The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has reprimanded Rao M. Adibhatla, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for falsifying experimental results in two published papers and three unfunded grant applications, according to a notice in the Federal Register published last week (January 25).
Quoted: Dan Schaefer, an animal sciences expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it?s all about supply and demand, and it starts with a shrinking U.S. beef herd.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a similar admissions strategy to the University?s. John Lucas, a university spokesman, said officials use a comprehensive review in which academic preparation is the most important factor.
Author Lorrie Moore is about to leave the building, the UW?s Helen C. White Hall, to be exact. She?s headed to Nashville, where she?ll assume an endowed chair in Vanderbilt University?s English department this fall.
Quoted: ?Our students have all the information that we have as professors,? says Aaron Brower, special assistant to the president of the University of Wisconsin system (and a professor on the Madison campus). ?So there is no premium on access to information.?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ranked the most buzzed-about university on the Internet for the second time in a row, ahead of Harvard, Columbia and Stanford. UW-Madison is 16th.
Quoted: Dr. Doug Laube, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and former president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, has condemned the new law.
Lord knows there?s a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.
BALTIMORE ? He arrived on campus a middling high school student from Medford, Mass., who had settled for C?s and had confined his ambitions to the math club.
Noted: Lorrie Moore, the author of fiction including the short-story collection Birds of America and the novel A Gate at the Stairs, will teach at Vanderbilt University beginning next fall. She will become the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English. She is now a professor in the humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jim Wollack, in addition to doing a lot of research on cheating, also runs a testing and evaluation service that includes a room where students take exams.
You know the standard model for a university administrator: polite, unflappable, professionally groomed, able to recite policy in long or short form, kind of boring, skilled at disguising true feelings and, of course, intent on keeping a lid on things.
MADISON ? A Madison judge improperly issued a restraining order against a former legislator?s son, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
MADISON, Wisc. ? A satellite image of Michigan taken by NASA is showing the state in its purest winter form.NASA?s photograph was taken on Tuesday, and comes via the CIMSS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It?s an aerial view of Michigan that you may not have seen before.
One of the findings of Gannett Wisconsin Media?s ?What We Pay? series on public employee compensation is that pay for Universityof Wisconsin System professors averages about $86,000 a year, trailing the $90,000 average of technical college instructors.
Bird flu researchers said Wednesday that they would end a self-imposed moratorium on controversial experiments to determine how the deadly H5N1 virus might mutate and gain the ability to spread easily among humans.
A year after bird flu scientists agreed to stop research into how only a few mutations in a deadly H5N1 virus could enable it to spread among mammals, they announced Wednesday that research should resume because it?s vital to preparing for a possible pandemic, should such a virus emerge in nature and threaten humans.
Research on lab-engineered strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus is set to restart a year after the scientists voluntarily paused it to allow for an international public debate on the safest way to proceed.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin Madison law professor who has watched the case for years, says he was not surprised by the settlement, but he was disappointed because most of the dairy farmers? problems won?t be addressed.
Controversial research into making bird flu easier to spread in people is to resume after a year-long pause.
Noted: Much like the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin-Madison stays open for most of winter break, said Faramarz Vakili, the university?s sustainability director.
Scientists last night ended a voluntary ban on creating mutant forms of bird flu, despite warnings that an accidental release could kill millions of people.
International scientists who last year halted controversial research with the deadly bird flu say they are resuming their work as countries adopt new rules to ensure safety.
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
Experiments with a deadly flu virus, suspended last year after a fierce global debate over safety, will start up again in some laboratories, probably within the next few weeks, scientists say.
The voluntary moratorium on bird-flu studies is mostly over.
Legislators scolded University of Wisconsin System leaders Tuesday during a hearing in Madison over what they called a troubling pattern of mismanagement and lack of oversight for employee payroll and benefits processing.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky.
The Dane County Circuit Court ruled Jan. 15 to allow former adidas workers to join the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s contract lawsuit against the company, allowing the workers to directly participate in the litigation.
It?s common for new presidents on campus to announce how impressed they are with the institution and its people, their excitement about learning more from students, faculty and alumni. Substantive ideas? They might be proposed in an inaugural ? months after a president has actually taken over. But even then, many presidents don?t exactly break new ground with their addresses.
When he was introduced as Arkansas head coach last month, Bret Bielema explained one of the reasons he left Wisconsin was the inability to adequately compensate assistant coaches. UW athletic director Barry Alvarez argued otherwise.
Based on the developments Friday, the assistants on Gary Andersen?s first UW staff will be paid well.The UW Board of Regents on Friday approved the contracts of Andersen, offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig and defensive coordinator Dave Aranda.
Elias Zerhouni, president of global research and development for pharmaceutical company Sanofi and former director of the National Institutes of Health, will speak at a BioForward breakfast meeting in Madison on Tuesday.
A legislative committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today (Tuesday) to discuss mismanagement at the University of Wisconsin payroll and benefit processing. The nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) is being asked to conduct a comprehensive review after an audit released earlier this month found the UW had made over-payments in the last two years for health insurance premiums and retirement benefits totaling $33 million.
