Former UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows lost his U.S. Court of Appeals case Thursday. The 7th Circuit Court decided Barrows was not done an injustice when the university placed him on unpaid administrative leave after he was told by Chancellor John Wiley to resign in 2004.
â??Weâ??re glad that the court understood the facts and agreed with our case,â? said Director of University Communications Amy Toburen.
It seems too simple to be true: Expose most of your body to about 15 minutes of sunlight a day during the summer and take large doses of inexpensive vitamin D pills during the winter and maybe, just maybe, you will substantially reduce the risk of getting various cancers, the flu, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune diseases and neurological disorders.
The idea that became Tomo-Therapy Inc. grew out of research labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and flourished with the help of timely investment capital from a Madison venture capital fund, which itself was funded by the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.
Quoted: Mark Rank, a professor of social welfare at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a University of Wisconsin dairy economist.
Quoted: Sandy Wilcox, 64, president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which helped the Madison-based university raise $1.9 billion in a six-year campaign that ended Dec. 31, surpassing its goal by 24 percent.
MADISON, Wis. – A federal appeals court on Thursday said a former University of Wisconsin administrator was not treated unfairly when he was placed on leave after resigning over sexual harassment allegations.
Paul Barrows had claimed the university wrongly forced him to take months of sick leave and vacation after he stepped down as vice chancellor for student affairs under pressure in November 2004.
It goes without saying that members of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team have a specific objective in mind when their postseason begins this weekend.
They want to repeat as NCAA champions.
When the subject of money comes up, most college students talk about how much they – or their parents – have spent to pursue a degree.
That’s not the case for UW- Madison students Ben Fiechtner and Troy Vosseller, who turned their college experience into a money-making venture by forming the campus clothing company Sconnie in 2005.
Quoted: Dr. Richard Illgen, co-director of the UW Madison Joint Replacement Program
Merging University of Wisconsin campuses in Milwaukee and Waukesha could cost as much as $25 million a year – more than twice as much as an alternative arrangement that merger opponents favor, UW System administrators said.
High school seniors are taking more challenging classes and earning higher grades than ever, but their reading skills have actually worsened since 1992, data released Thursday by the U.S. Education Department suggest.
MADISON, Wis. — The head of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School issued an apology for derogatory comments that a longtime professor allegedly made in class.
A student said professor Leonard Kaplan, who has been at UW-Madison since 1974, made the comments in class on Feb. 15.
UW-Madison Acting Associate Dean of Students Elton Crim told 27 News if violations of drinking rules during a December Zeta Psi fraternity party are deemed to be “egregious,” the fraternity’s social priveleges will be immediately suspended.
Crim said a decision on potential sanctions could be made within days.
In an exclusive 27 News interview, a woman said Madison police detectives have spent more than two months investigating her alleged sexual assault at the Dec. 9 party. The woman was 20 and a student at the time. She told 27 News she drank at the party, remembered little of what happened there, and underwent a hospital rape examination which determined she had injuries consistent with a sexual assault.
A UW law professor has angered Hmong students for making what some deem racist remarks.
But, one student in the class says those comments were taken out of context.
Law students in Professor Leonard Kaplan’s class say last Thursday they were discussing how laws are made and viewed by different groups.
That’s when students say Professor Kaplan went on a rant about the Hmong.
(MADISON) A campus research center, which wonâ??t open for another three years at UW-Madison, is laying the groundwork for what kind of studies might take place there.
The Institutes of Discovery is providing start-up money for different areas of research. One of them has to do with drugs used to treat hyperactivity in children. UW psychology professor Craig Berridge will lead a team looking at medications like Ritalin to examine why or how these drugs act to improve higher cognitive function, calm behavioral activity and reduce impulsivity. He says given that these drugs are prescribed by the millions annually in this country for both children and adults, very little is known about the biology behind those behavioral actions.
Researchers at UW-Madison are zeroing in on a protein that may hold some of the secrets to the devastating damage that Alzheimer’s disease can do to the human brain.
The protein is more commonly connected to an inherited mental retardation disorder known as fragile X syndrome. That disorder is caused by absence of the protein, called the fragile X mental retardation protein.
