UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin will headline a public forum Wednesday which will examine how states fund institutions of higher learning. Martin will be joined by Charles Pruitt, the president of the UW System?s Board of Regents, and business leader Kathi Seifert. The free event begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Idea Room of the newly renovated Education Building at 1000 Bascom Mall.
Go to most music festivals, like Lollapalooza or Bonnaroo, and it?s helpful to bring along a schedule and a map. For the Madison World Music Festival, you might want to bring an atlas, too. The three-day festival, which takes place Thursday and Friday at the UW Memorial Union Terrace and Saturday at the Willy Street Fair, brings together musicians from Mexico, Romania, Kenya, Mali, Kyrgyzstan, Corsica and many more.
Most everyone has heard the term “green” jobs or listened to someone talk about the “green” economy, but do you really understand what those terms mean or know how you can parlay your skills into starting a new “green” career?
The public is invited to a free series of forums called “Green Jobs for Wisconsin?s Economy,” which are to examine this growing sector and highlight opportunities for those who would like to learn more about potential careers in this area. The events, which are organized by UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental studies, are to be held on four Tuesdays in room 1106 of the Mechanical Engineering Building. These forums run from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
A 61-year-old hospital staff member received non-life-threatening injuries Monday morning after being hit by a UW Hospital and Clinics bus in the Marsh Lane pedestrian crosswalk at University Bay Drive, university police said.
Thirty-seven years ago tonight, a collection of social currents in American society flowed together to produce an event watched by 50 million people on television. When it was over, the nation had seen, played out theatrically, what it had struggled to absorb intellectually: Women’s sports deserved respect.
….Before the “Battle” UW-Madison had no women?s intercollegiate sports and was responding to a complaint that it was violating Title IX. Today, the nearly 400 women competing in 12 sports at the university outnumber the school?s male competitors. Women remain behind in sports in financial backing and administrative and coaching jobs. But the progress is remarkable.
Once a year students, faculty, attorneys, historians and others gather at the University of Wisconsin Law School to celebrate the distinguished career of Bob Kastenmeier at a lecture named after our former congressman, statesman, and scholar. Bob was no ordinary member of Congress ? he was never part of the Washington elite. He was too busy fighting for civil rights, women?s rights and peace during his 32 years representing Wisconsin.
….This year the Kastenmeier Lecture is honored to welcome New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. Herbert, a gifted journalist, chose the title: ?Afghanistan: What are we fighting for??
MADISON, Wis. — A student audience will be welcome for a pair of live ESPN broadcasts on Monday at the Memorial Union Terrace. Colin Cowherd will host his radio show live from 9 a.m. to noon and the ESPN2 show SportsNation will be live from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. ESPN2?s SportsNation features co-hosts Cowherd and Michelle Beadle.
OSHKOSH, Wis. — A student at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh has been diagnosed with a case of viral meningitis. The Northwestern newspaper reported that according to the Student Health Center, the student was admitted to a local hospital for treatment on Wednesday.
Members of a UW-Madison union plan to picket outside the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 1300 University Ave., Monday morning. The employees — members of Local 171, Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24 — will be protesting the privatization of food service work at the new research facility, which is scheduled to open in December.
A smoky fire Thursday morning displaced a family of four from their apartment in the Eagle Heights complex on the UW-Madison campus, the Madison Fire Department reported.
Customers of Charter Communications have a new $1 surcharge on their bills. The “broadcast TV surcharge” stems from the often fierce retransmission negotiations between broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.) and subscription TV providers.
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton
Efforts to convince the Dane County Board to form a citizens advisory panel to examine whether experimenting on monkeys at UW-Madison is humane and ethical are dead following a vote Thursday night at the City County Building.
While many are wondering if the University of Minnesota football team can recover from the ??adversity?? of losing to South Dakota, a Division I-AA opponent (FCS), beleaguered Gophers coach Tim Brewster addressed a real life adversity Wednesday. Brewster told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that redshirt freshman wide receiver Connor Cosgrove — the son of defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove — has been diagnosed with an acute form of leukemia and is beginning chemotheraphy treatments.
(Kevin Cosgrove was a member of Barry Alvarez’ original coaching staff with the Wisconsin Badgers)
Robin Marie Mortimer, age 46, of Janesville, passed away at the Mercy Medical Center on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Robin was employed by the UW Medical Foundation. She was very thankful for the thoughts and prayers of her fellow employees in the UW Medical Foundation.
