Californians have approved putting their state into further debt to fund stem-cell research. In election-day polling, 59 percent of California voters approved Proposition 71, which will provide $3 billion in research grants over the next decade.
Whitewater, Wis. ââ?¬â? Despite all the financial and mental effort put into creating a product, without the right marketing it will never get past a limited release or even a prototype. A source of guidance and research moving further into the spotlight is the Wisconsin Innovation Service Center.
By Laura Vanderkam
I am what pollsters call a ââ?¬Å?likely voter.
California voters sent a clear message in favor of embryonic stem cell research to Washington on Tuesday, backing a bond measure that supports the controversial science and perhaps triggering a research gold rush to the Golden State.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: John Coleman, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
Interviewd: Charles O. Jones, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. (Audio)
MADISON, Wis. – (KRT) – Throughout the campaign season, the color of the state of Wisconsin was in doubt.
Republican red or Democratic blue? Yet it never really mattered on football Saturdays, when Badger backers bleed nothing but cardinal and white.
The eighth annual Arlington Dairy Day will be held at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station next month to provide an opportunity for dairy farmers and others interested in dairy to learn how University of Wisconsin research can help them increase profitability and improve cow health.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, a UW-Madison political science professor
A proposal on the California ballot to raise $3-billion in state funds for research involving embryonic stem cells appears headed for approval. But in other states, ballot initiatives that would support colleges met mixed fates. (Subscription required.)
Carrying boxes of pizza, iPods, and textbooks, college students formed long lines outside many polling places across the nation on Tuesday, according to campus officials, student leaders, and voter-registration groups. (Subscription required.)
Two days removed from the violent State Street Halloween celebration, area business owners gather to vent.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin. (Login required.)
While tracking down the source of a minor glitch in their campus network last month, computer officials at Purdue University made a disturbing discovery: They’d just been hacked.
Applications to medical schools in the United States inched up in 2004 for the second consecutive year, with women outnumbering men and both black and Hispanic students making significant gains, the Association of American Medical Colleges announced last month. (Subscription required.)
Merri Lindgren is a librarian at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a noncirculating library of the School of Education at UW-Madison
NimbleGen’s advantage, Palay said, is using technology developed at UW- Madison
A still-angry Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will likely name a task force to explore how to greatly reduce or stop massive Halloween celebrations Downtown.
But others aren’t sure the city needs to shut down the party.
When 2,100 University of Wisconsin students learned at 9:01 a.m. Monday they had won men’s season basketball tickets in a lottery, they probably thought their day couldn’t get any better.
Well, it did.
It’s not hard to guess what State Street merchants will be talking about at their meeting this morning…But Downtown Alderman Mike Verveer tells WIBA News they’ll likely take a less negative view things than say…the Mayor.Ã?Â
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? James Thomson avoided talking politics in a public lecture on the eve of the presidential election, explaining instead the science behind his research into stem cells.
Mayor Cieslewicz’s fatigue and frustration showed Sunday. Monday, students and area business owners react to his response.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin menââ?¬â?¢s basketball team will hold an open scrimmage followed by an autograph session on Sunday, Nov. 7 at the Kohl Center. (Athletic Communications)
MADISON ââ?¬â?? That giant sucking sound you hear on Wednesday might be a good chunk of the countryââ?¬â?¢s stem cell scientists ââ?¬â?? including some from Wisconsin – being drawn to California.
Reacting to the death of a drunken college student, the University of Minnesota Duluth and city came together in 2001 determined to reduce alcohol-related problems.
But as a recent death and a hit-and-run crash illustrate, achieving such reductions can be difficult.
Aaron Brower, a social work professor at the University of Wisconsin and principal investigator for its effort to reduce the consequences of high-risk drinking.
Last weekend, diabetic Dan Quigley walked to his refrigerator, took out the insulin he’d injected three times daily for 42 years, and threw it in the trash.
Like the movie “Halloween” with its numerous sequels, Madison’s yearly Halloween celebration has become a horror story for the city three years in a row.
Laura L. Kiessling, a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
A day after Madison, Wis., police used pepper spray and riot gear to break up rowdy Halloween revelers along State Street and logged more than 400 arrests over the weekend for everything from underage drinking to urinating on the street, the city’s mayor warned that the party may be over.
Many University students were among those participating in Halloween festivities this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Shoemaker was extremely interested in UW-Madison and through the University Foundation endowed chairs in chemical engineering and economics at UW-Madison.
