University of Wisconsin System regents meet Friday to discuss the future of tuition policy in the state. The regents will review the current rules governing tuition increases sought by UW campuses, and whether they need to make any changes.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student leaders say the first year of a four-year tuition increase is already leading to improvements in academics and student services. Associated Students of Madison leaders said Thursday the $250 increase this year for in-state undergraduates was paying for additional faculty to teach in-demand courses in subjects ranging from chemistry to political science.
University of Wisconsin System regents meet Friday to discuss the future of tuition policy in the state. The regents will review the current rules governing tuition increases sought by UW campuses, and whether they need to make any changes.
Quoted: “All that snow that would go through the combine would plug those sivs up and youâ??d have the corn get threshed in, but then itâ??d just go right out the back end and not get collected,” said Joe Lauer, UW-Madison agronomist.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student leaders say the first year of a four-year tuition increase is already leading to improvements in academics and student services.
There is no question that Wisconsinâ??s biotechnology industry is one of the most highly regarded in the world. The stateâ??s 608 biotechnology companies, many of them spun out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, employ nearly 20,000 people. These companies have secured close to 2,400 patents, and they continue to attract federal research and development funding.
Harold D. “Red” King, age 81, a gentle man, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Harold worked for theUW-Extension, serving leadership roles in Marinette Co. and broadcasting a farm program for WHA Radio. In 1967 he joined the UW faculty, where he led the Extension publications unit and helped develop Extension computing services, an educational telephone network, and management information systems until retiring in 1985.
The Pell Grant program for needy college students is facing a massive shortfall as the countryâ??s bleak job market drives people back to school. An administration official told The Associated Press the program will cost $18 billion more than Congress and the White House had anticipated over the next three years.
Image that supports the story is credited to the University of Wisconsin Medical School. Caption: “A “virtual colonoscopy” 3-D image is generated by a computer from a series of X-rays taken by a CT scanner.”
The northernmost University of Wisconsin campus is the only one to remain open today. With the announcement that UW-Milwaukee closed at 1 p.m., UW-Superior is the only UW school where students must still trudge to classes.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Dairy Science chairman Ric Grummer.
Some fortified themselves by wearing goggles and using dining hall trays as shields. Others attempted to intimidate by waving skull and crossbones flags. Colin Griffin went shirtless. No matter the approach, thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison students took advantage of an unplanned day off and hurled snowballs at one another Wednesday in a massive melee. Classes had been canceled due to more than a foot of snow and blizzard-like conditions that brought sub-freezing temperatures and winds of more than 20 miles per hour.
This grassy mall on the UW-Madison campus is usually a peaceful place, where students lounge on warm days or trudge from one class to the next. But Bascom Hill was transformed into a brutal battlefield on Wednesday. It was the site of a campus-wide snowball fight, a whizzing white-out that lasted nearly 90 minutes.
Frigid temperatures iced the Upper Midwest on Thursday as a massive storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in several states from Iowa to New England neared the end of its cross-country trek. At least 3,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students took advantage of an unplanned day off and hurled snowballs at each other in a massive snowball fight. Classes were canceled for the first time in 19 years due to weather.
Frigid temperatures iced the Upper Midwest on Thursday as a massive storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in several states from Iowa to New England neared the end of its cross-country trek.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has issued an ultimatum to Nike. She has sent a letter to the athletic apparel-maker saying that if it doesnâ??t address workersâ?? rights issues with two of its Honduras-based subcontractors within the next four months, then the university will, allow its licensing deal to expire.
Thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison students hurled snowballs at one another in a massive snowball fight on campus Wednesday.
In an attempt to break an unofficial record for worldâ??s largest snowball fight, in addition to generating a little excitement on a day of canceled classes, UW-Madison students took to Bascom Hill Wednesday afternoon to fire snowballs at each other.
Around Madison, Wis., snow and wind are part of winterâ??s backdrop, like frosty breath and ice fishing; students rarely expect a seasonal reprieve. But the storm that whipped through the upper Midwest on Wednesday was no ordinary blizzard.
