Wisconsin has now fallen behind all its peers in passing a budget, and the best lawmakers here could do Thursday was agree to nix a tax break on gold bullion.
With the budget now 54 days late, lawmakers in a special budget conference committee spent another day bickering over taxing and spending levels without reaching major agreements.
Dr. Carl Getto, senior vice president for medical affairs at UW Hospital since 2001, has been named interim chief executive officer.
He replaces Donna Sollenberger, who announced in late July that she will leave next month to head the Baylor Clinic and Hospital in Houston.
Matzo ball soup and kugel will soon be sharing a spot at the table with cheeseburgers and shellfish at UW-Madison.
No American diplomat’s career has been more thoroughly documented and debated — or celebrated and reviled — than Henry Kissinger’s. There are shelves of biographies by distinguished authors, and Kissinger himself has produced a massive three-volume memoir followed by a steady flow of books, essays, and commentaries. These two books do not provide startling new historical accounts of Kissinger, but they do offer some fresh glimpses of his motives and personality on display in high office.
Quoted: Dr. Jerry Halverson, a University of Wisconsin health psychiatrist and the medical director of Meriter Hospital’s adult psychiatry program, said that shock and other feelings are normal and natural when confronted with such a traumatic event.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Asifa Quraishi, at the opening of Wednesday’s session, pointed out that Islamic conservatives point to the very topic of “women’s rights” as “a Western imposition” of outside values on Muslim women, which therefore means it can be dismissed as irrelevant and anti-Islam.
In 1970, a bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin’s Sterling Hall in Madison, killing 33-year-old researcher Robert Fassnacht.
A box brimming with favorite photographs will travel with Grace Duray, 18, when she moves across the country next month to start classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The 2007 Tumwater High School graduate also will bring picture frames and a bulletin board she’ll use to make an unfamiliar dorm room feel like home. But Duray decided against taking along many other South Sound mementos in part because she knows her living quarters will be small. Plus, traveling with extra luggage isn’t any fun.
Next Wednesday, many incoming students to UW Madison will be moving into a new Ogg Hall.
The new residence hall on the university campus opened its doors Thursday for tours.
615 students will call the new dorm home this fall semester, and it is filled to capacity.
In 2004, a 27 News investigation showed how much money the City of Madison could save if Madison Metro wrapped busses with ads. This spring, Metro began selling full-wrap bus ads.
Metro Spokeswoman Julie Maryott-Walsh says the city expects to earn $273,000 this year from the ads.
WASHINGTON — Impotence drugs such as Viagra may do more than help men physically have sex — they may also boost levels of a hormone linked with feelings of love, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Viagra, known generically as sildenafil, raised levels of the hormone oxytocin in rats, a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a report published in the Journal of Physiology.
You get an engrossingly detailed picture of how he achieved his vision in â??Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautifulâ? at the Portland Museum of Art. The show displays more than 100 examples of his furniture, metalwork, textiles, plans, drawings and publications, along with photographs of particular interiors.
It was organized by International Arts and Artists, of Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation of Scottsdale, Ariz. Virginia T. Boyd, professor of design studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, served as curator.
Quoted: John Webster, UW-Madison professor emeritus of biomedical engineering.
Quoted: Donald Hester, professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison.
As students head to the nation’s college campuses, relishing their new independence, criminal prosecutions in the deaths of two young men are a sober reminder of how quickly alcohol-fueled “fun” can spin out of control.
Charges were filed this month against students and administrators linked to the recent fire death of a 19-year-old sophomore at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and the alcohol poisoning of a 18-year-old freshman at Rider University in Trenton, N.J
Americans pushing 60, 70, 80 or even 90 don’t forgo sex just because they’re aging, according a new study that shows many older adults are having sex well into their 70s and 80s.
The University of Chicago study being published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine is being called the first comprehensive look at the sex lives of older adults in the USA. It portrays an image that researchers say runs counter to the stereotypes of older people as either asexual or “dirty old men.
Quoted: John De Lamater, UW-Madison professor of sociology
Quoted: Climatology pioneer Reid Bryson, founding chairman of the department of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: John DeLamater, a University of Wisconsin sociology professor who has studied human sexuality for 35 years.
