It was six months ago that the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison notified some surgery patients they might have been exposed to contaminated instruments.
UW Hospital: No New Reports Of Brain Disease
WISC-TV 3
Author: jplucas
UW-Madison students headed home from Haiti
WKOW-TV 27
Five University of Wisconsin engineering students are back in the United States and on their way home. The UW students were about 70 miles from Port Au Prince when the earthquake happened.
A razor thin recovery
Wisconsin Radio Network
A Wisconsin economist says the stateâ??s economic recovery will closely mirror what happens at the national level. A great deal of uncertainty remains, according to University of Wisconsin School of Business Dean Michael Knetter. â??Certainly a bottomâ??s been reached, but I would say that this is one of those periods in our economic history where thereâ??s probably more uncertainty about the nature about the nature of this recovery than Iâ??ve seen since Iâ??ve been a practicing economist watching the economy,â? Knetter told WisconsinEye.
School pitch looks promising
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The UW-Madison faculty who are helping citizen organizers launch Badger Rock Middle School on Madison’s south side.
UW-Madison student from Haiti faces dilemma
Wisconsin State Journal
Gergens Polynice has a decision to make: Stay at UW-Madison and finish graduate school, or return to Haiti immediately and put his skills to use? Polynice, a 41-year-old masterâ??s student in Caribbean and African studies with an interest in sustainable development, is the only student from Haiti at the UW-Madison, according to the Office of International Students. He had been back in Haiti since Dec. 23, visiting family and supervising a family-owned water purification plant managed by his brother. He left Port-au-Prince hours before the earthquake.
Madison-area show choirs enjoy â??Gleeâ??-fueled moment in spotlight
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Robin Whitty-Novotny, director of Wisconsin Singers, a song-and-dance troupe at UW-Madison.
Economic luncheon includes hope and uncertainty
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW-Madison School of Business Dean Mike Knetter.
Bed bug problem? Call a dog named Max
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist at UW-Madison.
Fed economist ‘mildly’ optimistic on recovery
Milwaukee Business Journal
University of Wisconsin Business School Dean Michael Knetter also spoke and agreed the economy is set for a “muted early recovery” that could be derailed by any unexpected surprise developments politically, economically or otherwise.
Taiwan, Tibet, and trade loom over U.S.-China ties (AP)
Quoted: Chinaâ??s economic success and rising global clout have convinced its leaders that they can continue defying Washington, but that could prompt a backlash, said Edward Friedman, a China specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison named one of the most gay-friendly cities in America
WKOW-TV 27
Advocate Magazine and Advocate.com ranked Madison the #5 gayest city in America in its February 2010 issue.
Amid Haiti’s Devastation, More Missing Students Turn Up, and Some Are Evacuated
Chronicle of Higher Education
American colleges are slowly beginning to account for their students and faculty members caught up in Tuesdayâ??s devastating earthquake in Haiti, and a handful, including an Arizona State University graduate student whose foot had to be amputated, have made it back to the United States on relief flights.
Prayer death appeal moving ahead
Wisconsin Public Radio
The appeals process is going forward for the central Wisconsin couple convicted in last summerâ??s so-called â??prayer deathâ? trials. The UW Law School will be providing legal representation.
Blum: Civilization on a Fault Line
New York Times
I used to be a science writer for a California newspaper, where I learned to think of the ground beneath my feet as something alive. It crawled and shivered, stretched and quaked. It was the thin, wrinkled skin of an A.D.D. planet, whose muscles and bones constantly twitched beneath it.
Report: Public universities becoming ‘far richer, far whiter’
USA Today
The entering and graduating classes at many of the nationâ??s leading public universities are looking less and less like the state populations they were founded to serve, a report said Wednesday. The follow-up to a 2006 analysis of federal data concludes that 50 public flagships, one in each state, “continue to enroll students who are far richer and far whiter” than most in their states, says Kati Haycock, director of the non-profit Education Trust, which released both reports.
