To hear the folks in California tell it, the single biggest roadblock to the development of life-saving medical treatments based on stem-cell science is — Wisconsin.
Specifically, public enemy No. 1 is the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which holds the patents awarded to embryonic stem cell pioneer James Thomson of UW-Madison.
They were graduate students studying a tiny worm.
But the dilemma they faced was huge: should they risk their careers by telling officials their adviser seemed to be committing fraud?
The decision by six UW-Madison graduate students to air allegations against Elizabeth Goodwin, an associate professor of genetics, led to her resignation in March.
In sweltering heat that made his face glisten beneath a large sombrero embroidered in gold, 9-year-old Marco Hernandez performed a ceremonial dance used by Aztecs to give thanks each year for the sun, the moon and the universe, and their connection to them.
His sister, Adriana, 6, also performed a traditional Mexican dance in the children’s area at Saturday’s Fiesta Hispana in Warner Park, along with other girls wearing brightly colored dresses with long, full skirts that fanned out when held up at their sides with outstretched arms.
“I feel very proud of them to show our culture,” said their father, Martin Hernandez, who plans to return to his native Mexico with his family after completing a Ph.D at UW-Madison.
The Madison City Council will shape the mayor’s controversial plan to gate State Street, charge $5 admission and provide entertainment there on the Saturday before Halloween.
Meanwhile, some UW- Madison students have started planning to move the party to nearby Langdon Street.
A violent storm that dumped 3 to 5 inches of rain in 90 minutes in parts of Madison Thursday flooded streets and damaged 30 buildings on the UW-Madison campus, where the Fluno Center was evacuated.
The president’s in cahoots with some shady characters, see? He sets up some terrorists to let loose nerve gas but the scheme backfires and … What? You’ve already heard this one? It was last season’s plot for “24”? Darn.
Q: On July 4, Takeru Ko bayashi ate 53.75 hot dogs in 12 minutes at a Coney Island contest. How do competitive eaters such as Kobayashi avoid damaging their health?
A: Counting the hot dogs and each bun half, Kobayashi consumed 161 items of food – “which is literally more than gross,” said Dale Schoeller, a UW-Madison professor of nutritional sciences.
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, entomology.
Right or wrong? Americans have been asked in Gallup Polls whether they believe that medical research using stem cells from human embryos is:
(Link has data tables on opinion polls.)
Political sparring, congressional votes and a presidential veto have left embryonic stem-cell researchers right back where they started.But that doesn’t mean things haven’t changed ââ?¬â? they’re worse, proponents of the research say. Scientists say President Bush’s adherence to his stem-cell policy has cast a pall over the future of their work and dashed hopes that the divide will be closed anytime soon.
Scott Galla, a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin, was the first to arrive — at 9 a.m. By the time the doors opened more than two hours later, the line was wrapped around the building, nearly two blocks long. Two thousand interns had descended on Washington’s Warner Theater to answer a simple call: “Uncle Sam needs you.”
Quoted: Hans Sollinger, professor of surgery and chair of transplantation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lebanese students at UW Madison for summer engineering internships are organizing relief efforts.
Six letters to the editor commenting on the recent NYT op-ed by Stanley Fish on the Kevin Barrett matter.
In wake of the recent violence in Lebanon, some Lebanese students in Madison are taking action.
Six engineering students from the American University of Beirut have begun organizing relief efforts to help Lebanese civilians. They are completing summer internships at UW-Madison.
Police chiefs and sheriffs from across Wisconsin are in Madison to brainstorm about ways to deal with problems in their communities.
One of the issues that comes up everywhere in the state is alcohol, which is especially prevalent on the U-W Madison campus.
Six lebanese students at UW Madison are spearheading relief efforts here to help refugees in their home country.
Quoted: Douglas Jorenby, of the Center for Tobacco Intervention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are a risky endeavor, Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), acknowledged Tuesday.
DARIEN TOWNSHIP-The Silver Moon Center will be the site for a “rational discussion” Sunday about theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon.
The grousing of Rep. Steve Nass regarding the opinions and course topic of Kevin Barrett are taking on the hallmarks of a witch hunt, with pitchforks and torches raised in the name of protecting the students. It would appear, according to Nass, that students are unable to decide for themselves what they should believe.
BILL O’REILLY, HOST: “Factor” follow-up segment tonight: The strange and disturbing saga at University of Wisconsin ââ?¬â? teacher Kevin Barrett. A couple of weeks ago Barrett accused the USA of attacking itself on 9/11.
Woke up this morning to another story about some poor mope getting the living hell beat out of him downtown. A pack of gangstas rolls up � jumps out � beats the guy senseless, cops his wallet and then rolls off, laughing in the dark.
Quoted: Dr. David Rabago of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Woke up this morning to another story about some poor mope getting the living hell beat out of him downtown. A pack of gangstas rolls up � jumps out � beats the guy senseless, cops his wallet and then rolls off, laughing in the dark.
A week from today, Bielema will be attending his first Big Ten Conference preseason media bash, getting verbally bull-rushed by those eager to know how he intends to replace the legendary Barry Alvarez as UW coach. Bielema will also take a question or two about his team, one that generated a lot of diverse projections from the preview magazines.
Some see the Badgers hanging around the Big Ten cellar. Some mention UW as a title contender. Who you believe depends on how your psyche is wired.
July 25, 2006 ââ?¬â? Wisconsin lawmakers are demanding that a University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer be pulled from his fall teaching position because of his belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were not carried out by terrorists, but by the U.S. government.
UW Madison alumni might find it more difficult to see their children follow in their footsteps. The state’s flagship school has become more selective.
Nowadays, it takes more than good grades to get into UW Madison. The school is seeing more applicants, but the number of freshmen admitted is staying the same.
