MADISON, Wis. — Luoluo Hong is leaving her job as dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, university officials said Monday morning.
Channel3000.com – Education – UW’s Dean Of Students Resigns
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NBC15 | Dean Blames Financial Cuts on Her Departure
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Tight budgets and what she calls Wisconsin’s “lack of commitment” to higher education is what drove UWââ?¬â??Madison’s Dean of Students to look for a new job.
Dean Luoluo Hong resigned from UW to be the new Dean of Student Affairs for the west campus at Arizona State University in Glendale. Hong came to the UW-Madison in November of 2002.
UW-Madison dean of students to leave in July
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison dean of students Luoluo Hong is leaving after less than three years on the job, blaming too-tight budgets and what she called Wisconsin’s “lack of commitment” to higher education – despite receiving a 14 percent raise in pay since November 2002.
Study: Phosphorus threatens Mendota
Wisconsin State Journal
The smell of Lake Mendota on some hot, humid summer afternoons is not something you are likely to read about in Madison tourism pamphlets.
The rank smell of weed and algae-choked shorelines belies the beauty of the blue lake as seen from a distance.
And now, a study from a UW-Madison limnologist shows that without aggressive steps to stem the flow of pollutants, especially phosphorus from fertilizers, into the lake, our legacy to future generations is probably going to be a lake as polluted or even dirtier and more weed-choked than it is today.
OATES COLUMN: Wisconsin versions of Rushmore
Wisconsin State Journal
If a Mount Rushmore for each of the state’s major sports teams was carved on, say, the Baraboo Range, what faces would be set in stone? Some are easy, some are hard, but the resulting mountainsides might look like this:
University of Wisconsin football: Alan Ameche, Ron Dayne, Pat Richter, Elroy Hirsch.
Ameche and Dayne, who left UW with the Heisman Trophy and college football’s career rushing record, are locks. Hirsch and Richter were stars on teams that came within a touchdown of winning the national championship. Some would argue that Hirsch wasn’t even the best player on the 1942 team (Dave Schreiner was), but his later contributions as athletic director and goodwill ambassador were also significant. Just missing the cut was Barry Alvarez, who has coached UW to an unprecedented three Rose Bowls – and won them all.
UW basketball: Walter Meanwell, Devin Harris, Michael Finley, John Kotz.
Meanwell coached UW to eight Big Ten Conference titles, three mythical national titles and became basketball’s most dominant figure in the first 30 years of the 20th century. Led by Harris, UW won back-to- back Big Ten championships, the first such titles in 55 years. Finley was the player most responsible for ending UW’s 47- year absence from the NCAA tournament. Kotz and Gene Englund were equals on UW’s 1941 NCAA championship team, but Kotz was named most outstanding player in the tournament. Don’t be surprised if current coach Bo Ryan cracks this list before he’s through.
Good, bad and ugly in budget
Wisconsin State Journal
State lawmakers once again faced a tough job with few easy answers when Gov. Jim Doyle handed them his state budget request four months ago.
Credit the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee for resisting a borrowing binge and for slapping Doyle’s hand when he reached for pots of money he shouldn’t touch.
The committee’s worst decision was to tinker with tax cuts instead of investing more money in the University of Wisconsin System and public schools. These institutions educate tomorrow’s workforce and, in the case of UW, prime the economy with dynamic research and spin-off, high-salary businesses.
Obituary: Mueller, Carol Jeanne
Madison.com
She worked as an instructional materials center coordinator at Belleville High School from 1968 until 1972. She then came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System. Carol held many positions at the library including Head of Area Studies and Head of Original Cataloging, which she held from November 2000 until the time of her death. In addition to her work as a librarian, Carol also taught courses for the UW’s School of Library and Information Studies.
Hockey’s Big Event Has Issues
Wisconsin State Journal
When organizing any kind of new get-together where thousands of people will be involved, one of your first thoughts best be about worst-case scenarios.
Better yet, your first two or three planning meetings should be devoted to all the things that could go awry.
Here are a couple of concerns where the inaugural Frozen Tundra Classic — the men’s hockey game pitting the University of Wisconsin vs. Ohio State at Lambeau Field in Green Bay — is concerned:
* What if the game-day weather conditions at 3p.m. Saturday, Feb.11 — the dead-of-winter date chosen for the first outdoor hockey game in the modern era at UW — replicate those of the epic Ice Bowl?
