“Between 2008 and 2015, the prices for the most commonly used drugs increased 164 percent,” he said during a talk Friday at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty. “I think this leads to unsustainable spending.”
Letter to the editor: Faculty in the University of Wisconsin System are many things — underpaid, undervalued, and working under former Gov. Scott Walker-era policies that continue to wreak havoc on universities across the state.
Quoted: UW-Madison education professor Julie Mead, who studies legal issues in the schools, said she was “not aware of research on zero tolerance policies regarding employees or the effectiveness or such policies.” Jirs Meuris, a UW-Madison professor of management and human resources, said “there’s not much research on zero tolerance in workplaces that I know of beyond some work on drug policies,” and “in that case, frequent testing and harsh penalties do deter it.”
“These frequencies are really public resources,” said Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor of telecommunications. “So when television stations get paid, or radio stations get paid, to rejigger their frequencies, and then cell phone companies or whoever else gets to pay to use it, there’s a complicated auction system involved, and the public gets some kind of reimbursement.”
The state of Wisconsin, including UW-Madison, intends to increase the minimum wage for its hourly employees to $15 an hour, according to statements issued Friday by the university and Gov. Tony Evers.
Jennifer Angus, a professor in the Design Studies department at UW-Madison, has had a busy autumn.
An exhibition that Mace co-curated, titled “Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas,” is on view through Dec. 6 at the Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery in the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology building.
On this week’s “Center Stage” political podcast Milfred and Hands play audio from and comment on the recent debate between President Donald Trump booster Stephen Moore and never-Trumper Max Boot on the UW-Madison campus.
Quoted: Steven Deller is an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says US employment figures are somewhat deceptive.
In his new book, “The Feeling of Life Itself,” Koch advocates for integrated information theory, or IIT, developed by Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. IIT doesn’t ask how matter gives rise to consciousness — rather, it takes as a given certain attributes of consciousness, and asks what kinds of physical systems would be needed to support them.
Borman and his team looked at more 1,300 sixth-graders at all 11 middle schools in Madison and found one of the main struggles for those students was a need to fit in.
The Chocolate Shoppe can make about 11 ice cream flavors at any time, but Babcock Dairy Hall can make as many as 26.
“(I’m) not prepared for it this early, honestly,” said student Jerrod Gotchy. “Way too soon!”
Alec Ingold scored his first NFL touchdown Thursday night for the Oakland Raiders.
The award-winning UW–Madison Odyssey Project can claim another accolade. They set a fundraising record at the Madison Club’s annual Charity Gala, raising more than $200,000 to provide educational access to adults living at the poverty level and wraparound services to empower them and their families to transform their lives.
Aaron Bird Bear says the new Our Shared Future heritage marker on Bascom Hill helps recognize the inherent sovereignty of indigenous nations, what he calls “the big fundamental.”
On this week’s “Center Stage” political podcast Milfred and Hands play audio from and comment on the recent debate between President Donald Trump booster Stephen Moore and never-Trumper Max Boot on the UW-Madison campus.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans are encouraged to be in their seats 15 minutes early for the home opener against Eastern Illinois on Friday night.
The head of the UW Board of Regents has broken decades of precedent by appointing a search committee for the next University of Wisconsin System president that does not include any faculty members or academic staff.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has settled a lawsuit by the family of a windsurfer killed in a collision with a university boat.
Quoted: Others are more positive. “This is really cool,” says John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He notes that D. guggenmosi’s shin bone looks a lot like that of a hominin. But he is unconvinced that bipedality, or hominins, began in Europe. He says that, around 11 million years ago, apes were expanding and diversifying, so finding a fossil in one place isn’t proof that it originated there.
Quoted: Jordan Gerth, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said some parts of the state have already seen 20 percent of their normal annual snowfall, which is unusual when compared to a normal November.
Quoted: And theoretically, there’s a correlation between getting more because you work harder, said Evan Polman, a professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Business. “Inheritance is a violation of that correlation.”
Prior to Friday night’s home opener, the UW basketball team will recognize assistant coach Howard Moore, whose family was involved in a tragic auto accident that claimed the lives of Moore’s wife, Jen, and 9-year-old daughter, Jaidyn.
Yu Chen, 43, of Madison, died on May 31 when he was struck by a UW Lifesaving Station boat while he was windsurfing.
Moore’s family was involved in a tragic auto accident that claimed the lives of Moore’s wife, Jen, and 9-year-old daughter, Jaidyn. Moore is currently on medical leave.
As colder months approach, we must deconstruct narratives surrounding stereotypes related to clothing purchases.
Graduate students release letter detailing hopes for change.
Program helps support necessity for diversity across UW, says new program director.
