Quoted: “If you believe in democratic participation, with citizens coming out and speaking their minds, I donâ??t see how you can really object to town halls,” said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor. “Ultimately, you canâ??t deny the people the right to speak.”
The symbolism is no accident. More than 5,000 incoming University of Minnesota students will gather this week at the new football stadium and, with the help of the marching band, form a huge “M” that will be photographed from above.
Football is returning to the campus after a 28-year exile, and with it comes the hope that the stadium will bring much more than just the sport. Done right, it could get students more engaged, increase alumni contributions and instill a profound sense of pride in a new, grand tradition. Done wrong, it could bring more of the rowdiness that has rocked Big Ten campuses — and the U itself.
Patrick Farrell is ready to face the challenges he will encounter as Lehigh’s provost.
Farrell, who became provost July 24, said he is excited to be part of the university community.
Farrell was provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for two years, with more than 25 years experience as a mechanical engineering professor.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have announced plans in case the H1N1 virus arrives on campus this fall.
Much of the university’s plans include how classes can continue, even if students are not able to attend. Professors are being asked to have online lesson plans ready.
Author Michael Pollan, one of the major architects of the current movement to create a more sustainable, environmentally sound food system, will give a free talk to the public at the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, Sept. 24. The talk will be at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6 p.m.
Pollan is the author of “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” which is the focus of the University’s Go Big Read common-reading project.
Noted: Almost 30 years after the famous prank that saw 1,008 plastic pink flamingos land on UW-Madisonâ??s Bascom Hill, a Madison alder is proposing to elevate the profile of the maligned lawn ornament.
Quoted: Timothy Allen, professor of botany and environmental studies at UW-Madison and an expert on renewable energy, said any health effects are likely self-induced and psychological.
Q. Can people actually speed-read?
A. Yes, but speed-reading has drawbacks, says Mitchell Nathan, a professor of educational psychology at UW-Madison.
Officials from University Health Services discussed ways for students to protect themselves from the H1N1 virus at an information session Thursday.
Dr. Sarah Van Orman, UHS executive director, said she coordinated the meeting to inform people on how to minimize the impact and spread of the diseaseâ??which is also known as swine fluâ??across campus.
According to Van Orman, students should wash their hands frequently, cough and sneeze into their sleeves and keep their hands away from their eyes, nose and mouth to avoid getting sick.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is the latest campus official to urge students and staff to stay away if they begin to feel ill. The move comes as another precaution to prevent a potential widespread outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus.
In an e-mail, Martin acknowledged that it will require people to change their mindsets, as they have to make a decision whether to not show up to commitments when they feel slightly sick.
One of the things University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema likes to tell his players is â??scars are good.â?
Thatâ??s because of the experiences gained in accumulating those scars.
Last seasonâ??s disappointing 7-6 record left scars aplenty on the coaches and players alike. One of the hardest things for Bielema was watching tapes of games and not always recognizing the team in cardinal-and-white jerseys.
Professor Claudia Card was in her second year of teaching in 1968, when Christine Rothschild was murdered on the UW campus. “I’ve never forgotten Christine. She was in my honors philosophy class. She was such a lively and smart participant in the class.”
Forty-one years later, it came as a shock to hear there is a person of interest in the case. “My reaction was Oh gosh,” says Card. “It’s the first clue that I’ve heard that might actually turn out to help solve the case.”
NBC 15 News has confirmed serial killer William Floyd Zamastil is a person of interest.
Hanson worked for 28 years as a policewoman/ detective for the University of Wisconsin Police Department, devoting much of her efforts to crime prevention, especially sexual assault awareness, and was the operational link between the campus administration and the law enforcement community. Frankly, she blazed the way for many women who now call law enforcement their chosen profession and she helped change the attitudes of many men in the then male dominated profession.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is addressing its H1N1 virus concerns for the upcoming fall.Much of the universityâ??s plans include how classes can continue, even if students are not able to attend. Professors are being asked to have online lesson plans ready.”Weâ??re preparing as much as possible for a not entirely predictable event,” said Aaron Brower, UW-Madison Vice-Provost of teaching and learning. “Weâ??ve been preparing for [something like this] for almost two years.”
