The first pumpkin race had just ended Sunday afternoon when a dozen or so onlookers were tipped into Lake Mendota.
The whimsical regatta, which drew hundreds of onlookers to the Memorial Union terrace, was marred briefly when a section of the pier in front of the Hoofers Sailing Club boathouse fell into the water.
On the fourth floor of UW- Madison’s Memorial Library, the Digital Collections Center uses scanning equipment and data-entry software to publish and promote the university’s research and resources beyond geographic boundaries. Using a special Internet site, the digital library brings together photos, maps, diaries, artwork, rare books, manuscripts, audio clips, video strips and more from collections held throughout the University of Wisconsin System and by public libraries and agencies throughout the state.
Downtown bar owners are facing another legal challenge from a Minneapolis law firm that says they overcharged patrons.
The firm, Lommen, Nelson, Cole & Stageberg, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing 25 bars near UW- Madison and their trade association of conspiring to inflate drink prices from 1990 until last year. The class-action lawsuit seeks relief for revelers it claims were ripped off.
The University of Wisconsin has waived tuition for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, although the number of students accepting the offer has been limited.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Four of the University of Wisconsin Systemââ?¬â?¢s 13 four-year campuses have no auditors on their payrolls and two others have only part-time financial watchdogs, according to the UW System.
UW-Madison has announced plans to have wireless access for the entire campus by June 2006, by adding 2,200 access points for wireless access in 180 dorms, laboratories and administration buildings.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.569-billion as of August 31 (increase of $6.1-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
One UW student group is speaking out about the city’s plans for Halloween weekend 2005.
Madison’s Halloween Task Force decided on three rules students say they were not a part of: Students living in residence halls may not have guests over the weekend, on Halloween the Union will not serve alcohol after 9:00 pm, and student organizations may not hold late night events around campus. The head of the student Governance Committee says the task force was in violation of university policy.
MADISON, Wis. – UW Women’s Basketball Coach Lisa Stone will be “arrested” Thursday, October 6 from 10 to noon, as part of the March of Dimes “Jail and Bail” fundraising event.
The fall season for Badger Athletics has certainly gotten off to a fine start. Four teams are nationally ranked, including the menââ?¬â?¢s and women’s cross country teams. Additionally, the volleyball team has joined the nationââ?¬â?¢s top 10 and football cracked the rankings. In addition, our winters seasons are beginning in October and both the men’s and women’s hockey teams are nationally ranked, the women at No. 1.
Quoted: Virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo
Moon taught military history in the ROTC Program at the University of Wisconsin for three years.
If you or a loved one has diabetes, Parkinson’s disease or a spinal cord injury, you need to do two things.
First, send Gov. Jim Doyle flowers and a nice note.
Second, look in the mirror and admit you’re a loser.
Hey, I know it sounds harsh, but I’m a loser, too.
A “unique array” of strengths helped UW-Madison land the first and only National Stem Cell Bank, a $16 million award that should boost Wisconsin’s biotech industry, officials said Monday.
Wisconsin has scored again in the exciting and competitive world of stem-cell science.
UW-Madison’s latest coup is a $16 million grant to establish the federal government’s first National Stem Cell Bank, a research and distribution center that will boost efforts to develop life-saving medical treatments.
New mothers who are experiencing the signs of either the postpartum blues or postpartum depression are encouraged to seek help from their personal support system of family and friends as well as trained professionals.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: James Ferris, president of the society and a faculty associate in communication arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
A faith-based campus coffeehouse is struggling to survive now that its 50 or so volunteer workers are boycotting it.
Catacombs Coffeehouse, 731 State St., lost most of its kitchen help and customer base over a dispute between the board of directors and the students who provided the free labor and positive word of mouth.
Quoted: Jane Gogan, a psychologist with the UW-Madison’s Postpartum Depression Treatment Program.
