Jeopardy! College Championship is set to take place April 11 & 12, at the Kohl Center in Madison.
Ticket information will be announced on Friday, February 15.
Ten episodes (2 weeks of shows) will be recorded on April 11 & 12. These episodes will air in the middle of May, on NBC15.
UW Badger Kevin Gullikson, 20, has been cited four times for underage drinking, including three times in Wisconsin. He was twice found by an officer passed out in a public place.
UW Dean of Students office can’t comment specifically about Gullikson, but an associate dean told 27 News in a general sense, the university has options when it comes to punishment.
Police officials believe murder victim Joel Marino may have been trying to get to St. Mary’s Hospital across the street from where he collapsed near his south side home.
But Marino was taken by ambulance to UW-Hospital, a distance away.
UW-Hospital is the only facility in the Madison area with what’s called a Level-1 trauma classification.
A call for a constitutional ban on affirmative action in Wisconsin. It comes from State Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), who plans to introduce an amendment similar to one approved in Michigan two years ago.
Grothman says Wisconsin has had a “brazen policy” of giving preference based on race or sex for too long. He says those preferences have resulted in white males not being hired in government jobs, not getting in to the University of Wisconsin, or getting passed over for state contracts.
William Zeidler Fluck died peacefully Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. William enrolled in the University of Wisconsin-School of Engineering in 1931 and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering with graduate work in the areas of hydraulic and sanitary engineering and public health. After graduation in June 1937 he became one of the original staff of three men who organized the Industrial Hygiene Unit of the Wisconsin State Board of Health, which was the beginning of his 35-year career in industrial hygiene. William traveled throughout the state of Wisconsin studying possible health hazards in the milk canning industry, granite quarries, foundries and schoolrooms. In 1943 he enlisted as an industrial hygiene engineer in the Army Air Force and worked on such diverse problems as radiation hazards, sewage and industrial waste management, and mosquito control. He then returned to Madison as chief industrial engineer for the Wisconsin Board of Health from 1946 to 1950.
People working in UW-Madison buildings along Lake Mendota reported a shake and a boom apparently caused by an ice quake Thursday afternoon.
“It actually sounded like a bus drove into the building. The whole building shook, ” said Patrick Brenzel, a staff member in the eighth-floor offices of the department of sociology, 1180 Observatory Drive.
During the conflict and chaos that took over the UW-Madison campus during the Vietnam War, one student found a strikingly simple way to preserve a piece of history.
Jim Huberty just collected everything he could get his hands on during the tumultuous time — posters, leaflets, brochures, broadsides, newspapers, photographs — and while most others would dismiss these snapshots of history as pieces of paper and toss them away, he kept them.
Despite all the jokes about slash-and-burn political ads, television commercials in the presidential campaign have been overwhelmingly positive, according to a study to be released today by the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Ninety percent of commercials aired so far in the presidential campaign were judged â??positive,â? which the research team defined as speaking solely about the candidate or their policies. Just 10 percent were judged to have any negative content at all, according to the study, conducted by the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project and funded by the non-partisan Joyce Foundation based in Chicago.
Democrat John Edwards, who dropped out of the race this week, was the rare exception. The study found 81% of Edwardsâ?? ads were contrast ads and in virtually all he criticized Obama and Clinton. â??So, while most attention in free media went to flare-ups between Clinton and Obama,â? said Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin political science professor and primary author of the study, â??Edwards was most likely to focus on his competitors in paid media.”
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies political advertising, said Obama faces the greater challenge. “People know Hillary,” he said. “You either like her or don’t like her; maybe advertising helps at the margins. Obama really needs to introduce himself.”
Researchers report there are important differences between people with severe and non-severe asthma, something that could help explain why those with severe asthma don’t respond well to treatment.
The study, from the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), looked at 287 people with severe asthma and 382 people with mild or moderate asthma. It found that people with severe asthma are more likely to show signs of “air trapping” in the lungs, a condition that prevents full exhalation. In addition, those with severe asthma are more likely to have airway obstruction even after maximal treatment. These findings suggest that severe asthma may be a different form of the disease, the researchers said.