For the first time in nearly 45 years, officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison canceled all Wednesday classes â?? the night before â?? and directed all non-essential employees to stay home, affecting about 15,000 faculty and staff. By morning, roads were impassible, conditions dangerous.
Wednesday became the first time on record UW-Madison cancelled a full day of classes because of bad weather. Students proved youâ??re never too old to get excited about a snow day. And when youâ??re a poor college student, what better sled to use than a cafeteria tray?
Wisconsin is continuing to dig out after a powerful winter storm dumped as much as 18 inches of snow in some areas.
Quoted: â??Our ability to test what is going on is limited,â? conceded J. Val Klump, the director of the water institute affiliated with the University of Wisconsin. But what scientists have concluded is that the lakes â??are surprisingly fragile.â?
There have been reports that the University of Wisconsin was showing interest in Edgarâ??s Justin Sinz, who verbally committed this past weekend to play at Purdue next fall. Not quite, according to Sinzâ??s father, and longtime Edgar coach, Jerry.
Video: Chadwyk is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he spotted students rolling a giant snowball in the street on December 9. He estimates the snowball grew to about 10 feet in diameter.
Amazon says it will make the Kindle DX easier to use for visually-impaired individuals by summer 2010. The eReader will be outfitted with an audible menu system and the inclusion of extra large font to allow users who are blind or have limited sight the ability to access books without assistance. The new font will be twice as large as the Kindleâ??s current largest font.
Noted: The chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Dairy Science tells the Norwich Bulletin newspaper itâ??s not unusual for a Holstein cow to have a white marking on its head. But department chairman Ric Grummer says the cross shape is unusual.
A man accused of punching a former University of Wisconsin basketball player in the head, critically injuring him, has been ordered to stand trial.
Some University of Wisconsin football fans might be tired of the Champs Sports Bowl and Orlando, Fla.
As Bo Ryan approaches 200 wins with the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team, anyone who has coached or played for him is flummoxed every time they are asked to name the victories that best define his coaching prowess.
The University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team got on the road for Green Bay before the massive snowstorm hit the Madison area, and Wednesday nightâ??s game against the Phoenix will go on as scheduled.
So much for the reputation of the University of Miami football program as a factory for the NFL with little regard to academics.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has decided to give Nike four months to clear up problems of reported workersâ?? rights abuses at two factories that the sports apparel giant subcontracts with in Honduras.
For snow-shovel-weary residents, itâ??s not good news on the bad weather front, because the worst could be still to come.
Even with the looming forecast and blizzard warnings, donâ??t be surprised if a hardy soul or two tries to bike in the aftermath of Tuesdayâ??s and Wednesdayâ??s protracted storm.As the snow was falling Tuesday afternoon, we saw plenty of cyclists in the downtown and UW-Madison campus areas.
Itâ??s often cited as one of the most serious issues on college campuses. But University of Wisconsin System officials say theyâ??re making progress on the problem of binge drinking and a new survey offers some encouraging results. It also shows there is still work to be done.
With the potential for 14 inches of snow and wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour, Cheryl Pederson made plans to stay home from work Wednesday.”Next week, Iâ??ll work an extra day,” said Pederson, a nurse consultant for the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative.
Gov. Jim Doyle ordered almost all state and university offices closed today because of the fearsome blizzard.”Wisconsinâ??s emergency workers are working hard to keep people safe,” Doyle said in a statement. “State offices are closed for business to ensure we are keeping people off the roads and allowing emergency response crews to do their jobs.”
Due to the impending blizzard and wintry weather conditions forecasted for late Tuesday and Wednesday, the city of Madison declared a snow emergency Tuesday evening, and UW-Madison cancelled all classes for Wednseday.
A slew of colleges in the Midwest began administering student swine flu vaccinations Tuesday, highlighting the variety of responses schools have taken to combat the spread of the virus.
For the first time in history with records dating back to 1965, the University of Wisconsin cancelled todayâ??s classes due to extreme blizzard conditions. According to the National Weather Service, 10 to 14 inches of snow accumulation is expected by Wednesday afternoon.
