It?s a timely idea: Teach kids to save their money and spend it smartly – the younger the better.
In an effort to produce a generation of more financially stable adults, the Eau Claire school district is partnering with officials from UW-Madison and RCU to give simple economics lessons this spring to fourth and fifth graders.
American Family Children?s Hospital in Madison has announced plans for a $32 million expansion, its first since the pediatric medical center opened in 2007. The hospital is part of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department says that it will be naming the ice rink at the Kohl Center after one of its legendary former coaches.
Quoted: “It?s an FDA approved medication so many people perceive it as safe. Whether it is or not for them to take is another issue,” said Dr. Eric Heiligenstein, head of psychiatry for the University of Wisconsin health services.
GENEVA ? Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World Health Organization said Friday.
This June in Brazil, delegates will mark the twentieth anniversary of what is commonly known as the Earth Summit. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development took place in Rio de Janeiro in nineteen ninety-two. One of the issues that the delegates plan to discuss in June at Rio+20 is the role of agriculture in climate change. VOA interviewed UW’s Molly Jahn on the subject.
Noted: Where that kind of big-picture thinking could lead is illustrated by what the University of Wisconsin and the city of Madison have accomplished.
Mother of pearl — produced by molluscs — is largely used in jewellery and art. However, a new report suggests that it could be used to reveal both the temperature and the ocean depth at which the material formed.
No offense to Green Bay, but Wisconsin?s high school basketball teams should showcase their skills in our capital city of Madison, as they have for 90 years.
In light of the tragic death and heroic work of former New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria last week, friends and alumni have set up an endowment in his honor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ive only met Anthony Shadid once. But I feel like Ive known him forever. Thats due, I believe, to our shared passion for two of lifes crown jewels, the University of Wisconsin and the country of Lebanon.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is not giving up in its effort to convince the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association to keep the state boys and girls basketball tournaments in Madison.
Prescriptions for narcotic painkillers soared so much over the last decade that by 2010 enough were being dispensed to medicate every adult in the United States around-the-clock for a month.
Behind that surge was a network of pain organizations, doctors and researchers that pushed for expanded use of the drugs while taking in millions of dollars from the companies that made them, a Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today investigation found.
Last year, the newspaper found that a University of Wisconsin-based organization in Madison had been a national force in helping liberalize the way opioids are prescribed and viewed. While pushing a pharmaceutical industry agenda that critics say was not supported by rigorous science, the UW Pain & Policy Studies Group took in $2.5 million over a decade from opioid companies. [Related stories can be found here and here.]
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has moved up the publication date of the late Anthony Shadid?s ?House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East? to Feb. 28. Shadid, a renowned foreign correspondent, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, died Feb. 16 of an apparent asthma attack while reporting in Syria. He was 43.
The National Security Council is moving to exert greater federal control over scientific studies of highly lethal diseases and toxins in the face of mounting fears that the research could be used by terrorists and rogue states, according to people with knowledge of the process.
There may be ways, however, to spot a liar before you find yourself across from him or her at a candlelit table. Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison compared the actual heights, weights, and ages of 78 online daters to their dating profiles on four matchmaking websites.
The Obama campaign is stepping up mobilization of younger voters in 10 key swing states this month, dispatching senior aides and a handful of celebrities to college campuses for ?summits? aimed at engaging the 18-to-29-year-old base.
The events will take place at Columbus State Community College in Ohio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, North Carolina Central University, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Colorado-Boulder, Miami Dade College, and University of Iowa in Iowa City, among others, a campaign official said.
The photo comes straight out of the late 1980s, the college journalist at work, sitting in front of a computer, cigarette in one hand, phone in one ear, phone book on his lap.This was Anthony Shadid, out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, out of the Daily Cardinal, bound for the Middle East.
The Wisconsin athletic department should take in slightly more than $1 million in additional ticket revenue in 2012-?13 thanks to a plan approved Friday.
