When the economy tanks, graduate school applications go up. Thatâ??s one of the few bits of good news in which educators could have reasonably taken comfort this year. No more.
The number of students taking the Graduate Record Examination will decline in 2008, the first time ever that the GRE has seen a fall in test-taking during an economic downturn. Because the GRE is required for the vast majority of graduate school programs, its numbers closely correlate with trends in applications.
University of Wisconsin Police on Friday released the surveillance video from the October 11 game at Camp Randall Stadium against Penn State that shows a dispute with a fan that ultimately resulted in tasering.
It shows Margaret Hiebing sitting in the aisle of Section U, and police asking her to find a seat. The incident lasted about ten minutes ten minutes.
CHICAGO – The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies will waive tuition for Omar Poler, a 2008 American Library Association (ALA) Spectrum Scholarship winner.
Poler is pursuing a masterâ??s degree in library and information science at Wisconsin, which first offered matching scholarships to Spectrum recipients in its graduate program in library and information studies in 1998. Wisconsin has supported past scholars in varying ways including: tuition wavers, conference support, special campus support and recognition as Spectrum scholars in the universityâ??s publications.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Leonard Taylor was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation Thursday after appearing in court to face a stalking charge for alleged threats he made against UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez.
Q. Why is white noise soothing?
A. Like all complex sounds, white noise is a mixture of many frequencies: high, low and in between. What sets it apart, though, is that all these frequencies are roughly equal in intensity, giving rise to a toneless hiss rather than something recognizable.
An independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability â?? an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely to improve as the economy contracts.
This isn’t the biggest case I’ve brought before the court of public opinion, but it’s been bugging me for a while, so here goes:
Why doesn’t the most dominant, most successful sports program at the University of Wisconsin draw more of an audience?
The women’s hockey team has been to three straight NCAA title games, winning championships in 2005-06 and ’06-07.
Beverly M. Kosinski, age 67 of Oregon, passed away at her home on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Bev was one of the first parking attendants for the University of Wisconsin, and later became supervisor of parking and transportation. She retired in 1998 from the University after 28 years of service.
The Madison Police Department has just proved the case against its own secrecy policies.
Leopold School has a partnership with UW-Madison to recruit student teachers to support the foreign language program.
West Doty Street looked pretty much the same Tuesday as it did when University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was stabbed to death last April, but it’s not.
Neighbors remain afraid, especially as news spread of the contents of a mishandled 911 call made from Zimmermann’s cell phone before she was found dead in her first-floor apartment at 517 W. Doty St.
Matt Hill knows the wrath of alternate-side parking. He just doesn’t know its rules.
After collecting three or four citations for violating the much-despised city of Madison ordinance, and after three years with a car on campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison senior has only a shaky understanding of what the ordinance requires. And he said there’s a lot of other students in the same boat.
QUoted: Consumers are already paying the price for such concentration in the beef industry, said Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin and former anti-trust attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice. “If you drive down the amount of beef being produced, the price to the consumer is going to go up,” he said.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health is now planning to adopt a policy of public disclosure in which signs posted in the medical center will state that some of their physicians receive outside compensation from various sources, and that the companies and amounts will be available to patients on a public Web site.
Students have recently begun to blog about their time while studying abroad to give others prospective and to emphasize the â??Wisconsin Experience.â?
UW-Madisonâ??s Division of International Studies publicly launched Badgers Abroad Blog recently to commemorate International Education Week, Nov. 17 â?? 21. The blog gives students planning to study abroad a chance to learn about their destination, and it helps expand the universityâ??s global presence, according to University Relations Specialist Masarah Van Eyck.
Quoted: The event inspired Brahe to commit himself further to studying the stars, launching a career of meticulous observations that helped lay the foundations of early modern astronomy, said Michael Shank, a professor of the history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Local and state leaders attended the opening of Google’s office in Madison Wednesday.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Google will collaborate closely with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which he said is one of the reasons that education funding is still important during these tough economic times.
Multiple attacks began rocking Mumbia, India midday Wednesday, Central US time. Shortly after, UW oncology professor Dr. Soren Bentzen received a voicemail from his wife, asking him to think twice before catching a plane for a conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India.
You can find Madison Wisconsin on Google.com, and now you can find Google in Madison.
The internet search engine leader officially opened their new office at 301 Blount Street in downtown.
At the open house, Governor Jim Doyle called Google a perfect fit for Madison.
Universities have long rued the stark disparity between minority students’ share of the population and their share of Ph.D.’s, especially in engineering and the sciences. And three decades’ worth of efforts by private foundations and federal agencies seem to have had only sporadic positive effects.
Throughout this semester, graduate students and others on the academic job market have been eyeing the news with deep apprehension. It has been hard to imagine that this yearâ??s academic job market would be anything but tight, given the number of colleges cutting back on hiring due to the recession. But many searches did start, and it was possible to build an anecdotal case that everything would be OK, since there were some good positions out there.
