Quoted: Gilles Bousquet, dean of international programs.
Ali: Paris riots a lesson for all nations
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: jplucas
iPod Nation
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Journalism Professor Lew Friedland.
UC, industry team up in commercial effort (San Jose Mercury News)
The University of California on Monday unveiled its next big thing in innovation: a huge new institute that partners academia and industry, with the goal of speeding products to patients.
UW Children’s Hospital gets Special Gift
NBC-15
It was a special day, with a very special gift being delivered at the UW Children’s Hospital.
Santa was on hand Tuesday afternoon to help light the Christmas tree at the Children’s Hospital. And representatives from Kohl’s were on hand to hand over a check for nearly $165,000.
New Orleans Students Decide Stay or Go (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) Sixty-four students displaced by Hurricane Katrina enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A dozen of them will stay to study next semester, but other students say they�re looking forward to going back to the Big Easy. (Second item.)
January: Reluctant Businessman Helps Lead First Wisconsin Stem Cell Business (wisbusiness.com)
Craig January, who comfortably wears the hats of both scientist and heart doctor at UW-Madison, has had numerous chances to go into business.
But January, who developed a novel method to test drugs for heart toxicity in the late 1990s, resisted them ââ?¬â?? until recently.
Grant Given To Study Breast Cancer Drugs
Wisconsin State Journal
BellBrook Labs of Madison has received a $250,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a tissue model for studying breast cancer drugs.
The lab model, designed to mimic the tumor process that occurs in the body, could enable better drug testing, the company said in a news release. It incorporates technology from the lab of Dr. David Beebe in the UW-Madison department of biomedical engineering.
Light-detecting Protein Mapped
Wisconsin State Journal
In a move that could light up the future of agriculture, UW-Madison scientists have mapped the three-dimensional structure of a protein in plants that detects light.
Now that the structure of the protein, called phytochrome, has been detailed, researchers might be able to manipulate it to make crops more or less sensitive to light or make plants flower at different times of the year.
UW Pitches In
Wisconsin State Journal
When UW-Madison leaders brag about the “holistic” approach they use to choose “well-rounded” students for admission — putting good grades in a mix of other desired traits such as community service and different life experiences — junior Ashok Kumar could be their poster boy.
Since virtually the day he arrived as a freshman, from a poor school district in Yuma, Ariz., Kumar, 21, has stirred things up.
Universities and federal government at odds over military recruiting (Minnesota Public Radio)
Minnesota Public Radio
Minneapolis, Minn. ââ?¬â? Congress clamped down on schools that denied military recruiters on campus last year. It tightened restrictions under the so-called Solomon Amendment, which requires schools that receive federal funding to give recruiters the same access to their career placement offices as other employers.
High Court to Hear Case on Recruiting by Military
Chronicle of Higher Education
When the Air Force came to Harvard Law School in October to recruit students for its Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Adam R. Sorkin, a second-year student, signed up for an interview.
Mr. Sorkin, who is gay, knew he would be turned down for the job under the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. But he went anyway, to argue for an end to the ban on homosexuals in the armed services.
Populist group hopes to build statewide base (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Northern lakes lose ice cover faster (Duluth News Tribune)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Quoted: University of Wisconsin limnologist Barbara Benson
State asks judge to make audit public record (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? The state asked a judge on Monday to make public an audit of a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dean’s spending, saying there is no reason to suppress the recor
Web setup may not be citywide
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW-Madison professor Barry Orton.
Some college students saying no to N.O. (AP)
CNN.com
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — Stephanie Swisher is settling in nicely as a freshman at the University of Virginia, enjoying classes, Naval ROTC, club volleyball and football Saturdays.
South Korean scandal raises concerns about stem cell projects
USA Today
Embryonic stem cell researchers are worried about the future of international cooperation in their field after a prominent scientist’s surprise resignation from a fledgling stem-cell-sharing effort.
