Noted: The fee that banks charge noncustomers to use their ATMs has risen by nearly a third since 2008. That those fee hikes coincide almost perfectly with the Federal Reserve?s massive push to depress interest rates is no coincidence, says Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
We?re living in the epoch some scientists call the ?Anthropocene??an age in which human influence touches nearly everything on the planet. Forty years after the signing of the Endangered Species Act, and nearly 50 years after the Wilderness Act, do we need to rethink how we protect nature? Environmental historian William Cronon and environmental geographer Paul Robbins discuss protecting wild places in the age of climate change.
Colleges still may lawfully consider race as one of several factors in admissions as long as their programs are narrowly tailored to meet a compelling interest in campus diversity, federal officials said on Friday.
If Congress fails to reach agreement on a stopgap spending bill and the government shuts down on Tuesday, the impact on colleges, students, and university scientists would be minimal, at least at first.
Best practices are starting to emerge from those universities with the longest track records on interdisciplinary hiring. Some of these universities, such as University of Wisconsin and University of Michigan, have had large cluster initiatives focused on hiring 100 or more faculty members.
Stress can make the world around us smell unpleasant, the results of a new study are suggesting. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison used powerful brain imaging technologies to examine how stress and anxiety “re-wire” the brain.
That message, although difficult to hear, was the focal point of an open hearing Sept. 24 by the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, a division of the U.S Department of Treasury, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Lea Jacobs is a familiar face to film lovers on the UW campus. A communication arts professor, she?s also afounding director of the UW Cinematheque, the campus organization that screens noteworthy films for free nearly every week, including silent films and 16mm and 35mm prints. Now she?s adding another title to her resume: associate dean for the arts and humanities in the UW Graduate School, the role new School of Music director Susan C. Cook recently vacated.
Quoted: The farm bill is thus being held up by arguments over relief the cost of which is likely to fall anyway and which most analysts consider effective. Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that the number below the poverty line is 16% lower than it would be without SNAP. ?No other programme for the non-elderly does such a great job preventing poverty,? he says, ?or alleviating its weight on those who remain poor.?
There?s some regret from Madison Police Chief Noble Wray as he retires with a high-profile homicide that?s as yet unsolved. Brittany Zimmerman, a University of Wisconsin student, was murdered in her downtown apartment in April of 2008.
Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been on the job a little more than two months.
UW-Madison produces cutting-edge science and skilled researchers. But like other institutions in the upper Midwest, it doesn?t do enough to promote itself, the university?s new chancellor said Tuesday at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon.
The University of Wisconsin, where several thousand Minnesotans are enrolled annually, ranks among the nation?s top party schools, according to Playboy magazine.
A heartwarming military reunion college football fans won?t forget.
If you?re tired of the mess that is Library Mall, get used to it. It?s going to remain a construction zone for at least four more years.
Sixty band students from Wausau East participated this year in a massed band at the University of Wisconsin Madison, along with 2,800 students from other high schools around the state.
Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been on the job a little more than two months. Before her new position, she had an extensive career in education, economics, and politics ? most recently as the acting secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department.
Noted: Selig has spoken of his plans to teach in retirement, and write a memoir. He has an office in the history department at the University of Wisconsin and has been a regular lecturer at the National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School.
Quoted: ?I think it should be the wave of the future,? said Joy Zedler, a University of Wisconsin botany professor who has studied the exchange concept for wetlands conservation.
Quoted: Before Gideon, many low-income defendants had little choice but to plead guilty. But UW Law School Professor Walter Dickey says those days are gone. ?I do think Gideon was a sea-change. It just was not as complete as a lot of people imagine, and there?s a gigantic gap.?
The impending shutdown of the federal government is expected to affect higher education only modestly, at least in the short term, but the debate has already kicked off several months of unpredictable fiscal fights that threaten to further cut funding for some financial aid programs and scientific research.
Wen Li, professor of psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found that human brains processing stressful situations — induced in subjects viewing disturbing images such as car crashes — transformed ?neutral? odors into unpleasant ones.
Wisconsin residents are living longer but not feeling better. A new report by researchers at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute says the state?s progress in achieving longer and healthier lives for residents is a very mixed bag.
13-year-old Bella Lund thought she was on the field during a University of Wisconsin-Madison football game as part of the team?s tradition of honoring a military family of the game during home games.
Popular Science is closing comments on its articles. Citing “trolls and spambots”, the 141-year-old American magazine has decided that an open forum at the bottom of articles “can be bad for science”.
The state system?s flagship school packs roughly 30,000 undergrads onto its nearly 1.5-square mile main campus in the heart of the capital city, and with each of the 13 schools and colleges operating independently, the transition can be a confusing one for incoming freshmen.
Predicting when and how much to water fields is especially difficult when weather conditions trend to the extreme. UW-Madison research is yielding technologies that help farmers fine-tune irrigation to save water and the energy needed to pump it. An online tool called WISP 2012, developed by UW-Madison soil and water conservation specialists, makes it easier to make better decisions about when and how much to water.
Lynne M. Thomas, curator of rare books and special collections at Northern Illinois University Libraries, used to maintain two work-related Facebook pages and a blog. This past summer, she put them on hiatus?and took to social media to explain why.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association unexpectedly backtracked on some of the extensive sanctions it levied against Pennsylvania State University in the wake of Jerry Sandusky?s conviction of 45 counts of child abuse, but it?s neither an acknowledgement that the penalties were rushed or inappropriate, nor a precedent-setting decision, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist advocacy group, has issued a seemingly bizarre invite, offering students, faculty and the general public at the University of Wisconsin-Madison the opportunity to ?stone? them at an upcoming event commemorating ?Blasphemy Rights Day.?
