A group of UW-Madison civil engineers has received a Popular Science magazine “Best of What’s New” award in engineering for a technology designed to lengthen the life of bridges without raising construction costs.
The technology, which is highlighted in the magazine’s December issue, was developed by civil and environmental engineering professors Larry Bank and Mike Oliva, along with former graduate students David Jacobson and Mack Conachen.
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin System would not grant future academic administrators backup jobs, a controversial perk in which administrators gotlower-level jobs if fired, under a proposal a regents’ committee approved Thursday.
The paper was launched using funds largely from two sources, as Motel explained. “Because some of us were students,” she says, “we were able to get a grant from the Morgridge Center for Public Service,” a service-oriented program at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison students studying amid the unrest in France are “all safe,” according to interim Director of International Academic Programs Catherine Meschievitz.
Only three UW-Madison students currently reside in Paris, while 13 live around Aix-en-Provence. This stretch of land sits 30 to 60 miles from Marseilles — one of the French cities and towns ridden with the nation’s worst civil unrest in decades.
George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, will speak at the Wisconsin Union Theater on Monday at 7:30 p.m.
McGovern, a former U.S. senator from South Dakota, will deliver this year’s Robert W. Kastenmeier Lecture. His lecture will be entitled “The Iraq War: Lessons From the Past.”
A newspaper in Madison deserves community support for giving the homeless a voice and a way to earn some money.
The Homeless Cooperative recently published its first edition, featuring writing by those who are or may become homeless. Vendors can buy the paper for 25 cents, sell it for $1 and keep the profit.
Donations including a UW-Madison grant paid for the first issue. With enough advertising, future issues will hit the streets every two months.
A yearlong audit of the University of Colorado Foundation, released on Tuesday, found some evidence of overspending, a failure to follow donors’ wishes, and a lack of accountability. But the problems, which the university swiftly pledged to remedy, appear not to add up to a major scandal, as some critics had expected.
River Falls Student Voice Editor Eric Ebert noticed the explanation in the police report.
The victim of an on-campus sexual assault in late September did not want to come forward, her resident adviser said, because she was afraid her name would end up in the newspaper.
There’s a reason that no serious injuries and virtually no property damage occurred during last weekend’s Halloween bash in Downtown Madison:
The city, UW-Madison, area law enforcement agencies and Downtown businesses spent a year developing a plan to manage the risks of the often-unruly celebration, and the plan was as successful as anyone could have expected.
Members of a local service organization have created a newspaper that they hope will provide income for the homeless and promote awareness of the problem of homelessness.
The Homeless Cooperative, formed by volunteers at the Madison Warming Center Campaign and some of Madison’s homeless people, released the first issue of its monthly newspaper at the end of October. About half of the content, which includes reporting, opinion pieces and poetry, is written by the paper’s distributors, who are homeless or in danger of becoming homeless.
“It’s a proactive means to empower homeless folks in the Madison community,” said Mel Motel, a UW- Madison student and co-editor of the paper.
Felony and misdemeanor charges against five Halloween revelers are the first charges from the weekend to filter through the Dane County Circuit Court.
Two out-of-town men were charged Tuesday with battering officers, a felony. And two men affiliated with UW-Madison were charged Thursday for hitting a police horse, a misdemeanor.
Three lawmakers are asking the UW Board of Regents to reinvestigate the Paul Barrows matter and sanction University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly for not mentioning his role in it until last week.
Madison police have named the former UW-Madison student who died early Sunday.
And the young man who fell at a campus-area apartment early Saturday is still in critical condition and hasn’t regained consciousness, said his mother.
Over the next 20 years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will be, literally, growing up.
To alleviate cramped spaces in research areas and residence halls, the university will replace many of its surface parking lots with new six- and seven-story buildings and grassy spaces. The university plans to add 6.8 million gross square feet of building space in that time.
It is safe to say that, in most communities in Wisconsin, Halloween is a time of fun and celebration, of ghosts and goblins and scary movies and trick-or-treating. That is how it is in Madison, too. But it has also become something else, something uglier. Madison police took prompt, strong action over the weekend in an attempt to prevent trouble. Unfortunately, they caused some trouble of their own. And efforts to anticipate problems and keep them from happening were not as vigorous as they could have been.
It’s not the pepper spray but the alcohol on State Street this weekend that Madison should consider when looking at whether to continue hosting a Halloween celebration, Police Chief Noble Wray said.
The largely peaceful event that drew 70,000 to 80,000 to State Street by midnight Saturday – police revised earlier estimates of 100,000 – ended at 2 a.m. Sunday with police using pepper spray to repel a small, yet persistent, crowd on the 500 block.
As state support for higher education diminishes in Wisconsin, public universities are turning to students to make up the difference. And not just through tuition.
The mayor urged him to stay away. So did police and UW- Madison officials. Even his dad told him not to go.
Undeterred, Tyler Swanson, 19, a freshman at the University of Minnesota, stepped off a Gofer Bus from St. Paul Friday night to participate in a notorious Halloween weekend on Madison’s State Street.
