If you attended the University of Wisconsin in the last 38 years you know Mary Rouse. In fact, there’s a good chance you know her even if you didn’t attend the UW.
Mary Rouse’s Legacy Of Public Service (Channel 3000)
WISC-TV 3
Author: jplucas
U-W Scientists Turn Plant Carbs Into Fuel (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are having some success making a diesel-like liquid fuel from carbohydrates commonly found in plants. (Third item.)
Benefits and Protection (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
The last year has seen a backlash against advancing gay rights with numerous states considering or adopting laws or constitutional amendments to restrict marriage and other benefits to male-female couples.
Demographic Dislocation (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
What if the Supreme Court had banned affirmative action? What if colleges moved away from the use of affirmative action on their own?
Upturn for Minority Students at Michigan (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
Upturn for Minority Students at Michigan
A year ago, minority enrollments fell sharply at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor after it instituted new procedures designed to conform to U.S. Supreme Court�s guidance on the consideration of race in admissions. Monday, the university released statistics suggesting that the numbers are climbing back up, due largely to more aggressive recruiting efforts.
Does Harvard ââ?¬Ë?brand’ matter anymore?
USA Today
As Harvard prepares to confer degrees on yet another batch of graduates Thursday, academic experts scratch their heads at how this institution maintains its reputational dominance in an era of academic parity. But a marketer would understand the Harvard aura in a nanosecond: It’s the ultimate brand, at least in the academic world.
Commentary smears student-athletes
USA Today
In his commentary, ââ?¬Å?Lamenting ghost grads,ââ?¬Â Robert Lipsyte shoves out the tired idea that absent from this spring’s college commencement exercises will be football and basketball student-athletes.
Commentary by Wally Renfro, senior adviser to NCAA president Myles Brand.
Budget fight entertaining, but UW is getting hurt
Wisconsin State Journal
If you’ve been around Madison as long as I have, the biennial budget fight between the legislature and the university can sound like a broken record.
As a cynical news hound, I kind of enjoy it. The university does unbelievably dumb things like secretly giving chancellors $700 month car fare after the governor took away their cars and trying to cancel the ROTC program at UW-Stout.
The master of the Wisconsin sales pitch
Wisconsin State Journal
Eugene “Pepi” Randolph, a former UW-Madison athlete with a background in sales and the law, took over the ultimate sales job last fall: leading the state’s economic development arm.
Randolph, once captain of the Badgers baseball team, has worked for Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and the Milwaukee Brewers. In September 2004, Randolph took over for Michael Armiak as president of Forward Wisconsin, a public-private group that tries to recruit businesses.
Gail Edwin Janssen
Madison.com
Janssen has obtained numerous awards throughout his career, including the most recent in September 2004, when he was awarded the “Distinguished Service Award – Outstanding Alumni” at UW-Madison.
Editorial: Finding more for UW is a must
Wisconsin State Journal
Republicans who control the Legislature often say that government should run more like a business.
They’re right.
Yet when it comes to the University of Wisconsin System – a powerhouse for the state’s economy – some of the same lawmakers want to quibble over the perks of top executives and, as of last week, virtually freeze state spending on higher education.
Letter: Rising college costs, state cuts mean students get less for more
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
I’m a full-time student at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and am disgusted with both political parties, which are making it harder for individuals like me to obtain a college degree.
I consider myself blessed to have parents who help me with the large expenses of college, but what about the individuals who are not as blessed?
Fledgling business working on keeping veggies fresh
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Middleton – A grocer who can put more vegetables into customers’ shopping carts and fewer in the Dumpster because they’ve spoiled is going to make more money.
That’s the basic marketing message for Nutra Park Inc., a young business that has turned a discovery made by a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into a commercial product.
Museum prez’s profile comes at the wrong time
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Michael Stafford resigned as head of the Milwaukee Public Museum on Friday after weeks of public battering for overseeing an institution that ran up a huge deficit, drained its endowment and was forced to lay off 56 staffers.
About time for a glowing profile of the guy, right?
