Madison bartenders are doing less coughing and wheezing since the July 2005 city smoking ban came into effect, according to the findings of a recent respiratory health study by UW-Madison researchers.
More than 100 high school and dozens of middle school students took part in a diversity program Monday to become better acquainted with the University of Wisconsin campus.
After the Virginia Tech campus was thrown into terror and chaos Monday, University of Wisconsin officials were left scrambling to contact five graduate students and three faculty members that were on the Virginia Tech campus.
MADISON â?? With 1,450 students and an 84-acre main campus, Appleton’s Lawrence University is a far smaller school than Virginia Tech.
But when there’s an emergency on campus, as there was in Blacksburg, Va., on Monday, quickly communicating important information to students is a big challenge for schools of any size.
At any given time, any student can literally be anywhere, from a job off-campus to alone in a study lounge.
MADISON, Wis. â?? The decision to name a new elementary school after a Hmong military leader is winning praise from Hmong but criticism by some who question his past, particularly his ties with the CIA.
Consider the words of UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber, who warned that the anti-oath allows officials to “come perilously close to saying (that) in their duties they will ignore the law or alter the law when it conflicts with their personal principles.
UW-Madison’s Center for Real Estate will be renamed this month to honor real estate education pioneer James A. Graaskamp.
The April 25-26 event will be at the university’s Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave. The Center for Real Estate is in the Fluno Center.
Michael Quieto has been a well-known leader for the UW-Madison teaching assistants union.
At one point in the play “Home,” life has been so tough on protagonist Cephus Miles that he ends up homeless, sweeping bars in New York for a little spare change.
Patrick Sims – the UW assistant professor of theater and actor who’ll portray Cephus in Madison Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of “Home” – knows that guy. He knows that bar-sweeper: smelly, unkempt, down on his luck, looking for work, seeking hope.
Brad Brown, educational and psychology professor at UW-Madison, said inappropriate teen conduct during dances is not new.
Quoted: David Bordwell, a professor of film at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Jonathan Patz, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison atmospheric scientist Jonathan Martin.
MADISON, Wis. — Area welders are taking more precautions amid emerging research into a potential link between welding and Parkinson’s disease.
Dr. Erwin Montgomery, a neurologist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that scientists know that manganese might be an environmental trigger to Parkinson’s disease.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an internationally recognised expert on children and the mass media, and the author of Mommy, Iâ??m Scared.
Quoted: Richard Slaughter, director of the geology museum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison school board member Carol Carstensen is having second thoughts about the boardâ??s unanimous vote to name a new Madison elementary school for Genereal Vang Pao, a Hmong leader and U.S. ally during the Vietnam War.
Reacting to a report on The Daily Page that Pao was linked to war crimes and the heroin trade in southeast Asia, Carstensen said Friday “that information was not something I had access to until after we made the decision.”
Carstensen says she’d like to make a motion to reconsider the decision at Monday’s board meeting, but can’t find a second. “Nobody sounds like they’re interested in revisiting the issue.”
Quoted: Associate Director John Stevenson of the UW Survey Center.
Quoted: Michael Podgursky, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied teacher pay and work hours.
The last time I had been in the clinic was for my Hepatitis-B vaccine. I screamed so loudly I scared the kids in the waiting room. Now, six years later, the same nauseating feelings of pre-shot anxiety were rising in my throat.
A University of Wisconsin clinical associate professor was allegedly attacked two weeks ago in Pakistan for her political affiliations and outspoken nature against Pakistanâ??s president, Pervez Musharraf.
Quoted: Laurel Crown, a researcher in the department of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studied college women’s negative sexual experiences.
MILWAUKEE â?? It’s almost time for millions of cicadas to emerge in parts of the Midwest after 17 years of living underground.
University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri says a lot of people find the huge number of the insects reminiscent of a horror movie. But they don’t bite, don’t really damage anything, stick mostly to trees and are non-toxic to the point that some people eat them.
Quoted: UW-Madison Medical Professor Betsy Trowbridge.
According to UW-Madison professors and members of the Wisconsin Senate, the stateâ??s climate is starting to experience beginning signs of global warming, and if action is not taken soon, it could spiral out of control.
