University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.218-billion as of June 30 (increase of $1.2-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: Patrick McBride, a professor of medicine and director of a preventive cardiology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they think they know the reason for so-called maternal aggression in animals.
Every road or subdivision we build, and even where we put a child’s jungle gym and whether we use bark chips or crushed rock for walkways, can affect the risk of getting or spreading infectious diseases.
Madison – The men’s basketball rivalry between the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University, which appears to be heating up both on the court and on the recruiting trail, just got a bit warmer.
J.P. Gavinski, a 6-foot-101/2, 226-pound center who will be a junior at Wisconsin Dells High School this fall, has given UW coach Bo Ryan an oral commitment.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Advertising Project.
ALBANY, N.Y. — By all appearances, Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne is making the most of what could be his last chance with the New York Giants.
Officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are enlisting private companies and universities to help make data available about disease-causing organisms.
Adams’ team will work with scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to create a database cataloging information about enterobacteria, including E. coli and salmonella.
Like many seniors, Jonathan Jacobson said the pressure to blow off his final year was strong. He had worked his tail off at Deerfield High School and was accepted early to attend the University of Illinois.
Quoted: UW-Madison researchers Anna Pidgeon and Chris Lepczyk.
PITTSFORD, N.Y. ââ?¬â? Lee Evans knows he has a chance to make a notable contribution to the Buffalo Bills offense in this, his rookie season.
Kyle Rohde, a University of Kansas student, grumbles about the rising costs of attending college. The Wisconsin native finds it especially unfair when he sees the lower bills paid by classmates who have no legal right even to be in the country. (Login required.)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania law banning paid advertisements for alcohol in college newspapers is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii System has rescinded its firing of Evan S. Dobelle as president and instead agreed to a mediated settlement in which it will pay about $1.6-million to him and other parties. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: Dan Nevers, faculty lecturer in the criminal justice program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in the area of community corrections.
Quoted: Stephen M. Born, co-author of “Exploring Wisconsin Trout Streams: The Angler’s Guide.” Born is also a specialist on natural resource planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With many other polls showing Bush and Kerry neck and neck in the overall race, factors such as youth turnout could play a critical factor in the outcome of the election
Quoted: G. Donald Ferree Jr., associate director for public opinion research at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center.
(MADISON) Tonight is opening night for ââ?¬Å?Audrey Seiler, Where Are You,ââ?¬Â a play dramatizing the story of a UW-Madison student who faked her own abduction. (Second item.)
The UW System tied with Harvard University’s Harvard College for first place in educating the most chief executive officers of companies included in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Wisconsin, coming off a season in which it lost six of its last seven games to finish 7-6, was ranked No. 22 in the USA Today-ESPN pre-season poll released Friday morning.
Brian Calhoun’s decision to transfer to the University of Wisconsin from Colorado is a coup for the Badgers.
Madison – Before he retired, Pat Richter offered simple yet sage advice to the man poised to succeed him as the University of Wisconsin’s athletic director and simultaneously continue his efforts to return the football program to the upper echelon of the Big Ten Conference.
In essence, Richter told Barry Alvarez: Just win, baby.
(MADISON) — 18ââ?¬â??yearââ?¬â??old Kalin Bornemann of Antigo is still in the hospital Friday after a moped accident with a car on Wednesday. But the fact that he’s alive is worth celebrating.
Quoted: Barbara Horner-Ibler, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School who teaches at Aurora Sinai.
The UW-System Board of Regents approves the committee’s recommendation for a new president. Regent President Toby Marcovich says although UW Extension Chancellor Kevin Reilly is well-qualified for the job, he’s got a lot of challenges ahead of him as the new president of the UW-System. (Audio.)
Mouse mothers become fearless when levels of a particular hormone drop, reveals a new study. This gives mothers the courage to ferociously attack any would-be assailants to their offspring.
Today’s college students rely on laptop computers and other gadgets as much as their trusty No. 2 pencils. But smart shopping can keep high tech from being high cost.
Clarissa Chin, the youngest of three sisters from Queens, N.Y., and the last to enter college, says she feels guilty that her parents have to ”shell out all this dough.”
Years ago, college students could stuff all their worldly possessions in a duffle bag. Today, many arrive on campus with laptops, stereo equipment and televisions worth thousands of dollars.
Credit cards are a fact of life for college students. More than half of college freshmen, 54%, carried a credit card in 2001, according to the most recent Nellie Mae study of undergraduate card usage.
