Students started moving in this weekend. That’s also when UW Police noticed a rise in the crime calls. From now until when school starts, UW Police will be busy responding to calls of thefts and accidents. UW Police believe it’s because students have a lot of time on their hands.
The bulk of state airline travel is carried out by the faculty and staff of the UW-System and its campus schools. State officials said in 2001, of the $12 million spent on state employee business travel, $9 million was attributed to UW personnel
(MADISON) The popularity of mopeds is zipping along nicely, but traffic officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say it�s time to rein in the extra traffic and parking problems they�re causing.
Many students like the motorized, two-wheeled scooters because of their affordability and fuel-efficiency.
When the College Board announces SAT scores for college-bound seniors next August, it will be reporting the results of the new SAT test.
Average math scores for the SAT college entrance exam hit a record high this year, but verbal scores remained flat, according to a report released Tuesday.
In a bid to boost college enrollment rates, states are sniffing out low-cost ways to get their people off the couch and into admissions offices. Pooling ad content for other states to adapt, for instance, can make a $100,000 ad available for only about $20,000.
It was a clash between the University of Cincinnati’s biggest names: popular men’s basketball coach vs. ambitious university president.
Now that it’s over, and a $3 million buyout has been reached, two things are clear.
Bob Huggins is gone.
And Nancy Zimpher is on trial.
Quoted: Harry Brighouse, professor of philosophy and education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quoted: Cindy Van Matre, director of licensing at the University of Wisconsin, said Bucky Badger and the “Motion W” brought in $1.6 million last year.
Madison ââ?¬â? As he stands inside Camp Randall Stadium, gazing up at his latest creation, Mark Cullen feels the memories come rushing back.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Scientists at the University of Minnesota are ready to take the next step in the controversial field of embryonic stem cell research, studying new cell lines through the destruction of human embryos.
WASHINGTON – Simply mentioning words such as ââ?¬Å?wheezeââ?¬Â can activate the brains of asthma patients, researchers said in a study that shed light on the emotional underpinnings of the disease.
MADISON – Alfonso Gutierrez smiles as boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese tagged with tiny chips zip around a conveyor belt and pass under a reader that instantly displays information about the product.
Not one clue! Andy Lathrop’s parents say they have no new information about his disappearance in Japan.
But the Menasha couple whose son has been missing for two weeks is not giving up hope Andy will be found alive
How many Buckys can fit on the head of a pin? Well, if it’s Nano Bucky, created in the research lab of UW-Madison chemistry professor Robert Hamers, the answer is up to 9,000. “Bucky is made from very small carbon hairs,” explained Hamers. “These nanofiber hairs are about fifty nanometers in diamater, about one one-thousandth the width of a human hair.” (Audio.)
This hurricane season has been unusally severe…but scientists say it’s probably not a statement of years to come. Jim Kassen is at the UW Space Science and Engineering Center… and he tells WIBA News, “It’s been a far from average season down there…but of course averages are just that…they’re averages. And so…the idea that from one year to the next you’ll have swings very far from averages is not necessarily indicative of anything systematic that we can expect to see next year or anything like that.”Kassen says this year has been an anomoly….and adds it’s probably not indicative of global warming or any other phenomenon that could affect weather in the long term.
International police have zeroed in on the area where they believe a UW-Madison student went missing in Japan.
Twenty-year-old Andy Lathrop was last seen August 15th in Hokodate, Japan.
Home video captured from a sailboat has narrowed the search for Lathrop to a specific beach. The people who shot it say they spoke with Lathrop.
Wisconsin may not be hurricane country…
But some scientists here in Madison are right in the eye of the storm when it comes to helping meteorologists predict wild weather.
The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, or SIMS, is located right here at the University of Wisconsin.
UW Freshman Nicole Laufer is entering a whole new stage in her life. The incoming freshman says her parents have been providing her with all the basics for college life. “Microwave, TV, all the necessities.”
But some of the best advice may not be about studying. It may be about plastic.
If you were on the UW campus Sunday, you may have noticed an abundance of vehicles loaded down with suitcases and futons.
Yes, it’s move-in day for first-year UW students, complete with the usual traffic tie-ups on streets near the dorms.
