Noted: The two options for changing the effects of Citizens United are a Constitutional amendment — as Move to Amend is attempting — or a future Supreme Court deciding to reverse the precedent set in the 2010 case, University of Wisconsin – Madison professor Dr. Ken Mayer said in a phone interview.
It sounds like an awesome wintertime trip: Snowmobile to the middle of nowhere, set up camp and fly radio-controlled airplanes for a couple of weeks. Now take that same scenario and move it to Antarctica in the austral summer. Throw in a 10-hour snowmobile ride across the hard, wind-carved snow surface.
NASA has launched an interactive map of the Milky Way galaxy, constructed over 10 years from over two million infrared Spitzer images.
The Wisconsin Badgers beat American University on Thursday, 75 to 35. The UW men?s basketball team now advances to the Round of 32 and will play at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Saturday.
A team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360-degree portrait of the Milky Way that reveals never-seen-before details of our galaxy.
Noted: Professor John D Lee, of the University of Wisconsin, made his comments ahead of an Road Safety Authority (RSA) conference on driver distraction taking place in Dublin today.
IF A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better? What if it glanced into the distance when you asked it a question, as though pondering its response?
Re ?Go West, Young People! And East!,? by Nicholas Kristof (column, March 16), about the need for more American students to gain experience abroad. (Writer is a UW student in Cape Town.)
Noted: Myers was pointing to research done by the Cooperative Children?s Book Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has counted the number of children?s books featuring people of colour since 1985. Ten years ago, of 3,200 books received by the centre, 171 were about black people, 95 about American Indians, 78 about Asians and 63 about Latinos. Last year, these numbers had fallen, with 93 of 3,200 books about black people, 34 about American Indians, 69 about Asians and 57 about Latinos.
When you cover any group of professional athletes for an extended amount of time, you get a sense of which ones are only living in the moment and which ones always have the gears turning in their heads with a look to the future.
The forgotten team in the Villanova-St. Joe?s-UConn pod is Milwaukee. Such oversights are common for 15-seeds with a schedule strength resembling the weight of an NBA power forward (230).
While UW Oshkosh can continue to strive to be a greener campus, divestment from fossil fuels is still a complicated task and discussion, according to UW Oshkosh Foundation President Arthur Rathjen.
Quoted: The study, which appears in the current issue of Child Abuse & Neglect, was also co-authored with Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: ?I?m seeing a print environment developing into an app environment,” says Jenny Zook, reference and instructional services librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “If you look at the top publishers they all offer some kind of app for law students.?
The Weather Channel visits the Dairy Research Center at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station to examine the science of keeping cows happy and healthy in the winter.
The Weather Channel visits the UW-Madison’s Dairy Research Center at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station to look at the science of keeping cows happy and healthy though the winter.
Gwendolyn Manette Schultz, writer, and Professor Emerita of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, passed away on Saturday, March 15, 2014, at her residence in Milwaukee.
Gov. Scott Walker is predicting big things for the Badgers in the NCAA tournament.
A team from The Associated Press has won the 2014 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for a story that revealed the CIA ties of an American who vanished in Iran.
Noted: A widely publicized study by University of Wisconsin researchers even suggested that early voting options, by themselves, actually reduce overall turnout, in part because Election Day hoopla is diminished. The study was published in 2014.
Dear Editor: UW has not allowed classified research on campus for over 40 years but the Legislature wants to change that with AB 729/SB 578.
Noted: “It?s disarmingly apparent that it sounds like a good deal,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The University of Wisconsin?s animal research lab has agreed to pay more than $30,000 in fines for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act.
Quoted: Christine Whelan, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, notes that ?there are plenty of opportunities after college ? in graduate school, through friends and at work ? to meet and marry a kind, supportive and smart person.?
Quoted: ?There are always a lot of details that don?t get outlined,? said Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and of the Center for Dairy Profitability. ?There are quite a few details that could be very important.?
The Cooperative Children?s Book Center of the University of Wisconsin ? Madison found that of the new children?s books they received at their center, less than 3 percent focused on black people and even fewer were by black authors (about 2 percent, according to the CCBC.)
FOX6 News has learned a Mukwonago student-athlete has been charged with sexual assault. The alleged sexual assault incident occurred in December, 2013, when the Mukwonago student-athlete went to the UW-Madison campus.
Officials with the University of Wisconsin Madison say the campus will pay over $35,000 in fines to the USDA, for violations that involved the care of research animals.
Madison police are asking for help in the search of a missing University of Wisconsin student.
A University of Wisconsin football recruit was charged Monday with the sexual assault of a woman in her dorm room on the Madison campus in December.
Quoted: The growing popularity in Wisconsin mirrors a national trend, but since 2010 several states controlled by Republicans have sought to curtail early voting, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, an expert on running elections.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has paid a $35,000 fine to settle several animal research violations, including burning a cat and euthanizing a dog without notifying the supervising veterinarian.
