An electric hybrid vehicle running on E85 fuel proved to be the right technological combination for a team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, which won top honors Thursday in a General Motorssponsored competition to demonstrate alternative energy vehicles.
UW-Madison finished second.
MILWAUKEE – Resident students in the University of Wisconsin System will pay as much as $382 more in annual tuition starting this fall under a plan approved Thursday by the UW System Board of Regents.
The systemwide 6.8 percent tuition increase means UW-Madison students will pay $382 more a year, UW-Milwaukee students $374, and students at all the system’s other four-year universities and two-year colleges $291.
About 460 East High School seniors sat in the school’s sultry gym Thursday on the eve of their graduation.
They practiced the processional, sitting and standing in unison – graduation ceremony duties 101 – in preparation for the moment tonight when they are awarded their diploma.
Some worry about the future – how they will pay for college. If juggling a job and a full class schedule this fall is going to be a workable formula.
Move over Bud. College life isn’t just about drinking beer. In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.’s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most “in” thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual market research study by Ridgewood, N.J.-based Student Monitor.
(MESA, ARIZONA) A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students are out in the Arizona desert this week competing with 16 other universities to produce a new fuel-efficient SUV. The project is calls ââ?¬Å?Challenge X.ââ?¬Â
The contest is sponsored by General Motors and the Federal Department of Energy. It�s taking place in GM�s proving ground near the city of Mesa. The goal is to increase SUV fuel efficiency by 50 percent, reduce harmful emissions and still have a car that can carry a family pulling a boat on their vacation. (Third item.)
That iPods are ââ?¬Å?inââ?¬Â on college campuses might not surprise you. That Apple’s portable music players are more popular than beer? Now that’s surprising. Beer traditionally has had the biggest buzz with college students: Seventy-five percent consider drinking beer ââ?¬Å?inââ?¬Â on their campuses, according to Student Monitor’s Lifestyle & Media Study.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. – Administrators are investigating whether members of a university dance team violated school policies after photos on an Internet Web site appeared to show underage drinking and sexually suggestive poses at a team “initiation party.”
Time is running out for students and graduates to consolidate their college loans. At the end of the month, interest rates on federal loans will be going up, some by more than two-percent. It is also the last time current students can consolidate before they finish school and there is a lot to consider.
MADISON, Wis. — A legal drug used to give fast pain relief has been linked to dozens of deaths and a drug called “bad heroin.”
In the last month, two people have died of heroin overdoses in Madison.
Why is what you do important? I am able to help victims or survivors of various crimes and other students in crisis through a difficult time, providing services that assist them in succeeding in school and, hopefully, throughout their lives. I also have the opportunity to work with various student groups that are under-represented and help them find a voice on this rather large campus.
Why is what you do important? I am able to help victims or survivors of various crimes and other students in crisis through a difficult time, providing services that assist them in succeeding in school and, hopefully, throughout their lives. I also have the opportunity to work with various student groups that are under-represented and help them find a voice on this rather large campus.
The University of Wisconsin System is changing its admissions policy for all but the flagship campus Madison, which has long practiced the holistic approach to which the other campuses are switching.
A principle to guide the switch: UW campuses must enroll only students who qualify.
MADISON, Wis. — Demolition is under way to make room for a brand new University Square, which will change the Madison skyline.
While the annual American College Health Association conference in New York City was filled with many questions this year ââ?¬â?? where the profession is headed and how to assist mentally ill students looming large among them ââ?¬â?? the problem that is attracting ever more attention from many health professionals continues to be the ever-present risk of suicide on campus.
A 6.8 percent tuition increase would mean lower-income students would have an even tougher time paying for a University of Wisconsin education, student leaders said.
The Mann Scholars program has reached a milestone with two of its first recipients earning college degrees.
Wednesday night in the Memorial Union’s Great Hall, the high school scholarship program honored eight young people who hope to follow in the graduates’ footsteps.
The group from a campus religious center in Madison had gone to Israel and Palestine to see ways people in that conflicted region were trying to make peace. In the middle of their trip last week, they wound up just seven blocks away from a fierce gun battle in Ramallah between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians that left four of the Palestinians dead.
The group of 18 University of Wisconsin students was part of a service learning trip to Israel and Palestine known as Quest I-P, which is a project of The Crossing, an ecumenical ministry located at 1127 University Ave. just off the UW-Madison campus.
Hundred of campus health officials gathered in New York City Wednesday for the annual American College Health Association conference, in an effort to figure out where their complex profession is headed.
….the prank is probably not good enough to make it onto the prestigious list of the “Top 10 College Pranks of All Time,” which can be found online.
It’s a fascinating list, and I am proud to say that a UW-Madison prank, from 1979, is honored as the fourth best college prank ever perpetrated.
Madison: The UW System is in the process of changing the admissions requirements, but the new approach has many politicians worried that standards are being lowered.
