After watching his two older brothers struggle to find work when they graduated in 2001 and 2003, fifth-year psychology major Adam Miller was prepared for a trying job hunt of his own.
But he said he started to relax when companies began contacting him in January after seeing his resume on a UW- Madison job site.
There is not just one Bucky Badger, but seven – all UW- Madison undergrads who share a closetful of Bucky suits and a stratospheric level of school spirit.
And the job? Long hours of sweaty work for anonymous glory and zero pay.
You still may get stuck in jams and the “other guy” might still drive like an idiot on the Beltline that skirts around south and west Madison. But over several years, traffic flow has improved despite big growth in volume, and travel times have increased only slightly for Madison-area drivers, says a $300,000 study and motorist survey by UW- Madison researchers.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Robin Riderââ?¬â?¢s search for the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker led not through the swamps of Arkansas but among the rare natural history books at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The result? Several startling images of the bird whose rediscovery in Arkansas has electrified the birding world because it was believed to have gone extinct decades ago.
UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication already has stellar credentials. Its graduates have won nine Pulitzer prizes, most recently Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post….The school’s next 100 years should be amazing and challenging in so many unpredictable ways.
Quoted: Emily Auerbach, a University of Wisconsin English professor, reveals experimental bias in copious detail when it comes to the biographers of Jane Austen. (Login required.)
A column by Cheryl Bailey, UW-Madison senior associate athletic director, on the history of Title IX and the need to maintain the strength of the rule to protect women’s intercollegiate athletics, despite Bush Administration efforts to scale it back.
As America’s economy continues shifting from one that is predominantly manufacturing to one primarily knowledge driven, Wisconsin must remember the lessons it learned more than 100 years ago.
That was when the Industrial Revolution changed our economy from being based in agriculture to one based in manufacturing.
MADISON, Wisconsin — The electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison had a lackluster record on gender equality for many years.
In the late 1980s, a curmudgeonly male colleague locked the department’s only female professor out of her lab, and no one in the department intervened until she appealed to senior campus administrators. Over the next dozen years, the department of 40 to 50 people hired only four more women, and two of them left before tenure.
David J. Ward, president of NorthStar Economics, saw the report as just one more piece of evidence that Madison’s economy is headed in the right direction. He pointed to the city’s educated work force, influx of federal research money and technology centers like the University Research Park.
Every Friday afternoon, four undergraduates from Columbia University put on military uniforms and travel to the Bronx campus of Fordham University.
There, the students – cadets in the Army’s Reserve Officers Training Corps, a military leadership program that has been banned from Columbia’s own campus since 1969 – study topics not listed in the course catalog, including land navigation and marching in formation.
The researchers who rediscovered the ivory-billed woodpecker slogged through a swamp in Arkansas to find the legendary bird, last glimpsed deep in a Louisiana bottomland forest in 1944.
Thursday morning, Robin Rider stalked the woodpecker on the UW-Madison campus and, to her delight, found several. And she didn’t even get her feet wet.
MADISON, Wis. – Ed Schantz, a researcher who was a pioneer in purifying the toxin used in Botox injections, has died. He was 96.
The rescheduled Mifflin Street block party drew some 20,000 mostly peaceful revelers Saturday as UW-Madison students tried to get partying out of their systems a week before finals.
As of 8:15 p.m., Madison police arrested about 200 people at the annual block party, mostly for open intoxicants and underage drinking violations. One person was arrested for throwing a beer can at an officer, Madison police spokesman Mike Hanson said.
Students from UW-Madison, UW-Eau Claire, Madison Area Technical College and the University of Minnesota were arrested. Hanson said the afternoon arrest figures of about 80 people were comparable to last year’s numbers.
The house was built for UW- Madison professor Andrew Whitson and his wife, and over the years it would be home to a series of families, many of them affiliated with the UW, over the next 100 years.
The smell of beer lingered along the 500 block of West Mifflin Street Sunday, and stacks of trash bags filled with empty bottles and cans lined the curb.
But little other evidence remained of the 20,000 people who packed the 400 and 500 blocks on Saturday for music, drink and revelry at the annual Mifflin Street block party.
Quoted: Allan Odden, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin. (Login required.)
Last week the Associated Students of Madison came to Mayor Cieslewicz with the message that their constituents, residents of Mifflin Street, wanted to move the block party to April 30, just as representatives come to the City Council asking to pass legislation or approve projects important to the constituents of their districts. The ASM is an advocacy group, not an event organizer. The idea that ASM ought to pay for the Mifflin Street party because they campaigned for a date change is as ludicrous as the idea that the representatives should open their pockets and fork over cash for the projects they vote for.
This responds to Eric Sandgren’s April 23 guest column quarreling with suggestions that the UW-Madison is “deliberately secretive” regarding its use of animals in research. As a reporter who has covered this issue for Isthmus, I would like to bring a few facts to your readers’ attention.
