MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin scientists are urging legislators to provide $3 million for Alzheimer’s research they say could lead to more effective treatment and better knowledge of the disease.
Quoted: Michael Gutter, professor of family financial management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Su-Chun Zhang, a stem cell researcher from the Waisman Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fans of creationism and “intelligent design” theory would do well to leave evolution alone until they get their own ideas in order, a noted philosopher argued Monday.
Using the same logical tool, University of Wisconsin philosophy professor Elliott Sober derailed cases claiming that God either did or didn’t design what we see on Earth.
About 20 years ago, the leaders of Alcorn State University, a rural Mississippi college 10 miles from the nearest stoplight, took a look at their student retention rates. They didn’t like what they saw. Only half the freshman class showed up for sophomore year, and the percentage of students sticking around to pick up degrees was even lower.
Three noted UW-Madison biotech researchers, including stem-cell pioneer James Thomson, have begun construction on a laboratory to house a new drug screening company in Madison’s University Research Park.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students have accepted a challenge: the Future Energy Challenge. A team of 30 engineering students and three professors are developing vehicles and engines that operate on clean and renewable energy, taking their inventions to competitions around the country.
It has been more than 30 years since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, an enemy that has proved far more wily and intractable than anyone thought.
“One of my dreams is to take a year off and sail around the world,” says Charles Hoslet, Director of the UW’s Office of Corporate Relations (OCR). “I’m certainly not at the point where I’m going to check out for a year, but it’s definitely on the list of things I want to do,” the UW Exec says. In the meantime, Hoslet is at the helm of the UW–Madison office designed as the link between business needs in the Badger State and the resources on the UW-Madison campus. Still in its infancy, OCR will celebrate its second anniversary in July.
On the campus of Southern Oregon University in Ashland, the sight of cranes, excavators, and forklifts is a familiar one this academic year.
If the computer age is continually testing how well institutions protect personal information, the nation’s colleges and universities may be earning a failing grade.
Quoted: Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In a word, Michael Knetter is impatient.
When he took the reins of the UW-Madison Business School nearly three years ago, he made improving the quality and reputation of the school’s graduate program his top priority.
Since admitting she fabricated her abduction, Audrey Seiler has been mocked on morning radio, parodied in a play and featured in an Oprah Winfrey show on pathological liars.
The men’s Final Four basketball tournament has become a staging ground for critics of college sports. Last Friday, a public-interest group called on the National Collegiate Athletic Association to cut its ties to Anheuser-Busch to help curb alcohol problems on college campuses, and a faculty group concluded a two-day academic conference on athletes and the education they receive.
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — The young medical student was nervous as he slid the soft, thin tube down into the patient’s windpipe. It was a delicate maneuver — and he knew he had to get it right.
AKRON, Ohio – Dominic Mann had been considering attending the University of Akron when he saw the school’s new $40 million recreation center. The expansive center, with its basketball gym and weight equipment ââ?¬â? even a rock-climbing wall ââ?¬â? helped Mann decide to attend Akron.
Long ago, Charles Darwin noted similarities between the expressions of primates and humans. Now, some scientists go further, contending that animals laugh, and that those play sounds might be the evolutionary basis for laughter in humans.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology professor Charles Snowden.
Once again partner benefits at UW are being opposed, this time by prominent state legislators. Wisconsin’s citizens are settling for leaders who do not lead but rather use their personal biases and prejudices to determine for all of us what a family is.
It was back in 1981 that professor Waclaw Szybalski arrived in his hotel room in Rome and found a note from Pope John Paul II.
The pope, it seemed, wanted Szybalski, a UW-Madison microbiologist, to drop by for a chat about recombinant DNA. This is a subject Szybalski knew quite a bit about and, since the UW-Madison scientist was both in Rome for a genetic engineering conference and of Polish descent, the pontiff summoned him.
Mother of psychology Professor Janet Hyde.
Owner of construction firm that remodeled the Natatorium.
Expert commentary from educational psychology professor Chuck Kalish.
In a word, Michael Knetter is impatient.
When he took the reins of the UW-Madison Business School nearly three years ago, he made improving the quality and reputation of the school’s graduate program his top priority.
