Ann Arbor — A year after unveiling the Go Blue Guarantee — four years of free tuition for students from in-state families making up to $65,000 a year – the University of Michigan is preparing to welcome its first new class of recipients this fall.
Backstage at Memorial Union’s Fredric March Play Circle, members of the UW-Madison performance art collective Yoni Ki Baat were waiting to perform their annual showcase of songs, monologues and spoken-word poetry celebrating stories from women and nonbinary people of color.
STEVENS POINT – A new report from University of Wisconsin System auditors called UW-Stevens Point’s bank management practices “unsatisfactory” for issues and failures dating back to 2012.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin, a CRISPR antibiotic is being developed to selectively target super-resistant bugs. In the UK, researchers used CRISR gene editing to eliminate malaria in new mosquito strains. And last year Chinese scientists corrected lethal mutations in 3 human embryos.
The Governor began his tour this morning at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and ends it this afternoon, at Schreiber Foods in Green Bay.
News of the Nassar case prompted leaders at the University of Wisconsin to launch a wide review of their own practices, including safety measures guiding team doctors. Officials declined to share details, saying the study has yet to wrap up.
Noted: In Wisconsin, makers of industrial equipment and parts are also seeing costs rise with tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and lumber, said Noah Williams, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
Noted: “The people who do this work are by and large people working hard to help kids make it to their families, which is a fundamentally different role than serving as a detention facility for kids who have been involuntarily separated from their families. It is not an appropriate role for HHS,” said Maria Cancian, who served as deputy assistant secretary for policy in HHS’s Administration for Children and Families during the Obama administration.
MADISON – A news story posted on Facebook jolted Erin Miller when she read it in 2014.
A former University of Wisconsin student accused of attacking several women on campus has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Noted: The combination of poverty and the fear of deportation inspires most undocumented immigrants to tie themselves closely to their employers. They work hard and avoid public places. In the words of the sociologists Jill Harrison of the University of Colorado-Boulder and Jennifer Lloyd of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, undocumented workers become “compliant workaholics” in order to survive. Employers in low-wage industries have found this disciplined, loyal and flexible workforce very attractive.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student was sentenced Thursday by a Dane County judge to three years in prison followed by eight years of state supervision for a string of sexual assaults near campus that a prosecutor characterized as a “campaign against women.”
If there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done, help may be at hand — the days are actually getting longer. For hundreds of millions of years days have been growing longer and if you could travel back in time 1.4 billion years, a day on Earth would be just over 18 hours. That is largely because the moon was a lot closer to Earth and changed the planet’s spin on its axis.
Quoted: “The purposes of that statement was twofold. One was to just raise awareness about the link between alcohol and cancer,” said Dr. Noelle LoConte, an oncologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was lead author of that statement.
Noted: “This study reinforces [the evidence] that people who drink a lot have higher rates of cancer and higher rates of dying from those cancers,” says Noelle LoConte, an oncologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin. She was not involved in the study, but NPR asked her to review the evidence.
Quoted: Studies have shown that alcohol has potential cancer-causing effects. Noelle LoConte, M.D., an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, likened alcohol to a converted carcinogen. “It’s not a mystery why we get cancers of the head, neck, and esophagus—people basically bathe their body tissue in carcinogen,” she says.
U.S. Department of Education and the Workforce? That’s what the Trump administration envisions in its new 132-page framework for merging the Education and Labor Departments, as part of a broader overhaul of the federal government.
A former UW student has been sentenced to 3 years in prison, for campus sexual assaults. A Dane County judge also sentenced 22-year-old Alec Cook to 5 years extended supervision for those crimes, plus 3 additional years of probation for other felonies.
MADISON, Wis. — A judge on Thursday sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student to three years in prison for sexually assaulting three female students and choking or stalking two others.
It’s made out of bendable silicon and can hide about 94% of the infrared light it encounters, according to the study, which was authored by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Although not the final word on this question, the GAO study provides credible evidence that strict ID requirements may depress turnout,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – State prosecutors are asking for a lengthy confinement for a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who pleaded guilty to five felonies in connection with multiple sexual assault charges against multiple women, according to court documents.
Noted: “The placement of the cells is critical,” agrees Marina Emborg, who studies Parkinson’s disease at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was not involved in the study.
Noted: Taking a similar stance, Tova Walsh, assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expressed her concern that this policy doesn’t do enough to address the well-being of immigrant children.
“Fake apps spread by social engineering, such as by enticing users with the possibility of playing a popular game,” says Vaibhav Rastogi, a computer science research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The vulnerability exploited here is not in the computer system but in the human.”
MADISON, Wis. – The American Family Championship is being held at University Ridge golf course this weekend, and in just its third year it already feels like an iconic Madison event.
Noted: “The main purpose of summer school is to catch up the students who are struggling during the school year, to make sure that they’re not falling further behind and to actually get them to push forward,” says Drew Joseph, a doctoral student in the department of curriculum and instruction at UW-Madison, who works for the district. “They’re mostly there for literacy and math instruction, but what we also want to do with the enrichment classes is push their literacy and math skills forward.”
If the last week at Michigan State University has illuminated anything, it is just how political the fallout from the abuse scandal there has become.
State prosecutors want the maximum sentence for a sexually violent former University of Wisconsin student. Calling him “a dangerous man,” they’re recommending 19 1/2 years in prison for 22-year-old Alec Cook, who pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual assault, strangulation and stalking.
As colleges and universities have confronted whether to let controversial figures on their campuses, the leader of a top free-speech group Tuesday argued that the speeches should be allowed even amid the threat of protests.
