Quoted: Madsen mentions a theory embraced by B. Bradford Brown, professor of educational psychology in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brown’s idea is that teens use dating for different functions according to their age: When teens start dating, there’s a lot more pressure about status and approval from one’s peers.
Quoted: John Coleman, chairman of the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has researched the 90 percent assertion and told me there are a few considerations the CQ data do not include.
Kathryn C. Nelson, age 84, passed away on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. In addition to raising her six children, she worked many jobs including one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Engineering.
MADISON, Wis. — Ohio State might have the better football team, but the University of Wisconsin just might have the prettier setting.
Blame Mother Nature, or whoever it was who decided to stick Wisconsin’s capital city and state university on an isthmus between the shimmering blue lakes Mendota and Monona.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Adam Gamoran, who has advocated pushing more low-achieving high schoolers into algebra classes, says these students get more from algebra classes than from general math classes. “In their zeal to extend this reform ever more broadly, some mistakes have been made,” he says, but he hopes the findings don’t cause a backlash against challenging low achievers to do harder math.
MADISON, Wis. — It was all about stem cells on Sunday, as dozens of scientists and researchers took part in an educational seminar about the future of regenerative medicine.
Members of the public attended Lab on the Lake, a pre-conference all-day pubic event and festival Sunday, held at the Pyle Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Carlos Gonzales is not anti-Jewish, or even anti-religious. He just doesn’t approve of “religious figures supervising state employees.” And that’s exactly what he thinks is happening at the UW-Madison.
Gonzales, 50, has worked for two years as a cook at Pop’s Club, a residence dining hall in Gordon Commons, on the UW-Madison campus. Recently, the kitchen began preparing a weekly meal for Hillel Foundation, which is building a new campus facility. And this, he says, has caused some faith-based disruption.
Quoted: Because the Republican base of support in Wisconsin is in more rural areas and the suburbs of Milwaukee, it’s imperative McCain do well there, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
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MADISON, Wis. â?? Some of the nationâ??s top embryonic stem cell research advocates say they are growing concerned that Sen. John McCain will backtrack on his previous support for the work if elected president.
The Republican senator from Arizona has supported lifting President Bushâ??s ban on using federal money to create new stem cell lines from surplus embryos and to award more grants to researchers studying them. His rival for the presidency, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, has a similar position on the research that holds promise to treat a range of disease.
Tim Kamp, a UW-Madison researcher who is co-chairing the summit, said he still believes the political climate for the work is more favorable than the past.
Leaders in the stem cell industry have converged on Madison for a couple of days. The city is hosting a worldwide summit on stem cell research. Scientists believe it could someday provide cures for diseases such as Parkinsonâ??s or cancer. While the industry has changed, Wisconsin has remained at the forefront of the research. The industry has changed somewhat, but Wisconsin has remained at the forefront, and thatâ??s why itâ??s ground zero this week. WUWMâ??s Marti Mikkelson reports.
Indoor air quality tests conducted this summer in Fond du Lac found five bars and restaurants where smoking is permitted had levels of indoor air pollution upwards of eight times what’s considered safe daily exposure by the state Department of Natural Resources.
Data analysis and a report on the tests were completed by staff from the Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center at UW-Madison.
Frustrated with studying for class, two UW-Madison graduates are setting out to make life easier for students across the country.
They’re gaining worldwide attention by the day, finding out a life changing business was just a click away.
MADISON, Wis. — Sam Schmidt has lived life for 44 years on four wheels.
He was an Indy car driver until a crash in 2000 changed his life forever.
“The things that you miss are the things you take for granted, I mean, being able to hug my wife, being able to pick my kids up, put them on my shoulders,” said Schmidt.
Santa Monica, Calif. – In a brief filed with the U.S. Patent Office’s board of appeals and interferences, consumer watchdog groups have cited two legal errors allegedly made by a patent examiner in confirming a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation patent on human embryonic stem cells.
On July 18, 2008 the California-based and renamed Consumer Watchdog (hereafter â??Watchdogâ?), reexamination requester of three of related Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s (WARF) stem cell patents, filed a Notice of Appeal in the United States Patent Trademark Office (â??the PTOâ?) relating to one of those patents. That Notice and the concurrent press release brought back to the public eye the stem cell reexamination process which was initiated in July 2006 when Watchdog filed its reexamination requests. This is to update and revisit that dispute.
