Duluth, Minn. – Wisconsin’s smallest player had the biggest game-changing moment Thursday.
Erika Lawler scored once and added an assist to lead the Badgers past Harvard, 4-1, in the semifinals of the 2008 women’s hockey Frozen Four.
A rift over alcohol crackdown proposals may cause some student neighborhoods to break from Capitol Neighborhoods Inc.
Jessica Pavlic, who represents the State and Langdon street neighborhoods on the Capitol Neighborhoods council, said the plan to secede is partly a response to the council ‘s proposal to double the fine for underage drinking and increase the beer tax as a way of controlling alcohol abuse Downtown.
DULUTH, Minn. â?? Mark Johnson skated a couple of analytical shifts before the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey coach produced his most important thought Thursday night.
“On this stage,” he said of the NCAA Frozen Four, “you have to come up with big plays at certain points in the game.”
It helps to have so many seasoned, reliable, capable contributors eager to make those moments come to life.
The Senate Democrats’ plan for solving Wisconsin’s budget shortfall includes a tax on hospitals and the closing of tax loopholes used by corporations.
It also would authorize a car rental tax increase to pay for a three-county rail line.
Republicans, who control the state Assembly, oppose all three ideas. And Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle has included only the hospital tax in his plan to plug a $527 million shortfall.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UW-La Crosse, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Stevens Point and the 13 two-year UW colleges will conduct campuswide climate surveys this spring to find out more about how comfortable their campuses are for students, faculty and staff from different racial, ethnic, gender and other groups.
Mitch Buenger didnâ??t realize he was making Racine swimming history.
During a phone interview Wednesday, the Horlick High School graduate and University of Wisconsin freshman found out that he is just the second Racine swimmer, and the first in three decades, to earn a spot at the NCAA Division I National Swimming and Diving Championships.
Omaha, Neb. – Considering that Wisconsin has won with few if any style points this season, this was a fitting way to begin the NCAA tournament.
The Badgers (30-4) struggled in spells but scrapped and fought their way to a 71-56 victory Thursday night over Cal State Fullerton in the first round of the Midwest Regional at the Qwest Center to earn a second-round berth against 11th-seeded Kansas State at 3:20 p.m. Saturday.
DULUTH, Minn. â?? Jinelle Zaugg has been in this exact spot.
For the third straight year, the senior left winger scored two goals in a NCAA Frozen Four game to lift the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team to victory.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Florida International University have developed a technique that enables them to identify the weak spots in a structure from afar.
The program they developed, Scan and Solve, uses 3D data of an object to predict where it is most likely to fracture, and how its faulty spots will be affected by outside forces such as gravity or other forms of strain.
Spring may have sprung, but even so, it still is pretty cold outside. Why not warm up with a mug of coffee or hot chocolate? Or, go for some tea, which can provide health benefits — especially green tea.
Green tea seems to have more health cachet than black tea, according to a 2007 article in the journal Life Sciences, perhaps because it has been the focus of more research. Although not as well studied as green tea, black tea probably is at least as beneficial, says Hasan Mukhtar, vice chair of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who drinks two cups of black tea and two of green a day.
When I was little, I wanted to be an inventor. Not the next Edison, perhaps, but at least Caractacus Potts, who built “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” or Bernie in the “Sugar and Spike” comic books.
Alas, unlike those fictional whizzes, I have never been able to fashion a teleportation device from an eggbeater and flashlight, or create a flying car. It’s the 21st century and I really want a flying car. Maybe if I had visited the UW-Madison’s physics museum as a child, I could have one by now.
The set list for that night ‘s show lay on a table in the dressing room. The show itself was only moments away. But before Bruce Springsteen went on Sunday night in St. Paul, he wanted to say hello to an old friend who had come up from Madison to see him.
When Richard Davis, the 77-year-old UW-Madison School of Music professor and legendary jazz bassist, walked into the dressing room, Springsteen ‘s smile reached his eyes. He gave Davis a hug.
Call it an electrifying win for UW Madison. Last week at Michigan Tech, team Bucky ran away from the competition in a face off of electric sleds, at the Clean Snowmobile Challenge. “We’d watched for two years while other teams had tried to make electric sleds, and we just concluded that they weren’t doing a very good job,” said faculty advisor Glenn Bower.
