The Government Accountability Board, which runs state elections, unanimously adopted a policy Monday that said schools could put stickers on existing IDs to include the information needed to make the IDs compliant with the voter ID law. That could save public and private schools money by not having to completely overhaul their IDs.
UW-Madison officials organized what they called an urgent meeting Monday night with students to discuss “a threat to the school?s diversity efforts.”
The Center for Equal Opportunity, a group that opposes the consideration of race in college admissions decisions, released reports today showing what it says are large and likely illegal boosts that the University of Wisconsin at Madison gives to black and Latino applicants.
On Saturday afternoon, Wisconsin?s Bret Bielema and Northern Illinois? Dave Doeren will hold a family reunion on the shores of Lake Michigan.
“I am looking forward to facing Coach Doeren,” UW senior free safety Aaron Henry said of the Badgers? former defensive coordinator, in his first season as the Huskies? head coach. “That is the same guy who recruited me.
Wisconsin on Sunday moved up one spot in both top 25 football polls. UW is now No. 7 in The Associated Press media poll and No. 8 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches? poll.
A bill introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature would make it a crime for Wisconsin researchers to continue using those cells, even though they have done so legally, ethically and effectively for 50 years or more.
Lawmakers who believe they are merely standing firm against abortion should think twice about the far-reaching effects of this bill on medical research and the state?s innovation economy.
UW police say they issued citations to 20 people, including 16 UW-Madison students, for infractions at the Badgers football game Saturday. One person was charged with disorderly conduct and another with marijuana possession; the other 18 received citations for underage drinking.
Quoted: Robin Tanner, an assistant professor of marketing at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Letter from Jim LaGro, UW-Madison department of urban and regional planning.
A UW-Madison engineering center won a six year, $18 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding will allow the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Nanostructured Interfaces to expand its mission.
Rock, paper or scissors, everybody wins in ?Replay,? a playful piece choreographed by Jin-Wen Yu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally made in 1995, ?Replay? casts young dancers as schoolchildren on a playground. The dancers jump as though playing hopscotch, spin beneath a tetherball, sway like trees and blow around the stage like autumn leaves.
Quoted: Local businesses said politics have little to do with hiring decisions and, nationally, it?s more about consumer confidence, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
When Paul Soglin was busted in 1969 at the wild Mifflin Street block party, the arrest was something of a badge of honor. The city had refused to grant a permit for the gathering, which was intoxicated with left-wing politics, among other things. Mr. Soglin was happy to defy the ban.
A 31-year-old Madison man suffered minor injuries Saturday afternoon after a vehicle struck him in downtown Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators have a new initiative to keep students out of alcohol-related trouble.
Duke University Press has struck an agreement with HathiTrust and Google to make a large number of its backlist titles freely available through the HathiTrust digital repository. The press, like many others, hasn?t had spare resources to digitize and archive all those books itself.
It’s move-in day here at the University of North Carolina, and Leila Ismail, stuffed animals in tow, is feeling some freshman angst.
Since California voters in 1996 passed an amendment to the state constitution to ban the consideration of race and ethnicity in public college admissions decisions and other state government functions, proponents of affirmative action have sought the help of federal courts to block such referendums.
Quoted: Gardening doesn?t necessarily lead to better health, of course. But Bridget C. Booske, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, said Morgan County, where West Liberty is, seemed to be better off than its neighbors.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police said they arrested an Oshkosh man during the UW Board of Regents meeting on Thursday.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, would favor an even bigger jobs package for an economy that grew at an annual rate of just 0.7 percent in the first six months of the year and didn?t add jobs in August.
The University of Wisconsin regents agreed Thursday to shift certain powers from the UW System to its 26 campuses, a move made necessary by budget cuts and staff layoffs.
Quoted: “Some of these rural areas are quite depressed, impoverished, with poor social and economic factors, and they have bad health outcomes,” Patrick Remington of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute said on Thursday.
As Diana Hess learned that airplanes had slammed into the twin towers in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, her first instinct was to cancel her classes for the day. But before she could, the University of Wisconsin education professor began receiving frantic calls from her students ? pleading with her to hold class as planned.
University of Wisconsin regents have passed a pair of proposals designed to save money by shifting authority from the central UW System to its 26 campuses.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are now requiring most students who get an alcohol-related citation to take a course on the risks of alcohol abuse.
The head of the state Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee says officials at UW-Green Bay could be breaking the law. Representative Steve Nass has canceled an Assembly committee public hearing after hearing of a UW-Green Bay vice-chancellor receiving both a pension and a regular paycheck. ?I want to see how widespread the problem is, as far as people being hired back in the university system,? said Nass. ?The Department of Administration has also begun looking at the entire state, to see how many hires have been made.?
