Robin Schaad sat down to break the disappointing news. Even after receiving an appeal for more money, her daughter’s top-choice college — a well-regarded engineering school — hadn’t offered enough financial aid.
A UW-Madison professor is on the route home after biking over 1,000 miles across the Midwest.
How’s this for irony: A food source that many people find gut-wrenching might be just the ticket to stop that gut from wrenching.
Co-author Jean Michel-Ane from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, agrees that this discovery opens up all types of new possibilities. “Engineering corn to fix nitrogen and form root nodules like legumes has been a dream and struggle of scientists for decades. It turns out that this corn developed a totally different way to solve this nitrogen fixation problem. The scientific community probably underestimated nitrogen fixation in other crops because of its obsession with root nodules,” he says in a statement. “This corn showed us that nature can find solutions to some problems far beyond what scientists could ever imagine.”
Thomas Phelps Carpenter, age 78, passed away on August 7, 2018 from Parkinson’s Disease. Tom spent most of his influential career as a Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He held a deep commitment to mathematics, to teachers, to children, to equity, and to supporting the development of the field of mathematics education.
WASHINGTON — If you want a healthy gut, new research shows you can skip the probiotic pills, and instead, chow down on some crickets.
Every August, the Northern Hemisphere is treated to one of nature’s most popular celestial events, the Perseid Meteor Shower. This year, if conditions are favorable, the Perseid should be the best show of the year. Peak nights for viewing this year happen to coincide with new moon, so there will be virtually no interference from the moon lighting up the sky. These nights are August 11-12 and August 12-13, with August 12-13 being slated as the night for the better show.
James Tinjum’s hands ache with blisters. His arms have peculiar tanlines.
MADISON, Wis. – One man was arrested after gunshots were fired in a parking garage near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Friday morning.
As the Department of Education refines the next phase of its higher education agenda, the White House is apparently weighing in on the new policy direction.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they’ve developed a video game that can help develop empathy in students.
Noted: Abel has performed this procedure hundreds of time since she joined Randall Kimple’s lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Kimple, a radiation oncologist, uses PDX mice to carry out experiments on human tumours that would be impractical in people, such as testing new drugs and identifying factors that predict a good response to treatment. His lab has created more than 50 PDX mice since 2011.
Kids, parents, locals and visitors partied like animals at the Kilbourn Public Library on August 3 at an annual Meet the Mascots event where Bucky, the University of Wisconsin mascot, and 20 other university mascots danced and mingled the day away.
The Memorial Union Council voted Tuesday to remove the names of two men who belonged to a campus group which used the name Ku Klux Klan in the early 1900s from union facilities. The decision comes after a year of discussion by the council and a report from a subcommittee which was convened to research the matter.
The man accused of shooting and killing the leader of a rival gang outside a convenience store here last spring was found guilty on Wednesday.
The Trump administration plunged thousands of migrant children into a frantic limbo this summer when it separated them from their parents in a bid to deter illegal immigration on the southwest border, igniting weeks of protest and litigation.
Probiotics have become increasingly popular as more people learn about the health of their microbiome, the billions of microbes that live inside all of our digestive tracts and elsewhere. Now new research suggests that a diet that includes crickets could feed the beneficial bacteria that help maintain a healthy gut. Crickets may increase enzymes in the stomach that aid metabolism as well as promote good bacteria in the stomach, according to a study published in Scientific Reports, the first clinical trial of its kind.
Aaron Williams was never a bird expert or even a bird enthusiast. But somehow, he’s found himself coordinating a flock of volunteers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as part of a large-scale effort to protect local and migrating birds.
President Trump characterized the vast majority of Chinese students in the U.S. as spies during a dinner Tuesday night with CEOs at his private golf club in New Jersey, according to a report in Politico.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is removing plastic straws from campus dining locations.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison will rename two rooms in the Wisconsin Union that are currently named after alumni who were members of a campus organization called Ku Klux Klan, Madison 365 reported.
Noted: “A warmer climate is making more favorable conditions for heavy rainfalls,” explains Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin. Warmer air can hold more moisture, and climate models also predict storms will move more slowly, dumping rain for longer and resulting in more floods.
Valerie Stull, lead author of the study, told the University of Wisconsin-Madison that though the trial is small, the viability of insects as a sustainable food source is worth exploring in the future. “It’s gaining traction in Europe and in the U.S. as a sustainable, environmentally friendly protein source compared to traditional livestock,” she told the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: If an adolescent or young adult comes to the doctor with a cough or headache, it might be treated with an antibiotic first before other causes are considered, said Dr. Ryan Mattison, associate professor of medicine with the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: David Schwartz, professor of chemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, doesn’t think that’ll stop Barron: “She could walk through rock.” The two scientists met 19 years ago at a Gordon Research Conference and have remained close friends.
Noted: Many weed varieties aren’t toxic unless environmental conditions make them so. “If plants pick up a lot of nitrogens from rain and rapid growth, and animals eat a lot of them, they can die,” said Mark Renz, a University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension weed scientist.
Quoted: “A warmer climate is making more favorable conditions for heavy rainfalls,” explains Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin. Warmer air can hold more moisture, and climate models also predict storms will move more slowly, dumping rain for longer and resulting in more floods.
Quoted: “Extreme droughts and high winds are increasing as climate is warming,” said Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has spent three decades researching fires at Yellowstone National Park. “That’s the ultimate driver behind what’s happening in California.”
Two rooms at the Wisconsin Union named for members of a campus Ku Klux Klan group will be changed before the school year begins, if a Union Council resolution passed Monday is approved by University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
Wisconsin’s prison population is growing and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health is responding.
