A distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be the third candidate for the Kansas University School of Engineering dean position to visit campus this fall, KU announced Tuesday.
Wisconsin universities could lose almost 50 million dollars of federally funded research grants unless congress passes legislation to stop sequestration.
Billed as the biggest telescope in the world, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory on the South Pole, is a project with roots in Wisconsin and now University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to tell the project?s story around the state.
The Daily Cardinal, a student-owned and operated newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recognized as the best four-year daily tabloid at this year?s National College Media Convention.
Montee Ball hasn?t been able to replicate the remarkable numbers he posted as a junior when he helped Wisconsin win the Big Ten Conference title and reach the Rose Bowl for the second consecutive season.
In October this year, I was invited to give a lecture to school leaders and senior staff from state schools in the Melbourne area. However, I was ?dis-invited? by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, after some members heard another lecture I gave at the University of Melbourne on why we should be worried about the effects of current school reforms and what we might do about them. For at least some people in the DEECD, my statements were ?too controversial? in the current political context of school reform.
Bruce Grover?s interest in African exploration started when he was a little boy listening to his father?s stories about the wild, foreign land. ?He would tell stories, he had swords, he had hand-tooled scabbards, opium pipes, belts, sandals,? said Grover, 77, of Kohler, philanthropist and former CEO of VPI LLC. ?He would tell me all these stories.?
Having been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 15 years, I follow the news from the state closely, and was very disappointed to read about Governor Scott Walker?s plan to make significant changes to state funding for education. Governor Walker said a few things about K-12 education and education in the technical college system, but he also said this about how the state should judge the performance of its public universities:
Deborah Blum [See her home page ], never shy about reinventing herself, entered college to become a scientist before switching majors and colleges to pursue a journalism degree, later quit her journalism job to study science writing, came back to newspaper reporting as a science writer, then left journalism again to devote herself full-time to book writing and teaching journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Deborah Blum, never shy about reinventing herself, entered college to become a scientist before switching majors and colleges to pursue a journalism degree, later quit her journalism job to study science writing, came back to newspaper reporting as a science writer, then left journalism again to devote herself full-time to book writing and teaching journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema ranks fifth in the Big Ten Conference in terms of total pay, according to USA Today?s annual survey of NCAA football coaches? compensation.
The response was the same whether you talked to a defensive lineman, a cornerback, a tailback or an offensive lineman.
Wisconsin?s players, mindful they suffered a 30-27 loss at Nebraska in the teams? Big Ten Conference opener in September, are grateful to have a rematch with quarterback Taylor Martinez and his teammates in the Big Ten title game Saturday in Indianapolis.
“I?m real excited,” junior defensive tackle Beau Allen said after UW?s overtime loss at Penn State. “I think it is a good challenge.”
Maryland regents approved the university?s move to the Big Ten Conference on Monday, but not all of them were happy about how the deal went down.
On Monday, November 19, 2012 Charlie passed away peacefully at a place he loved. He was born on June 6, 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, the first child of James Giesen and Mary Klink. He was joined three years later by his twin brothers, Nick and Jamie. In 1992, the family relocated to Middleton where Charlie attended the Middleton Public Schools. Next, he attended University of Iowa and then came back to Madison to attend University of Wisconsin. He was working at CapTel helping the deaf communicate by telephone and attending classes at UW at the time of his death.
It seems that Rutgers University?s costly investment in big-time sports will pay dividends after all ? not just for athletes and fans, but potentially for the academic program, as well.
Rutgers University will benefit academically by switching to the Big Ten Conference, an athletics powerhouse, school officials say. Yet, that may depend on how it spends its new-found wealth.
MILWAUKEE ? The longtime tuition reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin is stoking a cross-border rivalry as the two states compete for a declining number of top collegeprospects.
As Badger fans during the Thanksgiving season, let?s ask UW-Madison to give thanks for having Mike Leckrone for nearly 44 years as UW band director.
When William Minter was a graduate student at UW-Madison in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was active in a group pushing the university to sever connections with companies doing business in South Africa, then under Apartheid.
Tim Reese and his sister, Theresa Selzer of Woodstock, recently donated skin cells in a University of Wisconsin laboratory. The cells were turned into stem cells and then used to create retina tissue. It is the first time research like this has been done to create a model of the eye disease.
For many liberal arts college students home for Thanksgiving, the dreaded question likely was dropped sometime between the first bite of turkey and the final forkful of pumpkin pie. “What kind of job do you hope to find with a major in history?” Or anthropology? Or, fill in the blank . . .
Palermo Villa Inc. said Wednesday?s National Labor Relations Board decision on its labor dispute ?vindicates? the company.
