In a year marked by uncertainty and upheaval, officials at New Orleans universities that draw applicants nationwide are not following the usual rules of thumb when it comes to college admissions. The only sure bet, they say, is that this fall’s entering classes ââ?¬â? the first since Katrina ââ?¬â? will be smaller than usual.
With four cases of mumps in Dane County this month, including the first one in a UW- Madison student confirmed Tuesday, health officials are giving advice that may seem puzzling.
WAUWATOSA, Wis. ââ?¬â? Gov. Jim Doyle directed the state Tuesday to spend $5 million to help recruit stem cell researchers to Wisconsin.
The state Department of Commerce will spend the money marketing the state as a leader in stem cell research under the executive order the governor signed at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Madison: The first confirmed case of the mumps on the UW campus belongs to a 20 year woman. University Health Officials say her case was confirmed late Monday, and now they’re trying to figure out who else may have been in contact with her while she’s been contagious.
Twelve women are among the 72 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, the academy said on Tuesday. That’s down from the record 19 women elected last year. Several UW-Madison faculty members were among the honorees.
It was just after midnight when two friends walked into the hotel lobby and came across a major reason, heretofore unheralded, why the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team won the NCAA title.
Hoping to keep a handle on the easy flow of beer and liquor, Madison police plan to double their efforts to crack down on illegal alcohol sales at house parties during Saturday’s Mifflin Street Block Party.
Law schools eager to raise their national rankings are demanding higher scores on the Law School Admission Test, but they’re paying a price in terms of racial diversity as fewer black applicants make the cutoff.That’s the controversial argument of John Nussbaumer, an associate dean at Michigan’s Thomas M. Cooley Law School and author of a widely debated paper in this month’s edition of St. John’s University Law Review. His thesis says schools increasingly ignore their mandate not to overemphasize the LSAT. It is striking chords far beyond academic circles as the legal profession ponders how to reverse a steady 10-year decline.
The Legislature is prepared this spring to make a down payment on a University of Minnesota request for $366 million to build five bioscience research laboratories in the next 10 years.
WHITEWATER, Wis. A cornerback for Wisconsin’s football team has inquired about transferring to U-W-Whitewater.
Antonio Freeman was suspended indefinitely from the Badgers team in January after he was charged with possession of marijuana in Jefferson County.
Students at Milwaukee Area Technical College will soon have a straight path to entering the University of Wisconsin-Madison thanks to an all-but-inked agreement between the two institutions.
Some students living on Mifflin Street say they are not taking any chances at this year’s block party. Students call them horror stories–houses that have received thousands of dollars in fines. Now residents living on Mifflin Street say they are doing something police have been asking for for years: they’re listening to the warnings.
MADISON, Wis. — Police, students and neighbors have been gearing up for the annual, yet controversial Mifflin Street block party.
The party has been an annual celebration for nearly four decades.
Former UW-Madison employee Chandrika Mahadeva told 27 News she is disappointed the Academic Staff Appeals Committee sided with disciplined administrator Paul Barrows after a hearing into Barrows’ situation.
During the April hearing, Mahadeva testified Barrows had sexually harassed her on more than half a dozen occasions.
Student government officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are standing behind the principle of giving student fees to campus religious organizations.But they’re willing to concede that the UW Roman Catholic Foundation is ineligible for some funds because it owns its own building.
Heather Simmons, the zoo’s pathologist and a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine, then performed a necropsy to determine what had taken place.
Quoted: Steven Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He led a discussion on the problem during the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Recently, and without a public hearing, the Assembly Ways and Means Committee passed on a 7-6 vote a new version of the Taxpayers Protection Amendment that would rewrite Wisconsin’s constitution to create a revenue limit restricting the amount of revenue state and local units of government can raise from taxes, fines, fees and other sources.
Quoted: Joshua Morrill, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in juries’ decision-making,
The state of California has been working its way through a list of thorny issues surrounding its groundbreaking Proposition 71 — $3 billion in funding for embryonic stem cell research that voters approved in 2004
Quoted: Michael Scott, a former police chief who is now a professor specializing in police matters at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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lleague of mine once asked me who had made me into a writer. “And I don’t mean one of those creative writing professors,” he said to me, a creative writing professor.
