There are more than 28-thousand undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Only 13.8 percent of them are from racial and ethnic minority groups. A forum on diversity on campus is happening today (9/30). It?s being led by Damon Williams, the Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Williams sat down for a chat with WPR?s Terry Bell. (Audio.)
While many Wisconsin industries lost jobs during a five year period, the vast field of bioscience added them according a new report from the group Bioforward. Wisconsin bioscience jobs grew three percent in 2004-to-2009 while the state overall lost three percent of its jobs that same period according to lead researcher Sammis White.
Call it ?knitted graffiti? — an unusual art installation in Madison. On a busy State Street intersection, staff and students from the UW School of Human Ecology were busy ?yarn bombing? all day Thursday — covering a Metro bus shelter in knitting. Lisa Frank, interim director of the school?s Design Gallery, said the installation has been in the planning stages for months, but the actual knitting has taken place over the last three weeks or so, by members of the Madison Knitters? Guild.
It?s too soon to tell what kind of an impact the president?s visit had on the city of Madison, but 27 News found out, it may have drummed up more than just votes.
Monkeys showed signs of self-awareness for the first time after recognizing themselves in the mirror, according to a UW-Madison professor?s study published Wednesday.
In a flash, Tyler Clementi?s story appears to have proven that many gay college students are vulnerable to torment and harassment, despite increasing efforts on campuses to promote tolerance and provide resources. Moreover, the Rutgers University student?s death has shed light on a continuing debate among college administrators about the best way to serve students who may be uncertain about their sexual identities or are taunted for being gay.
Quoted: “Madison is certainly still friendly territory for President Obama, (but) I would say that his supporters are battle-worn and disappointed in a way they were not in 2008,” said John Coleman, chairman of the political science department at UW-Madison. “As we learn for the thousandth time, governing is not the same as campaigning.”
Jennifer Ouellette, blogger and author of the books “Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics” and “The Physics of the Buffyverse,” will come to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to serve as science writer in residence from Oct. 4 through 8.
Bucky Badger is capitalizing on a season kickoff that has nothing to do with football. To celebrate the cranberry season – the harvest began last week – a new ice cream flavor debuts this week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Babcock Dairy store. It showcases a cranberry innovation called Berry Bits, a fresh cranberry with most of the tartness (acidity) removed.
Almost three years after the first scientists reprogrammed human cells in Madison and Kyoto, Japan, researchers in Boston have developed a new process that appears to eliminate one of the major safety concerns while dramatically increasing the efficiency of the process.
Quoted: ?We?re able to glean a lot of information from all the letters we receive and should someone receive a negative letter we blend those into the narrative of an applicant,? said Michael Hall, Dean of Admissions at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Noted: The second is a 2009 article that Dr. Dennis Maki, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, published in The New England Journal of Medicine. After analyzing nationwide outbreaks of salmonella, he warned, ?To those who believe that the solution is a return to a pastoral, early-20th-century model with millions of small farms producing more ?natural? food . . . it would be impossible to feed 300 million Americans, much less the rest of the world.? The real challenge, he explained, ?is to enhance the quality and safety of industrially produced food.?
President Obama delivered an impassioned argument to young voters Tuesday night, declaring that the changes he promised in 2008 are underway and that “now is not the time to give up.”
It?s hard not to feel sorry for American embryonic stem cell (ESC) researchers.
With the midterm elections just five weeks away, President Obama rolled up his sleeves and dusted off a familiar campaign slogan tonight at the University of Wisconsin.
On a Monday night in July, President Obama?s political advisers gathered for their weekly strategy session in a small, windowless, wood-paneled room in the West Wing. After 18 months marked by legislative victories and political setbacks, the question before them was how to re-energize the Democratic base ? particularly young people who turned out in droves in 2008.
President Barack Obama urged students to focus on this fall?s elections Tuesday in his fourth visit to Wisconsin in three months as he tries to keep the governor?s office and a U.S. Senate seat in Democratic hands.
North Park Street doesn?t look much like North Park Street on Tuesday afternoon. An olive-drab helicopter does laps over the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Library Mall, where President Barack Obama will speak in a couple of hours. Hordes of students wait to get through the gate, and a girl stands at the intersection of Lathrop Drive with a pink sign to direct members of the White House Press Pool through a series of checkpoints.
Quoted: Dr. Dietram A. Scheufele said QR Codes are a step toward in an overall movement that could eventually see mobile devices such as smartphones become a part of all aspects of consumerism.Scheufele, an expert on public opinion, emerging technologies, new media and politics, is the director of graduate studies, life sciences and communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: That shift in language was most clear this week in Wisconsin, where Mr. Obama rolled his sleeves up and delivered a speech reminiscent of the ones he delivered on behalf of himself in the 2008 campaign ? but this time for the lawmakers who so badly need a boost.