“Freakfest 2007,” the informal name for the Halloween party on State Street this fall, was the first item on the city’s Street Use Staff Team meeting Wednesday morning.
As in 2006, the party will be fenced and gated along the length of State Street and access permitted only with a ticket — this being the city’s response to the early-morning disturbances of the previous four years. Unlike last year, though, the event organizer is not the city, but Frank Productions, a national concert promoter based in Madison.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 â?? Officials at Virginia Tech University issued a set of mild recommendations for campus security Wednesday, suggesting the university provide more counseling for mentally troubled students, erect Internet-based message boards across campus to alert students of emergencies and install more surveillance cameras and better internal door locks.
No American folk hero is more famous than the mighty lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
But 100 years ago, only a few grizzled loggers recognized his name. When the Red River Lumber Co. first used him in its advertising literature in 1914, the campaign fell flat on its face because almost no one outside the woods had ever heard of him.
That ‘s when a University of Wisconsin undergraduate named K. Bernice Stewart began to collect Bunyan tales directly from loggers.
Plenty of Republican lawmakers are sticking up for higher education in Wisconsin as the state budget battle intensifies.
Let ‘s hope the GOP leaders in the Legislature are listening.
Federal officials on Tuesday warned students moving to college to take steps to protect themselves from the rising number of fires on and near campuses.
At a media briefing on the University of Maryland campus, officials released a new National Fire Protection Association report that cites an increase in college housing fires: 3,300 in 2005, up from 1,800 in 1998. From 2002 through 2005, there were 39 deaths and about 400 injuries in dormitories, fraternities, sororities and barracks as a result of fires.
But the report, which was based on estimates from two national databases, did not include off-campus fires. USA TODAY reported last year that off-campus fires were the most deadly.
Authorities at Virginia Tech will not escape scrutiny for their actions in the hours between two shooting sprees that left 33 people dead, the chairman of a governor-appointed review panel said Tuesday.
The report will be unflinching in assigning fault for failures and misjudgments, Massengill said. He would not discuss any specific points in the working draft of the report, a copy of which was delivered to Gov. Timothy M. Kaine last weekend.
Developers looking to convert the historic Woman’s Building into an upscale three-level venue are feeling the wrath of the city’s new “get tough” attitude toward downtown nightlife.
Patrons of the Samba Brazilian Grill at 240 W. Gilman St. will be able to dine outdoors, but they won’t be able enjoy a glass of wine with their meal — at least initially.
If you’ve tried loading up on fruits, vegetables and whole grains and still can’t get relief from constipation, maybe you need more than a boost of fiber.
“The idea that many patients have, and unfortunately their physicians, if we just keep pushing fiber until the grass grows out of their behind they’ll have been treated successfully, that’s not really true,” said Dr. Arnold Wald, a professor of medicine in gastroenterology/hepatology at the University of Wisconsin.
WE FIND IT amusing that a growing number of college and university officials are upset by the annual rankings produced by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
In most respects, the magazine is a distant third behind its competitor newsweeklies, Time magazine and Newsweek magazine. But once a year, when it comes to college rankings, U.S. News is second to none. At least on college campuses.
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will today (Aug. 21) issue new rules intended to streamline the patenting process. But the change will also make it more costly and time consuming for universities and biotech companies to secure rights to their life sciences discoveries, patent experts say.
Carl E. Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the tech transfer office of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
LA CROSSE, Wis. â?? The FBI has concluded there is no evidence that a serial killer is responsible for the drowning deaths of eight young men in La Crosse-area rivers over nine years.
The FBI and the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime reviewed the cases, said Police Chief Ed Kondracki. The center was asked to determine any common factors and whether more investigative work was warranted.
UW-Madison hydrologist Ken Potter said the rain in some parts of the region reached levels that could be expected once every 100 years. The extraordinary rainfall, combined with the steep slopes found in the Driftless Area, posed a challenge to dams, bridges, roads and levees, he said.
For most students starting college this fall, bottled water is taken for granted, stadiums and rock tours have always had corporate names, Nelson Mandela has always been free and phone calls have never been private.
