Quoted: “Everybody has extreme limits in terms of multitasking,” said John Lee, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies human-technology interaction. “We can’t do two things at the same time without compromising performance on one of the two. That applies to police officers as it does to average drivers.”
President Barack Obama’s efforts to keep millions of illegal immigrants from being deported are being questioned by Republican opponents, but UW Madison political expert Ken Mayer said it is unlikely those concerns will go to court.
Before there was “Jump Around,” there was “You’ve Said It All.”
Noted: The University of Wisconsin at Madison has run open textbook pilots since early 2012, and offers instructors $1,500 stipends to participate. Speaking as a slideshow presentation showed a picture of a hedge maze, James M. Jonas, academic librarian at the university, stressed the importance of building faculty support for open resources.
China has some of the world’s worst pollution. But tracking it in all but the biggest cities can be impossible since local governments don’t release any data to the public.
Budget requests from Wisconsin government agencies exceed expected state revenues in the next two-year budget cycle. Those numbers will be a starting point for Republican Governor Scott Walker and GOP legislators as they begin the task of putting together a state budget – one they hope will include a tax cut.
A study probing directional flow of information in the brain has revealed that opposite pathways are at work when perceiving reality and daydreaming.
According to budget numbers released by the Walker administration on Thursday, the next state budget faces a $2.2 billion shortfall between what agencies want to spend and what the state is expected to generate in tax revenue.
“Madison has a tremendous venue for athletics, tremendous venues for the arts,” says David Nelson, a UW professor emeritus of biology. But aside from a few small UW departmental museums, “There really isn’t a place to go and hear and see about the history of science in Wisconsin.”
It may be the timeliest — and most troubling — idea in climate science. Back in 2012, two researchers with a particular interest in the Arctic, Rutgers’ Jennifer Francis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Stephen Vavrus, published a paper called “Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes.”
Noted: It’s kind of what the campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were thinking when they e-mailed what they thought were helpful safety tips such as, “If you present yourself as easy prey, then expect to attract some wolves.”
SAN FRANCISCO — Over the protests of hundreds of angry and chanting students, a panel of the University of California Board of Regents gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a plan to raise tuition 27.6 percent over five years, turning aside a last-ditch effort by Gov. Jerry Brown to block it.
A gunman was fatally shot by police after opening fire in a library at Florida State University early Thursday, sending hundreds of students who’d been studying for final exams running for their lives and cowering behind bookshelves. Three students were found suffering gunshot wounds at the scene.
A group of Harvard students, frustrated by the university’s refusal to shed fossil fuel stocks from its investment portfolios, is looking beyond protests and resolutions to a new form of pressure: the courts.
Quoted: “People used to always say, well, if private schools are bad, they’ll close. They won’t get the people to go, they’ll close. Public schools never close. That’s incorrect. Milwaukee closed the poorer public schools,” says John Witte, a UW-Madison professor who’s studied the results of vouchers.
Capitalism has created tremendous wealth and opportunity, but markets alone can’t solve social problems, says Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and former acting U.S. secretary of commerce. Here Blank makes the case that strong institutions can improve the functioning of markets and protect social goods.
The University of Wisconsin has recently acquired a rare collection of lichen specimens – about 60,000 of them, to be exact. The director of the Wisconsin State Herbatarium talks about the collection, and what we can learn from lichen about the world’s ecosystem.
Quoted: “You can’t say the program doesn’t work, because it has worked for some,” said Carolyn Heinrich, a former director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she focused on social welfare policy and labor force development.
Milwaukee-based wealth management firm Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. has partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business to fill an expected talent gap in its industry.
The effects of multiple sclerosis could be relieved by sending electric pulses through a patient’s mouth.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has to feed lots of people. On average, some 14,500 meals are served in the dormitory dining halls alone, every day.
Noted: A spokesman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison tells TheDC that Gruber was paid $4,990 for his speech there in Oct. 2013. The school also paid $1,126.90 for travel and lodging for Gruber. The spokesman said that the money came from a private endowment and not the school itself.
University of Wisconsin-Superior officials announced on Wednesday morning that the school will enter negotiations with a private company that would take over custodial and grounds services for the school.
I’d like to introduce Norm Doll, a consulting engineer and adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Doll also sits on the Heifer International Board of Directors as Chair of the Heifer Foundation, the global partner whose mission is to grow and oversee an endowment to support the work of Heifer International. Norm is going to tell you a little bit about toilets. His post originally appeared on the Heifer Blog.
Back in the 1980s, three economics professors, Robert Wilson of Stanford, Paul Milgrom of Northwestern and R. Preston McAfee University of Texas, worked together conducting research on “game theory and auctions.” It was just the sort of seemingly trivial, silly-sounding research that critics of universities point to, but it became crucial in 1993, when Congress granted the Federal Communications Commission authority to auction portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The three profs helped design the auction, helping pave the way for the telecommunications revolution.
There’s a lot of attention right now on diversity in children’s books – or, more accurately, the lack of it. It’s not a new problem. White people have been talking about this issue since Nancy Larrick published “The All-White World of Children’s Books” in Saturday Review back in 1965. People of color have been aware of it for much longer.
The “Jeopardy!” run for Hollander Mark Japinga is over — he went into Final Jeopardy in third place, bet it all and lost.
Hector DeLuca is the embodiment of nearly a century of University of Wisconsin research into Vitamin D, and he’s working to extend that reach for at least another generation or two.
