Dr. Robert Golden, a psychiatrist from the University of North Carolina, has been named dean of the UW Medical School.
Unc Dean To Head Uw Med School
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: jplucas
Study: Amendment could mean big cut
Wisconsin State Journal
If a new proposal to rein in government taxes and fees had been enacted 20 years ago, state revenue would have been $5.2 billion lower last year, according to a UW-Madison analysis released Tuesday.
One transplant too many
Wisconsin State Journal
When Joan McCarville had her first lung transplant in 1997, her insurance paid. When she had another lung transplant the same year, the plan paid again.
Now that the 44-year-old Iowa County dairy farmer and mother of two needs a third lung transplant, the same plan – the state’s Health Insurance Risk Sharing Plan – won’t cover it.
UW Health says McCarville must prepay $330,000 or provide a letter of guarantee from a bank for that amount in order to have the procedure.
Hand-Holding May Affect Your Brain (ABC News)
ABCNEWS.com
Feb. 14, 2006 ââ?¬â? – The power of hand-holding has long been enshrined in culture — from The Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” to the 1970 film, “Love Story,” to famous works of art.
Now a new study — to be published later this year in the journal Psychological Science — purports to show that holding hands can have real physiological benefits.
Dr. Richard Davidson — who runs a brain imaging lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — ran an ad in a local newspaper, recruiting 16 couples whom he identified as happily married.
Enterprise goes where it’s welcome
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Entrepreneurial? The People’s Republic of Madison, entrepreneurial?
Yes, argue some people close to Wisconsin’s growing biotech industry: The reason research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has led to a slew of new companies is that the university and the community are congenial to entrepreneurs. The rest of Wisconsin can take a lesson from that.
“Our policies,” says Phil Sobocinski, assistant director of the UW Office of Corporate Relations, “are all entrepreneur-friendly.”
Pricey Party Fines
NBC-15
How’s this for a bar tab: $54,000! Those are the total fines five underage students face for hosting what police say was an illegal alcohol party at 621 East Johnson Street in Madison.
U.W. Lakeshore Improvements
NBC-15
Expect to see some improvements to the U.W’s Lake Shore Nature Preserve. The campus director of planning and landscape architecture says the U.W. will begin to implement its master plan soon for the 300 acres. (Video.)
Controversial Cartoon Printed In Campus Newspaper Sparks Outrage
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — An offensive cartoon that has ignited violence in the Muslim world was printed in the Badger Herald on Monday and is now causing outrage in the local Muslim community.
The campus newspaper chose to print the caricature, saying that it promotes free speech and will invite debate on what’s happening in the Muslim world.
Jobs heat up for MBA grads: Demand returns as students break with tradition
USA Today
The demand for new MBAs is expected to be at the highest level since the Internet bubble burst a half-decade ago, according to college career counselors and recruiters.
UW, state leaders finally warm up
Wisconsin State Journal
We have no illusions of Assembly Speaker John Gard sending chocolates and roses to University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly on Tuesday.
15 receive science, technology medals (AP)
Boston Globe
WASHINGTON — President Bush presented science and technology achievement medals yesterday to 15 laureates who have done work that has revolutionized organ transplants, led to development of global positioning systems, and helped feed millions around the world.
Honored: Edwin N. Lightfoot, University of Wisconsin, for research in how the body controls insulin levels and oxygenates blood.
Cal Thomas: Agenda- driven life
Orlando Sentinel
Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a leading evangelical supporter of various environmental causes
Director of UW health service resigns
Wisconsin State Journal
A top clinic director at University Health Services who was investigated and cleared of sexually harassing medical students last year resigned Monday amid ongoing efforts to improve poor morale and workplace climate problems reported by employees.
Badger football at Lambeau? (WBAY-TV, Green Bay)
GREEN BAY, Wis. Wisconsin hockey at Lambeau Field could lead to Badger football.
U-W Madison associate athletic director John Chadima says a home game in Green Bay in unlikely, since Camp Randall has contracts with its suite and club seat holders. But, the door’s open on playing a nonconference game with a team willing to give up a home game to play at Lambeau.
