MADISON (WKOW) — The abused dog who won everyone?s heart is out of the hospital. Braveheart was left for dead in a dumpster in Kentucky just a few weeks ago.
Braveheart out of hospital, in foster home
WKOW-TV 27
Author: jplucas
“Miracle” Kidney Donation
WKOW-TV 27
MADISON (WKOW) — Jerry Otteson never gave up hope.But he wasn?t sure he would ever find the “perfect” kidney he needed.
Milton Glick, President of U. of Nevada at Reno, Dies of Massive Stroke
Chronicle of Higher Education
Noted: Before coming to Reno, Mr. Glick had served in senior leadership positions at Arizona State and Iowa State Universities, and the University of Missouri at Columbia. He held a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Committee to review whether proximity to nuclear power plants boosts cancer risk
Wisconsin Public Radio
A national committee looking at cancer risks near nuclear power plants will hold a public meeting in the Midwest today. UW-Madison provost and medical physicist Paul DeLuca is on the study committee. He says cancer rates vary across the U.S. and the scientists are looking into whether having a nuclear power plant close by might raise local cancer rates or lower them.
Editorial: Don’t understate student voice
Daily Cardinal
Most of the decisions surrounding the New Badger Partnership have focused on its promise to keep UW-Madison competitive in spite of deep budget cuts from the state. But beyond the financial benefits of increased autonomy, public authority status also presents UW-Madison students with a golden opportunity to strengthen shared governance.
Vos: UW split from System may not be likely this legislative cycle
Badger Herald
A lead member of the state?s powerful Joint Finance Committee said Sunday he thought the governor?s plan to allow the University of Wisconsin to spin off from other state schools is a complicated issue that may require more than one budget cycle to decide.
Chancellor Remains Confident In Plan To Spin Off UW-Madison
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Critics of a plan to split the University of Wisconsin-Madison off from the rest of the UW System believe they are gaining traction as lawmakers express their doubts, but UW-Madison?s chancellor says she remains confident.
Is stress to blame for preterm births?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A tight, persistent pain in the lower abdomen chased Jasmine Zapata from class that morning, forcing her upstairs to rest on a couch at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.It was Sept. 20, and Zapata was in her 25th week of pregnancy, just past the midpoint.
She neither smoked nor drank. She knew the importance of proper prenatal care – of course she did – and had followed the doctor?s orders to the letter. Zapata, after all, was in her second year of medical school. The 23-year-old Milwaukee native had carried her first pregnancy to term and had a beautiful son to show for it: MJ, now 18 months old.
In April, it’s admitted students’ turn to get courted by college
Chicago Tribune
Quoted: As the new admissions director at the University of Wisconsin, Adele Brumfield is striving to create those warm, fuzzy feelings. Her office sifted through 29,000 applications ? a 12 percent increase over a year ago ? before offering bids to 14,404 freshmen for summer and fall terms. More than a third of those are from Illinois.
Errors Mar Record of Local Hospitals, Analysis Shows (WNYC-FM News)
Noted: “Even with these small numbers that are showing up, we know that these actually shouldn?t be occurring if the proper procedures and protocols were put into place,” said Barbara Rudolph, a researcher for the University of Wisconsin?s Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis and the Leapfrog Group, a think tank dedicated to reducing medical error. “Some of the research that?s been published recently shows that there?s potentially 10 times more of these events occurring than is currently being reported.”
First Read – 2012: A busy weekend (NBC News)
MSNBC.com
Noted: Challenging national Republicans to stand by principles such as cutting federal spending, Palin invoked the national champion University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team. ?Maybe I should ask them,? she said of the hockey team members, ?if we should be suggesting to GOP leaders they need to learn how to fight like a girl,?? she said.
University of Nevada President Milton Glick Dies at 73 (KTVN-TV, Reno)
Noted: Dr. Glick graduated with a bachelor?s degree in chemistry from Augustana College in Rock Island in 1959. He later earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965. After two years of postdoctoral studies at Cornell University, he joined the chemistry department at Wayne State University, where he remained for 17 years.
