University of Wisconsin officials are advising fans to keep their carry-on items small as they enter Camp Randall this season.Duffel bags, coolers, strollers, balls flags and banners will not be allowed in, officials said.
The author of a book about food that has sparked debate on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus gave a lecture Thursday night in which he presented his ideas to supporters and critics in attendance.
Two men are recovering this week at UW Hospital after surgeons there performed the state’s first domino transplant, an organ-switching procedure that has only been done 100 times since 1996.
Joe Stoikes, a Madison cabinet maker, needed a new liver because he was suffering from familial amyloid polyneuropathy, or FAP, a potentially fatal rare genetic condition in which amyloid protein builds up in the liver, intestines, nerves and heart.
Lynsey Marie Addario, a 1995 graduate of UW-Madison and a photojournalist who has “exposed the tragic consequences of human conflict,” has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, also called “the genius grant.”
He isn’t an elite athlete or part of a rock band, but journalist Michael Pollan packed the Kohl Center Thursday night with similar star power.
Thousands of UW-Madison students, faculty, alumni and community members came to hear Pollan talk about his book, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” which was chosen for the university’s first common book read program, Go Big Read.
Efforts to track H1N1 on college campuses this fall have focused almost exclusively on students, but the University of New Mexico has introduced Absence Tracking, a daily survey to keep tabs on the numbers of faculty and staff who call in sick.
Thousands of students and faculty and staff members at the University of California staged rallies and walkouts on Thursday on the systemâ??s 10 campuses to protest sharply rising tuition, employee furloughs, and deep cuts in state support for the university.
As president of the University of California, the most prestigious of the state-university systems, you have proposed that in-state tuition be jacked up to more than $10,000, from $7,788. Are you pricing education beyond the reach of most students?
In 2009, U.C. adopted the Blue and Gold Program, guaranteeing that no student with a family income below $60,000 would pay any fees, and this guarantee will continue in 2010. Thatâ??s the short answer.
We’re told that our life flashes before our eyes just before we die, but Todd Yeagley is proof that it can happen in the midst of drawing a new breath.
Yeagley was born and raised within the confines of the Indiana men’s soccer program, which is as dynastic as they come at the major college level.
David J. Miller of Janesville, died on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. He served on the faculties of the University of Missouri, North Dakota State University, Iowa State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Minnesota – Duluth.
Robert W. Ahrens, age 75, died on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. He worked seven years in the Plant Pathology Extension doing applied research.
As a political observer following the shift occurring in our understanding about agriculture, I cant help but be reminded that change does not come peacefully. In fact, as Michael Pollan prepares to speak tonight to a concert arena filled with hungry minds in Wisconsin — after his book, In Defense of Food, was chosen as the University of Wisconsin-Madisons “Go Big Read” common reading for the university — a group called In Defense of Farmers has urged farmers to protest him by wearing green.
Community colleges, acknowledging increased attention to their role in preparing todayâ??s workforce for a global economy, are looking for new ways to send more students abroad.”Community colleges that do not offer education abroad are not meeting their mandate of preparing for their future roles in a global economy,” says Rosalind Raby, director of California Colleges for International Education, a non-profit membership group.
Besides the brochures, application forms and give-away trinkets spread on the table in front of her, Claudia Colnar keeps a U.S. map handy. Inevitably, “Whereâ??s Wyoming?” is the first question sheâ??ll get when recruiting Vietnamese students to her community college.
Cost has increasingly become a deciding factor in where students enroll in college, but the economic downturn has made this back-to-school season tougher than usual for many families. Job losses and dwindling savings arenâ??t the only factors.Michigan lawmakers did not include a state-funded scholarship program in its budget this year, and future funding is shaky for similar programs in several other states.
One best-selling book advocating fresh, local foods is shaking up America’s Dairyland.
Students across University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus, organic grocers, scientists, and dairy farmers large and small have jumped into the debate on how food is produced and eaten. The discussions started last month when the university began giving Michael Pollan’s book, “In Defense of Food,” free to all incoming freshmen and school officials urged professors to use it in class.
State health officials reported Wednesday that the H1N1 â?? or swine flu â?? so far is no more severe than the seasonal flu in Wisconsin, similar to its effect in the rest of the nation.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine now houses one of the premier research labs for Alzheimer’s Disease.
