Quoted: “Politically there?s a lot of hay to be made either in good numbers of bad numbers from one month to the next, but the bigger picture is one of the long run over months and years,” said UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Less than a week after NCAA President Mark Emmert promised sweeping changes to the rules and the reputation of college sports, another scandal is exposing the tenuous grip that many universities have on their high-flying athletic programs.
The annals of major college sports scandals are littered with the damaged careers of coaches and athletics directors, but surprisingly few presidents lose their jobs in connection with NCAA infractions cases. While it may be cold comfort for Donna E. Shalala, who as president of the University of Miami is dealing with some of the most serious allegations in the history of college sports, Ms. Shalala?s odds of surviving the scandal are pretty good, if recent history is any indicator.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed a Web presence, a portal and mobile apps for the iPhone and Android platforms. And the university may consider a mobile-optimized website.
Advertising for the market-savvy American consumer long ago stopped being about a product?s benefits and started being about creating unspoken, but enduring, emotional attachments between product and consumer, according to Robin Tanner, an assistant professor of marketing at UW-Madison.
….Jeff Graves, spokesman for Saturday?s Madison Mini-Marathon, said race officials alerted the more than 4,500 participants about the construction via email, but aren?t ?overly concerned.?
About 85 percent of the participants are from the Madison area, but there are ?definitely people who are not familiar with the Madison streets,? Graves said. The race route is not affected by the construction, but after starting on the UW-Madison campus it directs runners to the Capitol and down State Street.
Quoted: “This state is up for grabs. It?s remarkably volatile,” said University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden. “This is a 50-50 purple state.”
Quoted: What?s important is not what the chips are doing, but how they?re doing it, says Giulio Tononi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who worked with IBM on the project.
Dr. Fritz H. Bach, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison physician and medical researcher who helped develop techniques to improve people?s chances of surviving organ and bone marrow transplants, died Sunday at his home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. He was 76.
Since the early days in the 1940s, computers have routinely been described as ?brains? ? giant brains or mathematical brains or electronic brains. Scientists and engineers often cringed at the distorting simplification, but the popular label stuck.
The challenge in training a computer to behave like a human brain is technological and physiological, testing the limits of computer and brain science. But researchers from IBM Corp. say they?ve made a key step toward combining the two worlds.
But what’s important is not what the chips are doing, but how they’re doing it, says Giulio Tononi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who worked with IBM on the project.
Cultivating laboratories with the deftness of a master gardener, Dr. Fritz Bach brought to full flowering a half-century of scientific concepts, chief among them a cellular test he developed that led to the first successful bone marrow transplants matching donors and recipients.
The summer recalls of state senators have wrapped up. UW-Madison Political Scientist Barry Burden says one lesson learned is that public sector unions are active in the political process and when feel threatened, ?are pushing back.?
A man convicted in a Florida Ponzi scheme and Barry Alvarez met only once, according to a statement released by the University of Wisconsin athletic director Wednesday.
Famous Dave himself ? David Anderson ? be a guest speaker this fall at the Entrepreneurship in Society class on the UW-Madison campus.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez and his family have filed claims for at least $1 million against convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro, whose intermingling with the University of Miami football program prompted an NCAA investigation, according to a report by The Associated Press.
Quoted: Julia Murray, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who focuses on Chinese art.
Nevin Shapiro, a former Miami booster who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for masterminding a $930 million Ponzi scheme, told Yahoo! Sports he provided impermissible benefits to 72 of the university?s football players and other athletes between 2002 and 2010. Shapiro said he gave money, cars, yacht trips, jewelry, televisions and other gifts to players.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez and members of his family are among the creditors listed as those who are owed money by Shapiro. Court records show Alvarez?s family has filed claims for at least $1 million.
Virent, which is commercializing technology developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has 115 employees.
Nevin Shapiro, a former Miami booster who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for masterminding a $930 million Ponzi scheme, has told Yahoo! Sports he provided impermissible benefits to 72 of the university?s football players and other athletes between 2002 and 2010.
“Working Mother” magazine just named UW Hospital and Clinics one of the top ten “Best Companies for Kids” across the nation.
Sandi Sawchuk, clinical instructor at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, said buying pet medication online is an option if people use caution.
