As an associate professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Barry is pushing the envelope on understanding how the brain creates and responds to words and pictures — a scholarly envelope that, in her mind, should be positively covered with illuminating doodles.
Fair Play was developed by a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to let faculty mentors experience the academic world through the eyes of a virtual black graduate student.
Benjamin Martin, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered this burst of speed when he set Atlantic sand fiddler crabs on a sand-and-mud track and chased them around with his index finger, measuring the speeds at which they sprinted to the finish line.
There are large geographic divides in the US public’s trust of science, with rural residents being more sceptical than those from cities and the suburbs, according to new analysis by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
School officials signed three agreements at the Truax campus in Madison Thursday, involving engineering, biotechnology and veterinary majors.
UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt says several students are suspended from the football team for their involvement in a racist Snapchat sent out this week.
Column by Kraus, chair of UW-River Falls’ political science department.
The Andrew Goodman Foundation filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a Madison federal court. According to a news release from the foundation, the foundation believes the current student voter ID requirements are difficult, and prevent students from voting.
The SSFC began the meeting intending to move forward with zero funding the SVA, however, in the midst of budget negotiations for two student organizations, a lengthy debate over the merits of denying the SVA funds ensued. The committee agreed to postpone voting on the SVA’s future until Monday.
“Hello!” the little white robot chirped when the human arrived. “Here’s your delivery.”
Proposed bills to pay UW athletes, create standardized protocol for protesting, ease credit transfers.
A study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison also found between 16,800 and 23,250 voters in two of the state’s counties could not vote in 2016 due to the law restricting eligible forms of ID.
Coon’s first TV role was in 2011, on The Playboy Club, which only ran for three episodes. Before that, she was kicking around the regional theater scene in the Midwest — she received an MFA in acting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later moved to Chicago. Mainstream success and becoming a familiar face seems to be something Coon never counted on, but has greeted as a pleasant surprise.
The Native American Center for Health Professions, located within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will once again be the recipient of a competitive national grant to recruit American Indian and Alaska Native students into the field of medicine.
Including holiday staples such as mashed potatoes and stuffing, the traditional feast is full of fatty, high-cholesterol foods, says the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(Maddie) Rolfes and last season’s other seniors — Emily Clark, Sam Cogan, Mikaela Gardner, Annie Pankowski and Sophia Shaver — are getting back together to answer the White House invitation on behalf of the Badgers.
Micah Potter’s final appeal was denied by an NCAA committee Thursday afternoon, meaning the junior forward won’t be able to make his debut with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team for another month.
One hundred years ago, on Nov. 19, 1919, Alice Roosevelt Longworth threw a late-night party. Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and wife of Nicholas Longworth, the future speaker of the House, was celebrating the defeat in the Senate that day of the Treaty of Versailles, which encapsulated President Woodrow Wilson’s grand project for world peace, the League of Nations.
Quoted: Marina Maes, an assistant professor specializing in family medicine at UW-Madison’s School of Pharmacy, said she has worked in states where similar legislation is already enacted.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky praised the study, but called Harris’ claim misleading.
Quoted: Kathleen Bartzen Culver, who leads the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said any arrangement in which a funder is given influence into and journalistic endeavors, education and awards is improper.