Lenor Zeeh, who had a long career with Rennebohm Pharmacy in Madison, has made a $1 million gift to the Lenor Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station at UW-Madison’s School of Pharmacy.
When you watch the opposing fans flood the floor, like they did Tuesday night when the Badgers’ basketball team lost at Michigan State, you gotta wonder:
Is this No. 1 ranking really such a good thing? Doesn’t it just pin a giant target on the Badgers’ backs?
The answers, according to former Badgers players, are yes and yes.
Or, to quote Charlie Wills: “Heck, yeah! It’s awesome.”
It goes without saying that members of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team have a specific objective in mind when their postseason begins this weekend.
They want to repeat as NCAA champions.
The eight winners of a campuswide competition for $3 million in seed grants for research offer an early look at the scope and range of the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison official Marsha Mailick Seltzer said the Discovery Seed Grants show off the diversity of the future Institutes for Discovery, twin public- private centers for cutting-edge research that will span different academic disciplines.
WASHINGTON – College students who faced lawsuits for illegally sharing large music collections over campus computer networks increasingly risk being unplugged from the Internet or even suspended over lesser complaints by the recording industry.
In a nationwide crackdown, the music industry is sending thousands more copyright complaints to universities this school year than last. In some cases, students are targeted for allegedly sharing a single file. For students who are caught, punishments can vary from e- mail warnings to semester-long suspensions from classes.
At a time when most radio stations, including college stations, are locked into a narrow format, UW-Madison’s WSUM- FM (91.7) has found its niche by allowing individual students to find theirs.
“You’re not going to find another place like this,” said senior Michelle Koffel, former station manager of WSUM, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary on the air after years of court battles to erect a radio tower in the town of Montrose.
Charitable contributions to U.S. colleges and universities reached $28 billion last year, up 9.4% from the year before, a survey says. It adds that alumni giving, which represents about 30% of such support, grew by “an impressive 18.3%” last year, to $8.4 billion. Though the percentage of alumni making contributions declined, the value of the average gift has increased, from $971 in 2005 to $1,195 in 2006.
Quoted: Morton Ann Gernsbacher, a cognitive psychologist who specializes in autism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. David Robago, University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who served as a bioethics adviser to Clinton.
Madison, Wis. – A lot of chief information officers try to measure their value in financial terms, and Mike Sauk is no different.
Sauk, vice president and CIO of University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, isn’t talking about balance sheet return on investment; he has in mind a more practical form of ROI.
IOWA CITY, Iowa â?? The University of Wisconsin is badgering high schools in 16 states to change their logos, claiming the W symbols they use resembles the universityâ??s trademarked W.
Cindy Van Matre, director of licensing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sent notices and question sheets to the schools â?? including Cedar Rapids Washington, Williamsburg and Washington â?? on Jan. 8, saying their use of the W is a trademark infringement.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities said that the desire to buy more crack and alcohol appears to be the motive behind a robbery and battery at a University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm earlier this month.
According to court documents, Brian Buhler allegedly told police he was coming down from a crack and alcohol high the night of Feb. 6 when he decided he needed to steal money to buy more.
WASHINGTON â?? When it comes to opening their wallets for their alma maters, Lawrence University alumni give at higher rates than most.
In 2006, Lawrence received donations from 38.9 percent of its 17,937 alumni who could be located, according to a report released Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education.
Sudanese refugee August Mayai attended a Capitol press conference Wednesday announcing the bill. The UW-Madison student fled the country in 1989 at the age of seven. Mayai says he was recently able to finally get in touch with his brother, only to find his parents and many other family members had been killed since he fled the country. Mayai says the state needs to help send an economic message that the Sudanese government will understand.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded seed money to eight major research projects Wednesday as part of a program to build interest in its new research institutes.
The proposals will receive a total of $3 million to tackle problems including detecting disease, producing human embryonic stem cells and improving reading among black children.
The research projects, selected from a pool that originally included 220 ideas, are designed to illustrate the interdisciplinary approach embodied by the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a record fundraising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in an all-time high of $28 billion — a 9.4 percent jump from the year before.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was the top fundraiser among public universities, raising $326 million.
