(MADISON) The University of Wisconsin is aggressively defending its patent for a semiconductor process developed on campus. The University has just settled out of court with Samsung Electronics, and is now targeting another electronics giant on a similar matter.
Thousands of dollars donated to the University of Colorado Foundation in the past decade were used for CU athletics expenses ranging from coaches’ country-club memberships to liquor for staff meetings, records released by the foundation Wednesday show.
Five daily flights between Madison and Chicago’s Midway Airport will be suspended Jan. 4 by bankrupt ATA Airlines.
Dane County airport director Brad Livingston said 62,876 passengers flew on the 28-seat ATA Connection flights through the first 11 months of 2004, representing about 4 percent of the airport’s market share.
Stony Brook University President Shirley Strum Kenny has called it a “brilliant” move.
Gordon Keller, a stem cell researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, said it’s already spurred an e-mail from a California colleague, asking if he’d like to head west.
California’s Proposition 71, which promises a windfall for human embryonic stem cell research and a way around federal funding restrictions, has earned praise throughout New York’s research community.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Michael Smith said no matter where you look, the trend is for including more information, not less.
Quoted: Jeremy Foltz, associate director of the University of Wisconsin’s Program on Agricultural Technology Studies.
SANTA CRUZ ââ?¬â? Denice Denton starts her new job as chancellor at UC Santa Cruz on Valentineââ?¬â?¢s Day, but sheââ?¬â?¢s already begun wooing the campus community.
Denton was the first woman to get tenure in engineering at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin
Responding to a formal complaint from a vocal critic of Michael Moore, the Federal Election Commission is investigating whether colleges violated a ban on corporate donations to political campaigns by allowing the controversial and partisan filmmaker to appear on their campuses during this fall’s presidential-election campaign and by paying him a speaker’s fee.
MADISON, Wis. — A higher education will not only prepare you for the future, but it may also help you live longer.
American eighth-grade students have made significant gains in math and science compared with their worldwide counterparts, but performance at the fourth-grade level appears to have reached a plateau, according to a major international study released yesterday.
Over the past eight decades, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, has helped patent and manage discoveries that have profoundly affected human health.
And, some might say, human history
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Recently UW researchers have put enough monitoring equipment on a bicycle to make your head spin, addressed shockwaves in fusion reactors with soap bubbles, and found losing sleep makes you hungry. Interested? Read on.
As final exams wrap up on college campuses across the country, the pills used to keep hyperactive or distracted children on task are being used by college students to boost their performance on tests.
The Education Department has canceled its annual grant competition for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education because Congress has earmarked the bulk of the program’s $163.6-million budget for pork-barrel projects.
Top donors to the McConnell Center for Political Leadership include some of the biggest corporations in Kentucky as well as major defense, tobacco and food companies across the country.
The donors to the University of Louisville academic center named for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., include Ashland Inc., the RJR Nabisco Foundation, Toyota and military contractor United Defense, all of which gave $500,000 or more.
Tariq Ramadan, the controversial Muslim scholar whose visa to teach in the United States was revoked in August by the federal government, has resigned from the University of Notre Dame post that he was to have taken this past autumn, and now he is without a job.
MADISON, Wis. — Some students expressed concern on the Edgewood College campus Tuesday after news came to light about two sexual assaults in a dorm last spring.
Campus administrators found and punished the two alleged student perpetrators — one of them a campus security employee at the time — but kept their names private and allowed them to stay on campus, News 3 reported.
A Dane County judge has accepted a prosecutor’s decision to drop a rape charge against Badger football team member, Dwayne Smith.
GENEVA (Reuters) – A prominent Swiss-based Islamic scholar on Tuesday gave up plans to teach at a leading U.S. university after waiting in vain for a visa and accused the Bush administration of trying to silence him.
After resisting for 18 months, PeopleSoft Inc. agreed on Monday to merge with the Oracle Corporation. The news came as a disappointment to many college officials who are wary about Oracle’s gaining control over PeopleSoft’s software products, which are widely used in higher education and which compete with Oracle’s own offerings.
Five of the world’s largest libraries have joined Google in a Herculean effort to digitize millions of books and make every sentence searchable.
Quoted: Norman Fost, a pediatrician and head of the University of Wisconsin’s bioethics program
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? While the Madison chapter of the World Future Society is dedicated primarily to looking ahead for new social and technological developments, Scott Converse showed them how looking to the past can also be important if they want to see where the next big thing is coming from.
Converse, an information technology director at the UW-Madison School of Business and founder of the Web integration firm Can�t Dance Technologies, spoke to the society on Thursday at the Fluno Center about what he sees as the next big technoloy innovation.
At a Christmas party this past weekend there was a discussion of Madison’s proposed public wireless Internet district downtown and there was some clear confusion about why it was needed.
Marquette University finance majors will have the opportunity to get a taste of what it is like to work on Wall Street when a new applied investment management (AIM) program is launched at the Milwaukee campus in January.
