The average student-loan debt for students who took the loans out on their way to earning a bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison in 2003-04 was more than $17,000, up 6.9 percent from the year before.
Mosquito abatement usually means one thing: blasting the pesky critters with pesticides. Those pesticides, although highly effective, can impair other organisms in the environment.
Que Lan, insect physiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her colleagues in the entomology department are working on a new, more targeted approach to mosquito control: inhibiting their ability to metabolize cholesterol.
Chalkboard dust has officials at the University of Minnesota and other colleges and universities gradually replacing blackboards with a cleaner alternative: markers and whiteboards. Although some faculty members have voiced dismay over the switch, Steve Fitzgerald, director of classroom management at the university’s Twin Cities campus, says rooms with chalk dust cost more to clean, and electronic equipment in classes with blackboards has to be cleaned twice as often. About 60% of the university’s 300 classrooms still have blackboards, but the percentage will drop as buildings are renovated, Fitzgerald says.
(OSHKOSH) The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is searching out former students who left the college just a few credits shy of their degree. The so-called ââ?¬Å?Oshkosh Graduation Projectââ?¬Â may be implemented statewide. (Second item.)
The U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday that it would not appeal a court ruling that allowed the Oracle Corporation to continue a hostile bid to take over PeopleSoft Inc. The department’s decision disappointed some college officials whose institutions use PeopleSoft software. (Subscription required.)
The village of Jackson in Washington County is lobbying to become the home of a proposed University of Wisconsin-Madison research park that would be located between Milwaukee and Madison.
I believe the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is viewed as a crucial catalyst for the economic well-being of the city of Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin.
(MADISON)–A new book highlights the efforts of teammates who turned in their football uniforms for fatigues.
MADISON, Wis. — The family of a University of Wisconsin student who suffered severe brain damage when he fell from a balcony in August says he is making progress.
McKenna worked at the University of Wisconsin, Sellery Hall, as a housekeeper until her retirement.
Recently released statistics show this year�s freshman class as the most competitive and diverse the University of Wisconsin has ever seen.
Often times in Madison, talking politics can prove a frustrating affair. Frequently people so well informed as to the national and international scene remain blissfully unaware of local issues. Somewhere between the perpetual addressing of the Patriot Act and the 107th mention of Bush, hair begins to fall out. And yet, bring up the issue of TABOR and the question is met with a quizzical look.
With 30 days to go until Halloween, the city of Madison is doing all it can to keep the newly redesigned 100 block of State Street free from Halloween vandalism.
I am writing in response to your staff opinion on the Halloween riots (“Dressing up the problem,” Staff Opinion, Sept. 29).
University of Wisconsin students may feel like they have seen it all on campus, from Halloween hysteria to Mifflin Street madness, so students fighting naked in the streets may not come as a surprise.
Because of the recent boom in popularity of individually-owned housing in the downtown Madison area, many new condominium complexes being built, such as the new Capitol West development, may also cause a boom in the rise of vacancies in rented apartments in the downtown area as well as on the University of Wisconsin campus.
University of Wisconsin is often revered as one of the top college football venues in the country. However, after a visit to Camp Randall Saturday, ESPN GameDay host Chris Fowler claims UW has lost its title.
When I first heard one of the latest weapons the Madison Police Department has added to its arsenal to combat drunken disarray at this year’s State Street Halloween extravaganza was the family hayride, I sincerely thought someone was kidding.
Students and graduates had a chance to network around the world outside college at the 2004 Career Links reception, held Thursday night at the Pyle Center. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, the forum offered students of all levels and backgrounds a chance to talk with alumni about finding a career path outside of college.
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project.
How does Camp Randall Stadium go from being the center of the ESPN universe one week to a broadcasting black hole the next?
Blame it on the Big Ten Conference.
Twenty years ago, Maine’s Bates College, a highly selective liberal arts institution, launched what was considered a bold initiative ââ?¬â? it made submission of SAT I scores optional for applicants.
The renovation of Camp Randall Stadium is moving along smoothly, but a development last Saturday during the University of Wisconsin football game with Penn State illustrates there is work to be done.
A stadium employee noticed that small chunks of decayed concrete had fallen from a first-level concourse ceiling near the north end zone. That’s an area that will be upgraded during the final phase of the renovation, which is scheduled for completion in 2005.
Nancy Zimpher, whose first anniversary as president of the University of Cincinnati is Friday, has dealt with a variety of issues ranging from producing a new strategic plan to disciplining basketball coach Bob Huggins.
Author: Keith R. Martin, M.D., assistant clinical professor, Department of Ob-Gyn, University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison
Quoted: Dan Veroff, executive director of the Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin
Using a vibrating arm less than one-millionth of an inch long and one-thousand times thinner than a human hair, a new transistor toggles on and off through the movement of a single electron.
The single electron transistor (SET) was created by UW-Madison engineering professor Robert Blick and physicist Dominik Scheible of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.