WASHINGTON (AP) — College students who faced lawsuits for illegally sharing large music collections over campus computer networks increasingly risk being unplugged from the Internet or even suspended over lesser complaints by the recording industry.
In a nationwide crackdown, the music industry is sending thousands more copyright complaints to universities this school year than last. In some cases, students are targeted for allegedly sharing a single mp3 file online. UW-Madison had the 10th most RIAA complaints in the nation.
What has a balanced-tilt, shadow, squared prongs, an arrow-shaped indentation, and is all around Madison? If you said the university’s cardinal red “Motion W”, as it’s called, you’re right. But, UW officials says the “W” is moving off-campus and they’re working to win it back.
The “Motion W” first showed up on Badger football helmets in 1990. It became a registered university trademark in 1996. But, now it’s moving to places it shouldn’t be, according to UW officials.
The executive chairman of the UW-Madison’s Zeta Psi fraternity chapter told 27 News he did not believe a woman student at his fraternity could have been sexually assaulted during a December party of about 100 people at the fraternity house.
“There was no opportunity,” UW-Madison senior Ari Metzger told 27 News. “I think we do a really good job of monitoring our guests.”
American colleges and universities raised an estimated $28-billion in private donations in the 2006 fiscal year — $2.4-billion, or 9.4-percent, more than in 2005, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education. The significant jump, the biggest one-year increase since 2000, was the result of larger donations from alumni and other individual donors, many of whom were solicited through numerous major fund-raising campaigns.
The eight winners of a campus-wide competition for $3 million in Discovery Seed Grants offer an early look at the breadth and scope of the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at UW-Madison.
“The seed grants are a wonderful way to begin the program of the institutes,” said Marsha Mailick Seltzer, interim director of the institutes’ public half, known as the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), and director of the UW-Madison Waisman Center.
The man who allegedly attacked a woman in her UW- Madison dorm room earlier this month told police he was looking for money for crack cocaine and alcohol, which he had been using before the attack.
A proposed policy that would define and set new limits on alcohol consumption when it involves student organizations on the UW-Madison campus is going back to the drawing board.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema got the news he was hoping for when offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Paul Chryst informed him he was staying with the Badgers.
MADISON, Wis. – The state Senate Tuesday finally confirmed a replacement for a University of Wisconsin System regent who refused to step down even after Gov. Jim Doyle took office and rescinded his reappointment.
The Madison Police Department is investigating an alleged sexual assault at a University of Wisconsin fraternity party last semester.
Partygoers who attended a December event at Zeta Psi, located at 132 Breese Terrace, are being investigated for the alleged sexual assault of a UW student who has since dropped out of school, according to Dean of Students Lori Berquam.
Even at age 19, University of Wisconsin-Madison students Ben Fiechtner and Troy Vosseller knew they had the entrepreneurial spirit. When an online student dating service and gasoline delivery failed to come to fruition, an apparel line donning the affectionate Wisconsin nickname “Sconnie” quickly developed into the business they’d dreamed of starting.
Sconnie Nation began in 2004 as a $600 investment yielding 100 T-shirts. When the shirts sold out in a week, Fiechtner and Vosseller knew they were on to something.
At least two dozen universities each earned more than $10-million from their licensing of rights to new drugs, software, and other inventions in the 2005 fiscal year, according to a survey released Tuesday night, while the number of institutions creating large numbers of spinoff companies based on their researchers’ inventions apparently dropped off sharply from the previous year.
The findings are drawn from a report on a survey conducted by the Association of University Technology Managers.
In a break from past years’ practice, however, the association did not release summary data for all colleges and universities that participated in the survey (there were 160 respondents for 2005). But it did provide selective information from the 151 institutions that agreed to have their name and responses published.
A Republican legislator says Governor Doyle’s plan to extend domestic partner benefits to state employees “flies in the face” of a decision by Wisconsin voters. State Representative Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) predicts majority Republicans in the Assembly will kill the Governor’s plan. Nass says people of the state spoke clearly on the issue when they voted in favor of last November’s Constitutional ban on gay marriage.
