Quoted: Economist Jason Fletcher, an associate professor of public policy at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has researched how additional sales taxes impact products like soda. He said these taxes do not necessarily correlate to less soda consumption or calorie intake.
Quoted: James Wollack, the director of testing and evaluation services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the kind of help described in the report is troubling.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison sought to ?uncover and reverse gender bias in biology,? which has led to the creation of a post-doctorate in ?feminist biology.?
As a conscious student at the University of Wisconsin, I can confidently say UW isn?t at the top of any diversity lists. Whether we choose to ignore it or not, Wisconsin is far from being as diverse as we like to believe it is.
Noted: Her son, Vonzell Coleman Jr., had a 4.6 grade-point average and deserved the chance to attend a school where he didn?t have to worry about safety or gangs or nonsense, she said. ?I just want your readers to know that Vonzell is graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 17,? she told me.
On May 1, International Workers? Day, the University of Wisconsin (UW) Madison Teaching Assistants? Association (TAA) will host a “grade-in” at Bascom Hall, UW?s administration building. The event is part of the TAA?s ongoing “Pay Us Back” campaign for higher take-home pay for all graduate employees.
Quoted: ?Rates have kept going up just like they?ve always gone up,? said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?One iron law of economics is that cable rates never go down.?
Being married can make people more prone to depression, a study reveals.
After years of advice from experts telling us that marriage helps keep us happy, healthy and longer-lived, a study has found that it can also lead to depression.
Statewide, students are leaving college with much more than a diploma; they?re racking up debt. On average, Wisconsin graduates leave school with nearly $28,000 in debt. It?s a trend U.S. Rep. Ron Kind plans to address. He revealed new legislation on the UW-Eau Claire campus Thursday to fight back against student debt.
Quoted: Both Republican and Democratic conventions typically feature a tension between mainstream and more radical elements of the party, but that has become a more difficult balancing act for Republicans since the rise of the tea party in 2010, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor and expert on state politics.
Noted: Douglas Leonard Coleman was born on Oct. 6, 1931, in Stratford, Ontario. Influenced by his father, Leonard, who repaired radios and refrigerators for a living, Douglas spent much of his youth investigating how things worked by taking them apart. He earned a chemistry degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin.
It was music to the ears of the UW-Madison School of Music staff when Leslie Shank, violinist for the renowned St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, recently agreed to join the music faculty. She?ll be a visiting assistant professor of violin next fall.
The Legislature?s audit committee has unanimously approved new guidelines for reporting the University of Wisconsin?s financial reserves, but some of the big decisions are yet to come.
State lawmakers approved two measures relating to University of Wisconsin pay and personnel Monday: the UW will have its own personnel systems separate from the rest of state government, and senior executives could get big pay increases.
Annie E. Clark and Andrea Pino were not satisfied with changing only how their school handled sexual assaults. They wanted to start a national movement.
This week?s Supreme Court ruling allowing Michigan voters to ban race-based public university admissions was cheered by some opponents of affirmative-action practices, but it is too soon to tell if it will build momentum that leads to additional state bans.
Noted: Such hopelessness is common among mothers of children with autistm, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A 2009 study by the college found the women, who handle most of the child-rearing duties, have stress levels comparable to combat soldiers. They also suffer from chronic fatigue.?This is the physiological residue of daily stress,? said Marsha Mailick, director of the school?s Waisman Center.
Noted: University of Wisconsin law professor and medical ethicist R. Alta Charo was asked by the U. to provide an outside perspective on the committee?s process for generating the report and to review a draft of the report. After reading the final report Thursday, Charo told The Tribune via email that the committee?s ethical reasoning is sound (see box).
Noted: A subsequent study, however, asserted that Neanderthals and modern humans rarely mated with each other, if ever, and that their similar genomes were simply the result of having a common ancestor. ?We don?t know where, and we don?t know when, and we don?t know how often,? John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said in reference to interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans. Some scientists want to believe it was essentially an unrepeated ?one-night stand,? he added, while others want to believe that ?every time they met they couldn?t keep their hands off each other.?
The image of the University of Wisconsin is bolstered by a number of contributors including, we hope, life-changing research, renowned and respected scientists, record numbers of Peace Corps volunteers and more. But there is no question Badger athletics and Bucky Badger himself are part of that image. And more often than not, where there are Bucky and Badger sports teams there too is the UW Varsity band?usually more memorable than all.
A former University of Wisconsin football recruit accused of sexually assaulting a student on campus was allowed to participate in his high school?s state basketball championship at the Kohl Center by Chancellor Rebecca Blank and UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling.
Peter Nelson worked in information technology for 20 years before leaving the business world to pursue what he calls his “truest love” — teaching.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW System will have their own personnel systems separate from the state, starting July 1, 2015.
Noted: Dr. Mark Moss is an allergy specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he said once there are warm and windy days things will be pretty intense.
EVANSTON, Ill. ? A National Labor Relations Board official took a historic step last month in ruling that Northwestern?s scholarship football players should be considered employees of the university and therefore had the right to unionize like other workers.
At a White House summit on January 16, President Obama called for higher education leaders to commit to the administration?s goal of leading the world in college graduation rates by 2020. In response to the president?s request, more than 100 college presidents and 40 nonprofits, foundations and other organizations announced new commitments in various areas to expand college opportunity.
