Quoted: “The ballot is very heavily regulated real estate,” said Kenneth Mayer, a UW-Madison political science professor. Griffin will probably lose her battle, he said, because the ballot “is not designed as a platform for candidates to give political statements.”
A slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student?s fiance cannot sue authorities for mishandling her 911 call or the couple?s landlords for lax security because he doesn?t have the legal standing, a court ruled Thursday. The District 4 Court of Appeals dismissed two lawsuits filed by Jordan Gonnering, whose fiancee, Brittany Zimmermann, was stabbed and strangled by an intruder in their Madison apartment in April 2008. The killing remains unsolved.
Quoted: Barry C. Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, said voters would be reminded of the attack at the sentencing and again during televised debates in fall when it will be obvious he can?t fully use his hand. He compared it to former GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole, who didn?t have use one of his arms because of war injuries. “I think those kind of personal factors get more weight for voters who are paying peripheral attention and right now that?s most Wisconsin voters, frankly,” he said.
Rod Nilsestuen, the head of Wisconsin?s Department of Agriculture since 2003 who died while swimming in Lake Superior, was remembered Thursday as a consensus-building, bipartisan, visionary advocate for farmers. He earned a law degree from UW-Madison.
Quoted: Nilsestuen?s “passionate commitment” to preserving agricultural land will leave a “towering legacy of his influence,” said Molly Jahn, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Several top Chinese athletes are due to arrive in Madison on Friday to kick off a new exchange program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Seven athletes and two coaches in sports ranging from track to Taekwondo will study on campus through December under the exchange with Beijing Sports University, where they are graduate students. Through the collaboration announced by UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin in March, the group will participate in seminars and internships that focus on training and coaching
One crucial lesson from the BP oil spill is that measures to speed licensing, cut corners on safety and undermine regulation can lead to tragic consequences. Yet Congress appears on the verge of repeating mistakes that led to the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf.
In February 1907, a New York physician discovered that his longtime dairy supplier had switched to pasteurized milk. He so detested the practice?not to mention the taste?that, as he wrote to the New York Times, he would rather “run the risk of typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis rather than [endure] the evils that I believe would follow the systematic and prolonged use of pasteurized milk.”
Few sports powers other than the Miami Heat were built overnight. For decades, University of Wisconsin men?s basketball was nothing special. OK, the Badgers won the NCAA title in 1941. But until Dick Bennett became the coach there in 1995, winning seasons were rarities.
Noted: Nilsestuen?s “passionate commitment” to preserving agricultural land will leave a “towering legacy of his influence,” said Molly Jahn, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Quoted: Barry C. Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, said voters would be reminded of the attack at the sentencing and again during televised debates in fall when it will be obvious he can?t fully use his hand.
Christopher Taylor is the overpopulation pianist. He has a common name, which means he has a lot of company on Internet searches. His handful of obscure, independent recordings have such amateurish graphics that he would be easy to dismiss as a home hobbyist.
A popular chain known more for its pharmacy hopes to reintroduce alcohol to its stores? inventory in the Madison area.
Noted: Of course, those who follow campaign finance issues know that holding down spending suppresses turnout. Studies by UW-Madison professor Ken Goldstein and others have found that in races where there?s more spending, voters are more knowledgeable about the candidates and turn out in higher numbers.
A slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student?s fiance cannot sue authorities for mishandling the Marshfield High School graduate?s 911 call or the couple?s landlords for lax security because he doesn?t have the legal standing, a court ruled Thursday.
The fiancée of a slain UW-Madison student can?t collect damages in her murder.
A slain University of Wisconsin-Madison students fiance cannot sue authorities for mishandling her 911 call or the couples landlords for lax security because he doesnt have the legal standing, a court ruled Thursday.
I?ve been hoping to catch a glimpse of one of those six-figure Metro Transit drivers. You know the ones. Those overpaid working stiffs who do nothing but drive around all day in air-conditioned buses, raking in our hard-earned tax dollars like so many Capitol-bound commuters. For comparison?s sake, UW Athletics Director Barry Alvarez and UW football coach Bret Bielema get $500,000 and $400,000, respectively, per year out of a public university?s coffers. Should they? The not-for-profit, tax-exempt UW Foundation puts another several hundred thousand more into their pockets. Should it?
The UW Center for Nonprofits will study how nonprofits may have contributed to a dramatic decline in Dane County?s black infant mortality rate in recent years, the center announced. The center received a $50,000 grant from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research to look at nonprofits? influence on black babies surviving their first year. The county?s black infant mortality rate declined in 2002 to 2007, a decrease that gained national attention, but rose in 2008 and remained higher last year than the earlier years. ABC for Health, Access Community Health Centers and the South Madison Health and Family Center-Harambee are among the agencies that will be analyzed, said Jeanan Yasiri, executive director of the UW Center for Nonprofits.
Noted: An Illinois man accused of helping gang-rape a college coed more than a decade ago doesn?t deserve a new trial, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The 4-3 decision clarifies that criminal defendants can?t use civil statutes to request new trials. It also means Dimitri Henley must return to prison to finish the last half of a 20-year sentence, said his attorney, Wisconsin Innocence Project co-director Keith Findley.
