It wasn’t so long ago when a highly connected campus was one where each dorm room had its own phone line. But in order to remain competitive in the 21st century, a college has to support wireless networking, provide ultra high-speed connections to classrooms and even allow students to take classes online.
UW-Madison is on the list.
Quoted: Hannah Carey of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin.
The first of five candidates for KU provost, Virginia Sapiro, spent much of her speech Monday focusing on two themes: education as the center of a public research university and collective responsibility.
The University of Kansas is in the process of interviewing candidates to replace Provost David Shulenburger. In September, Shulenburger announced his retirement as provost, effective this summer.
Virginia Sapiro describes her leadership style as transparent, open and conversational.
Sapiro, interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of five candidates for the position of provost and executive vice chancellor at Kansas University. She spoke Monday at the Dole Institute of Politics and will speak at a question-and-answer session at 1 p.m. today at the Hall Center.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin business professor James Rappold.
While it’s still more than four years away, Portage Junior High School eighth-graders Mackenzie Bornick and Melissa Koch say they are already thinking about where they’d like to go to college — and how they and their families will pay for it.
That’s why both girls say they would support Gov. Jim Doyle’s new education plan, dubbed the “Wisconsin Covenant,” which aims to alleviate the financial burden on families trying to send their children to college.
In order to flush a truly humiliating experience out of your system, you need to tear it down, examine it from every angle, give it some context and move on.
Since disciples of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team have already razed and analyzed that 62-55 non-conference loss to North Dakota State Saturday at the Kohl Center, here is some context: It was the biggest upset loss, in any major sport, in the modern era of UW sports.
Practically every big U.S. city and most states would love to become the next hot biotech cluster. Having the cachet of a biotech haven helps attract bright scientists, new startups and, eventually, more tax revenue.
But amid the competition for biotech companies, some locations offer much better incentives than others. Thus, e-mail newsletter FierceBiotech is putting out a list of five emerging hot spots for biotech, to be published in full on Wednesday. The winners are, in alphabetical order: California, Maryland and its I-270 tech corridor, New Jersey, Singapore and Wisconsin.
Wisconsin makes the list based in part on a $375 million research facility the state is building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The state is also very aggressive in attracting biotech and medical device companies.
Freshman forward Marcus Landry is academically ineligible and will not play for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team again this season.
Professor Nellie McKay, one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of African- American literature, died Sunday of cancer.
Four suburban teenagers have been charged with felony hate crimes, accused of shouting slurs at a gay University of Wisconsin-Madison student and vandalizing his property, authorities said Monday.
No one was injured in the early morning altercation in Ogg Residence Hall on Dec. 21, and property damage was limited to torn photographs and posters promoting a campus center for lesbians, gays and others.
Quoted: Kevin Kniffin, an honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Information technology in the classroom was supposed to bridge digital divides and enhance student research. Increasingly, however, our networks are being used to entertain members of “the Facebook Generation” who text-message during class, talk on their cellphones during labs, and listen to iPods rather than guest speakers in the wireless lecture hall.
The endowments of U.S. colleges and universities earned decent returns in 2005, although most did not match the level of success they had in 2004.
Higher-education endowments earned an average 9.3 percent in the 2005 fiscal year, compared with the average 15.1 percent posted in the 2004 fiscal year, which ended on June 30 for most institutions.
Review author: Ann Althouse is the Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She writes a blog at althouse.blogspot.com.
Quoted: Mike Cullinane, associate director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Dr. Tim Corden, medical director of University of Wisconsin Hospital’s pediatric critical care unit.
A TREND TOWARD privatization and a shift in spending priorities is putting California’s public colleges and universities at risk of forsaking their mandate to deliver a quality public education to the state’s growing ranks of would-be college students.
Author: Paul Boyer is professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Law professor Allan Weisbard, who specializes in bioethics, health law, family law, and law and religion
“Tandem Press Highlights: 1995-2005” is at the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave. It opens today and runs through April 9, and features selections from more than 200 prints. The printmaking workshop, located on Madison’s near east side, is a teaching facility associated with the UW-Madison and is directed by Paula McCarthy Panczenko.
