The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and licensee Natural ASA have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Arkopharma, a French maker of nutritional supplements, and its U.S. subsidiary, Health from the Sun.
The lawsuit alleges infringement upon patents related to the uses of conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, for purposes of creating “a sculpted, athletic looking body.”
If aÃ? publisher’s fall catalog is to be believed, a UW-Madison professor is on the verge of ending, once and for all, the lengthy, highly charged debate over the theory of evolution.
In October, W.W. Norton will bring out “The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution,” by UW-Madison genetics Professor Sean B. Carroll.
(Also mentioned in today’s column is 1975 UW grad John Schiller, one of the National Cancer Institute researchers credited with inventing the vaccine for HPV infections that was approved by the FDA last week.)
A red brick gothic revival mansion that stands on a ridge of North Prospect Avenue is losing its primary occupant, a frustrated handyman, but getting the largest renovation of its 95 years.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley is leaving Olin House at 130 N. Prospect Ave., the traditional chancellor’s home, and moving to a downtown condo while workers perform more than $1 million in privately funded restoration work.
Although the university expects that future chancellors will live in the house after the renovations are completed and Wiley retires, Wiley himself has no inclination to return.
Dietary supplements marketed as reducing body fat and increasing muscle tone infringe upon patents obtained by University of Wisconsin researchers, a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court alleges.
Christopher Ochoa is late as he walks into the Starbucks on University Avenue here and sits down. He takes off his Yankees hat and apologizes. “I’m sorry about that,” he says mildly. I assure him it’s no problem, but he seems genuinely distraught. It’s the kind of thing he’s still getting used to: making appointments and keeping them.
“You learn patience in prison,” Mr. Ochoa says. “You learn to live one day at a time. You have to. And I have to get out of the habit, because I miss appointments like this one, because I take one day at a time.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison settled a gender discrimination claim filed by its top attorney for $90,000, according to documents in the case.
Melany Newby, 57, said in the notice of claim she filed in April that the university hadn’t given her a raise since 1999, though it had given several large pay adjustments to her fellow vice chancellors, all male.
After revamping a fake Facebook.com profile they had quietly established for University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley calling him a “rage-aholic” and “Sweatshop Chancellor,” a student group sent a campuswide e-mail inviting students to view the page and register.
Quoted: Entomologist Phillip Pellitteri of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
BILL MEUNIER, the 54-year-old lifelong Badger fan from Milwaukee who got famous last week when his $550 donation to UW athletics did not result in a chance to buy football tickets, will be going to at least one Badger football game this coming season.
Meunier will be attending the Iowa-Wisconsin game on Nov. 11. Note that the game is not at Camp Randall Stadium. Rather, Meunier and a guest will travel to historic Kinnick Stadium, for an all-expenses-paid football weekend in Iowa City, courtesy of donations from members of HawkeyeReport.com, an Iowa football fan Web site.
A year ago, University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez told men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves that if the program continued to improve, his salary would take another jump, too.
Alvarez was good to his word – Eaves and women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson are about to be compensated for leading their teams to twin national titles this spring in their fourth seasons at the helm.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s top attorney turned her legal guns on her employer, reaching a $90,000 settlement of her gender discrimination claim, according to documents obtained today by The Capital Times.
In a notice of claim filed with the state attorney general’s office last month, Melany Newby, 57, said she hadn’t received a raise since 1999, while her fellow vice chancellors, all male, received several large pay adjustments.
Newby, the vice chancellor for legal and executive affairs, departed last month as part of her settlement agreement with the university. She will be on unpaid leave until July 31, which will be her official last day with the university.
There are many places available in Dane County to build new houses. The Arboretum shouldn’t be one of them.
The University of Wisconsin Arboretum is a premier research and teaching facility, unique in the nation, and a source of community pride. The Arboretum also is ecologically fragile, under constant challenge from human traffic and pollution. If we want the Arboretum to serve the role it does today for future generations, then protecting it to the fullest extent possible against present and future manmade intrusions is essential.
(Ron Kalil is a professor in the UW-Madison Medical School and a longtime resident in the Arboretum.)
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell says former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows did not engage in sexual harassment, but still acted inappropriately toward a female student.
