Diogenes can put down his lantern. A recent deposition secures former UW Chancellor John Wileyâ??s reputation as an honest man.The deposition was taken Feb. 16 as part of a lawsuit filed by the owners of Brothers Bar & Grill against the UW Board of Regents. The owners, Marc and Eric Fortney, are trying to block the regentsâ?? attempt to seize their property through condemnation; the UW wants to use the property for a future School of Music.
A year after kicking the habit, smokersâ?? arteries showed signs of reversing a problem that can set the stage for heart disease, according to the first big study to test this. “A lot of people are afraid to quit smoking because theyâ??re afraid to gain weight,” said the studyâ??s leader, Dr. James Stein, a University of Wisconsin-Madison cardiologist.
UW-Madison played host to a major debate over an ethical dilemma in primate research and testing Monday night.The school had to defend its stance on testing for different human ailments and illnesses.One particular UW researcher participating focuses his research on developing therapies for eye diseases like glaucoma.
Quoted: Labor economist Laura Dresser of the Center of Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), is eager to study that data to better understand exactly whatâ??s going on with the stateâ??s job market.
James Gerard Brunker, age 57, of Greenfield, died on March 9, 2010. Jerry worked as a custodian for the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1996-2001.
Written by Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
The 10-question census forms are to arrive in the mail at every residential address in the nation starting Monday. The census bureau has enlisted local governments and community groups to push for as complete a count as possible, pointing out that the census guides the distribution of many types of federal aid, including money for health care, highways, anti-poverty programs and education. Local government officials are working with community organizations to spread the word about the importance of participating, especially in UW-Madison student neighborhoods and low-income areas, where response rates are lowest, said Brian Grady, a city planner who is heading up the effort for the city of Madison.
Quoted: Bob Cramer, a co-founder of several local banks and a lecturer at the UW-Madison School of Business Puelicher Center for Banking Education.
Madison native Kaleem Caire has been appointed the new president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Madison and will start the job March 29, the League announced Friday. After service in the U.S. Navy and earning an education degree from UW-Madison, Caire co-founded the Next Generation Education Foundation in 2006.
For the first time in 100 years, no coal is being burned at Downtown Madisonâ??s Capitol Heat and Power Plant, said David Helbach, Wisconsinâ??s director of state facilities. The state will spend about $25 million this fall to install gas boilers that will allow the plant to cool and heat Downtown office buildings using only natural gas. The switchover is part of a court agreement between the state and the Sierra Club calling for the elimination of coal at two state-owned plants: UW-Madisonâ??s Charter Street Heating Plant and the Capitol plant. Converting the Charter Street plant from coal to biomass is expected to cost $251 million.
Each year, universities must fend off attacks from poachers â?? outside institutions looking to pick off underpaid or underappreciated faculty members. There were 148 such offers made at UW-Madison in the last academic year, and the university kept about 80 percent of them by making counteroffers. The university also took a more offensive posture than in past years, making 54 â??preemptive moves,â? increasing the pay or benefits for faculty who are perceived at risk of leaving.
Q With the census coming up, what criteria are used to determine whether UW-Madison students are counted as city residents rather than residents of their hometowns? A Each person can be counted only once and at one location, said Lydia Ortiz, a U.S. Census Bureau spokeswoman in Chicago.
Mentioned: Robert Cropp of UW-Madison, who says that in 2009 Wisconsin had record high milk production and Wisconsinâ??s cow numbers are increasing.
Danielle Trussoni, a Wisconsin-born author and 1996 graduate of UW-Madison, has crafted an engrossing fiction debut in “Angelology,” a novel where the battle between good and evil has been waged for millennia.
If the University of Wisconsin System were graded on its faculty salaries, it would fall behind the class curve. At UW-Madison, full professors are paid about $10,000 below the median at comparable universities. UW-Milwaukee professors earn about $22,000 less than those at peer institutions, and professors at the UW Systemâ??s other institutions make about $14,600 less. â??We found weâ??ve got significant gaps between our salaries and our peer institutions at virtually every level and every type of job,â? said David Giroux, UW System spokesman.
