The University of Wisconsin at Madison last year suspended the right of a professor to work with animals after finding a “clear pattern” of problems with her treatment of animals, The Wisconsin State Journal reported.
An innovative UW-Oshkosh project will help students who dropped out of college — but had at least 45 credits — complete an associate of arts degree, according to a university news release. The program, called the Graduation Project, is designed to increase the number of degree-holders in the state. The idea is to reach students who were in good academic standing, but left college before getting a degree.
Cancun, Panama City and Miami are some of the traditional university break destination spots, but Costa Rica? This Latin American country, with its high level of biodiversity, has been a tourist destination for years. Now, with ticket prices cheaper than some domestic flights, its popularity among university students is growing. For $280 and a passport stamp, the door to a tropical paradise opened for me and my roommates during our UW-Madison winter break.
It turns out that only four times in the last 60 years has the tournament been free of snow – that is, only 6.7 percent of the time does no snow fall during the duration of the tournament, say Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin.
The Badgers menâ??s basketball teamâ??s victory Friday in the NCAA tournament sets up a second-round game against Cornell on Sunday that has UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin seeing red.
Feature about Suzanne Dove, outreach director for the UW-Madison Center for International Business Education and Research, or CIBER, a job she has held since 2007. CIBER works with other organizations to help Wisconsin businesses sell their products in other countries.
Jeff Kirsch, who teaches Spanish and Portuguese at the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies, is a spelling bee coach.
Noted: Research from the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Richard Weindruch, a professor of medicine in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and an expert on aging.
The University of Wisconsin System has named the six finalists vying to become the next the chancellor at UW-Stevens Point.
Applications for admission to the UW Colleges – the 13 freshman and sophomore campuses of the University of Wisconsin System – are up 10 percent over the same time last year. As of March 17, UW Colleges had received 5,040 applications, up from 4,576 one year ago.
By any measure, the bill would make huge investments in higher education and college students, pouring upwards of $42 billion into Pell Grants, historically black and other minority-serving institutions, community colleges, repayment options for student loan borrowers, and college access grants.
Quoted: Marsha Seltzer, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Waisman Center, which focuses on developmental disabilities.
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee is investigating an incident Thursday in which a studentâ??s disagreement with a faculty member led authorities to be called and to the studentâ??s arrest. Details about the situation are limited, but WISN 12, a local news station, broadcast a video of the arrest (with profanities edited out) filmed by a student who is a WISN employee.
Animal rights activists have protested on this issue in front of UW employeesâ?? houses, harassing neighbors and children alike. I should know â?? my family was one of the targets.
Walter Pridham didnâ??t so much sweep his future wife off her feet as bowl her over.It was 1952, and they were both singing in the choir at Pres House, the Presbyterian student chapel on the UW-Madison campus. He was 21 and in the Air Force, stationed at Truax Field in Madison. She was an 18-year-old nursing student. After practice one night, he came around a blind corner from the coat room and crashed into her. As he picked her up, he invited her to coffee, thus beginning their courtship. Pres House has rarely been far from their thoughts ever since. Now, 58 years later, the Pridhams have donated $72,000 to replace the pipe organ in the chapel. Of the total, $22,000 is an outright gift, and $50,000 is a matching grant, part of an effort to raise $125,000 for the Pres House music program.
Quoted: “The recognition you get from winning in a contest like this is invaluable for your business,” said Gary Grossen, a cheesemaker at UW-Madisonâ??s Babcock Hall.
UW-Madison suspended a professor who studies Parkinsonâ??s and other brain diseases from working with animals last year, a rare move prompted by what officials called a “clear pattern” of problems with animal welfare, according to university records released this week. University administrators say researcher Michele Basso has had a bumpy history, citing a lack of respect for veterinarians, incomplete record-keeping and instances where monkeys developed brain injuries. But Basso said she hasnâ??t violated any rules.
Quoted: “Looking back over time, it is clear that women have lived longer than men in nearly all countries,â? says Richard Weindruch, a professor of medicine in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and an expert on aging.
A University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student from Minnesota is dead after accidentally falling from an elevated walkway at an apartment complex. Police say 22-year-old Kyle Joswiak of Inver Grove Heights, Minn., either climbed onto a safety rail and fell or tried to jump over the safety rail to the parking lot below.
Until he took a statistics class on it this spring, Christian Reyes barely knew what the U.S. Census was, much less that he has a legal obligation to return a completed form in Pittsburgh, where he is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University. Now that he has become a bit of an expert on the topic, he suspects most students are similarly unaware. “Even the people who are supposed to know donâ??t know,” says Reyes, 18, who is helping encourage participation in the 2010 count as a class project. He was surprised to find that some student leaders and resident advisers had facts wrong.
It sounds like an impossible mission: find 2,400 people who will take an hour-and-a-half out of their day to help prepare 500,000 meals to send to Haiti, over a three-day period in April. Whatâ??s more, each volunteer is being asked to donate $25 to help pay for the food for survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake that hit the poverty-stricken nation. In the past six weeks, a committee of nine has been created to steer the event, and more than half a dozen businesses already have committed to make contributions.ATo get the volunteers, committee members are contacting friends, posting information on Facebook and spreading the word on the UW-Madison campus.