For the class of 2011, instantly updating autobiographies on “Facebook ” or “MySpace ” is as common as being a latchkey kid or having nutritional information on food labels. “Off the hook ” has nothing to do with phones and being “lame ” has more to do with being dumb or inarticulate than being disabled.
CHICAGO — A cold-like virus may cause obesity, new experiments suggest.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison have found that mice and chickens infected with a common human virus put on much more fat than uninfected animals. They have also discovered that the same virus is more prevalent among overweight people, a strong indication that it may also cause obesity in humans.
In four experiments, the Wisconsin researchers inoculated chickens and mice with adenovirus-36, a member of a viral family that includes about 50 strains. Most adenoviruses cause colds, diarrhea or pinkeye.
Quoted: Presenter Dr Suzanne Gibbons-Burgener, from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, noted that on-farm use of raw milk is legal and common, and that the sale of unpasteurised milk is legal in 28 states, though California, for example, requires a warning label.
This might come as a shock to those of you who spent a few years and a few dollars earning your college degree at a University of Wisconsin campus, so have a seat and take a deeeeeeeeep breath.
Here goes: A ranking of the nation’s top party schools was published Monday, and NO WISCONSIN SCHOOL WAS ON THE LIST.
No, seriously. This really happened.
Somehow, Wisconsin escaped yet another national survey’s notoriety that would have only cemented the state’s reputation as a heavy-drinking, hard-partying mecca for college-age folks.
Madison, Wis. – At last, we’re getting to the bottom of what makes John Simpson and the California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights tick – or, more accurately, ticked off.
Not only does Simpson think the historic Bayh-Dole Act has been a colossal waste of time and money, even though many experts believe it unchained the innovative potential of the nation’s research universities, but he doesn’t understand the basics about â??technology transferâ? on those same campuses.
If a language class about an obscure African dialect spoken by a dwindling number of people worldwide attracts only a handful of students at UW-Madison, should the university continue to offer it?
That type of question comes up more often these days, as universities try to juggle the notion of encouraging wide-ranging intellectual curiosity with the practical needs of running a university on a limited budget.
Sunday ‘s wet weather did little to dampen the spirits of fans of the University of Wisconsin football team.
The blood thinner warfarin, which this week became the first widely used drug to carry a label encouraging doctors to perform a genetic test on patients before prescribing it, was discovered at UW-Madison.
From weird gourds to heirloom tomatoes and dazzling blooms, this garden has it all.
And the gardeners on hand will be happy to answer your questions. Some guests don ‘t know the difference between an annual and a perennial; others tell the resident experts what they ‘re doing wrong.
Hundreds of people are expected to attend today ‘s annual open house at UW-Madison ‘s West Madison Agricultural Research Station, where thriving flower and vegetable and fruit gardens showcase plants both traditional and experimental.
The more that depressed people try to decrease their emotional response to negative situations, the greater their emotional response becomes, says a new study by UW-Madison researchers.
The finding suggests that in some people with depression, traditional psychotherapy may do more harm than good, the researchers say.
Here are the biggest projects in Madison that received building permits between July 11, 2006, and June 30, 2007:
The University Square project, in the 700 block of University Avenue, with two floors of shops, restaurants and other businesses; 420 parking stalls; a nine-story tower housing UW-Madison functions such as the bursar ‘s office, registrar and a student health center; and a 10-story tower with 359 apartments.
UW-Madison ‘s Interdisciplinary Research Complex, in the 750 block of Highland Avenue, whose $158 million first phase is being built. The eight-story tower will house the Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center and will unite experts in different medical specialties to work together on cancer research. Two floors of the second tower, also in the current phase, will house research animals.
Quoted: Laura Dresser, associate director of UW-Madison ‘s Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
U.S. News & World Report releases its annual college rankings Friday in the face of the loudest and best-organized criticism from educators the magazine has ever encountered.
But for all the complaints that the rankings warp college admissions and distract colleges from educating students, U.S. News still has the upper hand. Colleges are having a hard time quitting the magazine’s annual beauty contest.
