Concerned about the possible ramifications of the Taxpayer Protection Amendment, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will hold a special meeting this week to discuss the controversial piece of legislation.
Sometimes it seems that the University of Wisconsin System just can’t get a break.
A UW-Madison freshman faces felony charges for his role in a fight at Ed�s Express earlier this month.
The University of Wisconsin has long been known as a bastion of world-class research. And soon it will be home to the newly established Institute for Influenza Viral Research.
Madison: Badger fans took advantage of the men’s basketball game and St. Patrick’s Day to head to the bars for lunch.
Irish Waters on Whitney Way was packed for lunch, as many people used the 11:30 tip off for the Badger game as an excuse to head to the bar.
Quoted: James Baughman, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has written a history of the FCC.
Quoted: Patrick McBride, a University of Wisconsin cardiologist
Thousands of college students who might have spent spring break sunning in Acapulco or on Florida beaches this year are pouring into New Orleans to sleep in dormitory tents or on classroom floors, eat off paper plates and spend a week of vacation hauling foul muck out of homes ruined by floodwaters.
AS MANY as one in five Australians may have contracted a virus linked to obesity. Blood tests on 2000 Australians, carried out in the US, showed about 20 per cent of them had been exposed to a virus called Ad-36, which some researchers say can cause weight gain.
The idea that fatness is catching is controversial. However, Richard Atkinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who did the testing, said a fat virus could help explain the worldwide epidemic of obesity.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin-Madison has fired a financial specialist who was convicted of embezzling last year from a previous employer, a university spokesman said Thursday.
UW-Madison terminated Jennifer Joas, a financial specialist in the department of agronomy, on March 10, days after the Associated Press reported she was convicted of embezzling more than $30,000 while an accountant for the Carrington Group.
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A new flu institute at UW-Madison and a new flu test at a state lab on campus are among Wisconsin’s expanding efforts to help the state and the country prepare for a flu pandemic, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Wednesday.
Dion Lee’s betting days have long since passed.
So Lee did not want to hazard a guess as to when he finally would be able to watch the NCAA tournament without thinking of the gambling scandal that marred his Northwestern basketball career more than a decade ago.
But odds favor later over sooner.
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
The People Asked: Are students helping out in Louisiana instead of whooping it up for spring break?
The Focus Responds: The short answer: Some are.
We received a press release from Cathy Collentine, the student chair of WISPIRG (the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group), who believes that many students at the University of Wisconsin defy the college spring break stereotype.
Lloyd Smith, a chemist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – An influenza researcher whose work is key to preparing for a flu pandemic will expand his program at a $9 million center planned for a Madison research park, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday.
The new Institute for Influenza Viral Research will house the laboratories of UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Seventeen students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison chose not to spend their spring break on white sand beaches soaking up the sun. They decided to preserve Selma’s history instead.
MADISON – A retired University of Wisconsin historian noted for his research into the Watergate scandal pleaded no contest Wednesday to threatening to blow up a health insurance building.
Madison: Most people in Wisconsin probably haven’t worried too much about the avian influenza, but state health officials say they’ve been worrying for you.
The Wisconsin Summit on Pandemic Influenza is one of the few conferences where participants hope all their planning is unnecessary.
UW officials say the proposed $9 million Institute for Influenza Viral Research will be an essential part of fighting away a possible worldwide flu pandemic. It will be a 20,000 square foot facility, strictly for flu research. The lab will be run by by UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Scientists say it’s not a matter of if, but when. And when pandemic flu hits ââ?¬â?? an event that could, at the least, keep large sections of the population from working, shut down travel and public institutions and cause infrastructure outages ââ?¬â?? information technology may be called on to ease the burden of coordinating both public efforts and business.
ââ?¬Å?Alternative spring breaksââ?¬Â have become popular in recent years; Campus Compact, a coalition of 1,000 colleges and universities committed to the civic mission of higher education, says the number of schools offering spring break volunteer opportunities has increased from 66% to 77% since 2000. But interest in hurricane relief is unprecedented.
High housing costs are only part of the reason young adults are staying home in greater numbers than ever before. Some may be ââ?¬Å?boomerangsââ?¬Â who tried life on their own and came back to the nest, but experts are increasingly aware of the adults who never really left. They’re the ones who may have gone to college but were never really independent or fully launched from the nest because Mom and Dad paid the bills.
California’s $3 billion embryonic stem-cell research program has ignited a race among states drafting similar tax-funded efforts that could boost demand for human egg donors.
Advertisements in campus newspapers and on websites plead daily. ââ?¬Å?Egg Donors Needed. $10,000,ââ?¬Â says one in The Daily Californian, the student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley. The ad, from a San Diego broker called A Perfect Match, seeks women who are ââ?¬Å?attractive, under the age of 29ââ?¬Â and have SAT scores above 1,300.
Less than a week after notifying about 4,000 students that their SAT tests had been calculated incorrectly, the College Board, owner of the entrance exam, said Tuesday that a previously overlooked batch of answer sheets from 1,600 students who took the test in October have not been rechecked.
Don’t assume that Duke University students carrying Apple iPods around campus are listening to the latest hits. They might be studying. An increasing number of professors at Duke and other college campuses are experimenting with making lectures and study materials available to students via iPods and other MP3 players.
Craig Werner, 54, of the University of Wisconsin and colleague Doug Bradley, a 58-year-old Vietnam veteran, have interviewed hundreds of Vietnam vets about the music that affected them and has remained with them.
An increasing number of professors at Duke and other college campuses are experimenting with making lectures and study materials available to students via iPods and other MP3 players.
The March Madness of college basketball is here, and — get ready — you should be rooting for the Duke Blue Devils.