The current issue of the University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni publication Letters & Science TODAY offers a two-page paean to the man at the center of the museum maelstrom.
A couple of winning streaks
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The last time I wrote about Erik Adams, I might have left you with the impression that he was, in Erik’s words, “a dumb kid that didn’t know what he was doing.”
It was October 2003 and he had just been arrested for streaking across the Camp Randall gridiron during a Badgers football game.
The Millennials
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Like many baby boomers, Sally and Peter Lautmann held their breath and hoped for the best when their daughter, Jessie, started high school four years ago.
Print: The Chronicle: 6/10/2005: New Meningitis Drug Spurs Policy Change
Chronicle of Higher Education
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a more proactive stance to prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis by issuing a recommendation in May that all children over the age of 11 be immunized against the potentially fatal disease with a newly licensed vaccine.
To Size Up Colleges, Students Now Shop Online
Chronicle of Higher Education
The same high-school students who think nothing of going to J. Crew’s Web site to order the right pair of jeans — sifting through the plethora of styles that seem to change by the week — are turning out to be equally sophisticated online consumers of college information.
KAREN B. STRIER: ‘My Commitment and Passion for My Science Is a Part of Me’
Chronicle of Higher Education
Strier, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Q. How did you find out you’d been elected to the academy?
A. It was a Tuesday morning. I was home actually answering e-mails.
UW System gets more, and it really is less
Wisconsin State Journal
Budget crunchers in the University of Wisconsin System are facing the classic homeowner’s dilemma: their income for the year is going up a little, while their household expenses go up a lot.
Panel of 2 minds on stem cells
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison – The Legislature’s budget-writing panel Friday sidestepped a proposed prohibition of the use of state resources for embryonic stem-cell research, and approved initial funding for a major biotechnology research facility where such research would be conducted.
Politics are polarizing UW budget (Oshkosh Northwestern)
Frustration, anger, and disappointment ââ?¬â? itââ?¬â?¢s been a gamut of emotions for University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard H. Wells when Madison legislators announced a new two-year budget plan for the UW system on Thursday.
While it calls for an additional $9 million in state aid during the next two years, Wells said his school�s share won�t even be enough to cover increased costs in basic utility bills.
Jury sides with Wisconsin company (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? A jury awarded Middleton-based Gilson Inc. a half-million dollars Friday in a contract dispute over a common lab instrument invented by the firm’s founder and used by researchers around the world.
Sculpture goes with the flow (Indianpolis Star)
Indianapolis Star
Truman Lowe has a longstanding relationship with the Eiteljorg Museum.
A member of the Ho-Chunk tribe and a faculty member in the art department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Lowe has served as an adviser on various museum projects over the years, and is a past fellow in the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art program.
Proposal would cut into UWGB aid (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
A proposal approved by the Legislature�s Joint Finance Committee earlier this week would reduce state aid for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay by about $550,000 in the next two years and could result in larger class sizes and fewer new teaching positions at the university.
Area high school alumni earn UW medical degrees (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Four Green Bay students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School with dreams of having the title of ââ?¬Å?Dr.ââ?¬Â in front of their names took one step closer to their goals today by graduating this spring.
Merit pay plan fails test; teachers vote no, find program too inflexible (Florida Today)
Quoted: Allan Odden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and expert on teacher compensation
Army calls UW-Stout ideal for ROTC (St. Paul Pioneer-Press)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Most Army officers commissioned each year come from college campuses across the country, not from fabled West Point.
That’s why it’s important to ROTC officials that the University of Wisconsin-Stout offer the program now found at four other public universities and one private college in the state.
U of M plan would draw more elite professors (St. Paul Pioneer-Press)
Duluth News
ST. PAUL – Saying they must do more to attract and keep their best and brightest, University of Minnesota officials are planning to boost the number of elite Regents Professors on campus and double their financial awards.
Cultural ideals as commodities (Newsday)
Quoted: Alta Charo, an endowed professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin
Is the local-control mantra for real?
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Leon Epstein, emeritus professor of political science at UW- Madison.
