UW-Madison professor Lewis Keith Cohen admitted e-mailing naked photos of himself to a 14-year-old boy, later telling police he intended to act as a “big brother” to the boy in “sexual matters,” according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Milwaukee.
“I was playing into his fantasy,” Cohen, 59, told police, claiming that if the two had met as planned on March 15 they would not have had sex, the complaint said.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, associate dean of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
A number puzzle originating in the work of self-taught maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan nearly a century ago has been solved. The solution may one day lead to advances in particle physics and computer security.
Nanodevices are typically built by connecting tiny components. But such a delicate task is not easy. So, many researchers are exploring ways to fix components in place using the binding properties of biological molecules, notably DNA.
Robert Hamers and his colleagues from University of Wisconsin-Madison propose using entire microbes instead
Quoted: Alta Charo, an ethicist at the University of Wisconsin
MILWAUKEEÃ? Mar 22, 2005 ââ?¬â?Ã? Before last weekend, Wisconsin-Milwaukee was best known for being the school where the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir went.
Colleges will have an easier time proving that they are meeting women’s interests in intercollegiate athletics under a policy clarification issued last week by the U.S. Department of Education. The clarification appears to fly in the face of one of the most influential court rulings in the long battle over women’s opportunities to play sports in college.
Robert Shaw, an educational consultant based in Garden City, N.Y., was working with a very bright Chinese American student who feared the Ivy League would not notice her at New Jersey’s Holmdel High, where 22 percent of the students were Asian American, and she was only in the top 20 percent of her high-scoring class.
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has made much of his $750 million biotechnology plan for the state, especially as budget season pushes onward. But it can be easy to lose track of where the money is coming from and going, as the plan involves a handful of separate buildings and initiatives funded through public-private partnerships.
UW-Madison women are adults who deserve easy access to sunblock, aspirin and, yes, birth control, before leaving town for spring break.
They also deserve ââ?¬â?Ã? and might need ââ?¬â? cautionary advice about the dangers of skin cancer, binge drinking and casual sex. That’s exactly what University Health Services, a clinic for students, provided with a series of advertisements in campus newspapers leading up to spring break this week.
Arlie Mucks, the indefatigable promoter of UW-Madison, a retired fighter pilot who wore Bucky Badger pajamas even on road trips and who was a hard- nosed star football player before the days of face-masks on helmets, died Saturday at the age of 85.
It would surprise only those who met him at back-slapping alumni sports outings with his buddy Elroy Hirsch to discover Mucks was a successful bank director, organizational wonder-worker and an adjutant general.
In the academic world, the Chronicle of Higher Education is the newspaper of record. From stories of embattled administrators to the latest faculty appointments, its 140-plus pages have provided readers with industry news, job listings and similar information each week for nearly 40 years
Complaints from people in higher education about never having enough money are belied by the grand array of building projects at colleges across America. There is hardly an institution over which a crane does not hover, and few campuses are free of the muddy tracks of heavy equipment that herald the creation of a brand-new structure or the massive renovation of an old one. Indeed, one authority on the construction boom suggests that the acquisition of space for new buildings is more crucial than their design, pointing to the many vacant big-box retail buildings around the country as prime sites for future classrooms.
The four universities that received the most U.S. patents in 2003 were also the leaders in 2004, according to figures released on Friday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The Minnesota Board of Regents voted unanimously to work to become one of the top three research universities in the world within the next 10 years.
The vote came during the board�s monthly meeting Feb. 11.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, of the University of Wisconsin law school.
Several times a year, when I enter the Ames post office through the south door of the main entrance, I check to see if Leo is still there, in the glass case where wanted posters are displayed.
The fly, at first, looks like nothing so much as a tiny matador. Now standing still, now feinting left or darting right, he circles the petri dish arena, waving a black-tipped wing at his quarry like a red cape.
Quoted: Sean Carroll, in whose University of Wisconsin-Madison laboratory the biarmipes flies danced,
Quoted: Neil Richardson, a political economist at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Colleen Moore, a University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology professor who specializes in child development
College administrators make decisions every day, so dealing with the consequences of unpopular ones is nothing new. Often those decisions are private, and even if their consequences are large, their visibility is relatively limited. But once in awhile, a decision has to be made on an issue that has tremendous public visibility and broad consequences. I recently had to make just such a decision.
