Quoted: “There is a huge demand for dairy products in China. Like other developing nations, China is building up its diary industry but dairy is a complicated blend of agriculture, science and business,” said Pamela Ruegg, associate professor of dairy science at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Harvard University counts two of the most successful computer programmers in the world — William H. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive — as former students. But the university, one of the most respected overall in the world, has never quite made its way into the elite tier of computer science programs.
Quoted: “If you look back to the beginning of 2014, we had right around 20 or so counties that confirmed infestations and quarantined, and now we’re at about 37 counties quarantined,” University of Wisconsin – Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab Manager PJ Liesch said.
My monkey died as he lived — in seclusion, for the benefit of others. His name was r04040. He was euthanized on April 28, 2010, two days after his sixth birthday. More than four years would pass before I made the records request that reacquainted me with his reality, and apprised me of his fate.
Minnesota’s football team will wear a new decal on its helmets this week against Ohio State to promote epilepsy awareness. It was previously announced that on Nov. 29 the Wisconsin and Minnesota football teams would work together that day to help raise awareness for epilepsy, but the Gophers announced the decal would be worn this week.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health its biggest grant ever for ongoing research of inner-city asthma.
I recently read something that has changed me: “What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.” (Mia Sato is an Appleton resident and a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.)
Quoted: “The problem with deer is it’s a sacred cow. People wouldn’t be upset if we were talking about gray squirrel because they don’t have the same emotional investment as they have with white-tailed deer,” said David Drake, a University of Wisconsin wildlife ecologist.
MADISON, Wisconsin — The University of Wisconsin System’s regents are planning to approve in-state tuition rates for non-resident veterans and their families.
President Barack Obama has asked the Federal Communications Commission to take up the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality, the principle that says Internet service providers should treat all internet traffic equally. A University of Wisconsin telecommunications professor says the industry is unlikely to be enthusiastic.
Twitter is becoming a must for researchers after a US analysis found it can boost their profile by more than 50 per cent. A University of Wisconsin-Madison study has found Twitter is an indispensable outreach tool, amplifying the benefits researchers reap by engaging with traditional media.
Noted: Compared to the top schools, more modestly priced programs at public universities offer a larger payoff. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a two-year degree costs out-of-state students $56,000, and the average student earns back nearly 60 percent of what was spent on school within a year after leaving campus.
Holland High School graduate Mark Japinga will be back on the popular game show “Jeopardy!” on Friday, Nov. 14, for the show’s Tournament of Champions.
MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin is struggling to keep young talent at home. Many college graduates seemingly view their diploma as a ticket to leave the state.
Quoted: Sometimes other illnesses can lead to orthorexia. David Rakel, director of integrative medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, estimated that 10% to 15% of the patients who come in with food allergies and related problems develop an unhealthy fear of particular foods.
As the election returns came in last week and we learned the Republicans strengthened their hold on state government, I began to wonder what new catastrophes the legislators could dream up.
Wisconsin and Nebraska announced Monday that their annual game will now be a trophy game, as the two teams will play for the Freedom Trophy.
Quoted: “My strong suspicion is this happens more frequently than you think,” said Meg Gaines, who runs the Center for Patient Partnerships, a consumer health care advocacy group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. “I mean every time someone goes down, they don’t have someone around who knows what their insurance is.”
Quoted: “It is very good idea,” says Bilge Mutlu, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who researches the interaction between humans and robots. “It’s a lot more flexible and adaptable to day-to-day environments.”
While you’re watching the game…they’re not only watching you, they’re watching out for you. In this story, NBC 15’s John Stofflet gets an all-access look at police operations at a Badger Football game.
Noted: That’s the question Elizabeth Graue and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been studying at schools involved in a project called SAGE Student Achievement Guarantee in Education.
Noted: One resignee, Julia Sherman of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project, called the sit-down with Gottlieb productive, saying “we all left with a feeling that we had been heard.”
Noted: To assess this, Karine Prince and Benjamin Zuckerberg, wildlife biologists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, used bird counts taken between 1989 and 2011 by Project FeederWatch–an international volunteer program in which citizen scientists count and record the number and species of birds gathered at their backyard feeders–to analyze winter communities across eastern North America.
Quoted: Dr. Peggy Scallon, a child and adolescent psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that kids who don’t develop a sense of autonomy may start to fall behind their peers, have lower self-esteem, strained relationships with family members and be more irritable and anxious.
A report by the labor union-backed Center on Wisconsin Strategy COWS, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests that the state is awash in low-paying jobs.
Noted: During her keynote address, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, told participants that hip-hop can also be an effective teaching tool in helping scores of “New Century students” succeed.
It may come as no surprise that state Republican leaders, in the flush of electoral victory, are targeting University of Wisconsin funding in the next legislative session. But the scorn for the university evident in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ post-election remarks struck some observers.
Noted: “It’s an absolute safety concern,” said Marc Lovicott, a campus police spokesman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where a white quadcopter swooped into 80,000-seat Camp Randall Stadium and buzzed over the student section during an Oct. 11 game against Illinois. “You never know what might be carried along with something like that.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank arrived in July 2013 amid an uproar at the Capitol over hundreds of millions in cash balances carried over by the state’s public universities without full disclosure, including sizable tuition balances that amassed alongside annual tuition hikes during a recession.
When David Baum was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, he pondered, as students are wont to in the small hours after the bar has closed, one of biology’s most basic questions. It was this: how did eukaryotic cells the complex sort that make up every plant and animal as well as lots of unicellular creatures like amoebas evolve from prokaryotic ones bacteria and their kin which are much simpler?
