Geological events leading up to the eruption have been documented, and they show that the volcano had been rumbling for many months before it blew its top. Kurt Feigl, a professor of geosciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a co-author of the study, said the volcano had been showing signs of restlessness.
A group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studied the claims. The result? David Noyce from the School of Engineering said the whistles failed miserably.
Fresh off his victory over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, governor-elect Scott Walker met with the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents in Madison on Nov. 4. During the meeting, Walker was able to speak with education leaders from around the state and discuss how they can work together to balance the state budget and graduate more students from UW schools.
The Refocus Wisconsin project did not want to hear from just the experts. It wanted to hear from ordinary citizens as well. So the project executed two of the most thorough and exhaustive polls of state residents in recent memory to understand where average citizens fall on the important issues.
A fund has been set up at UW-Whitewater for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals responsible for the recent hate crimes on campus.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, hundreds of UW students are coming together to fight hunger in Dane County. The third annual Red and White Hunger Fight wrapped up Wednesday night.
Construction is scheduled to begin this coming spring on a new hockey and swimming arena on the UW campus.The La Bahn Arena got final approval Wednesday. It?s named after Charles and Mary Ann La Bahn, the lead donors for the project.
The latest Open Doors report on international student mobility is out. It shows that foreign students are still attracted to U.S. colleges of all types. The biggest destination is the University of Southern California, with around 8,000 international students. There are large enrollments in community colleges like Houston?s — more than 6,000 — and in specialized colleges like the Savannah College of Art and Design, which has over 1,000.
Madison hasn?t felt the downturn as intensely as Midwestern neighbors like Milwaukee or Detroit, leading some to declare the city recessionproof. ?It?s not,? says Stephen Malpezzi, a real estate professor at the University of Wisconsin. ?We just didn?t boom and bust as much.? Part of that is due to Madison?s economic anchor?the 42,000-student University of Wisconsin.
Stratatech Corp. said Tuesday it has received a $3.5 million federal innovation grant to expand development of its anti-infective living human skin substitute.
The privately held Madison company received the fast-track Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Stratatech was one of just a few companies that received awards to develop therapies and diagnostic tools for drug-resistant bacteria with selected partners.
The company will partner with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
Homeowners and farmers hope a UW-Madison environmental research group can help knock down barriers to flooding solutions. Local officials announced a partnership with the Nelson Institute to explore the persistent flooding that has plagued the basin west of Spring Green. Representatives from the Nelson Institute will listen to the concerns and ideas of local residents tonight. The scientists will study the flooding and propose potential solutions to the public in early 2011.
Go ahead and send a text message while driving. Heck, feel free to drink alcohol too.It?s allowed – nay, encouraged – as long as you?re at UW-Madison?s new driving simulation laboratory. Located in the Mechanical Engineering Building, the simulator allows researchers to study such risky behaviors with no risk of an accident. In the simulator, a driver sits in a Ford Fusion with a 24-foot screen wrapped around front and an additional screen in the back. Six projectors create a virtual driving environment on the screens. It was founded by John Lee, industrial and systems engineering professor, and David Noyce, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation fund the project.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema spent a little more time on Tuesday doing damage control after the 83 points put up by his team in the win over Indiana on
Smokers who kick the habit may improve their levels of “good” HDL cholesterol within one year, a study of nearly 1,000 people suggests. HDL levels shot up despite the weight gain commonly associated with smoking cessation, says Adam D. Gepner, MD, of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
University of Wisconsin campuses are preparing to transition into tighter spending as the Governor-elect works with his transition team to draft Wisconsin?s new budget. During his campaign Walker promised not to raise Wisconsin?s taxes, desipite a $2.7 billion budget deficit beginning in 2011. The University of Wisconsin system accounts
Wisconsin has shown a clear, downward trend in employer-sponsored health insurance over the past decade, according to a study from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Quoted: Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and women?s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently published a review of several years of studies on the math skills of boys and girls. The studies drew on international eighth-grade math tests, and Hyde and her colleagues found that the math abilities of both sexes were similar. Hyde has worked on this for a number of years, and she said that in 1990 the gap between male and female math abilities was wider than it is now.
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, a professor of chemistry and the first holder of the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will be the American Chemical Society president in 2012 and will serve on the ACS Board of Directors during his presidential succession, which will run from 2011 to 2013.
In an expensive effort to keep up with the Joneses, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is tapping into its most prominent group of financial backers.
