I remember the Sterling Hall bomb noise and my house being shaken early in the morning three miles away. I remember a phone call from my boss to help our ironworker foreman locate steel beams and timbers from our yard for temporary shoring of a sheared spandrel beam. I remember crawling through the rubble with a clip board and floor plans of the building after the FBI had cleared the site to survey the damage.
The University of Wisconsin System is finally showing it’s serious about getting to the bottom of — and hopefully putting to rest — controversy surrounding its hiring practices.
UW System President Kevin Reilly this week asked state lawmakers for a state audit of university policies. The probe should concentrate on backup jobs, paid leaves and pay for felons.
Reilly’s support for the audit is on top of the System’s own internal review, the results of which are due next month. Reilly also has suspended backup jobs for new hires.
One way to gauge the quality of the Camp Randall Stadium renovation is to get input from knowledgeable visitors.
The past five months have seen NFL talent evaluators, football operations personnel from Big Ten Conference schools and, most recently, members of the Rose Bowl Committee walk through the stadium.
“Everyone’s very impressed with what we’ve accomplished,” University of Wisconsin athletic director and football coach Barry Alvarez said.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
A Selma High School junior with dreams of one day becoming a surgeon received an opportunity of a lifetime this summer to work alongside and learn from some of the country’s top physicians and researchers.
Gregory Ware, 17, participated in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program (NASA SHARP) at the University of Wisconsin.
Wednesday marks the anniversary of one of Madison’s darkest days, and a pivotal day for the nation’s anti-Vietnam war effort.
On this day, 35 years ago, four men thought a bomb would end military research on the UW-Madison campus. They never knew it would cost a life.
A recent survey named the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison the top school in the nation… for partying. After six Joy Cardin and her guest look at how student drinking has contributed to that ranking.
Guest: Susan Crowley, project director of the PACE Project, and director of prevention services and community relations at University Health Services at the UW-Madison. (Audio.)
Each year U.S. News & World Report releases its annual ranking of colleges, and each year critics complain that the magazine’s ranking methods ignore many of the colleges’ crucial characteristics.
Scientists have converted skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells. This is a promising development in stem-cell research, which began at UW-Madison.
But this technique is years away from being perfected and shouldn’t divert support for existing methods of extracting and using embryonic stem cells.
It especially should not stop the U.S. Senate from passing a bill to expand federal funding for research on stem cells created through existing methods.
There will be no last-minute rush to get renovated Camp Randall Stadium ready for its official unveiling 11 days from now.
With the exception of minor touch-ups here and there, the $109 million undertaking that began in 2001 is finished, according to Jim Schumacher, the project manager for Smith-Cullen.
“If we had to have a game (today), we could have one,” he said Tuesday.
The state Laboratory of Hygiene at UW-Madison has a new “no friends and family” policy after a professor from outside the lab got a free genetics test for a friend.
The incident raised concerns with at least one lab employee and prompted an investigation.
While the review determined no one had broken any rules, the lab’s longtime director decided to clarify testing policy to make sure such an incident doesn’t happen again. Supervisors posted the rule on a bulletin board in January to be sure employees understood that they shouldn’t process samples that way.
University Health Services is hoping most of the 5,900 UW- Madison freshmen expected here in a couple of weeks will already be immunized against meningococcal disease, a hope that springs from reports of a national and state shortage in a new vaccine for the disease.
“They are rationing it; the demand is outstripping the supply,” said Dr. Scott Spear, director of clinical services, of the new vaccine.
The University of Wisconsin, St. Mary�s and Meriter hospitals compete on some fronts and cooperate on many others. And all three have embarked recently on major building efforts that will dramatically boost research and patient care.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin nutritionist, Donna Weihofen. (Audio.)
If I want to know what’s going on at UW-Madison, I can consult The Princeton Review, which just came out with its annual highly unscientific survey naming Madison as the top party school.
Or I can just ask my daughter, Carly, who is about to start her second year there. We had this conversation on Tuesday.
Many Madison residents are recalling where they were when the Army Math Research Center in the U-W Madison’s Sterling Hall was bombed by anti-war protestors 35 years ago today.
Wednesday is the 35th anniversary of a day many long-time Madison residents will never forget.
