Kael Hanson, IceCube’s director of operations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that some 200 collaborators were in Madison the day the sensor was sent to D.C., so it turned into a farewell ceremony.“It’s a great honor,” Hanson says. “It’s the Smithsonian. It’s an invite-only club.”
When we think of artificial intelligence (AI), we think of advanced computational hardware running code that allows a processor to see patterns in raw information. A team of researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison has just published a paper in Photonics Research that describes a very different type of AI system they’ve invented and demonstrated.
International partners from Germany and Japan and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Michigan State University will additionally support the neutrino detector’s improvement. In the end, IceCube will benefit from an upgrade worth a total of $37 million.
Tuition fund balances at University of Wisconsin System campuses have been reduced by an average of 53 percent since 2013, when some lawmakers condemned the accounts as “slush funds.” For UW-Stevens Point the tuition balance has decreased enough to trigger a financial recovery plan recently approved by UW System President Ray Cross.
From sauerkraut to schottisches, there’s no doubt hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites take pride in their German heritage. That influence will be explored in a new traveling exhibit called “Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience” that you can check out right now at the Marathon County Historical Society in Wausau.
Quoted: Noted UW historian William Cronon compares Madison to Washington, D.C. “Although it is a capital city with dozens of museums — surely more than any other city in the U.S. — not one of them is devoted solely to the history of the city itself,” Cronon says.
Noted: The podcast’s audio vaults include recordings from the Moth, Madison Story Slam, Listen to Your Mother — a national series of live readings founded by Madison’s Ann Imig that ran in 33 cities from 2012-2017 — and the UW Odyssey Project, a program that offers UW-Madison humanities classes to adult students facing economic barriers to college.
Financial abuse is often paired with domestic violence. A study by the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison indicated that economic abuse occurs in 99 percent of domestic violence cases. This can take the form of an abuser managing family funds, preventing a victim from working, hiding assets or otherwise asserting financial dominance in the relationship.
Quoted: For all their poetry, these definitions are turbid, according to Jake Vander Zanden, the director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Howard Schweber, an associate professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said state officials likely would have the ability to discipline Schneiter if they wanted.”If they chose to do so, I don’t think that the First Amendment gives this guy very strong protections given the way free-speech rights of government employees have been curtailed by our courts in the past,” Schweber said.
Quoted: Bill Tracy, an organic corn breeder and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says, “Many CRISPR-induced changes that could happen in nature could have benefits to all kinds of farmers.” But, the NOSB has already voted on the issue and the rules are unlikely to change without significant pressure. “It’s a question of what social activity could move the needle on that,” Tracy concludes.
Quoted: “What you do today can come back and haunt you in unforeseen ways in the future,” said Director of Information Security GRC at UW System, Nicholas Davis.
This is one of those life moments when less is more. In thinking about this post, I reviewed some college webpages and what they say to help students and parents plan for move-in day, and I was struck by the phrasing at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They preface the checklist: “Remember, along with packing the essentials, your student should be sure to bring a sense of self, a sense of purpose, and a sense of humor.” I think that’s spot on.