The Madison Metropolitan School District, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Madison Area Technical College have all canceled classes for Wednesday due to the winter storm.
A spokesman said that University of Wisconsin campuses in Milwaukee and Superior will remain open Wednesday despite Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s order shutting down state government.
Auditors are making several recommendations to limit legal liability and improve the safety of children who attend sports, music and other camps on University of Wisconsin campuses.
Gov. Jim Doyle has closed state offices and all University of Wisconsin campuses on Wednesday due to the snowstorm.
With classes canceled and more than a foot of snow on the ground, University of Wisconsin-Madison students planned what could-be the worldâ??s largest snowball fight on Wednesday afternoon.
Beatrice E. “Bea” Lynch, age 92, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. Before retiring, Bea was employed by the University as a payroll specialist.
Medical experts have attributed a recent decline in breast cancer rates among U.S. women to a slide in the popularity of hormone replacement therapy. But not so fast, says one researcher. The 7% drop in rates between 2002 and 2003 appears to be due to less use of hormone therapy and at least one other, unknown factor, said Bryan Sprague of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “One of [NCCAMâ??s] critical roles is to actually weed out the snake oil, which I am sure there is quite a bit of,” says Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist and NCCAM grantee at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work on the effects of meditation on the brain and peripheral biology has been published in mainstream journals such as The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS Biology and The Journal of Neuroscience.
Noted: Now that the vaccine is flowing â?? 81 million doses had been distributed as of Monday â?? the public seems to be losing interest, despite continuing risk. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for example, 1,521 students lined up Friday for vaccinations, leaving 2,500 doses on hand.
Last year alone, 98,510 Chinese graduate and undergraduate students poured into U.S. colleges and universities, lured by Chinaâ??s emphasis on academic achievement and the prestige of U.S. higher education. China is second only to India when graduate students and undergrads are counted.
Amazon.com Inc. will add two features to the Kindle e-book reader to make the gadget more accessible to blind and vision-impaired users. Mondayâ??s announcement comes a month after Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., and the University of Wisconsin-Madison said they would not consider widely deploying the device as an alternative to paper textbooks until Amazon makes it easier for blind students to use. Both universities bought some Kindles to test this fall.
City of Beloit officials have taken a big step in their hydrogen project: They got a Vespa moped to run entirely on hydrogen. Beloit Public Works Fleet Manager Dan Lutz, along with a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, demonstrated a new hydrogen-assisted system that runs a Vespa on a hydrogen-gasoline fuel mix, according to a UW-Madison press release.
Thursday night I and various notables in the local arts scene attended an intriguing talk by Douglas McLennan, founder of ArtsJournal.com and director of the National Arts Journalism Program, called â??Arts Journalism 2.0: The next wave in arts conversations.â? It was a public event associated with UW-Madisonâ??s Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art course.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association is offering a ticket package to the Badgersâ?? bowl game in Orlando.
Former University of Wisconsin football coach and current athletic director Barry Alvarez was announced today as one of three members of the 2009 class for the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame. They will be inducted by the Pasadena Quarterbacks during a ceremony Dec. 30.
Go, Bucky, go. Save for a couple minor dings, it was a sweet weekend for the University of Wisconsin marquee sports teams – football, menâ??s and womenâ??s basketball and menâ??s hockey.
A new report says a lack of funding is delaying major energy conservation projects on University of Wisconsin campuses. The UW System report says the easiest and cheapest energy-saving projects have been implemented, and more funding is needed to make additional progress.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is asking a state agency to dismiss a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint filed by a former employee of its fertility clinic. University lawyer John Dowling said the school took appropriate action to investigate inappropriate language and behavior at the clinic after Julia Landrum complained. He told the Equal Rights Division in a filing Friday her June firing was for performance reasons.
Marjorie J. Smith Schaefer passed away Wednesday evening, December 2, 2009. Jane worked as a registered nurse for University Hospital, in Madison, from 1956, until her retirement.
Bessie Bea Schey, of Tucson, Ariz., passed away peacefully Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, just three weeks shy of her 100th birthday. Bessie worked for the University Hospital in Madison prior to moving out of state.
