Quoted: Democrats are up against a well-funded and well-mobilized Republican Party that recently redrew legislative districts in its favor, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said.
Noted: “Small wonder that after the Valdez, a company representative quietly called a University of Wisconsin professor to offer money if he would write an article for a ?respectable academic journal,? arguing against punitive damages. This man spoke up, but we don?t know how many other scholars received and may have acted on the same offer and said nothing.”
It doesn?t take a college degree to see that the equation of University of Wisconsin tuition increases adds up to more trouble for students.
A UW-Madison professor says Wisconsin should not limit recalls without giving voters another way to influence the political process between elections. Barry Burden says he would hesitate to take control away from the people, because Wisconsin does not allow direct legislation by referendum as in some states like California.
Tuition in the University of Wisconsin System will rise by several hundred dollars next academic year, after the Board of Regents voted Thursday to accept the maximum 5.5 percent rate hike.
College tuition is going up again at UW schools.
It?s a cliché to say that paying for college keeps parents awake at night. As is often the case, this became a cliché because it?s true — even if, as in my case, the child is barely a year and a half old.
University of Wisconsin-Madison interim chancellor David Ward, along with business and state officials, will travel to Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong June 8-20 to solidify university partnerships and help boost Wisconsin industry.
Dozens of college students were disenfranchised around the state by recent changes to the voter laws, says a coordinator with the League of Women Voters.
Aaron Brower is typical of many academics in that he generally takes a well-reasoned, measured approach when addressing various topics with reporters. So the choice of words from UW-Madison?s vice provost for teaching and learning was telling when he was asked to comment on a rash of recent media accounts pointing to a potential seminal shift in how higher education is delivered to students.
Noted: Every Democratic presidential candidate since Walter Mondale in 1984 has won Wisconsin, but the Obama campaign ?can?t view Wisconsin as being in the bank for them,? said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ?They?re definitely going to have to put more effort here than they were initially planning.?
TAMPA ? There was a game Nov. 6, 1994, when something seemingly came over Paul Gruber. Tempers flared. He lost control and found himself in a fierce fight with Bears defensive lineman Alonzo Spellman, and both were ejected.
Quoted: ?The unions will have to do some soul searching on how they fit into the Wisconsin political landscape,? said former Madison Mayor David Cieslewicz, a University of Wisconsin poli-sci professor.
Quoted: “Public-sector unions are licking their wounds, but I?m not sure how that all connects to the national story,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “We?ll still be a swing state.”
In a knowledge economy, we are often told the smartest cities and nations do the best. But economists typically measure smart cities by education level, calculating the cities or metros with the largest percentage of college grads or the largest shares of adults with advanced degrees. Others (like me) do it by charting the kinds of work people do and the occupations they hold, differentiating between knowledge or creative workers and others who do more routine manufacturing and service jobs.
Wisconsin voters have elected to keep Gov. Scott Walker, whose efforts to curtail the collective-bargaining rights of public-college faculty members and other state workers have made him a rising star in the Republican party while triggering a backlash against him among labor interests.
Blue-chip recruits, high-profile games, and opportunities for student athletes are all at risk until the University of North Dakota moves away from the embattled Fighting Sioux nickname and logo, a group of the school?s athletic coaches said Tuesday.
WISCONSIN is voting today to decide whether Scott Walker, the Republican governor, will be recalled. Lorrie Moore, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and fiction writer of note, reports that the acrimonious recall campaign has set brother against brother from Eau Claire to Kenosha:
An ammonia gas leak forced police to evacuate the engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday morning.
On May 17, 2012, we learned that Canada?s Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a world-renowned freshwater and fisheries research facility, will be terminated in March, 2013.
Quoted: Walker?s victory will be seen as a validation of the law that weakened public-worker unions by making it ?pretty much impossible? for them to operate, said William Jones, a labor historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The law limits contract bargaining to wages and makes payment of dues voluntary, he said.
Quoted: Walker?s win “suggests that Wisconsin?s in play” in the presidential race, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist. “This is a state that?s competitive.”
People have been allowed back inside a research building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after an ammonia leak forced an evacuation.
Quoted: “Particularly public employee unions, they see this as a fight to the death, because if Walker is not recalled their view is this means it?s open season on them,” said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “You have two sides to a political controversy thinking their lives are at stake in a death match.”
