Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have sucessfully injected stem cells into rats’ spines in a way that could lead to treatments for degenerative diseases ââ?¬â?? but they did not use the controversial embryonic stem cells.
As UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley’s firm stance on the on the university’s policy of allowing military recruiters on campus rankled some students Wednesday during a public forum, UW-Madison junior and Air Force ROTC member Brandon Siveret took the microphone to suggest that students from both sides sit down and discuss the issue.
Students at campus forum ask for explanations of the contradiction between UW’s anti-discrimination policy and military’s exclusion of gays
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department rents out its many facilities, but before you think about organizing a neighborhood flag football game for Camp Randall Stadium or a wedding reception for the new Porter Boathouse, here’s a heads-up: UW is not soliciting new business from the general public.
For five days after her partner was hospitalized in Tennessee for injuries she received in a car crash, Eloise McPike had to wait for her employer, the state Department of Corrections, to approve her vacation request to go care for her.
Michelle Collins has found a lump in her breast, but because she doesn’t qualify for benefits under her partner’s state government health insurance, she hasn’t seen a specialist. She’s worried about the cost of a biopsy. Besides, she’s found lumps before that didn’t turn out to be cancerous.
The two are among six same- sex couples who sued the state Wednesday, alleging government unfairly discriminates against its gay and lesbian employees by refusing to provide their partners with health insurance and family leave benefits.
Jewish students and their parents said they are hurt and angry that they must choose between celebrating Passover or attending an initiation ceremony and dinner for a prestigious national honor society at UW-Madison on Saturday.
“It’s just very inconsiderate and disrespectful of the university to schedule an event on Passover,” said Fred Tabak of Milwaukee, questioning whether the same decision would have been made if the holiday was Good Friday or Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Assembly Republicans ought to be embarrassed by the mess they made of a bill to encourage businesses to create research-related jobs in Wisconsin.
The Assembly last week passed the bill, to offer businesses tax credits for conducting research and development, but only after attaching an amendment to withhold the credits from businesses focusing on human cloning or research into new lines of human embryonic stem cells.
Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar have joined five other couples in a fight against a Wisconsin policy for state employees that does not provide full health benefits to domestic partners.
If I broke a bone or I needed an ambulance those are the sorts of things that I have to pay out of pocket,” explains Ankerson.
She works for a start up company without coverage, while her partner, Sapnar, is a teaching assistant with full benefits at the University of Wisconsin.
UW Provost Peter Spear says, “we’ve tried to recruit outstanding world class faculty who did not want to come here because we do not offer domestic partners benefits.”(Video.)
State workers boast of their quality public service. Governor Jim Doyle boasts of better, more cost effective government. But, in the meantime, the two sides have yet to iron out a new contract for 24, 000 state workers. Some of them will rally tomorrow at the Capitol. (Video.)
Some UW Madison students who protested last week took their concerns about military recruiters on campus directly to the school’s chancellor Wednesday. (Video.)
(MADISON) University of Wisconsin researchers have created a new kind of stem cell that may eventually be used as a drug delivery device to treat Lou Gehrig�s Diseas. (Third item.)
Hello. Please hold. In lean times for all sorts of educational enterprises, the jockocracy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made a sacrifice. Of course, it took a report from the Legislative Audit Bureau to reveal the athletic department’s enormous cell phone bills. But word comes that, indeed, the athletic department has decided it can reduce the number of cell phones it pays for by 10 percent, and probably avoid nonsense like the $1,455.85 monthly bill that just one coach ran up.
Alfred “Hap” Michaelis, age 90, passed away on Friday, April 15, 2005. Alfred was employed with the University of Wisconsin for more than 41 years, retiring in 1979.
In her long public life, Sally partnered her husband’s professional positions at the universities of Illinois (law school), Wisconsin (chancellor) and Michigan (president) with unequaled grace and skill. She orchestrated countless dinners, luncheons and receptions, planned the multitudes of social and other events associated with Big Ten university leadership, and traveled extensively.
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government issued proposals to compile databases of personal information of people living in and traveling to the United States, including recording information of all of the nation�s college students and a new office in the Department of Homeland Security.
The Department of Education also made a recent plan for a database of personal information of all college students. The department proposed to make a database for information on all of the approximately 15 million students attending colleges and universities in the United States.