Police Nab Robbery & Beating Suspect
NBC-15
A Madison man is in custody, facing charges in connection to the robbery and beating of a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student. A second suspect remains at large.
College applications take off: And students could be left grounded
USA Today
Every college admissions cycle has its own set of dynamics, and this year is no exception. Many selective private colleges are reporting a boom in applications and, as a result, expect to admit a lower proportion of high school seniors than last year.
Neighbors Sound Off On Club Majestic Violence
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Dozens of area residents packed a public meeting Monday night to discuss increased violence at a downtown Madison nightclub.
According to Madison police statistics, officers were called to Club Majestic 170 times in 2005.
Still: Building the Modern Public-Purpose University Should be UW Systems Goal (wisopinion.com)
MADISON ââ?¬â?? While thereââ?¬â?¢s no shortage of public chatter about University of Wisconsin administrators taking sick leave or how much the football coaches are paid, thereââ?¬â?¢s rarely much talk about the core 21st century challenge facing the UW System ââ?¬â?? in fact, all of public higher education in America: Are our public universities becoming ââ?¬Å?privatizedââ?¬Â without the benefit of a debate on the pros and cons?
Plan formerly known as TABOR still tough to sell
La Crosse Tribune
MADISON ââ?¬â? State Sen. Glenn Grothman must have an eerie feeling of what it was like to be former Senate Majority Leader Mary Panzer about two years ago.
Grothman trounced Panzer, a fellow West Bend Republican, in a primary race after she failed to bring the taxpayers bill of rights, known as TABOR, to the floor for a vote. At the time, Panzer said she supported the proposal but didn�t have enough votes lined up in her caucus to get the resolution through the Senate.
States offering prepaid tuition plans
USA Today
Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington.
Deficit-reduction bill gives prepaid tuition plan users a break
USA Today
Tucked deep in the deficit-reduction bill President Bush signed last week is a Valentine for parents who use ââ?¬Å?prepaid tuitionââ?¬Â plans to save for college.
The change will make it easier for families who use these plans to qualify for financial aid. But that doesn’t mean these plans are a sweet deal for everyone.
Check It Out, Darwin
Wisconsin State Journal
Sean Carroll would like nothing better than to show Charles Darwin, the 19th century father of the theory of evolution, around his UW-Madison genetics lab.
“After a couple of days of catching up,” said Carroll, a genetics professor. “I think he’d be blown away.”
Are We Saving Less But Getting Richer?
Wisconsin State Journal
But UW-Madison Business School Dean Michael Knetter said talk of fiscal misery might be overwrought.
Our savings, he said, are tied up in homes and other assets that are increasing in value.
The Commerce Department focused on cash flow, Knetter said. “Using that method, you look at how much income is earned in a year and how much is not spent,” he said. “But it’s not the whole story.”
Doctors try to rewire woman’s brain
Wisconsin State Journal
The drill at the tip of the long, green hose is so loud it sounds like a chorus of dentists blasting at cavities.
But this drill is piercing the top of Gabby Mahan’s head.
As Mahan lies awake on a UW Hospital operating table, the drill bores two holes the size of nickels in her skull.
UW’s Lightfoot to get major science award
Wisconsin State Journal
Developers of heart-lung machines, kidney dialysis equipment and pressure chambers to simulate the deepest oceans have used Edwin N. Lightfoot’s research.
The 80-year-old UW-Madison chemical and biological engineering professor is to receive the National Medal of Science today from President Bush at the White House.
Preserving a UW treasure
Wisconsin State Journal
The master plan for the 300-acre lakeshore preserve, in the works for more than two years, will be unveiled at a public meeting Wednesday in the main lounge of Chadbourne Hall on the UW-Madison campus. Members of the public will be able to comment on the proposed plan, prepared by Ken Saiki Design, Inc.
Bet on UWM, but not at expense of UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
They’ve been to Ireland and China and the thoughts of creative class guru Richard Florida, and Milwaukee’s leaders are urgent that we need more brainpower.
People in Wisconsin’s largest city are way behind on getting degrees, our graduates leave and our economy’s in danger of looking at Mississippi’s taillights.