Until August 2003, members of the public were able to attend the meetings of UW-Madison committees at which the protocols of animal experiments are reviewed, in accordance with federal law. This policy was abruptly changed, and now the public is excluded from this portion of the meetings.
Susan Lampert Smith’s column on Thursday, “Mifflin block party may get a visitor to remember,” about the young man who fell off a Mifflin Street balcony after having too much to drink was illuminating. One of the things that struck me most was the young man’s mother’s comments about the patient population at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center: “Half the people are in there because of alcohol-related accidents. Maybe three-fourths of them, if you count accidents where someone else was drinking and driving.”
To Phyllis Schlafly, the longtime conservative activist and author, there are few bigger threats to freedom than the creation by the government of databases that hold detailed personal information about American citizens.
“Databases give the government extraordinary powers to monitor the daily activities of law-abiding Americans,” she stated in testimony to Congress in 2000, adding that only “totalitarian regimes” engage in such activities.
Read most business-management books (something we do, by the way, with pleasure) and you’ll find theories of top-down management and bottom-up action. In strategic-planning exercises, too, you’ll see much ado about which things come from the top (i.e., the administration) and from the bottom (i.e., the faculty).
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said Friday that he will not attempt to charge UW-Madison’s student government for costs associated with changing the date of the Mifflin Street block party, disappointing city officials who had asked him to do so.
“Because billing (Associated Students of Madison) would be legally without foundation and ultimately futile, I have decided not to send the bill you request,” Cieslewicz wrote in response to 11 City Council members, led by District 7 Ald. Zach Brandon, who suggested the idea in a letter Tuesday.
William T. Evjue’s long association with journalism in Madison was reinforced Friday with a $1 million gift to the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the second such grant received by the school as it celebrates its 100th anniversary this weekend.
Zimmerman is the fourth inmate freed through the efforts of Findley’s group, the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which operates out of the UW- Madison Law School.
A group of local residents Thursday presented state legislators with a report calling for caution in the development of nanotechnology.
The emerging field of nanotechnology is based on the manipulation of materials that can be as small as atoms, and is expected to have a profound impact on the nation’s economy in the years to come.
The report, which was sponsored by UW-Madison with help from the Center for Democratic Action in McFarland, sought to give ordinary citizens a chance to consider the promises and perils of technologies that will have a major effect on their lives.
As the woman listened to information about filing for earned income credit on her taxes, she couldn’t believe what she’d lost.
“I’ve been ripping myself off for three years,” she repeated several times. By refiling her tax forms, the woman gained $3,000 in tax credits.
She was part of a pilot project at a Staples call center in Massachusetts to increase the disposable income of poor workers. The project, which began Feb. 1, was a test run for a program sponsored by the UW-Madison Center on Business and Poverty.
UW-Madison Business School Dean Michael Knetter also has noticed an increased interest in ethics, both from students and the general public.
“What’s changed is people are asking us about it now,” he said. “Students bring a heightened awareness of that coming in, relative to where they were before.”
A new study commissioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association suggests that the recent building boom in big-time college sports has cost athletics departments a lot of money, but that there is only scant evidence of an “arms race” among colleges trying to outdo one another’s stadiums.
Student surveys and a program review have led to major curriculum revisions in the Evening MBA program (EvMBA) at the UW-Madison School of Business.
Starting in fall 2005, incoming students will be part of a new program, streamlined and more geared to international perspectives and concerns, said Linda Uitvlugt, director of operations for the program.
The UW’s Wisconsin Innocence Project picked up another big victory last week…in the acquittal of Evan Zimmerman…but the work continues for law school professors and students.
Sunday, many Madison residents joined police and city officials in breathing a collective sigh of relief following another installment of the traditional celebration. Now, concerns turn toward next weekend’s traditional celebration schedule. (Video.)
About 50 student protesters have been occupying the president�s office at the University of Hawaii since Thursday, demanding that the interim president call off plans for a new research center affiliated with the Navy.
A newly discovered pathway by which cells protect themselves from a toxic byproduct of photosynthesis may hold important implications for bioenergy sources, human and plant disease, and agricultural yields, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologists announced Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“We’ve discovered a pathway that cells use to turn on certain genes and respond to singlet oxygen,” says Timothy Donohue, a professor of bacteriology in the university’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and lead researcher on the paper.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been able to trace the cellular pathways that make up a plant’s defenses.
“This finding should make it possible to modify plants and other photosynthetic cells to avoid the toxic effects of singlet oxygen, which could impact agriculture and the treatment of human and plant disease, and aid the effort to create alternative bioenergy sources,” said lead researcher Timothy Donohu
Quoted: Warren Porter, a professor of zoology and environmental toxicology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: Stanley Temple, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The continuing campaign to get the University of Wisconsin System to divest from companies doing business with Israel suffered another defeat this week, this time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Three workers in a downtown Seattle research laboratory were infected with tuberculosis while working on a vaccine for the deadly disease, state officials say.
