MADISON, Wis. — A total of about $1.6 million in financial aid and tuition refund checks didn’t arrive on time, leaving some 600 University of Wisconsin-Madison students waiting for their money. The checks are for varying amounts from about $100 to $10,000.
MADISON, Wis. — College students typically study beer drinking, but a new class could soon help them brew their own.
MillerCoors is donating $100,000 worth of equipment to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences for a beer brewing program.
A course on the science of brewing and fermentation will start this spring, beer experts from Miller’s Milwaukee brewery will help implement curriculum.
Earning credits for making beer is enough to make quite a few 40 hour per week employees think about heading back to school.
A new partnership between UW-Madison and MillerCoors is creating quite a buzz.
On the surface something like this begs a lot of questions about promoting drinking or what underage students could do with the knowledge but faculty at UW say that’s missing the point.
MADISON, Wis. — It is a seldom used power that the University of Wisconsin-Madison says it is considering using again.
WISC-TV first reported on Tuesday about the possibility that the university could condemn private property owned by Brothers Bar and Grill.
Because it is an arm of state government, the UW Board of Regents granted the university the power of eminent domain. This means if negotiations between the university and the two property owners don’t lead to a sale agreement, the university could condemn two private properties, WISC-TV reported.
Madison, Wis. – The entire ecosystem of the stem cell community will converge on Madison next week during the 2008 World Stem Cell Summit, where the unpredictable field of stem cell research will be celebrated.
Researchers, the biotech industry, pharmaceutical companies – even nonprofit organizations and grass roots citizens and patients – will be among the stakeholders and the roster of speakers and presenters. The event comes to Madison on the 10th anniversary of a key research breakthrough by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor James Thomson, who first isolated human embryonic stem cells.
The Big Ten Network is offering something other than sports today.
U-W Madison political science professor Charles Franklin discusses the results of a Midwest political poll aimed at determining the attitudes of voters in the eight states where the Big Ten Conference is located. But, isn’t the Big Ten Network all about sports?
The UW has filled a new position aimed at helping war vets transition back to student life.
John Bechtol is UW’s new assistant dean for veterans and ombuds services.
Eight Madison-area companies â?? several of them spinoffs from UW-Madison technology â?? are among the recipients of $7.3 million in state grants and loans for clean-energy projects, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin starting senior linebacker Jonathan Casillas was cited last month for drunken driving while riding a moped in the UW-Madison campus area, according to court records.
Details about the incident were not available Tuesday, but according to copies of three citations that Casillas received, he was stopped by a UW-Madison police officer on Aug. 24 at 1:26 a.m. on West Dayton Street at North Charter Street.
Two anonymous donors have given $20 million to UW-Madison’s School of Music for building two performing venues in a prominent campus location, next to the Chazen Museum of Art and three blocks north of the Kohl Center, by early 2013.
The financial gift will shift up to 300 concerts each year by UW faculty and students from the hard-to-find Mills Hall and Morphy Hall â?? both built in 1969 and tucked in the Mosse Humanities Building â?? to the new building at the northwest corner of University Avenue and Lake Street.
Washburn University agreed to pay thousands of dollars to modify a logo at the center of a trademark lawsuit. Just a “W: The President” is about to leave office, W: the logo is leaving Washburn University/
In an agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washburn University said it would change its athletic “W” logo.
“There was a lawsuit over a ‘W’,” asked Washburn Freshman Elizabeth Wells.
Quoted: The language of this week’s statement, said University of Wisconsin bioethicist R. Alta Charo, “is a close echo of Bush’s language used to support the ban on funding for work with newer lines.”
Results of the Big Ten Battleground Poll, an innovative new project that tests voter sentiment in the eight Big Ten states that are key to this closely fought presidential campaign, will air this Thursday on the Big Ten Network.
The results of the unique regional poll — a partnership involving eight Big Ten universities — will be unveiled in a 90-minute show called “Big Ten Battleground: Campaign 2008” at 3 p.m. on the Big Ten Network.
A new manufacturing technique could overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, and pave the way for smaller electronic devices and higher-capacity hard drives.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have developed a technology that combines lithography techniques traditionally used to print, or pattern, microelectronic circuits with self-assembling materials called block copolymers. These consist of two or more chemically different polymer segments, or blocks, connected by a junction point.
BARABOO, Wis. — A Libertarian Party candidate for Congress has been charged with disorderly conduct after being accused of hitting his 13-year-old son.
Misdemeanor charges were filed late last week against Kevin Barrett, according to court documents.
Barrett, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer, won the Libertarian primary and will challenge incumbent Ron Kind in the 3rd Congressional District.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police said a student was beaten and robbed on West Gilman Street just after midnight Tuesday.