“This tells us that something entirely different is going on in people classified as having severe asthma, either physiologically or in the airways that are affected,” study author Ronald Sorkness, a physiologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said in a prepared statement.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin physiologist Hannah Carey has 100 squirrels hibernating in two dark walk-in refrigerators in her lab. She’s discovered that hibernating squirrels can last 20 minutes without oxygen. She thinks the squirrels have a genetic response to the cold that protects them from multiorgan failure. “I often say that people are the oddities,” jokes Carey. Biotech firm Hiberna, hatched last year with undisclosed funding from Boulder Ventures, has used DNA chips to spot 15 genes that appear crucial for protecting tissue during hibernation.
Quoted: Morris A. Davis, an assistant professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Quoted: Janet Gilmore, a University of Wisconsin-Madison folklore professor who has studied them extensively.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison geologists said the shaking some University of Wisconsin-Madison staffers and others felt Thursday afternoon near Lake Mendota was most likely an ice quake caused by ice shifting on Lake Mendota.
UW-Madison geologists said they recorded a tremor at 12:50 p.m. that lasted a few seconds.
Ice quakes are usually accompanied by loud cracking noises, and the university said a number of people called UW police and facilities staff to inquire about the rumbling disturbance.
Brad Bolden was fishing on Lake Mendota during the incident.
UW basketball player Kevin Gullikson, 20, appeared in Dane County Court today to face his 3rd underage drinking citation. He was ordered to complete individual counseling. He will not lose his driving privileges.
UW Police released its report today surrounding the incident earlier this year. The officer who cited Gullikson wrote in his report he found him passed out in a stairwell in the Grainger Hall parking ramp on Jan. 6, 2008 at 3:45am. The officer wrote he had to ask Gullikson ten times to see his ID before he responded.
Eric Beyer was in his foreign language class at Van Hise Hall, one of the tallest buildings near the shore of Lake Mendota, when all of a sudden.
“Our entire class felt a lurch in the entire building,” Beyer says.
Seismologist Cliff Thurber says the tremor was due to an ice quake.
“It’s a big chunk of ice that thrusts upon himself,” Thurber says.
Q. We know that the length of days changes as the axis of the Earth points either toward or away from the sun. But as days get longer, is the “extra” daylight added equally in morning and evening, or otherwise?
A. In our winter, the North Pole tips away from the sun compared to the South Pole, which places the sun lower in the noontime sky and makes the day shorter than it is in summer, said Jim Lattis, director of UW Space Place, an outreach program of the UW-Madison astronomy department.
The best way to learn to lead is to do it. Generation Y has been raised to be great team players in everything from school to work to social lives. But for all the hoopla about being on a soccer team where everyone plays, there has been very little focus on leadership for young people. You can address that deficit by taking decision-making positions in college.
For example, Jay Rivera is president of his fraternity at UW-Madison, and he has already learned that a lot of leadership is not all that glamorous: “Being president is definitely teaching me how to be organized and on top of things. “
Quoted: Political scientist Charles Franklin.
Since it began in 1996, the event has raised more than $200,000 to support the work of the UW-Madison Habitat for Humanity chapter.
MADISON (AP) — An appeals court reinstated a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s unique policy of allowing graduates from in-state law schools to become lawyers without taking the bar exam.
Out-of-state law school graduates who must pass the test to practice in Wisconsin claim the rule is unconstitutional. Wisconsin is the last state in the nation with the so-called diploma privilege policy, which dates to 1870.
MADISON, Wis., Jan. 30 (UPI) — U.S. and British researchers found a physiological difference between severe and non-severe forms of asthma.
The study, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, compared lung function measurements from 287 people with severe asthma and 382 people with mild and moderate — non-severe — forms of the disease.
