Quoted: “The other factor that I think is quite serious for first time candidates is the ability to manage themselves on the campaign trail,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
J. Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security and a professor at UW-Madison, said that although more banks are failing, he?s not certain consumers are paying any more attention.
A group of runners decided Sunday to bare it all. About 150 people brought clothes and ran in the annual “Bare it All for Charity” 5k at UW-Madison.
UW Whitewater students are standing up against hate. Saturday, students held an equality march near the campus. There have now been at least three alleged hate crimes on campus in the past few months.
UW-Whitewater officials say two hate crime style incidents this week are highly unusual for the campus. Campus police are investigating an incident that occurred Monday overnight, in which three African-American students had their car tires slashed and ?KKK? spray painted on their vehicles.
John Lee, a researcher at the UW, is using a $300,000 driving simulator to study how activities like texting are impacting drivers today and how features like personal computers will affect the drivers of tomorrow.
When Li Zhou visited Washington last month, he didn?t take in the sights. He stuffed envelopes, hundreds of them, addressed to college-admissions directors across the country.
Leaders of land-grant universities see a slight brightening in their institutions? immediate economic situations — but increasingly recognize that they must make structural changes to accommodate fundamental, long-term shifts in their funding models.
Worries that the worldwide economic downturn would trigger a slip in international education should be largely alleviated by this year?s “Open Doors” report, which shows that during the peak of the recession, international student enrollment continued to rise and — for the first time in the report?s history — the total number of U.S. students who studied abroad declined slightly.
Thirty presidents of private colleges each earned more than $1 million in total compensation in 2008, up from 23 the previous year, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education?s annual salary report.
For advocates of cows grazing on grass rather than eating silage, the benefits to the environment, farmers and cows are clear. But the million dollar question is, how does the milk these cows produce taste? Will people want to buy and cook with grass-fed dairy products? In late October, a group was invited to UW-Madison?s Arlington Research Station for a ?Grass-fed Dairy Tasting,? as part of a three-year project aimed at working with farmers, dairy processors and chefs to build a market for grass-fed milk.
Governor-elect Scott Walker?s order Thursday to axe a biofuels boiler for the redesigned Charter Street Heating Plant was met less with surprise than discouragement by supporters of the plan. “It?s disappointing,” said Jennifer Feyerherm with the Sierra Club. “I think we?re missing a great opportunity to invest in Wisconsin?s future.” In a letter to Daniel Schoof, secretary of the state Department of Administration, Walker said he wants to shift plans to installing a natural gas boiler rather than the boiler that would burn alternative naturally grown fuels such as wood chips or switch grass. Such a move, Walker said, would save the state $100 million of the total $250 million cost of rebuilding the university?s central heating and cooling plant so that it no longer burns coal.
Gov.-elect Scott Walker is determined to bring major changes to Madison ? seemingly even before he takes office next year. Walker, a Republican, has asked Gov. Jim Doyle?s administration to immediately stop some of its key policy initiatives, signaling that he wants to block the Democratic administration from any last-minute political maneuvering that could hamstring him later. In a letter sent Wednesday to Department of Administration Secretary Daniel Schooff, Walker urged the current administration to start revamping the Charter Street power plant.
The 36-month project to build a market for grass-fed milk, which began in the fall of 2008, is funded by $148,133 from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grant Project. Project partners include owners of five farms in the Edelweiss Graziers Cooperative, cheesemakers, chefs, researchers from UW-Madison?s departments of Food Science, Dairy Science and Agronomy, and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Police are investigating more hate crimes at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater _ this time involving vandalism to the cars of three black students. The university says someone slashes the tires of the cars and spray-painted “KKK” on the doors and hoods. The incidents happened between 11 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Three cars owned by black students at UW-Whitewater were vandalized this week, in what university officials are describing as the third hate crime incident on campus this semester. The owners of the vehicles notified police that their tires were slashed and “KKK” was written in spray paint on the doors and hoods. The cars were parked in residence hall lots and the incidents happened between 11 p.m. on Monday and 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
Noted: “Eat Smart in France: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods, & Embark on a Tasting Adventure” by Ronnie Hess is published by Ginkgo Press, distributed by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Governor-elect Scott Walker asked Gov. Jim Doyle Thursday to freeze his administration?s push on high-profile issues ranging from the implementation of the federal health care law to a costly upgrade of a state power plant — the Charter Street Heating Plant — until Walker takes office on Jan. 3.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater are investigating a hate crime involving three African-American students that occurred hours after school officials condemned an alleged anti-gay assault.