Halloween started out with a dull roar on State Street Friday night, with stadium lights ablaze and cops canvassing the area in masses.
University women and state leaders including Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton are questioning the University of Wisconsin System’s commitment to gender equity after the System’s top women’s issues coordinator quit in protest last month.
Halloween celebrations drew about 20,000 people to State Street as of 2 a.m. with police carting off at least 125 in plastic handcuffs.
Music educators took over Monona Terrace for a conference last week, and they did not come quietly. The music conference is one of hundreds of events that will take place at Monona Terrace this year. Hundreds more will be held at the Alliant Center and the Kohl Center. A decade after some officials worried that Madison wasn’t big enough to support all three facilities, each has found its own market niche.
Quoted: James Hartwick, a UW- Whitewater professor who studied the topic for his doctoral dissertation at UW- Madison.
tate Street was filled with pirates, witches, vampires, cats, and, of course, police officers Saturday night as a crowd of roughly 100,000 celebrated Halloween.
After Halloween revelry ended early Sunday in a cloud of eye- stinging spray for the fourth year in a row, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz is asking whether the annual costumed crush on State Street should continue.
Halloween 2005 ended early Sunday the same way it did a year ago – with repeated bursts of pepper spray.
At 2 a.m. Madison police declared the rowdy gathering an “unlawful assembly,” herded the chanting and beverage- tossing revelers off State Street using police horses and then backed that up with the irritating chemical.
City engineering and planning staff members informed the State Street Design Project Oversight Committee of possible funding problems and plans for posting kiosks on the 300 and 400 blocks of State Street at a meeting Thursday.
For the past year Madison has been engaged in sober reflection about how to keep this weekend’s Halloween bash on State Street from turning ugly. But the key to keeping the Halloween party free of violence is for revelers to still be in condition for sober reflection in the wee hours of the morning.
In other words, the drunks are the problem.
A former Rio volunteer firefighter convicted of stoking a State Street bonfire last Halloween while costumed in his firefighting gear said Thursday he’ll probably never spend another Halloween on State Street.
“You can’t even sneeze on the street without getting arrested,” Jared R. Sunde, 21, said. “It was dumb. I was just a kid having fun.”
Minnesotan Angela Douglas, a St. Cloud State University sophomore, isn’t coming back to Madison for Halloween this year.
“I hear they’re cracking down even more on out-of-staters this year,” said Douglas, 19, arrested last Halloween. “My friends are trying to get me to go again, but I’ve experienced it once. I told my friends I’m not going back until I can at least legally drink.”
Jakob Bierbaum, 23, a senior at the University of Minnesota still smarting from his arrest last year, won’t be back either.
Madison, Wis. – Kurt Squire, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Education, hopes to bring a new dimension to education and learning with “augmented reality” games, which combine aspects of physical activity, traditional reading and math problems, and video-game simulations.
Halloween revelers on State Street shouldn’t be scared when a cheerful, disembodied voice loudly proclaims an end to festivities this weekend.
“Thank you for attending the Halloween event,” the voice will nicely, but authoritatively, say via loudspeakers. “The city of Madison thanks you for your patronage of the State Street area and wishes you safe travel to your next destination. Please begin moving out of the State Street area so cleanup crews can prepare the area for tomorrow’s business day.”
College students in Rock County will no longer have to leave the area to receive a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
A special ceremony marked the beginning of a collaboration between UW Rock County and UW Plateville Wednesday.
onfidential information on minors in the state’s Child Protective Services program has surfaced on a computer hard drive in Nigeria, and state officials say they can’t account for how the data got there.
Marquis said specs on the Nigerian hard drive didn’t match the Health and Family Services Department’s general equipment records, records of machines used by the former employee or old computers sent to UW-Madison’s SWAP surplus shop to be sold or scrapped.
Mukhtar Mai of Pakistan, who some credit with exposing a feudal justice system that sanctions rape and murder, will tell her story Friday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Red Gym on the UW- Madison campus.
WASHINGTON — A new federal regulation making it easier for law enforcement to tap Internet phone calls is being challenged in court.
Privacy and technology groups asked the federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday to overturn a Federal Communications Commission rule that expands wiretapping laws to cover Internet calls — or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
A 31-year-old man threatening to jump from a bridge halted traffic on the 800 block of University Avenue for approximately one hour Sunday night. UW-Madison Campus Police and Madison Police worked to persuade the man, who was dangling over the outer-side of the Vilas/Humanities bridge, back to safety.
A modest arrangement begun two years ago between a Shanghai medical school and two Milwaukee institutions – Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – took on new promise when the Shanghai partner merged with a top-ranked Chinese institute of technology. Suddenly, Milwaukee had links to a prestigious Chinese incubator of innovation.
University of Wisconsin Police successfully prevented a 31-year-old man from jumping off the pedestrian footbridge connecting the Humanities building and Vilas Hall Sunday night.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly will make public this week an Oct. 20 letter from UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley presumably reporting on corrective measures to ensure appropriate sick-leave policies.