Noted: Of 3,200 children?s books published in 2013, just 93 were about black people, according to a study by the Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin.
This is a guest post by Steven Wilson, a doctoral student in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?It?s kind of the younger generation we?ve lost, ? said K.J. Burrington of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Center for Dairy Research.
It was a matter of the heart that led to Joel Rumpel walking down State Street, his arms weighed down with gifts for the girl in his life. Rumpel, a junior goaltender for the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team, carried a bouquet of flowers and a stuffed animal. He had some framed pictures and other items of affection. And he had a ride waiting to help him make a special delivery.
They, sometimes, come from Atlanta. Sometimes they volunteer from Alpharetta, or Roswell, or Gwinnett County. This time, however, was a little different. 45 students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are offering their services at the John Ripley Forbes Big Tree Preserve, in Sandy Springs.
University of Wisconsin Senior Katie DeYoung works in the financial aid office, answering questions about a process she?s very familiar with.
Noted: Last year, Laura McLay, an operations research professor at the University of Wisconsin wrote a post about some of her favorite ranking tools.
A former NFL football player who abruptly left the sport in November was arrested early Sunday after he allegedly punched another man at a Near North nightclub.
One of the ways that radiation causes illness is by damaging our DNA. University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Michael Cox and his team wanted to find out whether they could breed the common bacteria E. coli to be more resistant to radiation damage. So they took a group of E. coli, bombarded it with radiation until 99 percent of the microbes were dead, and then bred a new generation from the survivors. After 20 rounds of this, they wound up with a group of E. coli that could repair radiation damage after being blasted with ionizing radiation that was four orders of magnitude greater than what their ancestors could endure.
Quoted: “He is overadjusting a little bit, probably being a little too kind for his own good, too non-Chris Christie for his own good,” said Dietram Scheufele, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and former fellow at Harvard University.
Quoted: Pat Hastings, a faculty associate in the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, says, ?Speak up in class and let us see those areas in which you excel. Often, job opportunities come along, and that instructor can make sure that job plays to your strengths.?
Professors who change lives inspire their students to give back. And in many cases, those students give back money to their alma mater.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will require all companies in Bangladesh connected in any way to its licensed collegiate merchandise to sign and comply with an acccord aimed at improving worker safety standards.
Noted: Leanna says he was reluctant to seek help, or even admit that anything was wrong. But after he took part in a paid study of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he began practicing meditation. The experience completely changed his life, he says, and brought him the peace of mind that had eluded him since he went into combat years before. Now, Leanna teaches mindfulness and deep breathing to other veterans as part of Project Welcome Home Troops.
Dealing effectively with oil and chemical spills could be made easier with the help of an improved form of aerogel developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The growth of the middle class in developing countries probably has more to do with the increase in demand and related prices than anything else,” said Jeff Sindelar, an associate professor who studies the meat industry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: And the University of Wisconsin-Madison will establish a scholarship to help physically or learning-disabled students to study overseas.
UW-Madison art grad Yvette Pino recruited her for the project.
The former chief executive of several early-stage technology companies has been named to head the Discovery to Product project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the impact of the college-for-all movement, said free tuition could also have unintended consequences.
Quoted: Many legal analysts believe that Obama is behaving like any other president. Obama?s actions have been ?entirely consistent with past presidents, and the complaints that are coming are almost without exception based on partisanship, which is not to say there are no principled objections you can make on reliance on presidential power,? said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: If there is resistance to competency-based education, Aaron Brower, interim provost and vice chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Extension said during the session, it?s not coming primarily from faculty members.
MADISON, Wis. — During the nights when everything hurt most, when basketball felt like a chore and the voices in his head dredged up old insecurities insisting he wasn?t good enough, Traevon Jackson sunk deeper into despair.
Members of University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Student Labor Action Coalition delivered a cardboard replica of a clock tower to Chancellor Rebecca Blank Tuesday, urging her to sign an agreement on behalf of UW-Madison that would protect Bangladeshi garment workers? rights.
Noted: His lawyers from the Wisconsin Innocence Project, who specialize in trying to exonerate convicted killers based on DNA testing and other advances in technology, claim that similarities between the deaths of Alexander and two other elderly women sexually assaulted and killed around the same time in 1981 in western York County ?suggest the same person committed the crimes.?
Inspired by a discussion about creative advocacy in their first library and information studies class, ?Information Agencies and Their Environments,? at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010, Erinn Batykefer (r.) and Laura Damon-Moore conceived the Library as Incubator Project (LaIP).
ORLANDO, FLORIDA ? Small satellite-tracking devices attached to sea turtles swimming off Florida?s coast have delivered first-of-its-kind data that could help unlock they mystery of what endangered turtles do during the ?lost years.?
Noted: “Jack” the horse was admitted into emergency surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine after colic symptoms turned serious. During surgery, it was determined that his condition was grave and he passed away.
