UW System Clipsheet

"Education budget work may be for naught," Associated Press, Sept. 19.

Budget talks continue to stall, even as the Assembly voted to pass a large portion dealing with education; members of the Senate and Gov. Doyle oppose this sort of piecemeal budgeting, and said they will neither debate nor sign into law any measure that is not an entire budget.

Related: "Assembly breaks up budget," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sept. 19.

Column: "State Republicans to pass K-12 funding, property tax relief today," Column, Waukesha Freeman, Sept. 18. (Click on "Opinions", then "Editorials")

"Public health school a joint effort," Letter to the Editor, Wisconsin State Journal, Sept. 18.

Dr. Robert Golden, the dean of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, writes in favor of building a similar institution on the UW-Milwaukee campus, as the collaboration between those and other health organizations will ultimately serve to benefit everyone in Wisconsin.

"UW gets big grant for research," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sept. 18.

UW-Madison's Institute for Clinical and Translational Research will receive a $41 million grant from the National Health Institute in order to improve the way biomedical discoveries are translated into doctor's offices.

Related: "UW wins $41M health grant," Capital Times, Sept. 18.

Also: "Millions in grant dollars further Marshfield Clinic's research," Marshfield News Herald, Sept. 19.

"UW students, staff make difference in Africa," Letter to the Editor, Capital Times, Sept. 17.

This letter highlights the partnership between UW-Madison and UW-Extension and Uganda's Makerere University to train health workers in a project that could reach more than 100 villages.

"UW-Madison professor finds shortage of low income students enrolled in college," Daily Cardinal, Sept. 19.

UW-Madison Professor W. Lee Hansen finds that the implementation of federal need-based Pell Grants has not increased the number of students from lower-families enrolling in higher education, as he had previously predicted.

"Student, mother finds niche at university," Stevens Point Journal, Sept. 19.

UW-Stevens Point offers students with children a number of services that make their learning experience much more manageable.