Quoted: Professor Donald Downs, a political scientist UW Madison, says the appeals court must interpret the role the third parties played in the recall.
There?s no question that alcohol is a factor in the majority of sexual assaults on campus. And alcohol is abundant and very present at most colleges today.
Former UW defenseman and Miracle on Ice star Bob Suter died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 57.
Where will Ebola fly to? It could be the U.S. Dr. Nasia Safdar, Director of Infection Control at UW Hospital, said that much depends on efforts to contain this worst-ever outbreak in West Africa. ?I do think that eventually it will arrive here, but the timing of when that might depends entirely on how quickly things can be contained ? or not ? over there,? she said.
Vassar has taken steps to hold down spending on faculty and staff. Amherst and the University of Florida have raised new money specifically to spend on financial aid for low-income students. American University reallocated scholarships from well-off students to needy ones. Grinnell set a floor on the share of every freshman class ? 15 percent ? whose parents didn?t go to college.
Noted: “The research shows that just a hint of something better out there makes us devalue what we already have,” said Amber Epp, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Regardless, as Kenneth Mayer of the University of Wisconsin says, “Most of the Obama actions that have so exercised Republicans have not been executive orders.”
Declining state revenues are expected to push the state?s structural deficit to almost $1.8 billion for the 2015-17 biennium, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Monday.
Consumers have become highly adept at avoiding television advertisements. We switch channels, divert attention to our tablets and phones, and of course fast-forward through ads on our DVRs. Partly in response to this loss of attention, marketers are increasingly focused on product placement as an alternative way of exposing us to their brands. After all, product placement is innately much harder to skip given its integration into the actual program content.
After nearly two hours of testimony, a Dane County board committee voted unanimously to kill a resolution urging the University of Wisconsin-Madison to cease its maternal deprivation experiments on rhesus monkeys.
Fourteen years ago, Donna Shalala took the reins of a school in transition. The University of Miami boasted growing prestige, but was still working to shed its party-school ?Suntan U? reputation.
Authorities say surveillance video was crucial to the arrest of a Fond du Lac man for the sex assault of a 21-year old UW-Madison student.
Ten years ago, Robert Waterland got an associate professorship at Baylor College of Medicine and set off to study one of the nation?s most pressing health problems: obesity. In particular, he?s been trying to figure out the biology behind why children born to obese women are more likely to develop the condition themselves.
Quoted: ?Laboratories don?t represent a real fault,? said University of Wisconsin seismologist Cliff Thurber, who organized support for the project in a letter that 36 scientists signed.
Noted: He was born in Janesville, Wis., where he worked summers on a family farm and later as a salesman in a store selling women?s shoes. In 1953 he earned a bachelor of science degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin, where he was editor of the student newspaper, the Daily Cardinal.
Noted: Photos of his day posted by O?Malley on Twitter included a ?selfie? with University of Wisconsin students preparing to go door-to-door on Burke?s behalf.
Quoted: ?Much of what makes people healthier is not health care,? said David Kindig, emeritus professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. ?It is education. It?s the physical environment. It?s employment.
Virginia Sapiro will step down as dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston University at the conclusion of the 2014-15 academic year, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.
Quoted: Their views on education reveal deeper philosophical divides about the role of government, said Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies educational policies.
When you think of Madison, “fashion” is probably not the first word that comes to mind. In our extreme winters, people are focused more on practical parkas than they are on Burberry trench coats. At the UW, in particular, a student budget doesn?t usually allow for quilted Chanel totes.
In a meeting with the Wisconsin State Journal editorial board, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank talks about the success of UW?s “student-athlete” program in putting the emphasis on student while still winning games.
A jump inside Camp Randall today will reveal: there are 750 white boxes spread all over that serve as antennas for free WiFi and better cell phone service.
Who has the best college football team on and off the field?
Noted: Research by the psychologists Chris S. Hulleman of the University of Virginia and Judith Harackiewicz of the University of Wisconsin suggests that for most of us, whether we find something interesting is largely a matter of whether we find it personally valuable. For many students, science is boring because they don?t think it?s relevant to their lives.
The moments that forever change your life don?t always happen where you?d expect.
Noted: Magdalena Rychlowska, who led the study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, used electrodes to track the facial muscles of 29 women while they looked at photos of two babies.
Interviewed: Naama Nagar, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was closely involved in two almost simultaneous social protest movements in 2011; in Wisconsin and in her native Israel. She draws parallels between the two.
Quoted: “Since the early 2000s, we?ve basically gone from zero exports of butter to where its 10 or 11 percent of our market. That?s an incredible growth rate,” Brian Gould, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin, tells The Salt. “The industry as a whole has recognized that the export market is the growth market for dairy. There?s no doubt about that.”
Quoted: ?We hope to create a toolkit of phytochromes that can eventually be used to control agriculture ? how plants grow, when they flower, when they die,? said Richard Vierstra, a plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who described the phytochrome?s structure in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He and his colleagues ?want to pack more plants per acre? and even grow seasonal crops year-round ? possibly saving space and other resources, as well as increasing food security.
Quoted: ?They don?t want to become the Oldsmobile of motorcycles,? said Tom O?Guinn, a consultant and marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Peace Corps volunteer Lindsay Carrera of Hartland, Wisconsin, is empowering local Ugandan girls and improving their health through sports. Since June, Carrera has been working with 30 secondary school students ages 12-14 to form the region?s first female field hockey teams.
