The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which patents and manages the licensing of the discoveries of UW-Madison researchers, has hired a new chief investment officer.
Tom Weaver, 54, has spent the last five years as senior investment manager of the $2.1 billion Fairfax County Employees Retirement System in Fairfax, Va.
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to announce a plan tonight that would give Wisconsin families with college students a break on their state income taxes. Doyle spokeswoman Melanie Fonder said Tuesday that when Doyle delivers his State of the State address tonight, he will announce a plan to increase the income tax deduction for families with students enrolled in a public university, private college or technical college.
Quoted: James Stewart, an oncologist and professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The group responsible for patenting the discoveries of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will announce today it has hired a new chief investment officer to replace the man who managed its now $1.4 billion investment portfolio for 26 years. Tom Weaver, who was senior investment manager of the $2.1 billion Fairfax County Employees Retirement System in Fairfax, Va., began overseeing the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation�s portfolio at the beginning of the year following the retirement of Mark Bear, said Andrew Cohn, a foundation spokesman.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Ryan MacMurchy had no way of knowing his night would get a lot better. On one of his first shifts, the University of Wisconsin junior forward fired a shot off the goalpost. He shortly thereafter took a penalty and, after being whistled for another infraction only 22 seconds after being freed from the penalty box, he let out a left-handed swipe at air as he took a seat again.
“I was angry,” MacMurchy said. “I’m an emotional player.” Cue the sign-of-maturity alert. Instead of letting his game spiral downhill from there, MacMurchy made a change for the better.
Lobbyists say polls show Gov. Jim Doyle’s favorable ratings are in the low 60 percent range. Meanwhile, the three Republicans mentioned as his possible opponent in 2006 have some potential problems.
This, then, is a “morning line” on the next gubernatorial race as Doyle prepares to give his State of the State address Wednesday to the Legislature.
WASHINGTON – The American welcome mat is still out for international students, and for the first time since 9/11 the number of students taking advantage of it has gone up.
The state’s Historical Society holds papers belonging to a one-time University of Wisconsin-Madison student from New York who was beaten and fatally shot 40 years ago for helping register black voters.
Quoted: Laura Dresser, research director at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles West, program director for sales and sales management programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
As long as Denise Ianello is physically in Madison, that’s where her heart will be, too. Ianello will leave her post as University of Wisconsin women’s basketball assistant coach at the end of this season to follow her husband, Rob, to South Bend, Ind. The Notre Dame football program hired him away from the Badgers this week to serve as recruiting coordinator and receivers coach.
But until then, Denise Ianello remains committed to the rebuilding effort under second-year coach Lisa Stone.
Quietly, Boo Wade returned to the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team a couple of weeks ago. Quietly, Wade left again Thursday. This time, he left for good.
The Badgers’ 6-foot-3 junior guard from Milwaukee has quit the team for personal reasons and will not return for classes, the school announced in a terse statement issued through the athletic department’s sports information office.
St. Louis-based biotech giant Sigma-Aldrich Corp., which has more than 6,000 employees and operations in 34 countries, confirmed that it will continue with a major expansion of a local biotech facility it acquired last year.
The company said the project will add 38,000 square feet to the 23,500-square-foot building at 645 Science Drive in University Research Park that houses what was Tetrionics. The former Tetrionics is now part of SAFC, a custom chemical manufacturer and a division of Sigma-Aldrich.
A UW Pharmacy School student was charged Thursday in connection with fires she allegedly set two years ago at a residence hall to get attention.
Kelly L. Fausek, 22, faces two charges of negligent handling of burning material. Fausek also faces a stalking charge for delivering threatening letters last month to a university official, and to herself, also allegedly done to get attention.
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board said Thursday that it earned a 12.7% return on the pension money it manages for government employees and retirees last year. The result means that about 125,000 pension checks should increase in May, officials said.
Guard Boo Wade has left the Wisconsin Badgers basketball team again, this time for good.
A task force agreed Thursday to seek legislation that would require all Wisconsin law enforcement agencies to develop policies on police lineups. The legislation is aimed at preventing wrongful convictions like that of Steven Avery, who contends that he served 18 years in prison partly because law enforcement officials led a sexual assault victim into falsely identifying him as her attacker. Avery was freed through the efforts of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, based at the UW Law School.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – It was fitting that during a frightful night when Purdue’s Mackey Arena was encased in ice, the UW men’s basketball team ended a cold, nasty losing streak by burning down the house with a torrid 3-point shooting barrage.
The final score was 77-68 in the Big Ten Conference opener for both teams here Wednesday night. But the score that may be most remembered from when the Badgers finally ended Purdue’s 33-year, 29-game winning streak over them at Mackey is 45-3.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will celebrate the “Year of Languages” by offering a series of programs throughout the year aimed at promoting multilingualism. The “Year of Languages” is a nationwide observance of the use of foreign language education to build ties to other cultures.
