UW-Madison students have the chance to crown their university â??Americaâ??s top party schoolâ? by voting on a Chicago-based newspaper website.
The Chicago Tribuneâ??s RedEye newspaper is sponsoring the online contest as an imitation of the Princeton Reviewâ??s â??Top 20 Party Schoolsâ? list.
Wisconsin residents flooded by recent torrential rains know firsthand that disasters have a way of exposing problems they previously didn’t know existed.
UW-Madison professor Richard Keller, who is bringing his study of disaster and catastrophe to the classroom, says disasters â?? particularly large-scale, catastrophic ones â?? can also offer revealing glimpses of larger human issues.
Colleges and universities are learning to work with a new breed of parent who stretch the first-year send-off into a multi-day affair. Dozens of schools offer two- or three-day parent-orientation sessions to get Mom and Dad comfortable with everything from housing to campus security. And according to University of Minnesota surveys, 74% of 193 responding institutions said that this year they were hosting parent receptions on move-in day, up from 7% in 2003.
Colleges and universities these days are seeing a surge in enrollment â?? and it’s increasingly driven by young women, according to U.S. Census data out today.
Concordia University Wisconsin hopes to open the state’s second pharmacy school in 2009. Its board of regents recently approved a plan to create the school in response to a demand in the state and nationwide for pharmacists. Officials estimate it will cost $10 million to build or renovate a building, develop a curriculum and hire faculty. The University of Wisconsin-Madison accepts 130 pharmacy students per year. Concordia plans to accept 50 to 75
Student athletes have coaches for advice, fans for support, Bucky Badger for laughs and a custom-made protein drink at the University of Wisconsin.
A University of Wisconsin student organization is planning to protest against the inclusion of Halliburton Energy Services in a career fair sponsored by the College of Engineering later this month.
Following years of legal disagreements, the Roman Catholic Foundation of the University of Wisconsin has once again filed a lawsuit against UW.
Formerly known as the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation, RCF-UW filed the lawsuit against UW late Monday afternoon.
Quoted: String theorist Gary Shiu of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, says the fact that not every version of string theory is compatible with inflation is good news, because it will help narrow down which versions of the theory should be further investigated from the vast number of possibilities.
Few college students do not remember exactly where they were or what they were doing the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department said Tuesday they are investigating an incident involving a suspicious middle-aged man allegedly conversing with and looking at photographs of young girls at a College Library computer Monday.
The University of Wisconsin is the only Big Ten Conference school that does not have a Division I baseball program. Baseball is Americaâ??s national pastime, yet one of the nationâ??s premiere universities boasts no baseball team. How can that be?
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The University of Wisconsin-Madison isn’t just about football and basketball. The concrete canoe team is pretty good, too.
The team took first place overall in the Dutch Conference Canoe Challenge in the Netherlands this past weekend.
The team won five out of six race categories, and their 20-foot, 176-pound canoe won the construction and innovation categories.
Earlier this year, we reported dozens of non-profit organizations owed the University of Wisconsin almost $200,000 because of accounting issues. The students in the work study program got paid, but because of the glitch in the system the UW ended up paying more than they were supposed to pay.
Five hybrid electric buses will hit the streets in the next couple of weeks, WISC-TV reported. Two will run on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus routes that get about 90 rides an hour and three others will run in the rest of the city. All have a new hybrid battery perched on the roof.
The ride on a handful of Madison Metro buses is about to get quieter and cleaner. The agency unveiled of five hybrid buses on Tuesday at the UW Arboretum.
The UW helped purchase two of the buses, which will run on campus-specific routes. The seat configuration in those buses are also different. A wider aisle should help accommodate large backpacks. The other three buses will rotate on other routes in Metro’s service area.
Officer Brent Plisch drove off to start his shift with the campus police, as all around this college town the planets were aligned for undergraduate excess. It was Friday night of the Labor Day long weekend, the eve of the first football game for the highly ranked Wisconsin Badgers. Classes for the fall semester had yet to begin, so there was no homework to tug at the student conscience for moderation, much less temperance.
Sure enough, half past midnight, Officer Plisch got a call in his cruiser from three other policemen. They had spotted a young woman woozily negotiating a pedestrian bridge between two dorms. When they questioned her, she couldnâ??t spell her name or remember her address. Her breath test showed a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit.
Scott Seyforth: I work for UW-Madison University Housing at four halls — Friedrick, Tripp, Adams and Slichter — as residence life coordinator. UW-Madison has a high population of transfer students and it ‘s my responsibility to coordinate programs at these halls to help students get to know each other and feel comfortable in the learning environment.
