The Wisconsin corn checkoff is funding projects with University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers investigating corn seed treatments, the sustainability of atrazine and production of renewable chemicals from ethanol plants during 2012.
Mentions former Chancellor Biddy Martin’s push for public authority status for UW-Madison, as well as several UW-Madison research advances.
Lorayne Ritt remembers attending the Wisconsin Badgers? first bowl game in 1953. The 1952 season was the best the Badgers had ever had, but Purdue also had a good season that year.
The bird flu censorship debate, while far too narrowly focused, is nonetheless a timely reminder of how badly we need to stay on guard against a pathogen too often dismissed as the flu bug.
The Badgers played in the Rose Bowl when Gloria Sheveland was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but she was not among the red-clad masses cheering in Pasadena.
“I didn?t get to go. My friends got to go and I heard their stories,” said Sheveland as she watched her alma mater?s helmeted behemoths tangle with the Oregon Ducks in the Rose Bowl.
In the highest-scoring game in Rose Bowl history, in a whiplash-inducing thriller in which momentum seemed to shift by the minute and touchdown drives sometimes lasted a few seconds, we needed someone to tell us the game had actually ended.
Let New Orleans and the BCS title game have their snarling defenses, their three-yard runs, their field goals and a rematch of a 9-6 game.
The Rose Bowl will take dazzling speedsters, 91-yard scores, an avalanche of touchdowns and a pinball machine for a scoreboard.
After a record number of points and more than 1,100 yards in offense, the 98th Rose Bowl ended at a standstill Monday evening in Pasadena.
Coming off 94 years of bad luck in the Rose Bowl, Oregon?s scene-stealing fashionistas broke out mirrored helmets that threw off glints of light like sparklers, appropriate for the fireworks show that the Ducks and Wisconsin staged Monday.
Recent reports that two teams of scientists had genetically altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have provoked fear, even outrage, in some quarters.
As the Wisconsin players studied video of those few teams that have slowed Oregon?s offense enough to beat the Ducks in the last three seasons, they noticed a recurring theme.
“The biggest thing was that not only did they get off blocks but they did a really good job of tackling,” UW senior safety Aaron Henry said. “It really doesn?t show up on the stat sheet but having the chance to watch that film, when those guys were in one-on-one situations against really, really good backs they made plays.”
Football may be the primary focus of the Rose Bowl, but UW-Madison officials admit they have ulterior motives when they leave Friday for Southern California.
Jane E. Larson, age 53, died in her home Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011.
MANITOWOC ? Milinda “Mindy” Kahlenberg knows exactly what she hopes to be doing at about 7:30 Monday evening.
Quoted: “It was a dramatic change in policy direction,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin. “Certainly the spark was the governor?s decisions of changing employment relations in the state.”
Quoted: The regulatory crackdown comes amid what some experts say is frothy, if hard-to-measure, growth for garage sales. “There are no scientific systems for measuring it, but absolutely the growth right now is significant,” said Alfonso Morales, a University of Wisconsin urban-planning professor who studies street markets. “The publications where these people advertise are getting thicker.”
Bird flu kills more than half the people who catch it. The saving grace of H5N1 is that it?s not easily spread among humans. Almost all of the 600 people who have been infected by the virus in its 14-year history have picked it up from infected poultry.
The Big Ten and Pacific 12 announced Wednesday the leagues are entering into a scheduling agreement in all sports, with the focus football and men?s and women?s basketball.
Five days. That?s how much time offensive coordinator Paul Chryst and offensive line coach Bob Bostad have left as members of the Wisconsin football program.
It?s the game all Wisconsin fans would love to be at: the Rose Bowl in Pasadena! Some veterans in the state thought they?d be there, only to find out a surprise trip was too good to be true.
Forbes has recently published a financial evaluation of the importance to major universities of fielding successful teams. While I am not armed with the exact facts, the Badger football program was estimated to have yielded only $3 million to the University of Wisconsin in their ranking system. It is hard to ascertain the exact compensation that goes to the competing teams but one thing is for sure. According to Wikipedia, the teams invited to the Rose Bowl reap $20 million each for their schools. That?s real money and this is UW?s second appearance in as many years.
Quoted: Sean Carroll, a geneticist at the University of Wisconsin, says: ?The inventory of genes in a bird would be very similar to the inventory of genes in a dinosaur.
In a place where walking down the street can become something of a winter sport during the final months of the year, Madison?s recent bout of (relatively) warm weather has been a relief to many of us. It?s also been a blessing for the city?s food cart vendors, who have been able to keep warm and extend their business hours further into the month than the weather has allowed in previous years.
As offensive coordinator Paul Chryst and offensive line coach Bob Bostad prepare for their final game at Wisconsin, coach Bret Bielema is faced with both an onerous challenge and a tremendous opportunity. After UW (11-2) faces Oregon (11-2) in the 98th Rose Bowl on Monday in Pasadena, Bielema will have to replace arguably his top two assistants.
When a college football team is successful, students put down their books and pick up some beers.
If history is a road map, the next offensive coordinator for the University of Wisconsin football team is already on staff.
In her blog about serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique, Lena Jenison of Hartland marveled over things great and small in a country she was growing to know.
Secondary student identification cards and downloadable proof-of-enrollment papers will be made available for University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students to comply with the state?s new voter ID law.
The Walker administration delivered a lump of coal to the University of Wisconsin System just in time for the Christmas holiday, ordering the university system last Friday to shoulder more than a third of $123 million in budget cuts outlined in the state budget for next year.
