(November 11, 2004) ââ?¬â? ORCHARD PARK ââ?¬â? When Lee Evans walked into the locker room at the Buffalo Bills’ training facility Wednesday morning, he found a picture on his stool, one suitable for framing.
It captured the rookie wide receiver making his dazzling fingertip catch in the end zone Sunday against the Jets, the second touchdown reception of his burgeoning career.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Internet Scout Project will use a recent $2.6 million grant to develop a program that will provide community and technical college educators access to the National Science Digital Library.
Quoted: David DeHorse, a law fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison, Wis.
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
In early October, high school guidance counselors from schools across the country toured the UW-Madison Campus, met with students and faculty, but were also treated to a private dinner reception and stayed at Madison’s upscale Concourse Hotel. The all expenses paid tour of the counselors was sponsored by UW-Madison and four other universities in Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of foreign students pursuing advanced degrees at U.S. universities fell this year, strengthening a trend that began after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison was one of seven U.S. research universities to receive a grant from the Intel Advanced Computing Center on Monday at the SC2004 high-power computing conference in Philadelphia.
As daunting as the college admissions and financial aid process is, there’s help out there for those who aren’t afraid to ask.
As the college application and financial aid season swings into gear, millions of high school students will take their first plunge ââ?¬â? by pen and paper or electronically ââ?¬â? into complex paperwork.
MONROE — Dr. Anthony Rogerson, a board-certified otorhinolaryngologist, has been reappointed to the teaching staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin reproductive specialist Dr. Elizabeth Pritts
The number of foreign students on American campuses declined last year by 2.4 percent — the first drop in foreign enrollments since the 1971-72 academic year. The figures, which confirm widespread predictions, appear in the latest edition of “Open Doors,” an authoritative annual report on academic mobility, which is scheduled to be released today. (Subscription required.)
Visa delays, fears of government red tape and growing competition from universities in Europe and elsewhere are keeping thousands of international college students from studying in the USA, a study being released today says.
Today’s test consists of only one question, so think carefully. The ”A” in SAT stands for: (a) aptitude; (b) achievement; (c) assessment; (d) all of the above; (e) none of the above. (Login required.)
Their readers may still value the “class notes” most (the Wellesley Magazine section fostered a kidney transplant between graduates), but alumni magazines these days are revamped, glossy and offering an impressive array of more worldly topics. (Login required.)
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 5 – Lynn G. Bailey, 18, a freshman at the University of Colorado here, spent his last night chugging whiskey and wine as part of an initiation ceremony with his fraternity brothers. Left by his friends to sleep it off, he died from alcohol poisoning.
Many of America’s top research universities suffered steep declines in foreign student enrollment this fall, according to two new surveys, and alarmed educators blamed delays in processing American visas as well as increased competition from universities overseas.
“This is a serious problem for our country,” said Peter D. Spear, the provost at the University of Wisconsin, where foreign enrollment declined by 3.8 percent, to 3,435 this year from 3,571 last year. “We depend on international students to provide a good portion of our science and engineering work force,” Dr. Spear said. (Login required.)
(MADISON) — The bowl buzz continues for the undefeated Badgers. But some dieââ?¬â??hard fans looking to score tickets to a bowl gameââ?¬Â¦ may be disappointed.
In 1993, President Clinton appointed Donna Shalala as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. After serving eight years and becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history, Shalala was selected as the University of Miami’s President
Quoted: Professor Ken Goldstein at the University of Wisconsin. (Audio.)
Tall Black shooting guard Kirk Penney has turned his back on Europe and will attempt to fulfill his basketball dream via the NBA Development League.
Quoted: Raymond Fonck, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
The dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences says this academic year will be his last in that post. Elton Aberle, who led the CALS division for the past six years, announced Monday that he will be retiring next fall.
(AP) — It’s a sad but recurring campus story: This autumn, students are again drinking themselves to death.
(UNDATED) A new study shows a three-year decline in the number of international students enrolling in American graduate schools. Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say the downward trend may hurt the image of the United States overseas. (8th item.)
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to extend its wireless network coverage to cover the entire campus by June 2006, according to the Division of Information Technology.
Madison, Wis. You’ve got to hand it to those risk-addicted Californians: Saddled with a debt running into the tens of billions of dollars, they don’t slice up their credit cards and pinch pennies. They borrow even more money to invest in their future.
Joining the ranks of school boards in Kansas and Ohio, the Grantsburg School District has passed a motion permitting “various theories/models of origins” to be incorporated into its science curriculum.
A letter signed by 43 of the University of Wisconsin System’s liberal arts and science deans urges the board to reverse the policy.
Quoted: Don Waller, a botanist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Tyler Roberts, education and outreach specialist for the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, Madison.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Professor Steve Stern, who has written extensively about the Shining Path.
