UW System Clipsheet
August 9, 2012
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On Campus
"Campus to study student success," Baraboo News Republic, Aug. 8.
The University of Wisconsin System was awarded nearly $650,000 grants to help create a system that would identify students at risk of failing...
"UW scientists receive $1 million grant to study genome production," Wisconsin State Journal, Aug. 9.
Four UW-Madison professors will receive a $1 million dollar grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study genome production, according to a release from the university Wednesday...
"Community Corner: New at UWP in 2012-13," Column, SWNews4U.com, Aug. 9.
Though it may be difficult to believe, fall is rapidly approaching and a new academic year at UW–Platteville will begin on Sept. 4. The university continues to experience record growth, with 1,650 freshmen and more than 400 transfer students registered for the fall... (Author: UW-Platteville Chancellor Dennis J. Shields)
"Return to the classroom," West Bend Daily News, Aug. 9.
...Chris Roland, student services coordinator at UW-Washington County, said [Kirsten] Kindness is like many of the adults who either are just starting their college education or picking up where they may have left off 10 or even 20 years ago...
"From the files: Work on Fleming Hall is major project," Dunn County News, Aug. 8.
...Now as then, work on Thomas Fleming Hall is one of the major summer building projects on Stout campus. A $6.6 million renovation project to remodel and upgrade the 50-year-old dormitory has kept contractors busy through the summer of 2012. The dorm, named in honor of former English Department chair, Tom Fleming is scheduled to reopen this fall.
"Around Town Briefs: Faculty award," Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Aug. 9.
Carol Mooney, director of the graduate program in career and technical education at UW-Stout, was selected by students to receive the 2011-12 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award...
"UW-Madison community holds vigil to honor shooting victims," Daily Cardinal, Aug. 8.
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community gathered in Library Mall for a candlelight vigil Wednesday to memorialize the victims of the recent Sikh temple shooting...
"UWM to hold remembrance Thursday for victims of Sikh temple shooting," Shorewood Patch, Aug. 9.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will hold a remembrance at 2 p.m. Thursday to honor the victims of the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek that occurred on Sunday...
"UW-Superior's Jim Dan Hill Library reopens after flood," Superior Telegram, Aug. 9.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Jim Dan Hill Library reopened Tuesday following the massive flood in June that damaged the building’s lower level and destroyed thousands of books...
"UW-Superior makes 'amazing' recovery from $24M flood damage," Wisconsin Public Radio, Aug. 8.
Six weeks after a once-in-a-century flood left UW-Superior feet deep in storm and sewage water damaging all 16 of its buildings, the campus is now ready for students to arrive for the fall semester...
"Campus Connection: Some students will need to plan ahead in order to vote," Capital Times, Aug. 9.
Are you a UW-Madison student and wondering what steps, exactly, you’ll need to take to be able to vote in the primary election on Tuesday? Check out this letter from Lori Berquam, the university’s dean of students...
"UW-Madison students hold candlelight vigil," WKOW-TV 27, Aug. 8.
A number of University of Wisconsin-Madison students joined together Wednesday to remember those affected by the Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek...
"PEOPLE students celebrate completing pre-college program," Madison Times, Aug. 8.
The future of the state of Wisconsin was on display at the UW-Madison PEOPLE Program’s 12th annual Recognition Banquet at the Madison Marriott West Aug. 3. The future looks very promising...
"Dairy industry still draws vets," Appleton Post-Crescent, Aug. 8.
...The University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison continues to enroll students who want to work with large animals, said Dr. Christopher Olsen, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of public health with the School of Veterinary Medicine...
International
"Bitter reality of MOOConomics," Column, Inside Higher Ed, Aug. 9.
...Enter the massive open online course (MOOC) craze. Born at two of the nation’s most elite colleges, MOOCs have received an unbelievable amount of news coverage for offering the potential to solve one of the sector's most nagging problems: how to provide world-class education for practically no consumer cost...While it’s too early in the game to know whether MOOCs are the evolutionary equivalent of modern day humans or Neanderthals, my hunch is that it’s the latter, as the MOOC in its current form is encoded with a fatal economic flaw that makes it all but certain to fail...