Quoted: Dr. Mark Cook, aOva co-founder and a UW-Madison professor,
aOva Technologies banking on natural antibodies (wisbusiness.com)
www.wisbusiness.com
Author: jplucas
Two Added To ISU Athletics Department (ISU Athletics)
Julie Bright and David Harris are the newest members of the Iowa State athletics administration.
Updates on Billion Dollar Campaigns
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.73-billion as of April 20 (increase of $74.6-million since March 3); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
PAWWS to Heal Fundraiser
NBC-15
Sunday’s rainy weather was perfect for a fundraiser for some friendly four legged therapists.
About 200 people gathered at the High Noon Saloon to raise money for the PAWWS to Heal program. The event included three different bands, a raffle and a PAWS information booth.
Calling it Quits (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore directs the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. (Second item.)
UW Surgical Interns VS. ”Grey’s Anatomy” Interns
WKOW-TV 27
20 million viewers tune in every Sunday to watch the hit ABC show ”Grey’s Anatomy”.
We went to UW Hospital and followed a surgical intern around for a few hours and discovered, of course, that Hollywood takes some liberties when it comes to these hardworking doctors.
The world came, and stayed (Vancouver Sun)
Quoted: Kris Olds, a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin
Danish Economist Isn’t Very Cool Among Icelanders (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal
Quoted: Kirsten Wolf, a professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Evangelicals reach out and recycle (Dallas Morning News)
Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and the founder of the Au Sable Institute, a Christian institute dedicated to better understanding of the natural world.
Stripped-down E. coli could help vaccine makers (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Aggregate Research Industries
MILWAUKEE – In what could be a boon to development of vaccines and targeted therapies, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with a team of international researchers, has created a streamlined, hardy form of the bacteria E. coli by reducing its DNA to its bare essentials.
Files show UW prof had porn on computer (AP)
Capital Times
A UW-Madison professor dismissed earlier this month for a felony conviction collected pornographic images on his school computer for a decade, according to documents released Friday.
Stem cell research called vital (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter)
MANITOWOC ââ?¬â? Sitting in her wheelchair, Gail Winter listened closely Wednesday evening to Dr. James Thomson, world-renowned researcher in the field of embryonic and adult stem cells.
Area Residents Convicted Of Wisc. Hate Crime (WMAQ-TV, Chicago)
MADISON, Wis. — Two 2005 graduates of Waubonsie Valley High School were sentenced Thursday to a form of probation for their roles in an anti-gay hate crime late last year on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Can You Spare a Dime?
Chronicle of Higher Education
It’s not uncommon to hear administrators at public universities joke that their institutions once were “state supported,” then became “state assisted,” and now are merely “state located.”
No Thanks for the Memories
Chronicle of Higher Education
Purdue University’s yearbook has problems. One of them is that its name conjures up images of trash.
The publication was named Debris back in the 19th century, when, according to the yearbook’s lore, its founders took the word to mean “a collection of works.”
madison.com | archives: Monty ‘lucky To Be Alive’
Wisconsin State Journal
Joe Monty, a starting defensive end for the University of Wisconsinfootball team, suffered serious facial injuries in a motor vehicle accidentearly Friday.
Students revel in annual spring bash (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON – Thousands of grinning, hollering college students in superhero costumes, flip-flops and bathrobes jammed the streets Saturday for an annual spring block party.
Uw Bands Concert To Benefit Food Bank
Wisconsin State Journal
Three UW-Madison bands have paired concerts with food drives,collecting more than 500 pounds of food so far this year. The traditioncontinues Sunday in a concert featuring Tom Ryan, State Street’s orange-clad”Piccolo Man.” He’ll perform “The Wren Polka,” a lively concerto-style work.
Porn Was On Ex-prof’s Computer
Wisconsin State Journal
A U W-Madison professor dismissed this month for a felony convictioncollected pornographic images on his school computer for a decade, accordingto documents released Friday.
