There are now 29 kinds of plant varieties that are available under an open source license, reports NPR. On Thursday, a group of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison debuted the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI), a set of seeds that can be used by anyone so long as they don?t restrict use by others through patents or IP protection.
A group of MIT scientists want to revive the nuclear industry in the post-Fukushima era by moving it offshore.
Those of us on the outside looking in at the state Capitol and the University of Wisconsin System?s cash-flow are eager to learn more about whether the latter is sitting on $1.7 billion in extra money or if lawmakers are simply jumping on an election-year opportunity to announce a second straight two-year tuition freeze.
A group of scientists and food activists is launching a Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They?re releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new “open source pledge” that?s intended to safeguard the ability of farmers, gardeners and plant breeders to share those seeds freely.
Gardening and technology couldn?t, perhaps, seem more different, but don?t you believe it: a new initiative out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will soon see your veg patch become an open source project.
A pair of UW-Madison professors have a plan they say could give all students at public colleges and universities two years of free schooling.
Noted: But many small seed companies and breeders may not find that helpful, critics say. ?It?s hard for small companies not only to access germ plasm, but also, many of them don?t have the wherewithal to use this new technology,? said Bill Tracy, a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin. ?So in a sense, it puts them at a double disadvantage.?
Noted: At the outset to his presentation, the University of Wisconsin?s Steven Durlauf pledged to play ?spoilsport? and bring a ?nerdy perspective.? He did not disappoint.
While university doctors who moonlight for drug companies have faced intense scrutiny in recent years, new research suggests much larger sums of money are being paid to their bosses ? the leaders of medical schools and hospitals who serve on drug company boards.
Physicists are proposing nuclear power plants be relocated offshore on floating platforms, so another Fukushima disaster can never happen again.
Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 2012, a freshman at Florida State University reported that she had been raped by a stranger somewhere off campus after a night of drinking at a popular Tallahassee bar called Potbelly?s.
A group of scientists and food activists is launching a Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They?re releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new “open source pledge” that?s intended to safeguard the ability of farmers, gardeners and plant breeders to share those seeds freely.
Noted: And, finally, some digital humanists also study the relationship between culture and technology as a primary source. Jesse Stommel, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin?Madison and director of Hybrid Pedagogy, calls it ?using humanities tools to investigate? technological issues.
A US expert says innovation is the best way to tackle a changing climate. Last night, Professor Molly Jahn from the University of Wisconsin delivered the RD Watt lecture at the University of Sydney saying innovation in agricultural and food systems is imperative for society?s survival and development.
Noted: Other bills of note allow University of Wisconsin System researchers to perform classified national security work in campus facilities, give county jailors more authority to strip search inmates, and legalize nonprofits? rubber-duck race fundraisers. The state Justice Department has warned such races amount to illegal gambling.
Noted: Once there, the proteins come into contact with large numbers of immune cells that live just below the intestinal wall, says Dave Rakel, director of the University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine Program at the School of Medicine and Public Health.
Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have for the first time used infant hair to examine the hormonal environment to which the foetus was exposed during development.
When Wisconsin set up its new state-backed venture capital fund last year to spur economic development, one of the few industries left out in the cold was biotechnology.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor Robert Drechsel, who directs the school?s Center for Journalism Ethics, says that the initial mentioning of The Hill news story in Martinez? reporting isn?t sufficient enough attribution for her to use what comes later.
University of Wisconsin Landscape Architecture students are competing to design the floral gardens that will be planted outside the Capitol this year.
A research team that includes bacteriologists from University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded a $16 million grant from the National Insititutes of Health to find new antibiotics to replace those that no longer work.
Students should be allowed to go to a public university for two years…for free. That?s according to an education policy professor, who says the proposal would make college more affordable and accessible.
