Clarence Everett (Pat) Johnson passed away January 14, 2005. Pat moved to Madison in 1965, where he earned a Ph.D. in food science. Pat joined the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he directed outreach programs for the food industry.
Jacquelyn Hanson Hur recently passed away after a short illness. Jacquie graduated Madison Central High School in 1941 and entered the University of Wisconsin School of Music. Following three required major recitals she was officially recognized by Professors Church and Johanson as a concert pianist. Jacquie was the fifth member of a select group of musicians qualified to play the University of Wisconsin Carillon Bell Tower on Bascom Hill.
Vincent John Hart, age 37, died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005. He worked more recently in Madison for the University of Wisconsin before moving to Milwaukee.
Frederick H. Buttel, age 56, died on Jan. 14, 2005. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the UW-Madison, followed by a doctorate in sociology at UW-Madison. He joined the UW-Madison faculty nearly 13 years ago. He was a leading scholar in rural sociology who was devoted to four major areas of study including the sociology of agriculture, environmental sociology, technological change in agriculture, and national and global activism relating to environmental and agricultural policies.
Cleveland Alexander, age 56, died on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005. He worked most recently at UW-Madison at the McArdle Research Laboratory.
President Bush proposed on Friday an increase in the government Pell Grants that help lower-income students afford higher education but said he would shave the cost out of a federal student loan program that also provides college aid.
When Irene Newman graduated from the University of Wisconsin, her college education cost $10 a semester.
No sacred cows Wayne Madsen objects to the portrayal of environmentalists as villains in Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear.” As most of us know, Crichton is largely a writer of fiction. Characters from many walks of life – politicians, businessmen, athletes, lawyers, celebrities – play the villains in various fictional works. Madsen, however, seems to think that environmentalists should be granted unique protections against such portrayal, even in a fictional context.
Richard Amasino, professor, Department of Biochemistry, UW-Madison
State Assembly Speaker John Gard wants to subject state contracting to more sunshine, and the plan should help make sure state officials can’t cut backroom deals to funnel state tax money to politically connected private firms.
By all appearances, suspect Meng-Ju “Mark” Wu was ready to face his triple homicide trial, which was scheduled to start today.
Officials at Wisconsin’s two medical schools have it backward when it comes to determining when meetings should be open to the public
Hotel Downtown is going upscale, switching to Hilton’s DoubleTree brand and carrying out a $3 million renovation.
Former UW-Madison basketball player Maurice “Boo” Wade faces sentencing in March after failing to meet the requirements of a deferred prosecution program that appeared to have closed criminal cases against him last year.
Sure, it’s suddenly cold enough outside to freeze your eyeballs. But at least you’re likely reading this in a nice, warm place.
Campus faculty and student can’t feel too reassured abut their prospects this week after Gov. Jim doyle skipped the only section of his State of the State speech that made a real financial commitment to higher education.
Mike Eaves has vivid memories of being part of the most lethal special-teams unit in University of Wisconsin men’s hockey history.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials welcome the academic reform measures adopted by the NCAA this week.
Mary Rouse, a former dean of students at UW-Madison who spent the past four years running a student volunteer center on campus, announced Wednesday she will retire in June.
Ever so gradually, the big payoff in wages from a college education is losing its steam, which calls into question the emphasis that the White House, under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has placed on a bachelor’s degree as a sure-fire avenue to constantly rising incomes.
Madison has more options than previously thought for businesses seeking full liquor licenses.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday used his State of the State speech to put forward a potent “education agenda” for Wisconsin.
The link between alcohol and sports represents an unnatural and destructive alliance, especially for children, and alcohol advertising on televised sports reaches them, encouraging them to drink and masking the risks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 – An Alabama heiress who says she is fed up with corrupt corporate culture is providing college scholarships to students with as low as a C average, as long as they have a record of service to family and community.
Thomas Cooler can’t wait to open his Cajun-style Gaston’s restaurant on Madison’s North Side.
Thomas L. W. Johnson died on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005. He began his career at UW-Madison in 1959, working as an assistant to the associate registrar.
Neighborhood residents, faculty, staff and students can weigh in on UW-Madison’s developing campus master plan in a series of meetings over the next several weeks.
Wisconsin’s congressional delegation should lead a campaign to undo the damage done by the federal Education Department when it cut the student aid program know as Pell Grants to more than a million college students.
An investment expert with deep family ties to the University of Wisconsin System will manage the money that’s used to help support UW research.
Tom Weaver is the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s new director of investments. He guides decisions about how to invest the $1.4 billion in WARF’s hands.
Sometimes it takes more than a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 – The chairman of California’s new $3 billion stem cell research institute wants to award its first grants in less than five months, even though the institute has no staff, headquarters or review procedures – a timetable that some board members fear is too ambitious.