Quoted: “Probably at best, it tells us something about the white, probably better-educated, somewhat higher-income population in the U.S., which is a population we know a fair amount about already,” says sociologist John DeLamater of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “What we really, really need are studies that look at these diverse groups in the U.S. That would go a long way in addressing the whole issue of ?normal.? “
Q: What is the difference between a nova and a supernova? A: Through history, sky watchers occasionally ? every few centuries or so ? observe the sudden appearance of a new star, which is visible for a few weeks or months and then disappears. In Latin, these were called “stella nova” or new star.
Experiments done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are angering animal rights advocates. The experiments in question are being preformed on Rhesus monkeys because of their similarities to humans. In these experiments, baby monkeys are separated from their mothers right after birth and later subjected to scary tests to provoke fear and anxiety. The monkeys are then killed and dissected and their brains are studied.
Charles Franklin is a Political Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Franklin says last Friday?s appellate court ruling on Act 10 upheld all of the provisions of the law that had been struck down by a Wisconsin federal court. Franklin called the appellate court two to one decision, “strong support for the state?s position.”
Quoted: Lawrence Berger, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of social work, has found that when the dollar amount of a person?s debt increases by 10 percent, depressive symptoms ? like not being able to shake the blues, feeling lonely or having trouble eating or sleeping ? increase by 14 percent.
A little less than a month after being named Wisconsin?s new head coach, Gary Andersen has a new contract. Provided he signs it, that is.
There were mornings when Peter Konz would pull into the Atlanta Falcons practice facility and just sit in his car.
Browns Pro Bowl offensive left tackle Joe Thomas is a finalist for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, the league announced tonight.
The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, based at the University of Wisconsin – Madison will try to identify those environmental risks. Professors from six Midwestern universities and a U.S. Department of Energy scientist will collaborate on the research.
A new controversy regarding the future of a nonprofit cooperative that provides high-speed Internet services to most public schools and libraries in Wisconsin stems from an old debate about the public and private sectors competing with each other.
Young Badger fans got the opportunity to meet the University of Wisconsin?s women?s hockey team Sunday.
Chances are that French air power combined with superior numbers and equipment on the ground in Mali will prevail and force the jihadis to retreat in some fashion to the Sahel. That, however, will hardly be the end.
The University of Wisconsin football team suddenly finds itself with a surplus of quarterbacks.
Quoted: Deception online is far from new. About 81 percent of people misrepresented their weight, height or age in their online dating profiles, according to research from Catalina L. Toma, an assistant professor of communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
When Badger Coaches turned its bus terminal at the corner of West Washington Avenue and South Bedford Street into apartments and retail space in 2009, Madison?s bus passengers were dealt a blow.
How do scientists know spring flowers are blooming much earlier than they did years ago? By looking at meticulous records kept by American naturalists Henry David Thoreau and Wisconsin?s own Aldo Leopold.
MADISON, WI (WSAU) – A state legislator believes a University of Wisconsin senior vice president needs to be fired. Wisconsin Rep. Steve Nass says a recent audit leaves him with no faith in senior vice president for administration and fiscal affairs Michael Morgan.
If you were to think of Madison, Wisconsin, “fashion capital” is probably not what would come to mind. The Badgers, liberal politicals and partying college students are most likely what you may ponder, not to mention our charmingly odd accents and love for cheese. In these cold, long Wisconsin winter months, add some thoughts of long underwear, slushy sidewalks, dry skin and piles of (often homemade) blankets to the mix. It?s a wonder that the glamorous people of the world haven?t flocked to this Midwestern city yet. New York City?s got nothing on us and our cheeseheads.
MADISON ? Sometimes sorry isn?t enough. Ask the legions of Lance Armstrong fans, the same Lance Armstrong who only takes his doping mea culpa to Oprah Winfrey.
ESPN had not yet signed off its telecast from Bloomington, Ind., when my iPhone pinged, pinged again, then again. Bo Ryan?s Badgers had just stunned the national college basketball world by closing out the heavily favored Indiana Hoosiers, a team ranked second in the nation, before 17,472 raucous fans at Assembly Hall.
DELAVAN ? They warmed up with a third consecutive appearance in the Tournament of Roses parade and performed at halftime of the University of Wisconsin?s Rose Bowl game loss to Stanford.
For the second year in a row, the UW-Madison online graduate engineering programs rank in the top 10 among U.S. colleges offering degrees in the field.
Barry Alvarez wants you to think the wound is healed all while peeling back a blood-stained bandage.
A fourth person was charged Wednesday in the August attack on University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball.
Noted: It also surprised Mark Stephenson, the director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee are calling for an independent audit of the University of Wisconsin payroll and benefit processing systems after overpayments totaling almost $33 million were found.
Earlier in the day, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said that, politically, Walker has to address the concerns of two groups of people ? the general public who will be voting in 2014 and the conservative GOP base who will largely be the ones choosing a Republican presidential nominee for 2016.