California scientists and university officials last week celebrated a major victory after voters there approved a ballot measure to provide $3-billion in state funds over 10 years for stem-cell research. Officials were already planning to set up a mechanism to distribute the money.
With the re-election of President Bush last week and the Republicans expanding their majorities in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, the GOP will have almost a free hand to put its stamp on national higher-education policy for at least the next two years. (Subscription required.)
Warding off private institutions has always been a problem for state universities. But it has become particularly acute as the financial disparity between the two types has deepened in recent years
Medical schools need to loosen their hold on outmoded practices at a time when genomics and stem-cell research are promising longer and healthier lives, an aging population is confronting chronic diseases, and minority patients are still receiving substandard care, the president of the Association of American Medical Colleges said at the association’s annual meeting here on Sunday.
(Madison) With a 9-0 team Badger’s fans are loving this football season, and celebrating right alongside them are businesses and vendors near Camp Randall. For the last home game, the bars were full, brats were selling, and game goers were loading up on Badger’s gear. Some business owners feel the team’s winning streak is a boost to business.
GRANTSBURG, Wis. — The city’s school board has revised its science curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism, prompting an outcry from more than 300 educators who urged that the decision be reversed.
Quoted: Don Waller, a botanist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, a professor at the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Robin Alta Charo, a medical ethicist and assistant dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: Ronald L. Numbers, a University of Wisconsin science historian
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Athletic Director and head football coach, Barry Alvarez, publishes a monthly column which discusses topical issues in intercollegiate athletics. This monthââ?¬â?¢s column addresses the 12th game football proposal being discussed nationally. (Athletic Communications)
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.286-billion as of October 15 (increase of $42.4-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007.
Initial reports that college students voted in underwhelming numbers on Election Day were based on incomplete and incorrect conclusions about the student turnout, according to experts on student voting who have been studying the election results since Tuesday.
The film industry announced on Thursday that it will take a page out of the record companies’ playbook and begin suing people it suspects of trading movies illegally online.
(MADISON) — The University of Wisconsin is known as a premier research institution full of highly trained professionals. But at the UW Board of Regents meeting Thursday, regents expressed concern over the ability to keep their top administrators without raising salaries.
(MADISON)Ã? Kids staying at the UW Children’s Hospital got to meet some hometown heroes Thursday. Bucky Badger and members of the University of Wisconsin football team visited patients
A new survey indicates the number of foreign graduate students enrolling for the first time at American universities is down 6 percent this year ââ?¬â? the third straight decline after a decade of growth. Educators worry the trend is eroding America’s position as the world’s leader in higher education.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison student says police may have used too much force to calm the rowdy crowds over Halloween weekend. He says his videotape proves it.
Using two video cameras, UW senior Greg Knowles recorded people gathering around the University Inn on State Street as police suited up in riot gear. Knowles said the officers might have been out of line when they tried to control the crow
Embryonic stem-cell research was born in Wisconsin. It matured in Massachusetts.
But it will grow up in California, nourished by the passage of Proposition 71, which authorizes $3 billion in spending over 10 years, science-policy experts predict. (Login: clipsheet@news.wisc.edu, pass: badgers)
Let the scramble for the cash begin.
By approving a proposition Tuesday that will make $3 billion in state funds available over the next decade for stem cell research, California voters made the state the likely world center for science that may one day lead to treatments for some of the world’s most devastating diseases.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? What does it mean to the biotech community to have a major research facility in your backyard? That question should be thoroughly addressed at the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference program named ââ?¬Å?Inside the Labs: Where Science Spawns Novel Therapies.ââ?¬Â The conference will be held November 16 and 17.
With the passage of a $3-billion stem cell bond measure, California moves into uncharted territory, becoming the first state to create a massive program to fund a single field of scientific research.
Scientists around the country who study embryonic stem cells may be mourning four more years of President Bush’s restrictive funding policy, but California scientists are throwing a party, and top researchers in less-funded states are hoping for invitations.
Passage of the $3 billion stem cell research initiative, Proposition 71, could help California repeat one of the most celebrated chapters in its business history if one of its most eminent supporters is right.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang.
Affirmative action hurts black law students more than it helps them, by bumping applicants up into law schools where they are more likely to earn poor grades, drop out, and fail their states’ bar exams, according to a forthcoming study by a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Madison’s Fire Chief gives her team high marks for its responses during the Halloween weekend. In an after action report, Chief Debra Amesqua tells WIBA News firefighters and paramedics responded to 138 calls.
“Discouraging”? That’s the word to describe Halloween on State Street both past and future. It was very discouraging to have all the planning and preparation that went into last weekend’s event fail to prevent the unruliness that eventually again ruined the weekend. And it is in the best interests of this city to discourage future Halloween celebrations downtown.
Since the master’s degree in business administration first appeared decades ago, critics have rapped the MBA as an ivory tower creation with little relevance to real life. Indeed, many MBA graduates barely set foot in a workplace before they land a six-figure salary.