Three members of the Waubonsie Valley High School class of 2005 and another man face trial later this year for their alleged roles in a hate crime on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
An attorney for one of the accused men, Kevin R. Sochacki, expressed confidence his client will be acquitted of the felony criminal damage to property and misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges lodged against all four suspects.
KIMBERLY ââ?¬â? A crowd of about 1,300 clapped, shouted, and danced through a performance by 160 members of the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band on Sunday in the Kimberly High School gym.
Band director Craig Gall said Kimberly has hosted the UW band 14 of the last 15 years.
Each show has been sponsored by Gib and Donna Schoen in memory of their daughter Sherry, a Kimberly graduate and four-year member of the UW band who was killed in a car accident in 1990.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at UW-Madison
The number of North American colleges with endowments topping $1 billion has jumped to 56, a new study says, with nine schools joining the elite club in what was an average year for university investments overall.
Included: University of Wisconsin Foundation.
A federal grand jury is investigating the decision to award a state travel contract to a company whose officials contributed heavily to Gov. Jim Doyle’s campaign, according to a witness who testified before the panel and a source familiar with the investigation.
Ask anyone in the media relations business about their strategy for handling a controversy and they will all start with the same objective.
Get it off the front pages, the TV teleprompters, the talk show topic list and the Internet message boards as soon as possible.
So, here we are, now four days into the curious story about University of Wisconsin men’s basketball players Marcus Landry and Greg Stiemsma.
Quoted: Ruth Olson, associate director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the UW-Madison.
Doyle’s plan, dubbed the “Wisconsin Covenant,” would let eighth-graders whose families meet certain income requirements sign a pledge promising they will take college-prep courses, maintain a high grade-point average and be good citizens. Then, when those students are ready for college and all other aid is exhausted, the state will cover whatever tuition gap remains through grants, subsidized loans or work-study jobs at any University of Wisconsin System campus that accepts them.
When UW-Madison professor Alfred McCoy first saw the photograph of a hooded Iraqi prisoner from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, he remembers feeling a sickening shock of recognition.
One of the three finalists for the provost position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has taken a job elsewhere.
Two University of Wisconsin football players were taken into custody Wednesday night in Jefferson County after the Wisconsin State Patrol received a complaint about a possible intoxicated driver.
Freshman forward Marcus Landry practiced with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team Thursday, a day after being declared ineligible to compete by the school.
For more than a decade, the Wisconsin Seasonal Residents Association has been fielding questions from nonresident parents looking for a price break on undergraduate tuition, the logic being they supported Wisconsin schools through property taxes for years.
When I was an undergraduate at UW-Madison 30 years ago, I was surrounded by students from families of modest means who were able to go through four years of college, graduate, and go on to a more prosperous life than that of their parents, with no loan debt.
A UW-Madison graduate student was injured early Wednesday morning as he was robbed while walking home on the near West Side, according to Madison police.
The first of a weekly series called “Curiosities,” in which UW-Madison experts answer public questions about everyday science. The feature will appear every Thursday and is produced by University Communications.
If the coal phase-out goes according to plan, that will leave just two small coal-fired operations left inside city limits: UW-Madison’s Charter Street plant and the state’s Capitol Heat and Power Plant east of Capitol Square.
Quoted: Jo Handelsman who studies soil microbes at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Former University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator Brian White has been hired to be the quarterbacks coach of the Syracuse University football team.
Orange head coach Greg Robinson said Thursday night that White will replace Major Applewhite, who left after one season to become offensive coordinator at Rice.
Rachel Chizek, a 21-year-old biochemistry major at Lakeland College, wants to work with DNA when she graduates in 2007, but is worried she’ll have to leave Wisconsin to do that.
But according to Michael Morgan, Wisconsin secretary of revenue, the state aims to create new jobs in the biotechnological field so future graduates such as Chizek won’t have to leave the state to work in their field.
