â??Showcase 2007,â? an event intended to â??show the universityâ??s best practices,â? was suddenly interrupted Tuesday by students who wished to showcase what they believed to be one of the universityâ??s worst practices.
A high-profile stem-cell researcher at the University of Minnesota was questioned last week after allegedly duplicating her work.
Problems in neighborhoods surrounding the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus have caused the UW System to consider revising its code of conduct.
As she announced her retirement Tuesday, University of Wisconsinâ??s vice provost for climate and diversity expressed doubt over whether the goals of Plan 2008 can ever be achieved.
Researchers at UW-Madison have found that prions, the malformed proteins that cause chronic wasting disease, move more easily through soils with high alkaline content.
UW-Madison has approved a new research entity, the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
Seeing the light bulb of comprehension go on for a student is something UW-Madison professor Bernice Durand has never grown tired of.
“There is nothing that beats having a student understand something that you’re teaching, and having the students make it their own,” said Durand, whose career at UW-Madison has spanned 37 years.
Joe Talmadge recalls the moment when he and other UW- Madison engineers first fired up the magnetic plasma chamber, called a stellarator, they had built to study nuclear fusion.
The gathered scientists waited. And waited. Nothing happened.
Gillware is a Madison company whose beginning was failure – specifically the failure of the hard drive on the computer of Tyler Gill, one of its founders.
The year was 2003.
The UW-Madison student was faced with what could be called the nightmare of anyone who uses a desktop or laptop computer.
Unable to discuss new business Monday, the Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee listened to a presentation by the East Campus Utility regarding the Peterson and Ogg Hall buildings, which are scheduled to come down this fall.
Students with a family legacy at their university are more likely to experience academic problems than both athletes and minority students, according to a Princeton University study released Monday.
Two well-known national news reporters will travel to the University of Wisconsin this April to take part in the annual Writers in Residence program, the university announced Monday.
Representatives of the University of Wisconsin student government officially proposed adding a guaranteed full â??study dayâ? prior to the start of finals week Monday.
UW menâ??s basketball senior forward Alando Tucker was nominated by the Associated Press to be a first-team All-American Monday.
As students head into that happy place known as â??Spring Break,â? the sense of relief is practically palpable. Sleeping, partying and even homework are just waiting to be caught up on. Whether youâ??re headed to Cancun, California or just your parentsâ?? basement, thoughts of campus will, with any luck, be driven far from the collective student mind.
City officials gathered Monday evening to emphasize the need to bolster support for the UW Transportation Services Initiative and to start work on the East Campus Utility Project.
Associated Students of Madison lobbied the UW Faculty Senate University Committee for a permanent exam study day at its meeting Monday afternoon in Bascom Hall.
The 6-foot-6 Big Ten player of the year helped the Badgers to their first Number One ranking last month. The senior averaged nearly 20 points and more than five rebounds per game.
Madison: Spring break is having a big impact on next week’s spring election. The Madison city clerk has received a record number of absentee ballot requests.
If global warming continues unabated, many of the world’s climate zones may disappear by 2100, leaving new ones in their place unlike any that exist today, according to a new study. Researchers compared existing patterns of temperature and precipitation with those that may exist at the turn of the century, based on scenarios put forth in the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue rising at the same rate, up to 39 percent of Earth’s continental surface may experience totally new climates, primarily in the tropics and adjacent latitudes as warmer temperatures spread toward the poles.
A global warming study involving University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers says some climates of the world will be lost by 2100 and replaced by other climates not known in the world today.
Instances of disappearing climates would be primarily concentrated in tropical highlands and regions near the north and south poles. Places such as Wisconsin and the Midwest seem to escape the biggest changes.
But while some students enjoyed ice cream, others sweltered in classrooms where the heat couldn’t be turned off completely. University buildings are heated and cooled by coils containing water of different temperatures, and those coils can take three weeks to drain when switching between heating and cooling.
“They don’t just change on a dime,” said Faramarz Vakili, associate director for the UW- Madison Physical Plant. “Normal cooling season doesn’t start until May, and our top priorities are (buildings) that have animals or labs for experiments.”
In early March, the Recording Industry Association of America launched a new â??deterrence programâ? to discourage illegal file sharing on college campuses. In response, UW-Madison officials deterred the program itself, refusing to hunt down and turn in the offending IP address users in campus networks. We support the universityâ??s decision, and hope the RIAA recognizes its folly in pressuring UW-Madison officials to infringe on studentsâ?? privacy with pre-litigation letters.
With temperatures reaching record highs in Madison Sunday, Lake Mendota is ahead of the average too; this year it is thawing days earlier than springs in the past.
According to UW-Madison meteorology professor Steve Vavrus, the lake froze so late this year, so the ice did not have enough time to get as thick as it usually does. He added the large amounts of snow Madison received also slowed the ice freezing process.
A 2002 antitrust lawsuit against campus-area bars for fixing drink prices will be heard by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, the suit was filed by two UW-Madison students when more than 20 bars voluntarily agreed to place a limit on drink specials on Friday and Saturdays nights. He said Chancellor John Wiley, among others, is listed as a defendant in the case.
Though lawmakers and economic forecasters may disagree whether Wisconsin really suffers from a so-called â??brain drain,â? officials across the state are examining the challenge of retaining and recruiting college graduates.
With graduation looming for many University of Wisconsin students closing out their undergraduate careers, business recruiters across the nation begin to appear on campus looking for new employees.
Down 14 points with 14:52 remaining on the clock, the members of UWâ??s womenâ??s basketball team looked each other in the eyes and decided Virginia was not going to end their season.
