People who are prone to colds and flu can find relief with a regular program of exercise or meditation, a new study suggests. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers looked at 149 active and sedentary middle-aged adults to compare the preventive effects of moderate exercise and mindful meditation on the severity of colds and flu during winter.
Mohammed Ahmed was pretty hard to miss Tuesday when he showed up to hang out with the press and talk about his excellent adventure.
Noted: Samantha von Sperling is an image consultant in New York, but lately her bread-and-butter Wall Street clients have asked her to help their daughters get ready for rush at schools like Harvard; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and New York University, which has added three chapters since 2006 and more than doubled the number of sisters, to 570.
Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison tweeted her a “huge congrats,” and retweeted a post from BabieFaceRunde, who wrote, “@marissamayer was my babysitter!!!! Wausau pride!!”
Federal research dollars coming into Wisconsin flow overwhelmingly into academia rather than industry, a National Science Foundation report shows.Just 8% of the $882.6 million of federal research funding that came into Wisconsin in fiscal 2009 went to industry, the report says. A whopping 79% – or $700.8 million – of Wisconsin?s federal research funding went to academic institutions, the report says.
Quoted: Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leaning against a utility box shortly before noon Saturday along the east side of Geneva Trail, Nick Rasmussen could hardly contain his excitement.
In an ongoing study in Costa Rica, wildlife biologists are exploring the ecology of two species of sloths in a rapidly changing environment.
The University of Wisconsin ? Eau Claire?s interim president begins his term.
Gilles Bousquet has called Madison home for about 30 years, but he still retains some of his French accent.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students aren?t just spending money on tuition and books when they return to class in the fall.
Metairie, La. – Wide receiver Nick Toon has agreed to terms with the New Orleans Saints on a four-year contract.
If you?re reading these lines it?s because of this man. He?s Dave Winer, the inventor of blogs and RSS syndication, two of the backbones of the web. Often controversial, always challenging, this is the story of what got him inspired to do it all.
Change continued to ripple through the world of college football Friday, though this time the only leagues affected were the Big Ten and Pacific 12. Officials from both conferences announced their agreement for a round-robin schedule featuring 12 games per season, set to begin in 2017, had been shelved.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, a dairy policy analyst at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ankit Agarwal is a two-time finalist in the Wisconsin Governor?s Business Plan Contest and a biochemical engineer whose work promises to help doctors treat patients with slow-to-heal skin wounds. He?s even started a Madison-based company, Imbed Biosciences, to commercialize his discoveries.
Too bad Wisconsin – and the United States – nearly lost him over a protracted and largely senseless immigration problem.
Quoted: “Sports of all types, college and professional, play a larger role in American life,” says Harry Peterson, a retired president of Western State College of Colorado and a former chief of staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Most athletes spend their whole lives mastering every little part of their sport in the hopes of making it to the Olympics. Gwen Jorgensen will go to London competing in a sport she took up two and a half years ago.
Is our hot, drought stricken summer due to climate change? A group of legislators and scientists are calling for policy actions, to reduce the risks associated with heat waves and drought ? events they maintain are likely to increase due to climate change. Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute, said while scientists can?t conclusively show our hot spell is the result of climate change, trends are clear going forward.
Quoted: Dr. Ken Robbins, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin.
Massive storms like the one that pounded Superior in June bring chaos and destruction to Great Lakes coastal communities. Using a three-year grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Coastal Storms Program, the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute hopes to bring some order to fight that chaos ? in a form of an outreach coordinate to integrate the resources from across NOAA to help communities better prepare for dangerous storms and recover from them after they hit.
Madison Police Chief Noble Wray on Thursday joined the chorus of official protests against the Mifflin Street Block Party, declaring that the city can?t afford “an end-of-the-school-year bash funded by taxpayers.”
Members of UW-Madison?s Labor Licensing Policy Committee were hoping they?d hear some good news Thursday morning from interim Chancellor David Ward in an ongoing debate over how the university can best hold Adidas accountable for allegations of sweatshop abuses.
