Noted: Andrew Coan, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said that while he could not comment on the merits of the case, in general ?it is well within the scope of a trial judge?s authority to issue an order declaring a state law unconstitutional.?
Noted: A Capitol police officer, accompanied by a University of Wisconsin police officer, served Munger at work with the tickets, says Munger.
Scientists believe that stress could have a direct impact on short-term memory. In a recent study, a group of psychologists at the University of Wisconsin?Madison noted a link between stress and the mind?s ability to ?remember? information.
Quoted: ?[Tests are] the tail that wags the dog,? said David Williamson Shaffer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies education psychology. ?And the problem is we?ve got the wrong tail on right now. We have a tail that was literally developed 100 years ago.?
Quoted: ?If it?s a pretext for getting him not to say what he said because of the content of the movie or its impact, that would raise a First Amendment concern,? said Donald Downs, a political-science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
GE Healthcare pledged $32.9 million over 10 years Thursday for an imaging research facility at UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Star gazers still have a few more chances to admire the night sky from Wisconsin state parks this fall through the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Universe in the Park program.
In addition to helping dairy plants with business plans and equipment or facility issues, the center also assisted them with product development, packaging and label development and marketplace penetration, working in tandem with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Now another higher education researcher is questioning the methodology and findings of the Chingos-Peterson study. In a paper published today by the National Education Policy Center, Sara Goldrick-Rab asserts that Chingos and Peterson do not make the case that “the statistically significant result for African Americans that is set forth in the report is truly statistically significant or different from the non-statistically significant result for Hispanics.”
Star gazers still have a few more chances to admire the night sky from Wisconsin state parks this fall through the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Universe in the Park program.
Noted: Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and women?s studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has studied the gender gap across a broad spectrum of skills. She believes that men and women aren?t as different as they are often portrayed, and she has mined data on social, psychological, communication and physical traits, skills and behaviors to quantify the gap. After looking at 46 meta-analyses, Hyde found what she defined as a ?very large? difference in only two skills: throwing velocity and throwing distance.
Noted: Harvard?s ROTC ranks are still small, numbering about 10 cadets in the Army program and 15 midshipmen in the Navy program. It isn?t clear how robust the programs ultimately will become, but the move to bring ROTC back represents a start in “reintegrating” the armed services with some elite institutions that have been criticized in recent years for not pulling their weight in military service, said Donald Downs, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on the ROTC.
The annual world university rankings were published today, with MIT replacing Cambridge as the top-ranked university worldwide. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is 38th.
Noted: It?s possible the increase is partly due to better detection of diseases, as well as new technologies that allow researchers to better study viruses, said Tony Goldberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Folks in Madison, Wis. haven?t had much to cheer about the past two weekends, with their beloved Badgers losing momentum and slipping from No. 13 to No. 22 in the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll.
Noted: Dr. Robert Hardie, a surgeon at the University of Wisconsin?s school of veterinary medicine, turned to the orthotics lab at the university?s medical school in 2005 when he could not heal a post-surgery foot wound in Sam, a 200-pound Irish wolfhound.
The UWs Chazen Museum of Art is offering a glimpse into the past ? from 300 to 600-plus years ago ? through Nov. 25. Here, at Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery, visitors can admire rarely seen works from one of Europes most famous museums: the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Madison is this touring shows only Midwestern stop.
Mike Markuson?s reign as Wisconsin?s offensive line coach lasted two games and ended unceremoniously Sunday. Markuson, 51, was not available for comment Sunday, but two sources close to the program confirmed his departure.
Kelly Underwood is a typical University of Wisconsin-Madison junior, scrambling to get into a class she desperately needs at the start of a new school year.
But finding a seat in a chemistry class here, and at UW-La Crosse and UW-Stevens Point, is an especially high-stakes race.Buildings with science labs constructed 40 to 50 years ago weren?t designed to keep up with expanding enrollments and evolving science, UW officials say.
That?s especially true as the number of students pursuing science-related fields grows exponentially to match workforce opportunities, and science encompasses emerging fields such as biotechnology and nanotechnology.
