Now that we have a couple of weeks’ distance from this year’s Halloween “festivities” in Madison, during which the police decided to pepper-spray a crowd to pre-empt the drunken rampages of previous years, perhaps we can begin to think seriously about underage drinking.
Quoted: Michael S. Gutter, a professor of personal finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
During a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in October, Bill Gates – yes, that Bill Gates – said in an interview that the Xbox 360 is among Microsoft’s most important products in the pipeline, behind only its flagship Windows operating system and Office suite of software.
Quoted: Botanist Don Waller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Frank Greer, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Significant research and development activity and a fair number of start-ups have failed to spark any critical mass of emerging technology industries in the Midwest, according to a report by an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Also quotes Allen J. Dines, assistant director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Corporate Relations, and Andrew Cohn, spokesman for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Before making an all-night journey to an infamous military training center in Georgia, Madison area peace activists urged Bishop Robert Morlino to work to bring about change there.
Morlino was appointed last month to the 13-member board of visitors of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, at Fort Benning in Georgia.
…. The 42-member Madison delegation included 30 college age students, including six from Edgewood and 15 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: James L. Baughman, professor and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
I am a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Wisconsin native who grew up in Mukwonago. Before coming to this university, I knew there would be “Coasties” and there would be differences, but not to this degree.
Western Collegiate Hockey Association commissioner Bruce McLeod said he’s disappointed in Adam Burish’s actions, but he won’t add any extra games to the University of Wisconsin hockey captain’s punishment.
Burish is out for Saturday’s WCHA game against Minnesota State because of a game disqualification he received for a hit on Colorado College’s Scott Thauwald at the end of last Saturday’s game. McLeod reviewed video of the incident but, after consulting with league supervisor of officials Greg Shepherd and taking into account past league suspensions, decided Tuesday it did not warrant more on-ice discipline.
Some University of Wisconsin-Madison departments do a poor job accounting for how they spend private donations intended for specific projects, an internal report warns.
Instead of creating separate accounts, some departments deposit the gifts into general department accounts, UW-Madison’s internal auditor said. That makes it difficult to monitor whether the departments spend the money as the donors request.
When Winslow Sargeant’s term ended at the National Science Foundation this year, he could have gone anywhere.
He chose Madison. And that says a lot, said John Neis, managing partner at Venture Investors LLC, where Sargeant is becoming the fifth partner.
Sargeant, who earned his doctorate in computer and electrical engineering at UW-Madison, is a Dot-Com Bubble survivor with a wealth of hard-earned entrepreneurial experience and a Rolodex bulging with prime contacts from three years with the NSF’s Small Business Innovation Research program.
When he moves to Madison from Washington, D.C., next May, Winslow Sargeant will become a big fish in a relatively small pond.
As a well-to-do African-American with a prestigious and influential position, the newest partner at Venture Investors LLC inevitably will be looked upon to take a leadership role in the community.
A $500,000 federal grant is aimed at helping Wisconsin gain more funding for classified and sensitive research. The grant is to the non-profit Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, which was launched this fall by the Wisconsin Technology Council and 11 public and private academic research partners.
The grant is earmarked for the consortium’s start-up, administrative and research work, not for individual companies.
The initial members of the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium are the UW System, UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Superior, UW-La Crosse, UW-Stout, UW-Extension, the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, the Milwaukee School of Engineering and the Tech Council. The consortium will eventually include associate members from private industry.
There is plenty more classical music on tap this week, especially at the UW School of Music.
A bill that would make it easier for University of Wisconsin professors to cash in on their research is part of a package of “Invest Wisconsin” legislation announced by Republican legislators today.
Other laws – some already introduced and others to come – would create wide-ranging tax credits and exemptions aimed at promoting investments in high-technology projects and businesses.
MatriLab, a biotech start-up company with one foot in Madison and the other in Milwaukee, is part of the new “tech corridor” taking shape between the two cities.
Basic scientific research is being done at UW-Madison, while clinical work is taking place in Milwaukee.
The company, which makes an innovative drug delivery product for wounds, stems from a partnership that includes scientists, clinicians and management consultants.
Madison and eight rural districts will share in a new program aimed at expanding advance placement courses in high schools.
The program, funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Governors’ Association, was announced Tuesday by first lady Jessica Doyle. There will be a particular emphasis on disadvantaged and underserved students, she said.
Although his family could not believe the hurt he had caused by his terrible mistake of driving while drunk, the story of Kurt Jensen is an all too common one in the Dane County Court system, said Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Nicks as she sent a former Bucky Badger to jail for four months.
