MADISON – Sometimes making University of Wisconsin tickets available to elected officials is perfectly legal. Other times it’s not.
The state Ethics Board is working on guidelines to help elected officials and others know the difference.
Madison, Wis. – Between the “leetspeak” of chat rooms and instant messaging, the jargon of programmers, and an infinite library of obscure game-related terms and rules, it’s readily apparent that devotees of computer games speak their own language.
Smokers who have tried to quit with a patch, pill, lozenge, inhaler, spray or gum may be interested in a University of Wisconsin-Madison study of a new approach: A vaccine.
A study of NicVAX, an experimental vaccine designed to block nicotine from reaching the brain, is under way at the university’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
The Badger women’s soccer team did not leave empty-handed on its trip to Germany.
Thanks to County Board Chair Scott McDonell, they took a quilt made by Sue Rieser and Catherine Hixon of the Fern Hill Friends quilting club to present to Minister President Roland Koch, the equivalent of a governor of Hessen (Wisconsin’s sister state). And the brought framed photographs by Zane Williams for area mayors.
Quoted: Dr. Eric Berg, a dermatologist for UW Health; Jonathan Martin, UW- Madison associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences; Ellen Doyle of the UW Food Research Institute; and Phillip Pellitteri, an entomologist at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison team has won its fourth straight title in the National Concrete Canoe Competition. Wisconsin’s 21-foot-long, 162-pound natural gray canoe, named ââ?¬Å?Forward,ââ?¬Â bested 22 other entries from engineering schools in the USA and Canada.
The search for a Japanese student missing since a rainy January morning ended Monday when he was found dead, floating in the white-capped waves of Lake Mendota by a wind surfer.
Adding another wrinkle to the growing range of housing options at UW-Madison, leaders of the Pres House today will hold a ceremonial ground breaking for a $17 million private dorm aimed at helping students explore their faith.
The seven-story building, slated for a church-owned parking lot just behind the Pres House at 731 State St., will provide beds for about 280 students starting in fall 2007. Reservations will be taken starting this fall, and construction will begin in early July.
If you’re planning to consolidate your student loans, you no longer have to dance with the date that brung you. An emergency spending bill signed into law last week eliminated a decades-old rule that required borrowers whose student loans were all from one lender to consolidate with that lender.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: UW Bug expert Phil Pellitteri.
For Nina Craig, lifting two 50 pound bales at a time isn’t easy.
And it was a lot harder when she was still smoking cigarettes.
Selective four-year colleges enroll a smaller percentage of transfer students than they did 20 years ago, despite the growing number of students who start their postsecondary education at community colleges, according to a report on a national study released on Monday by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
MADISON, Wis. — Another mugging occurred in downtown Madison during the weekend, according to Madison police.
MADISON, Wis. — The body found floating in Lake Mendota on Monday is that of a Japanese student who was studying in Madison but disappeared last January, according to the Dane County coroner.
You could make a case that we’ve just completed the most eventful 12 months in the history of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department.
Quoted: Douglas McNeel, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Care Center in Madison.
For decades, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department has compiled and distributed media guides for its various sports.
MADISON, Wis. – After years of cutbacks, University of Wisconsin campuses are outlining plans to increase enrollments, add professors and improve their research under an initiative that would require a greater investment by taxpayers.
Quoted: Olvi L. Mangasarian, co-director of the University of Wisconsin’s Data Mining Institute.
Quoted: John Witte, professor of political science at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) ââ?¬â? A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison won the National Concrete Canoe Competition for the fourth straight time Saturday. Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s 21-foot-long, 162-pound natural gray canoe, named ââ?¬Ë?ââ?¬Ë?Forward,ââ?¬â?¢Ã¢â?¬â?¢ bested 22 other entries from engineering schools in the U.S. and Canada.
Quoted: Ann Kinkade, who heads the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Family Business Center.
Quoted: Leela Hazzah, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Christopher Ochoa is late as he walks into the Starbucks on University Avenue here and sits down. He takes off his Yankees hat and apologizes. “I’m sorry about that,” he says mildly. I assure him it’s no problem, but he seems genuinely distraught. It’s the kind of thing he’s still getting used to: making appointments and keeping them.
Quoted: Keith Findley, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
As a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Norman Bobins didn’t give much thought to what he would do after graduation.
New technology could help doctors detect lung damage in smokers who seem healthy, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Area educators, for the most part, are waiting to see the execution of the University of Wisconsin System�s plan to increase student diversity before praising or pounding it.
An 8-year-old Madison boy has a new lease on life thanks to a donation from his dad. It is more common than you would think: parents donating organs to save their young child’s lives.
NORTHFIELD, Minnesota (AP) — In the shadow of Carleton College’s majestic wind turbine, Daniel Pulver has cooked up an idea for creating even more renewable energy: turning used cafeteria oil into fuel for cars.
For decades, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department has compiled and distributed media guides for its various sports.
They began humbly – booklets of single-spaced typed paper, stapled together without pictures, filled with basic data about coaches, players and program history – and evolved into slick, voluminous, colorful publications that were as promotional as informational.
The evolution will continue in 2006-07 when a new format is unveiled for Badgers-oriented publications. Justin Doherty, the assistant athletic director for communications, said the look and content will cater more toward recruits than the media.
Bret Bielema, UW-Madison football coach: “There are two things I’m so thankful that my father taught me – and he did it without me knowing that’s what he was doing. Fridays nights I’d play football with the team and they’d be talking about what they were doing the next day … going to the mall or whatever. Every Saturday we’d get up and do chores at 6 a.m. until they were done, around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. (He grew up on a pig farm.) I thought it was a way of life. It taught me discipline.
