MADISON, Wis. — Two families are going through a “paired exchange” organ transplant that is only the second of its kind at University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital.
In a paired exchange, one family donates an organ to another family, and, in return, that family donates one of their organs to help the first family.
Clarence Delwiche, of Janesville, and Michael Pasco, of Lake Linden, Mich., both spend four hours a day, three days a week on dialysis.
This is way too cool to resist sharing it with the rest of the class: The UW-Madison has launched an interactive online campus map that blows all previous campus maps out of the water.
Quoted: Alfred W. McCoy, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror.
In a widely watched case regarding the ability of public colleges to award domestic-partner benefits, a judge in Ohio has dismissed a lawsuit in which a state lawmaker contended that Miami University was violating a 2004 law banning same-sex marriage by making those benefits available.
Quoted: Dr. James Stein is a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Arlen Leholm will resign as dean of the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension at the end of January to become executive director of the North Central Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors.
I don’t know about you, but it rankles me that the juggernaut known as the University of Wisconsin athletic department is picking on little high schools whose names just happen to begin with a W.The W, we are told, particularly the red W that for some absurd reason is called the “motion W,” belongs to the UW Badgers and no one else can use it.
Quoted: UW-Madison real estate professor Stephen Malpezzi.
The alcohol policy coordinator for Madison, Wis., shed some light Friday on how organizers there successfully fenced off a downtown Halloween street block party near the University of Wisconsin Oct. 28 and charged admission.
“Flexibility – that was the name of the game,” said Joel Plant, who explained that police were ready to remove the fence if the crowd grew too large. “We’re not going to endanger anyone’s safety for a fence.”
Quoted: Scott Spear, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a member of Planned Parenthood’s national medical committee.
Jessica Hodges, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, was another first-timer on the flight to Antartica headed by a team from McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma.
For three weeks, Hodges will work at the South Pole, testing sensors encased in large glass balls that will be buried in 9,000-foot holes drilled into the ice.A group of universities and the National Science Foundation are conducting the $272 million IceCube project to detect subatomic particles as they pass through the Earth from deep in space.
The University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics has a new CEO, David Entwistle, who is now serving as senior vice president and chief operating officer at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
Quoted: Dr. Bryan Becker, section chief of nephrology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison, Wis. – As law professors at major universities, Rebecca Eisenberg and Arti Rai want to make their case perfectly clear: they are not calling for repeal of Bayh-Dole, the landmark law that gave universities the right to patent their inventions.
The nation’s top public universities ââ?¬Å?are becoming disproportionately whiter and richer,ââ?¬Â says a new report that looks at enrollment and graduation rates at 50 public flagship universities.The report argues that financial aid practices at those and similar institutions create barriers for low-income and minority students.
Nothing subtle about the title: ââ?¬Å?Engines of Inequality.ââ?¬Â Public flagship universities do a generally poor job of enrolling and educating underrepresented minority students and those from low-income families, and actually regressed rather than made progress on those fronts from 1995 to 2004, the Education Trust argues in a report released Monday. UW-Madison received an overall grade of D.
Madison, Wis. – Quick quiz: Which Wisconsin institutions spend the most on research and development in the life sciences?
Naming No. 1 is relatively easy: the University of Wisconsin-Madison ($764 million) is perennially among the top academic R&D centers in the United States. Second on the list is the Medical College of Wisconsin ($139 million), which ranks among the nation’s top 100 medical research centers. Next up is the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at $28.3 million.
The nation’s public flagship universities are becoming less accessible to students who are from low-income families or who are members of underrepresented minority groups, according to a report released on Monday by the Education Trust.
In its new report, “Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities,” the trust, an independent research and advocacy organization based in Washington, grades the flagship institution in each state on access for low-income and minority students and on the gaps in graduation rates for those students and the student body as a whole.
Eight state universities received failing grades on the organization’s report card, while 24 states were given D’s, and 14 states were given C’s. Just four institutions — the Universities of Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Vermont — earned B’s. No A’s were awarded.
It’s all about synergy as two of the state’s top research institutes join forces. Marshfield Clinic and WiSys Technology Foundation have announced a partnership to strengthen collaborations in research and technology transfer. Dr. Robert. Carlson, director of Marshfield Clinic Applied Sciences, says the agreement’s been in the works for several years.
MADISON, Wis. — A new program at the UW aims to address the growing shortage of doctors in rural areas of the state.
The School of Medicine and Public Health’s program will place doctors-in-training at clinics in rural areas.