Family Horticulture Day Makes Science Fun
Wisconsin State Journal
The farm gate is always open at the West Madison AgriculturalResearch Station, and this Saturday people of all ages are invited to come outto Family Horticulture Day to get their hands dirty in the garden.
UW holds Condor meeting
Wisconsin State Journal
Compare the thinking and priorities of a university research professor and someone at an international financial firm, and they likely won’t be too similar.
This week at UW-Madison, however, representatives of academic, financial and business organizations from around the world connected in meetings and discussions about a computer program they all use. Users of the program from companies that included JP Morgan, Yahoo!, Micron Technologies and United Bank of Switzerland participated.
High-tech businesses growing
Wisconsin State Journal
Scott Ruttencutter, 26, opened his Web design business last spring at his home in Windsor.
“I had people at my house all hours of the day, for about eight months,” he said, with a smile.
Today, Ruttencutter’s IQ Foundry has four employees and offices at Common Wealth Development’s Madison Enterprise Center, 100 S. Baldwin St. It has made money from the get-go, Ruttencutter said, and he expects to reach $1 million to $2 million a year in revenue, with a staff of 10, in a year or two.
Odyssey Project promotes learning
Wisconsin State Journal
When Denise Maddox left the Chicago housing projects with her two children to come to Madison in 1999, she could barely write a letter, let alone an essay.
Now, thanks to the help of the UW-Madison Odyssey Project, the 41-year-old mother of two is beginning her long journey toward a doctorate in literature.
Family Honors Man Through Crazylegs Classic
NBC-15
Runners and walkers found cloudy skies this morning, but they still showed up with bright smiles at the 25th annual Crazylegs Classic. It’s named in honor of pro-football hall of famer Elroy Hirsch, but this year, one group’s also honoring a loyal fan of the event by spreading an important message.
UW-Madison students courted by investors
Wisconsin State Journal
They won top honors a week ago at the UW-Madison’s Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition. Now, the students who run Internet Privacy & Identity Credential are facing a big question: Should they remain in Madison?
The company, which helps provide secure Internet transactions, is being courted by investors, banks and others from around the country, the students say.
Up To 20,000 Take Over Mifflin Street
NBC-15
The rain couldn’t keep a parade of people from perusing Mifflin street during the annual block party.
Chief justice not ready to rest
Wisconsin State Journal
Shirley Abrahamson wanted an answer, but then-Gov. Patrick Lucey wasn’t ready to give it.
Was he, or was he not, going to endorse her 1979 bid for the Wisconsin Supreme Court?
Just three years earlier, Lucey, a Democrat, had appointed Abrahamson to fill a vacancy on the court, and he intended to endorse her. But Lucey, in an interview this month, said it wasn’t his style to quickly answer such pointed political questions.
The lack of response didn’t sit well with Abrahamson, who wasn’t used to getting the runaround. In addition to her three years on the court, she had more than a dozen years’ experience as an attorney and UW Law School professor.
Beer and rain keep festivities wet
Wisconsin State Journal
A steady April shower dampened, but didn’t dull, the Mifflin Street Block Party Saturday afternoon.
But the heavier, persistent rain later in the day did ensure that police had the streets clear before 7 p.m.
Keep commuter rail plan on track
Wisconsin State Journal
Transport 2020 began with representatives from Madison, Dane County, the state and UW- Madison developing a transportation plan to cope with traffic growth projections. The plan envisions a commuter rail system running from Middleton through Madison’s Isthmus to East Towne Mall, with connecting express bus service to suburban areas.
Report: More money and action needed to prevent future water woes
Wisconsin State Journal
But investing more money in updating the water system will be a challenge. Madison’s water utility is entirely supported by money that comes from rate payers – homeowners, businesses and public institutions such as UW-Madison.
