Quoted: “In an ideal world, there would be no limit to resources. We would have a consumer that would be willing to pay meal prices that would pay food service workers a living wage so you wouldn?t have to rely on unskilled workers,” said Monica Theis, senior lecturer in the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Department of Food Science.
Quoted: Noel Radomski, executive director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, an advocacy and research think-tank based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, criticized the EAB for being reactive.
Quoted: ?We basically have to trust one another,?? said Charles Snowdon, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who ran a tamarin lab for three decades. ?We can?t possibly monitor everything in every laboratory.??
A new program is arming small communities for the battle against doctor shortages.The Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) was started three years ago to attract medical students to smaller markets. The program is part of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Some of Harley Davidson?s union employees in Wisconsin say their employer has bullied them with threats of moving production out of state. The long time Wisconsin manufacturer?s recent activity has created a bit of a backlash among workers and may affect its image among consumers says branding expert Deborah Mitchell at UW-Madison.
Anytime University of Wisconsin-Madison is first, the city and its passionate student population take notice. On Monday, the Memorial Union Terrace was the first Big 10 campus to provide a backdrop for a newly launched ESPN effort focusing on the Big 10 conference.
The Madison World Music Festival is a three-day festival that takes place Thursday and Friday at the UW Memorial Union Terrace and Saturday at the Willy Street Fair, brings together musicians from Mexico, Romania, Kenya, Mali, Kyrgyzstan, Corsica and many more.
Quoted: Nina Emerson, director, Resource Center on Impaired Driving, UW-Madison Law School.
Quoted: Robert Streiffer, a UW-Madison professor of bioethics and philosophy.
Quoted: Irwin Goldman, horticulture professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Police say 71 people, including 46 students, were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday?s Wisconsin-Arizona State football game. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that 35 people were arrested, including 29 UW-Madison students.
The Dog Jog, in its 27th year, benefits area humane organizations, including those in the UW-Madison?s School of Veterinary Medicine spay-neuter program for shelter pets.
Quoted: Ethics expert Ben Kempinen, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
For years, young people here who wanted off the Menominee Indian reservation signed up for military service. That was one of the most promising routes to a steady paycheck for young adults in Menominee County, the poorest county in the state ? and one of the poorest in the country. But Verna Fowler started the College of Menominee Nation 17 years ago in her basement in order to give them another option. One of 36 federally-recognized tribal colleges in the country, it?s succeeding at something that the University of Wisconsin System hasn?t traditionally done well ? bringing higher education to Native Americans.
Noted: Work by UW-Madison researchers to estimate the state’s bear population.
September 26 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first of four debates between Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Never before had the two major party presidential candidates shared a forum. And they appeared on television, a medium that had only recently entered the American living room. ?My God,? cried an excited CBS producer, Don Hewitt, ?We could be making history.? An article by James Baughman, professor of journalism and mass communication at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who collected the data.
Mentions that the University of Wisconsin-Madison received $300,000 for a student loan repayment program.
Quoted: ?This development of railroads is not just Milwaukee to here (Madison)? says UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin. Even former governor, and rail advocate, Tommy Thompson is opposed to the timing of the project.
Chynna C. Haas had just about had it with the University of Wisconsin at Madison by the fall of her sophomore year.
It?s hard to spot one of the most underrepresented minority groups at many four-year colleges: students and faculty members from the working class.
Members of a UW-Madison union plan to picket outside the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 1300 University Ave., Monday morning. The employees — members of Local 171, Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24 — will be protesting the privatization of food service work at the new research facility, which is scheduled to open in December.
Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week. He will give this year?s memorial public affairs lecture in honor of Paul Offner, a Wisconsin lawmaker and national policy expert who died in 2004. Norquist is a graduate of UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Noted: To mobilize younger voters who supported him in 2008, Mr. Obama will hold four big campaign-style rallies, the first Sept. 28 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, with satellite transmission to campuses in other states. The later rallies will be in Ohio, Philadelphia and Las Vegas. He also will send e-mail and record robocalls to spur voters, and conduct a national ?town hall? Webcast in October.
Quoted: ?A lot of people would have been worse off if they didn?t have someone to move in with,? said Timothy M. Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. Still, 14.3 percent of Americans lived in poverty last year, the highest percentage since 1994. The rise was steepest for children, with one in five affected.
Noted: A Madison Area Sports Commission has been created to bring more sporting events and competitions to the area. Board members include Vince Sweeney, vice chancellor for university relations at UW-Madison.
VInternet use at the nine public libraries in Madison increased 23 percent from 2008 to 2009 and is projected to go up 27 percent this year over last based on numbers through August. The steep recent jumps owe to the swollen unemployment ranks due to the economic recession and an increase in people who need jobs but also need training in the basic computer skills now all but essential in finding work. One library uses grant money to hire Writing Lab tutors from UW-Madison for specialized help in writing resumes and cover letters and other volunteers for help in basic computer and Internet skills.
Noted: the 75-year-old Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, considered a leader in turning university research into products that benefit society, and using the licensing income to support further scientific investigation.
Global economic forces have created a challenging fiscal environment for the state. These same forces have increased the returns from higher education – for example, the more than $1 billion per year in resources the University of Wisconsin-Madison attracts from outside the state and the many local benefits UW-Madison provides through accessibility to higher education for our citizenry. The state, therefore, faces a conundrum: Just when it needs a great research university most, it is finding it difficult to provide the growth in revenues needed to sustain it.
