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UW-Madison Seeks Biotech Edge
Bv Jonathan Moseley
Staff Writer
Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson
recendy announced his intention to
pour $317 million into the development
of biotechnology programs for the
University of Wtsconsin-Madison.
The Wisconsin proposal mirrors a
sentiment in North Carolina that biotech
research is crucial to a state’s economy.
In his State of the State Address on
Wednesday, Thompson gave a detailed
plan for improving the university’s cap
ital assets, including a proposal for four
new research buildings.
He planned to fund a $lO5 million
interdisciplinary biology building, a
SIOO million microbial sciences build
ing, an SBS million biochemistry build
ing and a $27 million addition to the
University of Wisconsin’s Biotechnology
Center.
Thompson’s initiative, called Biostar,
is part of two nationwide trends - the
development of the biotech industry
and the increased importance of the pri
vate sector as opposed to university
research.
Charles Hoslet, special assistant to
the University of Wisconsin-Madison
chancellor, said the means by which the
new buildings would be funded typified
Officials: Faulty Controls
Associated Press
PORT HUENEME, Calif. - The
pilots of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 strug
gled with a sudden control problem for
at least six minutes before the jetliner
plummeted into the ocean with 88 peo
ple aboard, investigators said Tuesday.
The last minutes of the MD-83’s
flight Monday may have been witnessed
by pilots aboard four other aircraft, and
the National Transportation Safety
Board was seeking to interview them.
The plane plunged from 17,000 feet
and crashed nose-down in the Pacific
after the pilot reported problems with
the horizontal stabilizer, a wing-like
structure on the tail that controls the
pitch of the aircraft’s nose.
Investigators at the crash site also said
Tuesday that they had heard a pinging
from the ocean, apparently from the
flight recorders, which could reveal
what went wrong with the stabilizer.
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a recent tendency toward combining
public and private revenue sources.
“This is the next step in a series of
public-private partnerships over the past
decade to improve the infrastructure of
the biomedical field,” Hoslet said.
Partnerships between universities and
private funds are tremendously impor
tant to the future of higher education,
Hoslet said.
“Gone are the days when the state
can spend the kind of tax dollars to
maintain a top-five research university,"
he said.
North Carolina is also looking to pro
mote top-notch research facilities
through construction and renovation of
new buildings, said Jeff Davies, UNC
vice president of finance.
UNC-system President Molly Broad
recently proposed a $750 million capital
improvements plan.
But the proposal includes money for
only one biotech research building, an
addition to the UNC-Chapel Hill
School of Medicine.
Instead, Davies said the UNC system
planned to recommend more program
based projects to improve biotech.
Wis. state officials stressed the grow
ing importance of the biotech field.
“In the past there have been a variety
of revolutions, for example in comput
The search was concentrated on a
debris field about 10 miles offshore and
about 40 miles northwest of the Los
Angeles airport.
Nearly a day after the accident,
searchers had pulled four bodies -one
man, two women and an infant- from
the calm sea, which is 300 to 750 feet
deep in the area. Hopes dimmed that
anyone aboard Flight 261 survived in
the 58-degree water. “This is still a
search for human life,” Coast Guard
Adm. Tom Collins said. “ The challenge
is time. As time ticks off, risks go up.”
On shore in Port Hueneme, passers
by paused to bow their heads in prayer.
“It just feels so good to stand out here
and pray. It sort of cleanses you out,”
said Diane Adame, 39.
“You don’t realize when you put
someone on a plane and give them a
hug that you might not see them again.
I just feel for the people who lost their
loved ones, especially the young ones.”
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ers and communications,” Schmitz said.
“Biotech is the next cutting-edge indus
try.”
Representatives hope to budget the
project beginning next spring so
ground-breaking can start as soon as
possible.
“This is money that goes to (the
state’s) infrastructure, so it’s a long
process,” said Darrin Schmitz,
Thompson’s press secretary.
“The proposal now goes to the state’s
billing commission, which the governor
is the chair of.”
Although the state legislature has not
yet officially received the proposal, the
idea has bipartisan support, Schmitz
said.
“The governor feels confident that
others besides himself are willing to
make investments in the high-tech sec
tor of the economy,” he said.
Even in its preliminary stages, State
Democratic Sen. Fred Risser said he
would support the university.
“I support the item, and the universi
ty supports it,” he said. “I think we have
a great university here.
“We have some great research going
on.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Cause Crash
The flight had left Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico, for San Francisco and Seattle
with 83 passengers and five crew mem
bers.
The passengers included three airline
employees, four employees of its sister
airline Horizon and 23 relatives or
friends of the employees taking advan
tage of free standby flights.
Safety board member John
Hammerschmidt released preliminary
transcripts of air traffic control commu
nications with the airliner.
The last routine transmission came at
3:55 p.m. PST, when the flight was
cleared to continue to San Francisco.
Hammerschmidt said that at 4:10
p.m. the pilots had said they had had
control difficulties and were descending
below 26,000 feet.
A few seconds later they had advised
that they were at 23,700 feet and there
was “some discussion about their abili
ty to control the aircraft.”