MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Minority, disabled and gay students say they’re having a tougher time surviving on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus than most students, according to a survey the university released Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Competing proposals targeting fetal tissue research in Wisconsin are up for a public hearing in a state Senate committee.
Noted: After taking a look, the lab asked her to freeze the birds and send them in. In conjunction with the University of Wisconsin–Madison wildlife laboratory, researchers identified the worms as the parasite nematode Splendidofilaria pectoralis, which is found in warmer-climate species. The researchers saw the appearance of the disease as an indicator of the rapidly changing climates in northern areas and published an article based on the findings in the Ecological Society of America Journal, all based on Kotongan’s original post on the LEO network.
“Every state in our union has a World War I centennial commission and this symposium is the Wisconsin World War I Centennial Commission’s primary event to commemorate our state’s contributions to World War I,” said Dr. John Hall, Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and symposium organizer.
Noted: A dozen or so years later, when he arrived at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and fell in love with coding, he learned about the community of scientists who had been using computers to simulate storms since the 1970s. In the earliest renderings, most computers couldn’t re-create any features of a tornado that were less than a kilometer wide or tall, meaning they could re-create the broad contours of a storm but none of its important details. Over time, driven in part by advances in microprocessing power, scientists gradually sharpened the resolution from 1 kilometer to 500 meters and eventually to 100 meters, the storm and the tornado steadily coming into focus.
Noted: And plant reproduction, oy. The blends of sex and no-sex don’t fit into a tidy biological species concept. Consider a new variety of a western North American species that Ertter and botanist Alexa DiNicola of the University of Wisconsin–Madison named this year. Potentilla versicolor var. darrachii belongs to a genus that’s closely related to strawberries. Plants in the genus open little five-petaled flowers and readily form classic seeds that mix genes from pollen and ovule. On occasion, though, the genes in the seed’s embryo are only mom’s. “They basically use seeds as a form of cloning,” Ertter says. The male pollen in these cases merely jump-starts formation of the seed’s food supply.
Sure, fertilizer, irrigation and weed control can make a baseball field look pretty. But there’s a more practical reason for thick, weed-free turf.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior is dropping a hefty chunk of its academic offerings as it moves to streamline its programming, it announced Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior announced Tuesday it’s suspending 25 programs, including 9 majors, 15 minors and one graduate program. The university has now suspended 40 programs since 2014. The announcement surprised faculty, some of whom said they were unaware their programs were at risk.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, who heads UW-Madison’s Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence, said a lot of the growth in Halloween sales can be attributed to the holiday’s growing popularity among adults.
I am writing regarding the re-organization of the UW Colleges that is under consideration by the UW System Administration and scheduled to be acted upon by the UW Board of Regents at its November meeting.
Jacob Eugster was in 9th grade when he asked his parents if they could turn their family’s farm into a haunted house for Halloween. Now it’s one of the scariest and most elaborate Halloween attractions around.
Before the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has even approved a proposal to merge the two-year colleges with four-year universities, campus officials are making plans for what those changes may look like.
Dr. Jerlando F.L. Jackson—an expert on workforce diversity and workplace discrimination in higher education—and a prolific researcher on issues relating to Black males, was awarded the Alumni Achievement Award from the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State University.
In a little-noticed offshoot of the debate about free speech on campus, Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin and Minnesota have called for letting students opt out of required fees that go to clubs and causes with which they disagree.
University of Wisconsin Colleges’ top administrator says merging the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County with a larger, four-year campus could bolster declining enrollment at the two-year school.
Computer experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say illegal downloading has gone down over the years.
Noted: Now, students and researchers at Northland College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working with the National Park Service, as well as state and tribal agencies, to solve that mystery on the Apostle Islands.
Democrats are blasting a plan to merge the University of Wisconsin System’s schools.
Quoted: Karen Oberhauser, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin, saw a monarch on Oct. 20 in Madison, and sees some hope — for the butterflies if not for the planet. If not for the heat, some of these butterflies would have died as caterpillars, she noted, and some will beat the odds and make it to Mexico.
