La Crosse has a culture of drinking ââ?¬â? with a brewery, festivals and three colleges ââ?¬â? and a “high-risk drinking pattern, not just among college students,” University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor Doug Hastad said Tuesday.
MADISON – Start-up companies come and go, that’s the law of the marketplace.
But over the past two decades, the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference has provided a critical link between fledgling hi-tech and bioscience firms and capital, according to a report prepared by economist David Ward.
MADISON, Wis.ââ?¬â?A proposition on California’s ballot this November may affect Wisconsin’s leadership in the field of embryonic stem cell research, experts say. If passed, the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, or Proposition 71, will provide $3 billion in tax-free state bonds over 10 years for embryonic stem cell researchââ?¬â?placing the Golden State at the forefront of stem cell funding.
Fifty-five Wisconsin police chiefs (including UW-Madison’s) joined the groups Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort today to call for reauthorizing and strengthening the federal assault weapons ban.
Unexpected success at controlling drug prices will lead to premium reductions for some 10,000 retired state workers. At the same time, the cost of providing state employee health insurance will increase by only about 5 percent in 2005, under action taken today by the Group Insurance Board.
Your toddler has somehow made it through diapers, puberty and fumbled first dates and morphed into an intelligent young adult who’s headed straight for college, late-night cram sessions and new friends.
…Was anyone else surprised to see that Barry Alvarez directed some rather harsh comments toward a probation officer from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections?
“Wisconsinites…know it is competitors like (Paul) Hamm and UW swimmer Carly Piper… who embody the very best of the traditional spirit and intent of the Olympics.”
University of Wisconsin tuition would increase annually by about 4.3 percent for the next two years under a proposal passed by the Board of Regents. It was the first step in the university’s budget process.
The University of Wisconsin must freeze tuition to make higher education affordable to working families, Nino Amato, the ousted regent, said in his farewell to the board.
Despite some concerns that it will never make it through the Legislature, the UW Board of Regents on Thursday stuck with a plan to raise tuition only moderately – an average 4.3 percent – in fall 2005 and 2006.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will forward a 2005-’07 operating budget request to the governor that envisions no more than 4.3% in tuition increases annually coupled with a 7.2% yearly increase in state spending on the universities.
Dirt may help scientists answer a question that has baffled them for decades: How does chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk spread from animal to animal?
By turning to the land, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show that prions – infectious proteins considered to be at the root of the disease – literally stick to some soil types, suggesting that the landscape may serve as an environmental reservoir for the disease.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department is staging a promotion to identify the 25 greatest memories in Camp Randall history.
After years of outperforming other states that have heavy participation in a college entrance exam that’s popular in the Midwest, Wisconsin this year shares its ACT top score with Minnesota.
Now that the state appears to have weathered the worst of its financial crisis, the University of Wisconsin wants to build itself back up.
In the last two years, it has become easier for researchers throughout the UW System to get legal and other help with the to-market process.
Students in the University of Wisconsin System could see a break from double-digit tuition increases under a two-year plan the UW Board of Regents will consider Thursday.
After two years of big-time budget cuts and tuition hikes, leaders of the University of Wisconsin System are hoping for more than just kinder, gentler treatment from legislators and the governor in the next budget cycle.
Details are still to come but, at least at first blush, the idea to lure California students to Wisconsin universities sounds horrible.
Like unwelcome houseguests, little can be done to get rid of the crawfish once they’re here. But University of Wisconsin-Madison research suggests we can control crawfish populations just by helping the bluegills that eat them.
A proposal to grant tuition breaks to students from California might work for other University of Wisconsin campuses, but probably not at UW-Madison, says UW-Madison Provost Peter Spear. (8/13/04 Capital Times print edition)
I was honored recently to be elected to the presidency of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board. This leadership position comes at a critical time for a technical college system that we can all be proud of and that has a reputation as one of the nation’s finest.
President Bush’s 3-year-old restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research have probably hurt Wisconsin workers in that field, Gov. Jim Doyle says. Continue reading
Developers have proposed a business technology park that would draw participation from the University of Wisconsin’s Madison and Milwaukee campuses and from Marquette University at 1,500-acre Pabst Farms mixed-use development in western Waukesha County. But Carpenter argues the park should be in Milwaukee.
On the campus where the national debate over embryonic stem cell research began, top Wisconsin Democrats, a scientist and a 7-year-old boy with juvenile diabetes called Monday for the election of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry to end restrictions on that research.
Wisconsin’s debt more than doubled over a decade to nearly $15 billion, according to an Associated Press analysis of census data. The soaring debt means more state dollars that could go to other programs must instead go to pay off principal and interest on the loans for years to come.
The potential of a pension reduction for more than 123,000 retired public employees lurks in the wake of last week’s Wall Street debacle.
“Wow. It is indeed a rare day when normal Wisconsinites are privy to the wanton power grabs and backstabbing of the Capitol crowd…,” says Green Party candidate Tony Schultz.
UW Can’t Build Separate System
The state of Wisconsin will pay for one digital network, requiring the University of Wisconsin to abandon plans to build its own separate network.
Wisconsin is the only state in the country to maintain a “diploma privilege” that exempts most graduates of the state’s law schools from taking the bar exam.
