Alando Tucker and Jolene Anderson, both of whom closed their collegiate careers as the Big Ten Conference player of the year, are part of the group that will be honored in September.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities in the state.
Robert worked … at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Physical Plant Associate Director for 30 years.
“We want to be able to offer very rapid, low-cost confirmatory testing of genetic disorders,” said Dr. Christine Seroogy, a pediatric immunologist and associate professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. “Additionally, it could be cost-saving, in that we are diagnosing the disorders early, which saves the families lots of diagnostic testing.”
Quoted: “What attracted Lincoln is they’re so incredibly interesting,” said Karen Oberhauser, a monarch expert and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.
Neglect, abuse, violence and trauma endured early in life can ripple directly into a child’s molecular structure and distort their DNA, according to a new study this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities in the state.
Genetic testing of embryos “is being accepted more and implemented more,” said Dr. Christina Broadwell, medical director of Generations, UW Health’s fertility clinic.
Hormone therapy doesn’t increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, especially in healthy women who take natural estrogen around the age of menopause, according to new UW-Madison research.
And while a small telescope or binoculars can expose Jupiter’s moons and Saturn’s rings, a group of astronomers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is encouraging amateur sky watchers to revel in its dotted canvas from one of Wisconsin’s state parks.
Thousands of miles of buried fiberoptic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oregon, reports news.wisc.edu.
As UW-Madison economics professor Noah Williams wrote in a recent commentary on the impact of hefty minimum wage increases in Minnesota, “The distortions from the minimum wage increases led to higher incomes for some workers, but lower employment particularly among young and low-skilled workers, and higher prices for the products of low-skilled labor.”
Research conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that girls who grow up in stressful environments are more likely to experience physical and emotional problems, including anxiety, depression and mood disorders.
Kangwoo is a doctoral student in piano at UW-Madison and a teacher who’s won at least 10 prestigious competitions. He’s performed as a soloist with the UW Symphony Orchestra and on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Officers drove from all over Wisconsin and as far as Michigan and Iowa to help create a new active threat training video that will keep more students safe on campus. The video was filmed at UW-Madison’s Law School.
The Wisconsin HOPE Lab at UW-Madison, which made headlineswith research showing many college students struggle to find enough to eat and a place to live, has closed with the expiration of its funding.
Both Annie Pankowski and Sophia Shaver say they hope nothing will change with them assuming the captaincy of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team.
This Sunday, Rebecca Blank will mark the fifth anniversary of her starting date as Madison chancellor. That matches Shalala’s tenure, but maybe we should look at Blank’s as a de facto 10 years, because for all of her time here, Blank has essentially held two jobs.
Former Wisconsin football player and U.S. Marine Sgt. Jake Wood accepted the Pat Tillman Service Award at the ESPY’s Wednesday night.
Noted: New research out this week shows liver cancer death rates are going in the wrong direction, despite the fact that death rates for all cancers combined is going down. Dr. Sam Lubner with the UW Carbone Cancer Center talks about the trend.
Omar Poler, a Sokaogon Chippewa and interim coordinator of American Indian Curriculum Services at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shares stories of the ancient effigy mounds that can be found around campus and in the Madison area.
Natalie touched many lives throughout her professional career as an editor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, and later she worked as an editor for the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) program will recognize 121 PEOPLE high school scholars for their outstanding accomplishments.
Noted: Dr. Phil Greenwood, a senior lecturer at the Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship at the UW School of Business, talks about this hot topic in entrepreneurship.
Rhodes-Conway works at a UW–Madison think tank center on Wisconsin strategy.
In his talk at Lockdown, a cybersecurity conference organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s IT department, Hagen discussed the security “event” that he learned about over that secure phone line: Online agents had hacked the campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, stealing thousands of emails and documents in the process.
Organizers from the UW Carbone Cancer Center Pancreas Cancer Task Force are planning a 50-kilometer-plus bike ride, a 10K bike ride and a two-mile stroll for the event. Prices range from $20 to $100 but increase by $10 on July 20.
More than a dozen sports teams or leagues have paused their marketing relationships with a national pizza chain whose founder admitted to using a racial slur.
No one likes getting a parking ticket, and now it may feel even worse for those at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
He’s a product geek and fanatic problem solver with a passion for improving efficiency and reducing ambiguity.
Quoted: “One mistake I made was telling my kids ‘we can’t afford that’ when they asked for something, even if it wasn’t quite true,” said Elizabeth Odders-White, a mom and associate professor of finance at Wisconsin School of Business
Joel DeSpain, a spokesperson with the Madison Department, said the student was scammed out of $27,000 to “prove her innocence” after being talked into believing she was a suspect in a money-laundering crime.
Interestingly, from last year to this year the same number of schools topped 40% international enrollment: seven … A pair of northern publics, the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management (20.5%) and Wisconsin School of Business (20.2%) were at the low end as well, though in Carlson’s case the total represented aa jump of 4.4 points from last year.
