An all-girls club hockey team right here in Madison is on its way to the first round of its National Championships.
Judy Ferwerda coaches the Madison Capitols girls 14 and under team The girls are vying for the top spot in the Midwest Elite Hockey League. Ferwurda says it is no coincidence her girls are headed to their national championships. Teams like the Madison Capitols are essentially feeder programs for some of the nation’s top college hockey teams.
The men’s hockey team delivered a shutout victory on Saturday over Bemidji State in an NCAA Midwest Regional Semi-final. But cheering for Bucky could be bad for your health, if you overdo it.
For UW’s soon-to-be graduates, the real world looks rosy.
“The job market looks very strong for graduating seniors, the strongest that we’ve seen in about 6 years,” says Steve Schroeder with UW’s School of Business.
The men play the longest scoreless game in NCAA tournament play and the women win the national championship!
More than 100 UW students are back from a weeklong trip to Louisiana.
The group from the Wisprig program lent a hand in the hurricane striken neighborhoods around New Orleans.
Former UW Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows is calling his demotion unfair and said he is looking forward to his appeal.
The Badger women’s hockey team shut out the Minnesota Gophers to claim its first ever NCAA Frozen Four Title.
Quoted: Alta Charo, professor of law and medical ethics (regarding investigation of possible scientific misconduct in stem cell research by a former UW professor)
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The end to a remarkable test of wills, and the clinching of the most important victory the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program has recorded since 1990, came without warning.
As he stood in the locker room and watched his players take turns hoisting the national championship trophy, University of Wisconsin women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson surely wasn’t the only Badgers fan thinking of his father.
Quoted: William Whitford, professor emeritus of law.
University of Wisconsin System will pay $2,500 in legal fees to a UW-Eau Claire resident assistant to settle his lawsuit challenging a campus practice banning him from hosting Bible studies in his dormitory.
The settlement, made public in U.S. District Court in Madison on Friday, also calls for UW System to pay a symbolic $1 in damages to the student, Lance Steiger.
“We’re pleased to have this matter resolved,” UW System spokeswoman Kate Dixon said Friday.
A former top administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison labeled as unfair a school investigation that accused him of sexually harassing two women.
Paul Barrows, a former vice chancellor at the university, said neither of the two women interviewed by Susan Steingass, a former judge appointed to lead the probe, filed formal complaints against him. Barrows said Steingass also failed to get his response to their allegations before releasing her report in September.
Stem cell patents held by a University of Wisconsin organization are so restrictive that they create an impediment to research, according to a science journal published Friday.
The authors, California stem-cell researcher Jeanne F. Loring and patent attorney Cathryn Campbell, said the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation patented stem cells so broadly that other researchers can do little without infringing on the foundation’s patents.
The article appears in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.
Quoted: Don Nichols, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs
Somewhere, the old coaching legend is smiling broadly, perhaps thinking about amending that famous line of his.
How about: “It’s the greatest day for hockey?”
For the first time in 14 years, the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four, its latest step coming Sunday against a backdrop of exhausting drama and sheer will.
As it turned out, there was no shame to be found in the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s version of self-promotion.
Two big changes await participants in this year’s Crazylegs Classic, the Madison tradition that brings thousands of runners Downtown.
Road construction will force the April 29 race to bypass State Street for the first time in its 25-year history.
Issues of shared governance between the student government and the administration could hinder a referendum that aims to ensure a living wage for UW-Madison employees and goes to a student vote Tuesday.
Formerly a well spring of political activism, the Mifflin and Bassett Street neighborhoods have settled down into adult, residential neighborhoods as students have moved out and new construction has begun in the historic area.
It only took one hundred total shots and one hundred and eleven minutes of scoreless hockey, but the Wisconsin Badgers men�s hockey team persevered, advancing to the Frozen Four in Milwaukee, Wis.
A possible conflict between collegiate apparel company Steve & Barry�s and one of its manufacturers has highlighted some difficulties with implementing UW-Madison�s long awaited anti-sweatshop plan.