On August 24th, 1970, four men bombed UW-Madison’s Sterling Hall. Using a ton of ammonium nitrate, they bombed the building that held the Army Mathematics Research Center to protest the Vietnam War.
MADISON, Wis. — Tens of thousands of University of Wisconsin football fans are becoming familiar with the term back loading.
That’s the term officials are using for how the Badger faithful will get to their seats. They can no longer access them from field level.
MADISON, Wis. – The Camp Randall Stadium Renovation begun in December of 2001 is drawing to its completion in time for the first game with Bowling Green on Sept. 3.
On the same day that Princeton Review Inc. named the University of Wisconsin at Madison the top “party school” in the nation, officials at the university announced on its Web site that “UW-Madison shows progress on student drinking.”
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison topped a list of the nation’s best party schools released Monday, despite a decade-long effort by the school to reduce its reputation for heavy drinking.
It’s always been considered one of the top party schools in the country…but now the UW Madison is number one according to the Princeton Review. Susan Crowley who heads the UW’s initiative to curb binge drinking says fewer students are identifying themselves as binge drinkers…while more and more students say they don’t touch the stuff at all. Crowley tells WIBA News there’s more to the UW-Madison than keggers.
UW Madison ranks on top of a nationwide list for party schools but the Chancellor is dismissing the findings as “junk science.”
Monday, the Princeton Review released its latest tally of the nation’s top party schools. UW Madison ranks first.
Name: Julie Gamradt
Age: 46
Job: Outreach program manager/augmentative and alternative communication specialist at the Communication Aids and Systems Clinic (CASC) and Communication Development Program (CDP) at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center.
I became interested in speech-language pathology (SLP), or what’s also called “communicative disorders,” during college when my roommate was enrolled in SLP classes. I got my first real job as an SLP in a small school district in northern Minnesota. The principal of my school informed me that most of the children who would be on my caseload had severe disabilities and limited functional speaking skills. Oddly enough, in my training as an SLP, the issue of helping people who couldn’t communicate using speech barely came up – of course, this was over 25 years ago, and it’s different now. In a panic, I went to the library and found one book on adaptations for people who were “nonspeaking.”
Despite nearly a decade of trying to reduce student drinking, UW-Madison has emerged as the No. 1 party school in the country, according to The Princeton Review’s annual ranking of top colleges.
But Susan Crowley, who leads a UW-Madison effort to change the campus drinking climate, said she is not surprised by the dubious distinction. Nor is she discouraged by the “modest” gains of the PACE (Policy, Alternatives, Community and Education) project, which is going into its 10th and final year of funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
One item in the new State Historical Society Museum exhibit on the bombing of UW-Madison Sterling Hall caught my attention.
It wasn’t the original FBI wanted poster for missing bomber Leo Burt or the photo of physicist Robert Fassnacht, who was killed as he worked late in his office. Or the twisted engine casing of the Ford Econoline van that contained what was, at that time, the biggest car bomb ever manufactured.
Biologists who unveiled an important advance in stem cell technology Monday said their discovery offers lessons on how stem cells can ââ?¬Å?reprogramââ?¬Â other cells to turn into new tissues. Scientists at Harvard Medical School announced that they have created a new kind of hybrid stem cell by fusing skin cells with embryonic stem cells.
University administrators have a love-hate relationship with the annual rankings released this time of year by U.S. News & World Report, Peterson�s, Newsweek and others.
As in the past two years, Harvard and Princeton tied for first place among the best universities in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings, and Williams College was again tops in the liberal arts category.
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For parents panicked by the sex- and alcohol-obsessed students in Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” the non-fiction “My Freshman Year” offers some reassurances. Wolfe’s novel ââ?¬Å?is dramatizing a particular truth,ââ?¬Â says Cathy Small, who wrote Freshman under a pseudonym, Rebekah Nathan. ââ?¬Å?I certainly saw ââ?¬Â¦ kids who were quite surprised at some of the freedom they had.ââ?¬Â But for the most part, day-to-day life was not quite so dramatic, she says.
