Noted: Plant protein tends to be of a lower quality than dairy proteins, though soy is close, said John Lucey, a food scientist who directs the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Earlier this month, Daniel Dropik, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, decided to found a Madison chapter of the American Freedom Party.
University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County Campus Administrator Dundee McNair will step down from his position Feb. 12.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin-Madison student who once served prison time for setting fires at two predominantly black churches is recruiting on campus for a local chapter of a national pro-white party, enraging students searching for ways to improve race relations.
On the same day that President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would make many, if not most, unauthorized immigrants living in the United States priorities for deportation, he took pains to reassure one group of unauthorized immigrants: unauthorized immigrants who’ve been protected from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created by President Obama.
Noted: Many researchers do not realize the effort and computing savvy it takes to pick through piles of such data, says Edgar Spalding, a plant biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “The phenotyping community has rushed off to collect data and the computing is an afterthought.”
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin measured the rate of specialization — meaning an athlete significantly sacrificed time with friends or family or participation in other sports — among 1,544 athletes in Wisconsin and tracked lower-extremity injuries. The study found athletes who specialized suffered those injuries “at significantly higher rates” than those who do not.
Noted: UW-Madison has pioneered some of the most cutting-edge developments in VR technology at its Living Environments Laboratory within the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are concerned about the future of scientific innovation in the wake of a freeze on grants and contracts funded by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Badgers set a new record as the University of Wisconsin ranked 12th out of 200 universities nationwide for collegiate merchandise sales, proceeds from which go toward students in need.
Noted: “Here is the first thing to know: They are not treating gene-edited animals as drugs,” says Alta Charo, lawyer and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “They are proposing to regulate the altered DNA as a drug.” This refers back to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which defines a drug as something that intentionally alters a body’s structure or function. OK, technically, sure. But even the FDA agrees that altered genes aren’t drugs—its new draft regulation needs several exemptions and caveats before it can contort its 1938 law to wrap around 21st century technology.
Governor Scott Walker plans to release his state budget plan early next month.
MADISON, Wis. – The Trump administration has placed a temporary suspension on all new Environmental Protection Agency business, which bars staff from awarding new grants and contract. The move impacts five grants previously awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Noted: Many researchers do not realize the effort and computing savvy it takes to pick through piles of such data, says Edgar Spalding, a plant biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “The phenotyping community has rushed off to collect data and the computing is an afterthought.”
A series of directives from the Trump administration to key agencies involved in science and research have fanned fears that the new president may muzzle government employees. But it’s not clear how far the guidelines go in restricting the speech of those employed at the agencies.
A group of hundreds of African-American alumni from the University of Wisconsin-Madison called The Collective are collaborating with the university to improve diversity and inclusion efforts on campus.
From second grade Matt Onstad knew he wanted music in his life, but he didn’t know what tool it would take.“ I so deeply wanted to play the saxophone but I couldn’t get a single note out,” he said over the phone. “It was ugly.” He didn’t mesh with a sax and said it broke his heart almost immediately. It wasn’t until Dave Hoffmaster, music teacher at Beaver Dam High School asked that he give the trumpet a shot. Even though drums were his second choice, the trumpet somehow clicked.
Noted: The concert’s first half — a solo recital by virtuoso pianist Christopher Taylor — featured three pieces by America’s first great concert pianist, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Taylor displayed breathtaking technique in the vigorous rhythms of “The Banjo,” one of Gottschalk’s bravura pieces whose inventive use of the piano’s upper register reportedly thrilled Victorian America.
A rape trial from the 17th century is the basis of Artemisia, an opera by Madison composer Laura Elise Schwendinger, premiering in New York City Jan. 7.
Noted: Enter the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Led by Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist Time named one of the world’s most influential people in 2006, the center recently began shifting its emphasis from pure research to applied science, testing its findings about neuroplasticity, mind-body medicine, and the mental-health benefits of mindfulness outside the laboratory.
Noted: Through $75,000 in grant funding, the University of Wisconsin Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic will be able to support development in services related to patent guidance rather than cutting services, provide immigration guidance top at least 10 clients who are without services, and double the support provided to entrepreneurs in the food and beverage industry.
The Dalai Lama met and addressed around 500 Tibetan students studying at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Delhi, Indraprastha University, Indira Gandhi Open University, Ambedkar University and others at the TCV Youth Hostel. Professor Richard Davidson from the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave a talk on “Relationship and Function of Brain and Mind” after the address of His Holiness.
The federal Transportation Department announced a network of autonomous driving pilot programs on the final full day of the Obama administration. UW-Madison is involved.
Noted: Julie Mead, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who was invited by the coalition to speak, said that vouchers erode public schools, which are required to serve all students and teach by a state-approved curriculum. Private schools have different requirements.
The first time the National Endowment for the Arts made a big grant to support a project in rural communities, it was in Wisconsin.
MADISON – As University of Wisconsin System leaders seek more state aid in 2017 for need-based student grants, their pitch to lawmakers will follow a bizarre year in which $2.7 million in grant funding wasn’t awarded.
A new report based on work from two separate research teams adds to the evidence that cutting back on calories helps rhesus monkeys live healthier and longer lives. Beyond this, the research could lead to a greater understanding of factors that could improve human longevity down the line.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor David Canon said the question for the Women’s March movement is whether it will have a lasting impact on policy following Saturday’s marches.