Not surprisingly, food science has deep roots in Wisconsin, as well. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, which dates to 1893, food safety and nutrition has long been a staple. Scientists at CALS are studying how bacteria can hitch a ride on plants to get to humans; how wildlife intrusions in fields where crops are grown can spread disease; and how environmental conditions can affect food sources.
Researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Center in Madison are learning more about using nonfood sources, such as fast-growing trees and corn stover, to produce next-generation biofuels. That affects the food chain because it would mean using less farmland for ethanol production – a valid concern in this year?s drought.
Quoted: Kasey Fiske, who works at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Flexatory is a Web-based inventory system whose users can define item types and customize how they organize them. They can also print bar codes and scan them in using an Android app so their inventory can go anywhere. Flexatory won first place and $10,000 earlier this year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Qualcomm Wireless Innovation Competition.
Quoted: Pamela E. Oliver, a sociologist who studies crime at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says it isn?t clear how to combine data from prison surveys and from national surveys that exclude prisoners. “There are a lot of complex assumptions necessary to do adjustments, and reasonable people will disagree about the best way to proceed,” she says.
Noted: Scientists are looking to a natural cause for the river?s change in color. Emily Stanley, who researches limnology (the study of inland waters) at the University of Wisconsin, believes it is possible microorganisms could be behind the sudden change, but that it is probable there is a much better explanation for it.
One-third of four-year colleges in the U.S. aren?t doing enough to tighten their belts in uncertain economic times, and 11 Wisconsin schools are spending more money than they?re bringing in, putting their survival at risk, a recent report found.
Quoted: While the study does not indicate when the symptoms of depression began for the women or for how long the symptoms persisted, it?s likely that in order for the depression to have affected the child, the mother may have been depressed for months, according to Dr. Kenneth Robbins, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, who was not associated with the study.
Noted: But predicting the future is never easy. Tony Goldberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the ecology and evolution of infectious disease, said the introduction of West Nile into the United States showed how challenging it can be to forecast new public health risks.
Quoted: Brent Hueth, director of the Center for Cooperatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he?d expected an increasingly crowded landscape of organic purveyors, including from conventional stores, to be tougher on co-ops.
Neuwave was founded by two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors: Fred Lee, Jr., vice chairman of the radiology department, and Daniel van der Weide, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. Laura G. King, president and chief executive officer, previously led GE Healthcare?s $1.2 billion global interventional cardiology and surgery business.
Noted: John Markley, director of the BMRB and a structural biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, hopes to attract other federal funders to support the database.
Quoted: ?There?s a potential for a large variation of outcomes,? said Kenneth Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?What matters as much as the absolute level of unemployment is the relative level — how people feel about economic uncertainty, the deficit, the middle class.?
Quoted: “Milk production is slowing down,” said Bob Cropp, the University of Wisconsin?s dairy marketing professor emeritus.
For about 6,000 eighteen-year-olds, the boot camp of adulthood has just started.
Shabaz was born in Milwaukee and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison before earning his law degree from Marquette University.
For decades it?s been a familiar pattern in Wisconsin?s public schools: Young teachers get a few years of experience, then start pursuing their master?s degrees.
But in the new landscape shaped by legislation that rolled back collective bargaining in early 2011, Wisconsin school districts no longer have to pay teachers extra money for such degrees, a move that?s disrupting a pipeline of enrollment into graduate schools of education and causing those institutions to refine their offerings.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has lost as much as $14 million in licensing income on a key drug, and stands to lose even more when the drug begins losing patent protection in 2014.
Fifty years ago, on September 27, 1962, Houghton Mifflin published Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring, among the 20th century?s most influential books. To honor the anniversary, the University of Cape Town invited me to lead an interdisciplinary forum this past June on Carson?s environmental legacy.
The Pittsburgh Steelers commence their regular season Sunday against the Denver Broncos in the Mile High City.If life was fair, John Clay would be suiting up for the Steelers and be a key contributor.
A Filipina is one of the top senior aides of US Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Joyce Yamat Meyer of Franklin, Wisconsin heads Ryan?s Washington office as his chief-of-staff.
Noted: Shanan Peters, a palaeobiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, isnt so sure the paper is noteworthy. Its primary result, he points out, is to overturn Mayhews own prior finding and bring the long-term diversity results into line with ecological common sense. “Palaeobiologists and climatologists have long referred to warm intervals as climate optima,” he notes, “precisely because it is during such times that palm trees and alligators inhabit the Arctic and life appears to be diverse and flourishing.”
