In the history of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey program, the Badgers have never seen this amount of support.
Saturday night’s contest against No. 6 Harvard at the Kohl Center was an open call to area hockey fans across the state, and the Wisconsin faithful answered that call to the tune of 5,125 fans, the second-largest crowd in women’s college hockey history.
As it turns out, the Badgers needed every bit of that support they could get.
The MIT Club of Wisconsin, a state association for alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is honoring a UW-Madison influenza researcher and a bioscience spinoff company.
The researcher, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a UW virologist and professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has gained worldwide recognition for his research on how influenza viruses replicate and the genetic contributors to virulence.
Quintessence Biopharmaceuticals of Madison, a company that grew out of the research of UW chemistry and biochemistry professors Laura Kiessling and Ron Raines, is being honored in the small company category.
To retain minorities in science and engineering majors, culturally relevant ways to build self-confidence must be found and developed, according to preliminary results from a University of Wisconsin study.
The first-year results of the Sloan Project for Diversity in STEM Retention were presented as part of the “Wednesday Nite @ the Lab” series at the UW Biotechnology Center Wednesday. About 25 people attended the presentation of the three-year study.
Police are seeking the driver in a downtown Madison hit-and-run crash that critically injured a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin student as he was walking near campus.
Shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday, a dark-colored minivan hit the pedestrian at the intersection of Park Street and Regent Street and then continued driving southbound on Park Street, according to police.
Never fear, Badger fan, if you want to see the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team play in the NCAA Midwest Regional first- and second-round games at the United Center in Chicago. There are literally hundreds of seats to choose from.
But it’ll cost you, especially if you want to score a suite at the “House That Jordan Built.”
How much? Up to $9,909 for a lower-level suite for 20 people attending the second-round session on Sunday afternoon, according to prices listed on one of two major online ticket brokers touting tickets to “March Madness.”
A Middleton man whose angina is so severe that he gets chest pains watching the Badgers play basketball has become the first person in the state to join a stem cell clinical trial that uses patients’ own cells to treat their heart disease.
“A good basketball game is a three-nitro game for me,” Steve Myrah, 68, of Middleton, said of the number of nitroglycerin tablets he typically takes to ease the pain during a game.
In the trials, doctors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and other locations will harvest adult stem cells from a patient’s bone marrow and inject them into blood-deprived areas of the heart.
Picture shows University of Wisconsin-Madison tree pruner Mike Fennigkoh trimming branches of an ash tree last month on the UW campus as part of the state’s ash borer plan.
Here’s one of Steve Myrah’s problems: He is such a huge fan of the University of Wisconsin basketball team that games, literally, are painful to watch, causing his angina to flare up and forcing him to pop nitroglycerin tablets to ease his chest pain.
Last week, he became the first heart patient in Wisconsin to enter a novel stem cell clinical trial using patients’ own cells to treat their heart disease.
Doctors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics harvested adult stem cells from Myrah’s bone marrow so they could be injected into blood-deprived areas of his heart. The hope is that the cells will stimulate the formation of new blood vessels or the expansion of existing ones, restoring blood flow.
A Big Ten championship eluded the Wisconsin men’s basketball team, but the highest NCAA tournament seeding in school history did not.
Dear Editor: I’ve followed the story of Professor Leonard Kaplan in the press since it broke, attended the forum at the Law School, and now have read his own statement. I’ve learned five lessons.
….Finally, after reading Professor Kaplan’s own statement, I learned that here was the same friend I’d had for well over 30 years â?? a teacher with an intellectually ambitious agenda, a persistent advocate for the less powerful in our society, and one who, like all of us profs, occasionally misspeaks and misjudges the impact of his remarks on his students.
Francis Schrag, UW professor emeritus of educational policy studies and philosophy, Madison
LA CROSSE (AP) – In an effort to address binge drinking in a town where eight intoxicated men have drowned since 1997, the La Crosse Common Council approved a public intoxication ordinance Thursday.
Mayor Mark Johnsrud called the 15-1 vote a “turning point in the history of La Crosse,” saying months-long debate on the ordinance alone had improved public awareness of the dangers of binge drinking.
A federal judge upheld the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s policy not to fund a campus Catholic organization with student segregated fees, saying it didn’t meet the UW’s requirement for student control of student groups.
In a preliminary ruling, U.S. District Judge John Shabaz denied the injunction request from the UW-Madison Roman Catholic Foundation, which had challenged the UW administration’s decision as “viewpoint discrimination” in violation of the First Amendment.
