Police don’t often ask the State Crime Lab to move their cases to the front of the lab’s considerable backlog, but when they do, it can help crack cases in which the public’s safety is at risk.
Fast work on DNA samples led to the arrest earlier this month of Antonio Pope, 31, for two strikingly similar UW- Madison campus-area rapes that happened within 10 days of one another.
Kent Sklarow and his roommate had pulled it off many times before.
But one night three years ago, luck ran out for the UW- Madison students, who were both freshmen.
They were caught drinking alcohol with 14 other students in their residence hall room on the university’s only substance- free floor, and the transgression didn’t come without consequences.
Steady sweets, appetizers and social drinking can pack on holiday pounds, said Dale Schoeller, UW-Madison professor of nutritional sciences.
Peter Fissel, who works in the binding preparation department in Memorial Library on the UW-Madison campus, spotted the owl about 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday from a fourth-floor lounge.
For more than a decade, professor David Williamson Shaffer has been trying to change the world, one video game at a time.
And he has his work cut for him. Shaffer is not just trying to change kids, but the very school system that teaches them.
“The fundamental premise of school is that there are these disciplines–math, science, history–and these are the building blocks of anything we have to do later on,” Shaffer said. “Kids’ jobs are to master these basics.”
But Shaffer has a problem with this premise, and it’s a bombshell: Using this approach, our schools are not preparing our kids to be successful in today’s high-charged, high-tech world.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Assembling a quality coaching staff was just the start of the challenge for first-year University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema.
Keeping it together, especially in the wake of the Badgers’ surprising success this season, could prove even more difficult.
Madison police are investigating another home invasion in which a young woman was sexually assaulted by an unknown intruder who got in through an unlocked door.
Similar to a Dec. 5 attack on the Far East Side, the assault at a house in the 2900 block of Harvey Street on the Near West Side was committed early Thursday.
Q: Can drinking lots of caffeine actually speed up your metabolism and make you lose weight?
A: Caffeine can have modest benefits for weight loss, explains Dale Schoeller, a UW-Madison professor of nutritional sciences. Clinical trials have demonstrated that caffeine helped dieters lose a few more pounds than the control group.
If you can’t get enough of University of Wisconsin football, have we got a package for you.
Lauren Woods, a UW-Madison senior and former president of the Wisconsin Black Student Union, is running for the 8th District City Council seat.
Rollerskates, a stick shift – and hair long enough to be curled.
Those are the pleasures of life for Gabby Mahan, who had brain surgery at UW Hospital this year that cured her tremors but required her head to be shaved.
A study shows that a popular over-the-counter weight-loss supplement can actually help people burn off fat — even during the holiday season when they tend to eat more and exercise less.
For the study, researchers at the University of Guelph and the University of Wisconsin-Madison recruited 40 overweight but otherwise healthy volunteers.
Pomegranates could help in the fight against lung cancer, according to new research.
In a study at the US University of Wisconsin-Madison, pomegranate fruit extract was shown to help stop the growth of new lung cancer.
I learned about the Aramaic term earlier this week when I ran into Dr. Manucher Javid, a retired UW-Madison neurosurgeon who has made it part of his life’s work to introduce members of Downtown Rotary to the beauty and variety of the world’s religions.
Dickert is a retired dentist from Madison and Dodge was a UW-Madison transportation economics professor for nearly 35 years.
Q: What is the softest sound humans can hear?
A: That depends on our age and on the frequency, or pitch, of the sound, says Kimberly Smuda, director of the Audiology Clinic in UW-Madison’s department of communicative disorders.
An oft-heard complaint about the University of Wisconsin-Madison, justified or otherwise, is that its academic and research fruit falls close to the tree. It has world-class scientists and well-developed mechanisms for turning their best ideas into products or services, but most of that commercialization takes place within a half-hour drive from campus.
At an unprecedented gathering in the main living room of the governor’s mansion, top state officials earlier this month courted an elite group of executives who control hundreds of millions of investment dollars.
The message: Help grow Wisconsin’s young, high-tech companies.
That’s why a grant announced recently by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to the University of Wisconsin-Madison is an important step in building a base for new business start-ups. The foundation, based in Kansas City, is giving UW-Madison $5 million over five years to encourage entrepreneurship, offer services to nascent companies and perhaps work on the economic problems in Milwaukee’s inner city. The school is one of nine nationwide receiving the funding.
News that a suspect in two recent rape cases on the UW- Madison campus is in custody may have many people breathing easier, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t still looking over their shoulders.