When I finished high school, it wasn?t clear that I would ever attend college. I had no savings and no prospects for significant financial aid.I did have a job at McDonald?s, and I made enough to get by while still living with my mom. With few other options, and putting aside my longstanding interest in science, I seriously considered simply working my way up to manager and being satisfied with that. [Acolumn by Grant Petty, atmospheric science professor at UW-Madison.]
The Wisconsin Science Festival returns for its second year from Sept. 27 to 30. The schedule includes music, art and — hold onto your hats — explosions.
Noted: Joseph and others ? including former Oakland Raider teammate, running back Michael Bennett ? are accused of cashing dozens of fraudulently obtained tax-refund checks and seeking a loan with fake collateral. Their take totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to court records.
Quoted: “It really does take a bit of getting used to. But once you talk to patients and they understand the theory, they accept it. We have had no trouble recruiting,” said Dr. John Fleming, a professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin who is testing the drug in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Quoted: “Denisova is a big surprise,” says John Hawks, a biological anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison who was not involved in the new research.
A new survey shows the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its alumni foundation have earned more than $57 million in fiscal 2011 from licensing research innovations.
Authorities have identified a swimmer who drowned in Madison?s Lake Mendota as a Chicago man who was a full-time student at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: About half of the 31 copies came from the girl?s mother and half from her father, producing a genome “of equivalent quality to a recent human genome,” says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not part of the team.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a Big Ten college in more ways than one: The school is among the top 10 spenders in all of college football.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation earned $57.7 million from licensing of research innovations in fiscal year 2011, according to a survey by the Association of University Technology Managers.
UW-Madison officials know how attached students and alumni are to anything related to Der Rathskeller and Der Stiftskeller — the murals, the German beer steins and the wooden tables, inlaid with decades of carved graffiti.
Noted: ?His speech will be his real introduction to a lot of people who don?t know anything more about him than the fact that he?s a vice presidential nominee,? said Kenneth Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It?s not what Obama and Biden will have to do, because they?re incumbents and people know who they are.?
Noted: In short, it?s just not as simple as Santorum?s statement suggests. There are many factors outside a given person, from the job market to the size of wages to the quality of K-12 education that determine whether one can follow the three simple rules of graduating high school, getting a job and waiting to have kids. ?That?s a wonderful dream world,? Timothy Smeeding of the University of Wisconsin-Madison concludes. ?But it?s really hard to get from here to there.?
Quoted: “Higher temperatures foster faster reproduction of both the mosquito and the virus,” said Tony Goldberg, professor of epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied urban outbreaks of West Nile since shortly after the virus arrived in the Midwest.
When the climate began to warm during the last Ice Age about 23,000 years ago, much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered in ice. University of Wisconsin geologist Anders Carlson studies ice sheet melt from land and ocean sediment cores. His study describes what prehistoric Earth was like in North America and Northern Europe some 140,000 years ago.
Noted: But the results also have some researchers scratching their heads. The results are quite different from a 2009 study of monkeys in a colony in Wisconsin that found a clear survival edge from age-related diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease in calorie-restricted animals. That study also saw a trend toward longer life for monkeys on the diet when all causes of death were considered.
Quoted: “The officials who know this are quite aware that in this era of 24 hours news, access is king,” Stephen Ward, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told DW. “This is just a game of access – its as old as journalism.”
Results from a new National Institute of Aging study of monkey diet and longevity contradict those of a 2009 University of Wisconsin?MAdison study, but taken together the two experiments add nuance to our understanding of nutrition and life span.
Study of long-term diets in monkeys finds no difference in lifespan among monkeys fed fewer calories ? contrary to findings from a UW?Madison study published in 2009.
Noted: In second place this year was Georgia State University, with tuition of $14,770, bar passage of 93.47% and a weighted employment rate of 83%. The remaining law schools in the top ten were Louisiana State University, University of Nebraska, University of Georgia, University of Kentucky, University of Montana, University of New Mexico, University of North Carolina and University of Wisconsin.
