Quoted: A potential candidate is a measure called “integrated information.” Dr. Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, has shown that it?s possible to calculate how much integrated information there is in a network, a quantity he has dubbed ?phi?.
Noted: 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: Flooding could also impact urban areas away from rivers. There is a potential for flooded basements, said Ken Potter, a civil and environmental engineering professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Professors Andrew Coan and Donald Downs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison agree.
Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, said a weapon is an important element in a murder case, but isn?t a requirement to get a conviction.
Universities throughout the Midwest are doing more and more organic agriculture research, and the scholarship is having an impact on the organic industry.
Noted: The plan would cover much more of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but UW officials said they have no problem with it. Three UW buildings that are already above the height restriction would be grandfathered in.
Scientists working on the bendable glass project at Los Alamos are teaming up with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain, and Tohoku University in Japan.
A recent study by the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison states that roundabouts are being installed throughout the U.S. at an ?aggressive pace? and Wisconsin is no exception.
For much of the past century, public higher education in the United States has been governed by various forms of state university control. These ?systems? and their governing boards define and harmonize the educational interests and needs of their respective states with campus strategic plans, allocate state resources, oversee capital development, and try to buffer institutions from excessive intrusion by politicians and state agencies — important roles all.
Quoted: The finding fuels the debate about how mimicry ? which helps to deter would-be predators ? works. ?This is a long-standing mystery in biology,? says Sean Carroll, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, who was not involved in the study. ?One of the most spectacular phenomena in nature is for two unrelated species to resemble each other.?
Success will hinge on something called ?transference,? says C. Shawn Green, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who studies the effects of games on the brain.
Noted: ?We wanted to create a situation where people could choose to lie or not lie, and it would happen naturally,? says the study?s lead author, Lyn M. Van Swol, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Watching how the players interacted, Van Swol and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard concluded that players exhibited three easy ?tells? when they were lying.
Noted: Liu?s experiment is an intriguing one, say China watchers. Though citizen journalism is booming in China, and opinions are increasingly easy to find online, Liu is one of the few ?producing serious and factual content,? said Fang Kecheng, a former reporter with the outspoken newspaper Southern Weekly, who is pursuing a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Besides him, there?s barely anyone doing it.?
David McDonald is an esteemed Russian history scholar on sabbatical from his job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As the 100th anniversary of the passenger pigeon is observed, lecturer Stanley Temple asked the audience at the March 6 lecture to remember the passenger pigeon and learn from past mistakes.
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 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the meat industry.
Margaret Watson is the new CEO for Madison-based Steve Brown Apartments.
Quoted: ?Nicotine is an addicting product and I worry about the effect on children,? says Dipesh Navsaria is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. He?s alarmed by how some of the new nicotine-delivery products are being marketed.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students behind a $223 million rebuild of recreational sports facilities posted a video of Pharrell Williams? ?Happy? on the @Bdgrs4RecReform Twitter account Thursday after the project was approved 12,070 to 1,914 in a referendum this week.
3D printing is generally a monochrome affair. Full-color printers are expensive, so the more casual user is likely stuck printing in one or two colors.
Quoted: ?The casino decision has the potential to be controversial,? said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. ?It is difficult to believe that the governor will have much more information in February than he has today. Moving it back simply avoids contaminating his (November) re-election bid. The casino decision is unlikely to be as consequential in a potential presidential campaign in 2016.?
Quoted: “From a marketing standpoint it?s a really interesting way for Oscar Mayer to get themselves to the forefront (of the market) in particular with younger people,” Don Stanley, faculty associate in the college of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also is chief executive and founder of digital marketing firm 3Rhino Media.
The Obama administration, constrained by spending caps imposed by Congress, suggested on Tuesday a federal budget for 2015 that would mean another year of cuts in the government?s spending on basic scientific research.
When State Sen. Ernest Keppler, R-Sheboygan, the Republican majority leader in the Senate, spoke at the Wausau Area Taxpayers League annual meeting recently, he shed some new light on the high cost of non-resident students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin.
A shortage of future nurses has prompted four University of Wisconsin campuses to seek instructors.
A retired Mauston teacher who builds fishing rods recently had his work showcased at a benefit for the Wisconsin Badgers football team.
Sometimes research takes on a life of its own and becomes more like a Rorschach test for a national policy controversy. That?s what?s happened to a review of the literature on the critical information needs of American communities that I and colleagues from around the country conducted for the Federal Communications Commission in July 2012. The recommendations of the review informed a proposed pilot study in Columbia, S.C., of what, if any, critical information needs citizens have and whether they are being met in our rapidly changing media environment.
After five years of decline, retired public employees in Wisconsin will see their monthly pension payments increase starting in May.
Have you seen the controversial Madison Metro bus signs depicting UW-Madison?s cat experimentation? What experiments are being done and why are animal rights groups upset? Find out more about why the experiments have caused such a controversy on this edition of A Public Affair!
A company started by a Cohasset college student has undergone an important name change ? from Cbay to Canary. The change was made to avoid confusion with that ?other? online auction site that starts with an ?e.? Unlike that other site, however, Canary sells goods on a client?s behalf and donates a portion of sales to charity.
After a factory collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 workers last year, the University of Wisconsin is in the process of reviewing workers? safety in factories around the world that produce clothing emblazoned with Bucky and the Motion W.