MADISON, Wis. — A fire in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Building Tuesday afternoon caused about $50,000 in damage.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin officials released a report that said that they have “grave concerns” about alleged behavior that’s been reported at the UW fertility clinic.
A new single-crystal film of semiconductor developed at UW-Madison could lead to wearable electronics or computer monitors that roll up like a window shade.
The process of developing the super-thin layer, only a couple of hundred nanometers thick, is detailed in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Physics.
Anybody know a good attorney? We’re looking for one.
At Wisconsin Public Television, we’re putting the proposed marriage amendment to the state constitution on trial. Courtroom dramas have always been popular prime time programs. We’re taking the color and excitement of the genre and turning it into a serious exercise in public policy.
Unlike the dramatic TV shows, our courtroom will be populated with real people; Wisconsinites with points of view and personal stakes in the outcome of the November marriage ballot.
The leak of veteran talent from the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team appears to be addressed now that right winger Jack Skille has decided to return for his sophomore season.
A new report says a sex toy, sexually charged jokes and questionable touching created what officials call a “disturbing environment” at the UW-Madison fertility clinic, which was nearly shut down this spring because of tensions among its three doctors.
A UW-Madison investigative report, released Monday, discusses back rubs, dimmed lights and the touching of patients’ legs.
The atmosphere at the clinic was so tense, medical students no longer work there, officials said.
WASHINGTON — Sensing a political opening in the soaring costs of higher education, Democrats have seized on college aid and made it a key pillar of their election-year agenda, hoping their pledge to make school affordable pays dividends in November.
Contrary to popular belief, white and non-white women are about equally unhappy with their looks, according to an analysis of 98 studies published in the July issue of Psychological Bulletin. It is the largest U.S. research ever done on feminine body dissatisfaction.
Quoted: Psychologist Shelly Grabe of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jean-Marie Cook was evacuated from Lebanon with her husband in 1967, during the Six-Day War. Following that conflict, the couple — both Americans — decided not to be evacuated again. Although her husband has since died, Ms. Cook has no plans to break that vow.
AVALANCHE, Vernon County ââ?¬â?? There are two ways to look at Patrick Stricklerââ?¬â?¢s long employment history: Heââ?¬â?¢s either an expert at retiring or he doesnââ?¬â?¢t understand the concept.
Regardless, after surviving more than two dozen acquisitions and mergers and taking several buyouts during a decade-plus in banking public relations, he knows the drill.
The UW is losing another world class researcher.
Dr. Arthur Ellis was regarded as one of Wisconsin’s best chemistry researchers. He is now heading to UC-San Diego, where he will become their vice chancellor of research.
Former Gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker’s campaign finance report includes no mention of the donation of prime tickets to a sold out, February Badger basketball game which were used as part of a fundraiser for Walker.
(UNDATED) With months to go before Election Day, polls on Wisconsin�s gubernatorial race have portrayed either a neck-and-neck contest or suggested a solid lead for Governor Jim Doyle. UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin says the differences likely stem from who�s being surveyed.
Quoted: Scott Spear, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a volunteer member of the national medical committee for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
CHICAGO ââ?¬â? After Kevin Barrett started talking about a class he planned to teach this fall on Islam, the little-known lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found himself in the middle of a fierce political battle between the school and state politicians.
Peterson served as Dean of Women at the University of Wisconsin from 1956 to 1962, then as the University Dean of Students from 1962 to 1967.
She attended UW-Madison for her undergraduate and graduate work. From 1964-1971, she worked in educational research at UW-Madison. She became very active in the Wisconsin Alumni Association at UW-Madison, later serving as the president of the Sarasota Alumni Club.
Kohlstedt He came received a master’s degree in genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Elmer and Florence moved to LaFayette County in 1954. He served LaFayette County for 13 years as UW-Extension 4-H Agent and 18 years as a Farm Management Agent.
Quoted: James Paul Gee, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Psychologist Art Glenberg of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: John Parrish, an animal science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin professor Kevin Barrett will present evidence from both sides and promote discussion, not simply teach that 9/11 was an inside job.
Quoted: Donna Friedsam, a health policy analyst at UW-Madison.
STEVENS POINT — Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle says he’s taking the “life position” on embryonic stem cells.
Pat Hardyman, a citizen from Blanchardville, doesn’t buy it.
And somewhere in between their views is U.S. Rep. Mark Green, the Republican challenger for governor.
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz has a lot of loose ends to tie up in his effort to ensure a safer and less costly Halloween bash Downtown.
Nonetheless, the plan he outlined last week deserves support.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz must have had a late night visit from the ghost of Halloween past.
How else to explain his sudden about face?
For the last few years, he’s been Mayor Ebenezer Scrooge, shouting “Bah, humbug!” to Halloween and warning visitors to stay away – far, far away – from State Street.
As organizational picnics go, the event staged Sunday in Elver Park by the UW Children’s Hospital was pretty uneventful.
Some 1,500 of the hospital’s patients, former patients and their family members attended. They played games, ate brats served by volunteers from the Russ Darrow automotive group, which co-sponsored the picnic, and tried to dunk hospital nurses – all pretty uneventful stuff.
KEVIN BARRETT, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has now taken his place alongside Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado as a college teacher whose views on 9/11 have led politicians and ordinary citizens to demand that he be fired.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, polling expert and political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
More than 5,500 students received degrees during the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s spring commencement ceremonies, May 12-14.
Why on God’s green earth would UW-Madison Provost Farrell agree to spend our tax dollars to hire the “controversial instructor” who posits that 9/11 is a big lie, who wants to overthrow U.S. imperialism, is a rabid peddler of a conspiracy theory and teaches hatred for the government of the United States?
Quoted: UW Automotive expert Glenn Bower.