Desde hace dos años la Unión Europea viene denunciando una estafa en la venta del atún: ciertos productores inescrupulosos, para hacerlo ver fresco y apetecible, lo pintan de rojo.
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin published an article Oct. 26 examining a swift rise in sexual assaults reported to UW System authorities. Now we are asking for your help.
A recent article by Tamar Haspel argues that the local and organic food movement can’t fix our food system. If this movement were solely focused on “buy fresh, buy local” at farmers markets and upscale restaurants, we would agree. However, bigger changes are underway for sustainable agriculture. Farmers and others in the sustainable food movement pursue a broader vision of change in agriculture.
Apple Inc has asked an appeals court to either reverse or reduce a judgment that it owes $506 million to the licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for infringing on a patent relating to computer processing technology.
Noted: Yi Fuxian, a long-term critic of China’s birth control policy and a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, caused a stir in May by saying that China’s population size had been overestimated by 90 million, and that China’s real population may be smaller than India’s.
Noted: There are numerous public health concerns related to flooding beyond the most obvious risks of drowning and trauma, said Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved in the new study.
Central Times talks with a UW-Madison professor who led a three-year grass study using different lawn care approaches on sports fields at a Stoughton park.
WASHINGTON — At a congressional hearing on free speech on college campuses Thursday, witnesses and senators from both parties championed the free exchange of a diversity of ideas, though they almost all had the same opinion: free speech needs to be vigorously defended on college campuses in the wake of a spate of instances in which students have shouted down speakers.
WHITEWATER—After years of record enrollments, UW-Whitewater last month saw an overall drop in students, according to preliminary fall 2017 figures.
Cathy Sandeen wasn’t given much notice that her job is about to change significantly, and might be eliminated outright.
An influential legislator wants President Donald Trump’s administration and fellow Republicans to drop the notion of capping overhead costs on grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And yesterday that lawmaker, Representative Tom Cole (R–OK), used his clout as chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that funds NIH to administer a dose of what he hopes will be preventive medicine.
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, has decided to “stop further discussion” on plans to suspend admissions to its full-time M.B.A. program for a year, a move that was to take place while officials mulled potential changes, which included discontinuing the full-time track.
Noted: Dhruv explains research by professors from Yale and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who looked at Section 508 waivers that determined the rate at which Medicare paid individual hospitals. They found that hospitals in districts with GOP members of Congress who supported the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act (which authorized these waivers) were seven times more likely to receive a waiver, and those hospitals saw higher Medicare payments.
The question put to the venture capitalist was: How do you juice up the Wisconsin startup scene when the state is judged the absolute worst in the nation for fostering new businesses?
A new UW System policy is politically neutral and includes many positive statements about the UW System promoting and protecting freedom of speech, said Eric Kasper, associate professor of political science at UW-Eau Claire.
Wisconsin School of Business officials are reversing course on suspending the Master of Business Administration program for a year.
Noted: Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been studying the effects of positive emotions, such as compassion and kindness, on the brain since the 1990s. He said the brain behaves differently during an act of generosity than it does during a hedonistic activity.
Just one week after news broke that the University of Wisconsin Business School was considering suspension of its full-time MBA program — and following a swift backlash among alumni and current students — the school is backpedaling.
The decision today (Oct. 25) to backpedal on a non-sensical proposal to shut down the full-time MBA program at Wisconsin’s School of Business is a welcome relief to many students, alumni and company recruiters of the school’s graduates. The mea culpa couldn’t have been clearer.
MADISON (WKOW) — Inside a tucked away room at UW-Madison police headquarters, a team swiftly responded to questions from parents on Wednesday night.
Noted: The new work is significant because it will allow scientists to use base editing to address many more single-letter mutations than was previously possible, said Krishanu Saha, a biomedical engineer at the University of Wisconsin Madison who was not involved with the research.
As enrollment numbers across the UW System decline, UW-Green Bay sees an increase in students.
