Quoted: Dr. Ken Robbins, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, said, “Some people don?t make it to full moral development and don?t learn about empathy or feel guilt or remorse.”
Quoted: ?If it passes in Indiana it would certainly galvanize people looking to weaken unions,?? said William Jones, a labor historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: Many people base their systems on past experience and knowledge, said Sharon Derry, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In nature, bird flu kills more than half of the humans it infects — but it?s very hard to catch.
A different sort of countdown was under way on New Year?s Eve at a remote field camp in West Antarctica.
When Brent Heuth and a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin decided to measure the economic impact of cooperative-owned businesses in the United States, they didn?t figure it would be too hard.
The World Health Organization says it will take a role in helping sort through an international scientific controversy over two bird flu studies that the U.S. government says are too dangerous to publish in full.
At a conference in Malta last fall, a virologist announced that by infecting a ferret with a mutated strain of bird flu, then infecting another ferret with nose swabs from the first, and repeating this 10 times, he created a strain of virus that could pass from ferret to ferret without the swab, simply through the air.
UW-Madison Scandinavian Studies professor James Leary believes our sense of place in Wisconsin has a lot to do with it. “The root-for-the-home-team stance is a ubiquitous sports phenomenon,” says Leary. “So like fans everywhere, we love the Pack because they?re ours. But because we?re from Wisconsin we have a special relationship with our state and, by extension with our state?s team.”
Noted: Illinois, with its budget woes and recent income tax increase, serves as a regular foil in Walker?s political narrative. “The governor uses Illinois as a straw man,” said Andrew Feldman, who teaches at UW-Madison and runs a nonprofit that tracks state economic data. “But Illinois has been much better than Wisconsin in job growth.”
Quoted: “Many people who did not qualify in past years may be newly eligible because of lower earnings stemming from the tough economy,” says Judith Bartfeld, Extension food security research and policy specialist and professor at UW-Madison.
Imagine learning to beatbox and breakdance in a college class. Imagine watching lectures and performances by hip-hop artists like Chuck D and Janelle Monáe as program requirements. Students studying as a part of the University of Wisconsin?s First Wave program don?t have to imagine. It?s what they do.
Moms feed us, read to us, clap the loudest, cry the hardest, sit front row at recorder recitals, write notes in our lunchboxes and promise that the hole in our hearts after a break-up won?t stay there forever.
Quoted: Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, a professor at the Centre for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin and a leading expert on the Indus Civilisation, said he had visited the Lahore Fort every year for the last 20 years. ?The monuments appear improved every year I come,? he said, but added that the Fort needed more information signs and public toilets.
James Crow, an influential population geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of congestive heart failure last Wednesday at the age of 95, the New York Times reported. A leader in the field for more than 50 years, Crow helped shape public policy on major genetics issues such as atomic radiation damage and the use of DNA in the courtroom. He was active in the scientific community right up until his death, working on a new paper in his campus office just two weeks ago, the university reported.
Quoted: Meaningful use and accountable care organizations will encourage patient engagement, according to Patti Brennan, a professor of nursing and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and national program director of Project HealthDesign.
In the wake of news last month that researchers had created a version of the deadly bird flu that was easily transmissible by air, a heated debate has arisen in the scientific community about whether or not the research should be published. But some experts are taking the discussion a step further back, and wondering why the research was conducted at all.
As a conservative and a liberal, policy wonk and professor, Washingtonian and Midwesterner ? there isn?t much we can agree on. Where we do see eye to eye is that most aid programs are less cost-effective than they could be. With money scarce and demand for college graduates high, now is the time to fix financial aid.
Imagine learning to beatbox and breakdance in a college class. Imagine watching lectures and performances by hip-hop artists like Chuck D and Janelle Monáe as program requirements. Students studying as a part of the University of Wisconsin?s First Wave program don?t have to imagine. It?s what they do.