Are you out hundreds of dollars and can?t seem to remember what happened to it? The Madison Police Department might be holding it for you. An envelope with hundreds of dollars inside was found a week ago in the 600 block of University Avenue, Madison police said.
I write in support of Resolution 35, by which Dane County would set up a citizens? panel to discuss the ethics of experimentation on monkeys. As lead sponsor, I believe it addresses justifiable citizen concerns about what a public institution in our community is doing in our name with our tax dollars.
It is appropriate for the county to deal with this issue. Many citizens have expressed concern about the monkeys held in captivity on the University of Wisconsin campus. It is natural that citizens should contact their local government officials, who are closest to them and most approachable.
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been a responsive partner to the Dane County Board, providing information requested on animal research programs to board members and staff.
Our commitment to open, transparent research extends to a series of public forums. The first of those forums has been scheduled for November, and has already drawn an enthusiastic response from the community. We hope members of the public join in the discussion.
High-tail it to the UW-Madison campus on Sunday, Sept. 19 ? and take Fido with you ? for the Dog Jog 2-mile run-walk. The event begins at 10 a.m., rain or shine, in Lot 60, at the north end of Walnut Street.
Those hoping to convince the Dane County Board a citizens advisory panel should be formed to examine whether or not experimenting on monkeys at UW-Madison is humane and ethical are facing a critical vote Thursday night.
Although such a resolution was approved by the Health and Human Needs Committee on June 29 by a 5-2 margin, it stalled in the Executive Committee on July 8. So Al Matano, who is lead sponsor of the resolution, introduced a motion to withdraw from all committees, and the Dane County Board is slated to vote on this issue at Thursday?s meeting.
Edwin Newman, distinguished UW-Madison alumnus, witty NBC anchor and former Daily Cardinal reporter, died of pneumonia at the age of 91 in Oxford, England. Newman died Aug. 13 but his death was not made public until Wednesday. Newman was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 1919 and graduated from UW-Madison in 1940 with a degree in political science.
Robert “Bob” E. Rompre, age 81, of Beaver Dam and formerly of Waupun, died peacefully at his son?s home in Sun Prairie on Monday, Sept. 13, 2010….When he wasn’t playing or coaching, he also enjoyed scouting for the US Hockey Team and officiating for UW-Madison Badger hockey games.
Police arrested one of two young men they say beat and robbed five others in two incidents downtown last month. The 15-year-old male, tentatively charged with two counts of battery, was identified in a photo lineup by two of the victims, Madison police said.
A younger generation of UW football fans has grown accustomed to watching winning teams, filling the seats and the athletic department?s coffers and guessing just where the Badgers will play their next bowl game come the holidays.
An older generation of fans, though, didn?t always have it so good. After some great days in the ?50s and early ?60s, they endured one horribly long losing streak, then watched patiently as the Badgers, led by an athletic director known as Crazylegs, started to turn the team?s fortunes around only to have it all collapse under a new administration into yet another long losing streak. It was a time to try any serious Badger fan?s soul.
When UW-Madison chemistry lecturer Jeanine Batterton accused 42 students last fall of plagiarism on a written lab assignment in Chem 104, she was floored by the range of ?bizarre excuses? offered by the undergraduates.
Some contended that cutting and pasting information out of Wikipedia ? the Web-based, user-generated encyclopedia ? was OK because no single author writes the entries.Others argued that since the assignment was a group project, and since they didn?t write the part of the report in question, how could she punish them for any wrongdoing?
UW Hospital is one of the nation?s top 10 companies for working parents, according to an annual list developed by Working Mother magazine.
Crime rates on the UW-Madison campus are at their lowest level in 36 years, according to the UW-Madison Police Department?s 2009 annual report.
It is 8:30 on a crisp September morning, the start of a busy day for preschoolers at the Waisman Center?s Early Childhood Program, a nationally renowned laboratory school.
At a piano in the gym, a teacher holds a 4-year-old named Michael in her lap and helps him tap out “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” She speaks to him using both sign language and a singsong voice. Several other boys driving toy cars swerve around another teacher doing duty as traffic cop. A student teacher is coloring at a table with students.
A group of Dane County Board members Thursday night will attempt to pull a resolution from committee so that the entire board can vote on whether to form an advisory panel to study the ethics of experimenting on monkeys at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A majority of the board ought to join that effort.
UW-Madison students will have plenty of opportunities this week to research career options, hunt for exciting internships or look into study abroad programs thanks to a range of “fairs” on campus.
For the first time, more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees last year, the culmination of decades of change in the status of women at colleges nationwide.
