The state deficit for the 2011-?13 budget could reach $3.1 billion – $370 million more than previously forecast, according to an economist?s prediction. Andrew Reschovsky of the University of Wisconsin-Madison arrived at the projection by building on the work of the Legislature?s budget shop. [Sixth item.]
Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a science-communications and public-policy expert at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
Build. Explore. Discover. It?s Family Day at the UW Arboretum this Sunday, Sept. 26. Also, the world comes to Madison this weekend for the 7th Annual Madison World Music Festival, bringing in musicians from around the world. The Thursday and Friday events take place at the UW Memorial Union.
President Barack Obama?s rally on Tuesday will be held on Library Mall, an outdoor venue that connects the UW-Madison campus to State Street, according to the Democratic National Committee. The event will be open and not ticketed, although the committee is asking people to RSVP to this website: http://wi.barackobama.com/MadisonRally.
President Barack Obama?s rally will be outside in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday. The Democratic National Committee announced Wednesday that Obama will appear on Library Mall, which is adjacent to the student union and where State Street, which leads to the Capitol, begins.
Quoted: Western respondents may have been less equivocal in their support for science and scientists because of political debate in their countries, says Dietram Scheufele, a science-communications and public-policy expert at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. “Particularly in the United States, dichotomies dominate political issues, like a sporting event with two sides. Dichotomies are prominent in discussions about climate change, stem cells and so on,” he says. “And they can damage the debate.”
Quoted: Alta Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison. She was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission during the Clinton administration
President Barack Obama?s rally will be outside in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday.
The Titan Arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed in the D.C. Smith Greenhouse. It?s the first time the 9-year-old plant has flowered.
Quoted: Although Goadsby noted that prior research had similarly illustrated the apparent benefits of IV aspirin by comparing pain levels against a second pool of patients who did not get the treatment, Dr. Carl Stafstrom, a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed out that the current effort did not do so.
That children born to well-off homes are more vulnerable to autism has been a topic of curiosity and research among experts for decades. But a new study of around half a million American children, published this week in PLoS One, adds some startling concrete numbers to that aspect of the ongoing investigation into autism?s roots.
Quoted: The decision to stop distributing residential listings is a trend for Verizon and AT&T, said Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It?s been over two years since Marshfield High School Alum and UW-Madison student, Brittany Zimmermann was found dead in her off campus apartment.
A UW-Madison economist says the next governor and Legislature will have to dig out of a deeper budget hole than what officials last reported.
Pay attention, gubernatorial candidates, it looks like your job is getting tougher. The state deficit for the 2011-?13 budget is now estimated to be as much as $3.1 billion — $370 million more than previously forecast. Economist Andrew Reschovsky of the University of Wisconsin-Madison arrived at the projection by building on the work of the Legislature?s budget shop.
Quoted: Brent McCown, a University of Wisconsin-Madison horticulture professor.
Wisconsinites are concerned about the direction of the state, its economy and their family?s own economic well-being. Furthermore, Wisconsinites do not think that their state government is doing a particularly good job and are frustrated with a state government that they do not believe is particularly innovative. Still, Wisconsinites report being relatively happy and rate life and schools in the Badger State better than in other states. [A column by Ken Goldstein, a UW-Madison professor of political science.]
Noted: A recent study by the Institute for Research on Poverty showed that St. Croix County has the state?s seventh-fastest growing poverty rate. It exceeds 12%.
Linda Randall says her daughter, Randi-Lyn, a student at Radford University in southwestern Virginia, is not a “die-hard” follower of the Highlanders sports teams. Even so, by the time Randi-Lyn graduates in 2012, her parents probably will have paid an average of nearly $1,000 a year in fees to the school?s athletics department. They just didn?t know it from the school?s billing statements or website.”We?re looking at five years because she changed majors. That?s $5,000,” Randall says. “I don?t think I?d have as much of a problem with it if I knew I was paying it. With what we?re paying, it doesn?t seem right.” Like most other schools in NCAA Division I, Radford relies on student fees to help support ever-expanding athletics budgets. Many schools, including Radford, do not itemize where those fees go for those who pay the tuition bills, USA TODAY found in an ongoing examination of college athletics finances. The amounts going to athletics are soaring, and account for as much as 23% of the required annual bill for in-state student.
