The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin’s patent licensing arm to reinstate its legal victory against Apple Inc (AAPL.O) in a fight over computer processor technology that the school claimed the company used without permission in certain iPhones and iPads.
UW-Madison announced Friday several actions it is taking in response to a student-created video featuring an almost entirely white student body that failed to include a black student group who participated in filming.
Noted: Henry Bunn, a paleoanthropologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has said more than once that a person would have to be “incredibly naïve” to believe the persistence hunting theory. Bunn recalls that he first heard discussion of the theory at a conference in South Africa, and he realised almost immediately that if you are going to chase an animal that is much faster than you, at some point it will run out of sight and you will have to track it. Tracking would require earth soft enough to capture footprints and terrain open enough to give prey little place to hide and disappear.
Noted: A recent study out of the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and the U.S. Forest Service found that more than 90% of homes destroyed by fire in California are outside of urban areas.
Noted: Wisconsin has experienced warmer temperatures, but is also starting to see an increase in total annual precipitation, according to Jack Williams, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geography professor and climate change expert.
One theory, Williams said, is a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor and is more energetic, and the energy releases bigger storms.
Quoted: “Certainly, there were areas where just everything got torched,” said Anu Kramer, co-author of the report and researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But it was not uncommon to see areas where the trees were still intact and the houses were gone.”
Noted: According to the UW-Madison College of Engineering website, Albert researches “modeling and solving real-world discrete optimization problems with application to homeland security, disasters, emergency response, public services, and healthcare.”
The research on emergency response, for example, focuses on how to match the right resources with the right needs at the right time. In one aspect of this research, Albert looks at how to get the right mix of vehicles to an emergency.
Student loan debt is a national crisis, but it is also a crisis that hits Wisconsin students and graduates particularly hard. Nationally, student loan debt has ballooned to $1.6 trillion, and borrowers graduate with an average debt of $28,565 — which is up $277 from last year.
Most University of Wisconsin System campuses ban e-cigarettes in and near campus buildings, but university officials say enforcement of anti-smoking policies is relatively lax.
In her inaugural address Friday, newly installed University of Rochester President Sarah Mangelsdorf embraced the school’s role as a community partner and economic force while promising to be attentive to issues of equity and inclusion.
Marquette University accepted $65,000 in donations from the family that owns a pharmaceutical company being sued for playing a role in the nation’s opioid epidemic, according to an Associated Press investigation.
Margaret Raymond has served as dean of the UW Law School since 2011.
Andrea Dutton, new to University of Wisconsin-Madison this semester, studies climate change and caught the eye of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It awarded her one of 26 “genius” grants in 2019.
“It’s definitely true. There’s not a lot of diversity here. So in a way that does kind of reflect the school, [whether] that’s good or bad,” Zeid tells NBC15 News.
The alumni association will implement diversity, equity and inclusion training for staff and members of WAA-sponsored student organizations.
The event was organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday several actions it is taking in response to blowback they have been receiving from releasing a video with a theme titled “Home is Where WI are” that, according to the university, “did not properly represent Black students and other students of color as essential members of our campus community.”
911 calls routed to Dane County.
The former Dean Clinic cardiothoracic surgeon stopped seeing patients in 2004 but refocused his passion for medicine to teaching ensuing generations of physicians at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Posick, a Badgers junior, scored her first collegiate goal Friday night in top-ranked UW’s 7-0 victory over Penn State … Up in the press box, her dad Brian was wearing a headset and calling play by play on Fox Sports Wisconsin.
Brian Posick has been serving as radio play-by play man for hockey games at the University of Wisconsin since 2002, so it might seem strange that an early goal in a 7-0 early-season blowout would be among his favorite calls.
But on Friday, Posick called his daughter’s first goal with the Badgers. Maddie Posick made it 2-0 against Penn State in what became a blowout as the defending national champions moved to 4-0.
Quoted: In 2016, shortly after Mr. Trump’s victory, Katherine J. Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, summed up the attitudes she observed after years of studying rural Americans: “The way these folks described the world to me, their basic concern was that people like them, in places like theirs, were overlooked and disrespected,” she wrote in Vox, explaining that her subjects considered “racial minorities on welfare” as well as “lazy urban professionals” working desk jobs to be undeserving of state and federal dollars.
UW-Madison professor Barry Burden, an expert on American politics, said Walker’s stance on pardons was “exceptional” for Wisconsin, as both Republican and Democrat governors before him exercised their constitutional pardoning power.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison, calls Von Maur, which is privately held, a “high-service, high-quality, high-touch retailer” that isn’t big into promotions like Kohl’s but is focused more on creating “a great shopping experience with personalized attention.”
UW-Madison economics professors Menzie Chinn and Noah Williams weigh in.
