Crossing county lines in your state can mean a world of difference for your health, a new report reveals. The County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Program, a study and website created by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found major differences between state counties close to one another and even some that share borders.
Rebecca Blank will draw on deep Midwestern roots and an impressive résumé that includes work for presidents of both parties and long academic experience when she begins work this summer as the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A little more than a year ago, Rebecca Blank visited the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus to listen to faculty members, entrepreneurs and business leaders. Her topic: What?s working and what?s not when it comes to the role of the university and the economy?
This past week the University of Wisconsin School of Education and Center on Wisconsin Strategy kicked off a ten-day series of conversations about public education issues called Ed Talks Wisconsin. It?s an impressive effort engaging top academics and researchers, local officials, writers and community leaders in the interest of diverse views and vigorous debate. We welcome it. The University should absolutely be part of every aspect of this critical community effort. We appreciate their stepping up.
WASHINGTON — Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank, who has held the job since John Bryson resigned for medical reasons in June, is stepping down to become chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she said Monday.
When Rebecca Blank interviewed with members of a subcommittee of the University of Wisconsin?s Board of Regents, she finished 20 minutes early, having succinctly and adroitly made her points, according to sources.
Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank will leave the department this summer to serve as the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
As President Obama announced another choice on Monday for his second term Cabinet by choosing a new Secretary of Labor, one position in his Cabinet remains curiously unfilled, as it has for now for almost nine months.
Quoted: Funding for research ?for Alzheimer?s is totally insufficient,? says Alzheimer?s researcher Luigi Puglielli, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison lab was cited by the United States Department of Agriculture after inspectors noted in the lab?s records that a handwarmer keeping a cat warm slipped onto its leg and burned it last April.
Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank has reportedly been tapped as the next chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON ? Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, a finalist to lead the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, was selected Monday to be its next chancellor starting in July.
Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank may serve in the Obama administration, but her recommendation to be the new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has an enthusiastic Republican proponent: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Gov. Scott Walker says Rebecca Blank is a great pick for chancellor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?She has excellent academic credentials and strong leadership experience. Equally as important, she has a keen knowledge of economic issues that can help the UW promote great prosperity in the state,? Walker said after announcement Monday of Blank?s selection by search committee.
UW-Madison on Monday announced it has chosen Rebecca Blank as its new chancellor, turning to a familiar face who also was part of the final field of four in 2008 when Biddy Martin got the job.
Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank has been offered the job of chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university system announced Monday afternoon.
The acting Commerce secretary, Rebecca Blank, will leave her post in July to become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There?s no word yet on who the next chancellor will be at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The top pick is expected to be announced early this week, though a job offer likely has already been extended.
Quoted: Lawyers say winning such a case would have been tough but not impossible. ?A successful case against Monsanto would have required very smart litigating,? said Peter Carstensen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and antitrust specialist who has studied the seed industry. ?(The) Microsoft (case) required an extraordinarily able set of lawyers.?
RIVER FALLS — Gov. Scott Walker?s biennial budget proposal might be good news for both staff and students at University of Wisconsin campuses.
PricewaterhouseCoopers US is donating more than $1 million to the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Business. The money will pay for a professorship and support programs for students.
Quoted: ?This gives reassurance to smokers that the benefits of quitting still far outweigh any small health risks that may come with weight gain,? said Dr. Michael Fiore, founder of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, said Ryan?s budget could be a double-edged sword that cuts for him in a GOP primary and against him in a general election.
MADISON ? The state would have much broader power to sell or lease state-owned properties ? including buildings overseen by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents ? under Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed 2013-15 budget, according to a newly released budget summary by the state?s nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
In a powerful demonstration of reprogrammings potential to treat human disease and injury, scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison turned a rhesus monkeys skin cells into early brain cells, then implanted them successfully in the monkeys brain.
