After adding two teams for the 2010-11 season, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association is faced with the possibility of losing two men?s programs ? Minnesota and Wisconsin ? to a Big Ten Conference as soon as 2014-15.
At least one in 13 pregnant women suffers from mental health problems, and that rate jumps to one in three if women have a history of mental health issues, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study that researchers say is the first to systematically examine the issue on a national scale.
“Poor mental health during pregnancy can lead to problems during pregnancy and beyond, like having low birth weight babies or postpartum depression. So we want to try and prevent women from developing mental health problems during pregnancy,” said Whitney Witt, lead author of the study and assistant professor of population health sciences at UW-Madison.
President Barack Obama has again nominated former state Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler Jr. to replace John Shabaz as U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, the White House announced Monday. Butler now teaches at UW-Madison.
Prosecutors in Minnesota and Wisconsin are investigating dozens of cases in which voters may have illegally cast ballots in both states in the 2008 presidential election. The number in question is a tiny fraction of the 5.9 million ballots cast in the two states, which both have same-day voter registration. But it represents the first look at a practice that some activists feared was widespread, particularly among thousands of college students who live in one state and go to school in the other.
The University of Wisconsin System has a new top lawyer. System President Kevin Reilly has appointed Tomas Stafford as the general counsel for the system of 13 four-year universities and 13 two-year colleges.
One day before Wisconsin?s primaries, Time Magazine?s political columnist and blogger Joe Klein will stop by UW-Madison to talk about the election season.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema said Monday he has been in contact with former wide receiver Kraig Appleton.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said it would make more sense to hold Wisconsin?s primaries a little earlier.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked 16th out of the top 25 colleges recruiters are targeting to hire new graduates, according a new survey in Monday?s Wall Street Journal.
Quoted: “We watch behaviors on TV we will never engage in,” says Jonathan Gray, who studies media and culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Think of Steve Carell in The Office, George Costanza in Seinfeld, or Larry David. A huge part of ?cringe comedy? ?Sarah Silverman or South Park? is that we feel uncomfortable but we love it.”
Quoted: The GOP would like nothing more than to put a Republican in Obey?s seat. ?The symbolic significance is obvious; it certainly would signal a tectonic shift in the landscape if Republicans were able to pick up that seat,? says Kenneth R. Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
Police on the University of Wisconsin campus are ramping up enforcement of bicycle laws.
Quoted: Competitive primaries and big spending on political ads are traditional boosters for turnout, said Barry Buden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Combining those factors with a general dissatisfaction toward government at all levels, particularly for Republican voters, could send normally apathetic voters to the polls today, Burden said.
The University of Wisconsin System has a new top lawyer.
Noted: Butler is now teaching at UW-Madison. He has previously been a circuit court judge in Milwaukee County and a municipal court judge in Milwaukee.
It?s been nearly two and a half years since University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was slain in her campus-area apartment.
Madison Police Department held a news conference Monday afternoon regarding the first Zimmermann Memorial 5K, in honor of UW student Brittany Zimmermann who was murdered at her home near campus.
The default rate on federal student loans continued to rise last year, with the rate for students at for-profit colleges ? already the highest ? rising the fastest.
On May 15, 1985, trainers at Hawaii Sea Life Park were stunned when a 400- pound gray female bottlenose dolphin named Punahele gave birth to a dark-skinned calf that partly resembled the 2,000-pound male false killer whale with whom she shared a pool.
Mentions that Eric Bean, a medical student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, led the local competitors with a third place finish, 13 minutes behind Gambles.
Mentions that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which patents discoveries of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and licenses them to companies around the world, has offered exclusive licenses for a limited number of crops.
Mentions that math is still Emily Siira’s strong suit, and if everything adds up in her recovery, she hopes to start at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the spring.
The Big Ten Network introduced itself just before the football season started in 2007. Outside of live football and basketball games with teams not quite attractive enough for ABC, ESPN and others, its earliest programs made some viewers scratch their heads — unpolished studio shows with few big names and heavy doses of old, taped games. Well, the network has come a long way since then. Neither the conference nor the Chicago-based cable network publicly talk about their finances, but, according to the Sports Business Journal, three years after it went on the air the network is delivering close to $70 million a year to the Big Ten.
One of Kay Monigold?s first big headaches when she bought a small cable TV business in Illinois and Indiana in late 2007 was a startup cable channel specializing in Big Ten sports.
Total student loan debt exceeds total credit card debt in this country, with $850 billion outstanding, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and FastWeb.com, websites that provide information about student aid and scholarships. Consumers owe about $828 billion in revolving credit, including credit card debt, according to seasonally adjusted numbers in a report on July credit from the Federal Reserve.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor and polling expert.
Story by the nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, whose partners include the UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication.
Marla Ahlgrimm has built a reputation as a savvy entrepreneur in the field of hormone treatments for menstrual and menopause symptoms, and as a generous community figure ? especially in UW-Madison circles. But now Ahlgrimm is accused of conspiring to illegally import and sell millions of doses of fake Viagra and painkillers, as well as prescription stimulants and tranquilizers. The allegations have led some clients and their doctors to question the services provided by Ahlgrimm?s business empire, while prompting her professional associates to express disbelief.
