Imago Scientific Instruments Corp., a Madison company that aims to be a leading toolmaker for the nanotechnology age, has done a successful technology transfer with a twist.
Not only did Imago get two licenses for its technology out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it got the professor who did the research.
…Here on campus we are trying to establish “neighborhoods of design.” We know we’ve lost the ability to have one style of architecture on campus. Who would want all our buildings to look the same, anyway? It would be downright boring.
But if we can have neighborhoods of buildings that use the same types of materials, have similar massing, scale, roofing systems and window patterns, maybe we can bring the campus together better on a more human scale….
As far as I can tell I’m possibly the only person in town willing to step up to the plate and say that I like the Mosse Humanities Building.
Can I explain why I like it? Possibly it’s for the same reasons that I like the CUNA complex. Possibly it’s because of good memories associated with my 20 years of experience in and around the building.
Is it reminiscent of a prison? Yes, the classrooms are like prison cells and all the concrete forces those inside to feel the cold reality of the world deep in their bones.
The University of Wisconsin says it can no longer afford the Ashland Agriculture station, but people in the area say there is too much going on to close it down. David Hopkins has the story.
Madison police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman Monday night, the second sexual assault by a stranger reported to police in Madison in 2 1/2 weeks.
At 10:30 p.m. Monday, a caller to 911 said a woman was screaming in the 10 block of North Bassett Street, said police spokesman Mike Hanson.
A 21-year-old woman told officers a stranger grabbed her and then sexually assaulted her. The victim told police her attacker then ran away.
Gerry Roesing still remembers the moment 25 years ago when Madison won his heart. He was a newcomer, out on a house-hunting trip on the west side.
Once again, the Beloit Daily News has issued an editorial in which their dislike of homosexuals has overruled reason and logic. They claim allowing the University of Wisconsin to provide health insurance benefits that include domestic partners is short-sighted and misguided and hurts taxpayers, and that benefits aren’t a decision in choosing a job.
The University of Wisconsin System would have to make do with what it currently gets in state funding despite sharp increases in costs and mandated changes in how it spends money, under provisions adopted by the Legislature’s budget committee Wednesday.
The action by the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee threatens to contribute to the “systematic dismantling of public higher education in this state,” UW- Madison Chancellor John Wiley said in a statement.
Madison police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman on Monday night, the second sexual assault by a stranger reported to police in Madison in the last two weeks. At 10:30 p.m. Monday, a caller to 911 said a woman was screaming in the 10 block of North Bassett Street, said police spokesman Mike Hanson.
When will certain Republicans in the Legislature finally start treating gay and lesbian people fairly and respectfully?
We get the queasy sense it’s going to take far too long and cost the state a good deal of money, talent and reputation before that happens.
Too many of our state leaders — Assembly Speaker John Gard, R-Peshtigo, and Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, come immediately to mind — continue to step backward on gay and lesbian fairness while the state of Wisconsin and its citizens slowly but surely move ahead.
Pardon us if we have trouble understanding the president of the United States.
He has been in office for more than four years now and has almost gleefully signed every piece of legislation that has crossed his desk, no matter how bad some of it happened to
Now the Madison community can speak out.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and city planning staff Thursday unveiled a 600-page draft comprehensive plan for the next two decades designed to preserve the best of the inner city, redevelop blighted lots and dated strip malls and promote “new urbanist” neighborhoods on the city’s outskirts.
“We have an opportunity here in the city of Madison to build something that is really special,” Cieslewicz told about 100 people gathered for the event at Monona Terrace.
Photographs in Wednesday’s papers of President Bush with cuddly little babies, all of whom were produced from surplus fertilized eggs at fertility clinics, represent a White House attempt to deal with the biggest flaw in logic regarding its stem cell policy ââ?¬â? and its moral weak point. This is the fact that fertility clinics routinely create many test-tube embryos for every human baby that is wanted or is produced.
The Evjue Foundation Inc., the charitable arm of The Capital Times, today announced it has made grants totaling $1,964,341 to the University of Wisconsin and 76 community organizations in the newspaper’s circulation area.
The grants, which are made possible by the will of the late William T. Evjue, the founder and longtime editor and publisher of The Capital Times, include $754,041 to the university for projects ranging from the renovation of Camp Randall to the UW’s efforts to attract more minority students and $1,210,300 to local civic, cultural and nonprofit organizations, mostly in Madison and Dane County.
A developer wants to build Madison’s tallest and most densely populated private residential tower near UW- Madison.
But city planning officials are concerned the building will set a precedent and invite similar projects that could rapidly change the area between Camp Randall and Park Street. The city has no detailed neighborhood plan for the area.
President Bush seems determined to thwart any loosening of the restrictions he has imposed on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research, despite rising sentiment in Congress and the nation at large for greater federal support of this fast-emerging field. His actions are based on strong religious beliefs on the part of some conservative Christians, and presumably the president himself. Such convictions deserve respect, but it is wrong to impose them on this pluralistic nation.
