The U.S. Senate on Saturday failed to get the necessary super-majority of 60 to force a final vote on legislation that would have provided a path to citizenship for some college students and veterans who do not have legal documentation to reside in the United States.
In September, before the Chazen Museum of Art began stashing some of its collection to make room for construction, I stopped in to see John Steuart Curry?s iconic paintings of the Midwestern countryside. The half-dozen paintings, largely executed during Curry?s groundbreaking tenure as artist in residence at the UW-Madison College of Agriculture (from 1936 to 1946), include his portrait of ag dean Chris Lauriths Christensen striding through an experimental cornfield, tie flapping in the wind. It?s a stunning painting.
Rushing a student to a psychiatric emergency room is never routine, but when Stony Brook University logged three trips in three days, it did not surprise Jenny Hwang, the director of counseling.
It is immensely disappointing to see that UW Health and Meriter Hospital have given up so easily on the women of our state. They made a commitment in January 2009 to provide second trimester abortions when necessary, and now they have revoked it, leaving a huge void in the health care system for women across our state.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema and his assistants have secured some nice financial rewards for their quality work this season. All will get 20 percent of their salary as a bonus for leading the Badgers to a share of the Big Ten Conference title and a berth in the Rose Bowl. The total payout is $525,480 pending administrative approval.
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association pledged $500,000 to renovate and expand UW-Madison?s renowned dairy plant at Babcock Hall. The project is still in its infancy. Cheese Makers? pledge is meant to help kickstart a fundraising effort, said John Umhoefer, executive director.
In a fascinating new report, investigators found that it is not just the number of degrees or years of education that make a difference, but another factor ? class rank.The findings come from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which has been following more than 10,000 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.
The ideas are grabby, even if they never make it to the marketplace: a pedal-powered lawnmower, a snorkel device that allows the user to remain underwater for up to five minutes, a wheelchair suitable for ice and snow, and powered windows for someone with disabilities.
Those were some of the projects judged Wednesday in the third annual Engineering, Mechanics and Aeronautics design competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Why does prayer help people through hard times? To find out, a graduate student in sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison interviewed 62 women who were the victims of partner violence.
Lyle Knudson has decorated the walls inside his Marrowstone Island home with framed photographs of family, places, fruit trees (he is an arborist) and from his World War II service.There is a new memento now: a 2010 diploma from the University of Wisconsin?Madison, something special for the 94-year-old Wisconsin native. Knudson was called to duty as a naval aviator and missed two final exams in his senior year of 1941. The Navy would not wait. He left college early and never received credit for the two classes tied to those exams. That cost him a Wisconsin degree.
Test scores of students at independent charter schools in Milwaukee were no better in reading and math than those of Milwaukee Public School students, a study released Thursday says.
The report, released by the School Choice Demonstration Project and conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Arkansas, compared the reading and math scores of 2,295 students attending 10 of the 14 independent charter schools in grades three through eight with a carefully matched sample of 2,295 students from MPS for the 2006-?07 school year.
During the last 50 years, participants in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study have helped researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explore the experience of careers, family life, family and education in America.Now, the groundbreaking sociological study ? which has involved more than 10,000 graduates of Wisconsin?s high school class of 1957, along with their siblings and spouses ? will serve as the seminal study on aging and the effect of those life experiences. A column by UW-Madison researchers Pamela Herd and Carol Roan.
Often described as the latest face of Jewish football, University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Gabe Carimi, at 6?7″ and 327 lbs., has proven to be a force to be reckoned with both on and off the field.
Quoted: “If this doesn?t raise an ethical red flag, nothing will,” said Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin. By moonlighting for the companies and industries they cover, he notes, reporters risk compromising their independence and neutrality and leave themselves open to suspicions of being bribed.
Wisconsin lawmakers are outraged at one of their own following a failed fight to pass new contracts for thousands of state workers.
State Assembly Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, said he believes the 2 percent salary increase recommended for University of Wisconsin System staff and faculty has a slim chance of survival in the governor?s proposed budget.
During the last 50 years, participants in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study have helped researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explore the experience of careers, family life, family and education in America.