On Friday night some UW-Madison students will gather in a classroom, choosing to attend a war policy debate instead of â?? or at least before â?? a keg party. It may sound more befitting the UW campus of the 1960s, but thatâ??s kind of the point.UW-Madison is hosting a “teach-in” on the war in Afghanistan this weekend, reviving a practice common during the campusâ?? turbulent Vietnam War years.Some of the faculty members giving lectures at the event say there are many parallels between that war and the nine-year conflict in Afghanistan.
The state Medical Examining Board improperly sanctioned a Madison physician last October after he was accused of fondling female patients, a Dane County judge ruled Tuesday. The board suspended Frank Salvi for 90 days and required him to undergo a mental evaluation and five years of supervision. Four female patients accused Salvi of fondling them, charges Salvi vigorously denied and successfully defended against in a peer review at his then job at UW Hospital. Salvi resigned his post as assistant professor at UW-Madison on June 30, 2007, but his attorney said Salvi is preparing to take a new position in Madison.
An administrator at a New York City college will likely be the next chancellor of UW-Platteville. Dennis Shields, acting vice president for student affairs at the City College of New York-City University of New York, was recommended by University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly and a special committee of the UW Board of Regents.
Quoted: Shawn Francis Peters, a University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor and author of “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law,” and Barbara Knox, a University of Wisconsin Childrenâ??s Hospital doctor who reviews child abuse cases.
A video posted online of a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee student being arrested during class is going viral. It happened on Monday during an anthropology class.
Some textbook authors expressed discomfort with the state boardâ??s changes, and it is unclear how readily historians will go along with some of the proposals.
“Iâ??m made uncomfortable by mandates of this kind for sure,” said Paul S. Boyer, emeritus professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of several of the most popular U.S. history textbooks, including some that are on the approved list in Texas.
Quoted: States across the country exempt members of religious groups from prosecution if they choose prayer over doctors. Many of the laws were enacted in the 1970s, pushed by the Christian Science church, a religious group that embraces faith-healing, said Shawn Francis Peters, a UW-Madison instructor and author of “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law.”
The U.S. Census Bureau is looking to count everyone in the city, and that includes college students who might be a little confused about where they get recorded.The agency has answers about what students and their parents should do.
On Saturday, March 13, 2010, with his beloved family and friends present, Anthony Lamar Brown quietly entered into the presence of his Lord. He earned his Ph.D. in educational administration, higher education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
From a long list of submissions, a UW-Madison student committee this week narrowed down the list of possible names for the new south campus union to four: Discovery Union, Randall Union, Union South, and Varsity Union.
Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said he wouldnâ??t prosecute UW-Madison for violating state law in sheep experiments, so two animal rights groups are attempting to file the criminal charges themselves. The groups – Madison-based Alliance for Animals and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – are allowed to do so under a little-used state statute. They filed a petition Tuesday asking a judge to allow them to prosecute five UW-Madison officials and several researchers.
Mark Johnson returned to his old job Tuesday, feeling a little bit awkward.The University of Wisconsin womenâ??s hockey coach was back at work for the first time since last summer when he took temporary leave to guide Team USA in the Winter Olympics.
Ohio State center Jantel Lavender may be a three-time Big Ten Player of the Year, but sheâ??s got nothing on Dan Vechart. Michigan Stateâ??s 6-foot-9 Allyssa DeHaan may be one of the greatest shot blockers in NCAA history, but sheâ??s no Tom Novak. Just ask Lin Zastrow or Tara Steinbauer or Anya Covington, whoâ??ve had the opportunity to mix it up with all of them. Vechart and Novak are two of the male practice players who challenge the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball players in practice to better prepare them for battles with the Lavenders and DeHaans of the Big Ten, and have helped them secure the programâ??s first NCAA tournament berth since 2002.
Lake lovers will hear how they can preserve Wisconsinâ??s waters at the annual Wisconsin Lakes Convention later this month in Green Bay. The Wisconsin Lakes Partnership, a collaboration between the Wisconsin Lakes Association, the state Department of Natural Resources and the University of Wisconsin-Extension, is sponsoring the gathering.
The man appointed to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents says he hopes to be a role model for Native American students. Eau Claire attorney Edmund Manydeeds is an enrolled member of South Dakotaâ??s Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Heâ??s also a 1973 graduate of UW-Superior and the UW-Madison law school. Wisconsin Public Radio reports that one of Manydeedâ??s top priorities is accessibility to higher education.
Noted: Kate Reilly, wife of University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly, has a paid staff appointment on the UW Madison campus and an unpaid appointment as “associate to the president” – an “honorary title” that does not include pay or benefits but allows her to have access to UW facilities, as well as fleet vehicles for official functions, according to UW spokesman David Giroux.
Quoted: The whole idea of preventing diabetes is â??a sleight of hand by pharmaceutical sponsors,â? argues James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thereâ??s no difference between a diabetic on a diabetes drug and a pre-diabetic on a diabetes drug, he argues, unless you can show long-term benefits that outweigh the very serious short-term side effects that all of these medicines have.
