When Jerome Chazen was studying economics at UW-Madison nearly 60 years ago, he never dreamed he?d one day lead the Liz Claiborne clothing company, write a book about the clothing industry or have his name on a campus art museum.
The days of just getting together with friends to put on a show or sell a few burgers for charity are on their way out. In these tough financial times, nonprofits have to become increasingly professional to survive.
John Chadima, senior associate athletic director, resigned over allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances toward a student employee during a Rose Bowl party.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema and his assistants could know by the end of the week whether UW?s 2012 freshman football class turns out to be as robust as it was before two touted offensive tackles withdrew their oral commitments and signed with other schools.
Quoted: But for many K-12 school systems, new technologies, social media sites, and video games are still eyed with suspicion, says Richard Halverson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. ?You have this real split awareness…. For the people who use [such tools] … they are invaluable. [But] for many K-12 schools, it threatens the existing relationship between teachers and students, and it?s seen as … something to be controlled and banned rather than something to be exploited for learning purposes.?
The best news comes from brain researchers at the University of Wisconsin, who find from scans that adults in their middle and upper decades ?seem to have the ability to screen out or tamp down negative emotions; their amygdalae light up when they see positive images but ignore the disturbing ones.?
In the mid-1990s and early 2000s, Cameron MacDonald spent a lot of time combing the playgrounds of neighborhoods from Brookline to Weston to Sudbury. A sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin, MacDonald was looking for nannies, and the typically high-earning mothers for whom they worked. Not surprisingly, she found them in droves.
Noted: Asian-Americans admitted to the University of Wisconsin?s flagship Madison campus in 2008 had a median math and reading SAT score of 1370 out of 1600, compared to 1340 for whites, 1250 for Hispanics, and 1190 for blacks, according to a 2011 study by the Center for Equal Opportunity, a Falls Church, Virginia-based nonprofit group that opposes racial preferences in college admissions.
Textbooks continue to account for a large chunk of college expenses ? an average of $1,168 per student annually at four-year public colleges, according to CollegeBoard. Some U.S. universities are searching for ways to keep more money in students? wallets by making affordable digital textbooks readily available.
A Bonduel High School graduate?s anti-bullying music video became an Internet hit last month after only a few days on YouTube.
“Backward speech is one of these things that seems to be an equal opportunity skill,” explains Lewis Leavitt, who?s now professor emeritus of pediatrics at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The good news is that Wisconsin is not Penn State. It should stay that way.
Six CIOs and senior technology leaders, including UW’s Bruce Maas, talk about their backgrounds, the strengths and skills needed for future CIOs, and the challenges of preparing the next generation of CIOs. They list the most critical competencies for current and future CIOs, and they debate whether these competencies are changing.
From whoopensocker to upscuddle, strubbly to swivet, 50 years after it was first conceived the Dictionary of American Regional English is finally about to reach the end of the alphabet.
Concerns that research about a genetically mutated form of bird flu could escape from labs or fall into the hands of bioterrorists led U.S. scientific advisers to ask two prominent journals to withhold key details on the groundbreaking research, the advisers explained Tuesday.
Researchers are used to explaining scientific processes. Recently they have taken to explaining themselves. As we reported last week, on January 20th scientists who have created a new, more contagious form of bird flu explained in Science and Nature that they would take a 60-day hiatus from their research. The work of Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre, in Rotterdam, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had created such alarm that American officials had asked the two leading scientific journals to censor it.
Citing safety risks of “unusually high magnitude,” a U.S. advisory panel has explained why it recommended limiting publication of two bird flu research papers in late December.
Quoted: Despite the problems, nuclear and particle physicists continue to express broad support for the neutron EDM studies, which they say are a unique complement to the LHC work. ?It?s a constellation of experiments that is critical,? says Michael Ramsey-Musolf, a theoretical physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Members of the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) on Tuesday defended its recommendation that details about how scientists made a virulent form of the H5N1 flu virus not be made public.