“Well, who do you mean?” I asked, probably ungrammatically, a thing creative writing professors get to do.
MADISON, Wis. – A controversy is brewing over whether the University of Wisconsin-Madison should allow a campus Catholic group to use student fees for religious purposes.
Higher education is again on the public and political agenda.
A program that helps breast cancer patients is giving a whole new meaning to computer support. The Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System, or CHESS for short, helps patients communicate online.It is an alternative to face-to-face support groups.
CHESS was created by UW-Madison faculty 15-years ago, before Internet as we know it now existed. Now it is getting natio
It’s financial crunch time for Executive Management Inc.’s proposed $190 million University Square project near UW-Madison and two other big Madison projects.
The three developments — University Square, McGrath & Associates’ Union Corners on the East Side and Mortenson Investment Group’s Landmark Gate on the South Side — are seeking a total $10.9 million public aid from the city.
In many important respects, the Bret Bielema Era has already begun. The new University of Wisconsin football coach has brought in his first class of recruits, hired his first staff of assistant coaches, replaced one of those assistants, dumped his first miscreant and brought his 30-something tastes in decor to an office whose previous occupant is pushing 60.
A yogurt-granola-and-fruit tart that won a national product development competition last summer could be the start of a business. At least, that’s what its creators are hoping.
The tart – centerpiece of the company, Healthy sTarts – was the most mouth-watering of the products and prototypes on display at UW-Madison’s Grainger Hall on Friday for the annual Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition.
And it came up a winner again, grabbing the $7,000 second-place prize.
Ahmed Ayad spent the first 25 years of his life in his native Egypt, but he still finds it difficult to say “Tutankhamen” – the full name of the famous pharaoh known as King Tut.
“I’m not going to pronounce it – it’s too hard,” Ayad, 31, told a group of eighth-graders last week at Waunakee Middle School, where they are studying the Middle East.
Ayad, who is working on his doctorate degree in computer science at UW-Madison, is one of about 60 students from countries around the world who volunteer to share their experiences and perspectives with audiences on and off campus as part of the university’s International Reach program.
University Health Services has lost half of its clinical doctors since last July, and students are paying a price for it in reduced services and medical training opportunities.
MADISON — Former UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he believes the controversy surrounding his demotion in 2004 stems in part from racism.
Appearing on Madison Ch. 3 WISC-TV’s “For the Record” in the aftermath of his victory before the Academic Staff Appeals Committee, Barrows said, “I think there is a racial dimension to what has happened to me.”
IT is tough enough to be new on campus ââ?¬â? outsider to daily rhythms and local lingo ââ?¬â? without having to do it more than once. Freshmen are expected to be naÃ?¯ve, refer to campus maps and travel in packs. After that, ignorance isn’t cool.
A California state judge has ruled that legal challenges against the constitutionality of the state’s $3-billion stem-cell initiative have no merit.
High school student Emily Harris remembers coming home one day to find 27 college letters and brochures waiting for her near her family’s front door in Hyde Park, Ill. She recalls that day, she says, because her two younger sisters took pride in counting her college recruitment letters every day.
MADISON, Wis. — Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows said he believes race played a role in his reprimand following allegations of sexual harassment, and that three top UW officials “acted in concert” against him.
Instead of listening to moving speeches given by women during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, U.W. Greek men are working with each other on how to prevent sexual assaults from happening.
It’ll be practice as usual for the U.W. men’s soccer team Monday, except for one detail. It will be held at two in the morning, at Librar
Madison: At every Badger home football game more than 60 fans are ejected for poor behavior such as underage drinking, throwing items, fighting or public urination.
Madison: The mumps have hit Dane County and health experts are expecting it to spread.
