On what is widely viewed to be a predominantly liberal campus, the UW-Madison College Republicans consider their views to be underrepresented. As a result, members of the group will be putting their own newspaper into publication.
California’s Proposition 71, which backs embryonic stem cell research, was passed by voters last month. The impact of the state’s decision is beginning to be felt around the country. NPR’s Ina Jaffe reports. (Audio.)
Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin, and director of the bioethics program there.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Department of Justice has begun to study Tasers, the electric guns that are increasingly popular with police, in the face of new questions over their safety.
The department has financed a study at the University of Wisconsin to determine how electrical currents move through the body
IRVINE, Calif. – Californians voted by a wide margin last month to pass a landmark $3 billion initiative to fund stem-cell research. That may have been the easy part.
Quoted: Thomas Romberg, a math educator at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Gerald Kulcinski, director of the University of Wisconsin Fusion Technology Institute, said this oversight may be part of an institutional bias.
MADISON, Wis. – Nearly 30 members from the womenââ?¬â?¢s openweight and lightweight rowing teams volunteered their time in Shorewood Hills, Saturday, Dec. 4, to raise money for the UW chapter of Habitat for Humanity in its annual ââ?¬Å?Rake-a-thonââ?¬Â fundraiser. (Athletic Communications)
If a community wants to reduce the problems associated with binge drinking, its city leaders, campus officials and tavern owners have to stop finger-pointing and come to a consensus on what the problem is, an expert on college alcohol abuse prevention said Wednesday.
Susan Crowley, director of an alcohol abuse prevention program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said even though the Madison campus has not solved all its alcohol-related problems, it has reduced the rate of binge drinking on campus from 67 percent in 1999 to 59 percent this year.
Colleges that bar or restrict military recruiting on their campuses cannot be penalized with the loss of federal funds, a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled last week.
People will continue to write books, people will continue to read books, and the academic-publishing process needs to be reformed so that we can continue to meet our goal of scholarly communication in an economically sustainable way.
Without question, concerns about the mental health of college students have risen substantially over the past decade. Numerous studies all point in the same direction: Serious mental-health problems are growing on campuses, and more professional resources are needed to solve them. (Subscription required.)
MADISON, Wis. – The Big Ten Conference recognized 38 University of Wisconsin student-athletes for outstanding performances in the classroom with places on the conferenceââ?¬â?¢s fall all-academic team announced Wednesday.
(MADISON)Ã? — University of Wisconsin students are just a little more than a week away from their final exams. And some students are using drugs to help them study for the big test.
MIAMI – The University of Miami School of Medicine announced its largest donation ever Monday: $100 million from the family of the late construction magnate Leonard Miller, founder of the Lennar Corp.
WASHINGTON – Compared with their peers in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, U.S. 15-year-olds are below average when it comes to applying math skills to real-life tasks, new test scores show.
NEW YORK – Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy. When students do research online these days, many educators worry, those are often about the only steps they take. If they can avoid a trip to the library at all, many students gladly will.
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. With the projects now entering the area of human testing and getting closer to market, their attention to detail has become more important than ever.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Accessibility technology developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Trace Research and Development Center will help people use the United States Postal Serviceââ?¬â?¢s automated postal centers to send packages this December.
MADISON, Wis. — Recent stranger attacks on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus have safety services urging students to give them
Results of a five-year, $5 million study of AmeriCorps, a 10-year-old national program that provides scholarship money to young people in return for their volunteer work, show positive effects for volunteers and the nature of volunteerism.
Ask 19-year-old Lana Little why she spends eight hours a day hammering, drilling and otherwise helping to build an energy-efficient house for a low-income stranger and she grins with pride. ââ?¬Å?What we’re doing here ââ?¬â? people who never owned a house before ââ?¬â? they’re gonna have a house,ââ?¬Â she says.
The U.S. Department of Education said it is investigating a complaint that the University of Virginia’s undergraduate admissions policy discriminates against white applicants.