Details of how scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in The Netherlands mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks of sharing the information, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Stanford University, which recently broke an all-time record by completing a 5-year, $6.2 billion fundraising campaign, led with $709.4 million collected in fiscal 2011, followed by Harvard ($639.2 million) and Yale ($580.3 million). Rounding out the list were private universities such as Columbia and Johns Hopkins, as well as elite public universities such as UCLA and the Universities of Texas, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Most campuses on the list have major medical schools and affiliated research centers, though No. 4 MIT ($534 million) is an exception.
Last year, labs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam independently created mutant forms of avian influenza, known as H5N1, that can be transmitted directly among mammals. The natural strain can be caught only through close contact with infected birds.
One immediate question is what level of safety should be required for that research.
In a new report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison show that nacre can also be deployed in the interest of science as a hard-wired thermometer and pressure sensor, revealing both the temperature and ocean depth at which the material formed.
Anthony Shadid, a gifted foreign correspondent whose graceful dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in Syria. Shadid was a UW-Madison graduate.
The American Red Cross, the Morgridge Center for Public Service, and the Urban League of Greater Madison teamed up for a Sickle Cell Awareness Blood Drive Feb. 10 at the Urban League building on Madison?s south side.
Aslam Hidayat doesn?t know who Bucky Badger is. But the former local union leader and about 2,700 other factory workers in Tangerang may someday credit the payment of $1.8 million in long-due compensation in part to Bucky?s US university, halfway around the world.
Former Dane County Circuit Court Judge Patrick Fiedler, now in private practice, has a signed contract to lead the inquiry into allegations of misconduct by former University of Wisconsin senior associate athletic director John Chadima.
The contract, approved by Gov. Scott Walker after a request from UW, states Fiedler?s law firm, Axley Brynelson, will be paid at the rate of $300 an hour, plus out-of-pocket costs.
Mentions that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a six-year graduation rate of 83 percent ?and a four-year rate of 50 percent.
Most of us are horrible lie detectors in face-to-face interaction, and we?re even worse when it comes to knowing if someone is lying online. New research suggests, however, that there are certain linguistic signals we can look for to determine if someone is trying to hoodwink us.
Online daters who lie about their personal information such as height, weight and age leave a series of clues that identify them as liars in the language they use.
Aslam Hidayat doesn?t know who Bucky Badger is. But the former local union leader and about 2,700 other factory workers in Tangerang may someday credit the payment of $1.8 million in long-due compensation in part to Bucky?s US university, halfway around the world.
State lawmakers intend to cut an additional $46 million from the UW System, before the end of the fiscal year in June.
How do you really know if the person at the other end of that online profile you?re browsing is genuine or some lying creep? There?s no easy ruleset (there never is), but a new study found there are several fascinating word-watching ways you can better predict whether someone?s telling the truth or just feeding you a line.
Quoted: Broadband has moved from being a luxury to a necessity, and Comcast has been able to capitalize on that, said Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With NBCUniversal in the fold, the company has depth in programming and distribution, he said.
On New Year?s Eve, Trotter announced to his staff that he?d be closing Charlie Trotter?s Restaurant, after twenty-five years. (Its last day will be August 31st.) Instead of cooking, Trotter, who is fifty-two, plans to pursue a Master of Philosophy degree, most likely at the University of Chicago.
It was with a profound sense of personal validation that I opened Volume V of the Dictionary of American Regional English to discover an entry for the term my family back in Kentucky used for the chamber pot: thunder mug.
Simple meditation techniques, backed up with modern scientific knowledge of the brain, are helping kids hardwire themselves to become kinder and pay better attention, says neuroscientist Richard Davidson.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison agreed Tuesday to enter into mediation with adidas as a means of resolving a dispute with the company over the treatment of former workers at a factory in Indonesia.
Wisconsin officials are one step from implementing a variable pricing model for single-game football tickets in 2012.
The plan, first detailed in a letter by athletic director Barry Alvarez, was approved Tuesday by UW?s Finance, Facilities and Operations committee.
Norton D. Zinder, a researcher who helped lay the basis for the new field of molecular biology in the 1950s and ?60s and who played a crucial role in the politics of decoding the human genome, died on Friday in a nursing home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He was 83. He received his doctorate at UW-Madison.
A century after it was first proposed, a broad pedestrian corridor that will serve as a new gateway to the University of Wisconsin here is close to its final form.