“Income inequality is rising, and if we took into account tax data, it would be even more,” Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in poverty, told The AP. “More than other countries, we have a very unequal income distribution where compensation goes to the top in a winner-takes-all economy.”
Your dog, like most other animals, can?t look in a mirror and figure out the furry thing with eyes is her own reflection. But Wisconsin researchers have just proven that rhesus macaque monkeys can — and are delighted when they do.
The vast majority of the world?s rivers are reeling from pollution, over-development and excessive extraction, and billions of dollars of investment by rich countries to avert water stress have damaged biodiversity, a study released on Wednesday said.
Enrollment at two-year campuses in the University of Wisconsin System is at an all-time high this year, marking the sixth consecutive year of growth.
What if they designated a free-speech zone and no one used it?That?s pretty much what happened Tuesday as President Barack Obama came to Madison to speak at the UW-Madison campus. The city announced that the 600 block of State Street would function as a ?Peaceful Assembly Area,? where people with signs and opinions could get their ya-yas out.
President Barack Obama was welcomed by cheering college students, reminiscent of the crowds he drew in the 2008 election.
Two years after young voters helped send him to the White House, President Barack Obama returned to a campus he electrified two years ago, a city where he crushed Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain, and a state with an unusual tradition of college activism and heavy youth voting
Quoted: “In most instances, monkeys do not show [self-awareness],” Christopher Coe, director of the Harlow Primate Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved in the work, said in an email to The Scientist. But the new study “indicates that rhesus monkeys can acquire this ability in the right setting and with the right tools.”
A lifeless “dead zone” the size of Massachusetts in the Gulf of Mexico. Excessive irrigation. Mercury and pesticides in fish. Declining river water quality.
While many Wisconsin industries lost jobs during a five year period, the vast field of bioscience added them according a new report from the group Bioforward. Wisconsin bioscience jobs grew three percent in 2004-to-2009 while the state overall lost three percent of its jobs that same period according to lead researcher Sammis White.
A fire caused an estimated $10,000 in damage to a Madison apartment.
Wisconsin linebacker Mike Taylor rattles off the surgeries and injuries he?s had playing football — his hip, his hamstring, his knee twice. It?s probably the one he suffered when he was 10 years old that proves just how tough he is. Taylor?s back for the 11th-ranked Badgers, who visit No. 24 Michigan State on Saturday and will be without linebacker Chris Borland for the rest of the season because of a shoulder injury. Taylor, meanwhile, said he finally feels like he?s getting back to his old self after tearing a ligament and most of the cartilage in his right knee last year.
The gender gap among college majors once dominated by men is narrowing, and younger generations of women account for nearly half of science and business graduates, a USA TODAY analysis of new Census data shows. In 2009, about 47% of science and engineering degree holders ages 25 to 39 were women, compared with 21% among those 65 and older. For business majors, about 48% of younger graduates were female ? more than double that of older generations.
An appeals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington granted the Obama administration?s request to allow the funding from the National Institutes of Health while the government appeals a judge?s order that blocked the research.
The University of Wisconsin System won an $800,000 grant to help adults get college credit for past experiences, such as corporate training, work experience, or military service. The grant, given by the Lumina Foundation for Education, will allow schools in the UW System to conduct “prior learning assessments,” measuring the learning people have gotten outside the classroom. Then, the student can get college credit for that prior learning.
That old political saying goes something like this: If you?re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you?re not a conservative at 40, you have no brain. No wonder then that President Barack Obama chose Madison ? a town rife with 20-somethings ? to kick off a series of rallies aimed at getting an increasingly down-hearted Democratic base to the polls this November.
If Big Ten football coaches have a say in the debate, there appears to be strong sentiment for maintaining the status quo of eight conference games rather than a proposed nine.
Teachers and staff at La Follette High School used words like ?surreal? to describe the detour the presidential motorcade made Tuesday en route to a late-afternoon rally on the UW-Madison campus.
Wisconsin?s bioscience industry provides jobs for 24,000 employees whose paychecks are nearly two-thirds higher than the average Wisconsin worker, a study released Wednesday shows. And the industry, which ranges from drug development to medical instrument manufacturing, is growing. Stemina Biomarker Discovery is an example of the growth. The Madison stem cell company had six employees in December 2007; today, it has 10 and is looking to hire at least three more. Stemina also received word this week that it will get $1 million in a phase 2 contract with the National Cancer Institute to find biomarkers associated with cancer stem cells.?We?ll be looking at more cancer stem cell lines and we?ll be taking it into animal models in collaboration with both the UW-Madison and the Mayo Clinic,? Donley said.
