Noted: Thomas O’Guinn, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and expert on branding and advertising, said he didn’t think using the term made sense, but he could understand its application. He said the move could result in a smaller applicant pool or even a loss of liberal customers if the campaign rubs enough people the wrong way.
Noted: In an email interview, Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said journalists had some basic obligations, including reporting as accurately as possible how popular or marginal the groups are.
Student protesters held up signs saying “No Eugenicists on Campus” and “Eugenics Is a Fascist’s Favorite Subject” as Charles Murray, the conservative scholar, spoke at New York University on Friday afternoon, but his talk proceeded, interrupted only by the chants of annoyance coming from outside the building.
As a rule, it takes a lot to rile up a scientist. A reserved, dispassionate, skeptical demeanor is as much a professional accouterment for us as a stethoscope is for a doctor.
International applicants for a prestigious Dartmouth College engineering program dropped 30 percent this year, startling the dean of a school long accustomed to growth in demand from overseas. His colleagues at other top schools told him they were seeing danger signs as well, as they anxiously monitor whether the sharp turn in U.S. immigration and travel policies under President Trump will keep foreign scholars away.
Someone tell Popeye: Spinach isn’t just good for your muscles. It can actually become muscles.
NEW YORK — In the past two decades, through unconventional approach, Wisconsin has elevated itself to college sports royalty.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has endured several years of budget cuts and a stronger hand by the state government in its policies. Chancellor Rebecca Blank discusses winning back some funds, repairing dings to its reputation, and navigating the Trump administration.
On March 21, the rusty-patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis, officially became the first bumble bee listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act. This designation recognizes this important pollinator’s precarious position in the face of multiple threats to its survival. It also provides some of the tools necessary to begin to reverse its decline.
Bucky Badger is spreading UW goodwill all over the Big Apple. The University of Wisconsin mascot and a bunch of other Badgers fans were on the Today Show Thursday morning, photobombing the hosts during the live broadcast on the plaza.
A week after she was fired, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher was back on the job Monday.
Noted: Simmons, up until the last three years, was indisputably a public figure, but all his actions since have indicated his desire to be a private citizen. “Just because Richard Simmons was a flamboyant and bold public figure, doesn’t mean he needs to remain that way throughout the entirety of his life,” Katy Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me. “If … he just decided enough was enough and he wanted to retreat, that’s a decision he gets to make; that’s not a decision a podcast author gets to make for him.”
What have you accomplished this week? Did you have a productive work meeting? Make a healthy dinner? Match your socks? If you’re one of the researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, or Arkansas State University-Jonesboro, you used a leaf to grow some heart tissue.
Noted: Dane County and other small- to medium-sized metro areas are seeing most of that population growth, said David Egan-Robertson, applied demographer with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Laboratory.
Human beings are pretty darn versatile, but we still have plenty of limitations when it comes to the way we sense the world. Case in point are metamers: colors which appear to our eyes to be identical, but which are actually composed of slightly different wavelengths of light. While sensors can spot metamers with ease, our eyeballs just aren’t fine-tuned enough to spot the difference.
Remember to wear red Friday. Governor Scott Walker declared Mar. 24 “Badger Red Day” throughout Wisconsin ahead of the UW-Madison men’s basketball Sweet 16 game against the University of Florida Gators.
The average four-year college student in Wisconsin graduates $29,460 in the red, according to the nonprofit Institute for College Access and Success.Cathy Sandeen, chancellor of University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension, said that figure places Wisconsin slightly above the national average.
Noted: Professor emeritus Bob Cropp from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said milk prices usually decrease later in spring as nice weather brings an increase in milk production.
Noted: Some volunteers photograph the bees on their own, while others join local groups that conduct coordinated monitoring efforts. In Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum trains and coordinates bumble bee monitoring throughout the southern part of the state. The Arboretum and other locations in Wisconsin are home to some of the last known populations of the rusty patched bumble bee, making a concerted effort to monitor them with citizen science even more important.
Quoted: “Fruits are treated differently in Asian culture and in Japanese society especially,” Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells CNN. “Fruit purchase and consumption are tied to social and cultural practices.
