Apple won its appeal of a patent infringement case brought against the company in 2014 by the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. A federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., threw out part of the $506 million in damages originally awarded to the university by a federal court in Madison. It’s unclear how much has been thrown out.
A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a $506 million damages award against computer-maker Apple Inc. that had been awarded to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation after a jury in Madison found in 2015 that Apple had infringed on a WARF computing patent.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has balanced its budget for the first time since 2012 — big news for a campus that was facing a deficit of more than $40 million three years ago.
Public Affairs and Sociology professor Jason Fletcher examined figures from Add Health, a long-term national study covering adolescent to adult health. WUWM-FM reported. Fletcher’s findings were recently published in the Contemporary Economic Policy journal.
Noted: This year’s big winners were Elizabeth Haynes and Jiaye “Henry” He from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for their visualisation of a zebrafish embryo developing its sensory nervous system over 16 hours.
Winner: Video by Elizabeth M. Haynes and Jiaye “Henry” He, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has found that when legal drinking starts at age 21, men are far more likely to drive drunk, get in fights or engage in risky sexual practices.
A new supplemental report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty finds that Milwaukee County still has some of the highest poverty rates in the state. We talk to Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics and a co-author of the report, about the economic disparities in the state’s most populous county.
After several years of enrollment decreases, the number of students attending UW-Eau Claire is up for the third straight year this fall. That’s no accident, according to Chancellor James Schmidt, who has set an ambitious goal of returning the university to its 2010 enrollment level of about 11,300 students in the next few years despite a shrinking supply of high school seniors from which to draw.
Incoming students at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh must complete an online module on sexual violence before school starts and then undergo in-person training when they get to campus. The University of Maryland–College Park is working to implement sexual violence prevention programming in all four years of undergraduate student life.
In 1896, the first women earned undergraduate degrees from UW-Madison. Now, 150 years later, Inside UW is celebrating the anniversary with a series that promotes the accomplishments of women associated with the university.
The UW will be the first to admit that more needs to be done to create a diverse educational community, including changing the attitudes of some students and faculty who make campus life uncomfortable for those who don’t look like them. But it isn’t as if many at the school aren’t trying. While the UW’s leadership is working to solve the perennial diversity problem with ambitious and expensive recruitment programs, there are many smaller efforts that go unnoticed, but might just turn out to be as effective in the long run.
A $4.5 million project to replace the 40-year-old pier system will revamp the marina, improving the sailing experience for the more than 1,000 students, staff and community members who make up the Hoofer Sailing Club, according to Wisconsin Union officials.
Hundreds gathered at the Kohl Center Saturday evening to celebrate the campaign’s end at the Bucky on Parade Finale, and they came to bid on 21 of the statues in a live auction benefiting the non-profits.
There was a wrap-up part for Bucky on Parade after months of seeing them around Dane County. But don’t worry, you’ll see some of them again.
With all of her necessary documentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans arrived at her polling place on Nov. 8, 2016, for the presidential election. But when poll workers examined her mailing address under the guidelines of the Wisconsin voter ID law enacted in 2015, the philosophy major initially was barred from voting due to confusion over her address.
Kavanaugh trial reflective of society’s overall treatment of sexual assault survivors, speaker says.
Bonobos, an online retailer of men’s clothing, will set up a mobile shop Oct. 3 to Oct. 6 at Union South on the campus of UW-Madison.
For seven years, the Wisconsin Science Festival has been engaging communities of all ages to learn and discover scientific theories and principles in Wisconsin. Now in it’s eighth year, the festival hopes to bring even more knowledge, creativity, innovation to our local residents by taking educational science events to Capitol Square and all around Wisconsin.
Lloyd and Daphne Holterman will be recognized for their contributions to the dairy industry, their community and the University of Wisconsin-Madison at UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honorary Recognition Banquet, along with three other recipients.
Basse, who grew up on a dairy farm in Waukesha and got his degree in agricultural economics at UW-Madison, said marketers within the dairy industry must better promote the benefits of their products at the grocery stores to regain consumers’ interest.
