Quoted: “They put in a lot more time than people realize. They also spend their own money, often, on supplies and other things to help in the classroom,” said Deborah Mitchell, a retail expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. “With what?s been going on with the budget in the state, they have less to spend.”
If you like lager beer, you have Christopher Columbus to thank for it. The long-standing mystery of where the yeast that makes cold-temperature lager beer fermentation possible has been solved, in the beech forests of Patagonia in Argentina.
Ice cold beer: In these dog days of summer, few things are better. So, let?s raise a glass and toast Saccharomyces eubayanus, newly discovered yeast that helped make cold-fermented lager a runaway success.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are looking for two men wanted in connection with a sexual assault early Monday morning on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Scientists have identified a yeast that led to the discovery of lager.
How did lager beer come to be? After pondering the question for decades, scientists have found that an elusive species of yeast isolated in the forests of Argentina was key to the invention of the crisp-tasting German beer 600 years ago.
We have to confess we didn?t know that for decades, scientists have been trying to find the “parent yeast” that makes lager beer possible.
Quoted: When you play the angles, a Walker recall looks increasingly unlikely, says Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin?Madison political scientist. ?I think it could happen,? he told me, ?but between the letdown of not having succeeded fully this time and the competition in 2012, I think it?s going to wither away.?
Geneticists have discovered the wild yeast that is believed made possible cold-temperature fermentation — and the creation of the first lager beers.
A study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that climate change is threatening a native fish found in the state?s deepest and coldest bodies of water, and researchers warn the population may drop by up to 70 percent within the century and affect fishing in the state.
A study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that climate change is threatening a native fish found in the state?s deepest and coldest bodies of water, and researchers warn the population may drop by up to 70 percent within the century and affect fishing in the state.
Ice cold beer: In these dog days of summer, few things are better. So, let’s raise a glass and toast Saccharomyces eubayanus, newly discovered (by a team including Chris Todd Hittinger, a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) yeast that helped make cold-fermented lager a runaway success.
Quarterback Russell Wilson can?t help but stand out among Wisconsin?s four captains for 2011, even as he tries to blend in with his new teammates. Wilson, defensive tackle Patrick Butrym, free safety Aaron Henry and fullback Bradie Ewing are all seniors.
Members of the Teaching Assistants Association representing University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students and its UW-Milwaukee counterpart voted by undisclosed margins not to seek a formal election to keep their official status with the state, top leaders for the two groups said.
One hundred years ago, Wisconsin made history by enacting the first constitutionally valid worker?s compensation law. Worker?s comp was one of many innovative laws pioneered for the country by Wisconsin?s Progressive movement.
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin along with state managers and legislators gushed forth with many progressive legislative ideas, including factory safety laws, child labor laws, utility regulation and unemployment insurance. Teddy Roosevelt, the country?s Progressive in Chief, was a big fan of “The Wisconsin Idea” for public policy-making.
Just as a team needs a solid game plan to win a football game, a fan needs a sound strategy to succeed at Badger Football Family Fun Day, the annual event in which thousands of UW-Madison faithful trample the turf in Camp Randall stadium to score autographs from players and coaches. For Brad Schroeder of Delavan, the key is beating everyone else off the line by being first in line.
The UW Athletic Department recently announced it is unveiling Badgerville, a free party before Badgers football games. Billed as the “official pre-game event of Wisconsin Athletics” – presented by Johnsonville Sausage – it will be located on the grass field just north of Camp Randall Stadium along Breese Terrace. The event will feature food, beverages, a chance to get autographs from UW-Madison athletes (past and present) and members of the UW Marching Band.
As a pink gooey substance oozed between her fingers, 12-year-old Sydney Fry said that making the concoction was the best part of the Fun with Chemistry camp she attended on the UW-Madison campus. “It?s fun to play with,” Sydney said about the glue-based mixture. “I?m trying to get it under control.” The white glue-based mixture – tinted red so it came out pink – was one of the activities to learn about polymers at the recent camp, which is one of the Institute for Chemical Education Summer Chemistry Camps.
Ellie Arkin doesn?t speak Latin, so upon entering Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Madison on a recent Sunday, the 21-year-old UW-Madison student opened a Latin-to-English translation book provided by the church. For the next hour, she and many of the other parishioners followed along in the book as the Mass unfolded mostly in Latin. For centuries, this was the only way Catholics around the world experienced Mass. Reforms ushered in by Vatican II in the 1960s largely eliminated Latin Mass, but now, across the country and in the Madison Catholic Diocese, traditionalists are seeking its comeback.
