Antiwar protests at eight colleges have made a Pentagon watch list of “suspicious incidents.”
The 400-page list, which was obtained by NBC News, includes information on 1,500 “threats” to national security that occurred over a recent 10-month period, and characterizes them as either “credible” or “not credible.”
An independent alumni group formed to attack “radicalism” at the University of California at Los Angeles has offered $100 prizes to any student who turns over extensive documentation of cases in which professors show political bias in the classroom.
UW researchers recently gave 144 breast cancer patients access to a computer and an online support group for cancer patients.
Researcher Doctor Bret Shaw says they expected those with little family or emotional support to turn more often to the internet.
One in 10 people in Dane county suffer from asthma, and doctors say, with a little work, a lot of those cases can be prevented.
The UW is teaming up with Dane County and several private businesses to cut down on air pollution in southern Wisconsin.
To help clean up the air, a $450,000 grant is being given to the Dane County Clean Air Coalition from the UW’s school of medicine.
Quoted: Professor Jon Pevehouse, a UW-Madison political scientist.
Madison: The area around Camp Randall Stadium on game days can hardly be described as boring, but the UW Athletic Department wants to know if there are still fans looking for something to do. “I think our audience would be those people who aren’t satisfied with what’s out there,” says UW Sr. Associate Athletic Director Vince Sweeney.
Two men went to the hospital after a pair of similar violent robberies in Madison during the past few days. Police aren’t connecting the two robberies, but said that both are troubling.
The first incident occurred when a 38-year-old man was hit in the head with an unknown object and robbed of cash on Saturday night. The robbery occurred at about 10 p.m. on East Lawn Court. The victim had severe head injuries and was taken to the hospital for surgery, WISC-TV reported.
In a second incident on Wednesday morning, a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student was attacked by two men. The robbery occurred at about 2:40 a.m. at the corner of University Avenue and Chamberlain Avenue, police said.
27 News has learned Department of Administration official Georgia Thompson has hired prominent Madison criminal defense attorney Stephen Hurley as investigators probe Thompson’s role in the award of a lucrative state contract..
Hurley’s clients have included triple murder defendant, UW-Madison student Mark Wu, former Madison Overture Center Director Bob D’Angelo and former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson.
Two Janesville brothers expect college to be a breeze after being shot at in Iraq.
Derek Hahn, 25, and Micheal Hahn, 23, landed in Kuwait on Christmas Eve 2004. They returned Dec. 14.
This week, the sergeants reported to school at UW-Madison.
Public colleges in states that spend a lot of money on higher education aren’t necessarily better than colleges in states that provide them with meager support, according to a report that ranks states based on an analysis of their higher-education budgets and the performance of their colleges.
The report, which was prepared by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, attempts to answer the age-old question in debates over state financing of higher education: Does more money equal better quality?
Quoted: Margie Wilsman, a Ph.D. researcher in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education
Americ Azevedo taught an “Introduction to Computers” class at UC Berkeley last semester that featured some of the hottest options in educational technology.
By visiting the course’s websites, the 200 enrolled students could download audio recordings or watch digital videos of the lectures, as well as read the instructor’s detailed lecture notes and participate in online discussions.
APPLETON ââ?¬â? Former University of Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez spent Tuesday soaking up the adulation of fans across the state.
Alvarez, who two weeks ago ended his successful 16-year coaching tenure, began the day in Madison, where the state Assembly and Senate gave him standing ovations as they passed resolutions honoring his 118 wins, three Rose Bowls and three Big Ten titles.
MADISON, Wis. — Two University of Wisconsin students are among a group of four men charged with criminal damage to property and a hate crime for allegedly tearing down a bulletin board in a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall.
The four men are accused of ripping the bulletin board off a wall in Ogg Hall because it directed gay students to support services, WISC-TV reported.
UW’s Business School will see the first graduates of its new specialized MBA program go into the job market in 2006, its first chance to see how the new program works for employers and graduates.
“It is our expectation that these men and women will be extremely attractive candidates for jobs in their chosen field,” Michael Knetter said.
The specialty MBA program allows students to choose from among more than a dozen career specialties before starting the program.
Nice touch by new University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema to announce his assistants one at a time. Not only does each new face and resume get enhanced, it puts the program on the front page for days at a time when things are ordinarily quiet. …
Mitch, a 2003 UW-Madison Law School graduate, changed his name during college, legally taking the nickname friends gave him by shortening his former last name Mitchell. “I was an orphan, my father passed away when I was young and my mother got sick and passed away when I was a teen. I finished high school, college and law school on my own.”
In his last State of the State address before what promises to be a tough re-election year, Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday took credit for steering Wisconsin out of dangerous budget shoals and sought to align himself with middle-class families.
Doyle also announced what he called “the Wisconsin Covenant,” a program to provide eighth-graders – regardless of financial need – with help paying for college if they maintain at least a B average in high school and stay out of trouble.