One of the most controversial and colorful members of the City Council is not seeking re-election. Ald. Steve Holtzman, the District 19 alderman since 1995, did not submit nomination papers to the City Clerk’s Office by Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline.
Had Holtzman decided to stay in the race, he would have faced political newcomer Noel Radomski, who already has the endorsement of City Council President Brenda Konkel and is widely perceived to be a favorite of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz.
After the terrorist attacks of 2001, many believed the government’s more stringent visa policy would complicate life for international students….Numbers of international students at UW-Madison and at other U.S. universities have been declining recently. But, at least at UW, it isn’t because of bureacratic holdups. (1/5/05 Capital Times)
Dear Editor:…We need to continue stem cell research, especially at the university level….Let’s back Gov. Doyle and our own University of Wisconsin to continue the search for answers. We cannot afford to lag behind in this valuable research.
Sylvia Oberle
Stanley
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, UW-Madison economist.
Quoted: Seth Pollak, associate professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
New Jersey would invest an additional $500 million during the next decade to secure the state’s place as a world leader in stem-cell research in a proposal being considered by acting Governor Codey.
A state task force Thursday is expected to adopt recommendations aimed at preventing wrongful convictions like that of Steven Avery, the Manitowoc County man who spent 18 years in prison for a sexual assault he didn’t commit. Avery was freed through the work of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, based at the UW Law School.
California’s new stem cell agency is generating a lot of talk – and it’s not all about the ethics of human embryonic research. First Amendment advocates are grousing about the veil of secrecy covering how the agency is coming together and where $3 billion in taxpayer money is going.
Quoted: Jon Keevil, an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Christmas Eve news that the Bush administration is going to cut back on Pell grants for low-income students this year underscored just how out of kilter this country has become.
We’re spending billions upon billions fighting a war that should never have been started and lavishing billions upon billions on giving the least needy people in America breaks on their income taxes. As is almost always the case, the people who can afford it least wind up bearing the burden.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found a way to revive dying brain cells in lab mice, spurring hopes of combating major human neurological diseases.
“It’s actually amazing,” said Jeff Johnson, an associate professor in the School of Pharmacy and the lead researcher. He said the discovery can be put to work trying to halt the progression of early-stage diseases like Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s and Alzheimer’s.
A new “niche” show of African pottery has been on display at the University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum of Art since December. It is located in a display case between Galleries IV and V and will be up through Jan. 16.
The curator of the show is Nichole Bridges, a graduate student in art history who is pursuing her doctorate with the internationally recognized UW scholar Henry Drewal.
The last time University of Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez had a staff opening – with the departure of longtime defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove to Nebraska – Alvarez wanted to fill the vacancy with “the best guy who fit” and someone who could positively impact team chemistry.
The ground rules will likely stay the same now that Alvarez is looking to replace tight ends coach Rob Ianello, who has taken a position on Charlie Weis’ fledgling staff at Notre Dame….His wife, Denise Ianello, another solid recruiter, is a member of Lisa Stone’s women’s basketball staff at Wisconsin.
Reading and ‘rithmetic are still the superstars in education these days. Under federal law, just about every public school third- through eighth-grader in America will be tested in those two areas, starting next year. But writing also is on the front burner again in American education. Anyone who thought a few years ago that television and technology would be the death knell of the written word, especially among kids, was unduly alarmed.
David Hottman, a longtime professor of voice at the University of Wisconsin School of Music who often sang baritone roles with the Madison Opera, died Sunday afternoon. Hottman, 71, had been in a local nursing home for several months following a stroke. He retired from the university in 1998. Funeral arrangements and plans for a memorial service are pending. (Capital Times)
Dear Editor: The AP story by Justin Pope, “Thunder from the campus right,” published in the Capital Times Dec. 28, cites the case of Columbia University, where our film, “Columbia Unbecoming,” documented the harassment and intimidation of students by professors hostile to Israel.
But this is not…a case of “liberal vs. conservative (writes Charles Jacobs, president of The David Project in Boston)…. It has to do with the dominance in many of our country’s Middle East studies departments by Arabists and radicals, and the indifference of university administrators.
Beth Pitot/Hubbard, 49, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004. After earning her M.S. in nursing administration from the School of Nursing in 1996, she taught at the school and served as a member of its alumni association board of directors from 1997-2002. Beth was a clinical nurse manager in the acute rehabilitation and family practice units at UW Hospital and Clinics until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2001. She then resigned from those positions and worked as a clinical nurse specialist in both units until six weeks before her death.
