For the 44-year-old Jennifer Angus, now teaching textile art at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the pairing of insects with Victorian toile-de-jouy patterns taps into the world of childhood wonder, another very Victorian place to be.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Incoming University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema strongly denied Friday night any talk of an escape clause in his pending contract.
The growing buzz around town and on the Internet in recent days was that Bielema, the Badgers’ defensive coordinator who’ll replace Barry Alvarez after the season, wanted an escape clause allowing him to coach Iowa, where he played collegiately.
Quoted: Roberta Riportella, associate professor in the Department of Consumer Science School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As the controversy surrounding resident assistant Bible studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire continues to simmer, UW-Green Bay’s Student Senate is weighing in on the issue.
Quoted: Michael Pariza, a food toxicologist and microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Michael J. Smith, a professor in the University of Wisconsin’s industrial and systems engineering department.
Quoted: Mike Scott, director for the Center for Problem Oriented Policing and a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Coach Barry Alvarez’s staff is gathering more information about the arrest of Badgers wide receiver Marcus Randle El on a tentative charge of battery, the athletics spokesman said Sunday. His status with the team remained up in the air.
Randle El, the 19-year-old brother of Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Antwaan Randle El, was arrested after allegedly punching another 19-year-old he knew at around 11 p.m. Friday night at his home in Madison over an alleged theft of money, police said.
Courtenay Sheffield, a University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing student, is leading a Swiss Colony campaign to stop fruitcake abuse and instead promote fruitcake whenever possible. Swiss Colony has even set up a Web site, ilovefruitcake.com.
Developing Clough Island could add millions to the local economy and create hundreds, even thousands, of jobs, according to an economic impact study conducted by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – Members of a University of Wisconsin fraternity face more than $94,000 in fines after police busted a Halloween party at their house.
MADISON, Wis. – The sixth annual UW student-athlete Thank-A-Thon held Dec. 5-8 at Camp Randall Stadium was another great success. (Athletic Communications.)
It’s moving day for the Mays.
“I’ll be leaving Sunday morning, heading back to New Orleans,” said Shane May.
Shane May hasn’t been back to New Orleans since hurricane Katrina hit … destroying his house, and canceling his semester of law school.
Capital One Bowl officials couldn’t wait for the chance to invite the University of Wisconsin football team and its fans to their game in Orlando, Fla.
But after lackluster ticket sales by UW for the Jan. 2 game against Auburn, bowl officials have to wonder why they spent all those years longing for the Badgers.
A former UW-Madison sociologist whose research on romantic attraction was the first Golden Fleece Award from Sen. William Proxmire never got another government grant after that, she said Thursday.
For five years, Meg Hamel has been running hard as a volunteer for the Wisconsin Film Festival. This year, she’ll run the event.
What is it about “King Kong” that keeps us filing back into theaters every 30 years or so to check in on the big fellow?
After all, we know the ending.
Gregg Mitman, a professor of the history of science and medical history at UW-Madison, says we are drawn to theaters to see “Kong” for some of the same reasons that made the movie such a hit with fans in the 1930s, when movie studio execs were initially appalled after producer David O. Selznick announced plans to make a costly movie about a lovesick ape that climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. But the $680,000 original brought back $5 million to the RKO studio.
KAUKAUNA – It was one of the most terrifying crimes ever to hit this community of 13,000.
On June 25, 2000, Shanna Van Dyn Hoven, a 19-year-old UW-Madison student, was stabbed to death as she jogged by a quarry near her home about 6 p.m. The apparently random attack on such a lively and popular young woman shocked the community and turned the suspected killer, Ken Hudson, into one of the most hated men in the Fox River Valley.
Fifteen-year-old Kristof Didrickson remembers some of “the bad stuff, the needles,” from being treated for cancer a decade ago.
Madelyn Waloway, 8, doesn’t remember a thing about being diagnosed with cancer – she was 2 months old.
After 10 years of alcohol education programming, the project known as PACE: Reducing the Consequences of High-Risk Drinking, will no longer have funding from university grants. Over the past decade, PACE has worked together with university officials, UW-Madison and City of Madison Police, the City Council and many other organizations and committees to offer alcohol-free opportunities for university students.
It has been nearly four months since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, and displaced students are eager to return to their southern schools. With the spring semester approaching, the students who found temporary refuge at UW-Madison must decide whether they will stay.
UW-Madison students are encouraged to participate in city government, but many choose not to, local representatives said.
The City of Madison allows unelected citizens to serve on city committees, but few students have taken the opportunity.
Non-resident students currently make up approximately 22 percent of the undergraduate student population at UW-Madison.
After Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, New York and California are the two most represented states among the undergraduate student population and since the fall of 2003-�04, student representation from California has increased by 160 students, according to numbers provided by the Office of the Registrar.
Although both the undergraduate and graduate schools do not participate in international outreach recruitment programs, UW-Madison continues to attract thousands of international students every year.
For students looking to do a good deed while earning some extra spending money, donating plasma could be the answer.
Educational benefits from a GI bill passed over a year ago have been severely delayed, causing many to question the bill�s implementation and seek alternate methods of educational funding.
Chuck Goranson, a Vietnam veteran and veterans benefit specialist with the local organization Vets for Vets, said the bill, called Chapter 1607, gives extra benefits to members of the National Guard and military reservists who were called to active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and other operations concerning the war on terrorism.
American biomedical researchers were reeling on Thursday after hearing reports from South Korea that members of a top team of scientists there had admitted to fabricating at least part of a landmark study on embryonic stem cells.
The revelations, the Americans said, had the potential to undermine research on cloning human embryos and developing embryonic-stem-cell lines for treating diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes.
The competition to get into the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus is tougher than ever this year, with the number of freshman applications expected to set a record for the fourth year in a row.