A sweep against Western Collegiate Hockey Association rival Bemidji State isn?t the only thing the No. 1 Badgers had to celebrate after last weekend.
Details of a genetically altered strain of the deadly avian flu virus are “a grave concern” to public safety and should be kept under wraps, a federal advisory board declared Tuesday.
If you?re training for a new job someday soon with a video game controller in your hands, thank Constance Steinkuehler. Steinkuehler is on an 18-month assignment at the White House, studying the civic potential of video games.
A panel of scientists and science journalists discuss the debate over avian flu research, including work in University of Wisconsin?Madison labs.
Quoted: ?Sometimes what happens is that a person?s energy improves before their mood improves. So if you still feel horribly depressed and hopeless, but have a return of your energy, your risk of being suicidal increases,? said Dr. Ken Robbins, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose lab is examining the archaic genomes, visited the cave in July. It has a high arched roof like a Gothic cathedral and a chimney to the sky, he said, adding that being there was like walking in the footsteps of our ancestors.
Carthage College and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside have taken steps to make sure the state?s new voter ID law does not get in the way of students casting their ballots.
Quoted: Katy Culver, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said it?s beneficial for Obama to ?take the temperature of different groups of people.?
Quoted: “It makes so much sense, yet there is nothing else like this, maybe in the entire world, but certainly in the United States,” said University of Wisconsin Prof. Andrew Reschovsky, speaking from the campus of Harvard University, where he?s a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
The curtains were drawn and the door was shut, blocking out the rest of the world. Inside, Greg Stiemsma lay in bed while the TV flickered, the noise falling on deaf ears as he watched the monitor without processing the program.
Quoted: ?We are concerned with where this might head concerning with what people can and cannot do with research,? said Rhonda Norsetter, director of federal relations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?We respect the invaluable health research that is being conducted, including, in some cases, animal research.?
Could you live without daily electronic conveniences — Twitter, Facebook, email, texting and more — for 90 days? Jake P. Reilly, a 24-year-old college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, did just that.
Barry Alvarez should be ashamed of his comments regarding the drinking party involving underage Wisconsin students just before the Rose Bowl.
Then he should be reprimanded by the university.
There are more than 1,000 miles between this idyllic college town and Madison, Wis., but that distance must seem even greater in Carolyn A. (Biddy) Martin?s rearview mirror.
The nearly yearlong roar of protesters in Madison, where Ms. Martin had a relatively short and rocky tenure as head of the state?s flagship campus, has been replaced with the calm that whispers through Amherst College like one of Emily Dickinson?s tamer verses.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez reiterated Friday that although he was aware a former UW administrator hosted parties for staffers during bowl trips, he was not aware of the controversial party Dec. 30 and 31 in Los Angeles.
Quoted: But some critics said that shift in focus takes away from what was seen as the administration?s primary goal: enrolling and graduating more low-income students. Further expansions to the Pell Grant Program would do more to make college accessible, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of higher education policy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The connection between the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the iconic N.F.L. franchise it shares a city with goes back to the 1960s. As the story goes, Vince Lombardi, the legendary Packers coach, advised the university?s first chancellor, Edward W. Weidner, to make men?s soccer the signature athletic program rather than football, in part to avoid competing with the Packers for community attention.
This week President Obama laid out a challenge to institutions of higher education to keep tuition in check.
Quoted: “Folks are looking at Wisconsin as a kind of barometer,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “We are a swing state, a purple state, and this could be a pretty good indication of where things are heading nationally.”
Noted: The independent monitors are Kathleen G. Noonan, clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Law;
A Wisconsin Army National Guard officer and his wife will compete in the latest installment of the CBS series “The Amazing Race.”
A nonprofit that?s conducting a controversial review of teacher education schools is suing the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents for access to course syllabuses, according to a complaint filed this week.
