Controversial Instructor Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government was a conspirator in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
He lives for editorials like this one because he believes the ink and digital space will spotlight his name and the shock-and-awe of his contrary views on an American nightmare.
The plan looks good on paper… higher wages and an opportunity for limited employees to go full-time.The UW formed a committee a few months ago to find a solution to the issue of hiring some UW workers on a short-term basis to the job of a permanent employee… without paying them accordingly.
Quoted: Doug McLeod, UW mass communications professor.
Name: Phil Pellitteri
Age: 54
Occupation: UW-Extension entomologist
To be honest, when I was a kid, I did collect butterflies. I went to the UW for school and was originally interested in wildlife ecology. I eventually took an introductory course in entomology and basically got interested enough to transfer into the program and got my undergrad and master’s degrees here.
Joseph Kauffman, 84, one of the architects of the Peace Corps in the early 1960s, died Friday of cancer, according to a representative from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He died at an assisted-living facility in Madison, where he had been a resident.
During the presidency of John F. Kennedy, Kauffman was based in the office of R. Sargent Shriver Jr., where he helped develop the Peace Corps program. Kauffman was appointed the program’s first director of training in 1961. He also helped establish recruitment centers and training programs on college and university campuses and he trained volunteers for overseas service.
There are several eye-opening passages in Barry Alvarez’s recently published autobiography, but perhaps the most controversial relates to how University of Wisconsin officials handled The Shoe Box affair.
For as long as Barry Alvarez has been University of Wisconsin athletic director, the same item has led off his start-of-the-school-year presentation to coaches and staffers.
Someday, we may have the lowly fruit fly to thank for a better understanding of neurodegenerative diseases in humans such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Madison – An annual program that encourages charitable giving by state employees may not exclude religious charitable organizations from participating if the groups use religion as a basis for employment or board membership, a federal judge has ruled.
MADISON, Wis. — Tickets went on sale on Monday for this year’s Halloween festivities on State Street.A ticket kiosk opened for the first time on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Library Mall, WISC-TV reported.
A large, long-term study of calorie restriction in rhesus monkeys at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center has shown that the diet prevents diabetes and may reduce the risk of arthritis and other age-related diseases. The leaner monkey on the left is on the restricted diet, the one on the right is on a normal diet.
An ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in which rhesus monkeys are being fed an extremely calorie-restricted diet gives preliminary evidence that the regime prevents age-related diseases
It turns out that there is a single variable that can predict whether graduation rates are going to increase or decrease: the pattern of state appropriations.
In ââ?¬Å?Does Public Funding for Higher Education Matter?ââ?¬Â Liang Zhang, an assistant professor of higher education, answers with an emphatic Yes. The paper was just released by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, where Zhang is a faculty associate.
From an attempted attack in Green Bay to the shooting at Weston high school to deadly incidents in Colorado and Pennsylvania.
This recent wave of school violence doesn’t surprise many experts, who say media coverage of one shooting can often encourage copy cats.
“In a way, showing this negative emotional reaction may also spur on kids who are looking for some kind of redemption or revenge.”
Joanne Cantor is a UW professor who specializes in how kids deal with frightening images they see in the media.
So far today, more than 100 Halloween tickets have been sold, many of them to people who aren’t UW students.
On Sunday, Oct. 1, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published an investigative report on the ACT scores of University of Minnesota athletes in comparison to other schools in the Big Ten
conference. The article reported two findings, both reflecting poorly on the Twin Cities institution.
As football players, Gary Russell and Danny Upchurch had little in common. Upchurch was a lesser known Gophers punt and kickoff-return specialist in 2002. Russell ran for 18 touchdowns last season, setting a University of Minnesota record.
A.J. Hunter can’t start the day without first pulling out his laptop. Each morning, the 21-year-old Ball State University junior downloads his schedule onto his Mac Powerbook G4, which ââ?¬â? along with his iPod and cellphone ââ?¬â? is always close at hand. Hunter, of Uniondale, Ind., is a typical tech-savvy college student. He can access the social networking site Facebook from his cellphone. He uses e-mail and instant messaging anywhere on the wireless campus. He downloads music to his laptop and his iPod, and he uses a 1-gigabyte flash drive provided by the university to transfer files and songs and to access his digital portfolio.Technology is so second-nature, ââ?¬Å?I can’t even think of when I use it and when I don’t. It’s such a part of life,ââ?¬Â he says.Hunter isn’t a techno-geek. He’s just a ââ?¬Å?digital nativeââ?¬Â ââ?¬â? a term that has been used to describe millennials, the first generation who grew up in a world filled with computers, cellphones and cable TV.
It’s not unusual to see a group of UW-Madison M.B.A. students listening intently to a teacher and taking notes.
But on a recent Friday, it was in the wine cellar of Porta Bella rather than Grainger Hall. The subject of today’s lecture was wine, and their instructor was Patrick Fegan, director of the Chicago Wine School.
Three decades ago, Madison leaders went to North Carolina to learn about an exciting and thriving research park there.
