UW-Milwaukee has its man. Athletic director Bud Haidet met late into Thursday evening at his home with University of Wisconsin associate head coach Rob Jeter and hammered out an agreement that made Jeter the Panthers’ new basketball coach.
A $5 million education research grant has been bestowed on the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the school announced. The five-year federal grant will fund an interdisciplinary training program in the education sciences at the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research in the School of Education. (Sixth item)
Iraq war veteran Robert Acosta, a 22-year-old Hispanic man from Santa Ana, Calif., lost his right hand and the use of his left leg when a grenade was tossed into his Humvee in Baghdad in July 2003. He received the Purple Heart for his injuries. This week, and for the rest of April, you can see his picture in Madison. Next week, you can see him here in person.
Next Wednesday, Apr. 13, Acosta and UW-Madison professors Joe Elder and Mary Layoun will participate in a panel discussion on “What is the human cost of war?”
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin’s pig-shocking project discussed in the March 30 Capital Times brought back memories of another notable UW “research” project.
A report that claimed that Rob Jeter is expected to become the next coach at UW-Milwaukee has been called inaccurate by a source within the Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
ESPN.com reported today that Jeter, the Badgers’ associate head coach, will become the UW-Milwaukee coach Friday. It cited a source close to the search.
A source within the Badgers’ program said that report “is flat wrong” and that Jeter has not decided whether to accept the offer.
Sponsors of a nonpartisan effort to buck up voter turnout for the spring elections say they’re going to rethink their strategies given Tuesday’s low turnout in Dane County. (UW Hospital and UW-Madison were among the employers participating in the effort.)
City and county officials said that just 18.7 percent of eligible county voters and 17 percent of eligible Madison voters made it to the polls, the lowest figure in eight years.
Wisconsin Public Radio has won a prestigious Peabody Award for “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” a weekly radio magazine started in 1990 about political and social trends.
The show airs here Sunday mornings on AM and FM stations, and is distributed nationwide to 128 stations by Public Radio International.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is inviting the city, neighborhood activists and property owners to map a strategy to upgrade the housing stock in four neighborhoods bordering the campus.
Associate Vice Chancellor Alan Fish told the city Housing Committee Wednesday night that conditions are ripe for the conversion of rundown apartment houses in the Bassett, Mifflin, Greenbush and Vilas neighborhoods to owner-occupied homes.
The tsunami gives the tattered Indonesian province of Aceh a rare opportunity for political reform, an expert in Asian studies said at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Michael Leigh spoke to about 20 people during an afternoon address at Ingraham Hall on Wednesday. Leigh is the director of the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager’s opinion that any legislation that would ban the University of Wisconsin System from advocating the use of emergency contraception or providing it to students would be unconstitutional has, not surprisingly, touched off a controversy in the Capitol. But that doesn’t mean Lautenschlager’s opinion is off base. Or that University Health Services was wrong to advocate the use of emergency contraception for students on spring break.
University of Wisconsin associate head coach Rob Jeter, a longtime assistant to Badgers coach Bo Ryan, has emerged as the leading candidate for the head coaching position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an expert on state and local government public finance.
MADISON – Charlotte Monona Hamilton Nafziger, age 98, died peacefully on Friday, Apr. 1, 2005. Her partnership with her husband Ralph O. Nafziger in journalism circles was renowned at the UW during the 30s, later at the University of Minnesota, and then a second time at the UW when her husband returned in 1949 as director of the School of Journalism.
A classroom building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was evacuated on Tuesday after a water main broke at the construction site next door.
Construction workers identified the break at the site of the new microbiology building, being built where E.B. Fred Hall had been, mid-morning on Tuesday, said John Harrod, UW-Madison’s director of physical plant. University officials were worried the water would destabilize the soil and loosen the foundations of Hiram Smith Hall, 1545 Observatory Drive, Harrod said.
