Modern society is based on money, so suddenly knocking off 62 percent of your current income can be extremely devastating in so many ways. Losing your dreams and legacy is even tougher. (Story not available online.)
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Barrows to finally get his day in “court” (Madison Times)
Modern society is based on money, so suddenly knocking off 62 percent of your current income can be extremely devastating in so many ways. Losing your dreams and legacy is even tougher. (Story not available online.)
Barrows to finally get his day in “court” (Madison Times)
Modern sociatey is based on money, so suddenly knocking off 62 percent of your income can be devastating in so many ways. Losing your dreams and legacy is even tougher.
Barrows to finally get his day in “court” (Madison Times)
Modern sociatey is based on money, so suddenly knocking off 62 percent of your income can be devastating in so many ways. Losing your dreams and legacy is even tougher.
Students vote down fee increase to pay for building upgrades (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
MADISON ââ?¬â? For the second year in a row, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted down a measure that would have increased a student fee to help pay for building improvements.
The measure asked whether students should pay $192 more per year toward improving the campus’s two student unions.
MADISON ââ?¬â? For the second year in a row, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted down a measure that would have increased a student fee to help pay for building improvements.
The measure asked whether students should pay $192 more per year toward improving the campus’s two student unions.
When it comes to the mind, use it or lose it (AP)
MSNBC.com
Quoted: Carey Gleason, a dementia researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Plugged In: Global warning (Fortune)
CNN.com
Quoted: Jonathan Foley, director for the Center for Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin’s Elliott badgers foes in net: Hot goalie key in Frozen Four
USA Today
Wisconsin goaltender Brian Elliott and his teammates had just completed a road-series sweep of North Dakota in early November. Elliott was stopped for a postgame TV interview. When he got to the locker room, goaltending coach Bill Howard had a welcome-to-the-big-time gift waiting: A bag of ice. To wear as a hat. Couldn’t have the kid’s head swelling, Howard figured, although it was mostly in good humor. Elliott, recruited as a last-minute stopgap and relegated to backup status behind an All-American during his first two seasons as a Badger, traveled a humble route to Division I distinction.
Torture around the world (National Catholic Reporter)
In A Question of Torture, University of Wisconsin history professor Alfred W. McCoy documents the CIA�s use of abusive interrogation techniques during the past 50 years.
Patent holder may sap rewards of stem-cell study (San Jose Mercury-News)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Elizabeth Donley, general counsel for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), told California stem-cell researchers at a major conference recently that WARF will demand a significant chunk of royalties from any of California’s efforts.
The Wisconsin foundation, which is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin, announced at the conference that it holds two patents with extraordinarily broad claims to the use of embryonic stem cells until the year 2015, and that it intends to enforce the patents.
Baggot: No doubt Richter was right
Wisconsin State Journal
It wasn’t the most controversial decision Pat Richter made during his tenure as University of Wisconsin athletic director, but it’s in the top two for sure.In March 2002, Richter hired Mike Eaves as UW men’s hockey coach and immediately created a seismic shift in the emotional plates beneath the storied program.
UConn Backs Worker Rights Plan (Hartford Courant)
UConn President Philip E. Austin has publicly endorsed the college anti-sweatshop movement by pledging to work with other universities on a plan to deal only with college-apparel factories that support workers’ rights.
More universities are going SAT-optional
USA Today
There is a growth spurt in the test-optional movement; now, 24 of the top 100 liberal arts colleges, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, are SAT- and ACT-optional. In total, 730 U.S. colleges don’t require SAT or ACT scores, but many are technical or religious schools or those with open admissions policies. For some colleges changing policies, the turning point came when the College Board introduced the new 3-hour, 45-minute SAT with an added essay section.
Buddhism and the art of brain science (San Diego Union-Tribune)
San Diego Union-Tribune
In the early 1990s, American scientist Richard Davidson traveled to India at the request of the Dalai Lama to meet with Buddhist monks who devote their lives to meditation. A Harvard-educated researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Davidson has since brought Buddhist monks to his lab.
Jones resigns his position on UW-Whitewater faculty (AP)
MADISON, Wis. – A former dean at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, fired from that job four months ago after a critical audit, has resigned from his faculty position, the university confirmed Tuesday.
