UW Scientists have been using animals in their research for at least 15 years and animal activists have been protesting for just as long.But for only the 4th time at the UW, an organized debate and a civil one at that.A standingââ?¬â??room only crowd filled Chamberlin Hall on the UW campus.
The University of Pennsylvania announced Thursday that it would pay for tuition, room and board for all students from families with incomes of up to $50,000. In topping similar aid commitments from wealthier universities, Penn may set off competition among leading institutions that could benefit low-income students and might attract more of them to enroll at institutions they may have considered too expensive in the past.
University of Wisconsin Business School senior Joe Jennings is kicking back, enjoying his last few months of college life. And why shouldn’t he? Jennings received four job offers by the end of the fall semester and accepted a position at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Chicago in late November.
Jennings says he was surprised by how easy it was to land a job. “It was awesome,” he says. “I got offers from companies I’d never even heard of — extremely painless.” The 23-year-old, who will earn a starting salary of $53,500 with a $2,
LONGER LIST: The University of Wisconsin at Madison announced this month the name of its new provost, but the institution’s chancellor, who made the final appointment, said afterward that he was unhappy with the list of candidates that he was given.
To the casual observer, they were just a couple of guys having coffee and a conversation at a University Avenue eatery early this week.For more than an hour, the two 40-somethings sat and talked about their jobs, families and the busy, exciting week ahead. They compared notes and shared ideas. When they got up and left, they parted not just as co-workers, but longtime friends.
Author: Thongchai Winichakul is a professor at the History Department’s Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United Sta
Something has to change with the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s disciplinary process for faculty and academic staff ââ?¬â? and nobody seems to dispute that.
An international team of researchers, led by University of Wisconsin-Madison flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka, has identified the biological roadblock that prevents the avian influenza virus, H5N1, from transmitting easily between people.
NEW YORK – Why doesn’t bird flu spread easily between people? Scientists think they’ve found a reason.
The virus prefers to infect cells in the lung instead of such areas as the nose and windpipe, so it’s not easily coughed or sneezed out into the air, new research says.
Universities are in a tug of war pitting traditionally powerful professors against a new generation of business-savvy presidents hired to control costs, boost research and make classes more relevant in a global economy.
The two most popular types of individual retirement accounts� are traditional and Roth.� 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.� � The Roth IRA is set-up just the oppos
A growing number of Americans are finding help, in the form of certified financial planners, to manage their family finances.Ã? Michael Gutter, University of Wisconsin-Extension Financial Specialist says,Ã? “More and more people are realizing the complexity of managing their own money and realizing that it’s not just as simple as picking the right mutual fund anymore, but it’s actually putting things in a broad strategy.
Foreign applications to graduate schools in the United States have increased 11 percent in the last year, marking a substantial ââ?¬â? if incomplete ââ?¬â? rebound from recent declines, according to data being released today by the Council of Graduate Schools.
A UW-Madison researcher has an answer to a bird flu question that has stumped scientists: Since the virus is powerful enough to kill many of the people it infects, why doesn’t it spread easily among people as the regular flu does?
UW-Madison recently became one of eight universities nationwide to support an initiative requiring licensees to purchase at least 25 percent of goods from unionized factories and logo apparel only from factories paying its workers living wages, according to a University Communications statement.
In an effort to reduce the amount of University of Wisconsin licensed apparel produced in sweatshops, UW administration endorsed a proposal Tuesday that could potentially change the university�s licensing policy.
When University of Wisconsin football fans walk into Camp Randall Stadium from Breese Terrace next season, they will be welcomed by something they have not experienced in recent years: space.
As the post-spring break chatter of drunken hook-ups, worm-chased tequila shots and bead-grabbing shenanigans works its way through campus, we�ve been privileged to hear many a rumor over the past several days. However, one particularly far-fetched token of humbuggery has caused us to do a double take.
Quoted: Amy Stettner, a clinical genetic counselor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison
Quoted: James Gee, a professor of learning sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thomas Purnell, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ran to the office of colleague Joseph Salmons.
Excited and out of breath, Purnell managed to say, “You won’t believe what I just heard.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison won first place in the annual Clean Snowmobile Challenge sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Michigan Tech University, the host school, placed sixth in the competition to design cleaner and quieter snowmobiles, which ended Saturday. Twelve teams competed.
A group of Madison Area Technical College students had been working in New Orleans for several days and they were getting tired of eating frozen sandwiches.A man was nice enough to offer them barbecue. So the students returned the favor: They picked up their tools and gutted his house
UW-Madison and community voices offered opinions on favorable social settings at a symposium Tuesday night intended to stimulate discourse on the Wisconsin Union Facilities Improvement Plan.
Universities around the country have begun to open up scholarship and financial aid opportunities, originally intended for ethnic minorities and women, to students of any race and gender. UW-Madison, however, has not yet followed suit.Since two 2003 Supreme Court cases dealing with race as a criterion for admission at the University of Michigan, many schools have changed their affirmative action policies to avoid legal challenges.
