Quoted: ?In many ways, this is an extension of tinkering in one?s garage or writing programs and sharing them with friends,? says Kurt Squire, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Platforms like these games provide a context to inspire creativity, tools to work with and an audience for your work.?
Quoted: “It?s sort of like having a bad backache and then having your kid jumping on you,” said Emily Stanley, a freshwater scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It?s an acute injury to a chronically stressed system.”
Males and females have equal math skills, a new report confirms.
While social scientists agree that both genders have equal math abilities, many parents and teachers still believe boys are better at math than girls. This can lead them to guide girls away from careers in math-heavy sciences or engineering, said the study’s chief author Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, refused to say Tuesday whether he favors a ban on embryonic stem cell research ? even though he previously told an anti-abortion group he does.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker will not say whether he would ban embryonic stem cell research, as Democratic candidate Tom Barrett claims.
With the recent and tragic surge in gay bullying related suicides across the country, media attention toward the topic has also spiked. But the issue is not a new one, and the LGBT Campus Center at the UW-Madison has been working to address homophobia and create a safe space on campus for gay and questioning students for many years.
Last week in this blog, I wrote about the big fines that three UW-Madison students face for hosting a recent beer party.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker is refusing to say whether he would seek a ban on embryonic stem cell research as his Democratic opponent Tom Barrett alleges.
Bedbugs – two words that together prompt nightmares – are stalking more sleepers in hotels, apartments and homes in Wisconsin, reflecting a national uptick over the past year, according to local officials and exterminators.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker said Tuesday if elected governor he would shift funding from embryonic stem cell research to adult stem cell research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The best advantage the University of Wisconsin football team has going for it against top-ranked Ohio State on Saturday might be playing a night game at Camp Randall Stadium.
The Republican candidate for governor is avoiding questions on whether he?d pursue a ban on embryonic stem cell research.
The UW?s efforts to diversify its faculty can be thwarted for many reasons. Unintended bias is one of them. A study funded by the National Institute of Health will develop a video game to neutralize assumptions that keep women and minorities from the sciences.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2007 has been training a small but highly motivated group of students to be able to work in both science and public policy.
Noted: Dr. Lee Wilke, director of the UW Health Breast Center and associate professor of surgery, UW Health Breast Center/Carbone Cancer Center.
Quoted: Diana Alfuth, horticulture educator, UW-Extension
Quoted: Linda Reivitz, health policy lecturer emerita at the UW-Madison?s School of Nursing.
Quoted: Jonathan Martin, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison.
Being chancellor of a Big Ten university is not for the stuffy — at least not in Wisconsin. In addition to shaping higher education, wooing donors, and speaking to groups, these days, you may also be asked to star in a rap music video. UW-Madison chancellor Biddy Martin makes a cameo in the video for the new song “Teach me How to Bucky,” by Zooniversity.
UW-Madison gives out about $2 million in mandatory student fees each year to student organizations, but a student leader says the method for doling out the funds is broken. Matthew Manes said he plans to unveil an overhaul to the system this week. Manes is chairman of the Student Services Finance Committee, the student-run committee that decides which organizations will get the money, known as segregated fees.
Dropping out of college after a year can mean lost time, burdensome debt and an uncertain future for students. Now there?s an estimate of what it costs taxpayers. And it runs in the billions. States appropriated almost $6.2 billion for four-year colleges and universities between 2003 and 2008 to help pay for the education of students who did not return for year two, a report released Monday says.
UW-Madison launched a new anti-bullying campaign called “Stop the Silence,” designed to support LGBT students. The campaign will seek to raise awareness about homophobic harassment and bullying, in the wake of several incidents across the country, including the death of an 18-year-old Rutgers University student.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is starting a campaign to address the bullying of gay and lesbian students. The “Stop the Silence” campaign aims to start a “campus conversation” on the bullying and harassment of students who are gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender. It comes in response to a tragedy at Rutgers University and others across the country in which gay students have committed suicide.
For the first time, surgeons have injected a spinal cord injury patient with human embryonic stem cells in a federally approved experiment, a biomedical firm said Monday. Food and Drug Administration officials approved the start of the privately funded safety trial in July, allowing a long-awaited test of the cells, which were grown from a single embryo to resemble forerunners to spinal cells. The unnamed patient received the cells at the Shepherd Center, an Atlanta hospital specializing in brain, spine and related ailments.
A video produced to help boost the University of Wisconsin?s reputation has gone viral.And it may be winning the hearts of future students.
Quoted: “They have actually found a new way to detect high-energy cosmic rays,” says Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Halzen is a collaborator on IceCube, a giant neutrino telescope buried in the Antarctic ice.
A study released Monday says the University Research Park in Madison contributes more than $825 million to the state?s economy each year.
Quoted: “I would say this is akin to an organ transplantation,” says stem cell researcher Allison Ebert of the University of Wisconsin, who was not part of the study. “This is just a study for safety to see how these cells respond to the human spinal cord. But it is a logical step, one of many in the pipeline.”