As of 6 p.m. on February 1, I had never heard the name Ward Churchill. That evening, returning on a plane from Atlanta after several alumni visits, I read a news article about a scheduled presentation by Churchill at Hamilton College in New York. As my eyes briefly glanced over the page, I remember feeling compassion for Joan Hinde Stewart, Hamilton’s president, and the agony she must have felt over canceling his lecture there. I noted the threats, the security issues, the alumni concerns, and I remember thinking to myself, That is a no-win situation.
MADISON ââ?¬â? A state lawmaker wants to make it illegal for clinics serving University of Wisconsin System campuses to provide students birth control pills.
Quoted: John DeLamater, sociology professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Stanley Kutler, a signatory to the letter and professor of history and law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Arlie Max Mucks Jr. of Madison passed away on Saturday, March 19, 2005, at the age of 84. He served as executive director of the Wisconsin Alumni Assocation from 1962 until 1989, then served as a special assistant to Chancellor Donna Shalala, and as a special consultant to the UW Athletic Department.
The choice of Flad and Associates to design UW-Madison’s 750,000 square foot Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, unveiled by Gov. Jim Doyle last week, wasn’t surprising. Flad and Associates has designed many of the city’s landmark buildings, such as the 1.3 million square foot American Family Insurance headquarters and UW-Madison’s chemistry and biochemistry buildings.
As other students open their backpacks, Milton Bliss unties the string that holds together the ragged mailing envelope containing his notebook. At 95, he’s not too concerned about fashion trends.
Bliss is one of a growing number of Wisconsin seniors taking advantage of free lectures offered by UW-Madison to those ages 60 and older. The program is intended to reward older residents for years of tax support while diversifying the campus.
A state lawmaker wants to prohibit clinics serving University of Wisconsin campuses from providing students with birth control pills and devices, contending such services promote promiscuity. Rep Daniel LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, said he was outraged when he learned University Health Services, the clinic serving UW-Madison students, had taken out ads in the two campus newspapers suggesting students get advance emergency contraceptive prescriptions before leaving town for spring break.
UW-Madison professor Lewis Keith Cohen was to be released from the Milwaukee County Jail on Friday evening pending the expected filing of formal charges against him for allegedly trying to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex in a Milwaukee suburb. Paul Tiffin, Milwaukee County assistant district attorney, said any charges against Cohen, 59, would be announced by Tuesday at the latest.
The state Building Commission Friday voted 7-1 to finance a proposed $381 million biotechnology research institute at UW-Madison.
The 450,000-square-foot Wisconsin Institute for Discovery would be built on a wedge of land bordered by University and North Randall avenues and West Johnson and North Charter streets, just north of Union South.
The commission also approved $137.5 million in new bonds for the project that will become available over the next 10 years and reallocated to the institute $50 million of previously approved bonding, said Rob Kramer, secretary of the commission.
MADISON, Wis. – Barry Alvarez would be considered by most people to be a big wheel. On Thursday, the University of Wisconsin football coach and athletic director was a ââ?¬Å?Big Wheel Delivering Mealsââ?¬Â for Meals on Wheels.
Quoted: Richard Davidson of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A UW-Madison professor was arrested this week in suburban Milwaukee, accused of trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
Lewis Keith Cohen, 59, a professor in the department of comparative literature, was being held Thursday in the Milwaukee County Jail on two tentative felony charges of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and one tentative felony charge of exposing a child to harmful materials, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department. His cash bail was $20,000.
If you ask Karl Mahlburg about his mathematical breakthrough, he will, typically, smile a very shy smile, duck his head, and say something self- effacing.
But Mahlburg, a 25-year-old UW-Madison graduate student, has solved what may be the last part of a historic mathematical problem that has challenged the brightest minds in the field of number theory for 75 years. It is a feat that has drawn praise from the elite in the math world.
Errors in the federal database that tracks foreign students enrolled at American colleges can take months or even years to correct, according to a Government Accountability Office report released on Thursday.
