UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley likes to describe the zeal with which the university ‘s faculty and staff send off research proposals each year like this: “It would be a stack of paper way higher than the Capitol. ”
The National Science Foundation has another measure.
According to new NSF figures, UW-Madison is the nation ‘s top public university for research expenditures, conducting more than $900 million worth of research last year.
Quoted: UW-Madison School of Business professor Antonio Mello.
Madison – When senior cornerback Ben Strickland plays his final home game for the University of Wisconsin Saturday against No. 13 Michigan, astute UW fans may recall some of his contributions to the program:
â?¢ Consistently solid play on special teams.
â?¢ Replacing injured starter Allen Langford last season at Iowa and playing well in a 24-21 victory.
â?¢ A critical third-down break-up in the victory over Michigan State earlier this season – after he had been beaten for a big gain.
Long-snapper Steve Johnson, a fellow fifth-year senior who teamed with Ben Strickland at Brookfield Central High School before coming to UW in 2003, will remember his longtime friend for another contribution.
Strickland, a team captain, gave up his scholarship this year for Johnson.
Under an amendment adopted, if the University of Wisconsin has an agreement with an existing cable network to broadcast sporting events, any competitor that enters the market would have to provide the same service if the university requested it.
University of Wisconsin-Madison business alums are taking their famous Badger pride to new heights, issuing an unusualâ??and lucrativeâ??mandate to the school: “Keep That Name.”
In an unusual twist in the business school naming gameâ??generally, a wealthy donor gives a multimillion-dollar gift to get his name on the schoolâ??the school formally known as Wisconsin School of Business has received an $85 million group donation from alumni that will allow the school to keep its current name for the next 20 years.
Quoted: Nancy Sandhu, the Parent Program coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an e-mail that the vast majority of parents that contact her office want to help their child, but don’t know how to help. Parents call partly because they are making financial investments in their child’s education and want to see a return on their investment, she said.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Madison, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison has claimed the number two spot in university research and now conducts $905 million worth of research annually, according to new statistics released by the National Science Foundation.
With science and engineering research expenditures totaling $832 million included in the overall total for fiscal 2006, UW-Madison has climbed one spot, surpassing the combined campuses of the University of Michigan, which held the number two spot in fiscal 2005. The overall figure of $905 million amounts to an average of $440,000 per UW-Madison faculty member.
The state Senate has passed a video competition bill which aims to deregulate the cable industry in the Wisconsin. A lengthy debate Thursday saw Senators offer more than twenty amendments to the controversial legislation authored by South Milwaukee Democrat, Jeff Plale. “This is after all till an art of compromise,” said Plale. “I think this bill is a very good bill.” Plale and supporters have argued it will decrease cable costs in the long run. Opponents maintain the bill will do nothing to help consumers in underserved areas of rural Wisconsin.
It’s about knowing how to take care of yourself to avoid ever having to tell a story like this…
“I tried to leave but he was so much stronger than I was,” says Abby, a rape survivor. “He was much bigger than I was. I tried going out the fire escape because it was on the 3rd floor and I tried to leave the bedroom door. I just couldn’t get out.”
Abby says she was raped during the Mifflin Street block party last year. The path she took to find herself in danger is one that sometimes can be avoided if you know how to guard your safety.
The state is in violation of federal clean air laws for failing to install modern pollution controls on the coal-burning Charter Street power plant on the UW-Madison campus, U.S. District Court Judge John Shabaz ruled Wednesday in Madison.
So, what did you learn in college?
OK, now prove it.
Parents, legislators, employers and students themselves are turning up the heat these days and calling on universities to do just that: substantively prove they ‘re actually providing the proper and promised returns on their investments.
A shot that robs smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes showed promise in midstage testing and may someday offer a radically new way to kick a dangerous habit.
Story mentions Douglas Jorenby, a UW-Madison psychologist who heads a study site here.
MADISON, Wis. — A 53-year-old power plant operated by the state and the University of Wisconsin has been in violation of the federal Clean Air Act for five years, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
The Sierra Club filed the lawsuit in May claiming that the university violated the Clean Air Act by failing to install modern pollution controls when it performed several upgrades to keep the power plant operating.
Quoted: John Bibby, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Madison: As the Director of Admisssions, Rob Seltzer spends a lot of time staring at his computer, trying to decide if the resume on his screen is good enough for the University of Wisconsin.