University of Wisconsin coaches received nearly $400,000 in exceptional achievement award bonuses in 2009-10, a development that seemingly runs counter to a series of major cost-cutting initiatives that took place during the school year. UW Athletic Department officials directed coaches in 23 sports and supervisors in 22 support units to cut their operating budgets by 5 percent. It was the second consecutive year that services such as sports medicine, academic services, communications and marketing were directed to make such reductions. In addition, the state directed its employees to take 2-percent pay reductions and take eight unpaid furlough days. But 51 Badgers coaches ? including assistants and strength and conditioning staffers ? received bonuses totaling $391,573 for various achievements, including bowl berths, NCAA tournament participation, Big Ten Conference titles and individual awards.
The 76 kids Devin Harris met inside steamy Camp Randall Stadium Wednesday afternoon were on a field trip to learn what it?s like to be a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin. Harris sponsored the field trip that emphasized the student much more than the athlete. It was part of a successful camp, which goes beyond basketball, the star guard for the New Jersey Nets runs in Madison and Milwaukee. The former standout with the UW men?s basketball team is one of the lucky few who realized his dream. He is playing pro basketball and has financial security. But he?ll tell anyone who wants to listen that he still needs more than his point guard skills to survive and thrive.
With the 40th anniversary of the Sterling Hall bombing approaching, the news from the Federal Bureau of Investigation is really no news at all ? Leo Burt is still on the lam. The FBI held a press conference Wednesday in Madison to issue an update on its 40-year investigation into the whereabouts of Burt, the last remaining fugitive from the bombing and one of the longest-listed individuals on the agency?s list of domestic terrorism suspects.
Nine elite Chinese athletes and coaches will be greeted at the Dane County Regional airport Friday night in true UW-Madison fashion – by Bucky Badger and the UW Marching Band. UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, other university administrators and Chinese students will be there as well. The athletes will spend the fall semester here as part of the UW-Madison Chinese Champions Program, a formal exchange with Beijing Sports University.
A fatal crash following police pursuit in Madison early Wednesday morning was the second such incident in less than five months for UW-Madison Police. In Wednesday?s incident, Michael J. Benkert, 24, of Waunakee, was killed and his passenger was injured after he tried to elude police. The agency is still reviewing the incident and has asked the Madison Police Department to conduct an independent review.
Also quoted is UW-Madison law professor Michael Scott. “The general trend across the country has been pretty consistently toward more restrictive policies on pursuits,” Scott said.
Quoted: “Wolf recovery has seen a gradual expansion of what we?ve defined as wolf habitat,” says Adrian Treves, an environmental studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They?re starting to form breeding packs in areas where we didn?t think, 20 or 30 years ago, that they could.”
Noted: By comparing consumption data from the national Health and Retirement Study, Thomas DeLeire of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ariel Kalil of the University of Chicago found that spending money on leisure activities, which include vacations, movie theater tickets, and hobbies, improve happiness levels. (Happiness was measured by asking respondents to describe how they felt about their lives.)
Quoted: Both campaigns say they don?t want the contest to revert to mud-slinging, but it could be a nasty few months until November, said Dennis Dresang, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Earwigs have been in Wisconsin only a couple dozen years, and they?ve only worked their way to the northern parts of the state in the last decade, according to Phil Pellitterri of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Quoted: While both campaigns say they don?t want the contest to revert to mud-slinging, it could be a nasty few months until November, said Dennis Dresang, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The difficulty with reproductive control [is] that such a high percentage of the population has to be treated in order to see any affect on the population,” said Scott Craven, a wildlife ecology professor at UW-Madison and an expert on urban geese control. “And it?s fabulously expensive.”
It?s been a manhunt 40 years in the making, and the FBI says they refuse to up in their search for Leo Burt.
A former official who helped UW-Madison become one of the nation?s top agricultural universities has died.
Green Bay and former UW-Madison student Steve Olsen is shooting for his dream job. He?s in the middle of a 50-day journey where he?s playing 20 rounds of golf in nine countries.
Special Agent Kevin Cassidy sat down to answer questions this morning about the FBI?s search for Leo Frederick Burt, as we approach the upcoming anniversary of the Sterling Hall bombing. Authorities have been looking for Burt since shortly after a truck, rigged with explosives, exploded near Sterling Hall on the UW campus August 24, 1970.
The Dane County coroner has identified the person who died in a traffic crash at the intersection of S. Ingersoll Street and Williamson Street in the City of Madison.
A month away from the 40th anniversary of the Sterling Hall bombing, the FBI is still actively searching for Leo Burt, the only one of the four bombers who has not been caught.
Wisconsin goaltender Scott Gudmandson is letting fans help design a goalie mask he?ll use in his upcoming senior season.
As the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus nears, one suspected bomber remains at large.
Quoted: Because cities are different, that potential benefit will vary from city to city, said Dr. Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A professor in the university?s Nelson Institute and Department of Population sciences, Patz is leading a team doing the same sort of bicycle risk-benefit analysis for 11 major cities in the Midwest.
