The UW Hospital and Clinics� In Vitro Fertilization program, though slated to close by June 30 due to infighting among the program�s physicians, will remain open, the UW Medical Foundation announced Saturday.
After public outcry against last month�s decision to close the University of Wisconsin fertility clinic, two UW officials said Sunday the clinic would remain open.
It�s not unusual for a 19-year-old college student to be itching for a new car, especially when he doesn�t have one to begin with. For junior wide receiver and return man Marcus Randle El, however, that itch is more like a burning desire.
The referendum portion of the Associated Students of Madison election is on schedule to resume Monday, Student Election Commission Chair Tim Leonard said Sunday.
Wisconsin is one step closer to passing legislation with the potential to lure the lucrative film-production industry into the state following the bill�s approval in the Joint Committee on Finance Thursday.
Blasts from a sawed-off shotgun resounded in a parking lot near Witte Hall early Thursday morning, jolting residents awake and prompting University Police to rush to the scene.
Student-government elections saw a second delay Thursday after unsuccessful attempts to fix technical problems by a noon deadline pushed the voting into next week.
In response to the recent misscoring of thousands of SAT exams, the College Board has changed its policy and will now scan answer sheets twice, among other new precautions.
In a largely partisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday aimed at reforming the nation�s higher education system.
Gunshots were allegedly fired at a University of Wisconsin parking garage on Lake Street early Thursday morning, causing university police to respond and take two suspects into custody.
Unable to successfully install an updated online voting system by Thursday�s 12 p.m. deadline, the Student Election Commission postponed the referendum portion of the Associated Students of Madison election until 8 a.m. April 3.
Thursday is sleep apnea awareness day.
That’s the condition that, as many of you probably remember, contributed to the death of Packers legend Reggie White.
And there’s a good chance that you or someone you know is suffering from the disease.
We lost the dairy crown to California. Milwaukee’s days as the nation’s beer capital ended years ago. But when it comes to rat poison, Wisconsin can hold its head high: In the rodent-killing world, we rule.
Quoted: Aaron Brower, professor of social work.
Quoted: Richard Davidson, professor of psychology.
Women struggling with breast cancer can benefit greatly from online support groups, new research suggests.
These groups provide emotional benefits for breast cancer patients who can openly express their feelings in ways that help them make sense of their cancer experience, report researchers at the Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research, part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
[Story about organ donation and UWHC’s organ procurement program.]
Quoted: David Larbalestier, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Applied Superconductivity Center.
Quoted: Max Lagally, professor of materials science and engineering.
A voting debacle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is almost enough to make us long for the days of hanging chads.
Students at the university were turning out in droves to vote on referenda regarding fee increases and election of student government members. Less than halfway through the three-day election, about 15 percent of the student body had cast ballots; for higher education, that’s an outstanding number.
However, the students were voting by computer and unfortunately learned a very valuable lesson: technology is not a panacea.
More than 70 years ago, a farmer approached scientists at the University of Wisconsin asking them to solve a mystery involving spoiled sweet clover, a dead heifer and bovine blood that wouldn’t clot.
It’s that time of year again. Time for plenty of sneezing and stuffy noses. In fact allergy season is upon us.
While allergies affect different people in different ways, UW Researchers are looking for volunteers who have dust mite allergies to help them learn more about a new allergy treatment.
Planned Parenthood and other groups and families upset about the UW Hospital closing its infertility clinic rallied their forces at a meeting Wednesday night.
Thousands of ballots cast by students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been thrown out because of a computer glitch.
Undergrad research and writing earn publication
Written by Andrew Peck
Thursday, 30 March 2006
Undergraduate research journals on campus are giving a younger set of UW-Madison academics opportunities to publish research, previously only offered to graduate-level students.
Illumination, the journal for humanities-related content, is publishing its second issue at the end of April. According to Editor-in-Chief Adam Blackbourn, the upcoming issue will contain approximately 10 poems, three short stories, three essays, three articles and 15 to 20 artists, publishing about 34 students.
After-hours frat scuffle draws cops to Bascom
Written by Jackie Martin
Thursday, 30 March 2006
Alleged UW knife-wielder arrested
A scuffle between two UW-Madison students resulted in an arrest after a knife was pulled on Bascom Hill at approximately midnight Tuesday, following an initiation event hosted by UW-Madison�s Alpha Phi Alpha chapter, a historically black fraternity.
Election officials halted voting on student government elections and two campus referenda Wednesday after technical errors due to high voter turnout rendered the results invalid.
Normally, I espouse a rather conservative economic ideology ââ?¬â? one that endorses low taxes, frugal government spending and limited regulation. However, the Taxpayer Protection Amendment, introduced this year in the state Legislature, does not fit into that line of thinking.
Its supporters say it will force legislators to be fiscally responsible and be accountable. Its detractors say it will deleteriously affect the state of Wisconsin so much so that even the state�s largest economic engine, the University of Wisconsin, could become privatized or worse.
Gov. Jim Doyle announced Tuesday that a patented anti-anxiety compound developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been licensed by a global pharmaceutical company.
Bummed out about missing Sundance? Writhing in anticipation for Cannes? Well the solution is simple. Anyone looking to find the cure for filmfest-itis need not go any farther than their own backyard.
Cries of outrage slammed the Student Election Commission at a press conference Tuesday after the commission announced the abrupt cancellation of this week�s Associated Students of Madison elections.
