Skip to main content

Author: gbump

Is It Time to Worry About Bird Flu?

Posted on
TIME

That’s not to say respiratory spread is impossible, though. Two recent studies in ferrets—one by researchers at the CDC, and one led by a researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison—raised that possibility. The researchers isolated the bird flu strain that sickened the first person infected in the current outbreak and tested how infectious it was among ferrets. Although it wasn’t as contagious as the seasonal flu, the bird flu virus was capable of spreading among ferrets by droplets, the researchers found.

TAA launches bioscience graduate worker campaign

Posted on
Daily Cardinal

The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate assistant’s union, the Teaching Assistant Association, launched a campaign to improve working conditions for graduate student workers in bioscience departments including genetics and microbiology.

How Lucy Calkins Became the Face of America’s Reading Crisis

Posted on
The Atlantic

Some of the neuroscience underpinning Sold a Story was provided by Seidenberg, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (He did not respond to an interview request.) Since the series aired, he has welcomed the move away from Units of Study, but he has also warned that “none of the other major commercial curricula that are currently available were based on the relevant science from the ground up.”

Tom Still: Economic outlook post-election: Winners, losers and lots of unknown

Posted on
Wisconsin State Journal

Patent law “march-in” rights: Some say the federal government should be allowed to appropriate products patented by universities and developed with private money if the underlying research received any federal funding and if the products are deemed unreasonably priced. In patent law-speak, that’s called “march-in” rights. It would be a major departure from the bipartisan 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which was silent on what constitutes “reasonable” price and which has been credited with spurring innovation at major universities nationwide.

Despite smaller majority, Robin Vos pledges to pass tax cuts, shrink government

Posted on
Wisconsin State Journal

Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, who was reelected to her leadership position Tuesday, said the new districts provide “a pathway to a majority in 2026.” Hesselbein, D-Middleton, said Senate Democrats will make a renewed push to spend some of the state’s surplus on K-12 education, public universities, workforce needs and middle-class tax cuts.

Royal Photographic Society awards 2024 – in pictures

Posted on
The Guardian

The Royal Photographic Society Award for editorial or documentary photography: Darcy Padilla Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, February 2015, US, from the series Dreamers. Darcy Padilla is an associate professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member photographer of Agence VU’ in Paris. Known for her narrative photography, Padilla focuses on long-term projects that explore themes of struggle and the transgenerational effects of socioeconomic issues.

Gloria M. Green

Posted on
Wisconsin State Journal

Finally, she worked for the University of Wisconsin division of Extension, managing education programs around the state.

Georgia Wagner

Posted on
Wisconsin State Journal

She worked for the State of Wisconsin in the coastal management program and at the Wisconsin state capitol before beginning a long-term career as an administrator at the University of Wisconsin. She worked in the school of nursing but spent most of her career as a graduate advisor, first in the department of Economics and later in the department of Limnology and Water Chemistry. At both departments, she provided support and advice to generations of graduate students.

Barry L. Sievers

Posted on
Wisconsin State Journal

Barry joined the UW-Madison Office of Clinical Trials as the Finance Manager, where he oversaw all federal and non-federal research budgets on top of the department’s operations budget. Most recently, Barry held the title of Senior Financial Manager for the Institute of Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he served since 2011.

UW Health to begin masking requirements later this month

Posted on
WKOW – Channel 27

UW Health said it is beginning its annual respiratory virus season masking.” To help protect patients and care teams from illness, UW Health will begin annual masking requirements starting in mid-November and ending in mid-March to align with the usual respiratory virus season,” a press release stated.

Will More States Try to Protect Marriage Equality With Trump Back in Office?

Posted on
The Nation

But many of those who could be affected by the overturning of Obergefell say a ballot proposal is a worthy endeavor. Acadia Bradley, a junior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, found Trump’s win devastating, especially given the hope she had felt for the election over recent weeks. During Trump’s presidency from 2016–20, Bradley felt homophobia was emboldened—as if Trump “almost [gave] them a free pass, or a little bit more courage to act on their hatred towards us.”

Why did Republicans lose Senate races in so many states Trump won?

Posted on
USA Today

“The Senate candidates are often well known to voters” because they run intense campaigns with a flood of advertisements, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And because turnout was similar for the presidential and the Senate races in most states, he argued, it is likely that some people are still splitting their ticket between the two parties.“So voters in some places are making real distinctions to say this is not somebody who is aligned with Trump or represents him in the same way, or this is someone who has the state’s interest in mind in a way that other candidates don’t,” he said. “And that really is a different story from one state to the next.”

Why America Still Doesn’t Have a Female President

Posted on
The Atlantic

But some people are biased against female presidential candidates. In 2017, a study found that about 13 percent of Americans were “angry or upset” about the idea of a woman serving as president. In an experiment that same year using hypothetical political candidates, Yoshikuni Ono and Barry Burden, political scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that voters punish female candidates running for president by 2.4 percentage points. This means that a hypothetical female candidate would get, say, 47 percent of the vote, rather than 49.4 percent if she were a man.

How higher ed can inspire belonging in student veterans

Posted on
Inside Higher Ed

University of Wisconsin–MadisonIn June, the Universities of Wisconsin system Board of Regents approved a proposal to expand and establish greater supports for student veterans on campus. The university will allocate funds for a University Veteran Services staff member to lead student success initiatives for military-affiliated learners and will form a task force on student veterans’ financial support.

Gen Z Voters React With Fear, Anger, and Resolve After Trump Wins the 2024 Election

Posted on
Teen Vogue

Charlene Huynh (she/any), 20, senior studying sociology and communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

“One of the main reasons [Harris] lost is because she really abandoned the left.”

Honor Durham (she/her), 21, senior studying political science at UW-Madison

“The only thing that the Democrats could have done differently is to actually have Joe Biden step aside earlier.”

 

Democrats find success in state elections, pick up seats

Posted on
WKOW – Channel 27

An expert says the new, slimmer majority could create new possibilities for speaker. “With the narrower majority, it’s possible that someone else could throw their hat in the ring, and given how it’s been more difficult for Republicans to enact their legislative agenda under Governor Evers, it may be that Republicans are looking for a change,” said UW-Madison Journalism Professor Mike Wagner.

How Donald Trump flipped Wisconsin back to red

Posted on
Wisconsin State Journal

Trump performed the best he ever has among student voters at UW-Madison, according to an analysis of vote totals from the 12 Madison precincts containing the majority of on- and off-campus housing for UW-Madison students, while Harris performed than worse recent Democratic candidates among the same group.