Wisconsin is the focal point of stem cell science this week. But is the state falling behind? Madison is hosting the World Stem Cell Summit through Tuesday. Ed Fallone is president of the nonprofit group Wisconsin Stem Cell Now. “It’s a great opportunity for us to use the increased public interest in the topic . . . to get the information out to the public, so that people can learn more about stem cell research and participate in the debate in an informed manner,” says Fallone, referring to a primer on stem cell research in Wisconsin, produced by his group. It’s aimed at the general public and addresses questions on science, funding, ethics and advocacy
COLORADO SPRINGS â?? Acknowledging that 20 years and millions of dollars spent loudly and bitterly attacking the liberal leanings of American campuses have failed to make much of a dent in the way undergraduates are educated, some conservatives have decided to try a new strategy.
They are finding like-minded tenured professors and helping them establish academic beachheads for their ideas.
More than 800 people are expected to meet in Madison for the World Stem Cell Summit.
One attendee is turning a personal tragedy into advocacy for medical research and treatment.
Indy Car racer Sam Schmidt’s life changed forever when he suffered a crash 8 years ago. The accident left him paralyzed from his chest down.
Broke young college graduates with ideas for awesome new Web sites are about as thick on the ground as pigeons in New York City, but Jordan Goldman has a talent for getting noticed. Born and raised in Staten Island, he graduated from Wesleyan in 2004, spent two post-grad years in England and, upon his return to his native city, lived in 16 different sublets in the next two years. His own parents referred to him as the Wandering Jew. â??I was ordering Chinese lunch specials and dividing them into three,â? he remembered recently, â??and that was my food for days. My mom thought I was nuts. She kept saying, â??Get a job,â?? and Iâ??d say, â??No, Ma, I have this idea.â?? â?
Michelle Obama will be in Madison on Monday at the Women’s Week of Action rally.
She will appear at Camp Randall where the rally is expected to start at 10 a.m.
MADISON, Wis. — Fire investigators still haven’t nailed down the cause of a fire at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house in Madison.
City officials have given the fraternity permission to demolish the 8,000-square-foot house, which will happen after an insurance settlement is complete.
There’s no Wisconsin Badgers football game Saturday. The team has a bye week. But 50 years ago, two big Badger football games were taken off the schedule for very different reasons. Wisconsin canceled a home-and-home series in 1957 and 1958 with Louisiana State University, because LSU required Wisconsin’s African-American players to sit out those games.
The episode is the subject of an article in this month’s “Wisconsin Magazine of History”. And its author, Richard Haney, joined Terry Bell this morningâ?¦ (Audio.)
MATC Credit Union, which serves Madison Area Technical College employees and their families, plans to merge Dec. 1 with UW Credit Union, pending approval by the state’s Office of Credit Unions.
Q. Why are some of us “morning people” while others are naturally “night owls”?
A. All animals, including humans, experience daily ups and downs in physiological processes, such as body temperature and hormone secretion, as well as in behaviors such as sleeping and waking. Known as circadian rhythms, these patterns are governed by a core “clock” in our brains that’s primarily tuned to the 24-hour cycle of light and dark.
Scientists dispatched the Stardust science probe to get a look at material they thought had formed in the far outskirts of the solar system. Instead, they uncovered proof that the same type of particles forged near the sun ended up in a frozen comet’s body.
University of Wisconsin’s Noriko Kita and colleagues used a unique ion microscope to probe the tiny grains, the largest of which is about one-thousandth of an inch across. They found oxygen isotope ratios that closely resemble materials in asteroids, meteorites and even the sun itself.
Dane County is the first county in Wisconsin to require contractors and service providers to offer domestic partner benefits.
The rule passed last night by the County Board only applies to employers who currently offer spousal benefits.
It also creates a domestic partnership registry for heterosexual and homosexual couples in Dane County.
Yet another series of polls suggest the November election will be exceedingly close in key swing states.
The inaugural Big Ten Battleground Poll released tonight found Barack Obama and John McCain statistically tied in seven of the eight Midwestern states (home to the 11 Big Ten universities) included.
It was announced in the spring of 2007 that the University of Wisconsin would be visiting Huskie stadium on Oct. 24, 2009. It seems like forever since the game was announced. There have been rumors the game would be played at Soldier Field, not Huskie Stadium.
