Former Wisconsin men’s basketball player Nigel Hayes said Tuesday he and his teammates discussed boycotting a game early in the 2016-17 season to protest the NCAA’s limits on what athletes can receive while playing college sports.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Farm and Industry Short Course program has hired a familiar face to serve as its new director. Jennifer Blazek replaces Jessie Potterton, who resigned from the position last fall to take advantage of a professional opportunity outside of the university.
Campo, a fair-trade start-up that sells high quality Badger gear made from Alpaca fiber, has launched its Kickstarter.
I know where my anxiety comes from. Last year, I had a paper come out (V. L. Butitta et al. Ecosphere 8, e01941; 2017). It was well received and got a lot of attention on Twitter. It was the first time I felt like I was actually doing science, not just playing a part. But then, everything died down. Sometimes I go online to get a figure from my paper, and see that there aren’t any new citations. I feel like I’m shouting into the void. (Butitta is a PhD student in limnology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.)
Noted: “We have seen an increase in the types of tick-borne pathogens. So this is very real,” cautioned Lyric Bartholomay, associate professor in School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also co-directs the Upper Midwestern Regional Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease.
Even though today we can easily measure external forces during movement, we still lack the ability to measure the underlying muscle-tendon forces that generate human movement. Previous measuring methods have provided only limited information on the human tendons and muscles. Fortunately, new wearable device technology and research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)—led by mechanical engineering professor Darryl Thelen and graduate student Jack Martin—have determined a new non-invasive method of measuring human muscle-tendon force and movement.
Noted: Indeed, the few antibias trainings that have been proven to change people’s behavior make this case. One training, developed by Patricia Devine and colleagues at the Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, looks at bias as a habit that can be broken. Their approach—which I’ve written about before—consists of a couple of hours of modules based on what the researchers see as three essential elements of an antibias intervention: awareness of the problem, motivation to do something about it, and strategies for what to do. The strategies include observing stereotypes arise and mentally replacing them, actively looking for situational explanations for a person’s behavior, and trying to imagine what the world would look and feel like from another person’s point of view.
WASHINGTON — It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie: In April, China is said to have tested an invisibility cloak that would allow ordinary fighter jets to suddenly vanish from radar screens.
Noted: That number may not tell the whole story, according to Andrea Bill, a research program manager at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Lab.“When you’re looking at the crash data afterwards, it’s really hard to get what the speed was. What they were actually traveling, the speed, at the time of the crash,” said Bill.
Noted: “Basically, if you look for it it’s there in when it comes to bacterial degradation of compounds. . . . Somebody out there will degrade just about everything,” says Jo Handelsman, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I don’t think that penicillin-producing strains of Penicillium are absolutely ubiquitous in soil, so it is kind of interesting that it is easy to find these degraders, even though they may not individually have encountered penicillin before.”
UW-Madison’s recently released Origins project links together different academic fields to paint a picture of how scientists research Earth’s and mankind’s beginnings.
Noted: Fortnite does, to be sure, involve firearms, and is recommended for ages 13 and up. But its graphics are free of blood and gore. And though adults may worry that shooting games cultivate aggression, C. Shawn Green, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches video games, notes that, “there’s really no evidence that playing a violent video game would take someone who has absolutely no violent tendencies and suddenly make them violent.”
Noted: “This is a very important discovery,” said Jo Handelsman, who studies microbial diversity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery. “I didn’t think bacteria were so self-destructive, but this is a very simple phenomenon. The pH changes, and the bugs all die. How did we miss it all these years?”
It was a brisk day in January as a group of 15 people patiently waited at Madison Area Technical College’s East campus.
Since January, Savannah Guthrie and her husband, Scott, have been eating dinner on the floor of their one-bedroom apartment on West Gilman Street.
wo former administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh face felony charges after allegedly funneling millions in taxpayer money to building projects for a now-bankrupt private university foundation.
MADISON – Jeans are thirsty. The fibers making up their denim come from water-guzzling cotton plants, and plant scientists are on the hunt for ways to make this vital fiber more sustainable.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh last week joined a small club of universities around the country that nobody wants to be in: Those with former presidents or chancellors who have been charged with felony crimes for financial misconduct.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Broncos fifth-round draft pick Troy Fumagalli had a successful career at the University of Wisconsin and he did it all with nine fingers.
Cyclists will ride through the rolling hills of Dane and Green County on Saturday, June 2 to support the next generation of dairy and livestock farmers.
Schierl graduated as one of the first two women from the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school in 1957, worked as the first female anesthesiologist and served as the anesthesiology department chair for more than 25 years at St. Michael’s Hospital.
While winter may seem like it lasts forever, Wisconsinites have months and months for beloved pastimes like gardening, grilling out and, of course swatting at mosquitoes around the campfire. When it comes to these blood-sucking pests and other creepy-crawlies, each year can be a different experience, with weather patterns and other factors playing important roles in the behaviors of insects and other arthropods like spiders and millipedes, as well as other invertebrates.
Your editorial about the opioid crisis brought to mind the words of the great American journalist H. L. Mencken: “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” (Writer is Jim Cleary of SMPH.)
Vel Phillips, a barrier-breaking African-American lawmaker from Milwaukee who became an influential voice in the national movement for fair housing during the 1960s, died on April 17 in Mequon, Wis. She was 95.
MARATHON COUNTY, Wis. — There are ginseng farms in this remote corner of Wisconsin where phones are answered in Mandarin. Others have opened storefronts or retrofitted spare rooms to welcome busloads of Chinese tourists and business people.
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — A University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Senior Project was the focus of an open house at Wausau’s City Hall on Tuesday.
A new report out from University of Wisconsin-Madison dives deep into the history of the Ku Klux Klan on campus. Until recently, the violently racist organization’s presence on campus wasn’t well known.