Whether or not quarterback Russell Wilson was elected as a captain, he was going to be one of the leaders on the University of Wisconsin football team this season. His new teammates just made it official, with Wilson being selected as one of four senior captains, along with fullback Bradie Ewing, defensive tackle Patrick Butrym and free safety Aaron Henry. ?My goal is always to be a leader on the team, whether it?s a title or not,? Wilson said after practice on Monday, one day after the results of the team voting were announced.
The Union Terrace is scheduled to get a makeover next year, prompting an outcry from some Memorial Union users who worry that spectacular lake views from one of Madison?s signature spots will be obscured. At issue is a planned expansion to the north of the Union Theater for a glassed-in student lounge and theater lobby. Mark Guthier, Wisconsin Union director, said the addition will not reduce terrace seating. He said a study found that views of sunsets over Lake Mendota will be changed ?very little.?
Noted: One of UW?s top ALS researchers said its an important finding. “What they show is that in all three forms they share the same mechanism, that is the impaired function of Ubiquilin2,” said Dr. Su Chun Zhang, an ALS researcher at UW?s Waisman Center.
Madison police are investigating the sexual assault of a UW Madison student. It happened early Monday morning as the woman was walking home alone.
Sarah Lamers called home a little more often than she?d originally anticipated her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Quoted: Dr. Arnold Wald, a gastroenterologist at UW Hospital and Clinics, said celiac disease and gluten intolerance are bigger problems than formerly realized. Whether a person has either condition is often hard to prove, he said.
Quoted: ?It?s a whole new kind of preservation problem,? said Debra Shapiro, UW-Madison archivist. ?Digital images are not forever. Computers crash. Technology becomes outdated. Not many people are thinking down the road.?
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: “Malaria used to occur regularly in Wisconsin and was sometimes called autumnal fever,” according to UW-Madison entomology Professor Susan Paskewitz, because the affliction was most common in the fall in 1800s Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema wanted to see the current eight-game Big Ten Conference schedule stay intact, but that wasn?t enough to sway his boss. Late last month, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez voted with the majority of his peers to enact a nine-game league schedule beginning in 2017. “The fact that people want to see us play other Big Ten teams,?? Alvarez said this week. “We?ve got great TV contracts; they?ll even get better. Fans don?t want to see Big Ten schools playing (Football Championship Subdivision) teams.??
The course for the Madison Mini-Marathon runs slightly uphill for much of the middle segment of the race and passes by the Capitol, Kohl Center, Camp Randall Stadium and Arboretum before finishing at UW?s Memorial Union. ?That?s definitely why I chose to do it, because I enjoy the course,? said women’s winner Katie Howrey. ?You start and finish at the Union, and that?s one of the great ways to showcase the Madison area.? UW graduate student Francis Eanes followed up on his Madison Marathon victory by claiming the men’s and overall title.
Wisconsin is ranked No. 11 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll, released Saturday.
AquaMost is working to market water purification technology based on research done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its device destroys a variety of pathogens in water, including bacteria, viruses and fungi. It can also destroy harmful chemicals that can contaminate drinking water.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Quoted: “You really need to hear that voice; just reading a written message isn?t good enough,” says lead author Leslie Seltzer, postdoctoral fellow in biological anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Despite significant losses to the NFL, the Badgers still have the personnel to approach last season?s school-record offensive output.
Citing high costs, sluggish Internet speeds on public computers and limited bandwidth for researchers, University of Wisconsin System officials are building a $37 million high-speed Internet network across the state ? a web of fiber stretching from Wausau to Superior. But a legal challenge is raising questions about the need and appropriateness of that effort. The telecommunications industry is suing to stop the project, arguing it not only violates state law, but it?s duplicative and a waste of public resources.
The 3,000-member teaching assistants union at UW-Madison has voted narrowly against seeking official state certification under a controversial new law that prohibits most collective bargaining for most public sector employees. Under the law signed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, teachers and other public workers would need to vote for their unions each year in order to bargain for cost-of-living raises. The law no longer allows negotiations on working conditions, benefits or anything else.
