If you’re looking for a different frosty way to cool off this summer, consider the Bofanna Bar. Produced in Madison, the distinctly different ice cream bars launched last October.
Scientists have known for a long time that air pollution is worse on hot days. For example, ozone pollution levels are higher on the hottest days of the year.
Noted: And of course, climate change plays a role. “Any insect-borne disease is very sensitive to climate conditions,” says Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute University of Wisconsin. “Warmer temperatures speed up the development of tick larvae and nymphs, and that can influence transmission dynamics. Modeling studies of climate change effects on Lyme disease show a northward expansion of the disease,” says Patz. “Lyme is already moving north into Canada.”
Noted: TV ads can have a powerful effect on local elections, where turnout is generally low, said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mike Knetter, president and chief executive of the UW Foundation, said the merger helped the campus better engage with alumni.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 11 agricultural research stations across the state will soon be under new leadership. Mike Peters has been named director of the network of ag stations, where he will replace the retiring Dwight Mueller.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican-backed bill that would call for punishment of Wisconsin college students who disrupt campus speakers or presentations was set to clear a major legislative hurdle Wednesday.
Tazio Stefanelli, a recent graduate of Elkhorn Area High School, has his sights set on attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall for mechanical engineering.
Noted: Chin Wu, an environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, who is helping lead the Ann Arbor meteotsunami forum, “The energy (of the regressing wave) can sustain for 10 or 20 minutes. So you can imagine a swimmer swept far out into the lake, trying to fight it for that long.”
Noted: Heat kills ten times more people in the U.S. than tornados or other extreme weather events, says Richard Keller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medical history.
Noted: But Lydia Zepeda, a consumer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found the largest consensus for what is local to be any product that comes from within an hour’s drive. But is that with or without traffic? she asks.
Madison owns its pieces of professional golf lore, from Walter Hagen playing the (then 18-hole) Monona Golf Course in the 1930s to Arnold Palmer and Gary Player touring Odana Hills in 1961. Palmer shot 65 that August day, and took home the winner’s share of the $4,000 purse. A spectator ticket was $3.
Noted: Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said the efficiency gap was a fundamental part of the case aimed at providing Kennedy with a concrete way of distinguishing when a gerrymander is constitutional and when it isn’t.
LAS VEGAS (AP) Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world’s most elite institutions and for a reason that has, until recently, hardly registered in the university admissions process: social media.
MADISON — A new policy governing the use of unmanned aerial devices at a Wisconsin university allows researchers and instructors to use the drones on campus for research or educational purposes.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science professor Barry Burden predicts even more candidates. He says some will be lured by the open seat; meanwhile, people with liberal leanings may feel compelled to run. Burden says that’s because no one challenged Justice Annette Ziegler this year when she ran for reelection. Burden also expects a lot of campaign spending:
Noted: Medical historian Judy Leavitt, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, traces the history of fathers and childbirth in her book “Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room.”
MADISON – Dorothy “Ellen” Allbeck Maurer died June 11, 2017, of congestive heart failure caused by chemo in 1995. In 1970, Ellen and Art moved to Madison to careers at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Art as a professor and Ellen as a publications editor in the Department of Agricultural Journalism. She specialized in working with “difficult” authors, drawing on her charm, patience and persistence as well as her editorial skills.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are using oil that comes from a gland on chickens’ tails to improve survival at fish farms. The discovery could have global implications for the Atlantic salmon industry.
The state’s retirement system was one of the things that brought me to Wisconsin.
It took nearly two months, but the Hawks filled that vacancy and also added another assistant when they hired Ulf Samuelsson — a former teammate of Quenneville’s — and Don Granato on Thursday.
Noted: That’s the conclusion of a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine identifying four Trump appointees as carriers of the disinformation virus. What makes them especially dangerous, says the author, bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin law school, is that the “alternative facts” they’re purveying could influence an entire generation’s attitude toward contraception, for the worse.
BRIDGEVIEW – In a Chicago Fire locker room with a World Cup winner, U.S. national team members and a diverse group of MLS rookies and veterans from all over the world, Cary native Drew Conner tries to play a vital role: the man in charge of the music.
Keep Wildlife Wild is a partnership between Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wildlife rehabilitators across Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison that aims to educate the public on when to intervene with young, injured or orphaned wildlife, and when it’s better to stay on the sidelines.
Harold F. Deutsch, 98, of Belleville, WI, passed away Monday morning (June 12, 2017) at Door County Medical Center. He became a professor at the U.W. Medical School and joined the Department of Physiological Chemistry (now Molecular Biology) where he worked for the remainder of his career.
Internet users may soon notice a boost in performance thanks to a team of UW-Madison researchers who published an atlas of its physical structure around the world.
Online daters with lots of potential suitors are less satisfied and more likely to pursue other partners, new research reveals.
In their new graphic book “Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy” by Steven Nadler and Ben Nadler, the father and son duo take readers on a historical journey starring a group of thinkers who used reason and evidence to triumph over the authority of religion, royalty and antiquity.
Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison are developing a video game that will guide K-12 teachers through the hazards of unconscious attitudes and assumptions that affect the way they see their students, a phenomenon called “implicit bias.”
Noted: The results highlight the fact that the fetal immune system is not merely an immature, less-active version of its adult counterpart, but one that has its own distinct function, says transplant immunologist William Burlingham at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Steelers outside linebackers coach Joey Porter didn’t come out and say it, but don’t be all that surprised if first-round draft pick T.J. Watt is the starting right outside linebacker when the Steelers open the season in Cleveland Sept. 10, or shortly thereafter. Porter certainly didn’t close the door on the idea when he spoke with reporters during a break in minicamp Wednesday morning.
