The end of an impassioned and often strident global debate over the proper balance between scientific openness and security began with 2 hours of mandatory, studious silence in a room protected by an armed guard.
The study, by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ties rapid Arctic climate change to high-impact, extreme weather events in the U.S. and Europe.
In a study released Tuesday, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked Philly as the least-healthy county in Pennsylvania for the third consecutive year.
The project, a collaboration of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aims to help local leaders and residents see not only where they rank on factors that determine health, but also specific ways to improve.
St. Croix County, across the Mississippi River from Minneapolis-St. Paul, has unseated Ozaukee County as the healthiest county in Wisconsin in an annual health ranking released Tuesday.
While a myriad of factors determine a community?s overall health, a strong correlation exists between median household income and health outcomes, according to Governing?s analysis of data from the 2012 County Health Rankings, conducted by the University of Wisconsin and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Quoted: Professor Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two controversial research projects with the H5N1 bird flu virus haven?t produced a killer bug but have generated useful information, two researchers told scientists and bioethicists gathered here to talk about the benefits and pitfalls of manipulating deadly pathogens.
?We can use this information to understand what?s happening in nature,? Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin told the group, which is meeting to discuss experiments on the much-feared flu strain that has infected 600 people, killing more than half of them, since 2003. He said his work is already shedding light on outbreaks in Egypt, the country with the second-largest number of H5N1 cases over that period.
A scientist whose work was deemed too dangerous to publish by US biosecurity advisers revealed for the first time on Tuesday how he created a hybrid bird flu virus that is spread easily by coughs and sneezes.
In a conference presentation that was webcasted live to the public, he detailed how his team created the deadly virus. Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison described experiments that pinpointed four genetic mutations enabling the virus to spread between ferrets kept in neighbouring cages. The animals are considered the best models of how the infection might spread between people.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison crossed the $1 billion mark in research spending in fiscal 2010 and held its place as the third-biggest research institution in the country, according to new figures from the National Science Foundation.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, for example, is also moving toward more sustainable housing.The school is currently constructing two residence halls with green features similar to the new University building.The two dorms will cost $64 million total and house 582 students, said Paul Evans, University of Wisconsin-Madison?s director of housing.
Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison described experiments that pinpointed four genetic mutations enabling the virus to spread between ferrets kept in neighbouring cages. The animals are considered the best models of how the infection might spread between people.
In the study, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison used MRI to examine the brains of 55 patients with chronic temporal-lobe epilepsy and 53 people without epilepsy. The participants were aged 14 to 60.
To better understand Wisconsin?s G.O.P. electorate, FiveThirtyEight spoke with Dennis L. Dresang and Charles Franklin, both of whom are professors in the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Americans are living longer, but the gains in life span are accruing disproportionately among the better educated, according to a new report by researchers from the University of Wisconsin.
Sioux County, North Dakota (USUSND), is the least healthy place in the U.S. for the second consecutive year, while Los Alamos County, New Mexico (USUSNM), is the healthiest, according to a study.
The rankings, produced by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, compare counties throughout the state ? and nation ? based on both physical and socioeconomic factors. The third annual report is being released today at http://www.countyhealthrankings.org.
The authors of the study are based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. On a campus that size, they calculate, blackout-related emergency-room visits by students cost roughly a half-million dollars annually.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to honor two Spanish literary masterpieces and a critic who wrote key reviews of the texts at a symposium later this month.
Quoted: Eliott Nardi, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and member of the ODPhi chapter there
Quoted: Charles Franklin, who leads the Marquette polling team.
A U.S biosecurity panel?s recommendation that two controversial papers on bird flu be published in full is not a reversal of the stand it took last year out of concerns over terrorism, the head of the group said on Monday in London.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist who runs the Marquette Law School Poll.
Paul S. Boyer, an intellectual historian who wrote groundbreaking studies of the Salem witch trials, the history of apocalyptic movements and the response of the American public to the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, died on March 17 in Madison, Wis. He was 78.
In the typical introductory textbook, wages and prices adjust so that labor is fully employed and goods are sold at the right price. A more sophisticated treatment shows up in more advanced texts, but even in some graduate texts, there is an emphasis on the self-correcting aspects of the modern macroeconomy. [A column by Menzie Chinn, economics and public affairs professor at UW-Madison.]
Last year, the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) ? an independent advisory board to the government ? recommended that both papers should be published with significant redactions. The full information would only be released to selected scientists. But on 30 March, after a two-day meeting, the NSABB announced that it had changed its mind.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison consumer science professor Cynthia Jasper.
Quoted: John Sharpless, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor.
Roger Carl Molander was born on Nov. 20, 1940, in Perham, Minn., and grew up in Marinette, Wis. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a degree in mechanical engineering and earned a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a visiting professor of law at Marquette University
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a visiting political scientist at Marquette University.
Three things prompted Adam Gamoran?s interest in the provost?s job at the University of Illinois.
Personal ties to the campus and state. Experience in dealing with challenges facing major public research universities. And the opportunity to work on a new leadership team with Chancellor Phyllis Wise.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nation?s premier Hispanic youth leadership development and educational organization, is hosting Linda Gomez of Madison, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with 11 other university students from across the United States for its nationally recognized and highly competitive spring Congressional Internship Program.
