The UW-Madison, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Marshfield Clinic are spearheading a statewide effort to help the NIH build a national biomedical database of unprecedented depth and scope.
UW-Madison has overhauled programming that brings precollege students to its campus after problems in the past two summers raised questions about student safety and oversight.
Lovastatin is already approved for use in children with high cholesterol, so if proven effective for fragile X, it could quickly be prescribed for people with the syndrome, says Xinyu Zhao, Jenni and Kyle Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Greg Nemet, a professor with UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, has written a new book on the global policy and market forces that combined to make solar electricity one of the cheapest forms of energy.
Noted: Universities across the University of Wisconsin System do still require an SAT or ACT score, according to the UW admissions website, though admissions policies can vary from campus to campus.
For example, only four UW campuses — UW-Eau Claire, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse and UW-Madison — require the scores come directly from the test agency. Also, some students can receive waivers if they are older than the average age or have other unusual circumstances.
Presenters will include the Department of Public Instruction, the Office of Children’s Mental Health and the UW System.
Need more convincing? On just one Friday in September, there were more than 25 different events happening at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. And those are just college events — that doesn’t even include all the things happening in the city of Madison itself.
On Monday, two projects will begin on the East Side and on the UW-Madison campus, and the third project will start Thursday in Downtown Madison, according to the Madison Traffic Engineering Division.
On Thursday, June 20, JSS and Madison Refugee Union will host a “Refugee Town Hall” and panel discussion and Q&A on the experience of settling in Madison as a refugee. The free event runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the UW-Madison Hillel building, 611 Langdon St., with registration online.
Promoting accurate, positive and diverse portrayals of scientists in entertainment is among the projects Ginger Ann Contreras has undertaken as executive director of the Illuminating Discovery Hub at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, or WID, at UW-Madison.
The program’s near-century of summers will be lauded June 27 at a Summer Music Clinic 90th Anniversary Celebration held on campus at the University Club. The $25 fee to attend the celebration will benefit the long-running camp and scholarships (the deadline to purchase tickets is Wednesday).
Noted: Graham, an associate at the firm, graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2008. Before joining Quarles & Brady, Graham served as a law clerk to state Supreme Court Justice Anne Walsh Bradley.
Wisconsin lawmakers are set to take up an $81.5 billion two-year spending plan this month that was written by Republicans but shaped by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Wisconsin Republicans have rewritten Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ state budget in the past few weeks, pushing it through the Joint Finance Committee they control last week to set up floor votes in the full Legislature.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said they identified the man as 24-year-old Lue Lee of Sun Prairie. He was arrested in Sun Prairie without incident.
UWPD officers interviewed multiple people involved and identified the suspect as Lue Lee, 24. Lee was arrested without incident in Sun Prairie, according to police.
A UW-Madison ROTC student was charged Friday with two counts of felony, second degree sexual assault of a woman incapable of giving consent due to intoxication.
UW–Madison police have made an arrest, after being called to the UW Arboretum Saturday afternoon for a man with a gun.
A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday after displaying a gun at someone while driving in the UW Arboretum, according to UW-Madison Police.
Quoted: Bob Bradley, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Food Science and author of two books on the topic of butter, said in an interview that such products are mislabeled. “It is not butter,” he said flatly.
News 3 Now’s Josh Spreiter caught up with clinical exercise physiologist Jude Sullivan at UW Health. He says fitness is and will always be different for each person.
Twenty-five attendees from 16 institutions from 15 states will convene at UW-Madison June 17-21.
Two current NFL players and former University of Wisconsin Badgers came back to Madison on Saturday to teach kids the fundamentals of football.
Granato joins the Sabres after spending the past two seasons as an assistant with the Chicago Blackhawks. He was previously the associate head coach at the University of Wisconsin and also spent seven seasons as head coach of the St. Louis Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate.
She earned a scholarship to play for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in Sociology. According to her school bio, she contributed immediately, scoring six goals in her first season to earn Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors. She also made first-team All-Big Ten and led the team in shots (73).
Eight University of Wisconsin head coaches received routine, one-year contract extensions from the Athletic Board on Friday.
The idea is simple: You make a pledge for every birdie made during the tournament to support The UW Carbone Cancer Center, American Family Children’s Hospital, Imitative to End Alzheimer’s, Department of Ophthalmology, or Transplant and UW Organ and Tissue Donation. American Family will match your donation up to $100,000.
This State Journal editorial ran on June 13, 1969: The end of the school year at the University of Wisconsin has come, and this is a good time to assess the student unrest and the success or failure with which the university has reacted.
Noted: The principles of neuroplasticity are often used when it comes to treatment of patients with a stroke, brain injury and very often in dealing with trauma, anxiety. Having said that, neuroplasticity is a neutral term as Dr Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin– Madison as well as founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds, says. We often forget this.
Eric was a Dean at the University of Wisconsin—Madison Graduate School for thirty-one years. He was proud to receive the national Outstanding Achievement in Research Administration Award from the National Council of University Research Administrators during his tenure at UW—Madison.
Madison joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 1973 with a joint appointment to the Soils Department and the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, retiring in 2011. The University of Wisconsin honored him with the Wisconsin Idea Award—given to a person who embodies the notion that education should influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom.
Tom had a very strong work ethic having worked 34 years for AT&T (aka Wisconsin Bell, SBC, Ameritech) and another 10 years for UW-Madison DoIT.
Author (and On Wisconsin co-editor) Dean Robbins likes to write about his heroes — be they spunky civil rights leaders or virtually unknown software coders.
