Quoted: Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies voter turnout, says Trump’s huge levels of support defy historical trends about sitting presidents who run for reelection. “A sitting incumbent running for reelection — that shouldn’t stimulate much interest,” Burden says. “It all runs a little contrary to what I think we would’ve expected.”
After high school, Williams was recruited by West Virginia University, the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana’s Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Connecticut, the University of Iowa, Virginia’s Old Dominion University and more, according to a 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer profile.
Quoted: “The goodwill impairment test is one of the most second guessed of the accounting tests that exist,” said Thomas Linsmeier, professor of accounting and law, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The question should be, “How does the technology work for the kids?” said adolescent physician Megan Moreno, a professor of pediatrics at University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Why aren’t the kids getting outside? What is the reason? Is it the screen’s fault or part and parcel of our society? Taking away screens isn’t part of the solution.”
Many biosafety officers rank their involvement in research, albeit in a supporting role, as one of the key attractions of the job. “One of the things I’ve loved most about this job is that I’m still involved in and helping the research community,” says Andrea Ladd, assistant director of the environment, health and safety office at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Noted: In general, Indonesia’s timber industry has been on a decline, and many logging concessions in the Bornean provinces of East and North Kalimantan have recently paused or stopped timber extraction, Zuzana Burivalova, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, U.S., and her colleagues observed. This piqued their interest: what was happening in the inactive concessions?
To explore this possibility, my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Elections Research Center and I presented Democratic primary voters with a longer menu of reasons for their choice of candidates. In statewide surveys of 3,600 adults across the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we asked respondents whether they planned to vote in their states’ primaries.
Quoted: “Wiping down surfaces on a plane won’t hurt, as long as it doesn’t give you a false sense of security,” Andrew Mehle, associate professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said, stressing that sanitizing your space on a plane should be done in conjunction with washing hands and following other best practices.
For UW-Madison professors Thomas Friedrich and David O’Connor, some of the biggest questions are how the virus made its way to humans in the first place, why it causes more severe illness than some other coronaviruses and how long it persists in the body.
As an extension vegetable crops specialist and researcher with a joint appointment in horticulture and agricultural economics, John specialized in potatoes, developing a production and management program for growing the Russet Burbank variety successfully in Wisconsin.
Prices for annual parking permits at the University of Wisconsin-Madison increased by up to 5% this academic year, nearing the end of a six-year process to streamline an outdated system from three to two price tiers.
UW-Madison has opened a second investigation into the professor at the center of a “toxic” engineering lab who was previously disciplined after the suicide of a graduate student.
The University of Wisconsin placed her on paid leave in mid-2019 after colleagues inside and outside the hospital accused her of intimidation or retaliation, an internal letter shows.
A new book from University of Wisconsin-Madison poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson — “Imperial Liquor” — taps into themes of paternal protectiveness, the pervasiveness of racism and the possibility of empathy.
Patterson announced Monday that he’ll step down in December . Patterson has served as chancellor at the school since July 2010. He drew intense criticism from faculty and students in 2018 after administrators proposed eliminating 13 programs to help cope with a $4.5 million deficit.
The testing will be done at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and at the Milwaukee Health Department, health officials said.
“(The program) had the potential to be so amazing because it’s immersed into the city and you get to see so much of it, but then if something like this happens, it’s all taken away,” said UW junior Molly Davis.
For all of her career accomplishments, Pember, a member of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, can still remember way back in 1985 when she was the first Native woman to graduate from the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication (or, as faculty and alumni call it, the J-School).
Researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and others analyzed groundwater data collected by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from 2000 to 2018. They found radium levels were trending upward in wells drawing from a regional aquifer underlying the southern two-thirds of the state. The findings were published in a American Water Works Association journal.
UW-Madison officials announced Saturday that in response to the virus outbreak overseas they have recalled 170 students studying in Italy, in accordance with the university’s international travel policy. The university and several other UW system campuses previously suspended exchange programs in South Korea and China.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate passed two resolutions Monday, one to approve the academic staff title “professor of practice” and another to add emergency and helpline numbers to faculty/staff identification cards.
Officials are dusting off a “campus pandemic plan” put together 10 years ago when the H1N1 virus became a worldwide concern, she said. The plan is being reviewed and updated to prepare for the possibility of coronavirus spreading to campus.
Aformer UW doctor was sentenced last week to 18 months of probation after he pleaded guilty to fourth-degree sexual assault for an incident at a clinic in 2016.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank named Steve Ackerman the next vice chancellor for research and graduate education, one of a handful of high-profile positions that report directly to Blank. The job entails overseeing $1.2 billion in annual research spending and thousands of graduate students.
Quoted: “Whatever the magic was in 2008, it’s not been re-created this year in terms of bringing out voters,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chancellor Bernie Patterson will retire in December, giving the University of Wisconsin System time to search for his successor. He announced his departure Monday in an email to students, staff and faculty.
Quoted: Barry Burden, who is the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison, says that mail-in ballots also take longer to count in some cases: Checking that ballot signatures match, problems with mail-in envelopes, and myriad other issues can all slow things down.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created LRRK2 mutants in both embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells (ESCs and iPSCs, respectively). They allowed these cells to grow into mature neurons, to compare the growth characteristics of all cells.
Several medical experts reviewed biological, political factors driving epidemic.
As debate rages on about just how far is too far, UW balances research, public opinion, policy.
