Dane County coury documents show a search was carried out last week on a car that was impounded by authorities shortly after the September 2004 hit and run death of UW-Madison music faculty staff member John Gesinski.
A number of big events this weekend will draw plenty of crowds, and the more people, the more need for police.
At University Avenue Liquors, calls for kegs pour in come time for Mifflin Street’s infamous party.
City officials gave their words of warning Tuesday night to Mifflin Street residents who are preparing to host thousands of party-goers Saturday.
Guidelines produced by a National Academy of Sciences panel call for a nationwide oversight system designed to instill confidence in the integrity of human embryonic stem cell research.
A National Academy of Sciences panel Tuesday called for national oversight of human embryonic stem cell research.
While some think mostly of buildings and streets and parking when it comes to a master plan for the UW-Madison campus, a group of about 50 people Tuesday night talked about trees and prairies and the revered views of Lake Mendota from Picnic Point.
The “Farm Fresh Atlas” is a collaborative project of REAP Food Group, the Dane County Farmers’ Market, the UW- Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, and the Friends of the Dane County Farmers’ Market.
Just in case any of you have a lingering suspicion that I am sophisticated, this is going to end it: I saw the Madison Opera production of “The End of the Affair” last week and I hated it.
I didn’t like the music. I didn’t like the characters. I didn’t like the story.
Mark Twain defined work as that which a person is obliged to do, and play as that which a person is not obliged to do. But two UW-Madison researchers suggest that with job-specific video games, work and play don’t have to be at odds.
Jim Gee, a professor of education, and Kurt Squire, an assistant professor of education, argue that video games can teach players an array of important skills, such as how to think strategically, make quick decisions, cooperate and learn from their mistakes – all skills that employers demand.
A majority of Madison City Council members are asking the UW-Madison student government organization responsible for rescheduling the Mifflin Street block party to pay the costs of additional police service.
Eleven Madison City Council members signed a letter Tuesday requesting that the mayor’s office send Associated Students of Madison “an itemized bill for services provided, related to the cost of the Mifflin Party on April 30, 2005.”
New lakeshore dorms, a redeveloped Union South and the transformation of the east campus into an arts and humanities district bisected by a pedestrian mall top the list of changes proposed in the draft version of UW-Madison’s new campus master plan.
A blueprint for preservation and development in the next 20 years, the draft came together in the past nine months with the help of a paid consultant and some 175 meetings with campus and community groups. Public comments on the plan will be taken through the fall, when Chancellor John Wiley is expected to approve it.
Boston University built a pool with a wave machine. The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh offers massages in the student union. The University of Houston has a hot tub and rock-climbing wall. Duke University gave all of its freshmen iPods.
The U.S. Education Department’s new way of determining a student’s need for financial aid will disqualify 81,000 students from receiving Pell Grants, the Government Accountability Office said in a report last week, a conclusion that confirmed earlier predictions by many higher-education lobbyists.
It’s easy to imagine old hippies around Madison raising gray eyebrows over the Mifflin Street Block Party dispute.
Back in 1969, the party was held in defiance of Mayor Bill Dyke, who refused to give the hippies a party permit.
Now Wisconsin’s utilities are playing catch-up with building projects. MGE’s recent proposed increase, for example, is to cover the cost of a natural-gas-fired power plant to begin operation this summer on the UW-Madison campus and for improvements to the electric transmission grid.
Monday was the opening day of Zimmerman’s second trial, held 200 miles from Eau Claire to avoid publicity that could taint the jury. In addition to Belzer, Zimmerman is being represented by the Wisconsin Innocence Project based at the UW-Madison Law School.
Gregg Vanderheiden, an engineering professor at UW- Madison, is among those interested in the hybrid technology.
MADISON, Wis. – UWBADGERS.COM surpassed its previous annual page view record in March with 32,727,908 million page views from July 1, 2004 through March, 2005. With three months yet remaining in the school year, the record surpasses the 2003-04 total mark of 26,151,279 million.
Stanford is close to home in California, laid back and offers programs that Aman Kumar wants to pursue. But Princeton offers an idyllic campus and would show him a different part of the world.