On Monday, Farrell replaced a letter of discipline in Barrows’ personnel file with a “letter of counsel, which is not an item of discipline.” Barrows (yesterday) released the letter to The Capital Times.
In a case that has focused widespread attention on issues of race and sexual harassment, the provost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison rendered a decision on Monday on a former university administrator accused of sexual harassment that falls short of the exoneration recommended by a university review committee.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly will receive a 2 percent pay increase next month and a 2.3 percent increase next April.
Reilly, who makes $326,400, will see his salary increase to $332,940 in July and to $340,435 starting in April.
The UW System Board of Regents approved the raises at a closed meeting at UW-Milwaukee last Friday and released the details on Monday. The board split $246,000 in raises over two years among 12 chancellors, 11 provosts and four top UW System executives.
Transcript of an Australian Broadcasting Corp. interview with Alfred McCoy, a UW-Madison history professor.
Quoted: Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Timothy Wassenaar of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has downgraded the action taken against a former vice chancellor after a committee determined there was no basis for finding he sexually harassed two women.
UW-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell said former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows did not engage in sexual harassment but he still acted inappropriately.
Enrollees in Wisconsin’s two state-sponsored college savings plans will be able to earn tuition credits at some private colleges and universities beginning Tuesday.
The UW Board of Regents approved transferring the UW-Madison Ashland Agricultural Research Station to Ashland and Bayfield counties on Friday, nearly ending a year-long effort to keep the station’s 258 acres under local control.
The State Building Commission is expected to vote on completing the transfer at its June 28 meeting.
Mentions that in one Wisconsin school district, 94 percent of the boys and girls were redshirted, according to a 2000 study co-authored by Beth Graue, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The media are used to criticism from people who donââ?¬â?¢t like the message thatââ?¬â?¢s being reported. This practice is referred to as ââ?¬Å?kill the messenger.ââ?¬Â
But now a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has apparently come up with a new tactic ââ?¬â? Donââ?¬â?¢t talk to the messenger.
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In one Wisconsin school district, 94 percent of the boys and girls were redshirted, according to a 2000 study co-authored by Beth Graue, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Despite wanting more services offered at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, local government and business leaders are not ready to pay for a physical expansion of the campus.
A federal jury on Monday convicted a state procurement official of fixing a travel contract for a contributor to Gov. Jim Doyle’s campaign, adding a potentially explosive issue to the race for governor this fall.
Retired Dane County Circuit Judge P. Charles Jones, who won a seat on the bench with a stunning victory over a longtime judicial incumbent, died Sunday of kidney failure.
Jones, 70, was one of the most respected judges to serve in Dane County in the second half of the 20th century, and retired from the bench in 1999 after serving 28 years.
(Jones received his law degree from UW-Madison.)
MOE KNOWS: Before calling a moratorium on college prank recollections, I’ll share Madison attorney David Relles’ tale from the 1970s. As Relles notes, “The statute of limitations has passed.”
In the early ’70s on the UW-Madison campus there was a mini-scandal involving the selling of term papers. A company had actually taken out an ad in the Daily Cardinal offering harried students a chance to buy, rather than write, term papers on a wide variety of subjects….
Virent Energy Systems of Madison has raised $7.5 million in venture capital for continued development and commercialization of its system for turning biomass into hydrogen and gas that can be used to power engines and create electricity.
….Virent, a UW-Madison spin-off, has a pilot project going with Madison Gas and Electric Co. in which one of its fuel cell systems is turning soybean and corn byproducts into a mixture of hydrogen and components of natural gas that burns very cleanly with few emissions.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – John P. Morgridge, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who has given tens of millions of dollars to the UW, will retire on Nov. 15 as chairman of tech giant Cisco Systems Inc.
As Dane County’s population grows more diverse, hospitals and other health care providers have ever greater need for language interpreters.
In fact, area health organizations banded together in 1997 to develop a test for prospective interpreters in their knowledge of Spanish and medical terms. The collaborative program, which has been recognized nationally by the National Health Law Program and others, has since added a test for Hmong interpreters.