The City Council voted Tuesday to approve the replacement of Ogg Hall with a 600-bed dormitory and expanded recreational open space
UW-Madison students met at Bradley Learning Community Thursday to explore the elements of college life that lead to culture shock when entering the campus as new or international students
The Mifflin Street Block Party is one step closer to officially taking place April 30 due to three Mifflin Street residents who took the initiative to organize their neighbors.
The Mifflin Street Block Party is one step closer to officially taking place April 30 due to three Mifflin Street residents who took the initiative to organize their neighbors.
In an effort to cut heavy costs resulting from cell phone usage, the University of Wisconsin Athletics Department announced Tuesday they switched plans to save as much as $100,000 per year.
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government issued proposals to compile databases of personal information of people living in and traveling to the United States, including recording information of all of the nation�s college students and a new office in the Department of Homeland Security.
The University of Wisconsin�s Department of University Housing came to a settlement regarding an allegedly racist incident at Ed�s Express last month that resulted in several nights of protests held by student organizations.
Tom Loeser teaches wood-working and furniture-making in the UW- Madison art department and chairs the department’s graduate program.
The University of Wisconsin System needs more freedom from state rules – including the ability to set its own tuition rates – if it hopes to recover from diminishing state support, according to state and national experts Tuesday at UW- Madison.
In 1970, the System made up 17 percent of the state budget and ranked fifth in the nation for the level of taxpayer support, noted Todd Berry, president of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.
Today, it’s only 7 percent of the state budget – as other needs like K-12 education and Medicaid take priority – and ranks 19th in the nation.
Quoted: Roman Catholic Matt Nicolai, 22, a senior at UW- Madison, predicted Benedict XVI’s papacy would have a positive impact on the church.
Scientists at UW-Madison say they may be within two or three years of human trials on a promising stem-cell treatment for the deadly nerve disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS.
In an article published Tuesday in the journal Human Gene Therapy, researchers reported they have injected ALS- afflicted rats with human nerve stem cells that flourished in the animals’ diseased spinal cords.
Facing a rally of frustrated state employees Thursday at the Capitol, the Doyle administration Tuesday called for public employee union leaders to return to bargaining over unsettled 2003-05 labor contracts for about 24,000 state workers.
Karen Timberlake, director of the Office of State Employment Relations, acknowledged the state’s position on salaries and health insurance for those workers has not changed since negotiations sputtered several months ago.
The master of business administration degree just isn’t what it used to be, thanks to a reinventing of the way executives are trained at more than 50 business schools nationwide.
Catherine Quinn, 21, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Wisconsin Rapids who is studying in France, had gone to a 5 p.m. Mass in the basilica with a friend Tuesday. She was lingering there, not expecting smoke from voting until at least 7 p.m., when she saw people running to the doors.
“We started seeing people scurrying and start to run, and I thought, ‘What’s going on? It’s only 6 o’clock.’ Then we started running, and everyone was running. We were standing right under the balcony. Since we couldn’t see anything, we ran to a side.
Quoted: Lew Friedland, a professor at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Communication and Democracy.
MADISON ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison athletics department said Tuesday it switched cell phone plans to one expected to save $100,000 a year.
The change comes two months after a state audit found one coach rang up a monthly bill of $1,455.85.
As more than a dozen college presidents gathered here on Tuesday to discuss how to make their institutions more racially and ethnically diverse, they quickly seemed to reach consensus on two points: Their institutions still had plenty of work to do, and making some major changes in undergraduate education might be a good start.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin Division of Intercollegiate Athletics and U.S. Cellular announced Tuesday a cellular phone service solution that better accommodates the unique business needs of the athletic department. (Athletic Communications)
Madison: UW stem cell researchers have announced a major breakthrough in the treatment of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS causes motor neurons to die and slowly paralyzes its victims.
SAN DIEGO — Several scientists have used embryonic or fetal stem cells to help rodents with spinal cord injuries walk again. The researchers travel the country showing videos of rats dragging their hind legs, followed by clips of them miraculously hopping around following stem-cell injections
A noted Christian theologian suggested Monday in Madison that the Bush administration not only had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11., 2001, but probably helped orchestrate them.
Their business might be worth millions in five years, but the business plan alone was worth a cool $10,000 for the two UW-Madison entrepreneurs who crafted it.