Jensen, 24, was one of six students to fill the role of Bucky Badger as team mascot and all-around campus notable for the University of Wisconsin and its athletic teams in the 2002-2003 school year. He was also put on probation for 24 months, ordered to pay a $300 fine and ordered to perform 196 hours of community service.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor has won the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for science and technology.
Edwin Lightfoot, emeritus professor of chemical and biological engineering, is one of eight recipients of the award, which will be presented by President Bush in a White House ceremony. The date has not yet been set.
Lightfoot joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 1953. His textbook, “Transport Phenomena,” published in 1960, is considered a landmark in chemical and biological engineering.
University of Wisconsin System officials asked the attorney general Monday for her opinion on whether a practice at the Eau Claire campus of banning resident assistants from leading Bible studies in their dorm rooms is constitutional.
….UW-Eau Claire resident assistant Lance Steiger, who challenged the policy, said he was happy to see the UW System seek an outside opinion on the practice. But he said a lawsuit was possible if the school does not change its policy.
Dear Editor: Your article Friday on the massive pro-divestment-from-Israel outcry at the recent UW investment hearings gives exactly the same amount of space to the (very few) people with the (very bad) anti-divestment arguments as to the (very many) people with the (very good) pro-divestment arguments.
During the South Africa divestment campaign, when a huge crowd favored divestment and only a few opposed it, would The Capital Times have given equal space to the tiny pro-apartheid minority? If not, why is The Capital Times, a supposedly left-leaning paper, shilling for the tiny pro-Israeli-apartheid minority who attended the hearings?….
Kevin Barrett, coordinator, Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, Madison
Adam Burish said Monday that he hopes people don’t judge him by the hit at the end of Saturday’s University of Wisconsin hockey game for which he faces the possibility of further suspension.
Burish, the Badgers’ senior captain, already is out for Saturday’s series opener against Minnesota State at the Kohl Center because of his game disqualification penalty for a check on Colorado College’s Scott Thauwald near the final horn.
John P. Kaminski, author of a series of chapbooks on America’s Founding Fathers, will give a reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Borders Books, 3750 University Ave. Kaminski will read from “George Washington: The Man of the Age” and “Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher and Politician.” The series is being published by Parallel Press, an imprint of the UW-Madison Libraries.
Kaminski is director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the UW-Madison history department.
Proposed cuts to financial aid programs could harm the ability of some families to send their children to college, a state lawmaker says.
Republicans in Congress are trying to cut $50 billion in overall spending, and have targeted $14.5 billion in student financial aid cuts over the next five years. The House is expected vote on Wednesday.
….State Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, said Monday that the cuts would come on top of major tuition increases in the states. By next year, tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses will have increased more than 50 percent over four years.
In a speech here Monday night George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, laid out a seven-point plan for how he’d reform the country. Each and every item was met with thunderous cheers as if the 83-year-old former senator from South Dakota were a current political contender.
Near the end of his UW-Madison lecture, “The Iraq War: Lessons From the Past,” McGovern called for the United States to get out of Iraq and for President Bush and his advisers to admit that Iraq was never a threat to the U.S.
ââ?¬Â¢ Kudos to recent UW-Madison grad Anand Chhatpar, just named one of Business Week Online’s “25 Top Entrepreneurs under 25.” Chhatpar is founder and CEO of BrainReactions, an innovation consulting firm based here. He’s originally from Bombay, India, and came to Madison in fall 2001 to study chemical engineering.
The two healthiest counties in the state are also the two wealthiest, while the two least healthy are counties with large American Indian populations and low incomes, according to a study by the UW Population Health Institute.
….I have to admit that most e-mails pushing products get deleted fast. But the “UW Holiday Cards” slug line piqued my curiosity just enough for me to stop trolling and start viewing.
One look and I was sold. The six cards — five contemporary photos in color and one archival shot in black and white — are classic campus images.
Dear Editor: I think the Lipski sculpture is great. It will spark imaginations and inspire discussions about art. It might even rally athletic supporters. After all, it does look like something in need of a jock, doesn’t it?
Jeff Berry, Madison
Dear Editor: Nail’s Tales is not a huge stack of footballs as is widely assumed. It is a huge stack of oddballs, goofballs and screwballs. Perfect for the UW-Madison campus.
We need to appoint a committee to review the panel that appointed the committee that commissioned this $200,000 expenditure. Can the “lemon law” be applied here?
