The abstract, written by University of Wisconsin?Madison researchers who have not answered e-mails, says that the ATLAS experiment has found more pairs of photons at an energy of 115 billion electron-volts (GeV) than expected.
Maggie Delaney-Potthoff’s unique approach to teaching singing is apparent during a visit to one of her voice classes, this one as unusual as her instruction: Singing for Screamers. The class, offered through UW-Madison Continuing Studies, is an addition to Delaney-Potthoff?s established offerings of beginning and advanced voice classes. It is designed for rock ?n? roll performers and ?anyone who just really wants to belt, to get their power out,? she said.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Jeff Sindelar, a meat scientist in the UW-Madison Meat Laboratory.
Changes to the UW System. As we wrote last week in this space, we oppose splitting the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the rest of the UW System. While we agree that changes are necessary to allow universities to be more flexible and more efficient, they should be applied to the entirety of the system — not just to Madison. This is better achieved through standalone legislation than through a provision in the budget bill.
The director of the University of Wisconsin Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center calls it the best news researchers could have hoped for.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board met Friday afternoon and approved four recommendations of the UW Department of Athletics regarding contracts for winter sports head coaches.
New results from a drilling project in Greenland suggest that the ice sheet there may be more stable?and Antarctica?s may be less stable?than previously thought. The findings, which come from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project, were presented on Thursday at a symposium on Antarctic science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Wisconsin?s more than 300,000 state workers represent about 14% of the state?s work force. They will experience the equivalent of a 7.7% cut in take-home pay due to a provision requiring them to pay for pensions and pay more for health care, according to Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
William Cronon, an American history professor at the University of Wisconsin, launched his new Scholar as Citizen blog with a lengthy post about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservatively funded and fairly secretive group which is drafting reams of legislation for states across the country and has been since 1973.
Quoted: “Once you have an exemption for [foreign-exchange] transactions, you immediately have one that also covers interest rate transactions, and the two together represent roughly 90%” of over-the-counter derivatives trades, said Antonio Mello, a finance professor at the University Of Wisconsin (Madison) School of Business. “So that would be a major portion of the [over-the-counter] market that would immediately become somewhat exempted” from the new derivatives rules.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez has restructured his senior staff following the departure of two top aides, the school announced Friday afternoon.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Kathy Cramer Walsh says voters here have always had their disagreements, “but Wisconsinites, in general, are good at sort of smoothing over differences and getting along. And right now we?re not getting along, and it?s blown out into the open. I?d say it?s pretty different. It feels un-Wisconsin-like to me.”
It?s been a mission that?s taken ten years — Sunday night, two leading professors at the UW-Madison reacted to the news that 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden had been killed. (Video.)
I can?t believe the University of Wisconsin can consider the UW physicians at the recent demonstrations at the state Capitol frivolous or unprofessional. Never in my lifetime have I witnessed government treating people ? many who considered themselves professional, as UW graduates usually do ? so callously.
Quoted: Paul Williams, a plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, developed a Brassica plant with a rapid life cycle for his research on disease-resistant vegetables, and it didn?t take him long to realize that his creation ?might be useful for teaching principles of plant biology.? Today, through the Wisconsin Fast Plants Program, which he developed, his Brassica plants have been shipped to thousands of classrooms around the world.
At least one Wisconsin farm organization says it?s backing the New Badger Partnership, which would make the University of Wisconsin-Madison autonomous from the rest of the UW-System.
Barry Alvarez tried to shake hands with as many runners as he could at the finish line of the Crazylegs Classic Saturday morning. It was Alvarez?s way to say thank you because the money raised by the Classic goes to the University of Wisconsin athletic department. There were 19,430 registered walkers and runners in Saturday?s event that included an 8-kilometer run and a 2-mile walk. That was the second-largest number of entrants for the 30th annual event, according to Murawski.
Another state agricultural college will be working with Case IH and its dealers to provide students with access to the newest farm equipment and precision technologies available on the market. The company announced it is partnering with the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Agricultural Research Stations to deliver around 150 pieces of equipment to the schools 12 research stations for a nominal fee. The dealers are in the process of delivering tractors as well as equipment for tillage, spraying, planting and harvesting, and skid steer loaders. They will also assist with normal scheduled maintenance.
UW-Madison is considering a new alcohol intervention program that could include a component that allows students to opt out of an underage drinking ticket in exchange for taking courses on the risks of alcohol abuse. The program is one that has been nationally recognized as a model to reduce problem drinking on campuses and could mark a significant shift in the way it is handled at UW-Madison. The goal is ?trying to reduce the number of students who are having negative consequences from alcohol,? said Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services, ?whether that be trouble with the law, drinking to the point where they get into trouble with housing or academic difficulties.?