Quoted: Professor Morris A. Davis, a real estate expert with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Wisconsin is looking for a new firm to run its EdVest and Tomorrow?s Scholar college savings programs. Wells Fargo Funds Management, which inherited the duties after it purchased Strong Capital Management Inc. of Menomonee Falls in 2004, has told state officials it won?t rebid for the program.
Rep. Steve Nass R-Whitewater on Wednesday called for more transparency in University of Wisconsin-Madison?s inquiry into an allegation of misconduct lodged against a former UW Athletic Department official.
In exchange for the $250 million the state Legislature cut from the University of Wisconsin System?s biennial budget last summer, lawmakers gave campuses authority to make decisions previously reserved for the Madison-based UW System.
In Madison, the biggest polluters are, unsurprisingly, power plants. The biggest polluter in the city is UW-Madison?s Charter Street plant, which releases more than 250,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases — which includes carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide — into the air each year.
University of Wisconsin-Parkside students should see an institution more responsive to their needs as the UW System reacts to a $250 million cut in state funding during the next two years, Chancellor Deborah Ford told a legislative task force Wednesday.
After leading Wisconsin to the Rose Bowl during his lone season with the Badgers, quarterback Russell Wilson has decided to pursue a career in professional football over one in baseball.
Wisconsin center Peter Konz made official today what had been widely suspected late last week: he?s skipping his senior year to enter the NFL draft.
Researchers suspect that one reason middle-aged people are more resilient is that their brains have learned to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Using brain imaging to peek inside that 3 lb. of gray and white matter, researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that in younger adults, the amygdala, the brain?s emotional nut, was activated when they looked at upsetting as well as uplifting images.
H. Edwin Young, who led the University of Wisconsin at Madison through some of the most dramatic campus violence of the Vietnam War era, died Jan. 2 at an assisted living facility in Madison. He was 94.
Quoted: As Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, correctly observed back in 2008, the New Hampshire polls were wrong not because they overestimated Obama?s support; rather, the polls consistently underestimated how many voters would cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton. In fact, the polls were only wrong about the former first lady.
Noted: The latest economists to get on the inflation bandwagon are Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Jeffry Frieden, who teaches international monetary policy at Harvard.
HOUSTON ? Only three years ago, J. J. Watt was delivering pizzas, mopping floors and being picked at like a leftover pepperoni pie by doubters who scoffed at his football dreams.
James F. Crow, a leader in the field of population genetics who helped shape public policy toward atomic radiation damage and the use of DNA in the courtroom, died last Wednesday at his home in Madison, Wis. He was 95.
Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at UW Health, said the human papillomavirus vaccine is meant to supplement safer sex messages, not replace them.
A growing number of Wisconsin parents have personal conviction waivers exempting their children from school vaccination requirements. The trend impacts everyone, according James Conway, a UW Health pediatric infectious diseases specialist, because no vaccine is completely effective, infants are too young for many shots and medical conditions prevent some people from being immunized.
While the New York Times is calling for an influenza virus created in an academic research lab in the Netherlands to either be destroyed or moved to government-controlled laboratories with the highest containment rating because of the danger the virus poses, little is known publicly about another contagious virus engineered in a University of Wisconsin-Madison lab.
The professor who oversees biosafety for the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s controversial avian influenza research responded Monday to mounting criticism about the necessity and safety of the research, saying “ongoing research with H5N1 remains salient.”
Quoted: A study conducted in Milwaukee showed that one of every 20 renter-occupied properties is evicted each year. In mostly black neighborhoods, the rate is one in 10 households. The research was based on an analysis of court records and fieldwork from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led by sociologist Matthew Desmond, now at Harvard University.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward announced Monday that retired Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fiedler will lead a four-person team to conduct an independent review of a recent allegation of misconduct regarding a UW athletic department official, according to a press release issued by the university.
A retired Dane County judge will lead a four-person team looking into the circumstances behind an allegation of misconduct against former University of Wisconsin associate athletic director John Chadima.
