Richard J. Cook, the president of Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, will not say precisely how he used to rate his collegeâ??s competitors when the annual U.S. News & World Report peer review questionnaire showed up in his mailbox. What he will say is, â??I filled it out more honestly this year than I did in the past.â?
Princeton holds the top spot in the latest U.S. News & World Report college rankings, the eighth straight year the private, New Jersey school has either tied or held the top slot outright.
After finally settling a longstanding legal case against the University of Wisconsin System, former UW administrator Paul Barrows told The Badger Herald he is planning on writing a book to document the events. The 55-year-old retired vice chancellor said the book would register major events in his life story and include details on his struggle to prove his innocence against sexual harassment accusations made by university officials.
Former University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett was denied a fall teaching position he had applied for in the English department, university officials confirmed in July.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam appointed three higher education professionals last week to vacant positions in the University of Wisconsin Offices of the Dean of Students.
Q. Can lightning strike in the exact same spot twice?
A. The short answer, according to UW-Madison atmospheric scientist Steve Ackerman, is yes.
In one sense, the public stare-down between the soon-to-be-launched Big Ten Network and the nation’s cable television providers is reminiscent of the contract battles between the owners and players in professional sports.
It’s hard for the little guy to figure out which side to root for when billionaires are fighting millionaires over who gets a greater share of the pie.
Cataracts, a clouding of the lens of the eye that begins as a vague blurriness and can lead to blindness, is a common affliction of aging. For insured Americans, cataract surgery is a routine procedure that restores vision completely.
Despite the simplicity of cataract surgery, about 20 million people worldwide are blind because of cataracts, and 90 percent of them live in developing countries.
Dr. Suresh Chandra, an opthalmologist at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, has been working to eliminate preventable blindness through the Combat Blindness Foundation he started in Madison in 1984. Since then, the CBF has supported more than 100,000 free cataract surgeries.
Paula Tran, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, relies on her school’s health center for affordable birth control pills. Even though she doesn’t have insurance, she bought a year supply from the clinic for only $7 per pack last fall.
But when she goes back for more this September, she’ll be hit with a bill five times that amount, something she says will definitely affect her spending. “It will cut into the kinds of notebooks I buy to the kind of groceries I get to the cable package that I order,” she says.
MADISON, Wis. — Students were faced with rain Wednesday as they started moving into their apartments near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Thousands of students began moving in soggy conditions Wednesday after being displaced when their leases ended Tuesday afternoon.
Fond du Lac police turned up little Wednesday to indicate how a 51-year-old Fond du Lac man drowned in the Fond du Lac River.
Jeffrey Miller was a retired security officer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has a 22-year-old daughter and a 26-year-old son, she said.
MADISON, Wis. — Solving the issue of mold in homes and other buildings is one reason a large federal grant has been awarded to a national research lab based in Madison.
Nearly $50 million in federal money is slated for the nation’s leading wood research institute — the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory near the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.
The money will be used to help expand lab research into mold and other issues related to wood, including turning forest waste into fuel.
Everyone who lives long enough will eventually get cataracts, a clouding of the lens of the eye that begins as a vague blurriness and can lead to blindness. For insured Americans, cataract surgery is an routine procedure that restores vision completely.
Despite the simplicity of cataract surgery, about 20 million people worldwide are blind because of cataracts, and 90 percent of them live in developing countries.
Dr. Suresh Chandra, an opthalmologist at UW-Madison medical school, has been working to eliminate preventable blindness through the Combat Blindness Foundation he started in Madison in 1984. Since then, the CBF has supported more than 100,000 free cataract surgeries.
Ready to buy your nano-Mac? You might have to wait a few years, and you might want only one if you fly into space or go to war.
This is the peak weekend of moving season for UW-Madison students, with thousands of them leaving mountains of trash as they change apartments Downtown.
In a partnership aimed at easing the mess and helping the community, the university has teamed with Goodwill Industries and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to collect usable items and unopened, nonperishable food at three sites through Tuesday.
Amy Smith is anxious. She’s known for years this time would come, but now the day when she and her husband, Stan, will deliver Alynna, their oldest child, to UW-Madison for the first time is almost upon them.
“We’re sending our child into unknown territory,” said Smith, of Darlington. “She’s been under my wing. I know all of her friends, I know what she’s doing during the day, I know what she’s doing at night. We’re very close.
“We’re small town. When you hear about UW, it seems huge, almost overwhelming and I’ve felt panicked sending my child there. It’s going to be a huge transition. Huge.”
Enter the UW-Madison Parent Program.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, a dairy analyst at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the market could soften.
MADISON, Wis. — Tuesday is moving day for many residents near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Many downtown Madison apartment leases expire on Tuesday with new leases beginning on Wednesday, WISC-TV reported.
In something akin to an annual ritual, thousands of students move in and out of downtown apartments in August, often leaving behind mountains of garbage.
Unless Charter Communications and the Big Ten Network come to terms on a deal for the cable company to carry the new network, most University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans in the Madison area won’t get to see many of the Badgers’ conference games on television this season.