“His test scores are somewhat lower than our freshman class average, which would be a little bit of concern to me,” says Seltzer, looking at one prospective student’s applications.
Seltzer says while the admissions process isn’t an exact science, it’s also not a mystery. They’ve gone as far as producing a fact sheet. “We do a lot of myth busting.”
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin Board of Regents committee is discussing changing policies for spending student segregated fees, but some students said they are concerned the changes might take away their power to decide where the money goes.
Two major points of contention for students are whether money can be spent paying non-university staff working with organizations and if it can go toward rent for organization space off campus, WISC-TV reported.
Quoted: Nina Emerson, of the Resource Center for Impaired Driving at University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
On the maps, a countryâ??s dimensions bloat or shrivel based on its contribution to the greenhouse effect and its vulnerability to climate-related health threats. Almost all of Africa deflates to insignificance in the emissions map, and balloons enormously in the map of risk.
This situation makes the climate challenge fundamentally an ethical one, with the public-health costs of global warming greatest in the parts of the world that have contributed the least emissions, said Jonathan Patz, the lead author of the study.
Dr. Patz is a professor in the medical school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Under a new faculty senate amendment passed Monday, the University of Wisconsin can now play against several teams that were previously off-limits for using Indian mascots and imagery. Brian Bull reportsâ?¦
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Climate change should be treated as a public health issue, especially by the United States, the world’s biggest long-term emitter of greenhouse gases, health and ecology experts said on Tuesday.
An Earth transformed by climate change could lead to more climate-related diseases, especially those transmitted by insects and those borne by water supplies, the experts said at a meeting of the American Public Health Association.
The United States and other rich countries bear special responsibility because their climate-warming emissions will have a disproportionate impact on poor countries that emit the least and have the fewest resources to deal with public health problems, said Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Aaron Bird Bear, American Indian student services coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Sean Carroll, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor and consultant to local governments.
Santa Monica, Calif. – Amended stem cell patent claims submitted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation should not be enough to overcome the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examiner’s rejections of those patents, according to consumer groups who have challenged the patents.
In formal comments filed last week, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and the Public Patent Foundation asked that the rejections first issued by the PTO be made final.
The total enrollment of foreign students at American graduate schools increased this fall for the second year in a row, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Council of Graduate Schools. The 7-percent increase is the largest gain since 2002, but it was unclear whether total enrollment would continue to rise, as the growth in first-time enrollments slowed considerably from 2006.
John Anthony “Jack” Gray, died on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007, at the HospiceCare Center in Fitchburg. From 1975 until 1990, Jack was the marketing specialist for the Recreation Resources Center for the University of Wisconsin – Extension, Madison.
It could be the answer to a pretty good trivia question in a few years.
Name at least one member of the most successful senior class in University of Wisconsin football history.
Otto Festge, 86, mayor of Madison for two terms in the 1960s, died Sunday. Born on a family farm near Cross Plains, Festge’s early career was in music. He majored in music at UW-Madison and served for a time as concertmaster for the UW Symphony Orchestra.
Barry Alvarez’s Sheboygan book signing was similar to a game at Camp Randall Stadium the last 15 years â?? a sellout.
Organizers ran out of books Monday for the overflow crowd at SkyBox Sports Bar & Grill, where the former University of Wisconsin football coach and current athletic director signed copies of “Don’t Flinch â?? Barry Alvarez: The Autobiography.”
Quoted: Ben-Tzion Karsh, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
What does mother nature have in store for us this winter? Weather Plus meteorologist John Malan combined science and folklore — to give us a look into the frigid future.
So how bad will it be? Global warming continues.
The NOAA temperature outlook predicts a warmer than normal winter. That trend worries climatologist Dr. Jon Martin.
“Ss each year goes by, I’m convinced that our lack of real cold mornings in particular has something to do with the global climate change,” the UW-Madison professor told us.
For a student at the University of Ghana in Legon, a palm-graced suburb of Accra, a dinner might involve fufu â?? mashed casava and plantains in a soup of peanut butter and tomatoes â?? from a local â??chop bar.â? Electricity is not a given. Nor is running water. Students might have to fetch buckets of water to flush the toilet and wash clothes. Forget sleeping in. They rise at 5 a.m., when the chaos and din begin: loud music and evangelical preaching, through megaphones. The â??Challenges of Living in Ghanaâ? handout from the University of California advises bringing earplugs.