Regents Ask State Legislature For More Student Aid, Faculty
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW Board of Regents on Friday asked the state Legislature for more student financial aid and the money to hire 120 faculty members.
The vote came after Regents this week learned that state-taxpayer support per student is now further below the national average than it was in 1986.
Uw Has Plenty Of Outlets For Foreign Students
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison has the 12th largest foreign student population in the United States, with nearly 4,000 students from other countries.
There are more than 50 international student organizations that aim to break stereotypes and provide a home away from home for those students.
Same-sex benefits on the rise
Wisconsin State Journal
WASHINGTON – Gay and transgender workers were more likely than ever to receive domestic-partner health benefits last year, and more companies are adopting nondiscrimination policies to protect them, a leading gay- activist group reported.
But gays’ workplace gains have slowed since the ’90s, according to figures that the group, the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign, compiled for its annual “State of the Workplace” report. That’s probably because of the rising costs of health benefits. Social conservatives said their resistance to such efforts was a factor.
UW tower may get in the way again
Wisconsin State Journal
That 1,423-foot communications tower near Highway M and Mineral Point Road eventually will be in the way again for an expansion of the University Research Park.
The tower, which has leased space on it for broadcasting, is owned by the University of Wisconsin System and managed by the research park.
Business hopes Madison is listening
Wisconsin State Journal
Within the next month, the mayor’s office will give the Economic Development Commission a formal update on its progress on recommendations listed in the group’s 46-page report. Meanwhile, the EDC is working to ensure its opus doesn’t wind up gathering dust.
“We will not rest until some of these issues are addressed, and we’ll continue to bring them up,” said EDC Chairman and University Research Park Director Mark Bugher.
From war to work
Wisconsin State Journal
Larry W. Hunter, an associate professor of business management at UW-Madison, said small companies with 50 or fewer employees are more susceptible to the burdens of key personnel being absent for 12 to 18 months.
Remember the line, ‘I speak Jive’?
Wisconsin State Journal
Surely it hasn’t been 25 years since the movie “Airplane!” debuted. But it has and “Don’t call me Shirley.”
The anniversary will be marked by a benefit celebration in Milwaukee in honor of the volunteer service and philanthropy of Louise Abrahams Yaffe and her son Jim Abrahams, who wrote and directed “Airplane!” with fellow Shorewood High School and UW- Madison graduates David and Jerry Zucker.
Government defends downsized penalty in tobacco trial
Though prosecutors said the plan could be expanded if tobacco companies misbehave in the future, the proposal was a fraction of the $130 billion, 25-year program suggested by government witness Michael C. Fiore, a University of Wisconsin medical professor.
Unlike Fiore’s proposal, the $10 billion program would be limited to a certain number of people – decided by estimating how many smokers may become hooked as a result of any misbehavior by the companies within a year after the trial.
Dave Zweifel: Keep in touch with Social Security office
Currently, 48 million Americans are on Social Security. That includes 30 million retired workers and 3.1 million dependents and 6.7 million survivors, a group that includes children who have lost a parent and, consequently, any means of support. Also, nearly 8 million disabled workers and their dependents receive benefits.
It’s a program begun in the dark days of America’s Great Depression and was in no small part modeled by progressive thinkers here at the University of Wisconsin who signed on to President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal for the American people.
WRAL.com – AP National News – Poll: Bush’s Job Approval Dips To New Low
“Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they’re all worried about 2006.”
Action taken by the Legislature’s budget committee | The Janesville Gazette | Janesville, Wisconsin, USA
-Voted to give the University of Wisconsin System $9 million more in state funding over the next two years.
What it means: The plan is $40 million less than the governor wanted and millions less than what the university wanted to cover its expected increase in costs. The committee also reduced the governor’s proposed increase for financial aid, meaning students will either get smaller grants than anticipated or fewer students will get the help.
-Rejected the governor’s plan to provide domestic partner benefits to UW System employees.
What it means: UW-Madison will remain the only institution in the Big Ten that does not provide the benefits.
House Appropriations Panel Calls for Small Increases for Student Aid and NIH in 2006
Chronicle of Higher Education
The maximum Pell Grant would increase by $50 and the budget for the National Institutes of Health would rise slightly under a spending bill for the 2006 fiscal year that was approved on Thursday by a House appropriations panel.
The bill would spare several higher-education programs that President Bush has proposed eliminating, including three popular college-preparation programs for students from low-income families and a program of vocational and technical education that provides $400-million annually to community colleges. The bill would also wipe out a $4.3-billion shortfall that has plagued the Pell Grant program.