It is a debilitating disease, affecting 160,000 families in Wisconsin. Alzheimer’s patients suffer memory loss, poor judgment, and language problems — making treatment difficult
Tickets for the Culver’s Camp Randall Hockey Classic continue to move slowly — around 25,000 have been sold — but the inaugural event scheduled for Feb. 6, 2010 made progress on one front Wednesday.
Faceoff times were set for the first outdoor games at Camp Randall. The UW women’s team will face Bemidji State at 2 p.m. The UW men’s team will then take on Michigan at 5 p.m.
Until two weeks ago, Brian Wozniak was a relatively unknown player on the University of Wisconsin football team.
That all changed with one short but eye-opening revelation from the freshman tight end on the Internet. Shortly after noon on Sept. 8, Wozniak broke the news that a flu outbreak had hit the Badgers. “45 uw football players out due to swine flu symptoms … oh boyyy,” was how Wozniak put it on Twitter, a popular social-media website.
“In Defense of Food” is everywhere on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this fall, and the best-selling book is sparking a lot of debate.
Author Michael Pollan’s book urging readers to “eat food, mostly plants, not too much” is the subject of a new program in which incoming freshmen can get the book free and many professors are using it in classes. Pollan will give a lecture on Thursday at the Kohl Center.
Wisconsin is kicking off the Big 10 football season Saturday, but a federal warning for all sports stadiums by the Department of Homeland Security has UW-Madison taking a closer look at security at Camp Randall.
The admissions scandal at the University of Illinois claimed its highest-ranking victim on Wednesday, when B. Joseph White, president of the three-campus system, announced he was resigning, effective December 31.
Officials with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point say they are ready to handle an outbreak of H1N1or swine flu, but are working on plans that would deal with the impact in classrooms.How would attendance and grading be affected if large numbers of students or faculty members missed weeks of class? What if certain campus buildings are closed, but not others? Would students be able to complete the semester?
From Facebook to YouTube to personal blogs, future doctors are crossing the line â?? and getting in trouble. A new study finds most medical school deans surveyed said they were aware of students posting unprofessional content online, including photos of drug paraphernalia and violations of patient privacy. Some infractions resulted in warnings, others in being expelled.
Wisconsinâ??s First Lady made stops at some high schools in Northeast Wisconsin to talk with students about the Wisconsin Covenant.She told the freshman class at Green Bay East High that by signing the covenant, students pledge to keep a B average in high school and take classes that prepare them for college. In return, the state assures them a spot at a Wisconsin state school and financial help if they need it.
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has chosen a book that many consider anti-agricultural for the schoolâ??s reading and discussion program; and thatâ??s prompting farm groups and ag industry leaders to become more vocal about their own positions over farm production practices.
Quoted: “For people like Brecht, the collapse in 1929 was a confirmation of suspicions of market capitalism had a destructive power,” says Marc Silberman, who studies the work of Bertolt Brecht at the University of Wisconsin.
The H1N1 outbreak at UW-Madison is not over, but it’s not nearly as bad as it was a couple weeks ago.
The number of students University Health Services treated for flu like symptoms last week is way down. In the week ending Saturday the 19th, 168 students had symptoms including fever, body aches and coughing. That’s down more than 50 percent from the week before, when 345 students reported those symptoms.
A law group is urging the state to improve how DNA samples are submitted to the database.
A week ago a State Justice Department Review discovered DNA from at least 12,000 inmates was missing from the database.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project works on 30 to 40 cases of inmates who they believe could have been wrongfully convicted with DNA as the backbone of their arguments.
The Big Ten Network won’t have much prime time for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team this season.
BTN officials released a nine-game lineup of telecasts Tuesday. The only live appearance by the Badgers is when they host Michigan in the inaugural Culver’s Camp Randall Classic outdoor game Feb. 6.
The only other BTN exposure for UW will come March 5 when it plays at Minnesota in the second-to-last Western Collegiate Hockey Association game of the regular season. That will be shown on a tape-delayed basis at 10 p.m.
When the bad news was delivered late last month, Brooke Ammerman spent some time wallowing in disappointment before her mood changed for the better.
Ammerman was among 41 candidates invited to try out for a spot on the U.S. women’s hockey team that will play in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. When roster cuts were announced Aug. 24, the standout center at the University of Wisconsin wasn’t among the surviving 23.
It’s Go Big Read week on the UW-Madison campus and in the Madison community.
