FluGen, started in 2007 by UW-Madison flu researchers Yoshi Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann, is using a different tactic. It is based on the idea that people who acquire the flu naturally generally don’t get it again for a year or more.
This Saturday, Oct. 20, 8:45 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Urban League of Greater Madison, the College Station will host College Scholarship Day in partnership with Edgewood College, UW-Madison, Madison College and the Urban League to make sure that under-served and underrepresented students have the information they need as it relates to paying for college.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Black Earth, joined 29 members of Congress Monday in writing to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to voice concerns and request further information about the program’s handling.
Communicating with families more clearly about college admissions and financial aid has become a higher priority for colleges than in the past, as more first-generation students enter college.
She will discuss the changing culture of higher education and effective techniques for recruiting and retaining students and faculty from underrepresented communities in “Power in Numbers: Data-driven decision making for inclusive education.”
ASM staff will receive 4 percent increase in wages due to campus-wide pay adjustment provided by UW.
UW-Madison’s student government backed off a controversial resolution that called for campaigning against the university’s use of beef gelatin in Babcock ice cream after working with university administrators to bring awareness to the ingredient’s use in the official campus ice cream.
A jury found Nathan Friar guilty of second degree sexual assault in April of last year, but acquitted him of a strangulation charge.
Our laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is also interested in the effects that fungicides might have on mycotoxin accumulation in silage corn hybrids. We are especially interested in the accumulation of deoxynivalenol (DON or vomitoxin).
Wisconsin might seem an unlikely place for a publishing house that specializes in LGBTQ literature. But over the last three decades, the UW Press has become known as a national leader in publishing some of the finest — and most diverse — titles from LGBTQ authors.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently received a grant to digitize recordings of scripts, correspondences and notes the prolific screenwriter recorded in the 1960s on a now defunct piece of technology, the dictabelt.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently received a grant to digitize recordings of scripts, correspondences and notes the prolific screenwriter recorded in the 1960s on a now defunct piece of technology, the dictabelt.
Each year they accept about 25 applicants who already work for them into the program, hoping they come out the other side on the inside track to success at the hospital.
By ignoring foundational problems of ASM, we limit opportunities for effective shared governance on campus.
Foxconn is currently recruiting for several hundred positions in Wisconsin. This week, they’re bringing that job search to the UW campus.
After announcing the partnership with UW-Madison, Foxconn will provide an opportunity for students and faculty to engage with the company’s new technology and discuss job outlook.
Quoted: “The most important point of this [new] study is that climate change, indeed, is affecting mental health, and certain populations (women and the poor) are disproportionally impacted,” Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved with the study, told CNN.
Quoted: “De-extinction just provides the ultimate ’out’,” Stanley Temple, a wildlife biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told BBC Newsbeat in 2015. “If you can always bring the species back later, it undermines the urgency about preventing extinctions.”
Quoted: “It’s such a wild card,” said political scientist David Canon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referring to turnout trends in the Donald Trump era and the shifting motivation levels of voting groups on each side as they react to events (like the Supreme Court confirmation fight over Brett Kavanaugh) and the president’s lightning-rod rhetoric.
In 1999, the pressure on Nike intensified after student activists took over buildings at Duke University, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin, and staged sit-ins at many other schools. Just before Christmas in 2000, student carolers strode through the halls of Harvard University’s administrative buildings singing “Away in a Sweatshop.”
After the failure of the Fisher case, Blum found new targets: Harvard, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He formed websites like harvardnotfair.org, inviting students who believed they had been denied admission to the three universities based on their race to get in touch.
