The 20-year-old rising senior at the University of Wisconsin is on her way to Athens.
UW’s Piper realizes dream
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author: jplucas
Earth issues in the balance
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
As nearly every political analyst has attested, foreign policy and the economy will determine the fates of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry this fall. While these two issues and their related concerns are indeed critically important to the safety and prosperity of the nation, citizens of Wisconsin deserve to hear about other issues as well, especially the security of the long-term health of our land and water here at home.
Few upset by state service cuts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In ways large and small, measures taken last year to eliminate a $3.2 billion budget deficit have taken a toll on services provided by state government.
Texas Tech chancellor a finalist
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The search for a new president of the University of Wisconsin System has been narrowed to four tentative finalists, including the Texas Tech University System chancellor who made news earlier this year after a public argument with Tech basketball coach Bob Knight.
UW Law Students Offer Free Consumer Rights Manual
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — UW law students have developed a free manual to help make Wisconsin consumers more savvy both in the marketplace and in the legal aren
Madison: Political party town (ESPN.com)
ESPN.com
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Allen Ruff recalls the last time he had a run-in with ESPN. It was in the winter before the first Gulf War, and an anti-war march he was in drifted near the Wisconsin Badgers’ basketball arena, where ESPN was televising a game.
Beauty? It’s linked to good or bad traits (The Straits Times, Singapore)
The Straits Times
Quoted: Kevin Kniffin, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kerry must clear coffers before Dem convention
USA Today
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
House Panel Provides Little or No Increases for Student Aid and the NIH in 2005
Chronicle of Higher Education
The maximum Pell Grant award would remain level, and the budget of the National Institutes of Health would rise slightly, under a spending proposal for the 2005 fiscal year approved on Thursday by an appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives. (Subscription required.)
State Support for Public Higher Education Is Stronger Than Believed, Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education
State governments are not backing away from their commitment to financially support public higher education, according to a new report by a group of top state higher-education officials. (Subscription required.)
Arts report reveals Johnny won’t read (AP)
CNN.com
NEW YORK (AP) — The reading of books is on the decline in America, despite Harry Potter and the best efforts of Oprah Winfrey.
House GOP Defends Patriot Act Powers
Washington Post
House Republicans, under strong pressure from the White House, narrowly defeated an effort yesterday to water down the Bush administration’s signature law to combat domestic terrorism. (Login required.)
MPD Studying Homeless Suspects In Violent Assaults
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police said they’ve found a similarity in a recent string of stranger sexual assaults
Former Badger Rowers Named to U.S. Olympic Team
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – USRowing announced its selections for the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team, Wednesday, and former Badger rowing captains Beau Hoopman and Matt Smith have been chosen to row at the 2004 Olympic Summer Games, held Aug. 14-22 in Athens, Greece. Former Badger rower Matt Imes will serve as an assistant coach for the team.
Badger Swimmers Fall Short on Day 2
UWBadgers.com
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Carly Piper’s sixth-place performance in the finals of the 400 freestyle at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials paced three other current and former University of Wisconsin swimmers, but not one was able to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic swimming team on Thursday.
Wednesday’s Report: U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wisconsin Aquatics swim club has sent 11 members to the trials, including seven current University of Wisconsin swimmers, three recent UW graduates and one Madison native.
The Sandman (Isthmus)
For Dave Brunson, being a UW-Madison professor of veterinary anesthesia means never having time to yawn.
Wire service to connect UW-Madison to business (Wisconsin Technology Network)
Wisconsin Technology Network
MADISON ââ?¬â?? The University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched a new service to help the Wisconsin business community keep abreast of university happenings.
McCain Stars in New GOP, Democratic Ads (NPR)
National Public Radio
Quoted: Ken Goldstein is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Audio.)
Pendleton Falls Just Shy of Olympic Berth
UWBadgers.com
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Former University of Wisconsin swimmer Bethany Pendleton came up just shy of earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic swimming team, placing fifth during the final of the 400-meter individual medley at the Olympic Trials Wednesday night.
