The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will meet today at UW-Oshkosh to begin their monthly two-day meeting and discuss new system degrees and differential tuition programs.
Regents to vote on Business School tuition hike
Badger Herald
Author: Kelly Tyrrell
Stem cell act moves to Bushâ??s desk
Badger Herald
Despite a threatened second veto, the U.S. Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would end President George W. Bushâ??s federal funding ban on embryonic stem-cell research.
Field House of Dreams
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin athletics holds one of the best home advantages in the nation. While the Badgers menâ??s basketball team won all 19 of its home games this past season, itâ??s not the Kohl Center. Nor is it Camp Randall. However, it is located just off of Breese Terrace.
In-Depth: Deciding what to wear
Badger Herald
For students at the University of Wisconsin, a Motion W on clothing around campus doesnâ??t get a second glance.
Professor reports Pakistani assault
Badger Herald
A University of Wisconsin clinical associate professor was allegedly attacked two weeks ago in Pakistan for her political affiliations and outspoken nature against Pakistanâ??s president, Pervez Musharraf.
Tuition hike sparks debate
Badger Herald
Representatives from dozens of engineering student organizations could not come to an agreement Wednesday night on the hotly contested differential tuition plan proposed earlier this year.
Drug dealers may be denied financial aid under new bill
Daily Cardinal
A bill preventing convicted drug dealers from receiving state financial aid had a public hearing Tuesday. Colleges and Universities Committee Chairman Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, said he expects the bill to reach the Assembly floor in the near future.
Wis. experiencing global warming, UW experts say
Daily Cardinal
According to UW-Madison professors and members of the Wisconsin Senate, the stateâ??s climate is starting to experience beginning signs of global warming, and if action is not taken soon, it could spiral out of control.
UW off to El Salvador for investigation
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison representatives will travel to El Salvador Wednesday to visit Hermosa Manufacturing and to meet with previous workers of the Adidas manufacturer. Chancellor John Wiley hopes the trip will help him, along with the universityâ??s Labor Licensing Policy Committee, to make an informed decision on whether the university should cut the contract with Adidas, according to a University Communications release.
UW salaries on rise, still behind
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin mid-level administrators will receive a higher pay raise this year than many of their counterparts nationwide, according to a report released last month.
National student loan scandal strikes Milwaukee campus
Badger Herald
After learning the director of financial aid at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sits on an advisory board of a private student loan company, some are concerned about what could be an ethical gray area.
Global warming sparks hot debate
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin students gathered with state leaders on campus Tuesday to explore ways to alleviate the growing concern over global climate change.
UWRCF wins in court, again
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation scored another legal victory Tuesday when a federal court announced the university could not apply the UW Systemâ??s nondiscrimination policy when determining whether to fund the controversial campus organization.
Female chimps hunt with weapons
Daily Cardinal
Thousands of miles from Wisconsin, a Senegalese female climbed up a savannah tree and prepared herself for a hunt. Swiftly, she chose her weaponâ??transforming a nearby tree branch into a sturdy spear. With great force, she jabbed the wooden spear into the hollow spaces of the tree, hoping to immobilize potential prey. While the huntress failed to land many successful kills, her actions have captured the attention of scientists around the worldâ??the Senegalese huntress is not a woman, but rather one of our close cousins, the female chimpanzee.
ASM reps challenge Wileyâ??s living wage agenda
Daily Cardinal
Two UW-Madison Student Wage Committee members are challenging Chancellor John Wileyâ??s refusal to honor the Associated Students of Madison 2006 ballot referendum concerning student employees affected by the living wage initiative.
UW must invest in partner benefits
Badger Herald
Letâ??s put things into context.
The great state of Wisconsin is preparing to pass a new budget. The ins and outs of the budget process can be complex, long-winded, annoying and â?? most importantly to the general public â?? not sexy at all.
Faculty presents awards
Badger Herald
The annual Hilldale awards were presented Monday afternoon as a part of the University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate meeting.
Administrator changes mind on GRE
Badger Herald
A federal test administrator announced last week that Education Testing Service will not be implementing a new version of the Graduate Record Examination this year as previously planned.
Board to vote on Learfield
Badger Herald
A Missouri-based company will extend its exclusive media-marketing contract with UW to 2019 for $75 million, if passed by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Friday.
Students urge Wiley to validate wage increases
Badger Herald
Two University of Wisconsin students sent a dissenting message to Chancellor John Wiley Monday, urging him to approve a controversial wage increase policy for UW workers.
Fight to come in patent ruling
Badger Herald
The premier patent management group for the University of Wisconsin announced last Monday it would fight the U.S. Patent and Trademark Officeâ??s decision to investigate and possibly eliminate three valuable stem-cell patents.
