Scientists increasingly understand that children?s brain growth can be stunted by a lack of stimulation and by childhood traumas, such as violence and sexual abuse, said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician and expert on child development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Facing what many regard as an epidemic of campus sexual assault, some colleges have cracked down on binge drinking, others have reined in fraternities, while still others are training incoming students not to be passive bystanders when they see signs of trouble.
On the heels of the White House?s new campaign to crack down on campus sexual assault, fraternities, college sports teams, and other groups typically thought of as potential perpetrators are joining efforts to address the problem.
As if we didn?t already have enough evidence of the ill affects of the heavy burden of student loan debt, there was new evidence last week that the damage isn?t just confined to students themselves.
Quoted: ?It?s hard to tell when somebody had a heart attack and dies if that?s from heat or if that person would have died otherwise,? Tracy Holloway, a University of Wisconsin environmental studies professor, said.
Students found guilty of sexual assault can rest assured there?s a good chance they won?t be kicked out of school. If they want someone to thank, they might send their praise to the Association for Student Conduct Administration for telling universities across the nation not to be “punitive” when handling campus rape.
Noted: Jake Walsh, PhD student at the UW Madison Center for Limnology, says the finding is significant because there aren?t many northern lakes that have the invasive.
Quoted: “People live on social media now, and so one way candidates can reach out to voters is to hit them where they live,” says Mike Wagner, a journalism professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Candidates are spending more time trying to go viral – they?re spending more time trying to get people to share stuff on Facebook or retweet a candidate?s messages on Twitter.”
Quoted: Professors Joseph Raffiee and Jie Feng at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that ?hybrid? entrepreneurs ? people who maintain their regular gig and while launching their new ventures in stages ? are a third less likely to fail than those who jump in sans safety net.
A new University of Wisconsin System task force will examine campus policies in an effort to better address sexual violence and harassment.
Noted: There are only about three strains of flu each season, while “there are usually 20-30 different types of rhinovirus circulating each season in one geographic area,” explains Yury A. Bochkov, an associate scientist in the department of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Only about 10% of those will show up again the next year. That means, Bochkov says, that public health officials “cannot predict the spectrum of rhinovirus types for an upcoming cold season.”
Alfonso Morales has a long relationship with food. He grew up on a farm in New Mexico, then went on to study sociology in school, running a booth at the Maxwell Street Market in Chicago as part of his dissertation.
A 20-year-old UW-Madison student may face paralysis after diving into a shallow area in Lake Mendota Saturday evening, according to a Madison Police Department report.
Even if the court does not take Wisconsin?s case, but takes others, the results would affect all states, according to UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber.
Census data shows that enrollment at technical schools around the country declined for the second year in a row, and it appears that Wisconsin technical schools are part of the trend.
Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed legislation on Sunday that explicitly requires colleges and universities that receive state funds to define consent in students? sexual encounters in terms of “yes means yes” rather than the traditional “no means no.”
The University of Wisconsin System is creating a 21-member task force on sexual violence and harassment in an effort to better protect students from sexual violence and coordinate systemwide efforts at prevention and outreach.
Quoted: ?The people who propose these systems often oversell them,? said University of Wisconsin political scientist Kenneth Mayer, who has spent a decade studying public campaign finance. ?From what we?ve observed in places that have various types of public funding, the impacts are actually a lot more marginal.?
Look beyond the deductible. Deductibles tend to be the priciest insurance component, so that?s where people focus, says Justin Sydnor, assistant professor of risk management at the University of Wisconsin.
Judith Davidoff will succeed Dean Robbins as the editor of Isthmus. Davidoff has served as the alternative publication?s news editor for the last three years. Robbins will take a position with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies after the Oct. 9 issue.
Quoted: Richard Matland, a political scientist and visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the GOP offense indicates the party may be concerned about Republican women crossing over to vote for Happ. Research has shown that negative messages are good at “demobilizing voters,” Matland said.
A new University of Wisconsin System task force will examine campus policies in an effort to better address sexual violence and harassment.
An experiment on newborn monkeys at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has ignited a debate, including a national petition drive, a federal review and a proposed local resolution seeking to halt the research.
Quoted: ?The gold standard would be to put it in quotation marks,? Robert Drechsel, director of the UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics, said of the use of the newspaper?s language.
After years of planning, UW-Madison is proposing a striking music performance building that would include a recital hall, rehearsal space and eventually a concert hall next to the Chazen Museum of Art on a now-vacant corner of University Avenue and Lake Street.
The fastest-growing campus in the University of Wisconsin System has set another record for fall enrollment, thanks in large part to an initiative that capitalizes on its proximity to Iowa and Illinois.
Noted: The UW-Madison is proving to be a good supplier of the raw talent. Zendesk supports a program through the Division of Information Technology DoIT where students work at the UW?s help desk using Zendesk?s customer service platform. That makes for an easy transition to the private sector.
Lawrence University, a private four-year institution in Appleton, will help students transfer from public two-year colleges to join its student body.
In an earlier blog post my colleague Tom Gleeson discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages of co-teaching a blended graduate course to students at McGill University, the University of Wisconsin ? Madison and the University of Saskatchewan.
Climate change isn?t just worrisome for the Earth.It could also be a problem for your health, according to a new 20-year study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Residential resource company Livability recently released its annual list of the 100 best places to live in the US, looking at factors like access to schools, hospitals, and infrastructure; affordability and income; and how residents take advantage of those opportunities. Since Madison, Wisconsin topped Livability?s list, Business Insider took a closer look at 7 things that make Madison, a northern midwest city of 235,000, stand out from the rest.
