In his Kalamazoo, Michigan study, decorated with a Bucky flag and full-length sofa where he intends to watch his alma mater take on LSU on Saturday, Sidney Williams, Jr. expects memories to come flooding back.
Since coming to Madison in the early 2000s, Everett Mitchell, the UW-Madison director of community relations, has seen many sides to the Madison-Dane County community. Through his work at Madison-area Urban Ministry, Mitchell worked with ex-offenders and inmates housed at Oakhill as well as with their children. He also saw the other side of the community through his work with United Way of Dane County, 100 Black Men of Madison and as an assistant district attorney.
In college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she tried her hand at playing the ideal college student ? ?makeup, hair, cute clothes? and ?dating horrible, gross dudes.? She even tried to pledge a sorority, but a poorly timed dermatologic event pre-empted this. One day she was taking a walk on the shore of Lake Mendota in Madison with some of the friends she?d made, still very much preoccupied with cuteness, when she saw a bunch of people ? ?like hippies, feminists, demonstrators, political kids, people who fought? ? wading in the water, just having a good and un-self-conscious time. These, she realized, these were her people.
Democrats see problems for Governor Walker in the latest state revenue estimates. Revenues are off by $281 million for 2014, according to tax collection numbers released by the state Department of Revenue.
The latest numbers from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue show tax revenues lagged expectations by $281 million last fiscal year, sending the state?s two-year budget into a projected shortfall.
Quoted: In the U.S., a different tick, known as a wood tick or dog tick, is the primary carrier of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Patrick Liesch, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said the simplest way for people and pets to avoid tick-borne disease is to avoid areas where ticks are likely to occur.
Quoted: ?I think healthcare systems should pay attention to the importance of lifestyle interventions based on the kind of cost savings and other outcomes you see in the study,? UW’s Dr. Patrick McBride, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
Noted: In Milwaukee County, for instance, the number of eviction cases filed against tenants leapt by 43 percent from 2010 to 2013, according to figures gathered by the Neighborhood Law Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Other parts of the country have seen similar, if less drastic spikes ? and not only in high-cost cities like San Francisco.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Business Professor Barry Gerhart says there?s an easy explanation why: ?If you put the money into salary, it?s there forever. If you give out money in terms of a bonus, people get it that year and have to re-earn it the following year,? he says.
Quoted: “It?s a very sad anniversary,” noted Stanley Temple, Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He realizes that his observation is a massive understatement. As a sought-after, anniversary-year voice for a species that no longer has a voice, Temple has read the historic accounts of flocks of a billion birds or more by first-hand reporters ranging from average hunters to some of the most famous naturalists ever to roam the continent.
As Season Begins, We Rank Everyone on How Good?And How Shameful?They. (UW is ranked as one of the most admirable and biggest powerhouses.)
On Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m., I expect to look around Mills Hall and be unable to find an empty seat. They will be filled with hundreds of people whose lives were touched by the remarkable pianism, teaching, and humanity of Howard Karp. The revered Professor Emeritus passed away on June 30 at the age of 84; I can?t help feeling that everyone around me will have been blessed by a greater personal connection to him than I had. I enjoyed but one personal encounter of any significant length with Howard, but since this blog space gives me the opportunity, I feel led to share it in the hopes that, however well they knew him, others might be touched by Howard Karp yet again.
MADISON, Wis. — It?s sunny and still at 6:30 a.m. outside the Stephen M. Bennett Student-Athlete Performance Center. It?s early August, and a yellow taxi rolls into sight near the Lot 17 parking garage to drop off two young ladies, still dressed from Friday night festivities, who giggle as they search for their car on Wisconsin?s campus. A few minutes later, an engine whine buzzes through the air. It precedes the appearance of three large men riding scooters.
Beth Graue, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin School of Education, talks about transitioning from the lazy days of summer to a new school year.
Quoted: “Erections are often a barometer of a man?s overall health both physically and psychologically,” says Dr. David R. Paolone, associate professor in Department of Urology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “I think that?s something that we recognize more and more.”
When Barry Alvarez leaves his job as the University of Wisconsin?s director of athletics each day, he retreats to his backyard. There sits a rarity in Madison, Wis.: a poolside cabana.
The UW System wants a $95 million bump in its next budget, justified with the usual mumbo-jumbo addressing various shortcomings in the system. As always, this includes increasing staff headcounts along with their compensation packages.
Dr. Doug Reinemann, Professor, Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, suggests the following ten do?s and don?ts when planning a milking parlor?especially for ?retrofit? and ?low-cost? alternatives.
Quoted: “In general, there is going to be a plethora of factors involved in any credit rating,” said Economics Prof. Steven N. Durlauf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “As an example, there is a positive correlation between going to a hospital and dying, but that may not tell you much.”