Wisconsin Dells Girl Scout Brownie Troop 4311 presented plans for Little Free Libraries to the Wisconsin Dells Common Council Monday and asked for help from the community.
Two lawsuits filed Monday ask federal courts to block Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from considering race in admissions as the suit charges they are.
An advocacy group opposed to race-conscious college-admissions policies is urging federal courts to end their use around the nation through lawsuits filed on Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A lawsuit filed against UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday seeks to end the university’s use of race in admissions, contending that “race is a dominant factor” in decisions “to the detriment of white and Asian-American applicants.”
WHITEWATER–UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer will retire in June after 30 years of service to the university.
Isthmus contributor Bill Lueders reported on the life, death and research of r04040 at UW-Madison in the November 13 issue, and discussed his story with WORT producer Dylan Brogan on that day’s edition of In Our Backyard.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received its largest ever gift from a single contribution. UW officials announced over the weekend that alumni John and Tashia Morgridge have agreed to donate $100 million to the state’s flagship campus.
UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank used the word “transformative” to describe the $100 Million gift to the University John and Tashia Morgridge made last week.
The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may be producing the mysterious high-energy neutrinos, NASA scientists have found.
After living in this new town with new people for only about two months’ time, much of the student body here on the University of Wisconsin campus has begun to feel the pressures of finding a place to live next year. They’re being bombarded with flyers and propaganda screaming that the race is on to select a home for the coming academic year.
When you listen to dozens of political candidates during the last weeks of the campaign, you hear themes. When your mind wanders, you even hear entire songs.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates have given the school $100 million, the largest gift from individual donors in the school’s history.
The Wisconsin Badgers are in the driver’s seat and control their own destiny for a spot in the Big Ten title game and running back Melvin Gordon put himself in serious consideration for the Heisman Trophy.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $100 million donation, the largest single contribution in the university’s history.
The association representing the nation’s leading research universities said Friday that it planned to develop and administer a sexual assault climate survey for its members, in part to fend off efforts in Congress to mandate such surveys. The Association of American Universities said that it had hired a research firm to design a survey that its 60 U.S. member institutions may choose to have conducted on their campuses next April. The group plans to then publicly report the “cumulative results” from those surveys.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Saturday a $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the largest single contribution from individual donors in the flagship’s history.
Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge have given $100-million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, they announced Saturday.
Leslie Bellaistalked about some of the artifacts related to the August 24, 1970 bombing at Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus.?The bombers targeted the building because it housed the Army Mathematics Research Center, which conducted research for the military during the Vietnam War.?The blast killed researcher Robert Fassnacht and wounded several others.
Betting only $1,103 in Final Jeopardy caused Holland native Mark Japinga to lose his strong lead — and the game.
Susan Riseling talked about her book, A View from the Interior: Policing the Protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol, in which she discusses the collective bargaining protests in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2011. She is the Chief of Police at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and explained her role during the protests.
Quoted: Nicole Vesely, Safe Kids Coordinator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s American Family Children’s Hospital, said she believes some accidental overdoses could be avoided if parents teach their children to always use the dosing device that comes with most cough syrups and liquid medicines.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Closed for six years, the Harvard Art Museums reopen here Sunday after a radical overhaul by the architect Renzo Piano. He saved only the shell of the chaste, red-brick Fogg Museum and its interior courtyard, extending it upward in sheets of glass and elegant trusswork. Galleries wrap the new public space, but so do a materials lab, an art-conservation suite and a study center, where students, faculty and visitors can learn from the collection of 250,000 objects.
As Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon had a historic day against Nebraska, piling up a single-game record 408 yards against what was the No. 20 rush defense in the country, the parody Twitter account for Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, FauxPelini, tweeted to the UW-Madison Police looking for a little assistance in stopping Gordon.
MADISON, Wis. — Two weeks from Saturday, Wisconsin and Minnesota will play for the 124th time. Their rivalry is the most prolific in major college football, one that goes back to the 1890s.
Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge have given $100-million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, they announced Saturday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Saturday a $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the largest single contribution from individual donors in the flagship’s history.
Noted: Several years ago, Vijay Dixit’s 19-year old daughter, Shreya Dixit, was the victim of a distracted driving crash while riding as a passenger on her way home from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vijay Dixit said the driver wasn’t texting, but that his family’s loss is a reminder of how distracted driving can take many forms.
Quoted: “Figuring out where high-energy neutrinos come from is one of the biggest problems in astrophysics today,” said Yang Bai of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who co-authored a study about these results published in Physical Review D.
Noted: Fortunately, experts are devising systems to expedite follow-up. For example, a family medicine clinic at the University of Wisconsin lowered no-show rates from 33 to 18 percent by interviewing no-show patients, implementing a new scheduling process and double-booking the number of slots that corresponded to its no-show rate. Other effective techniques included making reminder calls before an appointment, reducing wait times and creating a more welcoming environment.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank doesn’t have much patience for talk about any academic rivalries between UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee. “We have to get past this whole discussion about competition between these two cities,” she said during a panel discussion at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, held Wednesday and Thursday at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.
This week in Cambridge a pilot program will be offered that will present education about booster seats, not to parents, but to children in 4K-second-grade classes at Cambridge Elementary School.”Be a Booster Hero!” a program developed by UW-Madison Nursing students, will focus on empowering children by educating them on booster seat safety.
The recent announcement of a multimillion-dollar federal grant to study the sleep habits of mice and fruit flies has Darold Treffert aroused.