If the Regents of the University of California and the California Institute of Technology see big paydays in their fight against tech bigwigs, could that further fuel the university patent boom?
Noted: Folks insist that the pasteurisation process decreases some of milk’s nutritional value, and that drinking raw milk might confer some sort of protective effect against allergies or asthma. There’s some evidence that the pasteurisation can affect proteins and vitamins, but not enough to lead to a nutritional deficiency. Nor is there much evidence to back up the protective effect, according to a review in Nutrition Today by University of Wisconsin food science professor John Lucey.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed switch to a self-insurance plan for state workers was expected to be rejected Thursday by the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget-writing committee, a defeat for the governor that would force lawmakers to find $60 million in savings elsewhere.
A native of the Midwest, Liz Anna Kozik spent much of her childhood surrounded by prairies. Yet it wasn’t until Kozik left her home in Naperville, Illinois, for her undergrad studies in Rhode Island that she began to appreciate their beauty. She opted to go to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin – not just so she could be close to the prairie again, but also to study the grassy habitat’s history.
Noted: “It’s an association. It doesn’t show cause and effect. So it’s hard to know what the children who may not have been drinking cow’s milk, what else was going on in their diet,” said Beth Olson, associate professor of nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They also didn’t distinguish between the types of non-cow’s milk and those sources can be quite different.”
If federal funding for indirect costs tied to research were cut by Congress, as proposed by President Donald Trump, the University of Wisconsin-Madison could lose tens of millions of dollars annually and be forced to narrow the breadth of its research enterprise, Chancellor Rebecca Blank warned in a blog post Tuesday.
LAKE MILLS — Three white tents offered tepid relief to several UW-Madison anthropology students as temperatures approached 90 degrees on a cloudless Tuesday afternoon.
Noted: Doctors in the study also overused medical terms that patients might not understand, said co-author Dr. Toby Campbell, chief of palliative care at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
A UW-Madison professor says it’s the golden age for podcasts, but he’s worried some of those podcasts may soon disappear.
There have been some well-publicized incidents in which student groups or other protesters have interfered with scheduled appearances by right-wing speakers at US universities. In response, a number of states have considered “campus free speech” bills based on model legislation produced by the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank. Different bills introduce specific penalties for students who shout down the speech of others and prevent college administrators from disinviting speakers, to give two examples.
Madison ranked No. 10 on a list of top 25 tech cities, and much of it has to do with a highly educated workforce, according to a report by commercial real estate services firm, Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
A couple of weeks ago collaboration by several schools and colleges at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW System and UW Extension focused on helping every child thrive.
Interviewed: Susan Paskewitz talks about the upcoming tick season, and ways we can protect ourselves from getting bitten.
As more professors from University of Wisconsin system leave for other institutions, the UW Regents are calling on lawmakers to invest more funding into faculty pay raises and updating facilities slow the exodus.
French President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t kid around. Last week, the newly minted French leader delivered a bruising rebuke of Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord in a televised address. And in a jab at just how backward US climate politics have become, he invited American climate researchers to move to France.
Noted: But take the marshmallow out of the heat, and it’ll deflate — although the stretched out gelatin doesn’t bounce back. “It shrinks to a shriveled mass,” Richard Hartel, a food scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells The Verge in an email. “Don’t get me started on Peeps jousting.”
Noted: The University of Wisconsin – Madison is a large university known for its dedication to academic excellence. The School of Social Work teaches students about well-being, while working to promote human rights and social justice. Faculty members have developed an innovative curriculum that incorporates theory, research and practice to teach students about the field and prepare them to actually work in it.
Lily’s Fund, which raises money for epilepsy research at UW-Madison, will be hosting Lily’s Luau in January for the 10th and final time.
Noted: Not everyone is ready to accept the claim that the Jebel Irhoud fossils necessarily belong to H. sapiens, however. Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison says their modern-looking traits might not actually reflect a connection to our species.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a class called “The Problem of Whiteness” this spring drew criticism from a state assemblyman, David Murphy. Mr. Murphy, who called the course “garbage,” threatened the loss of state funding if the university stood by it.
Noted: A report in March, the 2017 County Health Rankings, produced by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, also highlighted a rise between 2014 and 2015 in premature deaths among people ages 15 to 44 and the broad geographic and demographic spread of those deaths.
According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, our very own Milky Way galaxy may float near the center of one of these voids.
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Apple’s request to overturn a jury’s finding that the company must pay $234 million in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) for infringing on a patent held by the foundation, according to a statement from WARF and multiple news reports.
When Jing Li was a teenager living in Xuchang, China, her parents gave her an extraordinary gift.
A few months ago, Patrick Colbeck, a Republican in Michigan’s State Senate, picked up George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. What he read sounded familiar: oppressive oversight, restricted speech, and twisted interpretations of reality. But the government isn’t creating this totalitarian atmosphere, he felt, colleges are.
Facing protests from senior scientists, including members of its own advisory board, the National Institutes of Health on Thursday abandoned a plan to help younger researchers by imposing a general three-grant limit.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin announced Thursday they are joining a national initiative to change how medical students are educated.
Quoted: “Those schools must provide reasonable accommodations” for students with disabilities, says Julie Mead, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But they do not have to alter their existing programs or add anything to them. What that means is, if their existing program does not provide any special education or related services, then they don’t have to provide any.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said the decision to expel Edina High School graduate Alec Cook, who has been charged with sexually assaulting several women, is final.