Regents vow to lobby for more aid
Wisconsin State Journal
MILWAUKEE – For what it’s worth, members of the UW Board of Regents on Thursday vowed to hammer state lawmakers over the next few weeks about finding more financial aid for needy students.
Rock County business cultivates product that has made it famous around the world | The Janesville Gazette | Janesville, Wisconsin, USA
Ed Hasselkus, professor emeritus of horticulture at UW-Madison and curator of the Longenecker Gardens at the UW Arboretum, first told Klehm about the soil here-a well-draining silt loam, some of the best in the world. Klehm knew it would be perfect for his beloved peonies.
Program offers free eye exams for babies
Wisconsin State Journal
Dr. Thomas France, a pediatric ophthalmologist and UW- Madison professor emeritus of ophthalmology, said he thinks the screening is a good idea if it picks up problems that need to be treated early, such as infant glaucoma. However, France said eye problems are usually diagnosed by a family doctor.
JS Online: They stick with Badgers, if not with each other
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The man and woman are in their 80s. After 57 years of marriage, they decided that’s long enough.
They agreed to evenly divide nearly everything accumulated in a lifetime together, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, savings and insurance policies.
When they came into court this week to make it all final, they needed the judge to decide but one issue:
Who gets the four Badgers football season tickets?
Channel3000.com – News – PU! Stinky Flower Blooms In Madison
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MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s corpse flower, AKA the “stinky flower,” started blooming today at 12:30 p.m.
You can go see 7-foot flower at the Botany Greenhouse hours until midnight tonight. Or you can avoid its putrid smell and watch it bloom online at http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2005/index.html.
CELL BIOLOGY: Ready or Not? Human ES Cells Head Toward the Clinic — Vogel 308 (5728): 1534 — Science
“The most sobering thing about [hES] cells is their power,” says neuroscientist Clive Svendsen of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who works with both fetal and embryonic stem cells. The extreme flexibility and capacity for growth characteristic of ES cells makes them ideal for producing large quantities of therapeutic cells to treat, say, diabetes or spinal cord injuries. But these same traits also increase the risk that renegade cells could, as they have in animal studies, cause unwanted side effects, ending up in the wrong place or even sparking cancerous growth. “You have to learn to control that power in the dish” before thinking about putting the cells into patients, says Svendsen.
Wisconsin group visits Corpus Christi landmarks
Thirty-six University of Wisconsin-Madison students stepped off a bus in front of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Post Office on Tuesday, ready for a history lesson, South Texas-style.
As participants in a kind of traveling classroom, the students were in Corpus Christi to learn about Dr. Hector P. Garcia, civil rights leader and founder of the American GI Forum, for a college course called “The Santa Fe Trail: In Search of the Multiracial West.”
JS Online: Really Frozen Tundra
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In the middle of February, while football hibernates, the Green Bay Packers plan to convert their 72,000-seat stadium into a 40,000-seat outdoor ice rink and host the hockey teams from the University of Wisconsin and Ohio State in a game dubbed the Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic.
Scientific Misconduct Is Rampant, Study Suggests
Chronicle of Higher Education
A survey of more than 3,000 scientists has revealed that a large fraction are acting in ways that could compromise the integrity of research, according to an article published today in Nature.
A third of participants in the survey acknowledged that they had engaged in actions such as overlooking others’ use of flawed data, failing to present data contradicting one’s own work, and circumventing minor requirements of human-subject research. While those actions do not rise to the level of fraud, fabrication, and plagiarism — the three cardinal sins of research — they nonetheless signal problems in the world of science, said Brian C. Martinson, a research investigator at the HealthPartners Research Foundation, a nonprofit center in Minneapolis.
ââ?¬Ë?Gold collar’ workers are out in force: Underrepresented’ young subset pack a growing economic punch
USA Today
College kids may often be strapped for cash, but not all 18- to 25-year-olds are struggling to make ends meet. About 17 million ââ?¬â? or 53% ââ?¬â? are working-class, with regular paychecks giving them a powerful economic punch.
State lags in college degrees
Wisconsin State Journal
As state legislators move to hold the line on new spending for the University of Wisconsin System, a new study suggests the state’s economy is suffering from a lack of knowledge workers armed with college degrees.
