A proposal to build two houses and expand this one near Arboretum Lane and Arboretum Drive has triggered a reinterpretation of Dane County zoning laws that could affect hundreds, if not thousands, of property owners in shoreland districts in unincorporated parts of the county.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside�s effort to incorporate community involvement into their curriculum received praise earlier this month from a national teaching organization.
UW-Madison’s School of Business has served notice to undergraduate students of a proposed $500-per-semester tuition increase that could take effect by fall 2007.
That would make it the first undergraduate program at UW-Madison to charge more than the university’s base tuition.
Embryonic stem cell research faces numerous challenges, including hype about its medical potential and legal roadblocks erected by opponents.Until Monday, there was a third obstacle: restrictive patents that forced scientists to establish licensing agreements before working with embryonic stem cells.
Starting in 1998, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has maintained patent claims on both the method used to isolate embryonic stem cells and the cells themselves. The foundation, known as WARF in scientific circles, secured these patents after a University of Wisconsin researcher was the first to successfully isolate these cells in 1998
Profile of John Francis. He earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin studying the societal costs of oil spills and their cleanup.
It seems as though the University of Wisconsin�s School of Business has fallen on hard times. With an 8 percent decline in faculty, ever-increasing market salaries for instructors, a growing demand for admissions, and faltering state support, Business School administrators are looking to bring in more money to fix the problem.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute, a two-year-old group that studies university investment policies, has kept tabs on the slew of green initiatives and whether colleges invest in green-friendly ways. In its College Sustainability Report Card being released today, many of the nation�s top colleges receive high marks for their campus greening practices. But many of those same colleges receive much lower grades in categories that measure green investment decisions and willingness to share information about how they use their endowment money.
Only six colleges earned ââ?¬Ë?Aââ?¬â?¢ grades for their endowment transparency: Dartmouth College, Williams College, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Texas at Austin, University of Tennessee and Purdue University. A host received flunking grades in that category. By comparison, 30 institutions earned the top mark for their administrative actions in becoming a greener campus.
Seeing the Unabomber back in the news this week reminds of the time Tom Bates and I first broke open the case. It was two months before the FBI’s solving the Unabomber mystery in April 1996. I recall doing a number of radio and TV interviews about our amazing discovery. True, it turned out Bates and I had fingered the wrong man, but nobody’s perfect. It was interesting while it lasted.
Monday’s front page headline in the New York Times read: “Unabomber Wages Legal Battle To Halt the Sale of His Papers.”
Hoping to head off the kind of violence that plagued downtown last year, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and police officials were set today to unveil a detailed safety plan that includes stepped-up patrols, strategically placed video cameras and officers who will work with neighborhood residents to identify problems.
The city has budgeted $100,000 to implement the plan, about $70,000 of which will go to pay overtime for patrols of two to six foot officers who will be on hand to quell trouble.
UW Hospital and Clinics electricians supervisor Jeff Gertgen knows what it’s like to spend time in a hospital with a child. His 18-year-old daughter suffered seizures when she was younger, so he knows what families go through.
In his own style, Gertgen tried to think of ways to help fund the new American Family Children’s Hospital being built next to the University of Wisconsin Hospital. And when he and his colleague Terry Frink brainstormed the matter, they came up with a pretty penny for the Children’s Hospital.
A $22 million project to build a new laboratory preschool for the University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology received a sizable boost last week from a university alumnus and his wife.
UW-Madison and its School of Human Ecology have announced that Elliot and Frances Lehman have provided a $1 million lead gift for a teaching and research preschool laboratory, a key component of a new addition to the school’s historic building.
Among institutions with endowments of $1 billion or more, the second-strongest growth in the overall endowment was posted by the University of Wisconsin — 26.7 percent — followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with 24.7 percent growth after a year of strong investment returns.
