Q. Do perennial plants ever wear out? Why or why not?
A. “Perennials are flowering plants that come back year after year, but some come back year after year much longer than others,” said Eileen Nelson, an herbaceous plant specialist with UW-Madison and UW-Extension.
For David Drake, nothing compares to a Wisconsin dawn shared with Tympanuchus cupido, the drummer of love.
If this sounds a little suspicious, rest assured. For Drake, a UW-Madison assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology, such a morning is all about science. The drummer of love is the greater prairie chicken and Drake and others have watched in dismay as the colorful and once common bird has struggled to hang on in the state as the prairies in which it lives are destroyed. The population has shrunk to about 1,200 and the bird has been declared threatened by the state of Wisconsin.
Jerry O’Brien’s mission, as executive director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison, is to promote careers in retail to students, many of whom have years of experience in the industry, but at entry-level positions flipping hamburgers, selling clothes or stocking shelves.
In the last year, more than a third of the University of Wisconsin ‘s chancellors announced they were vacating the head office.
The rare exodus is causing alarm that the university isn ‘t adequately compensating its academic leadership.
Stewart Macaulay, a UW-Madison professor who teaches contract law, said it may not matter whether Huonker’s commitment letter was signed. Even unwritten agreements can be enforced, he said.
“Public Enemies” stars Depp as Dillinger, whose crime spree ended when he was shot to death in Chicago by FBI agents on July 22, 1934. It is directed and produced by UW-Madison graduate Michael Mann, and co-stars Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis and recent Oscar-winner Cotillard as Depp’s love interest.
Quoted: Beverly Gordon, a design studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Bill Gengler, a veterinary dentist and oral surgeon with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, the toothâ??s outermost layer â?? which we brush â?? is enamel.
Quoted: Sean Carroll, a Toledo native who teaches molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin.
A lot of NFL teams would have passed over Jack Ikegwuonu yesterday, even if he weren’t recovering from a knee injury that is expected to keep him out until 2009.
The University of Wisconsin cornerback is facing a felony charge of residential burglary and a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespass for allegedly stealing an Xbox from an apartment in November 2006. He also had a positive drug test at Wisconsin last year, according to published reports.
Quoted: James L. Baughman, director of the University of Wisconsin journalism school in Madison.
MADISON – Welcome to the sixth round of the NFL Draft, unofficially presented by the University of Wisconsin.
After a quiet day first and second round on Saturday where no Badgers were selected for the first since 1996, All-American kicker Taylor Mehlhaff, defensive tackle Nick Hayden and wide receiver Paul Hubbard were all taken within mere minutes of each other Sunday afternoon in the sixth round of the annual NFL Draft in New York.
Mehlhaff was the No. 178th overall selection and the 12th pick in the sixth round by the New Orleans Saints, Hayden was selected shortly after Mehlhaff by the Carolina Panthers with the 181st pick overall and Hubbard was the 191st pick by the Cleveland Browns.
After 13 years of poolside cheering, we are learning how to applaud in the woods and on the track. Familiar with the essentials of swimming, we know all the cheers. “Kick,” “Send her,” and “Get a good turn” are part of our competition vocabulary. Now we are on the fast track to learning land race lingo.
Gwen discovered swimming in second grade and immediately fell in love. Her devotion to water was all consuming. Season to season, she went from outdoor pool to indoor lanes. In third grade, she spent her days learning cursive and her evenings studying starting-block form. In high school, she was in the pool year round, six days a week, twice a day. I suggested she spend more time having fun, enjoying high school’s social opportunities. She told me she was doing just that – in the pool. There was nothing she would rather do than pull water in the same 25-yard lane, over and over.
Quoted: One zoologist and animal behaviorist, Dr. Patricia McConnell, who hosts a radio talk show and is an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said FlexPetz sounds a lot like a video-rental service for dogs.
Of the 55 people who applied for the top spot at Wisconsin’s public flagship university, all but nine names remain secret.
Rumors swirl about internal applicants for the job, but the list of non-confidential candidates doesn’t name any insiders. One candidate, Albert L. Wiley Jr., comes closest to being a local – he was a UW-Madison professor for two decades.
The new chancellor will succeed John Wiley, who announced he would step down in September.
MILTON â?? For Jenna Zanton Mood, it all started in elementary school.
She used to see the Milton High School show choir, Choralation, perform for the younger students, and she dreamed of being a member.
â??Thatâ??s kind of where I first thought, â??That looks so cool. I want to do that in high school,â??â? she said.