For 15 years, one local learning facility has served the Madison community by providing a place to explore space. Today, this place is a little bigger, as the University of Wisconsin’s “Space Place” begins life in a new set of dimensions.
Savannah Novy says she can already apply Sunday’s “out-of-this world” activities to real-world concerns. “I learned about Hurricane (Katrina), and that it might hit New Orleans, and that would be a really big disaster.”
On the eastern edge of the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison sits what is considered one of the best destinations in the world for executive education programs.
The Fluno Center, opened in March 2000, has been included for four years running in the London-based Financial Times’ annual ranking of the world’s top 40 executive education programs. The rankings include categories related to academic offerings, facilities, and food and accommodation
MADISON, Wis. – All 23 University of Wisconsin varsity teams will compete in the inaugural UW CHAMPS Cup beginning this season, CHAMPS/Life Skills Coordinator Kelli Richards announced.
Teams will compete against each another in six categoriesââ?¬â?academic achievement, athletic achievement, personal enhancement, community outreach, Badger pride and Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) participation.
Out of 363 staff positions the University of Wisconsin-River Falls has just 14 staff members have backup positions.
This according to Mark Kinders, a UW-RF spokesman represents just four percent of the entire River Falls staff.
HAMILTON, N.Y. – They’re called “helicopter parents,” for their habit of hovering ââ?¬â? hyper-involved ââ?¬â? over their children’s lives. Here at Colgate University, as elsewhere, they have become increasingly bold in recent years, telephoning administrators to complain about their children’s housing assignments, roommates and grades.
When college student Valerie Wang meets a cute guy, she goes right to her dorm and calls up a Web site called Facebook.
She looks at what fraternity he’s part of. She finds out if he plays sports, if he’s in a relationship and, if so, if his girlfriend is pretty.
Madison, Wis. — A large whiteboard in the corridor of the Waisman Clinical BioManufacturing Facility at UW-Madison lists, in color-coded fashion, the schedule for use of the facility’s various laboratory suites and research services.
In its very low-technology manner, the whiteboard indicates the success of the facility, which is about to enter its fifth year of operation. Very few times slots are available for the facility’s six suites, with a backlog of projects awaiting scheduling.
Shada retired from the University of Wisconsin where she held different positions.
Monday, August 29, 2005
MICHAEL M. COX
I was disappointed by the recent comments by President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., suggesting that it would be appropriate to include the idea known as intelligent design in science curricula.
There are many misconceptions being propagated by individuals intent on undermining science education in this country.
It is simply incorrect that controversy exists in the science community about whether evolution occurred. Evolution is a fact. I have been a scientist for 30 years. In that time, I have been to nearly 100 international conferences and have visited scores of science departments. Never once — anywhere — have I encountered a controversy about whether evolution occurred.
Using plumes of evaporated gold and binder clips from Office Depot, local startup company Platypus Technologies is developing breakthrough devices to detect tiny amounts of pesticides and toxins.
UW-Madison chemical engineer Nick Abbott co-founded the company with two other professors to commercialize his discoveries. The Aussie academic decided to name the company after another Australian native, the platypus, whose bill has special receptors for detecting prey.
What other states are doing to promote nanotechnology
Illinois has several nanotech research centers with big federal funding. Chicago is home to associations focused on nanotechnology, and the state spent at least $24 million on nanotechnology in a recent two-year budget.
The University of Minnesota has several nanotech research centers with federal money and a Nanotechnology Coordinating Office, which links the business community and the university.
Michigan has a half-dozen nanotech research centers at state universities. The Michigan Small Tech Association brings together business and research leaders to work on goals such as using nanotechnology in the state’s auto industry.
Paul Nealey is a cat herder at the molecular scale.
The chemical and biological engineer at UW-Madison is looking for ways to take infinitesimally small materials – mere molecules that by themselves might stray off into a kind of feline disorder, and shape them into circuits.
Who cares?
Anyone who wants cell phones, laptops and other gadgets to get smaller and more powerful.
A university group is taking steps to move nanotechnology out of the lab and into our state economy.
Formed this spring and christened with a name the length of a freight train, the UW-Madison Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium will try to build ties between academics and businesses, co-director Paul Nealey said.
