LONDON: Scientists in the Dutch city of Rotterdam know precisely what it takes for a bird flu to mutate into a potential human pandemic strain – because they?ve created just such mutant viruses in the laboratory.
Quoted: Susan Riseling, chief of police at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said the Virginia Tech episode changed her thinking about how to advise students because it was clear that Mr. Cho had ?one goal, and that seemed to be to kill as many people as possible before ending his life.?
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Barry Alvarez has a new contract that will keep him as the athletic director of the University of Wisconsin for the next five years.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University $125 million to continue their work on advanced biofuels.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved Rebecca Blank as the next UW-Madison chancellor.
The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in Madison received a five-year, $125 million federal grant to continue its research.
MILWAUKEE – The University of Wisconsin, Madison, is one of six institutions to share in a $14.5 million grant for cancer research.
FX has put in development They Marched Into Sunlight, a six-part limited series executive produced by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan.
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will continue to fund its three bioenergy research centers for another five years. The funding is subject to congressional appropriations. Here are the details.
Three individuals with outstanding lifetime contributions to the meat business are set to be inducted into the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame at a May 2 recognition ceremony. They include an immigrant who found the American Dream; an academic who became a captain of the meat processing business; and an entrepreneur who founded a firm that has become the backbone of a community.
Newly published research suggests that Greenland?s ice melted super fast last summer, and the world?s ice could soon melt faster than anybody had anticipated ? all because of pretty white clouds hanging low above frigid seas.
Washington ? The U.S. Energy Department said Thursday it wants to extend funding for three bioenergy research centers for another five years as part of a $125 million proposal.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is expected to vote in La Crosse today on the appointment of two new chancellors for state universities.
The University of Wisconsin System?s Board of Regents will meet to consider whether to approve Rebecca Blank as the next chancellor of UW-Madison.
Congressman Mark Pocan met with constituents Wednesday in Madison to talk about the federal sequester budget cuts. He spoke with researchers and faculty at U.W. Madison which will lose $35 million in the current year, with cuts to follow for the next nine years, and thus will result in a loss of scientific research grants.
?It is very suspect that you don?t have as many girls as boys in New York City?s specialized schools,? said Janet S. Hyde, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin who has published research on girls? performance in math and science from elementary school through college. Individual girls might be losing opportunities, she said, ?but it is also bad for society as a whole because in a global economy we need to identify the best scientists and mathematicians.?
In 1969, an early incarnation of what?s now the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison opened.
The Badger Herald, one of two independent student newspapers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, will boost its online presence while cutting back on print issues, according to a release from the paper Wednesday.
Basketball and hockey fans can pay to rent seat cushions starting next season at the Kohl Center, and football season ticket holders at Camp Randall Stadium can expect to pay more for the popular seat backs at Camp Randall under terms of a new contract with the company that provides them.
The University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison, one of the nation?s top public research institutions, is opening normally closed doors: Its 11th annual science expeditions open house will be held April 5-7.
Quoted: ?A.M.S. has confirmed with exquisite precision and to high energy one of the most exciting mysteries in astrophysics and particle physics,? said Justin Vandenbroucke of the University of Wisconsin and Stanford?s SLAC laboratory.
Quoted: Richard J. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied brain function in long-term and novice mindful meditators, offered this analogy: ?You can improve the signal-to-noise ratio by reducing the noise. Decreasing mind-wandering is doing just that.?
Ever place your keys in your pocket, only to start looking for them a half-second later? According to a study performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it?s not because you?re going crazy?it?s because you?re stressed.
The first weather satellite to successfully report global weather data from space was launched 53 years ago this week. An institute within the University of Wisconsin?s has surfaced two of the first images sent back, though there?s some debate as to which of the two came first. The pictures show the earth in grainy black-and-white, but it?s easy to make out the cloud covering that NASA and NOAA used as proof that such satellites could be useful in making meteorological predictions.
Quoted: ?It seems to me like the office has been neutered to the point where it?s really not relevant,? University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said.
Through politics, discussions, networking, art, music, and workshops, the 17th annual La Mujer Latina Conference April 13 at the Pyle Center will once again be an important community resource. The theme this year is ?Creating a Healthy Latina Environment: Physically, Mentally, Spiritually.?
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse says it will lose a key ally next month when Brent Smith?s term as UW System regent expires.
The arms of spiral galaxies in our universe are caused and sustained by giant molecular clouds, according to astrophysics research.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – A Purdue professor has been awarded the 2013 Ho-Am Engineering Prize from Korea, which is the highest engineering research award issued by that nation.
WASHINGTON ? President Obama?s acting Commerce secretary is heading to the University of Wisconsin.
Thousands of University students pack their bags each winter and hop on an AirBus headed toward the airport. Once they arrive, they disperse to 50 states and 127 countries.
There is all the difference in the world in college softball between the have-not and have-not-yet. When Yvette Healy looked at the University of Wisconsin, a program most would have placed among the have-nots in the world of big-time college softball, she saw one that could have almost anything with a little work.
Why do violent scenes in war movies and violent scenes in a horror flick seem so different? Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Augsburg in Germany believe that it is the motivation behind the violence within the movie?s narrative that makes the difference. According to a new study, audiences are more tolerant of gory scenes in movies when they feel the violence points to some meaning and truth in everyday life.
