Children are often the collateral damage of the U.S. incarceration system. Approximately one in 28 have a mom or dad who?s behind bars, a rate that?s up from just a couple years ago. But thanks to research at UW-Madison and programs in Dane County, kids are getting more help.
UW?s Bucky logo is proving popular among state gun advocacy groups, but the University of Wisconsin isn?t so hot on the idea.
Two years ago, the state Legislature moved to sever the University of Wisconsin?s ties to a provider of Internet service. Now some lawmakers are outraged that the UW System has picked this same provider to continue serving its campuses.
A new national corps of ?master teachers? trained in the humanities and social sciences and increased support for research in ?endangered? liberal arts subjects are among the recommendations of a major report to be delivered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
Enjoy a nice crisp apple recently? Chances are you can thank a honeybee for that. Like to snack on almonds or perhaps sip a glass of orange juice in the morning? Those foods were also made possible by bees.
Researchers have long argued that a heralded spinal treatment sold by the nation?s largest device maker, Medtronic, was no better than an older one and possibly more risky. Now with the company?s help, they have the proof.
Once upon a time, we were told that Wisconsin was all about job creation.?Wisconsin is open for business,? said the bumper stickers, the signs on the Wisconsin-Illinois border, the press releases, the elected officials and the actions of state government since January 2011.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison are studying enzymes found in leaf-cutter ant colonies that may be used in biofuel production.
The state?s Republican-led budget committee may have done no greater favor for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism than voting to evict it from two tiny offices in UW-Madison?s Vilas Hall.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Wisconsin?s potato growers have helped create a new professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which is expected to lead to promising advances in potato breeding. DNA sequencing and other biotechnology have helped speed plant breeding in many food crops. But the potato is a different story.
“Sesame Street” has created its first Muppet whose parent is in jail. And some people aren?t happy.
MADISON – For the last four years he was one of the most recognizable college basketball players in the country. Mike Bruesewitz? iconic floppy red hair, bobbing up and down as he loped down the court in the Badgers? transition game.
ORLANDO, Fla.?Operating the National Collegiate Athletic Association has long been like sailing a large ship?a rush to one approach followed by a lurch to another. NCAA president Mark Emmert said Saturday that it?s time for a shift toward empowering those close to the action: athletic directors.
Compared to a lot of hard-line conservatives these days, lifelong Republican Mark Bugher almost sounds like a Democrat.
They don?t seem to make ?em like Mark Bugher anymore. And that?s really too bad.
After 30 years, 26 Big Ten Conference championships and countless contributions to his sport, Ed Nuttycombe is retiring from his position as head coach of the Wisconsin men?s track and field program.
Noted: And finally, so long to Mark Bugher, who, as director, helped to turn University Research Park in Madison into one of the state?s biggest economic success stories. The park now has 126 tenants, many of them high-tech companies. Bugher plans to retire this fall. Well done, Mr. Bugher.
Days after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) appointed the student who would sit on the state Board of Regents, the administration announced that it would keep looking.
Ed Nuttycombe?s favorite memory from 30 years as men?s track and field coach at the University of Wisconsin just so happens to be the ideal metaphor for his amazing career.
Recently, the Joint Finance Committee included a provision in its 2013-15 state budget bill that would forbid the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from occupying its current offices on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and prohibit UW faculty from doing any work related to the center as part of its job requirements.
Most, if not all, of us have been to conferences, workshops and seminars where the topic of ?millennials? (those born between 1983 and 2010) has been addressed at great length, generally by way of a lecture of some sort, with PowerPoint slides citing data indicating that today?s generation of college students is the laziest, least motivated, least socialized and most self-involved generation the Earth has ever seen.
The official student government of UW-Madison says a recent incident involving a student regent selection highlights the need for a change in state law. The Associated Students of Madison (ASM) is supporting a bill (SB 157) that would require the governor to only nominate student regents who are suggested by student-elected organizations. Current law only allows the governor to nominate these student vetted candidates.
The good news is that Aaron Bohrod?s mural in the Madison Public Library is saved, restored as a centerpiece of the remodeled central facility, slated to reopen Sept. 21.
MADISON ? Gov. Scott Walker refused to say Thursday why he withdrew his nomination to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents of a UW-Platteville student who signed a petition to recall him from office.
The South Dakota State men?s basketball program has replaced one former area standout with another, hiring Joe Krabbenhoft on Thursday to take the assistant coaching job vacated by Austin Hansen.
Legal and ethical experts on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus give today?s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on genetic patents mixed reviews. The court ruled unanimously that patents on naturally occurring genetic material are not allowable.
The current state budget as proposed makes no sense. The Legislature, in a desperate effort to make themselves look good, plans to give back hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts that will cost the taxpayers dearly in the future.
Video games have had their fair share of controversies over the past few decades. Games like Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 have all caused some measure of public outrage for their depictions of violence. However all three games had two things in common ? they do not suggest they are anything but pure fiction, and the violence means the games have a mature rating, suitable only to those 17 or more years old,
A research team at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has demonstrated the viability of a design for solar panels that can simultaneously generate and store electrons harvested from sunlight in a single device.
University of Wisconsin-Madison provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs, Paul DeLuca Jr., announced today he will step down as the university?s chief academic officer and return to the faculty.
Vijay Dixit is comforted sitting in a memorial garden created in his daughter?s honor. Shreya was 19 and a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was coming home with a friend who was driving. The driver crashed.
It?s brought to you by the letter P ? for prison. PBS?s ?Sesame Street? is moving from ABCs and counting numbers to offering its young viewers a bigger lesson in life: how to cope when Mommy or Daddy lands behind bars.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state?s flagship public university is committed to diversity through a ?comprehensive? admissions policy, according to Joanne Berg, UW?s vice provost for enrollment management.
