Stanford University?s Twitter feed is the most influential among college and university accounts on that microblogging service, according to a new ranking. UW-Madison ranks fourth.
The paper was co-authored by Michael Cacciatore, a University of Wisconsin Ph.D. student; Drs. Dietram Scheufele and Bret Shaw, professors at the University of Wisconsin; and Dr. Elizabeth Corley, a professor at Arizona State University.
The nation celebrates a milestone in our history. Today is the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. This morning on Wake Up Wisconsin, UW professor William Jones came to talk about the origins of MLK day and to discuss where we are as a nation and a community is achieving Dr. King?s dream.
Health officials say a 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student died of bacterial meningitis. The university and the Dane County Coronor?s office believe he had a form of meningitis known as meningococcal disease, a rare and serious bacterial infection that can quickly cause grave illness or death.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is inviting Manitowoc County residents to participate in a survey designed to identify the transportation habits and needs of older residents. The National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is conducting the survey.
Monroe, Wis., is a small city with a big reputation for its cheese. Now, a partnership between manufacturer Orchid Monroe and University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers may expand the city?s expertise to include innovative clean vehicle technology.
Noted: A study once commissioned by the organization found that 72% of broad field social studies students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who were studying to become teachers, had never taken a financial literacy or economics course.
Quoted: Dr. Barb Ingham, food science professor and extension specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Dr. Maher is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Adam Gamoran, a professor of sociology and education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, a new bus line stop is unloading some mixed reaction. Greyhound Express will be making stops on Langdon Street, in front of the Memorial Union on campus, starting Monday. At least four other bus lines currently use the street to pick up and drop off passengers, many of whom are students.
The Wildlife Health Event Reporter website was recently developed by researchers at the Wildlife Health Center and UW-Madison.
Many offices are closed Monday, in recognition of the holiday named for the late civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There?s one part of the holiday that many will fail to focus on, according to William Jones. He?s a history professor at UW-Madison who studies issues of race, class and work. Jones told WUWM?s Ann-Elise Henzl that King?s mission and the holiday itself are tied to labor, and the struggle for better wages and work conditions.
“Bike Baiting,” a new and affordable initiative at Winthrop University, is staving off campus bike thefts and leading to arrests. Winthrop looked to the University of Wisconsin-Madison when creating its program.The UW-Madison Police Department began its program in May 2008. More than 100 bicycle thefts were reported on campus from January 2007 to May 2008, and only one arrest was made during that time, according to information on its website.
Being almost maniacal fans of ?80s films, The A.V. Club has often thought how cool it must have been to be a student at UW-Madison in 1986 while the wonderful cult comedy Back To School was being filmed. Just imagine being at a house party when Rodney Dangerfield and Sam Kinison walked in, or hanging out by a hotel pool with Robert Downey Jr. and ultimate ?80s villain, William Zabka. Madison alum and filmmaker Alex Melli was there, and he was kind enough to e-mail us some cool stories about the month when Back To School took over UW 25 years ago, about which he wrote, ?Overall, I think it did plant/nurture the filmmaking seed in myself.?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course is inviting alumni and friends to help celebrate its 126th anniversary at the program?s annual reunion early next year.
The starting time for Wisconsin?s Big Ten men?s basketball game Sunday at Northwestern has been moved up to 11:30 a.m. from noon.
Nearly half of the nations undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges dont make academics a priority, a new report shows. Instructors tend to be more focused on their own faculty research than teaching younger students, who in turn are more tuned in to their social lives.
Tommy Kuehn seemed to shine in everything he did. Golf. Norwegian dance. School. Cheerleading for the Badgers at UW-Madison, where he was a student. Kuehn, 24, died of suspected bacterial meningitis at St. Mary?s Hospital on Thursday night. But those who knew him say he?s affected more people in his short life than many decades older. “That young man touched more lives than anyone could if they lived to a ripe old age,” said Theresa Johnson, who worked with Kuehn at the Coachman?s Golf Resort pro shop in Edgerton for 9 years.
Quoted: Neil Whitehead, a UW-Madison anthropology professor and an expert in terrorism and violence, and Kathy Cramer Walsh, an associate professor of political science at UW-Madison who has most recently made a study of the disconnect between conservative rural Wisconsinites and their more liberal Madison and Milwaukee brethren.