Last week, the roles were reversed – a significant sign of progress that’s worth celebrating.
More than 100 academic, government, community and nonprofit leaders from Chapel Hill, N.C., came to Madison for several days last week to learn about our hugely successful University Research Park as well as exciting plans for a second phase on Madison’s Far West Side.
It’s been six months since Wisconsin wowed the world at BIO 2006 in Chicago, and Capital Region biotech firms are reporting success in forming partnerships with potential collaborators and investors from contacts made at the conference.
Joseph F. Kauffman, former UW-Madison dean of student affairs, one of the architects of the Peace Corps and an influential educator, died Friday in Middleton at age 84 after a battle with cancer.
“Joe Kauffman will be remembered as one of the great contributors to the success of this university,” said Chancellor John D. Wiley. “He trained many of the university’s top leaders during his long association with the campus. His legacy is alive and well across UW-Madison.”
Experts quoted: Joanne Cantor, a retired UW-Madison professor of communications; Joe Newman, chairman of psychology at UW-Madison; Dr. Marcia Slattery, a UW-Madison psychiatrist on an American Psychiatric Association committee dealing with mental health and schools; and Dr. Gwen McIntosh, a UW-Madison pediatrician who studies school violence.
Close to 170 people spent a summery afternoon in a UW-Madison lecture hall Sunday listening to the 9/11 conspiracy theories of UW-Madison instructor Kevin Barrett and a fellow member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
A couple items to ponder while biking through the UW Arboretum:** If a tree falls in a forest, but no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?Hmmm.Likewise, if a University of Wisconsin football player wrenches the leg of an opponent but, luckily, the foe isn’t seriously injured, is such an action still a dirty play?
Wisconsin boasts the nationââ?¬â?¢s only ââ?¬Å?Master Cheesemakerââ?¬Â certification, for its most accomplished veteran makers (there were 47 as of April) and one of the earliest cheese-making education programs, at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Brian Kirkpatrick, professor of animal sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Gwenevere McIntosh, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The reviewer, Rob Nixon, is the Rachel Carson professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – One of the architects of the Peace Corps, Joseph Kauffman, has died of cancer, according to a news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was 84.
Colleges and universities are requiring background checks of new staff members far more often than of their faculty members, but there are signs that trend may be changing.
The State of Wisconsin and the foundation that owns the University of Wisconsin’s patents on embryonic stem cells have raised the stakes in the informal battle with California and other states to attract financial support for research in this controversial field.
After years of talk, the notion that American higher education needs to do much more to help students from low-income backgrounds get into and through college finally seems to be getting up a head of steam.
At the collegiate level, athletes will do anything to gain an edge. For women, that often means counting calories.
But a new study out of Saint Louis University shows women athletes who don’t eat enough set themselves up for more injuries and leg pain.
“This is not the first study that’s demonstrated that young women athletes are not eating enough calories.”
Dr. Greg Landry teaches sports medicine at the UW and says a low-calorie diet causes women to produce less estrogen, a key factor in bone development.
In 1997, Mitzi Pool, a freshman at the University of Central Oklahoma, hanged herself in her dorm room, a pile of credit card bills splayed on her sunflower-print bedspread.Her mother, Trisha Johnson, of Enid, Okla., blames Mitzi’s despair about $2,000 in credit card debt for the loss of a daughter whom friends nicknamed the ââ?¬Å?Jokerââ?¬Â because she was always smiling. ââ?¬Å?The companies at the student union had stands up, offering free hats, free T-shirts,ââ?¬Â Johnson says. ââ?¬Å?She got one, maxed it out, got another and then a third.ââ?¬Â
(MADISON) A professor at UW-Madison has introduced an online petition asking that democracy be restored in Thailand.
Thongchai Winichikul says he�s giving people a forum outside Thailand to discuss their ideas. He says the military takeover there has cut expressive freedoms in the country and he worries about the young people who have organized small gatherings in the Thai capital to protest the coup. He says the purpose of the effort is to call on the Thai authorities to not use any violence or harm or arrest the protestors. (Sixth item.)
Despite rising concern about college students’ debt loads, the nation’s largest four-year colleges are disclosing students’ contact information to credit card-issuing banks and earning up to millions each in annual fees by giving the banks the right to market on campus. A USA TODAY survey reveals that each of the largest 10 universities ââ?¬â? through its alumni or athletic association ââ?¬â? now partners with a bank to issue co-branded cards to alumni and students. The deals exist at hundreds of colleges.
The U.S. Army is giving Madison biotech ConjuGon a $730,000 grant to keep working on a treatment for bacterial infections that haven’t been cured by antibiotics up to now.
Established in 2002 and based on UW-Madison research, ConjuGon has developed genetically engineered, harmless bacteria that have been proven successful in animal tests, said Sal Braico, chief operating officer.
The Legislature’s failure to require most gasoline in Wisconsin to contain 10 percent ethanol remains a glaring void in an otherwise flourishing effort to develop a homegrown biofuels industry.
Technology at the microscopic level is attracting researchers but practical applications are lagging behind, said a nanotechnology expert from Madison Thursday while visiting Eau Claire.