Palermo properly followed immigration law in firing 75 workers earlier this year for not having proper documentation, the NLRB said Wednesday. The investigation into allegations of unfair labor practices against the Milwaukee pizza manufacturer found no evidence Palermo fired the workers in retaliation for union-organizing efforts, Irv Gottschalk, NLRB regional director in Milwaukee, told The Business Journal Wednesday.
Former University of Wisconsin star Michael Finley is putting his front-office career on hold in hopes of extending his playing career, according to sources with knowledge of his plans.Sources told ESPN on Thursday that Finley, after participating in NBA pickup games all summer, continues to work out vigorously in pursuit of a contract that would give him one more run as an NBA player before shifting his focus to front-office work.
News that the National Labor Relations Board did not find merit to charges that Milwaukee-based Palermo?s Pizza unlawfully fired workers to stop them from organizing a union doesn?t change a University of Wisconsin-Madison committee?s recommendation that the company be barred from using the Bucky Badger logo.
The Business Journal Top 25 lists this week include two that focus on education. The first is the largest in-state four-year colleges and universities, and this year we are also highlighting the largest two-year colleges based in this area. Based on enrollment going back to fall 2011 (the more recent fall semester is not always available for all institutions when the list is published), the No. 1 four-year institution in the state is the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday notified both sides in the 5-month-old Palermo?s strike that it had found that the company acted lawfully when it terminated 75 workers as part of an immigration audit and did not use the audit as retaliation for the workers? efforts to form a union.
This post was co-authored by Andrés Castro Samayoa, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, and Todd Lundberg, a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dick Leazer, one of the state?s first angel investors, has been named as the first inductee to the newly created Wisconsin Investor Hall of Fame.
Before starting the angel group, Leazer was managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the technology transfer arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Under Leazer, WARF for the first time took stock in a company instead of an upfront fee. The company, Third Wave Technologies Inc., later went public and became an example for other Wisconsin high-tech start-ups.
In a Wisconsin without hunters, the future is bleak. To the non-hunter who can never understand the allure of the annual tradition, perhaps knowing the repercussions of a hunt-less state will elicit respect for the appeal. ?That idea terrifies me,? said Don Waller, a professor of botany and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Big Ten and Maryland officials tried to talk a good game on Monday. But what was the reaction from non-partisan voices? Here?s a sampling.
During his 16 seasons as Wisconsin?s head football coach, Barry Alvarez made recruiting the East Coast a priority.
UW landed many outstanding players from that region, including tailbacks Ron Dayne and Anthony Davis from talent-rich New Jersey and P.J. Hill from New York.
After straying from that area early on at UW, Bret Bielema has reasserted the Badgers? recruiting efforts in that region of the country.
Quoted: ?It seemed the resources — in this case the energy — was all going to China,” says Edward Friedman, Chinese foreign policy expert at the University of Wisconsin, “and the Burmese were essentially becoming servants in which their resources were serving Chinese purposes and they were beginning to worry whether they were serving Burmese purposes.?
Well, this is puzzling. After a fall campaign season in which he was, for the most part, tight-lipped and vague about his plans for the state next year, Gov. Scott Walker revealed some of them last week.
Quoted: Michael Scott, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has co-authored a book on deadly force and served on the Madison police force for a few years before research and teaching.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker R wants to overhaul public higher education funding in his state, but his proposed agenda has been criticized by Democratic opponents as “social engineering” that could prevent students from studying what theyre passionate about.
Fifty years ago this fall, at the Northwestern game, members of the legendary 1912 Wisconsin Badgers football team were introduced. Then a player on the ?62 team, as I watched those old-timers file onto the field, I couldn?t believe such scrawny old guys had ever played Big Ten football. This fall the famous ?62 team will be remembered. Now, yet another 50 years later, with linemen another l00 pounds heavier, we are the scrawny old guys.
[A column by Dion Kempthorne, a member of the 1962 team.]
The chairman of the panel, William Busse, is a doctor and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, whose financial relationships with asthma drug makers include years of work as a paid adviser, speaker and consultant.
At the time the guidelines were issued, Busse disclosed that he worked as a speaker and adviser for GlaxoSmithKline and several other drug companies, though specific amounts of money were not listed.
Quoted: Robert Glenn Howard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Charles Franklin conducted his first poll as a high school student in his hometown of Union Springs, Ala., studying the cartoon preferences of second-, fourth- and sixth-graders.
“I did discover that interviewing second-graders is harder than it seems,” he says of the long-ago science project.
Franklin, a UW-Madison political scientist, has sure come a long way in the polling business.
Last month Dario Maestripieri, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Chicago, lamented on Facebook that there was a lack of ?attractive women? at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. I wasn?t there, but I would probably pass Maestripieri?s ?super model type? test, at least to the extent that any woman looks like that in the real world. He has been thoroughly eviscerated by now, but his remarks are an opportunity to reflect on how attractive women are treated in the academy.