With spring approaching, March signifies new beginnings but as Women’s History Month, it is also a time for reflection on past beginnings, a chance to honor the women before us who dared to live freely and in their daring provided greater possibilities for women today.
But the people honoring those women remind us that remembering women’s history is also about recognizing that it is continuous, about taking lessons from past women and applying them now to improve women’s future.
(UW-Madison Women’s History Month events are mentioned.)
They believe that social justice is everyone’s responsibility. They reach out to minority children, and they fight for multicultural teaching methods.
The six recipients of the YWCA of Madison’s 2007 Women of Distinction awards dedicate a lot of time to helping others. Community service is high on their list of priorities.
Among the six: UW-Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor and Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, and Marygold “Margo” Melli, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Changes to a tuition reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin will not affect students entering college next fall.
Higher education officials from both states said Wednesday that incoming reciprocity students will be covered under the current agreement for at least the next four years.
The announcement comes as the states negotiate potential changes to the agreement for students beginning in the 2008-09 academic year.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Dick Bennett loves his son like, well, a son. In fact, Bennett loves his son so much, he begged him not to follow him to Washington State.
“I told him he should stay at (the University of) Wisconsin,” Bennett recalled. “We knew they had a good thing going there.”
Kids being kids, Tony Bennett insisted on joining his father in Pullman, Wash., which is only slightly less isolated and rural than northern Tibet.
SHE HAD never before checked the satchel, but it was early and she was tired.
“It’s so heavy to carry,” Jennifer Key was saying Tuesday. “I was just tired of carrying it around.”
Key, 32, is a promising writer, promising enough to be spending this year as the Dianne Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison.
U.S. universities will need to drastically change the way they do business in order to meet growing competition in the knowledge-based global economy, according to a national report released today.
The report by the Making Opportunity Affordable initiative says the “degree gap” between expected U.S. college graduates and the number needed to compete with best-performing nations will reach nearly 16 million by 2025.
A proposal in the governor’s budget that would allow faculty and academic staff in the University of Wisconsin System to unionize has met some opposition at the UW-Madison campus.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate and Academic Staff Assembly are reviewing the proposal and have not yet voted on it, but leaders of the academic staff voiced opposition today.
Leading the nation in underage drinking is one of Wisconsin’s more dubious distinctions.
According to a report released last week by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the rate of underage drinking (ages 12 to 20) was highest in Wisconsin at 39.5 percent and lowest in Utah, at 21.3 percent.
To help address the problem, a consortium of local groups are sponsoring a town hall meeting on middle school drinking tonight at the Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center. The program, “Start Talking Before They Start Drinking,” is aimed at parents and other adults who are concerned about youngsters and alcohol abuse.
With every stroke she takes, University of Wisconsin women’s swimmer Yi Ting Siow isn’t just pulling herself through the water. She’s pulling for her school.
“She’s definitely the leader on our team, in terms of point production, and she knows that,” said UW coach Eric Hansen.
She’s pulling for her country…..And she’s also pulling for her family, still living far back home in Seremban, Malaysia.
Alando Tucker was still enjoying a sweet dream when the news hit the streets.
Kammron Taylor was the first to let his teammate know he was named the Big Ten Conference’s player of the year via text message. When Tucker didn’t respond quickly enough, Taylor followed up with a phone call.
Letter writers speak out on the law school controversy.
Alando Tucker, who has led the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team during a record-setting season, was named the Big Ten Conference’s Player of the Year by both the coaches and media, it was announced this morning.
Tucker, a 6-foot-5 senior forward from Lockport, Ill., who needs to score 23 points to become the Badgers’ all-time leading scorer, is the second Badger in four years to earn the player of the year award. Devin Harris won it in 2004.
Former state purchasing officer Georgia Thompson is appealing her federal conviction on charges that she steered a lucrative state travel contract to one of Gov. Jim Doyle’s campaign donors.
….In briefs filed in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, Thompson contends that she could not have violated federal law – that she enriched herself by betraying her official state duties – because she did not personally benefit from the deal.
Marion Nestle, an expert in food politics, travels the country talking about the scientific, social and economic factors that influence federal dietary guidance policies. Invariably after her speeches, people come up and ask her what to eat.
“There is public confusion about nutrition and health. The public is enormously confused about what to eat,” Nestle told a group of about 500 Monday night in the Union Theater as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
UW-Madison Law Professor Leonard Kaplan says he now understands how his remarks about the Hmong in a recent class could be misunderstood, but he denies making “hateful” statements that students have complained about.
