New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that dairy cows give more milk if they get extra lighting during the winter months. According to Scott Sanford, an outreach specialist in Biological Systems Engineering, the increase in production is an average or four pounds a day for each cow.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, UW-Madison political science professor.
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office Monday sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus academic degrees – including an MBA awarded to a cat.
In this most celebratory of seasons, when both sacred and secular collide in a riot of faith and sentimentality, the University Theatre reminds us of the importance of thought and free will. And it does so with a play of historic significance.
…It has been some journey. (Hannah) Nyala today is an author – and Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – who in 1998 had her life turned into a CBS-TV movie titled “Point Last Seen.” She lives in what she calls “a little village” outside Madison, and on Friday this week Nyala will read and discuss her latest novel, “Cry Last Heard.”
Call me old-fashioned if you want, but the new 360-degree ring beam of light which runs around the Kohl Center can be annoying. Maybe it wouldn’t feel that way if the ring beam seemed to do something other than constantly flash ads for everything from pickles (yes, pickles) to real estate companies.
Wisconsin’s technical colleges would see a small expansion in the number of liberal arts associate degrees under a proposal put forth by a panel on higher education.
A joint committee of the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin System issued a draft report Friday detailing recommendations for increasing the number of bachelor’s degree holders in Wisconsin.
Quoted: Wade Bushman, a urologist and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison bladder clinic.
With electrodes implanted directly on their brains, two Madison patients were able to control a computer cursor and play a basic video game just by thinking about it.
Quoted: Patrick Remington, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
Quoted: Anne Enke, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s certificate program for gay and lesbian studies.
Wisconsin taxpayers will soon send Steven Avery $25,000 to begin to compensate him for spending 18 years in prison for a sex assault he didn’t commit, but it was unclear Thursday when – or if – he will get more of the $1 million he seeks. Avery was freed with the help of the UW-Madison Innocence Project.
Adam Mertz: Pick your reason as to why Madison has proved such a popular destination among the three visiting schools at this weekend’s NCAA volleyball tournament subregional.
Growing up, Ben Banks had the urge to yell out that he had HIV, but mostly he had to keep it to himself. His best friends didn’t even know. He assumed his life expectancy would be short…. Banks, 26, who spoke at UW-Madison Science Hall Thursday night in honor of World AIDS Week, is described as the “longest-living person with pediatric AIDS.”
“While reading ‘Best New American Voices 2005,’ I had to keep reminding myself that the book was not intended to showcase the best writers in the country, but rather those writers who might one day develop into the best,” says La Follette High School English and creative writing teacher Andrew McCuaig in this review of a collection that includes Frances Hwang, a fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing .
The music was often harshly industrial, the movements and lines undeniably, sharply modern. But somehow, Li Chiao-Ping made it all look classically lyrical.
That seemingly effortless blending of styles made the University of Wisconsin-Madison dance professor’s premiere of “Processing” a joy to watch.
Last school year Kristen Berman and her roommates spent way too much on beer to pay their neighbor for fixing their spyware-riddled computer. This school year the UW-Madison junior and marketing business major is running a thriving business fixing computers.
A fish-killing pesticide might be needed to clear carp out of an experimental structure in Lake Wingra next spring. But if the public is dead set against it, scientists working on the project will go to Plan B to reduce the huge number of carp in the small Madison lake.
State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, the target of talk radio programs in Milwaukee, today resigned as assistant majority leader in the state Senate. Lazich will continue to serve as Senate vice chair of the Joint Finance Committee.
Robert Novak’s outing of a CIA operative married to a presidential critic barely came up and a promised student protest never materialized when the conservative commentator appeared here Wednesday night. Instead, the right-wing “Crossfire” panelist offered post-election analysis.
A 20-year-old UW-Madison student took on two much older, academically distinguished professors Wednesday night in a debate about reproductive choice.
The debate at the Pyle Center during Social Justice Awareness Week pitted Erica Christenson, a sophomore majoring in business and political science, against sociology Professor Myra Ferree and Christina Greene, a professor in the department of African-American studies.