From around Christmas through this week, most UW-Madison students disappear, spending their hard-won winter break at home with friends and family or traveling.
Beulah S. (Riggert) LaBarro, age 94, passed away on Friday, Jan. 7, 2005. Beulah worked for the University of Wisconsin telephone center and Langdon Hall.
James T. M. Fay, age 84, passed away on Friday, Jan. 7, 2005. Fay worked for 25 years at the Photo Media Center at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, a dairy marketing specialist with UW- Madison.
Big names star in ads to help raise money for new vet school building.
Wisconsin’s education leaders – from the K-12 system and all types of higher education – are banding together to protest changes in federal rules that will eliminate Pell grants for about 5,500 needy college students in the state this fall and reduce aid to many others.
Aubrey Pleasant’s change of heart over the weekend means another oral commitment for the University of Wisconsin football team.
By modern fraternity standards, Phi Delta Theta’s tailgate party was a real rager. For one thing, there were kegs. I couldn’t see them just then, but proof of their existence was everywhere. Packed into a backyard near the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., were some 100 drunken college students, beer spilling from plastic cups, industrial-size ketchup bottles overturned on the grass near the grill and gaggles of hard-drinking sorority girls (including one self-described Phi Delt groupie) keeping pace with the boys.
\In terms of higher education, many define the term “Wisconsin Idea” as the university’s service to the state or the borders of the university being the borders of the state. This notion separates Wisconsin and the UW system from other institutions.
In the winter night sky, just above Orion’s shoulder and not far from the gathering of stars known as the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, a mysterious and rare visitor to our corner of the universe is visible to anyone with a pair of binoculars.
In the Andrew Goodman file at the Wisconsin Historical Society is a stack of unused postcards, brown with age.
One positive about playing in today’s nationally televised game at the Kohl Center is already a given for the University of Wisconsin’s women’s basketball team.
When Barry Alvarez lobbed that verbal grenade into the mass of University of Wisconsin football humanity seven days ago, my initial reaction was just like many of yours.
Quoted: Neil Lener, director of the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center
Officials at Wisconsin’s two medical schools have it backward when it comes to determining when meetings should be open to the public.
The UW Medical School and the Medical College of Wisconsin each closed discussions to select winning applicants for public grants going to community health programs. A UW Medical School official said the meetings were closed to ensure a fair and objective process.
The National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in September in Washington, D.C., is a celebration of art and culture. And – with exhibits drawn from a collection of 800,000 objects – it also serves as a showcase for the detective work of a UW- Madison professor.
A Wisconsin church leader predicts more schools in rural areas will consider incorporating creationism into lesson plans, and a UW-Madison historian who studies the issue thinks more court challenges are likely.
The issue of the state providing health insurance to domestic partners is caught in a power struggle involving the Republican Party, the private sector and colleges and universities around the nation looking for world-class faculty and staff members.
Public employee pension checks appear headed for a bump this year.
There are no guarantees that Janel McCarville would have come to the University of Wisconsin had Lisa Stone been the coach of the Badgers four years ago.
Heading into his senior year on the University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team, Nick Van Sicklen was pretty confident the 2004 season would be his last competitive hurrah on the pitch.
Thomas L.W. Johnson, who worked in UW-Madison’s Registrar’s Office for 44 years before his retirement in 2003, died Jan. 1 in Madison.
Junior guard Boo Wade’s career with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team ended Thursday, when he again left the team for personal reasons after appearing in only one game this season.
Elizabeth “Liz” Sewell, age 91, died on Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. She was a teaching assistant in the sociology department during the 1960s. She was married to William H. “Bill” Sewell. Bill was a distinguished professor of sociology, as well as chancellor of the university from 1960 to 1961.
The Wisconsin Women’s Network celebrates their 25th anniversary with an edited version of “Uncommon Lives of Common Women: The Missing Half of Wisconsin History,” a collection of stories portraying the lives of women exceptional for their time.
Featured — Eulalia Croll: UW athlete
It should not be a surprise that Barry Alvarez will continue to serve as University of Wisconsin athletic director and football coach in 2005-06.
The path will run from Camp Randall Stadium to Lake Monona along a railroad bed.
Neglect is defined in state law as the failure, refusal, or inability by one to provide necessary care for another. Wisconsin’s governor and Legislature are guilty of 160,000 counts of “neglect” in terms of UW System students and campuses.
Most of us work harder at our jobs when we can see we are succeeding. So Wisconsin policy-makers and business executives should work harder on the job of economic development in the upcoming year than their counterparts in any surrounding state.
Cheryl Martens said she spent most of the night searching after calling Dr. Kurt Sladky, a special species veterinarian at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, at around 11:30 p.m. to determine what kind of drugs could be used to capture the kangaroo.
