Quoted: ?What the CDC is reporting is a surveillance, which is going to be a conservative estimate of the number of people who have actually gone to a doctor with symptoms and been diagnosed with Lyme,? said Susan Paskewitz, entomology professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Three seasons ago, the Wisconsin football team wore two different uniform combinations: red tops at home and white tops on the road, always with a white helmet and white pants.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville men?s basketball coach is credited with moving dozens of children out of harm?s way as a tornado hit the campus early Tuesday.
Noted: The margin, though, is slim. Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues that wholly online education is of questionable value for low-income students. This is especially a problem when such students are required to pay for those first 21 credits before they qualify for reimbursement.
Quoted: ?Wisconsin?s performance is not impressive either in absolute terms or relative terms,? said Steven Durlauf, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.
Quoted: Students may not be able to count on as much need-based financial aid as they might expect. The reimbursement from Starbucks will count against them in the financial aid process, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in an interview with USA TODAY Network.
The American Association of University Professors is calling on universities to uphold principles of academic freedom by either terminating or renegotiating the agreements that have brought nearly 100 Chinese government-backed cultural and language programs called Confucius Institutes to campuses across the United States and Canada.
WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Supreme Court?s decision last year to require a higher level of scrutiny for race-based affirmative action was a step toward destabilizing race-conscious admission plans, and universities must find new ways ? for now additional ones, but eventually substitute ones ? to ensure diversity.
The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is receiving $25 million to go towards a new research institute in its largest single gift ever.
Noted: “Somebody has a self interest here, whether it is a noble, social cause or a product. And this is kind of a tried and true way of getting people?s attention and getting excitement and conversation going,” University of Wisconsin life sciences senior lecturer Michael Flaherty said.
Noted: China Real Time recently spoke with the author via phone from Wisconsin, where he is currently pursuing a Ph. D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Edited excerpts, translated from the Chinese.
Affirmative action as we know it is probably doomed.
Quoted: Sounds great, right? Not according to Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who said she found it ?incredibly problematic? that Starbucks has decided to limit its tuition assistance to a single online university.
An independent investigator has found that University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Chief Michael Marzion displayed “inappropriate and unprofessional” conduct when he traded Internet messages of a sexual nature with a student this spring.
There?s a reason the job descriptions for university presidents are painted with a wide brush.
While student loan debt has crossed the $1 trillion mark, legislation to address the issue continues to stall.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, will develop the curriculum for a $400m Nestlé dairy training center in China.
“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” The idea that anyone could affect the weather seemed ludicrous 20 years ago. It seems less comical now that we know that each of us does affect our weather, locally and globally, every day. We here in the Midwest produce some 5% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. So we should think twice about what we do to the weather and, increasingly, what the weather is doing to us.
Quoted: Don Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who focuses largely on constitutional law, said the 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% of Wisconsin residents polled think the state?s same-sex marriage ban should be repealed.
The engineering of a flu virus similar to one that killed 40 million people in 1918 has some scientists sharply criticizing the work of University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who generated a virus that differed from its pandemic ancestor by only 3% of the amino acids that make up virus proteins.
Quoted: ?We argue that one of the ways to help your case is to show that you have a voice,? said André Phillips, the senior associate director of recruitment and outreach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?But in that effort, sometimes students cross the line. In trying to be provocative, sometimes students miss the point.?
Houston in the 1980s was a city of vacant office towers. Even as the oil boom turned to glut and the economy sank, real estate developers doubled the size of the office market from 1980 to 1986, according to commercial real estate performance tracker Reis.
Remember the Spanish Flu of 1918? Of course you don?t. That?s the freakishly deadly influenza strain that swept the globe in 1918 and 1919, wiping out 30 million to 50 million people. It infected about one in four Americans and killed about 675,000. It didn?t just kill little kids and the elderly, either, like most flu strains. This one was unusually devastating in young, healthy people?although why the “mother of all pandemics” behaved as it did is not fully understood.
When the U.S. housing market boomed and busted in the past decade, commercial real estate was comparatively placid.
Quoted: Lucas Graves, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, highlighted how there was a clear distinction between the goals of different fact-checking organisations.
Quoted: Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell, associate dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says applications are down there, but not enrollment. As for the recent drop-off in the broader UW-System, she told the State Journal in December and PolitiFact Wisconsin that it?s unclear what?s behind it.
As part of her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, a pianist named Yeaji Kim has come up with a complete 3D musical score that can be used by blind students.
Quoted: Karma Chavez, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the LGBT movement, says Crabb?s decision was not surprising, given the national trend toward legalizing same-sex marriage.
Quoted: ?I think it makes a lot of sense to use it as a way to participate in high-demand fields that just don?t pay well, like public school teaching,” University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Nick Hillman, an education policy expert, said.
Quoted: Paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who did not participate in this study, noted that 13 million years is only the average time for when the genes of the ancestors of humans and chimps diverged; it?s not necessarily when the ancestors of humans and chimps split into different species.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student pleaded guilty to possessing improvised explosive devices Thursday.
Students have been taught that math is about right and wrong, rather than trial and error. Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. ?I?d be at a party, and I?d tell someone what my book was about, and then I?d be like ? ?Hey, where?d you go??? What topic was so awful and off-putting as to make people flee at its mere mention? Math.
