It�s an easy walk through the isthmus from our state Capitol to Van Hise Hall, where University of Wisconsin System administrative offices are located at the UW-Madison.Unfortunately, the UW System and the Legislature are growing further apart by the day.
A new start-up business gives hope to those who need blood transfusions. UW-Madison researcher James Thomson and two other scientists started the Stem Cell Products, Incorporated.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin chancellor has issued a stern reprimand to the UW-Madison band following an incident that occurred on a road trip to Michigan.The incident occurred on a September road trip to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the Badger football game, and although no one will provide details of the incident in question, it has the university’s administration clamping down on the band.
”It’s been kind of ridiculous trying to get season tickets thisÃ? year for a reasonable price.”Ã? UW SophomoreÃ? Jeremy Lewis is frustrated.Ã? He is an avid basketball fan, but his name was not drawn in the lottery for season tickets, so his only option now is to buy fromÃ? others – and one package of 4 seats isÃ? listed for sale on the internet for $2400.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley has told UW band members, travel to a bowl game, even regular home game appearances, could be in jeopardy, if more conduct rules are broken in the future.Ã?Â
Stem cell research pioneer James Thomson says he’s started a company to create blood products from human embryonic stem cells. Ã? Governor Jim Doyle appeared with Thomson at a news conference to announce the state was awarding a 250-thousand dollar grant and 750-thousand dollar loan to the company, Stem Cell Products, Incorporated.
Madison is seeking to change the character of its Halloween celebration on State Street this year, but will students stick to the calendar and keep Saturday the main event?
A university instructor who came under scrutiny for arguing that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks likens President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay his students are being required to buy for his course.
(MADISON) The 9-11 attacks and the rapidly-globalizing economy have sparked a growing need for American students to learn foreign languages other than the traditional French, Spanish and German. With help from a U.S. Department of Education grant, a team of linguists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have a plan to fill that need. (Second item.)
For all of the appropriate and necessary attention given the University of Wisconsin for its role in the research and development of the science driving the biotechnology sector of our state’s economy, one of the great under appreciated stories is the growing number of businesses producing the drugs and devices that research is spawning.
A longtime professor and Extension meat scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison has died. Dr. Dennis Buege passed away last week due to complications of Mesothelioma. He was 61.
MADISON, Wis. — For the second year in a row, drums echoed across Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus as Native American students danced and sang.They were singing and dancing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, as proclaimed by the Madison City Council.
The date coincides with Columbus Day as a way for Native Americans to dispel myths about Christopher Columbus.”Today is a day for unity,” said student services coordinator Aaron Bird Bear. “For us to remember our ancestors, to remember our community and to honor one another and to continue to celebrate who we are and how our cultures continue to progress in society today.”
Researchers at UW-Madison have discovered a genetic switch that may prove useful in controlling the formation of blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis.
The straight “F’s” given by the Black Coaches Association to UW-Madison for refusing to open the position of football coach offers redundant evidence that the university has sunk to such depths that fundamental rights are now in jeopardy there. Bret Bielema is qualified to succeed Barry Alvarez and as proud Badgers we hope that he does well. But there is no doubt that Bielema wasn’t the only individual well qualified to coach Wisconsin.
A year ago, bird flu was in the news nearly every day. The drumbeat of a pandemic threat was growing louder. Health officials hurried preparation plans.
Today, bird flu seems more like the punchline of a joke.
But experts say it remains just as dangerous – and just as able to cause a worldwide outbreak of flu like none seen since 1918, when as many as 50 million people died.
“The reality is this virus is continuing to spread,” said Christopher Olsen, a virologist at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. “It’s continuing to infect birds. It’s continuing to kill human beings.”
An international meeting in Madison of environmental health scientists has given birth to a new association that will likely play a key role in addressing such worldwide issues as avian flu, industrial agriculture and climate change-related diseases.
The new group is called The International Association for Ecology and Health.
A textbook required of students in UW-Madison instructor Kevin Barrett’s introductory class on Islam features Barrett’s 9/11 conspiracy theory, comparisons of President Bush to Adolf Hitler, and harsh criticism of Israel.
If you want to watch today’s football game between Northwestern and the University of Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium but don’t have a ticket, don’t worry.
Even though the Big Ten Conference matchup will appear on fewer television sets than your average NHL game, you won’t miss much.
