The accelerating growth of colleges’ spending on athletics drew criticism on Monday from the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which used a meeting here to highlight the findings of recent reports and to make clear that its members do not consider their work done.
UW-Madison isn’t on this year’s list of the richest colleges and universities in the nation — as measured by endowed income of $1 billion or more — but it should be.
If the report compilers knew where to look, they’d see that UW-Madison’s total endowment is $2.5 to $3 billion, Chancellor John Wiley said. The problem is that the money isn’t in one account but is fed by multiple foundations that the national media often miss.
SPOKANE, Wash. – Over the course of his adult life, Jeff Martinelli has married three women and buried one of them, a cancer victim. He had a son and has watched him raise a child of his own. Through it all, one thing was constant: a factory job that was his ticket to the middle class.
CHILHOWIE, Va. – One of the biggest decisions Andy Blevins has ever made, and one of the few he now regrets, never seemed like much of a decision at all. It just felt like the natural thing to do.
If I had my way, students wouldn’t pay any tuition to attend a public university.
That’s what I told a small, but vocal, group of University of Wisconsin students who attended a speech I gave earlier this month as they pressed me for remedies to the escalating cost of college tuition. And I meant what I said.
Saying the state can’t afford it, the Legislature’s budget committee nixed a provision of Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s budget to offer family health insurance benefits to the domestic partners of University of Wisconsin System employees.
Backers of the proposal weren’t buying that explanation, however, after the GOP- led committee rejected a Democratic proposal authorizing such partners to obtain coverage but deleting the $500,000 a year in state money to cover projected costs.
It’s time to imagine the future Madison.
For a moment, think about East Washington Avenue as it is now: car lots only blocks from the Capitol, strip malls with one-story stores, the sprawling East Towne commercial area.
Quoted: Charles Jones, University of Wisconsin professor emeritus of political science.
Quoted: Comparative biologist Hannah Carey of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
SHAWANO ââ?¬â? Nicole Bowman-Farrell, 34, sees herself as a competitive athlete, whether training to win a spot on the Olympic bodybuilding team or growing her Shawano-based business, Bowman Performance Consulting.
When she completes her doctrinal thesis this year, she will be the first state American Indian to receive a doctorate in leadership and policy analysis and only the sixth in the 150-year history of the University of Wisconsin�s Department of Education
Quoted: Dr. Zorba Paster, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and author of ââ?¬Å?Longevity Code; Your personal prescription for a longer, sweeter life.ââ?¬Â
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chancellor Bruce Shepard issued a statement Monday saying any additional cuts to the UW System budget would severely impact his school.
Four years ago, when President Bush placed severe restrictions on the types of embryonic stem cell research eligible for federal funding, he made it tougher for scientists to pursue life-saving medical advancements. That was a mistake.
MADISON, Wis. – The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout says the military, which does not accept openly gay recruits, is not acceptable on his campus. (First item.)
MADISON – The Legislature’s budget committee voted Monday against providing domestic partner benefits to University of Wisconsin System employees, rejecting arguments from school officials that they are a needed recruitment and retention tool.
MADISON ââ?¬â? A federal trial is scheduled next week involving scientific equipment makers and the University of Wisconsin over who can profit from a device common to high school chemistry.
At stake is millions of dollars in U.S. sales of the adjustable pipette, a syringe-like instrument that researchers around the world use to measure and transfer liquids from one container to another.
If the mercury ever slides up into the 90s this summer, there’ll be more help right here in the Madison area – to keep our air conditioners running.
The $190 million Madison Gas and Electric Co. power plant on the UW-Madison campus is just about completed and is starting to deliver electricity to the area, from time to time.
The movie critics for Time magazine, Richard Corliss and UW-Madison alum Richard Schickel, have compiled an unranked list of the 100 greatest films.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â?? Recent developments in Washington and Korea could have a lasting impact on Wisconsin’s stem cell community, putting more roadblocks in scientists’ search for funding.
A recent survey found that college seniors are more worried about debt than terrorism, a finding that probably says more about the size of student loans than the state of homeland security. The numbers tell the story: 45% of the seniors said they expect to graduate with $10,000 or more in student loans. Nearly 21% said they expect to graduate with more than $20,000, according to the Partnership for Public Service.
