A new program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison promises to cover tuition and fees for first-generation college students from Wisconsin who transfer from one of the university system’s two-year colleges.
The percentage of U.S. hospitals that rely entirely on paper records to document information on their patients now stands at 1 percent, down from 69 percent in 2003, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
Conservative writer Heather Mac Donald, invited to Claremont McKenna College by the College Republicans, addressed an auditorium of no one.
UW-Madison Political Science professor Howard Schweber explains his take on the possible problem areas of the law.
MADISON, Wis. – The UW-Madison student who recently released a controversial video portraying a police officer being beheaded defended his promotional video for his clothing line Thursday.
“F*** the police, they the biggest gang in AmeriKKKa.” Eneale Pickett knows he’s being provocative with statements like the one above, which is to be featured on sweatshirts for his new collection of clothing set to be released today. And while he’s drawn ire from conservatives, the University of Wisconsin at Madison junior has said he’s trying to spark larger conversations.
Universities around the country are learning this year that free speech is far from free.
Noted: “Leghemoglobin is structurally similar to proteins that we consume all the time,” says Impossible Foods’ chief science officer David Lipman. “But we did the toxicity studies anyway and they showed that that was safe.” They compared the protein to known allergens, for instance, and found no matches. The company also got the OK from a panel of experts, including food scientist Michael Pariza at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker issued 99 partial vetoes of the Wisconsin state budget on Wednesday.
It’s a big year for Jane Austen, with books, festivals, statues and even currency commemorating the 200th anniversary of her death.
Exposing your child early on to pets and germs reduces their risk of developing asthma, according to a study.
For people with disabilities, every little life routine is never routine. Completing what would be a simple task by an able-bodied person can take much, much longer for someone living with a disability. A work deadline or a spontaneous idea to meet someone for dinner – these aren’t necessarily achievable. We talk with Ellen Samuels, a UW-Madison associate professor of English about living this life and how she maneuvers through a world that doesn’t understand why she can’t be in sync with schedules and fit into the norm.
When Lawren Brianna Ware moved up from Alabama to Wisconsin she just wanted to explore the arts in a new place. Snowy Madison was a far cry from her warm, southern home. Being in a new place can be daunting and for any of us who have ever moved, one of the first questions we ask ourselves is, “what is there to do around here?”
A video produced by University of Wisconsin-Madison students shows pigs as cops being beheaded.
UW-Madison says it has removed a controversial video posted on a university internet service that depicts police officers in pig masks and references the hanging of a black man and the beheading of those officers.
Noted: “The study is correct to note that rates of adoption of non-carbon polluting energy sources and fossil fuel emissions reductions are occurring faster than projected in many places,” Ankur Desai, a professor in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at University of Wisconsin–Madison, told weather.com in an email.
Noted: The cold-resistant missing parent remained a secret until 2011 when Dr. Chris Hittinger from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an international team of geneticists and microbiologists from the U.S., Portugal and Argentina identified S. eubayanus in wild samples from a Nothofagus tree in Patagonian forests.
Quoted: “There’s been a pretty steady, exponential rise in the number of objects that space-faring nations have sent into space over the course of the last half century,” says Lisa Ruth Rand, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is writing a book on space trash. “Anytime we launch something into space, for the most part, we’re also generating space junk.”
Noted: “Rapid intensification likes to occur when the potential intensity is far from the actual intensity,” said Jim Kossin, a hurricane scientist with NOAA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Rapid intensification likes a lot of head-room. Those warm waters have been creating some very high potential intensity, which increases the head-room.”
The controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos and a student group accused the University of California at Berkeley on Monday of trying to cancel their plans for “Free Speech Week,” an event slated to feature Mr. Yiannopoulos, Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, and others.
Noted: “The fact that these two kinds of estimates don’t match is an issue we have yet to work out,” said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON – As the floodwaters recede in Houston following Hurricane Harvey, millions of mosquitoes have emerged to blanket southeastern Texas, hampering recovery efforts and raising public health concerns about mosquito-borne diseases.
A decline in enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has school officials looking for ways to cut back, and that could include cutting classes and programs.
Bill Tracy has spent the last 30 years thinking about and breeding new varieties of corn at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is reorganizing its Department of Geography and Geology as it works to cut $4.5 million from its budget over the next two years.
Mark Cook was not content to confine his research to a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Douglas McLeod, professor of journalism and mass communications at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said protests would happen with or without cameras and reporters present.
Noted: “The amount of water that fell was unprecedented,” said Shane Hubbard, an associate researcher at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
PROVO — Wisconsin alumni Carrie and Tim Bussian couldn’t believe what they heard from BYU fans while visiting LaVell Edwards Stadium for Saturday’s football game.
Noted: Judith N. Burstyn, chair of UW Madison’s chemistry department, is no stranger to issues of sexual harassment. When she was a graduate student, someone left sexually explicit messages in her books.
How did Elvis Kahoro, the son of a truck driver and a retirement home aide in Kennesaw, Ga., end up attending Pomona College, an elite liberal arts school over 2,000 miles from his hometown? The total cost of tuition, fees and room and board at Pomona, east of Los Angeles, runs over $67,000 per year. Fewer than 10 percent of applicants are admitted.
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government rescinded a visiting fellowship offered to Chelsea Manning, the former military intelligence analyst who spent seven years in prison for leaking classified government secrets, after the university faced forceful backlash from CIA Director Mike Pompeo among others.