More than a hundred years ago, when the telephone was introduced, there was some hand-wringing over the social dangers that this new technology posed: increased sexual aggression and damaged human relationships. ?It was going to bring down our society,? said Dr. Megan Moreno, a specialist in adolescent medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Men would be calling women and making lascivious comments, and women would be so vulnerable, and we?d never have civilized conversations again.?
Quoted: ?Some studies have questioned these treatments, but the bulk of clinical trials have unequivocally endorsed them,? said Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the University of Wisconsin?s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and the chairman of the panel that wrote the guidelines. Dr. Fiore, who has reported receiving payments from drug makers, said that ?there are millions of smokers out there desperate to quit, and it would be a tragedy if they felt, because of one study, that this option is ineffective.?
Does all this constitute a beet renaissance? Irwin Goldman says, absolutely, yes. He breeds beets at the University of Wisconsin, where he?s a professor of horticulture. He has been waiting for this renaissance for years.
Donny Lavrenz set a Rose Bowl record Monday, piling up an estimated 17,694 all-purpose yards. Never heard of him? Now you have.
A 2011 Lincoln High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison student will go great distances to help children.
What do you do when you?ve had a bad day? Depending on the depths of the badness, the cash and time at your disposal, and your post-trauma ability to make complete sentences, you can curl up with a book, hit the gym or the fridge, shop, watch YouTube, or call your mom.
James Crow, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geneticist whose career spanned nearly seven decades, died this week at the age of 95.
A University of Wisconsin source said Sunday that the school is unaware of any criminal charge being filed against John Chadima, a senior associate athletic director who resigned Friday after an allegation of misconduct surfaced.
Noted: “In the past two years, I was studying for a master?s degree in BSU. And I spent ten months in the US last year to continue my study as part of the cooperation program between our university and the University of Wisconsin in America,” said Han. “I am majoring in sports administration and will graduate this year.”
The Supreme Court should grant the petition for review that has been filed in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case in which students have challenged a university?s use of racial and ethnic preferences in undergraduate admissions.
With award season upon us, movie-lovers are rushing to the theaters to see the big contenders. And if you?re like most people, you sit fairly far back, maybe even in the very last row.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison placed a senior associate athletic director on administrative leave Friday after learning of an allegation of misconduct against him, and he resigned later in the day, the school said Saturday.
Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor, says it?s “not out of the question” that Ryan could lose. “He could be made unpopular with senior citizens. He could be linked to Scott Walker. But it?s a high hurdle.”
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is one of the most selective campuses in the UW System, according to a recent report from a state taxpayer advocacy group.
Scientists have long worried that an influenza virus that has ravaged poultry and wild birds in Asia might evolve to pose a threat to humans. Now scientists financed by the National Institutes of Health have shown in a laboratory how that could happen. In the process they created a virus that could kill tens or hundreds of millions of people if it escaped confinement or was stolen by terrorists.
Quoted: To identify the things that contribute to feeling fulfilled and purposeful, Carol Ryff, the director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, developed a list of questions to measure well-being and divided them into six broad categories.
Just before Christmas, the U.S. government announced that a biosecurity advisory board had asked two research teams [including one led by UW?Madison’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka] to strike key details from papers in press at Science and Nature.
The two influenza researchers ? Ron Fouchier and UW?Madison’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka ? whose work has triggered a far-reaching debate on the limits of scientific freedom could hardly have handled their publicity more differently.
UW?Madison chemist and educator Bassam Shakhashiri is known for his dramatic live demonstrations of chemistry in action. As he takes the helm as president of the American Chemical Society this week, he talks about the state of science education and how to engage people in chemistry through the wonders of the lab.
Wisconsin?s brief but satisfying tradition of winning Rose Bowls, established during Barry Alvarez?s 16-year run as head coach, is history.
For the second consecutive season, UW came to Pasadena with an opportunity to end its Rose Bowl drought by beating a quality opponent.
For the second consecutive season, UW coach Bret Bielema and his players made critical errors and left this storied stadium after suffering a crushing defeat.