The stage appears set for a battle over budget repair. State Senate Democrats vote next week on their budget repair bill — and that might mean a summer of haggling with Assembly Republicans. “I’m going to do everything possible to prevent that,” says Monona Democrat Mark Miller. Miller chairs the Senate finance committee, which passed the plan Thursday on a 6-2 vote. “The budget repair proposal . . . takes elements of the governor’s proposal, takes elements of the Assembly proposal, and it’s a clear demonstration that we’re commited to a fair and responsible response to the budget shortfall.”
For the first time in more than 20 years, the University of California is poised to pick a president from an institution outside its system and the state. The university’s search committee recommended on Thursday that Mark G. Yudof, chancellor of the University of Texas system, be named its new president.
As the Clinton and Obama campaigns hit the homestretch in their neck-and-neck race for the Democratic nomination, it’s becoming increasingly likely that, barring compromise, the party’s superdelegatesâ??elected officials and party leaders who aren’t bound by the choices of primary votersâ??will decide the winner. Not surprisingly, this has caused an epidemic of hand-wringing among political experts, who worry that this state of affairs is dangerously similar to 1968, when a furious battle within the Democratic Party over two popular candidates, Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey, spilled from the Democratic National Convention onto the streets of Chicago.
Quoted: Jeremi Suri, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Colleges and universities know that the composition of the nation’s student body is headed for a major change. They’ve been seeing the evidence for years. And an analysis of population data released on Wednesday confirms that major shifts are under way.
“The reality is that the change has hit,” said Nancy Davis Griffin, dean of admissions at Saint Anselm College, in Manchester, N.H.
Can worms cure multiple sclerosis? A University of Wisconsin research team is hoping to find out.
According to UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, the team will be the first in the nation to test whether ingesting the eggs of a helminth whipworm can tame flare-ups associated with relapsing-remitting MS.
OMAHA, Neb. â?? It’s the kind of irony that is reserved for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
The University of Wisconsin, a team devoid of stars, was sent to a city that, for one week anyway, is teeming with headliners. Despite being the highest seed â?? a No. 3 â?? in its NCAA pod, UW is being overshadowed by O.J. Mayo of USC and Michael Beasley of Kansas State, freshman scoring sensations and soon-to-be NBA lottery picks.
OMAHA, Neb. â?? As of early Wednesday evening, the dislocated right elbow suffered by Brian Butch in last season’s game at Ohio State had been viewed 132,810 times on YouTube.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s senior starting center, though, hasn’t been able to stomach watching his fall to the floor â?? and ensuing gruesome injury that cost him a chance to play in last year’s NCAA tournament.
OMAHA, Neb. â?? Seeing was believing for Cal State Fullerton senior guard Frank Robinson during Wednesday’s shootaround at the Qwest Center.
Robinson had seen the roster and broken down the DVDs, so he knew the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team was big.
OMAHA, Neb. â?? Michael Flowers always has been known for his defense, and he takes obvious pride in that.
But it also was never enough for the senior guard on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
Two UW-Madison projects were approved by a state commission on Wednesday — a coffee shop at Memorial Union and a holding facility for mice and rats at the future Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Construction on Peet ‘s Coffee & Tea, a national chain based in California, will begin in August on the first floor of Memorial Union, in the space formerly occupied by STA Travel. The shop will open by mid-October, said Paul Brodhead, assistant director of facilities. The state Building Commission approved $550,000 in funds.
APPLETON â?? Like its namesake, the Butch-O-Meter has grown in stature and substance over the last few years.
The ode to Brian Butch â?? a large lawn ornament planted near the driveway of the home across the street from the Butch family residence on West Heritage Avenue â?? stands nearly 10 feet tall, a bigger-than-lifesize mural that also tracks the statistical exploits of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s 6-foot-11 senior center.
Steve Ingham, a 47-year-old food safety specialist at UW-Madison, favors an analytical and collaborative approach to solving complicated problems. His top priorities include addressing traffic concerns, cleaning up county lakes and encouraging smart and orderly growth.
Security and privacy are the No. 1 technology concern for schools, according to an annual survey of 535 colleges and universities by Educause, which will publish the results in May. The Washington, D.C., organization works with universities on a range of information technology issues, including securing its systems.
Well, what good is the University of Wisconsin anyway? Why do we pour in so much money and what did we ever get in return? In 2003-2004, the UW was ranked No. 3 in the nation for total research expenditures among U.S. public universities. In 2005-2006 alone, we spent $703 million on research, of which $454 million came from federal grants. It is easy for politicians to attack the university or these funds as excessive and the benefits of these investments are often understated. The university’s discoveries and innovations have stimulated the economy and have resulted in miraculous treatments of deadly diseases. Let’s look at some of the things they have done.