Now that a South Korean scientist’s work has been exposed as a fraud, U.S. institutions say they have new momentum for efforts to clone human embryos to produce stem cells, an achievement that could cure debilitating diseases.
Only a few laboratories worldwide have the ability or desire to do the highly technical and controversial work of creating patient-specific cloned human stem cell.
The State Department invited 120 college leaders here this month to talk about how to make American higher education more engaged with the world and counter the perception that the United States no longer welcomes foreign students. President Bush used the occasion to announce a $114-million proposal to increase the teaching of “critical” foreign languages, including Arabic, Chinese, and Farsi. Part of the money would be spent by the military and intelligence agencies.
Quoted: Joan Houston (pronounced HOWston, the New York way) Hall, a University of Wisconsin professor who is president of the American Dialect Society and editor of the “Dictionary of American Regional English.”
If you have the time and know where to look, you can easily find hundreds of statistics to define the now completed career of Barry Alvarez as University of Wisconsin football coach.
Some are obvious: Alvarez led the Badgers to 118 victories in 16 seasons and had a .520 winning percentage in Big Ten Conference games (65-60-3).
When you’re young, you go to school. Your job is to learn. Hopefully, you learn enough to get a real job that pays real money.
Devin Harris left the University of Wisconsin to start his education, which is ongoing and happens to pay quite nicely, by the way. And there are indications that he’s a good student at the NBA level.
Quoted: Phil Moy, an aquatic invasive species specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
Quoted: Stephen Lucas, who teaches rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin and is an expert on King.
North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven crossed paths with New York Jets quarterback Brooks Bollinger this past week.
Both were in the Herald building, the governor talking about school funding and Bollinger talking about life as an NFL quarterback.
“You represent us well,” Hoeven told Bollinger. “We’re really proud of you.”
Quoted: Edward Friedman, a professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Political Science.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Not too many children and grandchildren of University of Wisconsin System alumni are taking up an offer for discounted nonresident tuition under a three-year pilot program.
Only 45 students are getting 25 percent discounts on nonresident tuition under the Return to Wisconsin initiative, which was put in place at eight regional campuses in fall 2004.
MILWAUKEE — The critically-acclaimed movie “Brokeback Mountain” about a homosexual romance has a Wisconsin connection.
Milwaukee writer Will Fellows said that he recently learned that a book that he wrote in 1996 was suggested reading for the stars of the film, to help them develop their characters.
Quoted: Beth Graue, a professor of early childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
LA CROSSE, Wis. ââ?¬â? No foul play has been discovered thus far in an investigation into two menââ?¬â?¢s night on the town that ended with one in the river and another passing out at a hospital, La Crosse police said Friday.
But the night, which inspired e-mail speculation linking it to the river drownings of seven young men in recent years, will likely be one the two men wonââ?¬â?¢t forget ââ?¬â? or ever completely remember.
ââ?¬Å?I am still a little numb. We almost lost Cullen early Sunday morning.ââ?¬Â
That�s how it started, with what appeared to be a concerned mother�s e-mail to two friends Tuesday, telling the twisted tale of her son�s escape from death in the Mississippi River the previous weekend.
In her Dec. 14 Opinion piece, “Why not all executions deter murder,” Joanna Shepherd suggests that executions deter homicides in only one in five states that impose death sentences.
Author: Steven Durlauf, Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Jim Doyle is proposing a new financial aid package to help high school students with good grade-point averages pay for college.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – The protest was carefully orchestrated, planned for weeks by Students Against War during Friday evening meetings in a small classroom on the University of California campus here.
So when the military recruiters arrived for the job fair, held in an old dining hall last April 5 – a now fateful day for a scandalized university – the students had their two-way radios in position, their cyclists checking the traffic as hundreds of demonstrators marched up the hilly roads of this campus on the Central Coast and a dozen moles stationed inside the building, reporting by cellphone to the growing crowd outside.
“Racist, sexist, antigay,” the demonstrators recalled shouting. “Hey, recruiters, go away!”
THE largest university in Oregon is camouflaged, its many parts spread among the tight urban canyons of downtown Portland. But one building at Portland State University stands out. It has a roof of grass, plants and gravel, like a slice of the high desert on the wet side of Oregon. It is 10 stories high, and inside, all the mechanical organs work with so little waste – pumping water, air and electricity to the 400 residents of the dormitory and, on lower floors, to classrooms – that it would impress even the thrifty New Englanders who founded Portland.
When state legislators and governors gather from around the country, they might be forgiven for thinking that all of those who run state higher education systems come from Lake Wobegon, where all children are above average. For in just about every state ââ?¬â? whether generous or frugal on college spending ââ?¬â? administrators say that they are making the absolute best possible use of available dollars.
Up and down State street, enthusiasm from Badger fans is everywhere.
“Oh my gosh, how could you not get excited about everything that’s going on here?” said one fan.
Good question.
As Ellen Johnson Sirleaf begins her first days as president of Liberia, she probably won’t have time to reflect on how far she’s come since her days as a busgirl in Madison.