If you’re an anthropologist and you want to understand an alien culture, the place to be is in ââ?¬Å?the field,ââ?¬Â as they say. Which is how Cathy Small, a fiftysomething professor at a large public university, found herself three years ago this month hauling a laptop, a TV and other must-haves to the dorm, standing alongside hall-mates in a shower line and scrambling to find classrooms on the campus where she has taught for more than 15 years.
The annual ranking guaranteed to give college presidents a headache was released Monday: The Princeton Review’s list of the top party schools. This year’s No. 1 ââ?¬â? and we can shortly expect a rebuttal from its chancellor ââ?¬â? is the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison topped a list of the nation’s best ââ?¬Å?party schools,ââ?¬Â despite a decade-long effort to reduce its reputation for heavy drinking. UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley dismissed the report from Princeton Review as ââ?¬Å?junk science.ââ?¬Â
Quoted: Edward Hopkins, assistant state climatologist and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences department
In La Crosse, where the world’s largest six-pack dots the skyline, police may soon demand registration to own a keg of beer.
The proposed ordinance, which would require that liquor store owners take a name, address, driver’s license number and a $100 deposit from anyone renting kegs in the city, is the result of more than a year of municipal self-examination that followed the Mississippi River drowning death of a college student.
Three months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally recommended that all freshmen living in dormitories be vaccinated for meningitis, college officials seem to be taking the recommendations to heart ââ?¬â? and that response is contributing to a shortage of the vaccine around the United States.
Quoted: beer historian Jerry Apps of the University of Wisconsin
She worked as an adult education counselor for the UW Extension where she especially enjoyed helping Oak Hill Correctional inmates to plan their educational future.
The tornado that dropped down to splinter homes and lives in Stoughton early Thursday evening was born in a three-mile high mass of swirling air and rumbling thunderstorms that started moving down the length of Wisconsin just as the day was dawning.
Jon Martin, an associate professor of atmosphere and oceanic science, recalls being awakened by deep and rolling thunder in the hour before sunrise Thursday. The growling echoed for as long as 15 seconds after some of the reports and Martin found himself thinking that something powerful was developing high overhead.
Businesses can also seek help from the academic world.
UW-Madison’s federally funded Center for International Business Education and Research offers seminars on subjects including finding distributors and foreign languages.
Sachin Tuli, CIBER’s assistant director, said businesses can benefit from the firsthand knowledge of UW-Madison faculty who conduct research and work on projects around the world.
Nine Republican lawmakers are asking for an independent state audit to determine how many felons are employed by the University of Wisconsin System.
Led by state Rep. Scott Suder, R- Abbotsford, the group hand-delivered a letter Friday to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, which handles requests for audits to the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau. Suder previously asked System President Kevin Reilly to provide the information after recent news reports about three UW-Madison professors who were convicted of serious crimes but remain employed by the university pending internal investigations and/or appeals.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on a Connecticut city’s condemnation powers has sparked an emotional reaction among citizens concerned about government’s ability to seize private property.
From Congress to the Dane County Board to the state Legislature, the eminent domain issue has drawn attention from property-rights groups and opponents of big development.
“I call it the Wal-Mart syndrome,” said Donald Downs, a professor of political science at UW-Madison.
Nine universities have made the ââ?¬Å?Top 10 Party Schoolsââ?¬Â list compiled by The Princeton Review at least three times since 2000. All are listed in the Review’s Best 361 Colleges guide for strength of academics and student life.
Weekends at the University of Florida unofficially begin on Wednesdays. Thirsty students with only a few bucks to spend have no trouble finding places to party. Free campus newspapers burst with calendars listing each day’s drink specials at three dozen bars and clubs.
Several universities regularly listed among the nation’s top ââ?¬Å?party schoolsââ?¬Â are joining city officials and bar owners to try to curb the supply of the biggest contributor to binge drinking on and off campus: abundant, cheap beer.
NEW YORK – For many small-business owners, schools cranking out M.B.A.s are hopelessly removed from the nits and grits of making a profit.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison runs the Small Business Development Center, one of 13 centers statewide.
Associate Vice Chancellor Virginia Sapiro Will Serve As Interim Provost.
