The developer of a hotel near Camp Randall stadium told 27 News he expects to open in February 2010, months after his original target date to accept guests.
“We tried to do a sixteen month process in ten months,” developer Bob Sieger told 27 News in a telephone interview from Minneapolis.
Who says Wisconsin suffers from a shortage of go-getters with good ideas?
Not U.S. News and World report, which features Linda Remeschatis, in its October issue. Remeschatis is owner of wisconsinmade.com.
The University of Wisconsin is also recognized by U.S. News and World Report as an excellent resource for people starting businesses.
William Dingler “Bill” Miller, of Madison, died on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. Bill spent more than 39 years on the staff of UW-Madison, serving most of that time as assistant dean of the College of Letters and Science.
U.S. medical school enrollment is up for the 11th consecutive year as colleges seek to meet a growing demand for physicians.
Average published tuition prices rose, as expected, across all types of colleges this year, says a report out Tuesday. But increases, particularly at public four-year colleges, were “lower than we might have feared” given the economy, the author says. And when grant aid and tax benefits are factored in and after adjusting for inflation, the average price residents pay for public four-year colleges is actually lower than it was five years ago.
This week is National Chemistry Week and one chemistry professor is traveling around the county, trying to get kids interested in science.
Dr. Bassam Shakhashiri from the University of Wisconsin visited Mary Baldwin College Tuesday to perform experiments that show how science applies to everyday life and can translate into a job.
Quoted: Other research supports the “work hard, play hard” thesis. Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and womenâ??s studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has found that it doesnâ??t lead to less intimacy in marriage when wives hold paid jobs.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison club plans to build a mock Berlin Wall and then destroy it.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the wall coming down. To celebrate, UW-Madison’s German Club plans to erect an 8-foot tall cardboard wall on the school’s Library Mall. The university says the German embassy has supplied funding.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior is unique in many respects and is planning its future as an institution of higher education with some of those unique characteristics in mind, the UW Regents were told last week.
The UW System Board of Regents is facing a lawsuit from a downtown Madison bar.
Brothers Bar and Grill filed the suit Tuesday, claiming the Board is unfairly condemning their property on University Avenue.
Noted: The Neighborhood Indicators Project went online today after years of negotiation between government agencies over how to protect individual privacy and technical work by the UW-Madison Applied Population Lab.
More than 75,000 UW-Madison students, faculty and staff now can use their Wiscard – their campus identification card – as a debit card for a UW Credit Union checking account. The Wiscard also can be used to make withdrawals or deposits and check the balance on a card holderâ??s account.
Deep down inside, Taylor Mehlhaff knows that he will be getting a phone call or a text message from a National Football League team offering a tryout. He just doesnâ??t know when.
Raising questions about the extent of the universityâ??s power to seize private property, the owners of a campus-area tavern are suing to stop the UW Board of Regents from condemning their bar.
Even as tuition and fees increased last year, the amount students borrowed in private loans declined by almost 50 percent, according to the first widely accepted estimate of that drop, which was expected to be significant.
The price of a college education rose substantially last year, despite a 2.1 percent decline in the Consumer Price Index from July 2008 to July 2009.
A UW-Madison Professor is one of two physicians in the country to receive the 2009 Physician Advocacy Merit Award. The non-profit group – The Institute of Medicine as a Profession is honoring Dr. Michael Fiore with the award.
This September a team of UW-Madison staff unveiled a new process to reduce the time it takes to eliminate former employees from accessing information technology systems, but the new process still takes longer than many others used throughout the University of Wisconsin System. Â
Our skulls and our genes show that weâ??re still evolving, but not always in the ways you might expect.For example, the typical human head has actually been getting smaller over the past few thousand years, reversing the earlier evolutionary trend. Meanwhile, East Asians are becoming lighter-skinned – and appear to have more sensitive hearing than their ancestors did 10,000 years ago. John Hawks, an anthropologist and blogger at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, points to such trends as evidence that “recent evolution is real.”
Quoted: This was a “remarkable achievement for his early years,” said Robert Dott, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “He was always making observations of that sort, which contributed to his most famous theories about evolution.”
Noted: Also along these lines, Richard Davidson of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discussed how destructive, negative emotions can impair learning. Recent developments in brain imaging have enabled us to see that brains are plastic. They are constantly changing and growing, even among adults – a phenomenon called “neurogenesis” – and through specific types of training, we can enhance our capabilities for emotional regulation. Therefore, habits of mind and heart can change.