Quoted: ?There is no threat to China from the United States,? observes Edward Friedman, a China expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?If there are any threats to China?s rise, they lie inside China, i.e., local greed and conservative politics.?
Quoted: But Democrats lost a potential candidate to oppose Walker when Russ Feingold said Friday that he wouldn?t run. It could be awhile before a candidate emerges, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said.
MENASHA ? The abrupt retirement of James Perry as dean and campus executive officer of the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley in February stemmed from misconduct weeks earlier in Africa, The Post-Crescent has learned.
Despite a palpable anxiety in the United States over China?s looming political power, American academe is also optimistic about China. Colleges and universities are drawn toward the nation not only as a haven for international exchange, but also as a source for full-tuition-paying students.
The rain delayed the Madison Mini-Marathon by about an hour and a half on Saturday.
Quoted: It?s a blockbuster of an announcement says UW-Madison Political Scientist David Canon. ?I?m a little bit surprised. I?m certainly not shocked but I was certain he would run for one of the other.?
The Teaching Assistants? Association at the University of Wisconsin at Madison dates to 1966. In 1970, following a four-week strike, the graduate students at Madison became the first T.A. union to win a contract. Over the years, the union — affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers — has been a leader in the drive to promote collective bargaining for graduate student workers.
With speculation swirling that Texas A&M will soon jump from the decaying Big 12 Conference to the Southeastern Conference, a move that could set off another round of conference musical chairs, fans have wondered what the next move is for the Big Ten Conference. If you believe Big Ten officials, their next move is to hold fast at 12 schools (with the addition of Nebraska), barring Conference Armageddon.
Wisconsin?s 2012 non-conference football schedule, released Thursday, is highlighted by a Sept. 8 matchup against Oregon State.
Quoted: “Getting employment back up is going to have a lot to do with getting that housing market problem healed and getting us back on track,” said Steve Malpezzi, a business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Four months after he left office, former Mayor Dave Cieslewicz has taken a position leading a new community development corporation that will try to revitalize the Greenbush and Vilas neighborhoods on the Near West Side. The corporation will be funded by Meriter and St. Mary?s hospitals, UW-Madison and Madison Gas and Electric.
Quoted: The process of working with principals on problems at school can be fraught with inequity, said UW-Madison education professor Beth Graue, who is also a former Randall parent.
The University of Wisconsin athletic director says that despite his family filing claims for at least $1 million, he doesn?t expect to recover any of the money he invested with jailed Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro, the man at the heart of a massive Miami football scandal.
Some state employee unions are suggesting that members wear black to work on Aug. 25. The somber garb should match the mood of most state workers whose paychecks that day will, for the first time, reflect the steep increases in employee contributions for health benefits and retirement contained in Gov. Scott Walker?s budget.
Noted: The large influx of Latinos to metro New Orleans after Katrina produced diverse reactions ranging from gratitude for their much-needed labor to resentment among workers who perceived the newcomers as opportunistic competition. University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Elizabeth Fusel, a former faculty member at Tulane University, has researched our region?s changing face and compiled her studies.
A 20-year-man was arrested in connected with a stabbing near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on July 16.
Quoted: Allan Odden, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on teacher compensation, has studied performance-pay models across the country for more than a decade and said the failure of some recent initiatives can be attributed to the fact many merit pay programs have been implemented as a ?pilot? program rather than being integrated with other programs and additional resources. He pointed to a study by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University that found student test scores did not improve when middle-school math teachers in Nashville were offered bonuses tied to the results.
Quoted: “These aren?t necessarily views that the larger electorate is primarily motivated by,” said Charles Franklin, who studies public opinion and politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Minnesota has finalized an agreement with the state of Wisconsin that will continue a tuition reciprocity program for college students from both states. But changes are in store for Wisconsin students.
Quoted: In general, such restructuring is expensive, but it provides companies with the flexibility to address debt issues in an orderly way, said Jim Seward, an associate professor of finance and academic director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Miami athletic director Shawn Eichorst put on a brave face Thursday, speaking out for the first time since Miami football players were accused of getting cash, gifts and prostitutes from ex-booster Nevin Shapiro.
A new study likely to be controversial in some quarters suggests that hunters are not especially good wildlife stewards when the wildlife in question are wolves.
Making computers behave like humans has taken another step forward.
