Noted: “It’s not just activating the brain, it’s getting the right cells within that area,” said Justin Williams, chair of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who is leading one of the teams under the DARPA initiative. “That’s where we think that activating the periphery might have some benefit.”
Noted: “Casinos are trained to make you feel welcome, while you lose your life,” said Sandra Adell, 70, a literature professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who recounted her experiences as a compulsive gambler in the book “Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen.” In an interview, Professor Adell said that advertisements aimed at older adults often show smiling people, dressed up and looking glamorous, “to create an illusion that plays to people’s weaknesses.”
Late last year, former Pitt football coach Paul Chryst asked Kevin Colbert to come to Wisconsin to take a look at one of his players contemplating entering the draft after his junior season.
With cornerback Marshon Lattimore secured at pick No. 11, the New Orleans Saints went to the other side of the ball and selected Wisconsin offensive tackle Ryan Ramczyk with the 32nd overall pick to close out the first round of the NFL Draft.
Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin and North Carolina are circulating bills that would require state universities to punish students who disrupt campus speech and remain neutral on political and social issues. Both are based on model legislation from the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank.
A few weeks ago I accomplished one of my dreams, successfully defending my Ph.D. dissertation in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was a goal I didn’t even realize I could have as a high school student. I grew up on a farm near Marathon City in central Wisconsin. My roots are working-class — Dad grows ginseng and Mom works in a cheese factory.
#Andy Katz wasn’t spared from the layoffs that shook up the sports journalism world on Wednesday. As #ESPN downsized, their veteran college #Basketball reporter was one of the last people reported to have lost their job, although it’s not immediately clear when he got the call.
Noted: The discovery of the hobbits themselves was “uncovering something that seems to have a history of a million years that no one had even guessed at,” says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ask Peter Krsko to define the art he creates and he might pull a wasp comb out of his backpack and draw attention to its hexagonal cells.
Noted: The United States spends more than any other country on health care and prescription drugs are one reason why, says Kevin Look, a University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy assistant professor.
The student government of the University of Wisconsin-Madison unanimously passed a divestment resolution targeting companies operating in many countries that included an amendment specifically about Israel.
The student government of the University of Wisconsin-Madison included an amendment specifically about Israel in a divestment resolution targeting companies operating in many countries.
This poem appears in “The Golden Shovel Anthology,” a collection that honors Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin students who disrupt speeches and demonstrations could be expelled and campuses would have to remain neutral on public issues under a bill Republican legislators are pushing this week.
Purdue University’s acquisition of Kaplan University is an unexpected tectonic shift in American higher education, revealing both the changing roles of public universities and the dwindling fortunes of for-profit colleges.
Republican state lawmakers are proposing a bill they say will help protect free speech rights on University of Wisconsin campuses.
The state Building Commission approved plans Wednesday for a roughly $96.5 million replacement of the Southeast Recreation Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON – Unethical, intimidating and undemocratic tactics preceded the approval of a Student Council resolution critical of Israel on Wednesday night, according to pro-Israel students at University of Wisconsin – Madison.Pro-Israel Jewish students were feeling hurt and disappointed after student government approved a resolution calling attention to various progressive causes while also criticizing Israel. Even the school administration weighed in, issuing a late-night statement after the vote that called for “the need to act with integrity.”
Noted: But Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that could be changing.
Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks was flummoxed. He told Ars, “I’m not usually at a loss for words, but this one has left me and many of my friends speechless.”
NX Level, the longtime offseason training facility of Wisconsin football’s first family, sits on a sparsely developed parcel of land in Waukesha, about 20 minutes south of the house where the Watt brothers grew up. The lobby of owner Brad Arnett’s 43,000-square-foot fitness cathedral is filled with memorabilia commemorating his most famous client. Magazine covers featuring J.J. Watt’s face dot the walls. A collection of jerseys for some of Arnett’s other accomplished clients?—?like Joe Thomas, Chris Maragos, and former NBA player Joel Przybilla?—?line the hallway toward his office, but only Watt’s Texans uniform is visible from the front door. It’s signed, with a simple message written in silver Sharpie: “I wouldn’t be where I am without you.”
A new report by the Association of American Universities shows the University of Wisconsin-Madison has improved its efforts to address sexual assault on campus.
The U.S. corporate income tax wastes resources: avoidance distorts business decisions, compliance imposes administrative costs, and very interested parties fight vigorously over its details. Its complexity enables some profitable corporations to avoid taxes altogether and it increasingly provides a smaller share of federal revenue, falling from about one-third in the 1950s to about a tenth today. Its complexity obscures transparency and provides opportunity for various interests to seek and obtain favorable treatment.
Noted: Echoing this observation, Erika Bullock, an assistant professor of math education at University of Wisconsin-Madison, welcomed the whiteness paper’s framing of racism in institutional terms.
Netflix’s new talk show, “Bill Nye Saves the World,” debuted the night before people around the world joined together to demonstrate and March for Science. Many have lauded the timing and relevance of the show, featuring the famous “Science Guy” as its host, because it aims to myth-bust and debunk anti-scientific claims in an alternative-fact era.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced its latest group of projects for the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative, which funnels millions of dollars into research.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Fairly or not, T.J. Watt will draw comparisons to his big brother when he gets to the pros.
It’s no surprise that Pomona College’s decision to hire Alice Goffman as a visiting professor would raise some eyebrows. The young sociologist drew both widespread admiration and broad criticism for On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, her 2014 ethnography about poor black youth in Philadelphia.
