President Trump is expected to announce on Tuesday that he will end a program that has allowed some 800,000 young immigrants to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of immediate deportation. His action may be delayed for six months to give Congress a chance to act, according to reports published over the weekend.
The organizers of an event meant to promote free speech at the University of California at Berkeley have their lips sealed about who will be speaking at the series.
The sight of white supremacists marching through the heart of the University of Virginia, carrying flaming Tiki torches and shouting “Jews will not replace us!” — followed by the killing of a counterprotester at a rally in downtown Charlottesville the next day — may put the brakes on state efforts to strengthen campus free speech protections.
This weekend, about 25 teams of students from different universities from around the world will travel to Hawthorne, Calif. to test their hyperloop pods on SpaceX’s 1 mile Hyperloop test track during the second Hyperloop Competition Weekend.
The effects of air pollution on human health have been well documented. We also have research on how air pollution affects plants and wildlife.
John Hall, a military historian from UW-Madison has been tapped to write the on-going history of United States counter-terrorism efforts for the Pentagon. We’ll talk with him about his new task and what it means to act as an official record of history.
When it comes to CRISPR, our society has some important decisions to make.
People generally think that editing human genes might be OK, but most think that there’s a clear line that shouldn’t be crossed when it comes to changing traits that would be passed down to new generations, according to a survey reported Thursday.
In a survey published today in Science, two-thirds of people polled believe that using gene-editing technology to modify human cells was “acceptable.” The survey (PDF, sub required), which was carried out by researchers at the University of Wisonsin in Madison and Temple University, presented 1,600 people with various hypothetical use cases for genome editing technology. For example, it asked how people felt about modifying DNA in human germ-line cells, which can be passed down to future generations, versus genes in somatic cells, which aren’t.
Noted: Expressive writing is about emotional disclosure, said Dr. Adrienne Hampton, an assistant professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Wisconsin. “It can be trauma-focused, or it can be aspiration-focused,” Hampton said. “Really, the key is just that it involves either conscious or subconscious emotional processing around a given topic.”
Gener8tor is bringing its latest series of training programs for entrepreneurs to Madison, WI, as part of a new partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s computer sciences department.
The North American Manure Expo, held Tuesday and Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin’s Arlington Agricultural Research Station, offered Kasparek new insights, and not just about the different types of machinery on the market for spreading organic fertilizer on crop fields.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s tech transfer office plans to invest $60 million in startups affiliated with the school over the next eight years and has launched a separate $50 million initiative aimed at commercializing UW-Madison research and discoveries in human therapeutics.
Noted: Some of the Madison centers’ success may be due to the convenience they offer in a city that Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, describes as ”asset-rich and access-poor.”
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student Valerie Stull didn’t make it to the fairgrounds in West Allis to try the cricket nachos, but she’s eaten crickets – and other insects – prepared in a myriad of ways. And she believes the world would benefit if the rest of us would open our minds to the nutritional value of entomophagy – the practice of eating insects.
Recent white nationalist events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere have led many states, cities and institutions to reevaluate their own history, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which was once home to Ku Klux Klan student groups. The Klan has been active in Wisconsin for nearly a century.
Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday state lawmakers are nearing agreement on the delayed 2017-2019 state budget.
Noted: On the whole, there isn’t enough data to show whether or not specifically dog saliva is healthy for humans or not, said Kimberly Kelly, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) has started a two-year “virtual dairy farm brain” project that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze data in real time helping dairy farmers improve their management decisions.
A smile is often associated with happiness, but experience, and new research, will show you that it can actually say much more. In a world in which facial expressions can often convey what is unsaid, people will often use different smiles in different scenarios.
MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin and UCLA have scheduled a home-and-home series with games in 2029 and 2030.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said on Tuesday that it did not have the legal authority to remove a Confederate monument from its campus, despite guidance from Gov. Roy Cooper suggesting that administrators “take immediate measures” if they feel there is a risk to public safety.
