The most popular vendor at today’s Rhythm & Booms event at Warner Park may well be the one selling bug spray.
“You could probably name your price,” said Patrick Irwin, a UW-Madison doctoral student who has been tracking the local mosquito population and is astounded by what he’s seen following the recent soggy weather.
David Dougherty Gilboe, Ph.D., age 78, died on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. David entered UW-Madison in 1954 to begin his graduate studies in biochemistry and earned his M.S. (1955) and Ph.D. (1958). After receiving his Ph.D. he became an instructor in the Departments of Surgery and Physiological Chemistry. He reached the rank of professor in 1973 and then held faculty appointments with both physiology and neurological surgery, after the Department of Neurological Surgery was established in 1989. In 2000, Dr. Gilboe became an emeritus professor, but still remained active in the recruitment and mentoring of residents, graduate students and faculty in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
MADISON (WKOW) — For nearly five months, there has been a sense of unshakeable dread in the bayfront, southside Madison neighborhood of murder victim Joel Marino.
The father of Adam Peterson, who was charged in the killing of Joel Marino, said it’s unlikely his son was involved with Madison’s other unsolved slayings.
Story mentions UW Health fertility services.
The shock over Adam Peterson ‘s arrest Thursday in the murder of Joel Marino was especially great among the people he grew up with in the Stillwater, Minn. area, who said they never thought he was capable of such violence.
To ensure that Wisconsin’s dairy industry will not be left without professional veterinary care in the future, a group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine has partnered with the school’s Office of Academic Affairs and dean’s office to introduce youngsters to the positive side of a career in agriculture, including that of large-animal veterinarian. The group calls itself Veterinary Medicine Outreach, Recruitment and Education (VetMORE) and has already organized numerous outreach events.
IN COMMUNITY LIFE, a short story by Lorrie Moore, a woman librarian looks around and realises that compared with her boyfriend’s social group, her friends are all a bit wonky. They say sour things in quiet voices and make terrible wardrobe decisions. They are “delicate and territorial, intellectual, and physically unwell” but, writes Moore, “these were the people she liked: the kind you couldn’t really live with”. She might be describing her characters in general, who, even when they do find someone to live with, tend to wince at everything they say and then show them up in public.
Francis Halzen has an unusual job. This scientist studies itsy bitsy, teeny tiny objects zipping through the universe. Theyâ??re called neutrinos.
It’s not much of a report card.
Half of Americans say U.S. schools are doing only a fair to poor job preparing kids for college and the work force. Even more feel that way about the skills kids need to survive as adults, an Associated Press poll released Friday finds.
The views of the general population echo concerns from business and college leaders, who say they have to spend a lot of time and money on remedial education for people who completed high school but don’t have the skills to succeed at work or in higher education.
A former college student charged in a home-invasion slaying in Wisconsin five months ago has been arrested in Washington County, authorities said today.
Adam C. Peterson, 20, was arrested Thursday about 7:30 a.m. without incident at the Grant home of his mother, where he recently moved from Madison, Wis., the Washington County Sheriff’s Office sai
A University of Wisconsin-Madison dropout from Minnesota was charged Friday with a high-profile stabbing death, one of several unsolved cases that had frightened city residents.
Epic Systems Corp., the Verona-based electronic medical records company, is threatening to pull its business from local vendors who support the state’s largest business lobby over a political disagreement with the group.
DNA extracted from the handle of the knife that killed Joel Marino, along with hairs found on a backpack and knit cap, tied a former UW-Madison student to Marino’s death on Jan. 28, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.
Adam C. Peterson, 20, of Grant, Minn., was charged with first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly stabbing Marino, 31, to death at his home on West Shore Drive.
Wisconsin just received four reminders of where the state ‘s economy is heading: toward growth generated by innovations in science and technology and away from the old foundation of traditional manufacturing.
Policymakers — from the Doyle administration to Thrive, the economic development arm for the Madison region — ought to pay close attention.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, suggests that you find out whether the recruiters, doctors and nurses involved in the study are “likely to be influenced in their judgments by money or professional connections to the study sponsor.”
KENOSHA, Wis. –The educator who resigned before becoming University of Wisconsin-Parkside chancellor because of a pending criminal investigation received a “no confidence” vote from University of Louisville faculty members at a meeting in 2006, a newspaper reports.