Big-time college athletics: Are they worth the big-time costs?
USA Today
Being in a power conference has its privileges. At Cincinnati, competing in the Big East means going to the Sugar Bowl to play Florida. It means a good shot at a place in the NCAA menâ??s basketball tournament. And thereâ??s having your name known nationally. But membership has a price. Cincinnati now depends on university subsidies for one-third of its athletic revenue â?? nearly double the amount it received in 2004-05. And it has accumulated $24 million in athletic operating debt, even with the subsidies.
USA TODAY database: What universities spend on athletics
USA Today
Itâ??s not always easy to add up the millions of dollars that major universities spend on their athletic departments. But each year, the NCAA collects dozens of revenue and expense items from each of its sanctioned schools. Are they worth the big-time costs? USA TODAY, through public-records requests filed to about a hundred Football Bowl Subdivision universities, examined several yearsâ?? worth of line-by-line athletic revenues and expenses. Often times, the sources of revenue, when adjusted for inflation, have increased since 2005.
(Story has a link to the database.)
Amid funding crisis, college athletics soak up subsidies, fees
USA Today
More than $800 million in student fees and university subsidies are propping up athletic programs at the nationâ??s top sports colleges, including hundreds of millions in the richest conferences, a USA TODAY analysis found. The subsidies have reached that level amid a continuing crisis in higher education funding. At some of the schools where athletics is most heavily subsidized, faculty salaries have dipped, state-funded financial aid is drying up and students are bracing for tuition and fee increases.
Jan Krahenbuhl: Animal research decision questioned
Wisconsin State Journal
I have a difficult time believing that any university that touts itself as a â??place of higher learningâ? â?? which UW-Madison loves to do â?? can possibly condone medical experiments conducted on animals.
Man hit by taxi suffers head injuries, broken leg
Wisconsin State Journal
A 74-year-old Madison man suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening head injuries and a broken leg when he was struck by a taxi Wednesday afternoon in a crosswalk at the bottom of Bascom Hill on the UW-Madison campus, Madison police said.
Local charities directing aid to Haiti
Wisconsin State Journal
A list of charitable organizations based in southern Wisconsin working on relief efforts in Haiti includes the UW-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
UW-Madison students are unharmed in Haiti
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison officials reported two groups of students are unharmed and accounted for in Haiti, though one group may have to delay its return.
School pitch looks promising
Wisconsin State Journal
Bold plans for a new kind of middle school in Madison deserve encouragement and strong consideration. The proposed Badger Rock Middle School on the South Side would run year-round with green-themed lessons in hands-on gardens and orchards. UW-Madison faculty are helping citizen organizers launch Badger Rock.
Standing guard: UW’s backcourt leads way over Wildcats
Madison.com
Jason Bohannon scored 19 points and Trevon Hughes added 16, all but one in the second half, to lead the Badgers to a victory in Evanston.
2 Wis. volunteers safe in Haiti
Madison.com
Two volunteers from a Milwaukee church group are safe in Haiti after a powerful earthquake. Volunteers at the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukeeâ??s Haiti Project were trying Tuesday and Wednesday to reach two men who had been working in a small village in the mountains near the community of Jeannette, Haiti.
DOJ, schools settle over Kindle’s blind access (CNET News)
CNET.com
Three universities will refrain from using Amazonâ??s Kindle DX in the classroom under terms of deals announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
DOJ, Universities Agree to Halt E-Reader Use (PC Magazine)
The Department of Justice has reached agreements with three more universities regarding the use of e-book readers and blind students.
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Pace University in New York City and Reed College in Portland, Ore. have all agreed not to use the Amazon Kindle DX or any other e-reader until blind students can use the devices as well as sighted students, as per the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Donald Goerke, SpaghettiOs Creator, Dies at 83
New York Times
Donald Edward Goerke was born in Waukesha, Wis., on Aug. 8, 1926. (The family name is pronounced GUR-key.) He earned a bachelorâ??s degree in mathematics from what was then Carroll College in Waukesha and an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
Benedict pushes anti-obesity plan (Beloit Daily News)
Quoted: The bill also mandates annual fitness assessments of all schoolchildren. The test would consist of a 20-meter shuttle run designed to measure aerobic capacity. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has found this PACER test a good gauge of fitness and an indicator of diabetes risk, said Dr. Aaron Carrel, a UW pediatrician.
