Mice engineered to grow old and gray two to three times faster than normal are providing UW-Madison scientists insights into the aging process.
Research on the prematurely old mice may one day lead to genetic intervention as humans age, allowing doctors to treat some of the curses of advancing age, such as hearing loss, which was studied in the lab mice.
Madison is on the right track with its effort to ensure a safer and saner Halloween bash on State Street this fall. Officials should continue to focus on establishing standards of behavior, encouraging swift and absolute enforcement of those standards, and creating a well-lit, well-policed environment that discourages mayhem.
The state is finally auditing a $100 million program that has failed to reduce overall energy use in state-owned buildings.
The Wisconsin Energy Initiative has paid for energy-efficient lighting, temperature controls, high-efficiency motors and low-flow plumbing fixtures since 1992 to try to save energy and money in the long run.
Quoted: Dr. John J. Magnuson, an emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin.
Hollis-Eidsmoe is represented by the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic, a project of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
GREEN BAY – At a time when some legislators and citizens are questioning whether the University of Wisconsin System is still in touch with the needs of the state, the new Paper Technology Transfer Center in Green Bay is a reminder that the “Wisconsin Idea” is alive and well.
CHICAGO, July 12 – Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich signed an executive order on Tuesday making Illinois the fourth state to devote public money to embryonic stem cell research.
A state program will distribute $10 million in grants in its first year to seek treatments and cures for conditions like Alzheimer’s, spinal cord injuries and heart disease.
Quoted: Chin Wu, assistant professor of civil environmental engineering at UW-Madison.
Many colleges are building new dormitories at a blistering pace to attract students, but some institutions have found that renovating existing dorms can make more financial sense, even though the work can be fraught with problems, according to speakers here on Monday at the annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
RIVER FALLS, Wis. – Even after years as a nurse at the University of Wisconsin campus here, Linda Vigars says her heart still melts when she sees a student seeking emergency contraception – the so-called morning-after birth-control pill.
Broken condoms bring women to the campus clinic. Or lapses in judgment after drinking alcohol. More rarely, it’s a sexual assault.
On Friday, a day after four bombs exploded in London, many American colleges with students in Britain had accounted for most or all of their students, and were resuming classes.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin officials spent the Thursday busily tracking down their students who are studying in London after more than 50 people were killed there by bombings in three subway trains. At least 22 of the hundreds of people who were wounded are hospitalized in serious or critical condition. ( FULL
Students attending University of Wisconsin schools will pay nearly 7% more for in-state tuition this school year after a vote by the UW Board of Regents on Thursday. The tuition increase – which was more than university officials had proposed and at the high end of what Gov. Jim Doyle had recommended – means that tuition for the coming school year will go up by $356 at UW-Milwaukee and by $364 at UW-Madison.
Board of Regents President David Walsh said today he wants a report comparing University of Wisconsin fringe benefits with those of comparable institutions.
Fringe benefits have been an issue in the wake of the treatment of Paul Barrows, former vice chancellor for student affairs on the Madison campus. Barrows had used months of sick leave while continuing to collect a $191,000 annual salary.
The week of July 3-July 9 UW-Madison Dean of Students Luoluo Hong will officially conclude her employment at UW-Madison to pursue a career opportunity at Arizona State University in Glendale. Hong had been working as dean of students since Nov. 1, 2002 and oversaw much of the reorganization of the Office of Student Affairs after Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows took an extended leave of absence last school year.
Refrerence: UW- Madison’s Arlington Research Station.
Paul Quantrill, born in London, Ontario, is also the last player from the University of Wisconsin baseball program still playing in the majors. The school dropped the sport in 1991, two years after Quantrill was drafted. “That a Big Ten school can’t have a baseball program is pathetic to me,”
The Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the nation’s largest philanthropies, is enduring the embarrassing revelation that it spent millions of dollars advancing its own agenda.
Along with other foundations and nonprofits, the Philadelphia-based organization has come under fire recently for quietly bankrolling efforts to ensure passage in 2002 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.
Among those receiving money was the University of Wisconsin, which received $1 million for a study on issue advertising on TV.
Just what did Pew get for its money?
Dear Editor: As citizens of the state of Wisconsin, we are extremely concerned about the recent reports concerning Paul Barrows, former vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov. Jim Doyle is calling on Senate Republicans to quit their internal bickering and send him a budget before the end of the week.
Republican lawmakers “have had this budget for four months. They’ve had their closed caucuses. They’re supposed to have been working this out, and after all of this time, they still haven’t gotten their act together.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin medical school professor convicted of stalking is still collecting his $67,000 a year salary while sitting in the Dane County Jail.
A member of the UW faculty since 1989, associate professor Steven Clark is serving a court appointed one-year Huber sentence, meaning he could be eligible for work release and be back on the job.
Artist credited with putting `S’ on Superman’s cape dies at 94
BY AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MILWAUKEE – (KRT) – Back when Clark Kent was reporting to the Daily Star – and even before there was a Daily Planet – a mild-mannered Milwaukee teacher became the first ghost artist to draw America’s superhero for comic books.