Russell H. Johnson, age 90, of Portage, died on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Russ worked for UW Physical Department, retiring in 1981.
MADISON â?? With Democrats soon to control the state Assembly, as well as the Senate and governorâ??s office, the stateâ??s largest business lobby is shifting gears to deal with what it calls the â??new political landscape.”
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, which has often been at odds with Gov. Jim Doyle, is reaching out to diverse groups — including labor — to develop plans to stimulate the stateâ??s slumping economy.
A veteran of newspapers in Wisconsin and Iowa has been named the top editor of the Wisconsin State Journal.
John Smalley, editor of the La Crosse Tribune since 2002, will lead the State Journal as the 156-year-old Madison institution faces the twin challenges of a recession and a shift by readers toward the Internet.
A day after accounts of Brittany Zimmermann’s murder and 911 call were unintentionally released to the public, Dane County officials said they still don’t know why a 911 operator didn’t hear screams and a struggle.
This economic survey was co-sponsored by the UW-Madison School of Business.
The USA has made modest gains since the early 1990s in preparing students for college and providing access, a report says today. But other countries are advancing more quickly, and if trends continue, the picture is only going to get worse, the authors warn.
It’s no secret that colleges and universities are relying increasingly on part-time instructors or other faculty who are neither tenured nor on track for tenure. But a flurry of recent studies draw troubling conclusions about what kind of impact that is having on the quality of a student’s education.
As students prepare for final exams at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, faculty and staff will prepare for a test of its own â?? maintaining the state universityâ??s commitment to education as Wisconsin faces a $5.4 billion budget shortfall.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies polling, though they will expect concrete results to follow.
Quoted: Susan Fisher, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Student Financial Services, said there would be many benefits of knowing the amount of aid in advance.
Brittany Zimmermannâ??s screams are apparently captured on an audiotape of a 911 call she placed as she was being attacked inside her downtown Madison apartment, according to newly released court documents.
â??The disconnect call started with the sound of a woman screaming and the line remains active and open picking up the background sounds of a struggle for a short period of time,â? according to a search warrant affidavit signed by Madison Police Det. Marion Morgan.
Students who live along West Doty Street said Tuesday they will feel safer once police catch the killer of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who lived nearby.
According to newly released search warrants, Brittany Zimmermann was lifeless and cold when her roommate found her in the afternoon of April 2 in their apartment on West Doty Street.
Search warrant documents mistakenly left unsealed by the Dane County District Attorney’s Office and Madison detectives, and obtained by WISC-TV, indicate that a 911 call from a University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s cell phone the day she died included sounds of a woman’s screams and noises of a struggle.
At 11:30 in the morning on April 2nd, Brittany Zimmermann spoke to her fiance on her cell phone.
Less than an hour later she was dead.
Newly unsealed search warrants show that Zimmermann made her desperate call to 911 at 12:20 p.m.
According to a search warrant, “The disconnect started with the sound of a woman screaming and the line remains active and open, picking up the background sound of a struggle for a short period of time.”
Many states, and the United States as a whole, are doing a better job than they were two years ago of preparing students for college and expanding access to higher education, according to a national report card on higher education scheduled for release today.
But the country continues to slip behind other nations on measures of enrollment and degree completion, particularly among young adults, the report found, and on the subject of college affordability, it gave failing grades to all but one state: California, which got a C-.
Unsealed Dane County court documents state a police detective heard “the sound of a woman screaming” in a tape of a 911 call from the cell phone of murder victim, UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann.
The court information contradicts previous statements on the call from a union representative for the operator who handled the call, Rita Gahagan.
A day after accounts of Brittany Zimmermann’s murder and 911 call were unintentionally released to the public, Dane County officials said they still don’t know why a 911 operator didn’t hear screams and a struggle.
But 911 center interim director Kathy Krusiec said steps have been taken to reduce the chance other errors â?? like the failure to call back Zimmermann’s phone after the call was disconnected â?? will happen in the future.
Wisconsin does a fairly good job preparing high school students for secondary education, and the likelihood of enrolling in college at age 19 is high, according to an annual report card from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. That’s the good news.
The rising cost of college â?? even before the recession â?? threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the annual report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
There are bright spots in Measuring Up 2008, the biennial â??report cardâ? on higher education that the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education is releasing today. The proportion of students graduating from high school prepared to do college-level work is on the rise, for instance, and the percentage of high school freshmen who go on to enroll in college is also climbing. Even the rate at which those who enroll in college go on to get a degree is edging up.
Bonnie Provart Ortiz, age 68, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008. She spent more than 30 years in academics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Penn State University.
A man has been charged with stalking former Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez and tennis superstar Maria Sharapova.
Mentor has 19 employees in Madison occupying a new, two-story building at University Research Park, built by Vogel Bros. Building Co.
The $24 million project houses a factory for PurTox, a botulinum toxin product based on UW-Madison research, designed to erase frown lines and compete with the popular Botox, Mentor has said.