Quoted: “The new media can be an important tool in a campaign,” said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor. “But itâ??s not by itself a giant killer.”
The University of Wisconsin – Madison will host author Michael Pollan, whose book “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” is the focus of the Go Big Read common-reading project.
Pollan will give a free public talk on Thursday, September 24, at the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Freshman Derrick Borlie is looking forward to a lot of things this year, especially the upcoming wrestling season.
“It’s important that I stay healthy for my school work and my athletics. So I am going to really try hard,” he said.
The UW hopes other students follow in Borlie’s footsteps.
Especially with the expected return of the H1N1 virus, which experts fear will be more dangerous this flu season.
“We worry with larger type cases that this could disrupt our normal activity so that’s why we are taking it so seriously,” says Dr. Sarah Van Orman, Director of University Health Services.
The family of slaying victim Brittany Zimmermann is trying to settle its lawsuit against Dane County.
The mother and father of Zimmermann are asking the county for $150,000 to settle their wrongful death lawsuit, WISC-TV reported.
No decision on the offer has been made.
Union South might be a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean the same is true for Badger Bash.
The popular tailgate party — which is held two hours before every Badger football home game — is typically located at Union South. But this year the UW Marching Band and Bucky Badger will be partying a block west in Engineering Mall. The event will also feature free Babcock Dairy ice cream for the first two games.
Beneficiaries of the new Post 9/11 GI Bill may be more likely to attend four-year universities and enroll in college full time than were their recent veteran counterparts, who typically enrolled at community colleges and attended part time, according to a new report from the American Council on Education.
The Associated Students of Madison and Academic Affairs Committee will be holding their semi-annual book swap Friday, Aug. 28 through Sunday, Aug. 30.
According to Jonah Zenith, chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, students will buy books for 35 percent less than what the University Bookstore sells the same book for and the seller will make 30 percent more than if they were to sell the book back to the bookstore.
I attended the UW-Madison from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s â?? an era when protests, teach-ins, be-ins and the occasional full-scale riot were part of the campus experience.The noise emanating from the students was matched by that from the biggest construction initiative the campus had ever seen, as the baby boomers entered college. During this period the university built some of its largest, most imposing structures, including Van Hise Hall, the Humanities Building, Vilas Hall, Van Vleck Hall and Helen C. White Hall.
Quoted: But the move to test, said Dr. Norm Fost, a University of Wisconsin pediatrician and bioethicist, is based on â??mass hysteria and phenomenal hyperbole.â?
Quoted: It was Prince Damrong who instituted suffrage for Thai women under the 1897 Local Administration Act, which made Siam the first major country in the world in which women and men achieved the vote on an equal basis and without any record of controversy, says Katherine A Bowie, an American professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The retina is a lush layered field of tissue lining the back of the eye, a complex mix of specialized cells that serve as a transfer station where light signals are absorbed and sent to the brain to be translated into sight.
Researchers from University of Wisconsin, Madison have now created these unique retina cells from lowly skin cells — opening the possibility that patients with damaged or diseased retinas might some day be able to grow themselves a cure from their own skin.
The first accounting of women with breast cancer in situ in the United States finds that in 2005 there were 610,171 survivors, but that by 2016 that number is expected to increase to more than 1 million.
Breast cancer in situ now accounts for 20 percent of newly diagnosed breast cancers. It is the early stage of the disease, when it is still confined to the layer of cells in the ducts or lobules of the breasts.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Brian L. Sprague and Amy Trentham-Dietz noted that while there were 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States in 2005, the number of breast cancer in situ survivors was unknown. Their research is reported in the Aug. 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Since the most at-risk population for contracting H1N1 is under age 24, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a flu plan in the works. The plan includes teaching classes from a distance to sick students who would be asked to return home to their parents if they become ill.
