Men who stay silent when their buddies assault women are about to get an earful, thanks to a national public-service campaign that President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will announce on Friday.
Wisconsin?s Voter ID law does allow the use of qualifying student identification cards to obtain a ballot at the polls. However, very few campuses in the state are currently using card designs that comply with the requirements of the law.
A chance to play for the 2014 NCAA Championship was riding on a single bucket. It was a basketball shot that goes in nearly seventy percent of the time?one that senior point guard Traevon Jackson successfully made against both Florida and Michigan State to win those games. But that night during the Final Four semi-championship game in Arlington, Texas, it wasn?t meant to be.
As the world becomes more complex in this age of technology and scientific discovery, academic powerhouses like UW?Madison are nurturing a new breed of basic research scientists who could change the way we treat, and maybe even cure, the diseases of our time. But basic research has a branding problem?it?s done quietly in labs on campus and without much attention or fanfare. Funding has slowed to a trickle in the last decade, and without it, the future doesn?t look as bright.
In the hands of artists, ceramics is a medium for sculpting objects ranging from teapots to abstract human figures. The variety of creative expression utilizing the medium is on full display in the collection of New York City couple Stephen and Pamela Hootkin, part of which is on exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus.
Madison ? It is perhaps the least understood school on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Despite being from Kansas, Dr. John Hawks had never seen storms like he experienced in South Africa.
Noted: This week, I conducted a review of the reports to determine whether the instances they cited truly qualified as plagiarism. I also asked two jourrnalism ethics experts ? Robert Drechsel, the James E. Burgess chair and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kelly McBride, the vice president for academic programs of The Poynter Institute ? to review the reports. They came to the same conclusion I did: Fareed Zakaria plagiarized.
Quoted: ?Rents will be highest in those areas where we can get the highest return from the crops,? said Bruce Jones, a professor of agriculture economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?So the southern tier ? maybe Rock County and Dane County ? tend to have higher rents. As you get further north, where productivity of the land is a little less and climate is less conducive to row crops, you see a fall off of rents farmers have to pay in those areas.?
?Bush meat?? I asked. The food in front of me smelled delicious, but the mention of bush meat in the stew evoked a twinge of fear. Could it be fruit bat? Chimpanzee? Both can harbor Ebola virus.
Quoted: According to Dr. Alison Brooks of the University of Wisconsin Madison, it?s not that simple. As Brooks points out, many football players are prone to high-risk behavior to begin with (seeing as they chose to be football players), and risk-taking individuals tend to be more inclined towards drugs, alcohol, and aggressive behavior. For many of these individuals, any number of additional factors might contribute to violent behavior: steroid use, drug and alcohol abuse, and underlying mental health issues.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Washington, D.C. -based Advancement Project say they?ll ask the full federal appeals court in Chicago to hear the case over Wisconsin?s voter ID law, and not just a panel of judges.
If you have lived in Portage all your life, you are wanted.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. ?Marquette University has a new president, and the campus plans to welcome him with a ceremony on Friday.
The University of Minnesota endowment was the top investor among its peers this past fiscal year, according to a report by Bloomberg News.
The University of Minnesota is the leader among public U.S. universities with the largest endowments that have reported returns for the year ended June 30.
Recent news reports indicate that graduating college seniors are not the only seniors facing college debt.
Twelve men and nine women, whose work is as diverse as studying the racial elements in perceptions of crime and translating contemporary Arab poetry, have been named the 2014 fellows of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowships, based on achievement and potential, come with a stipend of $625,000 over five years and are among the most prestigious prizes for artists, scholars and professionals.
Stewart Brand, a counterculture icon of the 1960s, is known for a phrase technologists love to quote: ?Information wants to be free.?
After Ferguson cops greeted unarmed protesters with tear gas and combat vehicles, there was public gnashing of teeth over whether police departments really need military gear, acquired from the Pentagon through the federal 1033 transfer program. Some national politicians, notably Republican Senator Rand Paul, criticized the militarization of law enforcement.
