It’s one of the most common forms of cancer in women. Thursday night, the UW football Badgers and the Susan G. Komen Foundation teamed up to tackle the disease.
Breast cancer survivors, their families and supporters got a special behind the scenes look at the lives of UW football players.
It was all part of “Football 101” — a fundraising event for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
The Kollege Klub, a popular campus bar, will close its doors for 30 days this winter.
Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee suspended the bar’s license on Thursday.
The Downtown bar Kollege Klub would close for 30 days in December and January under an agreement reached Thursday by the barâ??s management and the city attorneyâ??s office in response to a police complaint listing multiple fights and other incidents at the bar in 2007 and 2008.
Police say a man fell 30 to 40 feet in a construction zone on the UW campus overnight.
It happened on the north side of Wendt Library.
Investigators say it appears the 24-year-old was trying to enter a construction site just north of the building when he fell. He was taken to the hospital with head injuries.
Bill Gierach is moving out and taking the stuff he does want.
And stuff he can’t bring he says he’s left for anyone who wants it.
“There is too much we can’t go home with,” he says.
He’s not alone, student move in is a week away, but already box springs, couches and clothes line the curb all up for grabs.
Wisconsinâ??s agricultural industry has both high points and low points, according to a new UW-Extension report.
Farming currently generates more than $59-billion in economic activity, and employs several hundred thousand residents. That finding delights Steve Deller, a UW-Madison professor of agricultural economics and one of the reportâ??s authors. He says taking on niche markets and expanding beyond dairy has really helped Wisconsinâ??s farm industry.
When the Chicago Tribune revealed in May that the University of Illinois had used a “clout” admissions system — in which trustees and senior administrators pressured admissions officers on behalf of politically connected applicants — the university insisted that its admissions system was fundamentally fair and running well.
A woman had a quizzical look on her face as she passed through the McClain Center on a recent Friday morning.
She had stumbled upon one of the University of Wisconsin football team’s summer workouts. It easily could have been mistaken for some sort of extreme Olympics competition.
At the entrance to the facility were players using their hands and feet to move up and down a ramp in what is known as a “bear crawl.”
It’s a ladies’ only event at Camp Randall tonight. Football 101 is a breast cancer fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, hosted by Badger Football Coach Brett Bielema.
“We’ll go through a tour of the facility, see every aspect of our program, the weight room, the training room, academic seminar, everything that touches our players’ lives beyond Camp Randall,” says Bielema, who says he and his staff will also brief the women attending the $60 event on “basic football elements.”
More deer ticks mean more Lyme disease cases but that’s not all you need to worry about. UW Entomologist Susan Paskewitz, says climbing number of Lyme Disease cases is tied to an increased deer tick population. But that is not all the ticks can carry. Although a doctor may give you a clean bill of health on a Lyme test, she advises you ask about other pathogens the insects may carry. An example would be anaplasma which may lead to flu like symptoms.
The Department of Energy has granted $8 million in federal stimulus money to the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center for plant cell wall imaging and sustainability research.
Half will be allocated to plant cell wall imaging and the other $4 million is for sustainability research.
After an eight-week investigation found that the state’s culture of political dealmaking seeped into the admissions process at the University of Illinois, a state panel called Thursday for resignations and reforms to move the school past the embarrassing scandal.
To start, the Illinois Admissions Review Commission urged the university’s trustees to resign and had harsh words for the top administrators — President B. Joseph White and Chancellor Richard Herman — for acting unethically by enabling an admissions process that allowed subpar students sponsored by powerful people to get into the state’s most prestigious public campus.
Charles F. Koval, age 71, lost his valiant battle to multiple myeloma on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. Chuck enjoyed a long, fulfilling career as a professor and administrator at UW-Madison.
A rare U.S. heart transplant replaced the defective heart on the right side of a man’s chest with a re-engineered normal left-side donor heart, doctors
said.