It couldn’t be–could it?–that officials at High School District 211 in Palatine yanked a job offer away from a prospective teacher this week simply because administrators don’t like the religious views of that teacher’s father?
I’m open to other interpretations, but Supt. Roger Thornton declined to comment Wednesday and seven other officials didn’t respond when I sent them a detailed outline of the story Richard Sherman is telling:
Sherman, 23, is the son of civil rights activist and atheist leader Rob Sherman of Buffalo Grove, whose relentless crusades of the last 20 years, most over church-state issues, have alienated many who don’t share his interpretation of the Constitution or God.
But the family tie didn’t come up, Sherman said, when he interviewed with the district in January and again in mid-April as he prepared to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, where he concentrated on science and earned a teaching certificate.
A special committee of the UW Board of Regents on Tuesday picked Martha Dunagin Saunders, a Georgia academic, to be the next chancellor at UW-Whitewater.
Saunders, 56, was one of five finalists for the job. She is vice president for academic affairs at Columbus State University, a campus of the University System of Georgia with 7,000 students, slightly smaller than UW-Whitewater’s enrollment of roughly 10,500.
PHILADELPHIA – (KRT) – One of Calvin DeWitt’s favorite Bible verses is Revelation 11:18:
“… The time has come for judging the dead … and for destroying those who destroy the Earth.”
DeWitt, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, is a leader in a growing evangelical Christian movement to protect the environment in the name of God.
UW-Madison isn’t on this year’s list of the richest colleges and universities in the nation — as measured by endowed income of $1 billion or more — but it should be.
If the report compilers knew where to look, they’d see that UW-Madison’s total endowment is $2.5 to $3 billion, Chancellor John Wiley said. The problem is that the money isn’t in one account but is fed by multiple foundations that the national media often miss.
It’s time to imagine the future Madison.
For a moment, think about East Washington Avenue as it is now: car lots only blocks from the Capitol, strip malls with one-story stores, the sprawling East Towne commercial area.
If the mercury ever slides up into the 90s this summer, there’ll be more help right here in the Madison area – to keep our air conditioners running.
The $190 million Madison Gas and Electric Co. power plant on the UW-Madison campus is just about completed and is starting to deliver electricity to the area, from time to time.
UW-Madison isn’t on this year’s list of richest colleges and universities in the nation ââ?¬â? as measured by endowed income of $1 billion or more ââ?¬â?Ã? but it should be. If the report compilers knew where to look, they’d see that UW-Madison’s total endowment is $2.5-$3 billion, Chancellor John Wiley said. “It’s just lousy reportage,” said UW Foundation President Sandy Wilcox.
What’s the secret at UW-La Crosse?
Outside UW-Madison, UW- La Crosse is the only campus in the University of Wisconsin System that had more than 80 percent of its freshmen return for a second year in 2003.
UW-Madison’s goal of raising $1.5 billion for buildings, financial aid and other needs has been achieved a full 18 months ahead of schedule, officials said Tuesday, but no one plans to stop now.
Officials don’t want donors to put away their checkbooks yet, because several new projects – such as the $375 million Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, a biotechnology research center proposed by Gov. Jim Doyle in March – still need money.
A UW-Madison student was abducted and sexually assaulted by an armed man while walking home on campus along Observatory Drive early Saturday morning.
A police report said the female student was walking home when she was forced into a car in a parking lot off Observatory Drive. The abductor, armed with a handgun, drove her to a nearby location and sexually assaulted her. She reported the crime to the police at 3:30 a.m.
A UW-Madison mechanical engineering senior admitted being involved in three burglaries of his physics professor’s office to find copies of exams, according to charges filed Monday in Dane County Circuit Court. A UW-Madison official called it the worst example of cheating she has seen at the school. According to a criminal complaint, Nicholas Z. Hanson, 22, of St. Louis Park, Minn., admitted to burglaries in October and November and involvement in another in December in which another mechanical engineering senior, allegedly working on Hanson’s behalf, was caught by the professor.
You might think that with 25,000 students leaving campus for summer, you’d be able to easily snag a seat in a sunburst chair on Memorial Union’s Terrace one balmy evening.
Probably not.
Saturday morning, the recent spell of springtime overcast lifted to brighten the setting for another UW-Madison graduation.
The sun, which disappeared again later in the day, assured plenty of light for photos outside the Kohl Center and a pleasant walk for those graduates descending on the arena, robes flapping in the breeze, from other parts of campus.
The UW Police Department is joining forces with Special Olympics to recycle cell phones, many of which can be refurbished and resold. The phones can be dropped off at the department’s headquarters, 1429 Monroe St., 24-7 through Jan. 31, 2006. A “Recycle for Special Olympics” box will be located in the lobby.