The North Carolina simulated learning company 3Dsolve is the latest partner in the development of the Croquet Project at UW-Madison, a graphical communications framework. The company announced on Monday at the I/ITSEC trade show in Orlando that it has begun developing software for the Croquet system to see how it can be applied to military and commercial avenues.
Dean Baxter Mory, age 91, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, at Mercy Hospital in Janesville. He attended the UW-Madison where he won letters for gymnastics and wrestling and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Physical Education. He taught Physical Education at Franklin and Nakoma Elementary Schools before becoming head gymnastics coach and assistant professor in the School of Education at UW-Madison (1949 to 1961).
Gilbert Eugene Buske, 91, died on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004. He was born on May 18, 1913, in the same farm home as his father, in the township of Anson, Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
After graduating in 1940, he stayed very connected with the University of Wisconsin and its mechanical engineering professors, establishing in 1984 (with wife Gen, also a UW grad) a scholarship program which eventually benefited some 240 engineering students, and this program will continue to provide scholarships for many years to come.
Compiled by KELLIE BARTLETT
The 23 American universities that are seeking to raise at least $1-billion collected a total of $246.5-million in gifts and pledges during the last month for which they had data available.
By Janet Kidd Stewart
Oh, to be young again and in … hock. A stunning 111,000 adults age 25 and under will file for bankruptcy this year, according to a projection by Harvard University bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren.
By Tim Cigelske Wisconsin State Journal
On Saturday, dozens came to watch senior Grant Zukowski and his fellow UW-Madison students demonstrate their art glass skills as they held an open house for their new cutting-edge studio.
The new studio restores UW-Madison as one of the leading universities for art glass instruction, said art professor Steve Feren. Feren has been with UW-Madison’s glass program for 23 years.
By Andy Hall Wisconsin State Journal
At age 8, Colin Christison simply hopes to watch a famous professor blow things up.
At age 65, though, UW-Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri sets a lofty goal for the experiments in his annual Christmas show: ” My aim is to reach young adults, young parents and their children to try to motivate them and sustain the natural curiosity that all human beings have.”
By Beth Williams Wisconsin State Journal
The patient, head swaddled with wires going every which way to various black boxes, lies still on a hospital bed. A square cursor moves across a computer screen.
With little obvious effort and no physical motion, the patient uses thought alone to move the cursor up or down until it collides with a target at the edge of the screen.
The UW-Madison experiment is about far more than games, it’s about eventually helping people mentally unlock limbs paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease, strokes or other means.
All seems idyllic under the windswept trees of college campuses nationwide. But behind the scenes, therapists are scrambling to treat a rising tide of mental and emotional problems among students. Independent research portrays a student body struggling to cope with normal college stressors and chronic conditions alike.
U.S. high school students match their peers in other nations when it comes to math skills. But ask them to apply those skills to real-world situations and things begin to look a bit bleak, a new study suggests. The nation’s 15-year-olds make a poor showing on a newly released international test of practical math applications, ranking 24th out of 29 industrialized nations, behind South Korea, Japan and most of Europe. U.S. students’ scores were comparable to those in Poland, Hungary and Spain.
They might be above average on the field. But almost two-thirds of college football’s 56 bowl-bound programs have player graduation rates lower than the 54% average in NCAA Division I-A, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Students at the University of Wisconsin’s biomedical engineering department will have a chance to bring a semesterââ?¬â?¢s worth of work into the spotlight on Friday at the Biomedical Engineering Design Expo.
The College Board, which owns the SAT college entrance exam, is demanding that a nonprofit group critical of standardized tests remove from its Web site data that breaks down scores by race, income and sex. The demand, in a letter to The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, also known as FairTest, accuses the group of infringing on the College Board’s copyright.
Drinking will be banned at University of Oklahoma fraternities and residence halls under new policies announced Wednesday, two months after a 19-year-old student died of alcohol poisoning. University of Oklahoma President David Boren said the rules will go into effect January 18 at the start of the new semester. Three violations will end in a student’s suspension for one semester.
