Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said “Westlake is an extreme long-shot candidate given the extreme backing of the party (for Johnson) and the disparity of resources between them.”
Quoted: UW-Madison food science professor Barbara Ingham. Single-use kitchen plastics – such things as plastic eating utensils, cups and containers from cottage cheese, sour cream, chip dip, margarine and milk – are ubiquitous, and it may seem environmentally sensible to wash and reuse them. But according to Ingham, these items are not made of materials designed for repeated use or cleaning with hot soap and water.
The University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison is investigating why a syringe was reused, a discovery that means one patient has to be tested for hepatitis and HIV. UW Hospital spokeswoman Toni Morrissey said Friday the incident involves the reuse of a “needleless” syringe attached to an intravenous line. The reuse is against hospital policy.
The veteran NHL defenseman is returning to work for the Detroit Red Wings the franchise he helped win two Stanley Cups.
Expect the incoming freshman class at UW-Madison to have a little more international flavor. After getting a 21 percent increase in international applicants, the college is expecting about 100 more international students to enroll this year. That means 519 incoming students will be foreign. That?s a trend that is playing out at other colleges, according an article in the New York Times. UW-Madison is on track for a target class of 5,700, said Adele Brumfield, UW-Madison?s new admissions director.
Eboni Turner, a high school student from Chicago, will never forget the six weeks she spent in Madison for the Summer Science Institute. She was doing field research in Lake Wingra when she got stuck in the decomposing material at the bottom. Turner was one of 16 students who participated in the recent Summer Science Institute, a six-week residential program through the Center for Biology Education at UW-Madison. The program gives high school students an understanding of biological and physical research while learning about college life.
A government probe of 15 for-profit colleges found four cases in which campus officials encouraged applicants to commit fraud, and examples at every school in which officials lied about or misrepresented their programs. Those and other findings, along with undercover footage of for-profit college recruiters, are to be presented Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing, the second in a series examining the for-profit higher-education industry.
College students who download music and movies from peer-to-peer file-sharing programs such as LimeWire and KaZaA will find themselves cut off when they return to campus this fall. Every college across the country must either have installed software to block illegal file-sharing or have created some other procedure for preventing it. The requirement is part of the 2008 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which took effect July 1.
Starting Thursday, college athletics? governing body will attach academic ratings to coaches in basketball, football and four other Division I sports, launching an online database accessible to recruits, their parents, prospective employers and others who might value the information. Kevin Lennon, an NCAA vice president who administrates the program, calls it “a significant milestone” in the association?s academic reform effort.
College students will be able to shop around more for deals on textbooks, thanks to a new law that took effect this month. The Higher Education Opportunity Act requires colleges to release required book lists at the time of class registration. Publishers must disclose prices and revision information to schools.
Quoted: Volker Radeloff, a forest ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered the pattern by looking at historical trends in the World Database on Protected Areas for 34 countries.
Noted: Fish that specifically favour temperature cold water habitats are already showing signs of the struggle with climate change. John Magnuson, University of Wisconsin, says that cold water fish like trout and charr are affected. “We already have evidence that they are beginning to show poor performance and in many streams in the European and North American area, we have major declines in the abundance and distribution of these cold water species.”
Quoted: ?The results made us very convinced that you should not have a stent procedure if you?re symptomatic,? says Dr. K. Craig Kent, chair of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
A fixture of past UW football team trips to play UNLV in Las Vegas may be missing this year – the University of Wisconsin Marching Band .Band director Mike Leckrone told WKOW27 News he?s “pessimistic” about band members traveling to Las Vegas to perform in connection with the Sept. 4 game.
Noted: Can all this be backed up by science? Professor Richard Weindruch, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, started researching the effects of CR on primates 20 years ago. Last year he published a report in Science that revealed that while 37 per cent of control-fed animals had died from old age, only 13 per cent of those fed a calorie-restricted diet had. CR seemed to slow the onset of age-associated pathologies.
After a nationwide search, the dean of the Wisconsin School of Business has been named to head the private, nonprofit corporation that raises, invests and distributes funds for the benefit of UW-Madison. Michael M. Knetter will succeed Andrew A. Wilcox, who has served as the Foundation President for 22 years. Knetter will assume the duties of president and chief executive officer in October, when Wilcox retires.
Wisconsin?s unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level since February of 2009. But, the number of jobs lost last month was actually up.
You?ve heard the old saw about never getting into a fight with an organization that buys ink by the barrel.But what about turning the other cheek? Newly hired UW System senior vice president for administration and fiscal affairs Michael Morgan is doing something like that in repeatedly turning down media requests to talk about his controversial hire.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s highly regarded business school dean is taking a new job as the school?s top fundraiser. The UW Foundation announced Wednesday that Michael Knetter will become its next president and chief executive officer starting Oct. 16. The foundation is a nonprofit that raises money for the university.
