Noted: The findings are consistent with previous associations drawn between climate and another vector-borne disease: dengue. While dengue is a seasonal disease, peaking during the same time every year, data indicate that the largest epidemics coincide with strong El Niño years, said Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that a University of Wisconsin-Madison class titled “The Problem is Whiteness” is “goofy” and “unusual,” but he stopped short of saying offering it should put UW’s funding in jeopardy.
The University of Wisconsin Madison is being called on by two state lawmakers to cancel a course planned for next semester titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
State legislators are taking issue with a new race relations course called “The Problem of Whiteness” being offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison next semester.
Quoted: Besides, swimming against the tide is nothing new for fact-checkers, says Lucas Graves, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who published Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism in September. “A fact-check never yields the immediate and decisive impact that we might hope for in an ideal world,” Graves says. “We always imagine that you can expose a claim as being false, and people will stop believing it and politicians will stop repeating it, but it doesn’t work that way.”
A rare strain of bird flu has infected at least 45 cats in a Manhattan animal shelter, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Noted: It is not unusual for presidents to be seized by a sense of urgency in their final weeks in office, said Kenneth R. Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin. Last week, the Obama administration issued a final rule to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates and other health clinics that provide abortions, a measure that will take effect two days before Mr. Trump takes office.
Noted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor who was on hand for the vote said that once again in 2016, the Electoral College meetings playing out across the country have made history. “I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this in decades,” Professor Barry Burden said. “To have crowds outside protesting, a full room to watch the event, a lot of interest, a lot of opposition, frankly, to what was happening. Nothing like this before.”
Noted: Hart Posen, associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the desire for a new image was probably why Marchionni, and now Griffith, were hired.
Two Wisconsin Republican legislators have threatened to withhold state funds from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in relation to a planned course on racism called The Problem of Whiteness. State Representative Dave Murphy has also called on the university to fire the professor in charge of the course over his tweets, saying that some condone violence against police officers.
There’s an inherent dilemma in effectively managing cybersecurity: IT organizations must dedicate the time and focus required for long-term strategic planning while maintaining the agility to meet evolving threats and take advantage of emerging technologies. Add in the ongoing need to review and revise strategic plans to reflect those changing risk and technology landscapes, and the task can seem herculean.
The University of Wisconsin System provided roughly $3 million to the University of Wisconsin-Superior to offset budget cuts, tuition freezes and fewer students, but that assistance ended this year.
Noted: For the more diehard believers who really thought the Electoral College would shock the world, Markus Brauer, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin who researches group processes, offered a comparison to a kind of cult thinking.
How would you feel if a speaker — a total stranger whom you’ve never met — came to your university and singled you out for harassment? How about if a video of that event were uploaded to YouTube, where more than 200,000 people could watch the speaker repeatedly bully you, all while the audience egged him on? And what if the campus knew that this was a possibility — given the speaker’s well-documented history of abuse — and did nothing about it?
Noted: “In the past, the court has always said that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional if it goes too far, but that partisan gerrymandering has been allowed up to this point,” UW-Madison political science professor David Canon says.
Education funding has been one of the state’s most divisive issues in recent years, with Democrats crying foul as the Republican-controlled Legislature cut UW System funding by $250 million in the current budget and public K-12 school funding by $2 billlion over the past six years.
Noted: The Electoral College is as old as the republic itself, according to Barry Burden, political science professor at UW-Madison. He says the nation’s founding fathers set up the system because they didn’t have much confidence that voters would make the right decisions.
Noted: “If Assad really is successful in wiping out the rebels, in a way, it makes the question of the differences in US and Russian approaches moot,” Yoshiko Herrera, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in Russia, says.
Noted: Prompted to act by a post in her Twitter feed, University of Wisconsin-Madison librarian Raina Bloom has launched a GoFundMe campaign centered on a simple idea: paying off the outstanding lunch account balances for Madison Metropolitan School District students.
Majid Sarmadi, a UW-Madison professor of Textile Science, joins Live at Four to discuss Pantone’s 2017 color of the year.