Bob Marek, McFarland
In the cold November rain, the reign of Barry Alvarez at Camp Randall Stadium ended with the roar of a capacity crowd, despite a whimper of an effort over the last three quarters of a humbling 20-10 loss to Iowa.
That, if nothing else, is testament to the power of personality that Alvarez has held in this state for the past 16 years. Well, the last 13, anyway, once he delivered the first of three Rose Bowl titles and proved what he had told people since the day he was hired – that there was no reason the University of Wisconsin couldn’t be as successful in football as it was in cross country, or in genetic research, for that matter.
A group of UW-Madison civil engineers has received a Popular Science magazine “Best of What’s New” award in engineering for a technology designed to lengthen the life of bridges without raising construction costs.
The technology, which is highlighted in the magazine’s December issue, was developed by civil and environmental engineering professors Larry Bank and Mike Oliva, along with former graduate students David Jacobson and Mack Conachen.
University Partners is renovating the five private dorms serving UW-Madison students that it acquired from Steve Brown Apartments of Madison.
University Partners, a subsidiary of Dallas-based FirstWorthing, acquired the Highlander, Statesider, Langdon, The Towers and The Regent in 2004, and is taking over management of them on Jan. 1.
The company that sped up pulls of draft beer at sports stadiums around the country with its Turbo Tap nozzle is bringing the technology to rec rooms across America.
“It brings the project back to our roots,” said inventor Matthew Younkle, the company’s president and chief technology officer, who came up with the idea with partner Kristofer Dressler when they were students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison’s lakes can be saved, but it will take generations to undo the damage done over the past 150 years.
This frank assessment of the future of the Yahara chain of lakes came Friday from world-renowned University of Wisconsin Professor Stephen Carpenter at the 25th symposium of the North American Lake Management Society at Monona Terrace.
For one of the rare times in his coaching life – spanning the last 16 seasons as the University of Wisconsin football coach – Barry Alvarez didn’t know where he was going. He really didn’t have a plan.
other Nature wasn’t about to rain on Barry Alvarez’s moment, even if Iowa tried to spoil the party.
The Hawkeyes left Camp Randall Stadium with a 20-10 victory over Wisconsin in Alvarez’s last home game as coach; however, the rain that pounded the field Saturday afternoon stopped in time for Badgers fans to celebrate the rags-to-riches story that is Wisconsin football.
After months of being stalled for retooling, a proposed constitutional amendment to limit state and local tax revenue in Wisconsin is back on the fast track and will go before the Legislature early next year.
Stay in school, kids – it’s good for your health.
That’s the premise of a study being released today that ranks Waukesha County as Wisconsin’s healthiest county, partly because of its low high-school dropout rate.
The theory behind the University of Wisconsin-Madison study is that educated people are more likely to make smart choices about cigarette smoking and other unhealthy lifestyles.
Brandon Williams, always ready with a heartfelt comment regardless of the topic, needed a moment of reflection before tackling this nagging question:
What’s the most attractive bowl Wisconsin can hope for in the wake of the crushing loss to Iowa?
It is not true that officials at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will be conducting room checks to make sure that students aren’t reading their Bibles or the Qur’an on state property; nor will those officials be conducting bed checks to make sure the kids aren’t praying before they close their eyes to sleep. But officials are doing something almost as silly by enforcing a non-written policy barring resident assistants from holding religious or political activities in the dorms where they work, even when those activities take place on the students’ own time.
A study that will be released by Milwaukee Women inc today suggests that women have made little or no progress in the executive suites and boardrooms of Wisconsin’s biggest companies in the last two years.
It was prepared by Van Do and Belinda Bao, both graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school.
Through a microscope, the H5N1 flu virus looks about as menacing as a moldy doughnut hole: not something you’d want to put in your mouth, but not something you’d run screaming from either.
Working in a high-containment laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stacey Schultz-Cherry and three other researchers have been studying the H5N1 virus.
Quoted: Michael S. Gutter, a professor of personal finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Medical College of Wisconsin has come of age.
The school that in 1996 was luring genetics expert Howard J. Jacob from Harvard University is now working to keep its best researchers from going to other institutions.
Steven Avery already had a tough challenge in trying to prove his civil rights were violated when he was wrongly prosecuted for and convicted of a Manitowoc County rape in 1985.
And that case just got a whole lot harder, now that prosecutors say they will charge Avery with homicide, two legal experts said Friday. Also quotes Gordon Baldwin, emeritus law professor at UW-Madison.
Armchair critics are engaged in a verbal punt, pass and kick competition over Donald Lipski’s recently erected football sculpture at Camp Randall Stadium.
