After firebomb attacks last Saturday set the home of a neuroscientist at the University of California at Santa Cruz aflame and destroyed a car parked in the driveway of another university researcher’s home, scientists and academic leaders were shaken.
The attacks are believed to be the work of animal-rights protesters.
MADISON, Wis. — A 21-year-old bicyclist was injured on Wednesday morning when she fell off her bike and slid underneath a truck’s rear tires on West Washington Avenue, according to Madison police.
The woman was riding her bike at about 9 a.m. when, witnesses said, a truck began to make a right turn onto Henry Street from Washington Avenue. The cyclist was riding close by and apparently hit her brakes to prevent hitting the truck and she flew over the top of the bike’s handlebars, hit the ground and slid beneath the truck. (Victim is UW student.)
UW-Madison is losing another of its bright lights.
Jon Foley, founder and director of the UW-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, or SAGE, has accepted an offer from the University of Minnesota to become the director of a new system-wide environmental institute.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a longtime media violence researcher.
It would have been easy for Barry Alvarez to doubt himself after going 1-10 in his first season as head football coach at the University of Wisconsin.
However, despite accepting the enormous task of rebuilding a dying program, only to have an auspicious start, Alvarez trusted his instincts and stuck to his plan.
He never wavered.
On the eve of the Beijing Olympic Games, many human rights activists and observers continue to hope that the Chinese Communist Party’s embrace of odious regimes such as Burma’s and Sudan’s, and its oppression of Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims and Falun Gong spiritualists, will lead democratic heads of state to boycott the Olympics, or athletes and spectators to demonstrate on behalf of the victims. I doubt it. The only demonstrations are likely to be those celebrating China’s massive gold medal count.
The Posse Foundation is an innovative scheme brought to fruition almost 20 years ago by Deborah Bial, an education specialist who was troubled by the high failure rate of promising minority students recruited by top-tier universities.
One such student explained to her that he would have stayed in school if he’d had his posse with him — using the popular urban expression for his network of neighborhood buddies. That’s when Bial hit on the idea of recruiting a cross-section of kids from urban public high schools, bonding them into cohesive groups of 10 or 12, and sending them off, en masse, to some of the nation’s best universities.
this year’s crop of Posse Chicago’s 72 scholarship winners will be heading to Carleton College in Minnesota, DePauw University in Indiana, Oberlin College in Ohio and Pomona College in California, as well as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With more than 500 grey wolves now in Wisconsin, a researcher has looked into where they’re living and likely to live. Some of the animals may wander to central and southern Wisconsin, but David Mladenhoff of the UW Madisonâ??s Forest Ecology department says the wolves will continue to prefer the northern region. (2nd item.)
Milk was featured in a toast by some of the key players in the construction of the University of Wisconsin System Arlington Agricultural Research Station’s new dairy facilities. The toast was made July 30 during dedication festivities at the research station.
Bonnie Hamilton Bailey, age 81, of Carlinville, Ill., formerly of Madison, died Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. Bonnie taught and consulted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Business Management Institute for 17 years.
UW Madison’s current research park is bursting at the seams and will be expanded. In addition, a second research park designed for a vastly different kind of entrepreneur will open. Shamane Mills reportsâ?¦
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UW-Madison researchers will try to better understand how human embryonic stem cells perform their scientific magic through an $8.9 million federal grant announced Monday.
he emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that has destroyed millions of ash trees in Michigan and other states in the Upper Midwest, has been discovered for the first time in Wisconsin.
For her senior project in biological systems engineering before graduating from UW-Madison in May, Danielle McIntosh designed and built a bike rack to transport hula hoops. This Hoopla rack won her $5,700 at the College of Engineering’s Innovation Days.
Quoted: Environmental epidemiologist Jill Baumgartner of the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison, who has researched indoor air pollution in the region. “Air pollution in these households is really, really high.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Ken Goldstein, who tracks the Jewish vote, said the choice of Cantor would energize the Jewish community, though it wouldn’t necessarily sway large numbers of voters.
Quoted: “This is a big deal. This is bad,” said Phil Townsend, an associate professor of forest ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We’re not just talking about forests, out in the woods. We’re talking about trees in neighborhoods and suburbs along streets.”
MADISON — The University of Wisconsin Research Park is looking to expand, and officials are eyeing a historic property on Madison’s East Side.
The new urban research park would be housed inside the Marquip Building, a Madison landmark that has been vacant for more than five years.
“Some would say, ‘Why here in this location?'” said Mark Bugher, director of the research park. “First and foremost, it’s close to the UW campus, close to the (Madison Area Technical College) campus. It’s a vibrant edgy neighborhood.”
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will use nearly $9 million in grant money to help fund a five year effort to discover the secrets of stem cells’ ability to morph into all of the cell types that make up the body.
It’s a big boost for a Madison neighborhood. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz couldn’t be more pleased, as the University Research Park announces a new urban campus just east of the city’s downtown. “This could be the spark, that really makes the East Rail Corridor take off,” says Mayor Dave.