The UW Board of Regents voted Friday to oppose the Nov. 7 referendum banning gay marriage, saying it will hurt the University of Wisconsin System’s ability to recruit and retain gay and lesbian employees.
The Regents govern the System, which has 13 four-year universities and 13 two-year colleges. They said the amendment would threaten the state’s ability to provide domestic partner benefits.
When publications like the New York Times want an expert to comment on the big issues facing public schools like testing or immigration, it’s a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor they’re likely to call.
Relatively unknown in his adopted hometown, history and educational policy studies professor William Reese is able offer a long view on these kinds of perennial hot-button issues that resonate across the country, and provoke local debate, too.
Ald. Austin King also said he believed most Madison officers respect the “clear boundaries of moral decency” described in the resolution. He said the department’s careful approach to the case of Audrey Seiler, a then-UW-Madison student who lied about being abducted in 2004, was an example of the sensitive treatment he had in mind.
Madison, Wis. – Sixty-one years after being present when a terrible telegram arrived at her grandparents’ home, Judy Corfield walked onto the Camp Randall Stadium field with Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez at halftime of the Badgers’ 41-9 victory over Northwestern on Saturday.
She was wearing her uncle’s musty but well-preserved letter sweater.
After joining the crowd in watching a video tribute to her uncle, an All-American hero, she looked up at the stadium’s upper-deck facade. A red banner was peeled away, exposing a number and name.
Madison, Wis. – When scientists look back at this early period in human embryonic stem cell discovery, they might regret the hype surrounding this controversial research, but they won’t be able to accuse the man who derived stem cells from embryos of contributing to it.
Madison – For as long as he can remember, fall meant football for Booker Stanley.
As a child, at Whitefish Bay High School and at the University of Wisconsin, Stanley longed for game day. It was a time when he could show the world that he was a star, a stocky running back with talent, promise and drive.
Quoted: Brian Kirkpatrick, professor of animal sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin System regents voted Friday to oppose the Nov. 7 referendum banning gay marriage, saying it will hurt their ability to recruit and retain gay and lesbian employees.
Regents, who govern the UW System of 13 four-year universities and 13 two-year colleges, said the amendment would threaten the state’s ability to provide domestic partner benefits.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin has struck a last-minute deal with ESPN that will allow more people to watch the Badger football game Saturday.
MADISON, Wis. — It was so quiet one could hear a pin drop in living rooms and bars across Dane County. That’s because television sets were Badgerless on Saturday.
ESPN chose not to broadcast the game for the first time in a long time.
“This bar is quiet,” said one patron. “There’s no one around.”
An experimental vaccine being tested at UW Madison could soon make the sneezy, runny-eyed misery of hay fever a thing of the past.
The vaccine involves injections of the allergen itself-ragweed. Traditional allergy treatments can take years to show full benefit. But the experimental treatment takes just six weeks.
A marketable vaccine is still far off. The UW still has to complete testing, along with several other universities, and the drug would need to be approved by the FDA.
A high-tech storm drain at UW Madison is finally ready to go.
The University hopes it will ease flood problems on campus.
Friday afternoon, engineers took the plastic off and tested this special drain, called a recharge bed.
Most badger fans who weren’t inside Camp Randall didn’t get to see this.
ESPN had exclusive rights to the game and decided to only air it on ESPN360 radio or through Verizon’s DSL Internet service.
Even if you bought tickets to Halloween on State Street, there’s still a chance you won’t get in.
Gates don’t go up on State Street until 7:30 p.m.
The American Academy of Pediatrics warns that today’s overscheduled lifestyle is robbing children of the developmental benefits of play. It also cites pressures created by the high-anxiety college admissions process.
The discovery this week of the body of Luke Homan in the Mississippi River in La Crosse was initially met with disbelief and even rumors of foul play. Given the deaths of seven other young men under similar circumstances in the past several years, that reaction is understandable.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
MILWAUKEE ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents should consider adopting a policy that requires a clause be put into the contracts of athletic directors and coaches at its Division I and Division II schools addressing the need to monitor athletes’ academic performance, an audit report say
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor; Ken Goldstein, another UW-Madison political science professor who is an expert on TV campaign ads.
A national legal group that seeks to defend religious freedom has filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by the University of Wisconsin at Superior to strip the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of its status as a student group on the campus, according to an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
With midterm Congressional elections only a month away, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi of California, said in a speech at Georgetown University on Thursday that the affordability of higher education would be a key issue for the Democratic Party if it retakes control of the House.
