Quoted: Sean B. Carroll, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
John Doebley, another scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Quoted: Dr. Matthew Wolff, chief of cardiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Nina Emerson, director of the Resource Center on Impaired Driving at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
Stewart Ballweg, a drug recognition expert with the UW-Madison Police Department.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Resident assistants are free to host Bible studies, sales events and political meetings in their rooms under a policy adopted Friday by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
But the policy warns that RAs, who receive stipends in exchange for supervising students in residence halls, should create an inclusive environment and they may not use their positions to coerce other students to participate in events.
MADISON – A proposed amendment to the state constitution to limit government spending would result in massive tuition increases that would price out poor students at University of Wisconsin campuses, UW System regents told the plan’s author Friday.
One group of UW students is headed south for spring break where they will soak up the sun while tearing down houses.
More than 100 students chose to spend their spring break helping Hurricane Katrina victims get back on their feet. They left Sunday night and will rebuild houses through Habitat for Humanity throughout the next week.
The challenge is to be cleaner and quieter. The UW Madison snowmobiling team hopes to meet that challenge and clean up the competition.
The team is taking part in the Society of Automotive Engineers Clean Snowmobile Challenge in Michigan this week.
(UNDATED) Millions of Americans get their health news from local TV broadcasts, but a new study gives a shaky diagnosis of most coverage.
There are a lot of health stories on the local news, but according to a joint study done between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, many of these reports are lacking. After reviewing nearly 3,000 health-related stories from the top 50 media markets across the country, researchers found inaccuracies or a lack of practical information in many reports. (Fifth item.)
Quoted: Charles Jones, a retired political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who is now a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin has a reputation for being a national leader in technology transfer.
Now a bill is making its way through the Legislature that proponents say would make it easier for faculty and researchers to turn their ideas into start-up companies.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Science, faith, politics and morality swapped turns in the spotlight Thursday at a University of Missouri-Columbia symposium on stem cell research.
Though the two-day panel discussion, held Wednesday and Thursday, was billed as an apolitical effort to better understand the contentious research technique, signs of a potential statewide vote in November on stem cell research were hard
Patty Loew, PhD, Wisconsin Public Radio host and UW-Madison associate professor, will be the keynote speaker at the 32nd annual Native American Awareness Week at Northland College, March 13-18.
Reviewed: Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus” by Donald Alexander Downs.
Patrick V. Farrell, executive associate dean of the UW-Madison College of Engineering, was named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs Wednesday.
Q: Why do carrots spark in the microwave?
A: We scoured the UW-Madison campus until we found John Booske, a professor of electrical and computing engineering, who told us that vegetables that contain a lot of water and are cut with sharp edges, as carrots often are, can produce light in the microwave.
Many colleges have traditionally relied on the U.S. State Departmentââ?¬â?¢s travel warnings to decide which countries are safe enough for study abroad programs. If a country is on the list, students wanting to study there could forget about help ââ?¬â? including financial aid or credit transfer ââ?¬â? from their home institutions.
The prevalence of ankle sprains among high school athletes so concerned two researchers at the UW Health Sports Medicine Center that they undertook a three-year study using 765 male and female basketball and soccer players at 12 Madison-area high schools.
Edgewood College students are essentially going to lose one of the places they regularly go to for advice on sexual assault.
Wet, rainy weather may be to blame for thousands of incorrect S.A.T. scores. That statement comes from the company responsible for scanning answer sheets.
The U.W. Madison says it was notified this week that scores for more than 40 applicants were incorrect out of 23,000 who applied. One S.A.T. score was off by more than 300 points.
While jobs in manufacturing or high-tech rise and fall with the fortunes of the economy, an aging population and medical advances mean health care positions are among the fastest-growing jobs. How fast? Eight of the 20 fastest-growing occupations are in health care. More new hourly and salaried jobs ââ?¬â? about 19%, or 3.6 million ââ?¬â? created between 2004 and 2014 will be in health care than in any other industry, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
About 4,000 college-bound high school students ââ?¬â? not to mention parents, counselors and college admissions officials ââ?¬â? are struggling to recover from the news this week that their SAT scores were miscalculated. ââ?¬Å?I don’t understand how this could have happened,ââ?¬Â says Katie MacDowell, 17, a senior at Littleton (Mass.) High School. She learned Thursday that the score reported to colleges for her test was 40 points lower than it should have been.
Patrick Farrell, who has built engines for General Motors, Ford and Toyota, will soon be a big cog in the engine of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl of Wisconsin must keep pushing a bill to expand federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.
The bill, which cleared the House, is stuck in the Senate as lawmakers jostle for and against it.
Honored: Jo Handelsman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is co-director of WISELI (Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute) and has initiated training on the impact of assumptions in the evaluation and hiring of women and minorities.
Even as women moved into factory jobs during World War II, it was still news when someone found a job where no woman had gone before.
In 1943, Jean Larson made headlines as the first woman projectionist in the Play Circle movie house at the University of Wisconsin Student Union in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin System has met a majority of benchmarks that were established under the orders of former Gov. Tommy Thompson but has fallen short in enrolling non-traditional students, retaining freshmen and sending students abroad, according to a report that will be reviewed by the system’s Board of Regents on Thursday.
Research conducted by UW- Madison psychologist Terrie Moffitt cited in the report indicates that as people’s brains mature dramatically in their late teens, they usually stop offending.
The University of Wisconsin did not take kindly to a systems engineer using its network for a public Mac security test
A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into trouble with university administrators.
MADISON, Wis. – An administrator in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering will become the university’s next provost, Chancellor John Wiley announced Wednesday.