MADISON, Wis. — Gone are the days where students would drink a lot of soda and coffee to stay focused.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin media researcher Ken Goldstein
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
At factories across the globe, young women hunch over sewing machines in choreographed monotony, racing the clock for poverty wages as they stitch shirts that will be shipped to the States and emblazoned with five letters: U-C-O-N-N. (Login required.)
Quoted: Norm Fost, pediatrics professor and medical-ethics expert at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, is confounded by the paroxysms over steroids in sports.
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Login required.)
Joe Paterno prefers to stick to a game plan. The head coach of Pennsylvania State University’s football team doesn’t like surprises, although there are times when his enthusiasm gets the better of him.
Having persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down race-conscious undergraduate admissions policies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case are now asking a lower court to force the university to pay damages to thousands of rejected white and Asian-American applicants.
Quoted: Edward Friedman, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin
More college campuses are adopting deeply discounted ââ?¬â? and legal ââ?¬â? digital music as the latest amenity for students. Several top schools began offering these services in September, either free or highly subsidized. Now, student demand is spurring more university administrators to institute programs in January instead of waiting for fall.
At 8 p.m. the night before his psychology midterm, Chris Langley found himself at a familiar crossroads. Should he open his thick textbook and start studying, knowing that his mind would soon drift elsewhere? Or should he first visit a friend who, he knew, had something that could help him meet the seemingly insurmountable task?
Computer worms and other network pests are boring holes in campus technology budgets. More than half of American colleges and universities said they spent a greater portion of their information-technology budgets on security this year than last year, according to a Chronicle survey.
The University of Louisville Foundation said last week that it would release by today the names of 75 corporate and foundation donors, and the amounts they have given.
The announcement followed the foundation board’s decision that it would not appeal a Kentucky court’s ruling on the issue.
Credit card and mortgage companies promise customers an answer “while you wait” on loan applications. Now, more and more colleges are doing the same ââ?¬â? visiting high schools and letting applicants know their admissions fate right on the spot.
The law firm that persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the University of Michigan’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions policy wants U-M to refund application fees to thousands of people who were rejected by the school.
Marquette coach Tom Crean knows there will be a heckler at this home game, a guy decked out in Wisconsin red near the Golden Eagles bench giving him a hard time on Saturday.
Crean won’t care at all.
That’s how much the Marquette coach appreciates the work of Dr. Robert Love, a transplant guru at the University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, a presidential scholar who is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin,
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, founder and director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? UW-Madison scientists have research on the brain. In the past few months, university biomedical researchers have been pouring their time and effort into projects that can combat neural disorders and help patients live normal lives.
College football teams that will play in bowl games this winter are not doing enough to make sure their athletes graduate, according to studies released this week by the University of Central Florida and the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
The departing president of the University of Notre Dame sharply criticized his own institution on Wednesday for firing its football coach, Tyrone Willingham, last week at the end of his third season. (Subcription required.)
Worried about persistent security flaws in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, officials at the Pennsylvania State University system have taken the unusual step of recommending that students, professors, and staff members stop using the popular Web browser. (Subscription required.)
UW police are armed once again, with devices that can save lives – Automatic External Defibrillators. Last month, 27 news reported that an AED recall left police with two dozen defective devices.
The Associated Students of Madison will select two University of Wisconsin students for representation on the Dean of Education Search and Screen committee, even though university officials already selected two undergraduates to do the job.
With the Park Street residence hall construction already underway, the University of Wisconsin is at the drawing board again. UW is pushing forward with the most ambitious dorm construction plan since the 1980s.
Boy and girl meet, drink lots of booze, flirt a bit and then get right down to business: your place or mine?
The Associated Students of Madison announced goals accomplished during the fall semester and anticipated plans for spring semester in a press conference Wednesday afternoon
University of Wisconsin System officials are working to improve transfer students� transition onto the Madison campus after receiving an extensive review detailing areas of challenge these students experience.
It must be December. The whipping wind stings through layers of North Face, College Library fills with coffee guzzlers poring over final review sheets and on the corner of State Street a bell rings to solicit your change. Students value every cent scrimped for shopping and every moment saved for studying, so perhaps they bypass that red Salvation Army bucket one more time and head home out of the cold.
The demolition of University Square, a campaign against the Defense of Marriage Act and an initiative to limit next year’s tuition hike to 4.3 percent are just a few of the efforts Associated Students of Madison hopes to bring to fruition next semester, according to ASM officials.
A Madison Police Department drawing depicts the alleged offender in a rash of recent sexual assaults in Madison.
Initial appearances for defendants charged with minor offenses over Halloween concluded today. Dozens of people from various locations in the Midwest appeared in Madison Municipal Court Tuesday and Wednesday to enter a plea, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said.
I’ve been hanging around Madison for more than four years now and writing for The Daily Cardinal for several of them. In my last column for the Cardinal and I just wanted to make an observation and talk about a few of the issues I am passionate about.
