Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the junta is harnessing disdain for politicians and a yearning, among some Thais, for virtuous authoritarianism.
A new Wisconsin study has modeled what the effects of climate change and evolving land use will mean for various species in the future.
The UW Stevens Point campus goes tobacco-free beginning next week. The Stevens Point campus joins some 700 colleges and universities with tobacco bans, and is the first UW System campus to implement the policy.
Wisconsin is taking on a role as a national leader dealing with sexual violence on college campuses with the announcement of a new Sexual Assault Response Team. The Dept. of Justice is developing standardized consent forms and procedures so a victim?s medical evidence is stored while the victim decides whether to pursue criminal charges.
Noted: National Guard deployment following the Los Angeles riots likewise resulted in a militarized police response that exacerbated the racial violence that had led to the uprisings. According to statistics compiled by University of Wisconsin?Madison sociology professor Pamela Oliver, of the 53 people killed during the riots, 41 were Black and Latino, with 11 of those dying at the hands of the police or National Guardsmen.
Noted: The NIH will also study reviewers? work in finer detail, by analysing successful applications for R01 grants, the NIH?s largest funding programme for individual investigators. The goal is to see whether researchers can spot trends in the language used by reviewers to describe proposals put forward by applicants of different races. There is precedent for detectable differences: in a paper to be published in Academic Medicine, a team led by Molly Carnes, a physician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, used automated text analysis to show that reviewers? critiques of R01 grant applications by women tended to include more words denoting praise, as though the writer is surprised at the quality of the work. And numerous other studies show that different standards exist for men and women in a variety of fields. ?Women do, indeed, have to be twice as good to get the same competence rating as a man,? says Carnes.
Aug. 19, 2014 ? Institutions are protected under Wisconsin?s harassment injunction statute, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled, denying Jeffrey Decker?s claim that only natural persons can seek injunctions to stop harassment by an individual.
More than 40,000 high school athletes suffer concussions each year and while many think the newest or most expensive helmet will reduce the risk a new UW-Madison study suggests otherwise.
The Sheboygan City Council on Monday turned over the key to the city to a recognizable defender of a very different sort of key.
Quoted: Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at both the University of Wisconsin?s law and medical schools, says WHO?s plan ?makes sense, if [those treated] know they are taking a gamble. There is always a risk-benefit balance, especially in an impoverished area.?
The leaders of a University of Wisconsin-Madison college research organization and Dane County?s Boys and Girls Club said no public money was used when they helped Michael Brown?s three siblings secure college scholarships.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wisconsin was consistently ranked in the top tier of states with a high obesity rate. Efforts to help improve that ranking over the last 20 years have paid off, although Doctor Pat Remington, Associate Dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, says it?s mainly because Wisconsin held the line while obesity rates in other other states got worse.
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab of the University of Wisconsin at Madison said that it was time to apply more critical analysis to the term “affordability” as it relates to federal, state and institutional policies that in theory make it possible for low-income student to attend college.
When summer seems to disappear faster than a brat at Camp Randall Stadium and your definition of a ?hot? day is 75 degrees, you tend to celebrate as much time as possible outdoors in the sunshine. That?s especially true when you?re a student or a visitor to the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Madison?s Wisconsin Hope Lab is responsible for securing full-ride scholarships for the three siblings of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old Missouri teen killed during a police shooting.
Quoted: “The WHO did the easy part,” says Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The moral quandary posed by a rapidly spreading deadly disease that might be helped by as-yet unproven drugs runs much deeper.
When The Times reported that the number of Advanced Placement exams taken in the Los Angeles Unified School District had hit an all-time high, I couldn?t help but wonder: Is that a good thing? AP courses help high school students gain admission to prestigious colleges, but not necessarily because of the course work. What matters is getting the AP course on the transcript.
On Friday, the UW-Madison?s Discovery to Product program, which helps fund promising entrepreneurial projects in the hopes those ideas can later be marketed, announced a new batch of innovations to get that money.
As each day goes by, real life and technology become more unified than ever before. And in those areas where they aren?t, it feels kinda weird. For example, did you ever drive by a billboard or some notable sight on a highway but your passenger missed it? For a split second, do you think, ?Oh, just rewind it for her,? as if real life were a DVR?
Quoted: Tim Donohue, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who is president of ASM, says a similar kind of debate happened back in the mid-1970s, when brand-new technologies for manipulating DNA forced scientists and the public to tackle thorny questions.