Many U.S. scientists had hoped to ride out the steady decline in federal funding for biomedical research, but it?s continuing on a downward trend with no end in sight. So leaders of the science establishment are now trying to figure out how to fix this broken system.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have identified a potential new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder: a breathing practice commonly used in yoga or meditation.
Quoted: Geography is a relatively young discipline in terms of university academics, and for much of its history, geographers have struggled to define what exactly the discipline includes, said Keith Woodward, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: Grain farmers saw corn prices drop 40 percent to around $4 a bushel in 2013, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. Farmers need to get around $5 a bushel for their corn in order to meet 2014 rent prices, said Bruce Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agriculture economics professor.
The QS World Universities 2014/15 rankings, published today, saw MIT maintain its position as the top-ranked university worldwide. UW-Madison is tied for 41st.
Noted: A 2013 study by the University of Wisconsin?s Waisman Center found hormones released when girls are abused could trigger early puberty. Rather than triggering the fight-or-flight hormone cortisol ? which is what happened when boys were abused ? researchers found that, after regular abuse, girls released oxytocin, a hormone we associate with post-coital and post-natal bonding. But too much cortisol can be just as damaging. Eventually, a body learns to become inured to the stressful situations that trigger its release.
An ?Alternative Nobel?-winning Buddhist activist delivered a message with a cutting edge at the University of Wisconsin on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Quoted: Some of the money may be overseas. Less than a quarter of U.S. currency resides abroad, estimates University of Wisconsin economist Edgar Feige. Where?s the rest? Legitimate business owners and those without bank accounts rely heavily on cash. And some is hidden away by the real-life equivalents of Breaking Bad?s Walter White in an underground ?cash only? economy. The U.S. may lose more than $100 billion a year in taxes on unreported income of over $400 billion, according to the Tufts study and others.
Scotland is poised to vote on the merits of its union with England, but not for the first time. (Michelle Schwarze is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.)
Coming in at number two was the University of Wisconsin, followed by West Virginia University, University of Arizona and the University of Iowa.
Quoted: Not everyone is equally eager to strike while the iron is hot. Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of education-policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, questioned the department?s intention to meet a fall 2014 deadline. She cautioned that including community colleges in the ratings system, for example, would have unintended consequences such as making the sole college in an “education desert” undesirable to students.
Yoga could be the best way to tackle stress, say two new studies.
It may smack as a bit elitist and unfair that the only people who can drink at University of Wisconsin-Madison football games are those sitting in the premium seats, aka luxury boxes. Anyone caught imbibing in the bleachers risks arrest.
Post-traumatic stress disorder continues to wreak havoc on the lives of veterans, but a new study suggests yoga could provide relief.
Quoted: “No one was keeping track back then,” said Stanley Temple, a retired professor of conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has digitized Mr. Schorger?s research for Project Passenger Pigeon. “No one was doing anything we would think of today as a wildlife census.”
Quoted: “It can be a fruit that?s a little overripe, it can be a little bit of organic debris that got kicked under the stove,” explained P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Quoted: The increase in consumer debt seizures is “a big change,” largely invisible to researchers because of the lack of data, says Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The potential financial hardship imposed by these seizures and their sheer number should grab the attention of policymakers, he says. “It is something we should care about.”
In light of new research that indicates kids who spend a lot of time playing video games may have more trouble identifying emotions, we talk with two video games experts about why the games are a positive force. Interviewed: Constance Steinkuehler & Kurt Squire
A member of the Walworth County Drug Unit, which arrested Butler, declined comment on whether the unit still uses students as informants. But UW-Whitewater Police Chief Matt Kiederlen says his department has used about 20 students as confidential informants during the past two years.
There?s a funding crunch for biomedical research in the United States ? and it?s not just causing pain for scientists and universities. It?s also creating incentives for researchers to cut corners ? and that?s affecting people who are seriously ill.