Noted: Research by Zack Cooper, Amanda Kowalski and Jennifer Wu at Yale and by Eleanor Powell at the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed a provision in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (M.M.A.), known as Section 508, that helped secure Republican votes for the law’s passage.
Noted: Plants modify tyrosine by adding other molecules to create an enormous array of useful substances. This is how morphine is made in the opium poppy, and mescaline in cactuses. Intrigued by this process, Hiroshi Maeda, a professor at University of Wisconsin and senior author on the paper, collaborated with beet experts to study how the plants make betalains from tyrosine.
If you could choose one person who understands the controversy surrounding the NFL protests for justice and equality, someone who played more than a decade-and-a-half in the NFL might have insight on the issue. If that person’s résumé included a stint as the head of the players union, a job working in player engagement, years of social activism and a post in the NFL’s front office, that person might have a unique perspective on the subject.
Fifty years ago, everyday life on the UW-Madison campus came to an abrupt halt, as a sit-in against the Dow Chemical Company erupted into violence. On Oct. 18, 1967, Madison police officers in riot gear forcibly removed anti-war demonstrators from the Commerce Building, now known as Ingraham Hall.
Officials at the Wisconsin School of Business have proposed suspending admissions to its full-time master’s in business administration program for a year.
A quick Google of meditation centres in Hong Kong shows them popping up from the northern reaches of the New Territories to the hills of Lantau to dense urban areas on Hong Kong Island. The city already has an affinity for the ancient practice, but fresh developments at America’s Centre for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could amp things up even further.
Noted: Without guidance, as observed on Twitter by Donald Moynihan, professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, states and schools have “de-facto-discretion … to deny access to services.” Moreover, Moynihan added, given Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ long-stated hostility to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act as “the single most irritating problem for teachers,” we can’t look to the Department of Justice for help when the Department of Education fails to guide local districts.
Noted: And while its name makes it a rarity, nowadays the Biotron complex at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, born of a union between a phytotron and a zootron in the 1960s, has a climate that’s so fine-tunable it’s helping to develop potatoes that can grow in space.
The UW System, as a preeminent institution in US higher education, is enormously successful in contributing to life in Wisconsin. Despite this record, Gov. Scott Walker and the Board of Regents are convinced the system now needs a different type of leadership, one that will manage it in a more business-like fashion. Their latest move is to truncate the search process when recruiting top-level administrators (President, Chancellor, Provost, Dean), both by shortening the recruitment time and by reducing the participation of faculty and staff on search committees.
Controversy arose last semester when conservative speaker Ben Shapiro came to campus. Many students were not welcoming toward Shapiro’s lecture series, “Dismantling Safe Spaces: Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings.” Students and staff planned a protest, but the event continued as planned, was well-attended and went on without disruption.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials say lead contamination during painting projects in two halls didn’t endanger anyone’s health.
Russ Feingold, a former state and U.S. senator, will teach a course in international studies at UW-Madison in fall 2018 as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer.
Vassar College, founded at the outset of the Civil War to educate women, remade itself in 1969 when it admitted men for the first time. Then, the liberal arts school in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., reinvented itself again in 2007.
Noted: “With drug shortages, it is often a race to see who can find a supply of the drug on shortage and also any alternatives,” said Philip J. Trapskin, who is the program manager of medication use strategy and innovation at UW Health, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s health system. “We have been able to get what we need to avoid disruptions in patient care, but the mix of products is not ideal and there are no guarantees we will continue to get the supplies we need.”
In August, white supremacists marched on the University of Virginia, winding around campus wielding torches and chanting Nazi refrains. The next day, a woman would die as protests in the city of Charlottesville, Va., turned violent.
The admiring crowd swirling around the guest of honor last Thursday night at the Pyle Center’s Alumni Lounge was so thick that I could only get within a few feet of her as she stood near the entrance and surveyed the room.
You can tell by the way Carrie Coon confidently maneuvers around the tables of a crowded Tribeca restaurant that this is an actress who has hit her stride.
She was the daughter of a New York cement salesman. He was the son of a legendary Wisconsin track star and Milwaukee-area businessman.
