Quoted: Larry W. Cox, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One sweet deal
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author: jplucas
University aims to thwart terrorist threats to food supply (AP)
Duluth News
MINNEAPOLIS – While much of the nation’s anti-terrorism effort focuses on government buildings and skyscrapers, Frank Busta worries about the plate on the dining room table.
Steve Brown: UW dorm project could cost taxpayers, students, landlords
Capital Times
On Tuesday night, the Madison City Council will consider a University of Wisconsin housing project that I believe will directly and adversely affect Madison taxpayers, UW students and private property owners in the downtown area.
Learning Communities Can Be Cohesive and Divisive
Chronicle of Higher Education
Most American colleges and universities now offer special programs for entering freshmen. One of the most common components of that first-year experience is the freshman learning community or group, designed to socialize new college students, integrate them into the campus, and make sure they don’t drop out. (Subscription required.)
Kerry Offers Proposals to Hold Down Tuition Costs
Chronicle of Higher Education
ing the United States needs “a GI Bill for the new century and the next economy,” Sen. John F. Kerry pledged last week that if elected president he would provide federal aid to states that commit to keeping tuition at their public colleges in line with inflation and to institutions that increase the number of Pell Grant recipients they enroll and eventually graduate. (Subscription required.)
Worried on the Right and the Left
Chronicle of Higher Education
Daniel L. Anderson, president of Appalachian Bible College, in West Virginia, has always been a big supporter of conservative causes.
But he is outraged by a proposal, which is being championed by conservative Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives, that would urge colleges to present diverse viewpoints inside and outside the classroom. (Subscription required.)
Keeping Searches Secret
Chronicle of Higher Education
On a clear April morning in Lincoln, Neb., four members of a search committee assigned to find the University of Nebraska’s next president piled into a white 2003 Mercury Marquis, motored onto State Highway 2, and set out for Kansas City, Mo., nearly 200 miles away. Keith R. Olsen, the committee’s co-chairman, drove. Harvey S. Perlman, chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, rode shotgun. (Subscription required.)
Updates on Billion-Dollar Campaigns at 21 Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.217-billion as of June 29 (increase of $15-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007. (Subscription required.)
Arabic Language A Tough Assignment
Washington Post
Five weeks into their intensive introductory Arabic course, and the words seemed to flow with ease around the classroom at George Washington University, the 16 undergraduates chanting together.
Dollars for scholars
Milwaukee Business Journal
Five months into a 12-month scholarship campaign, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation members find their message is resonating with alumni and businesses.
Quality improvement: In two years, Knetter makes a difference at UW’s School of Business
Milwaukee Business Journal
The improved ranking of the MBA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business earlier this year affirms the school’s progress since the hiring of dean Michael Knetter two years ago, school alumni and faculty say.
JS Online: The Morning Mail
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Third parties, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have conducted environmental impact studies at the site in question. The studies show that water leaving the cranberry marsh is actually cleaner when it re-enters the lake in Sawyer County because of the marsh’s natural ability as a wetland to clean and filter water.
JS Online: Feingold challengers remain almost unknown
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Badger Poll conducted by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center
Health care workers wanted
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Tito Izard, also an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Obituaries | James F. Spohn
Madison.com
Obituaries | Terrance M. “Terry” Smith
Madison.com
Firestorm over Amato gets hotter
Capital Times
The man who blew the whistle on secret pay-range raises by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents last year appears perilously close to being kicked off the board.
Obituaries | Agnes Calvert Hole
Madison.com
Obituaries | Robert Edwin Elsas
Madison.com
Obituaries | Roger E. McMullin
Madison.com
Obituaries | Melvin J. Kratochwill
Madison.com
Obituaries | Robert “Bob” Hardy
Madison.com
No solution in sight for baffling school funding problems
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Allan Odden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and a nationally known school finance expert.
UW tech program gives high schoolers a leg up
Capital Times
Amid controversy and criticism of the UW-Madison’s ability to foster diversity on campus, seven new freshmen will quietly enroll this fall. All of them have just finished four years of intensive computer and academic training and they are all either minority or low-income students.
ââ?¬Å?Teddyââ?¬â?¢s TV Troubles,ââ?¬Â by Joanne Cantor
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Book review. Joanne Cantor, a nationally recognized authority on the media and children and professor emerita of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cyberspace is changing political advertising
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, the deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which monitors political ads.
Wireless Power Booster (Esato.com)
Quoted: Zhenqiang Ma, a University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineer, says he has redesigned a key electronic component in wireless devices so that it can increase the strength of outgoing signals while saving battery power.
Milwaukee Badger Tailgate Set for August 9
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Director of Athletics and Head Football Coach Barry Alvarez and a number of other coaches will be on hand for the First Annual Milwaukee Tailgate Party presented by the Badger Fund on Monday, August 9th at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
A stiffer sentence for Seiler was unlikely
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The judge and prosecutors must have viewed Audrey Seiler’s lies to police as a desperate tale from a troubled young woman, not a premeditated, deliberate criminal act, legal experts concluded Thursday. (Reg. required.)
The silence of the veterinarian (Isthmus)
The UW School of Veterinary Medicine has silenced its best-known faculty member — purportedly in more ways than one. Sandi Sawchuck, a UW veterinarian and clinical instructor, says she’s been directed not to talk about the school’s decision to pull the plug on her media appearances.
E-Mailââ?¬â?The Killer App! (Syllabus Magazine)
Technology dreamers are always pondering what the next ââ?¬Å?killer appââ?¬Â will be. I want to propose that we have a real killer app on our campuses right now.
