Quoted: “In light of this, news organizations have to certainly increase security procedures so that they can?t be hacked so easily,” says Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “(If it was phishing that led to this), then that is not proper security. They?ve got to review security procedures.”
Irate Wisconsin legislative leaders are threatening to withhold funds from the University of Wisconsin and force a tuition freeze after discovering the school has quietly amassed a $650 million reserve fund unbeknownst to lawmakers.
University of Wisconsin Badgers football Coach Gary Andersen brought his staff to the EAA Museum on Tuesday to meet fans and give an update on the program?s transition.
The amount of excess cash in the University of Wisconsin System?s bank account is: A) “Nearly $1 billion” B) $648 million C) $207 million.
Tuesday?s hearing of the legislature?s Joint Committee on Employment relations was scheduled well ahead of the news late last week concerning the University of Wisconsin System?s $648 million budget surplus. The agenda was to include testimony from UW System President Kevin Reilly and UW Madison Chancellor David Ward, regarding a proposed personnel system. Given the furor surrounding the surplus though, that was clearly not going to happen.
Two members of the University of Wisconsin Police Department traveled to Massachusetts Monday to attend a memorial service for a campus police officer killed in the line of duty as officers pursued the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
Scientists have successfully transplanted human stem cells into brain-damaged mice and helped them recover their memory and learning skills.
MILWAUKEE ? Gov. Scott Walker says he is not looking to cut funding for the University of Wisconsin System in his proposed budget despite a report that it has amassed a huge tuition surplus.
Quoted: Jon Eckhardt, Executive Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.
Smithsonian Magazine blogger Megan Gambino explores the often imperceptible boundary between art and science with photos from the 2013 UW-Madison Cool Science Image contest and thoughts from judges, faculty members Steve Ackerman and Anna Skop and staff member Terry Devitt.
“Communicating the science of climate change provides one example where the scientific community must do more,” write UW-Madison chemistry colleagues Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell in an editorial published in the April 5 issue of the journal “Science.” “Climate change affects everyone, so everyone should understand why the climate is changing and what it means for them, their children, and generations to follow.”
Scientists have implanted human embryonic stem cells into mouse brains and restored both memory and learning function.
Earlier this month, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the winners of its 2013 Cool Science Image contest. From an MRI of a monkey?s brain to the larva of a tropical caterpillar, a micrograph of the nerves in a zebrafish?s tail to another of the hairs on a leaf, this year?s crop is impressive?and one that certainly supports what Collage of Arts and Sciences believes at its very core. That is, that the boundary between art and science is often imperceptible.
The well-respected Dictionary of American Regional English is facing funding problems ? just as it is about to go digital.
File this under Things That Are Awesome! (which we have). Lyle Anderson, who?s been the official carillonneur at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for almost 30 years, treated the campus to the Game of Thrones theme song. Watch the video, posted on the university?s YouTube channel today, below. The only thing it?s missing is a crowd cheering at the end.
A young crowd outfitted with posters, placards and a zeal for reaching out to state legislators crowded into the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday and wouldn?t budge for hours.
The conundrum seems simple enough: Neither Metro nor UW-Madison can live without the other, BUT neither is happy with a partnership that cannot function well without a regional transport authority. Until there is one in the Madison area, the relationship may need to change dramatically from what it has been in the recent past, because Metro should pay more attention to non-UW needs.
UW theater professor Patrick Sims can?t resist playing around with his students. While helping them organize a field trip, he sees an opportunity for a laugh. It?s a gamble, though. The subject at hand is a veritable powder keg: how “driving while black” can get a person into some serious trouble.
Workaholics co-creator and star Anders Holm is set to deliver the 2013 commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university he graduated from in 2003. (The Comedy Central star is also married to Emma Nesper Holm, a fellow alum.)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s commencement is going to get weird.
Looking to deepen its business ties to China?s growing economy, the state of Wisconsin yesterday opened the Wisconsin Center China in Shanghai in a ceremony led by Governor Scott Walker.
Children who displayed only seven of 12 recognized autism symptoms were diagnosed more than four years later on average than kids with all 12 symptoms, researchers found.