MADISON – Before he resurrected the University of Wisconsin football program, Barry Alvarez was a highly successful defensive coordinator. In fact, he interviewed for the Badgers? head coaching position while preparing his Notre Dame defense to take on No. 1 and unbeaten Colorado in the 1990 Orange Bowl ? a game the Fighting Irish would win 21-6.
As a player at Nebraska, Barry Alvarez remembers Duffy Daugherty speaking at a team banquet turned comedy hour.
Recent audits detail troubles with a University of Wisconsin payroll computer system. More time should have been spent in planning.
The University of Wisconsin?s Natatorium has played host to WIAA state swimming and diving meets since 1966, and anyone who has walked along the deck or sat in the bleachers during any of those championships over the past 48 years knows what makes the venue special.
Any one of the 83 percent of students who stepped foot into any of University of Wisconsin-Madison?s recreational sports facilities last year can tell you they leave much to be desired.
It?s a relic that just may be old the Earth itself.Scientists have discovered a piece of the Earth?s crust that dates back roughly 4.4 billion years ? only a shade younger than the planet?s known origin.
Gov. Scott Walker?s campaign team is learning which supporters it should hype on its website. On Wednesday, the campaign website featured a tweet from David Hookstead, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who caused a major stir with his opinion piece in November suggesting some women “feel the need to exploit anything that may be rape for publicity.”
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin already has a nursing shortage, at a time when more nurses than ever will be needed to attend to an aging population. Another part of the problem is a shortage of nursing educators. Half to three-quarters of qualified students who apply to nursing schools at four University of Wisconsin (UW) System schools are denied admission because of insufficient qualified nursing faculty to teach them.
Senior Ilana Friedman has no stats on the books as a Wisconsin Badger. A Middleton, Wis., native, she spent her freshman year at Vermont before transferring to UW-Madison. She dressed for every game her sophomore season, though she never saw ice time. She hasn?t been on the bench since then.
The nude human form?nothing could be more personal, more intimate, more private, right? Well, when considered in the context of the history of art, perhaps nothing could be more saddled with expectations built up over time.
On the night of Dec. 1, 2012, Bret Bielema could do no wrong. Out of nowhere, his 7-5 Wisconsin team — which had reached the Big Ten championship game only because two teams in its division (Ohio State and Penn State) were ineligible — unleashed a season?s worth of frustrations in a 70-31 rout of Nebraska. In doing so, Bielema?s Badgers captured their third straight Big Ten championship and Rose Bowl berth, becoming the conference?s first team in more than 30 years to pull off a Pasadena three-peat.
(CNN) — From a sheep ranch in Western Australia comes the oldest slice of Earth we know.
Rockwell Automation Inc. and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among 73 companies, nonprofits and universities that are investing in building a Midwest Digital Lab for Manufacturing at the University of Illinois.
With the release of the film ?Monuments Men? this month, Hollywood is shining a rare light on the work of archivists, librarians, and historians.
A liberal-leaning research group from the University of Wisconsin Madison is advocating for a higher minimum wage. A new report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) says a base wage of $10.10 an hour will pump almost a billion dollars into the state?s economy over the next three years.
Many people in Wisconsin are familiar with the leader of the popular UW Marching Band? but do they really know what it takes to live a day in the life of Mike Leckrone? a day when he?s hours away from leading the energetic performance of the band?
MADISON, Wis. ? Under fire for its involvement in a controversial ? and now suspended ? Federal Communications Commission study criticized for First Amendment creeping, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has issued a statement on behalf of its Center for Communication and Democracy, presumably to clear the air about its part in the study.
We all know Earth is a pretty cool place, but it?s been cool longer than previously thought. Using two dating techniques, scientists have confirmed that a tiny zircon, a mineral belonging to the group of neosilicates, from Western Australia?s Jack Hills region is indeed the oldest fragment of Earth?s crust, dating back 4.4 billion years.
Field ecologists go to great lengths to get data. Radio collars and automatic video cameras are among their tools for documenting the natural world.
Last week, Nicholas Kristof revived the old canard that academics have removed themselves from the public sphere through obscure prose and interests. Among the problems we might identify in Kristof?s essay — there are, obviously, many — is the irony of a writer with the resources of The New York Times supporting him chiding the rest of us for not writing in outlets such as The New York Times.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A new report gives state officials low marks for their lack of control over agricultural and industrial pollution that pose threats to Green Bay.
Chicago has won a $70 million grant from the Defense Department for a research center for digital-manufacturing technology, a new facility that could dramatically raise the city?s profile beyond being a hotbed for startups.
Chicago will be the site of a digital manufacturing institute backed by $70 million in federal money and another $250 million in private and other government funding, giving the city, once a factory town, a better chance to re-establish its credentials as a modern maker of things.
While it?s already possible to wirelessly recharge smartphones in cars, those cars need to be equipped with a special charging pad that the phone has to be placed on. Thanks to a newly-developed “nanogenerator,” however, it might eventually be possible to place the phone anywhere in any car, letting the vehicle?s vibrations provide the power.
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A tiny crystal found in Australia ? the oldest rock yet known ? has been dated to 4.4 billion years old, only 100 million years younger than Earth itself.
LONDON: A tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia has now been designated the “oldest piece of Earth ever found”.
The UW-Madison Athletics Department can afford to carry its own weight and kick in a bigger share of the cost of proposed multi-million dollar improvements to campus recreational sports facilities, the university?s Teaching Assistants? Association is arguing.
