Category: UW-Madison Related

MADISON � Bruce Ellig feels quite fortunate to be able to make a rather significant contribution to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the institution that led to his successful 36-year career with Pfizer Inc., a leading pharmaceutical corporation.

Opponents of embryonic stem cell research fail to distinguish research conducted for the purpose of finding therapies for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases from research directed to producing human beings. (Last item.)

Officials in Madison and Dane County have been talking about developing a commuter rail system for decades, and area residents have justifiably come to doubt that this train will ever leave the station.

Carlos Santiago has been chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for just about a month, and already the community’s list of expectations for his agenda is long.

Microsoft Corp.’s decision to release a major upgrade for its flagship operating system in the same month that hundreds of thousands of students are reporting to college campuses across the nation is causing a major headache for some universities. (From the Washington Post)

STEVENS POINT – Chancellor Linda Bunnell came to her first State of the University address Wednesday prepared to outline her plans for the future.
The first female chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has several goals for the year. Her first is a simple one: to walk the campus and meet staff, faculty, students and community members – listening and learning from each of them. After a series of lunches, receptions and drop-in visits, that goal is well on its way to attainment, faculty members said.

Margaret Cleek has been named interim chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, the UW System’s network of 13 two-year campuses.

Madison isn’t the drunkest city in the country, but it almost makes the top 10.

The costs of a University of Wisconsin education have been increasingly shifting from taxpayers to students and their families – setting in motion two alarming and related trends:

Fewer students from middle- to lower-income brackets are enrolling than they used to.

A smaller share of the state’s high school grads of color are winding up as UW freshme

“Once again, the chancellor and provost of the UW-Madison protected the old boy network of their upper level administration.” (On page 10A in the 8/20/04 Capital Times print edition)

While experts worry that loosely guarded nuclear materials in foreign countries might fall into the hands of terrorists, six civilian research reactors at American universities continue to use weapons-grade uranium that could go a long way toward making a nuclear bomb. Although the reactors may not be particularly tempting targets for terrorists or criminals, they are disturbingly accessible ones – their security is far less rigorous than that imposed by the government for its own bomb-grade uranium stockpiles. It is time for the Energy Department to accelerate the universities’ conversion to less dangerous fuels.

The last Quonset hut on the University of Wisconsin campus is scheduled to be demolished on Monday.

Stem cell research moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign last week. The Democratic candidates said they would ease the Bush administration’s restrictions on federal funding and quadruple the money available. Republicans retorted that they were the first to finance embryonic stem cell research and that the Democrats were cruelly inflating expectations for instant cures. Just as the debate was heating up, two developments suggested that the Democrats were right to call for expansion of this important research.

MADISON, Wis. – It cannot be easy to arrive here in the wake of Tommy G. Thompson, Wisconsin’s governor for 14 years, the everyman who sometimes clad in leather pants rode a motorcycle, the author of changes in the welfare system that were held up as a national model.

Political scientist Don Kettl is quoted.

When Scott Ashmann graduated 16 years ago with a bachelor�s degree in chemistry and education from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, he never thought he would return there years later as an assistant science education professor.

Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee wants to eliminate drink-special bans at a handful of establishments and will soon consider what, if any, restrictions should be imposed city-wide.

Washington – Today’s teens: They don’t like the idea of a military draft, they’re stressed out about grades and they regard their parents as practically awesome.

Those were among key findings unveiled Tuesday from a national survey of American young people aged 13 to 19.

Jessica Rose was rushing to dinner on State Street to celebrate her 21st birthday when she spotted Carrie Haese in a light blue T-shirt with the words “Register to Vote” printed in large red letters.

WAUSAU, Wis. – A former University of Wisconsin-Superior professor who was fired three years ago amid allegations of sexual harassment and other ethics violations won a new chance Tuesday to get his job back.

MADISON � William Messner, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, is officially ending his tenure on Aug. 31 to accept the presidency of Holyoke Community College in western Massachusetts.

Nino Amato became the first sitting president since 1911 to be denied a second term as leader of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board. Instead Brent Smith of La Crosse will be board president and will represent the state’s 16 technical colleges on the UW Board of Regents

The new president of the University of Wisconsin System will be paid $320,000 a year, about $12,000 more than the outgoing system leader. The UW System Board of Regents approved the contract with Kevin Reilly on Thursday afternoon.

This week’s defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment to rein in state spending is only the first battle in a long and likely costly political war, say the leaders of a zealous conservative group backing the measure.

MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge has tossed out a $400,000 sex discrimination award for a former University of Wisconsin-Platteville assistant chancellor, ruling the jury reached its verdict in error.

Amato also loses his position on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents to Smith.

