Vallabh Sambamurthy, a professor and associate dean for MBA and professional master’s programs at Michigan State’s Eli Broad College of Business, will take the reins Aug. 1, UW-Madison announced Wednesday.
More recent research has revealed that today, more women than ever are asking for what they’re worth — but they’re still not getting it. A 2016 study of 4,600 employees, conducted by the UK’s University of Warwick and the University of Wisconsin, showed that women now ask for raises at the same rate as their male peers — they’re just 25 percent less likely to receive them.
Aronne Merrelli, an atmospheric scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his colleagues collected over 5,000 images of the sunlit side of the Earth taken in 2016 by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on board DSCOVR.
Kasey Buckles of the University of Notre Dame (and one of the mentors) recently reviewed the evidence on what increases the share of women in an economics department. She highlighted a randomised control trial at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which found that workshops on gender bias for faculty responsible for hiring raised the share of women among new hires by 18 percentage points.
Among the crush of solicitations from nonprofits we’ve come to expect in our inboxes during the holiday season, one stood out in particular to Rachel Fishman this year.“Keep Our Rankings High” read the subject line of the email from her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin.
A 2-year-old collaboration aimed at increasing the number of Milwaukee Public Schools students who graduate from college has made incremental progress on at least some of its goals, including increasing MPS’ graduation rate and the percentage of students who apply for financial aid.
John Diamond, a sociologist of education, was recently named the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with UW-Madison’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
On Wednesday, the university announced it will be hosting a satellite contest of the IFFA Quality Competition Jan. 21-25 in the lobby of the Discovery Building. The main competition is held every three years in Frankfurt, Germany.
Quoted: Charles Raison, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that exercise can provide a transient “hit” to the immune system that triggers other regulatory cytokines to dampen down the response, which may be one of the reasons exercise is such a powerful tool for improved health.
“When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon” is written by UW Hospital Transplant Surgeon Dr. Joshua Mezrich.
Noted: Jirs Meuris, of the University of Wisconsin Business School, explains why this cautious approach is even more important than it may seem. In a research paper last fall, he discussed studies showing that the more worried employees were about their personal finances, the more accident- and error-prone they were in their work.
Vallabh Sambamurthy has also served business schools at Florida State University, University of Maryland.
Sambamurthy is currently an Eli Brad Professor and associate dean of the MBA and professional master’s programs at the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.
Junjie Guo and Noah Williams of the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy released their 2019 economic forecast Tuesday. They are predicting Wisconsin’s GDP will grow 2.4 percent but the unemployment rate will rise to 4.2 percent and the labor force will decline by 1 percent.
Quoted: ”A biological method of age verification doesn’t really exist yet, says Craig Atwood, a gerontologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When it comes to identity theft, you could do whole-genome sequencing of someone at birth and at death.
Born and raised in Copley, Ohio, she received her B.A. from the University of Mount Union and her M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband and creative collaborator, Tracy Letts. They have one son.
Sue Riseling, the former police chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is now executive director of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, on Wednesday said part of the review team’s report has been misinterpreted.
Noted: Students are referred to the program by school counselors, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the UW Odyssey Project and Dane County’s neighborhood intervention program.