The six-hour operation at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison is believed to be Wisconsin’s first, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The procedure is probably done only once every four or five years in the United States, the newspaper said.
Jim Leonhard chuckles each time he goes back home in the offseason and sees the huge, full-color sign that greets visitors.
Standing in a grassy field in tiny Tony, Wis. â?? a village with a population of 105 â?? is an homage to the New York Jets safety that proudly proclaims: â??Welcome to Tony. Hometown of Jimmy Leonhard. Walk-on to All-American.â?
Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Temte, a family physician at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a member of the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said much of the flu vaccine supply is routinely ordered early in the year, but he thinks large HMOs, university clinics and drugstore chains have been making big orders to get patients in early.
Quoted: “DEET has been used for a very long time with very few bad outcomes,” added Susan Paskewitz, a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “People have killed themselves by drinking it, but you can do that with alcohol or salt. And a few have had neurological symptoms after application for long periods and high doses.”
Wisconsin researchers have released a free software tool that could help Web surfers susceptible to certain seizures.
An estimated one in 4,000 people has photosensitive epilepsy and could suffer a seizure when exposed to bright colors and rapidly flashing images. The condition gained prominence in 1997 when more than 800 Japanese children were hospitalized after viewing a cartoon. Since then, television directors, video-game makers and others have tested their content to make sure it doesn’t reach seizure-inducing thresholds.
Web developers, though, didn’t have simple ways to run such tests. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to change that.
A popular bar near the University of Wisconsin-Madison that police unsuccessfully tried to penalize this year for a series of fights and underage drinking incidents likely will still face sanctions.
Madison police have filed a new complaint against the Kollege Klub, 529 N. Lake St., leveling the same charges it did in May when it tried to block its annual liquor license renewal.
Police agreed to withdraw that complaint after learning the city had negotiated a deal with the bar owners to place conditions on their license.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University released its schedule for the 2009-2010 season, and it includes an eclectic range of production from around the world.
Audiences will see plays that bring cultural experiences and enduring questions to the stage from generations of playwrights from France, Spain and Norway. There is also a trip planned to Beaverland, Japan, and an enchanted forest.
Usually it is not good news when I show up in somebody’s office on the campus.
Oh, it’s good news for me. I’m going to get an answer that I need or have a problem solved. It’s just not good news for the person I’m visiting.
“Being Bucky” is a tough ticket no more.
The documentary, which was named the Audience Winner last spring at the Wisconsin Film Festival, just came to DVD. It chronicles a year in the life of the seven students who put on the Bucky Badger suit and represent the University of Wisconsin-Madison at functions throughout the state.
For the first time since forming in 2002, the UW-Madison IEEE team won first place in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. The team’s robot, “Paradroid” also placed in the top 10 in the navigation and autonomous challenges.
The robot survived a significant portion of the course before failing. It was the team’s best competition showing since they first entered in 2002.
Madison Police are cracking down on bicyclists who break traffic laws. A traffic sting last week netted ten bicyclists for running red lights. Seven more are planned in four-hour blocks for the next two months.
The issue had us wondering, how well do bikers and drivers follow basic rules of the road.
We picked a four-way stop that saw heavy traffic and counted. The findings weren’t surprising. Whether four wheels or two, we are bad about stopping at stop signs.
It was one intersection, for one hour, on one day, but it could be anywhere.
“I haven’t seen any that have come close to a complete stop yet,” said DOT state program manager Larry Corsi shortly after staking out the intersection of Linden and Babcock on the UW-Madison campus with 27 News.
UW System officials are accusing some union leaders of trying to deny faculty and staff the right to vote on whether or not they want to join a union.
The latest biennial budget signed by Governor Doyle grants thousands of faculty and staff the right to form unions, to help them bargain for wages, benefits and working conditions.
But last week the UW System chastised the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), for trying to do an end run around the conventional union organizing process. AFT wants to re-classify some academic staff through what’s known as unit clarification. The result would be that many people would simply be absorbed into a union without a vote. (Third item.)