While academics continue researching and working with materials the size of molecules and atoms, Franco Cerrina said real-world applications are in smaller supply.
Cerrina, director of UW-Madison�s Center of Nanotechnology, spoke to 50 employees on their lunch break at Silicon Graphics Inc., 100 Cashman Drive, in Chippewa Falls.
Quoted: Don Downs, a professor of law and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stem cell research doesn’t just present challenges in the science lab but in the political laboratory as well.
That has been demonstrated time and again as Democrats and Republicans squabble over what kinds of experiments should be allowed when involving embryonic stem cells.
Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager can defend the state against a lawsuit in which gay state employees are seeking benefits for their partners even though she has expressed sympathy for their cause, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
The District 4 Court of Appeals rejected claims that the Department of Justice’s ability to defend the case was compromised by Lautenschlager’s statements or her appearance at a gay pride rally with activists who are suing the state.
All types of catheters and other devices that allow access to the bloodstream can potentially be a source of infection, researchers report.
These “intravascular devices” (IVDs) have become the leading cause of bloodstream infections in the United States and worldwide.
“We thought this analysis might provide a unique opportunity to wave the flag and convince both health care workers and patients that all types of IVDs pose a risk,” lead author Dr. Dennis Maki, a researcher and infectious disease and critical care specialist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, said in a prepared statement.
Quoted: Charles H. Franklin, a political science professor and pollster at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Companies sponsoring stem cell research in Wisconsin will no longer have to purchase a costly license to use the technology under an agreement announced by Gov. Jim Doyle on Thursday.
Black men are underrepresented at institutions of higher learning over all, and even more so at flagship universities in the 50 states, says a report released on Wednesday by a national research center.
WILL STOVALL, a history student in his fifth and final year as an undergraduate at the University of Texas, returned from studying in Mexico last fall determined to go to law school. In service of this goal, he resolved to work harder, which meant he would have little chance to see old friends or to acquire new ones, and that, in turn, seemed to require a very particular kind of domestic arrangement.
Decreasing state funding is making it difficult for low-income families to send their children to University of Wisconsin schools, Board of Regents President David Walsh said Thursday.And it�s going to become even harder if the state does not start putting more taxpayer money toward public higher education, Walsh told members of the La Crosse Downtown Rotary.
The building is on the corner of Park and Regent Streets, giving visitors a quick way to get in, get out, and explore the UW and Madison sites.
Some UW Madison students are using crutches to rally support for a campus referendum.
It is the UW’s oldest and largest student organization…or it was.Ã? Now the UW says it will not recognize the Roman Catholic Foundation as a registered student group.Some members of the Roman Catholic Foundation say they feel as though they’re being pushed from campus life.Ã? But the UW says they’re simply following the rules, and the Roman Catholic Foundation is not.
Q: Why can’t you tickle yourself?
A: “You can try to tickle yourself, but you won’t respond by feeling tickled,” said Misha-Miroslav Backonja, a professor of neurology at UW-Madison. Evolution has placed great significance on the sensation of light stimulation of the skin, he added.
Freakfest on State Street is creeping and crawling ever closer. This year, besides picking up a ghoulish costume, you’ll need to know where and how to scare up some tickets. Here are the gory details.
Companies sponsoring stem- cell research exclusively in Wisconsin will no longer have to buy a costly license to use the technology under an agreement announced by Gov. Jim Doyle on Thursday.
Doyle said the agreement between his administration and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which holds patents covering embryonic stem- cell research, will give the state a significant advantage in attracting biotechnology companies and research dollars.
Those little white earphones are about as common as yellow leaves this semester on the UW-Madison campus. “This the best technology for listening to music,” said UW senior Sarah Pumroy. Ã? Pumroy, who was sporting the latest in video iPods, however, said her device is for fun, not school, so don’t expect her to be listening to a professor’s podcast anytime soon.
It’s 11:30 p.m. on a recent Friday in Madison, and many parties are just picking up steam in the student neighborhoods west of the Capitol.
But when Madison police pull up to an address on Mifflin Street, one young woman is already out cold.
A developer is proposing a 12-story, mixed-use project that would include, for the first time, condominiums near UW-Madison.
The project also would include retail, restaurants and a health club.
It began innocently enough, with a telephone call and a routine question.
University of Wisconsin men’s cross country coach Jerry Schumacher was on the other end of the line earlier this month, talking about the challenges his team faces as it prepares to defend the NCAA title it won in November.
Reminded there are three other coaches on campus who won national championships during the 2005-06 school year – a school record – Schumacher was asked if he had talked to any of them about the unique burden they share.
Quoted: Alberto Palloni, a University of Wisconsin demographer.
In the week since the Madison Common Council approved the final part of the city�s plans for the 2006 Halloween parties on State Street, one major element of planning has focused on the fencing and admissions system for access to the event. On Tuesday, Madison alcohol policy coordinator
(and key Halloween organizer) Joel Plant confirmed that there will be a total of 13
access points along State Street.