Instead, the meeting turned tense after Ward told the committee that the university isn?t quite ready to make any sort of move that could potentially pressure Adidas into helping pay 2,700 workers at the PT Kizone factory in Indonesia some $1.8 million in legally mandated severance pay.
A new study from researchers at UW-Madison?s La Follette School of Public Affairs shows three payments are better than the usual two to get annual property tax bills paid on time.
Steven Chu also appeared Thursday in Madison, touring the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The center is one of three research hubs created around the country to accelerate research aimed at overcoming scientific hurdles and bringing down the cost of energy production from biomass.
Quoted: Tim Van Deelen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife ecologist.
Although the Legislature killed Gov. Scott Walker and then-Chancellor Biddy Martin?s proposal to split the Madison campus from the UW System, an important element of the original idea survived. Like an evil spawn, the budget bill retained two important provisions. [A column by David Ahrens.]
A small study of 149 active and sedentary adults aged 50 years and older compared the preventive effects of moderate exercise and mindful meditation on the severity of respiratory infections, such as cold and flu, during a full winter season in Wisconsin.
This story names the athletes with Wisconsin ties, including some from UW-Madison.
Eaton is part of a group of local companies in the power energy and controls sector that have formed the Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium to facilitate local R&D and workforce development efforts for such businesses located primarily in the greater Milwaukee area.
The consortium pairs the three engineering schools in Milwaukee as well as the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A study released today is the first to dispute a warning by the American Academy of Pediatrics that exposure to Facebook could lead to depression.
The dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s largest college announced Wednesday he will step down at the end of the upcoming academic year.
Quoted: “This is a compelling study that adds to the existing research and leads us to one unequivocal conclusion, and that is that smoking in movies should result in an R rating,” says Dr. Michael C. Fiore, director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research, in Madison. Fiore was not involved in the study.
Noted: “It?s got a great school system. People are friendly, with those Midwestern values. Madison is a college town, so we?re big University of Wisconsin fans, even though I went to Illinois. We have season-tickets to the Badgers, so it?s fun following those basketball and football teams. It?s big enough, but yet small enough so you get to know a lot of people. It?s a great community — if you can get past the winters. You?ve got great spring, summer and fall weather — if you can slash it out those four months of the year. Our winters are getting better.”
Despite all its merits in keeping people connected, Facebook has been suspected of leading to unfortunate side effects, such as jealousy, low self-esteem or divorce. But new research out of the University of Wisconsin suggests people should think twice before tacking depression onto that list.
A study released today is the first to dispute a warning by the American Academy of Pediatrics that exposure to Facebook could lead to depression.
Studies have long linked Facebook to negative side-effects, including depression among adolescents. However, new research from the University of Wisconsin has found no link between social media use and the likelihood of depression.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study may provide evidence to refute a supposed link between depression and the amount of time spent on Facebook and other social-media sites.
There is no correlation between time spent on popular social networking sites and the probability of adolescent depression, according to a study of UW-Madison students, which debunks an earlier report on the subject. ?I think one of the take home messages from this really is the importance of evidence-based medicine, of really making sure that the guidelines that are out there for physicians and for health care providers is really strongly supported by empirical findings by data.?
For nearly as long as they can remember, Grant and Ross James were told they should play basketball.
Genetics researchers at Washington University, one of the world?s leading centers for work on the human genome, were devastated. Dr. Lukas Wartman, a young, talented and beloved colleague, had the very cancer he had devoted his career to studying.
Noted: Mark Browne, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, says people with middle-class incomes or better should chip in more against the risk that they?ll require long-term care someday. ?If something doesn?t change it?s going to be a huge issue for the states and federal government,? says Browne.
Quoted: Jerome Dempsey, who studies breathing problems at the University of Wisconsin and wasn?t involved in the study, said it makes sense that airway infections and weather could have an effect on sleep apnea, but that the changes across the seasons were small.