Students and others who have read Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” – the inaugural book chosen for a university common book reading program – will finally get to see the author in person Thursday night at the Kohl Center.
Thereâ??s a push for the state Supreme Court to intervene in the stateâ??s domestic partner registry battle. Lambda Legal, along with FAIR Wisconsin, filed papers today asking the high court to toss out a lawsuit filed in July by the Wisconsin Family Council.
In nine days, Wisconsin residents will know if the “horribly hilly” climbs in western Dane County will put Olympian cyclists to the test in 2016.
The International Olympic Committee is scheduled to choose a host city for the 2016 Olympics on Oct. 2 in Copenhagen. If Chicago is chosen, mountain biking and road cycling events would be held in and around Madison and Mount Horeb.
Isn’t it nice when an idea works like you hoped it would?
That’s how a trio of higher education researchers (and the many high-profile groups that supported their work) are probably feeling about the experiment they engineered (described in this 2007 article) to see if simplifying the process of applying for federal financial aid would increase the likelihood that low-income Americans apply for aid, receive it, and enroll in college.
Steep investment losses have caused painful cutbacks at some of the nationâ??s best-known universities over the most recent fiscal year and have prompted questions about whether their endowments are taking too much risk.
Dr. Clarence W. Little Jr., age 86, died on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. After retiring from industry, Clarence joined the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin, Madison until his retirement in 1990.
Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eaterâ??s Manifesto, is scheduled to speak Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis., as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s new common book program known as Go Big Read.Local farmers are reacting to Pollanâ??s scheduled appearances by organizing a show of solidarity and have invited all farmers, students, agriculture professionals and â??people who are thankful for our safe abundant food supplyâ? to attend the event and wear the color green.
Several friends from outside Wisconsin sarcastically questioned why Wisconsin scheduled a football game against Wofford.I understand that UW-Madison needs a seventh home game to make enough money to pay the bills. But instead of paying Wofford $500,000 to come to Camp Randall, why not keep the money closer to home. Instead of Wofford, why not pay Whitewater to come and play?
Attention, tweeting college football players: Wisconsin’s coaches may be following you.
Adding a twist to the micro-blogging craze that is Twitter, Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema said Monday he likes to use it to keep tabs on what opposing players are saying.
They’re not known for being pristine. Madison’s lakes and the presence of algae go hand in hand.
Yet when UW limnology professor Jake Vander Zanden and his students cast a net into Lake Mendota’s University Bay ten days ago, they got quite a surprise.
Two former University of Wisconsin basketball recruits were formally charged Monday with burglary for allegedly walking into unlocked dormitory rooms and taking electronic equipment.
Everybody has to have a hungry heart this week in Madison, with plenty of events leading up to the big Food for Thought Festival this weekend. In conjunction with the UW-Madison’s Go Big Read initiative, the good folks over at the Ebling Library in the UW Health Sciences Learning Center have put together It’s Good For You! 100 Years of the Art & Science of Eating, an exhibit that draws from the collections of libraries across campus.
A UW-Madison student was charged Monday with using the Internet to arrange a meeting for sex with a 15-year-old girl.
But Anthony P. Vanderscheuren, 23, was actually chatting online with Clark County Sheriff’s Detective Jeffrey Baumgarten, who was posing in a Yahoo chat room as a 15-year-old girl on Sept. 2 when he was contacted by Vanderscheuren, according to a criminal complaint charging Vanderscheuren with using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime.
A luxury suite for the big football game on campus just isnâ??t the status symbol it used to be, and a number of college athletics programs are paying the price for their donorsâ?? belt tightening.
A vacant big box grocery store in Oshkosh has a new lease on life. UW-Oshkosh is re-using the store as a home for campus maintenance services. And it’s making room on the school’s main campus for an energy efficient classroom building.
Big box stores get criticized for draining shoppers away from mom and pop shops downtown. When they go out of business or move to a new, even bigger box they create vacant eyesores that can attract vandals or squatters. But sometimes they do get re-used. An old Best Buy in Green Bay is now a Goodwill and coffee shop. A former IGA in Oshkosh is a St. Vincent De Paul. Now, another old grocery store, a CUB Foods across town has been transformed into a Campus Services center for UW- Oshkosh. (Third item.)
Ronald J. “Putt” Puttkammer, age 70, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. He retired in 1993 from the UW Physical Plant, where he worked as a storekeeper for 28 years.