It?s been nearly 40 years since a deadly bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but authorities said the search for one of the men responsible for the bombing continues.The FBI will speak to the media Wednesday about the manhunt for Leo Burt.
Noted: The mythology grew and persists, however, in large part because ?in certain aspects, the shoes do work,? says Michael Ryan, Ph.D., the lead author of the study of female half-marathoners and currently a postdoctoral fellow in the department of orthopedics and rehabilitation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Motion-control shoes, for instance, do control motion, he says. Biomechanical studies of runners on treadmills repeatedly have proved that pronation is significantly reduced in runners who wear motion-control shoes.
Frowning affects one?s ability to understand written language related to emotions, a U.S. researcher found. David Havas, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, questioned whether a person whose “frowning” forehead muscles had been deactivated via Botox injections had changed facial expression, thoughts and emotions.
Several campus labor-advocacy groups have published an open letter to President Mark Emmert, asking him to pledge not to renew the UW?s licensing contract with Nike.
The driver of a car being followed by a police car after a failed traffic stop was killed this morning when the car crashed at Williamson and Ingersoll Streets, according to UW-Madison police Sgt. Aaron Chapin. A UW-Madison police officer tried to stop a car that was swerving across lanes West Johnson Street shortly before 1 a.m., but the car didn?t stop.
China has sent a group of Olympic champions and coaches to the United States for further education, a first-of-its-kind program jointly launched by the Beijing Sports University (BSU) and the China Scholarship Council (CSC), Xinhua reported Wednesday.
A third former professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has died during the month of July. The school announced that former CALS Dean Glenn Pound passed away earlier this month at the age of 96. He had been living at his retirement home in La Jolla, California.
Tuesday?s Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling means the state will have to pay back millions of dollars taken from a medical malpractice fund, but there?s plenty of partisan finger pointing going on already
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a $200 million transfer out of a medical malpractice fund to help balance the budget in 2007-08 was illegal.
A special program for young and old turns 10 this year at the UW- Madison. The annual “Grandparents University” has grown beyond organizers? expectations, both on campus and nationally.
One person has died in a crash on Madison?s near east side. UW Police first attempted to stop a swerving car on West Johnson Street around 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday. The car?s driver sped away and police lost contact with it at the intersection of East Johnson and East Mifflin Streets, according to police.
When a record-breaking flood in June 2008 damaged 2.5 million square feet of the University of Iowa, the campus and the community worked hard to recover as much as possible in time for that fall?s semester. The university opened as scheduled that fall, but the flood left an estimated $743-million impact that completely transformed the face of its campus.
With unemployment rates still stubbornly high and likely to stay that way for awhile, the federal government is offering a new program to help those who aren?t working save their homes. And it bears a striking resemblance in concept to a plan advanced months ago by UW-Madison real estate experts. The program is similar to an idea developed by UW-Madison professor Stephen Malpezzi and some others in the university?s real estate department.
Veterinarians are practicing ever more advanced medicine on the nation?s 77 million dogs, 90 million cats and a myriad of other animals — treatments that vie with the best of human medicine. The driving force is “the changing role of the pet in our society,” said Dr. Patty Khuly, a veterinarian at Miami?s Sunset Animal Clinic. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, a new surgical technique to repair torn knee ligaments in dogs was so successful that it?s now being used on NFL players, said Dr. William Gengler, director of Wisconsin?s Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.
Despite the city of Madison?s promises to toughen enforcement of construction site erosion laws, few non-compliance notices or fines have been issued this year or last, and residents report numerous sites where brown plumes of silt have sluiced into the city?s lakes during rainfalls. While the city has stepped up inspections, those reports show few problems or violations. Erosion problems exist on the UW-Madison campus where, in several locations, streets often are stained with dirt from construction jobs and where the state Department of Natural Resources, responsible for inspection and enforcement of erosion rules for campus building projects, is struggling with oversight responsibilities because of its thin inspection staff.
While the UW-Madison campus seems to be one big construction site this summer, officials with the state Department of Natural Resources say that a stretched inspection staff allows them to visit projects and inspect erosion controls only when they get complaints from the public. “It?s just a matter of staffing,” said Tim Ryan, a water resources engineer who helps oversee the program.
It was surprising to hear the negative reaction of some University of Wisconsin-Madison doctors to an ethics policy that makes sense to nearly everyone else.
Quoted: Exhibit one, said James Kitchell, a professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison?s Center for Limnology, is the blood-sucking sea lamprey.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the larger percentage of money from political committees Lassa received isn?t unusual for U.S. House members or candidates.
Quoted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, a new surgical technique to repair torn knee ligaments in dogs was so successful that it?s now being used on NFL players, said Dr. William Gengler, director of Wisconsin?s Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.
For the longest time, the Earth and the sun lived in harmony. Then, in 1611, Galileo discovered sunspots. “For that period, that was really a big discovery, changing our understanding of celestial bodies,” said Alexandre Lazarian, a professor in the astronomy department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
