MADISON, Wis. — The attorney for a former University of Wisconsin-Madison administrator said on Wednesday that his client wants his old job back after a UW appeals committee voted last week to overturn his reprimand after sexual harassment allegations were leveled against him.
Quoted: John DeLamater, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin and editor of the International Journal of Sex Research.
MADISON, Wis. — Tryouts to become the next Bucky Badger are this week, and many UW hopefuls are finding that becoming the famous mascot is no easy task.Tryouts are being held at the UW Field House this week. Seventeen students showed up to battle it out for the honor of playing Bucky.
A famous face pushed equality for the gay community in Madison Tuesday night. 27 New’s Mitch Weber met George Takei wants to be an example to break stereotypes.
Bill Johnston is coming home.
He’s been gone a while. The Janesville native and UW- Madison graduate who began his newspaper career 33 years ago delivering ad proofs for Madison Newspapers (now Capital Newspapers) was named publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal Tuesday.
On July 1, the rate on outstanding federal Stafford loans will rise and could go as high as 7%. By consolidating before the rate change, you can lock in a rate as low as 4.75% for the life of the loan. Lots of things in life are complicated, but this isn’t: If you consolidate by June 30, you’ll save money.
Message to the State Building Commission:
Wednesday you will be considering a proposal for a $150-million public-private hub for biomedical research at UW-Madison. This new kind of “sci-tech” research center, called the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, would give our state a chance to lead the nation in curing disease, creating jobs and training the next generation of leaders.
Don’t blow it.
Tuck the memories of hot fudge sundaes and grilled Danish into tissue.
With regrets all around, the Madison Landmarks Commission on Monday decided the Rennebohm Building at 1353 University Ave. isn’t a city landmark.
That unanimous decision means that UW-Madison can bring a little less guilt to the city Plan Commission Wednesday when they unveil the first stage of the Institutes of Discovery, a $375 million state-of-the-art research center to be built on a wedge of land between University and Randall avenues and West Johnson and Charter streets.
State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau, Wis., wants state officials to put stem cell research in a different building � or at least behind different walls � from other kinds of scientific research.
His reasoning is that because embryonic stem cell research is funded privately because of concerns by some that it requires the destruction of the embryos, it should be clearly separated from other types of research that are funded through state taxpayer money.
Now that Barry Alvarez has become a certified hockey groupie, it will be interesting to see if he uses his position as University of Wisconsin athletic director to enhance the experience for all involved.
Quoted:Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
MADISON ââ?¬â? A private research institute planned on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will allow researchers to move quickly to tackle scientific problems and give them space to turn their ideas into companies, university officials say.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? A new diagnostic tool that might play an important role in rapidly detecting viruses that cause avian flu and other respiratory illnesses is close to passing a validation test being conducted at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
During the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the late 1990s, Cass R. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, appeared on television regularly to argue that impeaching President Bill Clinton was wrong.
Malformed proteins that cause chronic wasting disease in deer can adhere to minerals in soil and remain deadly, a new UW-Madison study says.
The announcement of a $50 million private donation to help fund the proposed Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery has gained headlines throughout Wisconsin. While the generosity of John and Tashia Morgridge should be lauded, serious questions remain about how the facility will operate.
Public pressure may have cost Paul Barrows a high-powered job at UW-Madison last summer. Now his lawyer hopes it will win the position back.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley in June eliminated a $150,000 consultant position he had created for Barrows amid outrage from state lawmakers over his eight months of paid leave and allegations of sexual harassment. Wiley demoted Barrows to a lower-level position paying $72,000 per year.
Wisconsin takes pride in its University of Wisconsin System being unafraid to carve a job for itself in improving the state. That’s why the Growth Agenda introduced by UW System President Kevin Reilly has “impressive” written all across it.
Quoted: John Witte, the state’s evaluator of the program then and a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After about one and a half years of marriage, UW-Madison student Claire Hanschke and her husband, Tim, a recent graduate, finish each other’s sentences like a seasoned married couple.
Both are comfortable in their new roles and say they have benefited from marriage. But being a student and a spouse can be difficult, others say.
Francois Ortalo-Magne, an associate real estate professor at the UW-Madison Business School, said he doesn’t believe Internet services ever will replace real estate agents.