City leaders are interested in ending the Mifflin Street block party once and for all after a huge crowd turned out for the 42nd annual party Saturday that culminated in two people being stabbed and three police officers getting injured.
What universities offer the best professors and campus life? RateMyProfessors thinks it knows. It has compiled a list of the top 25 universities that have great professors and campus environment. (UW-Madison is ranked #3.)
The number of people who aren?t paying back their student loans is on the rise, and the government is increasingly threatening to sue them for the money. The amount of loan defaults that the Education Department has referred to Justice Department lawyers for possible legal action has risen dramatically since before the recession and nearly doubled from 2009 to last year.
Next fall, a group of 10-12 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will live together in a dorm dubbed the Russian House. Throughout the semester, they will speak, read, watch TV and pretty much do all their communicating in Russian.”The idea is that we are creating a little bubble for them of Russia on the Madison campus in a supportive environment,” says Diana Murphy, associate director of the Russian Flagship Center and Language Institute.
Police are still investigating two stabbings that happened at the Mifflin Street Block Party last night.
The Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Cranberry Growers Association is behind the New Badger Partnership, which would make UW-Madison autonomous from the rest of the UW-System.
Please forgive me if this seems hurried. I?m writing it at my publicly funded place of employment, during work hours, and I?m worried that I might be accused of malfeasance, since it?s my fiduciary responsibility to keep such communications of a nonpersonal nature. But both Peter Wood and Peter Lake miss the point in “Whose E-Mail Is It, Anyway?” (The Chronicle, April 3).
Students gathered in the hallway outside Chancellor Biddy Martin?s office in Bascom Hall Friday to urge the University of Wisconsin?s chief executive to plot an alternate course for the school?s future.
It?s a race that attracts thousands of runners each year, and seemingly every runner has a unique reason for participating in Madison?s annual Crazylegs Classic.
Of the two men who were stabbed at the Mifflin Street Block Party in Madison on Saturday, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student whom friends and neighbors have identified as Matt Warnert suffered by far the worst injuries.
Apparently, I attend Koch University.At least, that?s what a flier from last week?s protest of the New Badger Partnership atop Bascom told me. The flier also had a picture of Chancellor Biddy Martin photoshopped onto the body of Queen Elizabeth.
In an appointments meeting spanning nearly nine hours, the Associated Students of Madison elected Allie Gardner as chair and Beth Huang as vice chair of Student Council for the body?s eighteenth session.
Mike Mikalsen and I don?t agree on much. Mikalsen, the research assistant and lead strategist for state Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, has played a central role in Nass? work as the main thorn in the side of UW-Madison. So as I spoke with Mikalsen over the phone last week concerning the proposed New Badger Partnership, it was no surprise that I disagreed with much of what he said.
A year ago, the Association of American Universities quietly revised the criteria it uses to decide which research institutions deserve a place in the highly selective group. The impact of those changes is now being felt — like a punch in the gut — by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Syracuse University, which are leaving the association.
Critics of a plan to split the University of Wisconsin-Madison off from the rest of the UW System believe they are gaining traction as lawmakers express their doubts, but UW-Madisons chancellor says she remains confident.
A new book from the University of Wisconsin Press has come under harsh criticism from sources with links to the Rwandan government.
Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights After Mass Violence is a collection of essays edited by Scott Straus, an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Lars Waldorf, a senior lecturer at the Center for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, in Britain.
Quoted: UW-Madison?s Jonathan Martin, chair of the UW-Madison?s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department.
I decided to use the wedding as a sort of topical prop to help me draw a cartoon on a topic that I do care about, UW-Madison?s attempt to split off from the rest of the UW-System.
UW-Madison animal researchers claim medical progress depends on animal models, and that animal research is valuable and transparent. Yet they didn?t want further public discussion, and they managed to silence further “sifting and winnowing” by promising to hold their own public forums.
Quoted: Audrey Trainor, an associate professor of education at UW-Madison.
After all the bills were paid, the University of Wisconsin had a positive net margin of $79,168 from the Rose Bowl.
J.J. Watt was selected with the 11th pick overall by the Houston Texans, while Gabe Carimi went to the Chicago Bears with the 29th pick overall, giving the Badgers two first-round picks for the first time since 2001.
Al Wortley is something of a celebrity when it comes to the Crazylegs Classic. No one really knows how many runners have taken part in all 29 Crazylegs prior to this year?s event, but Wortley, a retiring University of Wisconsin professor emeritus in the College of Engineering, is one. “I?ve got every one of the shirts,” said a prideful Wortley, who plans to run his 30th and final Crazylegs on Saturday.
