Some state employees might be a little down over furloughs mandated by Governor Doyle, but Brittany Berrens reports that a group of UW-Superior faculty members are making the best of it today. A group of 12 UW-Superior staff are going to enjoy their furlough day off to go kayaking in the Apostle Islands. The event is organized by the UWS Campus Recreation Department. Assistant Director Harry Anderson says this is an opportunity...
Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana spent 10 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, helping to crack the genetic code, pioneering the field of synthetic biology and earning a Nobel Prize. UW's annual Steenbock Symposium, which started Thursday and runs all weekend, honors Khorana's work with a four-day program on synthetic genes, synthetic life and biological systems...
A bad economy prompts UW-Green Bay to extend its application deadline for students living in 11 Northeast Wisconsin counties. Dozens of students are taking advantage. With the start of classes at UWGB about a month away, for the first time, the university is still accepting applications, but only for people who live local. "There have been a couple of circumstances where students have stated very overtly in their applicant statement that finances have caused them to change their plans," says UWGB Admissions Director Pam Harvey-Jacobs. With the struggling economy, the university extended the deadlines, receiving 34 transfer applications since July first plus 44 freshman applications...