After successfully piloting a student neighborhood watch safety program last semester, University of Wisconsin students are once again hitting the streets and keeping an eye out for suspicious activity around Langdon Street.
The state Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit originally filed by two University of Wisconsin students over a six-month Madison ban on drink specials in 2002, the court announced Friday.
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to Madison’s 2002 ban on drink specials in bars.
The case was originally brought by UW-Madison students angered by an agreement that banned two-for-one drink specials after 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.
The recent pet food recall making the news has us questioning what our furry friends eat. But, last fall, after an e-coli outbreak, we were wondering what we were eating. Food safety is one UW professor’s specialty and Sunday he’s sharing his knowledge with a national audience.
Two UW students are proving their entrepreneurial spirit by running an online business while they work on their degree.
After only six short months in action, a University of Wisconsin-Madison campus safety plan is being hailed a success by some community members.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a UW-Madison telecommunications professor who advises local governments on the issue.
Rafael Lazimy, a UW- Madison business professor who specializes in the development of IT systems, said sometimes canceling a project is the right call, for instance if the need for an application is no longer as great.
But when several projects are being canceled for technical or cost issues, it calls for investigating whether it was the result of poor planning, Lazimy said.
So far, oversight of troubled state projects has been uneven. An internal audit released this month showed that the UW Board of Regents wasn’t notified about setbacks in the $28.4 million project for the payroll and benefits system until it was scrapped.
Both Meriter Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital have had ward-style NICUs since they opened the units in the late 1960s.Kristin Lutz, an assistant professor in the UW-Madison School of Nursing who studies families with preterm and multiple birth babies, said many parents describe ward-style NICUs as “fishbowls.”St. Mary’s Hospital is following closely in Meriter’s footsteps.One of the challenges of designing the new units has been balancing privacy with close care, since one advantage of the ward setting was that staff members were always just steps away from any baby in need.
The UW-Madison Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team on Monday won the League 3 regional championship at the Chicago regional tournament.
SIFE is a nonprofit organization that encourages students to apply academic knowledge to real business and economic issues. The organization creates student teams on university campuses, which are led by faculty advisers.
UW-Madison sophomore Austin Cannon was arrested early Wednesday morning after his alleged ring of producing fake identifications was discovered, according to Madison police.
Day two of The Daily Cardinalâ??s mayoral-candidate interviews takes a look into the candidatesâ?? views on a variety of issues on campus. Both Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and challenger Ray Allen said campus events like Halloween and the Mifflin Street Block Party play essential roles in the storied Madison tradition.
A University of Wisconsin sophomore was arrested early Wednesday morning â?? two days before his 20th birthday â?? for making fake California identification cards with intent to sell.
Speaking before 16 members of the state Legislatureâ??s most powerful committee Thursday, leaders of the University of Wisconsin System defended a generous budget proposed by Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle.
In high school Marissaâ??s* close friends began smoking marijuana. As their habit progressed, they began choosing to smoke over hanging out with her.
â??I was the only one out of my girl friends that was okay with it. Junior year, I guess, curiosity got the best of me,â? Marissa said.
Senior Special Assistant to the Chancellor LaMarr Billups announced Wednesday he is leaving UW-Madison in May to accept a position at Georgetown University.
Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin are pushing for a bill to strengthen Wisconsinâ??s current laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace.
The Recording Industry Association of America sent another batch of pre-litigation letters Wednesday in order to warn UW-Madison students who download and share music illegally. However, UW-Madison is still refusing to distribute the letters to the students.
Community members, as well as business and property owners, will have an opportunity Thursday night to help determine the future of the Regent Street south campus neighborhood.
A new research institute will be established on the west side of the University of Wisconsin campus, the university announced Wednesday.
A University of Wisconsin alumnus or benefactor has an opportunity to help send a UW student to a summer internship at Google.
After 11 years as senior special assistant to the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, LaMarr Billups is moving on.
Continuing its efforts to crack down on illegal file sharing, the Record Industry Association of America sent a second wave of settlement offers to college campuses across the nation Wednesday.
The post-season accolades continue to pour in for Wisconsin men basketballâ??s star Alando Tucker, as he was named a finalist for the Naismith award this weekend.
The Wisconsin womenâ??s hockey team was welcomed home Monday night by Badger fans in the Nicholas Johnson Pavilion, following the teamâ??s 4-1 victory over Minnesota-Duluth this weekend in Lake Placid, N.Y., for its first-ever back-to-back NCAA championship.
The Madison Police Department released 2006 crime statistics Monday, showing that over the last year overall crime has remained steady, while violent crimeâ??murder, rape, aggravated assault and robberyâ??increased nearly 17 percent.
Saying the University of Wisconsin is lagging behind other Big Ten schools in retaining students, Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell unveiled a plan Monday to increase the universityâ??s student retention rate by 5 percent.
The State of Wisconsin Building Commission approved a slew of multimillion dollar University of Wisconsin System projects Tuesday, including UW-Madisonâ??s new Union South and a renovated Memorial Union.
Sara Bauer stood on the stage almost speechless. To be fair, speaking would not have done the senior much good â?? the packed Kohl Center crowd would have drowned out anything she had to say.
The city of Madison experienced an increase in violent crime and robberies last year, according to data released Monday by the Madison Police Department.
University of Wisconsin students could be shelling out $700 more per semester for a College of Engineering degree if a differential tuition plan proposed Sunday night is approved.
UW-Madison was recently notified by the Recording Industry Association of America that it would receive settlement letters targeted at individuals who have allegedly participated in illegal music file sharing and copyright infringement.