A new study by professors from UW-Madison and the College of William and Mary reveals that, 10 years later, there?s still no consensus on how to teach about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in schools. Co-authors Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess have conducted numerous studies of 9/11 curriculum since 2007. Their latest study, released Thursday, concluded Wisconsin provides little guidance for teachers on the topic.
The University of Wisconsin regents agreed Thursday to shift certain powers from the UW System to its 26 campuses, a move made necessary by budget cuts and staff layoffs. The Board of Regents passed a pair of proposals by unanimous voice vote. The first allowed the campuses to take on some of the oversight authority currently provided by the UW System. The other offered a plan for staff downsizing in response to a $2.46 million budget cut for the UW System Administration.
The UW Board of Regents approved two proposals Thursday that will help University of Wisconsin System administration cut its budget by shifting power to individual campuses. Regent President Michael Spector called it “the most significant restructuring in the 40 years since the System itself was formed.”
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, would favor an even bigger jobs package for an economy that grew at an annual rate of just 0.7 percent in the first six months of the year and created zero net jobs in August.
In what marks a major shift in the way UW-Madison handles problem drinking, officials are now requiring most students who get an underage drinking ticket or some other alcohol-related citation to take a course on the risks of alcohol abuse. Students pay $78 for two group sessions or $200 for two one-on-one sessions with a professional substance-abuse counselor. That?s in addition to the cost of the ticket ? $263.50 for a first-offense underage drinking citation, according to the UW-Madison Police Department. Previously, the university did not have a consistent approach to dealing with alcohol-related issues, said Tom Sieger, prevention director at University Health Services UHS. Students would be referred to counseling if they caught the eye of a staff member or could be kicked out of the dorms if they violated the alcohol policy, Sieger said.
Many people think of the city lifestyle as unhealthy, associating it with noise, pollution, crime, dense populations, a fast pace, and high stress levels. Many aspire to leaving the city for the country and the healthier lifestyle they think more tranquility brings.
Fresh air, open spaces and chirping birds should be conducive to a much healthier lifestyle, or so the thinking goes. But, reports CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano, a new study seems to dispel those notions.Cities once infamous for pollution, crime, crowding and infectious diseases have cleaned up their act.
“They may have a better educational system,” says Patrick Remington, project director of County Health Rankings, a report published by the University of Wisconsin that ranks more than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their states.
Quoted: “This was a tough decision for him, for something he didn?t do,” said John Pray of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, who helped represent Vandenberg in court.
State officials said they?ve launched an investigation into whether the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay properly re-hired a retired vice chancellor.
Quoted: A list of 30 creditors that NewPage owes the most money in unsecured debt includes four Wisconsin companies. Unsecured debt simply means there isn?t collateral, said Jonathan Lipson, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor and expert on corporate bankruptcy. An example of secured debt would be a car loan that would allow the company to take the car if the loan is not repaid. An example of unsecured debt would be a student loan, where there is nothing to take back.
Noted: “Another class member is now a prominent professor at the University of Wisconsin. I asked him what it was like in Madison during last summer?s demonstrations and he said, “Heck, I was in them. We?ve got an absolutely insane governor in this state, Governor Walker. The man is crazy. He wants to gut the entire system. We were out there to stop him.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison entymology professor Susan Paskewitz said the concern with babesiosis and other tick-borne illnesses is more than just the source?s microscopic size.
The world watched in horror as the World Trade Center towers crumbled ten years ago. Despite several investigations into what happened that infamous day, skeptics believe the government isn?t telling us the truth. “Anybody who looks at (the investigation) with an open mind will immediately understand there is a huge problem with the official U.S. version of 9-11,” conspiracy theorist Kevin Barrett tells me.
Noted: Diana E. Hess, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, analyzed nine American high school textbooks that together are used by almost half of American students. She found that while they used dramatic labels (?horrendous plot? or ?crime against humanity?) to describe the attacks, they provided little information about what actually happened. Most of the textbooks did not even say how many people were killed or who was responsible for the attacks.
Many people think of the city lifestyle as unhealthy, associating it with noise, pollution, crime, dense populations, a fast pace, and high stress levels. But a new study seems to dispel those notions. Cities once infamous for pollution, crime, crowding and infectious diseases have cleaned up their act. A report published by the University of Wisconsin that ranks more than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their states. “They may have more job opportunities,” says Patrick Remington, project director of County Health Rankings. “All these things come together to make urban areas and, in particular, suburban communities, healthier than their rural counterparts.” The report found that 48 percent of the healthiest counties were urban or suburban, while 84 percent of the unhealthiest counties were rural.
Quoted: “I think she has a chance, but it will be a tough, tough campaign,” said Kathy Cramer Walsh, UW-Madison political science professor. “Liberal, lesbian and an incumbent. That?s a lot to overcome.”