Five players make up a quintet. And 40 years marks a milestone. Both are significant numbers for the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, whose 40th season will be celebrated with a free concert Friday, March 15, in Mills Hall.
Jeanne Schiro, age 66 of Middleton, Wis., passed away on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Jeanne worked for the University of Wisconsin Accounts Payable Department for over 40 years where she retired in 2010 as an Accounts Payable Manager.
Scientists have taken cells from rhesus monkeys? skin, turned them into neural cells, then implanted them successfully into the monkeys? brains. After six months, the transplanted cells showed no scarring and looked healthy and normal?except that they glowed green, a characteristic the scientists added to the cells so they could find the cells later.
“This is the biggest crowd ever,” was the common greeting among attendees at the 16th Bi-annual Badger Invitational Dairy Sale held at the historic Stock Pavilion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ag campus last Saturday, March 9.
The Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics is proud to announce that one of their recent editorial board appointees has been recognized with the 2013 Dillon Medal. Mahesh Mahanthappa, professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, will be awarded the distinction at the upcoming American Physical Society (APS) March meeting in Baltimore, with a symposium held in his honor.
Noted: The companies acknowledge that completion rates are a concern and that their platforms are still works in progress. And to observers such as David Krakauer, that is as it should be. ?There are two ways to make something new,? says Krakauer, a biologist who directs the Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. ?You can design something that?s perfect on paper, and then try to build it. Or you can start with a system that?s rubbish, experiment and build a better one with feedback. That?s the Silicon Valley style ? but it?s also the scientific way.?
Which of the nation?s top state universities produce graduates who go on to make the biggest bucks? UW ranks 7th.
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) – Health organizations, law enforcement, and community leaders are seeking changes to Wisconsin?s alcohol culture and laws. Health First Wisconsin released a study done by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute showing the real cost of excess alcohol consumption is 6.8 billion dollars annually in Wisconsin alone. This includes alcohol related health care, premature deaths, lost work time, traffic crashes, and court cases.
MILWAUKEE — A study released Tuesday highlight?s Wisconsin?s problems with excessive drinking.The Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School released a first-of-its-kind report, “The Burden of Excessive Alcohol Use in Wisconsin.”
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – University of Wisconsin employees are limited by state law to $12,000 a year in extra pay for academic duties.
At its best, the Web is a place for unlimited exchange of ideas. But Web-savvy news junkies have known for a long time that reader feedback can often turn nasty. Now a study in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication suggests that rude comments on articles can even change the way we interpret the news.
Quoted: But first, why do we get so riled up about these problems? People don?t usually get into fistfights at the bar over arithmetic, but these math threads are spectacularly vitriolic. A couple of factors are at work in these math debates, according to Robert Glenn Howard, a social psychologist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison who specializes in Internet communication and folklore.
Republican governors in at least three states are pushing to link funding for universities to graduates? success finding jobs, saying schools need to provide students with the skills employers demand.
University of Wisconsin records show 60 employees exceeded statutory limits for extra academic pay in 2012, a Gannett Wisconsin Media review found.
We wouldn?t be surprised if the now-ubiquitous advice, ?Don?t read the comments,? was likely first uttered soon after online readers were given the ability to leave notes at the end of blog posts, news stories, or whatever online content that they were watching or reading on the Internet (those four words of conventional wisdom even has its own dedicated Twitter feed.) Now, however, there is empirical evidence suggesting that reading the comments can actually affect the way that you understand the original story.
Officials from the University of Wisconsin and Madison Area Technical College will sign a reverse transfer agreement Monday, allowing credits to transfer between both of the higher education institutions.
Two studies explore some of the developmental roots of depression in childhood and adolescence.
Quoted: Barnard supports his ideas with studies, but be mindful of the kind of studies he examined, says Sanjay Asthana, director of the Alzheimer?s disease research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most are epidemiological studies based on what people say they eat and on how their health changes over a period of years. The gold standard for research is a randomized controlled trial, in which participants would be put on different diets and their health monitored.
