Researchers know that sleep deprivation makes people and animals less functional. Now a team of researchers in Wisconsin and Italy has found that in rats kept awake past their bed times, their brains begin to turn themselves off, neuron by neuron, though the rat is still awake.
OTTAWA ? Older people call them “senior moments” ? you put the milk in the cupboard; you can?t remember why you walked into a room; you lose your train of thought in the middle of . . .
When you are sleep deprived some of your neurones actually fall asleep and can lead you to make mistakes, new research has found.
Quoted: Jacqueline Hitchon, chairwoman of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a London-born professor who has lived in the United States for 25 years. She said the royal family is a huge draw for tourism in Great Britain and the wedding is a major story for that nation.
Before the Vietnam War ended, attending the Mifflin Street Block Party meant dancing in the streets and opposing police power by declaring the sovereignty of ?Miffland,? all in the name of protesting U.S. action overseas.
Every year in Madison on a Saturday in early spring, there is a huge outdoor beer bash for UW students in a neighborhood southeast of campus. This year the officially organized and heavily policed bash, known as the Mifflin Street Block Party, is taking place on Saturday, April 30. And most of the thousands of undergraduates who go there to get publicly drunk know nothing about how the party came to be.
The Wisconsin Veterans? Affairs Board has asked legislators to make three major changes in the proposed state budget. It took issue with the governor?s plan to split UW Madison from the rest of the university system.
Many public university systems? flagship campuses, faced with state funding cuts, are hiking tuition, increasing the numbers of higher-paying nonresident students, ramping up fundraising — and confronting the very notion of what it means to be a public institution.
A proposal that would require Wisconsin voters to show photo identification at the polls is expected to be voted on in May and take effect in 2012.
There will be some big changes at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party this weekend.
The more than 40-year-old tuition agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin has turned into a good financial deal for Minnesota students, while Wisconsin officials are working to reduce the program?s cost.
The word “cancer” is one no one wants to hear. But there are cancers these days that are being diagnosed more often with a decent prognosis.
MADISON (WKOW) — Madison Mayor Paul Soglin hopes that an increased focus on live entertainment, including music, will lead to a decrease in bad behavior at this year?s Mifflin Street Block Party.
An Assembly committee held a day long public hearing at the state Capitol Wednesday, on Republican legislation which would require Wisconsin residents to show photo identification in order to vote. It?s legislation which opponents claim will disenfranchise voters, and make Wisconsin the most restrictive state in terms of what ID would be allowed. The hearing quickly became contentious.
This Monday, in a not-at-all out of character message, Biddy Martin tweeted ?@alison1690,? ?I like the opportunity to learn about and communicate with students in a medium you find appealing.? The next day, our chancellor held an impromptu discussion with student protesters occupying Bascom Hall. Coincidence? Political savvy? Biddy being Biddy?
What is being proposed as a “public authority” for the campus has no semblance to the public authority at UW Hospital…It has been 15 years since UW Hospital became an excellent model of a public authority, aggressively striving and meeting the goals of quality, competitive health care and labor peace. Let?s use the model.
The street is back in the Mifflin Street Block Party. For the first time in years, revelers at the annual end-of-the-school-year party on Saturday will be allowed to drink beer in the street on designated blocks of Mifflin and North Bassett streets. Majestic Theatre and Capitol Neighborhoods Inc., the co-sponsors of the event, obtained a beer license and the party will feature a stage with live bands. The party started in the late 1960s as a peace festival, but it has since morphed into a UW-Madison student tradition to celebrate the end of the school year. It has not been legal to carry open containers of alcohol on the street at the festival since the early 1990s, when the Mifflin Street Co-op stopped sponsoring the event.
The arrival of food carts on the UW-Madison campus and around Downtown is a sure sign of spring ? and street food in Madison has never been more popular than it is right now, officials say. This year a record 39 food vendors were approved for the State Street Mall and Capitol vending areas ? four more than last year and 13 more since 1997, the earliest year a consistent record was kept. In addition, up to eight carts are expected in the vending area on the southeast side of campus, now in its second year.
Republican leaders of the Legislature?s budget-writing committee indicated Tuesday that they will break with Gov. Scott Walker on some parts of his two-year spending plan, including removing the requirement and money for local recycling efforts and changing the popular SeniorCare prescription drug program. They spoke before the Joint Finance Committee began taking votes on changes to Walker?s first budget. Committee co-chair Robin Vos (R-Racine) has said it was “highly unlikely” the committee will go along with Walker?s plan to break the Madison campus off from the UW System. That issue has divided both the Madison campus and the university system, with other campuses and UW President Kevin Reilly arguing against it. They, and some lawmakers, have argued that all 14 four-year campuses in the system should have the same autonomy that Walker is proposing for Madison. Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has argued strenuously for the plan, saying it was necessary for the flagship campus to deal with a $125 million cut Walker is proposing — half of the $250 million cut Walker wants for the entire university system.