Pennsylvania State University has denied a request by white nationalist Richard B. Spencer to speak on campus, the university announced Tuesday.
Just over a week after a gathering of white supremacy groups in Charlottesville, Virginia, left three dead and led to the quick removal of Confederate memorials across the country, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Monday she has formed a committee to examine the history of student groups affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
Noted: In two unpublished research papers, Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist with the department obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s medical school, said China’s actual population at the end of last year should have been about 1.28 billion, and not the 1.38 billion calculated by the National Bureau of Statistics.
UW-Madison’s First Wave program, the only full-tuition hip-hop scholarship at a Big Ten university, has confirmed it is not accepting any applications for the 2018-19 academic year. This comes amid other potential sweeping changes to the First Wave, which recruits spoken word artists, rapper and poets from around the country.
One innovative program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health aims to reverse the trend by training obstetrician/gynecologists in rural areas with the goal of having them practice in the area.
Noted: Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin Space Place, cautions people in the strongest terms to not look directly at the sun during the eclipse.
Bizmaroon, doodinkus and splo. For over 50 years, a group of intrepid lexicographers have been documenting words like these ? regional terms and phrases that were once popular in states like Wisconsin, Kansas and Tennessee. Collected together in the Dictionary of American Regional English, the words make up a fascinating repository for old-fashioned, funny-sounding and unmistakably local language quirks across the United States.
Duke University on Saturday announced that it had removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from the entrance to the university chapel. On Sunday night, the University of Texas at Austin announced it would remove statues of Lee and three other Confederate leaders from a prominent campus location. And Bowdoin College on Saturday said that it would take down a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis and college alumni who fought for the Confederacy.
A Dane County judge has cleared the way for separate trials, for a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student. Prosecutors had requested joining two separate cases against 22-year-old Alec Cook, who faces more than 20 counts, including sexual assault, false imprisonment and disorderly conduct.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh chancellor needs to find a new place to live.
Jim Lattis, who directs Space Place at the UW-Madison Astronomy Department, said that even if there are clouds Monday, daylight will diminish. “You would still notice the effect because even if it’s cloudy, the amount of daylight that’s reaching your location will decrease dramatically. Again, something in the neighborhood of 80 percent of the Sun’s light will be blocked. So, it’ll get darker. If it’s overcast, it’ll get even darker,” Lattis said.
Noted: But the kids of color aren’t the only ones who benefit from more diverse teachers. In 2015, Gloria Ladson-Billings, a well-respected education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, broke it down:“I want to suggest that there is something that may be even more important than black students having black teachers and that is white students having black teachers! It is important for white students to encounter black people who are knowledgeable,” she wrote. “What opportunities do white students have to see and experience black competence?”
BOSTON (AP) — Nicholas Fuentes is dropping out of Boston University and heading south, pressing ahead with his right-wing politics despite receiving online death threats.
Michigan State University on Thursday became the third public institution of higher education this week to decline to host an event at which the white nationalist Richard Spencer presumably would have spoken, and the president of a fourth institution, Louisiana State University, said Mr. Spencer would not be welcome there.
Noted: Adrian Treves, associate professor of environmental studies at UW-Madison and founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab, agrees that wolves remain in a precarious situation: “This is just round three. It’s not over. There is going to be more action.”
Laura Schwendinger, a professor of composition at the UW–Madison since 2005, has received a steady stream of commissions to compose music over the past decade. She released a CD of chamber music in 2013 titled “High Wire Acts” with grants from UW–Madison and the Columbia University Ditson Fund.
Noted: So, what drives some community members to call upon ordinary citizens to solve crimes or mediate? Pamela Oliver says a lack of trust in a police department. Oliver teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
(WLUK) — The familiar green and gold of Lambeau Field will once again give way to red when the Wisconsin Badgers return to Green Bay in 2020.