NIH research funding budget to decline, opinions vary on effects on university research (The Daily Tar Heel)
Quoted: ?NIH supports the most basic research in biomedical science, and any reduction in it inhibits our ability to research,? said Kim Moreland, associate vice chancellor for research administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Getting in the last word
Star Tribune
Quoted: “At conferences, we ask each other how Anatoly is doing on the dictionary, how close he is,” says Joan Houston Hall, the editor of the DARE at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We are all rooting for him.”
Union South Holds Grand Opening
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Union South opened to the public on Friday.
Prosser Declares Win in Wisconsin Race With Recount Possible
Bloomberg News
Quoted: The law was challenged in a court case that may wind up before the state Supreme Court. Prosser presents himself as ?a judicial conservative? on his website, and often votes in a bloc with three other members to form a majority, Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, has said.
Vos says changes likely coming to Walker’s budget (WisPolitics.com)
Joint Finance Assembly Co-chair Robin Vos says lawmakers are likely to change the guv?s budget proposals for recycling grants, SeniorCare and spinning off UW-Madison from the rest of the system.
Chamber group opposes UW System split (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune)
A central Wisconsin economic development agency is taking a stand against Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to split the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from the larger UW System.
Wis. prof. invents improved double-keyboard piano (AP)
Chicago Tribune
MADISON, Wis.? It won?t come as a surprise to anyone who knows Christopher Taylor that the internationally acclaimed pianist and UW-Madison professor of music is now inventing a musical instrument.
With Madison Symphony Orchestra, pianist Christopher Taylor brings songlike nuance to Schumann concerto
Isthmus
For the Madison Symphony Orchestra?s April program, music director John DeMain brings us three novelties and a warhorse. The program debuted Friday night in Overture Hall.
Al Jazeera adviser: U.S. media have the money to cover international affairs (wispolitics.com)
Tony Burman, chief strategic adviser for Al Jazeera in the Americas, criticized American broadcast media for a dearth of international coverage at a time when he said people need ?fearless? public service journalism.
New Union South grand opening
WKOW-TV 27
The new Union South re-opened Friday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Senate Bill Would Add Sexual Violence to Law on Campus-Crime Reporting
Chronicle of Higher Education
Legislation in Congress that would broaden federal law on campus-crime reporting to include sexual violence has won support from nearly 20 advocacy groups.
Big Blog on Campus
New York Times
Campuses have always had their boldface names: professors who?ve logged time in a White House cabinet, opined on ?PBS NewsHour? or written Pulitzer Prize-winning best sellers. To this venerated lot we can add the academic blogger. A remarkable variety of scholars have achieved blogosphere fame, particularly those devoted to subjects related to the public sphere ? politics, economics, legal affairs. Law school bloggers are practically their own category.
?I think a lot of us have a desire to catch the issue of the day and put a personal stamp on it, and we?re in a good position to do so,? says Ann Alt house, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School and whose eponymous blog (tagline: Don?t you love Althouse?) is often one of Technorati?s Top 25.
Presidential Doppelgängers Tweet
Inside Higher Education
“Call your state legislator and tell them not to take any money from #UNH,? wrote the Twitter user @PrezHuddleston on Friday. ?One phone call can make a difference think Safe Rides.”
Scott Milfred: Take your pick in UW split — Gov. Scott Walker or Rep. Steve Nass
Wisconsin State Journal
Chancellor Biddy Martin and Gov. Scott Walker are an odd pair pushing to give UW-Madison autonomy.
Big voices on campus: Madhatters sing their way to UW-Madison stardom
Isthmus
Back in high school, not all of the MadHatters were the kinds of guys you?d expect sorority girls to be swooning over in college.
Committee recommends Lovell as next UWM chancellor
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mike Lovell, a rising academic star who was lured to run the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee?s engineering department in 2008, has been tapped to become the university?s next chancellor.
Lovell picked for UW-Milwaukee chancellor (AP)
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A search committee is recommending that the interim chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee take over the job permanently.
UW Students Plan March To Stop Bullying (AP)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Madison students plan to march silently on the Capitol to bring awareness to bullying in schools and universities.