MP3 Players Become Latest Educational Tools At UW
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Technology takes UW teachers and students to a whole new level.Cashing in on the popularity of mp3 players, UW professors are now producing their own podcasts. These mp3 files provide educators with an opportunity to talk about more than can be discussed in class. Containing music, speech and interviews the files are meant to help students gain a better understanding of the material.
Some Want Sculpture In Front Of Camp Randall Moved
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — A movement is starting to try to get the controversial public art sculpture in front of Camp Randall moved.TALKBACK: What Do You Think?The plan is not without precedent. One big sculpture was uprooted to a new location years ago, WISC-TV reported.
Bowled over: NCAA adds three games
USA Today
College football’s expansive bowl lineup will grow next season ââ?¬â? by three games and possibly four, including the first staged outside the USA in 70 years.
Crazylegs is the ‘gem of spring’
Wisconsin State Journal
No one was more surprised at the success of the Crazylegs Classic than the race’s namesake.
Who would have believed the race, dreamed up by three running buddies over beers at the old Charley’s Cafe a quarter- century ago as a way to raise money for the UW Athletic Department, would become a springtime institution in Madison?
State workers will see pay raises under union contracts
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – The Legislature is moving to approve new union contracts granting thousands of state workers pay raises of about 6.25 percent over two years while increasing premiums for their health insurance.
Many state employees who are not represented by unions would also see an additional 1.25 percent raise to bring their pay in line with the increases given to union workers.
Women are besting men in college, but not salary (Miami Herald)
Quoted: Janet Hyde, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fungal mystery solved (Newsday)
Newsday
What would cause a mild-mannered Clark Kent of a mold to rear up like a demented superhero? Wisconsin scientists have found the apparent answer in a heat-sensitive biological switch, a crucial key to understanding how harmless soil fungi can transform themselves into virulent yeast cells when inhaled into human lungs.
Easter Seals announces pioneering autism effort (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
Quoted: University of Wisconsin researcher Paul Shattuck, published in the journal Pediatrics.
UWM to accept WCTC students’ business credits
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Transfer deals, also known as “articulation agreements,” have become popular among higher education institutions seeking to attract students who started their education elsewhere. UW-Madison last week disclosed that it was working on a major agreement to begin accepting liberal arts transfers from Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Provost candidates annouced (ASU Web Devil)
ASU announced three finalists for the position of provost and executive vice president for academic affairs Thursday. Among them, Linda Sheryl Greene, former associate vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
State warns students about mumps at street party (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – State health officials want college students to avoid sharing their beer to keep mumps from infecting people at a massive street party planned this weekend.
The Mifflin Street block party, a University of Wisconsin-Madison tradition, is scheduled for Saturday. Tens of thousands of college students pack balconies and porches and fill the streets for the bash.
Assembly passes version of government spending limits (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – The state Assembly narrowly approved a hastily crafted, stripped-down version of a constitutional amendment to limit state spending shortly before dawn Friday after a brutal all-night session.
Ex-Professor Back Behind Bars
WKOW-TV 27
Former UW-Madison professor Keith Cohen is behind bars, after allegedly breaking probation rules.Ã? Corrections department spokesman JohnÃ? Dipko told 27 News Cohen’s alleged violations include using crack cocaine, having sexually explicit magazines and using computers.Ã?Â
Privacy Practices Get a Failing Grade (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
Colleges and universities are a gold mine of data ââ?¬â? personal information about students and employees, the fruits of research efforts, information about the reading habits of library patrons, even patient data for institutions with medical schools.
Obituaries | Radke, Reon Fredrick
Madison.com
Radke was employed by the University of Wisconsin at UW Arlington Farms, as feed mill operator for 30 years.
Lampert Smith: Alumni don’t swarm the Capitol
Wisconsin State Journal
“We’re helping remind people that we’re the campuses, the students, the faculty, and alumni” that make up the System, Bonner said. She said that the effort is aimed at undoing some of the “administrative hatred” between the two ends of State Street.