The newest Earth-observing satellite, launched into orbit last October, has been renamed to honor the late Verner Suomi, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor often called the father of satellite meteorology.
Another researcher whose work on the H5N1 avian flu has been delayed from publication because of the recommendations of a U.S. government advisory board, and who agreed to a 60-day moratorium on further work, has written that studies of the potentially dangerous virus — including work that creates strains that might infect and sicken humans — must go on.
HOUGHTON ? Seventeen green machines are coming to the snow-white Upper Michigan March 5-10 for the 13th annual SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge, held at Michigan Technological University?s Keweenaw Research Center.
Quoted: ?When you hear the word ?fracking,? what lights up your brain is the profanity,? said Deborah Mitchell, who teaches marketing at the University of Wisconsin?s School of Business. ?Negative things come to mind.?
Neither the cops nor prosecutors out in Los Angeles know anything about some Wisconsin guy by the name of John Chadima. Never got a complaint or a request for an investigation. Three different people in the police department and the district attorney?s office out there checked for me. Nothing.
Why would scientists deliberately create a form of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that is probably highly transmissible in humans? In the growing debate about research that has done precisely that, a key question is whether the public-health benefits of the work outweigh the risks of a potential pandemic if the virus escaped from the lab.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, co-founder of pollster.com and a visiting professor at Marquette on leave from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist whose bird flu research has pulled him into the fray of an international controversy disclosed Wednesday in the journal Nature that the contagious virus created in his lab was not fatal and responded to available vaccines.
Ben Strickland?s rise as a player at Wisconsin – from walk-on defensive back to team captain as a senior in 2007 – was remarkable. The Brookfield Central High School graduate completed a similar rise Wednesday. Strickland was promoted from graduate assistant to full-time assistant coach.
Now that the Rose Bowl incident report involving former Wisconsin senior associate athletic director John Chadima has been made public, a UW spokesman said Wednesday school officials will focus on reviewing reporting procedures involving allegations of sexual assault, and the use of alcohol for off-campus university events.
Fourteen years ago James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin isolated stem cells from human embryos. It was an exciting moment. The ability of such cells to morph into any other sort of cell suggested that worn-out or damaged tissues might be repaired, and diseases thus treated?a technique that has come to be known as regenerative medicine. Since then progress has been erratic and because of the cells? origins controversial. But, as two new papers prove, progress there has indeed been.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka explains that research on transmissible avian flu viruses needs to continue if pandemics are to be prevented.
In the wake of sexual assault charges against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison official e-mailed the entire campus with instructions for what to do if they see, suspect or are the victim of sexual abuse.
Quoted: “It?s a pity how comedy is often seen as culturally suspicious when awards season comes around,” Jonathan Gray, a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, wrote in an email. “I?m pleased to see comedies nominated, but under no illusion that Hollywood and The Oscars won?t simply go back to business as usual.”
Quoted: John Hall, a military historian at the University of Wisconsin, noted that special operations forces have been around since World War II, but they were initially designed to be stay-behind forces in Eastern Europe, a response to the Soviet Union.
NASA?s “Blue Marble” image is one of the best-known high-resolution pictures of our planet. It?s even included as one of the default images for Apple?s iPhone. Now NASA has released a brand-new “Blue Marble 2012,” based on image data from the VIIRS instrument aboard Suomi NPP, the most recently launched Earth-observing satellite.
NASA today released a spectacular, high-resolution “Blue Marble” image of Earth that was taken by a recently launched satellite.The photo was compiled from several images taken Jan. 4 by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite aboard the Earth-observation satellite Suomi NPP. The satellite was renamed Tuesday for the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin. He was considered “the father of satellite meteorology.”
Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez released a statement Wednesday night in the wake of the allegations of sexual assault by former senior associate athletic director John Chadima on a male student.
An airborne strain of avian flu engineered in Wisconsin isn?t lethal and can be blocked with existing medicines, the study?s lead scientist said.