Noted: Compiling such a list can be a complex undertaking. “Issues of scale, era and location complicate the question, as do the criteria for a ?sneak attack? ? which is often viewed as a preemptive strike by those who launch it,” observes military historian John W. Hall at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Rarely are such affairs complete and total surprises. In hindsight, it often emerges that the indicators for an attack were present but overlooked, or not placed in the proper context.”
The University of Wisconsin System can help absorb millions of dollars in budget cuts by transferring some of its authority to its 26 campuses and chancellors, according to a recent report commissioned by the UW System president. The UW System must reduce its operating budget by $2.4 million per year and cut 51 full-time positions under Gov. Scott Walker?s two-year state budget. In response, UW System President Kevin Reilly asked a committee to advise him on how to deal with the cuts. The report?s authors responded by suggesting a fundamental shift _ distributing power from the UW System out to the campuses, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report.
Quoted: Justices returned to passionate, yet civil, debate during oral arguments. The big question is whether they?ll remain civil in private, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Donald Downs said.
Redshirt freshman defensive end Jake Irwin has been kicked off the University of Wisconsin football team, coach Bret Bielema announced on Tuesday. Police said Tuesday they arrested Irwin, from Waunakee High School, over the weekend on tentative charges of battery and disorderly conduct stemming from an incident on campus. Irwin received medical treatment for injuries he suffered shortly after midnight Thursday in front of the Red Gym, where he was hit on the head with a rock, said UW-Madison police Sgt. Aaron Chapin.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in income inequality, called the outlook for younger adults in the U.S. especially troubling. He pointed to youth discontent in other parts of the world, such as England, where he says high unemployment and widening inequality contributed to recent rioting.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in income inequality, called the outlook for younger adults in the U.S. especially troubling.
A member of the UW football team was arrested for battery after a fight outside the Red Gym earlier this month.
A member of the Wisconsin Badgers football team, Jake Irwin, was arrested on two counts of disorderly conduct and two counts of battery for his role in a fight outside the Red Gym on Sept. 1, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department.
Wisconsin reserve defensive end Jake Irwin, who was not allowed to participate in preseason camp for unspecified reasons, now has legal problems to address. Irwin, a redshirt freshman from Waunakee High School, was arrested by UW Police after an alleged incident outside the Red Gym on Sept. 1.
The votes are in and the results are obvious:Both coaches and members of the media liked what they saw from Wisconsin in the Badgers? 51-17 victory over Nevada-Las Vegas. UW (1-0) moved up one spot to No. 9 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches? poll and climbed three spots to No. 8 in The Associated Press media poll.
Wisconsin is scheduled to open the 2011-?12 Big Ten Conference men?s basketball season against the league?s newest member, Nebraska. UW plays the Cornhuskers at 8 p.m. Dec. 27 in Lincoln, Neb. The game will be televised by ESPN2.
After endorsing the University of Nebraska-Lincoln?s entrance into the Big Ten Conference — in part because of its academic strength — leaders at the universities of Wisconsin and Michigan apparently helped oust UNL from an elite academic group, according to documents reviewed by the Journal Star.
Noted: Former University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett, who is the leading advocate of theories that Israel?s Mossad orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, is one of the conspiracists who cites Griffin as his inspiration for joining the movement. Barrett came to renown in 9/11 conspiracy circles in 2006 after being castigated on Fox News by Sean Hannity and Bill O?Reilly during a national debate about the 9/11 conspiracy theory and academic freedom on the Madison campus.
Quoted: Will Jones, a noted labor historian and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, pointed out that Labor Day began as an almost militant demonstration for workers? rights in the 1880s. Since then, it slowly morphed into parties like Monday?s as unions gained acceptance. Now, Jones said more than just union workers have found themselves backed into a corner again.
Labor Day in the United States dates to the 1880s. ?The first Labor Day march was a march of unions, planned by the central labor union of New York City,? said UW Madison history professor Will Powell Jones.
A person doesn?t have to constantly shovel ice cream into their face to be fully aware of the power of perhaps the world?s most perfect food. Bill Klein gets it and he normally only eats a tiny spoonful a day. Of course, he makes a lot more than that as the production manager of the Babcock Dairy on campus, UW-Madison?s holy house of ice cream and other dairy delights. As Klein got to work on a new green tea flavor, The A.V. Club stopped by to taste test and get the scoop from the master on what makes Babcock ice cream unique, the importance of having your own cows, and the crazy flavors that just don?t work.
An area man who was in New York for work on 9/11 shares his memories of that day and his work as a first responder in the weeks following the terrorist attacks. Tony Rajer is a professor for UW-Madison and was visiting New York at the time of the attacks.