Quoted: Kent Peterson, a UW-Madison education professor.
Quoted: James Ver Hoeve, a vision scientist at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Steffi Greiner and Petra Amann know nothing about Monday?s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration ? they arrived last week as Austrian exchange students at UW-Madison and watched from a third-floor balcony. “We know about his famous speech,” Greiner said of King, “and we want to learn more.”
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, an economist with the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs.
It?s only 15 minutes into the session, but already every counseling table is full, and more people are waiting. There?s a constant murmur of conversation coming from the three tables, quiet but intense, and punctuated now and then by a louder question, a long sigh or a rueful laugh. Supervising attorney Sarah Orr is explaining options to the middle-aged couple at her table, with a UW-Madison second-year law student by her side. Held Jan. 6, this session of the Foreclosure Answer Clinic was the first offered in the new year, and the 13th since the free program started in July. It was created by the Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce and its legal partners in response to a rising number of homeowners facing foreclosure suits without lawyers ? about 85 percent are unrepresented in court, program sponsors said.
The Legislature?s new Republican leaders will emphasize giving school districts, parents and students more choices as they seek reforms in K-12 education Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon) has hired education policy consultant Sarah Archibald, a UW-Madison professor and researcher at the conservative-leaning Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Archibald has written about attracting high-quality teachers by offering bonuses to top math and science students who decide to teach, making it easier for teachers trained outside Wisconsin to obtain certification here and increasing the grade-point requirement for aspiring teachers above the current 2.5.
In the 1930s, ?40s and ?50s, the Wisconsin School of the Air brought the best instruction and instructors available anywhere in the world into the classrooms of rural schools. At its peak, the collaboration with the University of Wisconsin brought the Wisconsin School of the Air into high schools and even colleges. By the miracle of radio, parents and families at home listened along with their children at school to programs in science, art, math and music. The Wisconsin State Journal editorial board?s agenda should include this resurrection of the “Wisconsin Idea.”
A 24-year-old UW-Madison student died of suspected bacterial meningitis at St. Mary?s Hospital on Thursday night, according to the university and the Dane County Coroner?s Office. Officials did not release the student?s name, but friends identified him as Thomas Kuehn, a sociable student who was on the spirit squad and wanted to go to medical school.
UW-Madison students can begin registering online Tuesday to take part in the Badger Volunteers program, which sends students to help out at schools, community centers, food banks and more. The program involves more than 400 students.
The funeral for Anna Rose Shoemaker, 20, of Hudson will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, at Faith Community Church, 777 Carmichael Road.
The portraits of Anna Shoemaker and her good friend Elizabeth Burns that emerge from the 2008 Hudson High School yearbook are of two smart, talented, well-liked girls ? full of life and with bright futures.
Friends and family are holding a memorial today, for the UW-student who died Thursday.
A man who died from meningitis at a Madison hospital on Thursday was identified as 24-year-old Stoughton native Tommy Kuehn, a University of Wisconsin graduate, according to Madison and Dane County public health officials.
As diversity programs at University of Wisconsin campuses continue to strengthen, school officials are looking ahead to the new semester.
AquaMost, a Madison company with a new type of water purification system developed through UW-Madison research, has obtained $1 million from investors, including Wisconsin Investment Partners, Madison, and the Golden Angels Network, Milwaukee.
University of Wisconsin System academic staff are now enlisting the help of state legislators in an effort to prevent getting folded into existing labor unions. Four Republican lawmakers said they will introduce legislation to stop the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) from assigning nearly 500 UW System staff members into unions, according to a news release from academic staff.
UW-Madison students and other Downtown dwellers will be able to catch the Greyhound bus from campus, starting Monday. The Greyhound Express stop is moving from Kelley?s Market at 636 W. Washingto
Anna Shoemaker, 20, of Hudson died Thursday at about 1 p.m. at a Duluth hospital as a result of injuries suffered in an accident near Ashland early Wednesday morning.
A Hudson, Wis., woman has died in an accident in Bayfield County.Anna Shoemaker, 20, died today as a result of injuries she sustained in a car-semi accident Wednesday morning.