Daggett was a retired professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison, where he originated the first engineering plastics course taught in the world.
Menn was a lifetime member of the Mendota Gridiron Club, a member of the UW Athletic Badger Fund, a significant donor to the football program and a major contributor to the new University of Wisconsin Boat House for men and women’s rowing teams.
When the University of Wisconsin Allen Centennial Gardens were being planned in the mid-1980s Gabelman was asked to assume the responsibility for planning, planting and maintaining the rock gardens in the Allen Centennial Gardens, a responsibility they carried out with little additional help from 1985 until 1995.
UW-Madison students in six residence halls received misleading information this week about how to vote, triggering allegations of dirty tricks.
The streets were wet but the spirits weren’t dampened during Friday’s kickoff to Madison’s downtown Halloween celebration.
More than 850 experts in international security have signed an open letter to the American people assessing the Bush administration’s foreign policy as a “misguided” one with “overwhelmingly negative” results for American national security.”
The father of a UW-Madison student killed in a pedestrian accident as she walked home Tuesday night said Friday he believes she was walking along the side of Milwaukee Street, not crossing the street as was first reported.
Rain and wind tried to ruin the first night of the Halloween weekend, and it worked to some degree — driving some of the several thousand on State Street inside Friday.
Bruce Pearl took his University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers to the Big Dance in 2003, but it wasn’t until this past off-season that he hit the big leagues of fund-raising from Milwaukee’s business elite.
UW-Madison plays a pivotal and unique role in the economy of Madison by attracting people who can command relatively high salaries, said Kevin Reilly, University of Wisconsin System president.
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said he’s fed up with the wild behavior of Halloween’s rowdy revelers after police in riot gear dispersed a crowd of 5,000 on State Street early Sunday.
In Baghdad on Saturday night, thousands of young American men and women wished for nothing more fervently than to spend the evening safely.
If you’re not a man age 18 to 23, you may never understand the rabble rousers’ mentality on State Street early Sunday morning
Despite the large number of people who crushed onto State Street late Saturday and early Sunday, damage to the Downtown area was not extensive.
In his cramped fourth-floor dorm room overlooking University Avenue, Michael Johnson proudly displays his collection of politically charged T-shirts.
After a third straight year of violence…Madison’s Mayor wants the city to take a different stance on State Street Halloween. A visibly upset Mayor Dave Cieslewicz told reporters yesterday that he’ll ask city staff to come up with ways to discourage the event from happening
(Madison) You may have seen the last of Halloween on State Street. City officials are reacting toÃ? SaturdayÃ? night’s riotous end to yet another State Street celebration gone bad
(Madison) Police estimate about 75,000 people packedÃ? State Street Saturday. NBC15’s Zac Schultz and photojournalist Sam Sorensen went into the heart of the crowds to bring you this report.
An overnight apartment fire just off of State Street caused an estimated 30ââ?¬â??thousand dollars in damage.
Despite record numbers of high school graduates, state universities around the country are reporting a perplexing–and often sharp–decline in the number of African-Americans who matriculated this year. (Login required.)
MADISON, Wis. — Police in riot gear used pepper spray to clear Halloween revelers from downtown Madison after some in the crowd started a fire early Sunday. This is the third year in a row the party got violen
Just five years ago, the nation watched in disbelief as students from Michigan State University performed what was then a shameful rarity in American sports: rioting at the outcome of a big game.
What started as a lark ended with Bruce Springsteen, his wife Patti Scialfa and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw watching at least half of presidential candidate John Kerry’s speech from some UW students’ porch
All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush’s three-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection by the immune systems, diminishing their potential as medical treatments, new research indicates. (Login required.)
Two U-W students got the surprise of a lifetime today. A rock star showing up at their doorstep.
There are many reasons to jump around in Madison. For one, that scary good Badgers football team
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? The residents of 508 W. Washington Ave. were already pretty psyched when they realized that a massive rally with Sen. John F. Kerry and Bruce Springsteen would take place on their street Thursday afternoon.
When the rock star’s trailer parked in front of their house, 21-year-old Danya Bader-Natal ââ?¬â? one of the seven University of Wisconsin seniors who live in the gray wooden house ââ?¬â? scrawled a message in green marker on a flattened box and hung it from their second-story balcony: “Bruce come up for a beer.” (Login required.)