The state attorney general says that a proposed law that would bar the University of Wisconsin System – or anyone on UW property – from advertising, prescribing or dispensing emergency contraception is unconstitutional.
But the author of the bill, Rep. Daniel LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, says he will go ahead, because Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager’s opinion is merely advisory.
Sweeping changes starting this fall in the UW-Madison evening MBA program have it geared more toward international perspectives and concerns.
Along with major curriculum revisions, a big addition is an international trip in the second year of the three-year program, said Linda Uitvlugt, director of operations for the program.
PAT RICHTER’S life story might be rejected in Hollywood as too corny for these cynical times. Can the hometown hero with the movie star looks really star in the big game, get the girl, succeed on a larger stage, step away from the spotlight, and then return for a spectacular encore?
“It’s a story worth telling,” Vince Sweeney was saying Tuesday. “There are still some people out there who do things the right way, and come out on top.”
A $10 million “super” research tax credit for corporations was advanced today by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee. The vote was 9-6.
Action came despite the lack of a public hearing on the measure, with state Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, saying it “seems odd to do outside the (regular) budget process.” The committee is expected to start voting on the budget bill by mid-April.
Wisconsin was ranked 10th in the nation and UW-Milwaukee was 23rd in the final ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll for men’s college basketball.
The provost of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is retiring, the school has announced. (Second item)
Beginning next year, most students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s evening MBA program will take an international trip as part of their studies.
Legislation that would prohibit the University of Wisconsin System from advocating the use of emergency contraception or providing it to students would be unconstitutional if passed, Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager said Tuesday in an advisory opinion.
Tasha McDowell has been selected as an assistant coach with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, filling the void created by the departure of recruiting coordinator Denise Ianello, a source told The Capital Times.
McDowell, 29, has eight years of coaching experience. She spent the past four seasons as an assistant at the University of California-Santa Barbara and served as the Gauchos’ recruiting coordinator for three consecutive seasons.
University of Wisconsin associate head men’s basketball coach Rob Jeter is one of two finalists for the vacant head job at UW-Milwaukee, according to a published report.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said that Rob Dunlap, the coach at Metropolitan State – an NCAA Division II school in Denver – is the other top candidate.
The number of Wisconsin residents with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to triple to 348,000 within 50 years, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
University of Wisconsin researchers who think they may be able to slow that increase appeared Monday at a press conference at the State Capitol, calling for legislative support of a proposal in the governor’s budget that would provide $3 million for Alzheimer’s research during the next two-year budget period.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Peter Spear says he will retire in December, and he and his wife plan to move to the West.
Spear, 60, has been provost since 2001. He was previously on the faculty at UW-Madison and spent five years as an administrator at the University of Colorado-Boulder. As provost, Spear was the object of speculation about whether he would some day succeed Chancellor John Wiley as the university’s leader. Both Wiley and his predecessor, David Ward, had served as provost before ascending to the chancellorship.
An anti-religion group is denouncing Gov. Jim Doyle’s executive order to lower flags to mark the death of Pope John Paul II.
Doyle’s directive appears like “an endorsement of Roman Catholicism over other religious viewpoints,” according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Quoted: Barbra Wolfe, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Peter Spear says he will retire at the end of this year. Spear, 60, has been provost since 2001. He was previously on the faculty at UW-Madison and spent five years as an administrator at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
The number of Wisconsin residents with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to triple to 348,000 within 50 years, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
University of Wisconsin researchers who think they may be able to slow that increase appeared at a press conference at the State Capitol today, calling for legislative support of a proposal in the governor’s budget that would provide $3 million for Alzheimer’s research during the next two-year budget period.
It is, George Beres says, hard to believe we’ve reached this point. Sad truth is, however, an increasing number of Americans don’t understand that public relations and journalism have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
They don’t understand, he says, that a journalist’s job involves getting the facts and reporting them in a straightforward, honest way. Whereas a PR person is “essentially operating in behalf of a client and uses facts selectively to paint as attractive an image as possible.” And sometimes PR people lie.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A year after Audrey Seiler faked her own kidnapping while a student at UW-Madison, her lawyer says she’s getting help, paying restitution and focusing on the future.