Dane County Board Supv. Carousel Andrea Bayrd was incensed by Alvarez?s comments. She wrote a letter to him and interim UW Chancellor David Ward, complaining about Alvarez?s attitude.
» Maybe it?s time to head back to school and learn that language you always wanted to speak or become an expert in art history. You can attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with full room and board and books and everything, for 22,448 years.
Quoted: Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a specialist in science communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison professor who does polling at Marquette University.
Imagine yourself in this situation: You’re visiting your alma mater one weekend to take in a football game and catch up with old friends. At a school-sponsored party on campus, drinks are flowing and everyone is having a good time.
Many words in American English, like honeyfuggle and pinkletink, don?t show up in standard dictionaries. But you can find them in the Dictionary of American Regional English. The fifth and final volume of the massive work has just been published.
Noted: The round-table model, which is already operating for some commodities, is similar. Although it is too early to see land-use changes in satellite data, the round tables do seem to be affecting the way many companies do business, says Holly Gibbs, an environmental geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?I don?t know that it?s a sea change yet,? Gibbs says, ?but they are definitely changing the rules and the norms and the way these industries operate.?
Quoted: Miscarriage can lead to depression that can last from a few months to several years, experts say. And women tend to feel they are being observed in their grief, even if a miscarriage is not announced online, says Julianne Zweifel, a clinical psychologist in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin.
One Monday morning in September last year, Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus medical centre in Rotterdam, stood at the Intercontinental hotel in Malta and told an audience of scientists how he created one of the world?s most dangerous viruses.
The results of the poll showed Mitt Romney leading Rick Santorum 39% to 31% in the Wisconsin primary, a shift that Craig Gilbert in the The Wisconsin Voter blog says was helped by a big edge in ad spending and a growing acceptance among GOP voters.
Quoted: Even without the racial aspect, hoodies have an image problem, thanks to their association with criminal activity, said Cynthia Jasper, professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor who fearlessly studied the dark side of humanity – even when it endangered his life – will be remembered during a memorial service Wednesday for his willingness to explore taboo, his love of intellectual back-and-forth, and the admiration and affection he inspired among colleagues and students.
Fibs are common in online dating profiles. An inch taller, a few pounds lighter, and you might just get that first coffee date. But liars beware: Subconscious quirks in how you write a profile may give you away, according to a study published in February in the journal Communication.
Noted: Insects also are coming out four to five weeks ahead of schedule, said Phil Pelletteri, a University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist. Not included among those early emergers, however, are mosquitoes, he added, which need spring rains to breed and hatch.
A Wisconsin Rapids labor group has removed the Bucky Badger logo from its downtown building?s sign after University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said it was an unauthorized use of the school?s trademarks.
In November 2009, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received support to establish a small office devoted to “globalizing the undergraduate experience in the sciences.” Thus far, they have identified three “core challenges” that faculty encounter when internationalizing science curriculum and are actively supporting projects and programs designed to accommodate these challenges.
The scene is a mysterious one, beguiling, thrilling, and, if you didn?t know better, perhaps even a bit menacing. According to the time-enhanced version of the story, it opens on an afternoon in the late fall of 1965, when without warning, a number of identical dark-green vans suddenly appear and sweep out from a parking lot in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.
Noted: During the 2011 holiday shopping season, 19% of consumers used their phone to compare products or prices in store, up from 15% in 2010 and 3% in 2009, according to customer service research firm ForeSee. “It?s such a great development for consumers,” says Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center of Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Cheating is one of only a few plausible explanations for such dramatic changes in scores for so many students within a district, said James Wollack, a University of Wisconsin-Madison expert in testing and cheating who reviewed the newspaper?s analysis.
Quoted: ?The FHA clearly didn?t allocate enough capital to the loans it insured from 2007 to 2010,? said Morris A. Davis, a professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Business.
Quoted: Mark Browne, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A Los Angeles police detective confirmed Friday that the department is conducting an investigation into an allegation that John Chadima, a former University of Wisconsin senior associate athletic director, sexually assaulted a male student employee at a Los Angeles hotel while the football team and traveling party were in town for the Rose Bowl game.
Unlike some of my peers, I never really listened to Springsteen before taking Craig Werner?s class at UW Madison — “Bruce Springsteen?s America.” My parents were fans of the Boss, but he and the E-Street crew took a back seat to David Bowie, U2, The Clash, and R.E.M.
Stop the presses: college kids acting like assholes! This time, it?s brothers at the Delta Upsilon fraternity at the University of Wisconsin, who, mere weeks after having alcohol-related probation lifted, allegedly drunkenly shouted racial epithets and threw a beer bottle at two black female students. The fraternity?s been suspended yet again pending a university investigation, but this isn?t the first time this year that racial tensions have run high on the Madison campus.
He has yet to graduate from college. But Jordan Heginbottom, a Plymouth resident and junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has learned a critical lesson already: ?You have to continuously excel to avoid becoming obsolete.?
Noted: Clifford Thurber, a seismologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who served as a consultant for the city, is still on the fence. ?I won?t be amazed if it turns out to be earthquakes, but it could also be a near surface event, such as rocks fracturing beneath the surface due to erosion from flowing water.? So far, the booms have only been heard within in a small, cigar-shaped area that encompasses most of Clintonville, Thurber says, suggesting an origin that is close to the surface, a possibility that falls within the uncertainty of the USGS seismic data.