ROCKFORD — SwedishAmerican CEO, Doctor Bill Gorski is confident a new partnership with the University of Wisconsin Health Center will enhance his hospital’s ability to treat patients.
SwedishAmerican Health System based in Rockford, Ill. and UW Health based in Madison, Wis., have signed a definitive agreement to merge the organizations and make SwedishAmerican an integral part of UW Health.
Noted: Now let’s remember Bush wrote “among the developed nations.” All the things we’ve looked at so far have stuck to European countries and Canada.But that’s okay, because University of Wisconsin economist Timothy Smeeding told us we can say plenty more countries beat us, too.
ROCKFORD — SwedishAmerican Health System and UW Health have signed a merger agreement.
University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $440,000 federal research grant to study a program designed to make kids more financially literate.
As cases of a worrisome respiratory virus continue to pop up in the Middle East, scientists who study it in the U.S. are struggling to understand how they’ll be affected by a government moratorium on certain kinds of experiments.
MADISON, Wis. — They remember the laughter and joy he brought to any room. That’s where most stories begin, with an outgoing and exuberant older brother who would do anything to make his siblings feel loved.
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker wants to pass his second-term agenda quickly through a Legislature controlled by Republicans who tightened their grip on the majority with wins in the midterm election.
Bo Ryan doesn’t have a problem with Nigel Hayes joining a lawsuit seeking a free market for college athletes to get paid.
Quoted: In Wisconsin, labor-law changes pushed by the victorious Walker reduced union membership in the state, said William Jones, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “The aftermath will continue to be bad for unions.”
Gov. Scott Walker is touring the state’s technical colleges rather than speak at a meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos discussed his caucus’s agenda for the next legislative session on Wednesday, outlining a plan that involves changes to campaign finance law and policy at the University of Wisconsin.
SEATTLE — John Moffitt spent 20 years to reach the pinnacle of his profession, a day to ditch that job and a year grappling with the consequences of his decision.
Noted: Those who have known him the longest say fashion has always been a priority. The restaurateur Gabriel Stulman, who owns Fedora, Montmartre, Jeffrey’s Grocery and Joseph Leonard in Manhattan, was Mr. Abloh’s roommate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a co-host of numerous parties there.
Reports of forcible sex offenses at the flagship public universities of Virginia and Maryland doubled last year, according to new federal data.
Quoted: “He can say to Republican activists around the country, ‘I won three close races in a swing state,’?” said Mike Wagner, an assistant professor of journalism who studies political communication and elections at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
University of Wisconsin political scientist Ken Mayer talks about what each candidate needed to do to win Tuesday night’s election.
The broad story of this year’s elections was the Republican wave that tipped control of the Senate. What does it all mean for academe? Here’s what you need to know about the results.
With victories in several key Senate races last night, Republicans will take control of both chambers of Congress heading into the final two years of the Obama presidency — a balance of power that sets up a much-changed dynamic for federal higher education policy making in the coming months.
A controversy in the world of video-gaming has spilled over to stories of online harassment and real-world threats against women. The former U.S. video game czar,Constance Steinkuehler, joins the show to speak out about the Gamergate debate.
Nationally, more students are going to medical school than ever before. In Wisconsin, the state’s two medical schools have also increased enrollment, but this comes at a time of a predicted doctor shortage in the Badger state.
“There would have to be some really exceptional set of events to get people who have shown no interest in cooperating to get something done,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who studies the presidency. “It is very hard to see how there is any substantial legislation.”
Of the 36 gubernatorial elections being decided on Tuesday, three have special resonance for people in higher education.In each case, a Republican governor took a hard line on higher-ed spending; in each case, that governor now finds himself in electoral peril. Two high-profile incumbents, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, are fighting for re-election in races that are considered tossups.
Quoted: “There would have to be some really exceptional set of events to get people who have shown no interest in cooperating to get something done,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who studies the presidency. “It is very hard to see how there is any substantial legislation.”
Noted: UW-Madison political scientist Barry Burden says midterm elections can be a little odd when it comes to who shows up at the polls. You have some highly engaged voters, but others who tend to only tune-in during presidential years. There’s also less buzz around a race for governor. Burden says “there are, believe it or not, fewer ads and there are actually fewer ads this time than in the last midterm election. There’s also less of the phone calls and door knocking that go along with a presidential year.”
Noted: Barry Burden is a professor in the Political Science department at UW-Madison; he said we vote on Tuesdays because of our nation’s roots as farmers. “That meant there were days of the week when crops needed to be delivered to market,” he said. “That ways typically in the middle of the week. Most people were going to church on Sunday and that was a big commitment, and so that just left a couple of days in between.”
Noted: Barry Burden is a professor at UW-Madison; he said voting in a small town is more of a communal experience. “Some of these small communities have potlucks where people bring a dish and people spend time at the poll,” he said. “They don’t just come and cast the ballot and leave, they might spend a couple hours there, talking with neighbors, cast the ballot, have some food, hang around for a while and socialize.”
Caroline Russell was on a mission. Dressed in a lime green T-shirt that read, “vote today,” Russell was camped out on UW-Madison’s East Campus Mall, urging students to cast a vote in Tuesday’s election.
A UW Madison researcher says close to forty percent of the state’s lakes could contain invasive species.
Quoted: “It’s the great irony of this whole debate,” says Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s that the places where we’re focusing to try to improve security are the places where security least needs improvement.”