In 2004 Wisconsin trailed the U.S. average in the percentage of college graduates, with 25.6 percent of state adults, or about 906,000 people, holding a university degree, compared to 27.7 percent of the country as a whole, according a report released Wednesday by NorthStar Economics and the Wisconsin Technology Council.
UW MEN’S HOCKEY: Badgers leap at chance to play at Lambeau
Wisconsin State Journal
GREEN BAY The unveiling of a historic athletic event at Lambeau Field Wednesday generated a series of unusual memories and at least one thinly disguised jab at football fans in Ohio.
They came to life after it was formally announced the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team would host Ohio State in the inaugural Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic Feb. 11 at 3 p.m.
Access to birth control under attack, Democrats say
MADISON (AP) – Saying access to birth control is under attack, Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow the state to sanction any pharmacist who refuses to dispense legal forms of contraception.
Democrats say the measure, which would define birth control as all forms approved by federal regulators, including the morning-after pill, is needed in the face of Republican proposals to chip away a woman’s right to contraception.
Access to birth control under attack, Democrats say
MADISON (AP) – Saying access to birth control is under attack, Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow the state to sanction any pharmacist who refuses to dispense legal forms of contraception.
Democrats say the measure, which would define birth control as all forms approved by federal regulators, including the morning-after pill, is needed in the face of Republican proposals to chip away a woman’s right to contraception.
Doyle appoints new UW System student regent
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Jim Doyle appointed a University of Wisconsin-Parkside English major as the newest student representative on the UW System Board of Regents Wednesday.
Christopher Semenas will replace Beth Richlen, a UW-Madison law student, according to Doyle’s office. Her term expired in May.
Semenas, of Rosendale, is the first student regent appointed from UW-Parkside, Doyle said. He’s a fourth-year student, majoring in English and history.
He served as the president of the Parkside Student Government Association and legislative issues director for the Student Government Association. He currently works as an events assistant on campus.
NBC15 | Fitchburg Company Wins Business Competition
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A Fitchburg company started just last year is the winner of the governor’s business plan contest.
Mithridion Incorporated develops drugs that treat Alzheimer’s disease based on research at UW Madison.
Property Battle Involves Animal Rights
WKOW-TV 27
A Madison property possibly worth a million dollars is being fought over by UW-Madison officials and animal rights activists.
Activists have an option to buy the property, which sits between the university’s two primate research facilities.
The North Charter Street property’s owner is Roger Charly, who operates Budget Bicycle.
Sale of Parade home part of fundraiser
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison football coach Barry Alvarez and his wife, Cindy, will read to children beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Eldorado Court home from a unique two-seat Wrangler Home reading chair designed to accommodate an adult and child. Several other events with the Reading Chair are scheduled later this month.
Post-Crescent – Wisconsin researchers lobby Senate on stem cell research
WASHINGTON ââ?¬â? The science of stem cell research got its start at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Now, university researchers are appealing to the Senate to lift federal restrictions they say are hampering their effort to develop stem cell therapies for deadly diseases and crippling injuries.
Still ahead of her time (Haaretz, Israel)
At first glance, it seems strange: On Monday, Hebrew University awarded an honorary doctorate to American historian Prof. Gerda Lerner. For the university, there is something almost embarrassing in awarding an honorary doctorate to Lerner, that is, choosing her for this honor sheds unflattering light on the university and especially its history department.
It is not that she is not a deserving recipient, on the contrary. Lerner, a professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has already received 16 honorary doctorates from universities all over the world.
So far, so good (Appleton Post-Crescent)
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, University of Wisconsin entomologist.
Students learn about Dr. Hector (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
Thirty-six University of Wisconsin-Madison students stepped off a bus in front of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Post Office on Tuesday, ready for a history lesson, South Texas-style.
Black enrollment at U. of I. rebounding from last year (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
African-American enrollment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign appears to be bouncing back after a sharp decline last fall, according to preliminary admissions figures
Feds Slash Amount Sought in Tobacco Trial (AP)
Quoted: Michael C. Fiore, a medical professor at the University of Wisconsin and government witness.
Let science pursue stem cell research
Wisconsin State Journal
A bipartisan consensus in favor of allowing scientists to pursue stem cell research is showing signs of exercising political clout in Madison and Washington.
Wisconsin should encourage this moderate coalition to grow so that it can fend off persistent efforts to block government funding for embryonic stem cell experiments.
At stake is not only the potential for medical advancements that could save lives but also Wisconsin’s potential to become a hotbed for stem cell research and the biotechnology industry that it could spawn.