Special Olympics will receive a minimum of $1 to a maximum of more than $100 for every cell phone collected.
The May 8 editorial concerning the prospect of tying the two-year University of Wisconsin campuses to particular four-year campuses had some excellent ideas but was also discouraging (“Merge two campuses – if”). It brought forth that old lament of educators that young people never seem to learn from history.
This year’s Mifflin Street block party offers some lessons that should be applied to next year’s event:
� At the top of the list is the need for advance coordination with UW-Madison students.
This year Madison officials were caught unaware when the traditional day for the annual Mifflin Street party, the first Saturday in May, turned out to be the UW-Madison study day prior to final exams. Students responded by moving the party one week earlier.
The latest focus of apprehension over the headlong rush of biotechnology involves the creation of animal-human hybrids, known as chimeras. Distinguished groups of ethicists and scientists have been pondering what steps should be taken, if any, to head off the nightmarish possibility of a human brain’s becoming trapped inside an animal form, silently screaming, “Let me out,” or a human embryo’s being gestated by mice. It is fascinating – some would say terrifying – to contemplate, but these weird, far-out possibilities should not distract us from welcoming more mundane experiments with chimeras that will be needed to advance science.
MGE’s latest projects include the $180 million natural gas- fueled power plant on the UW- Madison campus. The 150- megawatt plant already is sending some electricity to the power grid, Wolter said, and will start providing steam heat and chilled-water for air conditioning to campus buildings this summer.
UW-Madison students honored their pact with the city by hitting the books Saturday instead of throwing another bash on the traditional date of the Mifflin Street block party.
“It’s a party at the library instead of at Mifflin,” said Megan Duckett, a Mifflin Street resident who was studying for finals in zoology and philosophy of environment.
While this year’s Mifflin Street block party was smaller and safer than last year’s according to officials – it drew about 20,000 people compared to 25,000 last year – the number of tickets passed out April 30 significantly exceeded totals from a year earlier.
In the week since the annual party, Madison police passed out 191 citations to 36 people carrying fines of more than $85,000. And the day of the party, police arrested 225 partiers on a total of 317 charges, most of them city ordinance violations such as underage drinking and having open intoxicants.
We hope a Middleton pharmaceutical company’s success and now sale will boost the industry in the Madison area.
What we’d hate to see is the new owner move the company’s 170 jobs — about 75 of them in Middleton — to its East Coast headquarters or elsewhere.
Much as he tries, Mustafa Gokcek can’t conceal the disappointment that’s etched in his features.
It was just a week ago today, while welcoming participants to the International Conference on Islam in Madison – a conference he helped organize – that the affable 28-year-old Turkish native and UW-Madison grad student realized he’d made an awful mistake.
Community leaders LaMarr Billups and Stephen Braunginn will receive the Urban League’s Whitney M. Young Jr. Award at the organization’s annual fundraiser, Spring Into Jazz, May 20 at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center.
….Braunginn was the first director of multicultural affairs for the Wisconsin Alumni Association, a teacher in the Madison schools, a member of the South Madison Advisory Committee and a Dane County supervisor. Billups is a special assistant to the UW chancellor, and previously was a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold. He has been an active local volunteer, civic planner and political activist.
Residents at five Mifflin Street addresses who welcomed partiers to their homes Saturday got a less welcome visit Thursday evening from Madison police.
Sgt. Pete Schmidt said officers delivered citations to the first five of about 15 houses that will receive hefty fines connected to last weekend’s block party.
The UW Board of Regents is considering joining a coalition of Midwestern states in offering discount tuition to out-of-state residents who enroll at participating public schools. UW-Madison is not a participant.
NEW YORK ââ?¬â? It’s a simple proclamation that can bring you instantly back to the land of Oz: “As coroner, I must aver / I thoroughly examined her / And she’s not only merely dead / She’s really, most sincerely dead!”
At graduation ceremonies that are just around the corner, UW-Madison seniors may look around and wonder which of their classmates are going to make it big.
This weekend, the Wisconsin Alumni Association will honor six former Badgers who did.
Among all of the beauty on campus, the tower of coal that decorates Charter Street is extremely out of place. This lump of coal is not only a disgrace to the beauty of campus, but it is the source of some of the dirty, coal-powered energy that we use on campus.
Obviously, the university needs its electricity, I’m not going to argue that. But did you know that coal power plant pollution currently causes 448 premature deaths per year in Wisconsin, according to a study from the Clean Air Task Force? It also causes 9,340 asthma attacks and costs us millions in health co
Madison native Joy Amundson was one of four University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communications graduates to receive a distinguished service award during last weekend’s centennial festivities on campus.
UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication already has stellar credentials.
Its graduates have won nine Pulitzer Prizes, most recently Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post.