Geron Corp. has begun testing an embryonic stem-cell treatment on a patient with spinal cord injuries, marking the first time such a medical therapy has been used on a human in a government approved study.
Quoted: Still, testing experts acknowledge that these high-stakes tests create immense pressure for principals and administrators to improve scores, so there can be a kind of desperation that leads to cheating. James Wollack, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says how Georgia deals with this situation will set a precedent for other states.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is starting a campaign to address the bullying of gay and lesbian students.
ESPN?s Colin Cowherd will return to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and again broadcast live from Memorial Union Terrace Oct. 15.
In the wake of multiple homosexual student suicides across the country, UW-Madison?s LGBTQ Campus Center is launching “Stop the Silence,” an anti-bullying campaign, as well as holding its annual Coming Out Week this week.
Coinciding with National Coming Out Day, the University of Wisconsin?s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center sponsored ?Coming Out Week,? which started Monday with a giant closet on Library Mall to urge students to ?come out.?
The hate crimes and suicides are pushing a UW-Madison group into action, saying even here bullying is a problem.In the last month we?ve seen one report after another of hate crimes suicides and beatings all related to a victim?s sexual orientation and bullying.
Quoted: It?s “a fascinating and provocative paper,” says physical chemist James Skinner of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The study, he says, helps to illuminate subtle but important details about molecular motions in water.
Quoted: Linda Reivitz with the University of Wisconsin School Of Nursing said a third of the total planned Medicare cuts will cut back on payments to those programs. So, some insurance programs have decided to discontinue their coverage.
The car that struck and killed three young people whose disabled vehicle was stopped this week on an interstate median near Madison, Wis., seemed to come out of nowhere and did not appear to slow, a survivor of the crash said Friday.
Quoted: “The problem that [Mr. Feingold] is facing this year is that voting against [the Wall Street bailout] and voting for guns is not going to be something that wins conservative voters for him,” said Charles H. Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
China?s Bingyu (Betty) Wang is proud of her Olympic curling bronze medal, but it hardly draws celebrity attention on the streets of her home country.
Quoted: Her first campaign ad, in which she promises to bring fiscal responsibility to Washington, “could easily have been made by the Texas Tea Party,” says Kenneth R. Mayer, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
Quoted: Both candidates have lofty goals to stimulate the economy and provide jobs, but it?s questionable whether their plans will equate to the job number they?re projecting, said John Witte, a professor of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies state spending and tax policy.
A study released Monday says the University Research Park in Madison contributes more than $825 million to the state?s economy each year.
Science writing has really changed in the past twenty years. A new market exists now: science for the layperson. Books like Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach and The Poisoner?s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum, make forensics, chemistry, and medicine accessible to the everyday reader.
Noted: Democrat Tom Barrett went after Republican Scott Walker on the issue of stem cells. ?Scott Walker?s continued phony claim that embryonic stem cell research doesn?t matter, or that the same breakthroughs and discoveries can be achieved with adult stem cells,? Barrett said.
Academic research and development is another economic asset. Led by the UW-Madison, academic R&D is a $1.2 billion sector, translating into thousands of direct and indirect jobs. UW-Madison is perennially in the top three universities in the nation for R&D, topping $1 billion in total research in 2009.
Saturday warm weather greeted competitors in an unusual annual fall race in our state?s capital.The 7th annual Giant Pumpkin Regatta took place on Madison?s lakefront.
News of last week?s $86,000 ticket handed out to three University of Wisconsin-Madison students didn?t seem to stop other students from celebrating UW?s Homecoming weekend.
Quoted: Political scientist Ken Goldstein of the UW-Madison, who has polled in Wisconsin and the Midwest.
Bret Bielema said his coach?s card made him do it. The Minnesota Gophers took that to mean Wisconsin?s coach has a card that reads “Show No Class.”
It got big play on ESPN, it was all over the internet, and the radio call-in shows were buzzing. But Tim Brewster, who earned all the attention by berating Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema at midfield during the postgame handshake on Saturday has a question.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has changed one of its eight furlough days for next year.
Madison firefighters kept a diesel fuel spill from flowing into Lake Mendota.
Some UW-Madison students are working hard to “go green.”
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: Dr. Randall Brown, a faculty member at the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine in the school of medicine and public health.
Quoted: John Lucey, a professor of food science at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Justin Stolarik, assistant director of bands at UW-Madison, and Gail Johnson, who works in the office of the UW-Madison marching band.
Fifty people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday for poor behavior or for breaking the law during the University of Wisconsin?s 41-23 win over Minnesota, police said. Twenty-nine of the 50 were UW-Madison students, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
A proposed practice rink for the UW men?s and women?s hockey programs cleared a significant hurdle Friday when the Board of Regents gave its blessing. Now the $27.6 million project will be considered by the State Building Commission at its meeting Oct. 20. If approved, the 2,400-seat facility to be built adjacent to the Kohl Center will be on track to be ready by the fall of 2012.
