It promises to be a doozy of a fight for control of the Madison City Council this spring.
The move, he said, wasn’t because he would have faced challenger Noel Radomski, a policy analyst at UW-Madison who was recently named by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz to two city committees and backed by council President Brenda Konkel and Economic Development Commission Chairman Mark Bugher.
Professor David Hottmann, 71, one of the most powerful voices in the Madison classical music world for four decades, died Sunday in a Madison nursing home.
NEW YORK – Brennan Taylor has a good job, but spending $200 on his daughter’s seventh birthday seems like “an awful lot.”
A 2002 survey of recent graduates by student loan company Nellie Mae found that the average student loan burden for a bachelor’s degree was $18,900, up 66 percent from five years earlier.
For UW-Madison students who took out student loans, the figure was $17,528 for the 2003-2004 school year.
The decision assistant coach Denise Ianello made to leave the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball staff after this season came down to family.
UW-Madison researchers have found a protein that may stop the progression of neurological diseases such as Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s and Alzheimer’s.
Good and evil, success and failure, the instant history of a region is told in the headlines and stories of the year.
Arthur Barclay “Chappie” Chapman, age 96, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
Dr. Chapman was appointed to the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1936, and became a Professor of Genetics at that institution in 1947.
The friendship Denise Ianello formed with Jerald Davis has turned to good fortune for the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team.
When I stopped up at the Capitol last week to say goodbye to retiring state Rep. DuWayne Johnsrud, most of the dead animals had already disappeared from his office.
Arthur Barclay “Chappie” Chapman, who became one of UW-Madison’s most accomplished animal genetic researchers, nearly moved to New Zealand to become a sheep farmer instead.
Dr. William Rock rarely cures his patients anymore, but he still provides care and comfort during house calls for HospiceCare.
UW-Madison’s psychology department last year led the nation with $22.8 million in federal research grants, according to the National Science Foundation. That amount was almost equal to the entire federal research budget of UW-Milwaukee, and it was $10 million more than the next nearest university, Penn State.
UW-Madison is home to one of the nation’s premier psychology departments, ranking first in the country for federal research funding and employing a stable of academic stars with national and international reputations for work in brain imaging, emotions and other areas.
Raymond E. Goldbin, age 68, passed away on Monday, Jan. 3, 2005. Raymond retired from University Printing in 1994, after 20 years.
David Hottmann passed away on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005. He held degrees from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Illinois. He retired in 1998 from the UW-Madison School of Music after 32 years of teaching voice and vocal literature. He then became Professor Emeritus of music.
In honor of the new year, these books for children revolve around changes and fresh starts, from the birth of a highly unusual baby to a family’s gradual recovery from tragedy.
“Sky” by Pamela Porter. Il lustrated by Mary Jane Gerber.
Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman are librarians at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a noncirculating library of the School of Education at UW-Madison.
You are getting sleepy, sleeeepy … your eyelids are getting heavyyyyyy. … When I snap my fingers, you will forget everything you’ve ever heard about hypnotism.
Something like hypnotism had already been around for centuries when finally it was “invented” around 1775 by Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician who used it to effect seemingly miraculous cures.
“Like a lot of people at the time, he was interested in these non-material forces such as electricity and magnetism,” says professor Thomas Broman of the UW-Madison history of science department.
If you put together a list of great ideas to come out of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department during its rise to prominence since 1990, a top-10 nominee would be the Badger Showdown men’s hockey tournament.
They arrived at the same place with the same record, but the football teams from Georgia and the University of Wisconsin came from opposite directions.
The first Wisconsin resident to receive a new type of miniature heart pump got a heart transplant just before Christmas.
Jerry Seely, 50, of Madison woke up the morning before Christmas at UW Hospital with an easily detectable pulse for the first time in about five months. He had been suffering heart problems for more than 12 years.
With the death toll still rising in the aftermath of Sunday’s earthquake and tsunami in southeast Asia, the Madison area received good news Thursday with word that all students from UW-Madison studying abroad in the area of devastation were unharmed.
In its most recent annual study of UW-Madison students, the university ‘s department of information technology found that students were online an average of 26.5 hours per week in the 2003-04 school year…
Barry Alvarez will have to find a way to replace 13 departing senior starters next season.
COLLEGES are taking their battle for high school seniors to the Web and beyond.
Extend benefits to all In response to the Monday editorial, “Allow the UW system domestic partner insurance benefits,” we need to go one step further and allow all state employees the same. It is already set for city and county government employees. Why not the UW and state?
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.
Interruptions. They’re a part of life, whether it’s a child reporting on his day at school or an accounting clerk with a question about your expense report.
University of Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez will be losing one of the top recruiters on his staff with the decision of tight ends coach Rob Ianello to go to Notre Dame.
Ianello will be the recruiting coordinator and also coach wide receivers under new Fighting Irish coach Charlie Weis.
The village of Potosi has tourism potential. But like many rural communities, it doesn’t have much capital to invest in developing it.
UW-Platteville has always made itself available to help surrounding communities, said Duane Ford, dean of the College of Business, Industry, Life Science and Agriculture. Five years ago, however, the business of helping became official with the formation of the Community University Partnership.
THERE is a sticker price for a messiah coach. For $16 million, the University of Florida recently banished Ron Zook with a $1.8 million buyout, paid the Utah Utes what amounted to a savior transfer fee of $250,000 and committed $14 million over seven years for Urban Meyer to compete with Steve Spurrier’s visorly ghost.
Ralph J. Oimoen, age 81, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004. He attended UW-Madison for a semester. He was also a former member of the UW-Madison Rowing Team in 1942.
Professor Muttaiya and Indrani Sundaralingam, died together on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004, in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, as a result of the forces of nature. Professor Sundaralingam went on to hold academic positions at several prestigious institutions, University of Washington-Seattle, Harvard University, Case Western Reserve University and UW-Madison.