Many officers suffer psychological repercussions following a fatal shooting, although with proper counseling, most can return to full duty without lingering dysfunction, said Michael Scott, a clinical assistant professor at the UW-Madison Law School and co-author of the study “Deadly Force: What We Know” in 1992.
The details of accreditation are so arcane and complex that the entire topic is confusing and controversial throughout all of education. When we�re immersed in the details of accreditation, it�s often exceedingly difficult to see the forest for all the trees. But at the core, accreditation is a very simple concept: Accreditation is a process of self-regulation that exists solely to serve the public interest.
Quoted: Robert Enright, professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, helped start the secular “forgiveness movement” with his research in 1985.
APPLETON ââ?¬â? A construction company giant will be honored at the May 12 commencement ceremonies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever be considered for an honorary degree,” said Oscar C. Boldt, chairman of the Oscar J. Boldt Construction Co. in Appleton.
As a student of the University of Alabama, I took pride in two things: our football team and our reputation as a party school.
I began reflecting on my alcohol-infused college years when I saw that the University of Wisconsin topped Playboy’s list of top party schools in the magazine’s May issue. Reading the story about Wisconsin being No. 1 in its study of “books, babes and beer,” I thought about the notoriety surrounding the rowdiness of Duke lacrosse team parties.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Public pressure may have cost Paul Barrows a high-powered job with the University of Wisconsin-Madison last summer. Now his lawyer hopes public pressure will win him the position back.
MADISON, Wis. – A private research institute planned on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will allow researchers to move quickly to tackle scientific problems and give them space to turn their ideas into companies, officials sa
IOWA CITY, April 14 ââ?¬â? Courtney Rodemeyer, a sophomore at the University of Iowa, ran to the basement of the Alpha Chi Omega house Thursday night after the first tornado warning sounded. She was under a table when the twister, part of a series that hit the state, struck.
MADISON, Wis. — Controversy is brewing between the UW Roman Catholic Foundation and the Chancellor as funding for the group is in question.Chancellor John Wiley has agreed with a national group to cut funding to the UWRCF.Wiley said the money comes from university funding and therefore cannot support a religious organization.
Students are stepping up their protests in support of low-wage workers on their campuses, and administrators at several institutions are cracking down ââ?¬â? and taking heat in some quarters for doing so.
The UW-Madison Academic Staff Appeals Committee has ruled that former Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows did not deserve a demotion over allegations he sexually harassed female studen
A review committee has unanimously decided a reprimand given to demoted UW Madison administrator Paul Barrows was unjust.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin appeals committee voted unanimously on Friday that the school’s former vice chancellor was wrongly reprimanded after sexual harassment allegations came to light.
For the past several years, LaMarr Billups has been the university’s point person on the development of the university’s policy on labor licensing.
University of Wisconsin professor Mark Fedenia brought 20 master�s students to Omaha last fall. He described Buffett as a principled person who has a message for those about to start their careers.
The testimony from the Paul Barrows hearing Tuesday should have been attributed to Paula Gates, not Cynthia Hasz. The Cardinal regrets the error.
Purdue University has turned down the Purdue Organization for Labor Equality’s proposal to stop producing Purdue apparel in sweatshops.
Companies are permitted to make apparel with the Purdue logo after they have been granted a license by the licensing committee. Some of these companies make these products under sweatshop conditions; an occurence the group wishes to change.
As surely as spring flowers follow the rain, the letters arrive in my mailbox.A day or two after we report a sexual assault in the newspaper, I’ll get a letter with a newspaper clipping attached, and the words written next to the story: “Pepper spray may have prevented this.”
A staff appeals committee plans to decide as early as Friday whether UW-Madison had just cause to punish administrator Paul Barrows over sexual harassment allegations last fall with penalties including a written reprimand and required sexual harassment training.
From the 95th floor of the John Hancock building, with the sun setting in colorful streaks above the glittering lights of Chicago, the view was spectacular for the 250 people attending an invitation-only Wisconsin reception Monday night for participants at BIO 2006, the biotechnology industry’s annual convention.
Two weeks before Mike Eaves guided the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team to the NCAA title he got a cold call from a long-time NHL acquaintance, asking an intriguing question.
Would Eaves consider another coaching job?