Barry Alvarez Closes Out Sports Year With Final Column of the Season
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – The academic year on campus recently concluded, and weââ?¬â?¢re in the stretch run of the 2004-05 athletic calendar. Yet, as the end of the season is fast approaching our department remains active on a number of fronts. (Athletic Communications.)
Dr.Willy Wonka (Madison Magazine)
Madison Magazine
Not all of the research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is in the hard sciences. Some of it’s fluffy, gooey, and even sweet.
Food engineering professor Richard Hartel studies chocolate under microscopes and teaches labs to make jelly beans. He’s also furthered UW’s longstanding involvement in the Institute of Food Technologists, a nonprofit dedicated to making food better. The organization has named him a 2005 fellow.
Semester at Sea Loses Academic Port (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
Semester at Sea may no longer have a campus port.
Birth control in jeopardy, some lawmakers say
Wisconsin State Journal
orty years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared married couples could legally obtain contraceptives, a woman’s right to birth control is again under threat, several Democratic lawmakers and women’s advocates say.
The group plans to announce legislation today that would require pharmacists to fill any FDA-approved birth- control medications prescribed by a doctor. The measure also would clarify the definition of abortion in state statutes to exclude birth-control pills and devices.
Tom Still: With ethics guidelines, political consensus emerging on stem-cell research
www.wisbusiness.com
MADISON ââ?¬â?? In the halls of Congress as well as the Wisconsin Legislature, it is becoming more difficult for the opponents of human embryonic stem cell research to persuade fellow lawmakers that such science is unethical.
The fight over stem-cell research is far from over, but public opinion about its relative merits is beginning to carry more weight.
Updates on Billion-Dollar Campaigns at 25 Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.501-billion as of May 18 (increase of $36.4-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007.
Scientists-to-be may like these books
Wisconsin State Journal
Merri Lindgren is a librarian at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a noncirculating library of the School of Education at the UW-Madison. The CCBC is a library for adults with an academic, professional or career interest in children’s or young adult literature. Look for the books mentioned here in your local public library or bookstore.
At ground level, less ozone better
Wisconsin State Journal
During alerts, members of the Clean Air Coalition – including Madison Gas and Electric Co., Dane County, the city of Madison, Kraft Foods, UW-Madison and the state of Wisconsin – put response plans into place. Those plans include alerting employees by e-mail, encouraging them to leave their cars at home, avoiding refueling fleet vehicles until after 6 p.m. and other measures. During the first five alert days of the season, Madison Metro will offer free bus service.
Lampert Smith: A chance to save Rennie’s
Wisconsin State Journal
The president of the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation wants the Madison Landmarks Commission to declare the old Rennebohm’s building at University Avenue and Randall Street a landmark. This would complicate UW- Madison’s plans to build a $375 million Institute of Discovery there. The city Landmarks Commission will consider it June 20. UW-Madison finds the idea as appealing as a day-old Danish.
Couple seek money to save dog
Wisconsin State Journal
Robert Streiffer, an assistant professor of bioethics at UW- Madison, said medical ethicists are hearing more and more anecdotal stories about people spending large sums to save their pets’ lives or to clone them. In Waunakee, a company that bills itself as the only pet cloning company in the world, Genetic Savings&Clone, charges $32,000 for a cloned cat.
Our view: Republican budget cuts will hurt UW and the state
La Crosse Tribune
What in the world are Republicans in the Legislature trying to do with the University of Wisconsin System?
After four years of some $300 million in budget cuts, forced by state deficits, university officials thought they would have something of a respite for the next two years because Doyle had recommended only $65 million in cuts.
Don’t rush to put limits on stem-cell research
La Crosse Tribune
There are two proposals at the state level to limit stem-cell research. Legislators would be wise not to rush to enact them in the budget process. We could end up severely limiting Wisconsin’s ability to do research and compete economically.
State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, co-chairman of the Joint Finance Committee, says he wants to ban the use of state resources for embryonic stem-cell research.
Domestic partner benefits ruling legitimate, AG says (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? The state’s refusal to grant domestic partner benefits to its employees does not violate the Wisconsin Constitution, the attorney general argued in urging a Dane County judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging the decision.
Key hearing ahead in slain hunters trial (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Quoted: David Schultz, a University of Wisconsin law professor.
Watergate Weighs on Today’s White House (Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Times
Quoted: Stanley I. Kutler, a University of Wisconsin historian and author of “Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes.”