A little more than a year and a half removed from a life-saving, double-lung transplant, Trey Schwab is turning his focus full-time to helping ensure others might someday receive that same chance.
Schwab will leave his job as special assistant for Marquette University’s men’s basketball program on Sept. 2 in order to become outreach coordinator for organ procurement at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison.
MENASHA ââ?¬â? Half a world away and relying on strangers to search for her missing 20-year-old son, Lesley Lathrop is ââ?¬Å?beyond worriedââ?¬Â and scared.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was suspended from doing animal research for two years after an investigation into deaths and illnesses among rhesus monkeys in her laboratory in 2001 and 2002, university officials acknowledged this week.
Ei Terasawa, a professor of pediatrics who also works at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, was suspended from conducting animal research there after review boards at the university found that she and others in her research group had violated the protocols approved for an experiment she was conducting.
Madison, Wis. — A report is due next month that will help University of Wisconsin System officials determine whether and how to proceed with an IT project that was put on hold after approximately $25 million was spent working to implement it over a five-year period. The project was determined to be fraught with problems, including a lack of good project management.
(MADISON) The first effort to overturn Madison�s new smoking ban failed. Now, there�s another attempt to ease strict rules regulating cigarettes in taverns and restaurants.
Bar owners in particular say Madison�s two month-old smoking ban has driven away customers. Tobacco researchers want proof. David Ahrens from the UW Medical School is checking sales receipts: businesses have to turn in those numbers to the state Department of Revenue for tax purposes, but those figures won�t be out for awhile.
An international search is underway in Japan for a missing exchange student from UWââ?¬â??Madison.
20-year-old Andy Lathrop of Menasha is teaching English in Japan.
There’s still time to e-mail your thoughts on the Sterling Hall explosion that occurred 35 years ago this week. Have your views on the bombing changed over time? Send your thoughts, 200 words or less, to wsjopine@madison.com by Wednesday morning. Responses will be featured in Thursday’s Spectrum section.
The Sterling Hall bombing on the UW-Madison campus occurred 35 years ago. An item on Page 1 of Sunday’s Forum section gave the wrong number of years since the bombing.
Hundreds of thousands of this year’s college-bound high school graduates aren’t prepared enough academically to succeed in college, a new report warns.
The nation’s 37,000 chain stores had almost 6,000 open pharmacist jobs in January, the latest data available, says the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS). While the pharmacist shortage isn’t as severe as it was several years ago, jobs are expected to be plentiful for years.
Interviewed: Lisa Peck, child life specialist at UW Hospital in the emergency room.
Fred is waiting for you. He’s nestled deep in his lush, green vines and he’s growing every day.
By the time you get to admire him Saturday, he may be Dane County’s largest pumpkin at perhaps 400 pounds.
Fred is an Atlantic Giant, and he’s one of a kind on his vine. But he’s in good company among the extra-long, oddly shaped, bumpy and glossy and gleaming vegetables featured this year at the annual open house at UW-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station.
More than 80 white-coated doctors, clinicians and nurses gathered Tuesday to implore Madison to keep its smoking ban, while across town, a feisty crowd of 550 demanded its repeal as cigarette smoke wafted through the air.
The two events are only the latest in the intensifying debate since the smoking ban went into effect July 1.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Center of Education for the Young Adolescent.
Quoted: Ron Shultz, with the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.
Mothers who drink too much can have children with a disorder called fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), and while that’s been known, new research suggests how this damage is done and that there may be a connection with addiction later in life.
Fetal alcohol syndrome occurs in between 2 and 15 of every 10,000 live births, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and causes facial abnormalities, slow growth, and malfunctions in the central nervous system.
Susan M. Smith, 45, a biochemist who is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led the recent research.
MADISON, Wis. — Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s office is trying to get bars to voluntarily stagger closing times on Halloween weekend.
Bar owners and Cieslewicz’s staff will meet in the coming days. It’s just one of the suggestions Cieslewicz is pursuing to prevent another State Street riot.
At today’s Halloween planning meeting, city leaders are planning, and bracing for what they hope will be a successful and safer event. And it’s crunch time for this group — they met today, with just more than two months left until Halloween on State Street.
A newspaper�s investigation is focusing new attention on the way some university researchers take money to share early opinions about clinical drug trials they are conducting.