MADISON (WKOW) — With the successful growth of the University Research Park on Madison’s West Side, the UW wants to expand into downtown.
They will renovate the former Marquip building on East Washington into a 6,000 square feet Urban Research Park.
The medical school at UW Madison has successfully challenged a poor review of its policies designed to keep pharmaceutical makers at arm’s length. Shamane Mills reportsâ?¦(7th item, audio.)
The state is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the land-buying stewardship program, which will be applied towards land purchases and other preservation efforts. But a new book co-edited by a University of Wisconsin professor says humans will continue to reshape the environment.
Don Waller of the U-W Madisonâ??s Botany and Environmental Studies department says he hopes The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin’s Changing Lands, Waters and Wildlife catches the publicâ??s eye. (Final item.)
MADISON â?? Most of the 115 businesses in the University Research Park on the Capital Cityâ??s west side are biotech companies that require wet labs for their ongoing experiments and product development.
But in the researchâ??s park urban expansion in the former Marquip Building at 1245 E. Washington Ave., the targets for the 10 new incubator suites in the former manufacturing site will be high-tech entrepreneurs working in the areas of information technology, engineering, medical devices and computer sciences.
The effort is starting out small, with a lease of 6,000-square feet. But it has the potential to â??explodeâ? within a few years as faculty members and students start their own businesses, said UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley.
The Mifflin Street Block Party in Madison may have a sponsor next year.
The owners of the Majestic Theatre want to change the partyâ??s focus from alcohol to music.
They are talking with leader of UW-Madisonâ??s student government. The student leaders plan to survey their classmates soon about their thoughts on a more organized party.
Now that more doors are opening for women who want to be surgeons, it may be time to look at the equipment they are given at the operating table.
A new study finds that some devices commonly used in what was once a male bastion are too big to be comfortable for women.
One of the reportâ??s authors, Dr. Peter Nichol of the University of Wisconsin medical school, said he had gotten the idea for the study while working with a resident and co-author, Dr. Danielle M. Adams.
A faculty union is suing UW-Platteville over the way its chancellor wants to award merit pay increases.
The case could help decide how a new $10 million fund is awarded across the University of Wisconsin System. Lawmakers created the fund last year to help recruit and retain faculty members and researchers, whose salaries are lagging behind those at rival schools.
TomoTherapy shares plummeted Friday, losing nearly half their value in very heavy trading, after the Madison company reported a second-quarter loss, slashed full-year projections, and, for the first time, admitted losing orders to competitors.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Friday that the state should stop using coal to fuel heating and cooling plants in Madison, following the release of a major study with the same recommendation.
Column by law Professor Donald A. Downs:
The fall campaigns are heating up, and citizens are gripped by conflicting feelings of hope and deep concern for the country’s domestic and global condition — a tension that only seems to heighten the excitement.
Eighteen has been good to Danez Smith.
It’s the age that he’s come into his own, he says.
And the age he was named Madison’s Grand Slam Poetry Champion.
The University Research Park, a 260-acre suburban oasis for start-ups on Madison’s West Side, will be trying to attract young student and faculty entrepreneurs with an edgy new urban incubator in an abandoned industrial building on the near East Side.
Quoted: David Eagan, lead author and staff member of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Services for Irving W. Kreutz, 90, of Jersey City, are private. He died yesterday at Jersey City Medical Center.
Born in Pecos, Texas, he lived in Madison, Wis., before moving to moving to Jersey City 31/2 years ago.
Kreutz was a philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He retired in 1980.
Quoted: John Milton Cooper Jr., a history professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Calvin B. DeWitt, an activist in the evangelical environmentalist movement and a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Gov. Jim Doyle’s announcement Friday that Wisconsin will stop using coal at its power plants in Madison was hailed as a pivotal victory for the environment that makes the state a leader in seeking clean energy alternatives.
â??This is great news,â? said Jennifer Feyerherm, director of the Sierra Club’s clean energy campaign. The national environmental group that sued the state last year over pollution violations at one of its plants.
The announcement means that the Charter Street Heating Plant will have to be shut down and refitted to burn something other than coal.
MADISON, Wis. – A faculty union is suing the University of Wisconsin-Platteville over the way its chancellor wants to award merit pay increases.
The case could help decide how a new $10 million fund is awarded across the University of Wisconsin System. Lawmakers created the fund last year to help recruit and retain faculty members and researchers, whose salaries are lagging behind those at rival schools.
The UW System told campuses to use the money to give raises to key employees or to sweeten the salaries of incoming workers.
QUoted: Nina Emerson, director of the Resource Center on Impaired Driving at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political expert.
MADISON (WKOW) — Classes at UW-Madison don’t start for 33 days, but already the rumor mill is spinning about a building that will house hundreds of students for the fall 2008 semester.
Ten stories tall and more than a million square feet, Lucky Apartments will house more than 800 people when the site opens in August.