Watch List Predicts Great Lakes? Future Nonnatives (Ashland Current)
John Magnuson, a zoology and limnology professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has studied climate change impacts to lakes, rivers and freshwater fish.
Wisconsin DOA stalling on updated Capitol damage figures
Isthmus
Noted: Vigue says Chuck Quagliana, a historic preservation architect who works for the UW-Madison, conducted his “initial walk-through” on March 10. “He is now verifying what he initially saw so he can give us a report of what the damages are and suggestions as to how we can address them.”
Blaska’s Blog says Sarah Palin is coming to Madison Tea Party on April 16
Isthmus
Noted: “Ever notice that almost everything coming out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison gives aid and comfort to the Left? Professor Bill Cronon is only the latest. You had Charles Franklin calling voters in the November 2 election “stupid” (before he retracted) and Jeremi Sumi comparing our duly elected governor to Tailgunner Joe McCarthy.”
Union South to charge for some live music shows
Isthmus
This Friday?s inaugural Union South music show featuring Of Montreal comes at a price: $10 for students and $20 for non-students.
Impact of UW split on Boo-U campus unclear (Baraboo News Republic)
The operation of Baraboo?s two-year University of Wisconsin campus, the success of its students and reputation of the degrees they will earn are built on connections with the UW System and its Madison campus, says Dean Tom Pleger of the UW-Baraboo/Sauk County.
Sarah Palin coming to Madison? You betcha
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
UW women’s basketball: Kelsey hits the recruiting trail
Madison.com
Bobbie Kelsey is hitting the recruiting trail this weekend. But the first recruiting task for the new University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coach has been to connect with the players who have already committed to becoming Badgers.
UW band 125th anniversary concert
WKOW-TV 27
MADISON (WKOW)–The University of Wisconsin Varsity band is celebrating its 125th anniversary in grand style.
South Pole Neutrino Detector Comes Up Empty (Wired.com)
Wired.com
After years of waiting, the world?s biggest and best neutrino detector has started its search for the source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays that constantly bombard the Earth?s atmosphere. And it?s seen exactly zilch.
Around the Bubbler: Farmers? Market, ‘Gone With The Wind,’ Madison Mellophonium Jazz Orchestra
Wisconsin State Journal
If you want some exercise before delving into chocolate bunnies, consider participating in the Second Annual Spring Sprint for the Arb at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 16, starting at the UW Arboretum Visitor Center, 1207 Seminole Hwy.
New UM athletic director: ?I embrace the opportunity? (Miami Herald)
Miami Herald
With few exceptions, Shawn Eichorst has spent his life in Wisconsin. Hired as athletic director at the University of Miami on Tuesday, Eichorst said South Florida and Wisconsin have similarities.
Southern Wis. Meteor Pieces For Sale On eBay (WISN-TV, Milwaukee)
Noted: Scientists John Valley and Noriko Kita of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric and Oceanic Services said the meteorite dates back about 470 million years.
ROTC prepares future officers, at times faces thorny issues on campus (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Chronicle of Higher Education
Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin professor of political science and author of a forthcoming book on colleges and the military, said schools might be able to help by not only providing counseling but also financial help to students who temporarily lose their ROTC scholarships because they are put on probation by the program.
Access Denied: College education increasingly out of reach (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ilona Idlis is so brimming with intellectual passion that she?ll engage random bus riders in discussions on tax reform ? and win them over to her side. This spring, the University of Washington sophomore is studying in Prague to force herself outside of her Puget Sound comfort zone. She?s studying journalism and political science and already has as many credits as a third-year student after taking advanced courses and community college classes while in high school.
Emotions flare over state budget at Wisconsin Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee budget hearing in Neenah (Fond du Lac Reporter)
Fond Du Lac Reporter
NEENAH ? For more than eight hours Wednesday, about 200 Wisconsinites stood before a state finance committee at Neenah High School and lavished both praise and contempt on Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed biennial budget.