McCain’s Straight-Talking Image Questioned (AP)
Los Angeles Times
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor.
Alumni Will Contribute To Research Institutes
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — An alumni couple from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is putting up $50 million for the first phase of a unique, world-class research institute near campus.
Executives hear about promise, limits of RFID and nanotech
Wisconsin Technology Network
Wisconsin business executives gathered in Milwaukee to hear how radio frequency identification and nanotechnology can make their businesses more competitive, but while several applications are tantalizingly close, barriers remain.
The technologies were outlined during a session of the Wisconsin Innovates Conference. Although presenters Alfonso GutiÃ?©rrez, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s RFID Lab, and Lawrence Casper, UW-Madison’s assistant dean for research and technology transfer, believe these technologies will influence business in many sectors, they acknowledged that both are a bit over-hyped.
UW-Madison gets $100 million for research institutes (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison received $100 million to build two research institutes on campus, including a private research center that will be the first of its kind in the Midwest, university officials said Monday.
Huge gift for UW research
Wisconsin State Journal
Twin institutes of UW-Madison biomedical research and discovery – one public, one private – will rise in the 1300 block of University Avenue by 2009 with the help of a $50 million private gift from UW-Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge.
The Morgridges’ gift, announced Monday, is the single largest private donation in university history. It will be matched by another $50 million from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for a total $100 million privateboost to the building project, now known as the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Anti-Israel bias at colleges scrutinized
USA Today
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, responding to allegations that an anti-Israel bias is rampant on college campuses, approved recommendations Monday aimed at ensuring that Jewish college students are protected from anti-Semitic harassment.
Updates on Billion Dollar Campaigns
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.655-billion as of March 3 (increase of $3-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
WARF says it’s ready for a legal challenge on stem cells
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Just in case anyone doubts that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has both the will and the resources to defend its stem cell patent, Andy Cohn would like to disabuse them of the notion. Cohn, government and public relations manager for WARF, said the foundation, armed with a $1.5 billion endowment, is prepared to take on any legal challenges to its controversial stem cell patent.
Badgers Football Player Gets Probation
NBC-15
A UW football player will serve 18ââ?¬â??months probation for a runââ?¬â??in with the law last year.
Marcus Randleââ?¬â??El received the sentence Monday for a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
$50 Million Gift to UW Madison to Further Biotech Research
NBC-15
The couple’s donation will fund the first phase of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. The governor says the launch of this project is a big step forward in maintaining the state’s status as a leader in biotechnology. Gov. Jim Doyle says he called for facilities like this one, when he announced a $750 million initiative two years ago to further biotechnology and stem cell research in Wisconsin.
Record Donation to Help Build Institutes for Discovery
WKOW-TV 27
It’s the largest donation ever to the UW-Madison campus, and it had Governor Jim Doyle declaring, “On behalf of all the citizens of the state of Wisconsin, I thank you for what you have done.”
Doyle was directing his congratulations toward alumni John and Tashia Morgridge, who helped kick start a massive biotechnology center to be built on the UW campus.
Fertility clinic won’t close
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW fertility clinic, which officials announced last month would close by June, will remain in the Madison area, university officials said Saturday.
“We have heard the concerns of the community, and we are reacting to them,” said Dr. Jeffrey Grossman, president of the UW Medical Foundation, the university doctors’ group. “This service cannot be interrupted.”
New UW-Madison provost starts, wants ‘cohesive vision’
Wisconsin State Journal
The way he tells it, Pat Farrell wasn’t pining to be the new provost at UW-Madison.
Farrell, 50, begins the job today, serving as chief academic officer of the university and second-in-command to Chancellor John Wiley. But initially, he said, he had to be prodded to consider it, advancing his application for the lofty post and its $238,468 salary only after “a couple people called” and suggested he try.
Kids’ films a hit at Wisconsin Film Festival
Wisconsin State Journal
As the audience filed out of “Young Visions and Voices” – a collection of short films made by Madison area kids and shown Sunday as part of the 2006 Wisconsin Film Festival – young filmmaker Tykem Balentine, 9, still felt a little bit thrilled and awed.
