Noted: Jorgensen, from Milwaukee, has a history of catching on quickly. A walk-on swimmer at the University of Wisconsin, she swam for three years before moving full-time to running, where her natural talent blossomed. She swiftly became an All-American in track and cross country, winning Big Ten championships at 5,000 and 3,000 meters during her senior year. She graduated in May 2009.
The University of Wisconsin is one of the 10 top spending teams in college sports, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education.
Contrary to the belief that people who burn a lot of calories are less vulnerable to gaining weight, a new study finds they and slow burners alike tend to put on pounds during the sweets-filled holiday season. “This idea of regulating body weight by being a very active individual that exercises a lot is not being supported by our study,” said Dale Schoeller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and the senior author of the study.
Green Bay or Madison? The battle intensifies over which city will be the future home of the WIAA state basketball tournament. Now Action 2 News has learned a decision may be delayed until after this year?s games.
Quoted: Farmers are typically compensated according to the land?s agricultural value, not the amount developers pay. As property values climb and financial stakes increase, land rights disputes are growing ?increasingly public and angry,? said Mark Sidel, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who consults on legal reform in Vietnam.
If the University of Wisconsin?s Labor Licensing Policy Committee has their way, the Wisconsin Badgers football team, and the rest of the athletic department, will lose their apparel company once again.
Noted: Fortunately, cast copies were taken but the original fossils contain extra details that could settle long-standing debates. For example, was Zhoukoudian fraught with cannibalism? “In later years, the consensus shifted toward the idea that hyenas formed the site, with the humans as victims,” says John Hawks from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “The original fossils would allow a forensic investigation.”
Quoted: But the ethical landscape was evolving rapidly at the time. The standards of the 1940s were ?a lot murkier? than those of today, says Susan Lederer, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. ?The idea that it was so clear in 1946 to me doesn?t ring true.?
Noted: Researchers led by Stephen Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin?Madison recently experimentally tested the variance signal by adding more and more largemouth bass to a lake over a three-year period. The researchers took measurements of the light spectra of chlorophyll in the lake every five minutes (and in a control lake where they were not adding fish). Fifteen months before the food web of the whole lake shifted, the variance signal appeared in the chlorophyll measurements, Carpenter and his colleagues reported in Science last May.
Quoted: Other church bankruptcy cases were not as adversarial in resolving abuse claims as Milwaukee?s may turn out to be, said Jonathan Lipson, a University of Wisconsin law professor.
Quoted: Stanley G. Payne, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of several influential books on Spain?s Civil War and Franco regime, said Mr. Garzón?s trial reflects deep-seated divisions in Spanish society.
We?ve all heard of, if not ventured across, the soda/pop divide. In Pittsburgh, we?re close enough that it?s a day trip and doesn?t even require the wagon trains of old.
Thai historian Thongchai Winichakul, now a professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, was one of the students at Thammasat on that day, which in today?s Thai school textbooks is referred to as a ?riot? or ?disturbance?.
Noted: Another study by the Center for Equal Opportunity, a nonprofit group opposed to racial preferences in college admissions, found that Asian-Americans at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, had median math and reading SAT scores of 1370 out of 1600, compared with 1340 for white students, 1250 for students of Hispanic descent and 1190 for black students.
Now that laboratory studies have yielded a glimpse of H5N1 flu viruses that might spread rapidly in humans and cause a devastating pandemic, vaccine makers will be better prepared if one develops. Or will they?
Quoted: While there?s no standard definition for insomnia, suggested criteria include taking more than 30 minutes to fall asleep, waking up too early, or sleeping less than 6 1/2 hours a night, according to Ruth Benca, a sleep disorders doctor at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. Insomnia is twice as likely in women as men and affects some 6 to 10 percent of adult Americans, yet often goes undiagnosed and untreated.
The first University of Minnesota meme on Facebook was posted at 10:52 a.m., Tuesday.
Police have arrested three University of Wisconsin-Madison students in an alleged sexual assault at a residence hall last year.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, visiting professor of law and public policy at Marquette University Law School and UW-Madison political scientist.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is ranked fifth among the 100 Best Value Public Colleges in an annual list released this week by The Princeton Review.
