The National Council on Teacher Quality announced on Thursday that it had settled a lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin system in a dispute stemming from the advocacy group?s controversial effort to rank teacher-preparation programs nationwide.
Everyone knows that the comment section of a news website is typically nothing more than a cesspool of semi-anonymous trolls spouting off ill-informed opinions and the occasional racist zingers. Sure, some sites have a classier clientele, but for the most part, it?s best to simply whistle past the graveyard and ignore the hysterical arguments about Obama, socialism, and the evils of the liberal media that inevitably crop up in stories about funny local pets. But according to a new study from two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, awful online comments may not only be soul crushing and annoying, they may also be harmful to one?s understanding of the news?specifically, science news. And who better to report on this story than Wisconsin?s undisputed champ of awful online comments, the Journal Sentinel?
If Wisconsin students and parents are looking for one of the best values in the country in higher education, stay at home.
Long before Gerda Lerner helped redefine the study of history to give women a more prominent place in it and before she established the doctorate program in U.S. women?s history at UW-Madison in the 1980s, she had to live through one of history?s worst horrors and ? barely ? survive it.
Gerda Lerner, a scholar and author who helped make the study of women and their lives a legitimate subject for historians and spearheaded the creation of the first graduate program in women?s history in the United States, died on Wednesday in Madison, Wis. She was 92.
Gerda Lerner, a scholar and author who helped make the study of women and their lives a legitimate subject for historians and spearheaded the creation of the first graduate program in women?s history in the United States, died on Wednesday in Madison, Wis. She was 92.
Ryan Groy and Ethan Hemer didn?t need to peruse the Wisconsin depth chart to understand that the Badgers should be stronger in 2013 despite a second consecutive year of wholesale staff changes.
“I think we?re going to be one of the better teams we have had here in the last couple years,” said Groy, a redshirt junior offensive lineman who is expected to return for his fifth year. “I think we?re going to be a pretty special team to be honest. We?ll have an unbelievable senior class. There are a lot of leaders in it.”
MINNEAPOLIS ? The University of Minnesota is currently the cheapest school in the Big Ten for nonresident tuition, but possibly not for much longer.
The University of Wisconsin Medical School is looking for up to 800 smokers to participate in a new study, after the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention was recently given $10 million in federal funds for research from the National Institutes of Health. The grant is intended to help advance the understanding of the most effective ways to help people quit smoking and the benefits that quitting has on the body over time.
Quoted: Donna Friedsam, director of health policy programs for the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, said state Medicaid and insurance officials will have to decide whether to work hand-in-hand with those running the exchanges to give information to Wisconsin residents and help navigate the system.
When Richard Davidson first began his doctoral work more than 30 years ago, the disciplines of neuroscience and psychology didn?t play well together. The idea that emotions were brain activity that could actually be measured and quantified in a laboratory setting was dismissed by most researchers. But Davidson persevered and is today the foremost expert on the science of emotions.
MADISON, Wis. ? For Araceli Alonso, something great began with a simple pen pal relationship.
Madison – In the shadow of an iconic ice cream palace known as Babcock Hall, tucked between a white dairy barn and a livestock pavilion, is a lesser-known Badger food enterprise that cranks out bacon, smoked sausages and steaks.
Global warming is essentially giving the insects a huge advantage, as the trees, with their long lifespans, have no chance to develop biological resistance, according to researchers from the the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who report a rising threat to the whitebark pine forests of the northern Rocky Mountains.
Quoted: Cecelia Klingele, an assistant law professor, and political scientist Charles Franklin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel gathers what it believes are the most interesting breakthroughs and developments at state universities, including UW-Madison.
This op-ed was written by Barry C. Burden, David T. Canon, Kenneth R. Mayer and Donald P. Moynihan. They are professors of political science or public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their research on Wisconsin elections can be found at electionadmin.wisc.edu
Badgers fans watched the game on 21 color televisions arrayed around the tavern as Club Paragon waitresses delivered buckets of beer to tables. A Bloody Mary bar featured a Badgers helmet filled with lemons and limes while a Packers helmet was stuffed with celery stalks and olives.
Barry Alvarez and the Wisconsin players no doubt earned respect with their gritty performance in the 99th Rose Bowl against favored Stanford.
Yet as they had too many times during the 2012 season, the Badgers failed to make the plays they needed in the closing minutes and failed to steal a victory that was within reach.
Apparently there are badgers at the South Pole.