Visitors entering the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the UW-Madison at its Dec. 2 grand opening will encounter a striking blend of the past and the future.
One can?t avoid the irony in Biddy Martin?s words as she speaks of her youth in rural Virginia some 50 years ago. She?s recalling the post-Jim Crow era of the South, a time when the shackles of segregation and separate-but-equal were loosening yet racism remained rampant. In her words, “virulent racism.”
Eight of 10 public high school juniors in Illinois weren?t considered ready for college classes in all subjects based on ACT testing last spring ? and many students missed the mark even at posh suburban Chicago schools that graduate some of the state?s brightest kids.
Noted: The DNR and University of Wisconsin researchers will launch a multi-year study this year to better understand the impacts predators have on white-tailed deer.Scientists will track bucks and fawns to see how they die.
For the second time this week and third time in the last few months, police on the campus of The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater are investigating a hate crime.
Governor-Elect Scott Walker wants to put a stop to some of the work the current administration is doing.
A group of UW cadets paid a special visit to veterans hospitalized at the VA Medical Center.ROTC students from the Army, Air Force and Navy delivered appreciation cards to patients in honor of Veterans Day. The group says they make cards for VA patients for holidays throughout the year.
“I love it. I really love it here.” For Natasha Love, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is a perfect fit. It?s close enough to home but far enough way.Love says, “It?s a good place I would recommend anybody to come here.”
The UW System has offered classes online for years. But finding them wasn?t always easy. Now that information?s consolidated at a new website, eCampus. Officials hope it will help increase the number of degree holders in Wisconsin.
Quoted: ?Reducing spending for programs fits with the Republican agenda and helps the budget situation, but it can be difficult politically and cutting taxes onlyshrinks revenues sources needed to balance the budget,? said Barry Burden, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov.-elect Scott Walker on Thursday requested Department of Administration Secretary Daniel Schooff reverse course on a series of Gov. Jim Doyle?s initiatives.
Quoted: “There?s some room for doubt that being CEO of a company prepares you for the skills of negotiation, the mutual accommodation that goes with the role of senator,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “At some level, anybody who?s in the Senate has to play the political role he?s elected to play.”
Wisconsin scientists and start-up companies should continue to use human embryonic stem cells ? and their noncontroversial counterparts ? in ongoing research because they hold great promise for treating disease and injury, two panelists said Wednesday at the Early Stage Symposium.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin says Walker promised voters he would stop the train, and he intends to keep his word.
The new head of UW-Madison?s Cinematheque foresees a very bright future for film fans, as new screens begin to appear across campus.
Scientists will soon begin testing and developing a mind-training program that provides a drug-free alternative for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and high functioning autism in children.
It?s called eCampus. The University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly says it?s part of a strategic effort to increase the number of degree holders in the state by 30% by the year 2025.
Governor-elect Scott Walker is asking the current administration to stop work on several issues. In a letter sent to the Department of Administration, Walker requests that current Governor Jim Doyle put a halt to work in a number of areas during his final months in office.
Gov.-elect Scott Walker took the unusual step Thursday of asking outgoing Gov. Jim Doyle?s administration to halt federal health care reforms in the state, cease negotiations on state workers? contracts and abandon any new rules for state agencies.
Police are investigating more hate crimes at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater — this time involving vandalism to the cars of three black students.
Having taught a large, distance-education human development course for 13 years (initially sent out via television, in the pre-Internet days), I?ve found that this format is convenient and wildly popular among highly motivated, busy students trying to fit everything into a tight schedule.
In 1885, the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture began distance education for the state?s farmers, through what became known as the Farmers? Institutes. By 1907, the Extension Division had been created to increase educational opportunities to people across the state.