Electronic bumper stickers: More people leave taglines on e-mails
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Brian Rust, communications manager for UW-Madison’s Division of Information Technology.
David Shaffer, assistant professor of learning sciences in the UW-Madison educational psychology department.
Alta Charo, associate dean of UW Law School.
Fluno center building a reputation
Wisconsin State Journal
Since the Fluno Center for Executive Education opened five years ago, UW-Madison’s executive education program defied the drag of an economic downturn and corporate belt- tightening to raise its profile and its number of students.
The program has grown by about 50 percent since the spring of 2000, which means its biggest challenge now is maintaining momentum, said UW- Madison Business School Associate Dean Ted Beck.
Lawmaker drops plan to limit funding for stem cell research (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON – The Legislature’s budget committee approved the first phase of the governor’s plan for a new $380 million research center Friday after its co-chairman dropped a proposal to limit taxpayer support for embryonic stem cell work.
Big leaps in tiny technology
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Imago Scientific Instruments Corp., a Madison company that aims to be a leading toolmaker for the nanotechnology age, has done a successful technology transfer with a twist.
Not only did Imago get two licenses for its technology out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it got the professor who did the research.
Animal rights museum, primate labs to be neighbors (AP)
Chicago Sun Times
MADISON, Wis. — A pair of animal rights groups are working to open a museum detailing primate suffering between two primate research labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, saying it will serve as a constant reminder of the horrors of animal research.
Badger Fund Has Record Year for Donors Ranking Second in Big Ten
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – The UW Athletic Department recently announced that a record number of donors contributed to the Badger Fund in 2004.
More on EC bill
WIBA Newsradio
State lawmakers are wrong to try to “dictate morality” to college students. That’s the feeling of state Representative Terese Berceau, who opposes efforts by Republicans to ban morning after birth control pills at UW health centers.
UW Student-Athletes Earn Academic All-Big Ten Honors
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – Ninety-seven University of Wisconsin student-athletes were named Academic All-Big Ten for the spring season, the Big Ten Conference announced today.
UW looks to close Ashland Agricultural station (BusinessNorth.com)
The University of Wisconsin says it can no longer afford the Ashland Agriculture station, but people in the area say there is too much going on to close it down. David Hopkins has the story.
Doyle critical of JFC cuts to UW budget (WRN)
Wisconsin Radio Network
Governor Jim Doyle has slammed Joint Finance Committee cuts, to his proposed UW System budget. Doyle said his budget eliminated 200 UW System administrative positions over the next two years, and used the savings to hire 120 new instructional staff. (Audio.)
Do Video Games Make Kids Smarter? (World News Tonight, ABC News)
ABCNEWS.com
Quoted: James Paul Gee, a University of Wisconsin-Madison curriculum and instruction professor.
Illicit ‘Study Drugs’ Tempting More Students (Primetime Live, ABC News)
ABCNEWS.com
Featured: Dr. Eric Heiligenstein, head of psychiatry for the University of Wisconsin health services.
UWSP officials fear cuts will hurt classes (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune)
STEVENS POINT – University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point officials fear instruction might be in jeopardy after the state’s Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday proposed an additional $1 million-plus in budget cuts for UWSP as part of more than $40 million in cuts proposed for the UW System as a whole.
C.D.C. Team Investigates an Outbreak of Obesity (NYT)
Quoted: David DeMets, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Waukesha merger plan passes committee (Waukesha Freeman)
Greater Milwaukee Today
WAUKESHA – The University of Wisconsin-Waukesha campus has taken a giant step toward Milwaukee.
By an 11-5 vote Wednesday evening, the state Legislature�s Joint Finance Committee inserted into the biennial budget language that would automatically make the Waukesha campus a part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by July 1, 2007.
To Recruit Today’s Students, Colleges Must Be Agile Marketers, Officials Are Told
Chronicle of Higher Education
The competition among colleges for students is growing just as quickly as the number of high-school graduates and adults returning to school, and institutions need to be more nimble and to better promote themselves if they expect to snag those new recruits, higher-education leaders were warned on Thursday at the start of a two-day conference on the postsecondary marketplace.