And they?re football fans.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a long and storied history of exploration and science in Antarctica, but when scientists aren?t busy taking core samples, measuring glaciers and looking for subatomic particles, they?re cheering on their football team.
There will be no alcohol on Wisconsin?s Rose Bowl-bound equipment truck this year.
Sarah Wiskow admits she?s spoiled. In her third year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 2010 Port Washington High School graduate will make her third trip to Pasadena, Calif., next week to see the Badgers play in the Rose Bowl on New Year?s Day.
About 100 Stanford and Wisconsin fans met at Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles in Van Nuys to package food for Los Angeles-area needy.
With temperatures climbing from climate change, the mountain pine beetle is now moving to higher elevations on mountain slopes and is a “rising threat” to the whitebark pine, which is found mainly in the Rocky Mountains, coast range of B.C. and the northern U.S., says a new study.The report was published Monday by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
By 4 p.m., Ashland?s Neighborly Bar looked like a University of Wisconsin alumni meeting: Badgers sweatshirts and headwear were everywhere.
Quoted: Cecelia Klingele, an assistant law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Walker?s decision denies people who have done their time a chance to make something of themselves.
Noted: A scientist at the University of Wisconsin became puzzled as he researched an ingredient used in energy drinks like Red Bull, 5-Hour Energy and Monster Energy. The researcher, Dr. Craig A. Goodman, could not find any trials in humans of the additive, a substance with the tongue-twisting name of glucuronolactone that is related to glucose, a sugar. But Dr. Goodman, who had studied other energy drink ingredients, eventually found two 40-year-old studies from Japan that had examined it.
JANESVILLE ? Stephen Erlien?s standard garb on the Stanford University campus is a ragged, old UW-Madison Badgers hat and a Stanford jersey.
PASADENA, Calif. ? The view was still a sight to behold, the same as it has been for 99 years: the sun setting on the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance as the Rose Bowl champion was about to be decided. But this year?s meeting devolved into something familiar for Barry Alvarez: brawn, bruises and punts. A lot of punts.
For the 1,500 or so Badgers fans gathered Tuesday night at Union South, a nostalgic sense built up over 57 minutes and 30 seconds of football that Hall of Fame Coach Barry Alvarez could pull out one last Rose Bowl victory.
With Wisconsin closing out 2012 as one of the worst states for job creation, critics are once again rapping the UW-Madison for failing to turn its research dollars into new companies that could offer jobs.
Quoted: Gary Diffee, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who examined some of her claims, said, ?Like many things of this type, the science seems to be a mixture of true, kind of true, true but irrelevant to the point she is trying to make, and wrong.?
Noted: They retrieved one of the sensors and recalibrated it at the University of Wisconsin. They discovered a software error that had introduced mistakes into the record and then used computerized analyses of the atmosphere to fill the gaps.
Trademarked University of Wisconsin merchandise is flying off store shelves. Figures released today show the products set a sales record in the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Gross royalties received at UW-Madison topped $3.7 million ? $400,000 more than the year before. Half of that money is earmarked for financial aid to undergraduate students.
When new Wisconsin head coach Gary Andersen was asked Friday where he was going to take the Badgers? football program next, athletic director Barry Alvarez couldn?t help but chuckle.
Sales of Bucky Badger gear set a new record in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, generating $3.75 million in royalties, half of which provides financial aid to University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
Noted: The UW-Madison School of Education has worked with Favor Hamilton for “several years” in a one-week summer camp to encourage middle school-age students to pursue college, Associate Dean Dawn Crim said. Favor Hamilton had been scheduled to lead the “Movin? Minds” camp in July. Her name was on the camp?s website Thursday, but by Friday it had been removed.
If it wasn?t for finding the God particle, work by UW-Madison researchers and others on why the universe has virtually no anti-matter would have been the biggest scientific breakthrough of the year, according to Science Magazine.
Some call it abusive. Others call it gaming the system. But if you?re a public employee in Wisconsin, it?s perfectly legal to receive both a pension and a paycheck ? unless we make some changes. A recent Legislative Audit Bureau report shows that thousands of public employees in Wisconsin who retired are back working ? sometimes in the same or similar jobs ? and earning both a paycheck and a state pension.
The jersey gauntlet has been thrown down for the Rose Bowl.Incoming Dane County Board Chair John Hendrick and Ken Yeager, Hendrick?s counterpart in Santa Clara County, have a friendly wager on the 2013 Rose Bowl, with the loser having to wear the jersey of the winner?s team.