Besides working for the biggest and best newspapers, wire services and television networks in the country, its graduates also fill the ranks of so many Wisconsin newspapers, especially this one.
Dear Editor: As I finished assisting with the management of my 31st and final Mifflin Street block party, I could only smile as I realized how safe it was.
During my career, I spent 18 years responding to the event as a paramedic and have spent the last dozen years assisting law enforcement with preparing for and managing the event. …this year the Madison Fire Department experienced the least number of emergency responses on record for the party.
The reason for the safe conclusion to the party rests with the members of our law enforcement agencies…..members of the Madison Police Department, University Police and Dane County Sheriff’s Office now have crowd control well in hand, which explains why the event was run so well.
Dear Editor: Thanks to The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times, for its generous support this year of the University of Wisconsin Press. Evjue support helped us publish five books that address timely subjects important to Madison, our state and our nation.
Shortly after Carlos Santiago signed on as University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor last year, he signaled that he wanted the university to become a bigger player as a public research institution.
The magazines and trade associations that rank cities for one thing or another constantly mention Madison, Wis. A visitors bureau handout lists 65 accolades from recent years, including “Best Places to Live in America” (Money magazine), “Best Walking Cities” (Prevention) and “Best College Sports Town” (Sports Illustrated).
According to America’s list makers, Madison is also one of the friendliest, best-designed, healthiest, most literate, best-wired little cities in the country, with the best biking, canoeing and hotel rooms under $125.
An 18-year-old male fell from a balcony on the 500 block of Mifflin Street Saturday night as the annual block party came to a close. Alcohol is said to be a factor in the accident, according to a police release.
The Teaching Assistants’ Association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison worked very hard in shaping a resolution about military contractors to make it broader than just an attack on Israel, TAA officials said Friday.
They were reacting to a story in Friday’s Capital Times that said the intent of the resolution adopted on April 12, even though any mention of Israel had been removed, still obviously included Israel. The headline of the story characterized the resolution as “anti-Israel.”
….The TAA’s divestment resolution comes in the context of a nationwide campaign to push companies to stop selling Israel material that can be used against Palestinians.
UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication already has stellar credentials. Its graduates have won nine Pulitzer prizes, most recently Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post….The school’s next 100 years should be amazing and challenging in so many unpredictable ways.
David J. Ward, president of NorthStar Economics, saw the report as just one more piece of evidence that Madison’s economy is headed in the right direction. He pointed to the city’s educated work force, influx of federal research money and technology centers like the University Research Park.
The rescheduled Mifflin Street block party drew some 20,000 mostly peaceful revelers Saturday as UW-Madison students tried to get partying out of their systems a week before finals.
As of 8:15 p.m., Madison police arrested about 200 people at the annual block party, mostly for open intoxicants and underage drinking violations. One person was arrested for throwing a beer can at an officer, Madison police spokesman Mike Hanson said.
Students from UW-Madison, UW-Eau Claire, Madison Area Technical College and the University of Minnesota were arrested. Hanson said the afternoon arrest figures of about 80 people were comparable to last year’s numbers.
Last week the Associated Students of Madison came to Mayor Cieslewicz with the message that their constituents, residents of Mifflin Street, wanted to move the block party to April 30, just as representatives come to the City Council asking to pass legislation or approve projects important to the constituents of their districts. The ASM is an advocacy group, not an event organizer. The idea that ASM ought to pay for the Mifflin Street party because they campaigned for a date change is as ludicrous as the idea that the representatives should open their pockets and fork over cash for the projects they vote for.
The National Academy of Sciences’s guidelines for stem cell research should help researchers find a clear path through a minefield of controversial issues.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said Friday that he will not attempt to charge UW-Madison’s student government for costs associated with changing the date of the Mifflin Street block party, disappointing city officials who had asked him to do so.
“Because billing (Associated Students of Madison) would be legally without foundation and ultimately futile, I have decided not to send the bill you request,” Cieslewicz wrote in response to 11 City Council members, led by District 7 Ald. Zach Brandon, who suggested the idea in a letter Tuesday.
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz is as angry today about the Halloween melee of 2004 as he was last fall, and he intends to do something about it, he told a community advisory group on Thursday.
Cieslewicz told police, merchants, students, city officials and others that in order to avoid a repeat of the disturbances that have occurred on State Street each of the last three years, the city should consider restricting access to State Street and making the celebration there a ticketed event, and possibly limiting participation to UW-Madison students.
The university’s “Campus Master Plan” released Tuesday focuses on 4 areas over a 20 year period: transportation on campus, development, utility systems and open green space. “As we develop new buildings we know that in some areas it’s going to be much more urban,” says Gary Brown, UW director of planning and landscape architecture. “Which means we need to have urban court yards and urban green spaces potentially quadrangles of space where people can gather outside in the warm months.”