Congressman Mark Pocan wants to make sure young researchers get needed funding. The Wisconsin Democrat said the Next Generation Research Act will help address some of the funding losses to National Institutes of Health research at places like the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “This was a study done in mice that showed if they modified the type of microorganism present in the gastrointestinal track, it influenced the type of immune response that they then saw to allergens in the mice,” explained Chuck Czuprynski, professor and director of the Food Research Institute at UW Madison.
Last month — just in time for a new season of college football — Kraft Foods released a new line of Jell-O molds in the shapes of various university logos. Four of the “jiggler mold kits” were unveiled last year, but products for 16 more teams have now been added, including the University of Alabama, Ohio State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles.
The University of Wisconsin library wants your old Onions. And your Octopuses (Octopi?). And whatever other campus-humor-related memorabilia you have stashed in the attic.
With $241 million in major, long-term building projects underway, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus stands to look very different in a matter of years.
Noted: In September 1936, Curry was invited to return to the Midwest (on view are a telegram offering him the job and another one with his acquiescence) by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and become artist-in-residence for $4,000 a year, a then-handsome sum, especially considering that he had no set teaching duties or other responsibilities. Perhaps most interesting, he was hired to serve not in the art department but in the college of agriculture, with the goal of using art as an outreach tool to the state?s farming community.
Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan hopes a new bill will improve opportunities for young scientists.
Noted: As the applications and their value multiplies, efforts have increased to develop alternative tests, rather than rely on harvesting the crabs. One approach uses an electronic chip that provides an alert when in contact with contaminants. Another system using liquid crystals, developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, could offer similar detection ability at lower cost.
At the beginning of every academic year, college freshmen are quickly introduced to two hallmarks of campus social life, drinking and hooking up.
America is at risk of losing an entire generation of scientists according to the National Institutes of Health. They say current U.S. policies are putting the brakes on research.
Noted: Most national universities are essentially the department stores of higher education. They provide a full range of goods for sale, with differences mainly in quality and price (Stanford is presumably Saks Fifth Avenue; the University of Wisconsin is perhaps Macy?s). These schools with a specialized mission are more like the funky boutiques that appeal to one particular type of customer and are certainly not for everyone ? but can be deeply satisfying to some.
Quoted: ?Student debt today has a color,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the study?s lead author, at the conference. Most of the people who borrow for their education are white, Goldrick-Rab said, but a larger share of black students are in debt than any other racial group.
The University of Wisconsin Badgers continue this school year receiving $800,000 in cash from Adidas for the right to outfit Wisconsin athletes as well as $2.7 million worth of Adidas equipment and apparel.
The kid from Pewaukee, Wis., started crying.
The U.S. Department of Education last week granted approval to a self-paced, competency-based program from two institutions in the University of Wisconsin System, the system announced Tuesday. The associate of arts and science degree track is a form of competency-based education called direct assessment, which does not rely on the credit-hour standard. The University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension programs are offering the degree. It?s part of the system?s broader competency-based offerings, which are dubbed the UW Flexible Option.
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pushed for financial aid policies that take into account the greater reliance on student loans among African-American students ? a reality she attributed to estimated Black-White wealth gaps that show White families have anywhere from eight to 20 times as much wealth as Black families.
An Ann Arbor family is furious at the plea deal extended to a former Skyline High School student who is accused of threatening a teenage girl over an anonymous social network. (Rishi Ragsdale is a former UW-Madison student.)
A new study from University of Wisconsin researchers suggests that the type of helmet a football player wears may not be a factor in lowering the risk of concussion.
Noted: “These guidelines reinforce what a lot of colleges are doing already, but it would have been nice if they?d come out two weeks ago,” when students were arriving and health centers were unsure what to do, said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s student health service.
Noted: Wilson freed an innovative generation of liberal academics to pursue highly productive research ? sociologists like Cherlin, Sara McLanahan at Princeton, Kathryn Edin at Johns Hopkins, Alice Goffman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matthew Desmond at Harvard, and, earlier, Elijah Anderson, now at Yale.
From Les Orosz?s point of view, you?d be crazy to break ground on another student apartment project in Madison right now.
In 2007 a young man was killed in a house fire on UW Madison?s campus. Now his parents are still working to make sure no one else is hurt.
Quoted: “Ravens, crows, jays ? they?re really, really smart,” says Elena West, a researcher with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She?s at a nearby campsite, where she?s attaching a small leg band to a blue and black Steller?s jay as part of a study.
Quoted: At the University of Wisconsin, undergraduate students become interested through classroom discussion about key issues. ?We spent a lot of time during the spring semester talking about cyberrisk, which was just after the Target security breach,? said Joan T. Schmit, Ph.D., American Family Insurance Chair in Risk Management and Insurance with the Wisconsin School of Business. ?We discussed all the elements that can be affected, including supply chain.?
Quoted: Reverse mortgages have gained a bad reputation, but they can be a useful financial tool to seniors when used appropriately, says David Johnson, professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: ?The people I study, they find it confusing,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and director of the Wisconsin Hope Lab. She was talking about the complexities of what a university education actually costs.
Quoted: ?A promise can plant a seed ? just knowing somebody believes in you,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?We know from psychology that stuff that happens earlier matters later. Why would this be any different?? And there does seem to have been an effect on the next generation, said Barbara Bainum, a daughter of Mr. Bainum, who funded Ms. Warren?s class.
Quoted: According to entomologist Phil Pellitteri, western conifer seed bugs, boxelder bugs and cluster flies tend to start congregating around Labor Day, and it?s much better to exclude from the house instead of trying to get rid of them after they?ve settled in. Pellitteri is a distinguished faculty associate emeritus and he recently retired as head of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Quoted: ?We basically ask people to advise us if they become ill,? said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin?s student health service and chairman of the American College Health Association?s task force on emerging health threats.
