All registered students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can once again get free flu shots from the University Health Services (UHS). The first immunization clinic of the year will be for students only from noon to 5 p.m. at the Southeast Recreational Facility- or the SERF.
Quoted: “It is vicarious success,” said Jane Piliavin, UW-Madison professor emerita, sociology. “You feel like you won because the teams won.”
Police in Dane County will be able to drop off drunken people at a county-funded detox center next year, but fewer beds will be available for those who only want to dry out for 24 hours and then go back on the street without entering a treatment program. The county is shifting resources toward effective long-term treatment for those who want and need it, County Executive Joe Parisi said Wednesday. The county is negotiating with Tellurian for more beds without intensive medical care on weekends, when partying UW-Madison students swell the numbers of incapacitated people picked up by police.
Eventually, as minority groups increase in numbers and race becomes harder to define, affirmative action should go away. But not yet. In the global economy, every student at UW-Madison benefits from a more diverse population on campus. Including race as one small factor among many is still justified.
Minutes before he scored one of the most memorable touchdowns in University of Wisconsin football history, Jeff Mack was on the receiving end of a somewhat desperate plea from teammate Greg Lewis.
Fans are scrambling for tickets and being forced to decide just how deep they want to dig into their wallets to attend Saturday’s game between Wisconsin and Nebraska. As of Wednesday afternoon, there were about 500 tickets available on StubHub.com, an online ticket resale site. Prices ranged from $199 for a ticket in the upper deck to $1,500 for one in the Varsity Club suites. According to a StubHub press release, the UW-Nebraska game was the top-selling event on the site this week and “is by far the most demand we?ve seen for a Wisconsin home game in company history.”
A teaspoon of sugar may help the medicine go down, but if you want kids to eat brussels sprouts, give them a toy. A new study by a researcher at the University of Oregon and a colleague in Wisconsin suggests that kids can be influenced to choose a healthy meal if it comes with a toy. The effect is strongest when the toy is part of a collection and the child doesn?t have it yet.
The coach stood in the late-afternoon shadow that stretched across the field at Camp Randall Stadium, watching his offensive linemen prepare for a one-on-one blocking drill against the scout team. This is one of Bret Bielema?s favorite moments of the week: a full-contact, full-speed practice, in which the tone is set for the coming Saturday. As he watched one of his starting linemen crouch into a three-point stance, ready to unleash holy hell on the redshirt freshman across from him, Bielema smiled devilishly, as if he couldn?t wait for the bloodshed to begin. “This is what Wisconsin football is all about: man-on-man smashmouth,” Bielema said. “Just watch this.”
Saturday?s football game at Wisconsin against Nebraska is the hottest ticket in town, and many fans are still looking for tickets.
How desirable is a seat Saturday inside University of Wisconsin?s Camp Randall Stadium for the Nebraska Cornhuskers? first Big Ten Conference game?
Bret Bielema?s intensity ? and a desire to succeed ? has elevated the Wisconsin football program to sizzling heights in his five-plus seasons.
Noted: In later years, he invested time and money in developing fuels from plants and supporting work at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on helium-based fusion reaction for power generation.
Wisconsin officials tout Saturday night?s game against Nebraska as the toughest ticket ever at 94-year-old Camp Randall Stadium.
A selection of China?s most talented young athletes took a day off from their training Tuesday to learn about Wisconsin farming and state culture.
Noted: There was even a party of elite Chinese athletes attending this year at the Elm Lake Cranberry marsh near Wisconsin Rapids.
CRANMOOR — Gong Ruina, a graduate student at Beijing Sport University and world-champion badminton player, said harvesting cranberries is more difficult than it looks.
Quoted: The results show that parents have an important role to play, according to study author Marlon Mundt of the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “It?s all about joblessness,” says Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There?s just not enough work.”
Noted: Cytisine ?looks promising, but the jury is still out,? said Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Interventions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who had no role in the study. Fiore said that more studies are needed to confirm the findings, but that an inexpensive anti-smoking drug would be useful anywhere.
With the Packers, Brewers, and Badgers playing like gangbusters, fans are reaping the benefits of their favorite teams? success.
Some fans are willing to do just about anything to see this weekend?s Big Ten opener between Wisconsin and new conference member, Nebraska.
Hotels are trying to deal with an influx of fans for UW?s football game against Nebraska.
The Badgers are in the national spotlight and a media swarm will begin descending on Madison tomorrow morning.
Beau Baumert is a Badger football season ticket holder and he?s never been to Camp Randall.
He?s never visited Madison and probably couldn?t sing the words to “On Wisconsin” if his life depended on it.But Baumert considers himself frugal.