BOULDER, Colo. – The University of Colorado has barred freshmen from joining fraternities and sororities during their first semester after the death of an 18-year-old student who had apparently been drinking heavily with his new frat brother.
Today’s twentysomethings won’t have the lives their parents had. And that’s OK by them. They’re going to school longer, delaying marriage and children, job-hopping and apartment-swapping. They’re also moving back home after college to save money, traveling to faraway places to work and generally taking ââ?¬Å?meââ?¬Â time to decide what they want their futures to be.
MADISON, Wis. — About 100 ALS patients and supporters rallied outside the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison Wednesday, saying they are confused and frustrated after a research lab shut down.
Rather than circling the track, the UW-Madison Formula Society of Automotive Engineers racing team scrutinizes designs and discusses ergonomics.
Last Halloween, like the one before it, there was a riot.
When bars let out, lots of drunken, rowdy, costumed people fled to the streets. They proceeded to cause a whole lot of damage. The Den had merchandise stolen. The University Inn found its rooms littered with glass. Tomboy Girl had to move off of State Street. Lots of bad things happened, many caused by people out of state – people with little vested interest in the happiness of Madison businesses.
Quoted: Norman Fost, a pediatrics and medical ethics professor at the University of Wisconsin,
Quoted: Kenneth R. Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin
As the Presidential campaigns shift into high gear, a warning for UW professors and faculty.
Quoted: UW Political Science professor Ken Goldstein.
As 27 News first reported Monday at 6PM, Madison Police will shed some light on Halloween Partiers on State Street
Judith Claire Mitchell, author of “The Last Day of the War,” served as the grand judge for this yearââ?¬â?¢s contest.
Mitchell teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison and will also be reading from her new novel on Oct. 7 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Orpheum Theatre.
In a first-floor conference room of an otherwise quiet Big Ten office building, four men, four television screens and four recorders are monitoring the first week of league play on the first Saturday of autumn.
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a pair of rapid-fire tests for botulinum toxin, a feat that could underpin new technologies to thwart bioterrorism and spur the development of agents to blunt the toxic action of the world�s most poisonous substance.
I have not, nor has anyone as far as I know, ever tried to measure the creative environment of American colleges. At least in terms of direct measures, I remain agnostic on the question of how creative we are within the walls of academe. But I do believe that we need some way to compare where creativity is flourishing and where it is languishing.
Call it a campus “creativity index.”
When Ashley Wheaton enrolled in the University of Georgia three years ago, the former high-school cheerleader decided that she could better support her favorite football team by putting down her pompoms and picking up the title of football recruiting hostess. (Subscription required.)
Sean C. McConnell is the kind of budding young researcher who some scientists and politicians fear could develop a permanent case of the blues over the Bush administration’s current policy on stem-cell research. (Subscription required.)
Gov. Jim Doyle is on the far side of the Pacific this week, hoping to mine a rebounding Japanese economy for financing to help fund bio-science firms in Wisconsin.
ââ?¬Å?My goal on this trip is to connect the right people, talk up Wisconsin and tell people about the research that is coming out of the University of Wisconsin and other research institutions in our state,ââ?¬Â he said.
MADISON, Wis. — Edgewood College political experts say there is a better way to watch the presidential debates.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? A new RFID lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will give an advance showing September 29 to attendees of the its e-business conference.
Barry Gerhart, a professor and researcher in the field of human resources, has been named to the Bruce R. Ellig Chair in Pay and Organizational Effectiveness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney of the University of Wisconsin, an anthropologist. (Login required.)
As far as Alex Lewis is concerned, his life is pretty great right now. You won’t hear him complaining one bit.
The challenge facing the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at this point in its historic trajectory is to fundamentally enhance our academic profile. We do that in an environment that is less than optimal from a budgetary perspective, but I believe we have real strengths with which to accomplish our goals.
For some college student, it’s drinking as usual at this year’s Oktoberfest.
Just six months ago, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Jared Dion became the seventh young man to drown in area waters in as many years.
Alcohol played a part in all seven deaths.
Olympic gold medal rower Beau Hoopman was asked last week how many miles he puts in during training each week.
Quoted: David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Login required.)
Quoted: Charles Jones, the University of Wisconsin political scientist who has studied presidential leadership styles. (Login required.)
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project
Quoted: Dr. James Gern of the University of Wisconsin Medical School’s Asthma Allergy Clinical Research Center, (Login required.)
Three teams of dairy cattle judges from the University of Wisconsin-Madison competed at last week’s Midwest Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest in Viroqua, held by Accelerated Genetics.
Lawyers for the UW-Madison are advising faculty members and other employees to put away their political buttons while at work
(Madison)Ã? Some local heroes made some kids very happy Friday at the University of WisconsinÃ? Children’s Hospital.
(MADISON)–Two men are in trouble with the law for allegedly waving a plastic replica of a human skull at passersby in front of the UWstudent union.
