The grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund neuroimaging, particularly PET scans, to better understand Alzheimer’s and other dementias in living people. The hope is that by identifying how Alzheimer’s affects the brain, future researchers will be able to eventually prevent, slow or delay the onset of the disease and better treat its symptoms.
Elizabeth Emch studies Lake Wingra while doing outreach on winter salting around Madison through her master’s program in the Department of Limnology.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced yet another delay in the already-turbulent FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) timeline: The department says it won’t be sending students’ FAFSA data to schools until the first half of March. Previously, it had said it would start sending that data in late January.
Rep. David Murphy, one of the resolution’s authors, wrote in a statement submitted for a public hearing on Tuesday that the amendment would restore “merit, fairness, and equality not only to hiring by the University of Wisconsin system, but to hiring by all governmental entities statewide.”
The first bill would provide funding for a fellowship program to place 25 journalists in participating local newsrooms across the state. The fellows would be selected by a committee of University of Wisconsin journalism professors and news industry experts, the bill sponsors said. The bill would provide funding for each fellow to receive a $40,000 salary for one year.
The Republican-authored legislation passed the Assembly along party lines in November and the Senate held a committee hearing on its version of the bill Wednesday.
Dr. Robert Golden, dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health since 2006, is stepping down once a successor is in place. A search will begin this spring, UW-Madison said in a statement.
University leaders partnered with an executive search firm to host listening sessions and a student feedback form. Finalists are expected to be announced this spring.
Despite being one of the top public research universities in the country, the University of Wisconsin-Madison does not offer paid family and medical leave to all employees. But a growing group of advocates, led by graduate student workers, say it’s time for a policy change on campus.
The proposed Canvas course would serve to sensitize first-year students to sustainability practices on campus and give resources for further involvement.
“I’m not leaving the university, I’m looking forward to transitioning back to where I started my professional journey as a faculty member,” UW SMPH dean says.
At approximately 3:15 p.m., a car rolled over on University Avenue. The cause of the incident is unknown at this time.
Over a day of conversations between University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh and Mike Hastings last March in Minnesota, the topic of a rebuilding timeline for the men’s hockey team never rose to the surface.
’enCourage UW’ app brings hundreds of learning activities to users phones.
John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist who studies ancient human relatives but was not involved in this research, said the study helps solidify the theory that patches of different human cultures were developing as Neanderthals neared their end.
But Nathaniel Chin, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, said he was not surprised by the news, given other treatments coming to market.
The university says the complaint was not filed by a member of the UW community, but by an outside organization that has filed complaints against several other higher education institutions.
The University of Wisconsin released a statement Tuesday agreeing to cooperate with a Title VI lawsuit being filed against them. The statement reads that UW is under investigation by the Department of Education for a lawsuit filed by an outside organization. The university claims the organization has filed similar lawsuits against other universities.
The Parks Division worked with UW’s Survey Center, which suggested the strategy of giving a random selection of residents a small monetary gift.
The federal Department of Education has opened a Title VI investigation into whether UW-Madison failed to protect its students of shared Jewish ancestry from harassment after the Hamas attacks in October.
