Quartz: “Journalists have obligations to relay information within real contexts. To put fake food—and what appears to be Western food and alcohol at that—in front of these subjects and staging them to cover their faces feels exploitative,” said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 2016, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University found that curiosity could dramatically change people’s behavior for the better. Among other things, they discovered that posting a trivia question next to an elevator and telling people the answer was in the stairwell could actually get more people to use the stairs!
Finding the funniest captions for hundreds of cartoons in The New Yorker magazine is not the ultimate application of an artificial intelligence tool developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The Big Ten commissioner, who addressed the media to open Big Ten Media Days on Monday, said the conference needs to “double down” on the educational element of sports gambling after a Supreme Court ruling this summer allows for states to legalize it.
There’s some reassuring news for healthy women taking hormone replacement therapy who are concerned about Alzheimer’s disease: University of Wisconsin-Madison research shows no increased risk for the most common type of dementia. But it also didn’t find any benefits to the brain.
The Madison Metropolitan School District partnered with UW-Madison to give kids in high school a chance to explore a future career in health care and veterinary medicine.
The National Transportation Safety Board released a report on a small plane crash in Lake Erie that left a pilot and five passengers dead. Among the victims was a UW student.
“Scams are becoming creative,” wrote Roopa Rawjee, assistant dean of students and director of international student services at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, in an email. “Scammers are coming up with new ideas and quickly moving on.” An international student at UW—Madison almost lost around $5,000 to scammers in an incident that occurred earlier this month, says Marc Lovicott, director of communications for the UW—Madison Police Department.
Research at the conference also included updates to the associations between hormone therapy and Alzheimer’s risk. Previous studies had suggested that women who start taking hormones in their late 60s and 70s have a higher rate of cognitive decline, a paper out of the University of Wisconsin school of medicine and public health found that risk to be elevated specifically for women with diabetes.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider.
Many media members who cover the Big Ten believe the University of Wisconsin football team has closed the gap on Ohio State as the conference’s best.
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!”
