U.S. patent No. 5,781,752 may not sound special: It’s a “table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer.” But for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — the research arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison — it’s now worth half a billion dollars.
The UW Trout Lake Station in Boulder Junction will be holding its 6th Annual Open House on Friday, August 4th from 1-5. The open house showcases much of the research done at the station as well as events for all ages, as interim station director Susan Knight describes.
Emergency: You need more disposable diapers, right away. You hop into your car and trust your ride will be a safe one. Thanks to your phone’s GPS and the microchips that run it, you map out how to get to the store fast. Once there, the barcode on the package lets you accurately check out your purchase and run. Each step in this process owes a debt to the universities, researchers, students and the federal funding support that got these products and technologies rolling in the first place.
Bronson Koenig is in the middle of a very quick — but important — step in his basketball life.
Quoted: Jordan Ellenberg, who teaches math at the University of Wisconsin, says it’s the number of possible routes that makes finding the best one so difficult.
Apple has gotten itself into a bit of a pickle. U.S. District Court Judge William Conley pounded the gavel on Monday ordering Apple to pay $506 million to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
MADISON – Foxconn executives have met with staff of the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — a sign of how far the economic ripples of a deal with the company might eventually extend.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of political science Ken Mayer expects groups to challenge the decision, though he said the president has a strong legal foothold, as military regulations are largely up to the president’s discretion and are not mandated by law.
Noted: “This is the kind of research that is essential if we are to know if it’s possible to safely and precisely make corrections” in embryos’ DNA to repair disease-causing genes,” legal scholar and bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told STAT. “While there will be time for the public to decide if they want to get rid of regulatory obstacles to these studies, I do not find them inherently unethical.” Those regulatory barriers include a ban on using National Institutes of Health funding for experiments that use genome-editing technologies in human embryos.
Noted: If the spores were merely dropped, many of them would waft back into the parent mushroom and get stuck. “When a spore launches, it has to go far enough that it clears its apparatus,” said Anne Pringle, a professor of botany and bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin and a collaborator on the new research.
Noted: Ken Mayer, an expert on presidential powers at University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CBC News that while Trump’s comments might not specifically be called an executive order, he has statutorily-designated powers to make such decisions as commander-in-chief.
Noted: “I hope that cooler heads prevail when putting these incentive packages together,” Steve Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of agriculture and applied economics, said Tuesday. “Sometimes states get so caught up in playing the game that they lose sight of the costs these incentives incur. Wisconsin has historically not played that game.”
If you’re involved in high school athletics, you know the scene. There’s increasing pressure to specialize in a single sport and play it year-round.
Noted: The entire Trump-versus-Sessions episode is “jaw-dropping” in how ill-advised it is, says Ken Mayer, a professor of political science who specializes in the constitutional powers of the presidency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stress affects the body in many ways: tense muscles, heart problems, depression and more. Now, a preliminary study from the University of Wisconsin medical school has found stress can also have a negative impact on how our brain works as we age.
(Reuters) – A US judge on Monday ordered Apple Inc to pay $506 million for infringing on a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm, more than doubling the damages initially imposed on Apple by a jury.
Experiments that go according to plan can be useful. But the biggest scientific advances often emerge from those that do not. Such is the case with a study just reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. When they began it, Hector DeLuca of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his colleagues had been intending to examine the effects of ultraviolet (UV) light on mice suffering from a rodent version of multiple sclerosis (MS). By the project’s end, however, they had in their hands two substances which may prove valuable drugs against the illness.
Corey Clement had just three weeks to enjoy what looked to be an unbelievably great situation with the Eagles. It might still turn out well for the Glassboro High School graduate who went on to become part of the winningest class in University of Wisconsin history. But things have definitely changed.
CHICAGO (AP) — The Big Ten Network will triple its prime-time national TV exposure during football season and add more basketball games in the time slot, thanks to new deals with broadcast partners FOX, ABC/ESPN and CBS.
MADISON, Wis. – A deal for a major tech company to come to Wisconsin could be imminent, according to reports.
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduates will have a space devoted to them on campus when Alumni Park officially opens on Oct. 6. The 1.3-acre green space, located between Memorial Union and the Red Gym, will contain more than 50 museum-like exhibits throughout the gardens.