A bill in Congress would offer federal grants to encourage researchers to destroy new human embryos from fertility clinics for their stem cells.
The latest headlines in embryonic stem cell research come from South Korea. Scientists there announced last week that they had used cloning techniques to create stem cells that genetically match sick patients, making rejection by the body less likely.
Quoted: Hector DeLuca, a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist who did landmark studies on the nutrient.
Quoted: Teryl Roper, a fruit specialist and horticulture professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Washington – President Bush vowed Friday to veto legislation intended to ease the restrictions he imposed on stem cell research in 2001, setting up a potentially divisive battle with Congress over the morality of modern science.
UW-Madison isn’t on this year’s list of richest colleges and universities in the nation ââ?¬â? as measured by endowed income of $1 billion or more ââ?¬â?Ã? but it should be. If the report compilers knew where to look, they’d see that UW-Madison’s total endowment is $2.5-$3 billion, Chancellor John Wiley said. “It’s just lousy reportage,” said UW Foundation President Sandy Wilcox.
Mike retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Physical Plant having worked there for over 28 years.
Ledin worked at W.A.R.F. for forty years.
In 1969, he moved to the University of Wisconsin where he spent 12 years in the department of geological sciences there.
If you cheer for, write checks for, lose sleep over and/or generally obsess about University of Wisconsin athletics, then you might want to pay attention here.
According to a study by two British anthropologists, published today in the journal Nature, wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning in sports.
Go Big Red, indeed.
When many of the country’s top soccer coaches talk about Jim Launder, it quickly becomes crystal clear: He could be somewhere else.
An NCAA Division I program. The USL First Division. Major League Soccer.
All of those places are checked off on Launder’s vast resume of coaching, which stretches more than 30 years.
But now, the former University of Wisconsin men’s coach is back in Madison, where he first rose to national prominence by leading the Badgers to their only NCAA national championship in 1995.
Quoted: Tom Lillesand, professor of geography and director of the Environmental Remote Sensing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Tom Lillesand, professor of geography and director of the Environmental Remote Sensing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
President Bush on Friday condemned stem-cell research advances in South Korea and said he worried about living in a world in which human cloning was condoned. He said he would veto any legislation aimed at loosening limits on federal support in the United States.
“I’m very concerned about cloning,” Bush told reporters in the Oval Office. “I worry about a world in which cloning becomes acceptable.”
Quoted: Timothy Riddiough, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and director of its Center for Real Estate.
and the UW Band’s anthem-singing Alexis Schrubbe, you’ll have to excuse the Mother of the Bride if she cries.
Janet Dettlaff (who kept her maiden name, as her daughter Alexis also plans to do) has even better reasons for her tears than most moms in her shoes.
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
At an unusual garage sale this week, the musty smell of old wood and sight of truly ugly plaid upholstery took me right back to my student apartment days.
Five old homes that have housed generations of students are going the way of horses and buggies. So Sonya Newenhouse and her Madison Environmental Group were hired by Great Dane Development to hold a “deconstruction sale” in the 400 block of West Gorham Street.
Quoted: Ron Kuka, program coordinator for creative writing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Over in the UW-Madison’s botany department, staff are watching, waiting and hoping for blooms. On Newton’s Apple Tree.
The tree, a sprig grafted from the tree that dropped an apple on Sir Isaac Newton and inspired his deep thoughts on gravity, was planted in the Botanical Garden near Chamberlin Hall in 2001.
It was a gift from congressman James Sensenbrenner, a UW-Madison Law School graduate. The National Institute of Standards and Technology gave it to Sensenbrenner for his service as chairman of the House Committee on Science.
Two years ago, a few blooms became apples, but some students snatched the forbidden fruit before it could be officially harvested, says Mo Fayyez, garden director. (Check out his amazing planting database at www.botany.wisc.edu.)
“We were planning to make a Newton Apple Pie and give it to the chancellor or the congressman,” says Fayyez. Last year’s bad weather meant no pollination. This year, the warm streak in April might have done the trick. He’s crossing his fingers.
Imagine what that pie might fetch on eBay.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of a book about executive orders and presidential power.
A recent UW-Madison study showed that ramp meters, and other improvements, have improved traffic flow and reduced crashes on the Beltline despite huge increases in traffic volume.