The average welder makes about the same amount of money as the average professor. It pays more to be a faculty member at UW-La Crosse than it does at UW-Stevens Point. Nine of the top 10 highest-paid employees in the University of Wisconsin System are men. These are some of the Wisconsin State Journalâ??s findings from the UW System Redbook, the universityâ??s budget document.
University of Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan knows a group of versatile, veteran guards aren’t all a team needs to make a long tournament run, but it sure is a good starting point.
Wofford menâ??s basketball coach Mike Young was feeling pretty good about his teamâ??s first trip to the NCAA tournament until he watched the selection show Sunday and saw his first-round opponent. After seeing the 13th-seeded Terriers 26-8 matched up against No. 4 University of Wisconsin on Friday in Jacksonville, Fla., Youngâ??s heart sank.
The distance between the Rosedale neighborhood in Queens and the town of Delafield, Wisc., is approximately 925 miles. To a kid from the streets of New York, it can feel a whole lot farther than that.
Sitting in his hostâ??s living room under a colorful piece of artwork depicting a man and a woman comfortably sharing space, Jordan Rosenblum explained to interviewer Nancy Brown and an audience of 35 how Judaism was like tofu.
Rosenblum was speaking Sunday morning in Brownâ??s Palm Beach home ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday.His talk was an opportunity to introduce Palm Beach residents to the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rosenblum is the Belzer Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the university.
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Marching Band teamed up with Independent Living, Inc., once again to jazz up the organizationâ??s Thursday evening Meals on Wheels delivery.
Noted: Democrats claim the poll has no credibility after the University of Wisconsin distanced itself recently from a polling partnership with WPRI because of a liberal backlash, bureaucratic errors, and questions about WPRIâ??s bias toward conservative causes, according to published reports.
Quoted: Bob Drechsel, professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said searchers can find quite a bit of information on public businesses and organizations.
Noted: A new survey shows 40% of likely voters in Wisconsin think the stateâ??s economy will get better in the next year. Fourteen percent think it will get worse. The survey was directed by a UW-Madison professor. It was commissioned by the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.
The Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team has earned a #4 seed in the East region of the NCAA menâ??s basketball tournament.
The push for student-loan legislation, carrying the potential of billions of additional dollars for higher education, enters its showdown week with the expected release Monday of a new official cost estimate that may help determine its fate.
Some surprising â?? and, perhaps, more sober â?? destinations are cropping up on studentsâ?? radars. Two youth-oriented travel agencies report European locales are besting Caribbean counterparts. A survey by STA Travel shows 34% of its spring break customers are bound for Europe. Only 10% are going to Mexico, a reversal from last year. Europe may be an easier sell to parents who are paying the bill, STAâ??s Patrick Evans says.
What was a year ago an emerging idea about how to reduce college costs and better serve students has begun to take hold at colleges across the United States, as more institutions introduce three-year bachelors degrees. On Wednesday, Stanley Ikenberry, interim president of the University of Illinois, said that the university had begun studying whether it would make sense to offer three-year bachelors degrees and would release a report in six months.
Itâ??s only fitting for Americaâ??s Dairyland: Madison is hoping to create an ice cream flavor to woo Google Fiber. Not to be outdone by Topeka, Kan., which changed its name to Google for the month of March, Madison wants to tempt the sweet tooth of the Internet giant. UW-Madisonâ??s Babcock Dairy created a test batch of a Google Fiber ice cream that has a vanilla base, M&M candies and granola, said manager Sara Brummel. The M&Ms mimic the multi-colored Google logo and the granola provides the fiber.
Itâ??s hard for me to believe it has been 12 years since a UW-Madison student from Minnesota named Katie Oâ??Phelan called me at the newspaper and demanded to know why there wasnâ??t a St. Patrickâ??s Day parade in Madison. She organized one, and though the weather didnâ??t cooperate that first year — it was cold and rainy — the parade up State Street started a tradition that continues today.
