Quoted: Jeremi Suri, history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is an expert on protest movements.
The Fear Factor (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle
Author: jplucas
The Fear Factor (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle
eremi Suri, history professor at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is an expert on protest movements.
GOP, Democrats point fingers, Senate limps along ahead of November elections (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, professor emeritus in politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Elite Colleges Lag in Serving the Needy
Chronicle of Higher Education
In 1940, James Bryant Conant, then president of Harvard University, laid out his vision of an egalitarian society, a classless culture based on educational opportunity, not chance of birth.
The nation had the duty “to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life,” Mr. Conant said in the speech at the University of California.
More attacks Downtown
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison police reported four more attacks Downtown and near UW- Madison Friday night and early Saturday, most of the victims young men walking alone
Outside income: UW’s doctors needn’t tell all
Wisconsin State Journal
Dozens of doctors at UW-Madison receive money from drug and medical device companies, but they generally don’t have to tell patients – even if they prescribe or implant the companies’ products.
Ruth Doyle, a political pioneer, dies
Wisconsin State Journal
Doyle worked as assistant to the dean of University of Wisconsin Law School in the 1970s and pushed for greater recruitment of women and minorities.
Program to reduce student drinking gets mixed marks
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is celebrating 10 years of progress in its main alcohol-abuse prevention program even as the university’s student body finishes one of its booziest years on record.
Innovators fear the patent trolls
Wisconsin State Journal
It probably wasn’t until the threat of losing e-mail service through the popular, handheld BlackBerry devices sent a shudder through the nation that most people were even aware of a growing trend: small companies, often with only a handful of employees, taking on the tech giants in big-bucks patent lawsuits.
Santiago: Why Milwaukee needs a thriving academic research base of its own
Wisconsin Technology Network
MADISON – Don’t suggest to UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago that research projects on his campus will get ahead by pilfering from programs at UW-Madison. He’ll probably laugh at you.
Legislative session marked by ‘politics of conflict’ (AP)
La Crosse Tribune
High-profile fights between the Republican-controlled Legislature and Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle over voter identification requirements, stem cell research, medical malpractice damages and concealed weapons highlighted the legislative session that neared its end last week.
Improve oversight of student fees
Wisconsin State Journal
If Wisconsin is to keep its university system affordable, the state must control not only tuition but also student fees.
UW denies claims of harassment
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison on Friday denied sexual harassment claims by one of three doctors at the university fertility clinic, which was nearly shut down this spring because of tensions among the physicians.
Bou-Matic steps into hoof care
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Nigel Cook, a UW-Madison clinical assistant professor in veterinary medicine and expert in bovine foot lameness
Madison children’s book author Kevin Henkes quietly builds a legacy that few can match
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Kathleen Horning, director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the UW-Madison’s School of Education.
UW Ticket Revocation Policy Passes
WKOW-TV 27
The next time you think you’ll sell or even hand over a Badger ticket to a friend, you might want to think twice. UW-Madison’s athletic board on Friday passed a policy that would let the school revoke season tickets for fans who are arrested.
Shain steered UW toward technology
Wisconsin State Journal
The dedication of the Chemistry Research Tower on the UW-Madison campus today and Saturday is a fitting tribute to former chancellor Irving Shain.
Professor’s fame a coup for UW
Wisconsin State Journal
Take a deep breath and meditate on this — you can learn to be happy.UW-Madison professor Richard Davidson came to this intriguing conclusion and others after years of study, including evaluating the effects of meditation on the brains of Tibetan monk
Long way to go for Family Care relief
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW-Madison social work professor Stephanie Robert
Dog Gone Stress Relief
NBC-15
Students on the UW campus are preparing for final exams.
And what could be better than man’s best friend for support?
About a halfââ?¬â??dozen canines visited Library Mall today to help students who are passing from class to class.
University Square Mall To Be Demolished Next Month
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — The University Square Mall has been a fixture on campus for years, but it’s scheduled to be demolished next month.
That offers both good news and bad news for students. The bad news is that this is the last weekend you can see a movie at University Square Theater — and you can only eat or have a drink at other popular restaurants for another week.
On the upside, the demolition will make room for
Shain steered UW toward technology
Wisconsin State Journal
The dedication of the Chemistry Research Tower on the UW-Madison campus today and Saturday is a fitting tribute to former chancellor Irving Shain.
Shain joined the chemistry department at UW-Madison as an instructor in 1952. A love for teaching combined with an aptitude for administration led Shain to become chemistry department chairman, then vice-chancellor for academic affairs and finally chancellor from 1977-1986.
Professor’s fame a coup for UW
Wisconsin State Journal
Take a deep breath and meditate on this — you can learn to be happy.
UW-Madison professor Richard Davidson came to this intriguing conclusion and others after years of study, including evaluating the effects of meditation on the brains of Tibetan monks.
Curiosities: Stars seem to twinkle because of atmosphere
Wisconsin State Journal
Q: Why do stars twinkle?
