In a 2014 study of 155 physicians by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, close to half said that pressure to please patients led to inappropriate care including unnecessary tests and procedures, hospital admissions, and opioid or antibiotic prescriptions.
Could your significant other help you lose the weight you’ve gained during the pandemic? That’s the question a UW School of Medicine and Public Health study is looking to answer.
While many people are scrambling to combat flooding and damage to infrastructure, climate scientists are working to find out what has been causing the latest rise in lake levels. According to Jack Williams, a UW-Madison geography professor and climate-change expert, it’s the billion-dollar question.“We can’t yet definitively say,” Williams said. “What we know is that we are seeing increasing temperatures and variability of rainfall, which are both known to be caused by climate change.”
Steve Ackerman’s job overseeing UW-Madison’s behemoth research enterprise officially began March 9. Two days later, his job description changed dramatically when the university announced unprecedented measures it would take to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Instead of finding ways to expand research on campus, Ackerman was now tasked with ramping down most research labs and helping scientists continue their research remotely.
Instead of picking a single day or two-day period to visit campus as in previous years, students set aside a week to complete the online content. During that week, students meet with an adviser over video conference to enroll in courses and engage in other online events about important resources and campus culture.
UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said Thursday the plan to offer in-person instruction Sept. 2 remains in place and he dismissed the notion of finances driving the decision to reopen. He also said the plan may help the city because regardless of how UW-Madison operates this fall, many students will return in August when their off-campus housing leases start.
In a guest column for the Wisconsin State Journal, UW-Madison emeritus history professor John Sharpless wrote that protesters who pulled down the Heg statue “were essentially spitting on his grave.”
As an 18-year-old rising sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, District 8 alder Max Prestigiacomo is already pushing for change after being elected to the City Council in April. He introduced a bill on June 16 to remove funding for less lethal weapons for the Madison Police Department, and it passed unanimously.
TIME asked 21 historians, including Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology Nan Estad, to weigh in with their picks for “worst moments” that hold a lesson—and what they think those experiences can teach us.
Pothof, UW-Health’s Chief Quality Officer, is helping lead a team in the fight against the novel Coronavirus. He quickly became a prominent voice in the news, informing people about the pandemic.
The frightening thing about UW-Madison professor Walter C. Stern’s column last Sunday, “To move ’Forward,’ we must confront troubled past,” is not how he tortures history to fit his ideology. It’s that he teaches his identity politics to your children’s teachers and — one suspects — many of the late-night visitors to State Street and Capitol Square this long hot summer.
No one is born with a fully developed social conscience, and no one could pass the selective purity tests being advanced by this UW-Madison group.
It took a lot of courage to take the stand Lincoln did that caused the Civil War and the division of the North and South in one nation. Taking down his statue would be a total insult to his actions and those who fought and died for the result of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Universities that often devalue, make invisible or disregard financial and human resources for their Black studies departments must affirm a verbal commitment to racial justice.
With government and industry pumping billions into vaccine development, testing and manufacturing, a vaccine could be available in record time, say scientists — it just might not be completely effective. “We might have vaccines in the clinic that are useful in people within 12 or 18 months,” Dave O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, told Nature in May. “But we’re going to need to improve on them.”
The new “Civic Health in Wisconsin” study by the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison represents the first time civic engagement data has been tracked statewide, said Mary Beth Collins, the center’s director and one of the study’s principal authors. It looks at data on Wisconsinites’ connectedness to their communities using a range of measures, from volunteerism and voting to the amount of time spent with neighbors and friends.
The 18th century botanist invented the system for classifying species, including Homo sapiens, which he categorized based on race, assigning negative social traits to nonwhite populations. “For those of us who have ever been called Black, brown, or yellow, Linnaeus’s legacy lives on every day,” says Taylor Tai, an entomology graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-author of a petition to rename the games.
Naturally, such scrutiny evades professors who cheer on violence and property damage. When vandals in Madison, Wis., pulled down a statue of famous abolitionist Hans Christian Heg, who died fighting against the Confederate army, Sami Schalk, professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, cheered the lawless rioters on. “Destroy them all,” Schalk tweeted, adding, “People over property. Always.”