And depending on your point of view, he?s also smart. He?s a diehard Cornhuskers fan who really, really wanted to go to the UW-Nebraska football game now that the Huskers are Big Ten members.
The non-conference season only reinforced the preseason vote that predicted a UW-Nebraska final. If anything, the seventh-ranked Badgers and eighth-ranked Cornhuskers are bigger favorites now than they were then.
Estimates vary on how many Nebraska fans will converge on Madison, but police say it could range from 20,000 to 40,000 for a game that marks Nebraska?s debut in the Big Ten and matches two top-10 programs.
Public health programs that promote healthier lifestyles will receive funding from a $23.5 million grant awarded to a University of Wisconsin-Madison department, the university said Tuesday. The Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources, a unit of University Health Services, plans to use the money to address obesity and tobacco use in Wisconsin and increase early screening for chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
The first Big Ten Conference game in the history of the football program? A matchup of two top-10 teams? A possible preview of the first Big Ten title game?
Pffft.
If recent history is any guide, a large number of people will score tickets to the sold-out, much anticipated Wisconsin-Nebraska game Saturday — and pay nothing for them.
It?s not a place you?d expect to find a professional football player: At a call center, working as a telemarketer.
Public health programs that promote healthier lifestyles will receive funding from a $23.5 million grant awarded to a University of Wisconsin-Madison department, the university said Tuesday.
Barry Alvarez?s memory teems with Camp Randall Stadium moments.
They?ve accumulated over the last 21-plus years – 16 as football coach and five-plus as full-time athletic director:The back-to-back games against Michigan and Ohio State in the 1993 Rose Bowl season; the victory over Penn State in ?98 to clinch another trip to Pasadena; the victory over Iowa in ?99, which brought another Big Ten Conference title and a national rushing record for Ron Dayne; and the upset of No. 1 Ohio State last season.
Nebraska?s visit to Madison this week, the Cornhuskers? first Big Ten game, could rise to the top of that list.
President Obama has named two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers among 94 chosen to receive presidential early career awards for scientists and engineers, the highest honor the federal government bestows on for young science and engineering professionals.
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business and an expert on Internet retailing, said the growth of the company was likely helped by the slumping economy as businesses, large and small, began reassessing office supply costs.
The Cornhuskers will make their long-awaited Big Ten Conference debut facing the University of Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium. It ranks as one of the most anticipated games in the history of either school, a rare meeting between unbeaten teams ranked in the top 10 and one that will be hyped to the extreme during the coming days. All in all, it?s a welcome moment for Nebraska supporters who live behind enemy lines.
Some are raising questions about a ruling earlier this month on the use of student IDs to vote as the state prepares to implement a new law that will require photo identification at the polls. The Government Accountability Board, which oversees elections in Wisconsin, clarified at a meeting that University of Wisconsin System IDs could be used for voting – if they include all the required information – but technical college IDs could not. Technical college officials are formally requesting that the board reconsider its decision at its Nov. 9 meeting. Also noted: A UW-Madison emeritus professor who wrote about a new species of sunflower in the journal Brittonia earlier this month, a bike valet for fans who bike to the Badgers game on Saturday, and a $2 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding for UW-Madison to pay for new projects and upgrade its facilities.
As many people know, wireless networks are rife with RF (Radio Frequency) interference. This is not only an issue with large-scale business Wi-Fi, but within homes as well. Non-Wi-Fi devices such as cordless phones, Bluetooth headsets, some audio and video transmitters, various ZigBee devices and more, can all interfere with the performance of Wi-Fi.
Adam Brown, an assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University, and David Lassen, a doctoral student in political science at the University of Wisconsin, made that discovery in trying to answer this question: Are members of Congress more likely to use Twitter if they?re vulnerable to losing their seats in the next election? Their answer: No.
In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, Feb. 20, 2000, campus police entered Chancellor David Ward?s office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ordered a group of students within to get on their knees and put them in handcuffs. These students were part of a group of over 150 who had been occupying Bascom Hall for the previous four days. During that time, the students had put up banners, issued press releases and held rallies, all the while braving not only academic consequences, but also physical assault and pepper spray. Their demand was simple: They wanted a meeting with the president of their university.
Noted: The plan makes sense because it allows the three banks to break free of TARP?s restrictions, such as limits on executive compensation and transparency requirements, University of Wisconsin-Madison finance professor Ken Kavajecz said.
There are still a good 5 days to go before UW and Nebraska hit the field Saturday but if you?re looking for a hotel room in town, good luck.
A Social Security check could accompany the generous compensation package of a number of college presidents these days.
When Tumal M. Karunaratne was trying to decide which college in the United States or Britain to attend, the University of Cincinnati stood out. The 20-year-old undergraduate from Colombo, Sri Lanka, was excited about its engineering and cooperative-education programs. And Cincinnati offered him $12,000 a year in scholarship money designated for international undergraduates.