Today, Jenna, 27, makes her living arranging show choir numbers for teams across the nation, including UW-Madisonâ??s Wisconsin Singers.
An attorney for Ralph Armstrong claimed in a court motion Armstrong’s brother, Steve, confessed to two women he was the one who raped and killed UW-Madison student Charise Kamps in 1980.
Attorney Jerome Butig’s motion to a Wisconsin appellate court includes affidavits from the two women, including Debbie Holsomback of Fort Worth. In Holsomback’s affidavit, Holsomback says Armstrong’s brother, Steve Armstrong told her several years after Ralph Armstrong’s murder conviction and imprisonment his brother may want revenge against him. “Steve…responded with words to the effect of: ‘The DNA testing is going to show he didn’t do it. I did it,’ .”
She was a young, spirited and lively woman who wanted to be a physician. A dean ‘s list honoree for fall 2005 and spring 2006, she was majoring in medical microbiology and immunology at UW-Madison.
She liked to cook, hang out with friends and volunteer for good causes. Engaged to a fellow student, she was looking forward to being married and having children.
MADISON, Wis. — Approximately 17,000 runners and walkers hit the streets of Madison on Saturday, dashing from the State Capitol Building to Camp Randall Stadium for the annual Crazylegs Classic.
But one regular Crazylegs participant was missing on Saturday: Adam Nickels, a pharmacy student at the UW-Madison, collapsed and died in March from an unknown heart defect after running a marathon in Arkansas.
A 23-year-old Madison man has been arrested after authorities say he crashed his vehicle into a college building in an apparent alcohol-related accident.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police say the man was driving near the campus Saturday morning about 3:30 a.m. when his sport utility vehicle struck the mechanical-engineering building.
Quoted: Steve Schroeder, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business Career Center said jobs are out there and there is reason to be optimistic for years to come.
“Many people are starting to retire, and the forecast for the next 10 to 20 years, is more baby boomers are going to be retiring than we’re going to be graduating students from college,” Schroeder said
MADISON, Wis. — A man convicted in a brutal attack of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student in the stairwell of a campus apartment building was sentenced Friday.
Paul Aud, 34, was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison after being convicted of attempted second-degree sexual assault and substantial battery.
On Aug. 23, 2006, prosecutors said that Aud followed the woman into a Langdon Street apartment building and repeatedly beat her, pulling her down some stairs.
MADISON, Wis. — A young girl with dreams of attending wrestling camp will get her wish.
The UW Athletics Wrestling Camp has accepted Kylie Jones into its summer overnight camp program.
The program had excluded her because she is a girl.
Madison, Wis. – How many start-up companies can boast the competitive advantage of being first to market, have its own fan club on Facebook, and take advantage of three established technologies – electronic games, mobile phones, and global positioning systems?
One of them, PerBlue, recently took home second place and $7,000 from the 2008 G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One runner was absent from Madison’s 27th Annual Crazylegs Classic.
Last month, NBC 15 reported on the sudden death of Adam Nickel. The U-W Madison graduate student and avid runner died after crossing the finish line at the Little Rock marathon in Arkansas.
Saturday, one group of runners and walkers, with bright yellow shirts, decided to go the distance to honor and remember their late friend and co-worker.
“We have 89 people which were more than we expected. We were hoping for about 50, so that just goes to show the type of person Adam was,” said Mark Wilberg.
Quoted: Steve Schroeder, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business Career Center said jobs are out there and there is reason to be optimistic for years to come.
It’s nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in.
The controversial new writing portion of the SAT is actually a better predictor of grades for freshmen college students than the older, more-established, critical reading and mathematics portions, according to preliminary results of two new studies.
Adam Nickel’s passion for running reached its peak in Madison.
And that passion will live on Saturday, when a team of Nickel’s friends and Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin co-workers participate in the Crazylegs Classic in memory of the 27-year-old Kaukauna native and University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy graduate student who died shortly after completing the Little Rock (Ark.) Marathon on March 2.
“A lot of us that worked at our Capitol Clinic pharmacy, we wanted to get together and just talk because (Nickel’s death) was a shock to us,” GHC-SCW employee and team captain Mark Wilberg said. “In that talk, we decided to do something in his memory. Adam loved running, and this is a way we can honor his memory.”
The goal, amid all the uncertainty, anxiety and excitement, has been to have as ordinary a week as possible leading up to one of the biggest weekends of their lives.