The Bay Creek Neighborhood Association passed a resolution asking the Madison City Council and Dane County Board to create a task force of experts to determine if the continued use of non-human primates in bio-medical research is ethically justified. This is big news â?? more citizens are expressing concern over this issue at a grassroots level and asking their representatives to take it seriously. Rick Bogle, a prominent and knowledgeable opponent of experiments on monkeys, will debate Paul Kaufman, an ophthalmologist at UW-Madison who experiments on monkeys, on Monday at 6 p.m. at the Memorial Union.
A civil trial attorney from Eau Claire will be the newest member of the UW Board of Regents. Gov. Jim Doyle announced the appointment of Edmund Manydeeds today and reappointed current Regent Mark Bradley. Both appointments will expire May 1, 2017.
Barry Alvarez of the University of Wisconsin is one of seven coaching candidates on this yearâ??s College Football Hall of Fame ballot, which was released Thursday.
A federal grand jury has indicted a University of Wisconsin Hospital pharmacist with falsifying prescriptions so he could obtain thousands of methadone tables.
Gov. Jim Doyle has appointed an Eau Claire lawyer to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. Doyleâ??s appointment of Edmund Manydeeds is being praised by lawmakers from northwestern Wisconsin, who have complained their area lacks adequate representation on the board that governs state universities. Lawmakers passed a bill last year that would have required at least one regent to come from seven geographic districts of the state.
Quoted: Not only is it very unusual to pay family members like that, said Brian Mayhew, accounting professor with a background in business ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but itâ??s unethical to help someone else cheat the system.
Elizabeth Menzel isnâ??t one for following crowds.”I love what I do,” said Menzel, who is studying family medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a first-year resident at the UW-Fox Valley Family Medicine Residency Program in Appleton.
The Bay Creek Neighborhood Association passed a resolution asking the Madison City Council and Dane County Board to create a task force of experts to determine if the continued use of non-human primates in bio-medical research is ethically justified, and to postpone the proposed expansion of primate laboratories at UWâ??Madison until the task force issues its final report.
Quoted: Professor Clifford Thurber, a UW-Madison seismologist, says, “Thereâ??s no direct connection between the two, the one in Haiti didnâ??t cause the one in Chile, however the February one in Chile certainly is responsible for the one happening today.”
Noted: Babcock Hall Dairy Store is even getting involved. Theyâ??re testing a new flavor of Google ice cream with Google colored candy and granola to represent, of course, the fiber in fiber optics.Store Manager Sara Brummel says, “This is a way to really set us apart by having an ice cream just for them.”The ice cream certainly wonâ??t hurt but city officials hope Madisonâ??s tech savvy population wins out.
The program, evening Meals on Wheels is getting more musical starting Thursday. Independent Living, Inc. is again partnering up with the UW Marching Band to deliver meals and music throughout town called, “March for Meals.”
The city of Madison is looking for residentsâ?? help to attract Google Fiber, an experiment by the Google Company to bring ultra-high speed fiber networks to residential homes in trial locations around the country.
Madison is the among cities around the country hoping Google will chose it to test its new fiber-optic network, and the city hosted a public meeting Thursday night to garner support and ideas for the Google network in Madison.
“What Google is doing with this project is theyâ??re saying itâ??s not a zero sum game, itâ??s a win-win game. Once this fiber comes into a home, you can be a customer of Charter, AT&T, TDS or many other providers,” said David Devareaux-Weber, of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Department of Information Technology, at the meeting.
A new study by the UW will review whether giving poor, struggling families a leg-up can reduce cases of child abuse or neglect.
UW-Madison researchers are working with La Crosse child care advocates on the year-long study. Kristen Slack, an associate professor of Social Work at UW-Madison, says their findings may help design more effective strategies to prevent abuse and neglect. She says despite research showing that poverty is highly correlated with maltreatment, thereâ??s never been a study to try to test whether thereâ??s a causal role of poverty and maltreatment.
UW-Madison is partnering with some of the worldâ??s leading business schools to create a first-of-its-kind graduate degree in global real estate. The unique model for the new Global Real Estate Master will start American and foreign students at one of three international schools and then bring all the participants together for a final semester at the Wisconsin School of Business at UW-Madison.