The school’s associate dean Byron Crouse said 33 percent of Wisconsin residents live in rural areas but only 11 percent of doctors practice there.
Airfare, a four night stay at the team hotel, your ticket to the big bowl game, all are included in the deluxe travel package offered by the wisconsin Alumni association.
“It is for alumni and fans and anyone that would care to be part of the official university tour,” says Paula Bonner with the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
But there’s one catch.
Movie viewers unfortunate enough to start watching the infamous 1987 flop “Ishtar” were quick to ask: “When does this end?” Wisconsin is asking the same question of the Kevin Barrett story at UW-Madison.
A long-time benefactor of UW-Madison has left more than $16.5 million to various university programs as part of her estate.
Ethel K. Allen, known to friends as “Toddy,” died on May 7 at age 98. Allen received her bachelor’s degree in botany in 1928 and a master’s degree in bacteriology in 1930 from the University of Wisconsin. Those departments will receive more than $412,000 each.
Susan Borlaug is the first to admit that marching around with a placard and shouting slogans isn’t going to change the results of the recent statewide vote in favor of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions in Wisconsin.
Even in Madison, the University of Wisconsin’s non-conference football game against Buffalo ranks third on most people’s agendas today, right behind watching Ohio State and Michigan in this year’s Battle of the Century and heading to the woods to help thin the state’s deer herd.
References UW-Madison study on Wisconsin’s deer herd.
Unlike in 2001, when Cooper was born, Amy Olson was turned away this fall when she wanted to sit in a Camp Randall Stadium first-aid station to pump her breast milk during the game.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Donald Downs.
Leticia Carranza, who was putting her son in a car seat for infants even though he had outgrown it, got a larger seat worth $40 for free.
Jeff Walker, a UW-Madison scientist, got nearly $1 million to buy mass spectrometers to study proteins.
Both benefited from the Wisconsin Partnership Program, a $300 million fund at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health designed to improve the health of state residents.
From a lonely and curious headstone for a dog named Grennie to strangely twisted catalpa trees standing in sentinel-like rows, the UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve offers tantalizing mysteries to anyone who ventures into its depths.
Josh Zalasky should be the kind of college applicant with little to worry about. The high school senior is taking three Advanced Placement courses. Outside the classroom, he is involved in mock trial and two Jewish youth groups and has a job with a restaurant chain. He is a National Merit semifinalist and scored in the top 3 percent of all students who take the ACT.
(Broadcasting & Cable) _ The University of Wisconsin’s News Lab is issuing another study of Midwest TV station newscasts, this one covering the 30 days before the election, that will likely show that ads for politicians got more airtime in those newscasts than coverage of the races.
Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin and a founder of the Evangelical Environmental Network.
MADISON ââ?¬â? A new program at the University of Wisconsin will immerse medical students in rural practices in an attempt to curb the shortage of physicians in those areas.The School of Medicine and Public Healthââ?¬â?¢s four-year program will parallel the schoolââ?¬â?¢s standard doctor curriculum, but use a network of clinical partnerships to address the need.
La Crosse County ranks pretty well in a study of health outcomes by the University of Wisconsin�s School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: Art Walaszek, a geriatric psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
More college presidents are earning annual compensation of $500,000 or more,fueled in part by stiff competition by schools for the best candidates and a move toward more ââ?¬Å?corporate-styleââ?¬Â management.
Thirty years ago, the ââ?¬Å?generation gapââ?¬Â reflected the cultural gulf between World War II-era parents and their children. Parents then just didn’t get sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Today, the gap is about debt.
Quoted: Nutritional scientist Dale Schoeller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Scott Craven, a University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife ecology professor who hunts in the Iowa County CWD zone.
The University of Wisconsin would be wise to say “no thank you” to professor Kevin Barrett’s desire to teach other classes at Madison.
Barrett, you will recall, holds the belief that the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. were orchestrated by the Bush administration as an excuse to wage war against Muslims. And, he lectured on this theory in a class on Islam during the fall semester at UW-Madison.
Madison has not had the drownings of college-age young men like La Crosse.
But it has had its share of alcohol issues, including young people being taken to the city�s detoxification facility and hospitals, mob scenes downtown on occasions including Halloween, and muggings, in which the victims and
(MADISON) Wildfires account for a lot of property damage every year in the U.S., and forestry officials are constantly assessing how to predict when and where they will occur. A UW-Madison researcher says one largely overlooked predictor is the human factor.