Now, those rumors seem to be coming to fruition. According to the Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said at his weekly news conference there was talk that one of Wisconsinâ??s 2009 road games was close to getting moved to a neutral site.
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Ben Wedro, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON â?? Hoosiers are almost evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama and are heading into the election season with a sour attitude about Washington, the economy and President Bush.
Two polls â?? one that includes Indiana in a survey of Midwestern states and one commissioned by the Indianapolis Star â?? show the candidates in a statistical dead heat among Hoosiers.
A joint polling effort in eight traditional battleground states shows that in all but one â??Barack Obamaâ??s home state of Illinois â?? the presidential race remains a nail-biter.
Eight Big Ten universities have partnered up to conduct presidential polling in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota. In each state, 600 registered voters were surveyed on the race between Obama and John McCain. The polls have a four percentage point margin of error.
The first-ever Big Ten Battleground Poll shows virtual ties almost everywhere between John McCain and Barack Obama – including Ohio.
“There’s swing states, there’s battleground states, and then there’s Ohio,” said the new poll’s co-director, Ken Goldstein, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when the poll was released this afternoon over the Big Ten Network.
WASHINGTON – Here’s the latest evidence that Florida – and Tampa, especially – is a key presidential battleground: the amount of money Barack Obama and John McCain continue to spend on TV ads.
“Advertising represents reality,” said Ken Goldstein, a professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Cornell’s Office of Minority Educational Affairs recently hired Mojisola Olaniyan as its new executive director, replacing former director Raymond Dalton, who stepped down at the end of June.
Olaniyan comes to Cornell from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where she served as assistant dean for the Academic Advancement Program in the College of Letters and Science.
Hereâ??s the latest evidence that Virginia and North Carolina have joined states such as Florida as presidential battlegrounds: Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain continue to spend significantly on TV ads there.
â??Advertising represents reality,â? said Ken Goldstein, a professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
MADISON â?? Donkeys and elephants have something in common with Badgers, Gophers and Wildcats. A poll released Thursday shows that winning Big Ten states likely is key to winning the White House.
The poll, conducted by a group of Big Ten Conference universities, indicates that Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are in a statistical dead heat in seven of the eight Big Ten states, including Wisconsin, where McCain campaigned Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. – Barack Obama and John McCain are statistically tied in their race for the presidency in seven of the eight states that are home to Big Ten universities, according to a poll released Thursday.
The race is within the Big Ten Battleground Poll’s margin of error in Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Obama has a 16-point lead in his home state of Illinois, a Democratic stronghold he represents in the U.S. Senate.
I can remember back in 1993, when I was 20 years old. Gas was $1.19 a gallon, there was no Facebook, text messaging, or a perceived problem with our “drinking culture.”
That’s right, we’re Cheeseheads. We like to drink, eat brats, and watch the Packers. No big deal, right? Well, some of your city officials seem to think it is.
MADISON, Wis. — A new poll of voters in the eight states home to Big Ten universities shows Barack Obama and John McCain in an extraordinarily tight race for the presidency.
The first Big Ten Battleground Poll shows the candidates are in a statistical tie in seven of the states — Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Obama leads comfortably in his home state of Illinois.
MADISON â?? A nationally recognized â??scorecardâ? for measuring the quality of major teaching hospitals puts University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in the nationâ??s top five best-performing institutions.
The purpose of the annual assessment is to measure the performance of teaching hospitals in several areas known to be essential to delivering excellent care consistently across a wide variety of populations. This year, 88 academic medical centers were included in the analysis.
MADISON – In the inaugural Big Ten Battleground Poll taken as the nation’s financial crisis worsened this week, John McCain and Barack Obama were in a statistical dead heat in seven of the eight Midwest states included in the survey.
The individual surveys of 600 randomly selected registered voters in each of the states were conducted by phone from Sept. 14-17 and were co-directed by University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientists Charles Franklin and Ken Goldstein and colleagues from participating universities. The polls each have a margin of error of 4 percentage points. The states included in the poll were Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota.
(MADISON) Scientists have taken another step toward developing cost-effective ways to turn plants and other biomass sources into alternatives to fossil fuels.
One challenge has been to remove most of the oxygen atoms to form molecules that will burn. UW Madison chemical engineering professor James Dumesic says in the laboratory, he and some UW colleagues have found a way to make that happen, by passing sugars over catalysts â??consisting of nano-particules of precious metalâ?, in a process that helps remove oxygen atoms from sugar molecules. (Tenth item.)