Noted: At an undergraduate level, less than 20% of Fortune 500 CEOs get their degrees from Ivy League schools (including Ivy League-caliber schools like Stanford). While those numbers go up when graduate degrees are added into the mix (roughly 12% of CEOs have some degree from Harvard alone), the reality is that the University of Wisconsin produces just as many CEOs at the undergraduate level as Harvard.
Noted: BYU was recently ranked as the number one school in the country by RateMyProfessors.com, a site that lets students rank their professors and institution in an open format. Coming in at No. 2 was Florida State University, then University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan.
Sports fans of Wisconsin may not know it, but they got lucky Monday when the San Jose Sharks defeated the Los Angeles Kings to advance in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Led by Sun Valley?s Hilary Knight, the U.S. Women?s National Team won its third straight women?s world hockey title with a 3-2 overtime victory against Canada Monday.
Noted: The Wisconsin bill refuses to recognize college photo ID cards, even if they are issued by a state university, thus cutting off many students at the University of Wisconsin and other campuses. The Texas bill, so vital that Gov. Rick Perry declared it emergency legislation, would also reject student IDs, but would allow anyone with a handgun license to vote.
Welcome to the autonomy discussion Madison College. Thanks for advancing the conversation President Bettsey Barhorst. And welcome to the new world of higher education Wisconsin.
Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, said, “… Duffy is definitely on the list of targets for Democrats trying to prevent that.”
Noted: Vos has also said it was “highly unlikely” the committee will go along with Walker?s plan to break the UW-Madison campus off from the UW System.
It?s the time of year to think about Lyme Disease ? particularly in kids. Doctor Greg Demuri, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at UW Children?s Hospital, has seen a lot of cases of Lyme Disease in kids over the years ? and he recommends some simple preventative measures such as tucking pants legs into socks, and wearing long pants and long sleeved shirts.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health completes its review of UW physicians who gave medical-excuse notes to protesters at the State Capitol during a huge rally. It was widely reported that several doctors provided a sick note for a person?s absence from work or school on February 19th. Some of the activity was video taped and made available to media outlets.
MADISON (WKOW)–Police at the University of Wisconsin were called to Bascom Hall on Tuesday evening after a group of protesters refused to leave the building.
MADISON (WKOW)– Several doctors face discipline for writing medical excuses for teachers attending protests at the Capitol.
MADISON (WKOW) — Madison Area Technical College leaders are hoping for a change in the way the technical system runs.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin said it may punish some of its doctors who provided medical excuse notes for protesters attending rallies at the state Capitol in February.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison students and campus community members are engaging in a sit-in at Bascom Hall to protest the idea of splitting UW-Madison from the rest of the UW System.
I was disappointed last week to read in this newspaper?s “Labor?s last stand?” series that some UW-Madison students have been breaking up with their honeys over disagreements about what?s been happening at the Capitol.
Quoted: Troy Runge, a professor in biological systems engineering at UW-Madison.
Our state?s drunken driving scourge continues to rumble and veer at alarming speed across Wisconsin, destroying innocent lives. Consider the latest harrowing headlines, including news that Lori Kasten, 45, of Madison, faces her third DUI offense after UW-Madison Police reported Saturday they found her revving her vehicle?s engine to try to free it from a curb it was stuck on in a campus parking lot. In 1996, Kasten crashed into a car and killed one of its passengers, 11-year-old Katie James of Madison.
Four Democrats on the state?s budget committee raised objections to proposed changes to Wisconsin?s tuition reciprocity program with Minnesota. The proposal won?t end the program, which allows Wisconsin and Minnesota students to pay in-state tuition at public universities in either state. But it means Wisconsin students would pay more to attend college in Minnesota. The changes would eliminate a subsidy – paid by the state of Wisconsin – which gives Wisconsin students a grant to cover higher in-state tuition in Minnesota. Gov. Scott Walker says the change would save Wisconsin taxpayers $12 million a year. About 10,300 students take part in the program.
On opposite ends of State Street, two student groups with radically different viewpoints will voice their opinions today about the proposal to split UW-Madison from the University of Wisconsin System. At Bascom Hall at 1 p.m., students will protest the budget proposal to make UW-Madison into a public authority. The group, including members of the Student Labor Action Coalition, will hold a mock auction to signify what they say is a handover of the university to private special interests. Bascom Hall is where UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin?s office is located. About a mile away, at the state Capitol, students in favor the proposal will lobby legislators, said Jon Alfuth, a coordinator of Students for the New Badger Partnership.
Call it budget envy, but the president of Madison Area Technical College wants a deal similar to UW-Madison?s treatment in the state budget ? more autonomy. Bettsey Barhorst said Monday that MATC needs more freedom from the state in order to run more cheaply and efficiently, especially in the face of a proposed 30 percent cut in state aid and a proposed freeze in property tax increases. Barhorst said state rules for building, program approvals and personnel certification mean piles of paperwork, a lengthy process and added expense for the college.
