Noted: Yet, another study done by ecologists at the University of Wisconsin found that a beetle-damaged stand of trees will probably not burn any more intensely than a green stand under intermediate weather conditions. Their modeling showed insects and fire are linked, but that one doesn?t cause the other.
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.
Helicopter parents, impatient trustees, overworked professors, entitled athletics boosters and deeply partisan lawmakers with little cash to spare. It?s enough to make people wonder why anyone would want the job of college president.
A highly anticipated report ordered by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature and released on Monday recommended no changes to Wisconsin?s $77 billion pension system.
Quoted: “Especially at high risk is an infant wrapped up in a blanket,” who is unable to tend to himself or tell an adult how he feels, said Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
As he laced up his shoes and headed out to train last summer, Mohammed Ahmed would often end up logging 160 kilometres or more in a given a week ? all while fasting.
When you get all choked up watching Fourth of July fireworks, save a little of that ooh-ahh emotion for chemistry and other scientific disciplines. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri knows all about this: He?s a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and is the president of the American Chemical Society. Shakhashiri is also an entertainer by choice, giving lectures and programs around the world that help better connect people with the often obtuse world of science.
?Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? is what happens when the nightmare of our nation?s past gets scripted as a Hollywood horror movie. The jarring confusion of race slavery with a supernatural evil constitutes both the cleverness and silliness of the film.
With red and blue lights flashing, the Wisconsin Rapids Police Department and Wood County Sheriff?s Department escorted Matt Stoltz out of town late Sunday morning.
When I taught a course titled “Introduction to the City” in the UW-Madison Geography Department last spring, I had my students view an online lecture by Professor John Merriman of Yale University.
Quoted: ?Chinese pottery appeared long before animal domestication and has no obvious connection to the origins of agriculture or sedentary living,? remarks archaeologist T. Douglas Price of the University of Wisconsin ? Madison.
Noted: Madison has not seen a June this dry since 1988, says Chris Kucharik, associate professor of agronomy and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That year, he explains, “people would categorize as the last real catastrophic drought that happened in the Midwest, but it was much more widespread than what we?re seeing this year.”
The speed at which English has spread all over the world as a global language is simply breathtaking. With this phenomenon comes the fact that English no longer exclusively belongs to the native speakers of the language. (The writer is a fulbright presidential scholar and a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US.)
Quoted: Stephen Ward, former head of the University of B.C. journalism pro-gram, is trying to help us figure out an answer. He?s doing so for the sake of democracy, truth and maybe planetary survival.Much depends upon how we resolve the mind-boggling issues that people like Ward, a veteran war correspondent who is now director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are trying to wrestle into some semblance of coherence.
Noted: Which is why policy makers should flag a recent study that found more than three-quarters of patents from America?s top ten patent-producing universities, including MIT, Stanford, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were the result of breakthroughs by immigrants. Those universities produced 1,466 patents?a fraction of the total awarded?but many were in such cutting-edge fields as information technology and molecular biology.
Quoted: Lin Yu-sheng, an academician and professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the current university assessment mechanism in Taiwan is disorderly and going in the wrong direction, leading to universities expending an excessive amount of effort and resources in striving to meet the assessment?s requirements.
Quoted: Todd Szymkowski, deputy director of the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there are various ways to enforce speed limits in work zones. Illinois, for example, uses photo enforcement in which cameras automatically capture the image of a speeding motorist?s license plate.
More than one-quarter of Texas teens have sent naked photos of themselves through text or email, according to the latest study on so-called “sexting.”
MADISON ? A highly anticipated report ordered by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature and released on Monday recommended no changes to Wisconsin?s $77 billion pension system.
Madison has been named among the country?s leading high-tech metro areas by a group affiliated with Richard Florida, a well-known economic competitiveness expert.
Wisconsin needs more college degree holders. Our state is below the national average for percentage of residents with a bachelor?s degree ? 25.8 percent, compared to 27.9 percent nationwide.
Earlier this month, officials from the University of Wisconsin announced the school?s plans for a ?flexible degree? program, which would allow students to enroll when it suits them, study online at their own pace ? and gain academic credit for knowledge they?ve acquired outside the classroom.
Noted: Rounding out the top 20 are Burlington, Vermont (home to the University of Vermont); Tucson, Arizona (University of Arizona); Provo, Utah (Brigham Young University); Corvallis, Oregon (home to Oregon State University, a major Hewlett Packard printer prototyping facility and numerous bio tech companies); Huntsville, Alabama (NASA?s Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command as well as numerous high-tech electronics companies); Poughkeepsie, New York (home to IBM); Minneapolis?St. Paul (University of Minnesota); Madison, Wisconsin (with a budding tech hub around the University of Wisconsin); Oxnard?Thousand Oaks, California; and Manchester, New Hampshire (near Boston?s Route 128).
Saying its current executive director is leaving at the end of the month “to pursue new career interests and opportunities,” the Morgridge Institute for Research has named James Dahlberg interim executive director.
Mohammed Ahmed buckled to his knees upon crossing the finish line of the men?s 10,000-metre final at the Canadian Olympic Track and Field Trials.
Noted: And your milk was not spoiled this morning because of work done at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant law professor Andrew Coan said that, based on the initial reporting of the decision, he believes the high court may have made significant decisions regarding some of the key constitutional questions in the case.
What?s the wooden structure next to the historical marker along Monroe St. near the Camp Randall Sports Facility? Daniel Einstein, University of Wisconsin historic and cultural resource manager, wondered, too. Since the adjacent marker mentions a stockade for Confederate prisoners of war, many passers-by assume that?s what the small wood building is.