Nearly all public law schools rely on a combination of tuition, public money and private donations or revenue from endowments. Public funding has been on the decline for decades at many public law schools, but state funding cuts were especially steep this year as legislators struggled to address deep budget deficits. Some law schools are looking to tuition to help fill those funding gaps.
“We face a cut in state funding, like many other schools, and a decline in the revenue that our endowment produces,” said Kenneth Davis, dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. “Our tuition differential will account for some of that cut funding.”
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have developed an engine that runs on a mix of diesel and gasoline that produces fewer emissions and is as much as 20 per cent more fuel-efficient than conventional engines.
Led by mechanical engineering professor Rolf Reitz, a research team at the school presented their findings at a diesel engine conference in Detroit sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Every semester, “service learning” programs send students out to local community organizations to get their hands dirty, putting to use the concepts they learn in the classroom. The intended outcome is a symbiotic relationship between the college and the community. In The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning(Temple University Press), Randy Stoecker, professor of community and environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin, and Elizabeth Tryon, community partner specialist for the Human Issues Studies Program at Edgewood Collegeâ??s School of Integrative Studies, explore the relationship between college and community, asking whether the latter benefits as much as service-learning proponents say.
Noted: Nelson structures her story around the life of Greta Lorke Kuckhoff, a Berliner who came to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1920s. At an ice skating party at one of the city’s lakes, she met Mildred Fish Harnack, a Milwaukee native, UW-Madison graduate and literature professor who had married Arvid Harnack, another German graduate student.
Student tickets to University of Wisconsin men’s basketball games should be easier to get this season.
But getting tickets to all 19 home games will be challenging.
The UW Athletic Department rolled out its ticket sale and allocation process for the 2009-10 men’s basketball season this week, with students allowed to buy either the “white” or “red” half-season package, and not a full season of games.
Police say a UW-Madison student fought off a would-be robber downtown on Friday evening, with pepper spray.
The victim, a 21-year-old woman, told police that around 8:30 p.m. a man on a bicycle riding on the 200 block of North Frances Street tried to steal her purse.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor is being honored by the Internet Society for his work on the Computer Science Network (CSNET).
Before the modern Internet came into being, Lawrence Landweber helped build CSNET in the early 1980s. The network brought together computer science researchers in university and private settings in the same way a handful of sites had participated in the Defense Department’s ARPANET.
The University of Minnesota has a plan to deal with intoxicated troublemakers at the school’s new 50,000 seat stadium when it opens this fall.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison put a similar program in place two years ago.
Ervin Cox is director of student assistance and judicial affairs at UW-Madison. Cox said the school was looking for a way to deal with drunken students at its 80,000 seat Camp Randall stadium.
“This process gives students a second chance, and it sends a message, and hopefully over time it will start to decrease the amount of problems we have to deal with,” Cox said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison offered an online summer course to 22 Army, Navy, and Air Force officers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The course was taught by history professor Jeremi Suri, as part of the Grand Strategy Program, and was made possible by a lead gift from the Hertog Foundation.
Roger Hertog, president of the Hertog Foundation, helped found the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
A University of Wisconsin System vice president has demanded union organizers stop contacting academic staff at work to discuss job conditions and descriptions.
Kennedy said Monday that the workers can decide whom they want to talk with, and when, and that the system is trying to intimidate employees at an institution where discussions about unions have been “going on in the hallways for decades.” The visits, he said, will “likely continue.”
Crist, however, said the system wonâ??t allow it.
A University of Wisconsin chancellor says three groups of educators in the state were not treated equally when budget cuts were doled out.
UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen says itâ??s time someone spoke out against the pay cuts and furloughs imposed on the UW system when higher education plays a big role in the stateâ??s future economic growth. He says someone has to say whatâ??s really good for the UW system is competitive salaries for faculty.