UW alum Abby Sears has recently joined FNC?s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” as an Associate Producer. She will handle all media requests for Van Susteren?s show.
Edward Friedman, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said there appears to be disagreement within the U.S. government over how to deal with China. One side wants to remain soft on China to encourage it to consume more U.S. goods, while the security establishment favors a hardline approach, he said.
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery ? the public/private interdisciplinary research center set to open in December in the heart of the UW-Madison campus ? will be more than a warren of laboratories. Much more, says WARF programming director Laura Heisler, who spoke Tuesday at a Wisconsin Technology Council luncheon.
Describe how you heard about the job. Did you contact the UW System about it or did someone with the System contact you? Who was involved in these discussions?
Quoted: “That was a step in the right direction, but not a big step,” said Allan Odden, a Race to the Top expert with UW-Madison?s Wisconsin Center for Education Research. “Other states went farther than we did and that?s ultimately why we rated lower.”
Family and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil Tuesday night to remember a funny and caring UW-Madison graduate bound for law school. Jawaun McClain, 23, drowned in Lake Monona early Thursday while swimming with friends and celebrating his birthday.
Noted: A group of community leaders, including Susan Schmitz, president of Downtown Madison Inc.; Tripp Widder, Library Board president; and Alan Fish, UW-Madison?s associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management, has recommended that neighborhoods be more transparent about who supports or opposes a project.
A move by UW-Madison to cut ties with Nike last April proved fruitful this week — and garnered the university some positive national press. Articles in the New York Times, The Huffington Post and The Atlanta Journal Constitution, gave UW-Madison — in addition to other universities and student groups — credit for prompting the athletic apparel company to pay severance to the workers.
Quoted: Edward Friedman, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said there appears to be disagreement within the U.S. government over how to deal with China.
U.S. colleges aren?t doing enough to limit student access to alcohol, a new study contends.College administrators do recognize that student drinking is a major problem, but they focus on individual interventions and campus-based alcohol restrictions. They need to do more work with communities to develop policies to reduce excess drinking by students, such as monitoring of illegal sales of alcohol and limiting the number of retail alcohol outlets, according to study author Toben Nelson.
Quoted: Zheng He was an admiral in the time of “empire”, when there were no boundaries, no frontier limits, says China expert Edward Friedman.
In a move praised by labor activists, Nike Inc. agreed Monday to spend $1.5 million to help workers abruptly laid off last year by two subcontractors in Honduras. The announcement came amid mounting pressure from universities and student groups, who had urged Nike to pay the workers the severance they should have received when the factories closed. Nike had refused for months, saying the workers? compensation was the responsibility of subcontractors. In April, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin made the school the first to end a licensing agreement with Nike, which meant the firm could no longer produce Badgers apparel.
Tens of thousands of college students have unpaid internships this summer. Even with the recession, students are willing to dish out hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars to cover expenses for internships far from home. In some cases, students also pay hundreds of dollars more for the college credits that employers require their interns to receive. Despite the financial burden, the pipeline is crowded with young people trying to get a foot in the door, especially in a tight economy.
In a move praised by labor activists, Nike Inc. agreed Monday to spend $1.5 million to help workers abruptly laid off last year by two subcontractors in Honduras.
Less than a month after the University of Wisconsin-Madison dropped Nike due to poor working conditions in Honduras, the company is making some changes.
UW professor Max Schmeiser called the new federal consumer law a mixed bag, with some good elements and some bad for Wisconsin consumers.
Facing pressure from universities and student groups, the apparel maker Nike announced on Monday that it would pay $1.54 million to help 1,800 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when two subcontractors closed their factories.
A former aide to Gov. Jim Doyle is ducking questions about his controversial new job at the University of Wisconsin System and $108,000 pay increase.
Noted: To find out I speak to Professor Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who 20 years ago began to research the effects of CR on primates.In 2009 ? ?an exciting breakthrough year?, he tells me ? he published an interim report in Science that revealed that, while 37 per cent of their control-fed animals had died from old age, only 13 per cent of the ones fed a calorie-restricted diet had.
Yvette Healy, head softball coach at Loyola in Chicago since 2004, has been named the head softball coach at Wisconsin, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced Saturday.
University of Wisconsin System officials said Friday they will push the state to end employee furloughs next year and restore 2 percent raises taken away from faculty and staff.
The last 1960s radical still on the run from U.S. authorities could be hiding in plain view as a quiet, greying Canadian. Next month marks the 40th anniversary of Leo Frederick Burt?s long fugitive run from police for his alleged role in the bombing of a U.S. army facility at the University of Wisconsin at Madison at the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement.