March 9 (Reuters) – Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Carol Greider used to have eight to 10 young researchers working in her university laboratory, but with U.S. government funds for scientific research shrinking in recent years, she?s gone down to four.
MADISON, Wis. — Football coach Gary Andersen has preached family since his arrival, and UW players are responding positively.
Born September 24, 1948, in Madison, Margaret graduated from St. Francis Xavier Grade School in Cross Plains and Middleton High School before attending UW Platteville and the UW Madison where she pursued a Masters in Fine Arts. Margaret enjoyed 31 years of work at the University of Wisconsin Press where she held the position of Rights and Permissions Editor until Parkinson?s forced her to leave in 2008. Margaret?s smile, sense of humor, and unique view of life inspired everyone who knew her.
The changes in the University of Wisconsin football team?s first practice under Gary Andersen on Saturday could be seen and heard inside the McClain Center.
In my column this week, retired business executive and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Thomas Hefty contended that UW has under-performed in helping re-engineer the Wisconsin economy.
Superstorm Sandy did more than rock the eastern coast of the United States last year. It also damaged Mitt Romney?s chances in the presidential election. Quotes from Republican primaries, where Romney called for responsibility for disaster response to shift from the federal government to state and local authorities, suddenly looked foolish as those local authorities were quickly overwhelmed. Yet, even as the aftermath of Sandy demonstrates the need for federal help, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in New York is losing US$1.3 billion ? roughly 5% of its budget ? in government cutbacks.
The folks at the MacIver Institute are some of the finest investigative reporters in the state, and they?ve proven it again with this exposé of an ahem vocal opponent of the mining bill:
Quoted: “Maybe bioethicists have been a little bit too cavalier assuming that a mouse with some human brain cells in it is just your normal old mouse,” says Robert Streiffer, a bioethicist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Well, it?s not going to be human, but that doesn?t mean it?s a normal old mouse either.”
OU officials hope to bring new ideas and fresh creativity to the Pride of Oklahoma marching band with its new director, despite students? attachment to an in-house candidate who was also considered for the position.
Noted: A number of other academics supported Wahl-Jorgensen?s comment. Kris Olds, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote for Inside Higher Ed: ?While I?ve never met [Dr George] I can state, with confidence, he would have been tenured here at UW-Madison. Indeed, given his record and in demand areas of expertise matched with actual experience as a journalist, he?d most likely be a tenured full Professor by now.?
Noted: But Robert Schwoch, an instructor at the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism and Mass Communications who has also worked for elected officials, says it is not that simple.
This may be the first time in history that a search for a new UW-Madison chancellor has run concurrent with the conclave in Rome to select a new pope. If I had to choose, I?d pick being chancellor over being pope. No, the outfits aren?t as cool, it?s not a lifetime appointment, and your word most definitely is not taken as infallible.
Madison – The next two-year budget for the University of Wisconsin System will be the first since the 1980s that isn?t built around state funding cuts or expected state budget lapses if the Legislature doesn?t dramatically change what?s been proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has taken the plunge into the brave new world of massively available, free online course offerings.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison stands to lose about $35 million in research funding in the next year, or 3.5% of its roughly $1 billion research base, through automatic cuts to the federal budget, UW System President Kevin Reilly said Thursday.
Dear Tell All: I felt annoyed reading the recent articles about Lorrie Moore, the fiction writer who has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since the 1980s and is now leaving for Vanderbilt University. I used to be a fan of Moore?s work, but she turned me off with the way she comported herself as a Madison resident. She made it clear in many interviews how little she thought of the city and its people. This disdain also showed up in her fiction. To me that?s unseemly, given that her high UW salary was supported by local taxpayers.
Students typically make honor roll by earning good grades. Universities and colleges make this national honor roll for the service role they play in solving community problems and placing students on a path of civic engagement. UW-Madison is on the service honor roll.