Quoted: “With 60 seats in the Assembly and 19 in the Senate, Republicans should be able to protect most of those incumbents by making those districts more strongly Republican and then packing Democrats into the surrounding districts,” said David Canon, a redistricting expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Wisconsin! Those words greeted me during my ascent of the Great Wall last summer while studying abroad in Tianjin, China. After I was mobbed by Chinese tourists eager to take a picture with me and get an autograph from a “real” American, those two words were as welcome as an Ian?s pizza on Friday night. What made me more ecstatic was this person, one of the few foreigners I saw outside of Beijing, was an alumnus of UW-Madison.
Two days after college football fans watched in amazement as Wisconsin defeated Indiana by an astonishing 63 points, the Hoosiers were still dealing with the fallout.
Research by the University of Wisconsin-Madison could influence federal policy on how to handle coal ash ? the byproduct of burning coal, typically to generate electricity. Although some environmental advocates consider it hazardous waste, it?s long been used in the state as aggregate material for road and construction projects. Wisconsin?s rules on recycling of fly ash, enforced by its Department of Natural Resources, could become a national model for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
When Wisconsin was preparing to face Indiana and it appeared junior tailback John Clay would be unavailable because of a knee injury, running backs coach John Settle joked that fans might be able to catch a glimpse of UW?s future backfield.
As Clay watched from the sideline last Saturday, sophomore Montee Ball and freshman James White combined to rush for 311 yards and five touchdowns in an 83-20 victory over the Hoosiers.With Clay questionable for UW?s critical Big Ten game Saturday at Michigan, the future might be now. Clay isn?t fully recovered from the sprained medial collateral ligament he suffered Nov. 6 at Purdue
The number of U.S. students earning college credit abroad dipped in 2008-09, the first decline in the 22 years since the data have been tracked, a State Department-funded report out today shows. The dip is mostly due to the recession.
Since James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison became the first person to derive and grow human embryonic stem cells in 1998, the accomplishment has remained a considerable challenge for labs. The cells, which can become any cell in the human body, are notoriously finicky.
Now, a team from UW-Madison has developed a fully defined culture system that should result in more uniform cells, according to an article in the journal Nature Methods. Although human embryonic stem cells are not yet approved for use in therapy, the new culture system should also make them safer for such a use.
Kathy Schultz, a senior marketing consultant with UW Hospitals and Clinics.
They scored and they scored and they scored some more. And it poured and it poured and it poured some more. Saturday?s twin deluge of points and rain may have pained the Indiana Hoosiers and their faithful. But the real hurt fell to the forearms, biceps and noses of the three Bucky Badgers at Wisconsin?s 83-20 massacre of Indiana at Camp Randall.
Three cheers for the members of the UW Band who were riding their bikes on a wet, dark and cold early Saturday morning down Walnut street with instruments on their backs for a final game day rehearsal.
Quoted: Donald Hester, UW-Madison economics professor emeritus.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a UW-Madison economics professor.
Scott Walker, please get the biomass boiler for the Charter Street heating plant up and running with your enthusiastic support. Gov. Jim Doyle, please support clean energy as much for the rest of your term as you did at the start. Businesses small and large, from farms to trucking companies, loggers and feedstock processors, are depending on your vision for a vibrant economy to support their job creation and innovation. Don?t pull the plug on the world-class research that UW-Madison can do on the innovative biomass part of the system.
Once again, in a blood bath, the Lions 88, the Romans 3. So long from the Coliseum.
Nearly four weeks after President Barack Obama?s campaign rally on Ohio State?s Oval, the university is paying the price for hosting the event ? literally.The Democratic National Committee paid for many of the rally expenses, but OSU was left to pick up a tab of nearly $80,000.
Noted: Madison hasn?t felt the downturn as intensely as Midwestern neighbors like Milwaukee or Detroit, leading some to declare the city recessionproof. ?It?s not,? says Stephen Malpezzi, a real estate professor at the University of Wisconsin. ?We just didn?t boom and bust as much.?
According to a national addiction study, Wisconsin still ranks high for binge drinking. And treatment options don?t meet the need.
Leaf-cutter ants put on quite a show. In established colonies, millions of “workers” cut and carry sections of leaves larger than their own bodies as part of a well choreographed, highly functioning society. “Anyone who has ever come across a trail of ants cutting leaves and watched that trail run through the forest can recognize how charismatic, and what kind of large impact they have on the tropical ecosystems in which they occur,” says bacteriologist Cameron Currie.
