A little-noticed provision in a federal higher-education law that requires colleges to make a “good-faith effort” to provide voter-registration materials to students is about to get a lot more attention, if politically active students have their way. They are starting their work this week here at the Democratic National Convention. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: Prof Paul Boyer, professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin.
College students who identify themselves as politically conservative are far more likely to show high levels of religious commitment than students who label themselves liberal, a study says.
Author: Dr. Joan Schiller, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Preschool teachers should have at least a bachelor’s degree — and get salaries that match those of public elementary, middle and high school teachers, an influential education group says.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, director of the University of Wisconsin�s Advertising Project.
Quoted: Charles Jones, University of Wisconsin political science professor.
Bush policies widen gap By Bruce Reed As the son of a mill worker and the first in his family to go to college, John Edwards knows better than anyone that it will take hard work, not words, to give all Americans the same opportunities he had.
When John Edwards accepts the Democratic vice presidential nomination Wednesday night, his speech is likely to sound a bit like a Charles Dickens novel. For the rich, blessed with rising incomes and falling taxes, it is the best of times.
Quoted: Dr. William Busse, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical Schoo
Quoted: Kenneth M. Goldstein, a political communications expert at the University of Wisconsin
Skip the on the job training for the University of Wisconsin�s likely newest administrator. The nomination of UW Extension Chancellor Kevin P. Reilly to become president of the entire UW System means this soldier will enter battle prepared and ready.
BOSTON -� Backers of stem cell research in Wisconsin, where scientists pioneered the work, said the push at Tuesdayâ��s National Democratic Convention to lift restrictions on federal funding could help bring the state economic and scientific results.
MADISON, Wis. — At the Democratic National Convention, Democrats have seized on Ron Reagan’s plea to further stem cell research. The son of late president Ronald Reagan spoke to the Democrats and it certainly perked some ears in Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison associate dean Tim Mulcahy, who is overseeing stem cell research
Ron Reagan told Democratic delegates Tuesday that voters face a choice between “the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology” on the matter of embryonic stem cell research.
The number of hospital patients who die from preventable errors may be twice as high as previously estimated and shows no sign of decreasing, according to a new national review of Medicare records by a Denver-based health care ranking group. The findings would make medical mistakes the third-leading cause of death in the country, behind heart disease and cancer.
University of Wisconsin System President-designate Kevin Reilly is likely to be paid only slightly more than outgoing President Katharine Lyall, according to the two top regent leaders.
Dane County Circuit Judge Gerald Nichol was picked late Monday to replace Judge Stuart Schwartz in the triple murder case in which three men were killed in a Verona home last year.
University of Wisconsin-Extension employees are cheering over the selection of one of their own as leader of the UW System.
University of Colorado finance major Sean Matlock tries to avoid taking Friday classes “at all costs” so he can start his weekends on Thursday nights ââ?¬â? “one of the biggest nights here.”
A young Korean scholar, who was educated only in Korea, has recently become an assistant professor of mathematics at a prestigious university in the United States for the first time in the field of mathematics.
Lee Sang-hyuk, 33, a graduate from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) will give lectures and conduct research as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a three-year term from next semester.
Quoted: Charles Jones, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin
CHICAGO ââ?¬â?? Anyone who has traveled to London and taken the ââ?¬Å?tubeââ?¬Â (the subway for New Yorkers or the ââ?¬Å?Lââ?¬Â for Chicagoans) is constantly besieged by tape loops of ââ?¬Å?mind the gap,ââ?¬Â which is a warning for the dark hole or space between the subway car and the concrete waiting area as one gets on or off the tube.
MADISON, Wis. — A recent wedding has caused yet another delay in a Dane County triple homicide case, News 3 reports.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? If you stand on your tiptoes and squint, you can almost read the framed documents hanging in the lobby of UW Madison’s new $35.6 million biochemistry building.
After 16 years Jo Catherine Mannix was growing tired of her job in the supply room at an Air Force base when, one morning in 1986, she heard a radio advertisement for the Peace Corps. (Subscription required.)
Democrats opened their national convention here on Monday and are poised today to approve a platform that mirrors the promises that their presumed nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry, has made on the campaign trail. The proposals include reining in rising college costs and taking ideology out of the making of scientific policy.
Quoted: Timothy Harrington, an osteoporosis expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There’s new information from a weekend sexual assault in downtown Madison. Police say the victim, a 21-year-old white woman, recieved three cuts on her arm, leading them to believe that the rapist may have had a weapon. The man remains at large.
If your high-schoolers will be making decisions about extracurricular activities this school year, you might want to put their choices to the test. Many students, driven by varied interests and an idea of what top colleges expect, join multiple sports teams, academic clubs and fine arts groups.