Roseanne Clark, an associate professor in the UW-Madison Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and director of the Parent-Infant and Early Childhood Clinic and the Postpartum Depression Treatment Program.
Guess which news item is out of step with public opinion in the state, the nation and the world?
The state of Wisconsin grants $1 million and loans another $1 million to a company formed by Dr. James Thomson, a UW-Madison researcher so renowned that the words ââ?¬Å?Nobel Prizeââ?¬Â practically circle his head. The company has technology that could revolutionize drug discovery.
27 News uncovered members of a committee responsible for awarding a state contract to issue 10,100 airline tickets for state employees thought the contract should go to a different company than the one ultimately selected.
Records show Craig Adelman, the president of the selected company, Adelman Travel Systems of Milwaukee, contributed a total of $10,000 to Governor Doyle’s campaign between August 11, 2004 and June 21, 2005. The state travel contract took effect June 15.
Quoted: Terri Gill, UW-Madison Audit and Travel Manager, Lisa Clemmons, UW-Madison Athletics Procurement Specialist, an Richardson, Associate Director of UW-Madison Business Services, Frank Kooistra, Associate Dean of UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Madison: Gov. Doyle says he wants high school students to take another year of math and science. Doyle says the move will make students better prepared for the future.
The announcement came when Gov. Jim Doyle released his Grow Wisconsin agenda last week.
“Part of my 2005 agenda is to require a 3rd year of math and science for all high school graduates.”
The bird flu has turned into such a big problem in southeast Asia, that president Bush is already talking about a militaryââ?¬â??enforced quarantine, should the bird flu pop up here.
“And who best to be able to effect a quarantine? One option is the use of a military that’s able to plan and move.”
To keep that from happening, scientists around the world are working on preventing the spread of the bird flu to humans … and a lot of that work is being done in Madison, in the Uââ?¬â??W’s medical research departments.
NEW ORLEANS – In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, professors and students from the city’s universities took academic refuge in other schools ââ?¬â? some as far away as the University of Haifa in Israel.
All modern varieties of potatoes trace their roots back to a single species that was grown in what is now southern Peru more than 7,000 years ago, a team of U.S. and British scientists report. The findings challenge theories that potatoes were first cultivated in Bolivia or Argentina or that farmers bred them several different times in several different places. The study in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed the DNA of 360 wild and cultivated potato varieties and the results clearly identified a single species, says David Spooner, a Department of Agriculture researcher at the University of Wisconsin who led the study.
Quoted: David Spooner, a Department of Agriculture researcher
A Wisconsin-based research group will run the nation’s first federally financed embryonic stem cell bank, the National Institutes of Health said this week. The WiCell Research Institute, a non-profit set up in 1999 to support stem cell research at the University of Wisconsin, will store and distribute the cells under a federal plan to reduce the cost of using them. In 2001, President Bush limited federal funding to projects involving 78 lines of embryonic stem cells that already were in existence. He said taxpayer dollars should not pay for the destruction of human embryos. That policy has stifled the field, some researchers say, and only 22 lines are now available for use.
The median amount of financial aid given last year at 41 public flagship universities rose 2.4% from the previous year, a USA TODAY survey shows. But the percentage of students getting aid held steady for a third year.
The nation’s first and only bank of federally approved embryonic stem cells will be housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, federal officials announced Monday. That is where it most properly and deservedly belongs.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law and bioethics professor R. Alta Charo.
President Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee may make Democrats happier than conservatives, who may be unhappy with the choice.
That’s the view from UW Madison law professor, Ann Althouse. Chief White House counsel Harriet Miers has no judicial experience, but Althouse says Miers may actually be exactly the sort of nominee that Democrats in the U.S. Senate have said they want. “Minority Leader Harry Reid had said that he specifically wanted that,” said Althouse, which she found “puzzling, (because) he was criticizing (Chief Justice nominee John) Roberts for never having never having taken a deposition or conducted a trial.”