Don Nichols, UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics and public affairs, could very well say, “I told you so.”
Back in September 2007, Nichols projected the recession would begin in the final months of last year, with a reduction in the GDP, or gross domestic product, for the fourth quarter.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of academic economists, concluded Monday that the country has been suffering through a recession since December 2007.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Leonard Taylor made death threats against UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and professional tennis star Maria Sharapova in dozens of voice mail messages left at the Athletic Department during the past week, according to a criminal complaint against Taylor that was released today.
Forty-eight minutes.
That’s how much time passed between the mishandled 911 call from Brittany Zimmermann’s phone and when Madison police were sent to her West Doty Street apartment to find her brutally murdered on April 2, investigators reveal in previously sealed court documents obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.
The notorious 911 call from Brittany Zimmermann’s cell phone the day she died carried the sounds of a woman’s screams and a struggle, according to long-sealed search warrants obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.
Madison police and Dane County officials have for months refused to disclose the content of the call, which has been at the center of a public controversy over operations, management and staffing at the county 911 center
The numbers tell the story.
Twenty movements of dense piano playing over a 120-minute span: Pianist Christopher Taylor performs the massive “Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant-Jesus” by Olivier Messiaen completely by memory.
By any account, that’s a formidable task. It’s one that had its start seven years ago when Taylor first played all the movements at Columbia University.
Quoted: â??In four years do we look back and say, â??Itâ??s morning again in America,â?? in which Obama is a Reagan for the 21st century?â? said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and co-developer of the Pollster.com Web site. â??Or do we look back and say, â??another Jimmy Carter — full of promise but no delivery.â??â?
In an effort to help address the state’s financial crisis University of Wisconsin schools will be tightening their belts.
This week the UW System Board of Regents will hold their meeting in La Crosse to discuss ways they can decrease spending.
The Board has already taken a number of steps to decrease spending, such as implementing a new approval process for hiring and limiting out-of-state travel, but it wasn’t enough. Now they’re looking for additional ways to cut costs.
Quoted: Barry M. Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a cable industry consultant. When cable companies battle, it typically turns into a services war rather than a price war, he said.
Noted: The zircons also contain enough uranium that they can be precisely dated by the decay of that uranium. In 2001, two groups, one led by Dr. Harrison and the other by John W. Valley of the University of Wisconsin, reported that the Australian zircons formed during the Hadean period as long ago as 4.4 billion years and were later embedded in the younger, 3-billion-year-old rocks.
A former University of Wisconsin football player was charged Monday with threatening athletic director Barry Alvarez, tennis star Maria Sharapova and their families.
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Leonard Taylor Jr., 32, of Indianapolis, faces one felony stalking count and one misdemeanor count of telephone harassment. Online court records didn’t list an attorney for Taylor. His father told police Taylor has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and hasn’t taken his medication for three months, according to the criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
The air inside the UW Stock Pavilion often has a nip to it by the time the UW Forestry Club throws open the doors for its annual Christmas-tree sale. Some years, there are flurries outside. Inside, all those trees fill the pavilion with the holiday scents of fir and pine.
With President-elect Obama poised to lift the ban on federal funding for new embryonic stem cell research… Wisconsin scientists could be among those to benefit. But Jamie Thompson — the U-W Madison researcher who pioneered the field — says the immediate gains could be limited at first.
President Bush signed an executive order back in August of 2001 banning federal funding from being used on researching embryonic stem cell lines created after that date. Federal funding was still provided for stem cell lines created before the ban. (Second item.)
With the bleak economy hitting people in the pocketbooks, many are scaling back on contributions and gifts to organizations, including the UW-system. The outlook is mixed for two of the systemâ??s larger campuses.
Sandy Wilcox is president of the U-W Foundation in Madison, which is its official fundraising and gift-receiving organization. He says the Foundationsâ?? brought in 4-percent more financial contributions than last year already — but thereâ??s also bad news. (Third item.)
A former University of Wisconsin football player has been charged with threatening the lives of former Badger coach Barry Alvarez and tennis star Maria Sharapova.
Leonard Taylor Jr., 32, of Indianapolis, faces one felony count of stalking and one misdemeanor count of telephone harassment.
Dec. 1 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day.
According to Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services, recent estimates for the U.S. indicate that the HIV epidemic is much larger than previously assumed and that it is growing at alarming rates among certain individuals and communities.
Currently, the state has reached an all-time high with more than 6,500 people assumed to be living with HIV/AIDS in Wisconsin.
HIV has always been a part of UW student Ashlin Ware’s life.
Ever since the killings at Virginia Tech last year, there has been widespread speculation about the relative incidence of mental health disorders among college students. A new study in The Archives of General Psychiatry finds that such disorders are common, and that far fewer students receive treatment than one might like. But the study â?? believed to be the largest national comparison of the mental health of college students and comparably aged non-students â?? finds that non-students are as likely to have mental health disorders and as unlikely to seek treatment as their peers in college.