Students who get kicked out of a University of Minnesota football game for drunken rowdiness won’t be allowed back next time unless they pass an alcohol breath test at the gate â?? one of the most extreme attempts yet by colleges to curb misbehavior in the stands.
The NCAA does not track how many schools require breath tests after a drinking offense. But Ervin Cox, assistant dean of students at the University of Wisconsin, said he believes his school and Minnesota are the only ones with such a policy.
Wisconsin officials said the “Show and Blow” program has improved the atmosphere at Camp Randall Stadium, which is also dry.
To find where Jim Leonhard stands tallest, drive east from Minneapolis on the country road Route 8. Enter Packers country, past fields of corn and oats, past the â??Population 105â? signpost.
In Tony, Wis., Jim Leonhard remains their proudest export
Visitors are left with no doubt as to the identity of Tonyâ??s favorite son: a 5-foot-8 athletic overachiever.
Near the Tony Depot, in the center of this speck of a town in northwest Wisconsin, stop at the billboard that makes Leonhard blush, painted with his likeness and adorned with his college accomplishments. The one that says â??Walk-on to All-American.
Watching his son run downfield as a receiver for the University of Wisconsin this season has been a frantic experience for Al Toon. Toon is more than just a concerned parent.
For eight years, Toon was the do-everything wide-receiver for the Jets after a stellar career at Wisconsin. He took ballet classes, was a ferocious blocker who never spiked the ball after he scored and led the Jets in receptions for six straight seasons.
But Toon’s career was cut short because of a rash of concussions that left him battling vertigo and depression.
Quoted: â??What happened in New York City was successful because of federal, state, and local communication, voluntary vaccinations, and a public-information blitzâ??and thatâ??s whatâ??s needed in an any future potential pandemic, or epidemic,â? says Judith W. Leavitt, professor of History of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Bruce Jones, a University of Wisconsin dairy economist, reported that dairy producers in Wisconsin should gain less than 50 cents per hundred pounds from the temporary rise in the price support.
At first glance, Laura Olear’s painting look simply like colorful abstract art. This one looks vaguely like raspberries, rendered larger-than-life in dark red and bluish-green. That one could be the inside of a walnut. Another looks like a beehive.
But a closer look at a description hanging next to a ghoulish mask reveals it to be a massively inflated rendering of Mononucleosis. Those raspberries are actually Herpes. The walnuts are HIV. The beehive is a virus related to E. Coli.
Olear’s “Pathological Processes” is a series of digital prints, watercolors and large-scale oil paintings hanging in the Ebling Library. The art lines the hallways around the second floor of the Health Sciences Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The correlation between venture capital investments and productivity growth was researched by Masako Ueda, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She analyzed total factor productivity (or TFP, which is a measure of innovation) in several industries.
“So you’re an actor?” goes an old joke in both Manhattan and Hollywood. “Which restaurant?”
The image of the starving artist may be romantic, but that’s about it. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is combating uncertainty for people contemplating arts careers with a groundbreaking program called Arts Enterprise. It includes a public lecture series.
Quoted: Yet the economic benefit of marriage isnâ??t what it used to be. In a chapter of a book just out from the Russell Sage Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, two social scientists show that since 1969 the marriage premium has subsided. Maria Cancian, a professor of public affairs and social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deborah Reed, director of research at Mathematica Policy Research, set out to study how the changing make-up of American families has affected the number of people below the poverty line. Considering how the rate of marriage has fallen and the rate of divorce has risen, the researchers expected the number of people living below the poverty line to grow by 2.6%. But when they looked at the data, poverty had increased by less than half that amount.
Quoted: James Johannes, associate dean for executive education at the UW-Madison School of Business, said the price of gold is primarily determined by three factors: Demand for gold for jewelry and industrial purposes; demand for gold as a hedge against inflation; and demand for gold as a substitute for any currency holding.
Pledge week, dorm picnics, a carnival at the union – the first weeks of college at UW-Madison are jam-packed with activities for new students.
That is, if you’re a freshman.
But transfer students – who arrive at the university each fall by the hundreds – say their reception traditionally has been a little cold.
Q: Is bottled water better for you than tap water?
A: It depends on your tap water.
“Bottled water may be appropriate where tap or well water is contaminated, where it has high levels of chemicals such as nitrates,” says Barbara Ingham, food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That would be an excellent reason to choose bottled water.”