An Assembly committee approved on a narrow, hastily arranged 7-6 vote Wednesday a constitutional amendment to limit government taxes and fees in the state – a margin that signaled the uncertainty ahead for the measure as it goes to the full Assembly.
The University of Virginia announced on Wednesday that it would guarantee admission to all qualified students from the state’s community-college system, as part of an effort to make itself more accessible to a wider range of students.
For many college students and their parents, paying for their education is a huge worry.Ã? And the process to get financial aid is no comfort.Ã? According to Susan Fischer, University of Wisconsin Student Financial Services Director, “It frightens some families and we’re sorry about that. We’re finding the biggest scary thing is the Federal Application for Student Aid, fondly known as the FAFSA.”
Chicago ââ?¬â? A stem cell scientist from Harvard University dropped by Wisconsin’s pavilion at this week’s international biotechnology convention and noted, with a hint of admiration, that it was abuzz with activity.
“I really think there’s more action around the Wisconsin exhibit than anywhere else I’ve been on the (exhibit) floor,” he said.
At the University of Wisconsin, Procter & Gamble has developed a seminar covering persuasive selling, the art of negotiation and other skills, as well as a sales competition for M.B.A.s. In the contest, student teams pitch a new Pantene shampoo line to two P&G managers and a buyer from Target.
Trading a spring break of beaches and pina coladas for one of hammers and hazard suits, more than 100 University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison students traveled to New Orleans in the middle of March to help with the devastated areaââ?¬â?¢s reconstruction.Though the students expected a week of hard work, most were unprepared for the lack of organization and supervision that awaited them. Months after the floodwaters have receded, recovery efforts continue to be hindered by those supposed to be helping. UW students discovered some of these problems firsthand as they faced difficult and sometimes dangerous working and living conditions.
Quoted: James A. Stewart, an oncologist and professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in Madison.
A new UW-Madison class about global AIDS offers no shortage of guest speakers – researchers who have met sufferers of the disease in Africa, scientists who are working in their campus labs on a possible cure.
But students in the three- credit course, designed as a “capstone experience” for upperclassmen, said they’re also learning a lot from each other.
CHICAGO – From the 95th floor of the John Hancock building, with the sun setting in colorful streaks above the glittering lights of Chicago, the view was spectacular for the 250 people attending an invitation-only Wisconsin reception Monday night for participants at BIO 2006, the biotechnology industry’s annual convention.
Wisconsin brought in a star of a different sort. James Thomson, the University of Wisconsin biologist who won a spot on the cover of Time magazine after being the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells, joined his state�s governor at a presentation focusing on biotech opportunities in their region.
ââ?¬Å?Wisconsin isnââ?¬â?¢t some place scrambling to get in the game,ââ?¬Â Gov. Jim Doyle said. ââ?¬Å?We lead the game.ââ?¬Â
ââ?¬Å?Itââ?¬â?¢s not all in your head. It is harder to get in to college this year,ââ?¬Â begins a recent Washington Post article. Itââ?¬â?¢s one of many articles appearing of late in major publications that inform kids and parents just how steep the hill ahead is.
Badgers and Hoosiers know how to have a good time. The latest Princeton Review rankings place IU and Wisconsin at sixth and first respectively on the list of top party schools. The rankings then beg the question of which school takes top honors for biggest party in the Big Ten.
Badger fever is headed for Eau Claire in June, but some Eau Claire City Council members wonder if the event will mix well with the city.� The UW-Madison Athletic Department is planning a Badger tailgate party in Carson Park.
A former top administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison got his chance Tuesday to defend himself against allegations that he sexually harassed women.
During day two of a public hearing, one woman described a series of incidents in which she says Paul Barrows’ behavior was predatory, saying he repeatedly stared at her and followed her.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor David Canon
A potential witness to sexual harassment by UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows said he saw nothing.Ã?Â
April is proving to be a big month for Wisconsin and the biosciences industry. First of all, the spectacular, $50 million contribution to a new research hub from the Morgridges is a huge boost for biomedical research and the role it plays in the state’s economic development.
The state legislature continues to cast a pretty wide net in its effort to wreak havoc on state institutions. Whether it?s the propensity to micromanage or simply to appeal to the shortsighted tax freeze minority, elected officials seem blind to the impact on schools and colleges among other things. And that includes tech schools.
