Local educators say a provision suddenly added to the proposed state budget could crimp their ability to afford Internet service, while technology companies that support the measure say it would allow private providers to compete fairly to offer the service.
There are ways for universities to reduce tuition for illegal immigrants, even if state lawmakers vote to stop offering them in-state tuition, according to a lawyer for the University of Wisconsin System.
About the author: Beth Graue, a former kindergarten teacher, is a professor of early childhood education and the associate director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he understood why Democrats would try a placeholder tactic but he didn?t think it would have much effect on the overall elections.
The UW Athletic Board met Friday afternoon and approved contract extension for spring sport head coaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Wednesday officials with the Department of Natural Resources along with Entomology professors from UW-Madison started an experiment to eliminate the bug by releasing cups full of wasps onto newly affected trees.
It?s a new week in Wisconsin ? time to fight another new threat to education funding.
Large groups of protesters are expected to be back around the Capitol building this week, as the Legislature gets set to debate and pass the state?s next two year budget.
Those wishing to carry a concealed weapon in Wisconsin would have to obtain a permit and meet training requirements, under a compromise bill advanced Thursday by the Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee.
The Wisconsin Legislature will take up Gov. Walker?s first budget starting Tuesday.
The proposed state budget could end up denying Internet access to many Wisconsin residents, because if it is passed as currently written, four rural communities around the state could see their Internet disconnected.
Quoted: Ken Raffa, a professor of entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin System officials said Thursday they can offer significant tuition breaks to illegal immigrants even if lawmakers approve provisions in the state budget designed to curtail that practice.
The University of Wisconsin would have to return nearly $40 million in federal funds – money intended to pay for community networks and improve broadband service for public entities – if a state budget provision aimed at protecting rural telecommunications providers becomes law. UW officials say the proposal also would prevent research universities in the state from participating in a high-speed system that connects them with research universities nationwide. “The consequences would be catastrophic,” said Paul DeLuca, provost at UW-Madison.
What do Americans love more than French fries and potato chips? Not much-but perhaps we love them more than we ought to. Fat and calories aside, both foods contain high levels of a compound called acrylamide, a potential carcinogen. University of Wisconsin-Madison plant geneticist Jiming Jiang, a professor of horticulture, has a solution. As described in the current issue of Crop Science, his lab has developed a promising new kind of potato that helps cut acrylamide, an innovation he created with support from USDA-ARS plant physiologist Paul Bethke, an assistant professor of horticulture.
Fewer than 20 spots are still available for the 2011-2012 Farm and Industry Short Course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Wisconsin?s economy is faring pretty well in the short term, but the long-term outlook looks shakier. At the Wisconsin Real Estate and Economic Outlook Conference at the Fluno Center in Madison Thursday, University of Wisconsin Foundation president and CEO Michael Knetter said Wisconsin has been swimming too slowly as global tides shift to technology-based economies. ?Our economic growth outlook as a state is not great in terms of the long-term fundamentals,? Knetter, former dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, told WisBusiness.com after his speech. Controversy has raged over the past few months over Walker?s efforts to curb collective bargaining for public employees, give the UW-Madison control over its own spending and policies and cut government services.
The Walker administration says it?s getting ready for large crowds of protestors next week, when the full Legislature takes up the proposed new state budget. About 60 people protested against the new state budget outside a building at UW-Madison where Governor Scott Walker was speaking yesterday.
A Madison company aiming to help passengers in buses, trains and other vehicles connect to the Internet was the grand prize winner in the 2011 Wisconsin Governor?s Business Plan Contest. WiRover has developed an end-to-end software platform to deliver high-bandwidth Internet services to moving vehicles, including buses, trains, emergency vehicles and automobiles.
TomoTherapy shareholders have approved the sale of their Madison company to Accuray, of Sunnyvale, Calif., for $277 million in cash and stock. Established in 1997 based on technology with UW-Madison roots, TomoTherapy?s Hi-Art system spirals around a patient firing radiation beams at cancerous tissue.