Hundreds of compelling stories that can be told by participants in the U.S. Transplant Games, the biennial event highlighting organ transplantation and donation that comes to Madison next weekend. More than 7,500 people are expected to be in town for the games, including 1,500 transplant athletes from 46 teams who will participate in 13 sports, said Krista Flanagan, the Transplant Games event manager in Madison. The state has two organ procurement organizations, the Wisconsin Donor Network and the UW Organ Procurement Organization, and four transplant centers ? Children?s Hospital of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital and Aurora St. Luke?s Medical Center, all in Milwaukee, and UW Hospital in Madison.
Camp Randall hasn?t hosted any concerts since 1997, but the UW Athletic Department is still open to it if the opportunity presents itself. Justin Doherty, UW?s assistant athletic director for external relations, said there haven?t been many opportunities in recent years, but the department would consider hosting a concert if it made financial sense and scheduling worked out, since there are activities going on in the stadium year-round.
Quoted: UW Law School professor Michele Lavigne, a former public defender, who directs the public defender internship program at the law school and teaches classes about criminal defense. ?He?s been there so long, it?s hard to imagine it without him,? she said.
Quoted: The wind is air in motion, say Steven Ackerman and Jonathan Martin. The atmosphere is made up of gas molecules, mostly nitrogen and oxygen. These gas molecules are constantly in motion and exert a force when they strike an object, like our bodies. The force exerted by the molecules hitting you is a function of the speed, number and mass of the molecules.
Quoted: “What our research shows is the more (alcohol) density you have, the more problems you have,” said Dawn Crim, a nonvoting member of the ALRC and the director of community relations at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Farmers markets are especially important for recent immigrants, said Alfonso Morales, an assistant professor of urban and regional planning at UW-Madison and an expert on public markets. A market, such as the Dane County Farmers? Market, where shoppers pay a premium, gives the Hmong a better outlet than a roadside stand or another farmers? market because of its great reputation and its large, affluent customer base.The income they make frequently gets plowed back into their operations and paid forward through investment in their children, he said.
Quoted: John Young has been Wisconsin?s state climatologist for eight years. He is an emeritus professor in UW-Madison?s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and stills gets excited about the weather.
Quoted: Allen Clauss, a UW-Madison chemistry lecturer who previously worked at consumer products company Procter & Gamble Co., saying the main differences are in the pH, presence or absence of bleach, and the types of surfactants – long molecules that are water-loving at one end and oil-loving at the other. “Surfactants are active ingredients we put in cleaning products that bridge the gap between water and greasy dirt and help wash it away,” he says.
Noted: Professor Richard Davis of UW-Madison points out that anyone growing up in America has been affected by the way the media and others present race.
The University of Wisconsin System is bidding farewell to the state?s second longest-serving chancellor. The Board of Regents on Friday praised retiring University of Wisconsin-Superior Chancellor Julius Erlenbach as a champion of the liberal arts who oversaw a building boom on campus. Erlenbach served as chancellor of what he called the “northern jewel in the crown” of the system since 1996.
A former aide to Gov. Jim Doyle is ducking questions about his controversial new job at the University of Wisconsin System and $108,000 pay increase. After staying silent and not responding to interview requests for weeks, Michael Morgan said Friday he “has nothing to add” about his appointment as the system?s chief operating officer. Morgan spoke after a Board of Regents meeting, where he was welcomed with applause.
Right now there are tons of questions, but University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez expects answers soon. At issue is how the Big Ten Conference will bring Nebraska into the fold in 2011 and how the 12-school league will be aligned. Alvarez said this week the matter will surely dominate two days of meetings when the annual Big Ten Football Kickoff takes place in Chicago Aug. 2 and 3.
University of Wisconsin chancellor Carolyn ?Biddy? Martin was roughly 30 minutes and 20 questions into an interview when she casually invoked the name of her celebrated predecessor. Donna Shalala was the school?s chancellor from 1988 to ?93 whose tenure is remembered for kick-starting a process that took the UW Athletic Department from punch line to national prominence.
Despite witness accounts and the identification of a suspect, a Madison police investigation of a bar attack languished for months, as the suspect allegedly attacked yet another victim — a Badger football star.
With the Gulf oil spill nearly under control, a UW professor assesses the damage.We first talked to Dr. Anders Andren in early June, not long after the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank. At the time of the accident the Coast Guard and BP thought about 1,000 barrels a day was leaking into the Gulf.
Quoted: At a forum on redistricting, UW-Madison Political Science Professor Ken Mayer said that won?t happen to Wisconsin this year. He puts the odds of gaining or losing a seat at zero.
Nine to 15-year-olds on the city?s north side on Saturday played basketball and ran drills with UW Badgers Keaton Nankivil and Charlie Wills.
The grandfather of college football?s first conference championship game believes if the Big Ten opts for a title game, as expected, the league would be wise to select a single host city.
Quoted: “We?ve had some good secretaries of agriculture, but I?ve got to say under Rod we?ve done more positive things for Wisconsin agriculture,” said UW-Madison dairy economist Bob Cropp. “There?s a lot of progress that?s been made under his leadership.”