A committee of faculty, students, and staff at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has submitted a document with several ideas to help save some or all of the 13 programs that were proposed to be cut as part of a curriculum re-structuring proposal released in March.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor David Baum is a botanist who has studied boabs and baobabs for more than 30 years and he says that despite decades of research we still cannot say how boabs came to be in Australia.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is biking across several Midwestern states to raise money and awareness for a renewable energy project in Puerto Rico. Friday, he passed through southeastern Minnesota, visiting several solar sites in the region.
MADISON (WKOW) — The NHL season is two months away. Two-time Olympian and NHL all-star Joe Pavelski made a stop to the American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison on Monday.
Quoted: “One tick can crank out females in fairly large numbers,” said Thomas Yuill, a retired pathobiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was one of the first to raise alarms about the invaders.
Noted: While many commenters on Chinese social media speculated that the limit would be raised to three, Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—and longtime critic of China’s birth policy—went further.
University of North Dakota President Mark Kennedy has appointed Meloney Golombiecki Linder to serve as Vice President for Marketing and Communications. Linder will begin her new duties Sept. 4.
Noted: “Sometimes we don’t know what to do with emotions,” so parents channel them into packing and shopping to feel productive, said Beth Miller, a coordinator for residence life at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But sometimes parents are purchasing things based on emotion and not necessarily based on need.”
A bicyclist traveling across the Upper Midwest wants to bring renewable energy to Puerto Rico.
Noted: Jacob Stampen, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of educational leadership and policy analysis, said his research reveals a growing partisanship that has made state lawmakers more indebted to party bosses than to the public. Stampen has been tracking voting in the Wisconsin Legislature since 2003. His first analysis of voting was as a graduate student at UW-Madison in the mid-60s.
A committee of faculty, students, and staff at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has submitted a document with several ideas to help save some or all of the 13 programs that were proposed to be cut as part of a curriculum re-structuring proposal released in March.
Noted: Amy Achter, director of partner development for Nature’s Bounty, a vitamin and nutritional-supplement manufacturer, will become managing director of the Office of Business Engagement at the University of Wisconsin at Madison this month.
Noted: “When people are moving to places they bring diseases with them that the home population might not be immune to, and on the flip side these people are moving into places where they might not have immunity to the diseases in the new place,” says Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: “Some of this may reflect the availability of the reinsurance program. As well, it may be that the carrier’s substantial increases last year occurred based on an overly-pessimistic expectation, given the relatively robust ACA enrollment that ended up occurring regardless — thanks largely to the ability of the federal premium subsidies to offset the rate increases for many people,” Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has signed a new technology partnership with Oracle Cloud for its integrated health system, UW Health.
Honored: Chris Walker, artist director, First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble at UW–Madison
UW–Madison Center for the Humanities, Sara Guyer, director
Specific programs recognized are HEX-U, Humanities Without Boundaries and Humanities NOW
Johannes Wallmann, UW–Madison Jazz Studies
Tandem Press, printmaking studio and gallery, UW–Madison School of Education
Timothy Yu, poet and professor, UW–Madison English and Asian American Studies
Interviewed: Barbara Mergen Alvarado currently serves as the volunteer board president of the Madison Arcatao Sister City Project and has led numerous delegations to El Salvador. She is an honorary fellow at UW–Madison’s Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies program researching migration, human rights, and cross-border organizing in Latin America.
Having grown used to the solo, acoustic performances and revivalist lyrics that flowed from Bob Dylan, his fans cried a united foul when he showed up defaced by commercialism at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
Noted: Eleanor Powell, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science associate professor, said that if it weren’t for the help of one particular GOP donor, Nicholson might still be a political unknown.
They are, of course, super connected. But on their terms. Which is why college-bound iGens (Gen Zers, if you prefer) present a challenge to the grown-ups on campus eager to reach and teach them.
Noted: Yodelers such as Johnson, who sing the country western warble made popular in the 1930s and ’40s, are aging out of performing. “It is uncommon to hear it in Minnesota,” said former folklore professor James Leary, who wrote a book on yodeling and Swiss music in Wisconsin.
Noted: The industry was barely starting to recover when the tariffs came, Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin, told Xinhua. “So farms are now looking at another period of time with low prices,” he said.
To the layperson, weather is largely a mysterious force of nature. It is an immutable reality that can, at best, be prepared for. But meteorologists know well that weather is a turbulent combination of many factors, from the energy of the sun falling on the planet to humanity’s chemical output and our constructs of steel, concrete, glass and asphalt. As air heats and cools and gathers moisture at one point and expels it at another, the whole of the world, natural and manmade, comes to bear.
Quoted: “At a minimum, you want to have open communication,” advises Dr. Luke Funk, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before beginning a weight-loss program or having surgery, couples should discuss why the overweight partner wants to lose weight, what lifestyle changes will be needed and how they both will benefit from new habits.
President Trump will nominate a University of Oklahoma meteorologist and administrator as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Quoted: “I once heard a senior number theorist, who I will not name, say that Scholze had kind of ruined his to-do list for the next 20 years,” said Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Steph Tai, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, framed it this way: An environmental violation is noncompliance with environmental law, whereas environmental fraud is concealing the fact of that noncompliance. They are different legal categories.
Two prominent academic economists, James Hamilton of University of California San Diego and Kenneth West of the University of Wisconsin, and two leading Wall Street economists, David Greenlaw of Morgan Stanley and Ethan Harris of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, closely monitored market reactions to Fed announcements and other news from QE’s introduction in November 2008 through 2014, when the Fed stopped buying securities.
Quoted: Ian Baird, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has done research in the area, said the 3S basin was highly multiethnic, with most villagers subsisting on food from rivers and forests.
The connections in the regions of the brain that contribute to whether we develop anxiety disorders may be something we inherit, according to a study.