Another University of Wisconsin team wins a national championship. The U.W. team competing in the National Concrete Canoe Competition in Oklahoma took home their fourth straight title this weekend.
A showdown over stem cells is taking shape between Wisconsin and California, and the weapons the players are wielding are patents, lawsuits and billions of dollars.
The impact of the outcome isn’t limited to the two states, parties involved say. The confrontation could greatly influence the global development of stem-cell therapies, which might someday benefit millions of patients.
Madison: Olin House may be the most prestigious UW building that nobody knows about. Tucked away just west of campus it has housed the UW Chancellor since it was donated to the school in 1924.
Madison, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and its Norway-based licensee, Natural ASA, accused a nutritional supplement manufacturer today with willful and deliberate patent infringement in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.
Madison, Wis. – Between the “leetspeak” of chat rooms and instant messaging, the jargon of programmers, and an infinite library of obscure game-related terms and rules, it’s readily apparent that devotees of computer games speak their own language.
What’s less apparent is the possibility that this language may be vital to the future of education.
Social networking, event announcements, roommate vetting, law enforcement, and recently a bit of job browsing � Facebook.com has an impressive array of uses.
I have little sympathy for any student or family member who finds it hard now to pay for student loans (ââ?¬Å?In debt before you start,ââ?¬Â Cover story, News, Monday).
Two University of Wisconsin leaders set the right tone in recent days and showed they are listening to their critics and the public.
In a development sure to have repercussions for Gov. Jim Doyle’s re-election campaign, a jury Monday convicted a state purchasing manager of improperly using political considerations in awarding a travel contract to a favored company.
Some graduates are now leaving college with student-loan debt in the six figures. Graduates with more than $100,000 in debt still account for a small subset of borrowers. But their numbers are rising. And the proportion who are leaving college with some level of unmanageable debt ââ?¬â? debt they can’t repay without significant hardship ââ?¬â? is swelling.
An electric hybrid vehicle running on E85 fuel proved to be the right technological combination for a team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, which won top honors Thursday in a General Motorssponsored competition to demonstrate alternative energy vehicles.
UW-Madison finished second.
To learn more about data safety monitoring boards and their role in protecting patients who participate in drug studies, NPR turned to statistician David DeMets. He’s the chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin, and the author of several books on the subject, including Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials: A Case Studies Approach (Springer 2005).
MILWAUKEE – A state purchasing official testified at her fraud trial Thursday she was never pressured by officials appointed by Gov. Jim Doyle to award a state contract to Adelman Travel Group.
Department of Administration purchasing supervisor Georgia Thompson said she disagreed with other contract evaluators who wanted to award the deal to Omega World Travel because they had put too much emphasis on style, not substance, of the proposals.
David Strom struggles with a cruel irony of diabetes that happens when neuropathy leaves his hands partially limp, but with enough life in them to feel extreme pain.
“At night it feels like someone is breaking my fingers,” said Strom, 35, an Appleton man who was first diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at 8.
MILWAUKEE – Resident students in the University of Wisconsin System will pay as much as $382 more in annual tuition starting this fall under a plan approved Thursday by the UW System Board of Regents.
The systemwide 6.8 percent tuition increase means UW-Madison students will pay $382 more a year, UW-Milwaukee students $374, and students at all the system’s other four-year universities and two-year colleges $291.
A company that’s developing a novel way to treat wounds is the winner of the 2006 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest.
The technology came from the lab of John Kao, a UW- Madison assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
About 460 East High School seniors sat in the school’s sultry gym Thursday on the eve of their graduation.
They practiced the processional, sitting and standing in unison – graduation ceremony duties 101 – in preparation for the moment tonight when they are awarded their diploma.
Some worry about the future – how they will pay for college. If juggling a job and a full class schedule this fall is going to be a workable formula.
Milwaukee, Wis. – MatriLab, a Madison-based start-up that is developing technologies for the $6 billion worldwide wound care market, has won the 2006 Governor’s Business Plan Contest.
Across the city of Madison and even in Sun Prairie and Fitchburg ââ?¬â?? you can catch a glimpse of 101 specially designed bovines from the cow parade.
But those works of art are also attracting the attention of vandals.
Only moments after Dane County triggers its tornado alert, UW Health triggers theirs.
“Unfortunately we’ve been activating it more the last few years,” says Tracy Buchman, Safety Director for UW Health.
Many students at four-year public colleges and universities face a gap between their ability to pay for college and the cost of attending, even with money from financial aid, and the gap is largest for students from lower-income families, according to a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board.
Within the halls of higher education, nearly everyone has heard of David Horowitz’s “academic bill of rights.”
Every student will soon be a blogger at the University of Pennsylvaniaââ?¬â?¢s College of Arts and Sciences ââ?¬â? and the authors wonââ?¬â?¢t just be filling their pages with party anecdotes.
Every sports entity has its hallowed marks on the wall and the University of Wisconsin is no different. I took the liberty of putting together a list of the greatest standards based on a mix of their longevity, notoriety and whether they can be broken in my lifetime.
Photographers on Tuesday shared intimate images they captured of Madison’s South Side. At the Boys and Girls Club, 2001 Taft St., they presented a slideshow of neighborhood shots to a UW-Madison research team.
The photographers were uniquely qualified for the assignment: They are the neighborhood’s children.
Members of the UW Board of Regents hope a universitywide committee will help them rein in rising student fees, or at least draft some rules to put tighter controls on a revenue source that raises $100 million a year.
I understand perfectly why Bill Meunier got on his soapbox and raised his voice against the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department this week.I understand perfectly why Meunier got so much mileage out of his tale of woe, which made the front page in Madison, was the hot topic on radio talk shows in his hometown of Milwaukee and generated a buzz in cyberspace.
