St. Norbert?s social media efforts have been ranked as the best among Wisconsin colleges. Lawrence University in Appleton was the only other Northeast Wisconsin college to make the list, coming in at no. 82. Two other Wisconsin universities: the University of Wisconsin-Madison (45) and Marquette University (56) were also listed.
Author: jplucas
Scott Straus: Gbagbo’s Blame Game
Huffington Post
Today Laurent Gbagbo was captured, and at long last the Ivorian political crisis looks ready to subside. “The nightmare is over,” declared Guillaume Soro, Côte d?Ivoire?s incoming Prime Minister. But if the past is any prelude, we are likely to see a new war of words in the coming days and weeks.
Opposition to nursing home bill is all in the family (The Indianapolis Star)
Indianapolis Star
Quoted: “Obviously it doesn?t smell right,” said Howard Schweber, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is one of those things that causes the public to lose all faith and trust in representative government.”
Federal Budget Deal Spares Pell but Shrinks Research and Education Programs
Chronicle of Higher Education
The federal budget deal reached by Democrats and Republicans over the weekend would preserve the maximum Pell Grant but cut a host of research and education programs, including global-exchange and foreign-language efforts, according to details released on Tuesday.
Maximum Pell Safe For Now
Inside Higher Education
As details emerged early Tuesday morning about the last-minute spending compromise that averted a government shutdown, higher education experts shared one reaction: It could have been worse.
Gerald McEntee Energized by Anti-Union Movement
New York Times
Quoted: ?I don?t see how unions can survive in this situation,? said William Powell Jones, a University of Wisconsin labor historian. ?This bill is designed to make it almost impossible to operate a union.?
UW-Madison’s musical ‘genius’ has visions of an improved double-keyboard piano
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
No end in sight to rising gas prices
Wisconsin State Journal
The specter of $4 gas prices has Shelly Raddatz, of Excelsior, Minn., re-evaluating her vehicle fuel economy and the frequency of her visits to see daughter Leah at UW-Madison. In Madison, premium gas prices crossed the $4 threshold Saturday and regular prices could pass that mark this summer, according to analysts.
On Campus: UW-Madison prof disputes hype over “gay caveman”
Wisconsin State Journal
John Hawks, a UW-Madison associate professor of anthropology, was one of several scientists who disputed news reports that the “first homosexual caveman” was found in Prague.
UW-Madison Police seek man who sexually assaulted woman on campus last year
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Police have released a sketch of a man they say sexually assaulted a woman on campus last year. Police said the victim, who was 27 at the time of the attack, was sexually assaulted and choked in her vehicle in UW Parking Area #3, 408 N. Lake St., by a man she had met earlier at the Church Key bar, 626 University Ave. The assault took place between 1 a.m. and 3:10 a.m. Feb. 13, 2010, but was not reported to police until Thursday, police said.
Trish O’Kane: Student explains Cronon’s email use
Wisconsin State Journal
I am a former student of UW-Madison professor Bill Cronon. Wisconsin Republicans just investigated his email for political reasons, a waste of time.
School Spotlight: East students head to Euro Challenge
Wisconsin State Journal
A team of Madison East High School sophomores will compete in the final rounds of the Euro Challenge this month at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. They advanced to the April 27 finals by winning the Midwest preliminary round last month against four other teams from Illinois, Iowa and Indiana at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Sanja Badanjak, a UW-Madison graduate student in political science who was a judge at the preliminary round, said she was impressed by the team spirit shown by the East students.
UW spring game set for April 23
The University of Wisconsin?s spring football game will be 1 p.m., April 23, at Camp Randall Stadium.
Andy Baggot: Kelsey talks a good game before ? and after ? her hiring
Madison.com
If Bobbie Kelsey can coach and recruit to the level she can charm and dream, then the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program has been placed in capable hands.
New UW women’s basketball coach sets high bar: ‘You can win national championships here’
Madison.com
Bobbie Kelsey, a former Stanford player and an assistant coach at the national power the past four years, was introduced Monday as the sixth head coach in the program?s 38-year history.