First, it was all-red uniforms.
Now, University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema wants all red in the stands for the Badgers ‘ home games, too.
UW-Madison will host four economists during its semi-annual Economic Outlook Conference on Friday. The speakers will be Caroline Baum, a columnist for Bloomberg News; James F. Smith, a professor at Western Carolina University and author of the economic newsletter “Outlook “; Clare Zempel, an accountant and principal at Zempel Strategic; and Donald A. Nichols, professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison.
Patient case histories also provide evidence that honey can help wounds heal. In 2001, Dr. Jennifer Eddy, associate professor at the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin, was treating a patient with an extreme case of diabetic foot ulcer. It had refused to heal despite treatment with conventional remedies: surgical debridement (or removal of dead tissue) antibiotics, hydrogel dressings and use of an off-loading orthotic.
Lewis Thomas, the noted physician and essayist, mused openly on the allergic tendency of our species. He found the condition without teleological merit, and declared it a “mistake.” Now two booksâ??Mark Jackson’s Allergy: The History if a Modern Malady and Gregg Mitman’s Breathing Space, How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapesâ??are available for those who wish to delve further into this “mistake” that affects 50 million Americans.
Quoted: Co-author Diana Hess, a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Aaron Gilson of the Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin.
The old slogan â??Guinness is Good For Youâ? may actually be true, according to new medical research that suggests the stout may help prevent heart attacks.
University researchers in the US claim that drinking a pint of the black stuff each day may be as effective in preventing heart attacks as an aspirin because it can reduce heart clots.
Trials at the University of Wisconsin used dogs with narrowed arteries similar to those in people with heart disease to compare effects of drinking stout with those of drinking lager.
MADISON â?? University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema doesn’t want his players dwelling on the Badgers’ 11-game winning streak.
He doesn’t want them worrying about dropping two spots to No. 7 in The Associated Press poll this week, despite a 2-0 record.
Quoted: Bridges should be checked again because some may have deteriorated since then and can withstand less weight now, said Don Walker, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Information Center.
MADISON (AP) â?? A Catholic student group sued the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, saying the school is illegally refusing to allow student fees to pay for certain religious activities.
The Roman Catholic Foundation is asking a federal judge to force the university to pay for things like printing Lenten booklets, running Evangelical Catholic training camps and hosting spiritual retreats where students are counseled by priests and nuns.
With a state budget now two months overdue, a compromise is sought that might help UW students. After weeks of deadlock, state Rep. Joe Parisi says stalled budget negotiations are leaving some 4700 UW students hanging.
UW Regents got a progress report on campus safety Friday. Officials discussed the feasibility of constant police presence and how to best oversee students or teachers who may be planning violence. Shamane Mills reports. (Audio.)
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Founded in 2000 by UW-Madison professors Nicholas Abbott, Christopher Murphy and Barbara Israel, Platypus has 21 employees and expects to add several more by the end of the year.
Wisconsin, along with Pennsylvania, is one of the leading meat processing states in the country, said Jeff Sindelar, a professor of meat science at UW-Madison, a meat specialist with UW-Extension and a member of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors.
MADISON, Wis. â?? Tests for tuberculosis turned out negative for hospital personnel who were checked since a co-worker contracted the potentially deadly lung disease, a doctor says.
Dr. Dennis Maki, an infectious disease specialist at University of Wisconsin Hospital, said the results mean the woman probably wasnâ??t very contagious.
LAS VEGAS — It has been a chaotic two weeks for the University of Wisconsin football team, which had defensive end Jamal Cooper thrown off the team by coach Bret Bielema and backup tailback Lance Smith suspended for road games.
MILWAUKEE (AP) â?? Efforts to build a public health school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are expected to get a boost today when a local philanthropist is scheduled to announce a $10 million donation.
Real estate developer Joseph Zilber announced last month that he would give $50 million to Milwaukee causes, including $30 million to the Marquette University Law School. The donation to UW-Milwaukee will be part of that package.
A California company has agreed to deposit its federally approved stem cell lines in the national stem cell bank in Madison, the bank said Friday.
Novocell, a leading stem cell engineering company in San Diego, deposited the lines this month, according to the WiCell Research Institute, which runs the bank.