Wednesday, the UW System announced the launch of eCampus, a new website intended to act as a central portal for all online degree programs offered across 26 two- and four-year campuses.
Mentions UW-Madison’s ranking as one of the nation’s leaders in campus sustainability.
Zachary Chappell was a wrestler at Madison East, but he?s become a reputable track and field athlete in college. In Peru. The University of Wisconsin senior, a Latin American Studies major who is in his second semester in a study abroad program in Lima, Peru, earned three medals for University Pontifica Catolica at a regional competition last weekend.
Andy Manley, who died Tuesday in a house explosion in Sun Prairie, graduated from UW-Madison and was interested in becoming a teacher.
Quoted: Adam Gamoran, director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at UW-Madison.
On a morning in September 2009 that he will never forget, John C. Wright, a longtime professor of chemistry at UW-Madison, was getting ready to walk from his office to the class he was scheduled to teach when his telephone rang. That call, and a fax that followed a short time later, directing him to a website, knocked Wright for a loop. He is not an emotional person, but Wright teared up reading an article on the website. “I was astonished,” he said recently. He needed a little walk to calm down before teaching his class. What Wright, 67, learned that September morning set in motion a series of events that culminated last month when he and his family flew to England for the unveiling ceremony of a memorial plaque honoring the father Wright never knew.
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at UW-Madison.
A new website will serve as a gateway to 70 online degree and certificate programs offered by the University of Wisconsin System. Prior to the creation of the site – ecampus.wisconsin.edu – there was no centralized place to search through all the programs offered by the UW System?s 26 campuses.
The University of Wisconsin System has launched a new website with information about all of its online degree programs in one place. UW System officials on Wednesday launched eCampus. Wisconsin.edu as part of a push to better promote the online offerings by its 13 two-year colleges and 13 four-year universities. System officials say distance and online learning programs are a key part of their plans to graduate more students in Wisconsin.
The stakes were high last week in Katey Shirey?s 11th-grade physics class at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington County. Students worked diligently, wrapping reflective Mylar around cardboard boxes, thinking through the physics of their creations: solar ovens.
In 1952, Wisconsin Gov. Walter J. Kohler Jr. expressed frustration over rivalries among the state?s public universities, saying: “These institutions are competing here for money, just as they are competing for students, and this tugging and hauling must be stopped.”
On the eve of Veterans Day, some R.O.T.C students at UW-Madison are showing their appreciation for the soldiers who came before them.
UW Athletic Department spokesman Justin Doherty says, “In some ways it?s an unimaginable thing to happen and it?s a member of our athletic family.”Manley spent his time at UW working in the athletic department?s video services. He traveled with the football team and took his passion for sports to Atlanta where he spent the summer interning with the Falcons.
Noted: Explainer thanks Tineke Hellwig of the University of British Columbia and Ellen Rafferty and Melisa Tjong of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Film Studies Center of National Central University will show a series of Taiwan-made films on several university campuses in the United States, promoting local cinematic art and Taiwan studies through film, NCU announced Nov. 10.
The University of Wisconsin System has launched a new website with information about all of its online degree programs in one place.
Gay rights advocates say they fear that Wisconsin?s new Republican leadership may attempt to do away with the state?s domestic partnership registry. The registry was enacted last year as part of the budget. It allows qualified domestic partners to be able to make end of life decisions, have hospital visitation rights, and to take family and medical leave to care for a seriously ill partner.
As the stock market soared for two decades, college and university endowments swelled with gifts. Over the last 10 years, contributions to higher education have risen an average of 4.1 percent a year, despite the downturn.
William J. Borucki and David G. Koch, both of whom received degrees from University of Wisconsin-Madison before going on to leadership positions with the Kepler space mission, were joint recipients of the first Lancelot M. Berkeley-New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy.
The growth spurt Jon Leuer enjoyed last summer can?t be quantified.
He didn?t sprout 10 inches, as he did during his time at Orono (Minn.) High School before coming to Wisconsin in 2007. The 6-foot-10, 228-pound senior instead honed his game by practicing against some of the best players in the world, NBA stars who went on to win the gold medal for the United States at the FIBA World Championship in Turkey.