Generally, vegetation and terrain are examined to figure out fire-prone areas. But Alexandra Syphard, a post-doctoral fellow for UW-Madison�s Department of Forest Ecology and Management, says most blazes happen along developments or roads, where forestland borders urban areas.
Friedman briefly taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Washington – Young voters carried more political weight in Wisconsin than in virtually any other state in the Nov. 7 midterm elections.
That is one of the most striking findings about the state in an examination of exit poll data from across the country.
Voters age 18-29 made up 17% of the Wisconsin electorate – more than anywhere else except Montana (also 17%). Nationally, young voters made up between 12% and 13% of the electorate.
MADISON ââ?¬â? As strange as it sounds, Brian Butch missing a late first-half dunk might actually be a good thing.
At least it gives his University of Wisconsin men’s basketball teammates a different reason to rib him than the one that’s sure to lead to a barrage of playful bards.
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells sent out a second e-mail this month relating to harassment issues Tuesday laying out the anti-discrimination policies at the university.
The e-mail comes after both the recent passage of a constitutional amendment defining marriage and banning civil unions and two complaints to university police about harassment toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning members on campus.
Almost every week, the Texans are reminded how they may have gotten it exactly right with their 2006 draft class. For instance, Owen Daniels.
They spent four seasons looking for the perfect tight end. They signed and drafted tight ends. They scouted countless others. They always ended up with guys who either couldn’t catch or couldn’t block or couldn’t stay healthy.
Quoted: Dr. Tomas Prolla at the University of Wisconsin.
While partiers flocked freely through the chilly streets of uptown Athens Oct. 28, a much-larger street party surrounded by a plastic fence raged three states away in Madison, Wisc., where partiers donned armbands to prove they paid admission.
High marks for education and physical activity and a low number of fatal motor vehicle crashes helped La Crosse County remain the 16th-healthiest county in Wisconsin in a statewide report.
Florence County was rated the state�s healthiest in the report, released Thursday by the Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
The H5N1 virus, better known as bird flu, may have a way of becoming more dangerous to people. Researchers have identified two mutations in a surface protein of the virus that enable it to bind more easily to human cells. Watching for these mutations in viruses isolated from people could provide early warning of the emergence of a virus with pandemic potential.
“Know thy enemy” ââ?¬â? many would consider that one of the most crucial rules of engagement in any war.
Now those waging war against the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus have come one step closer to knowing their enemy, or at least understanding how this crafty bug makes the leap from birds to humans.
In a letter published in the current issue of Nature, lead researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his colleagues have identified two key changes that took place in some versions of the viral strain that allowed the virus to infect not only chickens and ducks but humans as well.
(MADISON) Anti-smoking forces are teaming up with the military to do battle against tobacco in Wisconsin. They want to reduce the number of soldiers who light up.
The rate of smoking among soldiers past and present is ten percent higher than the general population, and so anti-tobacco forces have decided it�s time to aggressively fight a product they consider an enemy of public health.
Dr. Michael Fiore kicked off the new anti-smoking effort. Its military-like moniker is ââ?¬Å?Operation Quit Tobaccoââ?¬Â and is run by the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. It will offer all military personnel –active and otherwise — counseling through the Wisconsin Tobacco Quite Line, along with free nicotine patches and/or gum as long as the supply lasts.
Q: Is every snowflake unique?
A: One fact we know from childhood: Every snowflake is unique.
Isn’t it?
UW-Madison’s snowflake expert, meteorology professor Pao Wang, gently delivered the grim news: “Not really. I think the saying is more or less a picturesque way of saying that there are so many varieties of snowflakes, thousands of different kinds.”
Clients come to the center voluntarily or by ambulance, after police and fire officials find them dangerously drunk. From Aug. 31 through late September, 24 UW-Madison students had been taken from campus to the detox center or a hospital bed, the highest total ever recorded at that point in a school year, campus Police Chief Susan Riseling said.
A UW-Madison researcher has identified a molecular warning sign that might enable the bird flu virus to become more problematic in people.
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ââ?¬â? Tommy Thompson was beloved by Wisconsin voters, winning election to a record four terms as governor, but he would be a long shot for president, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
ââ?¬Å?Iââ?¬â?¢m not sure that he has a natural large core base within the Republican Party nationally,ââ?¬Â said professor John Coleman. ââ?¬Å?I think heââ?¬â?¢s really going to have to build that. Heââ?¬â?¢s a bit of chameleon with his image. … I consider him a long shot.ââ?¬Â
Quoted: John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
