Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz wants State Street area bars to quit serving alcohol earlier on Halloween weekend to make the unsponsored megaparty safer this fall. The celebration, attended by as many as 75,000, has been marred by violence and broken up by police in the early morning for three straight years.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project did not represent Armstrong but did file a supporting brief with the court.
The Senate heard details Tuesday of potential new ways to obtain embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. Some scientists and others called the techniques unproven and an attempt to derail efforts at expanding federal funding into the research.
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich earmarked $10 million in state grants to facilities for stem cell research, which he said is an important step toward curing some diseases. President Bush has put restrictions on federal funding for the research.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday ordered state health officials to direct $10 million to stem-cell research, putting Illinois among a select group of states that have started their own programs in the face of federal funding restrictions.
Quoted: Chin Wu, assistant professor of civil environmental engineering at UW-Madison.
Madison has had its turn. Now the suburbs of Dane County are being recognized as among the country’s best places to live.
Middleton came in seventh Monday on a list released by CNN and Money Magazine, which “spent months looking for Great American Towns – where you would want to raise your children and celebrate life’s milestones,” according to their Web site.
MADISON, Wis. — Chronic wasting disease has been in the U.S. deer herd for at least the past 30 years. Questions about why it got there and how it spreads have been around for just as long.
Experts on the disease gather in Madison this week to share their research on the disease found in the Wisconsin herd in February 2002, the first time it was discovered east of the Mississippi. The symposium of researchers, academics and wildlife officials will give them a chance to swap information and strategies on a disease that has spread beyond the Colorado areas where it was first discovered.
“In some respects, we know so much more than we did 10 years ago,” said Debbie McKenzie, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Science and a chair of a panel this week on the prions linked to CWD.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Three years after chronic wasting disease was first detected among the stateââ?¬â?¢s white-tailed deer herds, wildlife managers say Wisconsin is a national leader in CWD research and management.
That reputation has a chance to expand globally when the second annual International Chronic Wasting Disease Symposium convenes in Madison today through Thursday. More than 300 wildlife management specialists and researchers from 40 states and eight countries have pre-registered for the event.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Three years after chronic wasting disease was first detected among the stateââ?¬â?¢s white-tailed deer herds, wildlife managers say Wisconsin is a national leader in CWD research and management.
That reputation has a chance to expand globally when the second annual International Chronic Wasting Disease Symposium convenes in Madison today through Thursday. More than 300 wildlife management specialists and researchers from 40 states and eight countries have pre-registered for the event.
Quoted: Dr. Raj Veeramani, professor of engineering and business at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Jeff Nelson, research specialist in the biological systems engineering department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Debbie McKenzie, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. (Second item.)
If a spokesman for the University of Wisconsin proclaimed the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, someone in the state Legislature would issue a press release demanding proof.
Madison, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers announced Wednesday they have received a $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue research on protein structure.
Many colleges are building new dormitories at a blistering pace to attract students, but some institutions have found that renovating existing dorms can make more financial sense, even though the work can be fraught with problems, according to speakers here on Monday at the annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents voted on Friday to centralize the investment of each campus’s cash reserves and to dedicate a portion of the expected increased returns to systemwide strategic initiatives, despite criticism from the Austin campus that the new revenue-sharing policy amounts to a tax on the flagship institution.
Madison: If you’re not sweatin’, you’re not working. That may be a fine mantra for wrestlers at the Wisconsin Team Camp, but athletic trainers are always on hand to make sure athletes don’t take it too far, especially when the heat index is high.
“We have health staff at all the camps and the counselors and the coaches have a close eye on the kids to make sure they’re able to participate and hydrated,” says UW Summer Camp Health Coordinator Andy Hrodey.
(MADISON) Enrollment keeps growing at the University of Wisconsin but in the past couple budgets, state support has fallen flat. One UW Regent thinks it may be time to consider some type of enrollment cap.
A state audit released last year found the number of full-time students at the University had grown by more than 10,000 in only six years. State aid to the University also grew over that time, but not as fast as enrollment. It�s left to students to pick up a bigger share of the cost of their education. (Third item.)