This month, The Seattle Times published articles that detailed the way investment firms tap into medical professors and other doctors involved in drug trials to get advance work on how the trials are going.
DODGEVILLE ââ?¬â?? Mike Gingrich — now a Wisconsinite and one of the countryââ?¬â?¢s top cheesemakers — grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena, but spent many a summer working on his unclesââ?¬â?¢ dairy farms in Michigan.
The experience left a deep impression on Gingrich, who became an electrical engineer and spent the first 15 years of his career working for the Xerox.
It is unconscionable to think that a judge would give a sex offender, UW professor Roberto Coronado, only eight years for assaulting three little girls, one up to 30 times. This monster gave those children a life sentence, but he will be released early and free to follow the regular sex offender pattern.
Equally appalling is that university officials seem to be hiding under their desks waiting for it to go away. Little wonder why the Legislature wants to be involved in administering university policies.
– Francis W. Turner, Beaver Dam
The debate over Madison’s smoking ban in bars and restaurants is getting more intense.
A group of six City Council members shared details Monday on a proposed April advisory referendum on the ban and a provision for a temporary exemption for establishments having economic hardships.
Two weeks before some 40,000 students begin fall classes at UW-Madison, advocates for cheaper college textbooks released a new federal study today that backs their complaints about escalating costs and questionable extras.
Among the findings of the report, compiled by the Government Accountability Office at the request of U.S. Rep. David Wu, D-Ore.:
Textbook prices have increased at twice the rate of inflation over the last 20 years.
There�s a growing awareness statewide that we need our state�s University of Wisconsin System to get the present episode of quirky employment problems behind us, both for the state and the System�s reputation.
Bells and whistles such as CD-ROMs appear to be driving up the price of college textbooks, which, along with supplies, may have cost students nearly $900 a year on average in recent years, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says.
For 18 months, Kevin Kniffin, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, tracked the social interactions of a university crew team, about 50 men and women who rowed together in groups of four or eight.
Quoted: Joel Rogers, a professor of law, political science and sociology at University of Wisconsin Law School
MADISON, Wis. – Critics of animal research on Monday released internal records detailing a study at the University of Wisconsin that led to an “unusual number” of deaths and illnesses of rhesus monkeys in 2001 and 2002.
The UW memos uncovered by the Primate Freedom Project show one of the monkeys died while an attendant went out to lunch during an experiment, and others were given drugs that had not been approved by a review committee.
For educated people, those folks over in the University of Wisconsin System sure seem to have a predilection for stepping into it with the state Legislature.
Madison, Wis. — Implementation of RFID must be done in a holistic manner if the efficiencies and controls the technology offers are to be truly realized, attendees at Friday’s premiere of UW-Madison’s RFID lab heard.
Those comments came from Patrick Sweeney, CEO of Virginia-based ODIN Technologies and author of RFID for Dummies, who gave the keynote address at the lab’s open house – an event that also gave attendees a chance to see RFID in action.
Quoted: Sara Y. Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
A growing number of college presidents are on easy street, despite the tough economic roads that both public and private institutions are traveling.
The best-paid leaders are at private institutions. The ranks of private-college leaders who earn in excess of $500,000 annually increased by 56 percent from the 2002 to the 2003 fiscal years, the most recent years for which data are available. Until 2000, no more than a dozen presidents of private colleges made that much money. Now, 42 presidents are over the half-million mark.
Nothing Meg Gaines endured had prepared her for this moment. Not the six rounds of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer that had metastasized to her liver. Not the doctor who told her, after Ms. Gaines was prepped for surgery, that he could not operate: a last-minute scan revealed too many tumors. “Go home and think about the quality, not the quantity, of your days,” he said.
Not the innumerable specialists whom Ms. Gaines, then 39 and the mother of two toddlers, had already mowed through in her terrified but unswerving effort to save her own life. Not the Internet research and clinical trial reports, all citing the grimmest of statistics. Not the fierce, frantic journey she made, leaving home in Wisconsin to visit cancer centers in Texas and California.
Michael Scott, policing expert at University of Wisconsin Law School, said the data would be an invaluable tool in both assessing and training officers in pursuits.
Health, education and culture have kept the bulldozers and backhoes rumbling throughout Dane County this summer.
