UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka says he?s creating potentially deadly flu viruses to help prevent a pandemic, but a campus biosafety panel member says the research could cause more harm than good because the viruses could escape from the lab.
I strongly concur with the epidemiologists from Harvard and Yale who warned about the potential release of a possible virulent virus in the June 12 article about UW-Madison flu research.
Quoted: ?We?ve had a rebound that we haven?t seen in many, many years,? said Gene Clark, a coastal engineer with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute in Superior, Wis. ?We?ve been historically below average, and now we are finally back to above-average water levels. At this time last year, I was talking to Wisconsin state legislators about what was happening, why the levels were so low and what could the State of Wisconsin do about it. It was very much a crisis.?
Alzheimer?s disease research is one of the first projects supported by a fund created to commercialize medical technology developed by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore will take snap shots of otherwise elusive predator mammals later this summer.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently discovered that at least 75 workers there had been exposed to possible anthrax infection.
It figured Gwen Jorgensen would be riding in a van headed to the Madrid airport for a flight to Chicago when we talked earlier this week.
College students with military ties face numerous challenges. They must make the adjustment from active duty to campus life and try to navigate all the complexities of an updated GI Bill, which provides benefits to eligible veterans like assistance with tuition and living expenses. But now student veterans at UW-Madison have a new ally in the Veteran Services and Military Assistance Center, which opened May 15.
For the first time, the genome of the electric eel has been sequenced.
The week after finals, a group of incoming student leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison travelled the state by bus to learn more about connecting both to each other and Wisconsin?s communities.
The electric eel is one of the many creatures Charles Darwin sliced up and examined in his years aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. When he cut it open, he found that 80 percent of the fish?s body was taken up by three organs made of what looked like muscle tissue, but not quite. This is where the animal makes electricity.
Electric fish evolved the ability to shock by converting a simple muscle into an organ capable of generating an electric field, scientists have discovered.
The electric eel?s powerful ability to deliver deadly shocks ? up to 600 volts ? makes it the most famous electric fish, but hundreds of other species produce weaker electric fields. Now, a new genetic study of electric fish has revealed the surprising way they got electrified.
UW-Platteville’s emergency response plan was vital when disaster hit. UWPD played a role in its creation.
It?s taken close to two years to complete, but now the west wing of the Memorial Union is in its final stage of construction. The Memorial Union Terrace is home to beautiful views, live entertainment, and sometimes even a love connection. We asked, “what do you love most about the Terrace?” Jill Yeck responded, “I met him here on a blind date. It?s true!”
Noted: Other supposedly secure laboratories are conducting research on even more frightening pathogens that, unlike anthrax, might spread easily and quickly through the air from human to human. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for example, recently reported that they had produced a new avian influenza virus with some characteristics of the 1918 influenza virus that killed tens of millions of people around the world. They did this work in a laboratory with the same safety rating as the bioterror lab at the C.D.C. A small careless error in these experiments could be devastating.
Dire warnings about student debt have become so common that many people may have a hard time believing that the problem is often exaggerated, as I wrote in my column Tuesday. Sure enough, readers raised several thoughtful questions about the research in the column, which found that large student debts are rarer than widely believed.
QUoted, Edward Friedman: “CIs come in many forms. For smaller colleges with no budget for teaching the Chinese language, a CI seems a good trade-off with the purpose of serving one?s students and their future career opportunities.”
Bernice L. Kelly, age 101, passed away on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. Bernice worked for the UW-Madison Computer Science Department, retiring after 17 years.
Quoted: Don Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who focuses largely on constitutional law, said the potential change in policy mirrors a change in public opinion, both statewide and nationwide. Gallup polls taken annually show support for same-sex marriage has more than doubled since 1996, and a Marquette University poll taken in May shows 59 percent of Wisconsin residents polled think the state?s same-sex marriage ban should be repealed.
The efforts to preserve digital humanities research are as numerous as the definitions of the catchall term, according to a report that urges institutions to develop their own strategies to preserve resources that can?t simply be bound and stored in a library. UW-Madison is included.
Quoted: “There is so much that can be done upstream to prevent the need for health care,” said Bridget Catlin, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin who directs the RWJF program.
PLATTEVILLE ? The tornado that hit the University of Wisconsin-Platteville last week damaged at least four buildings and an athletic stadium, and the chancellor says repairs could cost more than $10 million.
Using sediment core evidence taken from the sea floor off Greenland?s coast, the team of researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison were able to estimate the extent of the Greenland Ice Sheet during an interglacial period 400,000 years ago, when global sea levels were much higher than today.
Quoted: “This does seem to signal a fairly broad protection of security in terms of electronic information, in terms of electronic devices like this,” said UW-Madison law professor Adam Stevenson. He said Wednesday?s decision could have implications on whether police are able to search laptops or tablets as well.
Some Wisconsin hospitals could face federal penalties for high rates of infections.
The timing, they say, was largely coincidental. But if the statement released Tuesday by the Big Ten ? and signed by all 14 of the league?s presidents and chancellors ? serves to back up the testimony given last week by Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany?
For the second time in a month, every university president belonging to an athletic conference has jointly issued a public letter calling for change within the N.C.A.A.
As recently as five years ago, the statement released by the Big Ten?s presidents and chancellors on Tuesday would have seemed radical. Now, it appears reactionary.
A U.S. college degree is still worth the investment, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said.
When Atif Hashmi was planning a startup a few years ago, he sought out others who?d been down the same road.
University of Wisconsin Health pediatrician Dr. Dipesh Navsaria is part of a national academy panel that has been assessing what drives early brain development. At a recent talk to the Madison Rotary Club, he explained how his job is changing.