At least 11 of UW’s 18 Big Ten Conference games will be shown on the Big Ten Network, according to the 2007-08 league schedule released Tuesday.
Hottest Big State School: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis.
Growing up in Wisconsin, Laura Sullivan was raised on Badger mania. But she was initially afraid that she would get lost in Madison amid 41,000 students, 140 undergraduate majors and nearly 700 student organizations.
People with clinical depression may be unable to “snap out of it” because of faulty wiring in the brain, according to a new study released.
Researchers who compared the way people with very severe depression responded to negative stimuli relative to a group of healthy controls found that the circuits involved in controlling emotions were disrupted in the depressed individuals.
“The neural circuits involved with regulating emotions may be damaged in people with this condition,” said Tom Johnstone, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health and lead author of the study published in the journal Neuroscience on Tuesday.
TOWN OF MENASHA â?? Lesley Lathrop’s heart still aches for her missing son, Andy Lathrop, who disappeared two years ago this week in Japan.
Outwardly, she puts on a brave smile and speaks fondly of the intelligent, thoughtful and loving 20-year-old son who “used to love to garden with me.
MADISON, Wis. — Students and landlords were busy Tuesday as they dealt with the chaos of moving day in downtown Madison.
Most downtown leases ended at noon on Tuesday, leaving thousands without a home until noon on Wednesday, when the new leases begin.
Some students on Tuesday were playing a waiting game for moving trucks.
“It’s more of a praying game. We really can’t have rain with mattresses and stuff out and electronics and stuff,” said Jon Oelke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.
Tuesday night is the night many UW students dread finding a place to sleep on the night of August 14th.
Many students who had to scramble to find a place to sleep. Most made hotel reservations. Others found friends to stay with. But, there are some who rely on the very vehicles they are using to move. Most students describe the experience pretty much the same.
Wisconsin’s top teacher expresses pride in the record amount of students taking the ACT test.
Seventy-percent of our state’s 2007 high school grads took the ACT college admissions test during high school, compared to 68% in 2006.
“They represent the highest percentage of students to take the ACT ever in Wisconsin history.”
Wisconsin had more than 46,000 of its 2007 graduates take the ACT. And State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster boasts, their average composite score of 22.3 is higher than the seven-year trend of 22.2, and tied with Iowa for second place in the nation.
We’re still a couple of weeks away from pushing the panic button. Because we want to believe State Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson and Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch are reasonable people who care about all the people of this state, we’ve been willing to wait while they get the necessary political posturing out their systems and then do the jobs they’ve been entrusted with.
Amy Smith is anxious. She ‘s known for years this time would come, but now the day when she and husband Stan will deliver Alynna, their eldest child, to UW-Madison for the first time is almost upon them.
“We ‘re sending our child into unknown territory, ” said Smith, of Darlington. “She ‘s been under my wing (until now). I know all of her friends, I know what she ‘s doing during the day, I know what she ‘s doing at night. We ‘re very close.
“We ‘re small-town. When you hear about UW(-Madison), it seems huge, almost overwhelming and I’ve felt panicked sending my child there. It ‘s going to be a huge transition, huge. ”
Enter the UW-Madison Parent Program.
Nobody will ever accuse Jeremi Suri of lacking style or insight. His study of Henry Kissinger’s personality and place in history offers piercing originality–so much so that laying down Dallek for Suri feels rather like that moment in The Prince and the Showgirl when Laurence Olivier, after telling all and sundry that they have too little love in their life, meets his ex-mistress . . . and realizes that she has too much.
Suri fires off insights and theories about Henry Kissinger at a rapid clip. He especially delights in paradox.
Move over, Madison residents â?? the Badgers are coming back to town.
Campus apartment leases expire today, sparking a moving frenzy that will ensue through Wednesday, when new leases take effect.
Tommy Thompson and I — and actually, most of my social friends — attended UW-Madison at approximately the same time. Even Vice President Cheney was on campus at that time.
How can we build the Wisconsin economy?
Mark Bradley, president of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents offers two suggestions: Increase the number of Wisconsin residents with bachelorâ??s degrees and allow UW campuses to develop plans that are suited to their particular region.
Bradley spoke at a Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast and also met with the Tribuneâ??s editorial board.
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 the section on gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. â?? The University of Wisconsin-Madison has delayed a plan to increase tuition for undergraduate engineering majors by $1,400 over three years, a school official said Monday.
College of Engineering Dean Paul Peercy proposed the idea earlier this year as a way to increase funding to hire more faculty and make other academic improvements.
Madison is not only the capital of Wisconsin, it’s also a college town disguised by big-city buildings. The University of Wisconsin is the main reason this could-be-stuffy government city is a thriving epicenter for music, arts, and theater.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A poison-ivy rash is never any fun.
But this year the itching might be worse.
Botanists say there are record-high carbon-dioxide levels – and that’s causing poison-ivy plants to grow faster and with more potency.
Tom Sharkey is a botany professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A proposed boycott of Israeli universities won’t have any traction at the University of Florida, according to a statement endorsed by UF President Bernie Machen.
Also, in the wake of a banner year in athletics, UF was named the “hottest for sports fans.” Other hot schools included Harvard University, which was named “hottest for rejecting you,” and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the “hottest big state school.”