Transplant procedure seeks tolerance (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Pittsburgh Sunday Tribune-Review
Quoted: Dr. Stuart Knechtle, a professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin who has studied tolerance
Nanocolumns Give YBCO Wires a Big Boost (Science)
Quoted: David Larbalestier, a superconductivity expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Flooding, droughts may go on (Bloomington Pantagraph)
James C. Knox, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an acclaimed expert on the pulses that affect the Mississippi River, told a group at Illinois State University that agricultural factors such as the draining of wetlands, improved drainage from farm fields and erosion are often blamed for floods.
Foundation moves to grab a piece of stem cell profits (Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal)
The California stem cell institute’s plan to profit from the research it funds is going to cost it.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation said it is approaching licensing talks with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine as if the organization were a commercial entity, since it plans to capture revenue from the commercialization of the research it funds. The institute, created by voters in 2004, will oversee $3 billion earmarked for stem cell research
Study: Autism rise� from labeling, not epidemic (Reuters)
CNN.com
CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) — A rise in autism cases is not evidence of a feared epidemic but reflects that schools are diagnosing autism more frequently, a study said Monday.
There may be as yet unknown environmental triggers behind autism, study author Paul Shattuck of the University of Wisconsin at Madison said, but his research suggested the past decade’s rise in autism cases was more of a labeling issue.
The Multitasking Generation (Time Magazine)
Time
Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor Aaron Brower, who has been teaching social work for 20 years
Annual vaccinations may harm your pet (Newsday)
Newsday
Quoted: Veterinary immunologist Ron Schultz of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary in Madison, arguably the expert’s expert in the field of canine epidemiology
Nation split on illegal workers (AP)
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor who studies public opinion.
Thailand’s post-election crisis (Reuters)
Reuters
Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rio students get ready for a quixotic adventure (Portage Daily Register)
Twelve Rio High School Spanish students will participate today in the “Don Quixote in Wisconsin” project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Today’s event, which will be held at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., is the culmination of a year-long project through the UW Center for the Humanities for more than 100 students from around the state. About a dozen other high schools and five colleges are participating in the program.
Wisconsin to show up at BIO in numbers
Wisconsin Technology Network
Wisconsin’s reputation as an emerging biotechnology hot spot will be further enhanced next month when the state is well represented at one of the world’s premier biotechnology conferences, businesses and organizations here hope.
Wisconsin attendees will make up 1.5 percent of the total participation at the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s International Convention, which will be held April 9-12 at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center. That’s more than many other states and some countries.
Boys’ turn: Now they need help getting into colleges
USA Today
Lately, a nationwide shortage of highly qualified male applicants has admissions directors at private institutions (along with a few from public universities, which face separate legal issues when making exceptions based on race or gender) reaching deeper into their applicant pools to get something close to gender balance on campus. That angers some hard-working, high-achieving high school senior girls who see no reason why boys with lower test scores should get an edge ââ?¬â? just as a generation of attempts to help girls has angered boys.
A Successful Year For Film Festival
NBC-15
Closing credits roll on this year’s Wisconsin Film Fest. The eighth addition of the annual festival was a success.
Movie lovers from across the country turned up for the Film Fest, which started Thursday and ended Sunday night. 26,000 tickets were sold, that’s two thousand more than the old attendance record.
Fertility Clinic Will Stay Open
WKOW-TV 27
UW Hospital’s fertility clinic will stay open afterall.More than a week ago, the UW Medical Foundation announced it wanted to close the clinic this coming June.But as of yesterday, Hospital and Foundation leaders changed their minds, after angry patients and concerned community members bombarded them with complaints about the clos
Wisconsin As A Biotech Leader: Two Sides Of the Coin (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
Wisconsin is gearing up for what a state development group calls ââ?¬Å?the largest gathering of biotechnology leaders in the world.ââ?¬Â Next month, Forward Wisconsin hopes to market the state as a place where stem cell and other emerging biotech research is strong. Others think studying cells taken from embryos is wrong, and both sides are showcasing prominent people to make their point. (Sixth item.)
James Thomson, the stem cell researcher featured on a 2001 cover of Time magazine, will help Governor Jim Doyle lead a state delegation at a conference next month in Chicago.