Carlos Gonzales is not anti-Jewish, or even anti-religious. He just doesn’t approve of “religious figures supervising state employees.” And that’s exactly what he thinks is happening at the UW-Madison.
Gonzales, 50, has worked for two years as a cook at Pop’s Club, a residence dining hall in Gordon Commons, on the UW-Madison campus. Recently, the kitchen began preparing a weekly meal for Hillel Foundation, which is building a new campus facility. And this, he says, has caused some faith-based disruption.
“Virtual” colonoscopies are about as reliable as more invasive procedures for finding cancer and polyps, according to the largest study of its kind, published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
Photo from UW-Madison accompanies story.
Tom Heberlein is the former chair of the Department of Rural Sociology at UW-Madison and is currently a professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He divides his time between Sweden and Wisconsin.
More than 600 UW-Madison students are waiting for overdue financial aid and tuition refund checks from the university, a few worth as much as $10,000.
The checks, about $1.6 million in total, are more than two weeks late.
The presidential nominees have poured more than $15 million into television advertising since the end of the partiesâ?? national political conventions, mostly in a handful of battleground states in the Midwest, according to a study released Wednesday by the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Congress is considering a bill that would create a National Center on Campus Public Safety , which would be responsible for training schools in public safety techniques.
The bill was introduced Sept. 8 by Rep. Bobby Scott, D-VA. Scott stressed it wouldnâ??t be a regulatory center, and schools could choose whether they want to participate.
Susan Riseling , associate vice-chancellor and chief of police at the University of Wisconsin, was a member of the summit and said she was pleased to see the center was on the table.
Even though it took almost four years for the recommendation to be brought before Congress, Riseling said the timeframe wasnâ??t a problem.
Not, unsurprisingly, the web ads that are driving a lot of chatter.
In fact, the Wisconsin Advertising Project and TNS-CMAG report, Obama aired more negative spots than McCain.
“In the first week of advertising after the conventions, Obama aired a higher percentage of negative ads than did McCain. 56 percent of the McCain campaign ads were negative, while 77 percent of Obamaâ??s ads were negative,” according to the report.
Quoted: But Rob Seltzer, director of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said class rank is important information in the college admission process, even in high-achieving districts. He said it still matters if a student has a lower ranking at their school, even if their grade-point average is above 4.0.
The Obama and McCain presidential campaigns, along with both political party organizations, have flooded the airways with more than $15 million in television advertising since the convention and, despite early predictions of an “expanded playing field,” the key states targeted look very much like the same battleground states of 2004, according to an analysis released today by the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, who directed the study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project, based at the University of Wisconsin, says the pattern was a reversal from earlier months, in which McCain’s advertising was consistently more negative than Obama’s.
Quoted: “Car loans would’ve become more expensive, home equity lines of credit become more expensive, the cost of borrowing for regular homeowners would’ve been expensive, even more so,” said Morris Davis, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.
Quoted: “Where the campaigns advertise tells us a great deal about the candidates’ electoral strategies,” according to professor Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Big Ten Network, most well-known for its extensive college-football and basketball coverage, is leaving the sports arenas and entering the political arena with a new election special.
Big Ten Battleground: Campaign 2008 is a 90-minute program that will air nationally on Big Ten Network Sept. 18 at 4 p.m. (EST). The special is based upon the results of the Big Ten Battleground Poll, a collaboration between a number of the Big Ten universities to measure voter sentiment in the eight Big Ten states, many of which will be key to the election outcome.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who directs the ad-tracking project. “Post-convention ad buys give us insights into the campaigns’ assessments of where they think they are competitive.”
Quoted: Where candidates spend money on ads sheds light on where they think they will be competitive, said Ken Goldstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and director of the Advertising Project.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison’s political tradition of student activism is continuing as student groups for both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama are organizing for the November election.
On Tuesday night, hundreds of Students For Obama packed the university’s largest lecture hall to kick off the year for UW-Madison College Democrats and swing into the election season.
And last Friday, Students For McCain met to organize their election season efforts.
Washburn University will spend $200,000 to $500,000 complying with a settlement agreement reached late last week with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The agreement settles a civil lawsuit filed by UW-Madison over Washburnâ??s use of a thick â??Wâ? logo, which Madison officials claimed too closely resembled their â??Motion W.â?