LA CROSSE, Wis. — An alarming number of prosecutors in Wisconsin are leaving their jobs, not long after starting. The turnover rate for assistant district attorneys (ADA?s) is nearing 20% and is much higher than other public sector jobs. That?s according to a recent study published by Dennis Dresang, a professor at UW-Madison?s law school.
The furor that erupted a year ago over who should control the state?s flagship UW-Madison campus has given way to sober realism about how best to fund and manage the state?s universities. That discussion resumes this week in Madison, and this time, with any luck, a reasonable solution will emerge that gives the state?s two largest campuses more freedom to run their affairs as state funding dwindles.
Quoted: ?CCP (Chinese Communist Party) ruling groups know that many people in the democracies imagine Chinese foreign policy as one of choosing to support cruel pariah regimes,? said Edward Friedman, politics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Enter Jon Leuer. A native of Orono, Minn., Leuer was a three-and-a-half year starter at the University of Wisconsin under Bo Ryan. While there, he averaged 11.2 points per game in a system that does not have a lot of double-digit scorers.
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, Madison, could create an optional defined contribution plan for newly hired professors and academic staff under a bill to be introduced in the Wisconsin Assembly.
Get a life, Bret Bielema. That?s the candid response from Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee to the University of Wisconsin football coach?s recent suggestion that the Buckeyes, under new coach Urban Meyer, were employing unspecified ?illegal? tactics on the recruiting trail.
Last year?s proposal to split UW-Madison from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System may have flopped, but it prompted a committee of Regents and chancellors to ask: Should individual campuses in the UW System have their own governing boards?
This didn?t seem likely when Greg Stiemsma was driving his Ford Focus around Ankara, Turkey, one of his six professional basketball stops since leaving the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin officials on Monday disclosed a second misconduct allegation against former associate athletic director John Chadima, and UW police said the alleged victim?s story is credible.
Quoted: Laura Dresser of the U-W Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy says the economy?s taking a hit, because thousands of people are getting cuts in their take-home pay. And Dresser says it ?moves Wisconsin away from creating jobs.?
The main question prompted by Mayor Paul Soglin in a meeting with student leaders on the future of the Mifflin Street Block Party was how to go about “threading the needle” to keep this year?s event a safe and viable option.
Quoted: ?Women will be important given they are just over half the population,? adds Christina Ewig, Ph.D., an associate professor of Gender & Women?s Studies and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Women in Mexico have historically tended to support the PRI, but in recent elections some women have shifted to the PAN. Getting more women to shift to the PAN may be part of the strategy of nominating Vásquez Mota.?
The University of Wisconsin revealed Monday that it has begun an independent investigation after a second allegation of wrongdoing by former University of Wisconsin associate athletic director John Chadima.
University of Wisconsin police are investigating a second allegation of misconduct against former athletic department official John Chadima, previously accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward a male student at a party.
University of Wisconsin police have opened an investigation into new allegations against a former athletic official accused of trying to fondle a male student at a pre-Rose Bowl party.
Baruch Spinoza, the 17th-century Dutch thinker, may be among the more enigmatic (and mythologized) philosophers in Western thought, but he also remains one of the most relevant, to his time and to ours.
The University of Wisconsin is unhappy with adidas for failing to make severance payments to workers at an Indonesian factory that made collegiate apparel.
Reacting to a recommendation by a university committee that UW end its multiyear licensing and sponsorship agreement with the company for violating a labor code of conduct, interim Chancellor David Ward sounded a warning to adidas.
The furor that erupted a year ago over who should control the state?s flagship University of Wisconsin campus has given way to sober realism about how best to fund and manage the state?s universities. That discussion resumes this week in Madison, and this time, with any luck, a reasonable solution will emerge that gives the state?s two largest campuses more freedom to run their own affairs as state funding dwindles.
The shame of last year?s implosion of a plan advanced secretly by former UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin was not that the plan was scotched. It deserved to be scotched. The shame was that cuts to the university system were put in place without giving the campuses the degree of flexibility they needed to manage those cuts.