EVELETH, Minn. – The United States Hockey Hall of Fame announced Sunday Wisconsin womenââ?¬â?¢s hockey head coach, Mark Johnson, as one of four inductees to the National Shrine of American Hockey in Eveleth, Minn.
MADISON, Wis. – Steve Waterfield, assistant compliance director at Ohio State the past five years, has been named assistant athletic director for compliance at Wisconsin, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced.
Madison – A search committee picked the head of the University of Wisconsin Extension to be president of the UW System of campuses. Kevin Reilly, chancellor for the past four years, must be approved by the full Board of Regents. He would lead a system that lost $250 million in state aid in the last two-year budget.
Kevin Reilly is a choice both safe and smart to run the University of Wisconsin System.
Letter to the Editor: Austin Evans, economics student.
Touching on an array of issues, she singled out high prices, including for prescription drugs; the difficulties small businesses face providing insurance for employees; the need to extend insurance benefits to domestic partners; and her candidate’s desire to lift restrictions on stem cell research imposed by Bush.
After a nationwide search, the University of Wisconsin System’s next president has been found – in Madison. Kevin P. Reilly, chancellor of the UW Extension, is the nominee for the job, a committee of UW regents announced Monday.
Kevin Reilly, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Extension, is the top choice of the UW System Board of Regents committee that interviewed finalists for the presidency of the system, a source close to the regents confirmed Friday
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Byron Shafer, an authority on conventions.
Editorial: Byron E. Shafer, the Hawkins chair of political science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
More than 1,800 fisheries scientists from 30 countries will gather in Madison next month to share the latest research, technology, and management techniques for the conservation, development and sustainable use of fisheries
After 17 consecutive days of racing in 15 cities and towns, the 35th annual International Cycling Classic concluded Sunday with the host state sweeping the final weekend.
UW Board of Regents
In his last day on the job, the head of Wisconsin’s technical colleges urged board members Thursday to end an internal power struggle that he warned could leave the college system “destabilized, politicized and weakened.”
All six University of Wisconsin home football games for the 2004 season are sold out, UW officials announced Thursday.
After a day’s worth of interviews, the University of Wisconsin System regents charged with picking a nominee for the system’s presidency went home without confirming if they had made a decision.
State medical regulators Wednesday refused to settle a case against a former UW Health physician for allegedly over-prescribing painkillers including morphine and Oxycontin to a woman in his private practice three years ago.
Steve Gunderson lacks a doctorate and hasn’t spent a day in his life running a college or university, let alone a system.
Elizabeth Capaldi, an academic from out East, has never worked in Wisconsin.
And Kevin Reilly, while steeped in statewide outreach education since 1996, has never led a traditional undergraduate campus.
Eight daunting trips running up the Elver Park hill in muggy conditions loomed for Clayton Hanson Wednesday night.
Talking about a different journey – with stops in France and Italy – sounded more appealing.
MADISON, Wis. – The Badger football season is entirely sold out according to an announcement made today by Corbin Hunt, UW Assistant Athletic Director for Ticket Operations
Stem cell research was back in the news with a vengeance last week. The Bush Administration announced plans to speed up work on approved cell lines, while Democrats revealed that Ron Reagan Jr. will address their national convention on the promise of stem cell research.
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) ââ?¬â? Scheduled to be released Saturday after spending more than 28 years in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit, an ailing Maurice Carter says he never gave up hope that he’d again be a free man one day.
He received the support of several individuals and organizations, including the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Wisconsin Innocence Project and Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions
Abbott Laboratories and Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately held company based in Madison, Wis, today announced the completion of an option and license agreement to develop novel Vitamin D Receptor Activators (VDRAs) for the treatment of renal disease.
MADISON, Wis. – About 150 cars will be up for auction at the end of the month as part of efforts to reduce the state’s fleet of vehicles.
Gov. Jim Doyle announced the auction on Thursday. It is set for July 31 at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Research Station in Arlington.
Rich Franchak, associate director of the Badger Fund at the University of Wisconsin since 2000, has been named senior associate athletic director of Xavier University.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior on Thursday unveiled its plan to raise $17.5 million during the next five years.
The federal government should consolidate and simplify federal-tax incentives for college students and make permanent the tax exemption of education-related withdrawals from 529 college-savings plans, college and industry officials told the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
(Madison) The University of Wisconsin System will need to wait another week before it gets a new president.
Buried in the $5.6-billion bioterrorism bill signed into law by President Bush on Wednesday is a little-noticed provision that will increase the federal government’s share of construction and renovation costs for biocontainment facilities at universities and nonprofit institutions. (Subscription required.)
The list of finalists for the presidency of the University of Wisconsin System shrank from four to three Wednesday, but, according to sources close to the selection process, the race is really down to the two candidates with close ties to Wisconsin
