It’s being hailed as the next big thing in weather forecasting and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking part. A satellite now in space will hopefully collect and transmit critical weather information faster, which will mean more accurate forecasts for people back on Earth.
Chancellors within the UW System are expressing concerns over the upcoming budget. They’re asking state legislators for more money after years of seeing cuts.
Al Brodax, a television producer who delivered an enduring psychedelic classic when he turned the Beatles song “Yellow Submarine” into an animated film in 1968, died on Thursday in Danbury, Conn. He was 90. He was a UW alum.
No one knows the exact date, but it happened during the first three months of 1917. Physics department assistant professor Earle Terry and his wife, Sadie, invited a group of faculty, deans, and friends to their home to hear the “first broadcast” of the University of Wisconsin radio station.
Muslim students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are inviting students to understand Islam as a part of Islam appreciation week.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Representative Tom Price, a Georgia Republican, is his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The selection was widely interpreted as a signal of Trump’s intentions to deliver on his campaign promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But academics may be more likely to focus on Price’s past opposition to embryonic stem cell research and his skepticism about the scientific consensus around climate change.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross made the case Tuesday for more funding at a higher education forum on the UW-La Crosse campus.
The Wisconsin Pork Association has recently made a donation of $10,000 to the new University of Wisconsin Madison meat science lab. In addition, the WPA Board challenged members to make individual contributions, resulting in an additional $5,000 raised.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexual assault, strangulation and false imprisonment involving five women, including some he met in classes, will be back in court next month.
Noted: If Trump’s plans are carried out, the United States will be picking fights with its top three trading partners — Canada, Mexico and China — said Ian Coxhead, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a signer of the Trump letter.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said Trump’s position is complicated.
Congress is poised to approve a massive piece of legislation that would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $4.8 billion over the next decade for a set of research initiatives, including brain and cancer research and efforts to develop so-called precision medicine treatments that are tailored to an individual’s genetic makeup.
Quoted: “The development of the rat [eye and partial face transplant] model, by Kia, is a huge advancement in being able to conduct the complex science needed to successfully transplant a whole eye,” said Rob Nickells, a collaborator with Washington who is a professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at University of Wisconsin. “I would confidently say that given success of the [nerve] questions, she will be the first surgeon to accomplish this feat.”
Hussain Saeed Alnahdi was one of the almost 400 international students attending the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Noted: Last year, Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor of actuarial science at the University of Wisconsin, studied Mississippi’s prison system, and found that people in private prisons received many more “prison conduct violations” than those in government-run ones. This made it harder for them to get parole, and, on average, they served two to three more months of prison time.
For the first time since records have been kept, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has fallen out of the nation’s top five universities in terms of dollars spent on research and development.
The news that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s ranking for research activity dropped from fourth to sixth in the nation is just jaw-dropping.
The pain and frustration of not being able to conceive is one Katie Brenner knows all too well. “When my husband and I first decided to have kids we were just so excited,” says Brenner, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It took a while and then it took even longer. As we got more and more worried and more and more stressed, each month would just stretch out.”
The National Science Foundation last week released its annual report on the top universities in total research and development expenditures.
Noted: “Part of what is so challenging, ethically, is that this is a candidate who is not behaving by standing norms,” says Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So journalists are trying to figure out what norms apply.”
MILWAUKEE – Paul D. Voelker, age 72, passed away on Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, at his home in Milwaukee, Wis. Paul was a tenured Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin system for more than 20 years.
“On Wisconsin” is a song Wisconsinites hold near and dear, especially during football season. Not only is it the famed fight song for the University of Wisconsin-Madison football team, it is also the official state song, just with different lyrics.
Noted: The Electoral College has been around for centuries, according to David Canon, political science professor at UW-Madison. He says the nation’s founding fathers set up the system because they didn’t give the electorate much credit.
Ruth Gruber, a photojournalist and author who documented Stalin’s gulags, life in Nazi Germany and the plight of Jewish refugees intercepted by the British on the infamous passage of the Exodus to Palestine in 1947, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 105. She was a UW alum.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has signed a statement calling on the federal government to protect undocumented students on campuses across the country.
Spending on research at UW-Madison declined by more than $100 million between 2012 and 2015, leading the university to fall from the top five of the National Science Foundation’s ranking of research institutions for the first time in more than four decades.
For the first time in nearly 45 years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has fallen from its standing among the nation’s top five research universities, according to data from the National Science Foundation.
Husband and wife team Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire are leaders in the field of video game development. In a matter of weeks, the two are taking their talents to California due to what they say is a very unsupportive environment on the UW campus.
For the first time in 44 years UW-Madison is not a top-five research university and school administrators say state budget cuts are to blame.
Dr. John Herrington talked with UW-Madison students Thursday night. He was born into the Chickasaw Nation and is credited with being the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space.
President Obama has wielded civil rights enforcement powers aggressively in the education arena for the past eight years, pushing colleges to toughen policies on sexual assault and schools to eliminate racial bias in student discipline. His administration also declared that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity — a question now before the Supreme Court.
Noted: It’s possible that weight loss is an early symptom of dementia, Dr. Sanjay Asthana of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health said in a commentary accompanying the study.
