MADISON, Wis. – Gildaââ?¬â?¢s Club Madison Wisconsin announced today that Barry and Cindy Alvarez will co-chair its campaign to bring a Gildaââ?¬â?¢s Club to Madison, Wisconsin. (Athletic Communications)
Quoted: University of Wisconsin business school professor Mason Carpenter
Quoted: Kurt D. Squire, an assistant professor of educational communication and technology at the University of Wisconsin
Author: Byron E. Shafer is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and the author of the forthcoming “The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race and Partisan Change.”
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the few public universities with two competing independent student newspapers. And soon the historically liberal hotbed will have a third paper, this one with a conservative twist.
Jennifer L. Ewald taps her foot rapidly as she sizes up the crowd. Here, inside the ballroom of the posh Lima Marriott Hotel, are hundreds of potential students. Law students, medical students, business students, undergraduates.
The Iowa State University Foundation must open its records to the public, the state’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday, but the court left room to interpret which records will be subject to public scrutiny.
Last year, midway through planning construction of a new library at the University of Nevada at Reno, Lyle Woodward saw the prices of steel, concrete, and other essentials skyrocket. The project’s cost, which had started at $66-million, was climbing toward $86-million. He and other administrators had a predictable response.
BERKELEY, California (AP) — The cash-strapped University of California handed out $2.4 million in bonuses to administrators at its five medical schools, angering campus workers and students.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 – The House has approved a measure calling for the government to contest a federal court decision that educational institutions have a First Amendment right to keep military recruiters off their campuses to protest the policy of excluding gays from military service.
Roger Thompson trails the Crimson Tide across the South. He knows there are few college spectacles as grand as football and, as the head of admissions for the University of Alabama, he is out to draw a crowd.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Su-Chun Zhang received another boost to his stem-cell research from a grant awarded on Monday by the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Taxpayer-funded scientists should submit their research papers to a free public archive within one year of publication, says the National Institutes of Health.
When Karin Iuzzolino applied to college, she skimped to hold down costs. She applied to four schools rather than the eight that interested her. She did not visit several colleges because transportation costs were prohibitive. She chose not to take an Advanced Placement exam because it cost $82.
I take strong exception to the notion that colleges and universities are turning a ââ?¬Å?blind eyeââ?¬Â to the accessibility and affordability of college for low-income students. It is simply wrong to assert that elite colleges have attempted to ââ?¬Å?crowd outââ?¬Â low-income students (ââ?¬Å?Is college getting out of reach?ââ?¬Â Life, Wednesday).
Boston- and Philadelphia-area colleges, learning from recent tragedies, are making plans to keep any possible post-Super Bowl celebrations from turning violent. Some universities are hoping to keep students on campus by hosting parties for them, and others are increasing police presence near campus. After the Boston Red Sox’s Game 7 playoff victory against the New York Yankees, a 21-year-old Emerson College student was killed when a pepper-spray pellet hit her in the eye.
A federal prosecutor and jury in Memphis have given college athletic boosters nationwide something to think about. Or so NCAA and other officials expect. Wednesday’s conviction of Alabama booster Logan Young on charges that he paid $150,000 to have a prized recruit steered to the Crimson Tide could have broad ramifications ââ?¬â? deterring other wayward boosters and emboldening prosecutors ââ?¬â? they say.
The promise of biotech crops ââ?¬â? foods genetically engineered to resist pests and weeds or even to produce drugs for humans ââ?¬â? may be going to seed.
After years of significant growth, the number of biotech crops in the regulatory pipeline has plummeted, says a report out today from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a group that supports a cautious approach to biotechnology.
Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who enjoys shaking up the status quo, exceeded expectations when he suggested recently that women might lack the right stuff when it comes to math and science. How else to explain the scarcity of females on his faculty?
High schools often take the blame when students aren’t prepared for college. But some experts say entire communities should be held accountable.
Paying for college is becoming more of a struggle, especially for the growing number of low-income kids aspiring to earn degrees. And many experts say most colleges and states are turning a blind eye to the problem.