Author: Annie Stunden, chief information officer and director of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT)
Editorial: Start Early to Close Achievement Gap
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin schools on the whole graduate the vast majority of their students. But there’s an unacceptably wide gap between white graduation rates (87 percent) and those of African-American students (44 percent) and Hispanic students (55 percent).
Cited: UW-Madison research
Don’t Become a Fireworks Statistic This Year (HealthDayNews)
Forbes
Quoted: Dr. Ronald P. Danis, an ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin
U.S. Agency Publishes Final Rules for Collecting $100 Fee From Foreign Students
Chronicle of Higher Education
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released final regulations on Thursday covering a $100 fee it will levy on most foreign students and scholars tracked by the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. (Subscription required.)
Lawyer tells of Seiler’s depression
Wisconsin State Journal
By Ed Treleven
Audrey Seiler was battling depression long before she arrived as a student at UW-Madison, and she continues to battle it to this day.
That depression, brought on by the death of a favorite aunt, caused the 20-year-old sophomore to lose touch with reality and, with time, prompted her to slip away from her apartment early March 27 to think things through, her attorney said.
Bush’s rating on Iraq at new low in state poll
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: The University of Wisconsin Survey Center.
Seiler gets 3 years’ probation in faked abduction
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison – The college student whose faked abduction led to a massive manhunt shown live around the nation avoided jail Thursday by pleading guilty to two misdemeanors and accepting a sentence of three years’ probation.
Madison Reacts: Does Seiler’s Punishment Fit The Crime?
WISC-TV 3
Madison residents have mixed reactions about Audrey Seiler’s sentence
Half Price Books
WKOW-TV 27
Half Price Books will be presenting 8,500 books to the UW Children’s Hospital.
New Look to Wisconsin’s Official Web Site Unveiled
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – UWBADGERS.COM has a new look. Starting July 1, fans navigating the official Web site for the University of Wisconsin Athletics program will discover new left hand navigation and additional icons with many new features.
UW-Madison Researcher Riegel Dies The Cancer Researcher Had An Impact On Many Graduate Students.
Wisconsin State Journal
Even as a girl growing up in Germany, it was impossible for Ilse Riegel’s parents to get her to sleep.
UW Music Clinic is a summer tradition
Wisconsin State Journal
About 900 middle- and high-school students are not only taking band, orchestra, jazz ensemble and choir at the UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic, they’re taking special classes on dance, John Philip Sousa, famous jazz musicians and humor in music
Ex-Badger soccer player Miller’s career taking off in Europe
Capital Times
Athletics have been a driving force in Meredith Miller’s life.
While there are few professional avenues for a female athlete to take following college, the 30-year-old Miller has made a smooth transition from soccer player to elite cyclist.
Holding pattern: Madison travelers long for more direct flights
Capital Times
Nobody has to remind David McCune about the frustrations of flying into Madison.
Cops: Same man attacked two
Capital Times
Police suspect that the same man attacked two women Wednesday morning and are warning residents in the downtown area to take safety measures.
No jail time for Audrey
Capital Times
Audrey Seiler, the UW sophomore who faked her own abduction, will serve no jail time for her hoax.
We learn while we sleep – Link discovered between slow brain waves and learning success (Innovations Report)
Quoted: Reto Huber, who conducted the study at the University of Wisconsin laboratory of Giulio Tononi in Madison
Rock Did Not Begin with Elvis (NPR)
National Public Radio
Interviewed: Craig Werner a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin. (Audio.)
Features: A music camp of great note
Capital Times
The UW Summer Music Clinic, a two-week summer program for junior high and high school students, is celebrating its 75th year of teaching everything from “Jazz Ensemble” to “Latin Ballroom” and “Humor in Music” this month.
Elvehjem’s new Old Master
Capital Times
Through July 11, a newly purchased drawing is on show at the University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum of Art, 800 University Ave.
Madison plans to revitalize Villager Shopping Center
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison is poised to make a huge cash investment that could create a “village square” with shopping, learning and social services on the resurgent South Side.
UWGB to have storefront at Washington Commons
Green Bay News-Chronicle
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay announced plans Wednesday for a storefront classroom and office at Washington Commons to open later this summer.
Audrey Seiler Sentenced To Probation For Faked Abduction
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — The UW student who faked her abduction and disappearance has been sentenced to three years probation and restitution to the Madison Police Department. She must also continue to seek mental health help
USATODAY.com – Tuck’s MBAs are hot property again
USA Today
For the first time in four years, MBAs across the nation have reason to celebrate: The economy is heating up, and the class of 2004 is in heavy demand
Joggers run to defeat, elect Bush
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison mass communications associate professor Dhavan Shah
Madison Police Link Sexual Assault Suspect with Second Attack
NBC-15
(MADISON) — Madison police continue their search for the man they believe raped a 22ââ?¬â??year-old woman early Wednesday morning on the UW campus and then attacked another woman a few hours later.
Mike Lucas: Former Badgers’ generosity, legends grow
Capital Times
Sunday night, at a popular restaurant off the Capitol Square, the former University of Wisconsin athletes were collectively toasted for their commitment to a W-Club sponsored “Legends” golf event the following day at University Ridge.
New Web site aims to help firms recruit in state
Capital Times
The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations has created a new Web site that aims to help companies identify potential interns and employees at Wisconsin’s universities and colleges.
Audrey Seiler Returns To Madison
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Madison is preparing for a media circus downtown at the courthouse Thursday when the University of Wisconsin student who is accused of faking her abduction and disappearance is expected in court
Narrowing education gaps
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The white-black gap has narrowed in education in Wisconsin, while the Hispanic-Anglo gap has widened. The first trend, of course, is reason to cheer; the second, reason to fret.