UW Has Role in Key Climate Change Convention (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MONTREAL, QUEBEC) A major international meeting on climate change begins today in Montreal. A Wisconsin professor will be there, highlighting a recent report on the damage global warming may cause. (6th item.)
Keep recruiting diverse teachers
Wisconsin State Journal
Only 10 percent of all teachers nationwide are black, Latino, Asian or American Indian. This is because fewer minorities go to college, and fewer still choose education over more lucrative fields, says Gloria Ladson-Billings, a UW-Madison education professor.
No thanks. No drinks. No regrets. (Minnesota Star-Tribune)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Yes, on my first day of college, a guy down the hall encouraged me to take a peek at his roommate having sex.
Yes, I once heard the thud of a drunken student hitting concrete after he fell from a 12-foot perch in the middle of the night.
And yes, during a football game, a tumbler of ice struck my head with such force that the plastic shattered.
So, like most University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, I was not shocked that hundreds of revelers were arrested in Madison again this past Halloween or that Madison has again topped the annual list of party schools.
Families share ‘autistic traits’ (BBC News)
BBC News Online
Quoted: Brendon Nacewicz from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
Man with a plan (DesMoines Register)
Ames, Ia. ââ?¬â? When Jamie Brown Pollard was growing up in Oshkosh, Wis., he spent many days working at the auto body shop owned by his father, George. As his mother, Mary, handled the financial books close by, Jamie soaked up the experience, “though I still can’t change my own oil.”
Parking proposal would penalize employees (Highland Park News)
Quoted: Nancy E. Mathews, of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nascent disease troubles hunters (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Quoted: Richard C. Bishop, an environmental economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Alito Put Faith in the 1st Amendment (Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Times
Quoted: Julie Underwood, the former general counsel for the National School Boards Assn., now dean of education at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Bonding, brain chemistry linked (Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Times
Children adopted from abroad often have difficulties adjusting to their new families and to life in this country, exhibiting poor social skills, problems bonding with new family members and reticence in dealing with strangers.
Those difficulties are generally traced back to emotional deprivation in large orphanages, where infants often outnumber staff by 40 to 1, and caregivers do little more than feed and change the infants.
Hunter bags first buck – well, it was mostly a buck (Wausau Daily Herald)
Wausau Daily Herald
Quoted: Scott Craven, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Could this be a cure-all? (Arkansas News)
Quoted: Dr. Richard Boxer, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Colleges Cash In on Commercial Activity
Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges created a record number of start-up companies based on the inventions of their professors and students in the 2004 fiscal year, and they collected more than $1-billion in revenues from licenses on a host of new drugs, agricultural products, high-tech components, and other breakthrough technologies, according to a report released in November.
Show Your Hand, Not Your ID
Chronicle of Higher Education
At many colleges, students flash a photo ID at a food-service worker to get into a dining hall. Things work differently at the University of Georgia, where Gavin Beck, a senior, places his hand on a sensor that determines if the person waiting to eat really is Gavin Beck.
Could National Housing Bubble Happen Here?
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: Tim Riddiough, director of the Center for Real Estate at the UW Madison School of Business.
PSC approves MGE rate hike
Wisconsin State Journal
During Wednesday’s PSC meeting, Commissioner Mark Meyer praised MGE for keeping operational costs down. Almost all of the rate increase will go to pay for fuel and the new power plant on the UW-Madison campus.
Today’s a paid holiday for many
Wisconsin State Journal
That would seem to hold true at the area’s largest employers, which are mostly open for business today. The UW Health system, the UW-Madison campus and state government offices are all open, and while employees there can take advantage of vacation or personal time, it’s not a paid holiday.
“Obviously, with schedules and contracts varying, we attempt to honor all the vacations requests as long as all the operations are accounted for,” said UW Health spokeswoman Diane Stojanovick Books.
With no classes and the UW- Madison campus largely deserted, most departments at the university can function on a skeleton staff, said Stephen Lund, the associate director of human resources. But then again, Lund himself plans on working today and enjoying the tranquility.
“The phones don’t ring so much, you can catch up,” Lund said. “You get one call instead of 15, five e-mails instead of 30.”