Wisconsin veterans will receive free tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses and the state’s technical colleges starting in fall 2007 under a bill Gov. Jim Doyle signed on Monday.
Everything Christine “Chris” Rothschild did was controlled, elegant and kind, her friends said.Those qualities stand in sharp contrast to her violent death on May 26, 1968.On a rainy and foggy evening, a student looking for a friend found the UW-Madison freshman dead in the bushes outside Sterling Hall.
Not long ago, prattling away on the phone was as much a teenage rite as hanging out at the mall. Now, Sidekicks and iBooks are as prized as Mom’s Princess phone, and conversations, the oral kind, are as uncomfortable as braces. Which makes employers and communications experts anxious: This generation may be technologically savvier than their bosses, but will they be able to have a professional discussion? A 2005 report for Achieve, a non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, found that 34% of employers were dissatisfied with the oral communication skills of high school graduates; 45% of college students and 46% of high school graduates who entered the workforce instead of college said they struggled with their public speaking abilities.
A female student who drinks four Appletinis during a night of club hopping is a binge drinker, according to most experts who study campus health behaviors. But so is a male student who ends up in a campus health center after an intense night of keg stands and beer pong.
MADISON – Facing a backlash from parents and lawmakers, University of Wisconsin System leaders on Thursday downplayed their plans to change admissions policies to give greater weight to nonacademic factors such as race and income.
The University of Wisconsin System’s new guidelines for campus admissions policies threaten to bar high-achieving Wisconsin students from studying at the campus of their choice, a lawmaker says.
Grants and gifts totaling more than $2 million – including $100,000 for the Henry Vilas Park Zoo’s building campaign and $50,000 in additional support for the city’s first municipal swimming pool – were announced today by The Evjue Foundation Inc., the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
Most people believe increased educational opportunity for low-income Latino and African-American students is the key to a better quality of life in Milwaukee.
That’s why some support the school voucher program, essentially a taxpayer-supported affirmative action plan for minority students to attend private schools.
However, when attempts are made to incorporate more diversity in higher education, many of these same folks start to complain about racial quotas being used to create an unfair advantage.
The University of Wisconsin System will look at race and other factors outside academics under a new policy it is putting into effect for reviewing applicants to its campuses.
Six months ago, Patricia Rengel was just a lecturer in Spanish.
But in December, Rengel and others in the Spanish department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison heard about a program to encourage the use of podcasting in the classroom. At the time, she barely knew what podcasting was.
EARLIER THIS year, in conjunction with its 100th anniversary, the NCAA released a list of the 100 Most Influential NCAA Student Athletes of all time.
The athletes were chosen by a special panel that included college presidents, athletic directors, faculty representatives, student athletes and conference representatives.
The list was intended to honor those student athletes who have significantly impacted or made enduring contributions to society.
Digital plagiarizing calls for digital policing. Such is the philosophy behind a wave of anti-plagiarism digital software that colleges are using to deal with the widespread use of essay-writing websites and online databases of pre-written papers, and to uncover writing copied from other students’ work.
Spending time with friends before a night of studying for finals allowed UW-Madison freshman Ryan Huibregtse to reflect on his first completed year of college.
“It’s been crazy,” Ryan said, “but things are turning out better than expected, to be honest.”
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to sign a bill that would make Wisconsin military veterans eligible for free tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses and the state’s technical colleges.
Mentions that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business reports a 14.2% jump in companies interviewing on campus and a 6.2% raise in average salary for graduates – $47,021. UW Engineering Career Services says the average salary for engineers is up between 7% and 8%, with many new job seekers getting multiple offers, signing bonuses and relocation packages.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Patrick Farrell and Nicolet Area Technical College President Adrian Lorbetske signed a transfer contract agreement between the schools on Wednesday afternoon.
There was a time when University of Wisconsin coaches would tell you their biggest fear was getting that middle-of-the-night telephone call, the one all but guaranteed to have bad news coming from the other end. Somebody got arrested. Somebody is in detox. Somebody is in the emergency room.
That universally dreaded 3 a.m. wakeup call now has some company.
Have you seen that stuff on the Internet, coach?
WISCONSIN RAPIDS (AP) – A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student faces six counts on accusations he had sex with a 14-year-old rural Marshfield girl he met on the MySpace.com Web site.
Jesse W. Cahn, 22, was charged Tuesday in Wood County Circuit Court with two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, one count of attempted sexual assault of a child, two of child enticement and one of using a computer to facilitate a sex crime.
Over the past few weeks, the student government has been battling the University of Wisconsin-Madison administration over the allocation of segregated fees, a student tax that funds student service organizations.
It has become apparent that Chancellor John Wiley believes the system is significantly flawed and perhaps in need of an overhaul or even a dismantling. Much of the debate pertains to the use of segregated fees to fund a religious entity, the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation.
Based on state statutes and policies, UW students across the state have a right to administer and distribute segregated fees as they see fit. But at UW-Madison, that student autonomy is at risk.