MADISON ? Gov. Scott Walker said he wants to increase transparency and accountability in Wisconsin?s embattled public higher education system in his latest round of appointments to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents,
Not far from the University of Wisconsin Hospital, tucked behind the Goodman Diamond softball complex, a sea of green cattails shuffles in the breeze and a red-winged blackbird peevishly chases a couple of sparrows in the Class of 1918 Marsh, an often-overlooked part of the UW-Madison?s Lakeshore Nature Preserve. The area is a quiet, scenic escape from the hustle of the nearby campus and city, and its history is unique and endearing.
Noted: Constipation is not just a problem of childhood. ?There?s a fairly large literature in adults in terms of the adverse affects of chronic constipation on quality of life,? said Dr. Arnold Wald, a gastroenterologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who has written about constipation in both adults and children. ?Many studies have suggested it has an impact consistent with what we see in a lot of chronic illnesses, inflammatory bowel disease and so forth.?
For the last four years, I?ve taught an investigative reporting class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Not typical, you might say, for a long-time science writer who spends most of her time telling stories about our chemical world.
It?s early on a Thursday afternoon, and I?m preparing to teach two interdisciplinary humanities courses. I?ll spend the next three hours working closely with about 50 undergraduates, and I need to get my ducks in a row. When I started my teaching career, more than two decades ago, this last-minute prep might have entailed reviewing handwritten lecture notes or scrawling something profound on the chalkboard. Today, however, I?m hunkered down at a state-of-the-art podium that will allow me to engage my students in ways I couldn?t have imagined in the early 1990s.
The Wisconsin state legislature?s attempt last week to evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from the campus on which it operates poses a threat to one hopeful model for the future of journalism, and suggests that a long history of journalistic innovation at American universities may be in trouble.
Noted: It has grown again as farming incomes increase, and students see opportunities in related businesses. Enrollment in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had grown 33 percent in the past decade.
A proposal by the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee to boot the Center for Investigative Journalism off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus should be removed from the state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker has made three appointments to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents have elected new leadership. Regent Michael J. Falbo of Franklin was elected President, and Regent Regina Millner of Madison was elected to serve as Vice President, by the Regents at the board?s meeting in Milwaukee on Friday.
The University of Wisconsin System regents voted today to pursue pay raises for all UW employees.
MILWAUKEE ? The University of Wisconsin System regents approved a proposal Friday that could eventually lead to pay raises for all UW System employees.
And once again there is a nation full of journalists wondering what?s going on in Wisconsin?s state legislature.This week, a legislative committee approved a measure that would not only evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices on the University of Wisconsin campus, but also bar any university staff from working with the center.
A snowy winter and a rainy spring have helped breed more mosquitoes in Wisconsin.University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pelliterri said standing water in flooded ditches and other spots is just what mosquitoes like. Green Bay has seen more than three-quarters of an inch of rain in June after having about three-quarters of an inch above normal rainfall in May and April.
Mosquitos are expected to thrive in Wisconsin this summer in a return to a normal season. ?If they haven?t received their first mosquito bite, it?s coming,? says University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri of fellow Wisconsinites.
What?s the appeal of performance enhancing drugs for big-name athletes? Allegations have been made about Major League Baseball players and the owner of a Florida-based anti-aging clinic. Greg Landry, professor of pediatrics and orthopedics at UW Madison?s School of Medicine and Public Health, was asked why players like Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez would feel the need to ? allegedly ? take performance enhancing anabolic steroids.
Leslie Smith IIIs new painting exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through Sept. 1 is called “I Dream Too Much,” but its clear that the UW-Madison art instructor isnt asleep in the traditional sense. Like many of his paintings, these recently created works use abstract imagery to explore anguish, anxiety and other byproducts of trauma.
While the word “poverty” may evoke images of blighted city neighborhoods, poverty levels actually are higher in rural counties. But rural poverty tends to be less obvious because it tends to be dispersed, rather than clustered in specific neighborhoods, note Katherine Curtis and Leann Tigges, University of Wisconsin-Madison professors of community and environmental sociology.
(CBS News) With the anniversary of the 1944 D-Day invasion due this coming Thursday, there?s an untold story that?s coming to light about some of the soldiers who took part — and we warn you, it?s not an easy story to hear. Here?s national security correspondent David Martin:
At their meeting in Milwaukee today, University of Wisconsin regents talked about the latest proposed budget cutbacks for the university system.
The bipartisan freeze will keep tuition rates at the University of Wisconsin-Superior steady for two years. A surplus of nearly $650 million in the University of Wisconsin system has Gov. Walker confident in the higher education system going forward.
What has more consciousness: a puppy or a baby? An iPhone 5 or an octopus? For a long time, the question seemed impossible to address. But recently, Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, argued that consciousness can be measured?captured in a single value that he calls ?, the Greek letter phi.
For those who knew her as a hardworking grad student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carrie Coon?s red carpet debut at the Tony Awards on Sunday may feel like watching a local girl make good.
Spending just a few minutes looking through your own Facebook page can lead to a boost in self-esteem, but it can also cause users to become unmotivated.
It?s hard to know what, if anything, Republican legislators were thinking when the budget committee voted, 12-4, to boot the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices at the University of Wisconsin. For starters, the legislators won?t reveal their motives to the public or to the leaders of the journalism center. That?s disturbing in itself.
Early this week, I awoke to learn that University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student Mario Koran had won a prestigious scholarship named for a brave and talented young journalist who died last year while reporting in Mexico City.
THUMBS DOWN: Among the budget-cutting items approved in Wednesday?s pre-dawn voting by the Republican-dominated Joint Finance Committee was a motion that costs the state?s taxpayers almost nothing: The eviction of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from UW-Madison facilities and a ban on UW employees working for or with the organization.