Baggot: Crime punishment falls on Alvarez
Wisconsin State Journal
When someone lashes out in a fit of irrational anger, chances are they have just endured multiple indignities.
A perfect example of this behavior can be seen from those who follow University of Wisconsin athletics.
Bias, sabotage haunt Wikipedia’s free world (The Boston Globe)
Boston Globe
Quoted: William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin and author of ”Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.”
Vaccines: Who needs them and when (Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Times
Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Temte, associate professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
Managing Disaster (Law Enforcement Technology)
Quoted: Assistant Chief Dale Burke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department, nationally known for its success in handling large-scale events and emergencies.
A Hoosier Makeover
Chronicle of Higher Education
Change has come to Indiana University, and many administrators, faculty members, and others on the flagship campus here are expressing relief.
Paging the Activists
Chronicle of Higher Education
Two decades before flower power bloomed at American colleges, student leaders seeded higher education with big ideas. One of them was that students should have a louder voice in campus, national, and global affairs.
So, in 1947, a group of young activists founded the National Student Association, which would quickly help transform campus culture, from Cambridge, Mass., to Berkeley, Calif. Their story appears in a new book, American Students Organize: Founding the National Student Association After World War II (American Council on Education/Praeger, 2006).
California Stem-Cell Board Allows Limited Compensation for Egg Donors and Sets Royalties for State
Chronicle of Higher Education
The governing board of California’s $3-billion fund for stem-cell research approved ethical and management policies on Friday to guide the studies.
National Academy of Engineering Elects 85 New Members and Foreign Associates
Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Academy of Engineering announced on Friday that it had elected 76 new members and nine new foreign associates, bringing its total membership in the United States to 2,216 and the number of foreign associates to 186.
Among them, Mary Pikul Anderson, professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison. For leadership in the development of groundwater-flow models.
U. of Minnesota Expands Scholarships for Low-Income Students
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Minnesota system will expand an existing scholarship program that covers tuition and fees for undergraduates eligible to receive federal Pell Grants, it announced on Friday.
University Stays Quiet On Security For PSM (The Georgetown Hoya)
Organizers of the upcoming Palestine Solidarity Movement conference on campus announced a preliminary schedule for the program this week, as university officials declined to disclose information about the security measures they will take during the conference.
Among the speakers: Muhammed Abed, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cottonwood cultivars eliminate drawbacks (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Quoted: Glen Stanosz, University of Wisconsin-Madison plant pathologist.
Proposal aimed at young hunters (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Quoted: Thomas Heberlein, a professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW regents fire sex offender (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Friday fired a UW-Madison professor who is serving a prison sentence for sexually assaulting three young girls.
The firing of Roberto Coronado, a professor of medical physiology at UW-Madison, marks only the second time in five years the board has fired one of UW’s professors, who enjoy strong job protections.
Safety upgrades made after TMI (Asbury Park Press)
Quoted: Michael L. Corradini, professor and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems, a nuclear research center.
Regents increase pay range for top officials (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Assembly Speaker John Gard helped block salary raises last summer for top University of Wisconsin administrators after a series of personnel problems.
Wisconsin Triples Investment in Annual Biotech Expo (wisbusiness.com)
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Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s academic and commercial biotech community plans to pull out the stops for BIO 2006, which will run from April 9-12 in Chicago. The budget to showcase the Badger Stateââ?¬â?¢s biotechnology prowess has risen to nearly $270,000 this year ââ?¬â?? nearly three times what was spent last year at BIO 2005 in Philadelphia.
ââ?¬Å?This is the perfect opportunity to tell our story and make connections,ââ?¬Â said Charlie Hoslet, managing director of the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations.
More Poor Students Not Applying for Aid (AP)
Yahoo! News
Even as the price of college rises, more low-income students who would likely get federal financial aid aren’t even bothering to apply.
A new report by the American Council on Education estimates 1.5 million students who would probably have been awarded Pell Grants in 2003-2004 did not apply for them. That’s up from ACE’s estimate in a previous survey of 850,000 who missed out on aid in 1999-2000.
Darwin and God, Together at Last?
NBC-15
UW geologist Dana Geary says, for the vast majority of scientists, there is no doubt about it, evolution is what brought us to life as we know it today.