Marking the end of the months-long Bucky on Parade public arts project, more than 30 statues re-creating the University of Wisconsin mascot were auctioned Saturday, raising more than $800,000 for cancer research and other causes.
The University of Wisconsin’s Badger Band performed at Lambeau Field for the last time under band director Mike Leckrone Sunday afternoon. After 50 years of leading the band, he’s retiring.
Noted: Coon didn’t shed her outdoorsy impulses while earning her master’s in acting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison or while apprenticing and acting for four years at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The current artistic director of the theater, Brenda DeVita, recalls that Coon could often be found lying on her back in the woods “just taking in the trees,” or swimming in the Wisconsin River. Onstage, Coon was “like a gazelle,” DeVita says. “She has an energy that fits the outdoors, that fits the space.”
Quoted: “Currently 26 of our counties in Wisconsin do not have an Ob-Gyn and other counties might only have one or two,” said Jody Silva, program director of UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Rural Residency Program. “It’s a huge problem and maternity mortality is on the rise so it’s something we just can’t ignore.”
MADISON, Wis. – Living with Alzheimer’s or a dementia-related disease can be isolating, so church leaders and families are discussing how to make communities more welcoming and accessible.
And they lived happily ever after. That could be the title of the Mike Kelley and Kelly Auger story, a tale of high school sweethearts who survive college together and then marry and have a family. It’s storybook and true for the Pius XI graduates who just happen to be two of the best basketball players the school ever produced.
A seven-month review of the health and safety policies and procedures followed by the University of Wisconsin athletic department resulted in several recommendations from student-athletes and staff.
An internal review of safety and security procedures within the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department identified recommendations for improvements but found no major deficiencies.
In addition to worries over facility security, students and staff also expressed concern about student athletes’ access to health care, including mental health care, and reporting protocol.
With all of her necessary documentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans arrived at her polling place on Nov. 8, 2016, for the presidential election. For her, voting that day meant not only casting a ballot for the first female presidential candidate with a real shot of winning but having a voice in a society in which homeless people such as herself were marginalized.
But, even with those dramatic increases in Wisconsin, the state still lags the nation, said UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden, who has studied changes in voting patterns.
There’s nothing surprising about the fact that UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone and Marquette University President Mike Lovell might work together. They’re friends, past academic colleagues and passionate about Milwaukee’s future as a technology hub.
Apple has won an appeal of a patent infringement case originally brought by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a report from the Reuters news service.
Apple Inc. will no longer need to pay $234 million in damages to the licensing arm of University of Wisconsin over patent infringement after a federal appeals court ruled in the tech company’s favor.
Apple Inc persuaded a federal appeals court on Friday to throw out a $234 million damages award in favor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm for infringing a patent on computer processing technology.
Noted: The idea of selling access to our most personal information is not such a departure in an era in which we already implicitly “monetize our privacy in many ways”—for example, by effectively exchanging our browsing and search behaviors for access to “free” websites, notes Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. In contrast to such largely hidden exchanges, emerging blockchain-based platforms could provide people “potentially more opportunities to have very specific control over what’s given out and in what specific form.”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor says in the partisan times we live in, it’s important for news consumers to look at political news stories from a less partisan viewpoint.
Julie Underwood, former dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, said a closer look at recent budgets shows it would be more accurate to call Walker the “private school education governor and definitely not the public education governor.”
Noted: Dorothy Edwards, a professor of medicine and kinesiology at UW-Madison and the outreach leader for the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, speaks about an upcoming event open to the public to learn how to age better.
Quoted: But those factors don’t necessarily translate to a good shot for Democrats to gain control of either legislative chamber, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political scientist who tracks state legislative races. “Neither chamber looks like an ideal situation for Democrats to get back to a majority,” Burden said.
Don was employed at the University of Wisconsin Medical School for 37 years.
He then joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine in 1980 on the development team of the new school and as founding chair and professor in the Department of Surgical Sciences. He was chairman of the department of Surgical Sciences from 1980 to 1986.
In 1946, she received a degree in zoology from the UW, at a time when most women were kept from studying science. She worked at the UW McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and for UW professor Dr. Edward Birge, a pioneer the field of limnology.