UW-Madison junior Anna Shoemaker died Thursday afternoon due to injuries caused by a car-semi crash Wednesday morning.
Quoted: Falling temperatures typically bring a procession of tiny victims to hospital emergency rooms. ?I usually admit 10 to 12 injuries per year because of this,? said Dr. Lee Faucher, a surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Burn Center.
Quoted: Michael Rothschild, emeritus professor at the school of business at the University of Wisconsin, calculated that if terrorists destroyed completely one of America?s 40,000 shopping malls per week, your odds of being there would be one in a million.
Quoted: ?It?s asking a lot for a piece of paper to change actual consumer behavior,? John Kozup, an assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin, said in an interview. ?It could be a decision aid but that is it.?
With two unionized colleges in the UW System and four more looking to do the same, there are concerns about what the presence of unions means for shared governance at UW campuses.
Balance. This is the key to Colin Tucker?s pursuit of a pro snowboarding career while working toward an undergraduate degree in legal studies from UW-Madison. Balance is essential to his competition results but also to chasing twin ambitions ? one academic, the other sporting ? at the same time.
The $1.4-billion in budget cuts proposed this week for California?s public colleges could prompt a new year of protests that decry higher tuition, stagnant employee salaries, and the growing inability of Californians to afford college.
Greyhound Express will begin service at the University of Wisconsin?s Memorial Union at 800 Langdon Street starting Monday, Jan. 17.
Officials at Pima Community College, where Jared L. Loughner was a student, believed that he might be mentally ill or under the influence of drugs after a series of bizarre classroom disruptions in which he unnerved instructors and fellow students, including one occasion when he insisted that the number 6 was actually the number 18, according to internal reports from the college.
Many people had a glimpse of the deep delusions and festering anger of Jared L. Loughner, but none seemed in a better position to connect the dots than officials at Pima Community College.
Noted: Another expert on the weak force, University of Wisconsin professor Michael Ramsey-Musolf, considers the muon experiment to be a tour-de-force piece of work. The important thing for him is that the uncertainty of the muon lifetime has now dropped by a factor of ten. But he also said that a more precise lifetime and a more precise knowledge of the strength of the weak nuclear force tells us just a bit more about nature.
Madison and a coalition of community partners have far surpassed a clean energy goal of reducing carbon emissions city wide by 100,000 tons over four years, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced Wednesday. The coalition, known as MPower, includes Madison Gas & Electric, UW-Madison, Sustain Dane, UW-Extension and others, and documented eliminating 324,443 metric tons of carbon monoxide since the initiative was launched in 2007, Cieslewicz said in a statement.
UW-Madison men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan might just be the best coach in all of college sports.
Over the last two months, three American universities have been mopping up from data breaches, the largest–at Ohio State University–affecting 760,000 people. The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s security incident involved 60,000 people; and a St. Louis University breach affected staff employed by the university for five years or longer.
Quoted: “20 years from now, we?ll probably see maybe half the farms that are there now, because that?s been the trend and I see no reason why that trend won?t continue,” said Phil Harris, an agriculture professor at UW-Madison.
A new medical procedure was used for the very first time in the state at UW Health in Madison.
The chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley is drawing rebukes from some commentators after he linked the shooting rampage in Tucson this past weekend to the failure of the Dream Act and the passage of Arizonas immigration law?an unusually political statement from a prominent university leader.
A disabling eye condition that typically strikes in older age may be less common than in the past, suggests a large new study.Researchers estimate that macular degeneration — which involves damage to the center of the retina, making it difficult to see fine details — affects less than seven percent of the U.S. population aged 40 and older.
Quoted: UW-Madison communications professor Barry Orton.
When city or UW-Madison police identify people with mental health problems, officers work to connect them with needed services in the hope of preventing incidents like Saturday?s shooting rampage that killed six people and injured 14, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson, Ariz.
….UW-Madison Lt. Pete Ystenes said dealing with people who have mental health issues and whom police believe could become a danger to others is challenging. For students, the university has resources available to provide assistance. But when it comes to non-students, unless a person has committed a crime or is clearly a danger to themselves or others, there is little police can do if someone?s behavior is abnormal, Ystenes said.