Noted: These were the flashiest debates, and they brought some new light as well as heat to well-established disagreements. Listen for the judicious summaries of the differing positions by Molly Jahn, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and her essential call for adding the “environmental balance sheet,” similar to Hirshberg?s call to include externalities, in any discussion of sustainability. Jahn also mentioned a fresh-as-of-last-week coalition of growers usually on opposite sides of the table: industrial or, as Sarah Alexander, of the Keystone Center gently told us to call it, “commodity” agriculture, and small farmers, who know they need to share information and unite to save resources and keep farming. The group is just forming and will soon lay out a strategy.
Some of the doctors at the University of Wisconsin who gave out sick notes to union supporters skipping work to protest face punishment ranging from written reprimands to docked pay and loss of leadership positions.
Of course they call him ?Boomer. ?What else would the Nashville Predators call Blake Geoffrion, the progeny of Montreal Canadiens legend Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion? It?s a most obvious nickname, for a most unique player.
Next fall, a group of 10-12 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will live together in a dorm dubbed the Russian House.
Quoted: “It?s historic from just about any perspective that you want to take,” said Jonathan Martin, a UW-Madison atmospheric science professor. “Conditions have been perfect for a series of these outbreaks, one of the conditions is really moist air in the boundary layer, the lowest part of the atmosphere. Another very important condition is strong wave type disturbances in the middle troposphere, strong jet stream, and that?s been in place. We don?t know how it got as strong as it got in this particular instance; sometimes it?s interesting to find that out.”
Since I graduated from the UW-Madison last May, my sense of attachment to the university has actually increased. Still, I couldn?t help but feel like a poseur as I filled out a Wisconsin Alumni Association membership form online.
One person who knows the NFL Draft Day roller coaster well is former Badger and NFL Pro Bowler Al Toon.
The head of the University of Wisconsin System says that splitting off the Madison campus from the rest of the statewide public college system would be costly and would damage the reputations of all campuses.
Many observers are worried about the latest skirmish in the battle to destroy American higher education, which involves the distinguished environmental historian William Cronon at the University of Wisconsin. As has now been widely reported, on March 17, Stephan Thompson?an operative for the Republican Party of Wisconsin?used the state?s Open Documents law to demand copies of all emails to and from Cronon since January 1 that mention Wisconsin governor Scott Walker or any of a number of other words related to the state?s recent labor debates. Professor Cronon had written critically on his blog Scholar as Citizen of Wisconsin Republicans? recent efforts to curb the rights of state workers, and Thompson clearly hoped to catch him using his university email to engage in pro-union or pro-Democratic politics, which would violate state law.
An experiment in a US lake suggests that ecosystem collapses could be predicted, given the right monitoring.
When you are sleep deprived some of your neurones actually fall asleep and can lead you to make mistakes, new research has found. Professor Giulio Tononi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, and colleagues, report their study on rats in the journal Nature.
Since I graduated from the UW-Madison last May, my sense of attachment to the university has actually increased. Still, I couldnt help but feel like a poseur as I filled out a Wisconsin Alumni Association membership form online.
A team of researchers in Wisconsin and Italy has found that in rats kept awake past their bed times, their brains begin to turn themselves off, neuron by neuron, though the rat is still awake. Not only that, but the neurons that we use the most during the day are the ones that appear most likely to go offline. “It?s very worrisome. It means that even before we have obvious global signs of sleepiness, there are more local signs of tiredness and they have consequences on performance,” says Chiara Cirelli, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and one of the researchers.
The more than 40-year-old tuition agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin has turned into a good financial deal for Minnesota students, while Wisconsin officials are working to reduce the program?s cost. Wisconsin paid $12.9 million to the state of Minnesota and its colleges and universities for the 10,301 Wisconsin students who went west for the 2009-2010 school year, according to a report released Wednesday. That was the largest tab since at least 1975. The rising expense prompted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to ask the Legislature in March to change the reciprocity agreement to make Wisconsin students pay a greater share of their education in Minnesota. That would shrink the state?s obligation. The request is pending.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor.
The closed eyes, the unresponsiveness, the drool ? sleep is an easily recognizable, all-encompassing state. But the divide between sleep and wakefulness may not be as clearcut as we thought.
Quoted: “It would be better to deal with issues like the undervalued renminbi more directly and openly,” said Menzie Chinn, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin. “I am concerned that if these problems are allowed to fester for too long, voters will force Congress into an open trade war. And that would be bad for everybody.”
