Rainwater said he backs an upcoming state report led by UW-Madison education researcher Allan Odden that will call upon the state to begin crafting education budgets based on what’s needed to adequately educate all children, including those with special needs, to meet the state’s own education standards.
Quoted: David Riley, a human ecology professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Desiree La Charite, an Emergency Room doctor at the University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Samuel Prien, who holds joint appointments at Texas Tech University’s animal science department and medical school, has three patents through Tech, with another half-dozen pending. But he also sees the peril of commercialization.
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Past midnight the downtown bars are humming with university students sucking down brews on five-buck unlimited beer night. One patron stumbles outside twirling around a lamppost. A few tanked-up guys howl and whistle at women
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of a program at the University of Wisconsin that tracks and studies campaign advertising.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Wisconsin broadcasters took issue last week with a study that spotlighted election coverage by Midwest television stations, suggesting newscasters are shirking their responsibilities to serve the public interest.
MADISON, Wis. — While many Badger fans will gather this weekend to celebrate University of Wisconsin-Madison’s homecoming game against the University of Minnesota, members of the school’s marching band might be looking to make the crowds extra proud amid recent accusations of hazing and improper conduct allegations.
MADISON, Wis. — While many Badger fans will gather this weekend to celebrate University of Wisconsin-Madison’s homecoming game against the University of Minnesota, members of the school’s marching band might be looking to make the crowds extra proud amid recent accusations of hazing and improper conduct allegations.
There’s a group in America putting forth that President Bush is behind worldwide terrorism and engineered the murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Of course, there’s no evidence to back that up.
One of the slandermen, Kevin Barrett, currently teaching a class at the University of Wisconsin. So the taxpayers of that state are paying this crazy guy. Obviously, there are no academic standards at UW and Chancellor John Wiley should be ashamed.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said they are hoping casting ballots will be easier this fall than it was in the spring.
For 20 years Jeffrey Annis has been inventing one-of-a-kind pieces of equipment, never thinking he could patent them.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin faculty members report far fewer sick days than other state employees and as a result earn hundreds of thousands of dollars more for health insurance when they retire, according to an audit released Friday.
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) — A September 11 conspiracy theorist raised $8,427 for the University of Wisconsin to make up for money that local officials cut from one of its programs in a protest over a lecturer with similar views.
A new audit of the UW System shows concerns about sick leave policies and possible abuses.
State Rep. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) says the review turned up some incredible abuses, especially in the accumulation of unused sick leave. He says it’s ridiculous that the average faculty member retires with 200-thousand-dollars worth of unused sick leave. Nass believes the review shows some faculty aren’t reporting sick leave, in order to cash it in when they retire. And he says the legislature will have to order changes.
After many years of studying links between hurricanes and warming ocean currents, scientists at the University of Wisconsin in Madison have come up with a surprising new correlation.
We take very seriously the discussion of stem cell research in this fall’s election campaigns. Candidates in a number of races have seized on the issue as a way to distinguish themselves and in some cases the debates can be quite substantive. But in every instance there is the threat of substantial harm to some of the most promising science of our time. And too often it is the result of a confusion of politics with policy.
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band participated in seminude dancing, engaged in sexualized banter and shaved one band member’s head in a hazing incident during a recent road trip to the University of Michigan, university officials said Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday that they are making nearly 500,000 historical books and documents available for a new search engine that aims to do with books what Google has done for Web sites.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday that they are making nearly 500,000 historical books and documents available for a new search engine that aims to do with books what Google has done for Web sites.
The same legs that took the UW professor of African languages and literature up and down the southeast coast of Africa four times in the 1960s and 1970s now walk him from his home on the Capitol Square to Van Hise Hall every morning.
UW Marching Band members engaged in a head-shaving hazing incident and lewd dancing on a recent road trip that recalls even worse conduct in previous years, administrators said Thursday.
A University of Wisconsin survey of election coverage on local television news in nine Midwest markets found that stations in Springfield-Decatur-Champaign devoted an average of 21 seconds for each 30-minute newscast to election coverage.
An Illinois government watchdog group says that’s not enough.
MADISON, Wis. — Organizers for Madison’s new city-sanctioned Halloween celebration unveiled on Thursday the list of bands set to perform.This year’s event, rechristened “Freakfest on State Street,” will require a ticket to enter and boasts a series of new security measures to stem some of the problems that have plagued the annual ritual. It will be held on Saturday, Oct. 28, WISC-TV reported.
Quoted: Vicki Bier, of the Center for Human Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Paula Wolf of UW-Madison’s Education Department.
An average of 36 seconds per broadcast is all that election coverage has warranted on local evening news in nine top Midwestern markets since Labor Day, a study released Thursday found.The five-state analysis by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s NewsLab looked at 30-minute evening news broadcasts on 36 stations in nine top Midwestern television markets.
MADISON ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin marching band members routinely engaged in hazing involving alcohol and sexual behavior, the school said Thursday in explaining its decision to put the band on probation.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said a band member was pressured into shaving his head in a hazing incident and other members danced semi-nude during the band’s trip to the Sept. 23 University of Michigan football game.
At some point this isn’t headline news anymore: Google has added yet another university to its library project. The project’s new member is the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which will contribute historical documents for digitization.
The University library and historical societies are in the process of selecting materials to send to Google so they can be digitized and loaded onto the Internet.
The University had been trying to digitize it’s own materials since 2000, and says working with the Internet giant will save them millions of dollars.
Madison: How much election coverage do you want to see in your evening newscast? A new study by the University of Wisconsin says you’re not getting enough.
