The federal government can continue to finance research into embryonic stem cells, after a judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop such grants from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday criticized leaders of California?s public universities for recruiting highly paid “hired guns” from across the country to run campuses instead of looking for home-grown talent that might be willing to work for lower salaries.
Quoted: But the number of times the drive can write is in the tens of billions and thus probably not a concern to most computer users. If it were in a Google data center getting heavy use, it might last only a year, said Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who studies computer use patterns.
The No.?1 benefit for a player not taken in the NFL draft is the ability to choose the team that might offer the best opportunity to win a roster spot.For former Wisconsin quarterback Scott Tolzien, that team is the San Diego Chargers.
As the Aug. 2 deadline for increasing the federal debt limit approaches with little sign of an agreement between President Obama and Congressional Republicans, the uncertainty is growing at colleges: what happens to financial aid and federal research funds if the government defaults?
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled Wednesday that National Institutes of Health guidelines allowing funding of human embryonic stem cell research do not violate federal law, dismissing a legal challenge to the funding.
It wasn?t an overly long conversation but it was a rather revealing one.
Former University of Wisconsin Badgers are being snapped up by some NFL teams during a free-agent frenzy that started Tuesday.
Quoted: “What?s pushing the wealth of whites is the rebound in the stock market and corporate savings, while younger Hispanics and African-Americans who bought homes in the last decade – because that was the American dream – are seeing big declines,” said Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies income inequality.
Quoted: But the proposal would force farmers to cut back production, too, shrinking supply to raise the price of milk. That part of the plan has more opponents, said Bob Cropp, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agriculture economist.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specialises in income inequality, said: ?What?s pushing the wealth of whites is the rebound in the stock market and corporate savings, while younger Hispanics and African-Americans who bought homes in the last decade – because that was the American dream – are seeing big declines?.
Quoted: As the dates of those races approach, UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says a lot of money is being spent to get the message out to voters. Franklin says it could end up breaking spending records for previous state Senate races, due to the candidates and outside groups seeking to influence which party ultimately has control of the chamber.
Leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison posted on the university Twitter account that their thoughts and prayers are with an electrician and his family. The man suffered an electric shock inside the UW Humanities Building.
This past April, the Colorado House Education Committee rejected a bill that would have granted the children of undocumented state residents in-state university tuition. The issue pitted those who support educational opportunity for all young Colorado residents against those more concerned about the implications of legal citizenship for the receipt of state benefits. Both parties have valid concerns, yet there were, and still are, larger issues at stake.
Wisconsin football fans who still blame the UW coaching staff – specifically head coach Bret Bielema – for the Badgers? loss in the Rose Bowl might want to avert their eyes and skip the next few paragraphs.
According to reporters who cover the Big Ten Conference, Bielema is the league?s best coach entering the 2011 season.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics at UW-Madison
A former director of the state Department of Health Services has been named director of the University of Wisconsin?s Population Health Institute.
An increase in wildfires blamed on climate change could rapidly and profoundly alter the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, according to a study written by environmental engineering and geography professor Anthony Westerling of UC Merced.
Increasing waves of severe fires fed by climate change could shift much of the iconic forests of Yellowstone to scrub or grasslands by the end of this century, scientists say.
“Frankly, the results really surprised us,” says Monica Turner, a professor of landscape ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the paper. The researchers found “more fire and a more rapid rate of change than any of us had anticipated.”
Large fires in Yellowstone National Park could dramatically increase by mid-century due to climate change, which could create a very different park than the one people know today, a new study suggests.
A group of telephone companies has filed a lawsuit claiming the University of Wisconsin System is unfairly using tax dollars to compete with private companies in developing broadband access. Access Wisconsin claims the UW is piggybacking off existing networks rather than laying real groundwork.
Quoted: “What?s pushing the wealth of whites is the rebound in the stock market and corporate savings, while younger Hispanics and African-Americans who bought homes in the last decade ? because that was the American dream ? are seeing big declines,” said Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in income inequality.
State campaign finance records show UW-Madison political science professor Kenneth Mayer was paid $6,500 as a consultant to state supreme court justice David Prosser?s campaign committee.
Madison?s west side is the site-of-choice for a $100 million redevelopment project that would include UW Health clinics. People living near University Avenue and North Whitney Way are joining in on the discussion about the plans.
Japanese beetles have invaded new parts of south-central Wisconsin, and residents have few ways to fight back. The beetles, which first came to Madison more than 10 years ago, have residents in Oregon and Stoughton complaining about their effects for the first time, said Phil Pellitteri, a University of Wisconsin Extension entomologist.
In the pharmaceutical industry, universities appear to have found a partner willing and able to buy big chunks of their research. Beyond making drugs, however, such big-dollar corporate alliances remain rare.
Quoted: One economist was skeptical. Dave Marcouiller, who teaches urban and regional planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said jobs in tourism-related industries tend to last only through the summer. The jobs also tend to come with low wages, he added.
Quoted: “It?s very confusing because they come from two different sources of data,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: In other words, the protester achieved exactly what he was going for, said Pamela Oliver, a sociologist and expert on social movements at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Single-handedly, he drew attention to his opinions, without having to organize any kind of group effort at all.
A fine legal education may indeed be costly, but I reject the idea that its worth should be determined by the number of jobs available in the lucrative realms of the legal profession.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law Professor Walter Dickey, a criminology expert who once served as monitor of the federal Supermax prison in Wisconsin, said two men flashing lights outside a prison without getting anyone?s attention is problematic whether the prison is public or private.
