A college newspaper that printed a photo essay depicting an editor’s sexual fantasy of being raped created such a backlash on campus that a task force is being formed to focus on the problem of violence against women.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.619-billion as of December 8 (increase of $10.9-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
Students ââ?¬â? who will borrow as much as $1 billion next year in federal student loans ââ?¬â? would face hundreds of dollars more in interest payments under the congressional budget bill.
The bill passed the Senate 51-50 last week and is expected to pass the House of Representatives a final time next month. It would cut $12.7 billion from student aid over five years, a figure that accounts for about one-third of the projected savings across all sectors of the economy.
Godwin rushed Henry from their Madison home to the University of Wisconsin Allergy Clinic at University Hospital, where Dr. Mark Moss, an allergist and assistant professor, administered antihistamine drugs. The boy was able to return home in four hours.
It’s one of the smallest pieces of your property tax bill, but it’s growing fast and is one of the least scrutinized.
A state lawmaker says he plans to introduce legislation this year to increase accountability of technical college district boards and reduce their reliance on property taxes.
Going out with a win is a fitting way to say goodbye to Barry Alvarez.
“Pretty surprised, I thought they were gonna be killed today, but they’re doing well.”
“It’s a great game for Barry, glad it’s going out hopefully on top,” say some fans watching the Capital One Bowl.
Wisconsin head coach Barry Alvarez coached his final game Monday afternoon. It’s one he’ll remember for a long time.
Wisconsin, a 10 point underdog to SEC power Auburn, ran wild in Orlando, dominating the Tigers in a 24-10 victory in the Capital One Bowl.
On Thursday, Gabby Mahan will undergo surgery at UW Hospital to receive “brain pacemakers” that could greatly reduce her symptoms from dystonia, doctors say.
UW-Madison and its technology transfer organization, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, received more than $47.5 million in 2004 in licensing revenues, or fees paid to use the patents the university holds for inventions and discoveries made by campus faculty and researchers. That’s the third highest in the nation, according to the Association of University Technology Managers, behind the University of California System and New York University. It’s also $10 million more than the $37.5 million in licensing revenues the university collected in 2003, when it ranked 6th in the nation.
TomoTherapy has an enviable problem: how to fill more than 50 job openings.
MADISON – University Research Park head Mark Bugher, a former Republican cabinet officer, is spreading the message that UW and its research assets are a treasure often unappreciated close to home.
After recent travels to Europe and Florida, Bugher is convinced that Wisconsin has an economic dynamo in the making — a fact sometimes seen clearer from afar than inside the state’s borders.
And he notes some of the hurdles to full exploitation of the economic engine that is UW.
Incoming University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema and athletic director Barry Alvarez both signed five-year contracts Friday night.
The Wisconsin’s State Journal’s editorial board considers the following issues to be among the most important facing Wisconsin in 2006. Throughout this year, we’ll be writing about them and evaluating how Wisconsin is doing in these areas. We also will continue to seek your views and insight.
He is the bowl master, once again and forever.
University of Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez reestablished that reputation, if ever there was any doubt, with a performance that had to rank with some of his most stunning bowl victories.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Auburn’s goal in the Capital One Bowl was to beat the University of Wisconsin Monday so it could finish high in the polls and use that as a springboard for a national championship run next fall.
Surprise, surprise.
Quoted: Fran�§ois Ortalo-Magn�©, an associate professor of real estate at the University of Wisconsin who has studied residential sales in Europe and the United States.
Boycott movements on college campuses tend to take hold (or fade away) based on whether a critical mass of well known institutions participate. So critics of Coca-Cola have much to celebrate as 2006 begins.
Following a month of calls for censorship or punishment of the student newspaper, officials at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee are refusing to do so. But they are creating a special panel on the campus that will study the issue of violence against women.
The furor arose from a series of photographs that ran in The Post, the weekly student paper.
UW-Madison scientists have created two new embryonic stem-cell lines, the first grown without animal products, officials say, removing a major obstacle to their potential use as cell therapies in people.
All 22 stem-cell lines available for federal funding, including the five created by UW-Madison researcher James Thomson in 1998, have been grown with animal products such as mouse cells and cow blood proteins.
The creation of the first embryonic stem-cell lines without animal products is a research breakthrough that highlights, yet again, UW-Madison’s pre-eminence in the field.