Steve Krogull is on a mission. The director of system engineering and operations in the Division of Information Technology for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his team are embarking on outreach to 97 different data centers on campus to persuade the people behind them to consider a new way of managing their data.
At the University of Tennessee this year, some fraternity pledges had hot sauce poured on their genitals. At Emory in Atlanta, pledges were required to consume items ?not typical for eating? and to engage in fistfights. And at Wesleyan in Connecticut, a few months after the university reached a settlement with a woman who said she was raped at a fraternity house, another woman said that she was raped at a different fraternity house.
More universities in Wisconsin are partnering up with car share companies to try to keep more cars off campus.
Waisman Center experts discuss the cost and treatment of autism in this Wisconsin Public Radio talk show segment.
Students who graduated college in the throes of the recession are still struggling to make it on their own.
On the surface, Gen Y, those ebullient 20-somethings smiling into their phones as they snap selfies, can seem glowingly optimistic about their futures. Despite the major recession they?ve already faced and seen their parents struggle with, they often tell researchers that they think they will eventually find their footing and establish a standard of living at least as good as the one they enjoyed growing up with their parents.
Quoted: Robert Drechsel, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that the use of material from Klein, Postman, and Hemingway ?could be characterized as something that has come to be called ?patchwriting.? English and writing professors Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard have defined it as ?restating a phrase, clause, or one or more sentences while staying close to the language or syntax of the source.?
A famous picture from the 1918 flu pandemic shows so many rows of bedridden soldiers that it looks like an optical illusion ? the double-mirror effect. It?s a jarring image to accompany jarring events that began in January 1918 and quickly subsumed the planet.
Scientists have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed an estimated 50m people in an experiment labelled as “crazy” by opponents.
Quoted: Marianne Smukowski, the dairy safety and quality coordinator with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, said she hopes the FDA works with scientists and the industry to get the issue sorted out.
As part of her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Yeaji Kim has come up with a complete 3-D musical score that can also be used by blind students. Kim was born blind and discovered Braille scores are incomplete.
The remains of a U.S. Army soldier killed during World War II are finally on their way home ? but not without a layover in the home state of a Middleton filmmaker who played a key role in solving the puzzle of the soldier?s whereabouts.
Experts have hit out at scientists who created a similar flu virus to one which killed 50 million people as part of an experiment.
Flu viruses currently circulating in birds closely resemble the one that caused the 1918 pandemic that killed about 50 million people worldwide, researchers say.
Students in an introductory environmental studies course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are playtesting a game on mobile devices to learn about sustainability on their campus.
Quoted: P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, said that though mosquito populations in the southern part of the state are on par for this time of year, unusual weather conditions paired with moist and wooded areas to the north have created the perfect breeding ground this spring.
The University of Wisconsin System appears to be prepared to extend the current tuition freeze, and rightly so.
After weeks of rumors, Colorado State University, Indiana University, the University of Florida and the University of Michigan on Wednesday unveiled Unizin, a consortium aimed at ?tipping the table in favor of the academy? on digital education.
Noted: Like the earlier proposals?from Robert Samuels, president of the union that represents lecturers and librarians at the University of California, and Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of educational-policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison?the coalition?s proposal would pay for the costs of free college largely by reallocating federal money that now funds other educational programs, such as tuition tax breaks.
In what legal observers and fair-use advocates are calling a victory for libraries, a federal appeals court has upheld most of a lower court?s 2012 ruling in favor of the HathiTrust Digital Library in a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and other plaintiffs.
President Obama signs an executive order on Monday expanding the ?Pay As You Earn? program, increasing the number of student loan borrowers who are eligible to cap their payments at 10 percent of their monthly income. Also, under the plan, the balance of a loan would be forgiven after 20 years ? and just 10 years if the borrower works in public service. This move gives an additional 5 million students the same option others were given under earler changes.
Applicants who failed to get into UW-Madison are being recruited to channel their frustrations into a possible lawsuit, over admission policies.
Quoted: Sarah Goldrick-Rab is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has written extensively about college access and affordability.
Noted: Unlike manufacturers of fruits, vegetables and meats, dairy producers have had few incidents of listeria outbreaks over the years, said Marianne Smukowski of the UW-Madison Center of Dairy Research. ?And none have been traced back to aging cheese on wood boards,? she added.
Northern Illinois University alumnus Joshua Moon Johnson? director of LGBT Services and the Non-Traditional Resource Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara?has been named assistant dean of students and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Multicultural Student Center (MSC).
Colleges have become more aggressive about punishing alcohol and drug offenses, even as the rate of serious crime on campuses has dropped, according to a government report released Tuesday.
Social media isn?t just for keeping up with friends and family — it can also be used by job-seekers to connect with hirers, and vice-versa. Don Stanley is a faculty associate in life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches social media and Web courses, and is also the owner of 3Rhino Media, a social web and strategy business.
Noted: While others have also developed systems to study the human retina in the lab, the current study extends these capabilities, according to coauthor David Gamm, director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute and an associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ?Outer segments, which are the business end of photoreceptors, have not been previously shown to form from scratch in culture. This study is important as it demonstrated the extent to which we can study the retina in a culture dish,? said Gamm.