Haley Laundrie has made history by becoming the first woman from Jefferson County to win the Miss Wisconsin-USA pageant and she will now go on to compete at the Miss USA pageant next year.
The Obama administration is tightening oversight of high-stakes scientific research involving dangerous germs that could raise biosecurity concerns, imposing new safety rules on universities and other institutions where such work is done. Universities have been expecting the rules since last year, and depending on how much research they do, evaluating what meets the criteria “can be a lot more work,” said Rebecca Moritz, manager of select-agent research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Nicholas Hillman, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, calculates that one in 10 Americans only have one public college nearby. And that school is usually a community college. Most of the areas Hillman calls “education deserts” are rural. But other patterns he found also pose challenges for low-income and minority students who want access to a quality education. “In general,” Hillman says, “the whitest communities have the most colleges.”
Heat stroke, cardiac arrest and other heat-related illnesses are expected to increase as the number of extremely hot days rises, said lead author Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
This week, the U.S. Department of Education will release data on the percentage of borrowers who have defaulted on federal student loans over the last three years. Schools with high rates of default face consequences. There are new standards. According to Nick Hillman, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, a college doesn?t want its default rate to hit 40 percent a year, or 30 percent over three years.
Google Glass has officially entered the classroom in at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Professors are developing new ways to use the device after the school received a few pairs of the wearable technology more than a year before the public release.
Farmers? markets practically glow with wholesome virtue: Shop here, they promise, and you can help build a sustainable, healthy food system! But without the data to buttress those claims, it?s hard to know whether farmers? markets are actually meeting those goals or how they can adapt to better meet their communities? needs. Alfonso Morales, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wants to help change that.
A finance professor has found Google Glass to be an effective way to improve feedback to students. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business?s Michael Gofman developed his idea in February 2014. After only a semester of using the technology to record commentary on student assignments, Gofman saw his student evaluation scores related to the quality of his feedback rise 38 percent from the year before.
No. 6 in the ranking is the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: ?It?s getting hotter,? said Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of the new study. ?And it?s the extremes that matter most to public health.?
Noted: A research team led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison recruited 29 women in their early 20s from France. The participants viewed 24 photos of two infants with happy, sad, angry or neutral expressions. Three photos were taken of each expression, one showing the full face and two with a pacifier or white square obscuring the mouth.
Noted: The authors of the new study – from the Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, say a number of solutions are available to mitigate climate change. Many of them would improve the health of many people almost immediately. They authors say: “Reducing greenhouse gas, deploying sustainable energy technologies, shifting transportation patterns, and improving building design?many of which yield multiple benefits?are feasible, cost-effective, and attractive to multiple parties.”
Climate change poses risks to human health just as pollution and lack of sanitation did a century ago, says a medical journal editorial that details the potential harmful health effects and the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “Evidence over the past 20 years indicates that climate change can be associated with adverse health outcomes,” Dr. Jonathan Patz of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his colleagues concluded.
Quoted: “The question is, do we really want that revenue from the casino … being sent to Florida?” asked Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor. “That percentage becomes key, and those factors should be public.”
Monarchs have begun their annual migration. “They?ll ultimately end up in part of a mountain range in south-central Mexico, where they end up spending the winter, then head north again in the spring,” explained P.J. Liesch, manager of the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
A University of Wisconsin study has found that the number of extremely hot summer days in some cities may triple by mid-century unless more is done to reduce fossil fuel emissions.
There has been increasing awareness and concern about monarch butterflies, but acording to entomologist Phil Pellitteri, there is cause for guarded optimism — at least in Wisconsin.
MADISON?P.J. Liesch takes a vial or two with him when he goes for a walk outdoors.
Noted: What?s particularly striking, says University of Wisconsin climate scientist Galen A. McKinley, is that China is now emitting more on a per capita basis than the European Union, for the first time in history.
Wisconsin?s agriculture industry continues to grow and create more jobs, according to a report released on Friday.
Quoted: Michael Wagner, a journalism professor and elections expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Burke case doesn?t fit the traditional definition of plagiarism.
Noted: At least one recent experiment, carried out over 12 weeks, offers hope that lasting change is possible. By alerting a group of psychology students to their prejudice?90 percent of them showed antiblack bias at the beginning of the intervention?and teaching them a range of de-biasing strategies they could employ on their own time, University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologist Patricia Devine and her team showed that prejudicial attitudes could, with sustained effort, go down and stay down for at least two months. In a 2012 paper published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Devine concluded that unconscious prejudice could be unlearned, like a bad habit, through ?the power of the conscious mind.?
Quoted: “It?s getting hotter,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of the new study. “And it?s the extremes that matter most to public health.”
Noted: Most retirement studies also don?t take the impact of children into account when projecting retirement preparedness. According to University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor John Karl Scholz, spending by couples with kids typically declines after kids leave home, allowing them to catch up on savings. So if you take a snapshot of their finances while kids are still at home and extrapolate from there, you get a a distorted picture of future readiness.
The back-to-school party called for costumes, so Trent University students came as ghosts and witches, moving in and out of the redbrick rooming house at 283 W. King St. in Peterborough, Ontario, all night.
WASHINGTON — The White House launched a major public awareness campaign about campus sexual assault on Friday — the aim of which, President Obama said, is no less than to “fundamentally shift” how the country thinks about campus sexual assault.
Noted: Dr. Howard Bailey, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, has seen hundreds of pleomorphic liposarcoma cases over the last two decades.
An underrated and overlooked recruit out of high school, LaMar ?Soup? Campbell made the most of every opportunity on the football field. Years after his college and professional playing days, Soup is still using his connections, and his path to success has brought him back right to where it all started.
MADISON (AP) ? University of Wisconsin System campuses will issue free voter identification cards to students who request them.
