Madison, Wis. – A company co-founded by acclaimed stem cell researcher James Thomson will receive $2 million in state financing, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Monday.
The State Senate was poised today to pass a bill banning human cloning – with no exception for research to fight crippling diseases – after an initial vote Tuesday showed the ban had enough votes to pass.
Chancellor John Wiley addressed possibly the most prominent concerns on faculty’s minds-sexual harassment, sick leave and vacation policy-in his State of the University address at Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle announced an update to a plan to boost the state�s economic growth in several cities Monday.
In the wake of the release of the Paul Barrows investigation last week, Chancellor John Wiley expressed a need to review and repudiate certain University of Wisconsin employment policies regarding disciplinary and paid leave issues at a Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
Former Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Paul Barrows returned to the University of Wisconsin after a highly scrutinized leave of absence Monday. Barrows� return comes just four days after UW System President Kevin Reilly announced his decision that there were not grounds to fire Barrows based on attorney Susan Steingass� internal investigative report.
But on the heels of Gov. Jim Doyle’s multi-front attack on the industry last week and a UW-Madison professor’s report saying that retail gas prices can’t be justified, Felmy spent most of his time explaining what he called a simple supply and demand imbalance made worse by hurricanes.
Madison, Wis. — A proposed ban on all human embryonic cloning in the state will be voted on in the state Senate Tuesday, a proposal opposed by many in the medical research community.
The proposed ban, known as AB 499 in the Assembly and SB 243 in the Senate, would outlaw not only cloning for reproductive purposes but also what proponents call therapeutic or research cloning, in which an embryo is created with identical DNA as an original subject for the purposes of harvesting stem cells after the first several days of development. The embryo is destroyed in the process.
When it comes to growing Wisconsin’s economy, a lot of seeds have yet to be planted. One needs to look no further than Milwaukee’s central city, where unemployment for some is well into double digits, for evidence of that – a point certainly not lost on Gov. Jim Doyle.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Monday that he supports spending an additional $2 million on a southeastern Wisconsin research alliance that aims to fund collaborative projects among five area colleges and universities.
Doyle revealed his support of more state funding for the Biomedical Technology Alliance during appearances in three cities that were part of a tour he and Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton used to unveil a new economic development plan for the state.
One of the more humiliating memories of my youth involved the night I offered a pretty Verona High School classmate a ride home in my 1951 Packard. She accepted, I dropped her at her house, she thanked me and I drove off.
The Legislature and several local governments cannot join the fight against a lawsuit seeking taxpayer funded benefits for partners of gay public employees, a judge ruled on Friday.
Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan ruled that state law gives the Department of Justice the authority to defend the state’s interests, and the department is already doing so in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed by six lesbian state employees and the American Civil Liberties Union in April, claims the state’s refusal to provide health insurance to their partners violates the equal protection clause of the Wisconsin constitution. The lawsuit names several state agencies as defendants, but not the Legislature.
Gov. Jim Doyle and lawmakers said a new report shows University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders made poor decisions about sick leave and taxpayer funds in connection with the Paul Barrows matter.
In an interview, Barrows said the report vindicates him for his long use of sick leave, but unnecessarily stirred up old, questionable allegations of sexual harassment.
Legislators and others said Friday that John Wiley’s attempts to keep secret allegations against a top administrator raised questions about the chancellor’s management of University of Wisconsin-Madison and the climate on campus.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Criticism of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chancellor escalated on Friday, with two lawmakers considering hearings to further delve into his role in a scandal involving sexual harassment and sick leave.
To get a taste of how bad the relationship is between the Legislature and the University of Wisconsin System, listen to Dale Schultz, Jim Doyle and John Wiley:
“There is a lot of tension,” acknowledged Schultz (R-Richland Center), majority leader of the Senate.
“The relationship is very poor,” conceded Doyle, the state’s Democratic governor.
“I’ve been on the faculty for 30 years and in administration for 20 of those, and I don’t remember a time when it was worse than it is now,” said Wiley, chancellor of UW-Madison.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor at the University of Wisconsin’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Gov. Jim Doyle rolls out an economic plan, called Grow Wisconsin: The 2005 Agenda, in a three city swing beginning in Madison.
He’ll start in Madison at the new laboratory facilities for Cellular Dynamics International, a privately held biotechnology firm that has taken a lead in embryonic stem cell research. Doyle will announce a “significant new investment in the company,” according to an advance statement from the governor’s office. Cellular Dynamics was co-founded by James Thomson, an internationally recognized pioneer in stem cell research and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When it comes to public health problems in Wisconsin, Milwaukee is ground zero. It is the biggest city in the state with the largest and most diverse population, including a large number of poor bridled with serious health problems and, in the case of minorities, glaring disparities in health care.
These are reasons enough for Wisconsin to establish a school of public health in Milwaukee to address these problems firsthand while also training the army of public health workers who many experts believe will be needed more than ever in the future, if only as a means to control health care spending. The most logical place for such a school is at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
But it’s the University of Wisconsin-Madison, not UWM, that has taken steps to establish a school of public health integrated with its medical school, despite being located in a city touted often as affluent and among the healthiest in the country.