When Gretchen Miron was walking the halls of Kimberly High School a few years ago, she never could have imagined what she would be now.
When Atif Hashmi was planning a startup a few years ago, he sought out others who?d been down the same road. Hashmi, a native of Pakistan who earned his doctorate in in computer engineering from UW-Madison, ended up connecting with Merlin Mentors, a group of volunteer serial entrepreneurs who operate out of the university?s Office of Corporate Relations.
For Cathy Middlecamp, placing academic disciplines in the context of sustainability comes naturally.
It may seem as though every new day brings an announcement of a scientific breakthrough of the highest order. Should you freak out about every new record-breaking neutrino? In this week?s “Ask a Physicist,” we?ll find out.
Back in 1964, a British TV company filmed a group of 7-year-olds basically being 7, for a half hour special called 7 Up. Then, every seven years, filmmaker Michael Apted went back and made another film about the group: 14 Up, 21 Up, and most recently, 56 Up. One of those kids was Nick Hitchon, and ? spoiler alert for 63 Up ? he is now a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
According to Edgar Feige, economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, unreported income totals $2 trillion in the U.S. That includes illegal activities like drug dealing, but it also includes side jobs like nannies and eBay sellers.
This summer, Colorado State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will each receive four electric vehicles for a variety of sustainable research projects, including reducing the campus?s carbon footprint; using vehicle sensor data; and broadening the understanding of the Internet of Things. As part of a project debuted at the Internet2 Global Summit this past April, the participating universities were selected by Internet2 and electric vehicle manufacturer Innova UEV from a pool of 11 applicants.
Alice Goffman?s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a necessary read if you want to understand this reality and try and make sense of significant aspects of life in contemporary America. Goffman?s focuses on a neighborhood near City Center in Philadelphia. But it could easily be Baltimore.
Quoted: The connection to traditional sports raises some interesting questions. David Williamson Shaffer, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in educational games, says this is a sign of games as a growing “cultural phenomenon.” He compares the move to what many high schools have done by turning debate into a letter ?sport.?
Noted: Shortly after completing medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 — and at age 22. becoming the medical school?s youngest graduate — Sauerhammer returned to the Miss Wisconsin competition. This time, she gave a voice to the importance of organ and tissue donation.
Quoted: ?What this study shows is that there?s a correlation between facial markings and sociality and the need to communicate,? said zoologist Patricia McConnell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a dog behavior researcher who was not involved in the study.
Is student loan debt causing young adults to retreat from the housing market en masse? No, but it?s having some impact, and the debt burden appears to be hitting black borrowers harder than whites, says a recent paper from researchers Jason Houle of Dartmouth College and Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?If we can get that first 1,000 days of life right,? said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, ?we?re really going to save a lot of trouble later on and have to do far less remediation.?
Two Senate Democrats who are working on legislation to combat campus sexual assault said Monday that they expect to introduce a bipartisan bill when Congress returns from its August recess.
Quoted: Brian Hellmer, director of the UW-Madison School of Business? Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, said novice investors should be cautious about these opportunities . ” You should not confuse investing for retirement with providing yourself with entertainment,” he said.
Quoted: B. Bradford Brown, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who writes about adolescent peer relationships and was not involved in the study, said it offered a trove of data.
Quoted: ?There is a relationship between rainfall and mosquito activity,? said Patrick Liesch, assistant researcher for the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab. ?Mosquitoes are associated with water, so whenever we get more rainfall, that?s an opportunity for mosquitoes to lay eggs.?
Wisconsin?s summer could be cooler than normal this year, according to a Wisconsin meteorologist, leaving it in uncertain territory when it comes to severe weather.
Shortly after midnight two years ago, the University of Wisconsin-Superior?s new chancellor was alerted to a campuswide power outage and water in buildings.
In the early 1970s, the University of Wisconsin-Madison made an extraordinary gesture for the time. It granted jazz composer Duke Ellington an honorary doctorate and mounted a weeklong festival of his music. It even gave Duke and the members of his orchestra the rare opportunity to conduct master classes.
Noted: Sara Goldrick-Rab of the University of Wisconsin, Madison sums up the results of all this in a paper she wrote last year for the Lumina Foundation.
The professor emerita reflects on a barrier-breaking career at the UW Law School.
Quoted: If you think that shrewdness sounds like old-fashioned checkbook journalism, you?re not far off. But a lot has changed since the days when media outlets lived by the edict that they would not pay for news content. Things aren?t so simple since the digital disruption, according to Katy Culver, associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It?s a very complex situation,? she said. ?New players that haven?t been part of this contested field of media ethics over the last four or five decades are out there doing things.?
Chances are that when you think about math?which, for most of us, happens pretty infrequently?you don?t think of it in anything like the way that Jordan Ellenberg does. Ellenberg is a rare scholar who is both a math professor (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and a novelist.
Everyone knows about the problem of rising tuition. Now, a new battle is shaping up at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over associated fees.
There are a handful of moments on saxophonist Eric Dolphy?s seminal free jazz album Out to Lunch where the bassist lays down a series of upward-inflected glissandi, as if a question is being asked. He then answers with a descending line. Eventually the rest of the band come back in, providing the ultimate response to the query issued by the bass. The effect is downright Socratic; it?s almost as if the bassist is a music philosopher employing the classic Q&A format to encourage his pupil, the listener, to examine a particular musical problem from a particular angle.
Everyone knows about the problem of rising tuition. Now, a new battle is shaping up at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over associated fees.
A University of Wisconsin football player said he witnessed a recruit consume 4-5 shots in the time before he allegedly sexually assaulted a female student at a residence hall last December.