Police said the student was walking eastbound in the 100 block of West Gilman Street when he was attacked by two men.
Police said the student was struck several times, including a few times with a silver handgun. The attackers took his gray backpack, wallet and cell phone, police said.
I usually am a big supporter of the SAFE (Safe Arrival For Everyone) Nighttime Services. However, this past Saturday night I had a pretty unpleasant experience with SAFEride. After a house party my roommates and I hosted, everybody was heading home. There were three freshman women remaining who called for a SAFEride to the same Southeast dorm from the Vilas neighborhood. When the cab got here, the third woman was turned away as per SAFErideâ??s policy of no more than two riders to a cab. The woman reminded the driver of the dangerous situation recently developing in the Vilas area, specifically the multiple armed robberies within a few blocks of our house, and asked him to forgive the rule. He bluntly responded with â??I donâ??t care,â? so she returned to our house to seek our help. As my roommate approached the cab to speak with the driver, the taxi pulled away, leaving her on our doorstep.
Madison Police tell 27 News a 23-year-old man was cut many times in the face during an attack while walking in the 100 block of West Gilman Street overnight.
Police say he was hit in the face several times by two suspects, including a few times with a silver handgun. The victim is a UW student.
UW-Madison officials are trying to track down as much as $1.6 million in missing student refund checks, which were processed by a Milwaukee vendor and were intended for mailing from a Milwaukee post office last month.
In the meantime, UW-Madison officials said the hundreds of students affected by the missing checks were being given the opportunity to receive zero-interest, short term loans to tide them over. Much of the refunded money is from student loans and intended to help students with living expenses.
A Dane County Board member questions the cost of a plan that would force companies that contract with the county to provide insurance coverage for domestic partners of their employees.
Supervisor Dave Wiganowsky says he’ll vote against the measure this coming Thursday. He says there hasn’t been enough cost analysis of the plan to determine what it will end up costing the county and businesses.
During a Q & A session following a presentation about the Wisconsin School of Business and its connections to local economic development, I made some remarks about the price of tuition at UW-Madison that were picked up by a Wisconsin State Journal reporter and then repeated more broadly in the media.
While the reporting was not inaccurate, the issues are sensitive and have a rich context, some of which is inevitably lost in a brief account.
Two anonymous donors have given $20 million to the UW-Madison School of Music to build a new performance center on the northwest corner of University Avenue and Lake Street, a few blocks north of the Kohl Center.
The space will feature two concert halls: one 800-seat facility and a 350-seat recital hall.
Plans call for an architect search to begin this winter. Construction could be completed by spring 2013.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that two anonymous donors have made a commitment of $20 million in support of UW-Madison’s School of Music’s future Performance Center.
The commitments were announced Monday night during an “Evening of Celebration” at the Overture Center for the Arts, which featured student performances in music, drama and dance in celebration of the career of former Chancellor John D. Wiley.
Both Wiley and current Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin informed the audience of the development.
The center will have approximately 56,000 square feet of space and contain two concert halls. One will have 800 seats, while a recital hall will hold 350 patrons, UW-Madison said in a news release. In addition, the performance facility will house a box office, dressing rooms, support services, recording studio, a lobby and green room.
A former UW-Madison instructor and Libertarian Party candidate for Congress faces a disorderly conduct charge after a domestic incident last week.
Chalk one up to a win â?? with a capital W â?? for UW-Madison’s Motion W logo.
Washburn University has agreed to tweak its logo as part of the settlement of a federal lawsuit that UW-Madison filed against the Topeka, Kan., school late last year, according to a UW-Madison official.
Quoted: Mark Ready, J. Diermeier chairman of finance for the UW-Madison School of Business.
A new study calculates, one-third of American college students have to enroll in remedial classes. The bill to colleges and taxpayers for trying to bring them up to speed on material they were supposed to learn in high school comes to between $2.3 billion and $2.9 billion annually.
Johns Hopkins University again tops all U.S. colleges and universities for research expenditures, spending $1.55 billion in fiscal year 2007.
The National Science Foundation ranked the university first among 20 U.S. academic institutions, marking its 29th year in the No. 1 slot. The university spent nearly $1.49 billion on research in fiscal year 2006.
The University of California, San Francisco, with $843 million, and the University of Wisconsin, with $620 million, ranked behind Johns Hopkins University in research expenditures.
The California Supreme Court recently ruled against two doctors who allegedly refused to provide artificial insemination services to lesbians. President Bush has proposed stronger protections for heath care workers who cite religious beliefs as basis for refusing service. Guests include R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Sending your child off to college can be an anxious time for many parents. But for parents of children with a mental illness or learning disability, the transition is especially challenging. One worry is that parents of adult children have no legal standing in their medical care. In Nashville, Tenn., the Diehl family has worked hard to prepare their son for the move from home to UW-Madison. (Audio and text.)
