MADISON, Wis. – ESPN, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Big Ten Conference have reached a six-year agreement (through 2010) to continue the annual men’s college basketball inter-conference Challenge. The 2005 event will mark the seventh annual match-up between the two conferences, pitting several of the nation’s top programs against each other.
A Colorado professor scheduled to speak at the University of Hawaii said he will not apologize for controversial remarks he made about those who died in the 9/11 attacks.
In a few weeks, high school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first time will require them to write a timed essay. Yet colleges continue to send confusing signals about whether students applying in the fall to attend college must take the new exam.
If cable news is correct, the most important issue facing the American people is Ward Churchill, a University of Colorado professor prone to sloppy scholarship and obnoxious statements about the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
However, if you rely on The O’Reilly Factor for all your news, you may not have heard of Dr. Richard Atkinson.
Quoted: Ed Meachen, UW-Madison’s CIO
Race-conscious college-admissions policies often stigmatize black and Hispanic students as academically inferior, even though the students who gain entry through such policies generally perform better than others, according to a study presented here on Monday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Chuck Loeffelholz’s been driving diesel trucks for 25 years. He knows the smell and the color of diesel, but he recently learned that he’s been filling up his truck with a new biodiesel fuel.
“The truck runs fine. If they never would have told me the day they put it in, I would have never known,” Loeffelholz said.
Massachusetts Governor 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 over stem cell research in Wisconsin and nationwide.
Saturday, Sept. 28, 1957, was not a normal day for Sidney Williams.
Williams, Wisconsin’s starting quarterback-as well as the Big Ten’s first starting black quarterback-should have been preparing for the Badgers’ Oct. 1 match-up with Marquette. Instead, his thoughts were partly focused 766 miles away on his hometown of Little Rock, Ark.
MADISON, Wis. — Three weeks ago, University of Wisconsin sophomore Tom Savage was getting ready for his house party. Now he’s worried about having enough money to pay his share of a $70,000 fine.
“I have loans out right now to pay for tuition and throwing $10,000 on top of that for throwing a party, we can’t handle that,” Savage told News 3.
How to be great. Whom to let in.
The University of Minnesota finds itself juggling those critical issues again as it readies a plan to put itself among the world’s top three public research universities. (Registration required.)
Quoted: University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Paul Whelan.
Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, a professor of pediatrics and director of the program in medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin
The American Association for the Advancement of Science wants to know if scientists believe that academe’s growing pursuit of patents, and related practices for commercializing research, “are aiding or hindering the progress of science.”
When Karen A. McDonnell was nine weeks’ pregnant, she heard the baby’s heartbeat for the first time on a monitor in her doctor’s office and decided it was finally time to share her good news. So the assistant professor of public health at George Washington University called her mother, her sister, and her best friend. Then, before she told her department chairman, or her other friends and relatives, she walked a block from her office to put her expected newborn –Ã? who did not even have a name yet –Ã? on the waiting list at George Washington’s child-care center.
Improving Virginia’s public colleges, and how they serve the state, has become one of Mark Warner’s top priorities as governor, even as he embarks on his last year in this one-term state.
As the first in his family with a college degree, Mr. Warner says he has seen firsthand the power of higher education to transform a life and wants to improve access to that opportunity across Virginia.
What price do you put on an education?
How can you possibly place a value upon a family’s first member to graduate from college, or upon the new life granted to a nontraditional student who earns a degree after a midlife setback?
When she was 15 and made a pass at a girl, Michelle Marzullo had her head smashed against a bathroom wall by her best friend. At 17, Marzullo said, she got kicked out of the house and ricocheted from place to place, staying with friends while she finished high school.
(AP) — The State and Homeland Security departments have reduced from months to weeks the time it takes foreign students and scholars trying to travel to the United States to clear a key visa review, according to a new government report.
During the past few years, terrorist concerns have prompted enhanced student visa restrictions, whichââ?¬â?in turnââ?¬â?have led to sharp declines in international student enrollment.
When Irene Hofstein decided to spend her twilight years here beside the campus of Lasell College, she expected to be a student again, auditing courses and learning at the feet of professional educators. Over time, however, professors and students have increasingly been learning from her ââ?¬â? and from thousands of other retirees who have settled near college campuses in the past 15 years.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, a history professor at Wisconsin-Madison University
UW-Madison freshman Megan Beckner was sound asleep at 3 a.m. in Witte Hall when the fire alarm began to ring. Because of past false alarms, Beckner tried to sleep through the ear-splitting sound, but after 15 minutes she was forced out into the cold.
It is good to hear that the Gaylord Nelson Institute is paving the way for “green” building in Madison (Page 3, “UW lays plans for area’s first ‘green building’,” Feb. 14). We can only hope their success will set a precedent that will influence building practices all over campus.
The Undergraduate Biological Research Society’s Thursday night lecture evolved from a stem-cell research presentation into a heated discussion concerning ethics and morality.
The University of Wisconsin Student Services Finance Committee passed the 2005-06 budgets for the Associated Students of Madison�s bus-pass program and University Health Services in a meeting Thursday night.
The University of Wisconsin student organization Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) began a campaign to convince faculty senates across the UW System to pass resolutions calling for divestment of funds from organizations selling arms and equipment to the Israeli military.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Michael Scott, author of a prostitution-enforcement guide for police.
SAN FRANCISCOÃ? Feb 17, 2005 ââ?¬â?Ã? San Diego researchers recently confirmed scientifically what biologists knew intuitively: The stem cell lines President Bush approved for federally funded research are contaminated by the mouse “feeder cells” used to make them grow in the lab.
