Quoted: J. Michael Collins, an assistant professor in the department of consumer science at University of Wisconsinâ??s School of Human Ecology in Madison, suggests paying less for a home that you can upgrade periodically when your income is stable and your savings or available credit make it possible.
Erwin K. Welsch passed away on Aug. 30, 2009. Most of his professional career was spent in the Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developing collections on Western European studies, authoring bibliographical guides for the Council for European Studies, and writing and speaking on technology and libraries.
Rita Loose, age 88, passed away Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Rita was a cook for the Theta Chi Fraternity at UW-Madison.
William LaFayette “Bud” Clark, age 87, passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Bud worked for the University of Wisconsin Police and Security from 1969 until his retirement in 1987.
Quoted: The strategy is a creative way for birds to get more bang for their buck, says wildlife ecologist Professor William Karasov, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fear of the H1N1 flu virus is rising at Cornell University in Ithaca New York, where a 20-year-old student died Friday from the H1N1 flu. The university reports more than 500 students have been diagnosed with flu-like symptoms since the fall semester began a few weeks ago.
Quoted: “Right now things look bleak,” said Sarah White, a senior associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a policy group housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Nationally and statewide, unemployment rates are going to continue to rise. … The thing we need to be thinking about thatâ??s very important is keeping our eye on the long term.”
Before this summer, Peter Johnson was living his life exactly the way he wanted it: small-town atmosphere, coaching a WIAA hockey team and managing the Eagle’s Nest Ice Arena. And most importantly, being the consummate family man.
Now the Verona resident is going back to college, so to speak. He recently signed on for a temporary assistant coaching gig with the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s hockey team and is in the midst of off-ice testing with players.
As concern over H1N1 outbreaks continue, sick UW students, faculty and staff will not need to show a doctor’s note when absent during this school year.
In response to federal guidance, the Board of Regents has suspended a rule that requires employees who claim more than five days of sick leave, to have a doctor’s note.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s fall lecture series will focus on the art of hip-hop with lectures by a variety of prominent speakers.
Topics during the nine-week lecture series will cover subjects such as sociology, history, women’s studies, and communication arts.
The 40th anniversary of the Badger Herald student newspaper was Thursday, and the paper celebrated with a special front page that included two articles on the Heraldâ??s founding and growth.
Police are investigating a reported armed robbery of a 20-year-old UW-Madison student early Sunday morning.
The man told Madison police he was walking near the corner of West Gilman and State streets between 2 and 2:30 a.m., when a man with a small knife ordered him to walk to the 200 block of West Gilman Street, where a second man pushed him into a pickup truck or SUV. The two men then drove him to the Dane County Credit Union, 2160 Rimrock Road, where withdrawals on his account were made at an ATM, police said.
Last October 11th, 54-year-old Margaret Hiebing attended the Wisconsin Badgers football game at Camp Randall Stadium. Hiebing was accompanied by her 65-year-old husband, who suffers from dementia.
When Hiebing arrived at her row, she found it completely occupied. While the matter was being resolved, Hiebing sat in the aisle. Pursuant to policy, persons sitting in the aisle are subject to ejection. After seats opened up, several police officers approached Hiebing and demanded that she leave.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema spent last week downplaying the flulike symptoms sweeping through his team. But after beating Fresno State in double overtime Saturday, Bielema acknowledged that more than 40 players were sick earlier in the week and some were feeling ill just hours before kickoff.
Zachary Glembin eagerly eyed the inflated plastic booth set up in the plaza of East Campus Mall, in the University Square complex.
He would be the first to step inside and make a grab for as much play money as he could hang onto in 30 seconds as it flew around in the portable wind tunnel, dubbed the Tycoon Typhoon – play money that would be exchanged for the real thing.
On the first day of classes this fall, some UW-Whitewater students did something no one has experienced on this campus in more than 20 years.
While most recent law graduates spent the summer poring over torts, rules of evidence and property law in preparation for the bar exam, there were hundreds in Wisconsin who marched straight to work as attorneys.
Under Wisconsin’s 139-year-old “diploma privilege,” graduates of UW-Madison’s and Marquette University’s law schools can practice law in the state without passing a bar exam.
Tim Taggart always has been an early riser and a creature of habit, so today will begin like most any other.
He will get up before sunrise and report for work at Camp Randall Stadium. He then will tend to a lengthy checklist of details as food and beverage director for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department.
Q: Why are animals such as coyotes and even bears moving closer to cities?
A: “These species are only re-colonizing their former range, which now includes cities and suburbs,” says Adrian Treves, an assistant professor of environmental studies at UW-Madison.
Wash your hands. Use a mask. Cover your mouth when you cough. Stay home when you’re sick. As we combat the spread of H1N1 this flu season health experts at the UW are doing all they can to stay one step ahead of the virus. And now they have a new weapon: Isolation.
On the UW campus at Carson Gulley Commons, the Pine Room will now serve as an isolation area for students who are sick.
