The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is developing a new forensic science program, and according to Peter Killoran, a sociology professor and the first faculty member hired for the program at the college, the program is growing quickly.
Wrongfully incarcerated for 18 years, Steven Avery received $25,000 in compensation from the Wisconsin Claims Board Thursday.
Nicole Thompson had been at Columbia University for only a few weeks when she went out drinking with a group of friends downtown last year and became separated from them. She had skipped her medication for bipolar disorder. Now it was 3 a.m. and, crying and in a panic, she called friends; she told them, she said, that she “just wished the traffic would take me out.”
Julie Andersen of Oregon traveled to rural Kenya to work as a volunteer – and changed the way she shopped forever.
Engel, a professor at UW- Madison, acknowledged that fair trade offered benefits to laborers who received more for their products. But the extra money spent on a fair trade gift would likely bring more benefits to workers in poor countries if it were simply donated to the right charities, Engel said.
Michael Robert Janda, age 50, died on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. Michael worked in a molecular viralogy lab at the University of Wisconsin.
A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit will get a damage award of $25,000 plus attorneys fees from the state.
He was released last year after the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a group of UW-Madison law students headed by Findley.
Coach Pete Waite has watched the maturation of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team from a wide-eyed group featuring 11 freshmen and sophomores to an NCAA tournament qualifier receiving home-court advantage this weekend.
That edge at the UW Field House cannot be underestimated, either.
The Board of Regents has repeatedly voted to increase salaries of UW senior administrators. These increases occur while students are faced with tuition hikes and fewer enrollment options.
Kassie Hauser is fully clothed in winter gear, from warm boots to a scarf wound tightly around her neck. She is practically breaking a sweat, bundled up, while standing inside of the Social Science building.
Yet, the UW-Madison freshman feels naked… and uncomfortable.
“I don’t have my laptop with me,” Hauser says, clearly frustrated. “I just got out of work and I didn’t have the time to go back to my dorm room to get it. It just doesn’t feel right.”
The Joint West Campus Area Committee met Tuesday night to discuss the renovation of the 1300 block of University Avenue.
Nearly two weeks after the hunting rampage that left six dead and two wounded, residents in the small northern Wisconsin town of Rice Lake are still struggling to cope with the reality of the tragedy. The eight victims were all widely known throughout the close-knit community of 8,500, and now survivors, friends and family members are questioning how such an atrocity could ever occur in a town that up until the shootings had seen only one homicide in the last year.
Recent improvements on Lakeshore Path were completed in an attempt to make it safer for students while preserving its natural ambiance.
According to UW-Madison Facilities Planning and Management director Al Fish, such improvements include raising the path to prevent flooding, adding mulch for erosion control and adding black top in certain areas.
The waters of Lake Michigan, food and humans all hold a growing amount of a compound used as a flame retardant banned in several European countries, according to University of Wisconsin professors.
Many University of Wisconsin students� hopes of traveling to Pasadena died with the Badger football team�s loss to Iowa Nov. 20. However, the UW athletic department began accepting requests for student tickets Wednesday for Wisconsin�s game against the University of Georgia New Year�s Day in the Outback Bowl.
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In an effort to raise accountability standards among the country�s institutions of higher education, the U.S. Department of Education is considering a proposal to dramatically change the way it collects data on college students.
They’re not your father’s dorms.
UW-Madison is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to build student housing, digs that will have more bathrooms, larger common areas, classrooms, kitchenettes, high-speed internet and even a little deli.
A spray-on road de-icer caused a crash that left westbound Beltline traffic tied up for more than an hour Wednesday morning, town of Madison police said.
A UW-Madison road safety researcher said Wednesday the question of de-icer causing cars to slip is “intriguing,” but to his knowledge, it hasn’t been studied. Similar crashes on a treated road three years ago in Dane County may soon spark a lawsuit.
Barry Alvarez lived the fantasy of every golf lover on the planet Monday when he played 18 at Augusta National, home of the Masters.
But instead of breaking par on the famed layout in Augusta, Ga., Alvarez will remember the round because he managed to break something else: His right foot.
Ask University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves for his greatest experience behind the bench and he will refer you to last season.
That’s when he took a month-long sabbatical from running the show at UW to guide Team USA to its first gold medal in the World Junior Championships.
Looking at 8,000 small red flags – representing the number of lives lost every day to AIDS worldwide – Oliver Barry remembered the terror of waiting for his HIV test results.