As the final buzzer sounded, and the players rushed the ice in hysteric celebration the University of Wisconsin achieved something unprecedented. The UW women�s hockey team was crowned national champion Sunday afternoon at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis. With sophomore Jinelle Zaugg�s two goals, and another insurance goal netted by senior Grace Hutchins, the Badgers (36-4-1) were able to defeat the two-time defending national champion Minnesota Gophers (29-11-1) 3-0.
On the 100th shot in the 111th minute of the Midwest Regional Final Sunday, freshman Jack Skille put home the game-winning goal to advance Wisconsin past Cornell to the Frozen Four for the first time since 1992.
The University of Wisconsin�s endorsement of a licensing proposal that could lower the amount of UW-licensed apparel produced in sweatshops was discussed Friday by the Labor and Licensing Policy Committee.
Throughout her professional career, Board of Regents member Eileen Connolly-Keesler has successfully worked to expand and improve several non-profit organizations and is now looking to do the same with the University of Wisconsin System.
A Dane County circuit judge ruled March 23 that former University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley will stand trial on a variety of criminal charges, including felony second-degree sexual assault.
Before this weekend, there had never been a shutout in women�s Frozen Four history. Now it�s happened twice.
The Dane County Circuit Court dropped felony charges of substantial battery against University of Wisconsin cross-country runner Bobby Lockhart Thursday.
The Wisconsin Union Facilities Improvement Plan would raise student segregated fees by a maximum of $96 per student per semester for a period of up to 30 years, if passed.
The recent revelation that the University of Wisconsin system employs 40 convicted felons has brought to light the challenges one-time convicts face upon re-entry into society.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents passed a resolution Thursday strongly opposing the Taxpayer Protection Amendment, which could potentially result in increased tuition and decreased student enrollment.
Parking tickets are commonplace on the UW-Madison campus as students park in restricted lots, overstay their time limits or fail to plug their parking meters. But many students never pay their tickets.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison broke years of silence Thursday when a UW-Madison professor went head to head in a debate with an animal rights advocate over the University�s use of animals in scientific research.
UW-Madison students and Wisconsin Union employees rallied against a proposal to overhaul the unions and encouraged students to vote for the living wage referendum Thursday at Memorial Union.
Members of a local union joined forces with University of Wisconsin students Thursday to protest the treatment of limited-term employees at the entrance of Memorial Union.
For the first time in eight years, a debate concerning the use of animals in research was held Thursday on the University of Wisconsin campus.
More than a week after Wisconsin�s top law official announced intentions to join a lawsuit pushing for easier access to the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill, two University of Wisconsin student groups held a forum Thursday to discuss the matter.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents took an official stand Thursday against the proposed state Taxpayer Protection Amendment.
Two groups of researchers, in Japan and in Holland, say they have discovered why the avian flu virus is rarely if ever transmitted from one person to another.
The reason, the researchers propose, is that the cells bearing the type of receptor the avian virus is known to favor are clustered in the deepest branches of the human respiratory tract, keeping it from spreading by coughs and sneezes. Human flu viruses typically infect cells in the upper respiratory tract.
The avian virus would need to accumulate many mutations in its genetic material before it could become a pandemic strain, said Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Tokyo and the University of Wisconsin.
The number of foreign students who applied to graduate programs in American universities during the current academic year increased by 11 percent from the year before, according to a survey to be released today. That growth reverses two years of decline that occurred in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
A UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine professor has recently discovered why the H5N1 avian influenza virus does not spread easily from human-to-human contact, though it continues to infect those in close contact with infected poultry, a UW-Madison statement said.
As UW-Madison students study into the early morning hours, gulping down caffeinated, sugary soft drinks and munching on late-night snacks, oral hygiene may fall by the wayside, according to local dentists.
Over the past year, UW-Madison students acquired a reputation of engaging in heavy alcohol and drug use after being crowned the No. 1 party school by the Princeton Review and number two of the Top 10 Cannabis colleges by High Times magazine.
