Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a professor emerita in communication science at the University of Wisconsin, called the study “really interesting,” in part because the researchers used an objective measure – cortisol – to compare gender-based reactions to bad news.
Noted: Sauteed in butter on a skillet, hen of the woods tastes like . . . well . . . chicken. Packed with vitamins and minerals, the mushroom can also be crumbled and eaten raw in salads. Dried, it?s added to soups or steeped for tea, which is described by Tom Volk, a University of Wisconsin mycologist, as “quasi-delicious.”
Quoted: ?Farmers can?t afford to buy as much grain and protein, and that affects milk production,? said Bob Cropp, an economist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who has been following the industry since 1966. ?In California, there?ve been some foreclosures and some sell-off of cows quite heavily. You?re going to see that in other parts of the country.?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Ultimate Frisbee club team capped off its season by winning a second-straight national title at the Ultimate Players Association College Championships.
Gust Vergetis played in the 1953 Rose Bowl for the University of Wisconsin, played minor-league baseball as a catcher with the Oklahoma City Indians and was a dedicated educator. His wife, Mary Ann – they were high school sweethearts – wants you to know all that, but the main thing is this:”I was just crazy about him.”
UW-Madison also has been collaborating with China International University since 2004, according to Bob Mitchell, spokesman for the UW-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
A time table and a process have been set in the search for University of Wisconsin-Madison?s next chancellor, with a goal of having a new chancellor in place by July 1, 2013.
The search timetable calls for the 25-member search and screen committee to identify at least five qualified candidates in February.
The late foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, a University of Wisconsin — Madison graduate, is among the National Book Award finalists announced Wednesday in New York.
When Madison mayor Paul Soglin attended the University of Wisconsin during the 1960s, he wasn?t a big Badger football fan.
In a blow to the Authors Guild, a federal judge dismissed the group?s copyright infringement lawsuit against five universities that worked with Google to digitize millions of books. U.S. District Court Judge Howard Baer in New York ruled Tuesday that the universities? “mass digitization project” is protected by fair use principles. The project involves creating digital copies of books, making them searchable, and allowing blind people to access the books via software that converts text to speech or conveys it tactilely.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a professor emerita in communication science at the University of Wisconsin, called the study ?really interesting,? in part because the researchers used an objective measure ? cortisol ? to compare gender-based reactions to bad news.
For the better part of four days at the end of August, I was among a group of about two dozen people who received intensive instruction in woodlands management at a little-known training camp in northern Wisconsin.
Quoted: In a forthcoming book, ?Teenage Citizens: The Political Theories of the Young,? University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Connie Flanagan argues that Americans under 18 unfairly get the ?Summertime Blues? treatment from political scientists and other researchers: ?I?d like to help you, son, but you?re too young to vote.?
Quoted: Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the photo by itself was not too offensive but noted it could be exploited.
Quoted: ?Overall, there?s an important effect and important contribution of the Hispanic population,? says Katherine Curtis, assistant professor of community and environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Unbeknownst to most students, a team of staff members exists that is dedicated to ensuring the safety of the University of Wisconsin?s student population through observations and intervention.
Quoted: “As a general rule, the campaign finance environment is very dynamic,” said Ken Mayer, a University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor who studies campaign finance. “Affected groups don?t just sit there and say, ?Game over.? They always adapt and continue exercising influence.”
A University of Wisconsin dean is under consideration to become the next provost of a school out west.
Say “personnel policy” and for most folks it just doesn?t ring any bells. And worse, reading personnel policies is like taking a sleeping pill. The problem for 20,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison campus employees is that despite its tediousness, the new personnel policies should not be ignored because they will change everything. They are the full fruition of Governor Scott Walker?s plan to end unions at the university.
The Center on Wisconsin Strategies, a progressive think tank based at UW-Madison, has launched a website that is clearly meant to draw comparisons to the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. Why call it ALICE otherwise?
Quoted: Although he?s concerned that myelination seen in mouse models might not ?scale up? to a disease as severe as Pelizaeus-Merzbacher in humans, Ian Duncan, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, describes the study as setting a precedent for translating animal research in stem cells to humans. If you could improve quality of life by targeting key areas of the brain with these cells, he says, ?that would be a huge advance.?
Noted: The split-screen effect has become such a modern media phenomenon that political scientists have studied it. In one study conducted by University of Wisconsin researchers, 700 college students were shown five-minute segments of the Sept. 30, 2004, presidential debate between Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry. One clip was a split-screen, while another was a single screen.
If you watch the Big Ten Network documentary “Big Ten Elite” on Tuesday night, about the 1993 Wisconsin football season, you?ll be reminded about how weird that season really was.
Weird not because the Badgers returned to the Rose Bowl after an absence of 31 years. Weird because the season included a game the Badgers had to win against Michigan State, played in Tokyo of all places.
Quoted: Steven Deller, an economist, and Charles Franklin, a political scientist, both of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison accepted 5% more in-state students who applied for admission this fall than it accepted last year – good news for high-achieving Wisconsin students previously on the admissions bubble because the flagship is so selective.
The trend is likely to continue for several years with declining birthrates driving down the number of prospective college students, and the number of students walking out the door with UW-Madison diplomas on the rise, according to university officials.
Quoted: Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dietram A. Scheufele, a communications professor at Wisconsin.
Reflecting what the UW System president calls a “cultural evolution” that has transformed universities into drivers of local economies, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his family will soon move to a stone Tudor mansion bought last week by the school?s private foundation.
The watershed of cell reprogramming owes a debt to more than a decade of research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, chiefly by James Thomson, the first scientist to derive human embryonic stem cells.