Twenty years ago, teachers in suburban Baltimore urged Lisa Turner to go to college, pushing the SAT, she says, ââ?¬Å?like it was candy.ââ?¬Â Never mind that she didn’t have a clue about what high school courses to take or how to choose a school. After scoring poorly on a standardized intelligence test, Turner says, ââ?¬Å?I found myself kind of goofing off in school.ââ?¬Â
Declaring that ââ?¬Å?we need at least one source of public health information in this country that can be completely trusted,ââ?¬Â National Institutes of Health Director Elias Zerhouni on Tuesday announced a ââ?¬Å?sweepingââ?¬Â new ethics regulation barring all employees from moonlighting for any company or organization that could benefit from such a relationship.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported Sunday that they have been able to coax stem cells into becoming motor neurons in an experiment that could someday help scientists treat spinal-cord injuries or provide a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The success, which was reported online in the science journal Nature Biotechnology, is important because scientists have struggled to do what researcher Su-Chun Zhang and his colleagues say they have accomplished after two years of tedious trial and error. Perhaps more important, Zhang’s recipe shows researchers that timing is everything when adding their chemical cocktails to stem-cell ââ?¬Å?stews.ââ?¬Â Stem cells are vulnerable to human manipulation for only the briefest of moments ââ?¬â? and at different intervals, depending on the results each researcher craves. ââ?¬Å?It’s very specific,ââ?¬Â Zhang says. ââ?¬Å?You have to have the right cocktail in the right amount at the right time.ââ?¬Â
Only in the strange world of astronomy does it make sense to travel halfway around the world to an observatory at the edge of the Kalahari Desert to get a better look at ourselves. But that makes perfect sense to UW-Madison astronomer Ken Nordsieck. In fact, his bags are packed. Nordsieck is part of a group of UW-Madison astronomers who will be traveling to South Africa next month to help complete and christen the largest optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. When it is done, the telescope, the $18-million South African Large Telescope, or SALT, will allow astronomers to peer at the most distant objects ever observed, including remnants of the Big Bang itself.
Van Hise Hall, a lofty campus landmark since 1967, is slated for destruction sometime in the next 20 years under UW-Madison’s proposed master plan for the next two decades. Not that anyone should be surprised, officials said.
A UW-Madison philosophy student pulled off an upset victory in a major poker tournament Thursday night, becoming an instant millionaire. And they say liberal arts majors will never get rich. John Stolzmann, 23, of Sheboygan outplayed some big names in the poker world to win the Jack Binion World Poker Open in Tunica, Miss. His prize: $1.5 million and the right to advance to the World Poker Tour Championship in April.
Short list of policy points.
Listing of the 20 highest cell phone users, by cost, at UW-Madison.
The UW Athletic Department rang up a cell phone bill of $180,000 in the 2003-04 school year, a tab sure to be heavily reviewed by government officials as part of an ongoing audit of state-owned cell phone usage.
Records show cell phones were issued to 158 people associated with the athletic department and that 54 employees — coaches, administrators, medical personnel and event managers — had bills of more than $1,000 last year.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the University of Michigan to pay $672,000 in legal fees and costs to attorneys for students who sued the school over its use of affirmative action in undergraduate admissions policies. The university had maintained it wasn’t responsible for the legal bills. U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Duggan disagreed, but ruled that the $2.1 million originally sought by the attorneys was excessive. In June 2003, the Supreme Court upheld a general affirmative action policy at the University of Michigan law school but struck down the university’s undergraduate formula as too rigid because it awarded admission points based on race.
Quoted: Jim Tracy, University of Wisconsin Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Training, said few researchers actually become ill from working with dangerous pathogens.
ââ?¬Å?I believe itââ?¬â?¢s extremely rare,ââ?¬Â he said. ââ?¬Å?Working in a laboratory is very safe.ââ?¬Â
Quoted: G. Donald Ferree, director of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center.
Quoted: Michael J. Smith, a professor in the University of Wisconsin’s industrial and systems engineering department. (Login required.)
(Madison) The University of Wisconsin at Madison athletics board is considering raising football season ticket prices for the second year in a row. The University’s deputy athletic director says the department needs to come
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Carl Gulbrandsen, the managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, will serve a three-year term on the national Patent Public Advisory Committee, officials have announced. He will help guide the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in its procedures.