Noted: David Canon, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, said: “This will go to the supreme court and if it endorses the idea of unlawful gerrymandering it could establish a legal standard that could apply to House districts, not just in Wisconsin.”
Sixteen incidents of bias were reported at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the week after the 2016 presidential election.
Noted: “It does almost exactly what Justice Kennedy said he was looking for back in the ’80s, a clear threshold for deciding what is acceptable,” said Barry C. Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A remarkable story that I encountered out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison earlier this month reminds me about one of the most vexing mysteries that I’ve encountered as a journalist.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. — A year’s worth of careful preparation has distilled into the final few frantic days, and Rocky Biegel has disappeared again behind the wheel of his red pickup truck, flecks of dirt spraying as he fades into the distance toward a water reservoir.
Noted: Dr Jeri Barak, from the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “It would be fair to conclude that if Salmonella is present in salads, it might grow to infectious doses.
Noted: “We have seen a glimpse of the future,” says Tom Eggert, a senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the executive director of the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council tells The Christian Science Monitor by phone. “The future is that federal and state governments will not be playing as much of a leadership role in the sustainability space as private corporations.”
About 90 college and university presidents have signed a statement calling for the continuation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children have registered with the federal government in exchange for temporary relief from the possibility of deportation and a two-year renewable work permit. President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he would end the DACA program, which was authorized by President Obama by executive action.
Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Trump margin comes up short in another way. From 1952 to 2012, the winning candidate got an average of 73 percent of the electoral votes, well above Trump’s 57 percent.
Thumbs up to study of voter ID law’s effects. Speculation is swirling about the effects of Wisconsin’s voter ID law on election turnout.
Phony news stories are thriving on social media, so much so President Obama addressed it. Interviewed: SJMC’s Lucas Graves
Interviewed: Professor Liad Weiss, Wisconsin School of Business.
Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy, one of the NFL’s most interesting players and an activist who speaks out for human rights and against domestic violence, has called breaking Joe Paterno’s leg “my proudest moment in college”.
Noted: The promise to “Make America Great Again” “appeals to a time when white working-class men had a higher status in society than they do now, and race is in there,” says Katherine Cramer, who has spent the past nine years talking with rural Wisconsin voters for her book, “The Politics of Resentment.”
Quoted: “Airbnb is really feeling this is a huge threat to its business model,” said Andra Ghent, a professor of real estate and land use economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Most Cambodians switch between modern doctors and traditional healers quite fluidly, says Ian Baird, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches traditional healing practices in Southeast Asia.
Quoted: “There have been fractured times in America before,” said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But I’ve never seen such open disdain for the media, at least in my lifetime.”
Noted: “Cohabitation can benefit from many of the shared attributes of a marriage but it doesn’t have the social stigma of needing the financial readiness to engage in that kind of relationship,” said Fenaba Addo, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied how debt affects young adults’ life choices.
Noted: John DeLamater, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the subject of senior relationships, notes that the age group is “rapidly growing” and is expected to double over the next 15 years or so.
Noted: Howard Schweber, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist who specializes in constitutional law, said he doesn’t see any problem with the sessions. The meetings are voluntary and Tittl has taken steps to make sure his staff isn’t forced to attend, Schweber said.
Noted: In fact, the United States is filled with mythical monsters that are feared or revered by locals but remain largely unknown to most of the country. Inspired by the monster party described by Bobby Pickett in his song “Monster Mash,” cartographer Chelsea Nestel, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, mapped the monsters of the United States. She filled each state’s territory with a depiction of its most fearsome or beloved mythical beast.
Noted: “The 7th Circuit would rule on that fairly quickly, whether it be on the substance that the court decision was wrong in some way or maybe that the court didn’t have proper authority to release Brendan at this time,” Associate UW-Madison Law Prof. Adam Stevenson said.
Between the stadium lights, flashing scoreboard and pulsing sound system, a football game sucks up vast amounts of energy. But what if spectators at the next Badgers game, by their mere presence, generated enough electricity to power the entire event?
There’s not a lot to like about the stout, spiked branches of the aggressively invasive buckthorn tree. “Buckthorn is spreading actively across the landscape, facilitated by birds eating the berries and spreading seeds,” says Mark Renz, assistant professor of agronomy at UW-Madison and a UW-Extension weed specialist. “The way it is changing the forest understory is really an epidemic in the upper Midwest.”
Something extraordinary happened in rural America in the 2016 election. Donald Trump appealed to folks in rural communities in an unprecedented way — yet polls failed to capture the depth of support for him in such places. Many pundits have since taken stabs at explaining the problem, yet little of the commentary is rooted in actual research.
Quoted: “The census figures are largely correct,” said Dr. Yi, a reproductive scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in an interview.
Conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes told a crowd on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Tuesday it is impossible to talk about President-elect Donald Trump without discussing the “racism and xenophobia” that has been normalized by his campaign, calling them a “cancer” the Republican Party will have to confront.
Upwards of 1 million international students studied in the United States last school year; and more than 13,400 of them were in Wisconsin, an increase of about 6 percent, according to the 2016 Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education.
