The Trump administration’s 2018 budget plan sent to Congress this week calls for major cuts to funding for medical and science research, and that has research universities — including the University of Wisconsin-Madison — defending the work of scientists.
BOULDER – College is called the best four years of your life. For former Colorado Avalanche, now University of Wisconsin head hockey coach Tony Granato, it could be considered the best four decades.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature’s powerful finance committee postponed votes Tuesday on the University of Wisconsin System’s budget until later this week as Republican lawmakers quarreled behind closed doors over whether to adopt Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to reduce tuition.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the state’s dairy industry has made impressive strides in expanding output since the early 2000s.
Quoted: John Hawks, a visiting professor at Wits University and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the US, questioned the find on his blog: “Is it going too far to say that this fossil jaw is the earliest hominin?”
Claims that India may already have overtaken China as the world’s most populous nation have sparked consternation among demographers. The claims were made on Monday by Yi Fuxian, a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who has spent years campaigning against Beijing ’s draconian family-planning laws, and picked up by newspapers in both China and India.
Noted: Parents don’t have to be money experts to talk about the importance of delayed gratification or the difference between wants and needs, says report researcher Elizabeth Odders-White, associate finance professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty shows the state’s poverty rate fell from 10.8 percent in 2014 to 9.7 percent in 2015, a nine-year low for the state.
Wisconsin’s Republican leaders intend to create a new leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announcing Tuesday they will seek $1.5 million in annual public funding for what they said will be a bipartisan center offsetting liberal thinking on campus.
Republicans who control the Legislature’s powerful finance committee are now saying they expect to vote on the University of Wisconsin System budget later this week.
The Trump administration released a 2018 budget proposal Tuesday that delivered on expectations for drastic cuts to student aid programs and university-based research while substantially reshaping federal student loan programs.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and other top Republicans have announced a new leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that Vos said will “offset some of the liberal thinking” on campus.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank makes the case for continue federal funding for research done at colleges and universities.
Republicans who run state government revealed a new fissure over the state budget Tuesday, this one involving Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut tuition for in-state students at University of Wisconsin System campuses.
The Legislature’s finance committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on pieces of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget for the University of Wisconsin System, including his plan to cut tuition across all UW campuses.
Noted: Tests ask, for instance, how many words beginning with W a patient can think of, and how many breeds of dogs he can name, rather than have patients speak spontaneously. The latter “is too hard to score,” said neuropsychologist Sterling Johnson, of the University of Wisconsin, who studies brain function in Alzheimer’s disease. “But everyday speech is definitely a way of measuring cognitive decline. If people are noticing [a change in Trump’s language agility], that’s meaningful.”
I’m not a fan of Ann Coulter. I disagree with her on most issues and I don’t like her style. A little too nasty, even for me. If she’s coming to a venue near me, I’m not likely to be in that audience.
Noted: China’s real population may have been about 1.29 billion last year, 90 million fewer people than the official figure released by the National Bureau of Statistics, Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said at a symposium at Peking University on Monday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System students would save hundreds of dollars on tuition and campuses would have to compete for additional state dollars under provisions in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget up for votes Tuesday in the Legislature’s powerful finance committee.
President Trump’s 2018 budget request to Congress seeks massive cuts in spending on health programs, including medical research, disease prevention programs and health insurance for children of the working poor.
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced Monday the resignation of Chairman William D. Adams, effective today.
The White House’s 2018 budget for education — expected to be released next week as part of the administration’s full spending proposals — appears to double down on the eye-popping cuts to programs included in the Trump administration’s “skinny budget” released in March.
Noted: Splurging can of course be imprudent—but that’s true for everyone. Dan Hausman, philosophy professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, notes that we could all question advertisers’ message that consumption leads to satisfaction.
At UW-Madison, along with others across the country, student activists have rallied to start a conversation to change the culture on college campuses. They have argued that racism is an issue on campus, and one not discussed nearly enough.
BARRON COUNTY (WKOW) — A team of UW-Madison nursing students is assisting in tornado relief efforts Saturday in northwest Wisconsin.
UW researcher David Gagnon from the Field Day Lab gives us new ways to think about the utility of screen time and how to make the most of it for ourselves and our children.
Noted: This is a common feeling among oncologists, said Dr. Lisa Cadmus-Bertram from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How do Jewish students take on a student government council that seems determined to sanction Israel, establishing it as the perfect example of evil in the world, making the effort to vote against that idea personally dangerous and morally corrupt?
A new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce has sparked a lively debate on the merits of class-based affirmative action in higher education.
Wisconsin is looking to move into the fast lane on driverless vehicles.
One of this young century’s great literary feuds began on April 18, 2011, right here in Madison, at Union South.
Most black people have heard criticism over their natural hair at some point in their lives. It goes something like, “You know, you would look more professional if you wore your hair straight. Or short. Or back in a bun. Your hair is not going to look good on the green screen; pull it back.” After all, sleek and straight hair is considered the professional norm, while dreadlocks, Afros and big curls are thought to be unruly and unkempt.
After a series of teasing press releases hyping a “big announcement” about a “huge event” coming to Madison next spring, officials from the Madison Area Sports Commission unveiled their plans Wednesday morning. Well, we do live in a university town. And we do adore our beloved mascot, Buckingham U. Badger.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Twitter account, @UWMadison, was hacked early Wednesday morning and published some bizarre tweets before the university regained control of it, according to a university news release.
