The University of Wisconsin–Madison said this week it is launching a research center to coordinate ongoing studies and education in psychedelic compounds. It cited growing evidence of their utility in treating substance abuse and psychiatric disorders, such as major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The New Horizons flyby found evidence that Pluto—little Pluto!—might even have an ocean beneath its surface. “The name doesn’t matter,” Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. “It doesn’t matter what we call it, as long as we can explore it and learn from it.” Regardless of what we decide here on Earth, Pluto will still be there, doing its thing, blissfully unaware that some aliens a few rocks down are mesmerized by its existence.
After the government siege, Janice Beers at the CMC, with the help of UW-Madison Law Professor Megan McDermott worked to get them to safety.“I connected Janice with the people who I knew who were taking care of these efforts on the ground,” McDermott said.
After COVID-19 canceled all of their performances, the University of Wisconsin Band gathered for their first practice of the fall.
Automatic payments hit students’ bank accounts this week, university officials said.
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
UW System interim President Tommy Thompson said Thursday he doesn’t plan to seek the job on a permanent basis, estimating about six months before he leaves the post.
The second-highest ranking member of the state Assembly said Thursday he does not support suing the University of Wisconsin System to control campuses’ COVID-19 policies, an idea pitched by a fellow Republican earlier this week to legislative leaders.
UW-Madison became the latest college in Wisconsin leveraging federal COVID-19 relief money to erase debt owed to the university, a move that will help students who financially struggled during the pandemic.
In an independent evaluation of the process, Barry Burden, the head of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Trey Grayson, a former Republican secretary of state in Kentucky, detailed the review’s many “maladies.” “They include processing errors caused by a lack of basic knowledge, partisan biases of the people conducting the audit, and inconsistencies of procedures that undermine the reliability of the review and any conclusions they may draw. In particular, the operation lacks the consistency, attention to detail and transparency that are requirements for credible and reliable election reviews.”
Another issue is that the people who are most at risk, such as homeless people, older people living alone or people living in poverty, are often the ones who are the hardest to reach, said Richard C. Keller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who focuses on the global history of the environment. For them, naming a heat wave may have limited, if any, impact, but it could raise overall awareness within a community, and prompt people to check in those who are more vulnerable.
University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson pushed back Tuesday against Republican lawmakers who claim campuses need their permission to implement COVID-19 policies.
A New York Times guest essay published Tuesday took aim at the “performative antiracism” of the Black Student Union at the University of Wisconsin, mocking group members for advocating the removal of a large rock from campus they saw as a symbol of bigotry.
Dr. Claudia Reardon, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine’s psychiatry department, is working with USTA on the initiative. She also provided a comment in the statement, saying, “We are working to create an environment that supports overall mental well-being.”
Still, there is evidence that children are adaptable. In a December 2020 study of children’s ability to read the facial expressions of masked people, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that “while there may be some challenges for children incurred by others wearing masks, in combination with other contextual cues, masks are unlikely to dramatically impair children’s social interactions in their everyday lives.”
The experiments, conducted separately at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam and at the University of Wisconsin, had altered a strain of highly virulent, bird-carried flu in a way that enabled it for the first time to cause airborne infections among mammals.
About 15 minutes before a 17-year-old Madison high schooler was killed in a drive-by shooting at a student rental on the Near West Side Aug. 14, Madison police got a call about a loud backyard party at the property near Camp Randall.
The alliance announced Tuesday by commissioners of the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC pulls the college conferences together on scheduling, NCAA governance and athlete welfare issues.
UW System interim President Tommy Thompson won’t be deterred by Republican lawmakers who say he needs their approval to enact COVID-19 regulations on campuses, he said Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin System will not cooperate with legislative efforts to control campuses’ COVID-19 policies, interim System President Tommy Thompson said Tuesday in his strongest rebuke of Republicans to date.
Column by interim UW System president Thomnpson: The University of Wisconsin System owns a critical responsibility to open our classrooms this September to deliver the in-person education students deserve and parents expect. And we are planning to do just that. Unfortunately, some want us to ignore our unambiguous authority and duty under Wisconsin law to protect the “health, safety, and welfare of the university.”