Dontez Sanders says he does not dispute that his unleased Pit Bull killed Laura Crylon’s leashed puppy, Cubby, as she walked him in a common area at their apartment complex.Ã? Ã? But, he says Kato is not aggressive toward people and has had training to help deal with his “prey drive”, or his urge to chase small animals.
A week after Princeton Review named UW the nation’s number one party school, Joel Plant began his job as Madison’s first Alcohol Policy Coordinator.Ã? Eight months later, he’s about to experience his first Mifflin Street block party.Ã?Â
Madison – A young company with a preventive solution to identity theft took home the $10,000 top prize in the 2006 G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition, but if area investors want to keep this promising enterprise close to home, they better act quickly.
A mumps outbreak that started in Iowa and has been most evident at colleges is spreading outside the state to colleges throughout the Midwest and as far away as Pennsylvania.
Cited: Laura Liddicoat, a supervisor of the forensic toxicology program at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.
Think your college boards were hard? What about those college financial aid offers? They can make your SATs look like Scrabble Junior.
Madison – The state Building Commission Wednesday voted 7 to 1 to approve the construction of a major biomedical research center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
With the vote, the commission took the final step necessary to launch the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, expected to be a major hub for stem cell and other biomedical and scientific research that will be the first of its kind in the Midwest.
Madison – Republican legislators who want to rewrite the Wisconsin Constitution to limit state and local government spending suffered a major setback Wednesday when two key GOP senators said they would not vote for the measure but instead want limits set by state law.
Liberal arts students at Milwaukee Area Technical College who achieve a 3.0 grade-point average and 54 credits would be guaranteed admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as transfers under an unprecedented agreement that is nearing completion.
A UW Hospital rehabilitation and pain management doctor has been sued three times in two months by women who claim he had inappropriate sexual contact with them during treatment.
WISC-Ch. 3 newsman Joel DeSpain wonders if perhaps he had too much caffeine the day Court TV came to town to interview him on the Audrey Seiler faked abduction case.
That was his reaction to an e-mail from Court TV’s Lee Schneider saying DeSpain’s interview, which lasted more than an hour, “has really become a mainstay of the documentary.”
Stem cells in the brain have enabled many lab discoveries and soon will be tested in children with a rare disease, but it could be years or decades before possible treatments for brain disorders are available, experts say.
One of the main reasons for the slow progress: the science is so complex, controversial and expensive, big drug companies are staying far away, said Alan Colman, chief executive officer of ES Cell International in Singapore and a creator of the cloned sheep Dolly nearly a decade ago.
Students who complete a two-year liberal arts degree at Madison Area Technical College could get guaranteed admission to UW-Madison under a new transfer program announced Wednesday by leaders of both institutions.
“This is a guaranteed on- ramp to UW-Madison,” MATC President Bettsey Barhorst said. “Students now will know exactly what process to follow, what classes to take, how many credits to earn and what grade- point average they need to maintain to be accepted.”
The UW Athletic Department is considering a policy that would sanction season ticket holders involved in unruly or illegal behavior at all its campus sports facilities.
The warning and revocation process, endorsed Wednesday by members of the UW Athletic Board’s facilities and operations committee, would affect season ticket holders on two fronts.
MADISON, Wis. – The State Building Commission approved plans Wednesday for a $150 million project to build twin research institutes on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Quoted: Carey Gleason, a dementia researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: James Paul Gee, in the department of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin and the author of books examining the educational aspects of video games
MADISON, Wis. – Qualified students at Madison Area Technical College are guaranteed admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as transfer students under an agreement announced by both schools Wednesday.
There is now a guaranteed graduation path from MATC to UW Madison.
The University of Wisconsin and the Madison Area Technical College have formalized a transfer contract.
UW Health is revamping how it handles security procedures at most of it’s complexes. Right now, security is handled by UW Campus Police — but that’s about to change. UW Health executives say it’s all about continuity and better service; better service in terms of better management of security at UW Hospital and Clinics. UW Health officials say they’re looking for a management team that has an expertise in security at hospitals and health care facilities — something UW Campus Police lacks.
Quoted: Michael Gutter, UW Extension Financial Specialist
