More than a week following a brutal hate crime against a UW-Whitewater student, university leaders are hosting a difficult discussion about hate speech.
UW-Whitewater students open up about hate speech
WKOW-TV 27
Author: jplucas
Party Nets Huge Fines for 3 College Students
NBC-15
An underage drinking party results in some big problems for 3 UW-Madison students. Big, to the tune of 86-thousand dollars in fines.If that number sounds astronomical it should. Even police admit they don?t issue those kinds of citations for every party they bust and now the kids responsible complain they?re being singled out.
Praise and New Challenges for ‘Unsung Heroes’
Chronicle of Higher Education
Calling community colleges the “unsung heroes” of America?s education system, President Obama drew national attention to the sector on Tuesday and stressed the critical role it plays in keeping the country competitive.
Students Fined $86K In Connection With House Party
WISC-TV 3
The city of Madison attorney?s office has issued municipal complaints against three University of Wisconsin-Madison students with fines totaling more than $86,000 in connection with a house party the students hosted last month, Madison police said.
In Wis. race, GOP novice may snag seat thought safe
Boston Globe
On streets teeming with students dressed in the ?Badger red?? colors of the University of Wisconsin, friendly cries of ?Hey Russ!?? followed one of the school?s prominent graduates, US Senator Russ Feingold.
Yet the Democratic senator everybody seems to know is in a desperate fight this fall against a challenger whom, until recently, few had ever heard of. Also quotes UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Supreme Court retains MU, UW bar exam privilege
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An effort to change the way Wisconsin licenses new lawyers received a unanimous denial Monday from the state Supreme Court.At issue was the diploma privilege, a practice unique to Wisconsin. It allows graduates of the state?s two law schools to become licensed attorneys without taking the state bar exam required of graduates from all other law schools who wish to join the State Bar of Wisconsin.
‘School for creative minds’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Students seeking a postsecondary degree, especially one in fine arts, have another option in Milwaukee.The Art Institute of Wisconsin, located in the P.H. Dye House in the Third Ward, opened its doors for the first time Monday to more than 75 students seeking four-year degrees in advertising, digital filmmaking and video production, fashion marketing, graphic design, media arts, and Web design, and a two-year associate degree in graphic design.
Madison groups win funding for isotope work
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Two Madison-area groups have received $500,000 each from the federal government to further develop technologies for making a radioactive isotope widely used in medical imaging tests.
The National Nuclear Security Administration awarded funding to a group including the Morgridge Institute for Research and Phoenix Nuclear Labs LLC of Middleton, as well as to NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC of Madison and its partners.
The Wisconsin partnerships are the third and fourth recipients of such awards, for which there will be one more funding round, said Jennifer Wagner, a spokeswoman for the administration, part of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Big Ten Network Alters Landscape of College Athletics
New York Times
These are confusing times to be a college football fan. The Big Ten will soon have 12 teams, the Big 12 only 10, and the Pacific-10 is on its way to having 12 teams. It really wishes it had 16.
3M to give some retirees vouchers for health care – TwinCities.com
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Quoted: Tom Oliver, a professor at the University of Wisconsin?s School of Medicine and Public Health and an expert on health care policy.
UW-La Crosse Students Want Answers After Sexaul Assault Incident (WSAW-TV, Wausau)
A recent sexual assault incident on the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse campus is on the minds of many students.
Madison to consider creating blogging policy for city’s website
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Sue Robinson, a UW professor who specializes in online journalism.
On Campus: Obama got a Badgers jersey (Wisconsin State Journal)
President Barack Obama is now in possession of a No. 44 Badgers basketball jersey. That was one of the gifts that UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin gave our 44th president when he visited campus last week, the first sitting president to come to the university in 60 years. Martin was Obama?s official greeter, she explained in an e-mail, before he spoke to a raucous crowd of 17,000 on Library Mall in an attempt to energize Democrats for the midterm elections. She welcomed the president in Memorial Library, along with UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, UW System President Kevin Reilly, and the chair of student government, Brandon Williams.