She found family in her career as a histologist at the UW-Madison Neurophysiology Department, where she worked for 37 years.
After years of research, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is finally launching a new center for its ongoing studies into psychedelic compounds.
The topography of the Midwest was always in his DNA — he grew up a farm boy in southwestern Iowa — but it wasn’t until he arrived at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a graduate student that he began to see what was lost and how to revive it in some measure.
Ivermectin proponents haven’t been content to wait for that research. In striking testimony before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in December 2020, Pierre Kory, a critical care physician who formerly worked for the University of Wisconsin Health University Hospital, described the “immense potency” of ivermectin, characterizing it as effectively a “miracle drug.” “All studies are positive,” he testified, “with considerable magnitude benefits, with the vast majority reaching strong statistical significance.”
Republican leaders have said they’ll be filing a lawsuit in an attempt to force UW and the former Republican governor to comply.
A defiant Thompson said repeatedly during a call with statewide media he believed the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR), which sets policy for state agencies, does not have the legal authority to dictate how the university system enacts rules that address campus safety.
The war of words between the University of Wisconsin System and a Republican lawmaker heated up Tuesday after System President Tommy Thompson told lawmakers to “get out of my way.”
Littles in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and their families got to see the UW campus, meet new UW Athletic Director Chris McIntosh, watch UW football and volleyball practices and get a backpack full of school supplies on Aug. 21 at the Big Brothers Big Sisters Back to School event held in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
That’s probably because of complicating factors in the Atlantic Ocean basin, according to James Kossin, a senior scientist with the analytics firm the Climate Service and a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied the poleward migration of hurricanes.
UW Health Principal Vaccine Investigator Dr. William Hartman said Monday even with a shorter timeline for full approval, having more than 170 million Americans fully vaccinated – many of whom of course received the Pfizer vaccine – provided a data set large enough to conclude the vaccine is safe and effective.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Monday the creation of their Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances, a research center dedicated to ongoing research and education in psychedelic compounds. According to a UW-Madison release, the center will conduct research into the science, history and cultural impact of psychedelic agents, as well as potential therapeutic use of psychoactive substances.
The Atlantic has been several degrees warmer than normal over the past week, feeding the intensity of Henri as it barreled towards Rhode Island. Ocean temperatures “are very anomalous right now”, said James Kossin, a hurricane expert at the University of Wisconsin. “There’s a likely human fingerprint on that.”
Three Badgers — Sydney Hilley, Dana Rettke and Devyn Robinson — were chosen for the 14-member preseason All-Big Ten team, with Hilley and Rettke among five unanimous picks.
Big Ten Conference teams in all sports that can’t play a game this season due to COVID-19 will forfeit that game and it will not be rescheduled, the league announced Monday.
UW-Madison is starting a center to expand its research on psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin and MDMA, which have shown promise in treating conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Typically, my first move to promote Cap Times Idea Fest is to wave my hands about our big names, captivating topics and reputation for putting on an event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that is both intellectually rewarding and fun.
All Wisconsin state employees within the executive branch agencies are now required to provide their COVID-19 vaccination status and documentation by Sept. 9 in addition to wearing masks indoors.
AUW-Madison plan to temporarily house students who are exposed to or infected with COVID-19 in university-owned apartments worries residents who live there, many of whom have young children who cannot yet get vaccinated.
Ashley Portillo Recinos was one of those students getting the honor Friday night. She’s from Los Angeles, and says from a young age she knew she wanted to help people from different backgrounds get the help they need.
A literature review by UW Health experts has identified chronic pain as a long-lasting symptom of COVID-19.
“It’s honestly such a great environment,” Badgers fan Bella Daul said. “It’s so much fun to just come in here and watch all the games. It’s so nice to be in a local area not too far away. It’s just so nice to be back again.”