Quoted: UW Madison School of Business professor Morris Davis.
MADISON, Wis. — Outgoing UW Chancellor John Wiley was honored on Monday night for his many years of service to the university.
The UW hosted the event at the Overture Center complete with music, drama and dance performances.
But Wiley said the event was more about the university.
“I feel great,” said Wiley. “I’ve actually been sent off for a couple of weeks now, and honestly despite all of the hoop-la over this being a send off event, this is the third in the series of events we have for our students to let the community see how terrific our performing arts students are.”
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin officials revealed plans on Monday for the new south campus student union, offering the community a new state-of-the-art green facility.
The new Union South will feature the latest in amenities, including numerous restaurants and an indoor climbing wall, but comes with an $87 million price tag, WISC-TV reported.
More than 600 people gathered on the UW campus for the 25th annual Dog Jog…or the 175th if your keeping track in dog years!
The Companion Animal Club — through the UW School of Veterinary Medicine — hosts the event.
It raises money for local humane organizations and their sheltered K9’s.
People from the UW and the community filled the Overture Center downtown to celebrate Chancellor John Wiley’s seven year career.
Although retiring as Chancellor, Wiley is not done at the UW.
He has taken on a new position with ties to the University.
During a Q & A session following a presentation about the Wisconsin School of Business and its connections to local economic development, I made some remarks about the price of tuition at UW-Madison that were picked up by a Wisconsin State Journal reporter and then repeated more broadly in the media.
While the reporting was not inaccurate, the issues are sensitive and have a rich context, some of which is inevitably lost in a brief account.
A finance professor at UW Madison doesn’t think Wall Street’s woes are over yet. Prof. Jim Seward says Leman Brothers and Merill Lynch had different client bases, but similar problems. “In both cases, each of these firms ended up investing a lot of mortgage related securities, and financing a significant part of those investments with borrowings,” says Seward.
(MADISON) California has one of the largest amounts of public funding for stem cell research. A conservative think tank questions such funding in a report that highlights Wisconsin’s more modest financial support for such research.
Later this month, Madison will host the World Stem Cell Summit. States and nations with plenty of taxpayer funding for that purpose will be showcased along with states that don’t bankroll that type of science, instead leaving it to private companies to come up with the cash.
The role of Wisconsin taxpayers in funding stem cell research is small. This fact is lauded by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which noted UW Madison researcher James Thomson’s 1998 discovery of human embryonic stem cells was privately funded. The Institute notes embryonic stem cell research is speculative and politically controversial; therefore it says government should leave it to the private sector. (Third item.)
Gloria A. (Rockett) Hohlstein, age 69, died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. She worked in food service at residence halls for the UW-Madison for many years.
Irene E. Ellestad, age 89, died on Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. She worked as a laboratory assistant in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin until her retirement.
Phyllis Marie Brose, age 82, formerly of Madison, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. Phyllis was instrumental in the development of the first hemodialysis unit at the University Hospital in Madison. She served as the unit’s nursing supervisor from 1966 until 1989.
Feature on Nina Camic, law professor at the University of Wisconsin.
The nation’s economy has probably hit its low point and should start improving in the next six months.
That’s what speakers told about 80 people at the semi-annual Economic Outlook Conference at the Fluno Center on the UW-Madison campus Friday.
“I think improvement in the economy is imminent,” said Clare Zempel, founder of Zempel Strategic in Milwaukee and former chief economist for Robert W. Baird & Co. “The slowdown should be in the process of slowing down.”
Another catch for at-home parents in tough economic times is this: Rising prices not only make it harder to live off one income — it is also more riskier to put the family’s financial eggs in one basket.
“Dual-earner couples probably help to recession-proof the economy to some extent,” said Janet Hyde, UW-Madison professor of psychology. “If both parents are employed and one is laid off, the economic impact on the family is devastating, but less devastating than if the laid-off person were the sole earner. Families with a stay-at-home parent don’t have that economic cushion.”
After a rocky period, the UW-Madison political science department is experiencing a revival.
Nine political scientists left last year — more than one-fifth of the department — some to pursue other jobs and some to retire.
“There was a little bit of shell-shock after spring of 2007,” said department chairman John Coleman. “It was a bad coincidence of a lot of people leaving at the same time.”
Quoted: Campaign ads-that-aren’t are “the oldest trick going,” says Kenneth Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who tracks political advertising.