Q&A with St. John, a 2018 MBA recipient.
If you’ve heard it’s next to impossible for Wisconsin kids to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison, here’s the scoop.
The University of Wisconsin has added Georgia Southern to its football schedule for the 2023 season, according to a release from Georgia Southern.
Noted: Lyric Bartholomay, professor in UW-Madison’s Departments of Comparative Biomedical Sciences and Entomology, said that Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by dog ticks, also called wood ticks, that have long been ubiquitous across the state.
From Vitamin D and human embryonic stem cells to blood thinners and new treatment avenues for patients with Alzheimer’s Disease, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been home to numerous scientific advances since its founding in 1849.
The scientific question eluded researchers around the world for more than a century.
“To see someone who was associated with the KKK is a slap in the face of that and is a reminder of the continued brutalization of people of color in America,” said one student.
Noted: Laws that keep offenders in a state facility even after they’ve served their sentence might keep offenders from committing repeat offenses, but the regulations are costly and states that have adopted the laws do not have lower recidivism rates, said Michael Caldwell, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Luke Zoet is an assistant professor of geoscience with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says erosion makes bluffs steeper and more prone to small-or medium-scale landslides.
The former Wisconsin Badgers football star donated $10,000 to the family of the firefighter who died in a Sun Prairie explosion,
“I’m a nurse at UW and these are our people — fire, first responders, police — and we feel honored to give back.”
Dr. Stein was a highly respected psychiatrist and professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin medical center.
Jack Pettinger, the winningest coach in the history of the University of Wisconsin men’s swimming and diving program, died Tuesday. He was 79.
Huong Nguyen-Hilfiger, a population health project manager for UW Health, is being nominated to fill a vacancy on the Dane County Board of Supervisors until a spring special election.
The governing body of UW-Madison’s Memorial Union heard impassioned pleas from both sides Wednesday in the debate over whether to rename spaces in the Union named for two prominent alumni who, while students, belonged to a campus group called “Ku Klux Klan.”
The Director of Wisconsin Union UW-Madison, Mark Guthier, said “The fact that they kind of go away during the winter and reemerge and there’s a kind of an annual ritual of them coming back out and bringing life back to the terrace and to Madison really is part of what makes them unique!”
Those who support changing the name of the gallery said that any associations between the university and the KKK make spaces uncomfortable for marginalized students.
Community members spoke out Wednesday afternoon on whether two Memorial Union rooms — both named after alumni who were members of a 1920s campus organization called “Ku Klux Klan” should be renamed.
“Air conditioning saves lives from heat waves,” Jonathan Patz, who directs the University of Wisconsin’s Global Health Institute, told Earther. “But if the electricity to run air conditioners requires coal-fired power plants, then we have a problem.”
By the time Speaker of the House Paul Ryan declared in April that he would be returning home to Janesville rather than running for reelection, Wisconsin had experienced one of the largest declines of the middle class of any state in the country. Its poverty rate had climbed to a thirty-year high; the state’s roads were the second worst in the country; the University of Wisconsin–Madison had fallen, for the first time, out of the rankings of the country’s top five research schools. A study estimated that 11 percent of the state’s population was deterred from voting in the 2016 presidential election by Wisconsin’s new voter ID law, one of the strictest in the nation.
Quoted: “Sometimes we don’t know what to do with emotions,” so parents channel them into packing and shopping to feel productive, said Beth Miller, a coordinator for residence life at University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been involved in campus life for the past 17 years. “But sometimes parents are purchasing things based on emotion and not necessarily based on need.”
Quoted: “The good thing about dog ticks is they’re big enough that we typically pull them off. You see them, you get them off and need not worry,” said Lyric Bartholomay, associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. She also co-directs the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease.
According to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, increased use of air conditioners may only be making a bad problem even worse.
Roksa and her co-author, Peter Kinsley, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Madison, surveyed 728 students in their first year at a two- or four-year institution and who had applied for financial aid in Wisconsin. Roksa asked each student about the financial and emotional support they received from their families and how engaged they were on campus and collected information about their academic success to determine how the three measures were related. The results were recently published in Research in Higher Education. The abstract is available here.
Noted: In research published in March, scientists with the Forest Service and University of Wisconsin-Madison reported that 43 million homes now lie within the so-called WUI. After decades of new housing additions, the WUI footprint has swelled to 190 million acres — an expanse 10 percent larger than the state of Texas. Based on those trends, the U.S. wildfire problem could have as much to do with people’s preferences to live near forests and nature as it does a changing climate.
Forums will be held next week about the names of two spaces in Memorial Union, named for two men with links to the Ku Klux Klan.
As a way for individuals to be a part of the new Hamel Music Center, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is kicking off a new seat-naming campaign.