By San Francisco State University standards, it was a small protest. Early last month some 100 students turned out at a campus career fair to demonstrate against the presence of military recruiters. A few protesters were removed by university police officers for allegedly violating the student-conduct code on rallies
Quoted: Phil Moy, fisheries and non-indigenous species specialist with University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute.
Quoted: Richard Weindruch, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Richard Weindruch, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Pilar Ossorio, assistant professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Louella Hill has found a sure-fire method for spreading her passion for locally grown food to students at her alma mater, Brown University: She has produced a calendar, titled “Ripe,” that features naked students posing with strategically placed Rhode Island-grown kale, alfalfa sprouts, mushrooms and other produce.
Quoted: Frances Rauscher, PhD, a psychologist with the University of Wisconsin.
LIKE most large universities, the University of Arizona is a virtual city: 37,000 students and nearly 14,000 employees on a sprawling campus in Tucson of 174 buildings and 11,000 parking spots. Also like most of the country’s colleges and universities, it is not particularly selective.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has asked the state to approve $112 million in borrowing for the potential purchase and renovation of Columbia Hospital on Milwaukee’s east side.
A UW law school program that has helped exhonorate wrongly convicted prisoners…is trying a case of a former police officer accused of killing his ex-girlfriend on her wedding night. (First item.)
ime is ticking for Madison landlords to get locks on all doors at city apartment complexes.
The new ordinance — which starts in about two months — came about after a UW student was sexually assaulted in her downtown apartment building last summer. (Video.)
Nationwide enrollment in the Army’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has slipped more than 16 percent over the past two school years, leaving the program, which trains and commissions more than six of every 10 new Army officers each year, with its fewest participants in nearly a decade.
CORAL GABLES, FLA. ââ?¬â?? Plenty of college students load up their undergraduate years with episodes of self-discovery, tweaking life goals in response.
Mary Carriere’s experience might be considered Exhibit A.
The use of animals in research is a socially sensitive issue. The tension between opposing perspectives hinges on the following fact: Certain questions about human and animal health can only be answered through animal studies. No animals, no answers. In this context, “alternatives to animal studies” means asking different questions.
As a large research university, UW-Madison is a magnet for animal rights activists. And this year we have a bumper crop. They are busy dumpster diving, video taping university research facilities and doing their best to intimidate researchers and staff. They also are proving to be artful propagandists.
Like Rudyard Kipling, only in a lab coat, Sean Carroll has for years been telling us how creatures such as butterflies get their spots.
Carroll, a molecular biologist with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on the UW-Madison campus, has published a steady stream of journal articles detailing the invisible workings of genes that power the adaptation and evolution of all animals — the genes, for example, that help a butterfly camouflage itself from predators with different colors or colorful eyespots.
Did Earth Day get you down this year? Maybe make you feel a bit overwhelmed at the thought of doing anything at all that will save the world from global warming or invasive species or Hummers?
Well, cheer up.
Here’s something simple you can do that will make a difference — trade in your old gas can for one that is more environmentally friendly.
In a program sponsored by Dane County Clean Air Coalition, about 3,500 of the new gas cans — designed to keep gas from spilling — will be made available free to the public on June 11.
The plan was announced Friday, Earth Day, between two gas pumps at a Shell service station on University Avenue. It’s being funded, to the tune of $20,000, by UW-Madison, Dane County, the city of Madison and Briggs & Stratton Co.
Ten UW-Madison faculty members will be honored for teaching excellence Tuesday at the Distinguished Teaching Awards.
The awards include a $5,000 stipend funded through a variety of sources.
Quoted: David Combs, an expert on dairy cattle nutrition at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison professor Norman Fost, director of the university’s medical ethics program, said Morlino was free to offer guidance on Catholic doctrine as he saw fit, though he questioned how many Catholics would actually follow it.
“It’s clear that there are many millions of American Catholics who don’t agree with that position,” Fost said. “So that’s a problem for the Catholic Church (leaders), when they have a position that their flock is not practicing.”