AIDS Network, HospiceCare, UW-Madison and other groups are sponsoring a series of events this week honoring World AIDS Day, which is today.
Tough drug laws have pushed disproportionately large numbers of black Americans into the prison system in Wisconsin and around the nation, civil rights advocates told UW-Madison students. They spoke Tuesday night as part of Social Justice Awareness Week, which continues tonight with a panel discussion about abortion, followed by interracial relations night on Thursday.
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board is evaluating whether it should invest more in new Wisconsin companies, the agency’s top executive told a group of money managers in Milwaukee Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin football coaches can begin studying Georgia video full time, 24/7 if they choose. The Georgia Bulldogs, ranked seventh in the coaches’ poll and seventh in the writers’ poll, will face Wisconsin in the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl in Tampa.
Quoted: Scott Craven, a UW-Madison wildlife ecologist.
This guest editorial in the 11/30/04 Capital Times concludes:
No matter how committed to diversity or recruiting of minority students universities may be, they can compensate only so much for the profound failures of the primary and secondary educational systems that generate their applicant pools. (11/29/04 Washington Post)
“Without love, compassion and tolerance … CHURCH SUCKS!” That message is being stapled to bulletin boards and phone poles, as a new faith community sprouts near Camp Randall Stadium, next to Urban Pizza and within walls of bright yellow and red.
This is where The Journey begins for seven Seattle and two Kenosha transplants. They want to provide a safe harbor for college students and young families who are in search of Christian meaning and growth.
State Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, is the most aggressive progressive in the Legislature. He is also emerging as one of the Assembly members who may be best positioned to open a real debate about the corruption of the political and governing processes of the state.
The state Department of Commerce will spend $5 million over the next five years to set up and run a statewide network aimed at spawning more small businesses in Wisconsin, Gov. Jim Doyle announced.
Doyle said the program, authorized by legislation he signed earlier this year, will serve more than 10,000 people and contribute more than $500 million to the state’s economy in its first year.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Mentor Corp. announced that it has begun operating its new manufacturing facility at 535 Science Drive in University Research Park.
The plant was designed specifically for the production of products utilizing the botulinum toxin technology that Mentor licensed from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation last December.
Wisconsin will start a network to help start-up businesses patent technologies, raise money from investors and obtain government grants, Gov. Jim Doyle said Monday.
New apartments for more than 300 students would become available near the corner of Broom and Gorham in August 2006 if the plan of two Madison developers passes the scrutiny of Madison Plan Commission members and the City Council. Some are objecting, however.
Quoted: Mark Louden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor who specializes in Amish culture.
Despite a fourth-place finish in the Big Ten Conference, the University of Wisconsin volleyball team earned the right to host first- and second-round NCAA Tournament games by being awarded one of the tournament’s top 16 seeds.
…Friends of Starkweather Creek helped get $180,000 for creek improvement projects into the city of Madison budget that was approved earlier this month. A new analysis of the creek, from scientific and social perspectives, will be developed by UW-Madison students as part of a multi-disciplinary project in the water resources management program. The efforts could be a last chance to head off further urban pollution of the creek as major development projects are built at the creek’s upper reaches.
UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics RALPH ANDREANO is just back in Madison from Jordan, where he worked several long days helping Iraq’s new health minister, Ala’din Alwan, assess the country’s troubled health system.
If you’ve been wondering whether rapidly melting ice in the Arctic will eventually flood Green Bay and Bayfield, stop worrying. You see, the Great Lakes are higher than the Atlantic Ocean, about 600 feet higher at Lake Superior, said Michael Donahue, president and chief executive of the Great Lakes Commission. So the water flows downhill to the ocean, not uphill to the lakes.
John Magnuson, UW-Madison professor emeritus of limnology, is also quoted.
The fearsome computer programming team at the UW-Madison had everything they needed to crush the competition. Their brains were swimming with math smarts. They were experienced with various computer languages. They were patient and poised in front of a keyboard. But earlier this semester, they were missing one thing — a name.