The study was conducted by the University of Wisconsin’s Newslab. Researchers looked at all the primetime newscasts in the month after Labor Day in 9 cities throughout the Midwest.
The University of Wisconsin Marching Band is on probation for reports of bad behavior. UW officials now say that UW-band members participated in semi-nude lewd dancing, sexualized banter, the shaving of one band member’s head and other forms of demeaning conduct during a recent road trip to the University of Michigan.
The probation stems from an away game at the University of Michigan.
That is when the University says band members and at least one staff member took part in inappropriate activities.
“I told them that in the first time in 38 years I wondered if I had been on this job too long,” band director Mike Leckrone said.”
Casey Nagy, executive assistant to UW Chancellor John Wiley, and UW Band Director Mike Leckrone showed a united front when they faced the media to release information about what happened on the band trip that prompted John Wiley to put the band on probation and threaten a “wholesale change in leadership” if there are any other code violations. Nagy said hazing and harassment has been a recurring problem within in the band in recent years. Leckrone called the latest conduct “markedly different” than in the the past.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin officials said members of the University of Wisconsin marching band routinely engaged in hazing that involved alcohol and inappropriate sexual behavior.
For the first time since he took the helm in 1969, UW-Madison band director Mike Leckrone said he considered quitting last week after he learned there had been a reoccurrence of vulgar and raucous behavior by some of his band members.
Q: Why does baby babble sound the same in any language?
A. Actually, that isn’t necessarily the case, says Jenny Saffran, who studies infant and child language at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center.
At UW-Madison, leaders of some of those companies have been meeting with academics and policymakers for the past year to share expertise and suggestions about global security, in a project by the Division of International Studies.
The University of Wisconsin has agreed to take part in Google Inc.’s bid to scan book collections of the world’s great libraries, joining a second wave of backers for the controversial project, the two organizations said late on Wednesday.
UW-Madison has put its marching band on probation and Chancellor John Wiley is threatening to suspend band activities and travel if members won’t behave.
UW-Madison is joining a rarified cadre of eight libraries that have joined Google’s effort to digitize the world’s books and make them searchable on the Internet.
Climate change is happening now, scientists are telling us.
Presented here are five instances where studies have documented the changes being wrought in Wisconsin by the warming planet.
Madison, Wis. – When it comes to securing information networks, Paul Barford believes the good guys always are one step behind the guys in the black hats.
Barford, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences, said the acceleration of malicious activity that began in 2001 shows no signs of abating. In fact, the fun-seeking hackers that did their damage for simple notoriety have been joined by a more sophisticated class of cyber criminals.
Free stem cells for all? Possibly, now that the US Patent and Trademark Office is re-examining key patents on human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) that some say have been stifling stem cell research.
A study from the University of Wisconsin’s NewsLab to be released later today found that Midwest TV stations in nine markets aired an average of 36 seconds of election coverage in a typical 30-minute’s worth of news broadcast, with only foreign policy and “unintentional injury” stories getting less airplay.
Quoted: Barton Miller, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Science Department and chairman of the Industrial Affiliates Program.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin has put its marching band on probation after receiving reports of severe misconduct during the band’s trip last month to the University of Michigan football game.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The University of Wisconsin has agreed to take part in Google Inc.’s bid to scan book collections of the world’s great libraries, joining a second wave of backers for the controversial project, the two organizations said late on Wednesday.
The chancellor at the University has put the band on probation after a trip to the Badger’s September 23rd football game in Michigan.
One UW band member, who asked to remain anonymous, says the band has dropped most nicknames for each other, and have altered offensive lyrics to some songs and chants. The member says they hope they’ll do their best and hope that’s good enough.
A producer for Halloween on State Street says the event has once again secured sponsors.
John Kunz says “The Onion” newspaper and local news website, Madison.com have stepped forward as the primary sponsors. Kunz says he is in the process of securing other sponsors as well.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin chancellor John Wiley laid out new ground rules for the UW-Madison marching band on Wednesday following an alleged incident that occurred during a road trip to Michigan last month.
UW-Madison stem-cell pioneer James Thomson and his colleagues have discovered a way to use human embryonic stem cells to create components of human blood – products, they say, that are safe and can eventually be used to help a range of patients, from those with anemia caused by chemotherapy to soldiers wounded in battle.
An increase in violent crime on and near campus is spurring a new safety campaign spearheaded by UW-Madison’s student government association.
At a news conference Tuesday, members of Associated Students of Madison said the initiative would foster cooperation between police agencies and involve student organizations in coming up with ways to make campus safer.
A demoted UW-Whitewater dean is being asked to reimburse the university $113,600 for questionable charges on his state procurement credit card, according to a letter released Tuesday.
When Jennifer Eddy first saw an ulcer on the left foot of her patient, an elderly diabetic man, it was pink and quarter-sized. Fourteen months later, drug-resistant bacteria had made it an unrecognizable black mess.
Doctors tried everything they knew — and failed. After five hospitalizations, four surgeries and regimens of antibiotics, the man had lost two toes. Doctors wanted to remove his entire foot.
“He preferred death to amputation, and everybody agreed he was going to die if he didn’t get an amputation,” said Eddy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: Lee Vermeulen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy.
Quoted: Charles Czuprynski of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The recent out-of-state challenges, including one from California, to stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) lack merit and underscore the need for serious patent reform in the United States.
WASHINGTON – Dust storms swirling out of Africa’s Sahara Desert may help reduce hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean, a new study suggests.