Various institutions across the nation have bars or pubs in their student unions. Der Rathskeller at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is modeled after a German beer tavern and hosts conferences and meetings during business hours, then tops off steins and pitchers after dark. The venue is especially popular in the summer, says Wisconsin junior Keith Foster, 21, who also says he feels safer drinking there. “It’s harder to do sketchy stuff or get roofied because it’s such a public place.”
But students don’t just come to booze, says Marc Kennedy, UW’s communications director, adding that carding policies are “very strict.” Violators are punishable by the university’s dean. “It’s a place to mingle, not to drink,” he says. Beer sales account for $1.5 million, 6 percent, of the student union’s total revenue, not including an additional $200,000 generated by alcohol revenue from catering events.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: Jack Williams, a geographer at the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There’s strong scientific consensus that immediate action is needed because of the long life of greenhouse gases.”
The Madison fire department is taking a new approach to get the attention of UW students when it comes to fire safety.
The department teamed up with Ian’s pizza Wednesday to give out free pies to students who could prove their fire detectors worked.
MFD tells 27 News 3/4 of all fires destroy homes because people didn’t put batteries in their smoke alarms, or the alarms weren’t working at all.
About 3,000 people die each year because of fires. The National Fire Protection Association also says about 74% of those deaths are in homes without working smoke alarms. The Madison Fire Department is taking the smoke alarm message to college students in a unique way.
Lori Wirth works with the Madison Fire Department. However, Wednesday night she helped deliver pizzas. It was all part of a cooperative effort between Ian’s Pizza and the fire department. When callers ordered a pizza, they also had a chance of getting a visit from the fire department. “Hello, what’s up guys? Ian’s Pizza. You were randomly selected to have the fire department come with,” said Marty, a manager at Ian’s Pizza.
MADISON, Wis. – An accidental leak of personal information may have affected nearly 530 University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, or more than twice as many as previously reported, an official acknowledged Tuesday.
The university said earlier this month that the mistake in which Social Security-based ID numbers, e-mail addresses and other information was published on an Internet site affected only about 200 faculty and staff.
The university notified 205 employees that their information may have been exposed by an online database that tracked purchases from a campus computer shop. That information was inadvertently posted on a university Web site and available to the world for a year.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has canceled its contract with an apparel company that refused to allow a labor inspection of one of its plants, according to The Daily Cardinal, the campusâ??s student newspaper.
The business, the New Era Cap Company, prevented a university-hired labor-monitoring group from entering its facility in Mobile, Ala. The universityâ??s code of conduct requires companies licensed to use its logo to have their working conditions observed by a monitoring agency, the Worker Rights Consortium.
I know why the Green Bay Packers aren’t in the Super Bowl, why the Milwaukee Brewers signed center fielder Mike Cameron and why the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team got off to a fast start in the Big Ten.
What I don’t understand from the first month of 2008 is that little media-related hissy fit thrown by UW football coach Bret Bielema.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is not expected to raise ticket prices for any of its top-of-the-marquee sports in 2008-09, and there’s a very interesting reason for that.
According to UW associate athletic director John Jentz, the $4.112 million UW Athletics received via the Big Ten Network revenue sharing plan made it possible to keep ticket prices for football, men’s basketball and men’s hockey at their current levels.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An appeals court reinstated a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s unique policy of allowing graduates from in-state law schools to become lawyers without taking the bar exam.
MADISON, Wis. â?? Gov. Jim Doyle wants to address a projected state budget shortfall of $400 million before it gets worse and the Legislature quits working for the year.
Since this is the first year of the two-year budget, Doyle could wait until later to deal with the problem. But the governor said Tuesday it makes sense to start dealing with it before the Legislature adjourns for the year in mid-March.
Certain areas will be protected from cuts, including the University of Wisconsin, education and health care, he said.
Quoted: Ladan Mostaghimi, an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mostaghimi published a study in 2005 in the Journal of Sleep Research reporting that severely sleep-deprived lab rats developed lesions on their paws and tails while rested rats did not.