Two animal rights groups, one national and one local, jointly petitioned a state circuit court on Tuesday to bring criminal animal cruelty charges against the UW-Madison for what the district attorney of Dane County determined were violations of state law involving decompression experiments on sheep.
Children raised in poverty face daunting challenges in their development, just by virtue of their parentsâ?? lack of income to provide opportunities and resources. But research shows a communityâ??s investment in young children and their families, including support for parents and an enriched early childhood learning environment, can help them succeed alongside their more privileged peers, an expert says.
The man appointed to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents says he hopes to be a role model for Native American students. Eau Claire attorney Edmund Manydeeds is an enrolled member of South Dakotaâ??s Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Heâ??s also a 1973 graduate of UW-Superior and the UW-Madison law school.
A growing trend of more sports-related injuries among young athletes is prompting UW Health researchers to get in the game. Over the past two years, sports medicine experts say youth baseball injuries have increased three-fold — specifically among pitchers — who are either overdoing it or not doing it the right way.
Quoted: However, not everyone agrees that a parentâ??s bed is the safest place for an infant. Jim Savage, a safety advocate and spokesperson for the Kohlâ??s Kids Safety Center at the American Family Childrenâ??s Hospital, said the potential risks of co-sleeping outweigh the benefits.
College applications for the fall are up dramatically nationwide, especially at public universities. But a drop in applications at the University of Wisconsin system has some admissions staff scratching their heads.
Cookie Weitenâ??s long journey and battle with Pickâ??s Disease finally came to an end on March 13, 2010. She worked as a nurse consultant for Wisconsin Physicians Services, the University of Wisconsin and, finally, the State of Wisconsin.
Eunice M. Hoffman, age 89, moved on to her next great adventure on Friday, March 12, 2010, after a wonderful life. She worked in the College of Engineering Administration Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Debbie Crave once assumed that all of her children would go to college. Then she had kids. Son Patrick is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Debbieâ??s alma mater, and plans to one day help manage the familyâ??s 1,700-acre, 1,000-cow dairy farm here. Brian, 17, would rather sit atop a tractor than behind a desk. “Heâ??s been afraid we might push him” to go to college, his mother says. But her eyes have been opened: “Kids learn differently, and some just arenâ??t college material.”
Primate research is not new — the first primate dissection dates back to 1699.And yet, its the modern medical research using monkeys at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that routinely makes headlines. That research and the question of whether animals should be used was the focus of a debate on campus on Monday night.
Online voting starts today to win orchards for Madison. A grass roots group, Madison Fruit and Nuts, worked with city officials to get the okay to plant fruit trees in Madison parks and other local supporters of edible landscapes have mobilized to enter five local sites in the running. One is the Eagle Heights Garden on UW Campus.
This eight-part series concludes appropriately with the biggest idea of all eight opportunities: to advance the region as a knowledge and convening center connecting, translating and integrating ideas to help regional and state businesses advance and compete globally. If you are thinking that this is already happening, you are right. The big idea here is to recognize this knowledge and convening role as an export product in itself and to take it to the next level. We are recognized around the world as an R&D center led not only by UW-Madison and WARF, but also by the expanded UW System that includes the two-year campuses and the county-based UW Extension, our outstanding technical colleges and private colleges, and many leading private sector technology businesses.
A new study shows that smokers who quit have healthier arteries a year later and probably will have less risk of heart disease as a result. Doctors say the improvement came even though people who kicked the habit gained an average of 9 pounds. The study at the University of Wisconsin in Madison involved 1,500 smokers who were given one of five methods, such as nicotine patches or lozenges, to help them quit.
A state lawmaker wants to require public buildings be constructed to green standards despite fears by project owners that the law would bust their project budgets.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is on the cusp of having its first American Indian board member. Gov. Jim Doyle has appointed Eau Claire attorney Ed Manydeeds as its newest regent, pending confirmation by the state Senate.
The Racine Unified School Board on Monday approved a new partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison that will allow the district to identify which specific schools and teachers advance student achievement.
Quoted: Nasal rinses can be especially helpful for people who suffer from seasonal allergies or lingering sinus infections, says Dr. David Rabago, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. “People say they feel better right away,” he says.
The University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball team earned an NCAA tournament bid last night. The Badgers are a seven seed and will face 10th seeded Vermont Sunday morning in South Bend, Indiana. Itâ??s the first trip to the tournament for Wisconsin since 2002.
Debbie Crave once assumed that all of her children would go to college. Then she had kids.Son Patrick is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Debbieâ??s alma mater, and plans to one day help manage the familyâ??s 1,700-acre, 1,000-cow dairy farm here.
Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.
President Obamaâ??s stem cell policy, announced a year ago this month, opened up federal funding for more stem cell lines created from human embryos. But now, scientists are facing a bitter irony – a few popular stem cell lines that could be studied with federal money under President Bush are suddenly off-limits.
Noted: WiCell Research Institute is a private nonprofit group linked to stem cell science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its executive director, Erik Forsberg, says the only Bush-era line on the new registry, H1, is one of their lines. This popular cell line was made with an embryo from the University of Wisconsin, making it relatively easy to get documents for a new NIH application.