Madison companies win federal grants to produce substance for heart care
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison could be the only U.S. location producing technetium-99m, a substance that is in cardiac stress tests and cancer scans performed on tens of thousands of patients every day, and is in short supply worldwide. Two area companies, in separate arrangements, won the only two federal allocations announced Monday to manufacture the medical isotope molybdenum-99 which, when it decays, produces technetium-99m. One of the proposals is a partnership with UW-Madison, state of Wisconsin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and Phoenix Nuclear Labs in Middleton.
Wis. high court keeps ‘diploma privilege’ rule
Madison.com
Graduates of Wisconsin?s two law schools still won?t have to take the bar exam to practice in the Badger state. Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on Monday decided to keep Wisconsin?s so-called diploma privilege intact. Critics argue the practice is discriminatory but supporters say University of Wisconsin and Marquette University law grads are prepared well to practice here.
State high court keeps ‘diploma privilege’ rule (AP)
Graduates of Wisconsin?s two law schools still won?t have to take the bar exam to practice in the Badger state. Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on Monday decided to keep Wisconsin?s so-called diploma privilege in tact.
Raining on the Parade
Inside Higher Education
Quoted: ?We can?t call this research,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ?The for-profits are under attack and this report is being paid for by for-profits. We need to be asking many of these questions, but a report like this one isn?t providing meaningful answers.?
Why would a mayor ever want to be a governor? (Salon.com)
Quoted: If they succeed, they will be giving up something unique in American politics. Joel Rogers, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has founded organizations focused on both state- and city-level policymaking, calls being mayor “a total gas … You?re known everywhere. Your decisions touch people directly. You deal with an incredible variety of issues. You get instantaneous feedback.”
Sleeping cap (Cosmos)
Quoted: At this stage, the equipment is all too sizeable to be used outside the lab. “The question of practical applications to sleep will require further study before any implementation would be practical,” says Michael Peterson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who works with Tononi.
Neenah grad sings anthem at Obama rally (Appleton Post Crescent)
Appleton Post-Crescent
At first, Kaitlyn Skalet, thought it was some sort of ruse.The 2008 Neenah High School graduate, who is a junior at the University of Wisconsin, got a call from her pastor in Madison on the evening of Sept. 27, and he posed a question that nearly took her breath away.
Police investigate possible hate crime against UW-Whitewater student
WKOW-TV 27
UW-Whitewater campus leaders say a female freshman is recovering from a hate crime attack.
UW-Madison to study financial literacy
Wisconsin Public Radio
UW-Madison researchers will be spending more than $3-million in federal grant money to study how people handle their cash.The Social Security Administration is providing the grant, which will fund 14 financial literacy projects.
Tweaking Technology Transfer
Inside Higher Education
The system by which American universities make the fruits of federally funded research available to the public is fundamentally working — but it could use some fixing up, the National Research Council said in a report released Monday.
Up close and personal: On the road with Joan Baez (Wisconsin State Journal)
Wisconsin State Journal
Emma Vasseur said she hears the question all the time: ?How did you get that gig??After all, it?s not every UW-Madison student who goes directly from graduation into a job touring with one of the world?s biggest folk music icons.
Court appears unlikely to change diploma privilege (Wisconsin Law Journal)
Despite a heartfelt request to extend Wisconsin?s diploma privilege to graduates of out-of-state law schools, the Supreme Court appears poised to deny a petition filed by more than 70 attorneys.
Our definition of sex expands, IU study shows
Indianapolis Star
Quoted: Such findings show that health-care providers can no longer simply ask patients if they are sexually active, said John DeLamater, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
POM ads to promote sexual benefits of pomegranate
USA Today
Quoted: One skeptic doubts POM?s motive for the new ads. “It sounds to me like they?re trying to change the subject (from the FTC lawsuit),” says Ivan Preston, ad professor emeritus at University of Wisconsin.