The University of Miami has an unusual system in which all faculty members get a vote?albeit a nonbinding one?on whether to retain their dean. That?s given Miami an even more unusual problem, now that three leading deans have been rejected.
South Korean pianist Yeaji Kim has been completely blind since the age of 13 and learned to play piano using Braille scores, meaning that each page of music was covered with three-dimensional bumps that made it possible for her to read printed music.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Chief Michael Marzion has been demoted to captain and will remain on administrative leave while the university considers additional actions in connection with “inappropriate and unprofessional” conduct the chief displayed when he traded Internet messages of a sexual nature with a female student last spring.
Through the recession, college tuition skyrocketed at public universities to make up for flagging state funding. Some students who borrowed to keep up with rising costs face crushing debt repayments. Hari Sreenivasan travelled to Wisconsin to report on one group hoping to turn the state?s student borrowers into a powerful voting bloc.
Thirty years ago, klezmer music was a dying art, played mostly by aging musicians at the occasional wedding or bar mitzvah. That started changing in the late 1970s with the klezmer revival, and especially with KlezKamp, one of the first klezmer festivals and a training ground for new artists.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a UW-Madison researcher whose work with dangerous influenza strains made headlines this summer, says his work is not only extremely safe, but also has important implications for global health.
The streets will be buzzing downtown Madison on Wednesday, because it?s that time of the year again.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) ? A new phone app is helping some central Kansas addicts stay sober and away from drugs.
Quoted: In the U.S., a different tick, known as a wood tick or dog tick, is the primary carrier of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Patrick Liesch, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said the simplest way to avoid tick-borne disease is to avoid areas where ticks are likely.
Kurt Squire first recognized the learning potential of games in 1987 in his history class in high school. When his teacher asked the students if they knew the differences between English and Spanish colonization strategies in the Caribbean, he was the only one who knew the answer (the Spanish sailed galleons and held forts across the Caribbean for transporting gold, while the English sought to establish permanent settlements). But Squire hadn?t been reading ahead in the textbook: He had inadvertently learned the history of Caribbean colonization from spending countless hours playing a video game called Sid Meier?s Pirates! on his Commodore 64 computer.
Common sense would tell you that when crucial educational programs are cut, people are going to make a lot of noise. But under the noise, Gov. Scott Walker was able to swiftly yet quietly eliminate a program that this state?s students are in dire need of ? the Wisconsin Covenant Scholars program….
While almost 20,000 students will move into their dorms on the campus of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay later this week, the school is also welcoming another newcomer: Chancellor Gary Miller, who began work earlier this month.
Quoted: They respond to chemicals, with lock-and-key mechanisms that resemble how animals smell. Plants have specific photoreceptors, which are proteins that respond to different wavelengths of light. They “know” when they?re being touched, Simon Gilroy, a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Live Science.
Quoted: “The interesting thing is that [executive orders] do have a legal status that is all other things equal is equal to a statute, permitting and prohibiting certain sorts of things, but the consequences for violating them are unclear,” Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told Ars.
Aaron Olver, who will take over as head of University Research Park next month, says he?ll be working over the next year on an updated strategic blueprint as URP?s new site gears up for business.
MADISON, Wis. ?A University of Wisconsin-Madison football recruit was sentenced for sexual assault Monday.
As the shaded quadrangles of the nation?s elite campuses stir to life for the start of the academic year, they remain bastions of privilege. Amid promises to admit more poor students, top colleges educate roughly the same percentage of them as they did a generation ago. This is despite the fact that there are many high school seniors from low-income homes with top grades and scores: twice the percentage in the general population as at elite colleges.
We?ve only just begun to embrace the potential of cloud. As the so-called Internet of Things takes hold, cloud computing services will need to acquire a new depth and breadth to handle petabytes of data, demanding, complex applications, and millions of users. New, evolving architecture is needed.
Anyone who followed Ben Strickland?s athletic career at Brookfield Central shouldn?t be surprised with where he is today, serving as cornerbacks coach at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: A male candidate wouldn?t receive that kind of support, which could be critical in helping Burke counter the “very deep set of pockets” available to Walker, said Richard Matland, a political scientist and visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walker has raised $18.7 million since his recall election victory in July 2012; Burke has raised $6 million since announcing her candidacy in October.
Quoted: When there are separate collections for trash and recyclables, ?we run two separate sets of trucks, two crews, two sets of canisters,? said Craig Benson, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who approves of the single-bin strategy. He added, ?If we can reduce that to a single stream, that?s a real advantage.?
There?s a lot of progress in the recovery effort after two tornadoes hit the UW-Platteville campus on the night of June 16th, causing at least $10 million worth of damage. ?The campus, I?m pleased to say, is ready for the students. We?re not done. It?s an important distinction. The goal is to be ready,? says Rob Cramer, Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services at the university.