“When students have good post-graduation options, they are more likely to stay focused and excited about completing their degrees,” Provost John Karl Scholz said in the release.
“This is excellent news for Wisconsin families concerned about the cost of higher education,” Blank said in the release. “We know that students who take longer than four years often accrue additional debt.”
WSB does not require sustainability business classes within its curriculum, meaning an overwhelming majority of graduates are unaware of the business implications and solutions to climate change.
But while Babcock Hall at UW-Madison is undergoing renovations, Babcock ice cream is being made by the Chocolate Shoppe, and flavors have been scaled back.
UW-Madison has paid $850,000 to the family of a windsurfer killed in 2017 in a collision with a UW Lake Safety lifesaving boat, settling a wrongful death lawsuit the family filed earlier this year against the UW Lifesaving Station and four of its employees.
At a school populated by more than 66,000 humans, 30 robots should be an insignificant minority. But, within days of arriving on campus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Starship Robots have created significant distractions and built up an online presence far greater than their small, six-wheeled frames.
Included in plans for a 42,000 square foot, three-story addition to be built over the southwest corner loading dock are expanded facilities for academics, sports medicine and strength and conditioning.
UW-Madison plans to start centrally tracking complaints of hostile and intimidating behavior to better identify patterns of bullying, such as the “abusive” conduct graduate students experienced in an engineering professor‘s lab.
For many years, Barry has served as an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, using her method to teach both adults and children to get in touch with a creative impulse that is simultaneously deep, mysterious and irrational and trainable, biddable and reliable (with practice).
Quoted: “Setting aside instances where an incumbent president is running for re-election, Democrats in the modern era have fared better when nominating new faces rather than Washington insiders,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Robotic delivery company Starship Technologies is deploying 30 robots at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, giving more than 66,000 students, staff and faculty access to autonomous food delivery.
They followed members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a periodic survey of a sample of the state’s high school graduates that began in 1957. From 2004, the survey included data on whether participants had given money to charity or others, volunteered, cared for someone other than a spouse or given substantial time and energy in support of family or friends.
Quoted: “A night or two? Not so much,” said Mark Eppli, a University of Wisconsin business professor who reviewed financial data on Trump’s hotel in Chicago at the request of The Post. “It’s one night out of 365.”
University of Wisconsin director of track and field and cross country Mick Byrne was named the Big Ten Conference’s men’s cross country Coach of the Year for the second year in a row, the league announced Tuesday.
Disruption is a form of protest and banning it is undemocratic.
Klaus retired in 2007 as the Weinstein-Bascom Professor of German and Jewish studies, having been awarded prizes, including an Integrated Liberal Arts Teaching Award, the Hilldale Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin political science professor Katherine Cramer gave a talk on community-driven listening and democracy as a part of the Wisconsin Idea lecture series, Tuesday night.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank welcomed attendees at the school’s 20th annual Diversity Forum on Tuesday by encouraging them to leave with “a new sense of the role you can play in making the University of Wisconsin a more diverse and a more inclusive place.”
Professionally, Dr. Hoekstra was on faculty in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1954 until his retirement in 1990.
UW-Madison graduate student Sally Rohrer was appointed Tuesday to an open seat on Madison’s City Council.
“[Character is] not what we do when everyone’s watching — that’s easy,” he said. “It’s what we do even when no one is watching. It’s all about — as Spike Lee would say — doing the right thing.”
“Hate crimes in this country are up by 20% over the last two years,” he said. “Politicians keep talking about building higher and higher walls around this country, when in my humble opinion, we should be building stronger and stronger bridges between the beautiful mosaic of people in this country.”
Mehta has a lot of heart, which she pours into her day job as a physician at UW-Health.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Geoffrey Borman
The university is the fourth, and largest, college campus to introduce the robots.
This type of inclement weather was actually the first thing I thought about when Starship sent me a press release today announcing that its robots are now rolling around the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), delivering food.
Quoted: Daniel Wright is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of research include extreme rainfall and its effects on flooding, modeling the potential effects of heavy precipitation in different landscapes, and projecting the role of climate change in these risks.
Newly published data from University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show that despite reductions in mercury emissions in the United States, levels of the toxin found in Great Lakes trout have not declined at the same rate.
A University of Wisconsin instructor in Madison, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of backlash for speaking about politics as a public employee, said that recent political squabbles have damaged the state’s conviviality. “There is fatigue from all the chaos. Norms have been broken. Families are not speaking to each other. Friends are not speaking to each other.”
After sweeping two opponents, the University of Wisconsin volleyball team nearly swept the Big Ten Conference weekly honors.
The NCAA’s Board of Governors last week directed its three divisions to draft new rules on student-athletes benefiting from their names, images and likenesses, and to have those rules enacted by January 2021.