The big problem with pharmaceuticals in not “supply crisis,” but overuse, inappropriate use and overpricing,” says Dr. Bruce Barrett, assistant professor in the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine. (11/27/04 Capital Times)
Citizens respond to the question “Should the state exclude research on embryonic stem cells from the proposed biotechnology research institute? (11/27/04 Capital Times print edition)
If you listen to local sports-talk radio or visit Badger-crazy Internet chat boards, it appears there are two prevalent takes – with bipolar viewpoints – on the season….The cynics argue that Barry Alvarez… and his highly paid staff aren’t giving the UW enough bang for their buck.
Lake Wingra could be cleaner with fewer carp if a demonstration “exclosure” project planned for the small Madison lake is successful.
Michigan officials ponder the effects of California’s stem-cell initiative there.
Gov. Jim Doyle put on a game face of major league proportions when he rolled out Wisconsin’s response to California’s approval of $3 billion in state funds for a decade of stem cell research. He did what he had to do to keep Wisconsin in the forefront of bioscience. California’s initiative will be hard for a smaller state to match, especially one with a major deficit.
Both the Senate and House have passed key patent legislation backed by the UW-Madison and several state politicians, with President Bush expected to sign the bill in the next few weeks.
Early on a recent Friday morning, doctors from around the area gathered at a Meriter Hospital lecture hall to hear Dennis Maki talk about the flu. The top University of Wisconsin immunologist had plenty to say about the nation’s vaccine shortage. But, as bad as the situation was, that was not his biggest concern.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans who are clamoring for more of the Badgers’ games to be televised this season are finding out what broadcast rights can mean these days. For instance, those rights can mean making sure some games aren’t televised for the sake of programming.
As Madison Police captain Luis Yudice’s retirement nears, he looks back on his 30-year law enforcement career, including his leadership role in planning for and dealing with this year’s Halloween bash on State Street.
A pair of self-proclaimed anarchists who allegedly went on a rampage Oct. 3, damaging and stealing from government-owned cars and those they thought belonged to the rich, were charged Wednesday with seven counts of felony criminal damage to property and one of felony theft. They are alleged to have caused almost $20,000 worth of damage to 43 cars, including some 22 state, federal or university-owned vehicles.
Mentions a UW-Madison study that asked 15 people to rate one another on looks and personal traits.
Days after state legislators voted down a largely symbolic measure supporting privately funded stem-cell research, politicians and medical leaders Tuesday announced plans to ask those same lawmakers to support an even broader initiative to publicly fund the promising but controversial medical research.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political scientist.
Quoted: Jeremy Foltz, associate director of the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies at UW-Madison.
A state official in Illinois is proposing a 6% tax on face lifts and other cosmetic procedures to finance $1 billion in stem cell research over 10 years.
Quoted: Stephen Hurley, Madison lawyer and member of the UW Law School adjunct faculty.
After letting a berth in the Rose Bowl slip through their fingers, Barry Alvarez and his players didnââ?¬â?¢t have to wait long to learn their bowl destination. UW_madison officials accepted a an invitation to play in Tampa’s Outback Bowl on Jan. 1.
When the Wisconsin Historical Society responded to Gov. Jim Doyle’s demand for a 10 percent budget cut by voting to close the society’s popular museum across from the Capitol, state budget director Dave Schmiedicke accused the board of acting irresponsibly.
“It does appear to be a scare tactic,” griped Schmiedicke. “We’re really expecting a more responsible process.” But it is Schmiedicke, not the Historical Society board, who is acting irresponsibly.
Many a frustrated birder has griped about the difficulty of telling the neotropical black-chinned tanager from its neighbor, the blue-winged tanager. “It’s just slight color variation on the back,” said Robert Bleiweiss, a zoologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But new research shows the visual differences are greater than those that meet the birder’s eye. Indeed, if you hold them up to an ultraviolet light, the bird species become recognizably different.
Kevin Reilly, the new president of the University of Wisconsin System, cites an 80% retention rate in the state for UW graduates but acknowledges that an even better track record is needed. The university system has embarked on pilot programs to pull back students who failed to graduate and get them to a diploma. It also is working to increase the percentage of freshmen who graduate.