A new canine disease that closed Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha for four weeks earlier this year will likely spread to domestic dogs and eventually infect wild canines such as coyotes and wolves, a top animal researcher predicted Friday.
The disease, a form of influenza, has killed dozens of dogs in six other states, but none died at Dairyland during an April and May outbreak that infected about 950 dogs, said Jenifer Barker, a veterinarian with the state Division of Gaming.
The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has tracked the disease for more than a year.
Today Former Assistant to the Chancellor Paul Barrows will return to his academic staff back-up position at UW-Madison as the Senior Administrative Programming Specialist in the Provost’s office.
Barrows will work out of an office on Bascom Hill and, according to Provost Peter Spear, he will be reporting to the Associate Vice Chancellors in the Office of the Provost.
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Thursday which will give more than $100 billion in federal funding to agricultural research, management and conservation projects throughout the nation.
Paul Barrows, the former University of Wisconsin vice chancellor for student affairs, will return to work this morning, the attorney for the embattled administrator confirmed Sunday.
The moral status of human embryos and fears of doctors harvesting organs from clones will be pitted against economic development and the potential for stem cell-based cures for fatal diseases this week as the state Senate takes up a bill to ban human cloning.
With Thursday’s release of the Steingass report-an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Paul Barrows’ employment status-came a slew of new allegations of sexual harassment, decision-making errors and further knowledge of the debates among top UW-Madison officials as the Barrows controversy unfolded.
Gov. Jim Doyle and state lawmakers expressed doubt in university officials following the release of a report alleging that former UW-Madison Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows sexually harassed several women.
UW-Madison released an investigative report conducted by private attorney Susan Steingass Thursday that claims UW-Madison Administrator Paul Barrows sexually harassed five women, one of whom is former UW-Madison Dean of Students Luoluo Hong, and wrongly used his sick and vacation time.
After a year of eerie silence blended with sordid deceit, the University of Wisconsin opened the blinds on the Paul Barrows affair Thursday afternoon.
Publicly announcing a course of action after spending weeks reviewing attorney Susan Steingass� investigation into the Paul Barrows controversy, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly handed down a reprimand to UW-Madison�s top official Thursday, along with calls for change in the school�s employment policies.
Capping a summer of controversy unparalleled in recent memory, the University of Wisconsin released the much-awaited report by attorney Susan Steingass Thursday detailing the circumstances surrounding former UW administrator Paul Barrows� paid leave of absence from the university.
U-W Chancellor John Wiley inappropriately put an embattled administrator on sick leave….after Paul Barrows had an affair with a graduate student…and other allegations were raised by a top university official. That’s the finding of an independent investigation of the Paul Barrows case….done by Susan Steingass.
November 2004: Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Paul Barrows goes on leave.
MADISON, Wis. — An investigation ordered by the University of Wisconsin System president says Madison’s chancellor allowed a top administrator to take sick leave for more than three months, even though he wasn’t sick.
Former UW-Madison Dean of Students Luoluo Hong held little back when she unloaded on her boss, Paul Barrows, in a secret memo to Chancellor John Wiley in November 2004.
She told Wiley she wanted to convey her “extreme level of dismay, disgust and disappointment” regarding Barrows, who supervised her as vice chancellor of student affairs.
A report on the Paul Barrows case drew mixed reaction from the campus community Thursday.
UW-Madison Faculty Senate leader Patricia Brennan said she was “very, very pleased” that what she considered appropriate due process took place.
UW-System President Kevin Reilly has reprimanded UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley for approving months of paid, sick leave for administrator Paul Barrows, even though Barrows was not sick.
“You and your administrative team should have been aware of the requirement that an employee must be ill in order to charge an absence to sick leave, and should have acted promptly either to obtain the appropriate documentation on Dr. Barrows’ situation, or to require his return to work,” Reilly wrote to Chancellor Wiley. “The failure to do so has hurt the University’s reputation.”
A university-commissioned investigation released Thursday finds fault on both sides in the case of UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows’ seven- month personal leave, blaming Barrows and UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley.
The report faults Barrows, the former vice chancellor of student affairs, for inappropriate conduct toward two campus women, including a student who worked for him. Barrows denies those charges but agrees he had an unrelated consensual relationship with a 40-year-old graduate student that led to his demotion by Wiley and subsequent leave in November 2004.
Former UW-Madison Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Paul Barrows filed a lawsuit against Chancellor John Wiley and former Dean of Students Luoluo Hong Tuesday, claiming Wiley forced him to use his sick and vacation time and violated his due process rights.
Former University of Wisconsin Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows filed suit against UW Chancellor John Wiley Tuesday for allegedly asking Barrows to use accrued sick leave and vacation time without due process.
I’m working on an opera about the university and I’ve already got a great title – I’m calling it “Luoluo’s Revenge.”
Luoluo (pronounced low-low) Hong, the recently departed dean of students at UW-Madison, would perform her swan song aria at the beginning of the opera.