Noted: The team collected about eight tons of ice using a new drill designed and built by the Ice Drilling Design and Operations group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . The Blue Ice Drill can extract cores with a diameter of 25 centimeters, versus about 10 centimeters for a typical vertical core.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist.
The Japanese Beetle can be a major pain for gardeners–or even just anyone with plants in their yard.
Quoted: Mike Peters, dairy farm manager for the UW-Madison Dairy Science Department, says the good news is that cattle usually recover quickly.
Noted: But University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin says it?s a mistake to say that there was nothing to learn from the Hansen race.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer said those who are highly involved in the recall movements are already familiar with the issue. Mayer said ad creators want to frame the recall elections with other issues, not distract from the message, and avoid backlash.
UW-Madison officials say air conditioning is running at normal levels across the campus Friday morning. Mechanical failures earlier in the week forced the university to shut down air conditioning to some facilities.
Alyssa Ricketts? $18,049 first-year tuition bought her anonymity in law school lecture halls teeming with aspiring lawyers in the past year. It was hard enough to carve out elbowroom, much less a comfort zone with the University of Wisconsin-Madison professors. There were close to 100 students in six of her nine classes.
University of Wisconsin-Madison materials science and engineering researchers have introduced innovations that could make possible a wide range of new crystalline materials.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
An entrepreneur from the University of Wisconsin is putting the mobile in mobile Internet. While wireless networks enable devices like smartphones or tablet computers to connect to the Internet from just about anywhere, service is spotty or nonexistent in many cars, trains, planes, buses and other vehicles. Suman Banerjee, an associate professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has come up with a solution. Banerjee created WiRover, a mobile Internet service for vehicles that allows passengers to surf the Internet quickly, stream video more efficiently and without interruption, and use complicated Internet applications.
Farmers at Fresno State have answered every child?s wish: They grow a vegetable that tastes like candy.Sweet, buttery, crunchy. Every day the university sells 10,000 to 30,000 ears of super-sugary corn grown on its campus farm smack in the middle of this Central Valley city. People line up for it at the university?s Gibson Farm Store, helping to make it one of the most profitable student markets in the nation. The farm earned $4.5 million in the fiscal year just ended, twice as much as the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Is something strange lurking around in the woods of Juneau County? Some residents think so. Juneau County highway worker, Jeff Potter, found an unusual animal. Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking a more scientific approach, saying it is likely a severely manged fox or raccoon.
Quoted: Entomologist Phil Pellitteri, of UW-Madison extension.
Letter by Darald Hanusa, Midwest Domestic Violence Resource Center and UW-Madison School of Social Work.
Quoted: Donald Waller, a UW-Madison botany professor who studies evolutionary biology.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
A Dane County judge has ruled against a telecommunications company that wanted to slow down a broadband project in rural communities. The University of Wisconsin System and others were awarded more than $37 million in grants for the project. Its goal is to deliver telecommunications capabilities to schools, hospitals and emergency services. But Wisconsin Independent Telecommunications Systems, which operates as Access Wisconsin, filed a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the project.
A Dane County judge has ruled against a telecommunications company that wanted to slow down a broadband project in rural communities. The University of Wisconsin System and others were awarded more than $37 million in grants for the project. Its goal is to deliver telecommunications capabilities to schools, hospitals and emergency services.
Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking a more scientific approach, saying it is likely a severely manged fox or raccoon.
Quoted: Benjamin Darien, associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
An entrepreneur from the University of Wisconsin is putting the mobile in mobile Internet.
While wireless networks enable devices like smartphones or tablet computers to connect to the Internet from just about anywhere, service is spotty or nonexistent in many cars, trains, planes, buses and other vehicles.
Suman Banerjee, an associate professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has come up with a solution.
My own decision to attend law school was based in part upon my perception, still shared by those who rush our doors, that a legal education provides an unparalleled opportunity to understand the intersection of private and public power, to explore the rationale for the organization of human society and to participate more knowledgeably and effectively in every aspect of human endeavor. A fine legal education provides an opportunity both to grasp the current arrangement of our legal order and to understand laws? limitations and shortcomings.
[A column by UW Law School professor Linda Greene]
Gerald Kulcinski, nuclear engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, needs a rare isotope — helium-3 — to fuel his research into a fusion reactor. There’s plenty of it on the moon, though.
“A few years ago we thought we were going back soon, but that’s all changed now,” he said.
Students looking for a workout Tuesday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus couldn?t use campus facilities. The Division of Recreational Sports has shut down all facilities “as air-conditioning demand continues to outpace supply,” according to UW officials. With a chiller at the Charter Street Heating Plant out of service for two weeks, UW-Madison continues to struggle to cool all of its buildings.
Chris Meyer may have grown up in Minnesota, but he is making himself at home at Maple Bluff Country Club in Madison. After three rounds, he is the sole leader of the 110th Wisconsin State Amateur Championship sponsored by Clifton Gunderson.
Meyer, who will be a junior on the University of Wisconsin men?s golf team this fall, shot a 2-under par 69 during the third round to get to 1-under for the championship. His home club, University Ridge, is also the home course for the team.
A fire that damaged a house near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Monday morning was caused by a small charcoal grill, the Madison Fire Department said.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Twenty top science students from rural Wisconsin high schools, including four from Ripon, earned the opportunity to hone their laboratory skills and work alongside top researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at a summer science camp focused on stem cells. Ripon High School students J.J. Grinde, Andrea Lyke, Rachel Thorson and Lincoln Wurtz attended the event held last week.