Will an agent secure you a higher selling price? The National Association of Realtors claims homes sold by its realty agents bring 16 percent higher prices on average. On the other hand, a study released earlier this summer by economists from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin showed FSBO sellers in Madison, Wis., made out better than if they had hired an agent and paid a commission. But Madison has a more-robust-than-usual local FSBO Web site, and the researchers’ calculations placed no value on services provided by an agent.
If you are selling property now in a market bedeviled by huge inventories of homes and a credit crunch, you could do better if you dumped your real-estate agent.
With a wide range of flat-fee and Internet-based services, you may fare well on your own, yet it’s still important to know your options.
Researchers Aviv Nevo and Igal Hendel of Northwestern University, and Francois Ortalo-Magne of University of Wisconsin-Madison examined sales conducted from 1998 to December 2004 through the Web site
English or engineering? Business or biology? When college students select their majors, a variety of factors influence them. Maybe healing the sick or teaching children is their passion. Perhaps musical or artistic skill directs them toward the arts. And some students don’t settle on a course of study until sophomore or junior year.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers wants to fuse the technology of modern computers and the mechanical calculators of the past to produce a machine that could survive in the harsh environments such as outer space, car engines, battlefields, and children’s toys.
MADISON â?? Alaska teen Jessica Schallock was thrilled when a wealthy neighbor offered her a $96,000 scholarship in June so she could study music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But then she got the bad news: On-campus housing was full. Schallock would have to find her own place to live in a city 3,600 miles from home.
Many college students are moving back to Madison and others are getting ready to head off to their campuses for the semester. There’s a few things students should keep in mind to keep them safe.
Count us among those somewhat skeptical of the value of the annual rankings of colleges and graduate programs. It seems to us you can make what you want of the data used, and the fact that two departments on the same campus can have opposite views based on how they ranked diminish the value of both.
Letter to the editor: “I’ve seen all the hoopla surrounding the Big Ten Network and don’t understand why it’s such an issue. Many people, including UW-Madison alumni like me, want to see Badger games on Wisconsin television stations as part of basic cable. It’s a no brainer.”
Madison-based movie producer Nick Langholff helped make a dream come true for UW-Madison senior Justin Daering this week.
Daering, a Verona native, had saved some money and was trying to make a film, but things weren’t working out. So Langholff stepped in to help.
“We met at my office above Mickey’s Tavern and I told him that I get to spend whatever amount he has, however I can. I ‘ll hire everybody,” Langholff says. “And I guaranteed him, It will feel like you ‘re spending three to four times the amount.'”
A 20-year-old UW-Madison student from Hartford helped catch a man fleeing police early Thursday, right after the alleged eluder plowed his car into the sleeping student ‘s house and scratched his prized truck.
“It was an interesting morning, ” said Jake Krebs, a civil engineering major whom police are recommending for a citizen commendation. “I just wanted my truck to be OK. “
Rankings are probably not be the best way to figure out what school to attend, but one thing they ‘re darned good for is generating debate.
The highly publicized U.S. News & World Report ‘s latest ranking of universities has put UW-Madison at 38th overall in the country, tied with the University of California-San Diego and fellow Big Ten member the University of Illinois.
The biannual confirmation that members of my profession are basking in the glow of professional achievement arrived in the mail this week. As usual, mine name wasn’t among them.
I’m always eager to pore over the pages of the University of Wisconsin journalism school alumni newsletter, beer in hand, and find out what my former J-School colleagues are up to in the way of proving themselves the best and brightest of their generation, and then sending the Wisconsin Journalist (as the publication’s named) a little note to brag about it. Weenies.
The bookshelves will soon be bursting with guides for the next group of high school students looking to make college choices.
U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 version of “America’s Best Colleges” will be online beginning today. The Princeton Review’s will be available next week. More will follow from there.
Fish farmers, aquaculture officials and state fisheries experts convened recently at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Pamela Oliver, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied racial disparities in prisons, said there are “reasonable arguments” both for and against profit-driven prison industries.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison was named one of Newsweek’s top 25 “hottest colleges” in the country.
Newsweek called UW-Madison the “Hottest Big State School.”
The UW Madison is studying road building with recyclables. Thanks to a federal grant and a partnership with the University of New Hampshire, the Recycled Materials Resource Center will look at using foundry byproducts in road construction.