They worried people would forget. It might seem odd now, even 150 years after the Civil War, that anyone would not remember the terrible fight to preserve the United States. But that fear of losing the collective memory spurred veterans – both Confederate and Union – to construct monuments and memorials.
A Philadelphia man has filed a preliminary injunction in federal court seeking a restraining order against Jerry Sandusky in the wake of his conviction last Friday on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, abc27 News has learned. In the one-page document filed in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin Tuesday, the plaintiff alleges Sandusky molested and threatened him during a Penn State vs. Wisconsin football game in 2002.
President Barack Obama has nominated U.S. Magistrate Sheri Polster Chappell to a judgeship in Florida?s Middle District.
Quoted: “I tell people to go ahead and balance on one leg, then the other for two to three minutes,” said Timothy McGuine, a sports medicine specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who added that two to three times a week is a good start.
Interviewed: And paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisonsin, Madison, agrees: “We definitely evolved to eat meat.”
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule perhaps this week on the health care law President Barack Obama signed in 2010. Assistant law professor at University of Wisconsin Madison Andrew Coan says it could go either way, rather, many different ways.
On May 20, a 10-year-old girl in rural Cambodia got a fever. Five days later, she was admitted to a hospital, and after two days of intensive care she was dead.
Matthew Roelse, who drowned early Friday morning, possessed a sense of adventure and concern for others shaped by his experiences in Boy Scouting, his mother said Monday.
The tumult at the University of Virginia ? with the sudden ouster of President Teresa Sullivan on June 10, and the widespread anticipation that she will be reinstated on Tuesday ? reflects a low-grade panic now spreading through much of public higher education.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created cells with the qualities of those that form the protective barrier between the blood and brain.
UW?Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks says we definitely evolved to eat meat, but ? in context with our modern diets and lifestyles ? that doesn’t mean it’s entirely good for us.
A man who recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison drowned in Lake Mendota on Friday, the school said Saturday in a press release.
Dane County authorities have released the name of the man whose body was recovered from Lake Mendota on Friday morning.
Several athletes with Wisconsin ties will take part in the 2012 Olympic Summer Games in London.
Noted: ?At first only Chinese peasants were on my side, now an increasing number of Chinese intellectuals are with me,? Yi, 43, now a University of Wisconsin scientist, said in an interview in Beijing. He gave 23 talks at universities and forums in China in May and June opposing the policy. Yi Qiming, the Tangwan township head, declined to comment on the lunch.
Quoted: Lonnie Berger, associate professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says post-18 expenditures matter in adding up all costs to parents. Given the prolonged dependency of many adult children in the current economy, “ideally, such an accounting would extend at least through the early to mid 30s,” Prof. Berger says.
Quoted: ?For most parents, the total benefits of children likely outweigh the financial costs,? said Lonnie Berger, associate professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ?At the same time, parents may think about economic costs when making decisions about having children, especially with regard to timing and number of children.?
Two-and-a-half weeks past the recall election and many Wisconsinites are doing their best to move on. They?ve taken down their yard signs, and even peeled off their bumper stickers.
Noted: In a first step to get beyond polarization, the SPJ invited three panelists to address the issue: Tony Earl, former Democratic governor of Wisconsin, former U.S. Rep. Scott Klug (R-Madison), and Katherine Kramer Walsh, a political science professor at UW-Madison, whose research has taken her to coffee shops and community centers around the state to observe conversations about politics.
The nation?s public flagship universities in recent months have seen a remarkable exodus of presidents ? some by choice, most not ? revealing a sometimes fractious relationship between campus leaders and the governing boards they answer to.
Quoted: Gretchen Viney, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor with expertise in family law, said it isn?t unusual for judges to waive bonding requirements entirely based on their high cost.
Interviewed: Walter Dickey, professor, University of Wisconsin Law School.
Noted: A team headed by Joshua Carter of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics was examining such systems looking for examples with multiple planets. Astronomer Eric Agol of the University of Wisconsin suggested that the team use a different algorithm to analyze the subtle changes in brightness that are detected by Kepler, and the Kepler-36 pair popped up immediately.
The University of Wisconsin plans to start a ?flexible degree? program online focused on allowing undergraduates to test out of material they have mastered.
Some said Ron Fouchier?s work would help fend off a pandemic. Others called it a terrorist?s cookbook. Authorities on either side of the Atlantic spent months examining the research. Now the rest of the world can read it, too. In a paper just published in Science, Dr Fouchier explains how bird flu might adapt to spread easily from person to person. The publication caps a long fight over whether the paper?s benefits outweighed its risks. But this controversy will not be the last.
Five genetic tweaks made a deadly strain of bird flu that can infect humans spread more easily, according to a study that the U.S. government had first sought to censor on concerns it could be used by bioterrorists.
The world has yet to see a form of the deadly bird flu virus that could spread easily between people and cause a global outbreak – but that doesn?t mean it won?t happen, scientists said on Thursday.
The more controversial of two papers describing how the lethal H5N1 bird flu could be made easier to spread was published Thursday, six months after a scientific advisory board suggested that the papers? most potentially dangerous data be censored.
When Gov. Scott Walker on Monday announced plans for a new online education program PDF at the University of Wisconsin System, it was news not just to the public, but to most UW staff and many high-level administrators.
By any standard, the Internet ranks as one of the leading innovations of our time. It has revolutionized everything from commerce to medicine to entertainment, all within the confines of a generation.
For one local swimmer, her lifelong goal of making it to the Olympic Games comes down to a solid performance at next week?s Olympic Swimming Trials.
A new self-paced, competency-based program for finishing a college degree online, and ostensibly making college more affordable and accessible, was announced Tuesday by Gov. Scott Walker and two top University of Wisconsin System officials.
