When George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, signed legislation in 1997 that automatically admitted to a public university the top 10 percent of graduates from each high school in the state, he hailed it as a race-neutral way to diversify enrollment.
The University of Colorado regents appointed on Friday a former U.S. senator as interim president, as the state system struggles to right itself following allegations of sexual assaults linked to the football team and backlash from an essay by a professor who likened some victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks to a top Nazi.
There are six characters in the world premiere of “The End of the Affair,” being performed by Madison Opera next weekend. In one of those key roles is Thomas Moore, a European opera star who has performed all the principal opera leads from Hoffmann to Faust throughout Germany, France, Austria and elsewhere on the continent.
Moore, who plays Smythe the rationalist in this premiere, lives in Switzerland, but grew up on a farm in Middleton. He got his start here at the UW- Madison, studying under now retired music director and Prof. Karlos Moser.
In the past 10 years, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department has brought nearly $200 million in major capital improvements to life.
Since 1995, UW has built the Fetzer Academic Center ($2.1 million), the Kohl Center for basketball and hockey ($76.4 million) and the Goodman Diamond for softball ($1.2 million).
In the coming weeks and months, the Porter Boathouse for men’s and women’s rowing ($8.56 million) and renovated Camp Randall Stadium for football ($109 million) will be unveiled.
Most passers-by probably don’t pay much attention to the big oak tree in a field outside a low-slung commercial building in Middleton – even though it’s almost perfectly shaped and in rugged good health at age 200.
In a courtroom at Madison’s federal courthouse, standing in blue jail scrubs, former Wisconsin Badgers star running back Marvin Artley was a long way from the cheering crowds of Camp Randall
FRIDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) — At parties and in alcohol-related research studies, U.S. college students often underestimate the amount of alcohol they drink, researchers report.
It’s Friday morning and Sting is reportedly teaching a class on campus sometime before tonight’s show at the Kohl Center. That’s mildly interesting, even if his concert sold only 5,000 out of 7,000 seats.
We’re told only campus media are allowed in the lecture – a reporter and photographer from each of the two student newspapers. Who gets to hand-pick that? “Usually the professors do have control over the classroom and who gets in,” says University Communication’s Liz Beyler. “I would have loved a pool arrangement, but (Sting’s) folks were very insistent he didn’t want it to be a media frenzy.”
Quoted: UW-Madison dairy economist Ed Jesse.
Their concepts sound like the type that could change the world: drugs to prevent Alzheimer’s or influenza, a test for mad cow disease, a new construction material that could eventually replace steel.
They are local finalists in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest – seven young companies that are among 20 statewide being considered for a total of more than $100,000 in cash prizes.
Several companies have UW-Madison ties.
Madison: The site of a tragic fall last August has been made a little safer in preparation for the Mifflin Street block party.
A pile of wood on the sidewalk is what remains of the old second floor railing at 453 West Mifflin St. The new railing is now the required 42 inches high.
Demonstrators take to the streets tonight marching and talking in an effort to take back the night. (Video.)
Madison: If you’re wondering how you can afford to travel when gas costs $2.25 at the pump, the answer may be in getting 40 miles per gallon.
While that’s out of reach for most vehicles today, UW Automotive Faculty Advisor Glenn Bower says it’s not unrealistic for the vehicles of tomorrow. “More like a Ford Taurus will be in the high 35’s to the 40 range 5 years from now is what I’d predict. The SUV’s will be around 30.”
With its especially large population of workers nearing retirement, Wisconsin needs more investment in training, not less, Center on Wisconsin Strategy director Laura Dresser said. “It would be better to get in front of the ball on this.”
MADISON, Wis. – Camp Randall Stadium is a hub of activity these days with Phase 2 construction taking place in every corner.
Quoted: David Larbalestier, a superconductivity researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quoted: Politics professor Edward Friedman of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
There are nearly 800 student athletes here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Eight hundred. That leaves 40,788 students who do not have the type of everyday access to competitive sports that they may have had in high school. So, like the other 40,787 of my fellow students, I too must turn elsewhere for my fix.
Quoted: James Gee, the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin campus police spent the day Thursday dealing with some students who walked out of classes to protest the Iraq war, military recruiters on campus and the ROTC program.
An otherwise peaceful student protest against the war in Iraq and military recruiting on campus briefly turned threatening at UW-Madison Thursday when police disconnected the groups’ speaker system.
Flipping the switch effectively silenced remarks by Jane Jensen, leader of Military Families for Peace and the mother of a Blackhawk helicopter pilot who served in Iraq.
Quoted: UW-Madison Limnologist Elena Bennett.
Quoted: Erwin Montgomery, a professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, said there has been a great deal of interest in the role of inflammation in Parkinson’s.
Quoted: Larry Rittenberg, 58, co-author of the survey and an accounting professor at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison
Quoted: Deborah Lowe Vandell of the department of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin System leaders said Wednesday they plan to continue awarding race-specific grants designed to help keep minority students in college, despite a federal civil rights complaint submitted March 10 against the program.
The Lawton Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant was created by the state Legislature in 1986. That means lawmakers woulfd have to act to stop it, System President Kevin Reilly said.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an expert on state and local government public finance.
The first of five provost candidates will mingle with the MSU community today.
Virginia Sapiro, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will tour campus, meet with deans, students and other MSU officials and host a public forum at 4 p.m. in the Auditorium.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin at Madison clinical instructor Joseph Foerner
� Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday said he would veto any proposed business tax credit that excludes companies doing embryonic stem-cell research.