Certainly, it’s a relief that police have arrested and charged Antonio Pope with kidnapping and raping two UW- Madison students. Despite Pope’s arrest, troubling questions remain.
Quoted: Jonathan Martin, professor of atmospheric sciences.
Quoted: Mary Metz, a UW-Madison professor of educational policy.
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin law professor specializing in antitrust issues,
Quoted: Margaret McFall-Ngai, a professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — It appears that fans heading to watch the Badgers play in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1 will have more company than last year.
The University of Wisconsin Alumni Association said the number of Badgers fans on their charter has doubled over last year, and trip organizers said there is more interest than last year when the Badgers also played in Orlando, Fla.
UW-Madison said it has rolled through its ticket allotment of 12,000. The Athletic Department asked for more tickets and has sold all of its 13,700.
THE BATTLE IS coming to Wisconsin. The Legislature is considering a move to ban racial preferences in state government. Meanwhile the University of Wisconsin system is looking to ratchet up consideration of race and ethnicity ââ?¬Å?to assist UW institutions in obtaining a diverse student body,ââ?¬Â according to the charge by system president Kevin Reilly.
Supporters call such racial consideration ââ?¬Å?affirmative action.ââ?¬Â Opponents call it discrimination.
Quoted: Gerald Thain, a professor of consumer law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in e-mail issues.
College students, most of the time, get a bad rap… Partying too much, getting in trouble with police – the basic early 20’s irresponsibility. Mitch Weber met some of these students who spend several hours a month making a difference in the community. They spend most of their time volunteering with children. Badger Pals has hundreds of members. Between all the homework, hanging out with friends, and enjoying college life, this group finds time for others.
A legislative committee formed to explore counteracting a University of Wisconsin proposal that would loosen academic standards in favor of expanding considerations for economic disadvantage, race and ethnicity in admissions heard from Ward Connerly during a Tuesday night session in Madison.
Conflicts inside and outside the workplace aren’t new, but there is an effort in Madison to use forgiveness to build harmony in the business environment.
Madison’s International Forgiveness Institute, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1994, was established as an outgrowth of the social science research done at UW-Madison by Robert Enright and his colleagues.
Capping the number of liquor licenses for bars in Downtown Madison won’t solve a surge in alcohol-related crimes there.
Two terrified UW-Madison students told police they were pulled into a car at knifepoint, tied up and driven to an apartment where they were raped, according to charges filed Tuesday.
WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — A Marine helicopter pilot from West Bend is dead in Iraq, only weeks after beginning his second deployment there.
He’s 27-year-old Captain Kevin Kryst.
Kryst was a 1997 graduate of West Bend West High School and a 2001 graduate of U-W Madison. He is believed to be the first UW alum to die in Iraq.
MADISON – Wisconsin state colleges shouldnââ?¬â?¢t use an applicantââ?¬â?¢s race to help decide whether he or she gets into school, an affirmative action opponent told a packed committee hearing Tuesday night.
Ward Connerly, chairman of the California-based American Civil Rights Coalition, which supports banning public affirmative action programs, said he believes the University of Wisconsin System should look at other factors besides academics when deciding who gets a slot, but not race.
MADISON, Wis. — Hundreds of people from across the state packed a state Capitol hearing room to hear a special legislative committee discuss affirmative action.
Part of the reason for the large turnout was the presence of a polarizing figure. The State Special Committee on Affirmative Action brought in Ward Connerly, chair of the American Civil Rights Institute, to testify.
The special legislative committee is considering how to ban the practice in state government.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. ââ?¬â? If there is any goal that the University of Florida has pursued as fervently as a national football championship for the Gators, it is a place among the nationââ?¬â?¢s highest-ranked public universities.
ââ?¬Å?We need a top-10 university, so our kids can get the same education they would get at Harvard or Yale,ââ?¬Â said J. Bernard Machen, the university president.
MADISON, Wis. — Police say a suspected rapist confessed after authorities confronted him with DNA evidence linking him to two abductions and sexual assaults on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Antonio Pope, 31, of Fitchburg, is accused in two separate knifepoint abductions of the students.
Pope made his initial court appearance Tuesday, and he faces multiple criminal counts in connection with the assaults.
A group of UW students marched their way to the capitol Tuesday night, getting ready for a verbal battle over affirmative action.
“There are those, probably at least 50% in the nation who believe that it’s wrong to use race,” said Ward Connerly, wants affirmative action abolished.
Inside, a prominent figure in the fight against affirmative action laid out his case.