A seven-block pedestrian corridor links the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison to rental apartments and businesses.
The corridor, called the East Campus Gateway, includes private developments, university buildings and two public gathering places, one owned by the university and the other by the city. A recent burst of construction has given students a new services center and a shopping mall geared to their needs called University Square.
Quoted: “The last two centuries have seen dramatic changes in wildfire across the American West, with a peak in wildfires in the 1800s giving way to much less burning over the past 100 years,” said lead author Jennifer R. Marlon, now a National Science Foundation Earth Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “The decline was mostly caused by the influx of explorers and settlers and by their subsequent suppression of wildfires, both intentionally and accidentally.”
Lovelorn users are so desperate to believe people who describe themselves as tall, dark and handsome that they fail to notice clues which suggest all is not what it seems, it was claimed.
Quoted: “They have to proceed with caution and tread lightly,” said Shubha Ghosh, a professor at University of Wisconsin Law School who specializes in antitrust law and intellectual property, with regards to Google.
Science knows how to identify a liar (big hint: someone who keeps harping on his or her own honesty). So it makes sense, in our online-dating-filled modern lifestyle, that science would also figure out how to identify an online dater who is not being completely above board.
Watching a plant grow and develop roots can be as tedious as … watching a plant grow. But seeing plant development as it unfolds can expose just what happens to a genetically modified organism, and how certain gene expressions can make plants do certain things. Robotic cameras and machine-vision algorithms are making the process easier.Plant physiologist Edgar Spalding at the University of Wisconsin-Madison creates time-lapse movies of plant root growth in action
Eighty per cent of online daters lie on their profiles, a new study reveals – but liars give themselves away.
On the one-year anniversary of the Valentine?s Day rally that sparked a statewide movement, students, instructors, and union workers and supporters gathered to promote a simple message of support for education in Wisconsin.
At a time of trillion-dollar budget deficits, why do we need a new ?Video Game Czar? in the White House? That Czar?or, Czarina, more precisely?is Constance Steinkuehler, a professor from University of Wisconsin whose appointment as ?Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology? constitutes, in the admiring words of USA Today, ?one of the most unconventional White House hires in recent memory.?
A simple math problem lies at the heart of a heated debate over whether scientists should be allowed to publish provocative research into the transmissibility of H5N1 flu. Assuming the avian virus could spread easily among people, just how deadly would an H5N1 pandemic be for humans?
If former Maryland quarterback Danny O?Brien eventually transfers to Wisconsin, the UW staff should send a note of thanks to Terrapins coach Randy Edsall.
Wisconsin?s controversial new voter identification law has the state?s colleges scrambling since they provide ID cards that students will be able to use at the polls. But one school?s solution is raising concerns about its constitutionality.
Quoted: “I?m dismayed, but not surprised,” says Raymond Fonck, a fusion physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Half of American adults know someone who found love online, and while the internet plays a more important role than before in starting relationships it is also a forum for cheating and lies that ends them, according to a survey released on Monday.
Maj. Dave Brown could have taken a Caribbean cruise, visited Disney World or camped in Yellowstone National Park.
He could have done what most veterans do when returning from a war zone – take a well-deserved vacation to reconnect with loved ones and empty the sand from his combat boots.
Instead, shortly after returning home to Madison from a yearlong deployment to Iraq, the Wisconsin National Guardsman strapped on a knapsack and competed on CBS? “The Amazing Race” with his wife, Rachel.
The top-ranked University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team clinched a share of its fourth WCHA championship on Saturday with a 6-2 victory over host St. Cloud State at the National Hockey Center.
Quoted: Scott Rankin, an associate professor of food science at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Similarly, UW-Madison Professor Morris Davis, academic director of the university?s Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, said he didn?t believe the settlement would help most people who are ?deeply underwater? on their mortgages avoid foreclosure.
Jenni Guarascio loved running her own shoe and vintage clothing store in Chicago but she had to give it up.
Last month, scientists around the world agreed to temporarily halt certain genetic experiments with bird flu viruses. More than three weeks of that 60-day moratorium have already passed. And the scientific community is in the midst of a fierce debate about what needs to happen next.