CHICAGO — Howard Moore loves busting brackets.The Taft graduate and former UIC head coach is an assistant coach at Wisconsin, which shocked No. 1 seed and defending national champion Villanova in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The eighth-seeded Badgers face fourth-seeded Florida in a Sweet 16 matchup Friday at Madison Square Garden.
WHITEWATER—A UW-Madison Varsity Band concert in Whitewater raised nearly $7,500 for music programs in Whitewater schools, according to a news release.
Noted: “Study after study has shown that this assumption is not supported by the data,” says Dietram Scheufele, who studies science communication at the University of Wisconsin.
The 2018 budget proposal that President Donald Trump unveiled last week confirms two things that U.S. scientists have long suspected: The new president is no fan of research, and his administration has no overarching strategy for funding science.
Noted: “It’s the most difficult (to judge) because the flavor profile is very, very light,” says judge Bob Bradley, a University of Wisconsin food science emeritus professor.
Noted: Nancy Keller, who studies fungal pathogens at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, also emphasizes the importance of studying the corn outside of a greenhouse laboratory. Regulatory agencies would insist on all this testing before allowing the modified corn to be introduced globally.
Noted: Karen Strier, a University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist, just visited the forest, which lies within the federally protected RPPN Feliciano Miguel Abdala reserve near the Brazilian city of Caratinga.
It’s sometimes practically impossible to tell similar colours apart. Even side by side, they look the same. A special pair of spectacles gives us new power to see more distinct colours, and could one day help to spot counterfeit banknotes or counteract camouflage.The glasses, devised by a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, basically enhance the user’s colour vision, allowing them to see metamers – colours that look the same but give off different wavelengths of light – as recognisably distinct hues.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Robert Hamers has a jam-packed day ahead: an hourlong lecture, a conference call with colleagues about nanotechnology, meetings and plans to check on students in the lab.
When Antonin Scalia’s death was announced, Neil Gorsuch was on the ski slope. Checking his phone halfway down the hill, tears welled up as he read the news, he has said. According to Gorsuch, who is President Trump’s nominee to replace Scalia on the Supreme Court, Scalia was “a lion of the law” whose judicial philosophy was exactly right: A judge must apply the law as it is, and never as the judge prefers it to be.
Noted: One of your best weapons during a disease outbreak is knowledge, says Dr. Jonathan Temte of the University of Wisconsin.
There’s been a great disturbance in the force-of-brackets. As if millions were suddenly thrown in the trash. Chances are: Your bracket’s probably worthless, or at least one-fourth worthless, now that the Wisconsin Badgers took down defending champion Villanova in the second round of the tournament.
New details came out this weekend about the firing of a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher.
The police dispatcher fired last week from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse wants the Board of Regents to analyze workplace guidelines before she accepts a reinstatement.
Weather conditions are changing rapidly in the Great Lakes region, especially in winter. Climate change has led to warmer temperatures and less precipitation, a life-altering issue for many organisms that live in the region.
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) — As most people were looking for luck on St. Patrick’s Day, the students at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health found it on Match Day.
MENOMONIE — If Damien Adamski hadn’t come to fully appreciate the “applied” aspect of his applied social science major at UW-Stout, he did by late January when he returned from Ecuador.Heading into his final semester, Adamski, of Eau Claire, and associate professor Tina Lee went on a research trip with a team of engineering students from UW-Madison. The UW-Madison students were finishing installation of a clean water system in the village of Tabuga, on the northwest coast.
Harry L. Williams had no doubt he was going to college, even though his parents never attended and could offer no guidance on applying or enrolling. He cleared the first hurdle by being accepted to Appalachian State University in 1982 on a track and field scholarship, but once he started school it was all a little overwhelming.
Noted: While the number of children’s books featuring African-American characters has grown in the last decade, the number of books by black authors has barely budged, according to data collected by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education.
The White House budget proposal released last week would have devastating effects on science and technology in the United States as well as the education of the next generation of researchers, say organizations representing scientists and research institutions.