Quoted: Tim McGwine, a UW senior athletic trainer who says parents…coaches…and doctors all play a role in helping keep steroids out of the hands of young athletes.
Milwaukee Police officials said a 59 year old UW-Madison faculty member was arrested March 15 in Greendale on the tentative felony charge of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime.
Marmosets who are fathers have a muted reaction to sexually available females — an unusual response among primates, scientists said on Wednesday.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Isn’t it amazing how the University of Wisconsin System can charge each student $600 to fund speakers like Michael Moore and Ward Churchill, justifying it with the need for the students to hear diverse views and exercise “public freedom” and at the same time be trying to control what students do off-campus in the privacy of their own homes (alcohol consumption).
ââ?¬â?Ã? Jerry Johnson, Sun Prairie
Quoted: Ian Powell, University of Wisconsin physician and addictionologist at Meriter Hospital.
Steve Van Ess, who has helped connect thousands of UW-Madison students with their financial aid checks for 30 years, is retiring by Sept. 1. Van Ess, 55, has led the office of student financial services for the past decade.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Wednesday for records about what it described as the federal government’s policy of excluding foreign scholars who have criticized United States policies.
There were many important people at the unveiling Wednesday of the proposed $375 million Institute of Discovery, from college deans to a beaming governor.
But few in attendance may have more to gain from the ambitious research center than three children who stood quietly next to the architectural drawings as the important people spoke.
The University of Wisconsin steps up efforts to make the morning after pill available to students before leaving for spring break, but at least one politician wants it to stop immediately.
The prospect of wild monkey sex, even among wild monkeys, apparently diminishes in allure if the consenting primates are parents. UW-Madison researchers focusing on marmoset fathers found their testosterone levels “barely wavered” in response to the scent of a female, while hormone levels erupted in the nonparent males. The results, released in a report Wednesday and published in the January issue of Hormones and Behavior, surprised the scientists because not only was it a unique demonstration of testosterone response to a social situation, it was not the response everyone expected.
A UW-Madison student was accused of trying to steal an exam from the computer of a physics professor. Justin D. Peltzer, 22, was charged with burglary Monday after he allegedly was caught by professor Lynn Knutson on Dec. 17 trying to retrieve the exam from Knutson’s computer in his Sterling Hall office.
Over the years, the University of Wisconsin system has absorbed more than its share of state budget cutbacks, the thought being that the university can always restore a chunk of the cuts through tuition hikes.
Quoted: Frank Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Arwen Sheridan felt terrible. She had a sore throat, swollen glands and a fever that came and went for weeks.
“Even brushing my hair hurt,” she said.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – Harvard University President Lawrence Summers on Tuesday lost a symbolic vote of confidence by undergraduate faculty who censured him over his comments on women and his general leadership of the Ivy League school
Quoted: UW-Madison nutritionist Sherry Tanumihardjo.
Justin Becknell became an environmental science major because he wanted to help solve ecological problems. He is so determined to get results, in fact, that he’s developing a subspecialty in ethics.
Quoted: Frances Westley, director of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brant Kochsiek is putting the final fixings on his Spring Break plans.
“It’s a beautiful place! I don’t know… we got um… we’re staying at a huge hotel.” (Text and video.)
Quoted: Ken Frazier, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison�s general library system, supports the idea of converting to electronic records.
WASHINGTON – President Bush presented 16 science and technology achievement medals on Monday to recognize breakthroughs in various fields, including geology, computer software, genetics and neurology.
MADISON, Wis. – The winter sports schedules are starting to wind down and the championship season is fast approaching. (Athletic Communications.)
The first question asked by state legislators who must pass judgment on a major building project is, “How do we pay for it?” The second is, “How will it help Wisconsin ââ?¬â?? and my district?” Governor Jim Doyle’s emerging plan for the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is providing some straightforward, and exciting, answers
Irrelevant curriculum, low standards, weak faculty, inadequate clinical instruction, inappropriate degrees, poor research.
Most of the college-level programs that train public school principals award ââ?¬Å?the equivalent of Green Stamps,ââ?¬Â allowing them to trade in primarily useless credits for raises and promotions without giving them the practical training they need, says the president of Columbia University’s Teachers College.