And for the most part, Taylor Mehlhaff, Paul Hubbard, Luke Swan and Nick Hayden have succeeded. Sure, the NFL draft is just a few days away, but the four former University of Wisconsin standouts have done their best not to get swept up in it.
Ron Dayne covered plenty of ground â?? 7,125 yards to be precise â?? over the course of his career as a running back with the University of Wisconsin football team from 1996 to ’99.
But the 1999 Heisman Trophy winner will find himself involved with a different kind of running endeavor Saturday when he will be grand marshal for the 27th annual Crazylegs Classic.
A passionate textiles professor in Madison helped a California college system insist on buying environmentally friendly carpeting for an $83 million contract.
His work reflects growing interest in sustainable choices in carpeting, from homeowners to commercial contractors who want their buildings to be “green” from top to bottom.
“My whole research agenda for the past 26 years” has been focused on textile manufacturing and recycling issues to protect the environment, said Majid Sarmadi, 54, a professor of textile science at UW-Madison.
The unblinking eye of the law will be watching this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party.
For the first time, three cameras will be trained on revelers at the annual, last-hurrah street party before the end of the school year. The party will be May 3.
As eighth-graders across the state are busily preparing for the end of the school year, I hope each of them will take some time to stop and think about the future. Before they begin summer jobs or sports leagues, I encourage them to discuss with their families the upcoming school year and their plans for education after high school.
I don’t want any young people to think college isn’t for them, that it’s only for rich people, or that because their parents didn’t go, they can’t go. Whether they want to become teachers or engineers, or plan to work in exciting new fields in biotechnology and health care, or even if they aren’t sure what job is right for them, a successful high school career will open up opportunities for higher education that will provide many future possibilities.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, a University of Wisconsin economist who is one of the nation’s leading academic currency watchers.
Quoted: Hobbit watcher John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says he was initially intrigued by Henneberg’s claim. “[The] hypothesis was reasonable based on the photos,” he says.
My baby recently left home. He’s 19 and launching his life in an age-appropriate way: subsidized by his parents, at school in a distant city, directing himself toward self-sufficiency and maturity. Nevertheless, the day his move became effective, I felt like I’d left him alone in the woods with no pebbles. This tender son was born 16 years after his big sister. She was learning quadratic equations as he was learning how to hold a spoon. When either child faltered, I’d try to help: “Here, let me.”
Quoted: Joy Zedler, a botanist at the University of Wisconsin who has done research in the preserve since the 1970s, found last year that exotic plants were crowding out native ones, changing the ecosystem and altering the food chain.
The 27th annual Crazylegs Classic is this Saturday, starting at the Capitol.
In the last 6 years JoAnn Brink has provided medical treatment to two different men who have had heart attacks on the race course, saving their lives.
“It’s the most fun run of the year for me.” Brink says she’s looking forward to running the Crazylegs Classic on Saturday. “15,000 people, who is not going to have fun?”
Twice in the last six years the race has taken on a very serious tone for JoAnn.
The Madison Police Department is beefing up security for next weekend’s Mifflin Street block party – an event notorious for getting a little out of hand. This year they will have two high tech ways to watch the crowd.
Bradley W. Winch died on Sunday, April 20, 2008. He attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison, majoring in chemistry and business, and was a member of the UW marching band. He worked as a chemist for Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Raltech Scientific Services and Hazelton Laboratories from 1963 until 1984.
The firm is working on UW Badger Alley, a 600-foot walkway display at Camp Randall Stadium scheduled for completion this fall that will trace the land’s history from holding a Civil War military and prison camp to football stadium.
UW-Madison brainpower.
That ‘s the answer to two questions worth asking this week in the aftermath of Microsoft Corp. ‘s decision to locate a research operation in Madison.
Question No. 1: What attracted the global software giant to this area?
Question No. 2: What should Wisconsin invest in if the state wants to attract more high-tech jobs and income?
Let ‘s hope Wisconsin policymakers are taking notes.
Quoted: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin and author of the book “Rice as Self,” said in a phone interview.
A year after dropping out of the running for another top job, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard has decided now is his time to go.
Shepard, 61, has been named the preferred candidate for the presidency of Western Washington University, a school of more than 13,000 in Bellingham, Wash.
Quoted: Marie-Louise Mares, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin. Mares is the co-author of a recent study, to be published in the journal Media Psychology, of kindergarteners who watched a 10-minute episode of “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” a popular PBS show, in which Clifford and his friends interact with a three-legged dog. At first the characters fear the dog, worry that they might get sick from being around him and treat him as if he’s different. But after the dog tells them that he just wants to be friends, everyone becomes pals.