The country, and its flagship university, have become a newly popular destination for studying abroad: about 300 American students, representing dozens of campuses, take classes at Legon.
10-year-old Cecil Ross was excited to learn more about penguins.
“Animals in general are interesting just to learn more about,” Ross says.
Ross and his mom Bird joined an audience this morning for a film presentation called From Frozen Toes To Happy Feet: The Truth About Penguins.
Film maker and penguin expert Lloyd Spencer Davis showed the audience clips of movies such as Happy Feet and March Of The Penguins.
Baltimore, Md. – Unless you’ve been living in a television-free cave the past 10 years or so, you’ve heard of Under Armour, the sports apparel company that markets its high-performance gear through its often-raw â??Protect this house!â? commercials. What you don’t know about Under Armour is that it was launched by a guy who was then a student athlete at the University of Maryland in College Park.
The story of how former Terrapin football player Kevin Plank built Under Armour from an idea in 1995 to a company that will exceed $500 million in net revenue this year is instructive to young entrepreneurs everywhere.
It’s also a real-life example as the UW-Madison begins to work more with student entrepreneurs on its own campus, as well as other communities across Wisconsin, with the help of a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Quoted: Andy Carlin, Gander Mountain’s senior vice president for store operations and a UW-Madison graduate.
When students and parents curse higher college costs, rising tuition usually gets the blame.
But in the UW System, student fees that pay for everything from student unions to sex education are growing faster than tuition in recent years.
At UW-Madison, students will pay $854 in fees this year, up from $726 last year. That ‘s an increase of about 18 percent.
They look like poorly erected circus tents, or maybe miniature mountain landscapes, elevated three or four feet off the ground by wire stakes. Officials from the city, Dane County and the UW-Madison art department all say the objects don ‘t belong to them.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez weighed in on the Big Ten Network controversy Friday, urging Badger fans to complain to Charter Communications and Time Warner or switch to a satellite provider.
Charter, the state’s biggest cable company, is refusing to carry the Big Ten Network. That means today’s football game between the Badgers and No. 1 Ohio State won’t be available in many homes.
UW-Madison chemist Helen Blackwell is fascinated by conversation, but not the sort that most people are familiar with, the sort with nouns and verbs.
The kind of conversation Blackwell is interested in takes place between bacteria.
Quoted: James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin who works with Merck, Pfizer and other drug makers.
While many popular college guides focus on things like SAT scores of incoming freshmen, or a college’s party-school reputation, NSSE (pronounced “nessie”) seeks to gauge the quality of an undergraduate education by looking at how actively involved students are with their studies, professors and the campus community. Decades of research shows that the more engaged students are, the more likely they are to learn.
When he became dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business in 2002, Michael Knetter went looking for a big donor, someone who would give $50 million in exchange for putting their name on the school.
No one was interested.
So, Knetter decided to do something radical: find contributors willing to pay to keep the school’s name off the market.
When the Badgers’ game kicks off today against undefeated, top-ranked Ohio State, most fans will be forced to try to find a friend or a sports bar with a satellite dish.
Badgerland sports fans will run into the same problem when the Packers play the Dallas Cowboys on Nov. 29. Both games will be televised on networks not carried by Charter Communications â?? the Big Ten Network and the NFL Network, respectively.
When Pat Richter hired Barry Alvarez to coach football at the University of Wisconsin, the athletic program was in shambles.
A game at Camp Randall Stadium was the easiest ticket in town, the men’s football and basketball programs were going nowhere, and the athletic department was swimming in debt.
How things have changed since 1990, when Alvarez’s first football team debuted with a 1-10 record.
MADISON â?? When it comes to Charter Communications, many Wisconsin fans are seeing Badger red.
The university’s athletics department is still seeing green.
Fans are steamed the state’s biggest cable company is refusing to carry the Big Ten Network. That means Wisconsin’s football game against No. 1 Ohio State today won’t be available in their homes.
The biggest item of interest in last weekend’s Wisconsin-Ohio State football game wasn’t P.J. Hill’s health (not good enough) or whether the Badgers could knock off the No. 1 Buckeyes (they couldn’t).
It was all about who has control off the field when it comes to television.