The films are back in their canisters. The theater floors have been swept and mopped. The audience’s eyes have adjusted to sunlight again.
The seventh annual Wisconsin Film Festival is over, but memories of the four-day festival and its 160 or so films still linger. Some of the festival’s 150 volunteers were still tallying ticket sales late Sunday, but festival director Mary Carbine said this year’s tally matched and possibly exceeded last year’s record of 24,000 tickets sold.
Freshman Marcus Randle El had opening-day jitters at football practice on Sunday. The practice was the first of the spring for Randle El, a wide receiver-quarterback from Markham, Ill. He had been suspended for UW’s first seven practices because of his alleged role in a fight in his dorm room on March 7. Randle El faces one count of disorderly conduct and has a pre-trial conference set for April 14 in Dane County Circuit Court.
A new study paints a grim picture of today’s environment, arguing that the world is living far beyond its means. But as part of the study, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist and other experts laid out four scenarios that offer hope that humans can turn things around.
Stem cell pioneer James Thomson has started a company with two other University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members that aims to provide drug screening services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
After five years of exhaustive research and experimentation, doctors at University Hospital here announced that they can now cure, with a surgical procedure, the bane of most golfers — the cursed slice.
“We can guarantee that after we perform this surgery, which usually can be done lapriscopically, the golfer will hit the ball straight and almost always the yardage lost to a slice will be restored to the end of the drive, making it longer,” said Dr. Schott Schank, one of the team of surgeons who developed the new procedure.
(HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY!!!)
Several UW graduate programs took top honors in an annual ranking of the nation’s best graduate schools.
U.S. News and World Report’s 2006 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools rated the UW’s sociology department the best in the nation, with first place also going to specialty programs in history and sociology.
They came by the hundreds, and many sported red jackets. Even two Wisconsin political icons who rarely share a stage were there, taking turns at the pulpit.
They came to Bethel Lutheran Church on Thursday to pay tribute to the ultimate Badger, Arlie Mucks, who died March 19 at the age of 85.
….On Thursday, Madison police officials released the department’s annual crime statistics, which will be used to compile the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report later this year….one unsettling statistic stands out: a striking 52 percent increase in forcible rape, to 94 incidents from 62 the previous year.
….The incidence of rape and other violent crime was most prevalent in the central district’s university student-heavy and bar-saturated downtown area, where 228 violent crimes were reported. That’s more than twice as many as in the city’s north and east districts.
Bobby Seale, co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party and an icon of the 1960s, gave a live history lesson on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday night and promises to do more of the same at 7 p.m. tonight� in 165 Bascom Hall.
About 100 students and community members gathered at Chadbourne Hall to hear Seale tell stories of his legendary revolutionary past. Seale talked about the protests and violent clashes that led to the indictments of the Chicago 7 in 1968.
The Second World War had just ended, and the baby boom, civil rights and women’s movements were still ahead when Ilse Weinberg gathered a group of young University of Wisconsin faculty wives together to share their love of books.
At that first meeting in 1947, they couldn’t have known that a social group with a foundation built on books and lively discussion would grow and thrive, even beyond the lifetimes of many of the original members.
Can the Legislature restrict what prescriptions are written by medical personnel at University of Wisconsin student health clinics?
Two Democratic leaders are asking Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager’s advice on that issue in the wake of a Republican-sponsored bill on birth control pills.
Stem cell pioneer and University of Wisconsin researcher James Thomson is opening a business at the UW Research Park.
Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. will work on cellular tissue regeneration involving the heart; the research there will involve stem cell research, but will not be limited to that, according to an industry insider familiar with the business who wished not to be identified.