Richard “Jim” Brown recalls his first day on the job, in October 2005, as a veterinarian at the UW-Madison?s Research Animal Resource Center (RARC). His first assignment, he says, involved working with primates.
The Associated Students of Madison approved a resolution to ensure the consideration of students? opinions in the development of the Badger Partnership at their meeting Wednesday.
J. Michael Collins is a UW-Madison researcher who is not much interested in coming up with mathematical models to calculate the optimal portfolio choice between bonds and equities for people in their 50s.
American Family Children?s Hospital in Madison had a special visitor from the North Pole Wednesday afternoon. For this particular Santa Claus, the visit marks the end of a promise to children a half century in the making. He?s is hanging up his bells and said it?s time to pass along his tradition of making children smile. Brad Chaimson reports. (Video.)
A UW Health photographer is taking holiday photos of a few long-time patients and their families at the American Family Children?s Hospital.
A Madison attorney was convicted in an attack on a Badger football player.
A retired Madison firefighter who has played Santa Claus for 43 years made his final appearance Wednesday at American Family Children?s Hospital.
Labor unions representing tens of thousands of state workers must start negotiations from a blank slate after lawmakers failed to pass more than a dozen contracts in special session.
The day after state labor contracts dramatically failed in the state Legislature, workers and lawmakers are processing what happened.
The Legislature this week failed to pass state employee contracts that run up through July of next year, leaving the task to the new Republican majority. Those contracts are already 18 months overdue, and the outcome of the extraordinary session could lead to even longer delays.
New research done at the UW-Madison says boosting use of satellite data could help predict when thunderstorms will hit.Some predictions about thunderstorms come surface observations or weather balloons, and while satellites are often used, UW researchers say not enough data is collected about instability of air between 15,000 and 32,000 feet.
Folks in Columbus, and especially East Lansing, may not be satisfied with the way the Big Ten Conference?s Rose Bowl rep was decided, but Denver Post sports reporter Terry Frei believes it?s karma some 68 years in the making.
It seems plausible that UW could move all the way up to second, with an impressive victory and a blowout in the title game. But coach Bret Bielema even threw out the seemingly far-fetched idea that UW could somehow be crowned national champions by the AP.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema on Wednesday was named a finalist for the Bear Bryant Award, given to college football?s top head coach.
Most holiday shoppers are in the market for gifts to give to family and friends. That was the case for some members of the University of Wisconsin football team over the weekend when they got to choose from presents made available through their pending trip to the Rose Bowl. A gift suite was set up before a recent practice where players and coaches could chose from 27 items of varying lavishness ? from a leather recliner, Xbox 360 and a 22-inch flat-screen TV to camcorders, headphones and a mountain bike.
Lyle Knudson has decorated the walls inside his Marrowstone Island home with framed photographs of family, places, fruit trees (he is an arborist) and from his World War II service.
Exercise and diet were each linked to a lower risk of age-related degenerative changes in the eyes, but both combined, along with a lack of smoking, caused a “particularly profound lowering” of the risk — by more than 70 percent, study author Dr. Julie Mares of the University of Wisconsin in Madison told Reuters Health.
It?s the same advice that mothers everywhere have been giving for years, but now there?s science to back it up: Eating veggies is good for the eyes. A new study from the University of Wisconsin confirmed that women who have a healthy diet, exercised regularly and didn?t smoke were less likely to suffer macular degeneration as they got older. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision problems in older people in the United States, researchers said.
A new report shows the air quality at bars and restaurants that had been found to have unhealthy air has improved 92 percent since Wisconsin enacted a smoking ban statewide more than five months ago, according to state officials.
The Department of Health Services joined the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in looking at the air quality of 200 bars and restaurants before the smoking ban and after.
The report, published by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, measured air quality in more than 200 Wisconsin bars and restaurants both prior to and after the ban?s enactment.
That line between being angry and perceiving anger is crucial. As University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Leonard Berkowitz points out, anger “can be linked to an urge to hurt, and at times, even to destroy the target object.” (More on Time.com: The New Map Of The Brain)
Prayer can help victims of domestic violence deal with their situation and emotions by using coping methods such as venting, a small new study suggests.