Black Studies Pioneer Nellie McKay To Be Honored (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
Scholars of African-American literature from across the country are coming to Madison tomorrow to honor Nellie McKay. She was a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor for more than twenty years, gaining national recognition for helping make Black studies a part of college curriculums. (Third item.)
College grads savor sweetened job offers
Wisconsin State Journal
Nimroz Momin was worried about his job prospects.Born in India and raised in Houston, the senior finance major fired up his computer last fall, sending a flurry of 75 applications, mostly over the Internet, to companies around the Midwest and in Texas.
Film festival offers lots of options
Wisconsin State Journal
Sifting through the Wisconsin Film Festival offerings – from “Beauty Academy of Kabul” to “Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey” – isn’t as easy as deciding whether you’d like butter with that popcorn.
Official: Conflict at fertility clinic
Wisconsin State Journal
Escalating tensions among the three doctors at the UW fertility clinic, including charges of sexual harassment and poor care, led to the announcement last week that the clinic will close by June, a university official said Thursday.
Wis. communities will vote on whether to get out of Iraq
USA Today
Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political scientist at UW-Madison.
Computer bug suspends UW spring election
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s student government suspended its spring election Wednesday – after more than 6,000 people had voted – because a computer bug invalidated some of the ballots, officials said.
Couples who wanted to use fertility clinic wonder what they’ll do
Wisconsin State Journal
Bob and Courtney Maher were so happy with the in-vitro fertilization that produced their 8-month-old twin daughters, they were set to try the procedure again – until they learned last week that UW Hospital will close its fertility clinic by June.
Affordability, student transfers on the table in higher-education bill
USA Today
The Republican-led U.S. House is poised to consider a package of higher-education proposals today that proponents say would increase college access and affordability and make it easier for students to transfer to different schools.
SATs score big on headaches
USA Today
In the wake of a series of gaffes this month involving incorrect scores on the SAT reasoning test, some students who are preparing to take the test on Saturday already are worried. And growing skepticism about the College Board’s handling of the matter is prompting more colleges to consider making standardized test scores optional in admissions.
UW Regents oppose plan to limit government spending (AP)
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin System regents formally opposed a proposal to rein in government spending on Thursday, arguing it would cause tuition increases and campus enrollment caps.
Swiss Named the Big Cheese in Wisconsin (AP)
Washington Post
MADISON, Wis. — It was all in the cheese’s eyes. An emmentaler swiss cheese crafted in Switzerland with near perfect distribution of the holes that make the cheese famous took top honors Thursday at the World Championship Cheese Contes
Wide gulf at animal research debate
Wisconsin State Journal
If anyone came looking for compromise at Thursday night’s public debate between animal rights activist Rick Bogle and UW-Madison professor Eric Sandgren, they picked the wrong venue.
Attack on stem-cell patents
Wisconsin State Journal
Powerful patents on human embryonic stem cells held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation may be more of an impediment to research on the prized cells than restrictions imposed by President Bush, an article in today’s journal Science charges.
It’s Your Money: IRA Basics
WKOW-TV 27
The two most popular types of individual retirement accountsÃ? are traditional and Roth.Ã? In a traditional IRA, the money you put in and what you earn on it is not taxed until you start to withdraw it in retirement.Ã? Ã? The Roth IRA is set-up just the opposite. According toÃ? UW Extension Financial Specialist Michael Gutter, “The Roth IRA will allow you to take current after tax income and put that into an account. It’s already been taxed, you didn’t get a deduction for it. And, all earnings on that money will grow tax free. A Roth IRA won’t help your taxes today, but helps your taxes in the future.”
Here, Being the Big Cheese Is Everything (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) A worldwide competition ends today in Madison, with gold, silver, and bronze medals at hand for the winners. Contestants are judged on their presentation, form, and sharpness, along with age, veining, and even odor in hopes of taking honors at the 2006 World Championship Cheese Contest.
Ex-Badger Player To Stand Trial On Sex Assault Charges
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Former University of Wisconsin Badgers star running back Booker Stanley appeared in court on Thursday and learned that he will stand trial on sexual assault charges.