To combat technology distractions, some universities are relying on educational campaigns to make students more sensitive to classroom etiquette. The University of Wisconsin at Madison provides information via links to Web pages that faculty members can note in their syllabi.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is on the cusp of receiving a larger raise than originally expected after a highly successful first season at the helm, and pay increases for at least some other assistants have already been approved.
Athletic director Barry Alvarez declined on Friday to discuss the terms of the revised contract for Bielema, who made $761,600 in total compensation this season as he guided the Badgers to a 12-1 record, a Capital One Bowl victory and the No. 5 ranking in the final Associated Press poll.
If the proposed update of the University of Wisconsin System admissions policy is to be up for debate, the UW Board of Regents wants to take it public and will do so with a videoconference forum on Jan. 29.
Name: Janet Parker.
Job: Community gardens organizer with Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin Inc.
(Parker has a master’s from UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.)
Forget professorial pontificating. Peter Sands prefers another approach to teaching.
The English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee used to gather his students in a classroom twice a week. He would stand in the front lecturing for an hour and a half. Also quotes Clif Conrad, a professor of higher education at UW-Madison.
WASHINGTON – Wisconsin Democrats such as Russ Feingold and Tammy Baldwin are hopeful the change in political control of Congress will benefit the state, but back in Madison those in charge of running Wisconsin, the Dane County and the city say they are still in desperate need of federal money.
The MadFest Juggling Extravaganza this weekend gives jugglers and non-jugglers alike a chance to both see top-notch performers in action. The centerpiece “Extravaganza” show takes place at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon St.
U.S. colleges and universities continued a three-year streak of “pretty good returns” on their endowments by earning 10.6% in 2006, a report shows. That’s lower than the return from the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, which gained 15.8% last year with dividends reinvested.
The proposed Alcohol License Density Plan has been given the mark of approval by the Public Safety Review Board. Captain Mary Schauf with the Madison P-D says the measure is not a “magic bullet” that will solve all of the problems associated with downtown drinking.
UW-Madison may be delivering less bang for the buck these days than it used to.
At least, that’s the message offered in the annual rankings released Monday by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, which placed UW-Madison as the 25th-best value in American public higher education for resident students.
UW-Madison may be delivering less bang for the buck these days than it used to.
At least, that’s the message offered in the annual rankings released Monday by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, which placed UW-Madison as the 25th-best value in American public higher education for resident students.
As big Wisconsin rivalries go, this one may lack the intensity of the Packers vs. the Bears or Miller Lite vs. Bud Light.
Nevertheless, the state’s two biggest schools – the University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison and Milwaukee – have years of mutual distrust and animosity behind them. In the constant jockeying for state funding, backers of each often act resentful that a dollar that goes to one means one dollar less to the other.
During a break in the Badgers’ victory in the Capital One Bowl, a short feature promoting UW-Madison reminded us that the UW System’s flagship campus also ranks high in many other categories. UW-Madison ranks number one among universities in the U.S. in both the number of CEOs heading S&P 500companies and the number of Peace Corps volunteers. While these may seem like strange bedfellows, they only underscore how little most of us really know about UW-Madison and the UW System.
Over the years we have come to raise a skeptical eyebrow when we hear the words ââ?¬Å?scientific breakthroughââ?¬Â.
Often those promises are accompanied by qualifications and the fine print talks of the number of years it will be before there are practical application, etc., etc., assuming every goes well, etc., etc.s
Still, it�s human nature to get our hopes up and we�re hopeful indeed that the announcement this week that stem cells in amniotic fluid appear to have the same benefits of embryonic stem cells is good news indeed.
Re: ââ?¬Å?Wisconsin Cityââ?¬â?¢s Revival of Downtown Has a Downsideââ?¬Â (news article, Jan. 1):Our national research involving 120 colleges in 40 states has shown that the greater the number of alcohol outlets near colleges, the higher the rate of student binge drinking, and the higher the rate of secondhand effects in neighborhoods surrounding the college.
Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Paul B. Higginbotham, the first black to serve as a judge on the appeals court and the first black to serve on the Dane County Circuit Court bench, will receive a 2007 Excellence in Leadership program award for outstanding achievement from a nationally-known power company.
Dominion’s Strong Men and Women program tabbed Higginbotham to receive the award along with eight others, including Billy K. Cannaday Jr., the first African-American state superintendent of public instruction in Virginia; Marc H. Morial, president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League and actor and producer Blair Underwood.
UW-Madison students were assigned to write profiles of businesses in the vicinity of State Street, Downtown Madison’s unique cultural and shopping zone, where 80 percent of businesses are locally owned. The stores and restaurants the students chose — ranging from a chocolatier to an import store to a landmark watering hole — reflect State Street’s claim as the place Madisonians go to shop, dine and play. This is the last article in the series.
Mark Mulligan is selling what appears to be a shiny glob of tangled fishing line for at least $8,500.
These 8-millimeter thin threads are worth more than $600 an ounce because they are .999 percent pure gold.
Each year nearly 300 students transfer from Milwaukee Area Technical College to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. But many transfers find that some of their credits do not. Students are forced to retake classes.
MATC and UWM want to change that. On Thursday, they announced three blueprints designed to ensure transfer students a smooth and successful transition.
Dear Editor: The Dec. 29 letter of Michael Bousquet describing traffic on Regent Street exemplifies the somewhat self-centered expectations of motorists that the city should turn all streets into highways, thereby destroying the character of street commerce so that people can rocket their vehicles to and from work.
….Unfortunately, the city and one of its main constituents, the University of Wisconsin, only seem to pay lip service to sustainable living.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.848-billion as of December 8 (increase of $13.1-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
The Latin Palace Club….An early morning fire damaged the Latin Palace Club on University Avenue. No one was injured in the blaze, reported shortly after 2 a.m.
Once seen as a leader who could bring diversity to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, a former dean fired for financial mismanagement has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that he was ousted because he’s black.
On Jan. 12, the Meyers expect to sign closing papers for the residence at 850 E. Gorham St., between the UW-Madison and MATC campuses. If all goes according to plan, four male students in recovery plus a live-in counselor will call the place home when Aaron’s House opens its doors in August.
1/1/07 – As we head back to work to start the new year we’re struck by the magnitude of the issues before us. We’re also struck by the opportunities.
….We expect big developments with transportation, health care, the UW, the Collaboration Council, and Schools of Hope to name a few. We’re optimistic, and think you are, too.
MADISON – It would take about $290 from every man, woman and child in Wisconsin to make up the shortfall in spending requested by state agencies over the next two years.
How that shortfall will be addressed is the $1.6 billion question heading into the 2007 legislative session.
Police don’t often ask the State Crime Lab to move their cases to the front of the lab’s considerable backlog, but when they do, it can help crack cases in which the public’s safety is at risk.
Fast work on DNA samples led to the arrest earlier this month of Antonio Pope, 31, for two strikingly similar UW- Madison campus-area rapes that happened within 10 days of one another.
Madison police are investigating another home invasion in which a young woman was sexually assaulted by an unknown intruder who got in through an unlocked door.
Similar to a Dec. 5 attack on the Far East Side, the assault at a house in the 2900 block of Harvey Street on the Near West Side was committed early Thursday.
Race should be taken out of the admissions euation at UW, writer says.
Lauren Woods, a UW-Madison senior and former president of the Wisconsin Black Student Union, is running for the 8th District City Council seat.
News that a suspect in two recent rape cases on the UW- Madison campus is in custody may have many people breathing easier, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t still looking over their shoulders.
….When former University of Wisconsin Press director Robert Mandel left the press in May 2005, he cited budgetary constraints and decreased funding from the university as key reasons for his departure.
Under Mandel’s tenure, the press grew rapidly, but it accrued debt as it did so. According to an article on the Cork University Press Web site, Mandel left behind a $2.9 million deficit, “up sharply from the roughly $1 million deficit he faced when he took over in 2000.”