Montel Williams’ drug paraphernalia charge dropped (AP)
Miami Herald
A judge dismissed a drug paraphernalia possession charge against former talk show host Montel Williams, who was briefly detained at a Milwaukee airport in January after a search of his luggage turned up the type of pipe commonly used for smoking marijuana.
Is his ‘Wisconsin Idea’ better? (Baraboo News Republic)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison isn?t the only state campus in need of greater flexibility to cope with $250 million in proposed spending cuts, UW System President Kevin Reilly said Wednesday.
UW MadHatters raising money for MS research
WKOW-TV 27
MADISON (WKOW) — The UW MadHatters are a staple on campus. The acapella group touches the hearts of people with their voices.
Going viral: Using social media to publicise academic research
Guardian (UK)
Only a tiny fraction of the research done in universities gets covered by newspapers. So I feel an unbridled sense of satisfaction if I get a research story mentioned in the mainstream media. I?ll admit to punching the air when listening to the Today programme and hearing one of our academics talk about their research. But there are increasingly new techniques for sourcing, and promoting, stories using social and digital media.
Patrick Callan and Mark Guthier: Students supported facility upgrades
Wisconsin State Journal
Saturday?s letter questioning the rebuilding of Union South and renovating Memorial Union missed key facts. Memorial Union has obsolete electrical, plumbing and ventilation systems from the 1930s that are energy inefficient and environmentally unfriendly. Large sections of the building are inaccessible to wheelchairs. And with an average of more than 10,000 visitors daily, the more than 80-year-old building experiences much wear and tear. To ignore the need to renovate it would be irresponsible .These issues and old Union South?s inadequacies led to a student referendum and resulted in more than 30,000 people contributing to the new design. Research indicated that many found the old building dysfunctional and inadequate. No tax dollars were used to build Union South or will be used to renovate Memorial Union. And, as is the Wisconsin Union?s policy, students will continue to determine how both buildings operate and manage a thousand events annually.
Lewis Miller: Spring scrimmage, once free, now $5
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW Athletic Department thinks that “free” doesn?t attract enough people. So during this time of high unemployment, they want to charge $5 to attend the UW-Madison spring scrimmage game on April 23.
Missing in action: Some Civil War artifacts may be lost forever
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW-Madison Professor Stephen Kantrowitz.
On Campus: UW-Madison tuition surcharge will fund 80 new faculty
Wisconsin State Journal
A UW-Madison tuition increase known as the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates will allow the university to hire 80 new faculty members. Students are in the second year of a four-year tuition increase intended to increase the quality of undergraduate education.
Milwaukee judge dismisses Williams’ drug citation
Wisconsin State Journal
A Milwaukee County judge has dismissed a citation against former talk show host Montel Williams for possessing drug paraphernalia. Sheriff?s deputies found a pipe commonly used for marijuana on Williams during a security check at the Milwaukee airport in January. Williams says he uses marijuana legally to relieve the chronic pain caused by multiple sclerosis. He visits Wisconsin to participate in experimental treatment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison awarded $5 million from USDA (Milwaukee Business Journal)
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study aimed at a better understanding of the ways to successfully develop sustainable local and regional food systems received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
UW’s Eichorst named AD at Miami
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Shawn Eichorst, Wisconsin?s deputy athletic director since 2009, on Tuesday was hired as the athletic director at Miami (Fla.).
Montel Williams’ ticket wasn’t warranted
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Montel Williams visits Wisconsin regularly to participate in experimental treatment being developed at the University of Wisconsin medical school in Madison. That?s where he was coming from when he was ticketed at Milwaukee?s airport as he headed home.
UM Taps Eichorst as Athletic Director (NBC Miami)
The University of Miami has found a new Athletic Director — and we?re guessing you don?t know his name.
UM hires Wisconsin official as new athletic director (Miami Herald)
Miami Herald
University of Miami president Donna Shalala went back to a place she knows well to hire an athletic director: the University of Wisconsin.
Making sense of radiation levels in Philadelphia drinking water (NewsWorks)
Quoted: Jeffrey Patterson is a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and public health professor at the University of Wisconsin. His group opposes the use of nuclear power to produce electricity.