The Kenosha News said in a story on its Web page Thursday that it obtained minutes of that meeting through a Freedom of Information request, and they show some faculty members spoke out with criticism of Robert Felner’s performance as dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Louisville.
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling overturning the city of Washington’s ban on the individual possession of handguns could have broad implications for colleges and universities that bar students from having guns on campus.
Itâ??s hard to miss the glow from emergency phone kiosks on campus these days.
Nor can families of incoming freshman easily evade required seminars or orientation programs discussing campus safety and emergency protocol.
For the most part, campuses are safe, educational havens.
But, in the wake of the tragic killing of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student this year, new discussions on improving emergency communication have erupted.
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Quoted: Shanan Peters, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of geology and geophysics and leader of the study. “There have also been studies of volcanism, and some eruptions correspond to extinction, but many do not.”
Quoted: Shanan Peters, an assistant geology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the rate of rainfall was more than a spillway near a dam could handle, though neither failed. What probably happened, he says, is that excess water flowed to a low point in the lakebed and saturated sandy soil beneath the road until it gave way.
Quoted: Morris Davis, a former senior economist with the Federal Reserve and now a real estate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business.
MADISON (WKOW) — Madison Police tell 27 News an arrest has been made in the Joel Marino murder case.
27 News has learned the suspect was arrested in Grant, Minnesota.
In a news release Madison police say, “Through extensive police work and information from the community Madison Police Detectives learned that our person of interest may have information pertaining to the January 28, 2008 homicide.
Madison, Wis. – In a step that official concludes the re-examination of two important embryonic stem cell patents, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued reexamination certificates for the two patents, which are held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
In a signal that more copyright infringement lawsuits could be coming against students in the UW System, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit in federal court in Madison Wednesday seeking the names of people it believes illegally downloaded music at UW facilities.
The John Doe lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Madison by the RIAA, seeks the identities of 48 people who were monitored downloading copyrighted music over Internet-based file-sharing networks in 2007 and 2008.
Q. Are earthquakes becoming more frequent?
A. Not really, says Clifford Thurber, a professor of geophysics at UW-Madison, although this decade is shaping up to be extremely active. Three of the 10 largest earthquakes since 1900 occurred in the 1950s, three more in the 1960s, and three more since 2000.
Madison-area readers may suspect what is coming next, and, yes, it’s true.
Donald Lipski is about to strike again.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s annual Rhythm and Booms fires off this Saturday at Warner Park.
The event, which starts at noon, is expected to draw around 250,000 people. But, one big change this year will be that Madison Metro will no longer be providing the shuttle service between Warner Park and the MATC parking lot.
New federal regulations that went into effect in April prohibit federally-funded transit systems from providing shuttle services for community events.
The new federal rules also mean Metro buses will no longer be able to provide shuttle service at University of Wisconsin football games or WIAA sporting events. Metro buses moved 50,000 people a year on these community event shuttles, WISC-TV reported.
Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have been prescribed for decades to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and their popularity as “cognition enhancers” has recently surged among the healthy, as well.
What’s now starting to catch up is knowledge of what these drugs actually do in the brain. In a paper publishing online this week in Biological Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology researchers David Devilbiss and Craig Berridge report that Ritalin fine-tunes the functioning of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) – a brain region involved in attention, decision-making and impulse control – while having few effects outside it.
As Provost Biddy Martin leaves Cornell to assume the chancellorship position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell has begun to search for her replacement. In the meantime, President David Skorton has appointed David Harris, deputy provost and vice-provost for social sciences, as interim provost until a replacement for Martin is found. The Sun spoke to Harris about his appointment, his plan not to introduce new initiatives and what it will take to fill Martinâ??s shoes.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate returned to town on Wednesday, this time at the controls of the largest and most powerful helicopter the U.S. military operates — the CH-35 Super Stallion.
Incoming UW-Parkside chancellor Robert Felner has stepped down amidst a federal probe at old current college in which he’s accused of mishandling a half million dollars in federal grant money. Robert Felner was supposed to start at the Kenosha campus July first. But last Saturday, media reports surfaced about a probe at Louisville’s College of Education and Human Development, where Felner was the dean since 2003. He told the UW about it the next day.
The University of Wisconsin system proudly announced on June 5 that it had hired a new chancellor for its Parkside campus. But three weeks later, the system is back at the drawing board while its one-time appointee copes with a criminal investigation.