The new lines also show how close stem-cell research is to life-saving cures and how much closer it could be if the federal government would ease its unreasonable funding restrictions.
Recycling spent fuel could be key to nuclear energy’s future.
A problem: all the space at the nation’s yet to open Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is already committed for existing radioactive waste, from the nation’s reactors. Todd Allen is a researcher, at UW Madison.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Sophomore wide receiver Marcus Randle El knows there will be plenty of skeptics when they read what he had to say after the University of Wisconsin football team’s practice Wednesday.
Howells worked as a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History until 1939, when he accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin. Commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy in 1943, he was assigned to naval intelligence in Washington and served until the end of the war, when he returned to Wisconsin as an associate professor. He became a full professor by 1948.
It has been 11 years since Mike Verstegen last suited up for the University of Wisconsin football team.
But he’ll never forget the lessons he learned, especially off the field, while playing for head coach Barry Alvarez.
“One of the most important things coach Alvarez taught me was to have confidence in myself and my ability to do whatever I’m doing, whether it’s on the football field or in the office,” said Verstegen, a former Kimberly High School star who works as an LPL Financial Services adviser in Appleton.
Cindy Bennett has plenty of reasons for going to the Capital One Bowl.
For one, her brother’s never been to a bowl game, and Bennett, of rural Portage, convinced him to go to Orlando.
Bennett, a University of Wisconsin alumna herself, also has a son in the Wisconsin Marching Band.
“It’s been a lot of fun following them around,” Bennett said. “To go to a game when the band isn’t there isn’t very good.”
It’s the last game in a losing season, but for cornerback B.J. Tucker the 49ers’ matchup with the Houston Texans on Sunday represents an improbable first.
On the NFL’s fringes the past two years, Tucker, 25, is slated to make his starting debut because of injuries to Derrick Johnson (groin) and Bruce Thornton (knee).
Matt Jazwiec likes attending the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Don’t get him wrong. The classes, the students, they’re great.
But to hear the sophomore tell it, there’s a gaping hole in his college experience. The Illinois native grew up going to football games at the University of Illinois. Mesmerized by the stadium’s throbbing energy, he would sit in the stands, dreaming of the day when he could cheer for his own NCAA college football team.
As Terri Bohn-Brennum sits in a clinic chair, Dr. Seth Dailey waves a long, black wand before her face, an ice-blue light shining from its tip.
It looks like Dailey is channeling Darth Vader. But he’s actually sparing Bohn- Brennum from a trip to the operating room. The UW Hospital laryngologist is using a pulsed dye laser to remove a polyp from her vocal cords.
ORLANDO, Fla. – University of Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez has a parting plea for the team’s fans on his way out the door. All he is saying is give Bret Bielema a chance.
ââ?¬â? The controversial new power plant on the west side of the UW-Madison campus finally fired up in 2005 and began lighting and cooling area buildings in May.
ââ?¬â?Ã? Cellular Dynamics, the company formed by UW- Madison stem-cell pioneer James Thomson, received $2 million in grants and loans from the state.
Post this one under the heading “What were they thinking?” and let it serve as a warning to all public officials:
If you have to play dumb about what is and what is not ethical behavior in government, maybe you are too dumb for public service.
Brian Calhoun didn’t want to switch positions, and Kenny Irons couldn’t bear life on the bench. So the two tailbacks changed schools, Calhoun transferring to Wisconsin and Irons to Auburn. Apparently, their brilliant moves aren’t limited to the field.
An executive committee of the UW Board of Regents on Thursday approved multi-year contracts for UW-Madison football coaches Bret Bielema and Barry Alvarez, promising to release details such as salary and perks after the documents are signed over the weekend.
Investigators at South Korea’s leading university announced Thursday that all of the cloned stem cell lines created by its disgraced star scientist are fake. The Seoul National University panel found that Hwang Woo Suk ââ?¬â? who until recently was celebrated as a pioneer in stem cell research ââ?¬â? lied and did not produce stem cells individually tailored to patients as he had claimed.
College athletics is big business, and football is the granddaddy of them all.