UWS hopes campaign will help raise $17.5 million (AP)
Duluth News
The University of Wisconsin-Superior will launch its first comprehensive fund-raising campaign this month
Wooing of Guidance Counselors Is Raising Profiles and Eyebrows
New York Times
Victor L. Davolt has an obscurity problem. Regis University, where he is the admissions director, is not exactly what he would call a “bumper sticker college,” not “by any stretch of the imagination.” (Login required.)
Republican Lawmakers Criticize Higher-Education Lobbyists in Letter to 6,700 College Presidents
Chronicle of Higher Education
Two key Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to the presidents of more than 6,700 colleges and other schools accusing college lobbyists of spreading “misinformation” about legislation in Congress to renew the Higher Education Act. (Subscription required.)
Driver Leads Police On ‘Low-Speed’ Chase Through Downtown
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Police arrested a Madison woman late last night after she allegedly led University and Madison police on a chase throughout the west side of downtown
Harris Named to Senior Staff
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – David Harris, director of academic services in the UWââ?¬â?¢s Division of Intercollegiate Athletics since 2002, has been promoted to the divisionââ?¬â?¢s senior staff in the role of associate athletic director for academic services, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced.
Obituaries | Eleanor J. “Grandma” Wernick
Madison.com
Obituaries | Jayne Ellen (Brown) Anderson
Madison.com
Andy Baggott: Alvarez’s omission appalling
Wisconsin State Journal
Barry Alvarez usually gets what’s coming to him, but a rare exception arrived in the mailbox not long ago.
Governor Jim Doyle: Unlock the potential of stem cell research (Wisconsin Technology Network)
Wisconsin Technology Network
The time has come to reexamine the federal policy on stem cell research.
Candidates Seek to Define Selves, Rivals in Ads (NPR Morning Edition)
National Public Radio
Quoted: Ken Goldstein monitors political ads for the University of Wisconsin’s Advertising Project. (Audio.)
New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading (Medical News Today)
Medical News Today
By developing a computer model that mimics how children learn to read, two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford University track the development of a skilled reader, ultimately showing that phonics gives readers an edge, especially early on.
Edwards did well in Midwest primaries
Star Tribune
Quoted: University of Wisconsin public opinion expert Charles Franklin. (Login required.)
Emission Accomplished
Hartford Courant
STORRS — For weeks, the exotic titan arum has stood, erect and awe-inspiring, under the loving gaze of University of Connecticut botanists and gawking visitors. (Login required.)
New technology acts as third eye during breast biopsies (Medical Device News)
News-Medical.Net
A new technology developed by a research group headed by Nimmi Ramanujam, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be a “third eye” during breast biopsies and can increase the chance for an accurate clinical diagnosis of breast cancer.
Football, Television, and the Supreme Court
Chronicle of Higher Education
Twenty years ago last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rewrote the rulebook for college sports. (Subscription required.)
Powell prescribes Cuba travel waiver for U.S. medical students
USA Today
Just as the lingering Cold War freeze that hangs over relations between Cuba and the United States is reaching a new low, Secretary of State Colin Powell has warmed things up a bit.
Texas law hurts many students
USA Today
It is a tragic irony that, while Texas’ flagship universities have launched bold, forward-looking initiatives to promote excellence and raise standards, a well-intended state law passed just seven years ago is undermining these worthy objectives. For the good of our students and the well-being of our state, it should be changed.
Keep Texas admissions rule
USA Today
Eighteen-year-old Jesselyn Allen couldn’t be more excited about heading to the University of Texas this fall. The African-American student graduated from an inner-city school in Houston that traditionally doesn’t place many graduates into the state’s most elite public university.
Keen on clean: Letting hydrogen flow
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The company’sprocess – developed at engineering labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – has a complex technical name but a simple result. Called aqueous phase reforming, it essentially amounts to extracting hydrogen from the sugars found in corn plants and other plants, without increasing emissions of carbon dioxide
DNA tests to reopen murder case
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Now, the LaBatte case is being reopened by the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a University of Wisconsin Law School program that has freed two wrongly convicted men from prison. The project has won a court order for a new round of DNA tests that may, for the first time, identify who came to the Cadigans’ home.