Profile: Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Nature
Even in a constant state of jetlag, Yoshihiro Kawaoka is a fiercely productive flu researcher. Wonder what he could accomplish with a little bit of sleep?
If Yoshihiro Kawaoka owned a country, its citizens would be well protected from a bird flu pandemic.Confronted with a pandemic, Kawaoka says he would close his country’s borders and release a vaccine based on the live, but weakened, bird flu virus. Some people might fall ill from the vaccine strain, but far greater numbers would benefit. “The immune response provided by live virus, that is going to be the one that really protects humans,” Kawaoka says.
Audit faults dean’s spending (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
MADISON ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin-Whitewater demoted a longtime dean on Wednesday after an audit questioned his use of university money on language lessons, a personal cell phone and an Internet dating site.
U.S. growth prospects may fuel trade gap-Fed study (Reuters)
Reuters
Quoted: Charles Engel of the University of Wisconsin
Analysis: Bush’s new effort, old problems (AP)
Duluth News
Quoted: Charles Franklin, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stem cells raise hopes, but is there money in them?
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? One of the more hopeful promises of stem cells is the creation of new organs, grown to meet the medical demand that is not being met by organ donation. But experts expressed concerns at last week’s Stem Cell Symposium that high hopes could lead to backlash: among patients if cures do not materialize, and among investors if nobody can make money on them.
Love for Madison Brought Biz School’s New Addition Back to UW (wisbusiness.com)
www.wisbusiness.com
This is a Madison boomerang story. Times two.
Dan Olszewski is back in the state capital, for the second time. This time around, the Harvard MBA is heading the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the UW-Madison School of Business.
He replaced Larry Cox, who took a job last year at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Student Group Joins Nonprofits To Tackle College-Age Smoking
WISC-TV 3
Something’s changed in the air on the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison campus. Something hangs there outside lecture halls and bar doorways, clinging to clothes, masking perfume and lingering in the long hair of college-age women.
Good news about UW
La Crosse Tribune
There are currently 1,783 University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni living or working in La Crosse who may have noticed over the past year the University of Wisconsin has received a considerable amount of bad press. From the UW�s reputation as the No. 1 party school to its lack of diversity, criticism of the university is the highest it�s been in recent memory.
Colleges Urged to Prepare for Immigrant-Rights Boycott Planned for May 1
Chronicle of Higher Education
Some colleges are making plans for how they will deal with a national call for immigrants and their supporters to walk off their jobs and boycott businesses on Monday, in protest of legislation in Congress that would deport or criminalize illegal immigrants.
University staff to help plan future
Wisconsin State Journal
For the first time in more than a decade, UW-Madison is polling every one of its employees – about 14,000 faculty, classified and academic staff – to help plan the future of the flagship campus and solicit ideas designed to “energize” its relationship with state citizens.
Transfers could boost diversity
Wisconsin State Journal
A new transfer program at UW-Madison is a smart way to increase minority and low-income students on campus.
The university will guarantee a place to any liberal arts student with a 3.0 grade point average and 54 credits from the Madison Area Technical College, according to a recently signed agreement.
Web site helps chronic mispronouncers of Wisconsin-related names (AP)
Quoted: Joe Salmons, director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Cruse, Freeman will not return
MADISON ââ?¬â? Defensive tackle Gino Cruse and cornerback Antonio Freeman, both sophomores-to-be, will not return to the University of Wisconsin football team, head coach Bret Bielema announced in a press release Tuesday afternoon.
Tax-limit gimmick deserves a burial
Wisconsin State Journal
In a darkly hilarious scene from the 1975 comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” a collector of dead bodies wheeled his cart through a plague- ravaged medieval neighborhood. As he stopped to pick up another body, he was startled to hear the words “I’m not dead.”
He had encountered “the dead body that claims it isn’t.”
Something similar is taking place at the state Capitol with another “dead body that claims it isn’t.” But this time no one is laughing.