State officials are warning that most Wisconsin residents have not made plans to prepare for natural disasters or other safety emergencies. A poll by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center for state government found 80 percent of residents have not prepared to respond to disasters like floods, home evacuations and power outages by creating disasters kits or communication plans.
Noted: A step in this process will be the recently-announced foundation of the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture to be permanently located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sapoznik will head the new institute which will be dedicated to helping understand the world of Yiddish through its arts.
Jan. 7, 1900: I think I just found my new favorite kicker, â??An Idiotic Idea.â? Itâ??s almost as good as â??Created Two-Headed Dog,â? but not quite. What is it with the University of Wisconsin? The faculty bans flirting â?¦ and the students give up sleep.*Â
Volunteers turned out by the dozens again on Wednesday to help search efforts for a missing snowmobiler. Martin Davis, 52, spoke with his girlfriend Sunday and said he was going for a short ride. Davis lives on Club Road S.W. about halfway between The Eastern Iowa Airport and the Airport National Golf Course.
Tweeting by thinking? Itâ??s been done. And a Dell Rapids High School alum was part of the team that did it.
Justin Williams, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his team were part of Time magazineâ??s “50 Best Inventions of 2009.”
A labor union and its Democratic allies are asking the University of Wisconsin System to sign a legal agreement that could boost ongoing campaigns to unionize faculty and staff.
Gov. Jim Doyle signed a law last year giving nearly 20,000 university employees the right to form unions for the first time to negotiate their wages and benefits.
A Madison commission memberâ??s caution could unravel a developerâ??s strategy to build on property targeted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison developer Otto Gebhardt III is planning a 10-story, student housing project on the north side of Spring Street in Madison. The property is on a block the university identified in its 20-year plan for construction of a new academic building.
The National Institutes of Health has ordered the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fix a dozen issues with its animal research program. That follows a visit to campus by NIH animal welfare inspectors in early December.
Two men fell through the ice on Lake Mendota Wednesday afternoon in separate incidents. The Madison Fire Department Lake Rescue Team responded to a report of an ice fisherman who had fallen through the ice near Picnic Point at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday.
Madison Fire Department Lake Rescue Team rescued a man who had fallen through the ice on Lake Mendota.The call came in just after 3 Wednesday afternoon.
Roundup of campus news includes story about University of Louisville dean who was hired to lead UW-Parkside in 2008 is going to plead guilty to defrauding universities out of $2.3 million, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Post-surgical suffering, depression, vomiting, slippery floors, open food supplies, dirty vents, unsanitary operating rooms and equipment, urine smells, painful experimentation, expired medications. A Third World hospital? Hardly â?? itâ??s our very own UW-Madison animal research department.
Mortenson Construction Co. has been awarded a bid as construction manager for the $100 million Wisconsin Energy Institute, a new facility for renewable energy research at UW-Madison. The building will be located at 1552 University Ave., the site of the old University Health Services building. Construction of the first phase of the project, about 100,000 square feet, is expected to begin later this year.
The city of Madison has gone two years in a row without a fire fatality, something that hasnâ??t happened since the early 1980s, Madison fire officials said Tuesday. The push in Madison for smoke alarms was driven by the family a 23-year-old former UW-La Crosse student who died in a North Bedford Street fire in 2007. The student was visiting his brother, a UW-Madison student.
The University of Wisconsin has paid a $5,000 fine to the NCAA for mistakenly allowing a womenâ??s hockey player to compete in 2007 even though she was academically ineligible.
A human skull that apparently was turned into a ballot box for Yaleâ??s mysterious Skull and Bones society is going on the auction block. The skull is believed to have been owned by Edward T. Owen, who graduated Yale in 1872 and went to become professor of French and linguistics at the University of Wisconsin.
Members of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team practiced Tuesday on the outdoor rink at Elver Park to get a sense of what awaits them in the Feb. 6 Camp Randall Classic.
The University of Wisconsin sophomore adds a third-period score and the Americans earn an overtime win to grab the gold medal.
The Badgers see tonightâ??s game at No. 10 Michigan State as a â??different kind of test.â?
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s patenting arm won an appeal Tuesday in federal court against Canadian drug company Xenon.The lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation dealt with how Xenon handled patent rights to an enzyme that can lower cholesterol levels in the human body.
M.A. Mortenson Co. has been selected as the construction manager for the $75.7 million Wisconsin Energy Institute on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.
Work on the nearly 200,000-square-foot facility, being designed by Potter Lawson / HOK, is expected to begin in mid-2010.
Robert Felner, who withdrew from his appointment as University of Wisconsin-Parkside chancellor in June 2008 shortly after being named to the post, is expected to plead guilty Friday to defrauding two universities of $2.3 million.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor said Tuesday that a university law school program is willing to represent either Dale or Leilani Neumann during their upcoming appeal of their reckless homicide convictions.