OMAHA, Neb. â?? Cal State Fullerton fans are used to making the trip here for the postseason to follow their team.
But usually it’s the College World Series they are attending and the Fullerton baseball team they are following.
Madison-based TomoTherapy, which went public and installed its first cancer treatment machines in China and India last year, is poised to embark on another venture: pet therapy.
UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine plans next year to install the first TomoTherapy machine anywhere designated for veterinary use.
UW-Madison is pulling the plug on any remaining photo identification cards for faculty and staff that are based on Social Security numbers.
“The goal is to find ways to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease earlier,” said Sterling Johnson, a neuropsychologist at the Veterans Hospital in Madison and an associate professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Most students in U.S. colleges are just plain stressed out, from everyday worries about grades and relationships to darker thoughts of suicide, according to a poll of undergraduates from coast to coast.
Benjamin Blair had never even heard of Wisconsin’s open records law.
Why would he?
He was a college finance instructor, after all, not some media lawyer or crusading journalist championing a free press.
That changed last winter when Blair embarked on a yearlong battle to extract records from the University of Wisconsin-Madison over a minor traffic accident.
It sounds like a remedy straight out of a witch’s brew: a cocktail of worm eggs, destined to hatch inside the bodies of those who swallow them.
The trial, led by University of Wisconsin Hospital neurologist Dr. John Fleming, will determine if a helminth egg cocktail will be tolerated by these patients, and perhaps relieve some of their symptoms.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Political Science Professor Howard Schweber.
The power of your partner’s self-absorptionâ??how he or she can sit so cheerfully through dinner, oblivious to the fact that you’re visibly upset, for exampleâ??may amaze you, but don’t write off the relationship so fast. There are a couple of good excuses to explain such clueless behavior, and they’re likely to apply to you as well.
The first excuse has to do with an innocent brain glitch called attentional blink. Originally described by Canadian scientists in 1992, it occurs in certain circumstances when, for a split second, “we literally become unconscious of what might be happening right in front of us,” says Richard Davidson, PhD, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison. Researchers can elicit the blink by showing subjects a rapid stream of numbers on a computer screen and asking them to hit a button every time they see a 3. When two 3s appear closely together, Davidson says, almost nobody hits the button twice. “It’s as if the mind gets stuck on the occurrence of the first and misses the second.”
Quoted: “The Fed actions are not going to stop house prices from falling,” said Morris Davis, a former Fed economist and professor of real estate at the University of Wisconsin- Madison’s School of Business. “In an environment with falling prices and defaults, mortgages are a lot riskier now than three years ago.”
Quoted: John Witte, a political science and public affairs professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, doubts either event will make a big impression so close to the election.
Quoted: Today, Vadim Shapiro of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Igor Tsukanov of Florida International University and their colleagues will present their latest results from their “Scan and Solve” computer technique at the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Quoted: Property-rights expert Harvey M. Jacobs, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, cited James Madison as an early advocate for giving unique status to private property in American laws and culture.
Quoted: “Understanding structural properties of historical and cultural artefacts through computer simulations is often crucial to their preservation,” said Prof Vadim Shapiro at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At present this kind of analysis was expensive, time-consuming and error-prone, he said. “The ‘scan and solve’ technology promises to transform the simulation into a simple and fully automated process that can be applied routinely.”
Quoted: Andy Garcia-Rivera, director of environment, health and safety at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a hazardous materials expert.
Bernie Siegel was a Miami lawyer in 2002 when a cult-like organization known as the Raellians claimed to have cloned a human baby. Siegel filed a motion in a Broward County on behalf of the “baby,” suspecting all along it didnâ??t exist, and helped to expose a dangerous hoax. He soon founded the Genetics Policy Institute and became a global advocate for stem-cell research based on science versus science fiction.
New findings indicate yet another drawback to increasing our production of corn-based ethanol. In a word, it’s the fertilzer. Tons of nitrogen and phosphorous end up in lakes and rivers (this is already a big problem in Madison, where the lakes are plagued every summer by a massive phospherous fueled algae bloom), including the Mississippi, which in turn leads to a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. So we might not want to put all our alternative fuel eggs in the ethanol basket: Chris Kucharik at UW Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, one of the researchers, suggests the study “confirms our suspicion that there’s a significant tradeoff to the expanded production of ethanol from corn grain.