Skip the on the job training for the University of Wisconsin�s likely newest administrator. The nomination of UW Extension Chancellor Kevin P. Reilly to become president of the entire UW System means this soldier will enter battle prepared and ready.

Dane County Circuit Judge Gerald Nichol was picked late Monday to replace Judge Stuart Schwartz in the triple murder case in which three men were killed in a Verona home last year.

The biggest challenges for the next president of the University of Wisconsin System boil down to two things: money and love.

MADISON, Wis. — A recent wedding has caused yet another delay in a Dane County triple homicide case, News 3 reports.

Reilly participates in a question-and-answer session with a Wisconsin State Journal reporter.

Shortly after learning late Monday morning that he was the recommended pick to be president of the University of Wisconsin System, Kevin Reilly opted for a little “me” time.

Kevin Reilly is a choice both safe and smart to run the University of Wisconsin System.

Letter to the Editor: Austin Evans, economics student.

After a nationwide search, the University of Wisconsin System’s next president has been found – in Madison. Kevin P. Reilly, chancellor of the UW Extension, is the nominee for the job, a committee of UW regents announced Monday.

Kevin Reilly, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Extension, is the top choice of the UW System Board of Regents committee that interviewed finalists for the presidency of the system, a source close to the regents confirmed Friday

UW Board of Regents

After a day’s worth of interviews, the University of Wisconsin System regents charged with picking a nominee for the system’s presidency went home without confirming if they had made a decision.

Steve Gunderson lacks a doctorate and hasn’t spent a day in his life running a college or university, let alone a system.

Elizabeth Capaldi, an academic from out East, has never worked in Wisconsin.

And Kevin Reilly, while steeped in statewide outreach education since 1996, has never led a traditional undergraduate campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Superior on Thursday unveiled its plan to raise $17.5 million during the next five years.

(Madison) The University of Wisconsin System will need to wait another week before it gets a new president.

The list of finalists for the presidency of the University of Wisconsin System shrank from four to three Wednesday, but, according to sources close to the selection process, the race is really down to the two candidates with close ties to Wisconsin

The search for the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee cost $141,440 in state taxpayer funds and tuition dollars – about $50,000 more than an earlier estimate, according to information from UWM.

A shooting at a Madison bar again raises questions about hip-hop music.

Police have been stymied in identifying a suspect in a shooting early Saturday that left a 36-year-old Illinois man in the hospital.

A play about the Audrey Seiler case will open at Madison’s Broom Street Theater July 30.

The short list is official, and by the end of next week, the new president of the University of Wisconsin System should be all but formally approved

A former UW-Madison football star who now plays in the NFL has been arrested for drunken driving.

Wendell Bryant, 23, is scheduled to make a court appearance Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court.

A former Wisconsin congressman and three higher education leaders from Texas, New York and Wisconsin are finalists in the search to replace Katharine Lyall as president of the $3.9 billion University of Wisconsin System.

UW-Madison creative writing teacher reads on Wednesday from this love story between a Jewish girl from St. Louis and an Armenian-American soldier in Paris at the end of World War I.

U.S. ATTORNEY General John Ashcroft can’t stop taking credit for busting Rajib Mitra, the 25-year-old UW-Madison student convicted in March of hacking into and disrupting the Madison police radio system.

I appreciate USA TODAY’s help in delivering the message that families should not be deterred by high tuition when they look at colleges.

Things will be tight in the sparsely furnished Madison townhouse where newly arrived Hmong refugee Chia Pao Lor and his wife and seven children will bunk temporarily with his cousin Thao Lor, her husband, Mang Yang, and their eight children. Lor and his family arrived in Madison Tuesday evening, landing at Dane County Regional Airport on the final leg of their journey from Thailand to cheers, tears and hugs from some 40 friends and relatives.

As nearly every political analyst has attested, foreign policy and the economy will determine the fates of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry this fall. While these two issues and their related concerns are indeed critically important to the safety and prosperity of the nation, citizens of Wisconsin deserve to hear about other issues as well, especially the security of the long-term health of our land and water here at home.

NEW YORK (AP) — The reading of books is on the decline in America, despite Harry Potter and the best efforts of Oprah Winfrey.

House Republicans, under strong pressure from the White House, narrowly defeated an effort yesterday to water down the Bush administration’s signature law to combat domestic terrorism. (Login required.)

Two men in the Dane County Jail await charges in connection with two brutal sexual assaults and a violent robbery that occurred last month on and just west of the Isthmus, Madison police said Wednesday.

A proposal about to be introduced to the Alcohol Licensing Review Committee could be the last call for area happy hours.

MADISON, Wis. — Police arrested a Madison woman late last night after she allegedly led University and Madison police on a chase throughout the west side of downtown