Wen Jiabao talks of democracy and freedom in CNN interview
Guardian (UK)
Prof Edward Friedman, an expert on Chinese politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that many Chinese people sympathetic to the sentiments Wen was espousing also seemed doubtful of whether he was engaged in a political struggle for them, “or just setting out a position so he has a certain historical legacy”.
BU community remembers Cerrina (Boston University Daily Free Press)
Members of the Boston University community gathered at Marsh Chapel on Friday to remember College of Engineering Francesco “Franco” Cerrina?s life.
Cerrina came to BU in 2008 after being a part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty for 24 years, where he also served as director of the Center of Nanotechnology and received the Semiconductor Research Corp.’s Aristotle Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998.
On the Capitol: National spotlight hits Madtown
Wisconsin State Journal
The nation?s political spotlight was shining on Wisconsin this week. Don?t believe us? Just ask the approximately 26,500 people (including 17,200 packed into Library Mall plus the overflow crowd) who gathered to hear President Barack Obama fire up Madtown. The president chose UW-Madison for the first of a series of rallies aimed at re-inspiring his supporters and getting them out to vote for Democrats in the Nov. 2 election.
Property Trax: Just released — Latest U.S. metro area foreclosure ratings, including Madison’s
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: UW-Madison?s Kurt Paulsen, an assistant professor of urban and regional planning.
Green roofs becoming trendy in Madison (Wisconsin State Journal)
Green roofs are sprouting up on local mixed-use condominium and apartment buildings as well as some public buildings, an effort to promote storm water retention, prevent urban heat buildup, and create appealing green spaces for city dwellers to enjoy. A number of buildings on the UW-Madison campus have green roofs, including Engineering Hall, the Microbial Sciences building and the new Education Building.
Executive Q&A: Fred Blattner helps purify E. coli
Wisconsin State Journal
When a pharmaceutical company is creating a compound that could become the next wonder drug, it helps to have a clean slate on which to build the drug. That?s the concept behind Scarab Genomics, 1202 Ann St., a company that grew out of research at the UW-Madison laboratories of genetics professor Fred Blattner, the company?s president and chief executive officer.
400 show up to support family of Brittany Zimmermann
Wisconsin State Journal
About 400 people, some wearing gloves and earmuffs, gathered on UW-Madison?s Library Mall on a chilly Saturday morning to show their support for the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann. The Brittany Zimmermann Memorial 5K Run/Walk was organized by the Madison Area Crime Stoppers and Zimmermann?s family as a way to celebrate Zimmermann?s life and to raise money for reward funds for information about her murder. Zimmermann, 21, was strangled and stabbed to death in her Doty Street apartment on April 2, 2008. No arrests have been made.
Footnote: What’s the rule on where college students can vote?
Wisconsin State Journal
In last week?s coverage of President Obama?s visit to Madison, a UW-Madison student from Minnesota was quoted as saying she waited in line more than five hours to see the president but likely wouldn?t vote this November because getting an absentee ballot would be too much work. To be legally eligible to vote in a place, the person must have lived there at least 10 days, said Reid Magney of the Government Accountability Board. So if a college student considers a campus residence home and meets that requirement, he or she can vote at that address, he said.
Chris Rickert: What’s happening to on-the-job training?
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Bill Reese, a professor of educational policy studies and history at UW-Madison, and Allen Phelps, a professor and director in the UW-Madison Center on Education and Work.
Feingold in the fight of his political life
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
Curiosities: Why does road rage happen to otherwise rational people?
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Darald Hanusa, a senior lecturer in social work at UW-Madison.
Ask the Weather Guys: What is good weather for good fall colors?