As of last week, applications were up 26 percent compared to the same time last year. Almost 18,700 students had applied for 5,300 freshman slots. By the time all applications are in, officials expect there will be between four and five applicants for every opening.
Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, director of the bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Contending that they are illegally charged higher tuition and fees than undocumented immigrants, a group of out-of-state students and parents filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against California’s public university and community college systems.
(MADISON) A University of Wisconsin-Madison peace group is one of more than forty nationwide that have had their activities monitored by the Pentagon. Peace activists in Madison say they�re angry that peaceful protests are being spied on. (Second item.)
A UW-Madison program is quietly finding ways to bring the state’s businesses together to help them solve each other’s problems.
The E-Business Consortium, established seven years ago by industrial engineering professor Raj Veeramani, is designed to help state companies learn from one another and compete successfully in the world of electronic business.
Falling on the same day that fellow Democrat and former state Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala was sentenced in Madison to jail time for misconduct in office, Proxmire’s death comes as another signal of a shift in state politics, from populist barnstorming to pricey TV ads paid for by influential big-money interests, said Dennis Dresang, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
A collaborator of South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk, a hero in his country for his stem cell research, says his colleague has admitted fabricating some of his test results. In May, Hwang and his team published a landmark report in the journal Science announcing that they had created 11 lines, or colonies, of cloned human embryonic stem cells. This achievement made South Korea a leader in this field of research. But a co-author of the report, Roh Sung Il, told Korean television and newspapers that Hwang told him Thursday that most of the supposedly cloned lines were fakes and the fate of the others is unclear.
In a study that could lead to a therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders, UW- Madison researchers have used stem cells to deliver a disease-fighting protein to the brains of rats.
The protein, called GDNF, has already shown promise in small trials of Parkinson’s patients.
Quoted: Michele Hilmes, professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
We all hate being taken for granted, but I’m pretty sure we’re guilty of that behavior lately when it comes to those employed as coaches at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Arthur Reynolds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Alfred McCoy. Third item.
WASHINGTON – A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn’t know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military
Last night, NBC reported that the U.S. Defense Department is conducting ongoing surveillance of American peace activists. A 400 page department document acquired by the network lists more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” by a variety of anti-war and counter-recruitment organizations over the last ten months, while an eight page document (available on MSNBC as a PDF file) lists 43 anti-war meetings across the nation.
This database lists the date of occurrence, date of report, threat status, and other information on each of the surveillance instances. While most of the listed events are in larger states such as California, New York, and Texas, one details a planned protest in Madison last spring.
At a time when end zone celebrations in the NFL have reached new levels of creativity or stupidity — depending on one’s perspective — University of Wisconsin junior tailback Brian Calhoun has struck a blow for old-fashioned values.
It’s time for a boozer tax on Madison’s annual Halloween party on State Street.
Rachel Friesen was on track to graduate debt-free from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs when she made a leap in 2004 that would instead land her about $40,000 in debt on commencement day. In her junior year, she transferred to Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian college near Los Angeles. Her reason: Christian community.
Nadeem Siddiqui, a Madison resident and Pakistani native who, along with his wife, Catherine Sheskey, recently returned from a two-and-a-half week visit to the devastated mountainous region.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in CIA torture methods.
Sixteen students at the University of Minnesota have committed suicide in the past five years, and antidepressants are now the second-most-often prescribed medication at the student health center pharmacy.
As demand for mental health services increases and the problems that students bring to college grow more severe, the university’s Boynton Health Service is working to keep up.
MADISON, Wis. – Republican lawmakers praised a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire resident assistant on Tuesday for speaking out against a school practice prohibiting him from holding Bible studies in his dorm building.
MADISON, Wis. — A new apparel policy on the UW campus may bring the school and Student Labor Action Coalition closer to a compromise.
For months, the Student Labor Action Coalition has requested that the university stop buying licensed collegiate apparel from companies that run sweatshops.
Madison: The University of Wisconsin System has suspended a policy that prevents certain students from holding bible studies in their dorm rooms.
UW Eau Claire senior Lance Steiger didn’t want to start a fight, he just wanted to hold a bible study every Tuesday night with some other students in the basement of his dorm. “It was people we had either met on campus or people that had listed on a survey that they were interested in bible study so we contacted them.”
Internal appeals of firing decisions are nearly finished for two of the three UW-Madison professors convicted of felonies in recent months, while the process for the third — jailed stalker Steven Clark — is just getting under way, university officials confirmed last week.
If you are among those grumbling about having to shovel your sidewalk yet again, UW-Madison researcher Stephen Vavrus has some news for you. Without that snow, our planet would be in big trouble.
Vavrus is a climate modeling specialist at the Center for Climatic Research. With reports of melting Arctic ice becoming more frequent, Vavrus did what scientists do: He posed a question.
Henry Sanders Jr. is a free man again, so to speak.
After two years of seemingly nonstop work as vice president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, he stepped down earlier this month, just as the chamber prepares for its fight against the proposed paid sick-leave law.
Graduate students in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are studying the Superior economy. For three months, they have been working to get a better idea of the economic benefit to the Twin Ports based on a variety of development.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, head of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
Column by Adam Edelman, a senior at UW-Madison and an editorial page intern for the Wisconsin State Journal.
Here’s some advice for the Republican leadership in Wisconsin’s Legislature: get serious.
ST. PAUL, Minn. ââ?¬â? The University of St. Thomas is trying to give the creator of the next Microsoft or Best Buy a leg up on competitors with its new Schulze School of Entrepreneurship.
The university’s $22 million school in downtown Minneapolis not only aims to lecture to students about entrepreneurship, but also to give them virtually all the tools they’ll need to start a business.