There should be an immutable bottom line in upcoming discussions between Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Medical School on the matter of a school of public health.
Milwaukee must not settle for a branch campus of a renamed School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. Milwaukee’s government and business leaders, along with the chancellor of UW-Milwaukee, must insist on a free-standing school at UWM.
UW alum Tom Wopat is not just a good old boy.
In fact, he didn’t even start out that way. The Lodi native started out as a song-and- dance man, doing high school plays, summer stock and even taking a run at Broadway.
UW-Madison is rolling up the red carpet as tightly as it can to try to keep Halloween revelry in check, with a special effort to “downsize, discourage and localize” the festivities.
More than 70 volunteers have signed on to the Personal Care Items Drive. Churches, libraries and businesses have endorsed the effort and will provide drop-off sites.
….The Morgridge Center for Public Service, located in the Red Gym, will be the (campus) drop-off point, and the campus effort will be promoted by the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity.
Inspired by a new chancellor and an in-depth plan to diversify the campus, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recorded double-digit gains in its recruitment and enrollment of minority students in 2005-06’s freshman class.
If you’re on State Street on Saturday, look out! A mob of zombies plans to lurch toward the Memorial Union Terrace.
No, they’re not UW students headed to the library. Or even Badger fans trekking to Camp Randall Stadium. They’re zombie-ophiles getting their ghoul on.
….(Maddie) Greene, a 2003 UW-Madison grad who works as a sales and marketing writer for Epic Systems, expects at least 50 people to take part in the event, which will start at 2 p.m. Saturday at the State Capitol and head down State Street before ending at the terrace.
Nobody ever told Regent Charles Pruitt it would be easy serving as chair of the Board of Regentsââ?¬â?¢ Business & Finance Committee, although few could have foreseen the scandals surrounding University of Wisconsin personnel policies and practices over the past few months ââ?¬â? scandals Pruittââ?¬â?¢s committee is responsible for resolving.
I WAS pleased to see that the Madison Sesquicentennial Commission has announced plans for a series of historical markers to be placed in various locations around the city.
There is a public meeting tonight, from 7 to 8:30 at the Madison Senior Center on West Mifflin, to get citizen input on who or what should get a marker.
….There should be a plaque where Stephen Babcock ate his first ice cream cone. … Where Leon Varjian and Jim Mallon planted their first pink flamingo. …
More and more entrepreneurs like Raymond Harter are setting up small businesses in Wisconsin.
But capital to help them grow isn’t keeping pace.
The Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium will attack that problem Wednesday and Thursday in Madison.
The ABC investigation of nuclear reactors at colleges in the United States is all over the Web. The report could be very damaging to UW-Madison and its ability to handle such issues. The university is already under such pressure that this will be one more nail.
I appreciate the Wisconsin State Journal editorial taking UW-Madison and professor Michael Corradini to task for not owning up to the inexcusable breach of security at the UW’s nuclear reactor.
Madison, Wis. – In Victorian England, the game of croquet was a completely neutral area where social ranking and gender didn’t matter, and people could share the latest news without inhibition.
The college students yawned and took notes like it was any other day in their introductory computer programming class. Then the substitute teacher showed up ââ?¬â? Bill Gates.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Several times a year, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates heads off on a ââ?¬Å?thinkââ?¬Â retreat to look into his crystal ball.
ââ?¬Å?I ponder the ideas that people send me,ââ?¬Â Gates told more than 200 University of Wisconsin-Madison biology and computer science students Wednesday afternoon.
Madison, Wis. – Wearing an olive-green sweater, experiencing a minor glitch with the microphone and mumbling quietly to himself as he worked with a computer, a casual observer would have mistaken Bill Gates for any normal professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bill Gates tried to sell University of Wisconsin students on the idea of a career in the software industry Wednesday, pulling out some of Microsoft’s latest high-tech toys to show how cool the work can be.
Software mogul Bill Gates pressed UW-Madison students Wednesday to do what he never did himself – get a university degree in computer programming.
In 1994, UW-Madison began to offer the only master cheesemakers program of its kind outside of Europe.
“I was in the first graduating class,” Jenny said. “There were four in my class and the test was easier.”
The program requires completing several courses and an intensive final exam. As time went on, the university continues to strengthen the program.
Peter Daniel Young seems to think he’s a regular Abraham Lincoln.
In reality, he’s a criminal who deserves to be punished for his crimes.
Young, 28, of Mercer Island, Wash., told the Associated Press in Madison last week that he saved thousands of mink from slavery by letting them loose from their cages on farms in Wisconsin, Iowa and South Dakota.
In Madison, two high-profile cases of sexual harassment allegations have emerged in recent weeks, in claims that former Overture Center for the Arts president Bob D’Angelo and former UW- Madison Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Paul Barrows have harassed women with whom they’ve had contact through their work.