The UW Marching Band is moving on, a year after hazing allegations sidelined the group for a game.
The UW football staple was silenced for the first time in 40 years last October, after investigations revealed some members were participating in serious hazing rituals. The band was suspended for one game. Leaders identified the misconduct as inappropriate use of alcohol and sexualized behavior, by a small percentage of the band members. UW Band Director Mike Leckrone says the band put those behaviors in the past, last year.
It’s a tragedy that seems to bridge the gap between even the strongest political enemies.
UW-Madison students held a memorial service at Bascom Hill Friday evening. It’s all put on with a joint effort- from both the College Republicans and the College Democrats. Representatives from both sides on campus say especially as politics heat up now in Washington, there’s a time to reflect, and a time to come together.
Student volunteers play a big role at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, but hospital officials have made the decision to restrict access for student volunteers in an effort to limit patients’ possible exposure to the H1N1 virus.
All UW-Madison and Edgewood students volunteering at UW Hospital and Clinics are suspended because of the high number of students already infected with H1N1, or the so-called swine flu.
When critics question the validity of the calculations U.S. News & World Report uses to rank colleges, one answer the editors of the magazine have given is to note that it publishes not only the total rank, but also data on how colleges perform in the various categories that go into the rankings. So a prospective student who cares more about faculty resources or competitiveness or any other factor can see how colleges do there, and judge accordingly.
Tuition for University of Minnesota graduate and professional students ranks in the middle to high range compared with the University of California-Berkeley, Penn State and other “peer” institutions. The price that in-state dentistry students pay tops the list. The average U medical student graduated with $137,268 in debt from that degree alone in 2008.
Quoted: Tom Reason, acting admissions director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said UW System colleges do not ask applicants whether they have been suspended from school.
A committee of University of Wisconsin System regents approved plans Thursday for an $81.4 million payroll system despite concerns over the cost and uncertainty surrounding the consulting firm on the project.
Rudolph S. Wolff, age 87, of Portage, died on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. He worked for the University of Wisconsin as the chief engineer for Wisconsin Public Radio.
Whales have songs, and so do birds, of course. But does music lift the spirits of a swallow? Do humpbacks hum to make themselves mellow?
Although bird songs and many other animal vocalizations have been the subject of intense scientific study, the effect of music on the moods of creatures other than humans has remained mysterious.
But a provocative new study, spawned by an unusual partnership between a cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra and a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has provided some of the first evidence that humans are not the only species whose heartstrings are pulled by music.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said he’ll either delay or halt plans to build a new on-campus hockey complex if the pace of fund-raising for the project doesn’t pick up soon.
“We flat-out have to do better,” Alvarez said. “It would be nice if some of our hockey guys would step up.”
UW athletic director Barry Alvarez alerted Fresno State earlier in the week about the flu-like symptoms the Badgers players came down with this week. But Bielema said he has had no contact with anybody at Fresno State.
While the Badgers’ appear to be getting through the outbreak, Bielema understands the Bulldogs will likely be concerned.
A new initiative at UW-Madison is designed to make a larger point about what it means to engage in a process of integrated, rigorous and unfettered thinking.
The entryway to the basement of Carson Gulley Commons on the UW-Madison campus isnâ??t blocked off with hazard tape, but visitors might want to enter at their own risk.
Carson Gulley Commons will be serving more than food if swine flu cases continue on campus.
UW-Madison housing officials, in conjunction with University Health Services, are providing students who are sick with the H1N1 virus with rooms on campus where they can recover and avoid spreading the virus to others.
College students invariably share close quarters in dorm rooms, drink from the same cups at parties, cough and sneeze on each other while in class. Within days of the first reported fever, the football teamâ??s front line, half a sorority and an entire hallway in a freshman dorm are all sick.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison reported 198 new cases for the week ending last Saturday. More than 10 members of the universityâ??s football team have reported symptoms since Sunday.
Sarah Van Orman, executive director of health services, said the university is telling healthy students H1N1 â??is something they need to take seriously but they donâ??t need to panic about or be afraid of.â? The administration isnâ??t urging the cancellation of any events or any extra precautions beyond good hygiene and staying away from people who seem to be sick. â??We arenâ??t asking students to change what theyâ??d normally do.â?
There are hundreds of potential swine flu cases on the UW-Madison campus. UW-Madison officials confirm the H1N1 flu virus is on campus. Yet they stress no one has been hospitalized. Student Stephanie Coleman was diagnosed with H1N1 in the spring and was told she has it again.
A key UW Board of Regents committee voted to support an $81 million dollar computer overhaul to the UW systemâ??s payroll program, after the top executive with the projectâ??s chief consultant told members his firmâ??s work was sound, despite a continuing federal investigation.
C.R. “Skip” Johnson, died on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. Skip was one of the first three graduates of the Wood Program at RIT, and continued his education at many places, including the UW-Madison, where he was a professor of woodworking from 1967 until his retirement.
