Author: jnweaver

A foundation has donated $5 million over five years to UW-Madison with the aim of spurring entrepreneurship across the campus and boosting commercialization of research around the state, the UW announced.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation named the UW one of its “Kauffman Campuses.” The Kansas City-based foundation launched the initiative in 2004 to “transform the way colleges and universities prepare students for success in the American economy.”

The Madison Streetcar Study Committee’s list of streets where streetcar tracks might be installed are talking points to get a public conversation going, not recommendations, said David Trowbridge, the city’s streetcar project manager.

Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, the committee and its staff are starting that discussion tonight at a streetcar directions neighborhood workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. at Monona Terrace.

Burglars apparently are getting ready for Christmas along with the rest of the population and have struck� numerous residences and businesses this week.

….Laptop computers also were the target of burglars in the campus area this week.

The Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is proposing paid maternity leave for research assistants as a way of ensuring that more women advance to faculty status.

The department’s 40-member faculty – which includes four women – voted in May to approve the idea for a 12-week maternity leave with pay, but it remains under consideration by the university’s attorneys and the Office of Human Resources.

Controversial UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows has retired from the university, but is continuing� legal claims stemming from a forced leave from his position there, his attorney said.

The State of Wisconsin Claims Board denied a claim today in which� Barrows asked for $124,521 in accrued benefits used while he was on unpaid leave due to allegations of sexual misconduct. He also was seeking compensation for lost income because he was placed in a position at a lesser salary than he said he had been promised.

It was the summer of 1996 and Money magazine had just made Madison famous.Across the Atlantic Ocean, Rebekah Rickner and her then-husband had been living in Germany for five years and were interested in returning to the States. They were seeking a suitable place to raise children when they stumbled across the Money magazine article ranking Madison the No. 1 city in America to live.

Rickner was reluctant to move to a “smallish” city like Madison, having grown up in Baltimore before living in San Francisco and Boston. But move here they did.

(Business professor emeritus Jon Udell is quoted in this article.)

Mentions a new study by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the biggest public cost for year-round, low-wage workers was medical assistance as more companies forgo providing insurance.

Should Madison’s newest elementary school be called Barry Alvarez Elementary? Or how about the Roberto Clemente School?

Don’t like the notion of a sports figure’s name on the plaque outside your child’s school? Well, then, what do you think about Leonardo da Vinci? Mark Twain?

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voiced support Thursday for a new admissions policy that would take into account the race, income and other non-academic factors of all applicants, not just some. But regents held off approving an official change to admissions policy after a state legislator warned of a public backlash.

Dear Editor: I am writing of my own accord, as a student of Dr. Kevin Barrett’s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His 15-week course on Islam is almost over and I wanted to take a moment to describe how the class has turned out as most people have not had the opportunity to attend the lectures.