The problem with textbooks is that they offer little accommodation to professors who disagree over how and in what order material should be taught, says M. Ryan Haley, an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkoshâ??s College of Business. On the other hand, Haley says, professorsâ?? ability to cut and paste electronic textbooks according to their own preferences can result in uneven development of students across a single program and foil the expectations of those teaching advanced courses.
A new survey suggests modest movement by colleges away from standards that use strict measures of academic performance and potential. Measures of high school grades and test scores remain extremely important for most colleges in the survey, but on a series of criteria from which colleges were asked to name the ones that have “considerable importance,” some institutions appear less certain than in the past about such factors. The decline was particularly notable for standardized test scores.
Madison golfers Andy North and Steve Stricker will serve as honorary coaches for the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball teamâ??s Red and White scrimmage this Sunday at the Kohl Center.Thereâ??s no word yet whether the teams will be re-named Monona Grove and Edgerton or Florida and Illinois in honor of the honorary coachesâ?? high school and college alma maters.
Noted: Schweitzer completed the display on Oct. 8 with the help of UW-Madison zoology professor Karen Steudel, who fact-checked his research. He plans to keep the exhibit up through October.Schweitzer, an adjunct professor at UW-Madisonâ??s law school and an attorney for the state Department of Regulation and Licensing, has set up similar displays before.
A book by Sean Carroll, a UW-Madison professor of molecular biology and genetics, has been nominated for the National Book Award.
The mother of murdered college student Brittany Zimmermann joined two state legislators yesterday in announcing a bill to make those arrested for felonies give their DNA to the police. Jean Zimmermann of Marshfield said it would save lives. Her daughter was killed near UW Madison a year-and-a-half ago, and police never found a suspect. The bill sheâ??s supporting would add thousands more DNA samples to a state data-base which already collects them from those convicted of felonies.
Tom Olson has been selected as the new chief investment officer for the University of Wisconsin Foundation, succeeding David Erickson, the foundation said Tuesday.
Noted: Campuses, from the University of Wisconsin to the University of Maryland, are producing more professional-level journalism with student manpower. Former Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has used his Northeastern University students to conduct 11 front-page investigations for the Globe since 2007. The report urges more universities to become centers for professional reporting, as they are for medicine, law, science, business, engineering and education.
Quoted: “For a country with a semi-democracy, semi-feudal political system, the end of the present reign puts everything in uncertainty,” said Thongchai Winichakul, a Thai studies scholar at the University of Wisconsin. “As democratic institutions are undermined and all political powers are dependent on the monarchy, the future of the whole country sadly hinges on this transition.”
Marion E. Murphy died Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, at the age of 86. Dr. Murphy practiced medicine at the University of Wisconsin Student Health Service from 1951 until her retirement in 1996.
“Dr. Will” Fey passed away on Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, 2009. Will was the first Ph.D. ever hired by the Department of Psychiatry in the UW Medical School. His intuitive clinical skills earned him a primary role in managing the psychiatry residents and he became the face and the heart of that program for 35 years.
Ronald Lawrence Giese, age 75, died on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, at his home. In 1976 he accepted a position as the Chairman of the Forest Science and Ecology Department at the UW-Madison, until retirement in 1998.
Noted: Rapid evolution suggest that mutations can explain historical events. Got milk tolerance? Your ability to digest lactose as an adult is relatively new in the human species. And, said John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides evidence of rapid evolution over the past 10,000 years.
Quoted: His across-the-board cuts are a blunt ax approach to budget-cutting that provides “some sort of positive political symbolism – everyone sharing the pain,” says Donald Moynihan, associate director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It doesnâ??t differentiate between programs that are essential and programs where resources are perhaps less necessary.”
Quoted: Joanne Cantor is professor emerita and director of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her forthcoming book is â??Conquer CyberOverload: Get More Done, Boost Your Creativity, and Reduce Stress.â?
A full 42 percent of people in Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods smoke — more than twice the national U.S. average — sacrificing $9 on a pack of cigarettes even while most of the households reported earning less than $15,000 a year.
Even more troubling is the fact that a large number of these low-income smokers hold beliefs that make them less likely to quit, according to ongoing research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How a father raises his offspring may be influenced by the care he received from his own father as an infant, new animal research suggests. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison observed the parenting skills of two sets of male California mice: those raised by castrated fathers and those whose fathers weren’t castrated. Castrating California mice makes them less attentive, hands-on fathers.
Quoted: “It is appalling that we have such a high infant mortality rate [among African Americans] in Wisconsin,” says Gloria Sarto, UW-Madison professor of obstetrics and gynecology and co-director of the UW Center for Womenâ??s Health Research. “Overall, birth outcomes in Wisconsin are very good, but in this specific population it is just dismal.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s first permanent branch farming research station is gearing up for its 100th birthday.