ANAHEIM, Calif. ? The road to Madison, Wis., was long and winding for Badgers quarterback Russell Wilson, with several detours.
Governor Walker?s budget-reduction plan means the University of La Crosse will need to cut about $1.9 million over the next six months. But Chancellor Joe Gow says tuition won?t increase because of these cuts, and jobs are safe, for now.
University of Wisconsin junior center Peter Konz hasn?t given up hope that he will be ready to face Oregon in the Rose Bowl on Monday.
ANAHEIM ? Next week, the coaches of the Wisconsin Badgers and the Oregon Ducks will be all business as they take the Rose Bowl field to do battle in one of the season?s most anticipated showdowns.
Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility.
Quoted: Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of agriculture and applied economics, predicted that the funding cuts included in Walker?s current two-year budget will result in 20,000 job losses.
Attempts to censor details of controversial influenza experiments that created a highly infectious form of bird-flu virus are unlikely to stop the information from leaking out, according to scientists familiar with the research.
Quoted: “If you compare approval ratings, you may think that just muddling along is not the wrong approach,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
America has no Galileos. Here, we proudly defend the freedom of scientists to go wherever the evidence takes them.
LOS ANGELES — In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from victim to victim.
Quoted: “In most of the states where bills were introduced last year, legislators are planning to introduce them again,” said Sam Munger, managing director of the Center for State Innovation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has researched the issue. Lawmakers in other states (Colorado, Montana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey) also are planning bills, he said. “The banking collapse of 2007 made a lot of people nervous about too-big-to-fail banks,” Munger said.
Greg Russo plans to cherish this holiday season.
Spend Christmas Eve in Lake Mills with his parents. Drive to Green Bay on Christmas Day to watch the Packers host the Chicago Bears. Fly to Los Angeles on Monday with his University of Wisconsin teammates to continue preparations for the Jan. 2 Rose Bowl.
Although the number of assistant coaches set to leave the Wisconsin football program after the 2012 Rose Bowl is minimal, replacing their productivity and experience will not be easy.
Red Cliff bought the 88.6-acre property last month from David and Marjorie Johnson of Madison. Johnson, a retired labor relations and economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, purchased 40 acres at public auction in 1980 with a bid of $32,500. He added another 46.8 acres in subsequent years.
Paul Anderson, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gets so much money from the medical device firm Medtronic that the university put its most stringent oversight on the relationship.
One of the requirements is that Anderson, who has received $225,000 in consulting fees from Medtronic in 2008 through 2010, has to meet annually with his department chairman to review the relationship and its potential influence on his university activities.
But the chairman, Thomas Zdeblick, got more than 25 times that amount from Medtronic himself during the three years. And a new accounting by the Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today shows he received more than $25 million in royalties from the company since 2003.
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
HARTLAND- Lena Jenison from Hartland died in a car crash half a world away Tuesday, while she volunteered for the Peace Corps.
Just in time for the 2012 election season, a new polling program is set to debut at Marquette Law School, and it promises to take the pulse of Wisconsin voters frequently and thoroughly.
Sunday?s reception at the historic White School in Spring Green concluded a semester long project during which UW-Madison interior design students were assigned the task of creating concepts for the adaptive reuse of the historical building.
Quoted: Local councils and board seats are nonpartisan to negate the influence of political machines, said Dennis Dresang, professor of public affairs and political science at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. Those elected are supposed to serve the community with no other agendas.
The specter of censorship loomed over science last week with news that a federal advisory panel had asked two leading journals to withhold details of experiments out of fear that terrorists could use the information to make deadly flu viruses ? the first time the government had interceded this way in biomedical research.
Quoted: ?Land sales are where the big money is,? Edward Friedman, a political science professor and a China scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a telephone interview. ?Every level can see how much better the level above it is doing. And each one wants to live at least that well. The system has within it a dynamic which makes people feel it?s only fair that they get their share of the wealth.?
There is, arguably, no school in America as connected to an underlying philosophical statement of mission as the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Idea.
Quoted: Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of agriculture and applied economics.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema said Thursday night on his weekly radio show he would like to replace departing offensive coordinator Paul Chryst from the current staff. The candidates: offensive line coach Bob Bostad and tight ends coach Joe Rudolph.
Minutes after being introduced as the football coach at Pittsburgh, Paul Chryst emphasized his decision to stay on with Wisconsin through the 2012 Rose Bowl required little thought.
“You?ve got to finish what you started,” Chryst said Thursday during his introductory news conference in Pittsburgh. “Fortunately, it was a no-brainer.
Gov. Scott Walker?s administration is expected Friday to say where the state will slice to make $174 million in added budget cuts.
Two teams of researchers, one in the Netherlands and one at the University of Wisconsin, have run experiments to find mutations that can turn H5N1 from a bird flu to a mammal flu. They?ve carried out their experiments on ferrets, which respond to flu viruses much like humans do.
Instead of focusing so heavily on human terrorists, we ought to take this opportunity to defeat a natural pathogen?one we can now recognize and manipulate with all the sophistication of molecular biology.
The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, concerned about bioterrorism and a worldwide pandemic, has for the first time ever urged scientific journals to keep details out of reports that they intend to publish on a highly transmissible form of the bird flu called A(H5N1), which has a high death rate in people.
A new website to help Wisconsin dairy producers improve milk quality has been launched by two professors in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