Quoted: Steve Vavrus, a senior scientist in the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that while more research needs to be done, unusual conditions — including last winter?s ranking as the fourth-warmest in the U.S.; spring turning out to be the warmest since record-keeping began in 1895; and April marking the end of the warmest 12-month period in U.S. history — are harbingers of what?s to come if greenhouse warming persists.
Quoted: “It is a dangerous plant for several reasons, and probably human health is at the top of the list,” says Mark Renz, an authority on invasive plants at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: ?This is always the million-dollar question, but unfortunately, there?s no definitive way to answer it,? says Steve Vavrus, a senior scientist in the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?We?ve experienced extreme heat, drought, floods, wildfires and windstorms throughout history, so in a sense this is nothing unusual. We need time to assess whether this year?s set of extreme weather events falls outside of normal variations.?
The University of Wisconsin System was a bit late to the digital education party, but at least it?s not a no-show.
Bucking a growing trend of state partnerships with Western Governors University, Wisconsin plans to go it alone to develop online competency-based degree programs for its students. Earlier this month, Governor Scott Walker and administrators from the University of Wisconsin system announced their plans to create flexible degree options for the system, which includes 13 universities and 13 two-year colleges.
Quoted: Still, Robert Cropp, a dairy marketing specialist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, doubted most people would pay more for milk or other products to support family farms.
Real-time data that will be used in everything from weather forecasts to disaster response is now being beamed down to Earth from a cone-shaped appendage aboard the nation?s newest Earth-observing satellite.
What is it about a great lecture that leads to learning? I attended the University of Wisconsin as an undergraduate between 1968 and 1972 where I experienced the power of two great lecturers. I attended the lectures of two very different history professors, Harvey Goldberg and George Mosse. I don?t remember much detail all these years later. But I do remember my intellectual and emotional response. They inspired me in three ways. [This was written by Arthur Camins, director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J.]
The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a group of 17 schools (including Dartmouth College?s Tuck School of Business, University of California, Berkeley?s Haas School of Business and University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business) and more than 80 companies (among them ExxonMobil, Wal-Mart and Goldman Sachs), offers discounts on applications to those schools, a full scholarship for more than 200 students from traditionally underrepresented groups (such as African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans) annually? paid for by the schools ? and access to coveted jobs upon graduation.
The University of Wisconsin System was a bit late to the digital education party, but at least it?s not a no-show.The UW System is moving toward a “flexible degree” program built on flat-fee, at-your-own-pace online education, news that should be applauded by prospective students, business owners and state legislators. That?s true even if some elements of the education community itself remain suspicious of how well it will work.
Scott Walker is the third governor to bring low-cost competition in higher education to his state. Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Mitch Daniels of Indiana have given special priority to Western Governors University (even though WGU is available to all). Now Walker has proposed a flexible competency-based degree à la WGU, but conducted by the University of Wisconsin?Extension.
Quoted: Charles H. Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and co-founder of Pollster.com
Look no further than the University of Virginia, where the sudden ouster and subsequent rehiring of President Teresa Sullivan has made national headlines. Or to state flagship universities in Illinois, Oregon, Texas and Wisconsin, where presidents resigned or were forced out in the past year after relatively brief stints in charge.
As Shawn Francis Peters makes clear in his sympathetic but evenhanded history of the affair, the act was one of desperation by seven men and two women who were frustrated that all the talk, marches and protests against the war (and perceived U.S. militarism elsewhere) had had virtually no effect on American policy.
In ?The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era,?? Shawn Francis Peters, a Catonsville native who teaches in the integrated liberal studies program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, presents a comprehensive account of this high-profile event in the antiwar protest movement of the 1960s and ?70s, along with an examination of its aftermath and legacy
When his brother returned from a mission trip to Central America with photos of kids playing baseball with equipment fashioned out of trash, Matt Stoltz discovered a mission of his own.
Two teams of researchers say they have found a new, fundamental subatomic particle with a handful of traits that are consistent with those predicted for a long-sought Higgs boson — a particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to other fundamental particles.