Gov. Scott Walker unveiled major new policy initiatives Friday night in a speech in California, including decreasing taxes, boosting the school voucher program and requiring Wisconsin?s schools, technical colleges and universities to meet certain benchmarks to earn state funding.
Speaking before a packed house at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in California, Gov. Scott Walker unveiled major components of his upcoming legislative agenda, including “massive tax reform” consisting of cuts in state income and property taxes.
Quoted: Keith Findley, a criminal law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said even that short criminal history could have a profound effect on Baumann?s sentencing if she?s found guilty. Findley said a defendant?s prior criminal history relates directly to two of the three factors Wisconsin law requires judges to consider when determining a sentence.
Quoted: “We?re seeing a very slow recovery, with increases in poverty among workers due to more new jobs which are low-wage,” Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist who specializes in poverty, told Fox News Latino. “As a whole, the safety net is holding many people up, while California is struggling more because it?s relatively harder there to qualify for food stamps and other benefits.”
Noted: When the Wisconsin Film Festival announced its dates and venues for April 2013, some were alarmed that no downtown venues will hold screenings. Instead, screenings will take place at UW venues and Sundance Cinemas Madison on the near west side. Outside of the festival, does a downtown film culture exist without commercial theaters? And do downtown audiences value alternative film programming like they value the Capitol area?s music and arts scenes?
Quoted: ?There is no question ? none ? that the recent redistricting effort distorted the vote,? said Ken Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Nobody takes seriously the notion that the legislative plan for congressional districts wasn?t politically motivated.?
The WIAA and University of Wisconsin have agreed to hold the state tournaments for football, boys basketball and three other sports in Madison through the spring of 2020, the organizations announced in a media conference Friday morning at Camp Randall Stadium.
President Obama?s visit to the University of Wisconsin last month could prove costly.
The new Speaker of the State Assembly says UW?s decision to cancel classes for the President?s visit is something he will remember when they submit their budget request next year.
Just a quick note to remind Wisconsin football fans that a total of 13 members of the program are to be honored during senior day Saturday before UW hosts Ohio State.
The active players are: tailback Montee Ball, safety Shelton Johnson, offensive lineman Robert Burge, cornerbacks Marcus Cromartie and Devin Smith, linebacker Mike Taylor, offensive tackle Rick Wagner, defensive end Brendan Kelly and quarterback Phillips.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison committee has asked that the school put Palermo?s pizza on notice that unless the company agrees to rehire striking workers and recognizes their union, it will terminate its contract with the frozen pizza manufacturer.
A free, widely available online math course being developed by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse could dramatically reduce the need for students to take remedial math when they start college and put them on a faster, less expensive track to graduation, the UW System announced this week.
An atheist group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could receive almost $70,000 in student fees for programming costs, an apparent first for the college and student atheist groups nationwide.
Some criticism has been leveled at officials with the University of Wisconsin, over the cancellation of some classes on the Madison campus when President Obama campaigned in the city. Assembly Speaker elect Robin Vos leveled the charges on Thursday.
?Support creativity and invention at the junior and collegiate levels,? Ronning said. ?It gets (students) to go out and pursue ideas they think could work.? Ronning, 21, of Lincolnwood, credits a robust education and access to high-tech resources at Niles West High School for giving him ?a leg up? on the art of inventing. Now a junior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ronning created a synthetic hand controlled by a series of pulleys that is replicable with 3D printing.
Quoted: Even some people who support human embryo research may feel uncomfortable with the notion of genetically engineering chimeras and hybrid animals, says Robert Streiffer, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
An atheist student group at a university in Wisconsin will likely be getting an estimated $67,000 from its funding board, making it the largest sum any atheist student group in the United States has ever received.
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of education policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that most of the eligibility changes Congress has made so far in order to preserve the maximum grant have had little basis in research. For the most part, she said, they were ?reactive and detrimental to the overall message that we want to use aid to make decisions,? Goldrick-Rab said. ?They look like acts of desperation rather than acts of good public policy.?
Scientists and journalists share an overriding ethical obligation to treat the information they gather responsibly: to describe both positive and negative data in proper context so that the “consumers” of that information – whether it be other scientists or newspaper readers – receive a fair presentation of the facts, in a way that allows them to draw their own conclusions. (A guest commentary by UW-Madison physician Thomas Zdeblick.)
An atheist group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seems on track to receive nearly $70,000 in student fees for staffing and programming next year, in what appears to be a first for the university and student atheist groups nationally.
University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders will evaluate a request by a university committee to put Palermo Villa Inc. on notice unless it meets certain demands regarding a labor dispute involving the Milwaukee pizza manufacturer.