Got whey? From infant formula and protein supplements to sports drinks and nutrition bars, whey – the nursery rhyme food that was once a ditch-dumped byproduct of cheese making – is taking on growing clout as a global food ingredient. And food scientists, including researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are seeking even more uses for the protein-dense product that can help build muscle and lean bodies.
On the heels of a debate most viewers say he lost, President Barack Obama headed into friendly Badger country.
New numbers show fewer students are heading to classes on UW-campuses.
Coming off a strong poll in Wisconsin but a challenging national debate the previous night, President Barack Obama on Thursday fired up college supporters and sought to renew his campaign?s momentum.From a stage looking up at the tree-lined Bascom Mall sloping down from the administration building of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Obama addressed a capacity crowd of students and supporters.
When Barry Alvarez became athletic director at the University of Wisconsin in 2004, his wife suggested his role model should be Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley.
Before a child sex abuse scandal and coverup rocked Penn State, cost Curley and other top administrators their jobs, and tainted the Big Ten school and its football program, “all of us looked at Penn State as a model,” Alvarez told the UW System Board of Regents during a meeting Thursday at UW-Stout in Menomonie.
It?s the kind of rally the Obama campaign wanted to show off to the world: a crowd of 30,000 students showing up for President Obama on a quadrangle on the leafy University of Wisconsin campus.
Before examining his resemblance to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell — kind of, sort of, if you squint — let?s begin with a text message from Nebraska?s new athletic director.
President Obama speaks on Bascom Hill.
Planning to meet your study group at the UW Law School on Thursday? Hoping to go to office hours at Science Hall? Better make other plans, because much of the campus will be in lockdown by then in preparation for President Barack Obama?s visit to Bascom Hill.
Bonnie Natera attended Thursday?s campaign rally with President Barack Obama on UW-Madison?s Bascom Hall for her six-year-old daughter, Nevaeh. As a toddler Navaeh was transfixed by Obama on television and said, “I like the way he talks.”
President Obama was back on friendly turf in Madison on Thursday. He is trying to tap into that same energy and excitement that helped him win Wisconsin four years ago.
Four women deeply rooted in the community through social justice work, service, research, and community building were honored with University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Outstanding Women of Color Awards Sept. 24 at the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center.
In another part of the study, hormone replacement therapy did help with mood and depression, researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found. It
Quoted: Alta Charo, professor of law and medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School
Each school acts in a hypercompetitive, prestige- and resource-seeking space that feels almost Darwinian — each striving to be the best and allowing those falling behind to simply die away. Given the tremendous potential supply of college-goers most public institutions enjoy, their adherence to this approach is remarkable. Instead of flagships working in tandem with sister schools to find places for each of the state?s high school graduates, they try to hog as many resources as possible, leaving other campuses to struggle with less. The greater good suffers. (A column by Sara Goldrick-Rab, UW-Madison education professor.)
Shawn Eichorst, in his second year as athletic director at the University of Miami and a former deputy athletic director at UW-Madison, will be named the next A.D. at Nebraska, a source told the Lincoln Journal Star.
Coming off a strong poll in Wisconsin but a challenging national debate Wednesday, President Barack Obama arrives in the state Thursday afternoon looking to fire up a core of supporters and renew his campaign?s momentum.
Quoted: Political scientist Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Sanjay Asthana, a geriatrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led a separate analysis that found estrogen pills and patches improved depression and anxiety but had no effect on cognition or memory. The National Institute on Aging paid for that study.
Quoted: Brent McCown, emeritus professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A drop in the number of high school students and competition from for-profit and online universities are factors pinching enrollment at some University of Wisconsin System schools, forcing them to fine-tune their recruiting efforts.
Quoted: Jeremy Mendoza, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, the director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
In the intervening time, North Carolina Central University deemed me a Master of Biology, I traveled to see friends and family, and I moved to Madison, Wisconsin to start school in the Neuroscience and Public Policy program (NPP) at the University of Wisconsin ? Madison. Being a student in the NPP means that I am enrolled in both the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Neuroscience Training Program, culminating in two degrees: a Masters of International Public Affairs and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.
Quoted: ?That?s where you have Republicans seeing this as an issue they can push, that having a photo ID handy is not a big deal for Mr. Middle Class Voter, and, secondly, the powerful appeal [of the idea that] ? your vote should not be diluted by the votes of ineligible voters,? says Charles Franklin, a polling expert at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.
Noted: Although instances of research misconduct are few, they can have a substantial ripple effect, notes Heather McFadden, who heads the Responsible Conduct of Research program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s Graduate School Office of Research.
Noted: That?s according to University of Wisconsin Journalism Professor James L. Baughman, who documents the rapid rise of TV in American life. ?No other household technology,? he writes, ?not the telephone or indoor plumbing, had ever spread so rapidly into so many homes.?
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri said 2012 has been one of the worst years for box elder bugs since 1988 when Wisconsin endured drought-like conditions during the spring and summer months.
Quoted: Nina Emerson, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Resource Center on Impaired Driving, said it?s incorrect to assume chronic offenders have a deep disregard of the law.
Planning to meet your study group at the UW Law School on Thursday? Hoping to go to office hours at Science Hall? Better make other plans, because much of the campus will be in lockdown by then in preparation for President Barack Obamas visit to Bascom Hill.
The day after Barack Obama?s Wednesday night debate with Mitt Romney, he?ll seek to show an image of strength by leading a rally on the university campus here – long a bastion of his support. The event will give the president a chance to either sustain any momentum he has coming out of the debate in Denver or to change the subject if Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, scores points in the forum.