Anyone holding out any hope for justice, fairness or creating sound policy in Wisconsin should pay attention to the pre-game activities at Saturdayâ??s Badger Homecoming game. People will observe the only bar exam that graduating UW-Madison law students will ever have to take to practice law in Wisconsin.
After the Department of Homeland Security issued a terror alert for stadiums and arenas back in September, University of Wisconsin police decided not to allow fans to bring bags, backpacks, or purses into Camp Randall Stadium.
On the list of “banned items” at UW home football games are large bags and backpacks, two things UW Police say could hold unknown and potentially dangerous weapons relating to terrorism.
There’s a celebration on the Isthmus this weekend: all in the name of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
It’s homecoming week for UW-Madison, and the culmination of a week’s worth of events started Friday evening with the homecoming parade.
If some professors at the University of Wisconsin at Madison get their way, the first thing a newly minted PhD will learn about is not research or teachingâ??but union dues. This summer Wisconsinâ??s Democratic Governor Jim Doyle gave the schoolâ??s professors the right to unionize. Not all want to, so this fall the faculty lounges are livelier than usual.
Bella’s Salon and Spa in Madison is hosting a month-long Cut-A-Thon to raise money for breast cancer treatment.
Stylists will give all their earnings, including tips, to the UW Paul Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center.
I completed more than a year of service on a federal grand jury in Madison last fall.
And now, as I prepare to discuss the classic jury film “Twelve Angry Men” starring Henry Fonda in the course on democracy I teach at UW-Madison, I’ve been thinking about my experience quite a bit.
Quoted: “The great tag line is: reinvent yourself to survive,” said UW-Madison School of Business professor Mason Carpenter.
After last yearâ??s troubled season, the UW Marching Band made several changes to try to prevent more incidents of hazing.
In his basement, Mike Leckrone stands two feet from a small TV screen, watching as the UW Marching Band forms a “W” on the field of Camp Randall.
With the same intensity of a football coach, he’s reviewing the footage – forward, then backward – from a halftime show during a September game between the Badgers and Wofford College.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky noted the stimulus bill quickly provided significant tax cuts and added payments to Social Security recipients and the unemployed. He said it also made sense to help schools and local governments as they struggle with busted budgets for years to come.
UW-Madison police kicked more people out of Camp Randall Stadium during the Badgersâ?? loss to Iowa on Saturday than they did during the teamâ??s prior two home games.
Question: With so many foods – cereal, milk, orange juice, water – fortified with more vitamins, is it possible to overdose?
Answer: It is possible to get too much of a good thing when it comes to vitamins, says UW-Madison nutritional science professor Sherry Tanumihardjo.
If given a choice between reading the 1,200-page epic novel “War and Peace” on a Kindle digital reader or curling up with an old-fashioned book, itâ??s no contest for UW-Madison student Rule Johnstone.
When I was a kid growing up in Washington Heights at the northern end of Manhattan, a common rhetorical question indicating frustrated annoyance was: â??So whadya wanâ?? frumme?â?
Those of us who work in higher education sometimes evince that same attitude when we feel besieged by increasingly insistent stakeholders â?? students, parents, alumni, trustees, sports boosters, business leaders, and donors, as well as local, state, and federal elected and appointed officials â?? about what we have done for them lately.
The latest figures from the National Science Foundation confirm what many people in Wisconsin already knew: the UW-Madison is one of the nation’s leading research universities.
The numbers also underscore the fact that academic research and development isn’t confined to the labs and research offices of the state’s flagship university. Research and development work is taking place at colleges, universities and similar institutions across Wisconsin, and the total reflects a competitive edge most states would envy.
The lack of details and short time frame for student input on a proposed tuition hike at UW-Eau Claire had members of a UW System Board of Regents committee skeptical that it would be approved by the end of 2009.
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“Its nice to see that it shows that, that the closer humans are to the natural environment, that seems to have a healthy influence,” said Dr. David Rakel, director of integrative medicine and assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Johns Hopkins University led the nation in research and development spending in fiscal year 2008, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking, and most other Washington area institutions maintained their national R&D rankings in a down economy.
Hopkins has ranked as the top research university on the survey since 1979. The school reported $1.7 billion in R&D spending in fiscal 2008. The institutions ranked second through fifth — University of California at San Francisco; University of Wisconsin at Madison; University of Michigan and UCLA — all reported spending in the $800 million to $900 million range.
The closer you live to nature, the healthier youâ??re likely to be. “Itâ??s nice to see that it shows that, that the closer humans are to the natural environment, that seems to have a healthy influence,” said Dr. David Rakel, director of integrative medicine and assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