All of this adds up to a perfectly good explanation for the bizarre gender skew in Silicon Valley. It might be a personally discomfiting one to some, but that’s not a good reason to dismiss the long history of women contributing to tech and instead turn to bad science. “It’s almost strange to have to rationally refute it, because it is just so wrong,” says tech historian Marie Hicks, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
After a planned speech in February by the right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos attracted demonstrators who started fires and shattered windows, the University of California, Berkeley realized it had a major hole in its event planning.
Not only do Republicans and Democrats have different levels of confidence in higher education, but they are coming at the issue by focusing on different issues, a new poll by Gallup shows. Republicans who distrust higher education focus on campus politics, while the smaller share of Democrats who distrust higher education tend to focus on rising college prices, the pollster found.
We hear from Paula Niedenthal, a UW-Madison professor about a new smile study that may help us decipher what a person’s smile really means.
Noted: In Charlottesville, the mainstream media coverage has generally been responsible, according to Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Beginning with reports on the hundreds of torch-bearing alt-rightists marching around the University of Virginia on Friday night, the situation grew increasingly intense and violent, and the reporting reflected that.
Noted: “I don’t think this has too much to do with trade negotiations that are about to start,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It’s more means of providing some relief for those few plants who made this product and had been selling it into Canada. Now, [the United States has] the possibility of selling it domestically.”
Noted: So I was thrilled to read that at least one of his former schools has stepped up to recognize his accomplishments. The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently singled out Eddie in its “Thank You 72” campaign that chose a UW graduate from each of the state’s 72 counties to spotlight.
Filming my third short documentary, “Voices,”was a transformative experience. “Voices” is a 10-minute documentary chronicling the inception of the first Afro-American Cultural Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973 and the opening of the newly minted Black Cultural Center in 2017. It tells the erased narratives of black students at UW–Madison.
Some Great Lakes scientists are concerned about possible federal budget cuts affecting their work as the fate of spending next year on Great Lakes research is still foggy.
It happens to all of us: you’re out shopping for a gift and you find something you like so much you want to get it for yourself too, but you don’t buy two because the maxim “it’s better to give than to receive” was drilled into your head at an early age. If the scenario is familiar, I have good news for you: a new study indicates it might be better for everyone for you to buy that gift — and have it too.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a computer science student named Daniel Dropik abandoned his effort to start a campus chapter of the American Freedom Party, a white nationalist group. Dropik, who served time in federal prison after being convicted of arson for setting fires at two predominantly black churches in 2005, faced pressure from the administration and student leaders to do so, although the university could not force him to halt the project.
Noted: In a recent story in the Atlantic about the lack of men in college, the education expert Jerlando Jackson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, noted that one of the reasons more wasn’t being done to encourage boys to go to college was that a lot of them were white and so not considered at a disadvantage. “It’s a tough discussion to have and a hard pill to swallow when you have to start the conversation with, ‘White males are not doing as well as one might historically think,’” he said. “We’re uncomfortable as a nation having a discussion that includes white males as a part of a group that is having limited success.”
The Wisconsin Badgers will face off against Notre Dame at two iconic NFL stadiums, the team says.
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamcare, expanded Medicaid access to more Americans, which has cost the government billions of dollars. But a new UW study says that by expanding Medicaid coverage, the government is saving money in other areas.
The official Notre Dame football Twitter account’s post does not leave much room for wonder.
Noted: “We’ve moved from a high-quality independent news ownership structure to one where a few companies have outsized influence,” said Lewis A. Friedland, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) — Sagashus Levingston is a mother of six, and is getting her PhD at University of Wisconsin – Madison. On top of that, she’s going on a pop-up tour across the country for her new book, “Infamous Mothers.”
Interviewed: Pamela Oliver is a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She says this advisory combines two tactics that have been successful in the past.
Noted: Psychology professor Janet Hyde of the University of Wisconsin–Madison has strong U. S. data showing no meaningful differences in math performance among more than seven million boys and girls in grades 2 through 12.
Jo Handelsman had numerous options when she changed jobs this past January. Part of that was because of the position she was leaving: advising former President Barack Obama on science. Not many jobs take you into the Oval Office.
