Major-college spending on sports hit an all-time high of $3.6 billion in 2003-04, but a USA TODAY review of how accurately athletic spending is reported shows errors, omissions and undercounts.
The ABC investigation of nuclear reactors at colleges in the United States is all over the Web. The report could be very damaging to UW-Madison and its ability to handle such issues. The university is already under such pressure that this will be one more nail.
I appreciate the Wisconsin State Journal editorial taking UW-Madison and professor Michael Corradini to task for not owning up to the inexcusable breach of security at the UW’s nuclear reactor.
Quoted: Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Sixty years ago the defeat of Imperial Japan left the Korean peninsula divided into two antagonistic states one dominated by the Soviet Union, the other dominated by the United States.
Normally, the embryo is destroyed when the cells are retrieved, a result which prompts many proââ?¬â??life groups to oppose stem cell research.
In less than two weeks, Madison police and the city will be faced with another Halloween on State Street. For the last three years, the Saturday night of Halloween weekend has ended in rioting.
27 News has uncovered a Doyle Administration official was the only member of an evaluation committee to support a Milwaukee travel agency’s bid for a state contract worth an estimated $750,000.
Madison, Wis. – In Victorian England, the game of croquet was a completely neutral area where social ranking and gender didn’t matter, and people could share the latest news without inhibition.
n the 1967 movie “The Graduate” Mr. McGuire gave new college grad Benjamin Braddock “just one word” of advice:
Plastics.
In a similar scene last week Bill Gates gave UW- Madison students his advice on the right future to pursue:
Software.
A university committee wants UW-Madison to stop doing business with apparel companies unless those companies agree to buy at least a portion of their goods from union factories.
For a recent comparative literature class paper, Brendan Draper wanted to quote a phrase from a novel he’d read, but he couldn’t remember what page it was on. He typed ââ?¬Å?nervous conditionââ?¬Â into Internet search giant Google’s index of books. Within seconds, he found the phrase and page number of the book. ââ?¬Å?It was extremely helpful,ââ?¬Â says Draper, 20, a student at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Quoted: Jed Woodworth, a history graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Kenneth M. Goldstein, director of the Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin.
There is a host of ways to measure the growth of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department since 1990, but perhaps the most telling involves finance.
They work in the same building, have the same jobs, share the same goals and peer out from the same tiny fish bowl.
For those reasons alone, you would expect University of Wisconsin coaches Mike Eaves, Bo Ryan and Lisa Stone to have a relationship that extends beyond the walls of their adjacent third-floor offices at the Kohl Center.
Quoted: Cindy Alvarez, the wife of the University of Wisconsin’s coach, Barry Alvarez.
The strain of flu scientists fear could spark a pandemic is showing signs of becoming resistant to an antiviral drug being stockpiled around the world, a warning that drugs being stored by governments might not be as strong a defense as hoped, flu experts say.
Chemistry * To Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for “conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: Can people swim faster in syrup or in water?” (The answer? It doesn’t seem to make a difference.)
While many University students are planning on going to Madison, Wis., for Halloween next weekend, this year they�re not welcome.
Even people from other schools in Wisconsin are being told to stay away.
Just when you think there’s nothing new to be said about or learned from the Vietnam War — or that, after more than three decades, emotions about the conflict have cooled — along comes the new PBS documentary “Two Days in October.”
Viewers of “Two Days in October” may as well be warned ahead of time about a brief snippet of archival footage that airs just about midway through the film. This is only fair, because the shot is so terrible that it could haunt them the rest of their days.
Officials said backlash against the university has been minimal in the wake of a report ABC News aired Thursday night that said the nuclear reactor on the campus was not safe or sufficiently protected from terrorist attack.
The report will likely not disrupt the flow of research funding involving the reactor, said Jacques Gansler, vice president for research.
OCONOMOWOC – Turning Wisconsin into a national biotechnology center may not be a pipe dream, but it is unlikely to happen any time soon, an official of the Milken Institute said Friday.
“It is unrealistic that in the next 10 years, Wisconsin would be in the top 10,” Ross DeVol, director of regional economics for the Santa Monica, Calif., economic think tank, said in an interview.
If you could watch only one program to grasp what the war in Vietnam did to the United States of America, ”Two Days in October” would be a great choice.