….The press still faces debt, but 2006 has been a year filled with recognition (locally, nationally and internationally), awards and successes.
Certainly, it’s a relief that police have arrested and charged Antonio Pope with kidnapping and raping two UW-Madison students.
Despite Pope’s arrest, troubling questions remain.
Madison City Council President Austin King said today that he will not run for re-election.
“This time in my life has been endlessly rewarding, and for that I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my constituents, my colleagues, and the wonderful employees of the City of Madison,” King said in a news release. “I am ready to move on to new challenges and opportunities, but I will take with me the lessons Ive learned and the remarkable experiences Ive had for the rest of my life.”
The 31-year-old man charged with raping two University of Wisconsin-Madison students taunted police that they couldn’t charge him if the victims hadn’t seen his face.
But a DNA match allowed police to identify and arrest him.
A Madison criminal defense attorney drowned over the weekend while vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
St. Croix police said William J. Remington’s death was accidental, according to the Virgin Islands Daily News. Remington, 49, was a 1995 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Capping the number of liquor licenses for bars in Downtown Madison won’t solve a surge in alcohol-related crimes there.
Two terrified UW-Madison students told police they were pulled into a car at knifepoint, tied up and driven to an apartment where they were raped, according to charges filed Tuesday.
WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — A Marine helicopter pilot from West Bend is dead in Iraq, only weeks after beginning his second deployment there.
He’s 27-year-old Captain Kevin Kryst.
Kryst was a 1997 graduate of West Bend West High School and a 2001 graduate of U-W Madison. He is believed to be the first UW alum to die in Iraq.
Despite a backlog of cases at the state Crime Laboratory, a triage process enabled investigators to identify a suspect in two recent sexual assaults of UW-Madison students, state Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager said Monday.
Police on Friday arrested a suspect in two campus-area sexual assaults on Nov. 29 and Dec. 9.
Antonio L. Pope, 31, of Madison was picked up about 2 p.m. and arrested without incident, according to a brief statement issued about 5 p.m. Friday by Madison and UW-Madison police.
LIKE so many other women who entered corporate America in the 1970s, Carol Bartz simply wanted to make a little money. She did not harbor secret desires to run her own company or become chief executive of a large corporation. She just wanted to do a good job.
After working her way through college at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as a cocktail waitress (required uniform: red miniskirt, black fishnets and red feather in hair), Ms. Bartz graduated with a computer science degree in 1971. Tall, blonde, boisterous and ambitious, she entered the work force at a time when the promise of new professional opportunities for women was in the air.
Meg McCall with the University of Wisconsin Information Technology department likens it to a technology arms race. She said UW’s servers that handle e-mail accounts for 80,0000 people are almost full. “It is getting near capacity,” said McCall. “I think we have the ability to process about six to seven million message a day, and so we are getting up to that point.” McCall said about 80-percent of the e-mail at UW is spam.
Rob Kohlhepp with the campus’s engineering department said as long as spammers keep making money, there will always be spam. “We just bought servers last year, they were not very busy at all, now we’re seeing that they’re busy,” said Kohlhepp.
A foundation has donated $5 million over five years to UW-Madison with the aim of spurring entrepreneurship across the campus and boosting commercialization of research around the state, the UW announced.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation named the UW one of its “Kauffman Campuses.” The Kansas City-based foundation launched the initiative in 2004 to “transform the way colleges and universities prepare students for success in the American economy.”
Taking its first step to combat University of Wisconsin System policy, the Associated Students of Madison decided Wednesday to reinstate a combined $87,700 for six student organizations with offices located off campus.
UW-Madison has been named one of nine new Kauffman Campuses and will receive a $5 million grant to help make entrepreneurship education a campuswide opportunity, rather than just for business students.
A Kansas City foundation has chosen the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of nine campuses that will receive funding to help breed entrepreneurs and spur more commercialization of research around the state.