Quoted: Antonia Schleicher, executive director at the Wisconsin-based National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages and professor of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Dr. Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: James Hoyt, former director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism school.
Quoted: Zhang Hongming, a professor of Chinese linguistics at the University of Wisconsin
In 1960, she became a Research Assistant at the Institute of Governmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin. Her main job was to prepare materials for and help supervise the Badger Girls State Program. She also edited publications for the department.
Faculty inventions generated $11.6 million in licensing fees and royalties for the region’s three research universities during fiscal 2004 and enabled the schools to launch 19 start-up companies.
The University of Wisconsin established its research office in 1937 and earned $37.5 million in 2003.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin geochemist Thomas Stafford Jr.
Quoted: Geoffrey Borman, an education professor and summer-learning-loss expert at the University of Wisconsin.
Eleven Republican lawmakers on Friday said UW- Madison can’t be trusted to investigate the circumstances surrounding Paul Barrows’ seven-month paid leave and formally asked Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager to tackle the case instead.
The legislators, including 10 Assembly members and one senator, said UW-Madison’s planned probe was inadequate because the chosen investigator, former Dane County judge and Madison lawyer Susan Steingass, is employed by the university as a clinical associate professor, which is a non- tenure track position on the academic staff.
Quoted: Tom Stafford, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Concerns over poor morale and leadership at University Health Services that surfaced during a recent investigation of sexual harassment charges against a top clinic director have prompted UW-Madison officials to hire an outside consultant to begin a broader investigation next week.
UHS is the campus health clinic that serves UW-Madison students. It has four directors who report to UHS Executive Director Kathleen Poi, including clinical services director Dr. Scott Spear, who was investigated and cleared of charges that he harassed medical students who worked at the clinic as part of their training.
RIVER FALLS, Wis. – Even after years as a nurse at the University of Wisconsin campus here, Linda Vigars says her heart still melts when she sees a student seeking emergency contraception – the so-called morning-after birth-control pill.
Broken condoms bring women to the campus clinic. Or lapses in judgment after drinking alcohol. More rarely, it’s a sexual assault.
“Men seem to have a hard time understanding women, and it really is nice to have someone understand you,” says Jenny Bryers, a UW- Madison graduate student. “I don’t think losing a friendship is necessarily worse for women than for men, but we probably let it bother us more. Women generally let things bother them more than men, especially if it’s something we have no control over, something we can’t change.”
Groundbreaking research – what is it worth?
At a time when the Legislature is skimping on state funding for the University of Wisconsin System, a $20 million federal grant awarded last week to UW-Madison researchers should remind lawmakers of UW’s tremendous value. It also should demonstrate why the state must keep UW System financially strong so that it continues to attract top-level researchers and the dollars that follow.
A Minneapolis biotech company plans to open shop in the Madison area, with a factory and headquarters that could employ more than 200 people in two years.
Excorp Medical – an ambitious 9-year old company that also is establishing a branch in China – has developed technology that uses pig liver cells to cleanse toxins from the blood of people whose livers are too diseased to function.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court goes on the record when it comes to questioning juveniles. It ruled Thursday that police must electronically record juveniles who are detained and interrogated.
Keith Findley, a professor at UW Madison law school says, “With the Wisconsin Innocence Project, we’re involved in representing people who have been wrongly convicted.”
MADISON – A group of Republican lawmakers asked Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager on Friday to take over an investigation into the employment of a University of Wisconsin-Madison administrator who looked for another job while on paid sick leave.
It is extremely troublesome that the state Legislature has acted so recklessly with the University of Wisconsin budget. Even more troublesome is the motivation.
Before the state Senate approved the budget with an additional one million dollar in cuts to the UW budget, the office of Republican Senate Majority leader Dale Schultz said the new cut was “intended to send a message.” The message was unhappiness with the Paul Barrows issue.
