La Crosse has a culture of drinking ââ?¬â? with a brewery, festivals and three colleges ââ?¬â? and a “high-risk drinking pattern, not just among college students,” University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor Doug Hastad said Tuesday.
For more than 20 years, Curt Watson has spent many fall Saturdays alongside more than 100,000 other fans in the University of Tennessee’s football stadium, cheering the Volunteers. This fall he’ll probably be fishing with his kids
MADISON – Start-up companies come and go, that’s the law of the marketplace.
But over the past two decades, the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference has provided a critical link between fledgling hi-tech and bioscience firms and capital, according to a report prepared by economist David Ward.
A Muslim scholar who had accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame had his visa revoked earlier this month at the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Subscription required.)
More than a dozen bar owners in Madison are questioning the need for a city-wide ban on late night drink specials. That’s how many spoke at a roundtable discussion on the idea….and other alcohol related issues last night.
(Madison)� Madison tavern owners are vocal about their opposition to banning drink specials.
MADISON, Wis.ââ?¬â?A proposition on California’s ballot this November may affect Wisconsin’s leadership in the field of embryonic stem cell research, experts say. If passed, the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, or Proposition 71, will provide $3 billion in tax-free state bonds over 10 years for embryonic stem cell researchââ?¬â?placing the Golden State at the forefront of stem cell funding.
During a recent University of Wisconsin football practice, Dwayne Smith approached Jamil Walker on the sidelines and counseled the freshman running back on the proper use of technique. The instruction lasted a few minutes.
LAST spring, when Marisa L. Dudiak’s second-grade class in Frederick County, Md., returned from a field trip to a Native American farm, all the students wanted to do was talk about what they saw. But instead of leading a discussion about the trip, Mrs. Dudiak had the students sign on to their classroom Web log.
Author: Theodore P. Gerber is associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: Phil Pelleteri, a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin’s Stephen Gammie
The costs of a University of Wisconsin education have been increasingly shifting from taxpayers to students and their families – setting in motion two alarming and related trends:
Fewer students from middle- to lower-income brackets are enrolling than they used to.
A smaller share of the state’s high school grads of color are winding up as UW freshme
Your toddler has somehow made it through diapers, puberty and fumbled first dates and morphed into an intelligent young adult who’s headed straight for college, late-night cram sessions and new friends.
Do you think your child will go to the party? Will your child drink? How much will your child drink?
If you don’t know the answers, you probably need to talk to your child about the consequences of college drinking and the dangers of binge drinking, experts say.
Quoted: Aaron Brower, a professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an expert on binge drinking
Like many others, my experience with alcohol started when I left for school to attend the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. I never drank in high school and have never felt that it belongs there. I did drink freshman year; alcohol, for me, was just part of the college experience.
Some of the nation’s top schools have aligned themselves with fee-based digital music services for students.
The University of California at Berkeley and the University of Minnesota have signed deals with RealNetworks to offer the company’s online music service at a greatly reduced rate to students on the campuses. (Subscription required.)
LOS ANGELES ââ?¬â? When Lisa Staib was choosing colleges this spring, her cousin, a Penn State student, helped sway her decision by describing an unusual campus perk: free Napster. A onetime Internet music outlaw, Napster’s gone legit.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police now openly acknowledge they made mistakes at last year’s Killer Halloween Party 2003 on State Street
Around 1:30 in the afternoon of December 7, 1941, Erwin Kissling strolled into Rennebohm’s Pharmacy, on the edge of the University of Wisconsin campus.
Quoted: Terry Devitt, a spokesman for stem cell research at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison – Phase II of the $107 million Camp Randall Stadium renovation project is nearly complete and University of Wisconsin officials remain confident football fans will embrace the dramatic updates when the season opens on Sept. 4.
Herbert Hill, who as the N.A.A.C.P.’s labor director in the 1950’s and 1960’s was one of the loudest and most effective voices raised against racial discrimination by unions, died on Sunday in Madison, Wis. He was 80.