The New Year! A time for fresh beginnings, fresh resolutions, fresh . . . failures.
A 2003 UW- Madison survey found that more than 50 percent of Wisconsin smokers have tried to quit three or more times, and that 90 percent of those who quit.
GeoAnalytics is in many ways what Madison’s growing crop of small technology companies hope to be.
Perhaps his understatement should be expected. With their respective backgrounds in state government and the UW- Madison geography department, Holland and Thum aren’t as flashy as most high- tech executives.
TAMPA, Fla. – University of Wisconsin defensive line coach John Palermo was on a rampage during most of the early bowl practices. Nothing his players did seemed to make him happy.
In Bo Ryan’s world, the non-conference season serves one purpose, and that’s to get the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team prepared for the Big Ten Conference schedule.
The first Outback Bowl touchdowns occurred Wednesday, when hundreds of University of Wisconsin football fans arrived in St. Petersburg and Tampa on five charter flights from the Dane County Regional Airport.
Wage too low, even for students Mac VerStanding claims raising the minimum wage would ruin State Street, which he describes as “lined with locally owned stores staffed largely by college students doing homework behind the counter.” He goes on to suggest that these college students are well taken care of with financial aid and pre-paid room and board: Even paid a mere $5.15 an hour, these students greatly appreciate the wage, which goes to textbooks or walking-around money.
In the North Few Street offices of a low-profile company called InterWorks, Paul Thompson prepared informally Tuesday for a disaster of tsunami proportions.
Thompson, 61, an architect, was one of the founders of the UW-Madison Disaster Management Center in 1982.
Five years ago, the end of the world did not happen. Our contemporary god, the computer, was ready to smite us, or so we thought.
TAMPA, Fla. – University of Wisconsin senior cornerback Scott Starks has an appreciation for speed.
The UW Medical School awarded about $5.4 million to community health programs statewide at a public meeting Tuesday.
But some are now questioning the secrecy surrounding how officials are spending part of roughly $600 million awarded to the state’s two medical schools.
A former UW-Madison biochemistry professor Muttaiya Sundaralingam, and his wife, Indirani were among the thousands killed when a tsunami struck the island nation of Sri Lanka on Sunday.
The UW Foundation has received a $15,000 grant from the Helen Bader Foundation to develop and eight-week summer externship in dementia care for medical students.
Paul J. Cleary, age 76, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004. Paul was the first male to enroll in the home economics department at UW-Madison, earning a B.S. in food administration and experimental foods in 1955. Paul spent the next 25 years in food service management at the Memorial Union, Madison campus, ending his service there as food director. In 1970, he became the food director for the entire University of Wisconsin system. He was a guest lecturer and an instructor for the food administration for the University of Wisconsin.
It’s enough to turn an Optimist into a pessimist.
And it raises the cosmic question: Just what is it worth to sell a bratwurst inside Camp Randall Stadium?
BOSTON, MASSACHUSSETTS A student at a vocational training school has died from injuries he suffered when he fell from a third-floor balcony during a party at his apartment, authorities said.
University of Wisconsin football fans headed to Tampa, Fla., for Saturday’s Outback Bowl will be hoping for two things: warm weather (anything above 60 should shake the northern chill) and a Badger victory against Georgia.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. The Internet company that famously promised to “do no evil” is on a new mission to digitize the collections of some of the nation’s leading research institutions and establish a massive online reading room.
Gov. Jim Doyle was right to propose an increase in spending on a program that helps save and create manufacturing jobs in the state. The Legislature ought to accept the governor’s $3 million funding plan for the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership in the state’s 2005-07 budget.
WMEP is a subsidized consulting service that uses expertise from the state’s technical colleges and universities to help small and mid-size manufacturers become more efficient. For example, the partnership worked with Dane Manufacturing Co. in Dane to increase production, yielding a $242,500 increases in sales and $50,000 in cost savings.
The recent Wisconsin State Journal story on county health rankings carried the headline “Go to college and you might live longer.” It displayed data that in Dane County, people with less than a high school education are three more times likely to die before age 65 than those with more than a high school education. How could a social factor like education be so important in producing longer and healthier lives?
Kindig is an emeritus professor of the UW-Madison Medical School’s Department of Population Health Sciences.
It should be clear by now that the “religious right” has nearly succeeded in hijacking the concept of Christianity.
Williams, a UW-Madison professor of professional development and applied studies, also is a moderator for the Community of Hope United Church of Christ, Madison.
The response has been less than overwhelming to Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposal to invest nearly $750 million in public and private money in Wisconsin’s biotechnology future. Budget-conscious members of the Legislature have choked on the price tag, opponents on stem cell research have once again protested, and Milwaukee politicians have asked if they’re being shortchanged in favor of Madison.
TAMPA, Fla. – When the Georgia quarterbacks coach heads to the beach for family reunions, he frequently runs into tourists from Wisconsin.
A state employee accused last week of embezzling more than $165,000 from the Department of Commerce was hired even though she went to prison for forgery in another state job five years earlier.
I won’t win any fans in Badgerland, but I think the University of Georgia bulldog mascot is cooler than Bucky Badger.
Marion Pearl Newel, died on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. She worked at the University for 30 years in the Bureau of Audio-Visual Instruction (BAVI).
University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Bret Bielema convinced linebacker Abdul Hodge to go to Iowa, when Bielema was the linebackers coach with the Hawkeyes.
They are college football’s version of the paparazzi.
They are almost everywhere, showing up at any function where football players might be present. They are cunning, aggressive, persuasive — and more than a little annoying.
Next Halloween, the elected guardians of Madison might try to eliminate rowdy crowds by closing off interstate access to the city or putting up gates on State Street.
