Community members came together Tuesday night to share stories and discuss the benefits of Union South.
The goal of the meeting was to talk about positive aspects of Union South and bring forward the elements of the facility that are working for students and community members.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Tuesday that it plans to re-examine patents covering research by stem cell leader and UW-Madison scientist James Thomson and other UW-Madison scientistsÃ?¢ââ??‰â?¬Âsupposedly the first researchers in the world to grow and isolate human embryonic stem cells.
After negotiations spanning over a year between labor groups, UW-Madison administration, workers and student government, UW-Madison limited term employees have secured a living wage and, potentially, full-time positions.
Twenty to 30 mopeds have been reported stolen in the downtown area since early September, according to a Madison police estimate.
Higher Education Day was recognized yesterday in Wisconsin, with Gov. Jim Doyle, other state leaders and even former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, calling on residents to start saving for college early.
The Madison Police Department reported exceptionally high numbers of moped thefts on campus since the start of the semester and warned students Tuesday about the consequences of not properly securing vehicles.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Tuesday that it intends to review patents for embryonic stem-cell research held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley signed a new Limited Term Employee policy into effect Tuesday, what he called a ââ?¬Å?milestoneââ?¬Â for the university.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to re-examine the validity of fundamental patents on human embryonic stem cells granted to a scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
NASHVILLE ââ?¬â? Just before 6 p.m. on a recent evening, students began to fill a lecture hall at Vanderbilt University. Some pressed cellphones to their ears, others sipped cups of coffee. Flip-flops scuffed the carpet as the students shed book bags and opened laptops.
A typical class, perhaps ââ?¬â? until the teacher with the shock of white hair rose from the table at the front of the hall, greeted the students and asked a question: ââ?¬Å?How many of you have experienced a hate crime against yourself? Letââ?¬â?¢s see the hands.ââ?¬Â
The body of a UW-La Crosse student missing since Saturday night was pulled from the Mississippi River Monday morning.
Luke Homan, a basketball player and Brookfield native, was last seen celebrating Oktoberfest at The Vibe, a popular downtown bar, with several of his friends.
NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin and Madison Alder Zach Brandon, District 7, introduced a proposed emergency contraception ordinance Monday aiming to improve emergency contraception access for women in Madison who need the morning-after pill.
The body of a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who went missing Friday was found in the Mississippi River Monday.
The Alliance Defense Fund turned up the heat Monday afternoon in a two-year debate surrounding the funding revocation of the University of Wisconsin-Superior�s InterVarsity Christian Fellowship student group.
The Epstein-Barr virus, the most common culprit of mono, infects most people and is linked to cancer later in life. Researchers at the UW-Madison McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and the German National Research Center for Environmental Health have discovered information about the virus�s lifecycle which could lead to virus-specific, targeted treatments for certain cancers.
Start with 20 computers sitting in a room.
Next, come up with software that lets you run a complex calculation on all 20 computers. Since you�ve got so many computers working on it, they finish the task sooner.
As we continue our preparation for our first Big Ten Conference home football game on Oct. 7, we would like to respond to your recent editorial urging the UW Athletic Department to ââ?¬Å?revisit and reviseââ?¬Â the new Ticket Revocation Policy.
With recent shifts in stem cell support, voters could be confused by each candidate�s political rhetoric laced with scientific information in their campaigns. Traditionally, Republicans have not supported government funding of stem cell research, but U.S Rep Mark Green has taken a more progressive approach after announcing a $25 million plan to fund adult stem cell research.
The British Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, addressed global energy consumption and climate change in a speech at Memorial Union Friday, lauding the university and state�s conservation efforts.
UW Roman Catholic Foundation spokesperson Tim Kruse said Sunday night that blatant religious discrimination, miscommunication and unaccountability were responsible for the organization�s current preclusion from Registered Student Organization status.
In the Jewish religion, which encompasses 15 million people worldwide, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year.
Speaking about energy and climate security Friday at the Memorial Union Theater, Britain�s ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, said we are amid a worldwide crisis.
Joseph Kauffman, who worked as a University of Wisconsin administrator and professor until his retirement in 1987, died Friday after an ongoing battle with cancer.
A little rain may have kept much of Madison indoors Saturday morning, but some still managed to make their way to Lake Mendota to watch the second annual Pumpkin Regatta.
Tickets to enter State Street Oct. 28 for the annual Halloween celebration go on sale today and can be purchased for $5, with a limit of four tickets per person, at Library Mall or from the Madison Parks Office.
University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett and University of Minnesota-Duluth professor James Fetzer took time Sunday afternoon to explain their Sept. 11 theory that has been the source of recent widespread media attention and legislative debate.
In the state of Wisconsin, minoritiesââ?¬â?including Blacks, Latinos, American Indians and Asiansââ?¬â?comprise 9.8 percent of the population. At UW-Madison, the flagship of the UW System, minorities comprise a comparable 10 percent of the student body. And yet university administrators continue to vigorously strive for greater diversity.
Doyle, Green walk a tightrope over controversial issue
With elections rapidly approaching, both gubernatorial candidates seem eager to establish a position on the popular issue of stem cell research.
The University of Wisconsin Welcome Center opened its doors to the public Thursday, about a year after initially breaking ground.
Doing stem-cell business in Wisconsin just got easier.
Under a new partnership agreement announced Thursday by Gov. Jim Doyle, companies will not have to pay royalty fees to use stem-cell lines patented by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation if they partner with non-profit academic institutions in state.
While most University of Wisconsin students know exactly what it feels like to receive grades on subjects like history, engineering and political science, few students expect to see their own university handed the grades. More unexpected, is to see the university graded in the subject of sex.