Wisconsin lawmakers should encourage Madison’s nanotechnology industry so it can continue to attract much-needed research dollars and jobs to the state.
Madison researchers and companies are pioneering this science of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.
But government support hasn’t kept pace with either the industry’s successes or what the neighboring states of Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan are offering their nanotech industries.
The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity chapter at UW- Whitewater was suspended for two years Sunday night because of out-of-control drinking last year, including a “drinking olympics,” a university official said Monday.
“Over the course of the year, there was lots of alcohol, underage drinking and sale of alcohol without a license,” said Mary Beth Mackin, assistant dean of student life. “It’s a culmination of things, of unsafe behavior and a failure to respond to the university. . . . We are incredibly concerned about safety and lack thereof, about any student getting hurt or killed.”
or nanotechnology to ever live up to its promise, somebody is going to have to talk to Gail Vick.
As part of a layperson’s panel that studied the technology of the tiny, this Madison grandmother and cancer sufferer said she was thrilled and unnerved by its possibilities of both fighting disease and causing it, of bettering the environment and doing harm. Along the way, she reached a key insight about what may be nanotechnology’s biggest obstacle – her own ignorance and unease about the unfolding science.
It’s way too early to sing a swan song for those extra-long, extra-skinny college dorm beds that today’s boomer parents might remember. But as campus housing goes more upscale, more students are sleeping on bigger beds.
When engineering student Jeff Bowman needed help in calculus last year, a professor at the University of North Dakota suggested he get tutoring. Bowman, who lives in the Caribbean and takes courses online, found a tutor ââ?¬â? in India.
Colleges signed up for Allstate’s field goal net ads:
Air Force, Alabama at Birmingham, Arizona State, Army, Baylor, Boston College, Brigham Young, California, Colorado, Colorado State, Fresno State,
Georgia Tech, Grambling, Hampton, Hawaii,
Houston, Indiana, Iowa, Miami (Fla.), Mississippi,
Missouri, Navy, New Mexico, Northern Illinois
Northwestern, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Purdue,
Rutgers, Southern Miss, Syracuse, TCU, Texas Tech, UCLA, Utah, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech,
Wake Forest, Wash. State
College football telecasts will never be the same thanks to a multimillion-dollar deal by Allstate to slap ads where no ads have gone before: on field goal nets. Thirty-nine NCAA Division I-A colleges ââ?¬â? such as Miami (Fla.), Oklahoma, Colorado, Boston College, Army and Air Force ââ?¬â? have agreed to use ââ?¬Å?brandedââ?¬Â nets with their football teams at their home stadiums.
Most freshman college students have credit cards, and many parents worry they’ll use them to buy eyebrow rings and scandalous jeans. But the truth about college students and credit cards is even more disturbing.
A new survey by the Smith College Women and Financial Independence program found that 23% of students are using credit cards to pay for tuition and fees. More than half said they used credit cards to buy textbooks and school supplies.
A tissue bank operating in Wisconsin offered coroners and medical examiners a free three- day trip to Las Vegas in April, and some charge that the outing appears to be an inducement for the referral of cadavers to the bank for the harvesting of donated tissue.
The offer raises questions about the operation of largely unregulated tissue banks in the state, especially their dealings with elected coroners and medical examiners who frequently refer the bodies of people who die outside of hospitals to the organizations for tissue donation.
The Adult & Student Services office at UW-Madison offers one-on- one career counseling. The appointments are free, but there’s a fee for taking assessments. Visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/classes/ career.htm for a schedule of low- cost workshops. These services are open to all – not just students and alumni. Call 608-263-6960.
There were more than 34,000 listings Saturday night for passenger vehicles on eBay.com. But even though Dave Beck’s listing is for an 11-year-old, rusty, white Pontiac Sunbird, it stands out: “Pontiac: Sunbird W/ Missile!”
Not a real missile, of course, which may be a disappointment to any aspiring dictators or survivalists checking eBay for supplies. But Beck’s car does come complete with a roof- mounted yellow missile made from “Support the Troops” magnetic ribbons.
In the lab of Imago Scientific Instruments, atoms are in flight, an invisible stream of 15,000 a second zipping through the sealed core of a stainless steel microscope.
