Noted: The Tropical Cyclone Research Group at the UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center ended up in the middle of the heartland because of the groundbreaking work of atmospheric science professor Verner Suomi, who is widely credited with developing imaging technologies that spawned modern weather satellites in the 1960s and ’70s.
Noted: Sleep “cleans up” the brain. When you sleep, your brain removes information you don’t need and consolidates what you learned that day. This makes room for new learning. After all, do you really need to remember what socks you wore, the joke you heard during first period, or what you ate for breakfast? Neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin found that many of our synapses shrink at night as the brain weeds out or “forgets” information that it no longer needs. And it’s not just memories that need to be cleaned up. According to the National Institutes of Health, sleep also flushes out toxins that accumulate during the day.
A team at UW-Madison has recently developed a wound-dressing that could speed up the healing process of injuries, both temporary and chronic.
Quoted: “It would be really interesting to dissect the spiders [to see if there] was some kind of identifiable gland or something like that,” says Laura Hernandez of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who studies lactation
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a bandage that harnesses a body’s own energy to speed up wound healing through gentle electrical pulses.
Noted: In the case of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the institution reviewed data on student participation in internships to further conversations about the definitions of internships across majors, such as who qualifies, who participates and how students connect their experiential learning to their professional development, the survey said.
Despite the backlash, Gow told reporters from The Seattle Times that he was trying to advocate for the freedom of expression. “She seemed like a person who had a life experience dramatically different than the rest of us,” Gow said.
More than 100 current and retired UW-Stevens Point faculty and staff called Thursday for the removal of the university’s top leadership in the wake of a proposal that would eliminate six academic majors and lay off faculty to reduce the university’s roughly $8 million deficit.
The Mercile J. Lee Scholars Program will now oversee the two scholarship programs Lee founded over 30 years ago: Chancellor’s and Powers-Knapp scholarship programs.
According to the release, this move comes after the Wisconsin Division of Student Life conducted investigations over several months into various allegation which resulted in numerous unsubstantiated findings against the Fraternity.
Two UW-Madison professors have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Noted: Owens is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
A man who’s been arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior in the past was arrested once again for allegedly masturbating in front of two people in a UW-Madison campus area apartment building.
Quoted: Schultz says that being a cranberry farmer and establishing a productive marsh is not for everyone, a sentiment reflected by Amaya Atucha, a fruit crop specialist in the Horticulture Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies cranberry vine physiology and how the plants cope with environmental stresses.
“I’ve never heard of anyone ever calling me because they want to start a cranberry marsh,” said Atucha, pointing out that, like Schultz, most growers today come from multi-generational farms and that establishing a new marsh is very expensive.
Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he thinks that number will be even higher in 2019.
Noted: They are connecting with the children through an organization called, The Memory Project and it was actually started by a UW-Madison student back in 2004, with a goal to let youth facing hard times know that somebody cares about their well-being.
After 50 years, UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone led the band for the last time at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday. As he prepares to retire, so does the band’s seamstress. Lois Levenhagen has kept the band looking sharp since 1991.
Back in a 4k digital restoration, “The War at Home” returns this week to the Gene Siskel Film Center. The legitimate question: What can a nearly 40-year-old documentary, covering a decade (1963-73) of anti-war turbulence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, offer anyone contending with the societal casualties of 2018?
Quoted: “[To] suggest that neurofeedback can be helpful to people meditating is really grossly overstating the case,” said Richard Davidson, the founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a leading neuroscientist in the study of meditation. “The brain is ridiculously complex. Our measures, even though they’ve come a long way, are absurdly limited and very coarse, and it’s nothing short of hubris to think that we have the right measures at this point in time that we should be providing feedback on.”
Keynote speaker Dr. Jennifer Edgoose, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, discussed the topic of moving beyond health disparities and race to reach health equity for minorities.
Vander Wiele also cited a Nov. 1, 2017, news item issued by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Medicine: “Wisconsin has best health care quality in the nation, federal agency says.”
Noted: Ryan Herringa, a pediatric psychiatrist and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says children without this kind of professional support can benefit by talking to any trusted adult.
Also quoted: Pamela McGranahan, director of UW-Madison’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, studies the impacts of childhood trauma. She said children are vicarious learners and they’re watching what’s going on around them at all times — even if it’s just something they hear on the news.
St. Mary’s Hospital has a case of Legionnaires’ disease, a state official said Thursday, joining four cases reported by UW Hospital Wednesday.
Sunday we will know in which bowl game the Wisconsin Badger football team will play.
As one would expect after a 14-point comeback in the fourth quarter, the University of Wisconsin football team’s triple-overtime victory at Purdue on Nov. 17 sent its locker room into a rambunctious celebration.
Limiting Thanksgiving break inconveniences staff, students, while adding little of value.
Though free expression argument is superficially compelling, context must be taken into account.
Quoted: According to Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, sexual violence reports that are only given to university officials—and not law enforcement—can only lead to suspensions and expulsions. And that’s only for the few cases that get looked into; in 2017, the UW-Madison investigated just eleven allegations of sexual assault out of 318 reported.
Quoted: Adam Stevenson, a clinical associate professor from University of Wisconsin-Madison, said CEOs and government officials have served at the federal prison camp.
“You’re typically thinking of things like white-collar crime, low-level or older drug offenders, individuals who don’t have lengthy criminal histories or if they do, they’ve reached an age where the Bureau of Prisons feels they’re no longer a risk,” Stevenson said.
Quoted: But sexual abuse experts said what the wrestlers describe is a form of sexual harassment and stalking. “You don’t need to touch somebody to hurt them,” said University of Wisconsin psychology professor Ryan McKinley, a member of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity. “There may not have been any contact, but clearly people on the receiving end saw its impact.”
Quoted: Pamela McGranahan, director of UW-Madison’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, studies the impacts of childhood trauma. She said children are vicarious learners and they’re watching what’s going on around them at all times — even if it’s just something they hear on the news.
Quoted: “Wisconsin is known for collaborative, interprofessional concussion research,” says Traci Snedden, assistant professor and pediatric nurse practitioner at the UW-Madison School of Nursing.
A political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cramer was among the conference speakers, having gained regional and then national acclaim for her work listening to people in cafes and gas stations in rural Wisconsin, starting in 2007. She chronicled their resentment of public workers, liberal elites and people of color in Madison and Milwaukee.
Noted: Kidd got his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 1992. After completing a residency program in anesthesia at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Kidd joined the anesthesiology group in Appleton and began practicing at Theda Clark in 1998.
