Quoted: Malls that haven’t done anything to change their appeal struggle today, said Jerry O’Brien, director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
University of Wisconsin history professor William Powell Jones said efforts in Indiana and Michigan, and now Wisconsin, are part of a recent push. “Now we’re at a point where unions represent less than 10 percent of private sector workers,” Jones said. “That puts the opponents of unions in a position to push even harder for laws, particularly in states like Wisconsin or Michigan that have traditionally had very strong union movements.”
University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross is proposing changes in three main areas in an effort to enhance quality and affordability.
The past two years have brought unprecedented public focus on the issue of sexual assault on campuses. The issue is hardly new, but a combination of factors — more women speaking out about being attacked, media attention, heightened scrutiny from the White House — has changed the discussion. The reaction to “A Rape on Campus,” an article published in Rolling Stone last month, reflected this changed environment.
Noted: The historical influence of other languages on our regional English happened in “weird, twisty ways,” said Joe Salmons, the Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert professor of Germanic linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
PEWAUKEE, Wis. — The Watt brothers have always been competitive — with others ideally, with each other when necessary — whether playing their first love, hockey; their current sport, football; or their family pastime of shinny, a pickup hockey game that is specific to their basement.
Quoted: Real growth means that every racially-charged story – not just those that grab headlines or generate hashtags – is put into context, scrutinized for bias and examined in as many perspectives as possible, said Hemant Shah, director of the School of Journalism and Communication and a professor of mass media, race and ethnicity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “We’re anticipating for 2015 that [price] to average out to about $16.50 per hundred pound,” says Brian Gould, professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. “That’s a pretty significant drop, but $16.50 per hundred pounds is historically a reasonable…price, given what current grade markets are.”
On Saturday night, the UW-Madison Dance Department presented the 2014 edition of its annual Kloepper Concert, a showcase of new student works by 10 choreographers solo or in groups and the Freshman Workshop.
Nearly 100 University of Wisconsin-Madison students held a vigil outside the Kohl Center toward the end of the Duke-Wisconsin basketball game to demonstrate solidarity with victims of police brutality, including Mike Brown, the unarmed teenager who was shot to death by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, who was choked to death by New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo. A Staten Island grand jury ended the criminal case against Pantaleo Wedneday, kicking off mass protests in New York and around the country. The students gathered outside the UW basketball game held signs and stood in silence to pay their respects.
Translation is difficult and a good translator, sometimes, needs a mystical third eye to understand what the author is trying to say, said professor emeritus of Urdu, Persian and Islamic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr Muhammad Umar Memon on Wednesday evening.
WASHINGTON — The second White House college summit held Thursday was bigger and focused on a broader range of institutions than the inaugural January event.
If you believe industry insiders—and a considerable amount of media hype—desktop 3D printers are about to become the proverbial next big thing, as companies like MakerBot, 3D Systems, and Solidoodle find ways to create more reliable, user-friendly printers that consumers and most professional designers can afford.
Some college leaders have dismissed the White House’s Summit on College Opportunity—the second installment of which takes place on Thursday—as a dog-and-pony show focused more on drawing attention than on stoking action. But all of the more than 100 institutions that scored invitations to the first summit, held in January, had to pledge to do something to expand college access for needy students.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is once again gathering hundreds of college presidents here today for a second White House-run summit that will promote new commitments to help low-income students.
A mega volcano field in Chile has the potential to trigger an eruption 100 times bigger than that seen at Mount St Helens, experts have said.
Upstairs from a dining hall on a snowy evening, four American Indian students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison drum and sing together at a feast for veterans. Drum rituals are an important part of native culture, a valuable way for these students to keep a link to their traditions while living far away from their communities.
Quoted: “It’s an easy thing to throw around,” says Christine Whelan, director of Money, Relationships and Equality, and a faculty associate in the School of Human Ecology at University of Wisconsin, Madison, told TODAY. “The divorce statistics are very complicated.”