The number of women at every level of academia has been rising for decades. Women now hold a nearly 3-to-2 majority in undergraduate and graduate education. Doctoral study was the last holdout – the only remaining area of higher education that still had an enduring male majority.
More than half of the monkeys shipped by UW-Madison from the Vilas Zoo to the Wild Animal Orphanage in San Antonio back in 1998 appear to be dead, Rick Bogle writes in his Primate Freedom blog. Bogle, the co-director of the Madison-based Alliance for Animals, wrote last week that the “United States Department of Agriculture is scrambling to find homes for approximately 204 primates and an additional 114 other large animals after years of serious violations of the US Animal Welfare Act including inadequate and improper food. Twenty-two of those monkeys are the survivors of the large colony sent there by the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1998.”
A constant complaint among Wisconsin state budget planners for the past several decades is how little the state gets back from the taxes its residents send to Washington.
Because it has only a couple of small military bases and a relatively small federal work force, the state has historically been locked into receiving about 80 to 85 cents back for every $1 that the taxpayers pay in federal taxes.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a UW-Madison economist
STEVENS POINT ? Dave Obey was on hand here a few days ago as University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point officials, faculty, students and community leaders celebrated the launching of the Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology in ceremonies on campus.
Obey?s presence was fitting. He directed about $1.4 million of federal funds to support the institute at the university, which will take an interdisciplinary approach as it creates and commercializes sustainable technologies and connects the campus to the business community.
UW-Madison ranked among the top 25 schools in the nation according to a Wall Street Journal survey of recruiters who work for the 479 largest public, private, nonprofit and government agencies. UW-Madison checked in at No. 16.
MADISON, Wis. ? University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly announced today that Michael R. Lovell has agreed to serve as UW-Milwaukee?s Interim Chancellor. Lovell, Dean of the UWM?s College of Engineering and Applied Science since 2008, will step into the new role next month following the departure of Chancellor Carlos Santiago.
Don?t mess with Bongo Jesus. The street musician apparently didn?t appreciate others criticizing his guitar playing, as he allegedly committed a string of offenses on State Street Thursday afternoon.
Ancient underground pipes are causing major headaches for construction crews trying to finish work on the UW-Madison campus — work that?s weeks behind schedule and won?t be done until October.
The work on the East Campus Utility Project was supposed to be done before move-in day on campus, which was the last weekend of August. But problems kept cropping up underground, pushing the completion date out to Oct. 4, according to UW-Madison transportation planner Rob Kennedy.
UW-Madison police are looking for a suspect who allegedly sexually assaulted a man showering at the Natatorium on Thursday night.The assault happened at about 8:15 p.m. at the university?s swimming facility at 2000 Observatory Drive.
UW-Madison is planning a series of community forums on the use of animals in research.The forums, proposed by Provost Paul DeLuca and Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader, are intended to open up dialogue on the often thorny issue.
Dear Editor: We, the leadership of the University Religious Workers organization at University of Wisconsin Madison, wish to register our strong opposition to the public burning of the Quran.
The Madison area has a new dance company that grew out of an unlikely place ? the baseball diamond of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Ashley Grantin and Sara Willcutt-Rohs, the leaders of the new Madison Contemporary Vision Dance, met a year-and-a-half ago while performing with the Brewers? Diamond Dancers. More than ?just? cheerleading, the dance team performs before and after games, and during the 7th inning stretch.
(Grantin is assistant director in charge of dance for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Spirit Squad)
Motorists might need an iron will to contend with Ironman. Patience will be a virtue on Sunday, as numerous roads in Madison and Dane County are being used for the Ironman Wisconsin triathlon.
Governor Doyle and UW officials are absolutely right to join the effort to appeal a recent federal court ruling that has stopped major stem cell research dead in its tracks. Sometimes you wonder if it?s worth the effort to devote resources to issues being decided at the federal level, but the impacts of this ruling on the state of Wisconsin, and the citizens of the state of Wisconsin are too significant to ignore.
Dear Editor: Barbara Franz wrote that ?if you believe scientists can put animals in a sterile and stressful environment and make any conclusions about medical research, you?ve been duped.? I think if she had a better understanding of the findings of her example used to demonstrate her opinion, she might not have come to this conclusion.
The Dalai Lama is coming through for research at UW-Madison. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) announced on Wednesday that the spiritual leader has donated $50,000 from his personal trust to the center. His gift follows his appearance in May at the dedication ceremonies for CIHM.