AMNA BUTTAR, the University of Wisconsin Medical School associate professor who brought Pakistani human rights hero Mukhtar Mai to Madison in 2005, was attacked and injured by members of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s secret police at a rally last week in Islamabad.
“I was horrified and feared for my life,” Buttar said in a telephone interview Tuesday night from Pakistan.
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of political science, law and journalism, said that there’s clearly a First Amendment issue involved in banning such political calls that’s going to have much more weight to it than on bans of commercial solicitation over the telephone.
Quoted: Susan Fischer, director of student financial services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thousands of miles from Wisconsin, a Senegalese female climbed up a savannah tree and prepared herself for a hunt. Swiftly, she chose her weaponâ??transforming a nearby tree branch into a sturdy spear. With great force, she jabbed the wooden spear into the hollow spaces of the tree, hoping to immobilize potential prey. While the huntress failed to land many successful kills, her actions have captured the attention of scientists around the worldâ??the Senegalese huntress is not a woman, but rather one of our close cousins, the female chimpanzee.
Quoted: Maureen Durkin, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Linda Greene, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a founder of the Black Women in Sport Foundation.
The annual Hilldale awards were presented Monday afternoon as a part of the University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate meeting.
The premier patent management group for the University of Wisconsin announced last Monday it would fight the U.S. Patent and Trademark Officeâ??s decision to investigate and possibly eliminate three valuable stem-cell patents.
Quoted: Dr. Allan Luskin of the University of Wisconsin, who is working with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America’s new patient campaign.
Quoted: Prof. Jerry Kulcinski of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a specialist in dairy economics with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Psychologist Joanne Cantor, a professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin and author of “Teddy’s TV Troubles,” a children’s book about dealing with frightening media.
Quoted: Walter Hopkins, a scientist in the Division of Urology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: Jonathan Patz, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Jonathan Patz, an associate professor of environmental studies and population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Gemma Narisma at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US.
Quoted: John Williams, who studies plant dynamics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Jack Williams, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on the paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ed Jesse, a dairy marketing specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that the spike in prices is related to higher demand for ethanol. It’s driven corn prices up to nearly $4 a bushel.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Bert Kritzer.
UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said the allegation that Ziegler presided over dozens of cases in which she had a conflict of interest became a central – and relevant.
Quoted: Kris Olds is a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin who has studied the impact of the Olympic Games on cities.
Quoted:Kenneth Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Former Governor Tommy Thompson’s bid for the White House is a “real long shot,” according to UW political scientist Charles Franklin. Thompson ended speculation on Sunday by announcing he’s entering the race.
Quoted: Richard Weindruch, a University of Wisconsin professor of medicine who studies caloric restriction in laboratory animals.
Quoted: Jo Handelsman, a plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-chair of the NRC panel.
Quoted: John J. Magnuson, professor of zoology and limnology at UW-Madison.
American proficiency in foreign languages needs improvement and expansion, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Academiesâ?? National Research Council.
Readers can get an insiderâ??s perspective on the behind-the-scenes banter of 1950s television network executives and the culture of television in a new book published by the director of the University of Wisconsin Journalism School.
The results of the 2006 UW-Madison Undergraduate Survey were released Wednesday and showed an overwhelming majority of students are satisfied with the university.
After the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents passed a new freshman admissions policy last month, college admissions has come under increasing scrutiny in the state of Wisconsin.
Two University of Wisconsin juniors were awarded $30,000 scholarships to pursue a graduate education, the university announced Wednesday.
Jolene Anderson scored 26 points and Janese Banks added 23 as Wisconsin defeated Western Kentucky 79-72 in Madison Wednesday night to advance to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament championship basketball game.
In women newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast, an MRI can find the disease in the opposite breast more effectively than standard mammography or clinical examination, scientists said Tuesday.
MRI, which stands for magnetic resonance imaging, detected cancers that had been missed by the other methods in 3.1 percent of patients in a large clinical study, researchers said.
Quoted: Frederick Kelcz, a professor of radiology at UW-Madison