Two years after University of Illinois officials killed a proposal to enroll fewer in-state students at their flagship campus, the percentage of freshmen from Illinois in this fall’s class has dropped to less than 83 percent, the lowest in at least a decade, the Tribune has learned.
Intense public outcry forced administrators at the Urbana-Champaign campus to backtrack in 2006 from a plan to decrease in-state undergraduate enrollment from 90 percent to 85 percent. But this fall only about 87 percent of the campus’ 31,181 undergraduates are from Illinois.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS — Carol Gelhausen had seen her daughter play trumpet many times before, but Friday’s performance in Wisconsin Rapids was just a little different.
Gelhausen, Hartford, visited the city this weekend to see her daughter, Michelle, a junior trumpet player in the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, play during the Lincoln High School and Stevens Point Area Senior High School football game.
Quoted: Paul Florsheim, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Government professor Lisa L. Martin, who served as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ first diversity dean and chair of the Standing Committee on Women, has left Harvard for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, criticizing Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith’s commitment to hiring minority and female professors on her way out.
A review of My Family and Other Saints, by Kirin Narayan. Narayan is a professor of anthropology at UW-Madison.
The strongest hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have become more intense because of global warming over the past 25 years, says a new study in the current edition of the journal Nature. The findings add fuel to the simmering argument in the meteorological community about Earth’s changing climate and its relationship to the power of tropical systems worldwide.
Scientists from Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed satellite data from nearly 2,000 tropical cyclones around the world from 1981 to 2006 and found that the strongest storms are getting stronger, especially over the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
This year’s Devil’s Challenge Triathlon was emotional for Dino Lucas of Madison. He was a personal friend of the late Dr. Daniel Eimermann, who died after collapsing in the water during last year’s event.
Before athletes plunged into Devil’s Lake Sunday morning, Lucas asked them to bow their heads in a moment of silence to honor his friend, Eimermann, a psychiatrist who volunteered as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
“I just wanted people to take time out to remember him and be happy that they’re healthy,” Lucas said.
Alex Waskawic worked up a sweat this summer and in the end it was all worth it.
The 2005 Omro High School graduate was put through a rigorous workout on a hot August day and it paid off in his selection as the new assistant drum major for the University of Wisconsin Marching Band.
Our editorial board met UW-Madison’s new chancellor, “Biddy” Martin, last week for the first time and came away feeling that the university is in good hands.
There’s no question that Martin is moving carefully during these first weeks of her tenure. She’s not taking sides in ex-Chancellor John Wiley’s feud with some legislators; she claims to have had an enjoyable visit with the Legislature’s most vocal UW basher, Rep. Steve Nass; and she’s still not ready to weigh in on the 18-versus-21 drinking age controversy.
From the most experienced fifth-year senior to the newest of freshmen, we all have felt at one time or another the stress and rigors of college life bearing down on us. Whether we are stressing over financial situations, what our goals for the future may be, relationships, or even that term paper due this Friday you havenâ??t even started yet, college is a tumultuous time that heavily impacts our minds and mental states.
That being said, it should be a top priority for our university (any university or college, in fact) to have mental treatment and counseling readily available to all students for free, or at least at very affordable prices. The fact that a recent UW System audit found that student mental health needs were growing at a much faster rate than the resources available is, therefore, a cause for great concern. The UW System needs to address this issue now before it grows out of control or situations arise in which students are put at risk.
Threats of stabbings and drive-by shootings are just a few things Jason Koepke heard after denying entry to unruly patrons when he worked at Madison Avenue, a popular bar and dance club in downtown Madison.
Koepke, a UW-Madison senior who currently works the door at the Nitty Gritty, also recalled a drunken altercation in February between two men and a male freshman that left the student bloodied on the sidewalk.
â??He had a huge cut across his face, his lip was all split open,â? Koepke said. â??They pummeled him good.â?
A â??digital commonsâ? is on the horizon for University of Wisconsin System students, offering them a wealth of information including more digital journals and databases than ever before.
The Board of Regents discussed the proposal last month, and it is now in the systemâ??s 2010-11 budget request to the state.
Thai Fest, a celebration of Thai culture, was brought back to the Olbrich Botanical Gardens on Sunday, Sept. 14 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Generously funded by the University of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Alumni Association, the Royal Thai Consulate General in Chicago, the Tourism Authority of Thailand and Olbrich Botanical Gardens, the event was free and open to the enthusiastic people of Madison who bravely trudged through the mud and rain to attend the world-class event.
An unknown number of University of Wisconsin students are still waiting on thousands of dollars in checks from the Bursarâ??s Office though they were mailed in Milwaukee more than two weeks ago, according to the office.
Bursar Cathie Easter said Friday that the checks, dated Aug. 28, have likely been misplaced or delayed in the mail.