Hey up-and-comers, have we got a management opportunity for you: Supervise a huge organization spread around the state. Its employees are in perpetual uproar. Its prickly managers demand more autonomy and even more resources. Its customers complain constantly about rising costs and declining quality. Its board of directors consists mostly of political appointees.
Quoted: Dr. Scott Spear, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
July 30 (Bloomberg) — Ryan Hertel, a student tour guide at the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus, pauses before the Old Red Gym, a former armory firebombed by Vietnam War protesters in 1970. That same year, homemade explosives killed a graduate student in physics working late into the night.
Quoted: Charles Jones, a political scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. (Login required.)
Quoted: Paul Voss, professor at the University of Wisconsin, who is to the census as Julia Child is to French cooking. (Login required.)
Winner: Cognition and Human Learning: Jenny R. Saffran, department of psychology, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Sen. John Kerry officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president here Thursday night, promising to roll back tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to pay for a bevy of domestic programs aimed at helping the middle class, including a new college-tuition tax credit, and saying that the time had come for the United States to again push the frontiers of science. (Subscription required.)
Young Democrats plan an unprecedented drive to mobilize college-age voters in this fall’s presidential election, with a handful of groups spending upward of $40-million, a twentyfold increase over the 2000 election. (Subscription required.)
Unless he is found guilty of second-degree sexual assault, University of Wisconsin tailback Dwayne Smith is expected to be eligible to play in the Badgers’ season-opener next month
The new president of the University of Wisconsin System will be paid $320,000 a year, about $12,000 more than the outgoing system leader. The UW System Board of Regents approved the contract with Kevin Reilly on Thursday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin’s new system president will have a lot of support on campuses across Wisconsin
PALO ALTO, Calif. – This is the first of many weekly journal entries Olympic swimmer Carly Piper (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) is sharing with Badger fans on her experiences training for and competing in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Quoted: Dr. Alan H. Ramsey, an assistant clinical professor of family medicine from the University of Wisconsin
Deltanoid Pharmeceuticals, a Madison-based startup founded by University of Wisconsin-Madison medical researcher Hector F. DeLuca, is gaining steam in its attempt to develop a way to rebuild bone.
Quoted: Ruth Benca at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is trying to understand how certain animals manage to function perfectly for long periods on a fraction of the sleep they are used to.
I received an e-mail message from Donna E. Shalala last month in response to a question about intercollegiate athletics. Shalala, the president of the University of Miami, explained that she was in South Africa studying the AIDS crisis. “Not recruiting,” she added. (Login required.)
A man who University of Wisconsin-La Crosse administrators describe as personable and unassuming is expected to be approved as the new president of the UW System today by the Board of Regents.
MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge has tossed out a $400,000 sex discrimination award for a former University of Wisconsin-Platteville assistant chancellor, ruling the jury reached its verdict in error.
Quoted: Kathleen Horning, director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin School of Education.
Although it’s too complicated to explain in a sound bite, one issue keeps resurfacing in speeches here at the Democratic National Convention this week, often bringing loud cheers from delegates in the hall: a call to relax federal restrictions on research on human embryonic stem cells. (Subscription required.)
Thousands of applicants to California’s public universities who were directed to community colleges because of expected budget restrictions would now be admitted to a four-year campus under the state-budget deal reached this week by California lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Subscription required.)
Federal agencies need to do more to ensure that colleges and other recipients of federal grants do not discriminate against women in mathematics, engineering, and science, according to a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office. (Subscription required.)
When Kate Dieringer learned that the fellow student whom she had accused of raping her in her first month at Georgetown University would be suspended from the college for a year rather than expelled, she was outraged. (Login required.)
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin womenââ?¬â?¢s basketball head coach Lisa Stone, several menââ?¬â?¢s and womenââ?¬â?¢s basketball players as well as local television personalities will join Dane County children at the fifth annual Kraft Foods/Oscar Mayerââ?¬â?¢s Hoops for Hope Thursday, July 29 at the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion adjacent to the Kohl Center.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States is facing an uphill task trying to close the international knowledge gap among its citizens after surveys showed they are alarmingly uninformed about Asia and other regions and in the dark about cultures and languages other than their own.
University of Wisconsin football fans can now hope that Holliday’s cousin, O’Brien Schofield, enjoys similar success in Madison. He has given an oral commitment to play for UW.
Amato also loses his position on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents to Smith.
Robert J. Birgeneau, president of University of Toronto, was named on Tuesday as the new chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley. (Subscription required.)
Foreign students and scholars applying to work in the United States will be allowed to remain in the country until more H-1B worker visas become available, in October, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced late last week. (Subscription required.)