Families invite foreign students to celebrate holiday
Wisconsin State Journal
In true Thanksgiving fashion, cultures combined throughout Madison on Thursday as families opened their homes and shared their turkey dinners with international UW-Madison students.
About 75 students went to 45 homes to share in a Thanksgiving Day meal, said Kathy Granquist. “The response from the community has been very good.”
Ethics Questions Prompt South Korean Stem-Cell Pioneer to Resign
Chronicle of Higher Education
One of the world’s most prominent stem-cell scientists resigned last week from his position as director of a major new international research consortium, acknowledging that his laboratory had used ethically questionable means of acquiring human egg cells.
Labels frustrate ASU, UA (Arizona Republic)
Arizona Republic
Quoted: John Lucas, a spokesman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW student body has strong volunteerism strain
In-depth State Journal report on the rise of activism and community-based volunteer work among UW-Madison students. Story not available online.
More Options to Answer ‘What About the Kids?’
New York Times
Quoted: Erica Laughlin, 35, an outreach program director at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The justice system isn’t always just
Wisconsin State Journal
The audience at the Wisconsin Historical Society auditorium had just finished watching an emotional 95- minute documentary, “After Innocence,” that followed the lives of about a dozen men around the country who’d been convicted, then exonerated, for crimes they didn’t commit.
A Recipe for Disaster (Fortune)
Quoted: Amy Wong at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Microbiologist extraordinaire Eric Johnson, also at UW-Madison.
Businesses offer ‘flex’ appeal
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Larry “Chip” Hunter, an associate professor of management and human resources in the UW-Madison Business School.
Village eyes ‘dark sky’ proposal
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: David S. Liebl, a pollution prevention specialist with UW- Extension.
Have A Big Red Christmas
Wisconsin State Journal
Santa is a Badger fan. Why else would he wear all that red and white? And so it is entirely appropriate to give Badger-booster gifts to Grinches everywhere.
Fan obsession has many outlets – just look at “Star Trek.” And yet my Spock ears are not socially acceptable, but my official UW marching band mesh shorts – with “Eat a Rock” printed on the rump – are. For some reason, taste takes a holiday when it comes to school loyalty. (As one unnamed source told me while researching this article, “You’re telling me! I gotta sell this stuff.”) Still, some Badger booster items are fun, and a lot of it is downright neat.
Don’t Wish For A Bowl Patsy
Wisconsin State Journal
Short of No. 1 USC or No. 2 Texas getting upset in the final two weekends of college football or Oregon and the Pacific-10 Conference twisting the arms of Fiesta Bowl officials right off, the Big Ten Conference will get two teams — Penn State and Ohio State — into the Bowl Championship Series.
Brain Stents Used To Fend Off Strokes
Wisconsin State Journal
Dave Cooley was running a chainsaw in the woods near his western Wisconsin home when he suddenly lost strength in his arms and legs.
He sat on a tree stump for nearly half an hour before recovering.
“I lost my senses, and it took a long time to get my senses back,” said Cooley, a farmer from Bagley.
Uw ‘tobacco Stock’ Is Questioned
Wisconsin State Journal
Regent Tom Loftus wants the University of Wisconsin System to take a hard look at the stock it owns in tobacco-related companies, as well as any research that System campuses do that is funded by tobacco companies.
Fresh from a seven-year stint with the World Health Organization — the public health arm of the United Nations — Loftus said his work as special adviser to the organization’s director general included an emphasis on “big tobacco” companies.
Surging Energy Costs (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
As the temperature drops on many campuses, there�s probably an extra little chill in the air for the facilities managers and budget officers responsible for making sure that buildings are heated and energy bills paid.
Data Show Binge Drinking Way Beyond Norm
Wisconsin State Journal
It may be little comfort, but it’s official now.
Students in the University of Wisconsin System are drinking dangerously at a rate fully one-third higher than their peers nationwide, with the hangovers, missed classes, DUIs and unprotected sex to show for it.