UW-Madison Provost Peter Spear will retire two months earlier than planned — in October rather than December — and longtime fellow administrator Virginia Sapiro will fill the job on an interim basis.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley announced the top-level shakeup Wednesday in a release praising Sapiro as a “seasoned leader” who could serve ably as the campus’ top academic officer at least until a permanent successor is found in the spring. Sapiro, an associate vice chancellor for teaching and learning, will be UW-Madison’s first female provost.
Women continue to face severe bias in science careers despite university programmes to overcome such challenges, according to a study published in today’s issue of Science.
The career path of most women scientists at universities is riddled with obstacles, including unconscious bias, “chilly” campus climates and the difficulty of balancing work and family.
Quoted: Joan H. Schiller, a medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Few women rise to top jobs in science because of lingering gender biases in academia, not because of innate differences between men and women, according to a new paper by prominent women leaders in higher education.
KEWAUNEE, Wis. – A petition seeking a new trial based on new DNA evidence has been filed on behalf of a woman convicted in the fatal beatings of two Casco sisters 14 years ago.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a project at the University of Wisconsin Law School that works to free wrongly convicted prisoners, requested a new trial this week for Beth LaBatte, 38, of Green Bay in the deaths of 90-year-old Ann Cadigan and her 85-year-old sister, Ceil, who were found dead in their home Nov. 16, 1991.
The president emeritus of Michigan State University, M. Peter McPherson, will be the next president of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the association announced on Thursday. He will take over as leader of the 214-member association on January 1.
College instructors should prepare themselves in advance to respond to any severe mental-health problems that their students might experience, three scholars said here on Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. The comments came during an informal symposium on students’ psychological problems.
Keith Bellows, editor in chief of National Geographic Traveler magazine shares Sell some small-to-medium-size college towns that ââ?¬Å?have a real ability to keep the young and the young-at-heart engaged in culture and fun.ââ?¬Â
Madison, Wis.
ââ?¬Å?The University of Wisconsin is big, but there’s a small-town feel here in the state’s capital (you can’t get away from the cheese, but you can go ice fishing on any winter’s day),ââ?¬Â Bellows says. ââ?¬Å?When you think of Madison, wedged between Mendota and Monona lakes, you think of a backwater place, but really there’s an incredible eclectic urban feel to it. It’s an interesting town with buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright.ââ?¬Â 800-373-6376; visitmadison.com
(EAU CLAIRE) A concerted effort to reduce high risk drinking on the UW-Eau Claire campus will be funded by a new federal grant.
A survey of drinking by students at UW-Eau Claire last year found 91 percent drink, and 57 percent report binge drinking. Lowering that rate will be difficult because Wisconsin has the highest binge drinking level of 40 states studied by Harvard University. (Third item)
Three months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally recommended that all freshmen living in dormitories be vaccinated for meningitis, college officials seem to be taking the recommendations to heart ââ?¬â? and that response is contributing to a shortage of the vaccine around the United States.
Kleinheinz was a part time employee for the University of Wisconsin athletic department for the swim and soccer teams.
Astronomers’ Findings Say Milky Way Is More Unusual Than Thought.
You’ve probably got a few pictures of your neighborhood in dusty photo albums; images of that familiar place where you’ve raised a family and watched the seasons come and go.
Ed Churchwell and Robert Benjamin have such an album.
An exclusive dining experience will be unveiled in Madison this fall and it might surprise you to know its location and proprietor.
The Kellner Club is a 120-seat restaurant that is scheduled to open at the Kohl Center in October. The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department will operate it for the purposes of catering to its most generous donors
When plans for renovating Camp Randall Stadium were released three years ago, UW chancellor John Wiley was asked about the possibility beer would someday be sold at the facility. He didn’t endorse the notion, but he didn’t rule it out, either.
Consider it ruled out now. Wiley said it won’t happen at UW sporting events in part because the “NCAA is going in the other direction” when it comes to eliminating alcohol sales and advertising.
The UW Athletic Department has multi-year contracts with Miller and Anheuser- Busch, worth $425,000 annually, for advertising, according to UW senior associate athletic director Vince Sweeney. Beer ads run on radio broadcasts, coaches shows on TV and in the game programs.
“We’re not planning any changes,” Sweeney said. “We’re aware (of the push by the NCAA to eliminate alcohol ads). We’re comfortable with where we are.” (Second item.)