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For all its advantages, the UW-Madison campus is not very diverse. The administration has made attempts to devise programs to attract students of different backgrounds and lifestyles to UW System campuses. The fact remains, however, that most students here are middle class white people.
UW System President Kevin Reilly emphasized student access to the UW System and outlined UW System initiatives, including a budget exercise that proposes UW institutions cut 10 percent of spending, in a teleconference Tuesday.
ach year, University Health Services sees one to two students newly infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to Craig Roberts, manager of UW-Madison’s Blue Bus STD clinic.
Ann M. Corbett, age 88, passed away on Nov. 29, 2004. Ann worked for University Hospital, from where she retired.
Backed by 20 leaders of Wisconsin’s Asian communities, Heidi Pascual plans to launch the state’s first Asian magazine in January.
� Shree Shridharan, India, a retired UW-Madison educator.
Bill Steckel and his wife were planning a spring trip to Europe, but a hitch recently developed in their plans: The dollar has fallen to historic lows, making their vacation potentially much more expensive than they had anticipated.
“The short-term effect is going to be that it makes imported goods more expensive,” said UW-Madison economics professor Charles Engel.
University of Wisconsin students often face the problem of paying the high prices for textbooks and finding tickets for sold out sports events.
In a teleconference with student journalists across the University of Wisconsin System Tuesday, President Kevin Reilly outlined his recent activities and initiatives for the future, including a new center focusing on entrepreneurial growth.
Sex Out Loud staff member and World AIDS Day coordinator Amy Martin points out issues surrounding the HIV/AIDS Day seem distant to students� daily lives until one considers University Health Services diagnoses two or more University of Wisconsin students with HIV annually.
The family of the late ABC sports cameraman Richard Umansky sued the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents for negligence Monday after he died from a falling accident at UW�s Camp Randall.
Jim Olson can remember fishing in Lake Wingra as a boy with his father and the excitement of catching even the smallest crappie. They are among his fondest memories.
Dick Lathrop, a lakes researcher with the DNR and the UW-Madison limnology department, said the experiment is a unique opportunity.
As college costs have soared in recent years, so has student aid, which now totals $122 billion a year. Given the new, more costly environment, it’s time for Congress to conduct a comprehensive updating of student aid programs to keep college opportunities open in a manner that is cost- effective for taxpayers.
I’m a marching band wannabe. I bet you are too, if you’ve ever been to a Badger game.
Fortunately, Wisconsin Public Television’s “Spring Fever: 30 Years With the UW Varsity Band” finally lets me feel like I’m a part of it, from rehearsal to performance. The documentary airs tonight at 7 on WHA (Ch. 21).
It has taken seven years, but the University of Wisconsin football team has a chance at redemption for its worst bowl performance in 15 years under head coach Barry Alvarez.
In 1984, 22-year-old Jennifer Thompson was in her North Carolina home when she felt a knife at her throat.
“Shut up-I’ll kill you,” the assailant growled as he raped her in her darkened bedroom. Despite her terror, she forced her eyes open to desperately memorize his face, his voice, his body size.
Worried about a reduced focus on diversity initiatives at UW-Madison, students from the Multicultural Student Coalition, Associated Students of Madison and other campus groups met with Chancellor John Wiley, Provost Peter Spear and Associate Vice Chancellor Bernice Durand to discuss the recent closing of the Department of Student Affairs.
Academic medical centers represent the top rung of medical research in this country and are widely thought to be impartial and independent. So it is disheartening to find them signing restrictive contracts with pharmaceutical companies that allow the companies to dictate what drug testing data can be openly discussed and published. The manufacturers of drugs and medical devices are already under increasing pressure to list all of their clinical trials and results in public databases. Now academic medical centers will need to clean up their own practices to help prevent suppression of information about the safety and efficacy of drugs.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 – Congress has cut the budget for the National Science Foundation, an engine for research in science and technology, just two years after endorsing a plan to double the amount given to the agency.
The second annual ââ?¬Å?Dialogues with Democracy: Improving Civic Education in Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Schoolsââ?¬Â conference will take place today at the Pyle Center.
According to University of Wisconsin professor Diana Hess, who is one of the presenters of the conference, the purpose is to help kindergarten through 12th grade students better understand the democratic process.
