“The question we are asking is ’How does gravity make cotton roots grow?’ and the experiment is to remove gravity and the only place you’ll get to do that is on the space station,” [UW–Madison botany professor] Simon Gilroy said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said this week it will not require COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, as a growing minority of campuses across the country, including in the Big Ten, are doing so.
“It’s very rare to find a fossil like this, with a face in good condition. You dream of finding this stuff.”
JOHN HAWKS, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaking about the discovery of a massive skull that is at least 140,000 years old. Scientists said it could be a new species of ancient human.
Quoted: “We were very surprised,” says Timothy Gómez, professor of neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who led the new study. “We were expecting this to be all mTOR.”
In 2011, the computer science major at the University of Wisconsin – Madison had about 200 students. Today, it has more than 2,000. It’s now the largest major on campus, and it’s expected to keep growing.
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will not be required to take a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of returning to campus, according to a recent announcement from the Big Ten university.
After enrollment lagged last year due to COVID-19, the University of Wisconsin System has seen a 29% increase in applications for the upcoming academic year, an early indication that students are still willing to invest in college after an uncertain year.
The Terrace is back open to everyone, but capacity is still capped at 35%, or to put in terms of Sunburst chairs, 1,700, out of what Communications Director Shauna Breneman calls “an abundance of caution.”
In 2011, the computer science major at the University of Wisconsin – Madison had about 200 students. Today, it has more than 2,000. It’s now the largest major on campus, and it’s expected to keep growing.“I used to teach a class which I called a big class, which would have 60 or 70 students in it. Now this fall I’m slated to teach a course that will probably have 350 people in it,” said Department Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau.
UW is aiming for approximately an 80% vaccination rate for students this fall, according to the press release.
Quoted: It’s the worst drought in nearly a decade according to Jerry Clark, Agriculture Agent for Division of Extension, UW-Madison, Chippewa County.
“I think the rain we received over the last week has alleviated some of the drought stress and the crop are small enough yet especially for corn and soybeans that if this drought occurs in another month where we get high temperatures and start to run out of moisture, that is when we will definitely start to see the hit on the yield side locally,” Clark said.
The University of Wisconsin system could see an end to its eight-year tuition freeze. The state budget-writing committee recently declined to extend the freeze, providing the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents the option to increase tuition.
Quoted: “With the polarization of our politics, there are fewer states in which you have truly competitive elections at the state level,” said political scientist David Canon, a congressional scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And we’re also seeing a tighter connection between presidential results and Senate results.”
“It really looks like a bullseye and it’s at the site in which the tick bites and it can be easily identified,” UW Health Infectious Disease Specialist Joe McBride said. “Oftentimes with that rash you can have fevers, muscle aches and pains, joint aches and pains.”
Former University of Wisconsin athlete Alicia Monson made her first Olympic team after finishing third in the 10,000 meters at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials on Saturday in Eugene, Oregon.
A visibly exhausted Monson—a standout at the University of Wisconsin, who now trains with the On Athletics Club—said on the NBC broadcast, “I’ve never gone to that point in a race before, and I’ve always kind of wanted to. I think today was a good time to do that and run under the support of so many people out there.”
Similarly, Alicia Monson graduated from the University of Wisconsin and signed with On Athletics Club in Boulder. She made the Olympic team in the 10,000 meters on June 26.
Migraines affect more than 40 million people in the United States and are the number two cause of disability worldwide.
For that reason, UW-Madison infectious disease expert Dr. Ajay Sethi says masks will be around for years to come. “I foresee mask use as something you sort of go to whenever we have high community rates of some respiratory infection…doesn’t have to be COVID, it could be influenza, it could be other viruses that are circulating during our winter months,” Sethi said.
“Masks work,” said Ajay Sethi with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. “They work for healthcare providers, and they work in all sorts of settings where you have that close contact.”
Gloria Ladson Billings, UW Madison School of Education professor emerita and early critical race theory researcher, speaks to its origins alongside UW La Follette School professor emeritus John Witte.
John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison agrees. “My opinion is that… this is more than likely Denisovan.”
“I think it’s a bad moment in science to be naming new species among these large-brained humans that all interbred with each other,” University of Wisconsin-Madison professor John Hawks told the Guardian. “What we are repeatedly finding is that the differences in looks didn’t mean much to these ancient people when it comes to breeding.”
Quoted: “While it is too early to determine the cause, it is definitely not too early to worry about how building and other infrastructure will be impacted as the flooding from sea-level rise worsens, and whether there is a plan to modify and sustain these buildings or whether they should ultimately be abandoned and removed,” Andrea Dutton, a geoscientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and former associate professor of geology at the University of Florida, wrote in an email.
“It’s a beautiful thing,” John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the NYT. “It’s very rare to find a fossil like this, with a face in good condition. You dream of finding this stuff.”
Quoted: Zeroing in on individual concerns such as these is exactly what it will take to have any hope for change, explains Dietram Scheufele, a professor of science communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Misinformation About Science in the Public Sphere,” published this spring by the National Academy of Sciences.
Research shows that we must reach people where they are at in terms of gut-level beliefs and first acknowledge their fears rather than preach science, Scheufele says. And having a trusted messenger is key to leading the way toward bringing people back to reality and on that path toward making good choices.
In 1949, Glenn moved to Madison to be the first graduate student in the UW History of Pharmacy Department. In 1952, he became an Associate Professor of History of Pharmacy.
Dr. Pitot came to UW-Madison to conduct research at McArdle laboratories, an internationally renowned cancer research facility. During his next 50-plus years at the UW, Dr. Pitot became an eminent pathologist, he was a professor of oncology and pathology, and he variously served as Pathology Department Chair, Acting Dean of the Medical School, and Director of McArdle.
Noted: There is a Wisconsin crash mapping site put out by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation anyone can use, Plover Police Chief Dan Ault said. The crash data is out there for the public, he said.
Noted: Another ongoing project is a University of Wisconsin- Madison program, UniverCity, comprised of around 150 students in three classes studying real estate. The students were tasked with studying properties in Egg Harbor and coming up with project ideas, but the scope has since expanded into the other northern areas and Sturgeon Bay, with a focus on affordable housing.