Wisconsin researchers have released tiny parasitic wasps as part of an effort to slow the population growth of a destructive beetle species that has destroyed millions of trees. University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologists released 800 stingless Asian wasps from four plastic cups at the Riveredge Nature Center in Newburg Wednesday, so they can feast on the larvae of the emerald ash borer.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, UW-Madison economics professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, and Ken Mayer, political science professor also with the UW?s La Follette school.
A budget approved by a legislative committee last week would force the University of Wisconsin to return $39-million in federal grants awarded to expand high-speed Internet access across the state, state education officials said.
Quoted: The recent spotlight on community colleges has also drawn attention to their shortcomings, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. ?These are schools with lots of problems,? she says. ?It makes people wonder why should we support them if they have such low graduation rates.?
Cellular Dynamics International has an agreement letting iPS Academia Japan distribute the Madison company?s stem cell-derived heart cells in Japan. The agreement brings together CDI founder and UW-Madison researcher James Thomson with Shinya Yamanaka, a member of the Japanese company?s advisory board. Both are considered stem cell pioneers in their countries. They published articles in scientific journals at the same time in 2007 describing their separate breakthroughs in stem cell research.
WiRover, of Madison, was the big winner of the 2011 Wisconsin Governor?s Business Plan contest for its high-bandwidth Internet service for use on moving vehicles such as cars and buses. Developed at UW-Madison, WiRover won first place in the information technology category and was the grand prize winner of the competition.
Much of the UW-Madison campus will be reading “Enrique?s Journey” next fall. The book, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Sonia Nazario, is Chancellor Biddy Martin?s selection for the third annual common book read program, Go Big Read.
Noted: But Wisconsin interests are identified with the opposition?and proponents of the bill said this has been an influence on Sensenbrenner. Just last week, Dr. Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of a University of Wisconsin-related foundation?the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), a major leader in technology transfer?spoke out strongly against the bill.
Experts are trying a new approach to eliminate the invasive Emerald Ash Borers by creating a battle with another insect.On Wednesday, officials with the Department of Natural Resources along with entomology professors from UW-Madison started an experiment to eliminate the bug by releasing cups full of wasps into newly affected trees.
Town of Saukville – Tiny parasitic wasps, Wisconsin?s newest weapon in the war against the emerald ash borer, took flight Wednesday in a forest that is under siege from the invasive tree killer. Two species of stingless Asian wasps that feast on the larvae of the emerald ash borer were released by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Riveredge Nature Center.
A battle is brewing over internet connectivity after the legislature?s budget committee approved legislation late last week that would return a big federal grant for broadband and end the UW System?s support of a public service internet provider.
UW System support for a statewide high-speed network that supplies schools, hospitals and municipal governments across Wisconsin with necessary bandwidth would be severely curtailed under a proposal approved by the Republican controlled Joint Finance Committee.
?We will be hiring dozens of new faculty across disciplines. Would you have some Ph.Ds ready??
Elizabeth Warren, the leader of President Barack Obama?s controversial new mortgage industry watchdog, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will not speak at a UW-Madison conference on real estate and the economy this week. But she is sending an official from her agency, Patricia McCoy, to give a short presentation about the CFPB?s new mortgage disclosure program. Other speakers include Gov. Scott Walker, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and Michael Knetter, former dean of UW-Madison?s School of Business and now president of the UW Foundation.
Two competing local companies, both working to produce a scarce radioactive isotope used in heart stress tests and cancer scans, have each brought in money from investors. And at least one is getting wooed by three communities to house the manufacturing plant it plans to build. SHINE Medical Technologies, Middleton, said Tuesday it is getting $11 million from investors led by Knox, a Las Vegas venture capital fund set up by UW-Madison alumnus Frederick Mancheski. SHINE?s collaborators include the UW-Madison and the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research.
The news that Republican legislators plan to send back $37 million in funding for broadband access should come as no surprise, since Republicans have made it clear they want to replace everything from Medicare to public education with privatized voucher systems, while forbidding local governments to provide services available in the for-profit market.