Noted: In the majority of states, non-Hispanic whites are dying faster than they are being born, according to a recent study by the Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin.
Each year, more than 6 million children in the United States are referred to Child Protective Services for abuse or neglect. Previous research on the consequences of early life stress and child maltreatment shows that these children will be more likely to develop a multitude of social and mental health problems. Teens and adults who experienced early adversity such as abuse, neglect or extreme deprivation are more likely to be socially isolated, spend time in jail, and develop psychological disorders including anxiety and depression.
MADISON, Wis. — The Twin Cities parents of a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student asked a judge Tuesday to give their son a chance at redemption when he is sentenced for a string of alleged assaults around campus.
Noted: In the 1950s, the American psychologist Harry Harlow took young rhesus monkeys from their mothers and found that the youngsters became reclusive.
Wisconsin, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee have all made policy moves in recent years that have sought to to weaken tenure, or that faculty members have interpreted as threats to it. Leaders of some private colleges who want to adapt more quickly to marketplace demands have invoked dire institutional finances as a reason to propose — if not always follow through on — cutting tenured faculty.
It’s safe to say when Jack Salzwedel started brainstorming the idea of a professional golf event in Madison with Steve Stricker 10 years ago — or even when the discussion turned serious three or four years ago — the American Family Insurance Championship that we know today was beyond even their hopes and dreams.
Christenson will study community and nonprofit leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall.
The U.S. Supreme Court soon may redefine how legislators get elected to office. Two high-profile cases that seek to rein in partisan gerrymandering are slated for decisions by late June. The rulings could be landmarks. But, however the court comes out, the fight against gerrymandering will be far from over.
Quoted: Jo Handelsman, a microbiologist and genomic sequencing pioneer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who likewise is not associated with the project, concurs. “The thrill of sequence information is that you don’t know what you’re going to find,” she says. “I think probably the bigger payoffs will be things that we can’t even anticipate.”
Noted: Mental health advocates hope this bit of viral attention can be harnessed for lasting changes. Dr. Steve Garlow, a psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied suicide, said he hopes the growing awareness can finally build a lasting public health effort like those rallied around other leading causes of death.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are launching an internship program that will send engineering students to the company’s headquarters in Taiwan for a semester.
Named for late Milwaukee attorney James Shaw, the Shaw Scientist Award award is given to a scientist rather than a specific research project. Ari Rosenberg is one of the 2018 recipients. He’s an assistant professor for the department of neuroscience at UW-Madison, and his current research is dealing with the neurological basis for autism. With a PhD in computational neuroscience, Rosenberg says his approach to studying autism is a bit different from most other labs.
Noted: A spending plan shows how overspending one week will leave you with a cash shortage the next week. Even a $50 shortfall can feel stressful, says J. Michael Collins, faculty director for the Center for Financial Security at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Delight Hailman thought she had her summer plans figured out: the UW Madison student would work two part-time jobs and an internship. But two weeks before starting, she was told her internship was unpaid, and thus unaffordable. She couldn’t look elsewhere for work, because her university required an internship for her to graduate. Like tens of thousands of college students each year, Delight had no choice but to work unpaid.
Reports of sexual harassment in academe may be on the rise, but there’s no evidence to suggest that harassment itself is declining. To effect real change, colleges, universities and research centers must move beyond treating harassment like a legal problem and treat it like a cultural one — one with major implications for institutional and scientific excellence.
Noted: Over five school years, ending with the spring of 2016, 71 percent of rural districts in the state saw a drop in enrollment, said Sarah Kemp, a school demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Even if video games, like Trix cereal, were ever really just for kids, those days have long since passed.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Jake Wood will be the recipient of the Pat Tillman Award for Courage at the 26th annual ESPYS, to be held July 18 in Los Angeles and hosted by Danica Patrick.
Former University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells and Vice Chancellor Thomas Sonnleitner pleaded not guilty in Winnebago County Court Monday morning to all counts of misconduct in office.
The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced Monday it is investigating the University of Southern California’s handling of sexual harassment allegations against gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. In a statement, the office said it will look into how USC handled “reports and complaints of sexual harassment during pelvic exams as early as 1990 that were not fully investigated by the University until spring 2016 and that the University did not disclose to OCR during an earlier investigation.”
Noted: Baobabs, especially old ones, can be more vulnerable to drought than their grizzled appearance might suggest, says David Baum, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But more evidence is needed, he says, to strengthen the link between climate change and the baobab deaths.
Days on Earth lasted just 18 hours a million years ago and have been getting longer over the course of time thanks, in part, to the influence of the moon, researchers say.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new study shows that Wisconsin’s poverty rate increased in 2016 and children were especially impacted despite the state’s job growth during that span.
Bids are set to open soon on a long-delayed overhaul of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chemistry building after state officials signed off on the project earlier this week.
The results of a study released Friday shows that Wisconsin’s poverty rate increased in 2016 and children were especially impacted despite the state’s job growth during that span.
One late afternoon last fall, I was chatting with Ken Adamany, the long-time Madison music impresario, for an article I was writing on the 50th anniversary of Otis Redding’s fatal plane crash into Lake Monona.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have approved a budget that will raise student fees as well as room-and-board costs.
The University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point is one step closer to earning accreditation to offer a Masters of Business Administration degree after receiving the green light from the UW system Friday.
If the day never seems long enough to get everything done, be grateful at least that times have changed. According to fresh calculations, a day on Earth was a full five hours and fifteen minutes shorter a billion or so years ago, well before complex life spread around the planet.
Hidden along a side trail of Picnic Point sits a serene beach next to a beach house built to look like it was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
