American Family Insurance said Friday it will invest $20 million in data science initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expanding an existing partnership between the insurer and university.
The gift includes $10 million in research over the next 10 years, and an additional $10 million to create the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute on campus. The institute will be located in the McArdle Building.
American Family Insurance announced Friday that it will invest $20 million in UW data science initiatives.
Quoted: The operations seized on social divisions and showed a clear bias toward Trump, said Young Mie Kim, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research analyzed 3,500 Facebook ads bought by Russia and released last year by the House Intelligence Committee.
The federal government funds less than 50 percent of basic research conducted in the U.S. — including academic research from universities. And while this funding is necessary for scientists to keep their labs up and running, public disinformation and diminishing support for research create a difficult atmosphere for researchers nationwide.
Campus officials announced Thursday the search for a new vice chancellor will continue into the fall semester.
Graduate students at the La Follette School of Public Affairs analyzed how factors such as administrative costs and consumer purchases would be affected by the legalization of medical marijuana.
An independent investigation commissioned by the University of Wisconsin System into how administrators responded to sexual harassment allegations against Pete Hill, husband of former UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper, found “Hill’s behavior was a blind spot for the Chancellor,” according to documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
In the report, investigators conclude there is credible evidence that Hill sexually harassed both employees and students, and that the incidents occurred mainly on campus or UWW-related properties like the chancellor’s home.
The investigation revealed her husband, Alan “Pete” Hill’s, behavior toward women to be “pervasive and well-known,” leading university employees to take “steps to protect one another” from him, the report read.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s prohibition on plastic straws has reduced the school’s waste output and pushed the campus to be more environmentally conscious, student leaders say.
At least seven, and potentially up to 10, students or employees at UW-Whitewater claim they were sexually harassed by Alan “Pete” Hill, husband of former chancellor Beverly Kopper, according to records from a University of Wisconsin System investigation completed in mid-December and released Friday.
The few hundred unionized workers who tend to aging buildings at UW-Madison and other University of Wisconsin campuses are frustrated, finding themselves once again in a long, drawn-out negotiation fighting for a 2% inflationary raise.
Seven establishments — including Wando’s on University Avenue and State Street Brats — had conditions added to their licenses last year that prohibit them from allowing people in after 1:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, even if they were previously in the bar that night.
Noted: In part to help prod talks this time, a University of Wisconsin center named for Thompson is hosting a conference on the issue Friday at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.
The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership event will feature panel discussions on transportation funding, public transit and the movement of freight.
Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget for the 2019-’21 biennium includes a recommendation to allow undocumented students to receive in-state tuition at UW System and Wisconsin Technical College System institutions — and this is not the first time Wisconsin legislature has considered it.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. recently announced a $750,000 grant for the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The grant will establish a Beverage Innovation Center for small businesses to test and develop new beverage products.
Quoted: It’s worthwhile to take a moment to understand the difference between nitrate and nitrite. (Besides, without at least some eye-glazing detail, how would you know it was me?) I asked Jeff Sindelar, professor of meat science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, to explain the process. Nitrate is a molecule consisting of one nitrogen atom with three oxygens.
“If we use row shut offs on our planters, to turn those implements on and off at exactly the right spot, we’re not double-planting, we’re not over spraying, we’re reducing skips and overlaps to maintain a profitable operation,” said Brian Luck, a biological systems engineer with University of Wisconsin Extension.
The former University of Wisconsin and NFL wide receiver played a key part in that expansion and is now back to help the children it benefits. The EMCC hired Hayes, 43, as a youth worker after he moved back to Madison in August to finish his degree in Afro-American studies. He’s set to graduate from UW-Madison on May 11.
UW Health is celebrating an award it didn’t earn in the clinic, but in the cafeteria.In the last two years, the hospital has switched to antibiotic-free meat in 95 percent of its pork, beef, chicken and processed meats.
Letter to the editor: I was appalled that UW-Madison will be doing a trial on railings in four sections at Camp Randall. Why are they doing a trial run they know the railings are sorely needed?
It’s kicking off at the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which hosts an annual Earth Day Conference conducted in the spirit of the original 1970 “teach-in.” The event is called Imagine and Adapt: Possibilities in a Changing World.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the justices will be wary of how the court looks as it takes up a politically charged case.
Quoted: “It’s this idea that we must be so helpless and dependent, if we’re showing that we’re not those things, our disability can’t be real,” said Ellen Samuels, a disability scholar at the University of Wisconsin at Madison whose book “Fantasies of Identification” explores the issue. “[Fraud] is about people using other people’s permits, yet it leads to this thought that a lot of people are getting permits they don’t really need.”
Quoted: They are also awkward, both to talk about and to use, says Chris Barcelos, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who researches safe sex in queer communities. “People say dental dams take the fun out of oral sex,” Barcelos says.
Mr. Kowalski went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison but moved to Denver over a decade ago, “for the skiing.”
A Wisconsin native and UW-Madison graduate was killed in the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, his employer confirmed Monday morning.
. Dieter Kowalski, 40, whose social media pages list him as a Milwaukee native and University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate, was reportedly killed just hours after checking into his hotel.
Because he was a consummate scholar, he found an intellectual outlet through his appointments as an adjunct professor in the Departments of Applied Agricultural Economics and Meat and Animal Science at UW-Madison.
Donald worked as the senior research specialist in the Geology Department of UW-Madison. He was an integral researcher of the first moon rocks to return to earth.
He grew up in Rhode Island and joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Graduate School of Business in 1947.
Grace was an Administrative Assistant at ASTD and UW-Madison Dept. of Housing.
Lobe took the position as a staff architect at the Department of Planning and Construction for UW-Madison in 1965 and retired from the University in July 1995.
He worked at UW-Madison DoIT for more than 20 years.
Jefferson was Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
Probstein worked as a research assistant in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research from 1959 to 1981, and was selected to serve on the committee that developed guidelines for academic staff. In 1981, she joined the Environmental Toxicology Center at UW-Madison as an instructional program manager III, until she retired in 1998.
By the time Tobin got her research fully up and running again, Shade had completed her doctorate in microbiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and found a faculty position at Michigan State University.