So UW-Madison is having trouble finding top students who want to attend, according to a March 1 article titled â??With less scholarship cash, UW is losing high achievers.â? I wonder where theyâ??re looking. They might consider looking in their own backyard. Madison West High School boasts 30 National Merit Finalists, roughly 5.5 percent of the senior class this year. Yet it seems that sharing a ZIP code with the university is a marked disadvantage when it comes to admission. This was driven home for us when our daughter, a National Merit Finalist who named UW-Madison her first choice school, was neither congratulated, recruited nor admitted to the university.
A 26-year-old DeForest man drove into Wingra Creek on Wednesday after arguing with his passenger and then trying to run him over, Madison police said. Dawand L. Washington picked a the 21-year-old passenger from a UW-Madison residence hall and during the ride, the two began arguing over a cell phone.
Faculty at University of Wisconsin campuses in Eau Claire and Superior could be the first to form unions under a new law giving academic workers that right, organizers said Wednesday. Organizers on both campuses said they collected cards from 70 percent or more of faculty members saying they wanted to form unions affiliated with AFT-Wisconsin. They have asked the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission to verify that the response meets the 30 percent threshold required and to set a date for elections, which could occur as early as May
Former University of Wisconsin athlete Chris Chelios has played in the most games of any American-born NHL player, and he joins the Thrashers after getting five goals and 17 assists in 46 games with Chicago of the AHL. The team recalled Chelios on Wednesday.
A bill in the state Legislature would restore some college tuition benefits for Wisconsin veterans that were eliminated in the latest state budget. Under legislation sponsored by Rep. Steve Hilgenberg, D-Dodgeville, some state veterans who attend Wisconsin public colleges and universities would be eligible for roughly six years of college tuition-free, an increase from about four years under current state law.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver a commencement speech to University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates this spring. The university announced Wednesday that Duncan will speak at the morning commencement on May 15 at the Kohl Center.
Faculty at University of Wisconsin campuses in Eau Claire and Superior could be the first to form unions under a new law giving academic workers that right, organizers said Wednesday.
Miss Emily Mills, fearless sifter and winnower that she is, is aghast that a respected University of Wisconsin political scientist would oversee public opinion polling for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute — a “partisan” organization. Unclean! Unclean!
Quoted: John Webster, professor emeritus of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, said there is “no doubtâ??â?? that Tasers save lives by reducing the number of people shot. But at the same time, it would be “controversialâ??â?? to say they are not lethal, he said.
Quoted: “The portion of the price of soybeans that Monsanto is taking has gone up precipitously even as the amount of acres planted of those seeds has also increased,” said Peter Carstensen, a former Justice Department antitrust lawyer who teaches law at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Another witness, professor Richard Monette of the University of Wisconsin Law School, said he shares in the concern about the fees. Monette called the settlement a deal “struck behind closed doors.”
It was the video that stunned Milwaukee: 16 people detained and 15 arrested during an afternoon rally at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. But senior Rachel Mattesen says the video doesnâ??t tell the whole story. “I was arrested for being part of a peaceful and legal demonstration here at UWM. I was arrested for standing up for my rights as a student,” Mattesen said.
Although an Asian carp hasnâ??t been caught in Lake Michigan, new DNA evidence suggests the invasive species could be present, a fisheries and nonindigenous species specialist said during a lecture at University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc.
More than 40 people attended Phil Moyâ??s lecture, “Asian Carp on the Doorstep,” on Tuesday evening, which focused on the significance of the DNA found in Lake Michigan and the potential of the fish establishing themselves in the Great Lakes. Moy has been with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute since 1999, working with commercial, sport and charter anglers and inland lake groups to address concerns and provide research information.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Babcock Dairy is churning out a new ice cream flavor to help lure Google. The first samples of the new ice cream flavor will be handed out to those who attend Thursday nightâ??s public meeting.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver a commencement speech to University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates this spring. The university announced Wednesday that Duncan will speak at the morning commencement on May 15 at the Kohl Center.