FOX POINT, Wis. – A radio talk show host has been reprimanded at work after police said he left a “scathing message” on the answer machine of an outspoken opponent of a Best Buy store moving into a shopping center in town.
Police said they also issued a $300 municipal ticket to Casey Hoff, 22, of Madison, for alleged unlawful use of a telephone. The University of Wisconsin-Madison business student hosts a Saturday talk show on WTDY-AM in Madison.
Madison – University of Wisconsin tailback Dwayne Smith, expected to play a prominent role in the team’s offense this season, is scheduled to see doctors this week about an unspecified but apparently serious medical condition.
Carrying a Walkman was hip in 1985. Ten years later, so was toting a portable CD player. This year, teenagers and 20-somethings are putting MP3 players alongside pens and pencils on their back-to-school must-have lists.
Quoted: Gerontologist Richard Weindruch
There�s nothing quite like going into the deep freeze to learn more about planet Earth.
That�s where Jihong Cole-Dai, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at South Dakota State University, and graduate students Drew Budner and Dave Ferris will find themselves when they head to Antarctica in December.
The South Pole field team, will consist of the three SDSU researchers and two drilling engineers from the University of Wisconsin
The first major changes to federal wage and labor laws in more than 50 years have colleges and universities scrambling to determine whether some of their employees are eligible for overtime pay. (Subscription required.)
It was embarrassing enough when an Eckerd College trip overseas celebrating the glory of Europe last winter culminated in a group of students’ sampling too much of the local vintage, insulting the residents and keeping guests at their hotel awake with their drunken revelry.
But after another student on one of Eckerd’s overseas excursions studying human rights and diplomacy decided to settle a political disagreement with his fists less than six months later, the college had had enough.
Melba Munguia is so determined to be a college student that, like hundreds of thousands of other young people, she has practically become one in high school.
MADISON, Wis. — The pre-game prep is almost over for Camp Randall.
In less than two weeks, phase one of renovations will be complete. Officials said fans would be surprised when they step into the stadium for the first time and take their seats.
(MADISON) — For the third year in a row, UW News and World Report has ranked the University of Wisconsin the 7th best public school in the nation.
ATHENS, Greece – Former Badger rower Beau Hoopman helped the United States to its first gold medal in the Olympic menââ?¬â?¢s eight in 40 years on Sunday. The race took place at Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre.
NEW YORKÃ? ââ?¬â?Ã? This month marks the first anniversary of a student tracking system that has nabbed 155 individuals in its first year for various suspicious activities, including using forged documents.
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) (search) is a nationwide electronic system launched last August that houses information on foreign students and exchange visitors to the United States.
At Barnard College in New York, administrators read over lifestyle surveys and even a student essay in their efforts to make a successful freshman roommate match. At Michigan, they separate the smokers but leave the rest to chance. The University of Utah lets freshmen find their own roommates from anonymous profiles online.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Are human embryonic stem cells Democratic or Republican?
Apple’s trendy iPod digital music player, which has revitalized the company, is giving laptop sales a boost during back-to-school season. Many students, after falling in love with the iPod, are packing for college with new Apple Macintosh computers.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will forward a 2005-’07 operating budget request to the governor that envisions no more than 4.3% in tuition increases annually coupled with a 7.2% yearly increase in state spending on the universities.
For the second straight year, Harvard and Princeton universities share the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s controversial rankings of ââ?¬Å?America’s Best Colleges
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, who watches every political ad as director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin. (Audio)
MADISON, Wis. — What’s more important to a manufacturing company: time or money?
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Quick Response Manufacturing, ruthlessly cutting down the time it takes to get products developed and produced is seen as the best way to reduce costs and end up with more ââ?¬â? you guessed it ââ?¬â? money.