MADISON / COBB—Bob “Wally” Wunderlin, age 60, of Madison, formerly of Cobb, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, in Madison.
When Bud Selig steps to the podium next Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y., to deliver his acceptance speech during induction ceremonies for the Baseball Hall of Fame, there will be many familiar faces in what is expected to be an enormous crowd.
Noted: Robert Drechsel, the former head of the University of Wisconsin journalism school and an expert on media law, agreed that someone who decides to speak at a public hearing has given their consent to have what they shared be made public.
Noted: “We see the same pieces of legislation being proposed in state, after state, after state,” says Julie Underwood, an endowed chair in education policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has been investigating ALEC’s actions in education for the past five years. She has tracked versions of ALEC bills through public records in state libraries.
Jul 21 each year marks Racial Harmony Day. Ho Li-Ching explores whether students should be encouraged to discuss controversial issues related to race in the classroom and what’s stopping teachers from doing so. Ho Li-Ching is president of the Singapore Association for Social Studies Education and associate professor of social studies education at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Before heading out, check wave conditions around the caves at wavesatseacaves.cee.wisc.edu, a service of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that posts real-time wave data at the caves, which can be different from the conditions at the launch point.
Student aid advocates didn’t find much to like in a House education appropriations bill released last week — lawmakers removed billions from the Pell Grant surplus while taking no significant steps to improve college access. But educators could at least find consolation in the fact that the committee didn’t follow through on the drastic cuts to many aid programs proposed in the White House budget in May.
There’s new science-backed evidence that diversity training workshops work. For a paper set to be published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, researchers decided to test their experimental “prejudice habit-breaking intervention” at STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) departments where women are historically underrepresented. Women are almost half of the U.S. workforce, but they’re 39% of chemists, 28% of environmental scientists, and 12% of civil engineers. In fact, 40% of women engineers quit the field or will never use their degree.
GOP state representative Andre Jacque has introduced a bill that would bar medical residents at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from learning how to perform abortions. It’s a move that would do a lot more than hurt abortion access — though that alone is a reason to oppose it. It would also chip away at women’s access to all forms of gynecological and obstetric care, particularly in the state of Wisconsin.
B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann was already growing human skin in an organotypic culture when she met the burn doctor who would change everything. The department of pathology and laboratory medicine faculty researcher and professor had been at UW–Madison 15 years when she made the serendipitous discovery that would ultimately lead to Stratatech, the Madison-based skin regeneration company she founded in 2000.
Look around you and imagine: All you can see—rustling birch leaves, purring cat, your hand against your knee—is less than 5 percent of what’s actually there.
The Badgerloop Pod looks sort of like the DeLorean from “Back to the Future,” winged doors stretched open to the sky.
Two months after mammary gland physiologist Laura Hernandez arrived at UW–Madison in 2011 to work on making dairy cows healthier, her daughter was born.
It’s been 15 years since UW–Madison College of Engineering emeritus research professor David Gustafson, who is not an addict or alcoholic, checked himself into rehab to better understand what patients go through. The end result of his Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies team’s work was A-CHESS, a revolutionary smartphone app designed to aid people in recovery that today has 6,000 users and is a finalist in Harvard’s 2017 Innovations in American Government Awards. Now, he has set his sights on helping a population he says suffers from similar issues of isolation and loneliness: senior citizens.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a big-idea powerhouse.
Jim Tinjum, an avid bicyclist and professor of energy engineering and sustainability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in the middle of a 1,250-mile biking trip dedicated to promoting wind energy.
A Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin is pushing legislation to prohibit medical students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from learning how to provide abortions. If he is successful, the OB-GYN shortage in the state could worsen, and the state’s medical school could lose national accreditation for its OB-GYN program.
House Republicans issued a 2018 budget bill Tuesday afternoon that rejects several higher education cuts proposed by President Trump but upholds plans to pull billions of dollars in reserves out of the Pell Grant program for needy college students.
The responsibility for paying for college has gradually shifted over the past decade, and now parents and students typically share the cost equally, a new national study suggests.