Madison – Despite suffering a dip in productivity in the final two regular-season games because of injury, University of Wisconsin senior Erasmus James continues to reel in post-season honors.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – Receiver Lee Evans learned the value of staying patient a long time ago.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat and the Senate’s unofficial constitutional scholar, has inserted language into the final $388-billion spending bill for 2005 requiring that any educational institution that receives federal aid offer its students an instructional program on the U.S. Constitution each September 17, the anniversary of its signing. (Subscription required.)
Wisconsin officials have decided to open a statewide scholarship program to nonminority students as part of an agreement negotiated with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. (Subscription required.)
MADISON — California may not be able to lure famed stem cell researcher James Thomson away from UW-Madison.
But Thomson, the molecular biologist who first isolated and reproduced human embryonic stem cells, believes many talented post-doctoral researchers will be headed to the� Golden State.
Commentary By Julianne Malveaux
Fewer African-American students were admitted to state universities this year, prompting concern that their presence is endangered on many campuses.
U.S. Education secretary: ââ?¬Å?The good news is that girls have narrowed or completely erased the educational learning gap with boys. Unfortunately, boys now seem to be falling behind, and this is particularly a problem in minority communities. The key is early support and intervention.
Girls are taking the nation’s colleges by storm. They’re streaming to campuses in greater numbers, earning better grades and graduating more often. The same phenomenal success shows in high schools, where girls dominate honor rolls, hold more student government spots and rake in most of the academic awards.
After three years of investigation, the federal government has told the state Department of Public Instruction that it must restructure the requirements of a minority-targeted scholarship program so it is not exclusively based on race and ethnicity.
The DPI will instead adopt new eligibility standards – the ones used for free and reduced lunch programs – for the Minority Precollege Scholarship Program. It also will rename it the DPI Precollege Scholarship Program.
Quoted: Michele LaVigne, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a former public defender in Madison and Eau Claire.
Students attending the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee may soon have to watch how they behave off-campus or risk getting punished by the folks on campus.
Ongoing complaints from neighbors living near the campus have prompted UWM officials to consider expanding conduct codes to cover student activities in surrounding neighborhoods. The neighbors’ frustrations hit a high note this fall.
Quoted: Benjamin Schumaker of Madison, a 22-year-old graduate student in social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Acting quickly after a federal appeals court this week overturned a law forcing colleges to allow military recruiters on their campuses, Harvard Law School has become the first institution to once again ban the visits, on the grounds that the armed forces discriminate against gay men and lesbians. (Subscription required.)
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Students at the University of Wisconsin’s biomedical engineering department will have a chance to bring a semesterââ?¬â?¢s worth of work into the spotlight on Friday at the Biomedical Engineering Design Expo.
NORMAN, Okla. – Drinking will be banned at University of Oklahoma fraternities and residence halls under new policies announced Wednesday, two months after a 19-year-old student died of alcohol poisoning.
Carl E. Gulbrandsen, managing director of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and president of WiCell Research Institute, spoke recently with WisBusiness.com’s Brian Leaf about recent developments involving stem cells and their implications for Wisconsin.
AMES, Iowa – A task force studying ways to avoid the rioting that took place during a student festival last spring at Iowa State University presented its report Tuesday to the university president.
Building a “tree of life” for all the species on the planet may be easier than first thought, according to a study by UC Davis researchers published in the journal Science Nov. 12.
The other authors on the paper are C�©cile An�©, now assistant professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madis
Quoted: David E. Joranson, a University of Wisconsin pain expert.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDayNews) — Green tea appears to inhibit the spread of prostate cancer in a number of ways, says a study in the Dec. 1 issue of Cancer Research.
For many people, a higher education is the ticket to a high- paying job.
But what happens when the cost of that ticket becomes a deterrent to choosing a career that will pay a modest or middle-income salary?
“My worry is that even if people can afford to take out the loans, their career choices are going to be biased in favor of paying off their loans — biased in favor of careers that will make more money,” says former labor secretary Robert B. Reich. (login required.)
WASHINGTON ââ?¬â? Handing a significant legal victory to gay-rights advocates, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that academic institutions may restrict on-campus recruiting by the military because of the Pentagon’s policy on gays and lesbians. (Login required.)