Quoted: There is research showing that such events don?t have much impact, said Michael Scott, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor who is director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling testified the university doesn?t use a permitting system for protests but she believes demonstrations should involve several hundred people before requiring organizers to get a permit. Erwin?s predecessor, Charles Tubbs, testified he negotiated with the singers when conflicts arose with other groups or singers were causing problems.
Quoted: Still, Joy Zedler, a University of Wisconsin wetlands restoration biologist, is optimistic. ?If I had to restore a wetlands with a gun pointed to my head, I?d pick the Mesopotamian wetlands,? she said in a phone interview last month. That?s because the dominant tall reed there, Phragmites australis, is an aggressive invader in restoration efforts elsewhere. ?That?s the kind of native plant you want in a restoration site,? said Ms. Zedler, who was a co-author of the Mesopotamian marsh restoration plan.
Noted: With this goal in mind, Pearce and University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Giulio Tononi?the originator and leading proponent of the integrated-information theory of consciousness?have combined EEG recordings with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to measure the gradual breakdown of connectivity between neural networks during natural REM sleep and anesthesia, as well as in brain-injured, unresponsive patients. Using an electromagnetic coil to activate neurons in a small patch of the human cortex, then recording EEG output to track the propagation of those signals to other neuronal groups, the researchers can measure the connectivity between collections of neurons in the cortex and other brain regions.
If Congress does not act, interest rates on a certain type of federal student loan may double, affecting more than 80,000 Wisconsin college students. But some doubt the impact on the overall economy.
Quoted: ?The conflict is not time,? said John Hawks, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the current study. ?The conflict is anatomy. The anatomies of the early fossils that are candidates for Homo are not like Au. sediba.?
Whether Marc Fink is a man of few words or not, anyone would be hard pressed to find the right way to say goodbye to a university after forty years of distinguished service. Sunday afternoon the retiring oboe professor said farewell to the University of Wisconsin?s School of Music in the most eloquent way of all?with his instrument, and with the considerable aid of other musicians.
Last year, more than 1,000 stories, photos, videos or tweets were collected and curated during #UWRightNow. Framed as a “multimedia project designed to capture the breadth, depth and spirit of the University of Wisconsin-Madison during a 24-hour period,” the 2012 version of #UWRightNow was a crowdsourced social media masterpiece. Combining “staff-produced and user-generated content,” the day-long project provided a snapshot of what it meant to be a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community.
Quoted: ?Given what college costs right now, finding ways to shorten the amount of time that it takes to earn a degree is a priority,? says Sara Goldrick-Rab, associate professor of educational policy studies at UW-Madison. ?However, I will say this: I think the higher priority ought to be on lowering what college costs, so that you don?t have to rush through it.?
MADISON ? One of China?s oldest and biggest medicine companies agreed Monday to sell only genuine Wisconsin ginseng at its 1,800 retail stores, an estimated $200 million deal that was finalized during Gov. Scott Walker?s trade mission to the world?s second-largest economy.
While research suggests autism can be reliably diagnosed by age 2, fewer than half of children with autism spectrum disorders nationwide are being identified by age 5, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison published this week.
For 36 years Mary and Dennis Buschkowsky have been in charge of gathering one piece of important information used by state climatologists and a New York scientist who has spent decades studying global warming.
The Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee will be in western Wisconsin next week at Baldwin-Woodville High School to hear public opinion on Gov. Walker?s proposed 2013-15 state budget. The fate of this budget will help determine the quality of education at UW-Stout and on other UW campuses for years to come.
Noted: ?As a whole, the books being published just don?t reflect who we are as a nation in terms of diversity,? said Megan Schliesman, a children?s librarian in the University of Wisconsin?s School of Education. The university?s Cooperative Children?s Book Center complies the annual statistics on the number of kids? books by and about people of color.”
All things UW will be highlighted at a University of Wisconsin Outreach Day April 26 at Burlington High School, 400 McCanna Parkway. UW-Madison and UW-Extension are inviting the public to see what the system offers as part of a statewide effort to bring UW research and resources to communities across Wisconsin.
Renewed health concerns on college campuses this week. That?s after a 21-year-old UW-Madison student died from bacterial meningitis.