Obama addressed concerns, and more, during his two-day, four-state tour that ended Wednesday in Richmond. In the middle, he drew raucous cheers at a college rally in Wisconsin. “I know times are tough,” he told thousands of students at the University of Wisconsin on Tuesday. In 2008, he said, “the feeling was, well, this is just exciting. You got those nice ?Hope? posters.”
Wars in the past have been fought over oil. Wars in the future, experts say, will be fought over water. And it seems that the opening skirmishes are taking place on campuses, over water in little blue bottles.
Now that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has cleaned up after Tuesday?s political rally featuring President Barack Obama, officials at the school are preparing a bill for the president?s political operatives.
President Barack Obama urged college students at a Madison campaign rally Tuesday to stick with him and vote in the Nov. 2 elections, promising that “change is gonna come.”
If there?s an enthusiasm gap for Democrats this election, it hasn?t reached Madison.Students and residents in the traditionally liberal city turned out by the thousands on Tuesday to see President Barack Obama at a rally on the University of Wisconsin campus meant to energize the base of the Democratic Party.
More than 26,000 people came to Library Mall to welcome Obama, the first president to visit the campus since Harry Truman in 1950. And today the president sounded more like “candidate” Obama than President Obama.
President Obama, seeking to avert potentially devastating losses for Democrats on Election Day, delivered an impassioned appeal to a cheering throng of college students here Tuesday night, telling them to ?keep believing change is possible? and pleading, ?You?ve got to stick with me, you can?t lose heart.?
MADISON, Wis. ?President Barack Obama swooped into this college town Tuesday evening, hoping to rekindle the youth vote that helped propel him to the White House for the benefit of Democrats in next month?s mid-term elections.
Embattled Democratic candidates in Wisconsin joined President Barack Obama at a rally Tuesday, urging the 17,000 college students in attendance to get energized to ensure Republicans don?t have an enthusiasm gap in the midterm election. “We can?t sit this one out,” Obama told the crowd packed onto an outdoor mall in the middle of the University of Wisconsin?s campus. Another 9,000 people showed up but couldn?t fit into the mall, according to university police.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, a professor at UW-Madison?s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
The usual sight of students meandering leisurely in flip-flops and shorts mixed Tuesday with those of heavily armed police, barricaded streets and snipers atop the campus library, adding an intensity to the toasty fall day as UW-Madison welcomed its first sitting U.S. President in 60 years.
Obama got laughs from the crowd on Library Mall as he reminisced about his early days in Chicago, when he used to visit friends going to school in Madison. “I had some fun times in Madison,” he said. “I can?t give you all the details, but I have good memories here.”
The Wisconsin Union Directorate on Tuesday announced the fall schedule for its Distinguished Lecture Series, which kicks off Monday with Romanian author, poet and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in poverty.
Welcome to the State Journal?s live blog of President Barack Obama?s rally on Library Mall. Follow along as our reporters and photographers provide dispatches from the scene, or submit your own observations or questions.
Clearly frustrated by Republicans? energy _ and his own party?s lack of enthusiasm _ President Barack Obama scolded fellow Democrats even as he rallied them Tuesday in an effort to save the party from big GOP gains in the crucial midterm elections. At an outdoor rally at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the president urged thousands of students to stay as inspired and involved in this election as they were two years ago.
President Barack Obama served as the closing act Tuesday for a rock-n-roll, fire-up-the-troops extravaganza on the UW-Madison campus ? a giant rally meant to recapture the excitement of the campaign trail and bridge the so-called “enthusiasm gap” among younger, Democratic voters. Obama took the stage at Library Mall to a raucous crowd, following a performance by musician Ben Harper and a series of speeches by the state?s major Democratic candidates. From the outset, the president made it clear why he was in Madison, and on campus, at this moment.
President Obama visits Madison today to try and rekindle some of the energy he helped generate for Democrats here two years ago. When the President visited Madison as a candidate in February of 2008, he was riding a wave of Democratic presidential primary victories. Thousands of people — many of them students — waited in the cold to see the Illinois Senator speak at Madison?s Kohl Center.
President Barack Obama urged college students at a Madison campaign rally Tuesday to stick with him and vote in the Nov. 2 elections, promising that “change is gonna come.”
There?s excitement on the UW-Madison campus today, with President Barack Obama due at Library Mall for a late-afternoon rally. Students we talked with today seemed anxious to attend.
President Barack Obama urged students to focus on this fall?s elections Tuesday in his fourth visit to Wisconsin in three months as he tries to keep the governor?s office and a U.S. Senate seat in Democratic hands.