Group members expect Purdue to take action with Nike (The Purdue Exponent)
Although Purdue officials announced earlier this week that Nike did not breach its contract with Purdue, POLE members are still unconvinced.
Nationâ??s governors embrace â??tweetingâ?? trend (Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers)
Fond Du Lac Reporter
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the success of President Barack Obamaâ??s election campaign in using online media convinced a lot of campaign professionals that there is real potential in social media.
Prayer parents ruled indigent; county to pay for appeal lawyers
Wausau Daily Herald
Noted: Howard appointed the University of Wisconsin-Madison law schoolâ??s Criminal Appeals Project to represent Leilani Neumann after law professors expressed interest in the case. A second attorney still must be found to represent Dale Neumann.
Wisconsin Residents Organizing Help For Haiti
WISC-TV 3
Seven University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity members had been volunteering there. Five returned last night and two still behind sent word of their safety Wednesday morning. Haiti Project coordinator, Jan Byrd, said they posted a Facebook message Wednesday that they were on a roof of a guesthouse when it collapsed and they are safe.
Health Officials Stepping Up H1N1 Vaccination Efforts
WISC-TV 3
Public health officials are trying to prevent a third wave of the H1N1 flu by encouraging more residents to get immunized.
American Colleges Scramble to Contact Students and Professors in Haiti
Chronicle of Higher Education
American colleges were struggling to extractâ??and, in some cases, even reachâ??students, and faculty and staff members studying and traveling in Haiti in the wake of a deadly earthquake there Tuesday, a task made more difficult by the extent of the devastation and by already poor infrastructure in the Caribbean nation.
Rob Howell, director of international academic programs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said five engineering students and an adviser working in a rural area about 70 miles north of Port-au-Prince were safe. The group, from Engineers Without Borders, were working on a hydroelectric power-generation facility in Bayonnais.
Survey says: Madisonians happy with city services
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The UW Survey Center, which conducted a survey about satisfaction with city services.
Recovering from recession will take time, economists say
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Mike Knetter, dean of the UW-Madison School of Business.
Year-round charter middle school is proposed for Madison’s South Side
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: UW-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, who along with other university faculty is working on developing a Madison charter school.
Footnote: How thick does the ice get on lakes Mendota and Monona?
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: John Magnuson, a professor emeritus at the UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
UW student group OK after Haiti quake
Madison.com
Members of a student-led group from the University of Wisconsin visiting Haiti say they werenâ??t hurt when a strong earthquake struck the Caribbean nation.
Baggot: Bielema should embrace BCS title game as 2010 goal
Madison.com
The Badgers plan on making a run at a Big Ten championship next year, but with the way the conference played this postseason, the team at the top of the league in 2010 could find itself playing for all the marbles.
Panel to discuss whether raw milk in Wis.
Madison.com
A state-appointed committee will soon consider whether raw milk should be sold in Wisconsin, and if so, under what conditions. The groupâ??s chair will be Richard Barrows, a retired Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Report: No harassment, retaliation at UW clinic
Madison.com
A University of Wisconsin-Madison investigation has found no retaliation against an employee at its fertility clinic who was fired after she complained of sexual harassment.
Study: Students more stressed now than during Depression?
USA Today
A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era. The findings, culled from responses to a popular psychological questionnaire used as far back as 1938, confirm what counselors on campuses nationwide have long suspected as more students struggle with the stresses of school and life in general.