Curious was the word. During his 16 seasons on the University of Wisconsin sidelines, Barry Alvarez was understandably curious about the way college football television analysts went about their business. Alvarez was curious, at times, to the extent that he wondered how much homework or preparation went into the production, and how much thought went into the analysis.
….Two weeks ago, Alvarez traveled to New York City and auditioned for Fox and he’s now waiting to hear back from the network on a contract.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has approved a plan to revert the land at the Ashland Agriculture Research Station back to the local county government. State Senator Bob Jauch of Poplar stated on Friday that the Regents’ decision to revert the property was made after citizens in Ashland and Bayfield Counties agreed to develop a new mission for the facility.
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As diabetes patient David Strom shares his story and his support for stem-cell research, he becomes part of an issue that Democrats in various states nationwide are claiming as their own this election year because of its ability to resonate with families yet divide Republicans on moral grounds.
To emphasize his commitment to such research, Gov. Jim Doyle has arranged for the mother of a diabetic child to introduce him before his keynote address at the convention tonight.
Americans are in love with their SUVs and even gas prices topping $3 per gallon aren’t convincing enough for many to consider more fuel efficient cars. And probably they don’t have to, if a research project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison makes its way into mass-production.
Dear Editor: The UW athletic department’s season ticket promotion shakedown brings the ethos of the national culture of corruption to the living rooms of Madison.
It used to be understood, even by the smallest mom-and-pop proprietors, that above all else in your own hometown you need to cultivate the good will of the local people (your customers) in order for your business or enterprise to prosper. Now, one of the biggest and most prominent institutions in the area reveals that it feels entitled to manipulate and distort self-serving impressions it distributes in the name of promotion.
After three years of effort developing one of the cleanest and most fuel-efficient SUVs in North America, a group of UW-Madison engineering students placed second in the “Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility” contest sponsored by General Motors and U.S. Department of Energy.
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The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says all pay raises he receives from now until his retirement will be given back to the university system. (Fourth item)
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley says he’ll give back any pay raises he receives from now until the time he retires.
Wiley said he told UW System President Kevin Reilly he would return in the form of donations any raise awarded to him on Friday by the Board of Regents. The board, meeting in Milwaukee, split $246,000 in raises over two years among 13 other chancellors, 15 provosts and several top UW System executives, including Reilly.
Gov. Jim Doyle heralded stem-cell research in his keynote speech at the state Democratic Party’s convention Friday, making it a cornerstone of his re-election campaign.
The infamous Pail and Shovel Party’s flamingo prank on Bascom Hill, several UW-Madison alumni, and genetics professor David Schwartz are mentioned in this Doug Moe column.
You might think of John Wilde’s art as a mix of the subconscious and the superconscious.
Of course you can draw your own conclusions at “Things of Nature and the Nature of Things,”Ã? a retrospective of the longtime UW professor and area artist who died March 9 at 86. The exhibit opens Saturday in the Mayer Gallery of the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art and runs through Aug. 20.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The University of Wisconsin men’s track team is certainly enjoying the view from the top after the first two days of the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships here.
After the completion of three events, the Badgers are tied with the three-time defending outdoor champion Arkansas Razorbacks for first place in the men’s team standings. However, the UW has just three athletes competing in the final two days.
A fledgling biotech company based on UW-Madison research is the grand prize winner of the 2006 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest.
MatriLab, which is developing a new method to reduce infection and improve healing in the treatment of wounds, will collect prizes of at least $50,000 for winning the contest, which drew about 200 entries.
After three years of effort developing one of the cleanest and most fuel-efficient SUVs in North America, a group of UW-Madison engineering students placed second in the “Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility” contest sponsored by General Motors and U.S. Department of Energy.
WAUNAKEE – Micaela Horning, known as “Butterfly” to friends and family, has emerged again from her cocoon after beating back acute lymphocytic leukemia for the second time.
Micaela, 8, happily returned for the last nine days of classes at Prairie Elementary School before summer vacation. She had to miss most of second and third grades due to treatment for leukemia, said her mother, Trish.
Gov. Jim Doyle will use his speech at the state Democratic Party convention tonight to underscore his support for embryonic stem cell research and to highlight his differences on the issue with his Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Mark Green.