City postpones construction on State Street
Badger Herald
State Streetâ??s scheduled facelift will have to wait one more year after business owners feared the late start of this yearâ??s project would seriously hinder sales in their most profitable season â?? when students return to campus.
Climate Change To Be Examined
Wisconsin State Journal
Climate change is on the agenda at UW-Madison this month.
Members of the state Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources will participate in a panel discussion on “Climate Change and Wisconsin’s Future: Issues and Opportunities” from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 180 of Science Hall, 550 N. Park St.
New school name pleases Hmong
Wisconsin State Journal
The decision comes five years after a failed effort to name a Far East Side park after the general because of allegations by a UW-Madison professor that Pao was involved in drug trafficking during the Vietnam War. That controversy was not brought up in the board’s debate.
Arrested man was UW lab tech
Daily Cardinal
John Mulvihill, the 56-year-old man charged with breaking and entering an 1100 Mound Street residence March 28, was a lab technician in UW-Madisonâ??s zoology department and allegedly had visited websites depicting sexual fantasies involving drugging female victims, according to Madison Police Department prosecutors.
Govâ??t rejects 3 stem cell patents
Daily Cardinal
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office summarily rejected three of five stem cell patents last week that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has held since 1998, after two watchdog groups accused WARF of patenting â??elementaryâ? stem cell propagation techniques.
Eli Judge to take over Austin Kingâ??s Dist. 8 alder seat
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison sophomore Eli Judge secured Ald. Austin Kingâ??s former District 8 City Council seat last Tuesday night in the cityâ??s 2007 elections by defeating UW-Madison senior Lauren Woods.
District 8 elects UW sophomore to City Council seat
Badger Herald
Though spring break scattered University of Wisconsin students across the globe, Madisonâ??s student-dominated District 8 elected a new representative to the City Council April 3: UW sophomore Eli Judge.
Students organize campus watch
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin student government will take part in a proactive nighttime safety program aimed at curbing crime around campus.
Spring break for a cause
Badger Herald
While many college students around the nation relaxed on beaches over their spring breaks, some University of Wisconsin students spent their vacation doing service work to help those in need.
Teachable moments: Wisconsin Film Festival opener ‘Chalk’ takes a mockumentary look at the struggles of first-year teachers
Wisconsin State Journal
The ninth-annual Wisconsin Film Festival officially begins Thursday evening with a screening of “Chalk” – an apt choice for the occasion. A faux-doc comedy, “Chalk” is well-crafted in the post-millennium mockumentary style: tight, wobbly zooms and intimate straight-into-the-camera confessions.
Pres House dorm set for August opening
Wisconsin State Journal
With 280 beds of student housing in 176 rooms, a residence hall being built on a former parking lot in the 400 block of North Murray Street is on schedule to open in August.
Gene tests help women assess their risk of breast cancer
Wisconsin State Journal
More women could someday decide whether to learn even more about their genetic risk for breast cancer, thanks to new research at UW-Madison.
Gene tests help women assess their risk of breast cancer
More women could someday decide whether to learn even more about their genetic risk for breast cancer, thanks to new research at UW-Madison.
Decline in biomed funding hurts uw
Daily Cardinal
The U.S. Congress is facing a critical funding decision in the near future, with dramatic implications for the well-being of the countryâ??and we are not talking about the Iraq War.
UW Roman Catholic Foundation receives RSO status
Daily Cardinal
After nearly a year-long struggle for Registered Student Organization statusâ??the factor that makes a student organization at UW-Madison eligible for large amounts of segregated fee fundingâ??the UW Roman Catholic Foundation was granted the status Thursday afternoon.
Film festival to launch after break
Daily Cardinal
Students and Madison area residents will be able to view 183 international and independent films in their own backyard April 12 to April 15 during the ninth annual Wisconsin Film Festival.
Over 9,000 absentee ballots swamp clerk
Daily Cardinal
For some UW-Madison students, the April 3 election will come and go as fast as the tropical fruity drinks in their hands. Still, many of those students who made their way to warmer destinations this spring break remembered to cast an absentee ballot before leaving.
Study: Languages need help
Badger Herald
American proficiency in foreign languages needs improvement and expansion, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Academiesâ?? National Research Council.
UW battles budget lingo
Badger Herald
The official lobbying organization of University of Wisconsin System academic staff is contesting the language of its labor contract proposed in Democratic Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s state budget.
Yee-haw! UWs shoot it out for WNIT title
Badger Herald
Nov. 10 seems like a lifetime ago. That was the day the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball team defeated Air Force â?? which later finished the season at the bottom of the Mountain West Conference â?? in the regular season debut.