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is playing with one. Green Bay Packers center Mike Flanagan recently underwent surgery for one. And University of Wisconsin fullback Matt Bernstein, we think, is sidelined by one.
What is it? A sports hernia.
It’s become the injury du jour in football this fall, but, according to sports medicine professionals, it’s not a new phenomenon.
“It’s been something we’ve had going on for quite a while,” UW-Madison head athletic trainer Dennis Helwig said. “
At 8:49 last Saturday morning UW- Madison research scientist Nasim Akhtar was resting quietly in bed and enjoying a vacation at the home of family members who live in Pakistan.
At 8:50 his life’s priorities changed as the earthquake that shook the country and killed thousands began to tear his family’s house apart. “We ran out into the courtyard and the walls on three sides of us began to fall,” he said in telephone interview Friday. “My whole family thought they were going to die.” Akhtar survived the earthquake’s six minutes of terror without injury.
The dreaded bird flu virus is developing resistance to the main drug the United States and many other countries are relying on to combat a possible worldwide flu epidemic, a UW- Madison researcher reports.
For newly minted undergraduates to professionals already waist-deep in their careers, there’s no shortage of area MBA degree programs to suit a prospective student’s tastes or busy schedule.
And that’s as it should be, said UW-Madison Business School Dean Michael Knetter, who called occasional allusions to “the demise” of the MBA entirely “premature.”
Two UW-Madison students – Anne Reiland is from Sparta; Ryan Huibregtse from Brookfield – have agreed to share their freshman-year experiences with us, with the help of freelance writer Scott Carney, a UW-Madison graduate student.
As the school year goes on, Carney will meet with and help Anne and Ryan share their lives in the pages of the State Journal.
We’ll experience it all with them in a series of stories that continues today, and will appear monthly in the Sunday Daybreak section.
That means more deer and, according to research by conservation biologists such as the UW-Madison’s Don Waller, an overabundance of deer are destroying the diversity of plant life in the North Woods.
The key to Wisconsin developing a sustainable biotech industry is developing collaborative research and development efforts among academic institutions in the state, according to a nationally recognized economist.
Ross DeVol, director of regional economics for the Milken Institute, Santa Monica, Calif., was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Biotechnology & Medical Device Association’s annual conference Friday in Oconomowoc.
Web sites for college cheating aren’t known for their subtlety, but the ad that ran last week on Madison’s craigslist couldn’t have been more blatant if it was marked with a bull’s- eye.
“Let us do your Homework, College Assignments, Quizzes, Papers,” the banner headline read, and then below that in smaller type: “Pay Us To Do Your School Work.”
When contacted by the State Journal, Randy Clary of QualityTutor.com acknowledged that his ad was an invitation to plagiarism, an academic offense that can get students expelled from many colleges and universities, including UW-Madison. He promised to remove it the next day – and did – but insisted the service he offers is about helping students learn through things such as online discussions with qualified tutors and interactive problem solving, not letting them cheat.
The prosecution plans to call UW- Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang, who is expected to testify that Chvala had nearly unchecked power over legislation in the Senate, which would allow him to carry out his extortion threats.
Here is the statement that UW-Madison officials should have issued last week after an ABC News undercover investigation of security at the university’s nuclear reactor:
“ABC’s investigation exposed a lapse in security at the nuclear reactor used for teaching and research on our campus. Two ABC undercover investigators, posing as visiting students, were permitted to step through a door to the reactor building and take photographs without undergoing security clearance.
There is a widespread belief that U.S. workers’ education and skills are not adequate for the demands of jobs in the modern economy.
Thus Michael J. Handel, a UW- Madison sociologist, introduces his book “Worker Skills and Job Requirements: Is There a Mismatch?”
His answer: No.
Two teams of researchers have reported that they obtained embryonic stem cells from mice using new techniques that, if proved in human cells, might overcome the ethical objections that influenced President Bush’s decision to limit federal financing for research on the human cells. But other scientists say the new techniques present ethical questions of their own and may not resolve Congressional debate over the financing.
Colorado, home of the nation’s most restrictive limits on state spending, has become the scene of a much-watched vote that pits anti-tax forces against higher-education advocates.
Voters will decide on November 1 whether to roll back the state’s constitutionally imposed spending cap, known as the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, for five years to allow lawmakers to spend an estimated $3.7-billion they otherwise would have had to refund to taxpayers.