“It’s as solid a notion in science as the theory of gravity,” said Geary.
UW Fires Registered Sex Offender
WKOW-TV 27
Members of the UW Board of Regents fired UW-Medical School Professor Roberto Coronado, a registered sex offender, more than five months after he was sent to prison.
Even members of the Board told 27 News, the firing process took way, too long.
There’s now a proposal to deal with UW faculty and staff who’ve committed serious crimes within sixty da
Author of stem cell report faulted
USA Today
Scientists expressed mixed reactions to criticisms leveled at a University of Pittsburgh researcher who collaborated on an infamously fraudulent stem cell study.
Show linguists the money: Trust the market and it will produce plenty of Arabic speakers
USA Today
The president’s ââ?¬Å?broad-gauged initiativeââ?¬Â to teach Americans through language training to be more culturally aware of exotic countries ââ?¬â? in order to spread democracy there ââ?¬â? would distort the market for specialty linguists and be a waste of tax dollars.
(Ivan Eland is director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at The Independent Institute, a think tank based in Washington.)
Arabic speakers still scarce: FBI, CIA want more, but schools, colleges aren’t producing enough
USA Today
Students are flocking to newly formed Arabic classes on high school and college campuses. But in the best programs, only 25% of first-year students reach the third-year level. In a majority of college programs, students have no choice but to stop after the first year because their university doesn’t offer a second year.
Students come up with useful inventions
Wisconsin State Journal
From an efficient solar collector to a high-tech security system to a pressurized water pack for bicyclists the competition at Innovation Days, an annual contest among UW- Madison student inventors, is tough. And the stakes are high. The judges, some of whom are alumni and are now business leaders and inventors themselves, will award students more than $26,000 in prizes
Oates: Johnson knows the good stories
Wisconsin State Journal
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Mark Johnson for talking me off of the ledge.
With the Winter Olympics opening today in Italy, I was thinking about taking the plunge into the dangerous waters of declining Olympic relevance.
Nonresidents could get tuition break at most UW campuses (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON – Students from other states who attend most University of Wisconsin campuses would see their tuition drop by more than $2,000 a year under a plan approved by a committee of UW System regents on Thursday.
UW System estimates $63 million for Doyle’s college plan (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Jim Doyle’s plan to guarantee college financial aid to low-income eighth-graders would cost $63 million over the next decade, a University of Wisconsin System official estimated Thursday.
Deep sleep secrets (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Quoted: Hannah V. Carey at the University of Wisconsin.
White House Document on Budgets for Next 5 Years Portends Sharp Cuts in Education and Research Spending
Chronicle of Higher Education
If college leaders thought the spending plan for 2007 that President Bush released on Monday was bad for them, future budget blueprints from the administration could be a lot worse for higher education.
iTunes U: Downloads now in session (Marquette Tribune)
College students have long been able to download course information from Web sites such Desire2Learn and blackboard.com, but Apple has decided to take that service one step further.
Apple’s new iTunes U program is the company’s latest development from pilot programs that started about a year ago. It has taken hold at seven universities across the nation, allows professors to post course information online in MP3 files, the same type of file that iTunes songs come in. Students are then able to take these files and download them directly onto their iPods. There is no fee for the program.
Kissing contest to allow same-sex couples
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Campus Women’s Center publicity coordinator Stephanie Halfmann
Sellout expected at Hockey Classic
Wisconsin State Journal
Since everyone is asking the same questions about the Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic – the University of Wisconsin men’s game against Ohio State at Lambeau Field at 3 p.m. Saturday – it’s best to answer them right off the top.
GOP brings back its tax plan
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Economist Andrew Reschovsky of UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Grammy? Check. MBA? Working on it
Wisconsin State Journal
Derek Kwan, a first-year MBA student at the UW-Madison School of Business in arts administration, can now count a Grammy Award among his accomplishments.
Kwan, who works for UW-Madison’s Union Theater, was the associate producer for “Bebo De Cuba” featuring Bebo Valdes, which won Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album Wednesday night. He also co-produced an album by the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O’Farrill, which was nominated in the same category