Quoted: “What we?re seeing this year is there?s enough uncertainty about who the frontrunner is in the Republican ranks to give a reason to look at other candidates, and Paul Ryan is filling that void right now,” Charles Franklin said.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez has filed claims for at least $1 million against a man convicted in a Florida Ponzi scheme, according to an Associated Press report.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the GOP?s slim margin in the Senate ? 17 to 16 ? may make it tougher for them in certain key votes in future sessions.
Noted: The Ticket asked several constitutional scholars and presidential experts if a sitting president would be allowed to carry a gun if he wanted to, even if it meant breaking local law. Since the White House is located in Washington, D.C.–a city that bans carrying firearms–the answer isn?t perfectly simple. As presidential scholar Kenneth R. Mayer of the University of Wisconsin put it, the legal questions would get “big, fat, and hairy in a hurry.”
The number of scientific experts testifying in court for both the prosecution and the defense has been increasing at a rapid pace. That means lawyers often have to become experts in bio chemistry or genetics just to do their job. That?s one of the reasons the UW-Madison law school is launching a dual degree this year in law and neuroscience.
Whether high school students are any less prepared for college than they were in years past ? and if so, why ? is a “huge topic” in education, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at UW-Madison.
The QR code is a square with a black and white design and placed on a print advertisement or a placard, say, at a transit station, people can use their mobile devices to scan the code and access a website for more information or a discount on a purchase. UW-Madison has started experimenting with QR codes in some venues, such as the Chazen Museum of Art, wgere an exhibit of Russian icons last spring included QR codes on the labels of many objects, leading to pages on the art history department?s website with research by students on the works of art. The athletic department posted a QR code online, in addition to a link, for the Badgers? spring football game, packed with information about the team, while the Wisconsin Sea Grant printed QR codes on postcards distributed to outdoor outfitter stores.
Quoted: UW-Madison communications professor Dietram Scheufele, who said QR codes are ?very successful tools” and could one day be used by students to register for classes.
Every year I hear loyal Madisonians joke about “Hippie Christmas,” the annual late-summer event where disgusting conglomerations of soiled carpeting, liquor bottles, tattered clothes, smashed cabinetry, stained mattresses and malfunctioning neon beer signs litter the curbs of Downtown Madison by the truck loads. As a Madison resident and someone who works on campus, I have never seen this event as anything to laugh about, but instead as a serious embarrassment to the city and the UW-Madison campus as the poorest possible representation to the outside community by our students.
When one of Nikki Engledow?s two sons is too sick for school and she can?t stay home, or her child care arrangements fall through, she takes advantage of the backup care benefit offered to her as an employee of UW Hospital and Clinics. “I?ve called in the middle of the night or the morning of when one of the boys has been ill … and they have been able to arrange child care without a problem,” said Engledow, a clinical nurse manager. The backup care benefit, which provides employees access to a service that finds last-minute care for their children, spouse, partner or elderly parents, has helped UW Hospital and Clinics earn a spot on Working Mother Magazine?s list of 10 Best Companies for Kids for 2011.
Monday is move-in day in downtown Madison, but as University of Wisconsin-Madison students move into their new apartments, health officials are concerned about the spread of bedbugs.
American graduate schools accepted 11 percent more international applicants in 2011 than they did in 2010, according to a report being released today by the Council of Graduate Schools. That?s the largest percentage increase since 2006. Last year the gain was 3 percent, and the year before that saw a 1 percent drop.
When the easy pork runs out, institutions have to take a different approach if they want to bring home the bacon.
Noted: But Morris Davis, Associate Professor in the Department of Real Estate at UW-Madison?s School of Business, said there?s a catch.
Noted: UW-Madison Political Scientist Charles Franklin says that?s about all the poll is really good for, other than also serving as a fundraiser for the GOP.
UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says turnout will again be a major factor in today?s election, much as it was in the GOP races. He says voters last week in some districts came out numbers that were close to the levels seen in presidential elections.
Officials at UW-Green Bay want to position the school to better attract prospective students. This fall the school is launching an in-depth study to identify its strengths, and then market them.
Like many of their colleagues across the country, Wisconsin?s assistant coaches went to summer school. The course: NCAA Rule Changes 101.
“In all of my years as a head coach,” UW head coach Bret Bielema said, “we?ve had more meetings with officials than at any other point.”
Robert Golden, dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, can hardly contain his excitement when he?s asked about research financed through money set aside after nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield United of Wisconsin converted to a for-profit corporation.
