A federal grant for nearly half a million dollars will help support mentoring efforts at middle schools in Kenosha and Racine through a program started at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, the university announced this week. The Mentoring Kenosha & Racine partnership received the three-year, $497,691 grant from the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The program, based at Parkside's Center for Community Partnerships trains mentors and professional mentor program staff, certifies quality mentoring programs and recruits community members to become mentors...
Researchers from universities, laboratories and businesses around the Midwest will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Superior on Thursday to discuss their work in biofuel technology. Leaders in the field will talk about the latest ideas and developments in biofuels in hopes of reducing the country's reliance on foreign oil. The symposium was set up by Chicago-based American Science and Technology. AST and the University of Wisconsin-Superior are working together on federally funded research to develop cold-tolerant biofuels using plants from northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota...
Students and faculty on the UW campus have one more thing to think about as school starts: H1N1. Monday, UW leaders sent a memo to staff and students, reminding them to be proactive in preventing the spread of the virus...
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are already coming down with symptoms of influenza, university officials said Thursday, though it is not yet clear whether these are cases of the novel swine flu strain that swept through Mexico and the U.S. this spring...
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are defending their decision not to release any specific number of H1N1 flu virus cases. Dr. Sarah Van Orman, executive director of UW Health Services, said issuing case numbers regarding the so-called swine flu would be largely inaccurate since there are too many factors to consider. Instead, UW officials are focusing its resources on managing the virus' outbreaks...
In addition to homework and exams, UW-Eau Claire students will have another thing to deal with this year - the threat of swine flu. An e-mail sent in late August to students and parents gave advice about how to avoid the strain of influenza and what to do if flu-like symptoms appear...
Students will pay less in segregated fees than previously thought toward an environmental responsibility account this year, university officials said. A money pool created by Student Senate and approved by the student body last year to fund environmentally friendly projects originally would have cost students $10 in segregated fees per semester, said David Gessner, assistant vice chancellor for budget and finance. But modifications made to the account this summer reduced the amount to $1 per semester for the 2009-10 year, he said...
A new semester started at the University of Wisconsin Rock County on Wednesday morning, and in 40 years the two-year college has never seen so many students come through the door. Much has been made of displaced workers going back to school, and the college said that plays a role in the record enrollment numbers. Half the student population at UW Rock County is made up of non-traditional students older than 22 years of age. But many new students this semester are choosing the college to stay close to home and not take on big student loans...
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is welcoming its largest class in school history. A total of 168 students began classes this year, according to university officials...
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow had an unorthodox start to his annual all-university address. "My parents told me not to use the 'f' word in polite conversations and certainly not at events like this," said Gow. "That word is furloughs"...Gow kept with the theme throughout his address, highlighting several other "f words" that have challenged the university, such as flu (H1N1 preparations) and finances...
...The city council of Wisconsin's capital voted on Tuesday to designate the plastic pink flamingo its official bird, honoring a college prank committed 30 years ago. In 1979, University of Wisconsin students planted roughly 1,000 of the pink plastic birds on a grassy incline outside the dean's office...
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, is one of the country's leading centers of public biopharmaceutical research, and the campus has spawned dozens of spinout companies based on University research. For this, the citizens of Wisconsin should be grateful; and, even more so, hopeful. Grateful because a foundation capable of supporting future growth is in place; hopeful because given the right conditions that growth could, over the next five years, support the emergence of the Madison area as one of the nation's top five centers of commercial life sciences investment, and indirectly the emergence of the State as a whole as an important stopover for venture capital investors that today think of Wisconsin as flyover country...(Author: Paul Jones, part of the Venture Best team at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the College of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)...
There are certain majors students pursue in college that tend to make parents shudder with fear. What does an art history major do, for example, to pay the bills upon graduation? Sell mustard, of course. The Chicago Tribune had an interesting story about Jennifer Connor, who started a mustard business five years ago -- after finishing her art history degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