Beginning next Sunday, Blackhawk Church, the large evangelical congregation on Madison?s Far West Side, will offer two morning worship services every week at a downtown club. About 700 of the congregants each week are college students, with 300 or so of them bused in from the UW-Madison area.
Beneath the soil where college students trod each day, there is a chamber that creeps and crawls and writhes. Here, the humid air is sweet with the odor of rotten flesh and thousands of bugs devour once-living animals, piece by piece. This is UW-Madison?s dermestarium, or colony of dermestid beetles. Nearly half a million strong, the insects dine on the stringy muscle of carcasses, meticulously cleaning the bones of zoological specimens for museum displays and research.
Noted: UW-Madison’s bomb-sniffing dogs and Sgt. Aaron Chapin of the UW-Madison Police Department.
Quoted: Tim Osswald, a professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Thirty-nine people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday for poor behavior or breaking the law during the University of Wisconsin?s 27-14 win over San Jose State, police said. Thirty-five of the 39 were UW-Madison students, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
UW-Madison is planning a series of community forums on the use of animals in research. The forums, proposed by Provost Paul DeLuca and Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader, are intended to open up dialogue on the often thorny issue. The forums will be held quarterly with the first one expected to occur in November.
You might be more likely to get pulled over on the UW-Madison campus this month. Especially if you?re on a bicycle.UW-Madison police officers will be out conducting “concentrated bicycle education and enforcement. “They?ll be stopping cyclists who violate the rules, such as not having lights at night or riding against traffic.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists say they want to give the public a better understanding of why they experiment on animals. The school announced it is planning a series of community forums to discuss the animal research
Quoted: ?It?s a good year to own a TV station in Wisconsin,? said Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who tracks political advertising.
The family of slain University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann is partnering with the Madison Area Crime Stoppers to host a 5K run and walk slated for Oct. 2.
The first home game of the year brings thousands of Badger Football fans to campus and with the gubernatorial race heating up candidates find the perfect opportunity for their last minute pitch.By 9 a.m. the grills were going and the herd was on it?s way in.
University of Wisconsin police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault in a shower at the Natatorium on campus on Thursday night.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a new interim chancellor. Michael Lovell, Dean of UW-M?s College of Engineering and Applied Science, will step into the chancellor?s role on the second largest UW campus next month, following the departure of Carlos Santiago. UW System President Kevin Reilly announced the appointment of Lovell on Friday, and said he?ll provide strong leadership for UW-M at a critical time.
Quoted: Polls have shown both GOP candidates this year, Mark Neumann and Scott Walker, defeating presumed Democratic nominee Tom Barrett in the general election. However, UW Political Scientist Charles Franklin says you can?t count Barrett out just yet.
Money can buy many things to help children excel academically, like tutors and private school educations. But as those children go off to college, the one thing otherwise protective parents typically do not spend money on is making sure their children do not become victims of a crime.
When the Indian education minister spoke last autumn of inviting overseas education providers to set up campuses in the country, he mentioned the likes of Harvard, Yale and Oxford.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists said they want to give the public a better understanding of why they experiment on animals.
The federal government can continue to finance embryonic-stem-cell research, temporarily, because a federal appeals court on Thursday lifted an injunction that had blocked such work. The move added to optimism about eventual victory for university scientists who use this research in a search for cures for a range of devastating diseases.
What will the next Wisconsin Legislature be like? Will it be any braver, wiser, and/or more productive than the Democratic-controlled 2009-2010 Legislature, the divided 2007-2008 Legislature or the Republican-run 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 legislatures?
The UW-Athletic Hall of Fame welcomes seven new members tonight. TheBarry Alvarezgroup is led by former football coach and current Athletic Director Barry Alvarez.
Quoted: “The best indicator for Feingold is that almost none of the polls out there have him above 50 percent, and that?s that threshold an incumbent needs to be at,” Ken Mayer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
A Florida pastor?s plan to burn Korans is resonating with UW students.Reverend Terry Jones said he?s still undecided on whether or not to go forward with the burning. On Thursday, Jones said he would call off the burning ? welcome news to Muslim students in Madison.
Federal judges Thursday temporarily stayed a human embryonic stem cell research funding cut-off, allowing experiments to continue for now.
The government may resume funding of embryonic stem cell research for now, an appeals court said Thursday, but the short-term approval may be of little help to research scientists caught in a legal battle that has just begun.
A crackdown on the University of Wisconsin campus means bicyclists will need to be extra careful following the rules of the road downtown.
Noted: Rohany Nayan, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin, said the event will differ from all the recent coverage of events in the United States which threaten Muslims and their religion.
Letter from Carolyn Heinrich, Verona, director, UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Marla Ahlgrimm, a Madison businesswoman charged with conspiring to sell fake prescription drugs, remains free on a $150,000 bond after appearing at a federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Thursday. She was a member of the UW Foundation board.
Noted: UW Madison?s Research Park.
Noted: A report by Dennis Winters, Wisconsin?s chief labor economist, who wants the state to save $1,000 every year for every public school student to help pay for college. Winters describes the plan in a publication issued by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, a UW-Madison think tank.