UW’s Keith Poulson says there’s new suspicion that Chronic Wasting Disease could be passed to primates. We’ll find out why he says hunters should get the deer they harvest this year tested for CWD.
UW-Madison’s Center For Healthy Minds is providing its “Kindness Curriculum” to preschool teachers. Thousands of teachers have requested the curriculum, including Sesame Workshop. The researchers at the Center For Healthy Minds consulted on kindness episodes for the 47th season of “Sesame Street” premiering Sept. 18 on Wisconsin Public Television.
The state budget is now back in the hands of Gov. Scott Walker. The state Senate passed the $76 billion spending plan on a vote of 19-14 on Friday night.
UW Madison’s world-famous Babcock Hall ice cream will be given out on Wausau’s 400 Block Friday during the kick-off of the Wisconsin Ginseng Festival.
Noted: To put the effects of storm winds into perspective, Steve Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, compared a brisk wind to hurricane-level gusts.
STEVENS POINT – Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point likely will have fewer academic programs to pick from in the coming years.
Hundreds of protesters swarmed UC Berkeley on Thursday evening as conservative writer Ben Shapiro spoke on campus, with law enforcement out in force to prevent a repeat of recent violent clashes between far-left and far-right agitators.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Wild critters can’t heed health agency warnings to take refuge indoors from the pall of wildfire smoke smothering the West.
Noted: Michael Caldwell, a staff psychologist at Mendota Mental Health Institute and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was hired by Weier’s attorneys to evaluate her in July 2014.
The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School announced Wednesday that Chelsea Manning would be one of its visiting fellows, but less than two days later, the school’s dean withdrew the invitation.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is accusing some Senate Republicans of holding the state hostage with their opposition to the state budget.
Four Republican senators are holding up final approval of Wisconsin’s delayed state budget.
This Sunday, Sun Prairie will be packed with hundreds of cyclists all biking a UW Carbone Cancer Center annual fundraiser called ’The Ride’.Among them, a young researcher, riding not only for his patients but for a personal reason.
Walking alone at night can make anyone nervous. But many students at UW-Madison don’t have a car, so they don’t have a choice but to walk. For those who are concerned about safety, they currently depend on the 140 emergency blue light stations that are scattered around campus. But UW police say they’re outdated and it’s why they’re offering a new method right at your fingertips.
Inside the confounding, windowless labyrinth of UW-Madison’s Mosse Humanities Building, horn professor Dan Grabois is busy setting up his classroom for the new school year. The walls are freshly painted, there’s new carpet on the floors and in a tangle of boxes surrounding him, there’s more than $160,000 in electronic music equipment waiting to be unpacked.
WASHINGTON — President Trump said in a Twitter post on Thursday morning that no deal had been struck with Democrats on protections for young undocumented immigrants, contradicting what Democratic leaders had said after a dinner with the president on Wednesday night.
A new trove of fossil bones found in a cramped South African cave is adding to our understanding of an unusual cousin of modern humans, scientists announced today.
Noted: “Public plant breeding was on life support for a while,” says Bill Tracy, chair of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Agronomy and one of only two public sweet-corn breeders left in the United States. According to the Organic Seed Alliance’s 2016 report, State of Organic Seed, public and private investments in organic plant breeding and other organic seed research have increased by $22 million in the last five years. Clif Bar’s Seed Matters initiative, which Dillon directs, has raised $1.5 million for organic seed research and education.
If you’re one of thousands of Harvey-ravaged Houstonians who could use a handout from Houston Texan J.J. Watt’s hurricane relief fund, you’re going to have to wait a little longer. While the J.J. Watt Foundation raised a mindblowing $33 million in two weeks, a foundation spokesperson said there’s currently no long-term plan in place for how the money will be spent.
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology found that despite concerns over climate change, the conditions of Wisconsin’s lakes have remained relatively stable over the past 20 years.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are still investigating what caused a campuswide wireless internet outage that is still being repaired, according to a release.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Republicans passed the state budget after a 10-week delay Wednesday, sending the $76 billion spending plan to a Senate chamber paralyzed by GOP infighting.
Leading Democrats say they struck a deal with President Trump Wednesday night to pass legislation to protect the about 800,000 DREAMers who could face deportation when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is scheduled to end in March.
Noted: What will happen to these forests if a changing climate means not only old forests burn, but young ones, too? That’s what Dr. Harvey and his colleague, Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, are here investigating. Yellowstone’s recent fires offer a rare natural experiment to see how forests regenerate after burning and reburning at short intervals.
“Controversies over freedom of speech on college campuses have existed as long as there have been college campuses. But the specific issues vary with each generation.”
When so many obviously intelligent and well-educated Americans claim that global warming is a “hoax”; when we seem obsessed with vilifying an entire, fourteen centuries-old religious tradition simply because of recent heinous actions of terrorists who profess to act in its name; when, nearly a century after the Scopes Trial, there is still significant public resistance to the theory of evolution, with one recent poll revealing that 34% of the population rejects evolution — over one third of the country! — and when voters elect a man so obviously unprepared and unfit to be president, I begin seriously to worry that we Americans are exhibiting greater and greater stupidity.
Noted: Vicki Bier, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in risk assessment and analysis, believes that the subject of climate-induced relocation within the U.S. needs more attention.
MADISON – The Florida Atlantic University Owls is thanking the Wisconsin Badgers for their generosity this past weekend.