Noted: I later run his comments by three experts, including professors in quantum chemistry and zeolite catalysts. They tell me Cheiky?s got his science a bit mixed up and is making exaggerated claims. But it?s not until I call the University of Wisconsin that I really find the smoking gun. I reach William Banholzer, PhD, a chemical engineer who previously spent eight years as the chief technology officer at Dow Chemical. “I actually use Cool Planet as a teaching example of outrageous claims that defy common sense,” Banholzer says.
If you?ve been looking for a natural pick-me-up, get like Thoreau and move to the woods. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that people who live in communities with more green space reported feeling lower levels of depression and anxiety.
Quoted: Michael Wagner is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Wisconsin who researches media and democracy. He said the impact of such videos might be fewer people willing to run for public office, more guarded speech by politicians or more partisan politics.
On many college campuses, thousands of students gather each spring for a week of discussing sex.
Quoted: An app that teaches your kid his ABCs isn?t the same as a television cartoon, but the AAP is probably right to be conservative with its advice. ?Researchers know almost nothing about the impact of touchscreen technology on young children,? says Heather Kirkorian, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is trying to find some answers. ?Our society is running a large-scale experiment with real children in the real world, and we won?t know the impact, if any, for many years to come.?
In the midst of a terrifying heroin epidemic and Madison?s notoriety as one of the worst binge-drinking college towns in the country, it?s easy to overlook the trend of young adults living clean and sober lives here.
The direction you?re moving can play tricks with your mind. That can mean trouble not only for travel but for human relations too
Extending a tuition freeze on the University of Wisconsin System no doubt will be popular with students and their families, and making a college education more affordable is certainly a policy goal that should be pursued by state legislators and university officials alike.
Lisa T. Alexander is a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She is the author of “Hip Hop and Housing: Revisiting Culture, Urban Space, Power and Law” and the forthcoming “Occupy the Right to Housing.”
A time lapse video from the 2012-2013 University of Wisconsin academic year that was posted on YouTube July 27, 2013, is going viral, again.
The president of the University of Wisconsin System says he wants to work with the governor and Legislature to create the best budget possible for the university. That?s how Ray Cross responded today, after Governor Scott Walker said he wanted to freeze UW tuition through the summer of 2017.
Madison (WKOW)– Students on UW-Madison campus are hoping to prevent the 2nd leading cause of death amongst college students. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, more than 38,000 people committed suicide in 2010. That makes it the 10th leading cause of death amongst Americans, but in terms of teenagers and college students it?s an even bigger issue.
Pitzer College announced Saturday that it would sell off all holdings in its endowment that are in fossil fuel comapnies. A number of small colleges have announced such moves, but Pitzer officials believe that their institution is the largest by far (in endowment size) to make such a move.
Noted: Sam Maglio and Evan Polman, of the University of Toronto and University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively, recently hit the streets of Toronto and Vancouver and interviewed pedestrians at strategically chosen subway stops, crosswalks, and a mall. Their questions gauged people?s feelings of proximity to things based on the direction they were headed. Over five studies, which tested both physical and emotional senses of closeness, they arrived at some surprising results:
Quoted: It?s generally a good idea to stay away from any situation that you know you could not sustain long-term, says Justin Sydnor, a behavior economist at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON ? Gov. Scott Walker on Friday called for another two-year tuition freeze throughout the University of Wisconsin System, citing concern over a projected year-end surplus topping $1 billion.
Gov. Scott Walker called for another tuition freeze at University of Wisconsin campuses on Friday.
MADISON (AP) ? Gov. Scott Walker may want to finish his college course work using a new flexible degree option through the University of Wisconsin System, but there are no immediate plans to offer classes in the fields he?s interested in.
The Onion is turning funny into money as a digital media company.
And how the heck did it travel to Bavaria hundreds of years ago? OK, this story from the University of Wisconsin, Madison on the mysterious origins of bottom-fermenting lager yeast is a little “inside baseball” — for the anorak brigade, as the Brits might say — but it is interesting to brewers and beer lovers.
Lager drinkers can thank the birds for their favourite tipple. That is the conclusion of US scientists who say the yeast involved in making their beloved amber nectar could have been spread round the planet by migrating birds.
