A Wisconsin physician said doctors might soon add a skin cholesterol test to the routine checks they make during an office visit.
Dr. James Stein with the University of Wisconsin Medical School said the five-minute test accurately detected early-stage heart disease in a pilot study of 81 people. The test, which simply involves putting droplets of solution on a person’s hand, measures the cholesterol content of the skin. (Login required.)
Quoted: Frank Greer, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
For those who don’t eat dairy products, calcium-fortified drinks can be a substitute. But research shows consumers may not be getting as much calcium in orange juice or soy and rice products as the label indicates.
Children suffering from autism pay very little attention to faces, even those of people close to them.
Kim M. Dalton of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her colleagues studied 27 autistic teenagers who looked at pictures of faces while a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine scanned their brains.
Ting Luo, a junior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, had been doing poorly on the new essay question of the SAT. But his practice score shot up after he took a $900 test-preparation course and received some age-old advice on how to outfox the examiners:
“Write larger.”
Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell is the chair of the UW Department of Rehabilitation, Psychology and Special Education and she has also taught children who have severe disabilities. She says the use of timeout rooms, like the one featured in a 27 news investigation at an elementary school in Monroe, are falling out of favor with educators.
BOULDER, Colo. – University of Colorado President Betsy Hoffman said a professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis will not be fired if a review turns up only inflammatory comments, not misconduct.
Leiszle Ziemba had watched her three older siblings make their way through the college-admission process the old-fashioned way: they took their SAT’s and that was that.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? To find the catalyst for the United States’ economic growth over the past 10 years ââ?¬â?? including the nation’s astounding 26 percent gain in productivity ââ?¬â?? look no further than market flexibility and incentives, says University of Wisconsin Business School Dean Michael Knetter.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. ââ?¬â?? When “March Madness” – the premier tournament of men’s college basketball – kicks off next week, it may mark a swan song for some of the 65 invited teams.
The family of a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who drowned in the Mississippi River a year ago is now suing the school and the city.
Jared Dion disappeared after a night of drinking in downtown La Crosse. His body was found five days later in the river.
Dion’s family claims the city fostered a culture of binge drinking that led to Dion’s death.
BOSTON — Are parents pushing college-bound students too hard? Are students taking on more activities than they can handle just to look good on a college admissions form?
In recent years, the college admissions process has become so competitive that some parents say it has become a public health crisis, Boston television station WCVB reported.
“We know kids have ulcers, stress disorders, eating disorders, sleeping disorders and where is it coming from? From the need to constantly perform,” said parent Marilee Jones.
Jones is the mother of a college applicant and the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The future of the UW’s two-year campuses is up for debate.
The Higher Education committee heard about two rival plans for finding cost savings within the UW System Wednesday.
UW System President Kevin Reilly testified that consolidating some of the administration between the twoââ?¬â??year campuses and the UW Extension Program is the best way to go right now. That plan would save $300,000.
(AP) The UW-Madison athletic department wants to spend two-million dollars more to finish the Camp Randall Stadium renovation.
The University says the additional money will come from donations to the athletic department, not taxpayer funding.
By Charles Hoslet
I was driving along I-94 from Madison to Milwaukee the other day and crashed right through a large brick wall. I noticed that other drivers were also getting through�in both directions.
The brick wall, of course, was just a figment of my imagination, one of those old “truths” we are taught to believe, but just aren’t true any more. The old idea is that Madison and Milwaukee are very different places, have little in common, and frankly don’t much like each other. We pick on each other almost as much as we do those Bears fans to the south.
To find the catalyst for the United States’ economic growth over the past 10 years ââ?¬â?? including the nation’s astounding 26 percent gain in productivity ââ?¬â?? look no further than market flexibility and incentives, says University of Wisconsin Business School Dean Michael Knetter.
Retired fisherman Billy Bodiford was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October. The doctor who found the cancer is the only urologist available in Taylor County, Fla. (pop. 19,200) ââ?¬â? and he visits just one day a month. Bodiford experienced what many Americans may soon face: a shortage of physicians that makes it hard to find convenient, quality health care. The shortage will worsen as 79 million baby boomers reach retirement age and demand more medical care unless the nation starts producing more doctors, according to several new studies.
