a whole lot, but I’m not going to just sit here and do nothing, either. I’m going to make my voice heard,” said Fevens.
In particular, Fevens is not a fan of the Google library project, an effort initiated in December 2004 to digitize and index the world’s texts so people can view resources that they generally wouldn’t be able to track down in other ways.
Notes that the state budget allows about 19,700 faculty and academic staff members of the University of Wisconsin System to petition for union representation and to bargain collectively. The budget also extends the same rights to UW System research assistants. There are 2,300 research assistants on the UW-Madison campus alone.
Wisconsin’s law school graduates can practice here without taking a bar exam. Graduates of an out-of-state law school contend this discriminates against them, an argument that will get further hearing because of a 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision recently on their class-action lawsuit.
But as a matter of progressive public policy, the courts should uphold Wisconsin’s one-of-a-kind diploma privilege.
Asked to share his vision of the linebacker corps in 2009, University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Doeren offered a succinct response that could double as a vision of the entire roster:
Smart, tough and dependable.
Bret Bielema’s 2008 UW team, his third as head coach, too often failed to exhibit those traits.
Quoted: John Karl Scholz, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Gould, professor of oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madisonâ??s student leaders are piloting a project this summer to deal with an annual problem: Where to sleep on the night of August 14?
Under most leases near campus, students must be out of their apartments on August 14, but canâ??t move into their new apartments until August 15.
This year, UW-Madisonâ??s student government is providing a safe place for students to spend the night. Under a program called Move Out Night, the third and fourth floors of the student activities tower, 333 East Campus Mall, will be open for 24 hours beginning at 10 a.m. August 14.
….The UW’s press release on the study cautions that there is no similar study of human subjects under way and that “conclusive evidence of the effects of the diet on human lifespan and disease may never be known.”
….So then what’s the purpose of the study that subjected 76 rhesus monkeys to years of over- and under-eating?
That’s the crux of the questions that animal rights activists have been asking about much of animal research conducted at universities and especially here at the UW-Madison’s National Primate Research Center. The local organization known as the Primate Freedom Project has long maintained that the UW-Madison sanctions numerous unnecessary experiments on monkeys because they generate millions of federal and corporate dollars for the school and help the researchers gain notoriety in their professions.
UW Hospital has told 53 patients they face an â??extremely lowâ? risk of contracting a rare but deadly brain disorder because they may have been operated on with contaminated surgical instruments.
The instruments had been used on a woman who died Tuesday of the brain disorder, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. She had surgery at the hospital in June.
Hospital officials say they immediately stopped using the surgical instruments once tests confirmed the womanâ??s diagnosis. However, the 53 patients all had neurosurgery during a 40-day window when the instruments were still in use, said Dr. Carl Getto, the hospitalâ??s chief medical officer.
NBC15 confirms 53 patients have been told that they face an extremely low risk of contracting a rare brain disorder.
That’s because they may have been exposed to tissue from a patient who was treated at the hospital and later died. We’re told this situation poses no risk to the general public. The female patient died Tuesday of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — known as CJD — a fatal neurological disorder.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin Hospital officials said Thursday that at least 53 patients were potentially exposed to a rare neurological disease.
A woman in her 50s died of classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Tuesday. She underwent surgery at UW Hospital on June 11, WISC-TV reported.
The disease was diagnosed Monday, after a brain biopsy.