In order to allow for more time to tweak a measure that would change the Downtown apartment rental season, the City Council voted to refer it to their Oct. 19 meeting late Tuesday night. At issue is a measure that would move back the period when landlords can start showing and leasing occupied apartments for next year?s rental cycle to the third week in January. Currently, landlords are allowed to begin showing and leasing after 25 percent of the current lease has expired, which falls on or near Nov. 15.Alds. Verveer and Bridget Maniaci, 2nd District, who sponsored the measure, amended the language from 25 to 45 percent in the referred measure.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
President Barack Obama is coming to the UW-Madison campus next Tuesday during his trip to Madison, a university spokesman confirmed. The Sept. 28 event is being described as a political rally, hosted by the Democratic National Committee, the spokesman said.
One of UW-Madison?s “corpse flowers” (scientific name: Titan Arum) is beginning to open today. That, of course, means the smell of rotting meat will soon be emanating from UW-Madison?s greenhouses.
President Barack Obama will hold a rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison next week, and just two weeks later the first lady will be in Milwaukee raising money for U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold. The Obamas? visits to Wisconsin point out the importance of the swing state in midterm elections, with Feingold facing a tough challenge from millionaire Republican Ron Johnson and Democrats hoping to hold on to the governor?s office.
Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost shares that concern. He directs a bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
“After college, I?ll go to Europe, but I?m not sure I would ever have the chance to live in a developing country,” said Jessie Lavintman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who became familiar with bucket showers and malaria when she studied in Ghana.
In March, 16 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students were taken into custody during a protest over rising tuition costs. As silly as college student protests can be, this one actually made some sense. Tuition costs across the entire country are sky-high.
?President Hu Jintao?s government has made a fundamental shift in China?s foreign policy orientation to, as it sees it, at long last, standing up for China,? said Edward Friedman, a China scholar at the University of Wisconsin.
The anonymous call came in the middle of the night, from a phone booth near Madison, Wis. “Hey, pig!?? a male voice warned. “There?s a bomb in the math research building.??
President Barack Obama will hold a rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison next week and just two weeks later the first lady will be in Milwaukee to raise money for U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold.
Democrats? dreams of passing an immigration bill before the midterm elections died Tuesday, when Senate Republicans blocked a measure that could have carried legislation benefiting undocumented college students.
Common asthma treatments don?t work for everyone and may level off in their effectiveness. So the search is on for something better. UW-Madison participated in a nationwide study of a promising alternative.
President Barack Obama will be coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus during his visit to the city next week.
President Barack Obama will be coming to the University of Wisconsin campus during his visit to Madison next week.
The Titan Arum, also known as the corpse flower, has bloomed in the D.C. Smith Greenhouse, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The pungent bloom will last for 24 to 48 hours, according to officials.
Illinois students and their parents pay more to send freshmen to the state?s flagship university than all but one other Big Ten public school.
A 61-year-old hospital staff member received non-life-threatening injuries Monday morning after being hit by a UW Hospital and Clinics bus in the Marsh Lane pedestrian crosswalk at University Bay Drive, university police said.
Quoted: Andrew Reshovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics with UW-Madison’s LaFollette School of Public Affairs.
Bielema comes home to a house with no lights on, but believes not having a family actually reduces his stress level as a coach.
Quoted: Jeffrey Johnson, a pharmaceutical researcher with the UW-Madison?s Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
About 70 unionized UW-Madison food service workers and their supporters picketed the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery work site Monday to protest the university?s alleged complicity in a practice nearly as old as capitalism itself: union busting. The 1,500-member Local 171 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is irked because three dining venues planned for the privately owned parts of WID will not employ its members.