Every time a college student?s life is cut short by bacterial meningitis, Gail Bailey flashes back to 2002, when her 20-year-old son at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thought he had the flu and died 16 hours later.
A film co-directed and edited by a Kenosha native was selected for the prestigious Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison.
While classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can be rigorous with long hours of study, a group of UW students spent much of this semester eating hamburgers.
Quoted: Stephen J. A. Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expressed surprise that the BBC had chosen to report the story as it did, though he acknowledged that undercover journalism is a widely accepted practice in Britain. ?You have to be able to say ?there is no other way we can get this story,? and that you?re not putting other people in danger,? he said.
Quoted: Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison points out that the dental details are the best evidence for a possible connection between the Malapa hominins and early Homo. “The new papers really spell out the shared features in the mandibles and teeth in a way that supports their position with A. africanus as a sister taxon to Homo.”
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student and up-and-coming musician from the Twin Cities has died of bacterial meningitis, a rare infection that studies show college students are at a moderately increased risk to contract.
TAIPEI–Yen Ching-chang, chairman of Yuanta Financial Holdings, is scheduled to take up a position as a visiting chair professor in the United States after he retires from the company next month. Yen, a former finance minister who in 2002 became Taiwan?s first ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), has made Taiwan?s participation in the multilateral trading system recognized in Geneva.
Noted: Previous attempts to map the internet have been from within, using “sniffer” software to report the IP addresses of devices visited along a particular route, which, in theory, can then be translated into geographical locations. But this approach doesn?t work, says Paul Barford at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “After 15 years nobody can show you a map of the internet,” he says.
Noted: Biddy Martin, former chancellor at the University of Wisconsin and now president at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, said she faced a crisis soon after joining the Madison, Wisconsin-based school over alleged hazing by marching band members. Like Barchi, she relied on advice of those who reported to her, banning the band from a nationally televised night game against Ohio State.
The UW-Madison School of Pharmacy has experts at every level of drug development ? from the lab bench to clinical testing to use in the real world. And those experts are available to help companies large and small, the school?s dean told a state bioscience industry meeting of the trade group BioForward on Wednesday.
A St. Paul native and talented guitarist attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison died in Madison of bacterial meningitis, a university spokesman said.
Trying to wake up, I peacefully sip coffee as I read the April 6 La Crosse Tribune. On page B6, I read that the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents confirmed Rebecca Blank as the next chancellor of UW-Madison. She will be paid $495,000 a year.
A Republican-sponsored bill that would ban the sale or use of aborted fetal tissue for research in Wisconsin is being circulated in the Legislature two years after it failed to pass.
Noted: Walker is leading a state delegation that includes leaders of the University of Wisconsin and the heads of major companies, including Oshkosh Corp., Harley-Davidson, Solaris and Badger State Ethanol.
Quoted: ?It?s usually calibrated to how the baby is doing,? said Norman Fost, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. ?It?s not a fixed formula.?
Noted: The pungent, stinky, tear-inducing qualities come from a host of sulfur compounds in the onions, explained Dr. Irwin Goldman, a researcher and prof at the University of Wisconsin who?s wild about onions and agriculture and their relation to human health.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist is awaiting access to an avian influenza virus that has killed at least seven people in central-eastern China over the past week so his research team can unlock the virus? secrets by infecting mice and ferrets with it.
ATLANTA – Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan has received the 2013 Coaches vs. Cancer Champion Award.
Flutes probably aren?t the first thing that come to mind when discussing hip-hop, but Sam Hartley knew he could change the conversation. The UW-Madison sophomore brought extra rhythm and bass to his performance at the Wisconsin Flute Festival on Saturday. During “Three Beats for Beatbox Flute,” he incorporated vocal melodies and percussion, drawing an enthusiastic response from the audience.
MILWAUKEE – A Wisconsin political expert says Margaret Thatcher helped pave the way for many of the controversial political changes we have been through recently in Wisconsin.
Ken Kavajecz was named the next dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina announced Friday morning. Kavajecz is currently chair for the Department of Finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a professor of finance. He will begin his time as dean in July.
University of Wisconsin officials are making progress in efforts to develop a flexible degree option, which is aimed at helping hundreds of thousands of residents sitting on some level of partial college credit earn a degree or certification.