CET Academic Programs suspended its Spring term programs in Florence and Siena after the Center for Disease Control issued a level three travel warning Friday recommending avoidance of non-essential travel to Italy.
Patterson, who began serving as chancellor in 2010, will officially step down in December to allow time for the UW System to find a replacement.
In the upcoming days, Israelis will probably be barraged with divisive campaign rhetoric, which our research suggests increases partisan polarization. However, if the election delivers another divided result, right- and left-wing politicians may wish to overcome the deadlock and form a unity government. Doing so, politicians may be able to mitigate some of the animosity caused by recurring exposure to electoral competition over the past year. But the tone of the campaign suggests that this is unlikely.
Lotem Bassan-Nygate is a PhD student in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Twitter: @BassanNygate
Chagai M. Weiss is a PhD candidate in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a research affiliate of the Elections Research Center. Twitter: @chagai_weiss
One possibility is that Trump will end up asking the Taliban for deeper concessions to reassure voters. But the big question is whether Trump’s hawkish reputation is enough to offset public skepticism about a peace deal with the Taliban.
Jessica L.P. Weeks is associate professor of political science and Trice faculty scholar at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Anderson earned his PhD at MIT and went on to teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was the chair of the meteorology department. The American Meteorological Society has named an award for Anderson, recognizing work promoting diversity in the atmospheric sciences.
Quoted: “An outbreak is not going to happen simultaneously, everywhere,” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, who studies vaccinations and immunization policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wetselaar began working at Molson Coors in 2018, according to his LinkedIn page. Before working at the brewery, Wetselaar worked on nuclear submarines as a member of the U.S. Navy. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a political science degree.
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “What benefit you see is probably because once you are on the rolls you are visible to canvassers and campaigns, making it possible for them to reach out to you,” he says. “Registering people to vote is not a silver bullet.”
Yet the tuition fee of $74,520 for the 54 credit hours required to complete the course is comparable with that for a residential MBA at a school such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison or Texas A&M.
“We know now how to insert a single mutation, a point mutation, into the marmoset stem cell,” says Marina Emborg, professor of medical physics and leader of University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists who conducted the study. “This is an exquisite model of Parkinson’s. For testing therapies, this is the perfect platform.”
Smith is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Florida and President of ElectionSmith, Inc. He is a nationally-recognized expert on direct democracy, campaign finance, and voting rights in the American states. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his B.A. in History from Penn State.
When it comes to climate change there’s a lot of talk of species moving north as temperatures change — but don’t expect a lockstep northward march of species, said Jack Williams, a University of Wisconsin-Madison expert on ecological responses to climate change.
There’s also injury from electrocution when there are code violations,” said Dr. Geoffrey Swain, a retired family physician who worked on the research report funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and the Joseph and Vera Zilber Charitable Foundation.
“When you change the conditions and those winters become more extreme, the plant is disoriented,” said Amaya Atucha, fruit crop specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nitrogen management is a huge struggle for potato farmers, said Chris Kucharik, chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Agronomy Department.
While it depends on the style of cheese, Mark Johnson, assistant director of the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says it averages to about 10 pounds of milk for 1 pound of cheese.
Fetal tissue used for research is primarily obtained from elective abortions, which women can consent to donate after deciding to terminate a pregnancy. This is because there are some major limitations to tissue obtained through other means, such as miscarriages, according to Anita Bhattacharyya, a stem cell scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Waisman Center.
More spectators used their University of Wisconsin football tickets for games at Camp Randall Stadium in 2019 than the year before.
The UW System’s 12 other branch campuses face a similar storm of challenges: rising costs, repeated budget cuts and a tuition freeze for 12 of the past 14 years.
Amid coronavirus outbreaks in Italy, CET Academic Programs has offered two options to current UW-Madison students in Florence: depart home to the U.S. for three weeks, study remotely and return before March 23 or remain in Florence and continue attending classes in person.
He worked most recently at the Do-It Tech Store on the UW campus before retiring in 2017.
The 92nd annual student art show is now up and running at the Memorial Union, highlighting sculptures, neon installations and paintings created and curated by University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
Rhea lived and worked in Madison for 32 years, first at the Preschool Lab on the UW-Madison Campus and later in other organizations related to the care and education of children.
Omer Poler has spent most of the past decade as an outreach specialist for the UW-Madison Information School, supporting tribal librarians, archivists and museum curators across the state.
Brenna Siebold had just returned home from teaching third grade at Mount Horeb Intermediate Center. Her 9-month-old son, home with his sitter, was acting sluggish. She took Leo’s temperature: 103 degrees.
UW–Madison has suspended all university-sponsored student programs in Italy following elevated warnings from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and State Department in response to the global spread of the new COVID-19 coronavirus.
Stephanie Diem, an associate professor in the department of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has worked on nuclear fusion for more than two decades since she came to the UW as a freshman.
At UW-Madison, scientists are working to build non-human primate models to test medical countermeasures such as vaccines and therapeutics. David O’Connor from the School of Medicine and Public Health and Thomas Friedrich from the School of Veterinary Medicine are a big part of that team, which is hoping to work with others around the world.
UW Health kicked off National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month with its 19th Annual Bowlin’ for Colons fundraiser at multiple bowling alleys around Dane County on Sunday.
This past Thursday, College Democrats of UW-Madison elected to endorse student candidates Max Prestigiacomo and Elena Haasl for the upcoming April 7 elections for District 8 Alder and District 5 County Board of Supervisors respectively.