The Chancellor points to technical school teachers and K-12 teachers who are not facing the same salary cuts. He says his concern is that educators are being treated differently, that tech school faculty members are getting raises while UW faculty have taken pay cuts. (Third item.)
The chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Illinois resigned on Monday amid increasingly incendiary accusations that he encouraged an academic version of â??pay to playâ? politics to flourish, allowing students to be admitted based largely on personal and political connections.
Gay couples across Wisconsin were able to begin registering this morning for government-recognized domestic partnerships. Governor Jim Doyle says the provision included in the state budget grants those residents some basic protections, which he views as a major step forward for basic rights.
The registry grants about 43 protections to same sex couples, such as hospital visitation rights. Doyle says it’s far from the over 200 protections given to same-sex couples that get married.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin and an expert in antitrust laws, says he’s seen troubling developments in the U.S. dairy industry.
“And one of my recurring concerns has been the way in which dairy markets have become concentrated, with mergers that have created the present Dean Foods being a major source of concern,” Carstensen says. “I have expressed repeatedly my concerns that something should be done.”
“The bottom line is that these numbers are interesting,” said Frank Greer of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who served on a panel that recently doubled the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for daily vitamin-D intake. “But I’m not ready to make a great hue and cry until we have more data. I think we should use them for further research to determine their significance.”
Noted: At UW-Madison, I have also joined AIESEC, the largest student-run nonprofit in the world! With a mission of global understanding through international internships, AIESEC has allowed me to learn about the world from international students my own age who are working in Madison and from my AIESEC friends who have interned abroad. Although my internship opportunity to teach English in China had to be canceled because I had to have knee surgery, I still plan to travel the world and learn about it firsthand.
Lyle Anderson is your average street musician. Except that he plays in the snow and cold, and if his audience really wants to hear him, they should stand about 60 feet away. Oh, and his instrument weighs several tons.
Anderson plays the university’s carillon near the top of the 85-foot bell tower on Observatory Drive. If you don’t know what a carillon is, it might be best to just come to one of his shows. “It’s simple to understand,” he says. “But it’s hard to describe.”
The term “season tickets” is changing to “half-season tickets” for University of Wisconsin-Madison students wanting to jam the Kohl Center for men’s basketball games.
The UW-Madison Athletic Department rolled out its ticket sale and allocation process for the 2009-10 men’s basketball season on Thursday, with students allowed to buy either the “white” or “red” half-season package, and not a full season of games.
A forum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday is focusing on the risks and benefits of nuclear energy.
The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute daylong workshop will examine the potential of nuclear energy in the face of pressure to replace greenhouse gas-emitting fuels. It will address strategies that utilities can adopt to meet demands for energy but also not harm the environment.
Quoted: Richard Slaughter, director of the UW-Madison Geology Museum, said Cave of the Mounds is a â??tour de force,â? in its geological education â?? providing thousands of children each year with their first cave experience.
Quoted: â??Weâ??re still independent,â? UW-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer Walsh said of the state electorate Friday.
Quoted: UW-Madison researcher Steve Carpenter says the higher temperature shouldn’t affect walleye and perch.
It’s an honor and an opportunity.
Entrepreneur magazine just ranked Madison as the eighth best “startup-friendly city” in America.
Business, government and civic leaders across the Capital Region need to keep the good vibes going by working together to keep and attract more risk-takers with bold ideas.
The national magazine’s August edition dubs Madison “The Diversifier.”
“Madison’s economy has traditionally been built on the three-legged milking stool of state government, the University of Wisconsin and agriculture,” the magazine reports. “These days you can add a few extra legs for good measure, including biotech, gaming, medicine and software.”
Q: How many galaxies have humans discovered?
A: “We donâ??t know,” says Ed Churchwell, professor of astronomy at UW-Madison. “We know itâ??s a very large number.”