Noted: Caroline Levine?s essay ?The Shock of the Banal: Mad Men?s Progressive Realism? provides an especially apt description of how the show works to create a distinct relationship between past and present that?s neither simply nostalgic nor a celebration of how far we?ve come. The dynamic of “Mad Men” is, in her terms, ?the play of familiarity in strangeness? that comes from seeing ?our everyday assumptions just far enough removed from us to feel distant.? (Levine is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.)
There has been a lot of talk about spiral arms in disk galaxies and this is what perhaps has intrigued researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. They have revealed in The Astrophysical Journal that the stellar spiral arms are not transient features as hitherto believed.
Spiral galaxies are beautiful astronomical realities that have long been the cause of speculation, with no definitive conclusion having been made over what causes them. Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have helped solve this conundrum, stating that they?ve proved the spiral arms are persistent, long-lived, and self-perpetuating.
Tuesday marks the five year anniversary of the murder of a Marshfield native and UW- Madison student.
Pending approval from the UW System Board of Regents, Rebecca Blank will become the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As always, expectations of the universitys new leader are high. Conversations with faculty members on campus turned up two broad efforts theyd like to see the new chancellor adopt as priorities.
Noted: Although hutches pose challenges when the weather is wet ? particularly for the people taking care of calves ? it is not recommended to add an additional roof over the hutches as this will limit ventilation, says Becky Brotzman, veterinarian and associate outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
For most college soccer teams, the spring season is full of hard work and low-key exhibitions intended to prepare for the fall season ? hardly the stuff of memories.
Noted: That?s true with judicial races both in Wisconsin and other states, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Before 2005, Sandra Adell had never set foot in a casino. But when a friend of the then 59-year-old professor at the University of Wisconsin?Madison asked Adell to accompany her to the Ho-Chunk casino about 45 minutes away from her home, she obliged. As Adell walked through the casino floor, she thought to herself, “Why in the world are all these people here?” She sat down at a machine, and by the time she got up, she was hooked.
MADISON ? A $32-million addition to Babcock Hall and a $42.8-million Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory were among the UW-Madison projects given preliminary approval by the State Building Commission March 20 at a meeting in Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? The woman selected as the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s next chancellor says her top priorities will include a strong emphasis on fundraising.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s newly selected chancellor said she is not interested in splitting the UW System.
“Ellen DeGeneres is … almost a litmus test of where we have been as a society,” says Life Science Communications professor Dietram Scheufele. “When she first came out and really put the issue of same-sex partnerships on people’s agendas, and I mean people who really wouldn’t have thought about it, I think the country was still in a very different state.”
A University of Wisconsin Police Department captain has been charged with disorderly conduct for disturbing a woman he did not know by using a law enforcement database to track her down and leave a Valentine?s Day card on her car.
Quoted: ?The correlation with mood terms is not altogether surprising, as these longer constructions provide increased opportunity for expressing sentiments,? explains biologist David Krakauer of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, who with his colleagues has mined Google Books for changes in literary style.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly testifies before the legislature?s budget committee in favor of the governor?s budget proposal. ?If the governor?s proposed budget passes as is, we could see the lowest tuition increases in the UW in a decade, which would clearly be welcome news to our 180,000+ students and their families.?
Quoted: “The expectation is that they all do this,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wrote “With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power.” “That is the typical way of doing things.”
The search committee has recommended Rebecca Blank to be the new UW-Madison chancellor. Assuming the Board of Regents accepts her, I have some unsolicited advice for Dr. Blank. It?s worth what she paid for it (Isthmus is a free weekly publication).
Quoted: “Several years ago people would have been shocked by the prevalence numbers but each year the estimates have been trending upwards,” said Matthew Maenner, an epidemiologist with the Waisman Center.
On Monday, Rebecca Blank was selected to be the next chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison. Blank currently serves as the Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and has worked in the agency since 2009. Commenting her appointment, Blank said, ?The University is integral to the economic future of the state and must continue to be a strong partner in the effort to create jobs and stimulate economic growth.?
John Jorg Boll passed away at his home in Madison on Sunday, March 17, 2013, at the age of 91. He was Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught from 1956 until his retirement in 1992. He was the author of numerous books and articles, including “Introduction to Cataloging,” first published in 1966 and used by a generation of students.
MADISON ? The State of Wisconsin Investment Board?s announcement this week that it would help capitalize an early-stage venture capital fund focused on information technology had a bit of a ?Bachelor? feel to it.
We?re unearthing a piece from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the archives of Aldo Leopold to try to inject a little spring in cold, mid-March.
A federal judge says a man exonerated in the 1980 killing of a UW-Madison student can proceed with a federal civil rights lawsuit.
Federal inspectors have cited a University of Wisconsin-Madison research lab after a cat was burned.
It?s been a long and bruising fight to the NCAA Tournament for Wilkes University graduate and University of Wisconsin Badgers head coach Bo Ryan, every exhilarating victory and crushing loss leading to this moment in March.
Wisconsin, we have a problem. What?s the tab for excessive drinking in Wisconsin? Our tab is a staggering $6.8 billion each year, according to a report released last week by Health First Wisconsin in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in Madison.