Sirleaf is the first female leader of an African nation. But before making history, she got an accounting degree from the now defunct Madison College of Business back in 1964.
When she was first elected last year, former UW Dean of L&S Phil Certain looked her up to see if she attended the University of Wisconsin. “Her name was not in the records but her husband’s name was in the records. He was a master’s degree student at the University at the time.”
Quoted: UW sports medicine specialist Dr. David Bernhardt
For years, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has existed in the shadow of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University. But under the leadership of chancellor Carlos Santiago, UWM is making strides to step to the forefront of Wisconsin universities, which is a positive development for the Milwaukee-area business community.
Of all his possible higher education aspirations, Vinny Kang never thought he’d spend a good portion of his college days slicing up salmon to try to help discover why the fish always die after spawning.
But he’s not complaining.
Kang, a junior attending UW-Madison on a full-tuition violin scholarship, wants to go to medical school after he graduates. And working on an independent research project in the lab of animal science professor Terence Barry is the kind of resume-builder that will probably help get him there.
From his obscure laboratory just off the Beltline on Madison’s West Side, Hon Ip is keeping close track of birds in Alaska — and helping lead the country’s lookout for bird flu.
The stories of some patients who have had transplants done by Dr. Hans Sollinger:
The kidneys of Dwayne Deakins, a 41-year-old Elkhorn farmer with hereditary polycystic kidney disease, had grown to five times their normal size.
He needed a transplant, and two men saved his life.
One was his 64-year-old father, Ken, the donor.
The other was a 59-year-old former Olympic skier from Germany, whose inquisitiveness, bedside manner, intelligence, energy and experience make him among the most important and sought-after transplant surgeons in the country.
Dr. Hans Sollinger was on the case, explaining, strategizing, comforting.
Quoted: LaMarr Billups, special assistant to the chancellor at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer Walsh said she expects most people will be discouraged by the (caucus scandal), but she didn’t discount the possibility that others might be energized and that their efforts might lead to meaningful change.
Barry Orton, a UW-Madison telecommunications professor, said the new agreement does not address the fundamental problem: a lack of legal accountability.
South Korean prosecutors Monday began questioning junior researchers who were part of a team led by disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo Suk over possible crimes linked to science fraud.
The organization that owns the SAT says it plans to consider allowing students to take the three-section test in separate sittings. But officials warn that students shouldn’t expect to see a change anytime soon ââ?¬â? if at all.
Your high-school senior is starting college this fall, but you’re not one of those sentimental parents who puddles up at the thought of your baby chick leaving the nest. In fact, you’re counting the days until you can turn your child’s bedroom into a sun porch.
It is true that the United States is losing its advantage in drawing foreign students, but a major point was not stressed enough in USA TODAY’s recent article (ââ?¬Å?USA losing its advantage drawing foreign students,ââ?¬Â News, Jan 6).
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Baby boomers, who fueled a rise in company-supported day care nearly a generation ago, are driving a new employee benefit: help with their kids’ college admissions. With an assist from admissions-savvy entrepreneurs, a small but growing number of employers offer options ranging from brown-bag lunches on college-related topics to sessions with former Ivy League admissions officers to Web-based programs that let parents manage their child’s progress.
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ON a frigid night during finals week last month, Caroline Proctor waited alone for friends to pick her up outside the Yale gymnasium, near the edge of campus and the rough neighborhoods of New Haven. “I don’t get worried until about 10 o’clock,” says Ms. Proctor, a graduate student in psychology. “There’s been a lot of muggings. We keep getting e-mails.”
AS far as Kyle Stoneman is concerned, the campus police were the ones who started the Facebook wars. “We were just being, well, college students, and they used it against us,” says Mr. Stoneman, a senior at George Washington University in Washington. He is convinced that the campus security force got wind of a party he and some buddies were planning last year by monitoring Facebook.com, the phenomenally popular college networking site. The officers waited till the shindig was in full swing, Mr. Stoneman grouses, then shut it down on discovering under-age drinking.
Mr. Stoneman and his friends decided to fight back. Their weapon of choice? Facebook, of course.
MADISON, Wis. — Over 320 movers and shakers from Madison’s business community came together at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center on Monday, Jan. 9 to recognize the recipients of this yearââ?¬â?¢s Best of Madison Business Awards, presented by Madison Magazine.
Honorees for 2006 included the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department (represented by Vince Sweeney, Senior Associate Athletic Director).
The gala also raises money for The Brian D. Howell Science and Communications Scholarship Fund which provides financial support for a college-level internship designed to encourage University of Wisconsin-Madison students to pursue interests in journalism, science, and new technology.
Quoted: Gregg Vanderheiden, professor of industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
La Crosse police continue to look into how a 21-year-old Viroqua man ended up in the Mississippi River.
Cullen Fortney, who is a UW-Madison student, says he found himself in the river early Sunday morning after a night of drinking in downtown La Crosse with friends. Fortney has no recollection on how he got there.