Not even John Melahn will be sitting around his TV this weekend while the Badgers are playing. And that’s really too bad, because Melahn is having a party to watch the Badger game.
Q: Why do veins appear blue?
A: “Veins are actually not blue, they are red, just like arteries,” says T. Michael Nork, an associate professor in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. “They are a somewhat darker red because the oxygenated form of hemoglobin found (in) the arterial red blood cells is brighter than the de- oxygenated form in veins.”
(MADISON) The University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist who first grew human embryonic stem cells predicts they will change medicine for the better. However, James Thomson says growing replacement tissue or curing diabetes is, in his words, a ââ?¬Å?long way off.ââ?¬Â
In a speech to the downtown Madison Rotary Club, Thomson said the quickest and most widespread use of embryonic stem cells is likely to be the testing of drugs: making particular human tissues on which pharmaceuticals, like heart drugs, can be tried. He says ultimately there will be safer drugs that get to the market quicker. (5th item.)
UW-Madison’s committee for a Coordinated Community Response to Dating/Domestic Violence is sponsoring a used cell phone drive all month to benefit the Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS) of Dane County (www.abuseintervention.org). Each donated phone will earn $40 for DAIS. Drop-off boxes will be placed at eight campus locations: 75 Bascom Hall, the Campus Women’s Center in the Memorial Union, Eagle Heights, Kronsage, Union South, the Graduate School Office in Bascom, Witte, and the Student Organization Office. Please delete all stored information prior to dropping off your cell phone. Contact Tonya Schmidt tschmidt@bascom.wisc.edu or Yolanda Garza ygarza@bascom.wisc.edu.
UW-Madison unveiled a detailed policy Tuesday aimed at converting many of its limited-term employees to full-time workers with benefits.
Madison’s fertility clinic tensions are about to evolve into a battle among fertility clinics that could include skirmishes over success rates.
A clinic in Rockford, Ill., plans to move its in-vitro fertilization lab to Madison by January, said Dr. Jacek Graczykowski, one of the clinic’s two doctors.
With flu season looming, there is at least some good news from UW-Madison about a potential new treatment – a tiny but powerful protein that blocks a broad number of flu viruses from attaching to and entering host cells.
For years, the University of Wisconsin at Madison has relied on seasonal employees to work at football games and set up campus events. The stateââ?¬â?¢s government also leans on so-called ââ?¬Å?limited term employeesââ?¬Â who, by definition, arenââ?¬â?¢t to perform more than six months of full-time work per year at one job.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A fragment of a human protein that blocks influenza viruses — including avian flu — from attaching to and infecting cells holds promise if laboratory experiments are borne out, researchers said on Wednesday.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a professor emerita of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student athlete Lucas ââ?¬Å?Lukeââ?¬Â Homan had an alcohol level four times the legal limit for driving when he drowned in the Mississippi River early Saturday, according to a preliminary autopsy.
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) – As a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Carmen Wilson likes the idea of sharply raising tuition to hire more professors and recruit more poor and minority students.
Madison, Wis. – Federal health officials may not be saying it, but they are frightened to death of the following scenario: an outbreak of the deadly avian flu virus begins quietly in scattered areas of the country, and spreads before they can get a handle on it – with substantial harm done to public health and the economy.
A potential breakthrough out of UW Madison tonight in the bird flu battle.Researchers there have found a new drug that blocks influenza.� A team of UW scientists say they just happened to stumble across this new drug.
Despite a nationwide shortage of nurses, U.S. nursing schools turned away tens of thousands of qualified applicants last year for a reason that’s now getting a fresh raft of attention: The schools couldn’t find enough teachers.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to re-examine the validity of fundamental patents on human embryonic stem cells granted to a scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
La Crosse – The facts, police say, are that Luke Homan drank, wandered to the banks of the Mississippi River, ended up in the water and drowned.
The headline says it all: ââ?¬Å?Another tragedy.ââ?¬ÂThe story in La Crosse is all too familiar: The mixture of alcohol and a river has deadly consequences.
MADISON, Wis. – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine patents covering embryonic stem cell discoveries made by University of Wisconsin researchers.
Quoted: Joel Rogers, a professor of law, political science and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has examined flexible forms of organization,
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to re-evaluate the validity of three core stem cell patents held by a Wisconsin foundation that has been accused of strangling U.S. research in the field with sweeping demands for license fees and royalties from other investigators.