While the school had long been highly regarded in a handful of academic specialties – including securities analysis, real estate and arts administration – those programs were seen as bright spots in an otherwise solidly second-tier graduate program. The discrepancy was even more striking because the school’s undergraduate program is routinely ranked among the best in the nation.
Barely a half-hour after news that Pope John Paul II had died, the sanctuary of St. Paul’s University Catholic Center was quiet as the faithful prayed.
Candles glowed on the altar and throughout the sanctuary, mostly young people sat alone or huddled in small groups, heads bowed, hands folded. The silence was broken only by the faint sound of bongo drums from the State Street Mall outside.
The church, near the UW- Madison campus, was host Saturday to workshops for young Evangelical Catholics the age group that many say Pope John Paul II reached very effectively during his 26-year reign.
Sometimes, it’s all about perception.
Perceptions can be based on who you are.
If you’re a UW-Madison student, and you buy a keg of beer and charge your pals $5 for all they can drink, you better hope the cops don’t show up.
Just ask the seven UW students who live at 417 W. Mifflin St. They were smacked with 154 tickets and $73,500 in fines when their kegger got busted in January. Police have been cracking down on big house parties, saying they lead to unsafe drinking and crime.
UW-Madison’s teaching assistants say they aren’t planning another walkout like they did last spring to put pressure on the state for a new contract.
But that doesn’t mean the two sides are any closer to an agreement. Representatives of the state and the Teaching Assistants’ Association last week agreed that negotiations over wages and health benefits are stalled again, after one meeting that went nowhere earlier this month.
“Basically, the state hasn’t given us anything that we can consider,” said veteran teaching assistant Mike Quieto.
If North Carolina survives this weekend in St. Louis to win its fourth NCAA men’s basketball championship, the authorities back in Chapel Hill will be ready to handle the celebration.
The third and final phase of the Camp Randall Stadium renovation project is bringing about significant changes to the facility’s seating chart.
We asked readers to react to law schools, including the UW-Madison’s, that bar military recruiters because the military discriminates against gays and lesbians. Here is a sample of readers’ responses.
There were more violent crimes – particularly sexual assaults and aggravated assaults – in Madison last year than a decade earlier, police statistics released Thursday indicate.
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has drawn a thoughtful ethical line with his decision to support one type of human embryonic stem cell research in his state and to oppose another. Although the distinction made by Romney was largely lost in news coverage of his announcement, it could define a more constructive debate about stem cell research in Wisconsin and nationwide.
I am a senior, and I guess the next step is college, or at least thatââ?¬â?¢s what Iââ?¬â?¢ve been told. So I decided to give University of Wisconsin at Madison a try. I heard it is big, diverse and busy – kind of what I wanted after growing up in a small town where crop insurance is more important than dental insurance.
Quoted: Dr. Richard J. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin,
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, foresees a chilling effect on hospitals and doctors, who may become uncomfortable carrying out a patient’s wishes against the backdrop of a family feud.
Tasers are being tested on pigs, to possibly gets some answers as to why 70 people nationwide died after being shocked with the guns. Lori Nitzel, Executive Director of the Alliance for Animals of Wisconsin says UW-Madison should not test taser stun guns on pigs because, despite using anesthesia, it’s just not humane. (Audio.)
Barry Scheck argued in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court that Ralph Armstrong deserves a new trial in light of DNA evidence
Ralph Armstrong was convicted almost 25 years ago in the brutal rape and murder of a University of Wisconsin student. His attorney’s, including Scheck, asked the state Supreme Court Thursday to grant him a new trial, saying DNA evidence casts doubt on his conviction.
Charise Kamps, 19, had just finished her freshman year at UW-Madison when she was killed in her downtown apartment June 24, 1980. The daughter of a UW-Platteville professor was friends with Armstrong, then 27, who was on parole for rape and sodomy convictions in New Mexico.
A federal judge late Thursday dismissed two lawsuits against the University of Colorado that had sparked a wide-ranging scandal on the Boulder campus.
UW Madison social work professor Tracy Schroepfer says people should take a lesson from Terry Schiavo’s situation and make their wishes known about what they want and don’t want for medical procedures.