One of Madisonâ??s most beloved terms is on the path toward national recognition. The word “Sconnie” is up for City Dictionaryâ??s 2009 Local Word of the Year award.
A UW law professor wants to represent Dale and Leilani Neumann. Theyâ??re the Weston couple convicted last year of second-degree reckless homicide in the death of their 11-year-old daughter, Kara.
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s patenting arm has won an appeal in federal court against Canadian drug company Xenon.
Tuesdayâ??s sunshine a bit bright for an outdoor hockey game. But, the Badger men were excited to take to the ice at a Madison park! Itâ??s a far different setting from the Kohl Center. In fact, this rinkâ??s almost like playing in your backyard.
Search teams in Iowa are looking for a missing snowmobiler.The man is the brother of Barry Davis, the University of Wisconsin wrestling teamâ??s longtime head coach, according to the Iowa City Press Citizen.
Shanica Adkins, 21, died in a car crash early Thursday when she was hit by a car fleeing police in Milwaukee. The UW-Madison School of Social Work is planning a memorial service for her when school resumes later this month, a UW-Madison spokesman said.
A partnership between the stateâ??s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and the meat-processing industry makes Wisconsin the first state to have a nonprofit resource center for artisanal sausage and meat makers. A key initiative of the center is the creation of a two-year Master Meat Crafter Training Program, the first of its kind in the country. The program, affiliated with UW-Madison, is in development and will begin in spring.
Since the Hammes Co. proposed a massive redevelopment of the venerable Edgewater Hotel this summer, debate has raged over whether the project is suitable to the historic region appropriately named Mansion Hill. But thereâ??s much more to the region than the area surrounding the Edgewater. The neighborhood, which stretches from the lake to the Capitol, and west toward the UW-Madison campus, encompasses a wide range of residents, from students to long-time owners, fraternities to cooperatives, churches and bed and breakfasts.
Kerry Cooks, who has served as the secondary coach at the University of Wisconsin for the last four years, will join the Notre Dame football staff under new coach Brian Kelly, sources told Madison.com sports.
Meghan Duggan and Hilary Knight, taking a year off from their UW careers to play of team USA, are excited to face “friends’ in Tuesdayâ??s exhibition game at the Kohl Center.
The Specialty Meat Development Center has been formed to assist artisan sausage and cured meat makers operating in Wisconsin with the growth of their businesses.
A key initiative of the center is the creation of a two-year master meat crafter training program. The program, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, currently is in development and will launch in spring.
Three universities in the University of Wisconsin System have made the list of the countryâ??s best values in public colleges.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ranked 14th in the nation for value to its students.
Kiplingerâ??s Personal Finance reviewed more than 500 public four-year colleges and universities to determine the best values, taking into account academic measures — ACT or SAT scores, admission and retention rates, student-faculty ratios and graduation rates — as well as affordability, which includes total expenses and available aid.
The life of a promising University of Wisconsin-Madison student was cut short after she is killed by a suspected drunken driver on New Yearâ??s Eve in Milwaukee. Shanica Adkins, 21, was killed early Thursday morning when the car she was riding in was struck by a suspected drunken driver fleeing from police. Adkinsâ?? boyfriend was critically injured in the crash.
Linda “DeeDee” Storberg, age 57, of Arena, died tragically in an automobile accident on her way to work on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. She was an RN who worked for UW Hospital, Mercy ER Hospital, Mendota State Hospital, Tellurian Detoxification Unit and Hope Haven in-patient treatment services.
Shirley A. Hunsaker died on Christmas Eve, 2009, at the age of 64. Prior to her retirement, Shirley worked for the UW.
John Wright Harvey, age 90, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. He was an assistant professor of music at UW-Madison for many years.
H. Isabelle Peterson, age 82, passed away on Sunday, January 03, 2010. Isabelle loved her work as registrar, at the UW-Madison Medical School, where she was adored by the students, and where a room and a scholarship were dedicated in her name.
University press editor Allen Fitchen spent 38 years working on textbooks and academic publications. But he will be most widely recognized for an aberration in his scholarly career, in which a retired University of Chicago professor named Norman Maclean walked through his door bearing a sparkling draft of “A River Runs Through It.”
Quoted: “Any time someone in a setting of excitement has a sudden cardiac arrest, especially at a young age with a seemingly normal heart, you have to consider [an inherited condition] such as long QT,” said Dr. Richard Page, chair of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and president of the Heart Rhythm Society. “One of the genetic variants is especially predisposed to having an arrhythmia when exposed to loud sound.”