Some schools, including the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have long done without preferred-lender lists and are emphasizing their neutrality. “If there was ever any tendency to advise people [on specific lenders], we’re making sure that’s not happening,” says Susan Fischer, director of financial aid at Wisconsin.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argued recently that the photographs from Abu Ghraib reflected standard CIA torture techniques of ” stress positions, sensory deprivation, and sexual humiliation”.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is holding its breath as it waits to see if the Wisconsin State Legislature will approve its 2007-09 biennial budget request and Governor Jim Doyle’s Wisconsin Growth Agenda.
Wisconsin is taking over sin city this weekend as the Badgers take on the Rebels in Las Vegas. On Friday, football fans left the Dane County Regional Airport in droves to take in the sport and the slots.
High rollers are hoping to win big in more than one way, considering the last matchup between the two teams sent fans home before they could cash in their chips.
Madison, Wis. – Eric Singsaas is the kind of professor you might not expect to find at a University of Wisconsin System campus outside Madison or Milwaukee. He’s a Ph.D botanist and biochemist at UW-Stevens Point with expertise in the biological production of hydrocarbons ordinarily made by plants. That puts him on the cusp of the emerging biofuels industry, a potential source of economic growth for Wisconsin.
Quoted: David E. Joranson, director of the Pain Policy Study Group at the University of Wisconsinâ??s medical school, who has worked to change drugs laws around the world.
Love has a way of pushing us out of our comfort zone and making us do things that are daunting and scary and selfless.
It explains why Tyler Turner found himself at the wheel of a rental car, driving through a wintry March night from suburban Detroit to Lake Placid, N.Y.
Turner had just capped his University of Wisconsin wrestling career in euphoric fashion, earning All-America honors with a sixth-place finish at 149 pounds.
Q. Why is the ocean salty?
A. The saltiness of the sea comes from dissolved minerals, especially sodium, chlorine, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, said Galen McKinley, a UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Members of the Regent Neighborhood Association delivered a two-part message Thursday to UW-Madison students living in the apartments just west of Camp Randall.
Part one: Welcome to the neighborhood!
Part two: Now don ‘t screw it up.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Cheeseheads have short memories, so Phil Pellitteri expected the calls.
Just as media types jump at the first trace of snow to remind people where their brake pedal is, we tend to act stunned when mosquitoes follow hard rains. A big part of Pellitteriâ??s week has been to smack us upside our forgetful heads.
â??I would give you the same interview 15 years ago,â? said Pellitteri, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Jo Handelsman, the University of Wisconsin-Madison plant biologist who coined the term “metagenomics,” says that the bee work represents “a very nice first step and an exciting discovery.”
Quoted: Don Downs, a political science and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Morris A. Davis, assistant professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin football team will be without backup running back Lance Smith for its five road games this season, after a suspension announced Wednesday.
Virent Energy Systems, a UW-Madison spinoff company with a new type of renewable fuels technology, is powering up after receiving $21 million in venture financing.
Quoted: UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has been a strong voice in the patent reform debate. As the first research institution to isolate and proliferate human embryonic stem cells, the University of Wisconsin-Madison clearly has a strong interest in protecting and holding patents that will lead to further development of scientific breakthroughs and discoveries.
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied mosquitoes for more than 30 years, said the downpours of August have caused the mosquitoes to hatch just about anywhere there’s standing water, including highway ditches and flooded fields.
MADISON, Wis. â?? An alumni group is sending mailings across the state and starting a Web site as part of a lobbying campaign to get lawmakers to give more money to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association recently sent the mailing warning â??Bucky needs your help!â? to all 130,000 UW-Madison alumni who live in the state, spokeswoman Kate Dixon said Wednesday.
For many college students, back to school also means back to downloading music over the university’s high-speed Internet connection. But not so fast: The music industry’s crackdown on piracy on campus didn’t stop with the end of the spring semester.
Some schools, like the University of Wisconsin, have declined to assist the RIAA, explaining that “to identify the IP users and forward the letters to them would put the university in an uncomfortable and inappropriate alliance with the RIAA,” says Meg McCall, a spokesperson for the university. “While we agree that violation of copyright law is serious and should be addressed, the only way to be certain of infractions is to pursue action through the courts.”
Madison – University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema learned almost two weeks before the opener that sophomore tailback Lance Smith would be suspended for multiple games and learned one week later that the suspension would cover the Badgers’ five regular-season road games, beginning Saturday at Nevada-Las Vegas.
This fall’s freshmen may be the smartest group to enter the University of Minnesota, but they still might find it a challenge to leave in four years with a degree.
First-year undergrads arrived on the U’s Twin Cities campus this week boasting a higher average college entrance score than any previous class, with many coming from the top tier of their high school classes.