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first cultivated potato was grown in what is now Peru, researchers said on Monday, and it originated only once, not several times, as some experts had proposed.
Their genetic study shows the first potato known to have been farmed is genetically closest to a species now found only in southern Peru, the U.S. and British researchers said.
“This result shows the potato originated one time and from a species that was distributed in southern Peru,” said David Spooner, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher at the University of Wisconsin who, led the study.
MADISON, Wis. – A Wisconsin-based research group will run the nation’s first embryonic stem cell bank under a four-year, $16 million federal contract, officials announced Monday.
The National Institutes of Health said on Monday that it had selected a research affiliate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison to run the federal government’s national repository for human embryonic stem cells. The affiliate, the WiCell Research Institute, will sell batches of the cells for $500 each, a 90-percent reduction in the price it and other suppliers have charged for the cells they own.
The nation has its first ever (and so far, only) bank for stem cells, and it’s in west Madison. It’s located at University Research Park. The goal is to lump most of the existing stem cell lines in one place, which could cut costs and speed up research.
Nimblegen Systems is the first Madison company to benefit from Monday’s announcement by the National Institutes of Health to base the National Stem Cell Bank at the WiCell Research Institute.
Emile Nuwaysir, vice president of business development at Nimblegen, said Monday his company is a partner in the four-year contract WiCell was awarded by the NIH. Nimblegen will receive $1 million for its work ââ?¬Å?characterizingââ?¬Â human embryonic stem cell lines.
Madison, Wis. — The WiCell Research Institute’s announcement Monday that it has been awarded a prestigious four-year, $16 million federal contract to create the nation’s first National Stem Cell Bank is a sign of respect for the state’s pioneering and innovative approach to the new field of research.
But, in the face of continued Wisconsin legislative opposition to embryonic stem cell research, the path forward is anything but simple.
(UNDATED) A new study shows grazing dairy cows is economically competitive with large-scale confinement facilities. The ten-year analysis compared the farm financial records of large and small farms in Wisconsin.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison agriculture economist has compiled years� worth of financial records from all types of farms. Tom Kriegl says there�s been a big shift in dairyland in the last decade. (First item.)
Quoted: University of Wisconsin biologist Sean Carroll
Suddenly, remote controls are not just for the television.
Remote controls, or clickers, have made their way into classrooms at four University of Wisconsin campuses as part of a grant project to evaluate the effectiveness of the eInstruction Classroom Response System, said Nick Dvoracek, director of media services at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of applied economics and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: George Huber and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison.
Sep. 30, 2005 – During my brief stint as a sportswriter, I mastered the skill of learning just enough about unfamiliar situations to look like I might know what I was doing. At bowling matches I would throw out a line about oil patterns, at wrestling it was a casual comment about the advantage of starting on top.
In the weeks leading up to my first big college football game (A fact I can only admit now that I am no longer covering sports), I took a few moments away from sweating over the Yankees playoff bid to study up on a few key terms in the University of Wisconsin football glossary
They�ve got the numbers, the drive and the community support. But in the face of tough budgetary times systemwide, significantly increasing enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay still could be a hurdle.
So university and community officials are set to support a plan they say would be good for both UWGB and the larger Northeastern Wisconsin community.
WASHINGTON — Researchers hoping to determine the causes of many common diseases like autism and diabetes will follow 100,000 US children from birth through adulthood in the largest ever study of its kind.
Six centers were named Thursday, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
BALTIMORE ââ?¬â? They’re expecting a near-capacity crowd of around 250 people at Dagwood’s Grill and Bar on 42nd Street this afternoon.
That would be 42nd Street in Grand Forks, N.D., home of Jets quarterback Brooks Bollinger, a native son whose popularity has been on the rise since he became a starter his freshman year at the University of Wisconsin.