Nina Emerson, director of the UW Law School’s Resource Center On Impaired Driving, told 27 News all you can drink settings create no additional risks when adults of legal drinking age participate. Emerson said even in settings where bar tenders supervise potential problem drinking, drinkers are still left largely on their own to determine their fitness to drive.
St. Mary’s Hospital recently fired Michael Reveles after an internal investigation.
Area hospitals say they should share more information between each other about former employees.
That decision comes after the state filed charges against a recently fired nursing aide, Michael Reveles, for second degree sexual assault. It was later that St. Mary’s administrations learned that Reveles was accused of improperly touching patients when he worked at UW Hospital.
From Uganda to Sudan to UW, professor Harold Scheub shares his stories with students.
The Wisconsin Union is guilty of worker exploitation. There are 150 new janitorial, food service and maintenance employees this year in a classification called “limited-term employees.”
MADISON ââ?¬â? The group that runs the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics can be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The ruling by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago reinstates a lawsuit filed by Joyce Takle, a former nurse at the Madison hospital who claims she was fired in 2000 for being diabetic.
Quoted: Chris Kelly, who teaches employment law at University of Wisconsin-Madison law school.
Quoted: Theodore Gerber of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Phillip Myers, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of mechanical engineering.
Two dozen boats have been lashed together in the service of a writhing mass of human flesh bent on shedding inhibitions and clothes as fast as a four-headed beer bong will allow. In other words, genteel greetings from spring break 2005. But there’s a new wrinkle to this age-old lost week: What happens on break doesn’t necessarily stay on break.
Colleges should not reject out of hand a U.S. Education Department proposal to create a new national database that would track the progress of every student enrolled in college, a top higher-education advocate told university administrators on Wednesday.
The board of the Iowa State University Foundation approved a policy last week that will make donor names and other once-private information public, starting in May. But on Tuesday, the Georgia House of Representatives headed in the other direction on the issue, passing a bill that allows university foundations to keep donor records private.
Pell grant changes that will reduce aid to many Wisconsin college students are here to stay, but much else about the federal financial aid picture remains cloudy, UW-Madison officials said Wednesday.
Rhonda Norsetter, special assistant on federal relations, and Steve Van Ess, director of student financial services, briefed the campus community Wednesday at a seminar sponsored by WISCAPE.
Dr. Jamie Thomson, the UW-Madison scientist who first isolated and reproduced human embryonic stem cells, has leased space at the University Research Park and will be starting a bioscience company.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created an interactive multimedia tool for learning languages, the Multimedia LessonBuilder. The computer program tests foreign language students on several levels, helping them learn with audio and visual components.
The third and final phase of the Camp Randall Stadium renovation project is bringing about significant changes to the facility’s seating chart.
Two additions to the student section – the University of Wisconsin Band and a safety feature called a “cross aisle” – have forced UW Athletic Department officials to expand the boundaries of the student section in order to maintain its 14,000-seat capacity.
(MADISON) A committee of faculty and students says the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor isn�t doing enough to enforce sweatshop licensing rules. At issue is a letter the chancellor sent to foreign factories that some committee members say doesn�t send a strong enough message about protecting workers� rights. (Fourth item.)
As the regional economy continues its recovery, a growing number of economic development organizations are working together to foster a new generation of Wisconsin startups that they hope will fuel the state’s economic growth.
“Rather than look at it as there are all these different groups that are doing all these different things, instead we’re starting to really bring people together,” said Joe Kremer, director of Wisconsin Angel Network, a nonprofit group aimed at connecting local businesses with regional investors.
Kremer was one of a handful of panelists who addressed about 80 representatives from the professional services industry Tuesday at University Research Park.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor Stephen Carpenter.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law school lecturer T. Christopher Kelly.
March 30, 2005 ââ?¬â?Ã? So a guy’s sitting at a bar and a sweet young thing starts flirting. He’s married, and he knows he should watch his step, but even though the conscience says no, the flesh is more than willing.
MADISON, Wis. — To protest a study that would subject pigs to electric shocks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor on Tuesday withdrew from a project she planned with the man leading the Taser research.
Terry Young, a professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, told university administrators she would not participate in a study with John Webster, a professor emeritus of biomedical engineering.
