University of Wisconsin System officials are looking to funnel some $43 million to campuses based on how well they hit certain performance metrics, a funding plan that still needs approval from the Legislature’s budget committee before the money can be released.
Now a team at University of Wisconsin–Madison is hoping to clear up some of these lingering mysteries surrounding solar wind by building what they call the “Big Red Ball,” a device that can actually mimic solar winds.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison constructed the 3-meter-wide (10 feet) aluminum vacuum chamber, which they dubbed “the Big Red Ball,” to re-create some of the solar physics that take place in and around the sun.
“We’re not re-creating the sun, because that’s impossible,” plasma physicist Ethan Peterson of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, told Science News. “But we’re re-creating some of the fundamental physics that happens near the sun.”
Physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison built a swirling orb of plasma they’re calling a “miniature Sun” — so they can study how stars work up close.
To try to shed some light on the matter, Douglas Price of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, looked at 40 human teeth recovered from different people cast into the Sacred Cenote. He and his colleagues have just published their results in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Mackenzie Berry, a former member of the UW-Madison First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Program, has been awarded a top national fellowship to continue her studies.
Davis conceded he took a photo of one of the women naked during the evening of the incident at Cephus’s urging.
On Thursday, UW football player Danny Davis testified in court, admitting to taking photos of the two women who say Cephus sexually assaulting them. Davis and Cephus are former teammates. Davis called his actions a “big mistake” during his testimony.
UW football player Davis says victim expressed concern about “hooking up” with Cephus.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Margaret Schwarze, an associate professor of vascular surgery, has developed a tool called “best case/worst case” to help surgeons communicate more effectively with older patients.
Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Danny Davis, called by prosecutors to testify Thursday in the trial of his former teammate Quintez Cephus, said one of the women who accused Cephus had flirted with Cephus shortly after meeting him for the first time and later said she was angry with herself for hooking up with him.
The Badgers last month started taking advantage of an NCAA rule that affords them 10 offseason practices to prepare for a foreign trip, which the team is taking over Labor Day weekend to play two exhibition games in Vancouver.
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of certain extreme weather events, said Stephen Vavrus, a weather researcher at the University of Wisconsin. With the warming climate, we’re likely to see more heavy rainfall, storms and extreme heat, all of which affect travel, said Vavrus.
Quoted: But as we enter the late summer months and the unfriendly guests begin to show up in full force, it’s time to rethink the yellow jacket, said P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Quoted: “They are far from the only source of revenue,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor emeritus of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When the Islamic State started to use social media heavily a few years ago, big platform companies such as Facebook and Twitter responded with efforts to track and remove its content. Now politicians are calling on social media companies to use those tools to regulate all kinds of terrorist content. Social media companies’ responses have been uneven.
Quoted: The company also hasn’t detailed how it defines “quality” or “educational” videos. So one of the best barometers for YouTube’s metric is its Kids app, which places videos front-and-center once a viewer logs in. The educational merits of these choices are up for debate. Heather Kirkorian, an early childhood development professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, opened the app this week and found Baby Shark and Lucas the Spider, two global hits. “I wouldn’t consider them educational. I would consider them wholesome,” she said. “The term ’educational’ is used as an umbrella for ’non-harmful.’”
Other advisers include senior adviser and policy director Josh Orton, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, law school who previously worked for Senator Harry Reid and President Obama.