As many as 84,000 college students could lose financial aid eligibility because a provision prohibiting changes in a student aid formula was not part of the spending bill Congress recently approved for the 2005 fiscal year, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Universities may bar military recruiters from their campuses without risking the loss of federal money, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
Budding entrepreneurs take note: Gov. Jim Doyle wants to help you start your own business ââ?¬â? and in the process, provide a boost to Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s economy.
Chancellor John Wiley, Provost Peter Spear and Associate Vice Chancellor Bernice Durand met with the representatives from several UW student organizations Monday afternoon to respond to the students� concerns regarding the dismantling of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs position following the resignation of Paul Barrows Nov. 4.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz wants to press ahead with his idea for city streetcars regardless of other regional rail proposals.
Members of the Transport 2020 – a joint committee formed by both the Madison City Council and Dane County Board with representatives from the city, county, state Department of Transportation and UW-Madison – expressed concern about considering commuter rail and streetcars separately.
Carl Anthony Silvestri, age 61, entered into the fullness of eternal life on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004. Carl graduated from UW-Madison in 1965, and was a member of the famed 1963 Rose Bowl team.
Mentor Biologics has moved into University Research Park. Mentor will make a form of botulinum toxin designed to compete with the popular Botox.
Mentor has patents licensed from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
The biggest ski and snowboard resale in the Midwest begins Saturday in the second floor Tripp Commons at Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
Last summer, the Wisconsin Legislature was mulling over a proposal for a Taxpayer Bill of Rights. TABOR is a Republican-led initiative intended to constrain state spending through the adoption of a constitutional amendment. TABOR stems from the aspiration for fewer and lower taxes, but it is a drastic proposal that spares no consideration for those reliant upon state services. The proposed TABOR would strip the UW System down to its bare bones and force UW-Madison to become a private university.
A 19-year-old UW-Madison student sustained minor injuries after a man allegedly sexually assaulted her shortly after midnight Nov. 21, according to the Madison Police Department.
Increasing numbers of college students are eating breakfast cereal as a meal, citing it as a low-cost, easy alternative to uncertain dining hall meals, according to the New York Times.
As University of Wisconsin students continue registering for spring 2005 classes, many UW students and officials have found the process to be convenient and successful.
In colleges across the country, admissions strategies are undergoing a number of changes in respect to examining extracurricular activities ââ?¬â? particularly when it comes to a record of volunteering.
The UW Dance Program put on its annual Fall Faculty Concert at Lathrop Hall�s H�Doubler Performance Space Nov. 18-20. After weeks of rehearsal, hours of tech rehearsal and three nights of production, the show came off effortlessly. Works choreographed by faculty members Jin-Wen Yu and Li Chiao-Ping, and academic staff Marlene Skog, Maureen Janson, and Peggy Choy, were joined by guest artists-in-residence Allen and Karen Kaeja. Renowned modern dancers, choreographers and film-makers, the co-directors of Kaeja d�Dance were honored to be a part of this year�s concert. Spending the past two weeks in Madison, the experts of contact improvisation and partnering shared their knowledge of modern dance with students in the dance program. Additionally, Kaeja choreographed a piece performed by several UW dancers.
SEATTLE, Nov. 26 – Homecoming, the quintessentially American tradition featuring kings and queens wearing satin sashes and sparkly tiaras, is a tumultuous topic on campus these days.
Ever since he sued the University of Southern California for fraud four years ago, accusing it of misusing his $1.6 million gift for biological research on aging and then lying about it, Paul F. Glenn has put his beneficiaries on a short leash.
The Wisconsin men�s football team was officially extended an invitation to the 2005 Outback Bowl last Tuesday. The Badgers will square off with an as-yet-undetermined opponent from the South-Eastern Conference in the New Year�s Day event in Tampa, Fla.
A 19-year-old University of Wisconsin female student was sexually assaulted just after midnight Nov. 21. The attack occurred on the 100 block of Langdon Street after the victim walked home alone from a downtown bar.
Daunted by soaring costs, as many as a quarter of low-income students with grades and test scores that make them prime college material no longer even apply to college. This is bad news at a time when skilled jobs are moving abroad and a college diploma has become the minimum price of admission to the new economy. The Bush administration, however, could actually make this problem worse by cutting the federal Pell grant program, which was developed to encourage poor and working-class students to pursue higher education.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 28 – A proposal by the federal government to create a vast new database of enrollment records on all college and university students is raising concerns that the move will erode the privacy rights of students.
Corrine Adaline (Bolson/Brown) Powers, age 82, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004. Corrine worked at University Hospital for 20 years in the environmental services department.