Noted: Richard Monette, who heads the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said this was one of the greatest takeaways from the Standing Rock protest. It showed the world that sovereign nations will not be silently trampled upon, and that government-to-government relationships should be taken seriously.
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student charged with multiple counts of sexual assault has been released from jail after his bail was cut in half at a hearing this morning.
Noted: The 2016 Wisconsin Poverty Report produced by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found despite the creation of thousands of new jobs in Wisconsin, the poverty rate remains essentially the same as the last report at 10.8 percent.
Quoted: Lyn Van Swol, a University of Wisconsin-Madison communications professor who has studied political deception, said Trump in some ways fits the model of those who dissemble — they tend to be verbose, as if concocting a structure of support for their misstatements.
Noted: Much remains unknown about what happened before and after Caston sent the email to Duhe with the geometry test questions, including “how is it this individual has them, who-all did he share them with, what was communicated to those teachers,” University of Wisconsin professor James Wollack said.
Social Security and Medicare reform could be front and center in 2017.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison today is benefiting from the completion of one of the largest donations in its history totaling $100 million in new gifts set up for scholarships.
Choosing where to go to college is a huge choice. It’s an even bigger deal for me because of the amount of debt I’ll be taking on.
The University of Wisconsin team, featuring Freedom native Andrew Philibeck, dominated their Big Ten competition to advance to the finals of “Team Ninja Warrior: College Madness.”
A firebrand speaker who was permanently banned from Twitter for “inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others” blasted a transgender student by name at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, prompting the school’s chancellor to immediately condemn the speech in a campus-wide email.
Noted: Scientists have since tried to apply the constructs of neuroscience to mindfulness. Neuroscientist Richard Davidson’s research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Buddhist monks identified neurological changes associated with meditation, suggesting that meditation could be learned, like calligraphy or Go. Others found that meditation offset some of the effects of age-related cortical thinning.
Noted: Democratic vulnerability was explored in depth by Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, in a book on voters in that state, “The Politics of Resentment,” which came out in March. In her study, Cramer described the three elements of “rural consciousness”:
It is not obvious to me that Chinese leaders are very angry over President-elect Donald J. Trump’s phone call to President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan. It’s not even obvious to me that Taiwan is a top priority for the Chinese Communist Party, but the United States is.
A residency program could help bring more doctors to Sauk Prairie and other rural areas, thanks in part to a four-year, $675,000 grant.
Noted: The 2016 County Health Rankings, a separate report conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in March, also showed dramatic differences in health and deaths between rural and urban communities.
Noted: Peter Kane, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison said the study was able to show that, at least in the VA health system, effective PTSD treatments can be successfully delivered in multiple ways.
Noted: “I think the legacy is in trouble,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the life and death of government programs. The coalition that passed those — especially the Affordable Care Act and and the Dodd-Frank financial regulations — was a combination of President Obama and a Democratic Congress. And even then it was difficult. That puts those two items from the first two years on the chopping block.”
Noted: Several scientists not involved in the study noted that the effect it recorded might be artificially high, because all women who had Zika had a symptomatic infection. It’s known that most people who contract Zika don’t have symptoms, and women with those milder infections may not give birth to babies with birth defects at the same rate, suggested Dave O’Connor, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been studying Zika in non-human primates.
Truth seems to be an increasingly flexible concept in politics. At least that’s the impression the Oxford English Dictionary gave recently, as it declared “post-truth” the 2016 Word of the Year. What happens when decisions are based on misleading or blatantly wrong information? The answer is quite simple – our airplanes would be less safe, our medical treatments less effective, our economy less competitive globally, and on and on.
Quoted: “We have so little experience with this kind of data, but the uplift is the biggest seen anywhere on the planet,” said Bradley Singer, a geoscientist from the U.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is leading an international research effort to understand what is happening under the surface.
With control of both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature shifting to Republicans, the University of Minnesota may have to change the way it lobbies the state for funds.
Noted: Losing the popular vote “takes the shine off any Electoral College victory,” political scientist Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told PolitiFact Wisconsin.
A group of students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are organizing opposition to a concealed campus carry bill being proposed by state Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum.