We’ve all heard of the great divide between life in rural and urban America. But what are the factors that contribute to these differences? We asked sociologists, economists, geographers and historians to describe the divide from different angles. The data paint a richer and sometimes surprising picture of the U.S. today. Contributor: Tessa Conroy, Economic Development Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Autumn Kent is a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I am lucky enough to call her a friend. Last fall, I was one of the people who was surprised when she came out as a trans woman. I don’t know many trans people, or at least I don’t know that I know them, and I’m grateful that she and my other trans friends have helped me become more conscious of issues affecting trans people and challenged me to be a better ally to trans people.
Before he became president, Donald J. Trump called climate change a hoax, questioned the safety of vaccines and mocked renewable energy as a plaything of “tree-huggers.”
In the climax of the classic 1996 disaster movie Twister, scientists are able to map a tornado by deploying a bunch of sensors into a storm, but not before nearly being sucked up by an F5 tornado. Now, researchers have created a similar simulation of the internal workings of tornado, without Hollywood magic or at risk of life and limb. According to a press release, researchers using a supercomputer have created the most detailed simulations of the inner workings of tornados so far.
Noted: Dr. Diane Heatley, an ear, nose and throat specialist for children, echoed the pinch-and-hold method in a piece on the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health’s website, noting that an ice pack is also useful as, much like your fingers, cold surfaces work to constrict blood vessels in the nose. However, she also said that these cold items must be applied to the nose only — so if you’ve heard others tell you to place an ice pack near your neck or mouth, it wont help. Said Dr. Heatley, “A cold cloth or small ice pack on the bridge of the nose will also slow blood flow by constricting blood vessels. … But an ice pack on the back of the neck won’t do much.”
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker warned his fellow Republicans on Thursday that it would “unwise” to reject his proposal to switch state workers to a self-insurance model, saying ditching the plan would cost the state tens of millions of dollars in savings.
When Leigh Orf, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, strives to unravel the mysteries of tornado formation, he needs something way bigger than a laptop. Phenomena like the huge, supercell thunderstorms he studies involve such vast amounts of data, only a supercomputer will do.
President Trump’s budget calls for a seismic disruption in government-funded medical and scientific research. The cuts are deep and broad.
LA CROSSE, Wis. – For the about 250,000 state and local government employees covered by the State of Wisconsin Group Health Insurance program, gender reassignment services, procedures and surgeries are no longer covered.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is offering a dispatcher that was fired earlier this week her job back.
Noted: “Probably in other sciences this is where you’d be done. However, in math that’s just the beginning. Now we want to know for sure,” said Melanie Wood, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kids are often told that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Even so, people often believe they can rely on their gut to intuit things about other people. Stereotypes often influence these impressions, whether it’s that a black man is dangerous, a woman won’t be a good leader or a fashionable man is gay.
Noted: Air quality, in particular, represents an enormous environmental-health achievement, said Tracey Holloway, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kids are often told that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Even so, people often believe they can rely on their gut to intuit things about other people.
Nigel Hayes is a name that will be remembered on the UW-Madison campus for years to come. A hard working, charming and bright young man, Hayes has made a lasting impact both on and off the court during his four years at Wisconsin. Entering tonight’s tournament game vs. Virginia Tech, Nigel will know that it could be his last game as a Badger. Whether Hayes walks off the court a winner or loser, boasting a great performance or not, every Badger fan ought to appreciate the things he has done during his time in Madison.
Noted: Marine fisheries tend to be commercial operations, while freshwater fishing is almost exclusively a means of subsistence. “Most freshwater fish catches don’t enter the global trade economy, so they draw less interest,” says University of Wisconsin–Madison zoologist Peter McIntyre.
Noted: “Understanding and addressing pay gaps in higher education is a complex matter. Unpacking how these gaps continue to exist, albeit with some progress, requires both a close look at the institutions and individuals involved,” says Dr. Jerlando F.L. Jackson, the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Alleging an unfair process, the attorney for a recent Edina High School graduate charged with several sexual assaults at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Wednesday he will appeal his client’s expulsion from the school.
If the U.S. elected its president the way a UW-Madison political science professor thinks is most fair, the Electoral College would be a “charming” instrument of the past. “Even those of you who are U.S. citizens probably have never voted for president directly,” Barry Burden told a crowd of UW-Eau Claire students Wednesday night, “and probably never will.”
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher says she was fired for supporting President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