For a group of women at Yale, the last straw came in October, when fraternity pledges marched on campus shouting a sexually offensive slogan. The women complained to the Department of Education, which began an investigation by its Office of Civil Rights.
WASHINGTON ? Nine of the 11 members of an NCAA panel that will help decide the Fiesta Bowl?s fate attended a bowl-sponsored retreat that included free meals, resort rooms and golf outings. Barry Alvarez is included.
In one of history?s lucky accidents, the juxtaposition of two extraordinary events has stripped the architecture of American global power bare for all to see. Last November, WikiLeaks splashed snippets from U.S. embassy cables, loaded with scurrilous comments about national leaders from Argentina to Zimbabwe, on the front pages of newspapers worldwide. Then just a few weeks later, the Middle East erupted in pro-democracy protests against the region?s autocratic leaders, many of whom were close U.S. allies whose foibles had been so conveniently detailed in those same diplomatic cables.
Quoted: “There?s often talk of the sophomore surge, that someone who?s made it to their second term is much more likely to hold on to a seat for their career,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist. “And Duffy is definitely on the list of targets for Democrats trying to prevent that.”
Quoted: Tuls doesn?t yet milk any cows in Wisconsin, but other out-of-state farmers building operations in the dairy state are helping close a Wisconsin milk deficit, said Bob Cropp, a dairy economist with UW-Madison. So are Wisconsin farmers who are expanding their herds and improving production, he said.
Members of the Legislature?s budget-writing committee have signaled they?re approaching information overload when it comes to the proposed separation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the rest of the UW System. Is there a way, key lawmakers have asked, to construct a phased plan for giving the university more freedom to run its own affairs?
UW-Madison police arrested 45-year-old Lori Kasten of Madison, for a third offense OWI early Saturday morning.
The state?s technical colleges are arguing that Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed nearly $72,000,000 budget cut to the technical system is counterproductive to his goal of creating 250,000 jobs.
Quoted: Michael Corradini, the chairman of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin, said that with power crews already setting up electricity transmission lines across the evacuation zone to the plant, and with heavy repair equipment being brought in as well, the movement of private individuals and their vehicles would probably not have much additional effect in spreading out the hot spots.
Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to split the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the rest of the UW System is a bad idea, and lawmakers should reject it.
New University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coach Bobbie Kelsey, a former Stanford player and an assistant coach at that national powerhouse organization for the past four years, made her intentions clear at a press conference announcing her hiring last week.
Quoted: ?You need some sort of system of mediating those conflicts, and trying to sit down and negotiate with various conflicting interests,? said William Powell Jones, labor historian from University of Wisconsin.
Guy Gadowsky is leaving as coach of the Princeton University hockey team to lead the new Penn State University men?s program in its first varsity season since 1946.
It is frustrating, though perhaps understandable, that the terribly important discussion of the future of the UW System, especially the UW Madison, has gotten caught up in politics. There are those who are opposing Chancellor Biddy Martin?s New Badger Partnership for no other reason than Governor Walker supports it. That?s goofy.
Members of the Legislature?s budget-writing committee have signaled they?re approaching information overload when it comes to the proposed separation of the UW-Madison from the rest of the UW System. Is there a way, key lawmakers have asked, to construct a phased plan for giving the university more freedom to run its own affairs?
Noted: Galloway said she opposes splitting the University of Wisconsin Madison campus from the rest of the UW system. Instead, every campus should be given the flexibility on purchasing and hiring proposed by Madison officials, she said.
Noted: The authors of the note, led by physicist Sau Lan Wu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say that ATLAS saw two photons whose energies add up to 115 gigaelectronvolts GeV. That?s the sort of thing you might expect if the Higgs boson had a mass of 115 GeV divided by the speed of light squared. Because energy and mass are related by Einstein?s famous E=mc2 equation, particle physicists often speak of mass and energy interchangeably. For comparison, a proton has a mass of about 0.9 GeV/c2.
A Madison woman who was previously convicted of killing a girl in a drunken-driving crash has been arrested on new allegations of driving while intoxicated. The police department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says 45-year-old Lori J. Kasten was arrested Saturday.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Right now the UW-Madison is operating on an uneven field that, if not corrected, will slowly erode our great university?s ability to compete – for students, faculty and research dollars, just to name a few – not only nationally, but around the world as well. We all know how economically challenging these past few years have been for our country. Those challenges exist on college campuses as well, including UW-Madison. I always taught my players to meet challenges head-on and that?s what is necessary now. Chancellor Biddy Martin has a plan that would give UW-Madison some of the decision-making flexibility necessary for our university to continue to compete on a national and international level.