University of Wisconsin offensive line coach Bart Miller has had discussions about the tight ends job on the staff of new coach Gary Andersen but no official interview yet.
“I?ve got a pretty big interview on (January) first,” Miller said Thursday.
This year?s Rose Bowl features a team in cardinal red and white representing a brainy school in the heartland against a team in cardinal red and white representing a brainy school out West. It pits a city often called the Berkeley of the Midwest against the actual Berkeley?s fancier, cantankerous California neighbor.
Both Wisconsin and Stanford have more to brag about in Nobels and Pulitzers than they do in Heismans or national football titles. Yet in many ways they?re as far apart stylistically as they are geographically.
In the wake of Wisconsin?s dominating offensive performance in the 70-31 victory over Nebraska in the Big Ten title game, two questions arose:
Where was that offense – which produced 539 rushing yards, 640 total yards and nine touchdowns through a variety of formations and calls – throughout the regular season?
Wisconsin quarterback Joel Stave received a belated Christmas gift Thursday.
The redshirt freshman from Whitnall High School, who has six starts on his résumé but has been sidelined since suffering a broken left collarbone Oct. 27, was cleared to play in the Rose Bowl.
Joan Bunke, a Des Moines Register film critic who covered the city?s arts and entertainment scene for decades, died Monday, according to a Des Moines funeral home. She was 78 and a UW-Madison graduate.
Mentions that in 1998, the Forest Service began providing fire safety forecasts based on theories developed by meteorologist Donald Haines from the University of Wisconsin. The Haines Index is a mathematical formula calculating the potential for large wildfires to experience extreme fire behavior.
The study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience, was conducted by scientists at Ohio State University (OSU), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with funding coming from the National Science Foundation, which is NCAR?s sponsor.
An essay by Torben Lütjen, a German political scientist and visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is researching a book on the reasons behind political polarization.
Quoted: Laura Damon-Moore, a co-creator of The Library as Incubator Project, a blog on library innovation begun as an assignment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies.
Even as the University of Wisconsin athletic director, Barry Alvarez never stopped watching football games or practices as a coach.So, slipping back into a coaching role after seven years devoted solely to being the athletic director has not been difficult for Alvarez.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Palo Alto Mayor Yiaway Yeh have agreed that the losing city will organize a tree planting in honor of the winning team. The losing mayor also will wear the opposing team?s hat during a City Council meeting and display the flag of the winning team for a day in January.
Malcolm Robey will make his third trip to the Rose Bowl as a member of the UW-Madison marching band. This year, he?s the band?s drum major, just the second African-American student to lead the band.
Dean Clinic doctors are tied for third, and UW Health doctors rank seventh, in a snapshot of care provided by 19 doctor groups in Wisconsin.
Madison-area students are once again preparing to honor Dr. King and to take a day on, not off, as they take part in the annual MLK Youth Day of Service and Science Jan. 21 at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus.
He hasn?t so much as stepped on the sidelines yet at Camp Randall Stadium, let alone coached a game under the Bucky banner. But already new University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen has been impressive.
There will be no alcohol on Wisconsin?s Rose Bowl-bound equipment truck this year.
The University of Wisconsin changed its policies regarding the purchase and serving of alcohol at school functions after a student accused the senior associate athletics director of grabbing his crotch during a pre-Rose Bowl party the official hosted last December at the Los Angeles hotel where the team was staying.
Minutes after finishing a lengthy interview session with Gary Andersen, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez turned to a colleague and suggested they take the night to mull over their initial impressions.
When Alvarez and UW senior associate athletic director Walter Dickey met the next morning, Alvarez didn?t attempt to mask his excitement. “I think he is a slam dunk,” Alvarez told Dickey on Tuesday.
Gary Andersen?s final call as leader of the Utah State football program, far away from the field and undetected by TV cameras, was arguably the most painful he faced in his four seasons at the school.
Yet the two days he spent calling his players, one by one, to tell them why he was leaving Utah State for Wisconsin might reveal more about UW?s new coach than anything he accomplished in a career that has spanned more than two decades.
New Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen met the media in Madison for the first time on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, and Jim Polzin and Adam Mertz say the session made Andersen appear impressive and genuine.
I still haven?t gotten my head around the whole Suzy Favor Hamilton story and I?m not sure I ever will.