MADISON, Wis. – Badger sous chefs A.J. Klein and Brian Rizzo earned a bronze medal at the Annual Wisconsin Restaurant Association Trade Show in Milwaukee earlier this year. The show caters to restaurant owners and chefs from the state and around the Midwest. (Athletic Communication.)
(UNDATED) A University of Wisconsin-Madison student working as an intern in the British Parliament was one of thousands of people forced to evacuate the London subway after yesterday�s bombings. Twenty year-old Barry Landy was unharmed on his commute. (First item.)
Quoted: UW-Madison economics professor Steven Durlauf (Second item.)
On Friday, a day after four bombs exploded in London, many American colleges with students in Britain had accounted for most or all of their students, and were resuming classes.
A 7-percent hike in tuition at University of Wisconsin System schools this fall should hardly be considered modest.
Yet it’s welcome relief compared to the double- digit increases of the past couple of years. And given that state leaders are skimping on state support for highe
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin officials spent the Thursday busily tracking down their students who are studying in London after more than 50 people were killed there by bombings in three subway trains. At least 22 of the hundreds of people who were wounded are hospitalized in serious or critical condition. ( FULL
UW-Madison researchers will get $20 million over the next five years to be part of a national effort to determine how proteins work and what roles they play in health and disease.
The work could one day help scientists better understand and combat diseases, although the immediate task is to map the molecular structure of the proteins, said George Phillips, a biochemist at UW-Madison and one of three principal researchers.
I went to a pre-college camp this summer at UW-River Falls and learned a lot about preparing for college in the future. I want to thank the state politicians for budgeting money for pre-college camps for Wisconsin kids.
Quoted: Chang Kuo-cheng, a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Casey Schumann, one of the authors of the new report and a graduate student in the Population Health Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Former University of Wisconsin Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows, when applying for a top position at the University of Texas, submitted a r�©sum�© asserting an April 1 return date to UW. With his consideration by UT extending beyond that date, at least one search committee member claims to have believed Barrows was back at work in Madison.
Quoted: Matthew Mayrl, a research associate at the Center of Wisconsin Strategy at UW-Madison.
Brian Agee is feeling rushed.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh senior from Milwaukee already works at Eastbay and is not eligible for financial aid, so he wants to finish his sociology degree as soon as possible.
While eating breakfast in a residence hall in London, UW- Madison senior Mike Lehrman didn’t think anything of an early morning fire alarm.
Then he arrived at his summer class at the London School of Economics to find some of his classmates were missing.
Thursday’s attacks on London commuters could strengthen popular support in Britain and the United States for the war on terror, according to some UW-Madison experts.
David Leheny, associate professor of political science, said he believes people will rally around Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British flag, just as Americans rallied around their president and flag after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Madison travelers headed to international flights Thursday said they were sorry to hear about the London attacks but saw no reason to change their plans.
It’s too early to determine if the University of Wisconsin Marathon County will cancel a school-sponsored trip to Europe next month, a UWMC spokeswoman said Thursday.
About six students are scheduled to tour Greece and Rome from Aug. 14 through Aug. 22. A group taking responsibility for Thursday’s terrorist attacks in London, however, also has threatened attacks in Italy and Denmark.
Terrorist attacks in London on Thursday sparked anxiety in study-abroad offices across Britain and the United States, with staff members spending the day scrambling to confirm the safety of their students and, in one case, canceling a summer program altogether.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.539-billion as of June 8 (increase of $38.7-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
The UW Madison has its own ambassadors in London, students.
Today’s bombings sent members of the university community into high gear trying to get in touch with them.
MADISON, Wis. – For just the second time in the last nine years, the University of Wisconsin Division of Intercollegiate Athletics can stake its claim as one of the NCAAââ?¬â?¢s Top 20 all-sports programs. (Athletic Communication.)
For nine months a year, students at Furman University have freshly renovated apartments all to themselves. But when summer arrives, they give them up in a hurry for one compelling reason: 10,000 visitors are on their way.
For colleges with programs in London, Thursday was a day of urgent calls and e-mail messages, locating students and notifying parents that everyone was physically OK, if obviously shook up by the terrorist bombings.