If Gov.-elect Scott Walker wants to radically redraw plans to convert a Madison power plant, the contractor behind the project would sure like to know what the changes entail.
Researchers are calling on 28 randomly chosen homes in the village of Marathon this week, hoping its residents will participate in a wide-ranging health survey. The team, sent out by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, is asking study participants to share their medical histories, detail their eating and exercise habits and also participate in a few basic medical tests.
While it?s far from a hard and fast rule, during the past few decades overseas companies have more often than not done the most thorough job of archiving American music, at least in part due to more relaxed copyright laws. A longtime leader in carefully compiled sets has been Bear Family in Germany, one of the pioneers of multi-disc sets dedicated to single artists or labels in rock and country music.
Forty years after a bombing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the FBI is still getting new leads about the one suspect who was never caught. In his first television interview in 40 years, a survivor of the blast tells his story, exclusively to 12 News Kent Wainscott.
Bret Bielema has a problem, but I?m not sure the University of Wisconsin football coach knows it or cares if he does.
If any of the 70 undergraduates in Prof. Bill White?s ?Organizational Behavior? course here at Northwestern University are late for class, or not paying attention, he will know without having to scan the lecture hall.
Peanut wasn?t feeling well.
The 4-year-old guinea pig had an abscess in her jaw, the second one this year, and her owner had been told by her veterinarian that Peanut?s teeth might need to be pulled.
Toni Wanserski loves her pet, didn?t want to see her in pain and really did not want Peanut to lose her teeth. So her veterinarian in Plover suggested she take Peanut to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and its exotic species program.
Noted: UW-Extension this year is making Thanksgiving easy by putting up a food safety hotline chart.
The University of Wisconsin football team matched a modern-day Big Ten Conference record for points in a league game, beating Indiana 83-20 Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
UW-Madison Police issued 14 citations, ejected 26 people, and made 13 arrests at the Badgers 83-20 blowout of Indiana on Saturday.
Danielle L. McGuire was a student at UW-Madison in 1998 researching the civil rights movement when she heard a National Public Radio report about the Montgomery bus boycott. The announcer lauded Gertrude Perkins as a pioneer of the movement. Gertrude Perkins? Not Rosa Parks? McGuire decided more research was warranted, and the end result of her work is ?At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance ? A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power.?
Bill Howard of Middleton has been a UW-Madison lecturer for more than 20 years in project economic analysis.
Quoted: James Lattis, director of the UW-Madison Space Place.
Craig Werner and Doug Bradley have spent many years researching on music and the Vietnam War. The book, working title “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” still gestating – Werner is a teacher at UW-Madison, and Bradley is about to retire from his position in UW-Madison?s Office of Corporate Relations. Later this week, Werner and Bradley will anchor a three-day symposium (Thursday-Saturday) in Madison titled “…Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008.” It is hosted by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, UW-Madison and other community partners.
A team of UW-Madison researchers has added another stem cell breakthrough to the university?s leadership in the field, figuring out a way to grow the cells on a large scale so they can be used for studies and potential therapies. “What we?ve developed is a very simple surface that anyone in the field could easily use to grow stem cells,” said Laura Kiessling, a UW-Madison professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
Four unions can move forward with efforts to assign University of Wisconsin System employees to their ranks, under a decision by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. The unions petitioned the commission last year to reclassify nearly 500 UW System employees from “academic staff” to “classified staff” so that they could be folded into existing unions. Some employees objected to the notion of getting assigned to unions without getting a chance to vote.
State inspectors will visit UW Hospital soon to see if a long list of violations found last month has been corrected, including some that could stop the hospital?s Medicare and Medicaid contracts. None of the problems, discovered in response to the reuse of a syringe in July, involves known harm to patients. But inspectors said some cited problems have the potential for harm, such as inadequate hand washing by nurses and use of contaminated gloves. Other issues involve medical records and food safety.
Word is starting to spread at University of Wisconsin campuses about hate crimes against gays and minorities.
After a string of hate crimes, students and area residents held a rally for peace on Saturday in hopes of bringing change to the Whitewater community.
Quoted: “The other factor that I think is quite serious for first-time candidates is the ability to manage themselves on the campaign trail,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “There?s some room for doubt that being CEO of a company prepares you for the skills of negotiation, the mutual accommodation that goes with the role of senator,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “At some level, anybody who?s in the Senate has to play the political role he?s elected to play.”