Comments can be bad for science. That?s why, here at PopularScience.com, we?re shutting them off.
When Army Captain Jane Renee “J.R.” Lund returned home from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan, she surprised her 13-year-old daughter, Bella, in big way at a University of Wisconsin-Madison football game.
Ramping up the process to find a successor to Kevin Reilly, the University of Wisconsin System has a Web page where the public can follow the hiring process for a new president.
Sometimes a concert is less about ?performing? and more about simply sharing one?s gifts in an atmosphere of gratitude and joy. That is exactly what a very full Mills Hall audience received Sunday evening from baritone Nathaniel Stampley and accompanist Jamie Schmidt.
The man in the floppy hat and khaki vest was on his knees, pounding two small, brass-plated bricks into the wet sidewalk. One bore the name Arvid Harnack, the other of Mr. Harnack?s wife, Mildred Fish-Harnack ? the only American civilian to be executed on the direct order of Adolf Hitler.
Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State (University of Wisconsin Press) sports a whimsical cover, whose colorful speech bubbles contain “uff da,” “ainna” and other phrases a non-Wisconsinite might confuse with candy brand names
TAMPA ? The University of Wisconsin has put in three bids to host the NCAA men?s hockey championship but nowhere near the school?s Madison, Wis., campus.
A student in Wisconsin has found an unusual way of paying for his studies. Eric Dahl, nick-named Silo, is a competitive eater and spends his winnings on paying for his education.
Quoted: Derek Johnson, a communication arts assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said media companies have a long history of relying on unpaid help. Stephanie Salazar Kann, internship coordinator for UW-Madison?s College of Letters and Science, said that a lot of companies are watching and waiting to see the full impact of Fox Searchlight.
When U.S. Army Reserve Captain Jane Renee “JR” Lund of Madison began her six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in April, she knew what would make it the most challenging.
Quoted: ?They think of social isolation and cultural poverty,? said Timothy M. Smeeding, who heads the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. ?If you get further and further from the median, you get socially isolated.?
Safety concerns rising after shots are fired on the UW-Madison campus Wednesday night. Police say two teens were attempting to rob a student at gunpoint.
University of Wisconsin officials say its system through which it alerts students of emergencies worked on Wednesday night, September 18th, when officials sent out a mass emergency message to students after shots were fired near campus. Students say they appreciated the alert, and officials say it worked so well, the program will likely be expanded.
Five minutes after Dane County?s 911 dispatch fielded a call about a shot fired on Langdon Street by the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday, thousands of students received the same urgent message on their phones.
Neil Heinen talks to the directors of the Waisman Center, the UW research center celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Noted: It took a global flood to tap that capacity, Dr. Smith and Dr. Harper propose. They base their proposal on a study published last year by Shanan Peters of the University of Wisconsin and Robert Gaines of Pomona College. They offered evidence that the Cambrian Explosion was preceded by a rise in sea level that submerged vast swaths of land, eroding the drowned rocks.
Starting this year, Madison required AlcoholEdu for incoming freshmen, transfer students and those returning to University housing, said Reonda Washington, community health specialist for Madison?s University Health Services.
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin-Madison students were told to stay indoors on Wednesday night after a report of a shot fired near campus.
It has always been a challenge to describe the Waisman Center on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus.
Another practice gaining traction — one from which non-trans students will benefit just as much — is a preferred name policy. The new one at the University of Wisconsin at Madison allows students to note their preferred name through their online learning platform, which is then transmitted to class rosters and the online student directory. While plenty of students of all gender identities may prefer a nickname to a given name, the issue is important for many transgender students for whom the name with which they were born represents a gender with which they don?t identify.
Quoted: “My heavens,” said Julie Underwood, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s education school. “Yes, it?s better.”
School shooters almost always telegraph their violent plans ahead of time, a tendency that could help authorities prevent assaults as long as those close to the person plotting an attack come forward in time, panelists said Tuesday at a summit for the nation?s attorneys general.
Quoted: There are ?numerous? benefits to using covers on turf during the winter months, says Dr. Paul Koch, associate researcher of Turfgrass Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He cites protection from winter desiccation and early spring green-up as probably the most significant benefits. There may also be some protection from crown hydration when using an impermeable cover like a GreenJacket, although he says data is a little more mixed on that subject.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling says she has studied thousands of shootings that have taken place in the United States over the last 20 years. She?s still waiting for more details about the man who shot 12 people at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard this week before police killed him, but Riseling says mass shooters have a pattern.
Amid a growing push to educate college students on the dangers of high-risk drinking, the University of Minnesota required an online alcohol course this summer for incoming freshmen.
The appearance of Bucky Badger at the Solidarity Sing Along last week prompted UW-Madison officials to declare it a fake and clarify a few things about its trademarked mascot.
When it comes to Midwest farmland prices, Wisconsin is looking sort of like a tortoise in a field of hares. That?s because farmers in America?s Dairyland often reinvest their profits in cows rather than land, says University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist Bruce Jones.
Benjamin Newman, a lieutenant with the police department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become the new director of the Department of Public Safety at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on Oct. 9.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says any Bucky Badger seen protesting at the state Capitol is a knockoff of the school?s mascot.
New University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank already knows about Wisconsin?s political and fiscal landscape. As an economist and an experienced college administrator, she understands the finances of higher education.