Startled by data suggesting that sexual assault is common and underreported on campuses across the country, university leaders have increased staffing, training and support for students in recent years, according to a new survey of leading universities.
It’s not the size of your brain, it’s how you organise it. The most recently discovered species of early human had a skull only slightly larger than a chimpanzee’s, but its brain looked surprisingly like our own – particularly in an area of the frontal lobe with links to language.
Lauren Carlini is having a blast. In May she’ll graduate from the University of Wisconsin and move to Anaheim to train with the USA national team.
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.
Noted: “This would have a disastrous effect on people’s lives,” said Dr. Richard Brown, a health policy professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. “This will have all sorts of devastating ripples for families that are already stressed and trying to do the best they can with limited resources.”
Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, faulted the study for not taking into account people who have jobs that require lots of physical activity nor the growing popularity of winter sports.
A sport that only exists on fading newspaper microfilm and in the bittersweet memories of the aging athletes who played it needs a selfless, tireless champion if it is ever to live again in the public imagination.
Alice Goffman’s star fell almost as fast as it rose a few years back, as sociologists divided over her controversial book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, and allegations that it eschewed crucial disciplinary norms. Some of Goffman’s supporters maintained that her six-year embed with inner-city Philadelphia youths pushed ethnography forward in important ways. But others questioned her unusual methods — including the destruction of records she said could one day compromise her subjects, to whom she was unusually close.
Central Time talks to Hilary Dugan, a UW-Madison researcher, about a recent study showing that our freshwater lakes are getting saltier due to road salt used during winter months.
Nigel Hayes is known for his sense of humor, but joking about serious topics is something he doesn’t tolerate.
Noted: Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, called Hoffman’s email “baffling.”
Hobart and William Smith Colleges has tapped a prominent diversity officer, who happens to be one of their alumni, to lead their institution as the next college president. Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, who is currently vice president for diversity and community engagement and a professor in the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), will begin his post on July 16.
Before retiring, Holly Walter Kerby spent her career educating students about the atoms that make up the planet. From the periodic table to the basics of chemical bonding, students in her chemistry class at Madison College were shown the world around them — on a microscopic level.
The UW-Madison’s Varsity Band Concert was held this past weekend. The annual spectacle is something nearly 30,000 fans look forward to, but the band was almost without its charismatic leader who recently underwent double bypass surgery.
Organizers of the March for Science said that the event in Washington, D.C., and the satellite marches across the country this weekend were just the beginning of a movement to champion science.
MADISON, Wisc. (WMTV) — A new program at American Family Children’s Hospital is helping kids ease the pain of chronic illness by learning and playing music.
NEW YORK—On Feb. 28, the day before the NHL trade deadline, Blake Geoffrion tapped out a group text to three of his former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey teammates: “Boys getting the band back together, eh?”
Hamidreza Nassiri wants Wisconsin to see the Iran he sees. And one way the University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching assistant is trying to do that is by coordinating Madison’s first Iranian Film Festival, which opened Saturday and runs through Sunday, April 23.
Driving me to ballet, my mom would describe how she expected the world would have mirrored “The Jetsons” by then — a futuristic utopia with breakfast at the push of a button and families buzzing around in spaceships. Stuck in traffic, we laughed. No flying cars in sight.
A national expert on civil rights, social justice and campus culture has been named the next president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Ravi Kalla got his master’s degrees in engineering from UW-Madison and founded Symphony Corp., a health information company that employs a couple of hundred people in Madison.
Authorities say a man was driving drunk and had a packet of methamphetamine in his pocket when he struck and killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student from China.
It’s impossible to examine state higher education finances in 2016 without separating the collapse in Illinois from a more nuanced picture across the rest of the country.
Noted: Even if students don’t engage directly with policy, simply engaging with each other about public issues takes solid preparation. According to Paula McAvoy, a co-author of The Political Classroom and program director of the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, “the main challenge teachers face is finding resources that are current, present multiple and competing views, and are at the right reading level.”
When a pediatrician in Flint, Michigan, discovered dangerous levels of lead in children’s blood, she did something untypical for a scientist.
Noted: “Dairy is a very small part of the total trade with Canada, there’s an awful lot more that happens even within agriculture than just dairy,” said Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So if you’re renegotiating trade agreements like NAFTA, then you’re looking at renegotiating everything.”
Fatoumata Ceesay is a UW-Madison journalism student and a reporter in the Madison365 Academy. A Bronx native, she moved with her family to Madison at the age of 12 and graduated from Madison East High School. She serves on the board of directors of the Muslim Student Association.
Noted: The state once had a thriving manufacturing economy, according to Laura Dresser, a labor analyst at UW-Madison. But, she says the job numbers have dropped dramatically since the beginning of the millennium.
Noted: As President Donald Trump calls for negotiating trade with Mexico through the North American Free Trade Agreement, Bob Cropp from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Wisconsin is not the only one looking to reinforce trade relationships.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez received the Vince Lombardi Award of Excellence during a packed event recently at The Pfister Hotel.
Noted: Now scientists want to turn it into ultra-precise antimicrobial treatments to “specifically kill your bacteria of choice,” says food scientist Jan-Peter Van Pijkeren of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Serena Williams knows the power of language. She understands the brawn of a single word, the chasm between being anointed “greatest of all time” and “greatest female of all time.” This linguistic perception extends beyond defense of her titles; it’s part of how Williams moves in the world.