Saying the U.S. Senate race should not be decided by television advertisements alone, Sen. Russ Feingold announced Wednesday that he?s accepted invitations to participate in six debates.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison professor of political science
The first show in the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s University Theatre season is at once typical in its depiction of a new relationship and an inventive new allegory about love. ?Across A Distance,? inspired by the friendship between Julia Faulkner, a faculty member in the UW-Madison School of Music, and Robert Schleifer, a professional deaf actor from Chicago, opens on Friday, Sept. 17, at the Mitchell Theatre in Vilas Hall.
One hundred years ago, following a whirlwind visit to 155 medical schools, Abraham Flexner issued a report that reshaped American medicine. His observations and recommendations led to major changes in U.S. medical education. Our nation?s medical schools subsequently provided innovations that have dramatically transformed the practice of medicine, thereby greatly improving public health.
Nevertheless, according to a recent Commonwealth Fund report, the U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world and consistently underperforms other countries on most measures of performance. Thus, our medical schools, which currently lead the world in biomedical research and health professions education, are faced with a challenging mission if they are to continue their leadership in improving health.
If you are Bucky Badger, the last thing you want is to lose your head. That?s exactly what happened Sunday night, when one of the UW-Madison students who portrays the iconic symbol of Wisconsin sports had his 28-pound over-sized Bucky head stolen from his campus area apartment.
With at least two concerts every week this fall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music is offering everything from solo recitals to newly minted trios and visiting quartets.
Be true to your school on Friday, and proudly wear your colors. Friday is College Colors Day, a national event that started in 2005 to celebrate the start of the collegiate school year by encouraging students and alumni and fans to wear the colors of their favorite college or university. UW-Madison?s news service put out a statement on Thursday to get Badger fans to make a fashion statement.
Students and professors hoping to light up between classes on the UW-Stout campus are out of luck. Well, at the very least they?re likely to get the “evil eye.”
Students on this UW System campus in Menomonie voted in the spring of 2009 to make UW-Stout smoke-free and a year later voted to extend the ban to all tobacco products.
A UW-Madison student was robbed at gunpoint by two masked men Tuesday night while walking home on the north side, Madison police reported. The armed robbery happened at about 10:30 p.m. near Dexter?s Pub on North Street, police said. The victim told police he had been walking home after getting off a charter bus that had broken down on Wisconsin 30.
The Obama administration?s court filing Tuesday on embryonic stem cell research was welcomed by the director of UW-Madison?s stem cell center, where some research soon will cease unless the block on federal funds is lifted.
“Researchers will be enthusiastic toward any approach that will allow this important research to continue,” said Dr. Tim Kamp, director of the university?s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center. “If this can be expeditiously moved through the court system, we?d be delighted.”
STEVENS POINT ? The good sisters at St. Mary of the Angels in Green Bay didn?t teach science well. They were better at drills for diagramming sentences. But on Friday afternoons, when we put down the pencils and had open discussions about topics of the day, we learned to discern and distinguish, to sift through information and get to the core of an issue.
A year ago, the Cap Times asked a range of people associated with higher education in the Madison area if there was “something you wish every college student would know before the start of the school year?” We then posted these “words of wisdom” as the academic year kicked off.
With the start of another school year upon us, do you have any advice you?d like to pass along to college students?
On a campus where botany students go to the art museum to view historic paintings of vegetables, social sciences majors study films with autistic main characters and science students draw cartoon versions of fungi, a campus-wide celebration of the arts is long overdue.
This year, violinist Hilary Hahn, scientist/playwright Carl Djerassi and “The Rocky Horror Show” are all part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Year of the Arts, a Kicked off by Chancellor Biddy Martin and the head of the National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman (UW ?69) at noon on Thursday, Sept. 16, the Year of the Arts focuses on interdisciplinary connections – dance and literature, film and history, science and theater.
Dear Editor: Recently a federal judge stopped stem cell research because of a law that was the result of Christianity?s war on science. According to Christian values, people like me would burn in hell in the next life for doing scientific research on cells that would otherwise have ended up in the garbage.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is welcoming new students to campus with an event at noon on Wednesday at the Kohl Center. Promoted as a bookend to commencement, the Chancellor?s Convocation for New Students will both offer advice for kicking off one?s college career and detail some characteristics about the campus that Martin enjoyed when she was a student at UW-Madison.
The Madison Police Department is encouraging UW-Madison students to not walk alone late at night, following an attack on a 19-year-old female student early Friday morning. The woman was walking alone at about 2:15 a.m. Friday on Bassett Street when a stranger grabbed her from behind, police said.