University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett and fellow Scholars for 9/11 Truth member James Fetzer will discuss their thoughts on the events of Sept. 11, 2001 Sunday.
The UW-Madison community received pointers on dealing with a state legislature increasingly hostile to the university from one of the legislature�s own, 1986 UW-Madison graduate state Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison.
Tickets for Halloween 2006 will go on sale Monday, marking the first time visitors to the event will have to pay to get onto State Street.
Markets and superstores across the country offer consumers a variety of milk choices, but the UW-Madison community is left with only one.
With the organic food market so lively Wal-Mart hopes to expand into it and backlit by a UW-Madison report identifying Wisconsin as a principal source of organic dairy products, the flagship university of one of the most organically friendly cities in the United States has yet to dabble in the field of organic dairy.
Sunday morning, at 3 a.m., three to five men encircled a 22-year-old UW-Madison student just outside of MacTaggart�s, 230 W. Lakelawn Place. Almost immediately, the student felt a sharp instrument against his back and handed his wallet over to the men.
Across the United States, there has been an explosion in the number of students interested in Arabic. At the University of Wisconsin, all four sections of first semester Arabic filled up so quickly many students had to be turned away.
After experiencing particularly bad flooding damage in a rainstorm this July, the University of Wisconsin began launching a pilot project Wednesday to protect parking lots from future occurrences.
Across the country, Big Ten football is held in the highest regard as one of the premiere conferences in college football, because of the history, the tradition and the consistently high level of competition within the league.
As part of Democratic Gov. Jim Doyleââ?¬â?¢s effort to reduce the stateââ?¬â?¢s reliance on energy, four University of Wisconsin System schools will be part of an ââ?¬Å?off-the-gridââ?¬Â pilot program to become energy independent by 2012.
Several prominent scientists said yesterday that they had formed an organization dedicated to electing politicians ââ?¬Å?who respect evidence and understand the importance of using scientific and engineering advice in making public policy.ââ?¬Â
Answers to a few campus financial misconceptions
The typical university student is surrounded by financial jargon and buzzwords as they maneuver through his or her college years. By the end of four years, students know that professors are paid obscenely high salaries, parking costs are impossible and segregated fees are why we all have to eat Ramen. All these topics sound familiar enough, but upon further investigation, the average student�s knowledge about the actual facts surrounding these issues is minimal at best.
Patents are big business and big philanthropy at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which helps keep UW-Madison in the top tier of research universities.
A plan that would promote hundreds of UW-Madison Limited Term Employees to full time positions over the next six years is heads to Chancellor Wiley�s desk in the next couple of weeks.
People passing by the Kohl Center in the past week may have noticed a lot of folding chairs and eager hockey fans. Some UW men�s hockey student season ticket holders have been waiting in line since Tuesday, Sept. 19 in hopes of scoring seats that would put them touching the glass in the front row.
Major League Baseball Commissioner, former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and UW-Madison graduate Bud Selig spoke to a crowd of students Tuesday, mentioning he had spoken with his ââ?¬Å?good friend Hank Aaronââ?¬Â earlier that morning.
Before long, I encountered a scene far less welcoming than that which had preceded it. Standing unhappily next to a bike was a student apparently receiving a ticket from a police officer. How had I forgotten? There was word on the street that the local police had recently vowed tougher restrictions on bicycling, including a prohibition of the act altogether on Library Mall.
The Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education held an open forum at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday to discuss the need to design new university buildings that cater to the needs of today�s students.
Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Wis., issued a statement Tuesday directly condemning the University of Wisconsin for not firing Kevin Barrett, a controversial lecturer who drew nationwide media coverage to UW this summer.
The University of Wisconsin System will lose its chief academic officer in December as Cora Marrett joins the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., in December.
A suspect in the Sept. 4 University Avenue sexual assault case appeared in court Tuesday and is being held on $45,000 bail until his preliminary hearing.
City of Madison Police issued misdemeanor trespassing citations to five University of Wisconsin students during an organized protest at a military recruiting office Tuesday.
After more than 40 years of working in the same industry, it�s easy to get worn out, lose passion and throw in the towel.
Not for Bud Selig.
By JOHN ETCHEMENDY
HARVARD�S and Princeton�s recent announcements that they will soon end the early admission programs they now use to choose part of their freshman classes have garnered a great deal of attention, including editorials urging other institutions to follow their lead. It is a shame that the publicity, so abundant in its praise, has been so short on facts and clearheaded analysis.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 ââ?¬â? Saying she hoped to jolt American higher education out of a dangerous complacency, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings vowed Tuesday to help finance state universities that administer standardized tests, establish a national database to track studentsââ?¬â?¢ progress toward a degree and cut the red tape surrounding federal student aid.
Robert Phansalkarââ?¬â?¢s op-ed on the new ââ?¬Å?Think Respectââ?¬Â program (Sept. 22) was welcome. It was good to finally see that a student journalist has grasped the fact that the program, as presently conceived, poses a threat to honest discourse and privacy on campus.
The University of Wisconsin received another boost in the scientific community Monday, winning a $30 million donation for a collaborative project along with 10 other universities and laboratories nationwide.
The University of Wisconsin is not the only campus to witness increases in crime this fall, as two other Midwest schools are facing many of the same problems.
The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate discussed proposed changes to the disciplinary process for felonious faculty at their first meeting of the academic year Monday.
With a recent resurfacing of public interest in energy conservation, the University of Wisconsin hosted a panel discussion Monday in an attempt to inform the public of global warming and its effects.