In 2004, the top 10 NCAA Division I-A football programs raked in a combined $417.87 million in total revenue, according to the U.S. Department of Educationââ?¬â?¢s Office of Postsecondary Education. The University of Texas topped the list with $47.5 million, but even mid-tier Division 1-A schools like the University of Oregon, Boston College, and Stanford University generated well more than $10 million in revenue last yearââ?¬â?enough to make any university president salivate.
Sitting in his second-floor office at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Michael Edmonds declared that his goal is to “turn this place inside out.”
The arrests of two University of Wisconsin football players in unrelated incidents this month were embarrassing enough to the university. The fact that each player had a previous arrest made the cases doubly embarrassing – and doubly troubling.
Quoted: Richard C. Bishop, an environmental economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
That’s right, Governor Doyle has agreed to appear in a movie that starts shooting at the end of January in Madison. It’s called “Winter Of Frozen Dreams”. The independent film is based on the true story of Barbara Hoffman a UW student who was convicted of murdering at least one man with cyanide in the 1970’s
The cost of college, a growing concern that professors are overwhelmingly liberal and Hurricane Katrina were among the top stories in higher education in 2005.
Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Marcus Randle El bloodied a former teammate’s face in a dispute over some missing money, according to charges filed Tuesday in Dane County Circuit Court.
Lawyer jokes aren’t just good for a laugh — they can tell us much about the state of the legal profession. In researching my new book, “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture,” I found that the preeminent subject of jokes set in large law firms is the tension between older partners and younger associates.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Genetically modified nerve ‘progenitor’ cells can be used as mini-pumps to deliver nerve growth factor to the brain, a new study in animals shows.
The results suggest such an approach could be used to treat Parkinson’s disease and other brain diseases in humans, Dr. Clive D. Svendsen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues report.
My various mailboxes are not just filled with bills, electronic spam, catalogues, press releases and the stray holiday card these days.
They also are crammed with sarcasm, ridicule, anger, profanity and protest, all in the name of readers blowing off some steam.
Vicki Lord Larson, the interim chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, has struck down a new student fee that would have funded pay raises for the university’s faculty and academic staff, saying salaries of university officials should remain in the hands of the UW System Board of Regents, the Legislature and the governor’s office.
Quoted: Charles Jones, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin.
From “Bambi” to “Free Willy” to “March of the Penguins,” movies about animals have historically been a big hit at the box office. The latest creature to capture the hearts of movie-goers is King Kong – who stars in the latest remake of the 1933 classic film. University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gregg Mitman, author of the book, “Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film,” was interviewed via e-mail by the Journal Sentinel’s Mark Maley about the giant ape and how animals are depicted on the silver screen. Mitman is a professor of the history of science at UW-Madison.
Robin Harris talks to her parents nearly every day, often asking for help with her homework, in deciding what classes to take and about how to clean up a mess she had made.
Jacqueline King is a researcher who carefully sifts data for the American Council on Education in search of trends that colleges and universities might find helpful. One recent discovery jumped out: Over the past eight years, the percentage of middle-class males on campus shifted dramatically downward. Even more surprising, the sharpest drop occurred among white males.
Quoted: Dr. Kirstie K. Danielson of the University of Wisconsin.
Sean Carroll, professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, an introduction to the new science of evolutionary developmental biology written for the lay reader.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez made some significant changes to his senior staff this week, and there’s another move on the horizon.
Doug Beard will be promoted to senior associate athletic director and Marija Neubauer will be elevated to associate AD for development when the changes take effect Feb. 1.
Quoted: Alto Charo, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in biomedical and research ethics.
Madison – Barry Alvarez has been a success as a football coach. Now he has an opportunity to make his mark as a full-time athletic administrator.
Alvarez’s football record is well-known. He has coached three Big Ten Conference and Rose Bowl championship teams over 16 years at UW. He has a 7-3 record in bowls and an overall record of 117-73-4.
Madison – Pat Richter and Ron Vander Kelen gave them a near-miss against top-ranked Southern California in 1963.
Tailbacks Rufus Ferguson and Billy Marek gave them memorable individual performances in the 1970s.
Madison – They are bankers, lawyers, utilities, brewers, broadcasters, insurers, construction companies, former University of Wisconsin athletes, politicians and successful businessmen.
And they all bleed Bucky Badger red.
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Dr. Hans Sollinger, the chairman of transplantation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Pete Nowak, a rural sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