Many people think of a co- op as one of the agricultural cooperatives that have been a staple of rural life in the Upper Midwest since the mid-1800s or as one of the community grocery stores that combine organic food and social awareness.
But cooperative businesses encompass far more than grain and granola, and interest is growing, experts in the field agree.
“There are a lot of people who are beginning to think about business in different ways. They hear about the co- op model, and it appeals to them,” said Anne Reynolds, assistant director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives.
For Jen Kraus, joining thousands of other Jews to usher in the Sabbath as the sun set over Jerusalem’s Western Wall was the pinnacle of her four-year college career and a spiritual affirmation that no other semester abroad could offer.
Seven universities–including the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State University–recently have reinstated their programs with the caveat that students must sign a waiver clearing their schools of any liability in case of violent unrest.
Roney, 22, and Drohomyreky, 24, lead The Profits, an acoustic pop band, which in two years has amassed a 400- person street team promoting the group and earned three Madison Area Music Awards. Recently, they opened for the Violent Femmes at UW’s All Campus Party. In addition to gigs around the Midwest, they will host this summer’s Wednesday Night Open Mic at the Memorial Union Terrace.
To put together this promising biotech start-up, it took a chicken farmer from Lake Mills, a patent licenser and a quirky UW-Madison researcher with a Louisiana drawl.
Together these entrepreneurs at Madison’s aOvaTechnologies are pushing forward a product they say could benefit consumers by cutting farmers’ controversial use of antibiotics to speed the growth of young chickens and pigs.
After 23 years, UW-Madison anthropology professor Karen Strier knows that her life’s work – studying and helping to protect the endangered muriqui monkeys of Brazil – comes with its own rewards.
“I think it’s impossible not to develop a great affection (for the monkeys),” Strier said. “There really is a sense every time I go back and see them that they’re my friends. There’s also this exquisite sensation of building trust with another species, and the idea that they would let us into their lives.”
Zach was a standout baseball player at UW-Madison, and he earned a professional contract with the Chicago Cubs.
What’s the secret at UW-La Crosse?
Outside UW-Madison, UW- La Crosse is the only campus in the University of Wisconsin System that had more than 80 percent of its freshmen return for a second year in 2003.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin.
BROOKFIELD – As the state Legislature considers a merger of the University of Wisconsin campuses in Waukesha and Milwaukee, Waukesha County Executive Daniel Finley said Friday he sees the local campus possibly rivaling the medical center complex in Milwaukee in the future.
Do you really know who is working on your campus? Are you perhaps employing a day-care worker who molested children, an accountant who declared personal bankruptcy, or a bus driver who was convicted of drunk driving? You won’t be in the position to know unless you conduct background checks.
Students once saw computer-science classes as their ticket to wealth. Now, as more technology jobs are outsourced to other countries, such classes are seen as a path to unemployment.
MEQUON – Matt Wittig was perseverance personified.
Just 11 months after a bicycle accident had him near death last spring, he was back on his bike enjoying the sport, the team camaraderie and the competition. But on May 7 at a Wisconsin Cup bicycle race in Muskego, he suffered another crash and sustained head injuries. He was only 20 years old when he died May 12.
Quoted: Alta Charo, Profesor of Law and Bioethics at UW Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – USA Basketball announced Sunday afternoon that Wisconsin freshman guard Jolene Anderson (Port Wing, Wis.) will participate with the 15-member USA U19 team that competes in the FIBA U19 World Championship July 15-24 in Tunis, Tunisia. (Athletic Communications.)
States awarded $7.3 billion in student financial assistance in 2003-4, up 6 percent from the previous year, according to a new survey from the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs
The number of undergraduates signing up for computer degrees is falling fast, making IBM and other tech companies worry that there soon won’t be enough skilled U.S. workers to meet demand.
The Bush administration policy on stem cell research is shifting efforts that might lead to cures and treatments for a host of diseases away from the federal government. President Bush limited federal funding to 78 existing stem cell lines when he set his policy on Aug. 9, 2001. That policy has led to a patchwork of initiatives that scientists, patients and some lawmakers say has stunted progress on finding cures for diabetes, Alzheimer’s and other diseases. ââ?¬Å?The field would move much more quickly if the federal government gave its support,ââ?¬Â says George Daley, a Harvard University scientist.