Greg Armstrong, the former director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, saw it coming.
He knew that when the Fitchburg City Council approved the upper-crust Harlan Hills subdivision in 1998 – shortly after Fitchburg residents had voted not to borrow $750,000 to help purchase the 73-acre site just east of Seminole Highway – it was yet another setback for the Arboretum’s prized but ecologically fragile Greene Prairie.
(AP) Wisconsin’s Democratic governor and the Assembly’s top Republican want to clean up the state’s financial mess, make government more efficient and improve the lives of Wisconsin residents. They just have very different ideas on how to do it.
Gov. Jim Doyle and the Republican-dominated Legislature head into the next two-year legislative session with a $1.6 billion state budget deficit to solve amid growing pressure to ease the growth in property taxes.
A Chinese student studying at Harvard had to go back home last year to attend his father’s funeral. It took him five months to get permission from U.S. immigration authorities to return to his studies here.
It’s stories like that that are causing a drastic drop in the number of foreign students studying at universities in the United States.
University of Wisconsin officials expressed sorrow over the devastation in Asia, but said there was little more they can do to reach out to members of the university community overseas.
The UW was able to track down all 25 students from this country that were studying in Thailand and India. But it has proved much more difficult to find the approximately 700 UW international students from the affected areas.
Madison’s annual celebration of the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. will feature some changes this year. Residents will gather at a new location for the 20th annual City-County King Recognition Day on Jan. 17. And a new event is being added to the weekend of commemorative events, to provide a forum for anti-war advocates to link their issues to the legacy of King.
Since the former Oscar Mayer Theatre is undergoing renovation, the City-County King Recognition Day program will be held this year at the Wisconsin Union Theater….
For more than a month after the ugly regular-season finale, the University of Wisconsin players and coaches had to accept the fact they had twice failed to seize the opportunity to win a conference football title and secure a Rose Bowl berth. They’ll have the entire off-season to deal with the added dissapointment of losing to Georgia, 24-21, in the Outback Bowl.
God must love government, reasons Waukesha County Executive Daniel Finley, because that�s why we have so much of it in Wisconsin.
With only nine of 22 starters returning, the realistic outlook for University of Wisconsin football in 2005 isn�t pretty. Even with a senior-dominated defensive line healthy for the Outback Bowl, UW surrendered 460 total yards. Quarterback John Stocco again struggled early and failed to make enough plays to lead UW to victory. And special-teams breakdowns, particularly on both kickoff units, again cropped up at inopportune times.
Notre Dame officials are expected to announce sometime this week that they have hired University of Wisconsin assistant Rob Ianello to serve as the Irish�s receivers coach and recruiting coordinator.
Second part of the newspaper’s two-part series on the effects of TABOR in Colorado.
The first installment of a two-part series examining how the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights works in Colorado.
To hear some people talk, if Wisconsin approves a taxpayer bill of rights, long-suffering taxpayers will finally find their promised land. But that�s hardly been the case in Colorado, where TABOR has been a way of life for more than a dozen years and the reaction has been mixed.
Inductees include the late Scott M. Cutlip, a UW-Madison journalism professor who co-authored “Effective Public Relations,” an influential text in the field.
Band director says he used UW-Madison marching band as a model for his high school students.
Quoted: Donald A. Nichols, professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Kristi Crass, a veterinarian with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“…the smart fans, including my group, are purchasing tickets through Ticketmaster or directly from the bowl/game location for good seating since the UW’s seating selection is consistently poor. It should be revised to give season ticket holders better seating options.”
The Capital Times has selected five stories as candidates for the best area news story of 2004, including “the Audrey Seiler hoax,” and is asking readers to choose the winner.
A determined effort is under way to unseat Ald. Steve Holtzman, the city alderman for District 19 since 1995.
Challenger Noel Radomski has already tapped the endorsement of City Council President Brenda Konkel and the high-profile services of Mark Bugher, director of University Research Park and chair of the Economic Development Commission. Bugher has signed on as campaign treasurer.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and his wife were among those killed Sunday when the tsunami that killed thousands struck Sri Lanka, a relative says.
TAMPA, Fla. – There’s no shortage of numbers that stand out when reviewing the storybook tale that is Jim Leonhard’s run at the University of Wisconsin.
…Leonhard is not alone in his ability to put things in their proper perspective, but he’s certainly in the minority in the world of major college athletics. Leonhard and others have managed to remain student-athletes in a landscape dominated by athlete-students.
Among the local arts highlights of 2004 listed by Jacob Stockinger are several from UW-Madison, including the Elvehjem Museum of Art.
“The University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum of Art just keeps hosting better and better shows and making more and more of its permanent collection. It needs and deserves the bigger space it has been promised.”