Quoted: Donald Downs, a professor of political science, law, and journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, would take issue with that. Downs acknowledged that some FISA reforms are needed, but the issue is whether the new law goes too far.
Quoted: Molecular geneticist Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says the study offers some “intriguing leads” on candidate genes to be followed up. “There is an important message here” that changes in regulatory sequences may be important in the evolution of many species, he says.
Dane County Emergency Management spent the afternoon learning how to handle a large scale decontamination. The scenario: a hazardous material was released at a soccer game.
If you were near the UW Hospital or St. Mary’s Monday you may have noticed medics wearing protective haz-mat clothing. This was all part of a drill to train each agency how to respond in this type of scenario.
The University of Wisconsin medical school and Marshfield Clinic will start a new program this fall to increase the number of graduating physicians trained in rural hospitals and clinics.
Leaders of the medical school and clinic said Monday that the new Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine will prepare up to 25 medical school students a year in the next few years for practice in small-town settings. The first class of five students is entering this fall.
(MADISON) A month ago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison got word it was no longer being considered as a site for a national bio- and agro-defense facility. University officials now know why, and say the information may help them adjust strategies to secure future research contracts.
Letter to the editor: I am concerned about the method of disciplining UW athletes who have been arrested as there appears to be little accountability for their actions by the UW Athletic Department. They often excuse the actions if the player involved is a prominent member of the UW football team.
For many students pursuing their secondary education at colleges and universities, summer is more than just recreation and relaxation in the sun – it’s hard work. Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate 59 percent of all 16-to-24-year-olds were in the work force.
The best thing about this weekend ‘s Perseid meteor showers, according to UW-Madison astronomer Jim Lattis, is that it doesn ‘t take any fancy equipment or knowledge to enjoy the spectacle.
“All you need, ‘ ‘ Lattis said, “is a lawn chair. ‘ ‘
The adage that one person ‘s trash is another person ‘s treasure is being put into practice at the Recycled Materials Resource Center at UW-Madison. The center, which has experts both at UW-Madison and the University of New Hampshire, aims to find uses for a range of materials that often get tossed into landfills by industries.
A low-profile building opening in Madison this month comes with high expectatons in one of medicine ‘s most dynamic fields: brain research.
The Hedberg HealthEmotions Research Building, tucked behind a wooded slope off Research Park Boulevard, will expand UW-Madison ‘s already notable program in mental health research, scientists say.
Among the largest housing projects started during the past year, the emphasis — except for Capitol West condominiums ($37.6 million) — was on apartments and student housing, including Steve Brown ‘s Lucky apartments at University Square ($36.1 million), UW-Madison ‘s new Ogg Hall ($27.9 million), Parmenter Circle Apartments in Middleton ($15.9 million) the Pres House dormitory ($11.3 million) and Edgewood College ‘s Dominican Hall ($10.6 million).
In a basement laboratory at Haverford College, Monica Kishore and Peter J.J. O’Malley, two undergraduates, have hit a snag in a fluid-dynamics experiment they’re conducting.
The two physics majors are doing research in the laboratory of Jerry P. Gollub, a professor of physics. The experiment they have helped to design requires them to find a way to get tiny plastic beads to hover at the interface between a blue liquid and a clear liquid. Then they will run an electric current through the liquids, and a camera will track the particles’ motions.
But when Mr. O’Malley, a senior, follows their usual protocol of sprinkling the beads onto the liquid, some of them float on the surface instead of sinking to the interface.
No drugs were found in the blood stream of a 21-year-old Green Bay woman pulled from the Fox River on July 26.
Brown County Medical Examiner Al Klimek said the toxicology report showed Mahalia Xiongâ??s blood alcohol level was 0.12 percent, but no other significant substances were discovered. The legal limit of intoxication is 0.08 percent.
Quoted: Tim Sell, who manages a surplus program for the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the state of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Robert Blick, a professor of electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Arthur Glenberg, a gesture researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
There are bold ideas from task forces studying security improvements on University of Wisconsin campuses in the wake of the Virginia Tech murders this spring, from polishing “crisis plans” to creating “review teams” to proactively probe reports of aberrant student behavior.
But there are a couple of things that could specifically help the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the Oshkosh Police Department better prepare for and respond to a serious emergency here:
Quoted: Dr. John Moulder, a senior editor of the journal Radiation Research, for his reaction to the study. Moulder, who is professor and director of radiation biology in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Wisconsin,
Quoted: Harry Bunn of the University of Wisconsin, who co-directs the project.
Quoted: James Paul Gee, a University of Wisconsin professor.
Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Unfortunately, in the University of Wisconsin System, we have reached critical mass on the insanity meter.
Quoted: Frank Tuerkheimer, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former U.S. attorney, said itâ??s rare to see prosecutions for a murder conspiracy when no one has been hurt.
A review team to monitor troubling behavior is one of the recommendations that a University of Wisconsin commission made to improve campus safety.
The President’s Commission on University Security looked at campus safety in light of the shootings in April at Virginia Tech where 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on campus before committing suicide in a classroom building.