Tony Escarcega, 31, and John Puccinelli, 25, beat out 13 other teams of UW-Madison hopefuls last week to capture the top prize in the eighth annual G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition at Grainger Hall, the university’s business school.
Like many sets of identical twins, Polly and Norah Boynton are often confused for each other. But when Polly’s face began appearing in advertisements for a UW Hospital nursing campaign, the amount of local fame the two received was a bit of a surprise.
Professor Ron Daggett was a handy guy: He used to say he could mend everything except a broken heart and the crack of dawn.
Actually, he was being modest. He did mend broken hearts with his invention of one of the first plastic heart valves. And one of my favorite stories about him involves his fixing the organ at his church with a pump he “borrowed” from his wife’s vacuum cleaner.
Quoted: Monica Wingate, director of the A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research at the UW- Madison.
Dr. Larry Bumpass, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Demography and Ecology
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? World-famous environmentalist John Muir never forgot the day he got his first lesson in the study of nature ââ?¬â? about the relationships between plants ââ?¬â? on the steps of his University of Wisconsin dormitory.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? A drug-delivery patch took first place and $10,000 in the G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s annual contest for student entrepreneurs.
Pedrus Pharma, a University of Wisconsin-Madison spinout that has sped to the finals in the Governor’s Business Plan Contest, may put a stop to the annual flu vaccine hoopla, among other things.
MADISON, Wis. – UW-Madison student season football ticket holders will exchange vouchers on game day as they enter the stadium and student season menââ?¬â?¢s basketball ticket holders will receive full-season ticket packages after results of an on-line referendum were announced Monday. (Athletic Communication)
Senioritis ââ?¬â? that ââ?¬Å?been there, done thatââ?¬Â feeling that hits seniors during their final semester of high school ââ?¬â? is a cultural rite of passage for those at the college threshold. Despite debate and research aimed at improving the experience, a 2001 report issued by the National Commission on the High School Senior Year suggested that many students believe the senior year is a waste.
(MADISON) The next big thing in science is very small. Nanotechnology is an emerging field that uses tiny particles for everything from faster computers to self-cleaning windows and pants that don�t stain. (4th item)
Governors in at least nine states are pushing broad-based initiatives to overhaul the senior year of high school. They say the second half of the year in particular wastes students’ time and taxpayers’ money.
He was told it happened two or three years before he was born in 1978, a wretched fire in his grandparents’ Lynchburg, Va., home that killed both, plus an aunt and an uncle.
Although the rowing program at the University of Wisconsin is one of the oldest sports on campus – dating back 130 years – its teams have existed in the shadows of other
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law Prof. Michael Smith.
Quoted: Karen Stauffacher, assistant dean and director of the Business Career Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin economist John Karl Scholz.
Quoted: Allen Odden, Ph.D., an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Jane Allyn Piliavin, professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Twenty-eight students from Wisconsin and Michigan were evacuated from a Paris hotel adjacent to one that caught fire and killed at least 20 people early Friday.
More than 50 people were injured, 11 seriously, in the blaze at the one-star Paris Opera hotel in the capital’s 9th district, a popular tourist area, fire officials said.
“We heard a lot of screams,” said Stanislas Bricage, a Frenchman evacuated from an adjacent hotel along with some of the students, who were wrapped in golden survival blankets but appeared unharmed.
Perpetual student Johnny Lechner found out he has something in common with David Letterman.
“I don’t know exactly what it is I’m doing,” Lechner told a television audience in the “Late Show with David Letterman” that aired Friday night.
“I kind of feel the same way,” Letterman quipped back.
Lechner, the 11th-year senior at UW-Whitewater whose never-ending undergraduate career attracted media attention after an article about him ran in the Wisconsin State Journal last week, flew to New York City on CBS’ tab Sunday and taped the Letterman segment Monday.
Well over 200,000 animals spend their entire lives in UW-Madison research labs. After reading recent media reports about alleged cruel and unnecessary experiments on these animals, I and several other concerned citizens have made numerous attempts to attend the federally-mandated meetings of the UW-Madison’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees.
For more than a year, Karl Mahlburg chipped away at a math problem that couldn’t be solved — until he solved it.
Quoted: Heinz Klug, a UW-Madison law professor.