Wisconsin consortium aims for defense business
Wisconsin Technology Network
Congress has approved a $500,000 start-up grant for the recently announced Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, a non-profit group for classified, defense-related projects.
The consortium, led by the Wisconsin Technology Council, will also initially include the UW System, the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, and the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
UW likely to get 2nd student regent
Wisconsin State Journal
Gov. Jim Doyle’s office says Doyle will sign a measure approved by the Legislature to add a second student regent to the UW Board of Regents.
“It is something he supports,” Doyle spokeswoman Melanie Fonder said.
New council to help UW System boost diversity
Wisconsin State Journal
Outsiders will soon weigh in with possible solutions to the continuing puzzle of how to make the University of Wisconsin System more diverse.
System President Kevin Reilly is assembling a first-of-its-kind panel, choosing heavy hitters from government, business, nonprofits, private colleges and even out-of-state schools. The state and national experts will act as his advisers, working with ongoing internal efforts to make the System’s student body and work force less white.
Put college fees under a spotlight
Wisconsin State Journal
It’s been a struggle for Wisconsin to keep tuition affordable at UW System campuses. So when it turns out that tuition is not the only battleground that student fees are adding as much as $1,148 a year to the cost of going to college it’s time for policy makers to examine what’s going on.
The Board of Regents should pursue a full-scale review of student fees in the UW System.
Worst State To Be Black – Find Out Why!
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: UW Madison sociologist Pam Oliver.
Keg ordinance aimed at students (Wausau Daily Herald)
Wausau Daily Herald
STEVENS POINT – Requiring registration of keg purchases in the city will not affect University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students buying the kegs for parties, students said.
And it may wind up hurting some small city businesses, some liquor store owners said.
Stevens Point Common Council approved a new keg ordinance Monday 7-4 with an implementation date of Jan. 15, to allow surrounding villages and towns an opportunity to review the ordinance and possibly adopt similar resolutions.
UW FOOTBALL: New officials lack Hawaiian punch
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin quarterbacks coach Jeff Horton was at a neighborhood party last December, watching the Michigan State-Hawaii game on TV.
The Spartans jumped out to a 21-0 lead and some people thought the game was over, but Horton kept telling everyone to wait.
Vikings’ owner donates $2.5 million to UW for melanoma research (AP)
Duluth News
GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Minnesota Vikings’ animosity for the Green Bay Packers apparently doesn’t spill over to the Wisconsin Badgers.
One of the Vikings’ owners, David Mandelbaum, is donating $2.5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Eye Research Institute. It’s to support a joint research initiative with University of Minnesota scientists.
Badger Backers may hit 6,000 against UH
Honolulu Advertiser
With several hundred fellow red-clad University of Wisconsin fans on Maui, Terry Murawski said he is often asked which team the Badgers are playing in the EA Sports Maui Invitational.
“When I tell people ‘we’re not here for basketball; we’re here for a football game,’ they go, ‘what?'”
Program May Reduce Drinking (Harvard Crimson)
Harvard researchers published a study last week concluding that cooperation between colleges and communities reduces binge drinking and drunk driving.
Three researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that schools that fully implemented the ââ?¬Å?A Matter of Degreeââ?¬Â (AMOD) approach prevented drunk driving more effectively than institutions that used traditional alcohol policies that focus on educating individuals.
Your Natural Resources Now On Sale (Los Angeles Times)
All my life, I have introduced people to our nation’s public lands, as a seasonal fishing guide in the Upper Midwest, as the head of the Bureau of Land Management and as the chief of the U.S. Forest Service – agencies that manage hundreds of millions of acres of public land. One thing I learned was that Americans love their national forests, parks and grasslands.
Mike Dombeck, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, was acting director of the Bureau of Land Management from 1994 to 1997 and chief of the U.S. Forest Service from 1997 to 2001.
Recipe For Trouble (Hartford Courant)
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Professor Wendy Way, chairwoman of the National Coalition for Family and Consumer Sciences.