Satellite data may give weather forecasters the ability to predict potentially dangerous thunderstorms hours in advance, a U.S. researcher says.
Stunned Democrats stripped Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker of his leadership position after he abruptly turned on them and voted against new contracts for state workers.
In a special lame duck session to vote on over a dozen new contracts for state workers, Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker throws a curve ball voting against the first labor contract, then he?s stripped of his leadership post.
Quoted: “It tends to be harder to get going this time of year,” said Dr. Michael Peterson, UW Health Psychiatrist.
A list of the members of UW?s official Rose Bowl travel party shows Governor Doyle, the chancellor, top administrators and a staff photographer are included in the contingent headed to Pasadena.
Madison residents hoping to get ultra-high-speed broadband from Google will have to wait a few more weeks to see if their community wins the company?s contest.
Four more University of Wisconsin campuses have filed petitions with the state to unionize almost 1,200 faculty and staff with the American Federation of Labor. More than two-thirds of educators at the respective campuses of UW-La Crosse, Stevens Point, Stout and River Falls have signed on to petition the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission to schedule union elections.
Wisconsin Democrats failed to pass new contracts for state workers after their leader in the Senate turned against his party and voted against the deals Wednesday night.
After clearing the Assembly earlier in the evening, contracts for state workers seemed ready to pass their final test in the Senate Wednesday night. Then Majority Leader Russ Decker (D-Wausau) shocked fellow Democrats by voting against the first of the two-year agreements.
Noted: This is precisely what happened to the catastrophic-insurance program that a Democratic Congress and President Ronald Reagan added to Medicare 1988. Opponents in both parties succeeded in repealing the program within 18 months, as older Americans who hadn?t yet warmed to the entitlement railed against the higher costs. ?There?s a case where the window was open, and the opposition slammed it shut,? says Byron Shafer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
The nine participants, a mixture of athletes and coaches whose resumes are packed with Olympic medals and world championships, didn?t play a single snap, run a single race or swim a single lap for the Badgers this fall. Instead, they took part in a rigorous academic and cultural immersion program aimed at preparing them to become international leaders in athletics, while also developing their English-speaking skills.
Twenty-five years ago, when Steve Hilton was an entry-level guy working in the file room at his familys foundation, he sometimes had to explain his place within the family legacy. (Pictured, John & Tashia Morgridge.)
Forty-three people, including Gov. Jim Doyle and University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, will be part of the official UW bowl party headed to Pasadena, Calif., for the Rose Bowl game between the Badgers and Texas Christian on New Year?s Day.
Cartoonist Phil Hands made many Badger fans smile recently with his fun take on UW-Madison?s Rose Bowl bid.This full-color cartoon, first published in the Dec. 5 State Journal, is now being offered for sale to our readers.
Faculty at three more University of Wisconsin System campuses want to vote to unionize. UW-River Falls, Stevens Point and Stout filed petitions to hold elections, with union representation through AFT-Wisconsin.
Apparently, not all Michigan State football fans have come to grips yet with the team losing out on a Rose Bowl berth due to the Big Ten Conference?s tiebreaking procedures. Billboards have been put up on major freeways in the Detroit area, highlighting the score of Michigan State?s win over the Badgers and including a rose between the numbers.
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, will speak at UW-Madison?s graduation on Sunday at the Kohl Center. Kaptur is a UW-Madison alumna and the senior woman in the 112th Congress.
Forty-three people will travel to the Rose Bowl as part of the UW-Madison official party, including Chancellor Biddy Martin, Gov. Jim Doyle, and members of the UW Board of Regents. It?s a smaller group than 11 years ago, the last time the Badgers went to the Rose Bowl. UW-Madison officials say that?s because they are aware of a tough economic climate and an incoming governor who is looking to cut costs.
Four more University of Wisconsin campuses have filed petitions with the state to unionize almost 1200 faculty and staff with the American Federation of Labor. Mike Simonson reports.
Third-team selection John Clay, a Park High School graduate, was one of five University of Wisconsin football players named Tuesday to the Associated Press All-America teams.
The battle over the controversial contracts for state employees has taken a turn in Madison.