The Joint Finance Committee slipped into the budget bill an attack on rural Internet access which will kill a federally funded UW-Extension program to expand broadband service in underserved areas and cripple WiscNet, a public-private partnership that helps school districts and libraries get online…The amendment saves no taxpayer dollars and prevents Wisconsin from using a major federal grant.The UW System was built on the notion that public universities should use their resources to benefit the public. I urge the Legislature to remove this provision.
Wisconsin state Superintendent Tony Evers is blasting a decision by the Legislature?s budget-writing committee to reject about $39 million in federal money to extend broadband Internet access across the state. The Joint Finance Committee voted Friday to force the University of Wisconsin System to return the money and no longer support WiscNet, a non-profit cooperative that brings high-speed Internet services to about 75 percent of public schools in Wisconsin and nearly all public libraries. Evers said Tuesday that the move would likely mean WiscNet could no longer provide Internet services and if that happens schools and libraries will have to pay double or three times what they do now. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says the issue may be revisited before the budget is voted on next week.
It is accurate to say UW Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin did not get everything she wanted with her New Badger Partnership proposal. And that?s too bad because, in fact, she is right
UW-Madison will remain a part of the University of Wisconsin System. However, UW schools are expecting massive cuts in the state budget.
Quoted: It?s too early to say whether the wasps will work, and determining results could take years, says Ken Raffa, a professor of entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: None of the wasps sting, or otherwise pester humans, but they feed on emerald ash borer larva and eggs, says Ken Raffa, a professor of entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Kyle Stiegert said the problem comes down to consumers? increasing demand for coffee products worldwide as the available supply fluctuates with weather conditions.
Wisconsin state Superintendent Tony Evers is blasting a decision by the Legislature?s budget-writing committee to reject about $39 million in federal money to extend broadband Internet access across the state.
After months of friction that culminated in his openly questioning the reproducibility of data published by his supervisor, a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin?Madison?s zoology department was presented with three options. The department?s chairman said he could wait to be fired, resign voluntarily or accept a “gracious exit strategy” that would give him time to prepare a paper for publication, if he dropped his “scientific misconduct issues”.
If Bo Ryan felt ? or looked ? like one of the oldest Division I men?s basketball coaches, then maybe he?d think about retirement.
A provision put into the state budget bill late last week could have wide-ranging affects for the University of Wisconsin and public schools around the state.
The state budget package approved last week at the committee level contains no plan to split the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the UW System, a wise move at this juncture.
Scientists working on a remote Wisconsin lake have identified early signals that warn when an ecosystem is on the verge of a regime shift ? a radical and rapid change from one type of ecosystem to another. They hope that understanding this kind of signal will improve our ability to protect and manage ecosystems in the future. The research findings were published in the journal Science on May 27, 2011.
Quoted: Randall Fortenbery, the outgoing agribusiness, agricultural and applied economics director at Renk Agribusiness Institute at UW-Madison.
An Australian Rules football club from Milwaukee will host a tournament Saturday at the UW-Madison fields on University Bay Drive, according to the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Law School professor Howard Schweber has said that some of the criticism leveled against Sumi amounts to calling her biased because she filed a brief saying she was not biased.
The state supreme court had a long day, nearly 7 hours of questions, answers and arguments about the collective bargaining bill.
The state Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether to take up a lawsuit over the state?s polarizing collective bargaining law.
Quoted: “Were underestimating in potentially very significant ways the magnitude of impact,” said Katherine Curtis, a sociologist and demographer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Were missing millions of people.”
Column by David Mladenoff, a professor of forest biology at UW-Madison.
Some 12,000 people turned out at Willow Island in Madison Saturday for the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure. The event helps raise money for breast cancer research and services, like the UW-Madison CareWear project. CareWear gives wigs, clothes and other items to patients undergoing chemotherapy
Quoted: Bruce Jones, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at UW-Madison
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Heidi-Lynn Ploeg, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.