From taking on dictators to facing a hostile take-over of a newspaper, veteran journalist Pongsak Payakvichien has made a name in Thai journalism for challenging the status quo _ and now wants to inspire young reporters to do the same
He received a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, making him the first ever Thai journalist to graduate with an overseas degree in journalism.
Discussions of storms and professional ethics dominated the annual conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling here in late September.
As Hurricane Rita raced toward the Gulf Coast, admissions deans and high-school counselors discussed the long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on higher education. Although attendees left with more questions than answers, the association vowed to continue helping colleges deal with the disasters, and it created an ad hoc committee to develop recommendations for aiding displaced students.
Change your teaching style. Make blogs, iPods, and video games part of your pedagogy. And learn to accept divided attention spans. A new generation of students has arrived — and sorry, but they might not want to hear you lecture for an hour.
That is the message of Richard T. Sweeney, university librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, who has been hitting the lecture circuit lately with his vision of how today’s college students, sometimes called the “Net Generation” or “the Millennials,” will soon alter the way professors teach, the way classrooms are constructed, and the way colleges deliver degrees.
In the wake of a report detailing that the Chancellor of UW-Madison did not investigate the allegations of sexual misconduct against another member of the administration, all top administrators must participate in mandatory sexual harassment training. The case that spurred the reaction involved former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows and his sexual advances toward and relationships with students.
Van joined the UW football staff as an assistant coach in 1949, and remained until 1972, during which time Wisconsin went to three Rose Bowls, 1953, 1960 and 1963. In 1972, be became Director of Grant In Aid for all UW athletes. He was honored as “Badger of The Year” by the National “W” Club in 1994.
Dress in red from head to toe, grab some cold drinks, head to Camp Randall and help cheer on the Badgers to victory. What could be a better way to spend a Saturday?
I have heard of Wisconsin’s party school image and the reputation of Camp Randall, a difficult place to play. As my wife and I walked to the stadium, we saw the many tailgate parties with people having a good time. We endured some good-natured ribbing as we walked by proudly wearing our maize and blue. But the closer we got to the stadium, the more the comments took on a nasty and personal tone. We also saw many anti-Michigan T-shirts and signs with pictures and language that cannot be reprinted.
Fans going to today’s Badger football game can buy a cuddly Bucky Badger to take home.
American Family Insurance, which is sponsoring today’s game, decided to sell Bucky Badger plush toys with the hope of raising $200,000 for the American Family Children’s Hospital, said Judy Lowell, community relations manager at American Family.
UW-Madison will be home to the newly created National Stem Cell Bank, Gov. Jim Doyle’s office said Friday.
The nation’s first embryonic stem-cell bank, awarded in a competitive process by the National Institutes of Health, presumably will be at the WiCell Institute. WiCell is a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which holds a patent on stem-cell work by UW-Madison researcher James Thomson.
WARF controls five of the 22 available stem-cell lines eligible for federal funding under President Bush’s 2001 policy. According to the NIH, the new bank will consolidate the other lines in one location, maintain them and distribute them to researchers at a cost less than what researchers now pay to study them.
The other lines are housed in Athens, Ga.; San Francisco and labs in Australia, Israel, Korea and Sweden.
“Most of these telecom companies have to have one lawyer for every engineer,” said UW- Madison communications professor Barry Orton.
(MADISON) University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley says he�s looking forward to serving on a new National Security Advisory Board. He�s one of sixteen chancellors and university presidents who will advise the FBI on the best way to preserve academic freedom while complying with new Homeland Security regulations. (Eighth item.)
(MADISON) The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case Friday that challenges the reliability of eyewitness testimony in a sexual assault case. Attorneys from the Wisconsin Innocence Project want the court to use the case to strengthen rules aimed at preventing wrongful convictions. (Second item.)
Being a student landlord is not a career for the faint- hearted.
Steve Brown, who just completed a $1.3 million renovation on one of Madison’s oldest student apartment buildings in the Mansion Hill neighborhood, is reminded of that almost daily.