A. From the time we toddle, we are taught that stars twinkle. That phenomenon has nothing to do with stars and everything to do with one’s vantage point.
Long way to go for Family Care relief
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW-Madison social work professor Stephanie Robert said it’s good Wisconsin is preparing its public care system for an increase in adults 65 and older, a group expected to rise sharply in the state over the next 25 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Wisconsin, she said, is one of the handful of states moving to end long-term care waiting lists and using a managed-care model similar to an HMO that relies on a fixed payment per client.
Is Autism On The Rise?, New Study Gives Best Picture Yet Of How Many Children Suffer From Disorder (CBS News)
CBSNews.com
Quoted: University of Wisconsin’s Paul Shattuck
Patient advocate may help get care you need (Baltimore Sun)
At the University of Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer Meg Gaines, a former ovarian cancer patient, has started the Center for Patient Partnerships to train doctors, nurses, lawyers and others to help patients research their diseases, find doctors for second opinions and get insurance coverage.
New loan offers early mortgage payoff
Capital Times
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate professor Kerry Vandell
Digital Healthcare Conference starts off on a realistic foot
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Information technology managers in healthcare received a heavy dose of reality about IT integration in their field during the opening session of WTN Media’s Digital Healthcare Conference.
The conference, which is being held May 3 and 4 at the Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, featured an opening panel discussion in which there was very little self-congratulation about how far the industry has come with information systems.
Digital Healthcare Conference starts off on a realistic foot
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Information technology managers in healthcare received a heavy dose of reality about IT integration in their field during the opening session of WTN Media’s Digital Healthcare Conference.
The conference, which is being held May 3 and 4 at the Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, featured an opening panel discussion in which there was very little self-congratulation about how far the industry has come with information systems.
Lawmakers release raises for top leaders in UW System (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – Legislative leaders have awarded nearly $100,000 in salary increases to top leaders in the University of Wisconsin System after blocking them for 10 months.
The Joint Committee on Employment Relations, which blocked the raises last summer amid criticism of the system’s personnel practices, released the raises to 31 academic leaders at a meeting that lasted only a few minutes last week.
Facing Down the ‘Snob Factor’ (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
In the last month, two leading public institutions ââ?¬â? the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Virginia ââ?¬â? have announced new initiatives that will guarantee admission to substantial more community college students who meet certain guidelines.
Battling the Closet Bible Bashers (Wired News)
Wired.com
Quoted: Tom Givnish, a botany professor at the University of Wisconsin
It’s an uphill battle for tax amendment
Wisconsin State Journal
A plan to write limits on state taxes and fees into the state constitution is effectively dead in the state Senate.
UW-Madison sets June 1 deadline for research proposals
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have until June 1 to submit initial proposals as part of a grant program designed to stimulate collaborative research projects.
Number of mumps cases in Wisconsin nearly triples in week (AP)
Duluth News
MILWAUKEE – The number of confirmed mumps cases in Wisconsin has nearly tripled over the past week, state health officials said Wednesday.
More than a third of the state’s counties have reported at least one confirmed case of the mumps, according to the Department of Health and Family Services.
Police: Fewer Tickets, More Arrests At This Year’s Mifflin Block Party
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Fewer tickets were doled out but more people were arrested at the Mifflin Street Block Party this past weekend, according to Madison police.
Wiley in hot and holy water over funding decision (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) The Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has approved funding a campus group that has sparked debate about separation of church and state. (Second item.)
A Sobering Challenge (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
Itââ?¬â?¢s finals week at Duke University, and hereââ?¬â?¢s one question that wonââ?¬â?¢t appear on any test: What can ââ?¬â? or should ââ?¬â? be done to address the universityââ?¬â?¢s so-called culture of student drinking?
Keep fighting for school success
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison should take a bow and be proud of its decade-long effort to improve early reading skills and boost school achievement for all racial groups.
Yet the hard work isn’t over and may be getting harder.
UW-Madison education researchers hailed Madison this week for shrinking its racial achievement gap more than probably any urban area in the country. And at the same time, test scores for white students in Madison kept improving.
A Brief Timeline of the Stem-Cell Debate (NPR)
National Public Radio
The first embryonic stem cells were isolated in mice in 1981. But it wasn’t until 1998 that researchers managed to derive stem cells from human embryos. That kicked into full gear an ethical debate that continues to this day. Here’s a look at key moments in the controversy so far.
Back to the turboprop? A solution on pollution and cost (International Herald Tribune)
International Herald Tribune
Quoted: Steven Ackerman, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Students Learn By Aiding Nonprofits
Wisconsin State Journal
Students from an interdisciplinary service learning course took time off from their hectic end-of-semester schedules Monday to show off their help to local nonprofit organizations.
ePICS, short for e-Projects in Community Service, is designed as a learning community in which students can develop professional skills in a way that fosters civic engagement.