A column by Michael Knetter, who joined the UW-Madison School of Business as its dean in July 2002, and Gwen Eudey, assistant to the dean in the School of Business, who has joint appointments as a senior lecturer in both Finance and Economics at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director for Infection Control for University of Wisconsin Hospital, said she expects this year?s flu season to mirror last year?s.
The unfolding legal dispute over human embryonic stem cells shifted to the political arena today as senators sounded off and prominent scientists pleaded their case before a Senate subcommittee hearing.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said he, too, expects both camps to ramp up negative campaigning.
Noted: As an example, Rotenberg pointed to the technology transfer program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The 75-year-old Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is considered a leader in turning university research into products that benefit society, and using the licensing income to support further scientific investigation. Emily Bauer, a licensing manager at the foundation who specializes in plant technology, said it generally prefers nonexclusive licensing because it wants the technology to be widely used. She said the foundation doesn?t usually award exclusive licenses for agricultural products. But in some cases, she said, exclusive licensing is the only way to get the technology into the marketplace.
In education today, data is king. It?s used to prove school effectiveness, track student achievement and even, in some cases, set teacher pay. The trick for schools is getting quality metrics and using them to assess individuals and effect positive change in the classroom.
Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez will be honored this Saturday for his upcoming induction into the College Football Hall of Fame with an on-campus salute before the Badgers take on Arizona State.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says Wisconsin?s poverty rate is lower than the nation?s, but still troubling.
Quoted: ?A lot of people would have been worse off if they didn?t have someone to move in with,? said Timothy M. Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin.
Mentions the Strategic Management of Human Capital Project, headquartered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studied what is needed to improve teacher and principal quality. The author, Sarah Archibald is a doctoral graduate of UW-Madison
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political scientist.
Quoted: The middle class in developing countries might be larger by other measurements. Tim Smeeding is director of The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “One part of building wealth that may not be taken into account is the growth of home ownership and home quality in the developing world. People tend to create their own wealth, many of them by building their own homes.”
Harvard, the world?s richest university, was judged the best by the London-based Times Higher Education, as U.S. establishments took the top five places in the magazine?s annual World University Rankings.
France?s highest-ranked university, the Paris-based Ecole Polytechnique, is 39th and Germany?s, the University of Goettingen, is joint 43rd with the Australian National University, the University of Wisconsin and Sweden?s Karolinska Institute. The University of Melbourne, in 36th place, is Australia?s highest-ranked establishment.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, UW-Madison political science professor.
Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers “Strictly Speaking” and “A Civil Tongue,” has died. He was 91. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1940.
Another year, another foul stench coming from UW-Madison?s greenhouses. A Titan Arum plant – known colloquially as the “corpse flower” – is getting ready to bloom on campus.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin, Madison says you can learn a lot by watching political ads ? they?re what poker players call a “tell.”
Noted: Leilani Neumann is represented in her appeal by Byron Lichstein from the University of Wisconsin-Madison law school?s Criminal Appeals Project.
Quoted: UW Madison political scientist, Charles Franklin says Walker can ride to victory with a conservative wave of support.
“Who?s sleeping in your bed?” That?s not a line from the latest campus campaign to promote safe sex. It?s Bedbugs 101. The question appears on information posters in Pennsylvania State University dormitories, bringing students? attention to the creepy-crawlers who just may be hitching a tuition-free ride.
When Chancellor Biddy Martin announced in this month?s issue of Madison Magazine her initiative to revamp the University of Wisconsin?s financial model and related partnership with the state and Board of Regents, tuition increases were presented as an unavoidable part of the plan.
UW Hospital is one of the nation?s top 10 companies for working parents, according to an annual list developed by Working Mother magazine.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison professor of political science.
Noted: Bill Bland, a soil science professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Kathy Cramer Walsh, a political science professor and pollster at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said she expects higher than usual, though not record, turnout for a primary, given the open governor?s race and voter worries about the lingering high unemployment.
Noted: Among the top 10 are Bank of America, Deloitte, Discovery, Ernst & Young, General Mills and IBM. A surprising but welcome addition is the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, which last year spent $1.6 million on tuition to help employees pursue certifications and academic degrees.
University of Wisconsin professor Charles Franklin discusses the results of Tuesday night?s primaries. (Video.)
Governor Doyle and UW officials are absolutely right to join the effort to appeal a recent federal court ruling that has stopped major stem cell research dead in its tracks. Sometimes you wonder if it?s worth the effort to devote resources to issues being decided at the federal level, but the impacts of this ruling on the state of Wisconsin, and the citizens of the state of Wisconsin are too significant to ignore.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists say they want to give the public a better understanding of why they experiment on animals.
Kevin Reilly chose wisely when he named Michael R. Lovell as interim chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee last week. Now, Reilly, the UW System president, must choose just as wisely as he names a search committee to recommend candidates to replace outgoing Chancellor Carlos Santiago.
Orthopedic surgeons who were paid millions by medical device manufacturers often failed to disclose their financial ties in their published research, according to a new study that mirrors findings of an ongoing Journal Sentinel investigation. The new study found that nearly half of orthopedic surgeons who made at least $1 million from any of five orthopedic device makers in 2007 did not have that relationship published in their scientific articles in 2008.