Dimming or turning out the lights seems like a good idea for a magic trick or scary story, not surgery.However, performing surgery in the dark is actually what surgeons are forced to do for some procedures, where darkened operating environments are optimal for utilizing fluorescent compounds that highlight specific tissues — think cancer — in patients’ bodies.OnLume, a Madison company founded in 2015, is aiming to change that with technology designed to shed new light on complicated surgical procedures.
It’s slow going, but the campaign to highlight censorship on campus may be getting somewhere. That’s the message of a new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire), which tracks the speech bullies in academia.
Ever since Donald Trump was elected to be our next president, Andreé Franco Vasquez has carried her passport around Harvard College, where she’s a student. If Trump does decide to deport all undocumented immigrants, as he’s said he would do, she doesn’t want to be sent to the wrong country.
Noted: On Friday, the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center held a symposium analyzing the 2016 election. Among the many thoughtful presenters was Katherine Cramer, a political-science professor at the university’s Madison campus.
An outbreak of flu among 13 cats at an uptown Manhattan animal shelter has veterinary experts across the country scratching their heads — because cats just don’t catch the flu.“ That’s the main question. Where is this flu coming from?” says Dr. Sandra Newbury, director of the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin.“This is something new,” she said.
Noted: Getting schools to focus on Americans’ shared identity won’t be easy. Take the Rust Belt towns that switched parties to elect Trump, becoming one of the biggest election stories. People in these communities tend to see their local schools as a source of local identity; they don’t take well to outside edicts, particularly those that originate in big cities, says Katherine Cramer, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research for the past 10 years has involved chatting with rural Midwest residents. “How do you not make it sound like ‘Oh, yet again urbanites are telling us that we are backward and we need to be brought back in line with urban society?’” she said.
The debate over whether or not to allow house cats outdoors is heated. While some conservationists say they kill songbirds and cause damage to native species, some cat owners argue that the urge to hunt is vital part of how cats are wired. Interviewed: UW’s Stanley Temple.
A UW-Madison assistant professor is challenging the notion that blame for the “skills gap” falls solely upon higher education. Matthew T. Hora, research scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and author of “Beyond the Skills Gap,’’ addressed about 60 people at the UW-Madison Education Building today for the launch of the new book.
Investment in the University of Wisconsin is paramount for the state’s institutions of higher learning maintain their quality of education, the chancellor of the state’s flagship university told a lunch-time gathering in Wisconsin Dells Tuesday.
Madison – On Sept. 29, Kat Vosters had a nice dinner with her fiancé and her best friend at Gray’s Tied House in Verona, enjoying the best Buffalo chicken wrap in town and just a glass of water, as usual, because work could call at any minute.
Noted: “That was the transition period where we started getting away from market hunting and we were starting to appreciate more of the natural resources for what they are not just the consumptive side of it,” said David Drake, a professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a UW-Extension wildlife specialist. “Some really influential people really made birding a cool thing to do.”
Noted: “There’s definitely a link between declining levels of federal funding and public views on the quality of science,” said Dietram Scheufele, John E. Ross Professor in Science Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But it’s much more pernicious than simply assuming that voters make inferences about the value of science from the amounts of money the federal government spends on the scientific enterprise,” he clarified.
Noted: “Surely the governor understands that China is a large export market for U.S. agricultural products and that a trade war with China, which is threatened by the U. S. president-elect, would not be good for Iowa farmers. This might suggest to Chinese leaders that Trump’s threats of a trade war are just a bluff in the hopes of a better trade deal for the U.S. with China,” said Edward Friedman, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and expert on Chinese foreign policy.
Noted: Bas Rokers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says it’s commonly held that motion sickness is caused when your senses provide conflicting information. “Take seasickness: you’re looking at the horizon and the horizon is steady but your balance system tells you that you are moving,” he says.
In an effort to address alarming statistics both nationwide and across state campuses, the University of Wisconsin System will soon offer sexual violence training for all employees and students.
Minnesota students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison are being urged to get additional vaccinations for meningitis after a small but potentially dangerous campus outbreak this fall.
Johannes Wallmann remembers the day he found his people.