The teacher was Paul H. Cassidy, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison put an embattled administrator on paid leave today as officials investigate allegations of misconduct during his tenure. Chancellor John Wiley says he’s received new allegations against Paul Barrows during his tenure as vice chancellor for student affairs.
The Madison Fire Department’s Technical Rescue Team saddled up Tuesday night at the UW Stock Pavilion.
The team answered a call from the UW’s Veterinary School and UW police after a horse found its way to the top of the bleachers, about 20 feet off the ground.
As a parent of a female University of Wisconsin student, I am fuming over the state Assembly’s passing of AB 343, which will ban University Health Services from prescribing and dispensing emergency contraception (“Pill ban at UW moves ahead,” June 17). What gives the state the right to deny adult women access to this legally prescribed medication?
UW-Madison officials said former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows will return from a seven month paid leave as a consultant. Although Barrows will no longer earn the $191,749 he received while Vice Chancellor and while on leave, records show his $150,000 salary makes him the second highest paid of 32 consultants spread among the university system’s campuses.
Madison is a center for the study of the Civil Rights Movement.
On the anniversary of the murders of three civil rights workers, the ring leader is convicted, families feel vindicated and Madison is a place to preserve a piece of that history.
“This is the right decision at the right time,” said LaMarr Billups, special assistant to the chancellor at UW-Madison.
Wednesday’s free showing of “Smile” is sponsored by the Friends of the Waisman Center, which studies human development, developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases, and the UW Department of Plastic Surgery. Donations for both Operation Smile and Eduplast, a group founded by UW physicians to train medical professionals in Central America in reconstructive surgery, will be accepted at the screening.
MADISON — Monroe native Bob Olson had a mentor who made a difference in his education and his life.
Now, Bob and his wife Marilyn, are giving back. The Olsons have donated $1 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering, the school announced this week.
Stanley Kutler has long been amazed by the public’s fascination with “Deep Throat,” the – until recently – anonymous shadowy figure who three decades ago helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein bring down the Nixon White House.
Amazed and more than a little annoyed, the renowned (UW) Madison historian acknowledged with a chuckle this week.
UWââ?¬â??Madison Campus Child Care Centers says its special program honoring UW Police will still take place as scheduled Thursday night at Luther’s Blues. Doors open at 5 p.m., and tickets are $25.
For more information, call 263ââ?¬â??5700.
Luther’s Blues, one of Madison’s most popular live music venues will close its doors and conclude months of speculation on the status of the struggling business.
“The handwriting’s been on the wall that there were problems,” said Tag Evers, owner of Madison music promotion company True Endeavors.
Facing a $421,00 shortage this year due to unexpectedly high fuel costs and bracing for a budget gap next year estimated at $1.4 million, Madison Metro Transit will consider fare hikes.
Madison Metro’s budget pressures do not come at a time when ridership is declining; rather, the city’s buses are the busiest they’ve been since 1986 but operate with frozen state aid and other government funding sources.
…(Metro manager Catherine) Debo said two main factors have contributed to stable or increasing ridership. The more recent cause, she said, is the contracts Metro has made with employers to issue employees unlimited ride cards. So far, Metro has contracts with the University of Wisconsin, St. Marys Hospital and University Hospital.
Surely it hasn’t been 25 years since the movie “Airplane!” debuted. But it has and “Don’t call me Shirley.”
The anniversary will be marked by a benefit celebration in Milwaukee in honor of the volunteer service and philanthropy of Louise Abrahams Yaffe and her son Jim Abrahams, who wrote and directed “Airplane!” with fellow Shorewood High School and UW- Madison graduates David and Jerry Zucker.
MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Jim Doyle appointed a University of Wisconsin-Parkside English major as the newest student representative on the UW System Board of Regents Wednesday.
Christopher Semenas will replace Beth Richlen, a UW-Madison law student, according to Doyle’s office. Her term expired in May.
Semenas, of Rosendale, is the first student regent appointed from UW-Parkside, Doyle said. He’s a fourth-year student, majoring in English and history.
He served as the president of the Parkside Student Government Association and legislative issues director for the Student Government Association. He currently works as an events assistant on campus.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.501-billion as of May 18 (increase of $36.4-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007.
During alerts, members of the Clean Air Coalition – including Madison Gas and Electric Co., Dane County, the city of Madison, Kraft Foods, UW-Madison and the state of Wisconsin – put response plans into place. Those plans include alerting employees by e-mail, encouraging them to leave their cars at home, avoiding refueling fleet vehicles until after 6 p.m. and other measures. During the first five alert days of the season, Madison Metro will offer free bus service.
If you attended the University of Wisconsin in the last 38 years you know Mary Rouse. In fact, there’s a good chance you know her even if you didn’t attend the UW.
Until the country renews its commitment to making college affordable for everyone, the American dream of success through education will die.
Michael Stafford resigned as head of the Milwaukee Public Museum on Friday after weeks of public battering for overseeing an institution that ran up a huge deficit, drained its endowment and was forced to lay off 56 staffers.
About time for a glowing profile of the guy, right?
The current issue of the University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni publication Letters & Science TODAY offers a two-page paean to the man at the center of the museum maelstrom.
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.