The University of Wisconsin System borrowed $553.2 million for major building projects between 1993 and 2003
The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is now a Level 1 trauma center for pediatric care. The hospital also revealed two initiatives Thursday. One is a MedFlight ground unit. (See 8/6 Capital Times print edition)
Students from the University of Wisconsin’s school of Veterinary Medicine monitor and care for the animals all day.
Gov. Jim Doyle ought to be paying attention to the Democratic primary election results from Missouri. Democratic voters there rejected Gov. Bob Holden in his own party primary because of concerns about his lack of accountability and his failure to make a sufficient commitment to hold the line on tuition hikes at the state’s universities.
MADISON – The state made $472,000 over the weekend auctioning off 118 cars, its first round of auctions to help trim the stateââ?¬â?¢s fleet of vehicles, the governorââ?¬â?¢s office said Wednesday.
The Department of Natural Resources will lose the most cars, 215, followed by 197 from the University of Wisconsin System and 151 from the Department of Administration.
Spectators could hear the conviction in Rachel Brooks’ voice as the aspiring attorney addressed the jury. Perhaps that’s what helped her prosecution team win its own conviction as part of a mock trial with an educational purpose….Brooks is one of 800 high school students participating in the People program, a summer initiative to give minority and disadvantaged students a taste of life in college.
UW-Extension Chancellor Kevin Reilly was formally tapped by the Board of Regents on July 29 to replace Katharine Lyall as president of the UW System. Reilly indicated that one of his main goals as president would be to create and maintain market competitiveness for faculty staff and administrators at the UW System. (Interview.)
Kyle Rohde, a University of Kansas student, grumbles about the rising costs of attending college. The Wisconsin native finds it especially unfair when he sees the lower bills paid by classmates who have no legal right even to be in the country. (Login required.)
Quoted: Dan Nevers, faculty lecturer in the criminal justice program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in the area of community corrections.
Quoted: Stephen M. Born, co-author of “Exploring Wisconsin Trout Streams: The Angler’s Guide.” Born is also a specialist on natural resource planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The UW-System Board of Regents approves the committee’s recommendation for a new president. Regent President Toby Marcovich says although UW Extension Chancellor Kevin Reilly is well-qualified for the job, he’s got a lot of challenges ahead of him as the new president of the UW-System. (Audio.)
UW System President-elect Kevin Reilly did not receive a unanimous vote of approval by the Board of Regents. Regent Gerard Randall abstained during the vote Thursday afternoon, concerned that by the time the full board had a chance to vote on Reilly, the decision had already cemented in the public’s mind.
Kevin Reilly will make $320,000 as president of the UW System, on the high end of the position’s pay range. Reilly sounded familiar themes Thursday in his first news conference….
The University of Wisconsin’s new system president will have a lot of support on campuses across Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention cast its 87 votes for John Kerry for president — and, in the process, stem cell research. (7/29/04 Capital Times print edition)
Nino Amato, the University of Wisconsin regent who scolded his colleagues for raising executive pay ranges in private, has lost his seat on the board. Prominent policy-makers from both parties expressed dismay….
“I got up in the dark to drive down here and I’m still in the dark,” said Marinette Mayor Doug Oitzinger, complaining that just before the one and only public hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment, he still didn’t know what the amendment said.
Senate Republicans were set to hold a hearing at 1 p.m. today (Tuesday) on the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights but had not released a copy of the plan to the public as of late Monday. The proposal is expected to have a long-term effect on funding for the Unievrsity of Wisconsin System
Touching on an array of issues, she singled out high prices, including for prescription drugs; the difficulties small businesses face providing insurance for employees; the need to extend insurance benefits to domestic partners; and her candidate’s desire to lift restrictions on stem cell research imposed by Bush.
Kevin P. Reilly has been tapped to become the new president of the University of Wisconsin System by a regent search panel, the UW announced this morning.
The UW-Madison’s Office of Corporate Relations made “solid progress” in addressing its mission of serving the needs of business in Wisconsin and beyond, according to its official review of its initial year.
After 17 consecutive days of racing in 15 cities and towns, the 35th annual International Cycling Classic concluded Sunday with the host state sweeping the final weekend.
In an apparent swipe at the Gov. Jim Doyle administration, the departing president of the Wisconsin Technical College System called on officials to stop playing political games with the system’s leadership and urged them to “seek compromise.”
In his last day on the job, the head of Wisconsin’s technical colleges urged board members Thursday to end an internal power struggle that he warned could leave the college system “destabilized, politicized and weakened.”
MADISON, Wis. – About 150 cars will be up for auction at the end of the month as part of efforts to reduce the state’s fleet of vehicles.
Gov. Jim Doyle announced the auction on Thursday. It is set for July 31 at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Research Station in Arlington.
Fear of losing civil liberties since the Patriot Act was enacted in October 2001 has caused a huge surge in membership in the American Civil Liberties Union in Wisconsin and nationally. (UW-Madison & UW Sytem employees quoted.)
David Smith pulled out of the search for a new University of Wisconsin System president today, one day before he and the other three finalists were to interview for the job.
All-American or overly offensive? Your attitude about the ice cream cone, introduced in the Midwest 100 years ago this week, will hint at how much you think like Leon Kass. (Babcock ice cream is included in this feature article by Mary Bergin.)
Political Science Professor Ken Goldstein points to Wisconsin as a key battleground state. He points to the large amount of ad time being purchased here as a key indicator.