The West Campus Cogeneration plant at UW-Madison is scheduled to begin generating electricity next month and will boost Madison Gas & Electric’s reserve power, said spokesman Steve Kraus. Alliant Energy Corp. also is building a 300,000-megawatt natural-gas- fired facility at Sheboygan Falls, which should be finished later this summer.
Quoted: Communication Professor Barry Orton.
What’s an eager Wisconsin gardener to do in late April when it’s too cold to plant tomatoes?
Consult the experts Saturday at the first Family Horticulture Day at UW-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station.
College seniors are experiencing the best job market in four years, but hiring for soon-to-be graduates is still nowhere near the dot-com boom of the late 1990s.
Robinson served as business and public relations manager at University Theatre on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for 25 years. During this time he played an active role on many academic and community committees.
Despite the medical promised of human embryonic stem cells, the U.S. is falling behind other countries in such research because of government restrictions on the use of the controversial cells, according to speakers Thiursday at the fourth annual International Bioethics Forum.
Issues of ethics in journalism, thrust into the spotlight by recent scandals, will soon have a more prominent place at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, thanks to a $1 million gift from former Wisconsin State Journal Publisher James Burgess.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a bipartisan group of colleagues renewed efforts Thursday to expand embryonic stem cell research, introducing legislation that would allow federal support for such research to be used in treating disease.
Thirteen years ago, when welder Jeffrey Kleine was training for his job as a Wisconsin correctional officer, somebody said, “Remember, you won’t make a difference.”
Kleine’s now a sergeant in the canteen at Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution. “I do make a difference. I know I make a difference. I know that some of these guys when they do leave are better for running into me along the way. . . . Some people are made for being correctional officers and others aren’t,” Kleine said at a rally Thursday for state employees whose 2003-05 labor contract is almost two years past due.
Although she considers herself shy, UW-Madison freshman Danielle Berkovitz volunteered to share her story first at the American Cancer Society’s Survivor Dinner last Saturday.
“Something as terrible as cancer has really made a positive effect on my life,” she said. “It has allowed me to do things like this and connect with people like you.”
One of those connections, her friend Kari Liotta, also a UW-Madison freshman, gave her an encouraging smile.
With help from the state Agriculture Department and UW-Madison’s Babcock Institute for international dairy research, the center has sent Wisconsin cheesemakers to Switzerland, England and France to study techniques such as aging and finishing cheeses in manmade “caves.”
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at UW- Madison.
Boy, those UW-Madison students sure stick to their guns when it comes to convincing city officials that drinking and studying just don’t mix.
But finally, those darn adults came around.
For the first time in its 35-year history, the Mifflin Street Block Party won’t be held on the first Saturday in May, which this year is the day before final exams start.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher said he would ask federal regulators Friday to approve the first clinical trial injecting special stem cells into the spinal cords of people with the degenerative nerve ailment called Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Dr. Milton Howard Miller, the longtime chairman of the department of psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center died Wednesday after a long illness in his home in San Pedro. He was 77.
Miller served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, where he became chairman of the department of psychiatry.
Quoted: Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a University of Wisconsin rehabilitation specialis
After nearly splitting apart last year, the University of Georgia and its private fund-raising foundation appeared on Thursday to be finally bringing an end to their stormy relationship — a breakup that experts said would be without precedent in American higher education.
The dispute between U-W students and city hall over the Mifflin Street Block Party….is over. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced yesterday that the city will go along with the April 30th day for the party.
Union leaders turned out to demand Wisconsin’s leadership make the “right choices” for it public service employees. More than a thousand state workers voiced their concerns as the joint legislative finance committee considers the governor’s budget.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin and its rowing programs would like to invite the public to a Porter Boathouse open house on Saturday, April 23 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
This month, more than a million young people will receive letters that will let them know whether they’ve been accepted to the college of their choice. If those acceptance letters are not accompanied by the right financial aid package, some young people will find themselves altering or deferring their dreams. Too many will be low-income students who find the financial aid picture more daunting than in the past.
Commentary By Julianne Malveaux
Quoted: Rebecca Hutton, the HIPAA privacy officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
