Noted: After stints in Switzerland and Canada, Khorana found a research position at the Institute for Enzyme Research, a “vanguard of chemical biology” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
In was his decade-long stint here, he “helped to decipher how RNA encodes for the synthesis of protein,” the ground-breaking research which helped him land the Noble Prize in 1968.
Noted: A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the children the researchers examined who were in out-of-home placements consistently struggled with academics more than children in stable living situations.
Noted: While some donations can be used at a university’s discretion, many are given as part of an agreed-to plan. As one example, the University of Wisconsin-Madison landed a $100 million investment — one of its largest gifts ever — from electronics maker Foxconn. It calls for the creation of an interdisciplinary research initiative based about 100 miles from Madison, near the future home of a Foxconn plant. UW-Madison must match Foxconn’s gift to be assured the full amount from the company.
Jerlando F.L. Jackson, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, remembers when he was a candidate. “I was choosing between here and another place in a very large city,” he said. “I was put in a hotel that had no elevator. Here I am lugging all my luggage up three flights. And it was a very small room.”
A school that would largely rely on students for its design is seeking to become an independent Madison charter school authorized by the University of Wisconsin System.
A UW-Oshkosh professor recently sued her university and the UW System Board of Regents to prevent them from releasing to the Wisconsin State Journal records relating to an investigation of alleged plagiarism by the professor.
This idea has been around for several generations of UW students, but it never really happened, and I think it points to how a lot of diversity initiatives are often budget-based instead of equity or morally based.
As director of the UniverCity Alliance at UW-Madison, Gavin Luter tries to bridge the gap between academia and the “real world.”
Noted: During the ’80s, the difference in the number of women legislators who were Republicans and Democrats wasn’t big, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, who serves as director of the of the Elections Research Center. However, a partisan difference began to emerge after the first so-called “Year of the Woman” in 1992. Since then, women in the state Legislature have increasingly been Democrats.
Quoted: One divide has been evident in the state for years: the rural-urban split. It was most recently studied by Katherine J. Cramer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and author of “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.”
“There have always been tensions between rural Wisconsin and Madison and Milwaukee,” she said. “What changed is now those tensions are on the surface and very obvious to people. I think Governor Walker, depending on where you stand, he either exacerbated that divide or he drew attention to some of the injustices a lot of people have been feeling for a while in rural Wisconsin.”
Noted: While milk prices were bleak to end the year, UW-Madison dairy analysts Bob Cropp and Mark Stephenson are optimistic that 2019 will be better, with only weak increases in milk production forecast and, hopefully, a resolution to trade issues with Mexico and China, which both are big buyers of U.S. dairy products.
The mentorship program is a year-long program with a new cohort every January. Partnering with UW-Madison and Madison College, it pairs undergraduate women with professional women.
Dr. Josh Mezrich’s book, “When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon,” gives an overview of transplant history and lays bare Mezrich’s trepidations and triumphs as a kidney and liver transplant surgeon at UW Hospital, where he has been on staff since 2007.
Noted: Hart Posen, an associate professor of management and human resources, is the guest.
Quoted: Another eminent scholar of forgiveness, Robert Enright, Ph.D., a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Forgiving Life, tells Thrive: “Forgiveness does not invalidate the quest for fairness. Justice and forgiveness should grow up together.” By saying he was sorry and modifying his behavior over the last decade, Toussaint says Hart has “balanced the scales of justice.”
Quoted: “The implications are huge,” Omar Ohrens, a postdoctoral scholar in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of a study on the findings, said in an interview.
Noted: Interview with Majid Sarmadi, a professor of textile science.
Noted: Nearly 19 percent of those 65 and older are working full time, according to Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor of business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Early retirees have helped Wisconsin’s rural and vacation communities, said Steven Deller, a professor and community development specialist with UW–Madison’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Quoted: “Everything just grinds to a halt,” said Mike Ballweg, a University of Wisconsin Extension agent in Sheboygan County.
The rules and policies to put the massive piece of legislation in place are largely written by USDA employees at many levels.
“And that’s a mad scramble. They really work hard to get all that in place as quickly as possible,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The shutdown is “coming at a bad time, for sure,” Stephenson said.
USDA isn’t “writing the checks or doing the things to get payments out to dairy farmers, corn and soybean growers. So that’s a problem,” he added.
Quoted: “It’s always a little tough to tell exactly where rates are going to go in the near future,” said Clifford A. Robb, associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I do think 2019 will see a little bit more rate increases.”
Quoted: While there’s no “actual” conflict of interest because Overberg isn’t using his position to influence a personal matter, there could be a “perceived” conflict, said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin. “It would be easy for people to assume his activism makes his journalism suspect,” she said.
University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden: “He will be remembered for presiding over the longest stretch of single-party control of state government since the 1950s, and a highly productive stretch at that.”
Noted: University of Wisconsin Madison economics professor Bruce Hansen said the economy could see signs of a slowdown in the coming months based on the last major shutdown the country faced in 2013.
He became a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1962; professor emeritus in 1986. He was also chairman of the Institute of Industrial Relations at Wisconsin.
2013: Walker freezes tuition at the University of Wisconsin in his state budget in 2013 and kept the freeze intact for six years.
How did it begin? “I majored in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I studied abroad, in Prague,Czech Republic. It was my first time abroad and I was like ‘wow, this is cool’. I had a lot of new experiences and met lots of people. I realised I didn’t want a corporate job rather wanted to keep travelling. I got to teach English in Seoul, South Korea, and started a blog for my travel experiences. I worked hard on the blog for two years and struggled for sponsors.