PHILADELPHIA – The bar is packed, the floor is wet, and dozens of glassy-eyed young people are squeezed around tables trying to lob Ping-Pong balls into cups of beer.
It is the final round of a beer pong championship, sponsored by a maker of portable beer pong tables, and all across the bar, as one team scores points, the other happily guzzles beer.
Scientists are pursuing two different ways to create embryonic stem cells without destroying an embryo. The techniques are in early stages of research and have been tested only in mice. But they ââ?¬Å?raise promising possibilitiesââ?¬Â and will open up a new dialogue in the national debate over stem cell research, says William Hurlbut, a professor at the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University and member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
GRAYSLAKE, Ill. ââ?¬â? As College of Lake County biology professor Mark Coykendall described the importance of metabolism and cellular energy, he noticed the class was growing restless and bored.
Taxpayer support for public universities, measured per student, has plunged more precipitously since 2001 than at any time in two decades, and several university presidents are calling the decline a de facto privatization of the institutions that played a crucial role in the creation of the American middle class.
Quoted: John D. Wiley, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin Police want moped riders to know the rights and lefts of moped use. With high gas prices pushing up the popularity of mopeds and scooters, campus officers say riders can protect themselves by knowing the laws governing these vehicles.
Did UW retaliate against Isthmus source? In a case now before a federal appellate court, a former limited term employee at the UW-Madison is suing the university for allegedly retaliating against her for remarks made to Isthmus more than four years ago.
After almost five hours of intense deliberation, the Student Services Finance Committee voted early Friday morning to cut over half of the funding for SAFEwalk, one of the three services provided by the Safe Arrival For Everyone program
The Madison City Council approved the continuation of a program that provides funding for graduate research in the UW-Madison Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Tuesday in return for information on the city’s water quality.
Oct. 12, 2005 ââ?¬â? – A four-month ABC News investigation found gaping security holes at many of the little-known nuclear research reactors operating on 25 college campuses across the country. Among the findings: unmanned guard booths, a guard who appeared to be asleep, unlocked building doors and, in a number of cases, guided tours that provided easy access to control rooms and reactor pools that hold radio
Ten students, working for ABC News, visited nuclear reactors on 25 college campuses and found many gaping security holes, prompting a federal investigation. Here’s what the team found at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison representatives met the press Thursday to respond to allegations of a security breach at the nuclear reactor laboratory in the Engineering Research Building this summer by two interns posing as prospective students.
UW-Madison officials punched back at ABC News Thursday while seeking to assure the public that the school’s nuclear reactor is impervious to terrorists.
A report on ABC’s “Primetime” Thursday night purported to find “gaping security holes” at many college research reactors, including the one operating at UW-Madison.
A Student Labor Action Coalition referendum prohibiting the Student Services Finance Committee from allocating auxiliary funding to various services on campus, including the Memorial Union, passed by an overwhelming margin in the Associated Students of Madison�s fall elections Thursday.
The SAFEwalk budget was essentially cut in half following a compromise reached by the Student Services Finance Committee Thursday evening.
The University of Wisconsin released a statement Thursday insisting its Nuclear Reactor Laboratory is operated and maintained in a safe and secure manner.
State Rep. Samantha Kerkman, R-Powers Lake, sent a letter to University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly Thursday questioning how many times the system has violated its own suspension of granting ââ?¬Å?backupââ?¬Â positions to new employees.
The University of Wisconsin Homecoming Committee will kick off a nine-day treasure trove of pirate-themed activities today.
I understand the logic behind banning smoking in Madison bars. I almost understand the threats to stop Halloween. Taking away SAFEwalk, though, is something that boggles my mind.
Madison, Wis. – Trying to find a vaccine for AIDS is tricky enough, but when your scientists are scattered in five different places on a sprawling university campus, it’s downright daunting.
Quoted: Peter Spear, provost at the University of Wisconsin
“Overblown and sensational.” That’s how one UW professor describes a recent report regarding security concerns at the school’s nuclear research reactor.
Nuclear reactors used for research and education on 25 college campuses have poor security, leaving them vulnerable to truck-bomb attacks by terrorists that could contaminate surrounding communities with radiation, ABC News reported on Thursday night. Officials at several of the universities and at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission disagreed and called security adequate.