MADISON, Wis.ââ?¬â? My UW Madisonââ?¬â?the portal used by University of Wisconsin-Madison students, staff and faculty for online organizational and scheduling tasksââ?¬â?is migrating to uPortal, the university announced Wednesday. The vendor for the project, Arizona-based Unicon, was also announced.
In 1992, the fledgling non-profit group Rock the Vote seemed to have reached its goal ââ?¬â? to make it cool to vote. ââ?¬Å?With MTV having the ââ?¬Ë?Rock the Vote’ thing, I think it made it trendy,ââ?¬Â a Cal State-Fullerton student told the Orange County Register. That November, youth turnout shot up for the first time in two decades.
NEW YORK ââ?¬â? The youth vote, perhaps the most elusive quarry in U.S. politics, is being Rocked, Smacked Down, Rapped and otherwise goosed by everyone from blinged-out rappers to Harvard professors to the League of Women Voters.
Quoted: Kenneth R. Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Wang Jianwei, a China expert at the University of Wisconsin
Valentin Jimenez, 18 and fresh out of high school, has never lived away from home. He has rarely set foot outside East Los Angeles.
Now, with a few sweaters in his suitcase and $500 in his pocket, he has left his Mexican-born parents to attend Grinnell College in Iowa.
He’s on his own for the first time. But he isn’t alone.
Jimenez is settling in the heartland with his “posse” ââ?¬â? nine other Los Angeles-area high school graduates who are venturing as a group to the leafy, elite liberal arts college nearly 2,000 miles from home. (Login required.)
MADISON, Wis. – Herbert Hill, who served as the NAACP’s labor secretary from 1953 to 1977 and later helped establish the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s black studies department, has died.
Hill died Sunday at a Madison hospice at the age of 80.
Dirt may help scientists answer a question that has baffled them for decades: How does chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk spread from animal to animal?
By turning to the land, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show that prions – infectious proteins considered to be at the root of the disease – literally stick to some soil types, suggesting that the landscape may serve as an environmental reservoir for the disease.
The attorney representing U-W Running Back Dwayne Smith has filed motions in Dane County Court to have rape charges against his client dismissed. The motions claim prosecution witheld important information from the criminal complaint…and suggests the accuser lied during the preliminary hearing when she testified she didn’t have consensual sex with anyone during the weekend of the alleged assault. The motions say DNA proves she had sex with four men the weekend of February 22nd. Smith was scheduled to go on trial on September First, but that’s been delayed while a judge reviews the motions.
ATHENS, Greece – Already making history as the first female Badger swimmer to compete in the Olympics, University of Wisconsin athlete Carly Piper (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) added to her long list of accomplishments Wednesday by helping the United Statesââ?¬â?¢ 800-meter freestyle relay team win the gold medal with a world-record time of 7:53.42 at the 2004 Olympic Games.
MADISON, Wis. – Itââ?¬â?¢s an emotional day for student-athletes, coaches and fans when Wisconsin and Minnesota meet in intercollegiate athletics. Beginning this fall, the winner of an 11-sport competition between UW and UM will capture the Border Battle Cup for display on its campus.
The SAT and ACT will introduce essay tests next year as part of their college entrance exams. Both tests will ask students to respond in longhand to a question, or ââ?¬Å?prompt,ââ?¬Â under a tight deadline. But the tests will differ in some significant ways, too.
The national average composite score for the ACT college entrance exam increased this year for the first time in seven years, a report released Tuesday says. But it adds that an ââ?¬Å?alarming numberââ?¬Â of 2004 graduates who took the test are unprepared for college science and math course
To date, nearly 350 colleges have told the College Board that they plan to require students to take a writing test as part of their college entrance exam.
Educators agree that a writing test is good, but what makes a good test?
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law and Medical Schools.
If it weren�t for 0.01 of a second, runner Jerry Schumacher surely would have competed in an Olympic Games.
Schumacher, now 34, is the men�s head cross country coach and assistant track and field coach for men at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He coaches other outstanding athletes, including Isaiah Festa, who just missed an Olympic berth this year himself.