It’s a tough job, but getting there is a task all its own
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Gordon Baldwin, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor who advised former Gov. Tommy G. Thompson on Sykes’ nomination to the state court in 1999.
UW Recognizes Town-gown Effort
Nine UW-Madison campus-community partnerships have received honors for using university resources to improve the lives of others.
University Book Store Makes Changes
The best recent news is that University Book Store is moving its general book department in its 711 State St. location from upstairs to the first floor of the three-story building.
More Seiler sentence
Dear Editor: Here is a straight-A student who planned her hoax, with clear intent, and she not only gets no jail time but we pay for it?
Letters: The Seiler sentence
DEAR EDITOR: I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I’M SURPRISED THAT AUDREY SEILER GOT A THREE-YEAR PROBATION SENTENCE, BUT I’M NOT.
Carillon To Ring Out On Sunday
Wisconsin State Journal
Up, up, up, go the steps, almost 80 feet toward the sky over the UW-Madison campus.
Nearly as steep as a ladder, the final flight ends in the open-air belfry that houses the 56 bells of the Memorial Carillon.
‘It’s Where Most Of My Hope Lies’
Wisconsin State Journal
It’s been nearly two years since David Busta held a book in his hands, combed his hair, pedaled a bike or took a step from his bed or wheelchair.
The 29-year-old UW-Madison graduate is limited by the injuries he sustained in a freak 30-foot fall outside the Marcus Amphitheater in Milwaukee. Likely paralyzed for life, Busta looks ahead in part by focusing back on his alma mater, where he believes scientists can solve the puzzle of reanimating his arms and legs through the promise of human embryonic stem-cell research.
Adult Stem-cell Research An Alternative
Wisconsin State Journal
Critics of human embryonic stem-cell research say they aren’t insensitive to the suffering of paralyzed people and those with debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Magnet Aims To Keep Young Professionals In Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
At age 21, entrepreneur Daniel Guerra Jr. knows firsthand how difficult it can be to succeed in a business community dominated by well-established, older professionals.
Safer Way To Check For Dog Brain Tumors Uw Specialist Developed Biopsy Technique That Doesn’t Involve Invasive Surgery.
Wisconsin State Journal
Dog owners faced with some of the worst news they can get about their pets — Champ or Lady might have a brain tumor — have new cause for hope because of developments at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
It’s Not Cheap Being Green An Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Car Would Cost A Lot More, So The City Got A Regular Sedan For The Mayor.
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW-Madison Police Field Services Capt. Brian Bridges
Leeches Suck Blood At UW Hospital
Wisconsin State Journal
Technology may work surgical miracles, but someone still has to tend the leeches.
The Challenger: What would Kerry do? (GovExec.com)
Quoted: Donald Kettl, a public administration expert at the University of Wisconsin.
Education shouldn’t be viewed as a competition
Quoted: Deborah Brandt, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
State representative faces defamation lawsuit from former opponent
Wausau Daily Herald
Quoted: Donald Downs, a professor of political science, law and journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
College students testing limits of detox clinics
La Crosse Tribune
A 22-year-old man was staggering while walking north on Copeland Avenue at 1:30 a.m. April 27.
A La Crosse police officer stopped the man, who said he was on his way home to Angell Hall on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus.
He was obviously walking in the wrong direction.
A CULTURE OF DRINKING: Binging on the rise
La Crosse Tribune
Jordan Wood, a fifth-year senior at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, tells incoming freshmen he drank in high school and came to UW-L with every intention to drink.
Our view: The real problem is extreme intoxication
La Crosse Tribune
Two things stood out in Tribune reporter Terry Rindfleisch’s story Sunday about binge drinking.
First were the anecdotes from very drunk students trying to get home but going in wrong directions.
Tape points away from inmate (Muskegon Chronicle)
Quoted: Keith Findley, head of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Innocence Project,
Health costs press small businesses
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a public policy think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.