Parkers can now take their time
USA Today
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which offers the units to faculty and staff who normally ride bicycles or carpools to campus but occasionally drive and would otherwise have to buy a yearly parking permit. About 1,200 drivers have paid a $50 deposit for the meters, says Lance Lunsway, director of the school’s transportation services.
UW chancellor OKs student fees for Catholic group (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON – A Catholic group could use University of Wisconsin-Madison student fees to print religious booklets and support religious activities under a recommendation by the school’s chancellor on Tuesday.
Chancellor John Wiley said he would endorse $145,000 for the UW Roman Catholic Foundation even though he has concerns it may violate the separation of church and state.
UW System stops implementing new payroll software (AP)
Duluth News
MILWAUKEE – The University of Wisconsin System has stopped implementing new payroll software that cost $26 million in tax and tuition funds, the system’s executive vice president says.
Don Mash told the state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities that the software, which was made by Lawson, may be scrapped altogether in favor of software made by Oracle or the 30-year-old homegrown software the system now uses.
N.Y. may force College Board to report SAT errors faster
USA Today
To help prevent a repeat of a test-scanning mishap in October that led to thousands of college-bound students learning that their SAT scores were incorrect, a New York state senator said Tuesday that he wants to force test companies to make public more information about tests and to respond more quickly when errors occur.
Anti-smoking effort targets college-age women (WRN)
Wisconsin Radio Network
Statistics show the only group whose smoking rates are increasing is college-age women. Now there’s an effort to reverse that trend at U-W Madison.
Bucky wants you to quit smoking. Liz Ledvina of the “Kick Your Butt” campaign says they’re putting on an event Tuesday on Library Mall, targeted toward college women. Ledvina says the U-W Cancer Center and University Health Services are working with them on the campaign, and Tuesday’s event will encourage college age women to quit now. She calls the trend towards smoking by her peers a disturbing one.
Concrete floats their boat at UW
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is again No. 1 this time for its concrete canoe.
Student engineers beat 11 other schools Friday by building and racing the best and fastest concrete canoe across Monona Bay.
UWM research dean promotes building boom
Wisconsin Technology Network
Milwaukee, Wis. – Abbas Ourmazd could look 80 miles to the west and be extremely jealous of the pace of building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s not.
Costly UW System Computer Project Limps On
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Nearly a year after WISC-TV found a massive and expensive UW System computer project mired in delays, project management problems and cost overruns, there is still no finish date or final price tag in sight.
UW Looks at Full Time Status for LTEs
WKOW-TV 27
University of Wisconsin student groups will meet on Thursday on how to possibly turn 400 workers into fulltime status.
Currently the university hires 1,300 limited term employees. They range in jobs from janitors to cooks, and are supposed to be hired for only six months at a time. After six months, many leave.
In-car meters allow motorists to prepay; cities like them, too
USA Today
For the past month, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has been making an unusual pitch to motorists: Buy your very own parking meters.He doesn’t mean the familiar coin-swallowing sentinels on metal posts that have guarded America’s parking spaces for nearly a century. The Buffalo solution is a small gadget that hangs from a vehicle’s rearview mirror. Loaded with prepaid time, it frees shoppers, couriers and business people from having to fumble for change.
Cited: Lance Lunsway, director of transportation services.
Work on education gap lauded
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison made more progress than any urban area in the country in shrinking the racial achievement gap and managed to raise the performance levels of all racial groups over the past decade, two UW- Madison education experts said Monday in urging local leaders to continue current strategies despite tight budgets.
“I’ve seen districts around the United States, and it really is remarkable that the Madison School District is raising the achievement levels for all students, and at the same time they’re closing the gaps,” Julie Underwood, dean of the UW- Madison School of Education, said in an interview.
Thousands at Capitol support immigrants
Wisconsin State Journal
At least a dozen local businesses closed, hundreds of students stayed away from school and thousands of people rallied at the state Capitol Monday to highlight the contributions that immigrants make to the local economy and society.
The Madison event was part of a nationwide “Day Without Immigrants,” designed to pressure lawmakers to change U.S. law to provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. They were urged to take the day off work and school.
Better Drug-Producing Bacteria (MIT Technology Review)
Technology Review (MIT)
Leaner, meaner bacteria could provide safer and more efficient ways to make hard-to-manufacture biological products, including vaccines and DNA-based pharmaceuticals.
State’s Tobacco Quit Line Changes Its Number
WISC-TV 3
QUoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, the director for the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention,
Students want University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee name to stay (AP)
MILWAUKEE – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students have voted and they say they don’t want the school’s name changed.
More boys finding they’re ahead of the game when they’re held behind (Chicago Tribune)
Quoted: Beth Graue, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Church-state wall mandates neutrality
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Few provisions in the U.S. Constitution have resulted in more confusion and disagreement among lawyers and judges than the First Amendment’s prohibition of laws “respecting an establishment of religion.”