A written statement released Monday marks the first time that Kaplan has given his version of what happened in his legal process class on Feb. 15.
….Read Kaplan’s work. Talk to him and look at who he is. You will find a person who not only knows and understands the Hmong experience in the United States, but one who deeply wishes that things be better for the Hmong. Here. Now. He is teaching his students to make that real.
Professor Kaplan said those things to his class for one reason only: to shock, disturb and outrage his students so that they would awaken and realize that real and ugly prejudice exists here in Wisconsin against the Hmong community, and that it is shocking, disturbing, and outrageous, and that something must be done.
Something is now being done thanks to Professor Leonard V. Kaplan, a professor who is not afraid to teach.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Tony Bennett calls his father “one of the best coaches ever.”
At the rate Tony is going, Dick Bennett and a lot of other people are going to be saying the same thing about Tony in the not-too-distant future.
Bennett, who played for his father at UW-Green Bay and coached under him at Wisconsin, on Monday was named NCAA Coach of the Year by Basketball Times magazine.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush has enlisted former UW chancellor and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and former Sen. Bob Dole to lead an investigation of problems at the nation’s military and veterans’ hospitals.
Bush was to announce his appointments Tuesday in a speech to the American Legion.
Leonard Kaplan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor under attack for comments he made about the Hmong, defended himself in a detailed letter to his dean Monday, saying the allegations against him “do not correctly reflect the statements I did make or my purpose in making them.”
Police are seeking two suspects in a near west side assault of a 21-year-old UW-Madison student over the weekend.
The woman was walking in the 1000 block of Spring Street at about 1:40 a.m. Saturday when two men she did not know approached her, forced her to the ground and assaulted her.
According to police reports, both suspects are white, in their mid-20s and about 6 feet tall. One had dark hair and a goatee and was wearing a blue puffy jacket. The other was clean-shaven and had on a dark blue “skull cap” and a black puffy jacket. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 266-6014.
Opening day will be May 11 for Sundance Cinemas 608, the Madison-based flagship venture for a national movie theater circuit founded by actor and director Robert Redford.
….The debut of the six-screen theater, which will also feature a cafe, a restaurant, a rooftop bar and an art gallery and gift shop, will begin with special grand opening events benefiting three Madison-based nonprofit organizations – the Chazen Museum of Art, OutReach and the River Alliance of Wisconsin.
It is late at night, and you are out walking alone. Suddenly you hear footsteps behind you. Your worst fears about who it is flash through your mind, and you break out in a cold sweat. You speed up, but the footsteps keep pace, and finally you turn. Then what?
….Madison campus residents are particularly on guard after media focus on campus stranger assaults this past year. Recent statistics show eight UW-Madison students were victims of serious stranger assaults in 2006, nearly three times the number assaulted by strangers in 2005. All but one of the stranger assault victims in the past two years were male.
The number of stranger assaults pales in comparison to the 43 students, primarily women, who reported sexual assaults in 2005.
Dear Editor: I was disappointed by Rob Zaleski’s column on clean energy. The expert interviewed for the column, UW’s Jon Foley, dismisses nuclear power because it can’t provide more than 20 percent of our energy needs over the next few decades.
MINNEAPOLIS – Yes, it’s true. The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team actually allowed a goal.
The Badgers saw the puck hit the back of their own net for the first time in more than five games, but it didn’t stop them from beating Minnesota 3-1 in the WCHA tournament championship game Sunday at Ridder Arena to claim their second straight title.
University of Wisconsin System leaders never informed the Board of Regents about a troubled $28.4 million software project until they canceled it last year, a report released Friday shows.
The regents did not receive a single update on problems with the system to track payroll and benefits information, the report said, despite warnings the project was in danger as far back as 2004. Some campus officials doubted it would ever work even earlier.
It took just a few hours for the footage to make it to YouTube.
Not long after Kammron Taylor drained a three-pointer with 3.9 seconds left Saturday to lift the University of Wisconsin to a 52-50 victory over Michigan State, someone posted a video of the moment on www.youtube.com, giving fans a chance to relive the moment over and over albeit through shaky, hard-to-see footage taken from the upper deck of the Kohl Center.
UW-Madison law professor Ann Althouse authors a column on blogging.
A University of Wisconsin law professor under attack for comments he made about the Hmong defended himself in a faculty meeting Friday, breaking – at least to some degree – his public silence.
….”Dynamic Elements: Thoughts About Earth” is more about mysteries than celebrations. The second creative adventure of University of Wisconsin trombonist Mark Hetzler and Madison photographer Katrin Talbot will make its local debut at 8 p.m. Saturday in Mills Hall, 455 N. Park St.