MADISON (AP) ? The University of Wisconsin System?s regents on Thursday approved asking Gov. Scott Walker for $95 million in additional tax dollars in the state?s next two-year budget after system President Ray Cross assured them the money would help boost the state?s economy.
Bradford graduate Vonte Jackson?s football career is over.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says more resources are needed to transform the state?s higher education system into a bigger driver of the state?s economy, a request that comes at a time when Gov. Scott Walker says no new revenues will be available.
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approves a request for an additional $95 million in the next two-year state budget.
Noted: GPII is an initiative in the US by not-for-profit organisation Raising the Floor. The GPII project was founded by Gregg Vanderheiden, a professor in the industrial and systems engineering department and the biomedical engineering department at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University at Albany named Timothy Mulcahy as its interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. Mulcahy, a former vice president at the University of Minnesota, is one of three new members to the university?s administrative team.
Quoted: “It?s been a slow process of population increase and population expansion from the centers of reintroduction,” says Anna Pidgeon, professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the UW-Madison.
In rural Washington State, a local restaurant owner, who runs the kind of place where retirees linger over scrambled eggs and parents feed their children hamburgers, proudly told Anna Haley-Lock, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, how he avoided overpaying his workers. He set a rule that labor costs could equal no more than twenty-one per cent of sales each day; about half of that sum could be spent on front-of-the-house staff, and half on those in the back. Every half hour, the owner and his managers review an Excel spreadsheet with the latest totals. ?The labor percentage can?t exceed twenty-nine per cent at three P.M., or it?s unlikely to drop to twenty-one per cent? by the end of the day, the owner told Haley-Lock. ?At that point, managers know to ask some folks to go home.?
Like so many other Americans, I?ve spent the last week watching a chaotic, agonizing situation in Ferguson, Missouri. I?ve spent most of those days hoping for something better and fearing something worse. As tensions have risen between a black community set on demonstrating for its humanity and a police force bent on repressing those protests, as I watch the police and the National Guard dig in their heels, I keep wondering what the way out is. (Simon Balto is a PhD candidate in History and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)
Quoted: The real challenge right now, says Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is stopping the current outbreak using available methods. That means providing gloves and protective suits for health care workers in West Africa, increasing the number of health care workers, isolating the sick, educating affected communities, supplying antibiotics, and promoting alternatives to dangerous cultural practices like close handling of the newly dead.
Quoted: Possibly, says Katy Culver, associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics. ?If we turn our attention too much toward what?s happening to the news media, then we?ve really not sought the truth and reported it,? she told International Business Times. ?This story is about Michael Brown, not two reporters who got arrested at a McDonald?s. I?m not saying that?s unimportant, but it?s not the most important thing.?
Patented and ?indentured? seeds are fast taking over the world?s food supply, write Jack Kloppenburg & Irwin Goldman, terminating farmers? and gardeners? ancient right to develop new varieties, and forcing them to buy seed anew for every crop. Enter the Open Source Seed Initiative …
Noted: For while the open door of online mapmaking has produced a lot of maps, it?s also brought about a standardization of aesthetics. ?To make it easy for people to make a map,? says Daniel Huffman, a cartographer at the University of Wisconsin, ?you need to simplify the process down and make things very uniform.? Riffs on Google Maps look for the most part like Google Maps, with its top-down view, muted color scheme, choice of line weights, and approach to terrain. Even original maps created on Mapbox or other, more powerful geographic information system-based software can lead, at the very least, to design that is ?sterile,? according to cartographer Kenneth Field. Certainly, the style is ubiquitous.
The riots in Ferguson, Mo., over the shooting of Michael Brown, arrive at a particularly ironic moment?almost 50 years after the Watts riots in the summer of 1965, also spurred by one man?s encounter with law enforcement. That uprising, along with other mass urban insurrections in the 1960s, prompted a raft of riot commissions to examine why these outbreaks had occurred. What?s ironic is that they all came to the same conclusion: The riots were about far more than just the police. (Merlin Chowkwanyun is a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)
The University of Wisconsin System would seek a $95.2 million boost in state funding for a new initiative to more closely align education and research with the economic needs of the state, under a biennial budget proposal from UW System President Ray Cross.
Sexual assault remains a persistent problem on America?s college campuses. Violence prevention expert Carmen Hotvedt of UW-Madison talks about efforts in Wisconsin to reduce, and hopefully eliminate, the problem.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will consider whether to work with the state to fund a proposed performing arts center in Eau Claire on Thursday.
University of Wisconsin System officials want Gov. Scott Walker to give them an additional $95 million in tax dollars in the next state budget to fund a new plan to create jobs, boost graduation numbers and deal with a tuition freeze.
The UW Board of Regents could decide today whether to ask for another $95 million in the next two-year state budget.