It is good that Wisconsin lawmakers are concerned about free speech. But it makes no sense to protect free speech by limiting free speech. But that is exactly what the Wisconsin Assembly has done in approving legislation that threatens those who dare speak their mind on college campuses.
Noted: “My concern about ALEC is that [it] takes the private corporation and gives them such incredible power,” said Julie Underwood, UW-Madison School of Education Dean.
Noted: “What has happened over time is that development has become less dense in the US,” says Volker Radeloff, a forestry professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and lead author on that 2005 WUI study. “People like to move to a 5-acre ranch, and that creates this volatile mix of houses and flammable vegetation.”
So what makes the price of milk so variable, and what does that volatility mean for the Dairy State? Bob Cropp is a professor emeritus and dairy marketing policy specialist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He says there are three main factors that impact the price of dairy nationwide.
Nearly a third of Wisconsinites – 29 percent – live in one of the state’s many rural areas, but only 13 percent of the physicians in Wisconsin have rural practices. The Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM), a program to recruit doctors to serve in rural areas of the state, is having success and getting national recognition.
A controversial bill to ban University of Wisconsin resident doctors from learning how to perform abortions was debated at the Capitol Tuesday. It’s a measure opponents say would worsen the shortage of OB-GYNs in Wisconsin.
A bill that would block University of Wisconsin OB-GYN residents from learning to perform abortions got a public hearing Tuesday at the state Capitol, with abortion opponents and medical organizations lining up on opposite sides of the issue.
Some “clear” changes are coming to Camp Randall carry in policies this fall. Carry in bags at Camp Randall Stadium will be required to be made of clear material, beginning with this fall’s Badger football season.
The Michigan Legislature, like the U.S. Senate, is a safe space for right-wing groupthink. That’s the conclusion I’ve drawn from a recent flurry of activity on the manufactured crisis of “campus free speech” in Lansing and Washington, D.C.
Wisconsin Athletics announced Monday that it will establish a new bag policy for home games at Camp Randall Stadium. The new policy states that bags larger than 6.5” x 4.5” are not allowed in the stadium unless they are clear. Clear tote bags up to 12” x 6” x 12” will be allowed, and the University will provide one tote bag per household to season ticket holders when tickets are mailed out.
Noted: “It was only three mosquitoes that we’ve been able to detect,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz. “And we went back out to the same location and have looked and just haven’t been finding them. So at the end of the summer I might say something different after we’ve looked in more places and had longer to see if this represents an opportunity for these mosquitoes to get more of a foothold.”
Back in April, Andre Jacque, a Republican politician and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, introduced a bill that sought to disallow University of Wisconsin from training enrolled individuals to perform abortions. The bill would also insist that training to perform terminations can be conducted only in hospitals. Jacque’s bill has caused a significant deal of alarm and concern among some faculty members and students, which is why the University of Wisconsin is fighting the anti-abortion bill.
Harsh life experiences appear to leave African-Americans vulnerable to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, researchers reported Sunday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London.
Noted: “There’s movement around integrating demographic data with how students interact with the online digital classroom. I think higher education institutions are just getting their feet wet in that area,” University of Wisconsin–Madison Chief Data Officer Jason Fishbain tells EdTech. “One thing that is technically possible is that we can start to personalize the student experience.”
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive a new, five-year round of funding for its energy research center that has produced 160 patents and spawned five start-up companies in its 10-year history.
School officials at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus have concerns about the future of the school’s national OB-GYN accreditation. The disappointing reason this Wisconsin school could lose its accreditation: a Republican-backed state House bill that would prevent the UW-Madison faculty from training its resident physicians in abortion procedures. Officials also believe that the bill would worsen the existing shortage of obstetrics/gynecological providers located in the state of Wisconsin. The school is fighting the bill with all its might.
Researchers have identified hearing loss, verbal fluency, and hospitalization as new factors that can provide clues about cognitive health and aid in early detection of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
People who experience hearing loss could be at greater risk of memory and thinking problems later in life than those without auditory issues, research suggests.
Stressful events in life, such as the death of a child, divorce or being fired, can age the brain by at least four years, US researchers suggests.
Noted: The case could ease the “sense of distrust between the parties,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “I don’t think it can get much worse.”