Nearly 11 hours after postponing the Associated Students of Madison online election, the Student Election Commission resolved the situation Wednesday by dividing the ballot into two parts and reopening their vote on separate dates.
Results from the first rigorous clinical trial of the bird flu vaccine for humans suggest that existing manufacturing methods could not produce enough vaccine to protect most Americans.
On March 27 you quote Vice Chancellor Bazzell in the article ââ?¬Å?UW leaders question LTE wage planââ?¬Â as warning students that the proposed ââ?¬Å?Living Wageââ?¬Â initiative would eliminate student control over funding for general student services such as University Health Services and the student unions. Bazzell goes on to say that should the initiative pass, Chancellor Wiley will assume control over funding for general student services.
UW-Madison is one of the world�s leading research universities. The following are some discoveries and innovations that have occurred at the university in the last month:
Senior cross country runner Bobby Lockhart has a chance to wipe his record clean after the state filed battery charges against him last November. Lockhart, whose felony charges were reduced to a misdemeanor March 23, may have all charges dropped upon completion of a defender�s program run through the District Attorney�s office, said Lockhart�s lawyer, Marcus Berghahn, Tuesday.
The debate over the War in Iraq will go to the polls next week, as cities across Wisconsin are gearing up to weigh in on whether U.S. troops should be brought home.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education last week, calling the denial of financial aid to students convicted of drug misdemeanors unconstitutional.
On Thursday, March 23, I [Bill Lueders] co-moderated a debate about the use of animals in research between Dr. Eric Sandgren, the chair of the UW’s All Campus Animal Care and Use Committee, and Rick Bogle of the Alliance for Animals’ Primate Freedom Project. My report about the debate covers much of the discussion and questions there, though I wrote that “I was a bit disappointed that both Sandgren and Bogle did not provide more specific answers to some of the questions asked.”
Bogle’s response to this is available after the break.
Quoted: Pieter Johnson, fellow of the Center for Limnology
Like many college students, Racine native Jessica Schelling spent a good chunk of her spring break on the beach.
But for the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore, the time walking the sand wasn’t about fun and sun.
Schelling was picking up hurricane debris in Ocean Springs, Miss., just west of Biloxi, along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast.
The number of inmates in Wisconsin prisons has grown more than 2 times faster than the number of guards in recent years, raising questions about safety and ballooning overtime budgets from union leaders.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are voting this week on whether student fees should be raised to pay for reconstruction and upgrades of the two campus student unions.
If the referendum passes, segregated fees would go up 30 percent, or about $200 per student each year. The money would help pay to rebuild Union South and renovate Memorial Union.
The increase would make the university less affordable, said Ashok Kumar, a member of the Student Labor Action Coalition, a campus group opposed to the measure.
After 25 years of the Crazylegs Classic, race organizers are planning two major changes for the April 29 run.
This year, racers will bypass State Street due to construction on the 300 and 400 blocks. The five-mile course will begin at the Capitol Square and will continue onto Langdon Street, ending as usual at Camp Randall.
UW-Madison is starting the Safer Space Initiative in response to campus incidents such as hate crimes in Ogg Hall, a verbal assault at 433 Dayton Street and community incidents regarding the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, like the kissing contest at West Towne Mall.
If this week�s ASM referendum passes and the current Union South comes down, a new green union is set to sprout from the rubble.
Proposals to change some Madison Metro bus routes faced debate at a neighborhood meeting for students and campus area residents Monday.
With resident assistant policy effectively changed, and the lawsuit over the issue settled, many in the University of Wisconsin System are breathing a sigh of relief.
When thousands of runners line up next month to participate in Madison�s annual CrazyLegs Classic race, they will see two significant changes.
With a 3-0 win over Minnesota, the Badger women became the 2006, hockey national champions.
A title that’s left their fans reeling with excitement.
Excitement is everywhere for the UW men’s hockey team’s first trip to the Frozen Four since 1992.
The Badger men face Maine at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee on April 6 at 9 o’clock in the morning.
Current UW Madison students with season tickets can be in a lottery drawing beginning at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning at the UW athletic ticket office.
Hundreds of fans, friends and the University of Wisconsin-Madison officials gathered at the Kohl Center on Monday evening to celebrate the national championship victory by the Badgers women’s hockey team this weekend.
Quoted: Aaron Brower, professor of social work
Hummingbirds do it. Bears do it. Even whistle pigs do it. So why don’t we do it?
That’s the question scientists who study hibernation are asking. If humans could hibernate, or at least harness the power of torpor (as scientists call the dormant drowse), conditions such as SIDS, obesity and diabetes might be a thing of the past.
Researchers hope that studies of hibernators also may aid trauma victims, help preserve transplant organs, lead to safer weight-loss treatments and blood-thinning agents and shed light on some of the most basic, but still mysterious processes in the body.
Initially I was shocked by news that UW Hospital was closing the Infertility/Reproductive Endocrinology Clinic on June 30.
Then I was overwhelmed by other emotions such as disgust, sadness, revulsion, disbelief and a deep concern for our community.
Quoted: Jeffrey Jones, professor of medicine
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the LaFollette School of Public Affairs.
UW-Madison students will vote today through Thursday on a referendum to raise their segregated fees by 30 percent to build a new Union South and renovate Memorial Union.
Hundreds of Badger fans gathered at the Kohl Center Monday night to savor the rare taste of a national championship and greet the UW- Madison women’s hockey team on its return to Madison.