Meanwhile, the city has quietly installed another new piece of public art that also uses stylized symbolism to represent the function of a public facility. The sculpture, by Madison artist Gail Simpson, is located outside of the Water Utility Building, 119 E. Olin Ave. The artwork was commissioned by the Madison Arts Commission (formerly CitiARTS) at a cost of $25,000.
….Simpson, a UW-Madison professor of art, is a partner in a local art company, Actual Size Artwork, with Aris Georgiades. The professional artists have collaborated on commissioned public artworks since 1992.
Steven Avery was freed last year after volunteers from the Innocence Project at the UW-Madison Law School found evidence that another man – not Avery – committed the rape for which Avery was convicted.
“It’s a tragic turn of events,” Keith Findley, co-director of the Innocence Project, said Thursday. “We’re very saddened to hear that they found human remains” on Avery family property.
Project co-director John Pray added, “It’s a very sad day for everyone involved, and our hearts and prayers go out to the (Teresa Halbach) family.”
University of Wisconsin student fees, historically used to pay for student services and activities, are increasingly being tapped by administrators to build student unions, fitness centers and student health clinics as state funding dwindles, members of the Board of Regents were told Thursday.
The fees have reached more than $500 per year at all four-year campuses and as high as $1,148 at UW-Green Bay. At the flagship UW-Madison, student fees have increased 33 percent over the last five years to $662 this year.
Regent Thomas Loftus of Sun Prairie asked for a clearer picture of how student fees have been used, the process to approve increases, and what they mean for the affordability of attending college.
The wave of patriotism that swept over the country in the wake of terrorist attacks and war has resulted in a tide of Wisconsin laws aimed at helping veterans.
….”This current budget probably has the most major changes for veterans in Wisconsin since the GI Bill of 1946,” John Scocos, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, said in an interview this week as today’s Veterans Day observances neared.
For instance, he noted, the budget provided 50 percent tuition waivers at University of Wisconsin and technical colleges for veterans who entered service in Wisconsin and free tuition for spouses and children of vets who are killed or significantly disabled in action.
The University of Wisconsin System would not grant future academic administrators backup jobs, a controversial perk in which administrators got lower-level jobs if fired, under a proposal a regents’ committee approved Thursday.
Instead, the system would give administrators up to six months’ notice before it fires them under a resolution approved by the regents’ business and finance committee at a meeting in Madison.
Protesters packed a hearing Thursday on the University of Wisconsin’s investment portfolio, encouraging the Board of Regents to divest from Israel.
Many held Palestinian flags, as speaker after speaker called for the university to divest from companies that do business with the Israeli military. They argued, for example, that Caterpillar makes bulldozers that are used to knock down houses of families of suspected Palestinian terrorists. And Lockheed Martin supplies the Israeli Air Force.
….The UW Board of Regents’ Business and Finance Committee held its annual forum on trust funds at Grainger Hall, with committee members, as usual, sitting quietly at a table in front while members of the public said their piece.
Wisconsin’s Big Ten Conference football finale Saturday against visiting Iowa will be the last game in Camp Randall Stadium for coach Barry Alvarez and 16 seniors.
Several UW assistants could also be working their final home game given that defensive coordinator Bret Bielema is taking over the program after this season
A committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday accepted an agreement in which the UW Medical School would spend an additional $920,000 a year on public health initiatives in Milwaukee, including plans for a possible public health school at UW-Milwaukee.
Barry Alvarez’s final game at Camp Randall Stadium will be an occasion Saturday for a number of reflections, including whether Alvarez will coach again.
Former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz does not recall precisely who brought Barry Alvarez to his attention when Holtz needed to add a coach to his Irish staff in 1987.
A key committee of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted Thursday to accept an agreement that will pour hundreds of thousands of additional dollars and resources into dealing with Milwaukee’s myriad public health problems.
For that, everyone in Milwaukee should be pleased. But the committee should have gone a step further and recommended an even firmer commitment to the creation of a school of public health at UW-Milwaukee, a new entity that could improve the state of public health in the city all the more.
Many in the Capitol struggled Thursday with the news that Steven Avery was being questioned in the suspected homicide of a woman who disappeared after visiting his family’s auto salvage operation.
Lawmakers and others came to know Avery after his wrongful conviction prompted a major reform of the criminal justice system.
Authorities declared Teresa Halbach’s disappearance a homicide Thursday after finding human bone and teeth fragments on the Manitowoc County property owned by Steven Avery’s family. Her car’s ignition key was found in Avery’s bedroom, they said.