College graduates are landing fat salaries and signing bonuses again as a stronger economy leads to the best college hiring market in years.Employers expect their college hiring for 2005-06 to surpass that of the year before by nearly 14%, according to a study by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
In some UW-Madison dorms, speaking English might get you a talking to or a blank stare.
In the past, students learning German, Spanish, Italian or Japanese have had the chance to live in dorms where their second language is spoken most of the time.
And now, the university hopes students will learn Arabic the same way.
Dear Editor: There is an abundance of mopeds around UW-Madison, and whether many of the drivers of these little scooters are suitable for the road is questionable.
….After living on the UW campus for a year, I have realized the extent of these scooters’ dangers. Many of today’s mopeds can exceed 40 mph and they drive them like they own the road.
MADISON, Wis. — Thousands of UW graduates walked across the stage during graduation ceremonies Sunday in Madison, but their minds will soon be on job hunting.
Job prospects for graduates are the best they’ve been in six years, since the dot-com bust, reported WISC-TV.
MADISON, Wis. — It’s a short walk across the stage but for a posse of UW students, it’s carrying some extra meaning. This posse isn’t just a group of students, it’s a new program at the UW focused on fostering diversity.
It was probably the first time a UW Law School graduation ceremony attracted national media attention, including ABC News and Univision, but this is also the first time an exonerated felon convicted of murder left prison and went on to graduate from the law school that helped him do it.
Christopher Ochoa was convicted of raping and murdering a Pizza Hut employee in Auston, Texas. In 2001, he was freed from prison, his life sentence overturned after the UW Innocence Project and new DNA tests helped prove he was wrongfully convicted.
The sudden departure of a University of Wisconsin-Madison geneticist has meant years of lost work for her graduate students, one of those students said today.
MADISON, Wis. — In 1996, Texas prison inmate Christopher Ochoa was about to end it all. But on Friday, the first person ever exonerated by the Wisconsin Innocence Project will graduate from law school.
The feeling of despair and anxiety, the same one that pushed him to the brink of suicide while in prison, came rushing back for Christopher Ochoa.
The trigger this time was not the sheer anguish of an innocent man languishing in prison. This time, it was receiving poor grades while in his first semester in law school three years ago.
18ââ?¬â??years ago he was accused of rape and murder.
16ââ?¬â??years ago he began serving what he thought would be a life sentence.
Tomorrow, he graduates from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Christopher Ochoa spent 12 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit. Now, he hopes to help others.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to investigate activities by an associate professor of genetics who resigned in February.
Ten years ago, Chris Ochoa was contemplating suicide in a Texas prison cell, serving a life sentence for a rape and murder he confessed to, but did not commit. Today, the 39-year-old Ochoa is free, exonerated and about to embark on his first career.
When he gets his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School on Friday, after giving one of the commencement speeches, Ochoa will become only the second man in America to be freed from prison by DNA evidence who went on to earn a law degree.
WHITEWATER (AP) – His 12 years as an undergraduate have made Johnny Lechner a celebrity of sorts, so why not go for 13?
Lechner was expected to graduate at last from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater this spring, but instead he withdrew his application for graduation five days before commencement.
“I realized that if I went one more year, I could study abroad,” Lechner said. “That’s one thing I haven’t done.”
Madison’s police chief says a recent spate of violent downtown robberies may be tied to a gang initiation rite.
“The way these robberies are taking place, as far as multiple suspects making multiple robberies, it does have the feel of sort of gang initiation or gang tactic,” Chief Noble Wray said. “At this point, this is only one investigative avenue and we have not drawn any conclusions yet as more information is being obtained.”
Five people reported being beaten and robbed by young men in four incidents late Friday and early Saturday.
About the time Johnny Lechner was picking up his cap and gown for his graduation this Saturday from UW-Whitewater, it occurred to him there was a hole in his college record.
The number of mumps cases in Iowa has topped 1,600, but the spread of the virus has slowed and health officials say they are cautiously optimistic that the worst of the biggest mumps outbreak to hit the state in two decades is behind them.
College admissions officials seeing large drops in average scores for the critical reading and math sections of the new SAT college entrance exam say they are concerned about the drops and want to know why they’re happening.
Some colleges are reporting double-digit drops in the average SAT scores of applicants this year, even as other credentials, such as class rank and college-prep coursework, remained similar to or grew stronger than last year’s.
Ending a rash of bar-time beatings and robberies downtown has become priority No. 1 for downtown police as concern increases among residents, students and business owners.
Ald. Mike Verveer said the vicious attacks over the past several weeks, four of them last weekend alone, threaten the perception of safety in the downtown area.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board overhauled Friday the much-maligned student-athlete discipline policy, which even board chairman Walter Dickey referred to as an “unmitigated disaster.”
The revised policy, which was unanimously approved and will go into effect immediately, attempts to do a better job at fact finding for each case.