UW scientists see a future in fusion
Wisconsin State Journal
As the world watched a nuclear crisis slowly unfold in Japan, UW-Madison scientists continued working on technology that could someday produce nuclear power without radioactive waste. “It?s the holy grail of alternative energy research,” said Robert Wilcox, a graduate student working on one of several UW-Madison fusion projects. In a fusion reaction, superheated atoms are joined to give off energy, as opposed to fission, in which the energy is released when atoms are broken apart. At UW-Madison, dozens of researchers are studying fusion to better understand and control the superhot substances in which the reactions take place.
Doing what’s best for Wisconsin’s future
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The budget plan I introduced last month makes the hard choices and in doing so makes a commitment to the future. We are finally carrying our fair share, so we don?t leave a larger problem for our children and grandchildren. [A column by Gov. Scott Walker].
New UW women’s coach Kelsey sees big potential
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Speaking with an intoxicating mix of passion and poise, Bobbie Kelsey didn?t hesitate to share her vision for the Wisconsin women?s basketball program.
“This is a top program or I wouldn?t be here,” Kelsey, an assistant at Stanford the last four seasons, said Monday after she was introduced as the sixth head coach in the history of the UW program. “I could have just stayed at Stanford and be satisfied with that.
Madison drug company Cellectar to merge with Boston’s Novelos
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With the merger, Novelos will shift its official headquarters from Newton, Mass., to Madison.There, a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison radiology professor Jamey Weichert will continue research into three cancer-targeted compounds dubbed Cold, Hot and Light. Administrative offices will be in Massachusetts.
Vets go from combat to campus
USA Today
As returning veterans struggle to make the transition from military to civilian life on campuses with younger students without their kind of life experience, colleges and universities are increasingly developing programs to address their needs.
Byrne tabs Hansen (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
When Arizona?s swimming and diving head coach Frank Busch announced his resignation in February, people were left wondering who would replace the coaching legend.
Former VP of Medical Affairs dies at 91 (Stanford Daily)
Lance Crowley, former vice president of medical affairs, died March 30 at the age of 91 after nearly half a century of service to the Stanford University Medical Center. He first came to Stanford in 1964, when surgery department chair Robert Chase recruited him to be chief of surgery at the new Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital. He went on to fill other administrative roles and became the medical school?s associate dean for planning until he left in 1973 to be the dean of the University of Wisconsin medical school.
Japan disaster’s impact on markets unknown
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Quoted: Ed Jesse, emeritus professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees it?s too early to tell just what the impact of the disaster will be on the dairy markets. Dairy export market data lags by about two months, he said.
WisBusiness: The Show – Mark Bugher, director of University Research Park
www.wisbusiness.com
The first episode of the new year kicks off with an interview with Mark Bugher, the director of University Research Park, Tom Still?s commentary on hopes for 2011 and a new stock report.
Committee that oversees UW-Extension in county voices concern over UW split (Portage Daily Register)
The Columbia County Board of Supervisors will be invited to go on record as favoring a proposal that would keep the University of Wisconsin-Madison part of the University of Wisconsin system – and opposing Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to put the Madison campus under a different governance system than the rest of the system?s campuses.
Madison Names Coach; Bollant’s Grateful to Stay in Green Bay (WBAY-TV, Green Bay)
The wait is over for Matt Bollant, and fortunately for the UW-Green Bay Phoenix his coaching career in Green Bay is not over.
UW-Madison Opens New Union (AP)
Student unions are called the living rooms of college campuses. But UW-Madison?s new Union South is more like a playground.
Gov. Walker making the case for UW-split
Wisconsin Radio Network
The Governor also mentioned the Wisconsin State Journal?s endorsement Sunday of his plan, along with UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, to give public authority to the campus. This split from the rest of the UW-System, would provide the flexibility necessary to ensure world class research and development at the Madison campus, said Walker.
Team Bruesewitz update
WKOW-TV 27
Mike Bruesewitz?s stunt to raise money for MS has far exceeded its original goal of $3,100.
Stanford assistant Bobbie Kelsey named new UW women’s BB coach
WKOW-TV 27
MADISON — UW officials have confirmed that Stanford women?s basketball assistant coach Bobbie Kelsey will take over as the Badgers new women?s basketball head coach.