Madison: “Don’t say anything or I’m going to cut your throat.” Those are the words a rape victim heard as she was kidnapped on campus earlier this month.
It took just 6 days for the state crime lab to link DNA evidence from two downtown rapes to Antonio Pope
A UW hockey player faces a misdemeanor charge for allegedly knocking over a cow sculpture at the kohl Center last summer.
Buoyed by a non-conference victory over then-No. 2 Pittsburgh on Saturday, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team ascended Monday to No. 4 in The Associated Press Top 25, the highest ranking in school history.
Despite a backlog of cases at the state Crime Laboratory, a triage process enabled investigators to identify a suspect in two recent sexual assaults of UW-Madison students, state Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager said Monday.
It has come to my attention that some in state government are floating the idea of offering free tuition across the University of Wisconsin system for those college grads who agree to live and work in Wisconsin for 10 years.
On the surface this seems like a good way to stem the vast brain drain keeping Wisconsin a backwater in both the nation’s and the world’s economy. However, the reality is that this is an extremely expensive idea whose results would be marginal, at best.
Confident heââ?¬â?¢s had a good semester and used to showing his marks to his parents, Winona State University freshman Steven Frank said heââ?¬â?¢ll opt for full disclosure when his grades come through. ââ?¬Å?Itââ?¬â?¢s kind of like a business deal,ââ?¬Â he said, since his parents pay his tuition.But under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, neither he nor the Winona, Minn., school are obligated to share those college marks.
Quoted: John Rudolph, associate professor in the Department of Instruction and Curriculum at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Richard Barrows, professor emeritus in the University of Wisconsin-Madison department of agriculture.
MADISON, Wis. — Here’s the deal: Students would get four years of reduced or free college tuition in exchange for staying in Wisconsin 10 years after they graduate.
That’s the plan, known as the “Big Bang,” from a special state commission that looked at daunting economic projections and decided last week it was time for a “Hail Mary” approach to stave off an era of serious decline in the Dairy State. It could cost billions of dollars, depending on how it is structured. And it could be a big bust, dying under the political weight of high cost.
Quoted: Economist Menzie Chinn, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It only took a week from the last attack for the State Crime Lab to zero in on Antonio Pope, the man police believe raped and kidnapped two UW students. Police caught Pope using DNA matching technology. He wasn’t even a suspect in the case until his name showed up as a match on the crime lab’s computer.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities said that until his DNA was given to crime lab scientists, the man suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in recent weeks wasn’t even on detectives’ radar.
Antonio Pope, 31, of Fitchburg, is accused in two separate knife-point abductions of the students. Pope is expected to face multiple counts when he makes his initial court appearance, which could come on Tuesday, WISC-TV reported.
HOUSTON ââ?¬â? Since the 1970s, women have surged into science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, even at top-tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the undergraduate science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are women. Half of the nationââ?¬â?¢s medical students are women, and for decades the numbers have been rising similarly in disciplines like biology and mathematics.
Yet studies show that women in science still routinely receive less research support than their male colleagues, and they have not reached the top academic ranks in numbers anything like their growing presence would suggest.
(SUPERIOR) The first test of a new University of Wisconsin Board of Regents policy is allowing the re-installation of a UW-Superior Christian student group that only allows Christians to lead its organization.
A student government committee unanimously approved re-instating the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship as a student organization. That allows it to get student fees and use university facilities. IVCF has chapters throughout the nation and UW System.
Q: What determines the colors of the sky at sunrise and sunset?
A: The colors of the sunset result from a phenomenon called scattering, says Steven Ackerman, professor of meteorology at UW-Madison.
Charles Franklin, a UW- Madison political science professor, said Thompson’s innovations on welfare reform and school vouchers as governor give him a track record to appeal to Republicans. But Franklin said Thompson is virtually unknown outside of the Midwest – even after serving in Bush’s cabinet – and doesn’t have experience competing on the national stage.
Police on Friday arrested a suspect in two campus-area sexual assaults on Nov. 29 and Dec. 9.
Antonio L. Pope, 31, of Madison was picked up about 2 p.m. and arrested without incident, according to a brief statement issued about 5 p.m. Friday by Madison and UW-Madison police.
To get ready for final exams, UW-Madison junior Samantha Leimontas is at her favorite study spot – the Espresso Royale coffee shop on the west end of State Street.
Quoted: Allan Odden, a professor in UW- Madison’s School of Education.
Quoted: David A. Noyce, who directs the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin.