“Take the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin alone, and it?s already producing a statewide databank – complete with genetic, tissue and blood samples – that will help inform public health decisions for years to come,” said Golden, who came to Wisconsin five years ago after filling a similar role at the University of North Carolina. “It?s one of the more comprehensive projects of its kind anywhere.”
Two members of the Solidarity Singers got into an argument with a group of people observing the noontime sing-along, including University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and political blogger Ann Althouse.
The Wisconsin Center is a nonprofit founded by former Wisconsin State Journal reporter Andy Hall in 2009 that works with other media outlets and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to do investigative news projects. Its stories – written by professional and student journalists – focus on government and quality-of-life issues.
UW-Madison offers programming in its Center for the First-Year Experience to help students make a smooth transition to college.
Cynthia Jasper, a consumer science professor at UW-Madison, said people wouldn?t like to see the dream idea or their feelings about it unfairly exploited. ?Consumers are, more and more, becoming very sophisticated in terms of what they accept and whether they feel they?re being manipulated,? Jasper said. ?It could backfire.?
Gary Green, a UW-Madison sociology professor who studies economic development, said the success of economic development plans ?really varies by the plan,? but that research on economic development corporations such as Thrive is pretty conclusive.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Large, slow moving air masses make life easy for a forecaster, says Steve Ackerman, professor of atmospheric science at UW-Madison. “When we have a high pressure zone sitting above us in winter or summer, we know the weather is going to stay pretty much the same.” At the opposite extreme are thunderstorms and tornadoes, Ackerman says.
Philip Kara, 23, a UW-Madison graduate and cook at the Tornado Room, was moving with his girlfriend, Allison Vogel, 23, into an apartment on Gilman Street Sunday. They were among thousands of students and other campus-area renters moving between apartments this weekend. Many students move-out/move-in weekend ? many housing leases end Aug. 14 and begin Aug. 15, giving landlords a few hours in between to clean, paint and make necessary repairs.
We have reached that moment in the discussion ? begun last month in this space ? on whether it might be possible to move ?Nail?s Tales,? the Donald Lipski sculpture adjacent to Camp Randall Stadium that many people have regarded as an eyesore, to put it kindly, ever since it was unveiled in 2005.
UW coach Bret Bielema?s goal is to take the program from ?good to great,? which is possible if the team can show more consistency from year to year.
UW-Madison will face stiff competition for the best national candidates as it searches for a new chancellor, according to higher education experts. That?s because an ?extraordinary? number of similar universities also are looking for new leaders, said Jan Greenwood, a search consultant who specializes in university presidencies. Finding the right candidate is important because university presidents must be able to fill a range of roles: CEO and academic, politician and cheerleader, public speaker and master fundraiser.
The US University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is notifying 75,000 students and staff that their personal information may have been exposed in a breach of one of the institution?s IT systems in May, but the delay is highlighting the need for more timely breach notifications.
Noted: ?If you were paying attention to the coverage, the characterization of people resistant to raising the debt ceiling was they were Tea Party supporters or members of the Tea Party caucus,? said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and a polling specialist. ?That characterization is an element in the current apparent decline in Tea party popularity.”
Noted: Students aren?t the only ones with a steep learning curve. More than half of teachers say they feel unqualified to use their state?s financial education standards, and few feel “very competent” lecturing a class on topics such as risk management and debt, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The ankle braces many basketball players strap on to prevent injuries may actually work, according to a study of teenaged basketball players.
“Ankle braces could be a cost-effective way to prevent ankle injuries in basketball players, but they?re not a panacea,” said Timothy McGuine, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who led the study.
UW-Madison Political Scientist Charles Franklin thinks lawmakers will squabble over what constitutes an appropriate reason for recall.
The debt deal that President Obama announced on Sunday ends a weeks-long stalemate over the nation?s borrowing limit that had threatened to disrupt the flow of federal student aid and drive up the interest rate on colleges? debts.
Despite the weather, thousands of UW students are working to move out of their apartments.
The annual college student shuffle known as “moving days” added chaos to downtown Madison on Saturday, as organizations focus attention on reusing old items.
UW System President Kevin Reilly has put out the call for nominees to help select a new UW-Madison chancellor. Reilly will appoint a 23-member search-and-screen committee consisting of 12 faculty members, two academic staff members, one classified staff member, two administrators (one from UW-Madison and one from UW System administration), two UW-Madison students and four community members. Nominations are due on Friday, Sept. 30, and Reilly is expected to appoint the committee some time in October, said UW System Spokesman David Giroux.