Over 17 years of effort and obsession, Madison scientist Tom Kelly wagered everything from his job and his house to his mother’s money on the belief that he could turn this stream of atoms into Technicolor images.
“I felt there was an opportunity to do something extraordinary,” the red- haired materials engineer said in his Boston brogue. “We can go through life ordinary, or we can grasp that one chance when it comes.”
Fans can get their first glimpse of the completed Camp Randall Stadium renovation during an open house from 10a.m. to 3p.m. today.
The featured areas include the Field Turf playing surface, suites and club seats, media room, visiting team locker room, UW home locker room and all concourses and seating areas.
Entertainment will be provided by the 1st Brigade Band, a Civil War-era band that will perform from 11a.m. to 2p.m. in the Kellner Plaza near Gate1. Admission is free and fans can enter the stadium through gates 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10. Free parking is available in Lot17 on the north end of the stadium. The event will take place rain or shine.
To see the economic power of nanotechnology, the science of the small, walk down a humdrum hallway on the third-floor of UW-Madison’s Engineering Hall.
The green floors and white- tiled walls look more like a middle school than a money- maker, but don’t be fooled. A row of four engineers’ offices holds the co-founders of two hot startup companies and the directors of two campus research centers with millions in federal money.
Welcome, earthlings who dream of the stars.
Space Place is celebrating its new and expanded home this week with activities to share the universe with the curious.
From learning about inertia by dropping a coin into the gravity well to pondering the Milky Way, inquisitive visitors of all ages are invited to explore.
Alfonso Gutierrez smiles as boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese tagged with tiny chips zip around a conveyor belt and pass under a reader that instantly displays information about the product.
“It’s going fast,” said Gutierrez, who heads a new UW- Madison research lab dedicated to helping businesses deploy technology that could one day replace the bar code.
Gutierrez was referring to the speed of the conveyor belt – 600 feet a minute, the speed Wal-Mart uses in its warehouses – but he could have been talking about the rapid acceptance of radio frequency identification, a technology that can revolutionize business but also erode privacy.
Quoted: Ann Kelley, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – The Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa has been cleared by a Dane County Circuit Court jury of negligence allegations in a lawsuit filed against it by the parents of a girl with cystic fibrosis.
The lawsuit originally named the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison and many individual researchers as defendants, but they were dismissed from the case for technical reasons.
Quoted: James Gee, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The family of a UW-Madison student missing in Japan is heading home, after searching for him there for five days.
20-year-old Andy Lathrop had spent the last year teaching English through an exchange program. He was last seen in northern port city of Hakodate on August 15th.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Some University of Wisconsin campuses routinely violate a federal privacy law in asking students to disclose Social Security numbers without explaining how they will be used, an audit said Thursday.
Some students at UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison also continue to use student ID cards that contain their Social Security numbers despite a state law requiring campuses to have randomly generated student ID numbers instead, the audit by the UW System found.
While some students moved into residence halls Thursday, most of the 6700 students are moving in this Sunday and Monday.
With all kinds of road construction going on downtown as well, traffic could be crazy.
MADISON, Wis. — Dane County narcotics agents tell WISC News 3 they are seeing an increasing number of heroin overdoses this year.
Many of those overdosing are teens or college students.
Michael Waupoose is the program director at the University of Wisconsin’s Health’s Gateway Recovery program. There, counselors deal with many caught up in a risk taking culture.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin volleyball team spent Wednesday morning assisting with the clean up of the tornado that struck the Stoughton area last Thursday. The Badgers assisted with clearing fields and pastures of debris from the storm as well as assisting with the cleanup of felled trees.
“It was a great experience for everyone,ââ?¬Â said UW coach Pete Waite. ââ?¬Å?We canceled practice that morning and spent over three hours out there.
At the dedication of the UW Arboretum on June 17, 1934, naturalist Aldo Leopold eloquently detailed a vision of using the site, mostly worn-out farms, to recreate what “old Wisconsin” looked like when our ancestors settled in the state in the 1840s.
He said he envisioned the Arboretum as “a living exhibit of what Wisconsin was, what it is, and what it expects to become.”
While the Arboretum eventually became known as the birthplace of ecological restoration, it also fulfilled another of Leopold’s predictions, though not necessarily in the positive way he imagined.