Commentary By Joyce King
Growing up, Daddy said that it was just the order of the universe: ââ?¬Å?Men are smarter than women.ââ?¬Â Now that Harvard University President Lawrence Summers has apologized for recent remarks about differences that might make women less capable in math and science, I can’t help but wonder how many men believe women are less productive or lack the mental ability to compete.
Quoted: Norm Fost, a medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin.
MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) ââ?¬â? Mealy apples, boxed mashed potatoes, frozen veggie mixes and suspicious meats drive many a college student to the cereal and bagel bins. But dining halls from Bates College in Maine to the University of California at Santa Cruz are improving their food and helping their local agricultural economies by going straight to the farm.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor
As more states line up to promote human embryonic stem-cell research, policymakers and investors will ask, ââ?¬Å?Will it pay off for all?ââ?¬Â The most likely answer is no. But among those states poised to compete with Californiaââ?¬â?¢s $3 billion initiative, Wisconsin may be the best positioned for success.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison will celebrate the 30th anniversary of UW Womenââ?¬â?¢s Intercollegiate Sports Jan. 29 and 30. (Athletic Communications)
High-risk jobs now have virtual training tools, thanks to a string of developments in video games. Groups like the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab have been at the front of this effort, developing simulations that give users an equal dose of realism and cooperation.
The NCAA is rethinking college athletics’ relationship with alcohol. The association’s top rules-making body, the Division I board of directors, quietly has begun a review of alcohol-related policies ââ?¬â? from advertising guidelines to the allowance of stadium and arena beer sales ââ?¬â? at local, conference and national levels.
Colleges buy into game of upgrading facilities
By Ann Tatko
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Five years ago, the University of Tennessee spent $18 million to add more than 1,000 seats to its football stadium.
Today, university officials are finalizing an extensive five-phase renovation project that will remove almost 3,000 seats from Neyland Stadium, while turning almost 2,000 more into high-priced club seats — all part of a project that will cost $100 million. (Login: clipsheet@news.wisc.edu, password: badgers.)
It’s a stately old building with looming columns, worn marble stairways and arched doorways – dedicated in 1900 “to the conservation, advancement and dissemination of American Heritage.”
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
MEDFORD – The University of Wisconsin-Madison Varsity Band put on a show beyond music.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison produced the most volunteers in the nation serving for the Peace Corps this year, something it has done for more than a decade.
When you step into the Kohl Center for a hockey or basketball game this season, tickets are no longer torn. Instead, event staff greet ticketholders at the gate with a Palm Pilot-like device in hand, ready to scan a barcode at the bottom of every ticket
(MADISON) A new study done in California points to the potentially harmful effects posed by contaminated stem cells. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin say the study shows the need for more federal money to develop new lines.
Economic development isn’t about recruiting and retaining companies anymore — it’s about recruiting and retaining creative class workers, the kind who want to live in a city that’s open and accepting. A city like Madison. But UW is the last Big Ten school without domestic partnership benefits, and a proposed constitutional amendment could limit other efforts. How much ground do we stand to lose?
Worldwide, 1.1 million students took 1.9 million Advanced Placement exams in 2004, in 34 subjects ranging from U.S. history to English language and composition to calculus.
At a time when the academic performance of U.S. high school students has come under scrutiny, the College Board on Tuesday offered some good news ââ?¬â? mixed with a small dose of bad.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation’s medical research agency that conducts and funds research at institutions around the USA to improve people’s health. As a leader of medical research, NIH aims to make discoveries that will help prevent, detect and treat disease and disability. That includes funding research on existing human embryonic stem cells.
Once President Bush makes a decision, he doesn’t like to look back. But the time has come for Bush to revisit the policy he set in 2001 on stem cell research. The basis for it has disappeared.
Quoted: Dick Lathrop, a researcher and limnologist with the Department of Natural Resources and the University of Wisconsin Center for Limnology
Quoted: Sanjay Asthana, head of geriatrics at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who consults local governments on cable franchising.
In the fall of 2003, two law students at Ohio State University’s main campus complained to the administration that the campus chapter of the Christian Legal Society, a student group, was violating the institution’s nondiscrimination rules.