“Part of our preparation from an instructional standpoint is also making sure that we’re able to support students that need to stay home. Can they complete their assignments and do what they need to do while they’re not able to go to class?” said Sarah Van Orman, of University Health Services at UW-Madison.
Madison-Dane County Public Health announced its plans to fight the virus’ spread.
It’s estimated nearly 2-million Americans could find themselves in the hospital this Fall, suffering from the H1N1 virus. The message from Madison-Dane County Public Health – get vaccinated.
“Maybe about 40 percent of people who are recommended to get seasonal flu shot have gotten them historically. We would like to see it much higher than that… hopefully around 70-80 percent.”
The university is willing to sell the house, which once served as a home economics practice home, for $1, as long as the purchaser agrees to move it off campus.
But with no serious suitors so far, its future looks dim, said Angela Pakes Ahlman, a UW-Madison architect and project manager.
The home, at 1430 Linden Drive, stands in the way of a major expansion of the main School of Human Ecology building, just to the east. The deadline to find a buyer is Aug. 31.
Swine flu vaccine clinics will be set up at all public and private schools in Dane County this fall, when the illness is expected to start spreading widely again, health officials announced Wednesday.
UW-Madison will take the unusual step of having clinics at Memorial Union and campus recreation centers â?? in addition to dormitories and University Health Services â?? to protect students against the virus, also known as H1N1.
Concerns over a massive outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus has Dane County leaders preparing for the worst.
You can tell it’s almost flu season at Home Health United: packets for immunizations are stacking up. They run more than 1,000 mobile flu immunization clinics. This year, there will be double the vaccinations.
Wisconsin football fans listening to games on the radio this fall will hear few, if any, beer ads for the first time in years.
The university has ended long-standing sponsorship agreements with MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch InBev for advertising during Badgers sports broadcasts. The deals, which brought the university about $425,000 per year, were not renewed after a campus committee recommended doing away with them as part of its fight against binge drinking.
In an effort to control damage from the stateâ??s worst scandal in public higher education, Gov. Patrick J. Quinn on Wednesday appointed to the University of Illinois board of trustees two new members who he said would help restore integrity to the admissions process.
Time Magazine names Wisconsin-based Pollster.com one of the 50 Best Websites of 2009.
The advantage of Pollster.com, according to website co-founder Charles Franklin who is a political science professor at UW-Madison, is that it fills a â??new media nicheâ? with very specific, unbiased political polling data, which he says, had never been done by traditional media.
Badgers-themed Bud Light is not off the shelves in Wisconsin yet, despite a promise from Anheuser-Busch to UW-Madison that it would end the promotion â??in the near future.â?
The red-and-white cans are still being sold at the Woodmanâ??s West Side store, On Campus confirmed Wednesday morning. Readers have also reported seeing the 24-packs at the Woodmanâ??s East Side store and in other parts of the state.
But if you want a pack, you may want to act quickly.
Anheuser-Busch InBev is dropping its “Fan Cans” promotions from communities around the country where colleges have complained that the effort â?? which sells cans of Bud Light in school colors â?? promotes underage drinking and infringes on trademarks.
In some cases, such as at the University of Wisconsin, the campaign hadn’t even made it near campus yet, but the schools didn’t want to wait to tell Anheuser-Busch to drop the program.
“If you don’t protect your trademarks, you eventually lose them, so we felt it was important to at least communicate to them that we didn’t think it was an appropriate tact,” said Vince Sweeney, vice chancellor for university relations at University of Wisconsin.
He said the school in Madison, Wis., received a letter from Anheuser-Busch this week saying it would stop selling the red-and-white cans in the area.
Average national SAT scores for the high school class of 2009 dropped two points compared with last year, a report out today says. And while the population of test takers was the most diverse ever, average scores vary widely by race and ethnicity.On one end, students who identified themselves as Asian, Asian-American or Pacific Islander posted a 13-point gain. On the other end, students who identified themselves as Puerto Rican posted a 9-point drop in average scores.
Student journalists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can breath a sigh of relief. Their biggest critic, a fellow Badger, is on break. At least for now.