Asked on Fox News Sunday whether President Trump plans to sign an executive order undoing President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program this week, Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, refused to make any commitments either way but said the president would be working with legislative leaders “to get a long-term solution on that issue.”
When Under Armour signed UCLA to a 15-year, $280 million outfitting deal last year, the company’s thinking — like that of a prospective homebuyer — centered largely on location, location, location.
WAUSAU – Three health care students will share more than $200,000 in scholarships as part of an effort to draw more medical providers to north central Wisconsin and upper Michigan.
Pittsburgh will work with Penn State University as a federal proving ground for self-driving vehicle technology. UW-Madison is also involved.
Noted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden said the governor’s fundraising numbers will keep climbing.
Supporters of the arts and humanities on Thursday sounded unanimous alarm over an article in The Hill reporting that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Violence at University of Washington appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos followed protests that prevented a speech at UC Davis — as tensions grow over Breitbart writer known for insults against feminists, minority groups and others.
A judge refused on Friday to dismiss four charges against a suspended University of Wisconsin student from the Twin Cities accused of sexually assaulting and harassing women, rejecting his attorneys’ claim that some of his actions were no worse than “Happy Days” television character Arthur Fonzarelli’s flirtatious antics.
Information on the science of human-caused climate change has begun to disappear from Wisconsin state government websites.
Among the issues Michelle Obama targeted during her tenure as first lady, improving access to higher education was at the top of the docket. Her Reach Higher initiative was meant to inspire every American to pursue some sort education beyond a high school diploma.
Cutting your calorie intake by a third could reduce your risk of heart disease and dementia by up to 40 percent, a new study claims.
Reports circulated Thursday, the day before the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States, that his first budget would propose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The National Institutes of Health released a statement saying the longtime head of the agency “has been held over by the Trump administration.” But it was unclear whether that status was temporary or permanent.
A push to cut tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses could face resistance in the state Assembly.
The president of the Faculty Senate at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is voicing support for the school’s current chancellor.
What happened at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh couldn’t happen at UW-La Crosse, administrators say.
The University of Wisconsin System filed a lawsuit Wednesday against its Oshkosh campus’s former chancellor and chief business officer, charging that they oversaw illegal financial transfers and university guarantees supporting five foundation-backed real estate projects.
Noted: Elena D’Onghia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, had predicted in 2009 that unless gravity is doing something very strange, we should see clusters of dwarf galaxies all on their own, even near our galaxy. “Based on dark matter theory, we expect a lot of little dwarf galaxies and clumps of dark matter in and around the Milky Way,” she says. So why have these clusters been so hard to spot?
The confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary underscored the likelihood of a significant shift in federal policy on sexual assault in college.
The Obama administration sent shock waves through higher education in 2014 when it released a list of 55 schools that faced civil rights investigations related to their handling of sexual violence reports.
Gov. Scott Walker is pitching his proposal to cut—“that’s right, cut,” as Walker said in his State of the State address—tuition at UW schools as something new, and it took even Republican lawmakers by surprise.
MENOMONIE — A majority of Dunn County supervisors gave their support Wednesday to UW-Stout employees asking the state to support a 2 percent increase in wages and salaries for the next two years.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s state budget got a burst of good news Wednesday with news that tax collections will be nearly half a billion dollars more than estimated two months ago.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have filed a lawsuit against the UW-Oshkosh’s former chancellor and chief business officer over alleged improper financial transactions with the school’s foundation.
Putting monkeys on a diet delays the health problems of old age, new science says. But whether it makes them live longer is still open for debate. These findings in our close evolutionary relatives could help us better understand our own aging process — and how to slow it down. What’s more, these latest conclusions begin to resolve a scientific debate that has been unfolding (amicably, the scientists say) over the past three decades.
Noted: Brian Gould, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said exports are critical to the dairy industry, primarily in preventing domestic supplies from growing too large and depressing prices.
Proposed legislation against “divisive” courses or events at public colleges and universities in Arizona alarmed scholars in that state and elsewhere before the bill reportedly died a quick death Tuesday. The bill was prompted by a course on white studies at Arizona State University and came after a spate of controversies involving scholars of race, many of them white, commenting on white people.
Depriving ourselves of food to the point of near-starvation doesn’t sound very appealing, but it could prolong our lives and prevent the onset of age-related diseases. A combined analysis of two long-running studies shows that caloric restriction does indeed work in monkeys, hinting at its potential to work in humans. More research is needed before we can be sure this translates to humans, so you should probably avoid any drastic dietary measures for now.
Competitive dancing was not part of Hayley Stoneman’s college plan. Sure, the 2016 McFarland High School graduate had been dancing competitively since the age of 10, but she figured once she started at UW-Madison, she’d hang up her dance shoes.
Noted: “Few people ask themselves why they set the goal they chose,” says Christine Whelan, Ph.D., a clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin. “Accomplishing your goal can feel empty without understanding the motivation behind it.”
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison committee suspended a fraternity chapter Tuesday amid allegations members provided alcohol to minors and sang a song glorifying multiple sexual assaults.
Campus concealed carry legislation hasn’t been formally introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature, but University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students and leaders are letting their opposition be known.