Quoted: Steve Kimball, a researcher with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A UNC committee recommended Tuesday that the chancellor give the New Era Cap company an ultimatum to allow labor rights monitoring organizations into its Mobile, Ala., factory.
UW officials are now saying the social security numbers of 529 of their employees could have been posted on a public accessible website over the course of a last year.
But university spokesman Brian Rust says they’re only sure about half of those people.
Faculty and students have to swipe their Id’s in order to purchase items from university stores,
The enrollment of first-time foreign students in graduate science and engineering programs increased significantly in 2006, according to the results of a National Science Foundation survey released this week. The number of students in all years of those programs grew over all by 1.7 percent in 2006.
In a move that would provide tens of thousands of athletes with more money for college expenses, the National Collegiate Athletic Association agreed on Tuesday to reallocate up to $228-million to settle a massive antitrust lawsuit filed by four former players. But the deal could have costly implications for colleges in the coming years.
The UW Madison has ended its contract with a New York-based sportswear manufacturer that made official UW knit-caps. As Brian Bull reports, administrators say reports of worker abuse and a violation of the universityâ??s code of conduct for licensees are behind the decision. (Audio.)
Madison – James Kamoku’s fifth and final year at the University of Wisconsin has been a documentary about pain, disappointment and frustration.
And the Achilles’ tendon injury Kamoku suffered in preseason football camp, an injury that prevented him from playing in every game but the Outback Bowl, turned out to be the least of his worries.
As he was preparing for exams last month and working to get back onto the field, Kamoku received a call from his brother back home in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
When Cedric Larson started his undergraduate program five years ago, he figured he would be able to cover the costs with scholarships, grants and part-time employment and avoid incurring any student debt. But, by the time he graduated this past spring with a degree in English and international studies, his undergraduate tuition at the UW-Madison had skyrocketed by 69%. He had to start borrowing. His current debt load: about $10,000.
“I learned to cut corners,” he says. “I bought used books at book swaps, and I tried not to borrow any more than was necessary.
Is there a show biz role that Olympia Dukakis hasn ‘t had?
She won an Oscar for 1987 ‘s “Moonstruck.” Her one-woman show “Rose,” commissioned to welcome in the 21st century at London’s National Theatre, also spent three months on Broadway. In all, she’s played 88 TV and film roles, ranging from “The Simpsons” to the recent indie film hit “Away From Her.”
The Madison School Board said Monday night that Daniel Nerad will be the district ‘s next superintendent. He holds bachelor ‘s and master ‘s degrees in social work from UW-Madison, which he attended in the 1970s.
Brian Rust, communications manager with DoIT, the Division of Information Technology at UW-Madison, said he’s surprised, too. “Normally, you would think there would be backup for the mail customers wanted kept,” said Rust.
At UW-Madison, 8 million to 10 million messages a day come through for the WiscMail system’s 93,000 users. Of those, up to 7 million as rejected as identifiable spam.
Suzanne B. Fregien, age 57, beloved wife, daughter, mother, and grandmother, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008. She was employed as an LPN at several health care facilities, including University Hospital, Madison.
A multi-centre research project to investigate severe asthma has found a key physiological difference between severe and non-severe forms of the disease, a finding that could help explain why those with severe asthma do not respond well to treatment.
Ronald Sorkness, a physiologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison is the lead author of the study.
Researchers who study the brain know that itâ??s far from an immutable object. â??Itâ??s much more plastic than most people think,â? said Giulio Tononi, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin. â??Itâ??s changing all the time.â?
One area of change is the synapses, the connections between neurons, which are altered as the brain receives stimuli. â??What happens when youâ??re awake is you produce an overall strengthening of synapses,â? Dr. Tononi said. â??Thatâ??s good, because thatâ??s how you learn.â?
At 11 a.m. Monday, New Era Cap Co. leadership and workers staged a rally at the company’s Derby plant designed to show “who the real New Era is.”