L&I and IDRI reported the incident to the University of Wisconsin, which makes the Madison chamber, as it is called. But officials there said they didn’t think it necessary to alert any of the other 15 to 25 institutions using the chamber. The chamber operates with a vacuum, so no germs should get out, said Todd Kile, shops manager for the University of Wisconsin’s College of Engineering.
Quoted: Mark Louden, a German professor and co-director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Charles O. Jones of the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Psychiatry professor Chiara Cirelli (Bottom of page.)
UW-Madison chancellor John Wiley fielded questions from a hostile student body last night… talking about race relations and minority achievement at the University. (Middle of page.)
Spokesperson for John Wiley says Chancellor does not view his listing as featured guest on lawmaker’s fundraising invitation as a political endorsement
A $100 per person Madison campaign fundraising event on behalf of Brookfield Republican State Senator Ted Kanavas featured invitations which highlighted UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley as an event guest.
It may only be spring, but there’s already talk about Halloween. Madison leaders held a heated discussion Thursday on how to keep State Street safe this year. (Video.)
Large state universities are spending more time thinking about how to engage undergraduates, and one issue receiving increasing attention is time: When are students in class?
“As far as minute for minute of exercise, if your goal is to burn calories, running is going to be your best choice,” says Ronnie Carda, a charter member of the UW-Madison Running Club, for which he serves as workout adviser. He’s also coordinator of the physical education activity program at the UW-Madison department of kinesiology (the study of body motions and the forces acting on them).
Madison resident Ron Reschke loves walking. So much, in fact, that he will be undertaking a 1,200-mile journey around the state to raise money and promote cancer awareness.
“I’ve done a lot of climbing and hiking in the last 10 years,” he said. “I wanted to take those skills and do something positive.”
Reschke, who will leave today from UW Hospital to begin his journey around the state, said he was inspired to do the walk after learning that a former friend and mentor had passed away several years ago from cancer. He had also seen the efforts being made to fight cancer at the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center and wanted to help.
After eight months on the job, Daniel Carey’s big moment comes today when he is officially inaugurated as Edgewood College’s 11th president.
It’ll be a daylong, swanky affair with solemn rites, robed delegates and speeches by state and local notables, including Mayor Dave Cieslewicz.
Ã? A Republican state senator’s campaign used the name of UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley to promote a political fundraiser Thursday night, a decision the lawmaker later said was a mistake.
Invitations to the fundraiser for Sen. Ted Kanavas, R- Brookfield, listed 29 people planning to attend, among them some of the biggest names in Madison’s business and political community.
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz is as angry today about the Halloween melee of 2004 as he was last fall, and he intends to do something about it, he told a community advisory group on Thursday.
Cieslewicz told police, merchants, students, city officials and others that in order to avoid a repeat of the disturbances that have occurred on State Street each of the last three years, the city should consider restricting access to State Street and making the celebration there a ticketed event, and possibly limiting participation to UW-Madison students.
What Thursday’s decision by the NCAA board of directors means.
Get ready for some more football. The NCAA Division I board of directors approved a proposal Thursday that gives Division I-A teams the option to play 12 games a season, starting in 2006.
John “Jack” Duffie, a driving force in UW-Madison’s chemical engineering program and a pioneer in the use of solar energy, died Saturday in Madison. He was 80.
Researchers at UW-Madison have found that help for those of us who have trouble sleeping may come from an unlikely source ââ?¬â?Ã? fruit flies, which are remarkably similar to humans when it comes to grabbing a few winks.
Under pressure from the committee that advises him on labor licensing issues, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley promised to step up efforts to stomp out sweatshop abuses in the companies that make UW-Madison trademark apparel.
Ã? Liquor stores won’t be encouraging revelers in the Mifflin Street block party Saturday to hang Budweiser banners and Miller Lite beads from their porches and necks.
Store owners say this year they’re heeding an appeal from police to stop offering promotional items that city officials said encouraged drinking and added a decidedly commercial flavor to a traditionally anti- establishment party. In the past, students said a separate promotion for a brand of liquor even offered party-goers free bottles of the booze they wanted to popularize.
Students drinking beer at Saturday’s Mifflin Street block party might see a young man in a wheelchair rolling down the 400 block of Mifflin Street.
If it’s a slight young man with reddish hair, it will be the new Jason Gratzl. He won’t be looking for a beer. He’ll be looking for the Mifflin Street balcony where, last August, the old Jason Gratzl disappeared, probably forever.
A roommate injected heroin into a 20-year-old woman just hours before she was found dead in her apartment Tuesday morning near UW-Madison, court records allege.
Dane County Deputy Coroner Jeff Scholts said toxicology tests that would determine Sarah M. Stellner’s cause of death could take up to two months to complete. He would not speculate on whether heroin caused her death, except to say that she didn’t suffer any traumatic injury. Stellner was not a UW-Madison student.
A UW professor says a new study shows that college students should watch out for a certain red flag when it comes to drinking too much. Psychology professor Colleen Moore helped research how a person’s preception of the risks of drinking…and their personalities…can be a sign.