Noted: We shared these statistics with Dr. Daniel Resnick, Vice Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He said they raise serious concerns, and suggest that while the majority of spine surgeons are careful about recommending fusions, some may be “operating outside of the generally agreed upon (based on common practice and literature supported guidelines) parameters.”
The Legislature?s audit committee is set to vote on the University of Wisconsin System?s new policy for reporting surpluses.
Quoted: “John Oliver does bring something kind of different,” said Jonathan Gray, a media and cultural studies professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “The ?Daily Show? is primarily about American politics and so much about John Oliver?s shtick reminds you that he?s not an American. It?s not the insider humor of Stewart. It?s more of an outsider?s observations. Sometimes they may look similar, but I think it can allow for a different kind of comic sensibility.”
Tuesday?s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action has prompted state Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, to call for ending all race and gender preference programs in the state.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking for a particular kind of biologist: a feminist one. The university has set up a fellowship, administered by its women’s studies department, for life sciences research. An interview with UW psychologist Janet Hyde.
MADISON (AP) ? University health officials are warning students about a rise in confirmed cases of mumps at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leaders in higher education, upset by Tuesday?s Supreme Court decision upholding Michigan?s ban on race-based preferences in college admissions, said the ruling would nudge them further along the path of finding alternative means to promote diversity in their student bodies.
New University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee interim chancellor Mark Mone came late to academia, starting in the restaurant business in high school.
Most University of Minnesota undergraduates didn?t see a tuition increase this year, but others weren?t so lucky.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld voter-passed bans on racial preferences in public-college admissions in a case involving a challenge to Michigan?s 2006 adoption of such a measure.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a challenge to the measure approved by Michigan voters in 2006 to bar public colleges and universities from considering race in admissions.
?When faced with a choice among colleges, go with the least expensive option,? Mark Cuban suggests. ?Most 18-year-olds don?t know what they want to do with their life, nor do most 22-year-olds. Saddling graduates with high debt makes no sense.?
From this year?s Final Four in basketball, the University of Kentucky represents the former and the University of Wisconsin is an exemplar of the latter.
?I?m really troubled by public dollars going to TFA at the same moment teachers are being let go,? says Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor of education and race theory at the University of Wisconsin.
Kraft Foods is recalling 96,000 pounds of Oscar Mayer Classic Wieners because the packages may instead contain Classic Cheese Dogs, which are made with milk – a known allergen. Adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Meat and Muscle Biology Lab and former fellow at the Oscar Mayer Division of Kraft Foods describes how this happens and how a company like Kraft recalls tons of hot dogs.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Michigan voter initiative that banned racial preferences in admissions to the state?s public universities.
For Earth Day, gardeners can help ensure vegetable, fruit and grain seeds remain available to everyone by ordering a set of open-source seeds from the University of Wisconsin ? Madison. Gardeners and farmers can save open-source seeds after harvest and pass the plants on for generations. Breeders can use the open-source crops to develop new varieties.
A study by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists suggests the best way of stemming the spread of chronic wasting disease among whitetail deer is to kill more bucks, which are most likely to carry CWD and spread the disease among the species.
MADISON ? Caledonia resident Steve Wishau is part of a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students building a 3-D printer for NASA.
We learn how to be parents from our own mom and pop, right?
“The battle to restore a proper relationship between man and his environment, between man and other living creatures, will require a long, sustained political, moral, ethical and financial commitment far beyond any commitment ever made by any society in the history of man. Are we able? Yes. Are we willing? That?s the unanswered question.”
After the Spectrum sweater factory collapsed in 2005, killing 64 workers, hardly anything changed to improve factory safety in Bangladesh.
Noted: Timothy Smeeding, the founder of the Luxembourg group, who now teaches at the University of Wisconsin, has done academic work that comes the closest to the kind of analysis we wanted.
Noted: Eric Johnson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has studied botulinum toxin for 30 years. He says at the moment, it?s not possible to know whether Arnon really has discovered a novel toxin.
Quoted: “The paper describes some very interesting evolutionary dynamics,” said paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) ? Linguists aren?t often called upon to solve crimes, but when a child was abducted in Illinois more than a decade ago, a handwritten ransom note was all police had to go on.
Another billion-dollar University of Wisconsin System surplus calls for another two-year tuition freeze. At least that?s the view taken by Gov. Scott Walker.
On April 11, Gov. Scott Walker proposed freezing tuition in the University of Wisconsin System for two more years, which follows a hard cap put in place in 2013.
Quoted: Susan Beth Koenig, assistant dean of Letters and Science Student Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said each school or college works differently.
Quoted: Both Marsha Ford, director of the Carolinas Poison Center, and Deborah Blum, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin and author of The Poisoner?s Handbook, think that cyanide is the closest match.
Quoted: “There has to be an uncompromising position on opening up political space in the country and ending the destabilization of the Congo,” said Scott Straus, a University of Wisconsin political scientist. “I don?t think it will be easy, but more of the same isn?t going to work.”
Quoted: ?Given all the money and time invested, in my opinion it would be wise to finish the job,? says seismologist Cliff Thurber of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, who organized a 31 March letter of support for the project signed by 36 scientists. Mark Zoback, a geophysicist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., who was one of SAFOD?s original principal investigators, calls the NSF?s decision short-sighted.
Noted: Skemp and Knuti are among more than 1,500 people in UW-Madison?s Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer?s Prevention, or WRAP. It?s the country?s largest study of children of parents with the disease, who face a greater risk of acquiring it.