Journalism professor releases book
Badger Herald
Readers can get an insiderâ??s perspective on the behind-the-scenes banter of 1950s television network executives and the culture of television in a new book published by the director of the University of Wisconsin Journalism School.
The Sciences: Greening The World
CBSNews.com
Jonathan Foley, head of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, or SAGE, cites the launch of Earth Day in 1970 as the original catalyst. But until recently, he says, “we’ve had an artificial separation” between the study of the natural environment and our human impact on it. Sustainability studies views the two as an inextricably connected whole. It addresses predicaments whose impact can be felt both locally (Greenland’s melting ice field, in one well-known example) and globally (the resulting potential for rising water levels and changing ocean currents).
Human Bodies Can Handle Only So Much Water
Wisconsin State Journal
Q. I saw on TV that a girl died from drinking too much water. How is that possible?
— Clarice Lightning grade eight Sennett Middle School
A. The human body is more than 50 percent water — it fills our cells, shuttles ions and nutrients, and clears out waste products. With so many crucial jobs, body fluid levels are very tightly regulated, says Dandan Sun, a UW-Madison professor of neurosurgery and physiology.
Gender divide growing in computer science
Wisconsin State Journal
Last year, just 9 percent of UW-Madison’s bachelor’s degrees in computer science – 8 out of 92 degrees – went to women. That’s down from a peak of 16 percent in 1998.
Old Dairy Barn Recognized As National Historic Landmark
WISC-TV 3
A familiar building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus receives a national honor.
Badgers advance to WNIT final round
Daily Cardinal
Junior guards Jolene Anderson and Janese Banks combined for 49 points to lead the Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball team (23-12) past Western Kentucky Wednesday evening at the Kohl Center, 79-72. The Badgers now advance to the Womenâ??s National Invitational Tournament championship game, which will be played out on Wyomingâ??s home court Saturday afternoon.
Undergraduate survey shows students proud to be Badgers
Daily Cardinal
The results of the 2006 UW-Madison Undergraduate Survey were released Wednesday and showed an overwhelming majority of students are satisfied with the university.
Two undergrads awarded national scholarship
Daily Cardinal
Two UW-Madison juniors have been selected as 2007 Truman Scholars, according to a University Communications release Wednesday.
In-Depth: Getting accepted at UW
Badger Herald
After the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents passed a new freshman admissions policy last month, college admissions has come under increasing scrutiny in the state of Wisconsin.
Scholars win $30,000 award
Badger Herald
Two University of Wisconsin juniors were awarded $30,000 scholarships to pursue a graduate education, the university announced Wednesday.
Wisconsin reaches WNITâ??s hilltop
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball team is just one victory away from being crowned the WNIT champions.
Student life gets passing grade
Badger Herald
More University of Wisconsin students are satisfied with their college experience today than a decade ago, according to survey results released Wednesday by university officials.
Badgers Advance to WNIT Championship
WKOW-TV 27
The Badger Women’s basketball team kept its post season alive with a win over Western Kentucky.
The WNIT Title is still up in the air, but the Badger women already won over many new fans with their home performances at the Kohl Center.
Badger Women Advance To WNIT Finals
WISC-TV 3
Jolene Anderson scored 26 points and Janese Banks added 23 as Wisconsin defeated Western Kentucky 79-72 in Madison Wednesday night to advance to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament championship basketball game.
Oates: Deep WNIT run key for Badgers
Wisconsin State Journal
At first glance, the Women’s National Invitation Tournament is only slightly more compelling than a TV infomercial.
After all, the tournament determines the nation’s 65th-best basketball team, the title can be bought by any school willing to ante up for home games and the crowds are generally limited to family, close friends and a few dedicated fans.
UW men’s basketball: Honors for Ryan, Tucker
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan has been named to receive the Adolph Rupp Cup as the national men’s basketball coach of the year by the Commonwealth Athletic Club of Kentucky.
State computer debacles draw more scrutiny
Wisconsin State Journal
The speaker of the Assembly is stepping into the state computer mess.
Speaker Mike Huebsch, R- West Salem, said Wednesday he would appoint a task force to look into a series of troubled computer projects that have already cost taxpayers more than $170 million in state and federal money, according to a Wisconsin State Journal review.
School vacations create run on absentee ballots
Wisconsin State Journal
Thousands more voters than usual are seeking absentee ballots from the Madison city clerk’s office as Tuesday’s election approaches.
This year’s spring election falls during spring break for UW-Madison, Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College, Madison public schools and many suburban school districts.
College of Engineering must up tuition
Daily Cardinal
Should College of Engineering students pay higher tuition than other undergraduates? If Engineering Dean Paul Peercy has his way, that would be the case.
After losing faculty members, the College of Engineering left many positions vacant due to lack of funding.