The number of foreign students who applied to graduate programs in American universities during the current academic year increased by 11 percent from the year before, according to a survey to be released today. That growth reverses two years of decline that occurred in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is buddying up with state legislators in an effort to stimulate and improve communication.
A referendum aiming to raise the wages of workers employed at many University of Wisconsin organizations might violate university policy if approved, according to one UW administrator.
Two groups of researchers, in Japan and in Holland, say they have discovered why the avian flu virus is rarely if ever transmitted from one person to another.
The reason, the researchers propose, is that the cells bearing the type of receptor the avian virus is known to favor are clustered in the deepest branches of the human respiratory tract, keeping it from spreading by coughs and sneezes. Human flu viruses typically infect cells in the upper respiratory tract.The avian virus would need to accumulate many mutations in its genetic material before it could become a pandemic strain, said Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Tokyo and the University of Wisconsin.
Madison residents can now access wireless Internet in the downtown and parts of the campus area as the city marked completion of the first phase of its citywide wireless network Wednesday.
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Also by Kate Maternowski:
Critics eye issues at U of Colorado (March 21, 2006)
Minnesota may crack down on accents (March 22, 2006)
Grad drives car into crowd (March 07, 2006)
Court upholds right for recruiters (March 07, 2006)
Legislators push for criminal checks (March 02, 2006)
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Legislators ‘Invest’ in Wisconsin (November 17, 2005)
Legislators revisit TABOR law (February 10, 2006)
by Kate Maternowski Thursday, March 23, 2006
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is buddying up with state legislators in an effort to stimulate and improve communication.
Wisconsin legislators opened their mailboxes Wednesday to find a letter signed by elected officials from across the state urging them to oppose the controversial Taxpayer Protection Amendment
Something has gone very wrong with the United States patent system.
Americans think of the granting of patents as a benevolent process that lets inventors enjoy the fruits of their hard work and innovations. But times have changed. The definition of what is patentable has slowly evolved to include business practices and broad ideas. The fact that the Smucker’s company went to court over patents on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches might have provoked chuckles. But it became a symbol of a system gone awry.
WASHINGTON, March 21 %u2014 A student organization is suing the United States Education Department over a law that denies federal financial aid to 35,000 students a year because they were convicted of drug offenses while receiving the aid.
The class-action suit, which the American Civil Liberties Union is to file on Wednesday in federal court in South Dakota on behalf of an organization called Students for Sensible Drug Policy, names the secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, as a defendant.
Professor Emeritus William H. Young on Friday March 3, 2006, at his home in Madison. In 1947 Prof. Young returned to his beloved University of Wisconsin as Associate Professor of Political Science, where he was a member of the faculty until his retirement in 1983. He chaired the Department of Political Science from 1952-1959, and he was assistant to the President of the University from 1953-1963. In the latter capacity he was the Budget Director from 1953-1962 and Patent Officer from 1963-1970. In 1968 Prof. Young founded and became Director of the Center for Development.
The scoring errors disclosed this week on thousands of the College Board’s SAT tests were made by a company that is one of the largest players in the exploding standardized testing business, handling millions of tests each year.
The mistakes, which the company, Pearson Educational Measurement, acknowledged yesterday, raised fresh questions about the reliability of the kinds of high-stakes tests that increasingly dominate education at all levels. Neither Pearson, which handles state testing across the country, nor the College Board detected the scoring problems until two students came forward with complaints.
It is a universally-acknowledged truth that human beings cannot help drinking water, since approximately 75 percent of fat-free mass of the human body is made of this precious fluid.
When Robbie Earl and Joe Pavelski are flying down the ice, just about everyone in the Kohl Center, from coaches to Crease Creatures, is hoping for the same thing: the next score. Everyone, that is, except for the UW men�s hockey athletic trainer, Andy Hrodey. Though he is as much in favor of a win for the Badgers as anyone else, he hopes first and foremost that his players are hydrated.