Quoted: Jo Handelsman, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In certain patients with diabetes-related kidney disease, performing a transplant before the need for dialysis arises seems to be advantageous, researchers report.
“Preemptive transplantation remains an optimal form of kidney replacement therapy for individuals with diabetes when they receive a living donor kidney — or when they receive a simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant, in the case of individuals with type 1 diabetes,” said Dr. Bryan N. Becker of the University of Wisconsin.
Becker, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
A Catholic organization serving University of Wisconsin-Madison students wants to be the first group to spend student fees on activities that are openly religious.
The UW Roman Catholic Foundation, which operates the private St. Paul’s University Catholic Center at 723 State St., is pushing to get $205,000 in segregated fees, a portion of which would pay for Lenten booklets.
When researchers scan the global horizon, overfishing, loss of species habitat, nutrient run-off, climate change, and invasive species look to be the biggest threats to the ability of land, oceans, and water to support human well-being.
Yet “there is significant reason for hope. We have the tools we need” to chart a course that safeguards the planet’s ecological foundation, says Stephen Carpenter, a zoologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “We don’t have to accept the doom-and-gloom trends.”
By 2050, the planet’s population will increase to 9 billion, with most people migrating to massive cities. Better vaccines will lessen the epidemic of HIV and offset flu pandemics. The global economy will quadruple. Demand for food, fresh water and raw materials for construction and heat will stretch natural resources to their limits, according to an analysis released Thursday.
Stephen Carpenter, a lead author of the report and expert on ecosystem management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is quoted.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin was one of 10 NCAA Division I-A athletic departments and the only Big Ten school to receive the Diversity in Athletics Award presented annually by the Laboratory for Diversity in Sport at Texas A&M University. This is the first time the Badger program was recognized.
If you’re looking for a ticket to a UW men’s basketball game, you’d better check Ebay…that’s virtually the only place you can get them.
That’s because the school’s policy doesn’t prevent students from scalping tickets they’ve won in the UW’s lottery system.
The UW football program gets more bad news on the conduct of its players.
Two team members face charges of drug possession.
The two football players were not only caught with drugs, but also while traveling more than 35 miles an hour over the speed limit.
State lawmakers praised retiring UW-Madison football coach Barry Alvarez on Tuesday with resolutions honoring his 16-year tenure.
Gov. Jim Doyle’s State of the State speech Tuesday night was a grab bag of relatively benign yet popular proposals designed to help him win re-election this fall.
Doyle occasionally inspired, as with his forceful support of stem-cell research. He’s right that politics should not stand in the way of this blossoming technology that UW-Madison hatched and continues to hone.
One day, someone will look back at the long and distinguished career of UW-Madison geneticist James Crow and they certainly will remember the popular classes he taught and the groundbreaking research for which he became known around the world.
Since late December, more than 500 UW-Madison alumni have signed a petition asking lawmakers to spare the university from further budget cuts, and organizers hope to add more signatures over the next several months leading up to a new two-year state budget.
When Gov. Doyle announced his “Wisconsin Covenant” to help teenagers go to college, Republicans suspiciously asked how he would pay for it.
Quoted: Michael Corradini, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin
WAUKESHA – Local elected officials and educators agree that Gov. Jim Doyleââ?¬â?¢s proposed college incentive program has merit, but some question the potential cost of the program to taxpayers.
Doyle spoke of the idea in his State of State address Tuesday night.
The plan would guarantee financial aid to students who sign a pledge in eighth grade promising to maintain at least a B average, attend college-prep classes and live a clean life.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON – Senate Majority Leader Dale Schultz urged fellow legislators Wednesday to endorse a proposal that would give University of Wisconsin System professors and academic staff the right to form unions.
All other state workers have the right to form collective bargaining units except 17,000 UW professors, researchers and other staff members. Schultz’s plan, discussed at a public hearing Wednesday, would give them the ability to organize in an effort to boost their pay and benefits.