Wisconsin is the worst place to be black according to four panelists who referred to a report in Black Commentator magazine at the “Education Not Incarceration” forum in the Red Gym Tuesday.
The Teaching Assistants Association held its first meeting of the year Tuesday night to discuss several issues including its battle with the state Legislature over a contract negotiation that has been locked in a stalemate for three years.
Employees of the University of Wisconsin System who want to trade their academic robes for the orange jammies of jail life shouldn�t continue to enjoy the perks they had while working for the state.
Deputy athletic director to move to Iowa State
New plan leads to savings for state taxpayers
Smoke affects bartenders, study says
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle announced a plan Monday that will save state taxpayers more than $80 million through a new strategy that consolidates bidding contracts. Another goal of the plan is strengthening local businesses owned by minorities and women by encouraging their involvement in the bidding process.
In the wake of the convictions of three University of Wisconsin-Madison professors this summer, UW Provost Peter Spear confirmed Thursday the university does not perform criminal background checks when hiring prospective faculty.
Gov. Jim Doyle touted on Monday a new system of purchasing goods and services that he said will save the state of Wisconsin as much as $200 million over the next four years.
The savings will result from bidding contracts as an entire state, instead of by having individual agencies buy their own goods and services. Other improvements, according to Doyle, are consolidating human resources and procurement staffing levels in the Department of Administration, improving facility management and strengthening the state’s information technology infrastructure.
After heavy criticism, University of Wisconsin Provost Peter Spear decided Thursday to recommend the UW System Board of Regents terminate the employment of two professors convicted of felonies. One of them, Lewis Keith Cohen, was released Sunday from the correctional facility where he served his 30-day sentence.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as a research powerhouse has the potential to help the metropolitan area race ahead economically.
n the basement of an octagon-shaped building that squats amid woods on Milwaukee’s northwest side, 16 wires send low-level electric currents through a small glass tank filled with water, across which a device called a trolley shuttles to and fro. Aboard is a simulated woman’s breast with a tumor. From this research project, which outgrew its lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will emerge a surer way of detecting breast cancer – if all goes well. Success also would demonstrate the community payoff of academic research, which Chancellor Carlos Santiago wants to step up at UWM.
Thomas Rockwell Mackie, radiology professor, long wrestled with an issue central to the treatment of cancer patients: Keeping the cure from killing them. TomoTherapy is a Madison company founded and led by Paul Reckwerdt (left) and Frederick A. Robertson that is helping the capital city benefit from reseach done on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. For years, he and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School struggled to come up with a method for better zeroing cell-zapping rays on malignant tumors and off healthy organs.
….Frankly, John Wiley deserves a pat on the back. It’s well past time that someone at the university stood up to these bullies.
The UW hasn’t had a great public relations year, to be sure. The lengthy Paul Barrows paid leave and the three professors who remained on the payroll after being convicted of felonies became perfect targets for exploitation. The Nasses and Suders never make an attempt to understand how that might happen before running their mouths and calling for the Legislature to punish the UW.
CHICAGO – (KRT) – The Wisconsin legislature is weighing a cloning ban that critics charge would undermine embryonic stem cell research in the place where it was discovered and threaten the state’s huge biotechnology infrastructure.
MADISON, Wis. – Students enrolled at Wisconsin public universities after their Gulf Coast schools were damaged by Hurricane Katrina will not have to pay fall tuition, officials said.
Biotech is big here and growing bigger. There are 248 life- sciences companies in Wisconsin that employ 20,000 people and generate more than $6 billion in annual revenue, according to the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Peter Spear has recommended firing two professors convicted of serious crimes.
After internal investigations, Spear on Thursday announced that he had recommended the Board of Regents fire Steven Clark, a human oncology professor, and Lewis Cohen, a comparative literature professor.
Wisconsin’s emergency preparedness plans will be reviewed and updated so that they could be effective in case of a large-scale disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, Gov. Jim Doyle pledged Thursday.
Doyle told Adj. Gen. Al Wilkening, who heads the National Guard and advises the governor on homeland security, to thoroughly review the state’s plans and report back in three weeks.
“Some of the specific areas I’d like this report to address are: whether we have adequate evacuation plans in place for major cities, how we would evacuate nursing homes, hospitals, schools and our most vulnerable citizens,” Doyle said during a State Capitol press conference.
UW-Madison on Thursday moved to fire two professors recently convicted of felonies but said one of them – registered sex offender Lewis Keith Cohen – will continue receiving his $73,000 salary until any appeals he might make of the university decision are resolved.
The other professor, Steven Clark, was convicted of felony stalking and began serving a one-year jail sentence on June 23. Clark will be on unpaid leave until all of his internal appeals are finished.
A UW-Madison professor is now barred from campus, after 27 News uncovered the convicted felon was on campus as part of a work release program.
UW-Madison officials said they had objected to literature professor Lewis Keith Cohen’s placement on campus all along.
UW-Madison officials released a statement, that Cohen will be barred from campus, effective September 16.
A professor who used his university computer to send naked pictures to a boy he tried to meet for sex has been allowed to work at a University of Wisconsin-Madison library while on work release.