One out of eight female undergraduates will be sexually assaulted while at UW-Madison, according to Kelly Anderson, director of the Dane County Rape Crisis Center. Nationally, one in three women is sexually assaulted in her adult lifetime, Anderson added.
ââ?¬Å?I want to make a difference.ââ?¬Â Taking these words to heart, the UW-Madison College Democrats united with thousands of students from across America to rebuild the communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina during spring break
Quoted: UW Madison entomologist, Professor Phil Pellitteri.
The lights were dim, the music was pounding and the models were barely clothed. One after another, pairs of models sauntered down the rickety pink tulle-edge runway, stopped at the end, ignored the hands that attempted to grab them, pouted and scampered off the stage.
Rainer Maria played a lot of places around town when its members lived in Madison. But Union South, the site of the literary-minded rock band’s homecoming show this weekend, was rarely if ever one of them.
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that Ohio State University is not required to release videotapes of animal research sought under the state’s open-records law by an advocacy group opposed to such studies.
Fifteen other public universities have faced similar requests in the past year, although 11 voluntarily released the information sought. One of the three that refused, Mississippi State University, has been sued.
Four downtown establishments will have their liquor licenses reviewed by the Madison Alcohol License Review Committee in the upcoming months due to repeated violations
The Madison Plan Commission unanimously passed a proposal to completely demolish and renovate University Square Monday evening.
After being somewhat politically inactive his first two years at the University of Wisconsin, senior Eric Varney soon began to realize the importance of student involvement on campus.
The University of Wisconsin will begin offering a certificate program in global health as part of a collaborative effort by professors from various schools within the university next fall.
The recently proposed Wisconsin Taxpayer Protection Amendment continues to spark debate, as some are comparing it to a similar Colorado state constitutional amendment which garnered mixed results.
As many basked in the spring break afterglow of suntans and hangovers Sunday, one UW-Madison Fine Arts graduate student used a performance-art piece titled ââ?¬Å?Spring Break Speedos 2006ââ?¬Â to question the cultural significance of spring break.
Standing in a large room where men in white coats monitor an array of instruments and silver tubing connects several giant chrome vats, one might not expect this lab�s product to be served in a waffle cone. But at the University of Wisconsin Dairy Plant located in Babcock Hall, the sweet smell of ice cream fills the air.
Wisconsin flexed its biotech muscles once again last week, this time in an area of medicine that is at the top of everybody’s to-do list: researching the viruses that cause influenza.
Welcome to Wisconsin, the flu capital of North America.
Don’t take that title the wrong way and run screaming for the nearest border. Wisconsin has yet to become a hot spot for the spread of avian influenza � and, it can be hoped, won’t become one. However, it may be the place where a possible pandemic is monitored and even controlled.
The UW makes its case against landmark status for the Rennebohm building…
If the UW is forced to integrate the former Rennebohm pharmacy building into it’s new research facility in the heart of campus…. it would force the university to have a smaller facility.
About 100 UW students are back from spring break; but rather than rest, they spent their time in the trenches of New Orleans, helping in the rebuilding process.
The students who went on the trip learned progress in the area is slow. They say they were briefed before leaving, but nothing could prepare them for what they found in the city.
MADISON, Wis. — The UW unveiled plans and suggestions Monday about how to incorporate the Rennebohm building into new plans for a state of the art research center.
UW officials said the university could add on or build around the old building, but they would prefer to demolish it, reported WISC-TV.
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All universities gain and lose talented faculty and staff. But UW-Madison is losing more than its share of academic stars and having a tougher time attracting others.
At a time of escalating change for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health – from its name to its mission to its very bricks and mortar – its leader will be a new face, too.
For Dr. Robert Golden, incoming dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, battling the glass ceiling for women in academic medicine will be a family affair.
Quoted: Eric Mata, assistant director for diversity education programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Retail expert Cynthia Jasper, a consumer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin police are investigating an office door that was tampered with in the Genetics-Biotechnology Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Heidi Nass is an HIV-positive treatment educator and patient advocate with the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison.
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
Philipp Simon, a plant breeder with the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Quoted: : Dr. Dennis G. Maki, a professor of medicine and head of infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
A review of Alfred W. McCoy’s new book “A Question of Torture.”
MADISON, Wis. – Hundreds of protesters called for an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq on Saturday, blasting the war as a costly mistake in terms of life and money.
Organizers said the march across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and rally near the state Capitol was the largest antiwar event in Madison since the war began three years ago.
Cheesemakers from around the world will converge on Madison next week to compete for the title of the world’s best cheese.The World Championship Cheese Contest will take place at Monona Terrace from Tuesday to Thursday. The event is free and open to the public.
A long-awaited debate between an animal rights activist and a University of Wisconsin-Madison animal researcher is staged for next week.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison freshmen appeared in Dane County Court last week on hate crime charges stemming from a Dec. 21 incident in Ogg Hall.
University of Wisconsin police continue to investigate whether there was a criminal motive behind the tampering of a UW Genetics-Biotechnology Center office door over spring break.