The group that runs the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is not part of state government and therefore can be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The ruling by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago reinstates a lawsuit filed by Joyce Takle, a former nurse at the Madison hospital who claims she was fired in 2000 for being diabetic.
UW-Milwaukee’s search for a replacement for basketball coach Bruce Pearl is starting to take shape, and it will certainly heat up this weekend as UWM officials interview candidates at the Final Four in St. Louis. UW-Madison assistant coach Rob Jeter expresses interest in the job.
STEVENS POINT – A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher proposed a quick experiment about the newest police tool for subduing unruly bad guys and protecting officers – the X26 Taser – as the safety of the weapon has come under question.
“I could think everyone in this room could be Tasered and we would have no problems,” John Webster told about 100 law enforcement officials who gathered Tuesday for a meeting to develop a state policy about how best to use the weapon.
Cal DeWitt, a longtime UW-Madison environmental studies professor and founder of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies in northern Michigan, will be among six people to receive special achievement awards Thursday from the National Wildlife Federation.
Ever the diplomat, (UW-Madison professor of environmental studies) Cal DeWitt leans back in an easy chair in his rustic town of Dunn home and searches for a tactful way to describe the Bush administration’s relentless and unprecedented attacks on the environment.
…on Thursday, DeWitt will fly to Washington, D.C., to receive a special achievement award from the National Wildlife Federation for his three decades of work protecting wildlife habitats and for building a bridge between Christian groups and the science of conservation.
APPLETON (AP) – A University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh professor has been charged with stalking a 35-year-old Appleton woman who worked briefly at the school.
Richard L. Stiver, 62, of Oshkosh, was released Tuesday from the Outagamie County Jail after posting a $5,000 cash bond on that felony charge and three misdemeanor counts of telephone harassment.
To protest a study that would subject pigs to electric shocks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor on Tuesday withdrew from a project she planned with the man leading the Taser research.
Terry Young, a professor in the department of population health sciences, told university administrators she would no longer participate in a study with John Webster, a professor emeritus of biomedical engineering.
The state doesn’t have enough money to pay for domestic partner benefits for University of Wisconsin employees, say two top members of a powerful Legislative panel.
The Board of Regents is asking the Legislature to let them provide that benefit, arguing that its absence hurts their ability to recruit and retain faculty and staff.
KEVIN GONZALEZ, a 23-year-old MFA student in poetry at UW-Madison, learned Monday that he has won the prestigious Playboy College Fiction Contest. Gonzalez won for his short story, “Statehood.”
Leaders of the University of Wisconsin System on Tuesday urged lawmakers to reinvest in public higher education – especially in the salaries of faculty and staff – after two years of substantial tuition increases and cuts in state appropriations.
To protest a study that would subject pigs to electric shocks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor withdrew Tuesday from a project she planned with the man leading the Taser research. Terry Young told university administrators she would no longer participate in a study with John Webster, a professor emeritus of biomedical engineering. (Third item)
Officers will be patrolling the campus and downtown areas through Sunday educating riders about the laws that affect them.
Four members have resigned from an anti-sweatshop advisory committee at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, citing disagreements with Chancellor John Wiley.
The conflict centered around the best way for the university to keep licensees of UW logo apparel from moving their factories to China, a nation with a poor record on labor rights.
It sounds like the plot of a cheesy sci-fi film: A futuristic army of clones saves the giant panda from extinction. But it isn’t. (Third in a series)
Eight years after Dolly the cloned Scottish sheep, the world now has Little Nicky, the first cloned pet cat – the progeny of a rather flippantly named Texas company, Genetic Savings & Clone Inc., which is moving to a Madison-area industrial park. But the nagging moral, ethical, legal and long-term scientific questions raised by cloning remain largely unanswered.
UW-Milwaukee athletic director Bud Haidet hit the jackpot in his last two hires for Panthers basketball coach, getting Bo Ryan and Bruce Pearl. Mentioned as a candidate to replace the departing Pearl is Wisconsin assistant Rob Jeter.