Federal study looks at food quality in large cities
Wisconsin Public Radio
A $5-million federal study is ramping up, looking into what may be a lack of low-priced, high-quality food in poverty-stricken urban areas like Milwaukee.
UW-Madison Police Investigate Sexual Assault
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said it is investigating a sexual assault/strangulation that occurred last year.
College Loans Weigh Heavier on Graduates
New York Times
Student loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time last year and is likely to top a trillion dollars this year as more students go to college and a growing share borrow money to do so.
Warning label better fat fighter than tax
United Press International
Warning labels on junk food would be more effective than a “fat” tax for deterring overweight people from making unhealthy food buys, Canadian researchers say.
In ?Into Sunlight,? Horrors of War, Depicted in Dance
New York Times
In a Hofstra University dance studio, a mixed group of professional and student dancers ? all too young to have lived through the events they were symbolically recreating ? recently rehearsed a work inspired by the turmoil and tragedy of the Vietnam War era.
Tonsillectomies Are Fitted for a New Century
New York Times
Quoted: ?It was the single most common operation in the United States,? said Dr. Ellen Wald, a specialist in pediatric infectious disease who is chairwoman of the pediatrics department at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Editorial: UW System needs to compromise
Daily Cardinal
The future of UW-Madison?s authority model grows hazier as Chancellor Biddy Martin finds her brainchild gridlocked between UW System officials and the Wisconsin state Legislature. As evidenced by her e-mail sent to UW-Madison students last Thursday, Martin?s attempts to implement the New Badger Partnership?a plan to increase UW-Madison?s flexibility through the establishment of a public authority model that would break the university from the UW System?are growing increasingly desperate.
Ellenberg: To resolve Wisconsin?s state Supreme Court election, flip a coin
Washington Post
Wisconsin?s already-fraught politics got even crazier last week when a bitterly contested, high-turnout state Supreme Court election ended in a near tie. Incumbent Justice David Prosser leads challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by less than 0.5 percent, which means Kloppenburg has the right to a state-funded recount. We are probably headed toward a long, expensive, law-snarled process ? much like Florida in 2000 or the Minnesota Senate election in 2008.
How about saying no?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It would be “very jaundiced” to think a drug company would give money to University of Wisconsin researchers to encourage them to promote the company?s drugs, says J. David Haddox, an executive at Purdue Pharma, a company based in Stamford, Conn.
And yet?.?.?.
What if you knew that over a period of years, Purdue Pharma had paid the UW Pain & Policy Studies Group about $1.6 million? Or that altogether, the group had received $2.5 million in recent years from pharmaceutical companies?
Give UW flagship more freedom
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison needs more freedom and flexibility to remain a world-class institution of higher learning and research.Gov. Scott Walker and Chancellor Biddy Martin?s push for public authority status for the Madison campus deserves bipartisan support from the Legislature.
Perspective: Split or unity? Education community differs on future of UW system
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Gov. Scott Walker?s biennial budget proposal seeks to remove the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the rest of the UW System, establishing a separate governing board and allowing it greater flexibility in areas such as budgeting and tuition. The proposal, backed by Madison chancellor Biddy Martin, is part of Walker?s plan to cut that school?s funding by $125 million ? in addition to $125 million in cuts that would be absorbed throughout the rest of the system. [Columns by UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, UW-Green Bay Chancellor Thomas Hardin and a historical perspective on the UW System].
University of Wisconsin System split divides chancellors
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Gov. Scott Walker has called the state?s current university setup a “cumbersome bureaucracy” that imposes red tape on campuses.He expressed openness to management flexibilities for all campuses, but he wants to start with the state?s flagship research university.
That proposal, called the New Badger Partnership, would make UW-Madison a public authority, which means it would no longer be attached to the state executive branch, but it would remain a public institution that would receive state funding.
Swearing off swearing (Deseret News, Utah)
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Quoted: Utahns swear less than anyone else in the country, said Daniel Huffman, the University of Wisconsin lecturer who put the map together.
Tasering could pose greater risk to child?s heart: expert (Vancouver Province)
Quoted: However, University of Wisconsin professor emeritus John Webster, who testified at the inquiry into the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, told Postmedia News he does believe there are situations where police could be justified in Tasering a child.