Noted: Should the bills become law, they may encourage wider awareness of the crime both among law enforcement and civilians. In a statement to NBC News, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department seemed unaware of the term’s existence altogether: “’Stealthing’ is a not a term we’re familiar with, so thanks for the explanation,” police spokesman Marc Lovicott wrote. “We have not investigated a case like that before.”
Noted: “To put that in context, that’s more than three milkweed plants for every man, woman and child in the United States,” said Karen Oberhauser, professor and conservation biologist in the University of Minnesota Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology.
As the first monarchs of the year begin to arrive in Wisconsin, there’s renewed attention on the fate of the species, which has seen a significant population drop in recent decades.”What they’re looking for is good habitat,” said Oberhauser, who is also the incoming director the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. The Milkweed plant is an important part of that habitat, as it’s where monarchs will lay their eggs.
Noted: This is a common feeling among oncologists, said Dr. Lisa Cadmus-Bertram from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Most of them would like their patients to be more active, however they are not physical activity coaches,” said Cadmus-Bertram, who studies the role of physical activity in cancer incidence and survivorship. “They don’t have the training or the expertise to provide that type of support to patients nor do they have the time.”
Despite facing protests, the National Institutes of Health promised Wednesday to move ahead with a plan to impose a general limit of three major grants per researcher, persuaded by data linking quantity to declining effectiveness.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar knows all about what it takes to have an NCAA basketball dynasty.
Reports of sexual assault on college campuses have surged dramatically in the past 15 years, according to a new federal study, while all other reported on-campus crimes have decreased.
College campuses have long been hotbeds for protests during divisive political times. And they’ve invited speakers, some controversial, in an effort to offer multiple perspectives. But as rhetoric has heated up in recent months, some schools are struggling to accommodate such visits. Conservative Wisconsin legislators think they have the answer.
Over the past year, several colleges have improved access to menstrual products on their campuses, including in some men’s and gender-neutral restrooms. That last detail has prompted some conservative websites to take note.
Noted: Moving to another state comes with several costs. According to a model developed by the University of Wisconsin economists John Kennan and James R. Walker, those costs can be very high. There’s the obvious expense of moving. On top of that, a move to a more-prosperous area will likely mean a substantial increase in the cost of rent or homeownership, even if a mover’s earnings edge up only a little.
Noted: “Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,” says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes. “When I started doing this in 1990, I thought people were very sedentary and didn’t move around much.”
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) – Plans are being made for a new research facility to support Wisconsin’s $1 billion cranberry industry.
Noted: While a case could be made that the editors should have known about Washington’s NRA work when they hired her and handled her column accordingly, Katy Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said debating that misses the point.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said there typically needs to be a lot of public dissatisfaction with both of the major party candidates for an independent or a third-party candidate to succeed. Burden said he doesn’t think those conditions exist in Wisconsin.
MADISON — A doctor is accused of sexual misconduct, but his case was kept secret. Until now.
A wave of proposed legislation on campus free speech is making its way through statehouses across the nation. Last week Tennessee’s governor, Bill Haslam, signed into law a measure that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education called “the most comprehensive state legislation protecting free speech on college campuses that we’ve seen passed anywhere in the country.”
Numerous states are considering legislation designed to ensure free speech on college campuses, following violent protests over speakers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Middlebury College. Some of the bills would, controversially, mandate punishing students who disrupt campus speakers and require institutions to keep mum on political issues — and perhaps nowhere has the debate been as contentious as in Wisconsin.
Noted: That’s when his producer, Scott Rudin, proposed a playwriting method you might call dial-a-feminist. Hnath reached out to several academics, including Susan Brantly, who teaches Scandinavian literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UNDATED (WSAU) – Skylar Witte, a 19-from Schofield, competed in the Miss USA pageant over the weekend in Las Vegas. She’s a DC Everest graduate and is currently a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: But Brian Gould, professor of agricultural economics and agribusiness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, isn’t so sure.
Noted: “The whole purpose of protest is to be rude,” said Pamela Oliver, professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s not like they hadn’t warned the college that they (the students) were upset about it.”
Noted: At 18 months, Avi had an airway the size of a 24-week fetus, the size of a pin. About 75 percent of her airway was obstructed, said Tony Kille, a pediatric otolaryngologist and associate professor at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health.
The Discovery Channel and movies such as “Twister” turn storm chasers into folk heroes, so it’s only right that Hollywood make heroes of UW-Madison professor Susan Paskewitz and her crews for fearlessly hunting Wisconsin’s disease-spreading deer ticks.
To put it in simple terms, the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper, better known as WHAM, is a high-powered instrument used for studying the sky.
In campus clashes from California to Vermont, many defenders of the First Amendment say they see signs that free speech, once a bedrock value in academia, is losing ground as a priority at U.S. colleges.
He doesn’t start with an apocalyptic description of future impacts when he talks to people about climate change, but, for some audiences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Environmental Studies Calvin DeWitt does turn to the book of Revelation. “I’ll have a white-out pen in my pocket, and I’ll have them read Revelation chapter 11, verse 18. It’s a description of the sounding of the last trumpet, as you hear in Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ and the end verse says, ‘The time has come for destroying those who destroy the Earth,’” DeWitt told me. “And so, I say, ‘I have a white-out pen here for anyone who would like to correct their Bible.’”
Last winter’s cold conditions contributed a further influx of road salt into the USA’s lakes. New evidence suggests that these environments are suffering from increased salinity