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin of the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
World’s rivers face crisis, new study says
Wisconsin State Journal
The world?s rivers, crucial sources of fresh water and important habitats for plants and animals, are in crisis and more threatened than ever by pollutants and development, according to an ambitious study led by a UW-Madison zoologist. Peter B. McIntyre, a senior author of the new study, said it is shocking to see how many problems remain despite so many years of effort. McIntyre, a professor of zoology at UW-Madison?s Center for Limnology, said rivers in this country would be much worse were it not for the Clean Water Act, passed in the 1970s.
Jeffrey Johnson and Ronald Kalil: No reason to buy into brain claim
Wisconsin State Journal
As neuroscientists, we are deeply disturbed by the article that appeared recently in the Sept. 21 State Journal titled ?Is jellyfish protein supplement much-needed memory aid?? Letter from Jeffrey Johnson, professor, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Ronald Kalil, professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, both at UW-Madison.
AP names Foley as Iowa City correspondent
Madison.com
Ryan J. Foley, an Associated Press reporter in Madison, Wis., has been named Iowa City correspondent. The announcement was made Thursday by Carol Ann Riha, Iowa Chief of Bureau. Foley, 29, has been a beat reporter in Madison since 2005, covering the University of Wisconsin and the state legislature.
Day to remember young murder victim
Wisconsin Radio Network
Saturday is a day for the Madison community remember a young woman whose killer has not yet been apprehended. The first annual Brittany Zimmerman Memorial 5K Run and Walk will take place on the UW Madison campus.
Barrett stem cell ad called ‘lie’ by Walker
Madison.com
A new television ad in the governor?s race by Democrat Tom Barrett gives the impression that Republican Scott Walker wants to ban all stem cell research in Wisconsin, even though he only opposes research involving embryos. In the new Barrett ad that began airing across the state Thursday, the mother of a child with juvenile diabetes speaks directly to the camera and says, “Scott Walker says he would ban stem cell research in Wisconsin. That?s right, ban it.” Embryonic stem cell research was pioneered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, leading to the creation of a number of university subsidiaries and local private companies.
Johnson opposes funding for embryonic stem cells
Madison.com
U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson said he opposes federal funding for research on embryonic stem cells, both on moral grounds and because eliminating the funding would help balance the federal budget. Johnson, a Republican, told The Associated Press this week he supports research on stem cells, but only those derived from adult cells and umbilical-cord blood. Wisconsin would be more affected by the loss of federal funding than other states. A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor was the first to isolate the cells in 1998, and his work helped turn the city and surrounding communities into a center for stem-cell research. Timothy Kamp, the director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center at UW-Madison, said Wisconsin jobs could very possibly move elsewhere if federal funding came into question.
After a Suicide, Questions About Promoting Privacy on Campus
Chronicle of Higher Education
When a student kills himself, it?s a painful experience for a campus. Certainly that is the case with the recent death of Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University?s Busch campus, in Piscataway, N.J., Beyond the grief, the circumstances around Mr. Clementi?s death raise questions of not only how colleges can help students in crisis, but also how, and if, they can prevent the sort of malicious behavior that can contribute to such a crisis.
5K walk, run raises money for Zimmermann fund
WKOW-TV 27
A crowd of people gathered for a memorial 5K walk/run on Saturday to raise money for Brittany Zimmermann?s reward fund and CrimeStoppers.Zimmermann was murdered in April 2008 in her duplex on W. Doty St. in downtown Madison.
Zimmermann Memorial Run/Walk Raises Reward Funds
WISC-TV 3
It has been over two years since the murder of University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann. On Saturday, the first annual run/walk event was held in her honor and provided a chance to remember the woman whose life was taken far too soon.
UW-Madison official not satisfied with diversity findings (WPR)
Superior Telegram
Minority enrollment has increased across the board at the UW-Madison. But the university?s lead administrator on diversity calls the gains ?flat? and adds that there needs to be an intensified effort to help more students of color graduate.