Quoted: Barry Burden, political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it?s not surprising Obama hasn?t been front and centre in Wisconsin given Barrett?s uphill battle against Walker. The governor has vastly outspent the mayor, with the majority of the cash coming from wealthy out-of-state donors.
Quoted: “The campaign rhetoric over the last two weeks has not been much about unions or collective bargaining?that?s not been the centerpiece of the Barrett campaign,” says Barry Burden, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Stephen Carpenter, a professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says the new study?s biggest contribution is that the researchers were able to both map the location of the tipping point, or threshold, and measure the early warning signs that predict it.
Quoted: There seems to be growing interest in such sharing, says James Wollack, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “If you go on the Web and look, it?s pretty clear that the people trying to game the system are learning from each other,” he says. “Unless the testing industry also pools its resources, we?re always going to be playing this game of catch-up.”
Quoted: ?People who are homeless are under a lot of stress, and stress causes higher cortisol levels. Higher cortisol levels lead to weight gain,? said nutritionist Sherry Tanumihardjo of the University of Wisconsin, who has studied the hunger-obesity paradox but was not involved in this research.
The seeds of an Olympics berth began seven years ago with a generic postcard mailed to the home of Grant and Ross James, offering the pursuit of a new athletic adventure in college. The twin brothers had no idea just how much that postcard would change their lives.
The University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin-Madison share more than initials; both universities and their students are struggling with the rising costs of education and its impact on the quality of education.
Tuition and mandatory fees this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would top $10,000 for in-state students, and UW-Milwaukee would be close behind, if a recommended 5.5% tuition increase is approved by the Board of Regents this week.
The same suitcase Jordan Taylor has been living out of for well over a month was lined up alongside a handful of others in the front lobby of the Milwaukee Bucks? Cousins Center practice facility Sunday, June 3.
A Kenosha man convicted of killing a Milwaukee college student was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
With announcement of plans for the University of Wisconsin system to increase its student tuition 5.5 percent for the school year than begins in less than three months, it?s another step in the university?s ongoing practice of increasing tuition at a race far faster than inflation.
A judge sentenced 34-year-old Johnny Jones to serve his next 15 years in prison for causing a deadly crash in 2009, then running away. The crash killed a University of Wisconsin student.
For the first time in its history, UW-Madison?s in-state tuition rate may exceed $10,000 this fall. UW-Milwaukee would be close behind.
It would cost Wisconsin residents more than $10,000 a year in tuition and fees to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison if a recommended 5.5 percent tuition increase is approved.
Tuition and fees this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would top $10,000 for in-state students, and UW-Milwaukee would be close behind, if a recommended tuition increase of 5.5% is approved by the Board of Regents this week.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
There was a surprise celebration in St. Louis Wednesday night as University of Wisconsin Alumni welcomed a new graduate as he and a friend arrived after a very long bike ride.
Noted: But Turner and his colleagues — Evelyn Wiener, executive director of the student health service at the University of Pennsylvania, and Sarah Van Orman, executive director of university health services at the University of Wisconsin at Madison — broke the data down even further.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that Walker was elected in the 2010 Tea Party revolt, a powerful reaction against President Barack Obama?s stimulus legislation, health-care overhaul and federal deficits. After proposing, fighting for and winning passage of Act 10, a budget repair bill that greatly restricted the organizing rights of public employee unions – and facing demonstrations of up to 100,000 people – Walker became “a poster child for that new face of the Republican Party,” Burden said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will launch a physician assistant program in Wausau that?s designed to attract northern Wisconsin residents to the profession.
Quoted: Newspaper endorsements do little to influence or sway voters, says James Baughman, professor of journalism at University of Wisconsin-Madison. But they do facilitate discussion of current issues and candidates in state papers and on their websites. A polarized readership places some newspapers in a tight position when it comes time to announce endorsements, says Baughman.