Quoted: ?Poor people and people who struggle with food insecurity didn?t used to go to college. ? If they were going to get education, they were going to get the free part and that?s it,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. ?But there?s been such a strong cultural push and a strong economic push for college that people with no means are pursuing it.?
Cape Town – In a letter to the ANC, party stalwart Pallo Jordan apparently resigned from all party positions just two days before the news broke that he did not have a PhD as stated in his CV.
Quoted: ?With suicide, the anger becomes much more commonly predominant,? says Dr. Ron Diamond, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Ebola is not the virus that keeps Marc Lipsitch up at night.
Quoted: ?We usually see that high doses of antibiotics decrease microbial diversity, but that?s typical of ?antibiotic bombs,?? said microbiologist Federico Rey of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved with the work. ?Here, this suppression of dominant bacteria may allow other species to flourish.?
An interactive map posted online last week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms what you probably already knew about Wisconsin?s economy: Manufacturing and the jobs it produces are vital to the state.
Dr. Nagle taught physiology at the UW-Madison for many years. He also co-founded and directed the Bio-Dynamics Lab on campus and encouraged many cardiac patients to enhance their recovery with exercise. He also mentored graduate students throughout the years. Many of them became an extended part of the Nagle-Moran family through holiday dinners and social gatherings at the family home. Fran?s academic career afforded international teaching opportunities that he and Edna thoroughly enjoyed. Highlights included extended stays in Brazil and India.
Quoted: Erica Turner, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said that the typical response to such scandals has been to remove the ?bad apples,? but that they have not prompted enough discussion about rethinking what she called ?a system of accountability that?s based on standardized test scores, and a theory of motivation of teachers that they will respond, or that they only respond to incentives and punishments.?
Playing the piano beautifully is a demanding artistic endeavor. But to have a career as a touring pianist takes an extra measure of mental, emotional and physical stamina. The great Arthur Rubinstein was the model of an artist who thrived on the concert stage. He simply loved playing for people and did it splendidly right through his 80s. Not so Vladimir Horowitz, an astounding pianist who gave many phenomenal performances but was a nervous type who agonized about playing concerts, even in the early years, when he was the most dazzlingly brilliant young virtuoso of the day.
To be honest, I never cared about birds. Then, almost nine years ago, Hurricane Katrina swallowed half the city of New Orleans, and something began to change.
A bank robber is on the loose and police want to catch him. Authorities say around 6 p.m. a man wearing a red University of Wisconsin baseball cap walked into the U.S. Bank inside the Schnucks on Big Bend in Twin Oaks.
Quoted: At its worst, the emphasis on undermatching might ?incentivize students to spend more money and take on more debt,? says Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students might be offered a strong discount to attend a more selective school, for instance, but that aid often disappears if they struggle with their grades, so to stay they start borrowing, she says.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Steven Durlauf says the data are no surprise and confirm what unemployment and other figures have already shown — Wisconsin is recovering slower than its neighbors. Durlauf says state employment and spending cuts under Gov. Scott Walker have reduced overall demand for goods and failed to stimulate the economy.
University of Wisconsin-Madison says it received a record number of applications for its incoming freshman class, while most other UW System schools experienced a decline in applications.
Madison is less than two hours away from Milwaukee, but for some, the city seems a world away! The Wisconsin State Fair on Wednesday, August 6th celebrated ?UW-Madison Day.? The leaders of the state?s flagship university and the State Fair have developed the annual event in an effort to get the Dairy State to see red.
We all came to Madison for jobs at UW and found each other through our activism and volunteer work at WORT, Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, Wisconsin Books to Prisoners and Groundwork. Just a little over a year ago, we started getting together to talk about the social landscape of our adopted town and to share our observations about the activism that grew out of the protests against Gov. Scott Walker.
The CFPB named four large credit unions affiliated with universities that do not disclose financial agreements on their websites, and said they demonstrate a lack of transparency.
Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, counseled us to be expecting such proportional reporting. In his recent book ?How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking,? Ellenberg includes a chapter titled ?How Much Is That in Dead Americans?? It debunks precisely the calculation that Barnard unfurls in her New York Times article.
Quoted: Becky Larson, an assistant professor and extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was one of two people the conservation committee invited to speak on the effects of spraying manure.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s new School of Music is finally scheduled to break ground in 2015.