The University of Wisconsin has been feeling the heat, apparently, over the game airing on the Big Ten Network rather than network or national cable channels. Barry Alvarez’s athletic department issued three separate public statements within two days last week, lamenting that the corporate chiefs at Time Warner and Charter, Wisconsin’s two largest cable companies, weren’t doing right by the state’s Badgers fans.
Quoted: Monika Chavez, a professor of German at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says that with funding for language departments tight, the report has touched off “heated debate” at her institution over how it might affect jobs and hiring.
A group of University of Wisconsin at Madison alumni have given $85-million to the School of Business so that it can retain its traditional name, officials announced last month.
The members of the group made 13 donations through the “Wisconsin Naming Partnership” to preserve the name for at least 20 years.
For that time, the business school will not be named for a single donor, but after that time, all bets are off if the right donation to the school comes through. However, the members of the partnership will offer advice on potential names.
When he became dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business in 2002, Michael Knetter went looking for a big donor, someone who would give $50 million in exchange for putting their name on the school.
No one was interested.
So, Knetter decided to do something radical: find contributors willing to pay to keep the school’s name off the market.
MADISON â?? The World War I soldier who first inspired Patty Loew to produce a documentary on Native American veterans was her Ojibwe grandfather, Edward DeNomie.
Loew, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose “Way of the Warrior” documentary debuts Monday night on Wisconsin Public Television, said she never envisioned her grandfather making his way into the one-hour program.
“Looks like Madison was ready to have an environmental film festival,” declares Gregg Mitman to an overflowing crowd at the Orpheum Theatre on Friday night. The entire lower level of the auditorium is filled for the kickoff of Tales from Planet Earth, a free showcase of nearly two dozen movies that tell stories about the environment and how humanity interacts with and depicts our shared world. In fact, hundreds of people stand outside in a line running down State Street, waiting for a chance to get in for a talk by writer Bill McKibben and a screening of Everything’s Cool, a documentary about the political battle over global warming.
For many Badger fans in the area Big Ten Network salvation came just in time. In fact, it came last Friday.
It’s the biggest game of the year, the Buckeyes and the Badgers, and its only on the Big Ten Network, which many people don’t get.
“I’ll listen probably on the radio,” said fan James Long of Mount Horeb.
The ongoing standoff between Charter Cable and the Big Ten Network left Badger fans scrambling to find a place to watch Saturday’s game against Ohio State.
While fans fumed, local businesses cashed in.
Badger faithful left in the dark over the inability of Charter and the BTN to agree on a distribution deal packed bars and restaurants in the Madison area on Saturday. Many owners said it was the busiest Saturday they’ve had in quite some time.
19 year old Jesse Miller, who authorities allege placed threatening and suicidal 911 calls to spark a lockdown of UW-Hospital and portions of campus, was charged with escape and obstructing justice.
Assistant Dane County District Attorney Mike Verveer told 27 News prosecutors are waiting for additional police reports before making criminal charging decisions in connection to the September phone calls which led police to shutdown campus buildings.
A UW-Madison researcher questioned a modification to the Wisconsin Covenant program.
The program promises eighth graders university or technical school admission, if they get good grades, take the right curriculum and stay out of trouble up until college.
Governor Doyle vetoed budget language which prioritized certain financial assistance for low-income, Covenant participants, or “scholars.”
Even Barry Alvarez is asking the question:
What can the University of Wisconsin’s increasingly angry fans do so they can watch football games such as Saturday’s showdown between UW and No. 1 Ohio State that are televised on the fledgling Big Ten Network?
Alvarez, UW’s athletic director, asked the question directly of Kevin Weiberg, a Big Ten Network vice president, last month when Weiberg was updating the UW Athletic Board on the stalemated negotiations between the network and the four major national cable TV providers — including Charter in Madison.
A return to normal pricing would be “favorable,” said Ken Lonergan, a clinical pharmacist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University Health Service pharmacy, where prices for birth control rose from $7 or $8 to $30 to $50 a month in January.
More than 20 years ago, a combination of people (UW-Madison students) and an idea (a satirical newspaper) came together in Madison to create the hugely successful national publication, The Onion. In 2007, another convergence of people and ideas in Madison created Our Lives, a new bi-monthly magazine for Madison’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) population.
Q. On a really hot day, why do you see heat waves coming off things like roads?
Submitted by Justin Woodworth, 7th grade, Cherokee Middle School
A. The waves are caused by light bending as it travels through different air layers created by the hot surface.