Scientists speak out to discredit ‘gay caveman’ media reports – CNN.com
CNN.com
Noted: “Dudes! I could be wrong, but I think that to have a ?gay caveman,? you need a skeleton that is both gay and a caveman. And this ain?t either!” John Hawks, an associate professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote on his blog in bold type.
Fears About Radiation Bigger Than Actual Risk
National Public Radio
Interviewed: Nuclear engineer Michael Corradini thinks he knows the answer. Corradini is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He says even though the likelihood of a major catastrophe is very small, the fact that he can?t absolutely rule it out…
Vote-count mishap in Wisconsin election raises eyebrows, distrust – CSMonitor.com
Christian Science Monitor
Quoted: ?Most of the time when we see races decided by 10 percentage points, no one pays attention to a stray 7,000 votes,? says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It?s not unusual to see a change of half a percent statewide to a full percent statewide between the unofficial results and those that are certified two weeks later.?
Campus Connection: UW wants to add club seating at Kohl Center
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin-Madison wants to add a club seating area at the Kohl Center in time for the 2011-12 basketball and hockey seasons.
Long-term future of UW System uncertain
Appleton Post-Crescent
GREEN BAY ? In an era of tightening budgets, an organizational battle is brewing over the structure of Wisconsin?s public university system, and it involves rival plans.
Cutting through the criticism of new Union South building
Badger Herald
After reading past articles in the Badger Herald about the Wisconsin Union, we felt the campus should know more about the Wisconsin Union?s referendum process, distribution of segregated fees and student leadership program. We refer to recent Herald articles, including the Op-ed published on April 4, as well as the March 30 piece featuring grossly inaccurate comments alleging that the Union used student segregated fees to campaign to build the new Union. This letter will attempt to clear up some of the misconceptions often associated with the Wisconsin Union.
Budget Deal That Averted a Federal Shutdown Largely Spares Education, Obama Says
Chronicle of Higher Education
With only an hour to spare, lawmakers reached agreement late Friday on a plan to finance the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends September 30.
Admission to College, but a Wait of a Year
New York Times
For as long as there have been selective colleges, the spring ritual has been the same: Some applicants get a warm note of acceptance, and the rest get a curt rejection.
Editorial: Good riddance to the Regents
Badger Herald
Last Thursday, Chancellor Biddy Martin sent a campus-wide email arguing that the Wisconsin Idea Partnership proposed in response to the New Badger Partnership did not go far enough in extending flexibility to this university. Martin stated she had offered a compromise, one in which Madison would still gain public authority status, with other System campuses gaining similar forms of independence. She ended the email with a call for individual students to contact their legislators and advocate for the proposal.
Editorial: Give UW flagship more freedom
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison needs more freedom and flexibility to remain a world-class institution of higher learning and research.
Editorial: UW system must be unified, accountable (LaCrosse Tribune)
Are public universities in Wisconsin public institutions or not?
Crim: Lifting workers from Poverty–Alta Gracia’s Knights Apparel (The Capital City Hues)
I am fortunate to work at a university that is positively impacting the global economy and changing people?s lives. In early March, I returned from the Dominican Republic where I spent five days visiting factories, meeting with apparel workers and non-governmental organizations on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I went to observe first-hand a new business model in the apparel industry that is proving to be life changing.
New Student Union a Playground at U. of Wisconsin at Madison
Chronicle of Higher Education
A new student union set to open at the University of Wisconsin at Madison next week is being called ?opulent? and a ?playground? by the local press.
State budget hearing in Stevens Point draws fewer dissenters than expected
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One by one, they stepped up to the lectern.And one by one, they ripped Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed two-year state budget as they testified before the Legislature?s budget committee.
State asks top court to implement bill
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gov. Scott Walker?s administration went to the state Supreme Court late Thursday afternoon in a bid to implement its controversial collective bargaining measure.
Academic freedom is vital
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The recent effort by Wisconsin Republicans to intimidate University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor William Cronon is the latest in a shameful series of bullying tactics by those currently in state leadership. Since taking office in January, Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican allies have engaged in an agenda of retaliation and retribution against their critics. [A column by Bryan Kennedy, president of AFT-Wisconsin].