UW-Madison Police and Madison Area Crimestoppers need your help in solving a theft at Grainger Hall on the 900 block of University Avenue.
Police say the incident happened July 17, between 12:30 a.m. and 5 a.m.
The chairs were secured by chain locks but were broken. A small number of chairs were recovered nearby. Sixty-five chairs are still missing. Officials say its at an expense of about $17,000.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is heading to Washington to take a job at the Food and Drug Administration FDA.
Alta Charo will be a senior adviser in the Office of Commissioner. She starts August 30.
A new public opinion poll shows President Obama losing support in Wisconsin, more than he has nationally.
UW-Madison polling expert Charles Franklin says the report by Survey USA is in line with what other public opinion samplings have been showing lately, but it is worse in Wisconsin for the president.
Same-sex couples in Wisconsin can begin registering for the state’s new domestic partner benefits registry on Monday.
Experts said that they expect thousands of couples will register in the first year alone.
The registry grants rights to receive survivorship and inheritance rights the ability to visit an ailing partner in a hospital and take family medical leave. These partnerships only provide 43 of those more than 200 rights held by married couples, WISC-TV reported.
The University of Wisconsin will realign the Office of Admissions and Visitor and Information Programs and search for a new director of admissions in anticipation of the newly created Vice Chancelor for University Relations position to be filled by former Senior Associate Athletic Director Vince Sweeney.
Arrowhead Investments LLC, a provider of pay day loans over the Internet, has agreed to zero-out all loans to Wisconsin customers and pay $180,000 in restitution and costs to settle allegations of consumer law violations.
The company reached the preliminary agreement with the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Wisconsin Department of Justice, on behalf of the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions.
University of Wisconsin-Madison soil scientist Doug Soldat says up to 8,000 gallons of rainwater is enough to keep the lawn green and lush through the driest weeks of summer.
Soldat and graduate student Brad DeBels installed two 4,000-gallon tanks to collect rainwater from the roof of the turfgrass facility’s main building on Madison’s far west side. Water from those tanks is used to irrigate nearby turf via subsurface drip irrigation lines.
As federal agencies start to hand out stimulus grants, the University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to see millions of dollars in grant money.
So far, 90 grant awards worth more than $26.5 million have been given to UW-Madison faculty members under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Wisconsin projects receiving the grants range from stem cell research and new genetic models for cancer to Antarctic weather stations and bioenergy.
“The stimulus funds are going to provide a much-needed shot in the arm for UW-Madison research across the board,” says UW-Madison Provost Paul M. DeLuca, who, as associate dean for research in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, played a role in securing stimulus funding for several key biomedical initiatives. “These funds will help us expand the margins of knowledge, of course, but they also represent a new source of support for our research infrastructure, which leads to well-paying jobs in our community.”
Susan Crowley has been appointed administrator of the Division of the Long Term Care by Department of Health Services secretary Karen Timberlake.
Crowley, who is currently director of Campus Health Initiatives and Prevention Services for University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, begins her new role Aug. 24.
Quoted: The spot is bright at ultraviolet wavelengths, which may argue against a meteoroid impact as a cause. That’s because rocky bodies, with the exception of objects very rich in water ice, should cause an impact site to darken at ultraviolet wavelengths as it fills with debris that absorbs such light, says Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the Venus Express team.
Wisconsin advocates for domestic violence victims are blasting a joke in last month’s Reader’s Digest magazine that makes light of a man who killed a woman with a golf club.
Police find the man in an apartment holding a 5-iron over the woman’s “lifeless body.” When a detective asks the man how many times he hit her, the man replies, “I don’t know. Five … maybe six … Put me down for a five.”
The joke, which was submitted to the magazine, doesn’t explain the relationship between the man and woman. But at least two domestic violence victim advocates have written e-mails to the magazine criticizing the decision to print the joke. University Health Services, which provides medical services to University of Wisconsin-Madison students, has sent e-mail to its listserv members alerting them to the joke, too.