Six of Wisconsin?s largest health care systems are forming a statewide network to contract with insurers, and to share what works best for each group. The partnership includes health systems that serve about 90-percent of Wisconsinites ? Aurora Health of Milwaukee, U-W Health of Madison, Gundersen of La Crosse, Aspirus of Wausau, Bellin of Green Bay, and ThedaCare of Neenah.
Massive open online courses will return to the University of Wisconsin at Madison next year — or something that looks like them will, anyway. Having reviewed the results from its first round of MOOCs, the institution will offer new courses that are shorter, cover fewer topics and target Wisconsinites.
Noted: There?s a massive amount of protest literature about Nixon ranging from books about how he blew it in Cambodia and Laos in the ?70s to a whole cottage industry of books on Watergate. The best scholarship on Watergate has been done by a man named Stanley Kutler at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; his book Abuse of Power has thus far been the great Watergate book because he was using raw tapes in that book to tell us about the fall of Nixon.
Quoted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, a pediatrician and an officer of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He explains bacteria that used to be easily treated with standard antibiotics are now resistant to those very drugs, creating a need for stronger more expensive antibiotics.
Quoted: Watergate historian Stanley Kutler described the videos as a desperate attempt to “rewrite history” and said he had urged the library to create a more informative exhibit. “This was Nixon carefully programmed…. This was Nixon in the middle of his last campaign.”
I recently had the chance to visit the site of the Lower Sesan 2 Dam (LS2), which is in an early stage of construction on the Sesan River in Stung Treng province?s Sesan district. LS2 would be the first large hydropower dam built in the Mekong River Basin in Cambodia. The project is being developed by Chinese state-owned enterprise Hydrolancang, along with the Royal Group of Cambodia.
Our world is in chaos, with the slaughter of innocent people everywhere, and here in our own backyard, another kind of travesty is happening, funded by our tax dollars ? rhesus monkey research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary School….
The week after the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld Act 10, which all but eliminated collective bargaining by most public employees and raised their co-pays for health insurance and pensions, it?s a good time for a follow-up question: Three years later, how much more do state employees pay for health care and pension benefits?
Quoted: ?Bringing people back to this country makes sense because of the resources that are available to treat that aren?t there.? said Dr. Nasia Safdar, Medical Director of Infection Control at the UW-Madison hospital.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will benefit from a $675,000 contribution from American Family Insurance, the Madison-based insurance giant said Tuesday.
The three candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the race for attorney general meet for a debate in Madison. State Representative Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee), Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ, and Dane County D.A. Ismael Ozanne appeared Tuesday afternoon at the UW-Madison Law School, for a debate sponsored by Wispolitics.com and Madison radio station WORT.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin pediatrician Dipesh Navsaria calls the battle with bacteria an ?arms race,? with bacteria changing faster than new drugs to control them can be developed.
The universities with the country?s most prominent athletics programs are expected to gain preliminary approval Thursday to break away from some of the strictures of the N.C.A.A., a significant change that would give them more freedom to govern themselves and could allow athletes to share in the wealth of college sports.
Syracuse University has claimed the title of nation?s top party school. UW was eighth.
Hydraulic fracturing has increased seven-fold across the United States since 2007. Over that time period, scientists? knowledge of the environmental impacts of fracking has not progressed nearly this much. Startlingly little research has looked at biological effects of this process on the environment and wildlife. But what we do know is alarming enough that more research is urgently needed, according to a new study, and the lack of knowledge quite stunning.
“People love it when you ask them questions about themselves,” Christine Whelan, sociologist in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, told NBC News. “It makes us feel good that the quiz is interested in us.”
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Every catch that Jared Abbrederis made during the early days of training camp was met with loud applause from the Green Bay Packers fans in attendance. But after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in practice Wednesday, the rookie wide receiver who grew up 80 miles from Lambeau Field will have to wait until 2015 to make his first official grab for his childhood team.
For visitors to Madison, whether they?re parents of UW students or in town on business, the Memorial Union Terrace is an essential stop: Lake Mendota, boats, ice cream, brats and beer, with perhaps some live music and a beautiful sunset to boot. It?s not hard to understand why the place is so iconic — a summer evening at the Terrace seems to sum up Madison?s vital essence.
Quoted: “We?re basically getting close to almost an unregulated system,” said Ken Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who is an expert on campaign finance.
By conventional education standards, UW-Madison?s first round of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, had an extremely rough start.