The gates to Camp Randall opened up to fans Saturday morning for the first time in 17 months. With the Badgers are Back (to Back) event, fans got a first look at practice.
UW-Madison students studying near the US Capitol said they crossed paths with a man who claimed to have a bomb Thursday. “I don’t know what’s normal for D.C.,” senior Sydney Bobb said. “I would imagine the capital of the country is like the center for a lot of crazy things to happen.”
A new UW Health literature review acknowledges that pain — especially headache and chest pain — has long been associated with COVID-19 infections throughout the pandemic. However, medical director Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed says that long-lasting chronic pain indicates the virus may impact the human body in ways experts are just starting to understand.
This year’s ranking from Niche.com, which scores based on student reviews and U.S. Dept. of Education statistics, gives the UW school A’s across the board for academics, diversity, athletics, value, campus culture and party scenes.
She studied art education at the University of Wisconsin. Determined to become a fashion editor, she took a job as a copy girl at Women’s Wear Daily. She then worked for fashion illustrator Robert Goodman and interior designer Elinor Johnson.
Studies show that dogs and some other animals do appear to respond emotionally to human music, although the type of music they react to can differ significantly depending on the species or breed, Charles Snowdon, an animal psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Live Science in a 2012 article.
“We’re the first to demonstrate, as far as I’m aware, that infectious virus can be cultured from the fully vaccinated infections,” says Kasen Riemersma, a virologist at University of Wisconsin who is one of the authors of the study.
Catacutan, a Filipino-American college student entering her sophomore year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it was hard to cope with the social isolation, virtual learning environment and anxiety over her family’s well-being plus the rise in anti-Asian hate during the pandemic.
“It’s great to just get out there and play in front of fans again,” Sheffield said. “We had nine people who haven’t played in front of fans here.”
In the decades since the book’s debut, Greene, a former screenwriter who studied Ancient Greek at the University of Wisconsin, has been called “hip-hop’s Machiavelli” by “The New Yorker” due to the proliferation of references made by notable musicians (Kanye West, Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent), and “The 48 Laws of Power” has both been banned from prisons and greenlit to become a Quibi series executive produced by Drake.
His career was at the University of Wisconsin Business School as a professor of actuarial science, retiring in 1992
Yet despite a universal desire to avoid more destruction, experts aren’t always in agreement about what should be done before a blaze ignites. Forest management has long been touted as essential to fighting wildfires, with one new set of studies led by the University of Wisconsin and the U.S. Forest Service concluding that there is strong scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of thinning dense forests and reducing fuels through prescribed burns.
We are conducting research on peptides derived from both common and unique food proteins, such as soybeans, dairy, fish, meat, and insects. Thanks to research by Srinivasan Damodaran of the University of Wisconsin, we already know that small peptides from fish gelatin and cattle collagen proteins are effective in preventing ice recrystallization in ice cream. This power of peptides varies greatly depending on the source protein, however, so we are investigating the reasons for these differences
Goodbye cardboard cutouts and hello in-person fans. Spectators returned to Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday as the University of Wisconsin football team conducted an open practice.
Juliana Bennett is a rising senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the city’s District 8 alder. Unlike most college students, her social media posts are public record — a new territory Bennett navigates with candor and care. “When I post something, I always think, Am I okay with this being in anyone’s hands? If that passes the ‘yes’ test, then I post it, because once it’s out there you can’t take it away,” Bennett tells Teen Vogue. “It just makes it a bit more weird. But I try to just remain true to myself.”
Fire safety tests performed over the summer found the elevator shafts in the newly constructed nine-story addition along University Avenue did not pass pressurization tests, the university said in a statement. A construction update posted July 12 said elevator shaft pressurization reduces the spread of smoke during a fire, making improper pressure a “life-safety issue.”
University of Wisconsin, MadisonTuition cost for Gen X (adjusted to 2021 dollars): $3,094Tuition cost for Gen Z: $10,766Percent increase in cost: 248%
“It is a far cry from an in-vitro lab replication to helping humans,” Dr Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection prevention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital, told the Associated Press.