Robert Felner, dean of the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Louisville, was scheduled to become Parkside’s chancellor in August. He declined the appointment earlier this week as details emerged about his role in a federal probe.
Photo: A digitized print, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, shows the ivory-billed woodpecker. (Courtesy of University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries via Wisconsin State Jouranal/The Associated Press)
Madison should ensure safety, maintain a sense of fun, encourage business growth and seriously consider commuter rail as part of its new Downtown plan.
The city is holding public meetings this week on the future of Downtown. Anyone who lives, works or visits the central city is encouraged to participate.
The city ‘s last Downtown plan is almost two decades old. Since then, the area bound by Park, Regent, Proudfit and Blair streets has seen significant change, some of it guided by a “Downtown 2000 ” plan, adopted in 1989.
The state Capitol and UW-Madison continue to anchor and enrich the city ‘s center. But the private sector has made huge investments in Downtown ‘s future.
The number of Wisconsin schools failing to meet federal No Child Left Behind progress standards rose sharply this year from 95 to 156 â?? including nine schools in Madison and Sun Prairie High School â?? according to data released Tuesday by the state Department of Public Instruction.
When first-year UW-Madison law students arrived in Anuj Desai’s constitutional law class last semester, he told them to shut their laptop computers and next time, leave them at home.
The directive may have come as a surprise to students who are used to having a keyboard â?? and the Internet â?? at their fingertips in class.
Quoted: Dr. Mark Moss of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Goldy Gopher won’t be appearing on scantily clad supermodel mannequins anytime soon.
Despite previous reports, the University will not take part in the upcoming Victoria’s Secret PINK Collegiate Collection .
University Associate Athletics Director Tom Wistrcill said the school notified its licensing agency that the clothing line was not in step with the University’s values and focus.
With the presidential election officially down to two major party candidates, supporters of Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama are turning their attention to strategies for winning over key constituencies. When it comes to one target group â?? students on college campuses â?? both campaigns see significant opportunities, but challenging barriers, too.
Facing new revelations that he is at the center of a criminal investigation, Robert Felner, the recently appointed chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Parkside, withdrew from his new job today.
There are many miles (and, more literally, possibly several months) to go before the federal budgeting process for the 2009 fiscal year is complete, and therefore much could change. But based on the initial signs, the latest of which came Tuesday when a Senate appropriations subcommittee drafted a spending bill for education, health and labor programs, the National Institutes of Health appears to be in line for the sort of hefty increase that biomedical research advocates have been begging for. Most student aid programs, however, would receive no new funds.
MADISON (WKOW) — Mosquito season has officially begun in Wisconsin, and this past month’s flooding hasn’t helped keep the bugs at bay.
Flood water is a mosquito’s paradise, and entomologists say right now, you can stand outside and get bitten 40 to 50 times in under a minute. They say the heavy rain we got two weeks ago caused a massive mosquito hatch. And, the standing flood water that remains doesn’t help.
But, entomologists say record flooding does not necessarily mean record mosquitos. In fact, UW entomologist Dr. Phillip Pellitteri says there were actually fewer mosquitoes in the past three or four years.
Are some farming practices making floods worse? UW Madison Geography professor Jim Knox says there were several factors contributing to this month’s massive floods, including high corn prices. “With the economic situation, and the move towards ethanol production from corn, prices are higher,” notes Knox.
Representing your country in the Olympics is the ultimate honor for most athletes, and two former Badger runners have been training together for the past five years, striding to reach that finish line. In one week, they’re both hoping to be Beijing-bound for the summer games.
Their accomplishments speak for themselves. Former Badger Chris Solinsky is a five-time NCAA champion. His ex-teammate Matt Tegenkamp became the first runner to break a four-minute mile on Wisconsin soil, and is the American two-mile record holder. But those achievements are only setting the state for what they hope is their greatest conquest to date.
The climate of early Earth was no day at the beach, with stinging acid rains and an intensely warm surface, a new study suggests.
These harsh conditions could explain why geologists today have found no rocks more than 4 billion years old: They were all weathered away.
The fate of all those rocks from the first 500 million years after Earth formed has been a longstanding question in geology.
Geologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined zircon crystals, the oldest known materials on Earth, to shed light on the fate of rocks from the early Earth.
MADISON â?? A University of Louisville dean hired to lead UW-Parkside resigned his appointment Tuesday amid a federal criminal investigation in Kentucky.