Monkeys in the mirror and the nature of science (Discover Magazine)
Discover Magazine
Charles Darwin wondered if animals were aware of themselves. Allowed to visit a rare orangutan in the London Zoo, he brought a mirror and observed the ape apparently make faces at its own reflection. It?s hard to say for sure that the orangutan really was aware that its reflection was its own. Over a century later, a scientist named George Gallup turned Darwin?s idea into a more rigorous test. He would secretly put a mark on an animal?s forehead and see if it noticed the difference the next time it passed a mirror.
Monkeys bid to join elite self-awareness club (New Scientist)
New Scientist
Experiments on monkeys suggest that the animals can recognise and react to their own image in a mirror. They altered their posture to look at their own genitals and other body parts they couldn?t see directly.
Monkey In The Mirror (Science News)
Science News
Rhesus monkeys typically don?t check themselves out in a mirror ? unless they?re wearing funky acrylic forehead blocks attached to hair-thin electrodes implanted in their brains.Given that fashion-forward apparel, these monkeys avidly use mirrors to examine and groom their heads and to inspect hard-to-see body areas, say neuroscientist Luis Populin of the University of Wisconsin?Madison and his colleagues.
Up close and personal
Emma Vasseur said she hears the question all the time: ?How did you get that gig?? After all, it?s not every UW-Madison student who goes directly from graduation into a job touring with one of the world?s biggest folk music icons. Since she graduated in May 2009, Vasseur has worked as the personal assistant and guitar technician for singer Joan Baez, traveling all across the United States and Europe. This Friday, she returns to campus when Baez plays at the Union Theater, 800 Langdon St.
On Campus: UW-Madison recovering from presidential hangover
Wisconsin State Journal
As of Thursday, any remnant that some 17,000 people had crammed into Library Mall Tuesday night waving “Badgers for Obama” signs, eating paper-wrapped brats and screaming wildly, was nearly gone. All that is left is settling the bill. The Democratic National Committee, which organized President Barack Obama?s rally, agreed to pay UW-Madison $10,500 for renting the space. That included 11 police officers, electricians, mechanics and groundskeepers, a green room and six VIP parking passes. But the university is still tallying any additional, reimbursable costs.
Pruden: It’s a refudiation, not a recovery (Washington Times)
Noted: Obama “drew a large crowd to a rally at the University of Wisconsin, traditionally the home of boys and girls in unwashed black turtleneck sweaters, pretending to be Marxists on their daddies? capitalist dimes (and many dollars).”
Rebecca Kleefisch, stealth Mama Grizzly
Isthmus
Quoted: “Kleefisch is very Sarah Palin-esque, and she?s embraced that,” notes UW political science professor Barry Burden. “It?s easy to see a lot of similarities in their backgrounds, their identities as mothers, their concerns on size of government and their folksy approach.”
New method makes adult cells act like embryonic ones
USA Today
Stem cell researchers on Thursday reported a new method for reprogramming adult cells into ones that act like more versatile embryonic stem cells, an advance that could open a new avenue for lab-grown transplant tissues.
UW study: Some monkeys recognize themselves in the mirror
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Until now, monkeys were thought incapable of recognizing their reflection in a mirror. But a new study by Luis Populin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of anatomy, finds that under specific conditions rhesus macaque monkeys do recognize their image in the mirror and display self-awareness.
A Bloody Good Class: Vampires 101
ABCNEWS.com
Noted: Students studying supernatural beings can be found at colleges and universities all across the nation. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has an English course called ?The Vampire in Literature and Cinema?. The University of Florida offers a humanities course, ?Vampire Studies? and an honors course, ?Figures of the In-between? in which students study ghosts, angels and vampires. But it doesn?t stop there — just this semester the University of Baltimore began offering students a minor in pop culture ? which includes a lesson in zombies 101.
Monkey See, Monkey Do Understand (HealthDay News)
Your dog, like most other animals, can?t look in a mirror and figure out the furry thing with eyes is her own reflection. But Wisconsin researchers have just proven that rhesus macaque monkeys can ? and are delighted when they do.