Nass says extending the benefits to partners of state employees is too expensive when the state is facing a large budget deficit. It’s estimated the plan could cost the state up to $15 million a year, just for the university system.
A 27 News report on a crowded fraternity party and the alleged sexual assault of a UW-Madison student there, has prompted a university investigation into the party sponsors and what occurred.
In an exclusive 27 News interview, the woman said the night at the party has thrown her life into turmoil.
For two months, Madison police detectives have been investigating what happened to this woman.
What is clear at this point is the woman, then 20 years old, was drinking at the December 9, 2006 party.
An effort to replace an aging radio tower on the southeastern edge of the UW Arboretum has some wondering about moving it out of the environmentally sensitive area altogether.
Last year, officials learned the WHA-AM tower, which broadcasts Wisconsin Public Radio throughout Dane County, is in an “unsafe and unreliable condition” due to internal corrosion. As a result, the state plans to build a new tower in the same vicinity, just south of Martin Street, and tear down the tower.
Nicholas “Nick” J. Polczinski, 39, Oconto Falls, died suddenly at home on Friday, Feb. 16, 2007. He was born July 31, 1967, in Oconto Falls to Lawrence and Ruth (Scheller) Polczinski. Nick grew up on the family farm, which at the time was on the very edge of the City of Oconto Falls and attended St. Anthony Catholic Grade School.
Quoted: Virginia Sapiro, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Following your bliss may be good advice, but if you want to follow Milton Bliss, you better be able to keep up.
In addition to working his Alderly farm, carving out time to volunteer in the community and being active in his church, Bliss drives to Madison three times a week to take classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Despite the old adage, ignorance is not bliss. In fact, in this case, Bliss is knowledge.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Too much zinc supplementation may not be a good thing for the urinary system of older adults, according to a new report.
The finding comes from a secondary analysis of a trial involving 3,640 adults between age 55 and 80 years of age with the retinal disease, macular degeneration. As treatment for their eye condition, the subjects were assigned to various treatments: daily antioxidant therapy with vitamin C, vitamin E and beta-carotene; zinc, 80 milligrams daily; antioxidants and zinc in combination; or inactive ‘placebo’ supplements.
In the Journal of Urology, Dr. Aaron R. Johnson and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, report that there was a “significant increase in hospital admissions due to genitourinary causes in patients on zinc vs. non-zinc formulations (11.1 percent vs. 7.6 percent)” during the 6 years of the study.
Although the University of Wisconsin’s new admissions policy that considers the race of the applicant has been widely panned, a spokesman for the system said the policy is more holistic than race-based.
David F. Giroux says the new policy was no more a race-based policy than it was a veterans-based or a football player-based policy.
MADISON, Wis. — For the first time in school history, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers are the top team in men’s college basketball this week, according to the Associated Press poll.
Wisconsin (26-2), which is No. 1, received 35 first-place votes and a total of 1,747 points from a nationwide media panel to edge Ohio State (24-3) for the top spot. The Buckeyes, who own an 11-game winning streak, earned 31 first-place votes and 1,728 total points.
MADISON, Wis. — Badger fans and sports analysts said that they have high hopes for the future of University of Wisconsin-Madison athletics after Monday’s college basketball ranking.
“I can’t believe it,” said one fan. “I mean, it’s an accomplishment of immense proportions.”
“I don’t know if I’m shocked or what, but just to see the Badgers be No. 1 in the nation for just a glimpse, even if it’s only for a week,” said one caller to the WIBA Radio’s Badger sports talk radio show, WISC- TV reported.
When a sculpture of a deer on DePauw University’s campus was vandalized, in October 2005, administrators got a tip that they would find the perpetrators by looking at postings on Facebook.
The Indiana university eventually identified and disciplined several students for defacing the sculpture. DePauw would probably not have found them without using the social-networking Web site, says James L. Lincoln, vice president for student services.
But is Facebook a law-enforcement tool?
Get ready for another 1 vs. 2 showdown in the Big Ten â?? this time on the hardwood.
Quoted: Ex-astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a former U.S. senator from New Mexico now with the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