OK, maybe that’s taking “madness” a little too far. Thanks to coach Mike Krzyzewski’s self-promoting American Express ads, the Cameron Crazies’ made-for-TV antics and endless Blue Devil worship by the college basketball media, Duke really seems to deserve America’s hate.
Author: John Hawks is an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in human evolution and genetics
Emily Soldner has been asked for her autograph both at her workplace, the University of Wisconsin-Madison accounting department, and among her relatives since winning cash and a trip to Canada during the March 7 episode of the game show. All told, she collected $8,250.
UW-Madison School of Business assistant professor Masako Ueda said presentations over the Internet are a “hot market,” particularly for online education. “However, that means competition will be very fierce, too,” she said.
The Games + Learning + Society conference is being held in town due to the role UW-Madison plays as a vital center of research into the confluence of education and gaming.
Budget cuts, bad press and hurt feelings are taking a measurable toll on UW-Madison, Chancellor John Wiley said Monday, as other universities go after key faculty at a faster clip, and with more success in the last two years.
Quoted: Susan Crowley, director of PACE (Policy, Alternatives, Community and Education), a 10-year, $1.2 million program set up to curb underage drinking at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Matthew Wolff, cardiology chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: James L. Baughman, director of the journalism school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A skilled multitasker who dreams big, thrives on stress, and calls his parents constantly. That is the profile of the modern student, as described by college officials here on Monday at the annual conference of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
Facing threats of litigation and pressure from Washington, colleges and universities nationwide are opening to white students hundreds of thousands of dollars in fellowships, scholarships and other programs previously created for minorities.
Southern Illinois University reached a consent decree last month with the Justice Department to allow nonminorities and men access to graduate fellowships originally created for minorities and women.
MADISON, Wis. — About 110 University of Wisconsin students are spending their spring break this year on the Gulf Coast to help clean up what Hurricane Katrina left behind.
The students are spending their time volunteering in order to help those who need it. They’ll be cleaning up homes and businesses damaged by the hurricane, WISC-TV reported.
Milwaukee, Wis. ââ?¬â? The first chancellor of research in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said Friday that UWM is trying to change its image from a university of access to a university of research, and in the process help Milwaukee build a knowledge-based economy.
More than 2,000 new students at Towson University had gathered for the convocation that was to be a focal point of orientation week. Videos showed campus scenes. The marching band was going to help teach the Maryland institution�s fight song. The university president, several Towson sports stars, and the student government president were to speak to the freshmen in a relatively short (45 minute) program.
When Kurt Keppler attended college more than 25 years ago, parents rarely phoned administrators or monitored their childââ?¬â?¢s schedule, he said. ââ?¬Å?If I found out that my mom or dad had called the dean of students, I would have had some strong words for them,ââ?¬Â said Keppler, who is vice president for student affairs at Valdosta State University and president of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
The median salary for midlevel administrative workers in higher education rose 3.3 percent in the 2005-6 academic year, according to an annual survey released this week by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
Henry Perez-Guerra is in his 13th year as a licensed athletic trainer at the University of Wisconsin and is in his sixth year with the men’s basketball team. Extremely talented, diligent and well-respected by coaches and student-athletes, Perez-Guerra also has responsibilities with the track and cross country teams
Academia has long lagged behind corporations in work-family benefits, mired in a rigid “publish or perish” tradition that denies tenure to professors who don’t produce and leaves little room for time off.
Now, alarmed by high quit rates among faculty, charges of sexism and the looming retirement of baby-boom profs, top universities are shifting gears fast.
The co-sponsor of a proposed constitutional amendment designed to hold down state taxes said Friday that lawmakers can’t be trusted to make tough spending decisions on their own and that fewer public services will help the state’s economy.
“I’ve yet to see the Legislature take a hard vote on anything,” said Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, adding that “the press” contributes to the problem by not holding lawmakers accountable.
In other business, the board:
Approved a new policy giving resident assistants at University of Wisconsin campuses the freedom to hold Bible studies or any other kind of meeting in their dormrooms, to the same extent as other students, provided they don’t use their positions to “pressure, coerce or inappropriately influence” other students to attend or participate.
When Dr. Susan Goelzer took it over in 1997, the anesthesiology department at the UW Medical School was sinking fast.
In the previous 14 months, the department had lost 30 percent of its faculty. Its stable of residents, or anesthesiologists-in-training, also had dropped, from 40 to eight, putting that program near probation.
Quoted: James Stein, a cardiologist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Of the eight potential first- and second-round NCAA tournament destinations, one glowed with ultimate appeal to University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan.
The last time the University of Wisconsin played Arizona in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the Badgers were given no chance to advance.
Quoted: Dr. Richard J. Davidson of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Patrick Masson, a genetics professor at the University of Wisconsin, laid off four lab workers and expects to let another two go by this summer because he stands to lose $700,000 in NASA grants.
Local television news airs plenty of health stories, but they’re often short on context and sometimes contain harmful errors, a study says.
Mentioned: Kenneth Goldstein, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — A local man just released from prison in December is in trouble again for allegedly attacking and sexually assaulting a woman near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Steven Ruiz is accused of choking and sexually assaulting a woman as she returned to a North Francis Street apartment near campus, WISC-TV reported.
Lewis Friedland thinks there are a lot of great Madison stories that not enough people know about.
A professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Friedland wants to give Madisonians like Wasser a way to tell their stories.
For the better part of two decades, Richard Weindruch, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has fed half of a colony of 78 rhesus monkeys a diet adequate in nutrition but severely limited in calories — 30 percent fewer calories than are fed to the control group.