Two hours later, the Buffalo-based hatmaker was slammed in a Washington, D.C., press conference by the leaders of the Teamsters and NAACP.
What fueled the dueling press conferences were charges from the NAACP and Teamsters that New Era discriminates against employees at its Mobile, Ala. plant.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is in good financial shape, but if it’s to fund an ambitious list of capital projects and stay nationally competitive, it needs to lose weight.
UW is getting almost maximum income from its three go-to sports: football is sold out at Camp Randall Stadium, while men’s basketball is sold out and men’s hockey is averaging an NCAA-best 13,862 at the Kohl Center.
Quoted: Stephen Lucas, professor of communication arts at University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of a soon-to-be- published anthology of the top 100 American speeches of the 20th century.
New Era Cap Co. came out swinging against the Teamsters union Monday with a rally at its Derby production facility. Workers rattled the plantâ??s corrugated roof as they joined to support the company against allegations of racial discrimination and unfair labor practices at a warehouse in Alabama.
Washington, D.C. – In his final State of the Union address, President Bush praised a recent discovery that produces cells that act as human embryonic stem cells without destroying human embryos, and indicated his support for expanded federal funding for such research.
While Bush stopped short of making a specific funding proposal, he urged assembled members of Congress to expand funding for stem cell research that does not destroy embryos.
Quoted: Kenneth Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison says negative campaigning informs voters
The Big Ten and NFL Networks foreshadow a future in Wisconsin in which the general public can’t watch Badger football, basketball, or hockey games at home and, drum roll, please, there are few-to-no Green Bay Packers games either.
This is a scenario Wisconsin should head off at the pass.
These are OUR teams, and that’s not just speaking metaphorically. Wisconsin can and should be the national leader in the debate over and resolution of the ongoing NFL and Big Ten Networks fracas. It can be a force and victor for people, be they shareholders, taxpayers or just plain old TV sports fanatics.
MADISON, Wis. â?? University of Wisconsin-Madison has canceled a licensing contract with New Era Cap Co., citing allegations of discrimination and anti-union activity at one of its factories.
The action is part of a growing national movement to get the company, the exclusive cap supplier for Major League Baseball teams, to improve its labor practices at a distribution center in Mobile, Ala.
The NAACP released a report Monday accusing the company of paying black workers less than whites, passing minorities over for promotions and firing employees involved in organizing workers. The Buffalo, N.Y.-based company called the allegations baseless.
MADISON, Wis. — A proposed plan at the Capitol would help provide a college education by increasing financial aid, reported WISC-TV.
State Reps. Joe Parisi and Spencer Black want to require the state to match any increase in tuition with a dollar-for-dollar increase in aid.
“We view this as a vital component of any economic stimulus program, helping to relieve the debt people must incur, simply to attend college,” said Parisi.
MADISON, Wis. — A student labor group is calling it a victory for labor rights.
After months of outside pressure, citing unfair labor practices and low wages, UW-Madison has ended a contract with New Era – a hat company responsible for numerous UW-Madison licensed baseball and knit hats.
The university announced the contract cut on Friday, after a member of the Student Labor Action Coalition recounted what she witnessed at a production facility in Mobile, Ala.
A new report in Madison calls on university and city officials to crack down on underage drinking, raise drink prices and shutter bars to stop alcohol-related crime.
Capitol Neighborhoods recent 14-page report frames its findings on a strategy that would need to be implemented in whole to have any real effect.
But, city and university officials are taking a wait and see approach, talking up their own efforts to reduce alcohol-related problems.
A UW study reveals low rates of vaccination for the nation’s puppies and kittens. They may be cute and cuddly, but the study by UW’s School of Veterinary Medicine reveals fewer than half of all puppies and kittens are being vaccinated. UW’s Dr. Ron Schultz says the low vaccination rate can be a real problem at animal shelters, and he’d like to see new efforts.
