Researchers sedated macaque monkeys and assessed their brain activity as they slept. Yuri Saalmann, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said: ’Our electrodes have a very different design [to most].
That reality is very different about 90 minutes to the west, at the state’s flagship school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The college, its academics and athletics ranked high nationally, is the dream school for many in Wisconsin – considered a place for high-achieving students from inside and outside the state. And for those who enroll, UW-Madison can be relatively affordable. The college gives out $71 million in grants to students with need — more than 10 times what UW-Milwaukee is able to provide.
While elite college admissions grab headlines, speakers also acknowledged that only a small proportion of Americans actually attend such schools. Some 40 percent of undergraduate students attend public two-year or for-profit institutions; only 55 colleges in the country admit fewer than 20 percent of their applicants, noted Nick Hillman, an associate professor in the education school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Zunker, who is also president of the Wausau School Board, is a UW–Madison alumna.
CORNISH: What in your scientific training did you bring to how you approached and wrote the book? I mean, as we talked about, you were a student at the University of Wisconsin. You have this science background. What of that did you end up bringing it – to trying to put together a novel?
It was written by Don Voegeli, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and the longtime music director at WHA (now known as Wisconsin Public Radio).
Doug Erickson, a university relations specialist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been in a co-ed seven-person book group for 12 years. The most important part of a book club for him is the members. “You need to approach the membership of your book club with the precision, pragmatism and ruthlessness of the NFL draft. You can’t be sentimental. Be extremely wary of the overtalker and the mansplainer,” he says. “One blowhard can ruin the whole thing.”
Sarah Wright, a science teacher in Madison, Wis., said she was given a diagnosis of extreme vulvar sensitivity after a surgery in 2009. She wondered how an operation performed through incisions in her abdomen could have affected her sexual organs, and concluded that either a uterine manipulator was used or a pelvic exam was conducted without her knowledge. So when scheduling another operation with University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s hospital system in 2018, she asked to draft her own consent contract.
We pride ourselves on our “world class” university — but nothing is classy about the chant.
Yes, the repressive, politically correct, left wack-jobs are alive and well at UW. What’s next, book burning, hanging witches, Inquisition, etc.?
To the Editor: Re “Let the Lunch Lady Feed Your Kids” (Op-Ed, Feb. 12): Kudos to Jennifer Gaddis for her insightful Op-Ed about school meals. They have indeed improved, and in many places across the country, farm-to-school programs and innovative partnerships between schools and chefs have produced outstanding, appealing fresh food.
Quoted: Those rivals have increasingly moved into selling home furnishings and merchandise that were once virtually the exclusive domain of Pier 1, according to Hart Posen, a professor of management at the University of Wisconsin.
“You’d see something in someone’s house—a wicker-rattan chair or an elephant-themed umbrella holder—and know it came from Pier 1,” Mr. Posen said. “You could buy it at Pier 1 or nowhere, but that’s just not the case anymore.”
“Twenty years ago, you could look at a product and you would really know that it came from Pier 1,” said Hart Posen, a professor of management at the University of Wisconsin School of Business who studies corporate decision-making during technological change. “They were really the only big national firm with that kind of unique identity.”
Quoted: The evidence “is about as close to conclusive as research on complex human behavior can get,” writes Mark Seidenberg, a cognitive neuroscientist and reading expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He practiced and taught medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics for 23 years, retiring in 2011.
Doug began his 45 year career at the UW Hospital in the early ’70s where he worked in several departments but was especially proud of his work in the Worker’s Compensation Division.