What is a war casualty? The answer appears painfully obvious. It asserts itself not through argument but, more viscerally, through photographs: a torso shredded by a road-side bomb; a bloodied peasant spread-eagled in a ditch; a soldier (cigarette dangling nonchalantly) smashing his boot into a dead woman’s head.
Author: Rob Nixon, the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is working on a book on the environmental and epidemiological aftermaths of high-tech wars.
The Ward Churchill controversy began with outrage over his description of September 11 victims as “little Eichmanns,” but as the scrutiny of the professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder has continued in recent days, new questions have been raised about how he earned tenure and about his claims of American Indian heritage.
The average wait for security clearances for foreign scholars studying sensitive topics has fallen from 67 days to 15 days over the past year, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the Government Accountability Office.
(MADISON) The exhaust fumes from trucks on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will be cleaner and greener this year. Last week, the University began filling the tanks of its truck fleet with a blend of ultra low-sulfur diesel mixed with a fuel made from soybeans. (Third item.)
WHEN Krishna Ella went to venture capitalists in 1995 he was laughed out of their offices. A molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he was proposing to make hepatitis B vaccine in India, his native land, for a mere dollar a shot.
One of the issues that gets raised in almost every legislative session is the disparity between college tuition for cross-border students in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The University of Minnesota’s Peter Zetterberg was at the Capitol on Tuesday and, we think, made a good case for changing the system. (Registration required.)
The University of Wisconsin this week became the first major public university to reinstate its study abroad program to Israel.
It had been among the scores of American universities that had suspended or revoked their Israel-based programs in 2001 and 2002 after a spate of suicide bombings and travel warnings.
The Dept. of Justice has already issued a grant to John G. Webster, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, to study the health effects of Tasers. That research is to be completed in 2006.
Quoted: Steve Van-Ess, director of financial aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
After nearly four decades of granting reciprocity agreements with nearby states, the University of Minnesota is asking the State Legislature to change the system.
Since 1968, Minnesota has had agreements with Manitoba, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
The Dick Bennett era won’t be a long one.
Bennett, Washington State’s men’s basketball coach who is in the second season of a five-year contract, said yesterday he will retire after either this season or next.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin. (Login required.)
Increased competition among universities and trends toward privatization are threatening the public mission of state universities and colleges, according to a report scheduled for release today.
The clock counts down to May for California’s audacious $3 billion experiment in funding stem cell research. That’s when Robert Klein, the architect of the program and acting president of the newly organized California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, hopes to begin cutting the first checks.
Overpraised ’80s kids, stunned by criticism in college and at work, are ill-equipped to cope. Andrea Sobel shudders at those oh-so-positive messages aimed at boosting kids’ self-esteem. She has heard her fill of ââ?¬Å?good jobââ?¬Â or ââ?¬Å?great pictureââ?¬Â or any of the highly exaggerated claims that parenting experts and educators spouted as the way to bring up well-adjusted children.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A growing number of public universities are requiring that students have health insurance before they step into the classroom, a move aimed at saving the uninsured from huge bills and college hospitals from getting stuck with the cost
States have long worried about how far to go in attracting jobs, with the debate focused mainly on tax incentives and other corporate giveaways. Now, as states gamble billions on controversial stem cell research to attract coveted biotech jobs, they’re confronting an issue rare in job development: moral values.
PARIS Just as Sputnik spurred a surge in Russian language training a half-century ago, Sept. 11 has made Arabic the language of choice for a new generation of ambitious diplomats and academics across the world.
What looked like a good-news report on minorities in higher education was released Monday: The number of African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American students enrolled in college doubled during the past decade.
(MADISON) New federal rules are making things easier for international students wishing to study in the U.S. Many won�t have to wait as long for visa clearance, and once they�re here, they�ll be able to stay a little longer without going through another background check. (Second item.)
In a highly unusual move, the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, and Stanford University have written an essay critical of remarks last month by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers that biological differences may help explain why fewer women than men succeed at the top ranks of science and engineering.
WASHINGTON ââ?¬â?? Four Californians were given the nation’s highest honor for science on Monday, winning the 2003 National Medal of Science.
Carl R. De Boor, of University of Wisconsin, Madison, who won for mathematics was also a winner.
NEW YORKÃ? Feb 14, 2005 ââ?¬â?Ã? Despite its windfall from political advertising last fall, local TV news in 11 major markets spent little time covering local politics, a new study by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School and the University of Wisconsin, has concluded.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? A blend of mobile, electronic learning techniques could be the future of education.
Judy Brown, an analyst of emerging technology for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Academic ADL Co-Lab, spoke to the Madison chapter of the World Future Society last Thursday night about the developing trend dubbed ââ?¬Å?me learningââ?¬Â.
Milwaukee police busted two parties near Marquette University over the weekend, handing out tickets for more than $17,000 each to two men accused of running illegal taverns out of houses. One of the men, a business student, had drink menus and kept a record book listing profits, police said.
ONE would have thought, given the decades of ardent debate over affirmative action in higher education, that the main axes of the dispute had been established.
MADISON, Wis. – Just last year a regular, four-sided scoreboard, imported from the University of Wisconsin Field House, was hanging from the ceiling of the Kohl Center. It displayed statistics such as time left in a penalty (hockey) and team fouls (basketball), while occasionally showing a simple animation such as three smiley faces bobbing up and down. (Athletic Communications.)
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Tools for firefighters and fishermen won the day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Innovation Days contest for engineering undergraduates.
(MADISON) Some Republican state legislators are criticizing Governor Doyle�s plan to spend $1 million on insurance benefits for the partners of gay and lesbian University employees. But supporters say the benefits are crucial to attracting and retaining top-notch faculty. (Second item.)
Quoted: Dr. George Wilding and Patrick Remington of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
Quoted: Bradford Brown, a human development professor at the University of Wisconsin