Scientists have unraveled the genome of the parasite that sparked the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, revealing why it was such a killer back then and why itâ??s still a scourge today.
Do they even talk? I just ran across new study that suggests they do. First, my own observations, which as any scientist will tell you are very unscientific by virtue of being anecdotal.
J.J. Watt was napping on his couch Tuesday afternoon when he got a text message on his cell phone:”Iâ??m outside.” The message was from Connie Watt, the mother of the University of Wisconsin sophomore defensive end. J.J. Watt, like many of the UW players, was battling through the flu that was spreading on the campus and hit the football team late Saturday.
Fresno State isnâ??t taking any chances of contracting the flu that appears to have spread on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Researchers studying how to improve graduation rates at public colleges and universities have come up with a surprising and counter-intuitive finding: Many students may fail to complete a bachelorâ??s degree not because the work is too hard â?? but because theyâ??re not challenged enough.
The University of Wisconsin System acknowledged Wednesday the high-priced consultant working on its $81.4 million payroll project is reeling from an accounting scandal that is raising questions about its future.
Wisconsin state employees used credit cards for inappropriate purchases, including a trip to Las Vegas, a laptop computer, a high-definition television, and lodging at a Mexican hotel, auditors said Wednesday.
William Bowen, Matthew Chingos and Michael McPherson had already begun their study of graduation data at public colleges and universities when President Obama this year challenged America to lead the world in educational attainment by 2020. Now, they hope findings, published today in Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at Americaâ??s Public Universities by Princeton University Press, will help achieve that goal. The authors found that minorities and students from poor or less educated families have markedly lower graduation rates and take longer to earn degrees than their more privileged peers. Thatâ??s true even when other variables, including academic qualifications, are taken into account.
Almost three-quarters (73%) of American colleges and universities are reporting cases of influenza-like illnesses among students, with the highest rates in the Southeast and Midwest, the American College Health Association says.
Van Galder Bus Co. is starting double-decker bus service Thursday to serve growing demand for travel from Madison to downtown Chicago. The closed-top, two-level bus can carry 81 people, up from the 57-passenger capacity in a regular coach-style bus, spokesperson Amanda Mullin said.
Researchers from UW-Madison now have a better understanding of the genomic structure of late blight, a disease that is attacking tomato and potato crops in Wisconsin this year. The studies eventually may result in the discovery of ways to stop the blight.
For the first time, swine flu has hit Marquette University.One student has a confirmed case of the swine flu, and that student is now recovering.
While itâ??s been nearly a year since Washburn University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison settled on an agreement dealing with the “W” logo, the Washburn athletic department is still feeling the after effects.”Well obviously the changes will be ongoing because we have the “W” on our field at Yager Stadium and we have it in Lee Arena and different places,” said Loren Ferre, Washburn athletic director. “And itâ??s on our uniforms so the change will be gradual and as those things wear out and need to be replaced, weâ??ll have the “W” with the Washburn across it that weâ??ll be using.”
Their battle with the flu isnâ??t over, but Brian Lucas, UW Director of Athletic Communications, says the number of players infected hasnâ??t gone up.”Obviously itâ??s something weâ??re cautious about,” said defensive lineman J.J. Watt. “Our trainers have been doing a great job of getting our hands sanitized, giving us everything we need to be safe.
On the UW-Campus an H1N1 flu outbreak is now confirmed!University Health Services say they are seeing a marked increase in patients with flu-like symptoms, and studies now confirm H1N1 is causing a majority of these symptoms.University Health Officials tell us well over two hundred students have been evaluated.
The University of Wisconsin Badgers play Fresno State Saturday at Camp Randall, but just who will be playing became a real question Tuesday as a flu outbreak appears to be spreading.
A consulting firm set to win millions in business from the University of Wisconsin System is facing an investigation and numerous lawsuits over accounting irregularities, and the systemâ??s top official is reviewing the firmâ??s participation in a planned computer project.
The H1N1 virus continued its spread across college campuses nationwide Wednesday, but here in Madison, the University of Wisconsin says thereâ??s no need to panic.H1N1 is so widespread that doctors both here in Madison and nationwide say if you have any flu-like symptoms itâ??s safe to say you have some form of the virus.
The University of Wisconsin wants to phase out the coal at the Charter Street heating plant. The university presented its case at a public hearing Wednesday evening.
The Madison woman who was tasered by UW police officers as they ejected her from a Badger football game at Camp Randall stadium will receive $50,000Â in a settlement of a federal lawsuit.
Mark Krasberg avoids the worst weeks of Wisconsinâ??s harsh winters by lighting out for sunny Antarctica. There, at the bottom of the world, the UW-Madison physics researcher is helping to build a $270 million telescope, called Ice Cube, that promises to bring into focus some of the most violent and intriguing phenomena in the universe.
On the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, so many students are visiting University Health Services with flu symptoms that a so-called “surge plan” has been put into effect.