Noted: Lower education generally means higher poverty. About a fifth of people ages 25 to 34 with only a high school diploma in the United States were poor last year, compared with just 5 percent of college graduates, said Yiyoon Chung, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For those without a high school diploma, the rate was 40 percent.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a UW-Madison professor of public affairs and applied economics, said that when trying to attribute job growth to one or more government policies when who knows how many other economic forces peculiar to a state are also at work, he said the question becomes: “How do you know it would not have added employment in the absence of any particular policy?”
Recently introduced legislation ? Assembly Bill 214 and Senate Bill 172 ? would make it illegal to buy or sell fetal body parts for use in scientific research. It also would prohibit researchers from using any part of fetuses that were aborted. Supporters say it would establish “reasonable standards for human tissue research,” as sponsor Rep. Andre Jacque, R-Bellevue, wrote in a State Journal op-ed. He pointed to evidence that UW-Madison researchers used body parts from aborted fetuses in the 1990s and said the bill would prevent that practice from happening again. UW-Madison officials and some in the high-tech business community oppose the bill, arguing it would set back medical researchers in the state and possibly cost hundreds or thousands of potential high-tech research jobs.
Quoted: Anne Enke, a UW-Madison associate professor of history who studies social activism, said “media have typically focused on one or two figures” in social movements, but “in every major social movement of the 20th century, it is large — truly untold — numbers of diverse people working ?behind the scenes? who have provided the engines, staying power and real impetus for change.”
Quoted: Early attacks on Thompson are what UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin calls “preemptive advertising.”
Quoted: Giri Venkataramanan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences,
Andy Rubin, a master printer at UW-Madison?s Tandem Press since 1988, has worked with hundreds of graduate students over the years and exhibited his work in more than 50 national print competitions. A selection of Rubin?s work is on display through Dec. 15 in Bascom Hall?s new Academic Staff Art Gallery, founded last year to host semester-long exhibits of works by artists who serve on the university?s academic staff.
Why would anyone make a 600-pound bronze badger statue to guard the southeast side of Camp Randall, as described in a recent State Journal? It?s not Bucky Badger. The new statue does not have the spirit or determination shown in the face and actions of the Bucky Badger we all know. It?s like making a statue of a bronze mouse and saying it has the same spirit as Mickey Mouse.
University of Wisconsin law professor Ben Kempinen said it?s unclear how close the aides may have been to any alleged crimes under investigation in the John Doe.
Gov. Scott Walker considered cutting the pay of all public workers at the same time he was crafting his budget proposal that forced them to contribute more for their pension and health care benefits, an email obtained by The Associated Press under the state?s open records law shows. The email, sent Dec. 8 by policy director Ryan Murray, also asks the budget director how much could be saved through the maximum allowable eligibility and benefit cuts to Medicaid.U ltimately, Walker didn?t call for a pay cut as part of his budget that required public workers to pay 12.4 percent of their health care benefits and 5.8 percent of their pensions. In fact, when rolling out his plan, Walker attempted to sell it by noting that he wasn?t cutting salaries, imposing any furlough days or calling for layoffs.
The Badgers’ reward for breezing through the non-conference slate is a chance to turn their focus toward a much-hyped Big Ten Conference opener against undefeated Nebraska that includes a visit by ESPN’s “College GameDay.
The true test of a viable admissions plan for UW-Madison is how many of the admitted students graduate.
Although the state Legislature axed a plan to split UW-Madison from the University of Wisconsin System from the state budget, it called for the creation of a “Special Task Force” to study the UW System. Only one public appointment has been made to the 17-member task force. A bill has been introduced to delay the due date of the task force?s findings from Jan. 1, 2012, to Jan. 7, 2013.
Decades before becoming an established molecular biologist, Bill McClain skipped school to feed his art habit. From fourth grade in suburban Chicago until he (just barely) graduated high school, the son of a high-fashion hat designer would cut class, jump on the El and head downtown to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum. McClain, today a professor emeritus at UW-Madison, is also an art donor whose finely honed collection of 130 pieces of Imagist art given to the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is the basis of the museum?s current exhibition,
A new business designed to help college students track and share social events on and around campus has launched at seven campuses in Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin this year and plans are to expand to as many as 300 schools. Fampus, the creation of Brittany Brody, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior, combines campus and community calendars with social networking tools. The name comes from the company?s motto: find fun fast on campus. The website service is operational for students there and at a half dozen other campuses including Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
After high school, Nick Blankenheim entered the Army National Guard and, later, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a bachelor?s degree in wildlife ecology.