The University of Illinois?s Board of Trustees voted, 8 to 1, on Thursday to deny a professorship to Steven G. Salaita, a harsh critic of Israel, at a meeting in which some board members and guest speakers voiced fears that the institution was abandoning academic freedom and others called Mr. Salaita a potential threat to students.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. ? Adam Clement, Under Armour?s creative director for team sports, traveled to Notre Dame?s Gothic-inspired campus last November after his upstart sports clothing company heard that one of the most valuable college programs might soon be in need of new sponsorship.
The political reporter?s professional toolkit keeps expanding. Journalists are using social science research, ?big data? and innovative alternative story formats to better serve their audience. Journalism education is catching up too, as Vicki Krueger and Katherine Krueger have shown here on EducationShift.
Noted: Few would quibble that Posner has sarcasm down to an art. But the highly respected judge, who was appointed to the court by Republican President Ronald Reagan, is not “a left-wing liberal,” says Howard Schweber, a political scientist and constitutional scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He is a leading light among conservative intellectuals.” Moreover, “he?s probably the leading intellectual light among currently serving judges, maybe including the United States Supreme Court.”
For decades, it has felt like Milwaukee and Madison are separated by much more than 80 miles of highway and fields. The divide between Wisconsin?s two biggest cities?economically, culturally, and psychologically?has at times felt impossible to bridge.
Scientists are warning wildlife officials that Wisconsin?s Department of Natural Resources produced a flawed wolf population estimate for the 18 months after January 2012 when the animals were removed from a federal endangered species list.
On the UW-Madison campus, 2,977 small American flags were placed on Bascom Hill, symbolizing those killed after terrorist-hijacked airplanes crashed in to the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a farm field in Pennsylvania. The flags were placed by the College Republicans of UW-Madison, along with College Democrats and the Vets for Vets organization.
La Crosse, WI (WXOW) – Governor Scott Walker met with students today at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse to highlight the two year tuition freeze.
There should be zero tolerance for cases of domestic violence such as former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice?s attack on his fiancée and an alleged rape at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Gov. Scott Walker said.
Thirteen years ago I stood in a windowless basement cafeteria at the University of Wisconsin, staring transfixed at a flickering television screen. I watched in horror as men and women leapt from the burning heights of the World Trade Center; moments later I cringed as the second tower fell. My heart sank, and I knew we were at war. Fear — an irrational fear given that I was a thousand miles away in Wisconsin — crept up my spine. I continued to watch as firefighters, police officers and ordinary citizens rushed not away, but rather toward the danger. Courage, I realized, courage would rule the day.
Bob Suter, a defenseman who recovered from a broken ankle to help the ?Miracle on Ice? United States hockey team win the Olympic gold medal in 1980, died on Tuesday in Madison, Wis. He was 57.
As pediatricians, we take care of children?s physical, social, cognitive and emotional health. One of our biggest concerns is when we see children who fail educationally ? not just in high school or middle school, but in their elementary years. When we delve into their struggles with learning, we often discover that their achievement gap stems from environmental influences in their lives.
You get the sense that Ray Cross, the new president of the University of Wisconsin System, can relate to one of the last scenes in the movie, ?All the President?s Men.?
No. 3: Madison. Home of the University of Wisconsin and the state capital, Madison has a low unemployment rate that makes it attractive to job seekers. From being a government-centered economy, it has switched its sights to being a technology and health care hub.
Quoted: Andrew Kydd, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is teaching a course specifically on terrorism this semester. Kydd said while ISIS has publicly beheaded two American journalists, the group has not made any direct threats on America?s homeland.
A Fond du Lac man charged with rape on the UW-Madison campus told police he was drinking and doesn?t remember the alleged incident.
To help pay for the semester?s books or a weekend night out, many American college students hold down jobs at the campus library or gym. But when Alex Richter goes to work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he dons rubber boots, a white coat and a hairnet. Richter is a campus butcher.
OTTAWA – Injuries have forced Canadian distance runner Simon Bairu to retire.
Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday promised to continue a tuition freeze at University of Wisconsin campuses and asked students to vote for him in the upcoming November election.
In Madison, Wisconsin, the I-Team has learned that two men are charged in a rash of separate sex attacks on or near the University of Wisconsin campus. These are the latest cases in a disturbing trend of college assaults.
