Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community gathered in Library Mall for a candlelight vigil Wednesday to memorialize the victims of the recent Sikh temple shooting.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: UW-Madison ag economist Ed Jesse.
The future of the state of Wisconsin was on display at the UW-Madison PEOPLE Program?s 12th annual Recognition Banquet at the Madison Marriott West Aug. 3.
Inspired by nature, Hongrui Jiang?s group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have developed a nanocomposite that twists and moves in direct response to the sun?s light and warmth and used that to make a device that significantly increases the output of solar cells.
Four Democrats vying to replace U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin in Congress faced off in a debate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday night.
To no one?s surprise, Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema addressed off-field distractions when he greeted the UW players before the opening of camp.”One thing I said to them is you know how I feel about distractions,” Bielema said. “A team that has few distractions has a chance to have great success.”
Anytime a student gets attacked on campus, that?s a problem. It sets off all kind of alarm bells for parents everywhere.But when the leading returning vote-getter in the 2011 Heisman Trophy balloting is jumped by five guys, that sets off a different kind of warning altogether.
?Our research program is still growing,? said Shon Schooler, research coordinator for the Lake Superior NERR. ?We have a couple of graduate students at work, and groups from University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. Also, a United States Geological Survey researcher is in the middle of his project. Next year there will be these projects plus more starting. I think we?ll have about 10 projects going in any given year from external researchers. And we haven?t really started our own projects yet because we?re still putting in monitoring systems to create baseline data.?
Mentioned: Ten years ago, the state Legislature considered a bill to raise the state minimum wage. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, certainly no bastion of conservative thought, reported that the wage increase would cost the university system $5.2 million, which would “result in approximately 768,500 fewer hours of employment in the UW System for students and limited-term employees.” Clearly, it was their younger workers who would have been hurt. [Column by Christian Schneider
Quoted: Terry Devitt, director of research communications at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
In the end, consciousness is all that matters. So writes Giulio Tononi, whose stunningly original scientific fantasy, Phi, is a distant echo of that great deduction by René Descartes. Tononi, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist and expert on sleep and consciousness, is also that rarest of modern scholars ? an idealist.
Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi?s PHI: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul takes the reader on an imaginative tour in which Galileo tries to discover an explanation for our conscious selves
The human brain and our consciousness: they have been mystical and exotic topics that many a scientist has tried again and again to understand. Neuroscientist Guilio Tononi, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin, is one of those scientists.
Successful entrepreneurs don?t usually start their businesses in college dorm rooms, but for the founders of JonnyPops, that was the only option.
Five business-savvy sophomores, four from St. Olaf College and one from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, founded JonnyPops in 2011. The company now has 20 employees and is serving gourmet popsicles in 25 locations across Minnesota.
It?ll be the Ns against the Ws on Sept. 29 at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.
Virent?s sugar-to-fuel chemical conversion technology could be a candidate for funding under the program. The 10-year-old firm?s technology is based on research findings at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin is home to many things, but it?s safe to say few know the globe?s largest collection of wild and cultivated potato species are located here.
The University of Wisconsin football team will have a different look when it takes the field at Nebraska this year.
Quoted: Mark Johnson, senior scientist with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Balancing work and life is challenging for most, but UW-Madison graduate Gwen Jorgesen has taken it to the next level. She?s been able to work as a full time Tax Staff for Ernst & Young, while training for the Olympic Games.
Several members of the Wisconsin football team were involved in a fight that started when a group of people gathered late July 27, a few days before UW senior tailback Montee Ball was attacked in the 500 block of University Ave., the Madison Police Department announced Saturday.
Initially, Madison, Wisc., police characterized the early morning incident that briefly hospitalized Wisconsin?s All-American tailback, Montee Ball, earlier this week as “an unprovoked assault” by five unidentified attackers. As the layers of the onion are peeled back, though, it seems increasingly likely that Ball was targeted specifically in retaliation to a previous incident involving Badger players ? if not necessarily involving Ball himself.
Posts from the social media service Twitter are providing researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison a new way to study bullying among kids. UW-Madison researchers Amy Bellmore and Jerry Zhu, along with graduate students Junming Sui and Kwang-Sung Jun, have been able to teach a computer to identify tweets about bullying among Twitter?s 250 million daily posts.
Quoted: Dhavan Shah, a communications and political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Paul Mitchell, an associate professor of agricultural and applied economics of at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Meditation or exercise may lower the rate, length and severity of the flu or common cold, according to preliminary findings of a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery in Madison, the company integrated more than a dozen other systems and created dashboards that will allow the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s biomedical and nanotechnology researchers to track the energy use of their own R&D work.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri.
Mark D. Markel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medical sciences and associate dean for advancement in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has been chosen to lead the school, the university announced Thursday.
Montee Ball — and several of his University of Wisconsin football teammates — may have been involved in a fight several days before the 2011 Heisman Trophy finalist was attacked on campus yesterday … TMZ has learned.
Let me guess. You looked at the recent Top Colleges List published by Michael Noer and suspiciously thought, ?this doesn?t seem right.? I know that?s what went through my mind when I first looked at the list and found that my school, the University of Wisconsin ? Madison, was number 147 on the list.
Quoted: ?The problem is as old as journalism,? says Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Media Ethics at the University of Wisconsin. “It?s a systemic issue, it?s a case of extreme pressure being put on people. Newsrooms are hot competitive environments, and whether that?s on Wall Street or at The New Yorker, people may take chances to get noticed.”
A group of researchers has developed a machine learning model that can detect tweets relating to bullying, and even identify bullies, victims and witnesses. Next, it wants to add sentiment analysis to determine individuals? emotional states. But if they see trouble, how do they intervene?