Donald Goerke, 83, creator of Campbell’s SpaghettiOs (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Noted: After his discharge, he earned a bachelorâ??s degree from what is now Carroll University in Wisconsin, where he met his future wife, June Marie Uthus. He earned a masterâ??s degree in statistics from the University of Wisconsin. Before joining Campbell, he was a market researcher for Blatz Brewery in Wisconsin.
Domino’s Comes Clean With New Pizza Ads (AP)
New York Times
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive fellow at the Center for Brand and Product Management at Wisconsin School of Business, said the campaign may cause confusion in the market place because people have known Dominoâ??s for having a quick, 30-minute delivery, not for flavor.
What’s Behind Cold Snap?
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: Jonathan Martin, of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, said Arctic oscillation is behind the extreme cold.
Report: No harassment, retaliation at UW clinic (AP)
A University of Wisconsin-Madison investigation has found no retaliation against an employee at its fertility clinic who was fired after she complained of sexual harassment.
The Office of Equity and Diversity says it found no evidence that former program assistant Julia Landrum was sexually harassed by its laboratory manager, even if he used vulgar language at times.
UW student group has members in quake-stricken Haiti
WKOW-TV 27
A group of University of Wisconsin students in Haiti felt the tremors from Tuesdayâ??s 7.0 magnitude earthquake, but escaped unharmed. Five students and one advisor arrived in Haiti on Sunday, part of Engineers Without Borders, a group that helps impoverished nations design and build major projects.
UW-Madison Group OK After Haiti Earthquake
WISC-TV 3
Members of a University of Wisconsin-Madison group are safe after a major earthquake caused devastation in Haiti Tuesday.
Obituary: Alvar E. Olson
Madison.com
Alvar E. “Ole” Olson, age 92, of Stoughton, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. Ole worked for a time as a stock clerk at UW-Madison.
Blog: Ryan wonders if Big Ten Network crew was paying attention
Madison.com
Bo Ryan is subject to a fine by the Big Ten Conference if he ridicules or criticizes the officiating at any of the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball teamâ??s games, so he criticized the Big Ten Network announcers.
Webster takes over as interim coach at DePaul
Madison.com
Former UW athlete Tracy Webster will take over as the DePaul menâ??s college basketball coach for the rest of the season on an interim basis.
UW-Madison’s first chancellor dies at 93
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s first chancellor, Robben W. Fleming, died at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Monday at age 93. He called police to end a student protest against Dow Chemical Company recruiters in 1967.
Letter: Cut number of foreign students at UW
Capital Times
There are 4,000 foreign students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then many Wisconsinites and Madisonians cannot get in even with good grades. This is not right! Our state taxes help to support the UW, so why canâ??t our children get enrolled instead of all the foreign students?
Best Value Colleges: Can getting a degree be affordable?
USA Today
A four-year degree doesnâ??t have to bury college-bound students in debt. Faced with state budget cuts and recession, some colleges and universities are stepping up their financial aid offerings. Many of those schools are on The Princeton Reviewâ??s list of 100 Best Value Colleges for 2010, four-year public and private institutions that strive for both quality and affordability.
Historians, Sons, Daughters
Inside Higher Education
Quoted: Judith W. Leavitt, who was on the panel as a parent and is a professor of the history of medicine, history of science and womenâ??s studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, described different messages she received as she went off to college. Her parents told her to “be sure you learn how to type and get your credentials as a teacher because if you donâ??t get married, thatâ??s what youâ??ll be.”
Wisconsin loses F Jon Leuer indefinitely with broken wrist (AP)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
University of Wisconsin forward Jon Leuer broke his left wrist in Saturdayâ??s win against Purdue and is out indefinitely.
Corpse flower to bloom at Milwaukee museum (AP)
A nearly seven-foot tall exotic plant will soon stink up the Milwaukee Public Museum. A titan arum plant, also known as a “corpse flower,” is preparing to flower. It takes at least six years to flower and is a descendent of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s flower.
University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s first chancellor Robben Fleming dies at 93 (AP)
Appleton Post-Crescent
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s first chancellor has died. The university says Robben W. Fleming died at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Monday. He was 93.