Quoted: Richard Cooper, director of the Health Policy Institute at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
An affordable housing project is being proposed for the 400 block of West Mifflin Street in the middle of “Miffland,” the hallowed staging grounds for the annual Mifflin Street block party.
The Madison Development Corp. is presenting preliminary design plans for a proposed four story, 23-unit apartment building to the Urban Design Commission tonight.
Known for her athletically graceful and lyrically aggressive movement, Li Chiao-Ping is arguably the most famous dancer, modern or ballet, who calls Madison home.
She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, yet tours around the country performing and conducting workshops.
From Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., she and her company will perform “Laughing Bodies, Dancing Minds” in the Margaret D’Houbler Performance Space at Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. (Tickets are $16 for adults, $12 for seniors and students and $6 for children under 13. For information, call 263-5735.)
Ward Churchill, the controversial University of Colorado professor who has been the target of so much right-wing wrath, spoke Tuesday night at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
And his talk drew far more attention than it would have, thanks to the screeching of media windbags like Bill O’Reilly and politicians who have grown a bit too comfortable in the bully pulpit, such as Wisconsin’s own state Rep. Steve Nass.
WHITEWATER – Ward Churchill was defiant. He was bold. He was passionate.
And he spent the better part of his 75-minute speech here defending controversial comments he made in a 3-year-old essay that has ignited a national firestorm in the past month.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department will seek the authority to spend more than $2.1 million in additional funds to finish the Camp Randall Stadium renovation.
That will replenish a contingency fund that has been depleted after unforeseen expenses, said Alan Fish, assistant vice chancellor for facilities, planning and development.
The additional money will come from gifts to the athletic department, not taxpayer dollars or ticket receipts, Fish said.
The additional expenses will boost the total cost of the renovation to just over $109 million, Fish said.
George Mason University’s application to establish a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society was rejected in January because of concerns that the Virginia college had stifled freedom of speech last fall when it canceled a campus lecture by the controversial filmmaker Michael Moore, faculty and staff members said on Tuesday.
Ivy League colleges have made few strides in hiring women and members of minority groups, according to a report released this week by a group of Yale University graduate students who are seeking to form a union. Data in the report, compiled from existing statistics at the U.S. Department of Education, show that of 433 new professors hired into tenure-track positions at Ivy League institutions in 2003, only 150 were women, 14 were black, and 8 were Hispanic.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? It’s not Sundance or Cannes, but the Wisconsin Film Festival is growing in importance in Midwestern arts circles.
Last year, the event screened more than 140 films from 26 countries, including 45 by filmmakers with Wisconsin ties. Moviegoers bought 24,000 tickets, up from 21,000 in 2003.
And, with a cash and in-kind operating budget of $614,000, the four-day festival is of no small economic impact to the capital city.
This year’s event will run from March 31 to April 3 and feature experimental films, documentaries, shorts, independent works and productions by many Badger State filmmakers.
WHITEWATER, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater was the latest stage for a controversial Colorado professor Tuesday night
Two of the highest monthly cell phone bills flagged by a state audit were the result of interactive art
An audit of the use of state assigned cell phones by more than nine thousand workers found twenty monthly bills of between $311 and $1456.
27 News has uncovered two of those bills were rung up by patrons of a museum.
In September 2004, several exhibits of artist Xu Bing’s work were displayed at Madison’s Elvehjem Museum of Art.
Museum Director Russell Panczenko said the exhibits included expressions of technology’s influence on our culture.
Panczenko said one exhibit consisted of two state cell phones.
UW-Whitewater scheduled Ward Churchill to speak months ago about racism towards Native Americans. But since then he’s become a controversial figure, more well known for an essay he wrote comparing 9/11 victims to ââ?¬Å?little Nazis.ââ?¬Â
UWââ?¬â??Whitewater decided to keep its invite to Churchill, despite an outpouring of negative reaction from alumni and students. Security is tight and there are sheriff’s deputies present in case anything gets out of hand.
A University of Colorado professor defended his essay comparing victims of the September eleventh World Trade Center attacks to Nazis, during his speech at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Tuesday night.