Also quoted: Joanne Cantor, author of “Mommy, I’m Scared,” a book about the effects of fear-inducing media, says that young children aren’t likely to get the broader lessons of those movies, nor even the storylines.
Quoted: Frank Halzen, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who heard Bernabei’s talk at the conference.
When Suchita Shah was in middle school, her family would sit around the dinner table and watch â??Jeopardy!â? Shah played along at home by shouting out answers at the television.
â??It has always been a life dream of mine to be on the show,â? Shah said. â??It has been my favorite TV show for as long as I can remember.â?
Shahâ??s dream came true this month. The Holmen native and University of Wisconsin-Madison student competed in the 2008 College Championship â??Jeopardy!â? competition at Madisonâ??s Kohl Center April 11 and 12.
Quoted: Dr. James Stein, a University of Wisconsin-Madison cardiologist. If another study he is helping lead does not show benefit for rimonabant, “this drug’s already slim chances of approval will be even more jeopardized,” he said.
Madison, Wis. – How many start-up companies can boast the competitive advantage of being first to market, have its own fan club on Facebook, and take advantage of three established technologies – electronic games, mobile phones, and global positioning systems?
One of them, PerBlue, recently took home second place and $7,000 from the 2008 G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison, Wis. – Microsoft’s Bill Gates must have been very impressed with Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a 2005 visit here.
In the interim, not only has the Seattle-based software giant acquired a local company, Jellyfish.com, it now plans to open an advanced computer lab in downtown Madison to take advantage of the database expertise at UW-Madison.
Students and staff on the UW campus have a new way to pay for parking. We’ve seen the city of Madison offer credit card kiosks, now the UW has a way to pay by phone.
The pilot program is only available in one lot, a Flex parking lot behind the engineering building near Camp Randall. It doesn’t seem like they’ve caught on just yet. While 27 news was on campus Wednesday no one used their phone to pay. In fact, the students we talked with hadn’t even heard of the program.
Eric Sandgren, Director of the UW Animal Care and Use Program, responds to accusations that their labs torture animals. He notes all labs and records are subject to federal oversight.
“Everyone of our facilities are inspected once at least once a year by veterinary medical officers from the United States Department of Agriculture.”
The Ohio-based Stop Animal Exploitation Now has alleged primates at UW Primate Research Center suffer pain because of bolts being implanted in their skulls. Sandgren says all procedures are only done if necessary.
Computer giant Microsoft is setting up a new, advanced development lab at the UW Madison. University officials say it will greatly benefit the school, and attract prospective, talented computer students to the campus. Brian Bull reports. (Audio.)
Computer giant Microsoft is setting up a new, advanced development lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. University officials say it will greatly benefit the school, and attract prospective, talented computer students to the campus.
The Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab â??- named for a company executive and pioneer of the database industry — will open in the downtown area. Microsoft has pledged to support several graduate-level research assistantships at the facility beginning this fall.
In an effort to forward fundamental database research and push the limits of database scalability, Microsoft has hired parallel database pioneer David DeWitt as the company’s newest technical fellow and will open an advanced development laboratory in Madison, Wis.
The new advanced laboratory, the Jim Gray Systems Lab, will perform fundamental research on databases and work closely with Microsoft Research and the company’s development teams to do advanced development of database technologies that the company will roll out in the mid-term.
Madison, Wis. – Microsoft’s Bill Gates must have been very impressed with Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a 2005 visit here.
In the interim, not only has the Seattle-based software giant acquired a local company, Jellyfish.com, it now plans to open an advanced computer lab at UW-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — Microsoft plans to open a laboratory in Madison this spring as part of a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science department.
Retired UW-Madison computer scientist David DeWitt will run the lab in downtown Madison.
DeWitt is considered one of the world leaders in database research, and the lab will focus on developing database systems.
The lab is expected to open with six full-time employees, but Dewitt says he would like it to grow to 10 or 20 scientists in coming years.
Microsoft will pay graduate students to do research at the lab, which is also expected to provide internships for students and consulting opportunities for faculty.
Three street people who reportedly smoked crack and burglarized homes in Brittany Zimmermann’s neighborhood are no more likely to become homicide suspects than any of hundreds of others sought or questioned in the investigation, police said Tuesday.
Microsoft, the world’s largest computer software company, will partner with the UW-Madison computer science department to open a first-of-its-kind advanced database development laboratory near campus in July.