Patrick Farrell, executive associate dean of engineering, will assume his role as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs April 3. Wiley picked Farrell from a pool of three forwarded to him after a national search.
The College Board miscalculated the SAT scores of 4,000 students who took the test in October 2005, and company officials say they are still not sure what caused the error.
As more and more students turn to websites such as Facebook and MySpace to chronicle their lives and socialize with friends, they also are learning that their words and pictures are reaching way beyond the peers for whom they were intended.
Quoted: Frank Greer, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin.
Luna B. Leopold, a gifted scientist and influential conservationist who turned the study of rivers and how they shape the landscape into a science, died Feb. 23 at his Berkeley home. He was 90 and had emphysema and congestive heart disease, said his daughter, Madelyn Leopold of Madison, Wis.
Leopold was the son of eminent wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold.
Quoted: Joan Schiller, a lung cancer doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a law and bioethics professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Anne Traynor, of the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
University of Wisconsin President Kevin Reilly has proposed a reasonable policy on holding Bible study classes in the rooms of dormitory resident assistants. UW Regents should approve the proposal at this week’s meeting.
Reilly’s plan was developed after Lance Steiger, a resident assistant at the UW-Eau Claire, was told in July to stop the study sessions.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new “hack my Mac” challenge has shown that Apple’s Mac OS X might not be such a pushover after all, after the challenger’s Mac Mini survived a sustained barrage of attacks for the duration of the contest.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — The American Medical Association is warning girls not to go wild during spring break.
All but confirming what goes on in those “Girls Gone Wild” videos, 83 percent of college women and graduates surveyed by the AMA said spring break involves heavier-than-usual drinking, and 74 percent said the break results in increased sexual activity.
As the most proven commodity on a mostly unproven University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, Alando Tucker had lofty expectations placed on him this season.
The success of the latest phase of the college antisweatshop movement hinges, in part, on whether college officials can be assured that supporting it will not get their institutions into legal trouble.
At least eight institutions have publicly endorsed the principles behind a proposal that calls for colleges to require that apparel bearing their logos be made only at factories that pay employees a living wage and that have legitimate unions. But those colleges have stopped short of backing the proposal to the letter.
The date of the Mifflin Street Block Party is now official. Tuesday night, alders approved the April 29th party date in a roundabout way…the city council approved the area for a no-glass zone on that date, paving the way for the annual party.
About 4,000 students who took the main SAT college entrance exam in October received incorrectly low scores because of problems with the scanning of their answer sheets.
There may be some truth to the image of spring break as an orgy of wet T-shirt contests, booze parties and sex on the beach. But a survey finds most women (65%) don’t think such activity is essential to college life. And nearly all (91%) agree that what people see in typical TV portrayals of spring break, Girls Gone Wild videos and similar programs perpetuate a negative stereotype of women.
Daniel Vilione was frantically at work.
Vilione runs coffeehouse.com, a Web site that sells specialty coffee. On a recent afternoon, he was sorting through thousands of brochures that needed to be mailed.
The company president had to hurry. He had class in two hours.
Whether June Weisberger is tutoring students at Madison’s Hawthorne or at Midvale elementary schools, the retired professor from the University of Wisconsin Law School relishes the knowledge she collects.
You sip a bitter gin and tonic, then the bartender says the next drink will be sweet. But he plays a trick, giving you another gin and tonic.
Your brain still thinks the second drink is sweeter, according to a study by UW-Madison researchers that found a neurobiological manifestation of the placebo effect.
Steven Avery haunts the offices of the UW-Madison Law School’s Innocence Project.
Whether June Weisberger is tutoring students at Madison’s Hawthorne or at Midvale elementary schools, the retired professor from the University of Wisconsin Law School relishes the knowledge she collects.
“The early grades are important in giving kids a start academically and socially,” she said. “Parents play an important role in supporting their children’s efforts in school.”
An organizer of the 700- member UW-Madison Retirement Association, Weisberger, 75, is an example of how students benefit when businesses and nonprofit organizations “adopt” schools, an initiative created by the Foundation for Madison’s Public Schools and modeled after a similar project in the New York City Public Schools.
A proposal to provide $2.5 million in state seed money to promote collaborative bio-medical research between the Medical College of Wisconsin and four other colleges in the region is in trouble because of concerns about what the money might be used for. Namely, embryonic stem cell research.
I have here, in my hot little hand, the names of 40 known felons employed by the University of Wisconsin System.
Quoted: Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Liquid crystals, which help display information on cell phones and laptops, could also prove handy in growing stem cells, UW-Madison researchers say.
In 1958, Forster joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a professor of neurology, and he remained there for the rest of his teaching career. After retiring from the university in 1978, he was director of the Francis M. Forster Epilepsy Center at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Madison until 1982.
A compromise proposal before the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents resolves a potential church-state problem in a positive and common-sense way.
At issue is whether resident assistants ââ?¬â? who serve as floor leaders in university dormitories throughout the state ââ?¬â? have the same rights as other students to be involved in political or religious activities.
The biggest threat to U.S. grain and oilseed production may not be Brazil�s expanding production capability in these crops. It�s what it feeds its grain to, according to Roger Borges, soybean and small grain state specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
More compassion and meditation are needed in psychology and academia today, according to neuroscientist Richard Davidson.
Davidson, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gave his lecture “Be Happy like a Monk” on Thursday in Milwaukee Central Library’s Centennial Hall, 733 N. 8th St.
Another USC athletics official is moving out of the Roundhouse.
Shawn Eichorst, a senior associate athletics director, has accepted the same position at Wisconsin, Badgers athletics director Barry Alvarez announced Monday.
A new Mac OS X hacker competition has been launched at the University of Wisconsin.