With the thousands of manufacturing jobs that have vanished all through the industrial areas of the Midwest, chasing more smokestack industries is a fool’s errand. Instead, efforts are underway to develop a new breed of companies based on the technological inventions coming out of Wisconsin’s institutes of higher education and private industries.
Information-technology businesses are taking apart their processes and putting them back together. With the Fusion 2005 CEO-CIO Symposium on Wednesday just around the corner, some of the experts watching IT in Wisconsin offered their opinions on how the state and its industries will be shaping their business practices as the year progresses.
Web addicts, take heart: A public-private effort is moving toward making downtown Madison one giant wi-fi hotspot.
AOL-SkyCable has been chosen to enter negotiations for the right to provide a wireless Internet service for the general public. The “Wireless Wisconsin” service would create a publicly accessible wireless fidelity (wi-fi) network covering Madison and the Dane County Regional Airport. The project also has provisions for future expansion to other communities. AOL-SkyCable will now negotiate with the city, county and state to develop specific contract language. If negotiations are not successful, another vendor will be chosen.
Nearly half of the football and men’s basketball teams in Division I are failing the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s newest measure of academic success, according to a report published Monday by the association.
Some of the nation’s leading microbiologists criticized the National Institutes of Health on Monday for financing a large expansion of research grants on bioterrorism.
Quoted: Ray Aldag, professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Quoted: Richard Gourse of the University of Wisconsin at Madison .
UW-Whitewater spokesperson Brian Mattmiller says the campus is prepared to head into uncharted territory Tuesday as the Ward Churchill controversy comes to campus.
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Jolene Anderson was named the Freshman of the Year in Big Ten Conference by a vote of the conference coaches and media the Big Ten Office announced today. (Athletic Communications.)
The cost of attending the University of Michigan could go down for about 2,900 in-state undergraduates this fall under a new grant program, to be announced today that will give needy students $500 to $1,500 a year.
During her first week at Furman University last semester, Amber Kirtley enrolled in a cardio-kickboxing class to avoid the dreaded “Freshman 15.” After one intense class, she discovered that yoga was more her speed.
Quoted: Bernard Trujillo, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Steven Barkan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor.
The pressure is growing on President Bush to change the limits he set four years ago on human embryonic stem-cell research.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison..
MADISON, Wis. – The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released Monday its newly created statistical calculation ââ?¬â?? the Academic Progress Rate (APR) ââ?¬â?? that measures success in the classroom by student-athletes. (Atletic Communications)
The governors of 13 states say they will require all students to take a college-prep curriculum and sit for new exams that tell whether they are ready for college-level work.
UW students from around the state want something done about skyrocketing tuition costs and they took their message to the Capitol today. Their message: keep UW doors open to all.
Hundreds of students used actual doors to get their message across. Those doors were signed by thousands of UW students who say they can’t afford to go to school in Wisconsin.
It is difficult to plan for the future without knowing exactly what resources will be available.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A date has been set and two possible opponents identified, but some key particulars need to be ironed out before the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team plays a game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay next season.
A pending change in college entrance exams could have a major impact on recruiting for University of Wisconsin coaches.
All incoming students for the 2006-07 school year at UW will be required to take a writing exam in conjunction with the American College Test or Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Quoted: Edward Friedman, a political scientist and author on Chinese politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Robert Haveman, a UW-Madison economist.
In 2002, New York University became the first private university to negotiate a labor agreement with a union of teaching assistants. The pact followed years of hostility — and strike threats — but was seen as a potential precedent for other private institutions.
BERKELEY, Calif. – Long-simmering tensions between the City of Berkeley and its famous university erupted Wednesday when the city sued to block campus expansion plans.
Binge drinking on Wisconsin�s college campuses is directly related to the high levels of drinking among the general adult population, says a national study released Tuesday.
No support for the idea of merging two-year University of Wisconsin Colleges with regional four-year campuses can be found among Marshfield Common Council members.
A few years ago, Barry Alvarez had a decision to make, one that only the very best college football coaches in the country are faced with. And make no mistake about it, Alvarez has shown year after year he is one of college football’s best coaches.
Remember the Wisconsin Badgers before Barry? Ugh!
Quoted: Economics Professor Don Nichols, a foreign-currency expert with the University of Wisconsin’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