Or, as many UW students, have heard, “if” it opens in August.
The home of a molecular biologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a car parked in the driveway at the home of another of the university’s researchers were damaged by intentionally set fires early Saturday in separate incidents that the university said appeared to be “criminal acts of anti-science violence.”
The Governor wants to stop using coal to generate heat for some state facilities.
As the UW-Madison and Department of Administration consider new ways to fuel state-owned heating plants in Madison, Governor Jim Doyle says coal is not an option. Doyle says the state needs to move away from that energy source.
A wide-ranging higher education bill designed to protect college students from aggressive lenders and rein in soaring tuitions won congressional approval Thursday.
The passage marks the first time in a decade that Congress has reauthorized the main federal law overseeing higher education and the third time in less than a year that it passed legislation to make college more affordable.
The Wisconsin Sleep Cohort is led by Terry Young of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Quoted: Still, McCain is not on TV to counter Obama’s barrage â?? and the Democrat is running as many ads in North Florida and the heavily Republican panhandle as in the southern part of the state that usually favors Democrats, points out Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project, which tracks political ad spending.
NEW YORK – Life-saving surgery to prevent repeated severe bleeding from ruptured veins in the esophagus or upper stomach may not induce some patients with alcoholic liver disease to stop drinking alcohol, researchers report.
Such a surgical procedure may be necessary to reduce the pressure in the veins of the esophagus and upper stomach among patients with cirrhosis, a scarring of the liver frequently caused by alcohol abuse.
The study group consisted of 132 patients with cirrhosis, including 78 with alcoholic liver disease, lead author Dr. Michael R. Lucey, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and colleagues report.
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MADISON, Wis. — A man was arrested and accused of robbing a Madison bank on Thursday morning in which police said he claimed that he had a bomb.
The incident occurred at the Badger Campus Credit Union on Spring Street when the man apparently entered the bank and demanded money, according to Madison police
Quoted: Clive Svendsen, who studies ALS at the University of Wisconsin, says it makes sense that if you can study a cell in the lab, you can understand it better. But that hasn’t happened yet.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and co-developer of the poll-tracking site Pollster.com
With less than a week remaining before National Poetry Slam 2008 gets rolling in Madison, the cityâ??s team is working hard in preparation for the competition. All five members — Evy Gildrie-Voyles, Josh Healey, Ryan Hurley, Eric Mata, and Danez J. Smith — are busy making their performance decisions and last-minute adjustments to ensure their success. But how did they find themselves on the hometown squad for the latest addition to Madisonâ??s artistic crown jewels?
Quoted: Forgiveness is not that uncommon when an injustice occurs, notes Bob Enright, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies the topic.
MADISON, Wis., Aug. 1 (UPI) — Married social fathers exhibited equal or better quality parenting behaviors than married and cohabiting biological fathers, a U.S. study found.
The study, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, found that married and cohabiting biological fathers displayed relatively similar quality parenting and the parenting practices of married social fathers were of higher quality than those of cohabiting social fathers.
Study leader Lawrence M. Berger of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said married social fathers were more engaged with children, took on more shared responsibility in parenting and were more trusted by mothers to take care of children.
People with the severe form of apnea, which interferes with sleep, are several times more likely to die from any cause than are folks without the disorder, researchers report in Friday’s edition of the journal Sleep.
In the new report, the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort followed 1,522 men and women, ages 30 to 60. The annual death rate was 2.85 per 1,000 people per year for people without sleep apnea.
People with mild and moderate apnea had death rates of 5.54 and 5.42 per 1,000, respectively, and people with severe apnea had a rate of 14.6, researchers said.
Cardiovascular mortality accounted for 26 percent of all deaths among people without apnea and 42 percent of the deaths among people with severe apnea, according to the researchers led by Terry Young of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Abernathy, a flight physician for UW Hospitals in Madison, has witnessed the dangerous side of texting; assistant chief Dale Burke of the UWPD.
When UW-Madison MBA students return for fall classes in late August, theyâ??ll find new digs in the form of the $40.5 million east wing of Grainger Hall.
The 131,416-square-foot, four-story addition features enhanced space for Wisconsin Enterprise MBA programs, the Evening MBA and Executive MBA, all of which serve working professionals.
The new tower also features common areas for visiting recruiters, alumni and students –including the multi-purpose Plenary Room on the first floor — as well as the Capital Café and 29 modern classroom and meeting/breakout rooms.
It took five years and 14 extensions, but Congress has finally cleared a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, the major law governing federal student aid.
The bill, which would set federal higher-education policy for at least the next five years, easily passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon by a vote of 380 to 49. The Senate later approved it, 83 to 8. The bill now heads to President Bush, who is expected to sign it into law, even though his administration has criticized the cost of some of the new programs it would create.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Abernathy, a flight physician for UW Hospitals in Madison, has witnessed the dangerous side of texting; Dale Burke of the UW-Madison Police. (9th item.)
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a lawyer and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