“The site will remain up for historical record and in case I break out of retirement,” but that’s not likely, said Danny Spirn, also known as the Critical Badger.
Sex and booze are proving to be hard to sell as far as Goldy Gopher is concerned.
The University of Minnesota is among many colleges across the country objecting to a promotion for Bud Light — selling cans in school colors — that the universities contend encourages underage drinking and infringes on trademarks.
Anheuser-Busch InBev is dropping its “Fan Cans” promotions from communities around the country where colleges have complained that the effort – which sells cans of Bud Light in school colors – promotes underage drinking and infringes on trademarks.
The Federal Trade Commission has discussed the issue with the brewer, both the agency and the St. Louis-based brewer said. Regulators are concerned that cans will be marketed to fans under the legal drinking age of 21, said Janet Evans, a senior attorney at the FTC responsible for alcohol marketing issues.
Ideally, about 50 new academic staff positions would be crated through a significant tuition increase at UW-Eau Claire so more students could graduate in four years, Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich said after Tuesday’s State of the University address.
In addition to those teaching positions, he said advisers and other support staff also should be hired.
A strong hand planted stiffly on my shoulder and sent shivers through my body, freezing every muscle as I stood on my host familyâ??s front lawn in Ethiopia. I slowly turned as my eyes traveled up a large arm and over to the other arm, which was grasping an AK-47. I looked up at his face as he glanced back at two other armed men and his lips parted into a grin.
Quoted: “Like a lot of good things, more and more people began to recognize that these are useful tools,” said Katy Culver, a UW-Madison journalism professor. “These are useful in lives; theyâ??re useful at work, and so more and more people began to adopt them. Also, I think the technology really changed.”
One of the busiest times of the year for downtown Madison is getting started as students begin to move in on campus.
Tuesday is considered “early move-in day” for student employees, resident assistants and other students who need to come to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus a little early.
Experts say up to half of the U-S could be infected by H1N1 this fall and worse, a prediction that thousands could die from the virus.
There is a sobering warning for UW students tonight as they head back to school and into the dorms.
Health officials there say it’s not if any students get H1N1 but how bad the spread will be.
It is the beginning of a new beginning, move in day for some at the UW Madison dorms. A day that’s normally filled with excitement is now coming with a warning, more specifically concerns about a major fall outbreak of H1N1.
According to financial aid officers at UW-Whitewater the tough economy is causing more students to apply for financial aid late in the process.
UW-W has also run out of work-study grants and Wisconsin Higher Education grants for the first time in memory before the fall. Those programs typically run out of money by November or December.
“It makes me feel very bad,” said Carol Miller, director of UW-W’s financial aid office. “That’s the rewarding part of the profession, helping kids be able to go to school.”
There will be no slinging back UW-Madison-themed Bud Light cans this fall, after university officials objected to Anheuser-Busch’s “Fan Cans” program.
UW-Madison is apparently one of several colleges and universities that complained about the promotion — which sells cans of Bud Light in school colors — causing Anheuser-Busch InBev to drop the campaign from communities around the country, according to the Associated Press.
Noted: Potato blight was confirmed this week in a Dane County home garden, the third place the disease was found in potatoes in Wisconsin, a state official said Tuesday.
The Dane County case was found near Oregon in a garden that also had diseased tomatoes. The home is near an organic tomato operation that had been infected, UW-Madison plant pathologist Amanda Gevens said.
Noted: That said, the peer survey is not without value. Which is why the actions of Aaron Brower, vice president for teaching and learning at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, make so little sense. When given the survey to fill out, Brower apparently gave Madison and the New School a “5” (the highest score), Arizona State a “1,” and the other 260 institutions–including, I assume, Harvard & Princeton–a decidedly mediocre “2.