Good news for MBA grads (AP)
CNN.com
(AP) — For newly minted business school graduates, this was the most successful job-hunting year since 2001, a new survey says.
Half of students finishing master’s of business administration degrees this year had job offers by mid-March, according to the survey of 5,829 students at 129 business schools conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council, an organization of business schools.
Stem cells, Alzheimer’s and budget
WIBA Newsradio
Wisconsin would no longer spend taxpayer dollars to do embryonic stem cell research if one lawmaker has his way. State Senator Scott Fitzgerald. (Top item.)
JFC Cuts Financial Aid for Low Income UW Students
NBC-15
Madison: Very few students can afford to attend college without some form of financial aid. And for students without a lot of family support, financial aid is a must.
Higher Education Aid Board Executive Secretary Connie Hutchison says the Wisconsin Higher Education Grants are big part of that aid. “We know there are a lot of needy students out there who are depending on this to get to college.
Giant Plant at UW Could Set World Record
NBC-15
The UW Madison is home to a titan. And people all over the world could feel the impact of it. But it is some employees of the UW who will feel it most. The giant will unleash a foul odor at the height of its success. (Video.)
The Graduate, 2005
USA Today
For the past 15 years, Intel executive Craig Barrett has played the national education scold, warning anyone willing to listen that the United States would pay a price for poorly educating its students in math and science. It’s too bad so few listened.
Still: Feuds between UW and the Legislature should end for good of the state
Wisconsin Technology Network
In Minnesota these days, the Governor and the Legislature are bogged down in a budget fight, just like their counterparts in Wisconsin. Money is tight, just as it is in Wisconsin. But there’s an important distinction between the two states: In Minnesota, the university budget is one of the few areas of agreement, not a source of perpetual friction as it is in Wisconsin.
Although Minnesota lawmakers and Governor Tim Pawlenty are behind schedule in most ways in their budget-writing process, they have agreed on spending for the University of Minnesota, even including a modest boost for biotechnology research.
UW Faces Budget Cuts (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) Republican lawmakers Wednesday chopped more than 45 million dollars from Governor Jim Doyle�s spending plan for the University of Wisconsin. If approved, the moves would mark the third budget in a row the UW has taken cuts in state funding. (Second item.)
Woman sexually assaulted on North Bassett (WSJ, 06-01-05)
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman Monday night, the second sexual assault by a stranger reported to police in Madison in 2 1/2 weeks.
At 10:30 p.m. Monday, a caller to 911 said a woman was screaming in the 10 block of North Bassett Street, said police spokesman Mike Hanson.
A 21-year-old woman told officers a stranger grabbed her and then sexually assaulted her. The victim told police her attacker then ran away.
Leaks Came Against Backdrop Of a Post-Hoover Power Struggle
Washington Post
Quoted: Emeritus History Professor Stanley Kutler.
UW students to hit the road (WSJ, 06-02-05)
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison graduating senior Joe Maldonado is passing up the chance to earn a double-major this summer, preferring a long bus ride with 35 other students to the last sociology class he needs. But it’s not just any bus trek. Maldonado’s collegiate coup de grace will be a 3,000 mile trek across the American Southwest, starting today and ending June 16, for 15 days of nearly non-stop history come to life.
UW NOTES: Football scheduling not easier by the dozen
Wisconsin State Journal
The advent of a 12th regular-season game for college football in 2006 has the makings of a double-edged sword for the University of Wisconsin.
While another home game at Camp Randall Stadium is worth $2.15 million, filling those open dates is not an easy task. Not only is every other NCAA Division I-A school in the market for viable opponents, UW has additional non-conference holes to fill in its 2007 and ’08 schedules.
UW MEN’S BASKETBALL: Ryan’s son gets new job
Wisconsin State Journal
Will Ryan took the next logical step toward the collegiate coaching ranks Wednesday when he was named director of basketball operations for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
UW NOTES: Football scheduling not easier by the dozen
Wisconsin State Journal
The advent of a 12th regular-season game for college football in 2006 has the makings of a double-edged sword for the University of Wisconsin.