Doyle reacted angrily to a bill approved by the Assembly late Tuesday night that would give research and development tax credits to Wisconsin companies, with the exception of those that focus on human cloning or research new lines of embryonic stem cells.
A handful of students with no tickets for the event but plenty of questions and complaints were Kevin Reilly’s toughest critics Wednesday at a luncheon speech for UW- Madison faculty and staff.
Things threatened to get derailed early when an organizer of the event told the students they had to give up their seats at a table near the front of the room unless they bought a lunch and put on name tags like the other attendees.
Stepping gingerly into a politically charged arena for the first time, some large companies in the United States are pursuing plans to study stem cells drawn from early-stage human embryos.
Noted: Becton Dickinson received supplies from the University of Wisconsin.
Tim Cordes got his first leader dog when his teen-age friends got their driver�s licenses.
Now Cordes, the son of Tom and Theresa Cordes of Northport, can make his own claim: to be one of only a handful of blind medical doctors in the United States.
Wisconsin political, business and science leaders who have pushed the state’s nascent biotech industry reacted with dismay Wednesday to a vote by the Assembly Tuesday night that would bar companies doing research on new stem cell lines from applying for research and development tax credits.
As tuitions soar and the job market strengthens, some B-schools are downsizing — and all are getting less selective.
Two studies released this week document the extent to which teens and young adults are teeming with spiritual curiosity, tolerance for religious differences and willingness to tap multiple sources for wisdom and guidance. One study, released Wednesday, is the most comprehensive ever done on the subject. Researchers from the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA base their conclusions on survey responses from 112,232 freshmen at 236 diverse colleges and universities.
Critics of the state’s plan to replace its decade-old video and data network, BadgerNet, were surprised to hear on Tuesday that a contract with an SBC-headed alliance had already been signed.
(MADISON) The Medical School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is getting eight million dollars in grants to compare five, federally-approved smoking treatments. (Third item.)
Stereotype has it that freshmen arrive at colleges looking for good parties or good career paths. Most, however, are also looking for meaning in life ââ?¬â? and for God.
The super-fast Internet2 network that connects universities researching the next-generation Internet is also apparently popular among college students who download pirated music and movies.
Entertainment groups are planning to sue college students who use the network for illegal downloading. But Brian Rust, communications manager for DOIT, says UW-Madison is not among the universities targeted in the lawsuits, although the university is wired for Internet2.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A common cold bug could cause heart attacks in younger men, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The findings add to a growing body of evidence that Chlamydia pneumoniae and perhaps other infections can sometimes damage the heart and arteries, causing heart disease.
Quoted: Christine Arcari and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Quoted: Ann Kelley, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
If a front-row seat at a human science fair won’t soften our skepticism, maybe a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor’s research will. To get a better read on Tasers, John Webster is ready to study how current enters the body, flows through it and affects muscles and the nervous system.
The University of Wisconsin System is vowing to defend a race- and ethnicity-based student-aid program that is the target of a discrimination complaint filed this month with federal officials.
The room was too small. The crowd was too sparse. The applause was too light. The spotlight was too dim.
Other than that, the University of Wisconsin student-athlete academic recognition banquet, held Monday night, was a rousing success.
University of Wisconsin NFL prospects Anttaj Hawthorne and Jonathan Clinkscale tested positive for marijuana at the NFL scouting combine in February, Pro Football Weekly reported Tuesday on its Web site.
Modern dance means many things to many people. Take three key members of the UW- Madison Dance Program, for example.
Jin-Wen Yu, originally from Taiwan, Li Chiao-Ping, a San Francisco native, and Hawaiian-born Peggy Choy have a wealth of experience, not to mention talent, that they share with students and the community with each passing semester.
An emotional battle erupted in the Wisconsin Assembly Tuesday night as Republicans voted to bar firms probing new embryonic stem-cell lines from proposed new research and development tax credits.
The bill, passed by the Assembly 59-36 and sent to the Senate for approval, is one of the legislative linchpins in the Assembly Republicans’ “100- day agenda” for job creation. The Assembly also passed five other bills designed to improve Wisconsin’s business appeal with regulatory and legal changes.
No one else was injured, but Michael Kreul died from breathing in smoke and toxic fumes. The UW-Madison custodian lived alone in the two-story, two- apartment home he owned at 161 Division St.
About 2,800 people trying to snuff their smoking habit will get close evaluation as part of an $8.1 million Wisconsin study to match smokers with more effective stop-smoking treatment.
From pedometers to placebos to palm-sized computers, study participants will get tailored attention.
MADISON, Wis. – Achievement off the field of play was honored at the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Student-Athlete Academic Recognition Banquet Monday night at the Memorial Union. (Athletic Communications)
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s recently completed $8.56 million rowing facility will now officially be known as Porter Boathouse, after the Wisconsin Board of Regents approved the moniker last Friday. (Athletic Communications)
WASHINGTON – Say you’ve just enrolled in college. Would you want your name and Social Security number put into a national student database in Washington?
The major record labels, in an ongoing battle about digital music piracy, on Tuesday announced plans to sue college students who use a super-high-speed campus network to share songs.
Sufferin’ succotash ââ?¬â? Sylvester had better stay home. A statewide vote in Wisconsin could pave the way for legally shooting stray cats there.
Can business journalists and companies ever get along?
I was recently asked that question by an MBA student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was spending a week as resident business journalist.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin bioethicist Alta Charo.
The U.S. Department of Justice is paying the University of Wisconsin $500,000 to put pigs under general anesthesia, inject them with cocaine and zap them with Tasers.
Quoted: Donald Ferree, a public opinion researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Author: Simone Schweber is an assistant professor of education and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