Lake sturgeon have been on the planet for 150 million years. Despite that long residency, scientists are still learning about these fish, the largest found in North America. An enduring question is what contributes to their survival skills. Answer: Sound. As one factor anyway.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Craig Werner wants to bust the many myths that he says cloud the public’s understanding of the 1960s.
Quoted: Gwendolyn Leachman, a UW-Madison Law School professor, says that noncompete agreements are disfavored by the law because they are potential restraints on trade. But the courts will uphold them, including two-year terms, she says, “if they are reasonably necessary for the protection of the employer.”
Travel can be more than a vacation. Many also find it educational to experience new surroundings and cultures. Joy Cardin talks to a guest from UW-Madison’s study abroad program about what we can learn by leaving our home turf–at any age.
A new computer system is better than scientists at the complex task of extracting data from scientific publications and placing it in a database that catalogues the results of thousands of individual studies.
Two speakers coming to the Northwoods this week will discuss water relationships in northern Wisconsin. Lakes, streams and wetlands are abundant in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. Emily Stanley from UW Madison’s Center for Limnology says the water resources here are intricately linked, and are really one resource.
A recurring phrase from candidates in the fall 2014 elections, especially those hoping to deflect questions about climate change, the Keystone pipeline or labeling of genetically modified foods, was “I’m not a scientist…”
Despite decades of research, hundreds of campus task forces, and millions invested in bold experiments, college drinking remains as much of a problem as ever.
Hard data on bullying in academe are scant, especially in comparison to the robust research on the subject within the business world. But anecdotal data suggest bullying by academics is a problem; everyone seems to have a bullying story, or several, and a blog post on faculty jerks from an Australian academic went viral last year. At the same time, administrators’ attempts at making policies about or even encouraging civility are historically controversial. Most recently, Nicholas Dirks, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, faced harsh faculty criticism over a memo on the importance of civility.
A foreign University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student suspected of rape has managed to flee the country and flee from justice, even though a Milwaukee County judge took his passport. And it’s not the first time it’s happened.
The University of Toledo found a student responsible for his role in the stabbing death of his roommate, but he wasn’t expelled from the school or charged criminally.
Noted: This trend is spread across numerous districts in the state — mostly urban and rural rather than suburban — that are trying to solve budget challenges left by declining enrollment by attracting open enrollment, according to Erica Turner, assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “It’s wonderful to get parents into college. It’s a whole other thing to support them so they get their degree,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I am very worried about the amount of financial risk that’s accruing to the people who are starting college with very little resources.”
Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll, executive producer of the doc Mass Extinction: Life At the Brink, on why mankind’s days are numbered.
Noted: Over all, research finds that single-sex education does not show significant academic benefits — or drawbacks. Janet Hyde, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who analyzed 184 studies covering 1.6 million children around the globe, said the studies showing increased academic performance often involved other factors that could not be disentangled from the effects of the single-gender component.
Quoted: “The silence is deafening,” said Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is more free to discuss the issue because he is based outside Thailand. “This subject is forbidden from open and reasonable discussion. This fact tells a lot about Thai society today.”
In 1951 Ms. Hinkson and Matt Turney, her roommate at the University of Wisconsin, became the first black dancers to join the Graham company.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently, Christopher Taylor was practicing Bach ’s “Goldberg Variations,” his fingers dancing over 164 keys and two stacked keyboards.
A recent study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison offers one of the most detailed records of the variation in temperature between cities and the surrounding rural areas, known as the urban heat island effect.
Thongchai Winichakul has been watching these developments with dismay. A leading scholar of Thai history, Thongchai witnessed a previous military crackdown firsthand as a student and pro-democracy activist.
Schimel also has tapped former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow; Brian O’Keefe, a current DOJ administrator; and Raymond Taffora, vice chancellor of legal affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former Wisconsin deputy attorney general, to serve on the team.
The booster-seat education program was developed by UW-Madison nursing students as their clinical project for the health department.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia heads into an extraordinary meeting of its governing board on Tuesday struggling to find its footing, after a reported frat house gang rape rocked the university’s vaunted reputation and genteel self-image, and unleashed complaints that it had mishandled and concealed sexual assaults for years.
