UW-Madison stem cell pioneer Jamie Thomson received the prestigious Massry Prize for 2008. The award recognizes Thomson, who is director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research and a professor at UW-Madison's School of Medicine and Public Health, for his groundbreaking discovery of human embryonic stem (ES) cells a decade ago, and his subsequent work in developing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Eight previous winners of the Massry Prize have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize...
A decade after he became the first person to isolate and grow human embryonic stem cells, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist James Thomson was one of three stem cell researchers awarded the 2008 Massry Prize, an honor that has proved a frequent precursor to the Nobel Prize...
Chancellor Joe Gow announced a hiring freeze Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The freeze was made because the university predicts it could experience a cut of up to $6 million in state funds during the next two years, Gow said. The chancellor, in collaboration with university leadership, reserves the option to make exceptions to the hiring freeze, with priority given to faculty and staff hired through the Growth, Quality and Access plan, Gow said...
Tuition at the state's flagship public university will continue to climb despite the flagging economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said in an e-mail today to faculty, staff and students...The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents does not actually vote on tuition increases for its 26 campuses until its summer meeting in 2009, but Martin's e-mail gave an early indication of what's to come. Undergraduate resident tuition at UW-Madison for the current 2008-09 year is $7,570...
As the state faces a major budget deficit and big cuts, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has the daunting task of running the state's flagship university in lean times. She recently joined us to talk about the difficult road ahead...
Local educators took advantage of a rare visit by a University of Wisconsin regent to make the case for a new degree program and better wages at UW's Baraboo campus...
...Randy Cortright, the co-founder of Madison-based Virent Energy Systems Inc., was the lead in a feature on 50 Best Inventions of the Year in the Dec. 4 issue (of Time Magazine), where he was lauded for his "grass to gas" technology. The story notes how Cortright was a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when he was working on a project for agro-giant Cargill to make antifreeze out of organic acids...
Leaky steam lines that that operate inefficiently and create steam clouds that obscure vision in a busy Algoma Boulevard crosswalk on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus will be replaced next year in a $226,800 project approved this week by the State Building Commission...
The UW-Madison has decided not to file as an intervenor in American Transmission Company's request to build a 345-kilovolt power line across Dane County. Being an intervenor would allow the UW to be more involved with the Public Service Commission's decision-making process. But the UW says its concerns are already being addressed...
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is trying to build its 2009-10 budget without raising ticket prices for the second straight year. That may be unrealistic, but UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez believes the attempt must be made given the economic challenges facing many Badgers fans...
VistaGen Therapeutics, a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have signed a license for human embryonic stem cell patents for the development and commercialization of stem cell-based research tools...
...The ability to ask questions about what someone is researching while simultaneously pulling out photos, diary entries or sections of a reference book takes skill, said Ed Hill, former director of Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Librarian Linda Sondreal has perfected that skill for more than 40 years at UW-L’s Murphy Library, but today is her last day before retirement...