Noted: Roweâ??s pragmatism was bred on the dairy farm in Wisconsin where he grew up. He went to a one-room schoolhouse before heading to Madison for both undergraduate and law degrees. He has funded two chairs in history there and is in the process of funding one in virology. “The University of Wisconsin is the only thing I am truly chauvinistic about,” he says.
Quoted: “My own feeling is there is an actual increase in incidence of autism, but itâ??s not at an epidemic level. And we have to be careful we donâ??t identify it as such,” said Darold Treffert, MD, professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.
Rey Mooreâ??s appeal for a new trial involves new evidence that a jail inmate who told prosecutors Moore confessed his role in the Tom Monfils murder has recanted his testimony.Additional information.
Moore, 62, an inmate of the Oshkosh Correctional Institution, filed a motion for new trial this summer. The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a group of law students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who seek out wrongful conviction cases, is represe
Authored by: Jordan D. Rosenblum, Ph.D., is the Belzer Assistant Professor in Classical Judaism at UW-Madison. His book, â??Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism,â? will be published by Cambridge University Press in May.Â
Quoted: Economic issues will be at the top of the agenda, said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Rey Mooreâ??s appeal for a new trial involves new evidence that a jail inmate who told prosecutors Moore confessed his role in the Tom Monfils murder has recanted his testimony. Moore, 62, an inmate of the Oshkosh Correctional Institution, filed a motion for new trial this summer. The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a group of law students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who seek out wrongful conviction cases, is representing him in the appeal.
One of the first memories Patricia McConnell can still recall vividly is of her as a young girl. She was lying on the living room floor of her childhood home with Fudge, the familyâ??s terrier.â??I wondered, â??What is she thinking?â??â? McConnell says. â??â??â??How could I ever know what sheâ??s thinking?â?? In many ways, thatâ??s still what Iâ??m doing.”
Now sheâ??s one of the worldâ??s foremost experts in pet behavior, particularly dogs. The subject is the crux of her research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and of the conversations sheâ??s had for the past 14 years on her weekly syndicated radio program â??Calling All Pets,â? which airs locally from 7 to 8 a.m. each Saturday on WGCU, 90.1 FM.
Quoted: â??Itâ??s not unusual for the task of supervising students to fall to someone who already has plenty of responsibilities,â? says Elizabeth A. Tyron, the community learning coordinator at the Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. â??If service learning is not well coordinated by the academic institution, it can place a lot of burden on the community partner.â?
Quoted: â??If youâ??re not one of those few obvious schools, you need to be able to offer students and employers real depth,â? says Blair Sanford, assistant dean and director of M.B.A. career services at the business school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which enrolls about 125 students a year.
The federal animal welfare arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at least two separate times in 2009 before returning with inspectors from another National Institutes of Health agency earlier in December.
A program that provides free cab rides for stranded UW-Madison students will be cut back significantly next month because of cost overruns and misuse, a student leader said. Designed for late night, emergency situations, the SAFEride cab service currently allows students to take four free taxi rides per month â?? the equivalent of about 16 rides per semester. But beginning Jan. 2, students will only be able to take six rides per semester. The program, funded through student fees, ran over its budget by almost 50 percent last year, said Michael Romenesko, member of a student-led transportation committee.
Continuing a trend, a developer is proposing to demolish older student housing and replace it with two housing towers near UW-Madison. Otto Gebhardt III hopes to demolish rental houses at 1208, 1212 and 1214 Spring St. to erect a 10-story, 92-unit apartment building designed to meet the needs of older and graduate students.
The NOVA special, “What Darwin Never Knew,” features Sean Carroll, UW-Madison professor of molecular biology, genetics and medical genetics.
At Madison Media Institute, the definition of media goes far beyond radio and TV to include training in such careers as Web site design, 3D animation, music production and video production. Tuition at Madison Media Institute is $14,000 a year, significantly higher than at UW-Madison, where Wisconsin residents pay about $7,300 in tuition this fall or at Madison College (formerly Madison Area Technical College), which charges $101 to $136 per credit. Madison Media Institute only competes â??to a small extentâ? with UW-Madison and Madison College, says President Christopher Hutchings. â??Weâ??re a very focused school,â? he said.
UW-Madison School of Business Dean Michael Knetter will be among those offering projections for the coming year at the 2010 Wisconsin Economic Forecast luncheon Jan. 14 at Monona Terrace.
Depressed and vomiting dogs, a dirty operating room and expired medications were among 20 violations found at UW-Madison by federal animal welfare inspectors during a surprise visit last month. UW-Madison must fix the problems noted in the report, which was released this week, or risk losing some $200 to $300 million in annual animal research funding, said Eric Sandgren, the universityâ??s head of animal research oversight.
Quoted: Jessa Valentine, a senior research specialist at UW-Madisonâ??s Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