ESPN2?s SportsNation TV show will air live Monday from the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin campus, and the public is invited to participate as members of the audience. Badgers football coach Bret Bielema and standout running back John Clay will be guests on the show, which airs from 3 to 4 p.m. and is hosted by Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle.
Noted: The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
A roundup of a some interesting On Campus items includes news of a “Meeting of the Minds” in New York City for alumni and UW-Madison friends on Wednesday, Sept. 29. The event will feature four faculty members talking about what it means to live in a democracy in 2010. Also, a team of UW-Madison undergraduate students is one of three groups that won $48,000 to build an “inflatable loft” for NASA.
All great businesses start with a bright idea. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine today release their eighth rankings of 25 top graduate and undergrad university programs for budding entrepreneurs, whose bright ideas can turn into successful businesses.
Note: UW-Madison graduate program rated No. 19.
For the typical student attending a four-year public university, the financial investment in college begins to pay off at about age 33, a report says Tuesday. Compared with a high school graduate, the typical four-year college graduate who enrolled in a public university at age 18 has earned enough by then to compensate for being out of the labor force for four years and for borrowing enough to pay tuition and fees without grant aid.
The Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium is the new name for an energy research consortium that started last year in the Milwaukee area. It now has a statewide focus that includes the University of Wisconsin-Madison and aims to make the state a center of excellence for energy, power and controls. Read more about that here.
Quoted: Although Goadsby noted that prior research had similarly illustrated the apparent benefits of IV aspirin by comparing pain levels against a second pool of patients who did not get the treatment, Dr. Carl Stafstrom, a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed out that the current effort did not do so.
Quoted: Professor T. Douglas Price from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of Schroeder?s colleagues, recently attempted to pin down the 49 settlers? birthplaces by analyzing the carbon, oxygen and strontium isotope ratios in their tooth enamel. These elemental signatures are locked in tooth enamel during childhood and vary depending on the diet, climate, altitude and local geology of a person?s homeland. Last year, Price noted that the isotopic ratios in seven of the skeletons suggested they could have African origins.
Quoted: The $1.34 million that Kagen has raised in the last two years is split almost evenly between individual donations and money from PACs. That ratio is more balanced than most congressmen, who have been relying heavily on contributions from individuals, said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Gauging how voters will react to those news reports is difficult, said Kenneth Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison professor Barry Burden says Kagen?s funding mix is a rarity, since most candidates rely more heavily on individual supporters. But Kagen says his PAC funding does not come from health companies, banks, or oil companies. He says a variety of small businesses are supporting him.
Two UW-Madison alumni are calling on students to help elect them in November. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, and Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin were on the Madison campus Sunday night to urge young Democrats to get out the vote.
Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist will visit UW-Madison on Thursday.
The New York Times has made reference to research universities consistently over its many years of publication. But in the last half century, the newspaper has grown less interested in the universities and more interested in their researchers, according to a new study.
One day in 2007, Dr. Giulio Tononi lay on a hospital stretcher as an anesthesiologist prepared him for surgery. For Dr. Tononi, it was a moment of intellectual exhilaration. He is a distinguished chair in consciousness science at the University of Wisconsin, and for much of his life he has been developing a theory of consciousness. Lying in the hospital, Dr. Tononi finally had a chance to become his own experiment.
Quoted: Richard Monette, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who testified about his issues with the settlement at a House hearing in March, went further.
Quoted: “The Valukas Report,” as it has become known, will have a broader impact than the Lehman case, said University of Wisconsin law professor Jonathan Lipson of the report. “I think because the cases like Lehman and Enron are big and so unusual?the stories of those failures deserve to be told in a fairly neutral but public way.”
Quoted: Researchers have tried a variety of approaches to bringing the egg to maturity outside the body, said Pamela Kreeger, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Quoted: “We?re not going to be talking about abortion, gay marriage, prayer in schools,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This year is about tangible things – jobs, the economy, taxes.”