Hetzler and Talbot variously dazzled, inspired and confounded listeners with their multimedia concert “Visions of America” last year. For this writer, it was one of the top 10 Madison performing arts events of 2006.
OK, IT was more than 70 years ago, but Lenor Zeeh remembers it vividly. Of course he does. It was the turning point of his life.
Zeeh, who is a lively 92 and lives on Madison’s west side, last month made a gift of $1 million to the UW School of Pharmacy, but he still recalls that moment in 1935 when it looked as if he might have to drop out of that very same school.
Clearly, eloquently and sometimes tearfully, the seven young Asian women who raised the issue of a law professor’s allegedly insulting remarks about the Hmong told their story at a public forum Thursday night.
The other side was not heard, however, as Professor Leonard Kaplan did not attend the forum at the University of Wisconsin Law School, to the intense disappointment of many of the more than 200 who came, hoping to hear both sides of the matter.
Many UW-Madison students are scrambling to find affordable birth control in reaction to a sharp rise in prescription contraceptive costs because of a federal law that went into effect in January.
Drug companies previously provided low-cost pricing to University Health Services and many other college health services nationwide, but the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 required the cancellation of those contracts as of Jan. 1, 2007. But the law has some costly consequences.
Quoted: Janet Gilmore, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of landscape architecture and folklore.
Quoted: Mark Rank, a professor of social welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin law student who drew attention to a professor’s classroom remarks seen as disparaging the Hmong people said Thursday she has received a strong reaction from across the country.
As expected, the Mid-American Conference has provided the University of Wisconsin with its final non-conference opponent for the 2007 season.
Hundreds of students, professors and community members packed a lecture hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday night to seek answers about a law school incident that prompted accusations of racism against a professor and anger in Wisconsin’s Hmong community.
For local arts and entertainment presenters, last weekend’s major snowstorm – called “an act of God” in the legal contracts they have with artists – left canceled performances, empty seats, lower sales at concession stands and debt.
….At the Wisconsin Union Theater, “the storm hurt us very little,” said director Ralph Russo, sounding surprised and relieved.
The first woman dean in the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences’ century-plus history remembers very well a meeting with a Wisconsin farmer as she was about to take the reins of the college last year.
At a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a building at the Hancock Agricultural Research Station, the middle-aged potato grower came up and gave her a hearty handshake, Molly Jahn recalled.
“He said, ‘Thank you!’ and I said, “I haven’t done anything yet.” He said, ‘I am the proud father of two incredibly capable young women. And I have to thank you for the example you’ve set for what is possible for them.'”
Poor accounting practices in the University of Wisconsin’s work-study program mean dozens of off-campus employers owe the school money, an official said Wednesday.
When it comes to health, residents of Green and Lafayette counties are doing better than much of the rest of the state.
Ramona DeNure, Argyle, works out at the Green County Family YMCA as part of the SilverSneakers program. Lafayette County residents came in at third in the state in healthy behaviors, which includes participating in physical activity, while Green County ranked 26th, according to a recent survey by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
That’s according to the results of the annual Wisconsin County Health Rankings 2006, recently published by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin guard Jolene Anderson has been named first-team all-Big Ten Conference in women’s basketball in both the coaches and media voting.
Mentions problems that occurred after the University of Wisconsin-Madison adopted its own Internet voting system for student government elections in 1999.
Dr. Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently paid a visit to Loyola University to deliver a speech on the 2008 presidential primaries. “You might say [it is] a little early [for talk of the primaries] but not really,” Franklin said.
You can’t work 25 hours a day. So several speakers at the Fusion 2007 CEO-CIO Symposium on Tuesday and Wednesday tried to drive home the point that “work smarter, not harder” is more than just an age-old mantra.
Michael Knetter, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, summed it up: “When productivity grows, our standard of living goes up,” Knetter said. To him, producing more by working more hours and giving up leisure time is “a wash.”
On Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, the Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will celebrate a decade of achievement at its 10th anniversary conference, titled “Celebrating the Many Faces of Public Service at UW-Madison.”
Painful though it was, Rae Lin D’Alie eventually had to relinquish her job as quarterback of her Pop Warner football squad.
“I couldn’t see over the top of the linemen,” said the University of Wisconsin freshman point guard, who apparently has topped out at 5-foot, 3-inches. “I couldn’t find my receivers.”
University of Wisconsin forward Alando Tucker is one five finalists for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, the national player of the year award given by the United States Basketball Writers Association.