The Wisconsin Badgers currently have possession of Paul Bunyan’s Axe. If the Minnesota Gophers can pull off the upset over the Badgers on Saturday, they won’t have the chance to sprint across the field to the Badger sideline to take back the Axe.
Noted: “We’ve known for a long time that granite and glaciers played a fundamental role in the history of Tuolumne Meadows, but only recently have we recognized this relatively unique style of fracturing and how it influences the landscape in this popular location,” said lead study author Richard Becker, a doctoral student in geomorphology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison UW.
Quoted: “There’s going to be a big drop, nobody is trying to whitewash that,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: In a recent study, Jason Fletcher of the University of Wisconsin attempted to create a value added metric for doctors who handled hospitalizations. He found that having a doctor in the 75th rather than 25th percentile could mean a 10 percent decrease in costs and a five percent reduction in the length of a hospital stay.
Quoted: Joel Rogers, a professor of administrative law at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, reviewed a transcript of her comments and said they could be seen as improperly offering advice.
Quoted: “I’m a hunter myself, but I do not support allowing hunters to sell their meat,” says Tim Van Deelen, an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. Van Deelen worries about the effect a commercial market could have on rural deer populations, which are currently controlled by predators and hobby hunters.
Quoted: Patricia Devine, professor of social psychology at the University of Wisconsin, has written that three factors need to be in place to break a “prejudice habit.” One is that we must acknowledge that we hold biases, even if they are unconscious. The second is that we must be motivated to change. And the third is that we must give ourselves time to practice new ways of thinking, acting, and making decisions. I suspect that, as a nation, Step One — acknowledgment — is our major stumbling block. We have been in a collective denial about the extent, reality, and real-world effects of our racial biases for a very long time.
Just in time for the University of Wisconsin Badgers to hand over “Paul Bunyan’s Axe” to the University of Minnesota, UW football coach Gary Andersen has outlined a new policy that will prevent the ceremonial parading of the axe by the team that wins the game, and the ceremonial chopping of the goalposts.
Astute observers of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team might remember a handful of games when coach Bo Ryan wore a red sport coat. One of those times, his mother, Louise, happened to be watching on TV.
TRENTON – You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things to the next level? She seems to be throwing all the right signals.
Harvard University was hit with a federal lawsuit this week, alleging that its admissions policies discriminate based on race and ethnicity, particularly against Asian-Americans. Filed in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts by the Students for Fair Admissions, the lawsuit compares Harvard’s treatment of Asian-American applicants today to the way it considered Jewish applicants years ago. And it suggests ways Harvard could go about creating racial and ethnic balance in its student population, including eliminating what the lawsuit terms legacy preferences.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison started mapping pollution in the country by following grievances about it on social media.
Most drugs now used to treat the flu have a straightforward strategy: attack the virus. But a new study out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes that it might be possible to take another approach. Researchers there have discovered a way to reduce the cellular material inside a person that influenza cells use to multiply. A news release from the university likens it to “cutting the fuel line on a bank robber’s getaway car.”
In order to better understand how the brain works, one of the areas cognitive neuroscientists are exploring is how it functions while we are dreaming and how we process information while we observe actual events.
Quoted: Yet this chart of executive orders actually shows us very little about presidential power, as Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me when I was reporting a feature this summer. Mayer is the author of the book With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power, so he should know.
If you go to HarvardNotFair.org, you’ll find yourself on a page that says this: Were You Denied Admission to Harvard? It may be because you’re the wrong race.
I was saddened by Bill Lueders’ article about UW-Madison’s ethically questionable experimentation on the baby monkeys “On the death of my monkey,” Nov. 13.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison vice chancellor says the university needs to do a better job of explaining how academic research benefits the state after the state Assembly speaker suggested changes might be needed.
Noted: In my hunt through the research on influenza, I came across a very interesting finding. In a paper published in the Annals of Family Medicine, Dr. Bruce Barrett and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin-Madison looked into the benefits of meditation and exercise for prevention of the flu.