College students say social networking makes them more narcissistic, a national survey reports today â?? and they also believe their generation is the most narcissistic of all. Thatâ??s what a majority of 1,068 college students said when asked about narcissism in a poll on social networking sites in June by Ypulse
As millions of students head back to campus this month, college and university health care workers are stocking up on masks and flu-fighting drugs such as Tamiflu as they encourage students to get both annual seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine in mid-October.A University of Wisconsin committee brainstormed how to get food to sequestered students in dorms and what routine appointments to halt at the student health center if thereâ??s an influx of flu patients, says epidemiologist Craig Roberts. “We think about it almost constantly.”
(Roberts is clinical assistant professor with the School of Medicine and Public Health at University Health Services.)
A Federal Trade Commission attorney criticized a controversial Anheuser-Busch InBev NV marketing campaign that features Bud Light cans decorated with college-team colors, urging the brewer to drop any plans for similar promotions.
Janet Evans, a senior FTC attorney who oversees alcohol advertising, says the federal agency has “grave concern” that the campaign could encourage underage and binge drinking on college campuses. Dozens of schools have protested the promotion, with some threatening legal action over trademark issues.
For the first time, a cyclist has died after crashing in Colorado National Monument, according to the National Park Service.
Stanley Dodson, 65, of Madison, Wis., died Sunday from injuries he suffered when he crashed his bicycle on Rim Rock Drive, according to a news release from the Park Service.
Madison retired this year as a zoology professor at the University of Wisconsin, said Jeff Hardin, chairman of the zoology department.
As millions of students head back to campus this month, college and university health care workers are stocking up on masks and flu-fighting drugs such as Tamiflu as they encourage students to get both annual seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine in mid-October.
A University of Wisconsin committee brainstormed how to get food to sequestered students in dorms and what routine appointments to halt at the student health center if there’s an influx of flu patients, says epidemiologist Craig Roberts. “We think about it almost constantly.”
Scientists genetically â??reprogrammedâ? human skin cells to possess the same properties as those that make up the retina.
The process involved first turning them into pluripotent stem (IPS) cells, which have the potential to develop into virtually every kind of tissue in the body.
Study leader Dr David Gamm, from the University of Wisconsin, said: â??This is an important step forward for us, as it not only confirms that multiple retinal cells can be derived from human IPS cells. but also shows how similar the process is to normal human retinal development.
The National Park Service says 65-year-old Stanley Dodson of Madison lost control of his bike while riding down Rim Rock Drive on Saturday. He was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction, where he died on Sunday.
Dodson worked as a zoology professor at the University of Madison Wisconsin.
It’s the first fatal bicycling accident in the history of the 98-year-old park, which has sweeping views of red rock canyons.
The bridle party on the UW-Madison campus Monday morning was also a coming-out affair.
Six-year-old Mack was introduced as the rookie in an elite police squad: the Madison Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit. Mack managed to look mellow and alert at the same time, qualities that have already endeared the equine unit to residents, tourists, denizens and even wobbly drunks on State Street.
This isnâ??t your fatherâ??s business degree.
Putting the planet on the same plane as profits, UW-Extension is starting a first-of-its kind, online sustainable management program at four University of Wisconsin System campuses this fall.
Itâ??s part of a movement on college campuses to offer “green degrees,” preparing students for jobs where the emphasis isnâ??t just on the bottom line but also the environment.
There are conflicting emotions tugging at Bill Nagy as he deals with the physical and mental scars left from a moped accident that occurred more than a month ago.
Part of Nagy, a junior right guard for the University of Wisconsin football team who has been sidelined throughout the first two weeks of preseason camp because of injuries he suffered in the crash, feels unlucky that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The other part of Nagy feels fortunate his injuries werenâ??t more severe. Heâ??s out indefinitely with strained ligaments in the heel of his right foot and is wearing a cast to protect his injured right wrist, but those injuries will heal in time and Nagy eventually will begin his pursuit for a starting spot he so cherishes.
â??Iâ??m just lucky I didnâ??t hit my head,â? Nagy said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have grown multiple types of retina cells from two types of stem cells, they reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The team led by Dr. David Gamm, an ophthalmologist, and Jason Meyer, a research scientist, said the development could lead to cell therapies, grown from a patientâ??s skin, that repair damaged retinas.