Jacob J. Levin, age 81, passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 16, 2008. After positions at Lincoln Laboratory and Purdue university, Jake and his family moved to Madison where he became full-professor in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin.
Susan Finman died on Saturday, March 15, 2008. Susan’s third career was as an administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked first in the History Department, then in the office of the Secretary of the Faculty, and then as the Secretary of the Faculty for some ten years. She retired in 1993.
James Richard Bauknecht, age 56, passed away on Saturday, March 15, 2008. Jim received his master’s and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jim worked as an English professor from 1978 until he retired in December 2007. During his career, he had the opportunity to teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northern Essex College in Massachusetts and Madison Area Technical College.
It’s not the destination they had planned for at the beginning of this season.
But members of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team can take some solace in the fact that they’re getting another chance to play in the postseason.
After three rugged games in three days in the Big Ten Conference tournament, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team was hoping to start NCAA tournament play on Friday.
“There was a rumor out there, they were going to take care of the Sunday teams, especially the team that plays the latest,” Badgers coach Bo Ryan said on Monday. “But there’s just too many factors. It’s OK.”
Genesis Development Corp. has hit a rough patch just as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Its cash reserves are low, and its three-story building on Madison ‘s South Side — called a business incubator — is only half full of tenants.
At UW-Platteville’s Pioneer Haus Brew Pub, one of the nation’s smallest commercial breweries, hops are measured in ounces, the brewmaster is a retired high school shop teacher and the German-made brew kettles are next to a pair of electronic dartboards.
INDIANAPOLIS — In the end, it probably won’t make any difference for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
Still, it has to hurt when a team — indeed, an entire conference — is snubbed by the NCAA tournament selection committee.
INDIANAPOLIS â?? With just more than 6 minutes left in its Big Ten Conference tournament semifinal against Michigan State on Saturday at Conseco Fieldhouse, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team was down 10 and on its last legs.
INDIANAPOLIS — It wasn’t too long after the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team concluded its Big Ten tournament championship celebration, that the Badgers turned their attention toward the NCAA tournament.
About 30 minutes after walking off the Conseco Fieldhouse floor following a 61-48 victory over Illinois in the Big Ten tournament title game, eighth-ranked UW watched from a hospitality room inside the arena as the NCAA brackets were unveiled.
INDIANAPOLIS — After an 18-game Big Ten Conference season, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team found itself alone atop the league standings.
And the eighth-ranked Badgers defended that undisputed status in style Sunday at Conseco Fieldhouse, capping the Big Ten tournament with a 61-48 victory over Illinois in the event ‘s title game.
Big Ten champions. Again.
Former University of Wisconsin guard Mike Kelley chuckles at the number of people he still hears from, who talk about the “favorable” matchups the Badgers had during their run to the NCAA Final Four in 2000.
A key demographic is missing from the city ‘s recently-completed economic development plan — the young leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals and creatives of the Madison area. By not adequately addressing this demographic ‘s potential and needs, the city is squandering one of its most competitive advantages.
More than any other generation, young people today are entrepreneurs. To meet the small business owners, the tenants of UW Research Park and other key entrepreneurs in Madison is to meet an under-40 demographic. There is ample opportunity to provide dynamic support for young entrepreneurs and the talent coming out of UW-Madison. Young entrepreneurs are a powerful determinant of the city ‘s future economy. They cannot be an afterthought.
UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez recently handed assistant AD Justin Doherty a copy of a letter he received from Bud Lea, the well-known former sports columnist and editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel.
In it, Lea described an experience he had during one of last month ‘s numerous snowstorms. He ‘d had chest pains and breathing problems and ended up being taken from his doctor’s office in Glendale to Columbia St. Mary ‘s/Ozaukee Hospital in Mequon.
Marjorie Peters is “a big, important part of the reason as to why the Madison Symphony Orchestra is what it is today, ” says UW-Madison violin professor Tyrone Greive, MSO ‘s concertmaster and a friend of Peters since moving to Madison in 1979.
To address the link between family violence and pet abuse, Megan Senatori, a Madison lawyer in private practice who also teaches animal law at UW-Madison and Marquette University, teamed up with Pam Alexander, law program director for the Animal Legal Defense Fund in Madison. They collaborated with DAIS and the Dane County Humane Society to start the Sheltering Animals of Abuse Victims Program (SAAV), a nonprofit organization that provides emergency animal foster care for pets of abused women seeking shelter.