Noted: That kind of broad-based coverage is also taking place at The Daily Cardinal, one of two independent student-run newspapers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In February, it announced that it would publish three special ?Action Project? issues dedicated to exploring topics ?challenging to both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the surrounding community.? The first 12-page ?Campus Climate? issue delved into racial, gender, ethnic and sexual issues, as well as the university?s diversity, by analyzing admissions numbers. ?Our goal was capturing campus voices on these difficult subjects,? said Abigail Becker, editor in chief of The Daily Cardinal.
Many companies have moved quickly to patch the code since the problem was discovered earlier this week, but there are likely several services out there that might be slow to respond. Nick Davis, an Information Security Architect with the UW-Madison, says that could sensitive data at risk, if businesses have failed to patch the bug.
Associate Dean of Students is just one title used to describe Argyle Wade. Those outside of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, however, know him as a husband, father and volunteer firefighter.
The University of Wisconsin System has moved closer to the edge of political waters with the hiring of a lobbyist with links to Gov. Scott Walker to be vice president for university relations.
The University of Wisconsin System finished the first three quarters of fiscal year 2013-14 with more than $1.7 billion on hand and should finish the year with about $1.1 billion left over, according to data released Thursday.
A belowground experiment at the South Pole has now discovered three of the highest-energy neutrinos ever found, particles that may be created in the most violent explosions of the universe. These neutrinos all have energies at the absurdly high scale of peta?electron volts ? roughly the energy equivalent of one million times a proton?s mass. (As Albert Einstein showed in his famous E = mc2 equation, energy and mass are equivalent, and such a large amount of mass converts to an extreme level of energy.) The experiment, called IceCube, reported the discovery of the first two ? nicknamed Ernie and Bert ? last year, and announced the third Monday here at the American Physical Society meeting. ?Internally, it?s known as Big Bird,? said IceCube physicist Chris Weaver of the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
Many universities have been in limbo after a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the use of race in admissions policies, but UNC has now come under fire for its practices by a nonprofit legal association.
Sarah Mangelsdorf, dean of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, was named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mangelsdorf will be leaving Northwestern in August to assume the position.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the top-spending schools when it comes to research, but university administrators think its faculty and students could use a boost to turn their ideas into thriving companies.
I was one of the lucky fans who went to Dallas to see our Wisconsin Badgers take on the Kentucky Wildcats in the NCAA Final Four.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is once again looking for a new leader. But that?s not the biggest problem on campus. The school has scored three times in a row with chancellors ? hiring Nancy Zimpher, Carlos Santiago and Mike Lovell. There is no reason to suspect it can?t find a top candidate this time.
New apps help recovering alcoholics by providing instant access to support — a game-changer when it comes to recovery, according to one addiction expert.
On a frigid December day in 2004, 17-year-old Aaron Meyer came home from drug and alcohol treatment. He?d already been to hell and back in his short life, but things were going to be different now. He felt alive with hope and possibility.
SAVANNAH, Ga.?A belowground experiment at the South Pole has now discovered three of the highest-energy neutrinos ever found, particles that may be created in the most violent explosions of the universe. These neutrinos all have energies at the absurdly high scale of peta?electron volts?roughly the energy equivalent of one million times a proton?s mass. (As Albert Einstein showed in his famous E = mc2 equation, energy and mass are equivalent, and such a large amount of mass converts to an extreme level of energy.) The experiment, called IceCube, reported the discovery of the first two?nicknamed Ernie and Bert?last year, and announced the third Monday here at the American Physical Society meeting. ?Internally, it?s known as Big Bird,? said IceCube physicist Chris Weaver of the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
Not many people care about where the yeast that makes much of modern beer possible came from. But science cares.
Quoted: Danielle Oakley, director of mental health services at University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, agrees that treating students with eating disorders can be difficult, but is essential.
Opponents of affirmative action have leveled a new three-pronged attack on affirmative action in higher education that could significantly change admissions at selective universities and colleges for the better.