Montee Ball was reminded earlier this month that anything he does in public can have ramifications.”It was very unfortunate,” Wisconsin?s decorated tailback said Wednesday during a “Badger Day” event at Kalahari Resort. “I was literally at the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that Walker was elected in the 2010 tea party revolt, a powerful reaction against President Barack Obama?s stimulus legislation, health care overhaul and federal deficits. After proposing, fighting for and winning passage of Act 10, a budget repair bill that greatly restricted the organizing rights of public employee unions ? and facing demonstrations of up to 100,000 people ? Walker became ?a poster child for that new face of the Republican Party,? Burden said.
Noted: Several state schools ? like the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin ? also made the cut, along with colleges in Japan, Canada, Switzerland and Australia.
Nearly 20 years ago, the Dalai Lama asked a biologist why the tools of neuroscience couldn?t be used to investigate kindness, compassion and well being. The answer is that neurobiologists rarely choose to investigate these areas. Even though, then as now, they had tools capable of probing the connections. Most everyday experiences change the brain, often for the better. And it?s impossible to learn any new information without changes occurring in the brain. The Dalai Lama?s question made a deep impression on neuroscientist Richard Davidson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, who went on to found the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds in 2008. He?s also co-author of a recently published review article detailing the progress investigators worldwide have made in understanding the factors that help and harm the mind?s development.
Quoted: In the big picture, “given the research showing the importance of the olfactory — smell — system among other animal species, it is likely that humans possess similar capabilities that we don?t yet fully understand, yet influence our behavior more than we realize,” said Elizabeth Krusemark, a smell researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin Madison?s Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab.
Call Bruce Springsteen whatever you want, but make sure to call him a professional. Early in our class we had a conversation on whether or not he was as erudite as we were making him out to be. There were plausible arguments on either side. In interviews he claimed not to have read much, but he also lifted most of The Grapes of Wrath. For me I don?t think it matters too much, because he actively tries to be both. Springsteen is no fool, and he plays up his country or working-class image in spite of being ridiculously informed on music, as exhibited by his most excellent keynote address at the SCSW music conference.
Noted: The momentum has been building since April 2005, when Nimmerjahn published his movies2. A month later, a team led by Wen-Biao Gan ? a neuroscientist at New York University, who first developed the skull-thinning method ? published similar results6. ?This was a major breakthrough and inspired a lot of people,? says Marie-Ève Tremblay, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin?Madison who studies the role of microglia in sleep and wakefulness.
Noted: On a more practical level, Patti Lux-Weber, the Parent Program coordinator at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says that there are some basic topics that parents may want to cover before sending their offspring into an environment where they?ll have significantly more freedom than they had at home.
A professor emeritus in the department of agriculture and life sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, storyteller, rural historian and author of dozens of books, his newest book is “Garden Wisdom: Lessons Learned From 60 Years of Gardening” (Wisconsin Historical Society Press), and it covers the joys of growing vegetables.
Noted: The idea is to produce solar fuels that can store the electricity for longer periods and which can be accessed at all times. The two main tools employed by the Wisconsin-Madison researchers are ultraviolet light and fluorescent paint. During the electrolysis process, potential catalysts are photographed while the paint reacts to the oxygen being formed.
By almost every account, University of Wisconsin senior running back Montee Ball was better than ever during the team?s spring practices.
Quoted: Studies over the last few decades suggest that people whose diets are high in specific antioxidants such as vitamin C, E, zinc, or carotenoid plant pigments such as beta-carotene or lutein are less likely to develop common age-related eye diseases, said Julie Mares, a professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: In a pattern that is part education, part family background, college graduates tend to have longer life expectancies, higher household incomes, lower divorce rates and fewer single-parent families than those with less education, and cities where they cluster tend to exhibit those patterns more strongly. Montgomery County, where Dayton is located, has a premature death rate that is more than double that of Fairfax County, Va., the highly educated Washington suburb, according to Bridget Catlin, a University of Wisconsin researcher.
Since 2007, top-selling opioids dispensed to people 60 years and older have increased 32%, according to a Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today analysis of prescription data from IMS Health, a health care information company. That?s double the growth for prescriptions dispensed in the 40-to-59 age group. A brief mention of UW-Madison is included in previous coverage of the issue.
WE ALL remember dozing off during a boring class at school. A robotic teacher that monitors students attention levels and mimics the techniques human teachers use to hold their pupils attention promises to end the snoozing, especially for students who have their lessons online. Tests indicate the robot can boost how much students remember from their lessons.