Robert Felner, dean of the Louisville College of Education and Human Development, was to start July 1 as Parksideâ??s chancellor.
But Felner alerted UW System President Kevin Reilly on Sunday that his college was facing a criminal investigation and offered to resign, said spokesman David Giroux.
MADISON, Wis. — While the police investigation continues, Monday marks the one-year anniversary when University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student Kelly Nolan disappeared from downtown Madison. The 22-year-old was later found dead.
The search for the missing Waunakee native began last summer. Nolan was reported missing on June 23, 2007, after a night of partying in downtown Madison. Her body was found on July 9, 2007, in a wooded area near Schneider Drive in the Town of Dunn.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, who late last year announced he would leave his position in September, has been named interim director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, the public portion of a public-private, $150 million research center expected to be completed on the university’s campus in 2010.
After touring the flooded and partially reopened University of Iowa campus on Monday, two leaders of the state’s Board of Regents said they were saddened by the devastation but thankful for the thousands of volunteers who had helped prevent an even worse catastrophe.
The board’s president, David W. Miles, called the experience of flying over and slogging through the sodden campus “humbling.” Speaking at a taped news conference on campus, he thanked the students, employees and community members who spent days piling sandbags and retrieving books, art, and equipment from the lower floors of buildings in the days leading up to the catastrophic flooding.
The heavy rains and flooding earlier this month mean mosquito season is hitting Wisconsin hard.
The air is buzzing heavily with the blood sucking insects and UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri says it’s not hard to figure out why. He says all the rain and flooding in recent weeks has provided ample breeding areas for mosquitoes.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A University of Louisville dean picked to lead the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has alerted UW System officials that his college is under federal criminal investigation, a spokesman said Monday.
Louisville College of Education and Human Development Dean Robert Felner was approved by the Board of Regents earlier this month as the next UW-Parkside chancellor. He is to start July 1, replacing retiring Chancellor Jack Keating.
The concrete canoe competition is simple: Design and build a concrete canoe that can float and withstand the wear and tear of numerous races.
This year the University of Nevada, Reno, won first place, putting an end to the five-year winning streak by the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Robert Pearce, who chairs the anesthesiology department at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison
The climate of early Earth was no day at the beach, with stinging acid rains and an intensely warm surface, a new study suggests. These harsh conditions could explain why geologists today have found no rocks more than 4 billion years old: They were all weathered away.
Geologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined zircon crystals, the oldest known materials on Earth, to shed light on the fate of rocks from the early Earth. Zircons, which are smaller than a speck of sand, can offer a window back in time to about 4.4 billion years ago, when the Earth was a mere 150 million years old because they are extremely resistant to chemical changes.
Fraud, fakery, or larceny is what ordinary people would call it. But in the sciencesâ?? refined venues the proper term is â??misconduct,â? and thereâ??s a lot more of it than official figures show, according to a report in Nature (19 June), â??Repairing research integrity.â?
Perhaps itâ??s nostalgia for my journalistic apprenticeship as a police reporter that draws me to such publications. But as much as I relish a crackdown on miscreants in lab coats, Iâ??m wary of this report, though it has impressive authorship: a University of Wisconsin official responsible for research policy, and a current and a retired official of the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI), which monitors scientific purity for the National Institutes of Health and other parts of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Quoted: Monica Turner, professor of Wildland Ecology at the University of Wisconsin.
The University of Louisville’s education department is the target of a federal investigation that was announced Friday, according the department’s outgoing dean.
Robert Felner, dean of U of L’s College of Education and Human Development, called University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly on Sunday to alert him to the investigation, Wisconsin officials said. Felner is the new chancellor at UW-Parkside.
NASHVILLE, June 23 (UPI) — A U.S.-funded study finds binary stars might not be identical, and that might cause the world’s astronomers to re-examine some of their theories.
“The easiest way to explain the observed differences is if one star was fully formed about 500,000 years before its twin,” said Keivan Stassun, an associate professor of astronomy at Vanderbilt University.
The discovery by Stassun and Robert Mathieu from the University of Wisconsin-Madison appears in the journal Nature.
MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota will not allow Victoriaâ??s Secret to use its name or logo as part of its PINK Collegiate Collection.
Victoriaâ??s Secret is rolling out the collegiate line July 1, which originally listed the U of M as one of 33 schools involved. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will be featured in the loungewear line.