Details emerged this week on the University of Wisconsin?s ?Athletic Village,? a three-story, $77 million annex to the north end of Camp Randall Stadium to be completed in three phases by 2014. The 38,000-square-foot academic and strength training center will house (among other things) offices, study rooms, an auditorium, a library and a computer lab. It?s a place, as the Wisconsin State Journal put it, ?where student-athletes can study and train together.?
Some people say true love doesn?t exist. In my life that has proven to be the case.
Quoted: ?Those are the people on the doorsteps of the service system,? said Marsha Mailick Seltzer, an autism expert at the University of Wisconsin. ?They may not have a diagnosis, but they are there.?
SOMERS ? The recent threats against students at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside may have been ruled a hoax by authorities, but the fear they sparked and underlying racial tension that surfaced are real, several students said Saturday.
A new study asserts that marriages and cohabiting relationships aren?t all that different in the long run. Instead, after a few years, married couples look like unmarried couples on measures of well-being, health and social ties, researchers Larry Bumpass of University of Wisconsin at Madison and Kelly Musick of Cornell University write in the February 2012 issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Quoted: David Schultz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, said Steineke?s proposal falls in line with recent trends. Wisconsin lawmakers, for example, revised time limits in child sexual assault cases five times between 1989 and 2006.
Quoted: “When he came to Chicago, he?s reported to have jumped off the train and said, ?I?m here to write the ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? of Chicago,” says Russ Castronovo, professor of English and American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He always calculated this to have a certain type of dramatic social and political effect. And that was abetted by the fact that, as ?The Jungle? was making its way into print, Congress was debating food-safety legislation.”
NEW YORK?Sparks flew Thursday night at a New York Academy of Sciences panel discussion about whether or not certain recent research into the H5N1 avian flu virus has created a major biosecurity threat and what, if anything, to do about it.
A Baraboo High School graduate is featured in a video that has swept the Internet and encourages bullied gay teens to look toward better days.
For area fans of CBS?s ?The Amazing Race,? deciding which couple to cheer for might be a little easier for the 20th season of the hit series.
Quoted: ?This speaks about the complicated nature of the readership of Urdu fiction,? said noted literary figure Prof Muhammad Umar Memon at a critical literary session on ?Urdu Fiction and its Audience? held here on Friday.
Noted: News of the allegations against Yang spread far beyond the Valley, said Choua Lee, a language lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Florida President Bernie Machen is calling for his university to be treated differently than other state institutions and given more freedom, but Machen is open to those universities getting the same opportunity based on their performance.
Steroids have been linked to the death of popular athletes, but a Wisconsin doctor claims steroids aren?t harmful at all.
More and more students are going to Francie Biesanz for mental health help. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse counselor holds about five 45-minute sessions a day with students. Anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder ? Biesanz sees them all.
A decade ago, Thomas Murphy was a college dropout who used alcohol and drugs to deal with undiagnosed depression. Now he?s back at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he co-leads a chapter of Active Minds, a national, student-run group promoting open conversations about mental illness.
In collaboration with a reporting class taught by UW-Madison Professor Deborah Blum, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism examined mental health services at the University of Wisconsin System?s 13 four-year campuses. The project included extensive public records requests, interviews with students and officials, and data analyses.
About a decade in to this great experiment in collaborative creation, Wikipedians efforts are resulting in increased credibility among academic historians, signaled most recently by an essay by the president of the American Historical Association William Cronon in the association?s publication Perspectives on History.
Dr. Theresa Guilbert, a pediatric pulmonologist from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, said that despite the new findings, it?s still “controversial” whether or not asthmatic moms pass on any risk to their babies by breastfeeding.
Three racial incidents in two days at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside have African-American students? fearing for their security.
Noted: Darrell Bazzell. Quietly effective, Bazzell has run the Department of Natural Resources, and he?s now a top UW-Madison administrator. His calm, reasonable demeanor and broad administrative experience could lend credibility to a campaign based on the idea that he would smooth the waters and bring Wisconsin back together.
The troubling news involving allegations of sexual assault at a pre-Rose Bowl party by resigned UW-Madison associate athletic director John Chadima brings back something former UW history professor and athletic board member Jeremi Suri told me in an interview four years ago.