Last Friday evening, visitors to the Memorial Union Terrace reported a disconcerting sight to police. A man sat at a picnic table with an uncased compound bow by his side. He had arrows with him as well.
47-year-old Kennedy Waliaula was arrested by Madison police July 10th after exposing himself to a UW-Madison student on a street corner. Waliaula acknowledged flashing this young woman and several others. He admitted to police that he “has a problem exposing himself in public”.
The 2012 College Football Yearbook ranks Wisconsin 12th in its preseason top 25 and puts running back Montee Ball, offensive lineman Ricky Wagner and linebacker Chris Borland on its preseason All-American first team.
Although senior tailback Montee Ball was the victim of an unprovoked attack early Wednesday morning, Wisconsin officials were comforted to learn later the most significant injury Ball suffered was a concussion.
Quoted: “The irony is that we could start seeing some price reductions in the short run,” says Bruce Jones, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison officials say that senior running back and Heisman Trophy hopeful Montee Ball suffered a concussion and facial injuries following an unprovoked attack early Wednesday morning.
Researchers have long known that heat waves kill more people than other weather-related disasters do. And amid the hottest year on record and a scorching summer in the United States comes new research warning just how deadly heat waves can be.
Montee Ball, Wisconsin?s star running back and a leading contender for this season?s Heisman Trophy, sustained a concussion and injuries to his face after being attacked by a group of five men near the university?s campus early Wednesday morning.
?Science, for various reasons, has become more politicized,? says Terry Devitt, director of research communications at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. ?Science, twenty years ago, used to have more cachet with the public, and that trust has been seriously eroded by coordinated attacks on science.? Devitt helped organize ?Science Writing in the Age of Denial Conference,? one of the first conferences focusing exclusively on science denial, which was held at the university 23?24 April 2012.
MADISON ? Captain Craig Giese of the Wisconsin Army National Guard grew up in an agricultural family ? his parents were both raised on Shawano County dairy farms ? but when he was assigned as the officer in charge of a 12-member Agribusiness Development Team that will deploy to Afghanistan early next year, he knew he needed some more agricultural knowledge.
The start of the story is this: In December 2008, a 23-year-old research assistant named Sheri Sangji accidentally set herself on fire while working in a chemistry laboratory at the University of California-Los Angeles. She died 18 days later in a hospital burn unit.
O?Brien Schofield said he felt like a rookie last season, and he wasn?t far off, even though it was his second year with the Cardinals.
A voluntary moratorium on certain experiments involving forms of bird flu altered in laboratories should continue until there can be more public discussion of safety concerns, a prominent government official told flu researchers at a meeting in New York City Tuesday.
Quoed: “Poland [is] a symbolic location because that was kind of the epicenter of the controversy. Republicans are arguing Obama sold the Poles out by backing down,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Nothing happens by accident. You don?t go someplace because you think it would be kind of cool to go there.”
A voluntary moratorium on potentially dangerous experiments aimed at understanding highly virulent strains of the H5N1 influenza virus should continue for the time being, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci told a meeting of flu scientists here. But, he added, scientists should redouble their efforts to engage with the larger public to gain support for the vital but risky work.
Quoted: Dhavan Shah, a communications and political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the results show that despite tragedies like the July 20 massacre in Aurora, which left 12 dead and scores wounded, public opinion on guns is deep-seated and rigid.
It has been four months since the U.S. government issued a hastily released policy for monitoring what is called dual-use research of concern (DURC), research that could pose significant risks to the public if misapplied. At a meeting in Times Square New York Monday, representatives of leading institutions that perform such research discussed their experiences fitting the new policy into their current procedures for managing research projects. Some were frustrated at the lack of definition in the policy and some expressed concern about what would be contained in an expansion of the policy that is soon to be released for public comment.
A couple of years ago, Gwen Jorgensen of Milwaukee was a triathlon newbie, just getting her feet wet, figuratively and literally, in a brand new sport.
Noted: Farmers say they?re growing some of the most flavorful produce in years. Part of the reason is the lack of rain: the more water content in produce like cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, peaches and grapes, the plumper and juicier they are. But the water also dilutes their flavor. Smaller, less juicy fruits and veggies this season are packing a more concentrated tastiness. ?Most plants that have high moisture content will now have sharper flavors, like peppers and tomatoes,? says Irwin Goldman, a horticulture professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where farmers have been feeling the heat. ?Whenever there is a drought, flavor compounds can become more dominant and foods can have more pungency.?
While a lot of attention is being paid to the 2012 Olympics that get underway in London this week, there?s another story of past Olympians – and their careers, which today impact agriculture. Today, Suzy Favor Hamilton, who grew up in Stevens Point, graduated from UW-Madison and competed in three Olympics (1992, 1996 and 2000), is a spokesperson for Wisconsin Potatoes.
Quoted: In general, there is low participation in all facets of the political process, including voting, attending meetings and running for office, said Kathy Cramer Walsh, political science professor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?That?s pretty cool,? said John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who works with Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA. ?Anthropologists have historically looked at fossils and tried to draw lines connecting them. But that?s a poor approach because fossils are really hard to find.? DNA, on the other hand, tells its story within every human cell, and new technology is making those tales ever easier to read.
Noted: It became “the equivalent of a knish,” says Henry Sapoznik, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Wisconsin. Incidentally, he considers it to be “a really crummy little tune.”
LONDON – It?s not unusual for a track athlete to win a car for an exceptional performance. But at 13? That?s how old Evan Jager was when he took possession of a 1989 5.0-liter Ford Mustang, which instantly made him the most popular kid in his eighth-grade class in Algonquin, Ill.
The London Olympics are off and running. Jerry Tegenkamp would love to be there, matching the thousands of spectators stride for stride.
Quoted: Julianne Zweifel, clinical psychologist and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, and current chair of the mental health professional group within the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.