Wisconsin farmers and counties are making do with fewer agriculture agents statewide. The head of the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Cooperative Extension division said cuts to state funding are limiting their ability to meet local needs. However, some state and county officials argue the agency needs to better prioritize which positions should be filled.
The people who take care of us when we’re ill may not be getting the care they need to do a good job, and some are sending a wake-up call.
MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin-Madison program is focusing on giving adults a second chance at higher education, according to a news release from the school.
Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. does not contribute to an increasing crime rate, according to a new study conducted by a UW-Madison professor. This is despite the fact that immigrants are struggling with many socioeconomic factors shared by people who are more likely to commit crimes.
An important chapter of America’s reckoning with its racist history is playing out on college campuses. Whether it is pressure from student protests or findings by internal research committees, university officials are having to decide how to acknowledge or distance themselves from racist pasts.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor David Canon thinks both sides will spend record amounts on this year’s governor’s race – with much of it coming from outside groups.
MADISON, Wis. – Most thinking people knew the depiction of immigrants to this country as violent criminals was both ignorant and unfair. One need only look around one’s community to understand that. But now the fallacy of that claim is supported by research and data.
“We need to understand those gaps in order to be able to present the whole story,” said Marjory Givens, an associate scientist at the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Program. “Our intention is to call attention to the fact that not everyone has the opportunity to be healthy where they live, and that means having difficult conversations about segregation and structural inequities.”
Noted: According to Walter Stern, a UW-Madison educational policy professor and expert on civil rights-era student activism, the historical parallels can be drawn between the current march and Selma marches.
Madison: The big draw in this Midwestern city is the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The major research university is home to about 44,000 students, many of whom decide to stay and work and start businesses locally. That’s partly why unemployment is so low here, at just 2.5%, more than a percentage point and a half under the national rate.
Noted: With the disappearance of traditional department stores, shopping malls are going to have to reinvent themselves in order to survive, said Hart Posen, associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: There was “a group of rights and advocacy organisations…for whom registration will be difficult or impossible”, said Mark Sidel, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an expert on NGOs in China.
Noted: The year “The Crossover” was published, the number of diverse children’s books began to increase — those written by and/or about people of color, this according to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an organization that has been collecting statistics about diverse books since 1985.
Georgia Anne Blanchfield, age 65, passed away peacefully at home April 16, 2018, surrounded by the love of her family. Georgia was the partner of former Chancellor John Wiley.
High-achieving, low-income students make up just 3 percent of enrollment at elite colleges. This week, 100 top U.S. universities are vowing to do something about it. Chancellor Blank is interviewed.
MADISON, Wis. – Earlier this week, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced its pick for the 2018-2019 Go Big Read book: “The Death of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan.
The Collegiate DECA Chapter at UW-Madison won several awards at the International Competition in Washington, DC.
There seems to be almost nothing about which we can reach consensus in the United States. In our polarized political climate, everything feels like a wedge issue — from immigration to education to campaign finance.
A study group convened by the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last August released a report last week documenting the university’s history of racism and exclusion, including two student organizations in the early 20th century that were called Ku Klux Klan.
MADISON, Wis. — A former driver for House Speaker Paul Ryan who has been active in Wisconsin Republican politics for years announced Sunday that he is running to succeed Ryan in Congress.
MADISON, Wis. – Surveillance cameras and DNA evidence were instrumental in leading to the arrest of a suspect in what police are calling an “unsettling” stranger sexual assault case, according to officials with the Madison Police Department
A pioneering women’s soccer player and coach has died from cancer at the age of 45. After leaving CDH, she attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she captained the women’s soccer team and was named to the All Big Ten Academic Team.
There are several Wisconsin connections to ’Time’s’ list of the 100 Most Influential People of the year, including Megan Twohey, who worked at the Journal Sentinel, Oprah Winfrey, J.J. Watt, fashion designer Virgil Abloh and neuropathologist Ann McKee.
MADISON, Wis. – Virgil Abloh, Anne McKee and JJ Watt, three former University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, were listed as three influential individuals in TIME Magazine’s Most Influential List.
To say Henry Mackaman had an impact on many lives is an understatement.
Fox and coyote are friends. It’s not a plot for a new Wes Anderson film. It’s happening here, in the UW Arboretum.
Madison metal artist and sculptor Michael Burns, originally from the Kettle Moraine area, has at times drawn inspiration from the “intimate little hills” of that area. But for his work at the UW Arboretum — the large metal archways to Longenecker Gardens and the steel memorial benches — he looked to one of his predecessors for direction. No one, it appears, was more instrumental in setting the visual tone of the Arboretum than Albert F. Gallistel.
Katie Laushman remembers her first encounter with Amynthas agrestis. It was 2014, and the UW-Madison graduate student was working on an oak savanna habitat restoration in the UW Arboretum when a work crew member asked if she’d heard about the gardens’ newest inhabitant. He took Laushman over to a mulch pile and brushed away the top layer to reveal a bunch of writhing, wriggling earthworms.
Looking out over Curtis Prairie today, watching the tallgrass sway in the breeze, it’s hard to imagine it used to be farmland tilled with mules.
When Laurie Elwell was doing naturalist training at the UW Arboretum a few years ago, her class spent a day near a pond near the perimeter of the property.
Suspended Marquette University political science professor John McAdams hopes the state Supreme Court will return him to the classroom and allow him to collect damages for being disciplined over a blog post.
Chief Kristen Roman with UW-Madison Police was one of 473 police officials who signed a letter to congressional leaders Thursday opposing the legislation.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students planned to occupy the UW System Board of Regents offices in Madison on Wednesday to protest the proposed elimination of 13 majors programs on their campus.