Doyle’s campaign said he will tell fellow Democrats tonight, “Stem cell means so much to me and my family. It means hope. And that’s what it means for so many families in Wisconsin, who are struggling with the illness of a loved one.
“I will not let partisan politics slam the door on hope for these families. For as long as I am governor, Wisconsin will lead the nation in stem cell research.”
For those who consider cow-tipping a sport, what happened at the Kohl Center early Thursday was not very sportsmanlike.
Three whimsically decorated artificial cows, part of the Milk Marketing Board’s CowParade Wisconsin, were found lying on their sides Thursday on the concrete sidewalk in front of the arena.
MILWAUKEE – University of Wisconsin regents are upset that a contractor and the state failed to meet their goal for minority business participation in the Camp Randall Stadium renovation.
The state’s goal was for the contractor, Cullen-Smith LLC, to subcontract 10 percent of the subcontracting to firms owned by people of color.
But it only reached 5.1 percent on the original project, according to information supplied by the state Department of Administration. The project had four cost overruns.
Chancellor Carlos Santiago moved closer to getting $10 million in state funding for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s research initiative when the UW System Board of Regents pledged its support Thursday and Milwaukee-area business leaders agreed to lobby the governor and state Legislature on his behalf.
Former Administration Secretary Marc Marotta’s office had contact with Adelman Travel while a contract was being considered, but Marotta insisted Thursday he had not misled the public when he said last year he had not talked to company officials during the bidding process.
Proponents of converting the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha into a center for multiple higher-education institutions said Thursday their plan includes building a campus addition.
It was a grand vision that University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago put before the UW Board of Regents Thursday. He pointed out how vital Milwaukee was to Wisconsin and UWM was to the UW System, how the city was slumping and the campus lacked research muscle and how an energized campus could rev up the city, region and state.
Georgia Thompson, a state bureaucrat charged in a federal case that has become an election-season scandal, got the chance to tell her side of the story Thursday in federal court in Milwaukee.
When you think biotech in Wisconsin, you think Madison. But Thursday night, a Milwaukee-based biotech start-up emerged as the winner of the third annual Governor’s Business Plan contest.
MatriLab is a 2-year-old company that has no revenue and is trying to raise $250,000 from angel investors. MatriLab’s technology is based on research by John Kao, a pharmacy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In a deal that relieves the university and a private developer of more than $2.15 million in local property tax liability, the UW-Madison has taken ownership of “air space” in a new high-rise building that hasn’t been constructed.
The UW Board of Regents last month approved amending its agreement with Executive Management Inc., the Madison-based real estate firm redeveloping University Square into a $190 million mixed use complex.
MILWAUKEE – A state purchasing official testified at her fraud trial today that she contacted as many companies as she possibly could to give them a chance to win contracts to book travel by state employees.Georgia Thompson, Department of Administration purchasing supervisor, was the first witness called to testify today as her defense began trying to rebut prosecutors’ contention that she favored Adelman Travel Group for a contract because of pressure from her bosses and the company’s ties to Gov. Jim Doyle.
MILWAUKEE – University of Wisconsin politics and policies are shaping up as a campaign issue, but university leaders said today they’re doing their best to stay clear of it.
U.S. Rep. Mark Green, the likely Republican candidate for governor, said in a statement that the Board of Regents, who met today, would be “ill advised” to raise tuition by 6.8 percent for in-state students as they decrease tuition for many out-of-state students.
“One of our big challenges is ignoring press releases for political gain,” said Regent President David Walsh during a news conference this morning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “Mr. Green has his own agenda.”
New jobs are opening up all the time in the dairy industry, and Chrissy Wendorf wants one of them.
She’ll be a junior this fall in the dairy science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she’s part of a growing trend that finds women outnumbering men in what’s been traditionally a male-dominated field of study.
Summer in Madison means that everyone has to make at least one pilgrimage to the Union Terrace to enjoy the sun-dappled waves of Lake Mendota, the company of friends and the joys of hearing live music without a roof over your head.
Get started early with the second annual TerraceFest, running from noon to midnight Saturday on the terrace at the Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. The all-day event is free, mixing live music with street performers and other fun events.