And, after a three-year slowdown, office buildings with space to lease are taking root all around the area.
In the city of Madison, nonresidential building projects initiated from July 2004 through June 2005 saw a whopping 93.4 percent leap over the previous 12 months.
Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and author of the well-received Siam Mapped.
The corrupted Latin on Michael Forster Rothbart’s shirt said it all.
Cogito ergo recyclo – “I think therefore I recycle.”
That was the mind-set of the roving group of garbage pickers Rothbart assembled Saturday.
Longtime readers of this column will recall that a Watertown native played a key role in the formation of Social Security.
The Associated Press carried a detailed story Friday about the involvement of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the shaping of that bill, and it noted that the key author of the Social Security legislation was Professor Edwin Witte of the UW staff. The article was written because we are approaching the 70th anniversary of that legislation. The article was accompanied by a photo which showed President Roosevelt in the middle, Arthur Altmeyer on the left, and Witte on the right. It was Altmeyer who suggested to President Roosevelt that Witte was the man for the job and ultimately worked closely with Witte in the formation of the Social Security legislation.
When Wheaton resident Justin Nieting enrolled two years ago at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, his focus was on finding classes, buying books and meeting new friends. The last thing the accounting major expected was a myriad of computer problems.
“As a freshman, I lived in one of these two towers that had 13 floors each, and you had 3,500 kids hooked up to the same mainframe,” Nieting recalled.
Quoted: Brian Rust, communications manager for the division of information technology at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: David Henige of the University of Wisconsin.
He had a two-year tenure on the University of Wisconsin faculty. While there, he was chief of thoracic surgery at the Veterans Administration hospital.
MADISON – A University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school researcher plans to study whether the city’s smoking ban has hurt taverns.
Dozens of bar owners claim the ban has cost them at least 20 percent of their customers since it took effect July 1. But researcher David Ahrens says their claims are unreliable at bes
Quoted: Tom Reason, associate director of admissions at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After teaching at Vanderbilt, he joined the staff at the University of Wisconsin, where he was appointed chairman of the department of educational psychology.
La Crosse has had an alcohol task force that made many recommendations on new enforcement measures to deal with binge drinking and other alcohol-related problems.
Now a Common Council committee is looking seriously at those recommendations with an eye toward putting them into law.
Quoted: Jon S. Thorson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) – Prolific art director Alexander Golitzen, who won Oscars for “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Spartacus” and “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died Tuesday, July 26 at the age of 97.
He earned a degree in architecture at the University of Wisconsin, whereupon he moved to Los Angeles.
MADISON ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly says his housekeeper has a backup academic position.
The revelation stirred fresh outrage from Republican lawmakers already upset over similar fallback jobs in UW administrators� contracts.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation they say would make it easier for students at three state technical colleges to transfer credits to University of Wisconsin System schools.
Many students have spent all day packing their moving trucks, so they can move in tomorrow. There are piles and piles of garbage dotted along the streets.
Travis Abell considers himself one of the lucky ones. His landlord allowed him and his three roommates to move their belongings into their new mifflin street home earlier this morning. He won’t be able to stay here tonight, But at least his moving day is done.
“The social security system that became the cornerstone of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s new deal, was written by Uââ?¬â??W economist, Edwin Witte,” proclaims Wisconsin’s 2nd district Congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin.
Rather than move those old clothes or the sofa, Uââ?¬â??W students toss it on the curb. But the City of Madison wants to change that.
Chances are, you’ve seen radio frequency identification at work if you’ve ever driven the Illinios tollway and seen the Iââ?¬â??pass, but that same technology is making breakthroughs in the manufacturing world as well.
In a flash, Leo Burt ââ?¬â? onetime altar boy, Marine reservist and college athlete ââ?¬â? became an alleged American terrorist. Almost as quickly, he vanished.
Does the UW Humanities Building deserve the city’s scorn? (Not available online.)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Rookie cornerback Scott Starks is moving up the depth chart for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin economist picked by President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration to draft a bill creating Social Security worried about asking for time off to work on it.
Two Wisconsin businesses, with the help of a UW-Madison engineering professor, are working to write a new chapter in computer recycling.
Quoted: UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri.
Quoted: UW-Madison law professor and former Department of Corrections Secretary Walter Dickey
