Noted: “The Fight for $15 and the simultaneous benefits is an amazing, unprecedented thing that I don’t think anyone five years ago would have expected, given our hyper-polarized political environment,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of low wages. “This is a workforce that’s coming out of the shadows.”
Quoted: According to Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, any increase or decrease in early voting between election cycles depends on three factors: whether the availability of early voting has changed, whether the state has become more competitive, and what the campaigns have done to promote early voting.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has condemned the actions of two fans at Saturday night’s Badger Football game.A picture quickly spread across social media during the game showing a woman in the stands wearing a Barack Obama mask and a noose around her neck.
MADISON, Wis. — One woman told investigators that the college senior invited her this month to his apartment, where he raped her and choked her until her vision blurred.
An Edina High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison, student is charged with sexually assaulting five women in a criminal case that quickly expanded Thursday after a complaint was filed in one case last week.
A University of Wisconsin student has been charged with a string of sexual assaults involving four different women. Alec Cook, 20, has been the subject of reports from dozens of women, according to police, since the first woman raised the alarm bell.
Wollersheim Winery owners Philippe and Julie Coquard presented a $25,057.60 donation to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fermentation Sciences program at an event held at the winery Oct. 12. The donation represents the grapes, production, and all proceeds from the sale of Red Fusion wine, collaboration between UW, Wollersheim, and other wine and grape industry partners, to provide an educational experience for students exploring interests in viticulture, enology, and the fermentation process.
Since 1925, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has racked up quite a roster of patents. That’s kind of the point. A nonprofit institution, WARF exists to support scientific investigations and research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by stewarding a “cycle of research, discovery, commercialization and investment.”
Quoted: Adrian Treves, founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was also not part of this research, agrees that these fossils do not shed much light on the story of cave lions’ extinction.
Since the first gathering in 1977, Halloween in Madison has meant partying on State Street. Jay Messar graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. “It’s a night to basically be anybody who you want to be.”
Quoted: “It was pretty clear that 2010 was a wave election and there was nothing that (Feingold) could have done to fend off the challenge from Ron Johnson,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
While thousands of people the world over continue to go solar to generate alternative energy, a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison just made a major breakthrough on a completely unique new conductive material: wood pulp. While the mention of wood pulp mention leave many scratching their head, the lab found a way to manufacture floorboards out of the commonly wasted material, and did so in a manner that took advantage of its composition of cellulose nanofibers. In other words, the team of engineers managed to develop a flooring material capable of generating electricity by something as simple as a footstep.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently asking students to respond to a survey on how comfortable they feel on campus on a number of levels.
On Oct. 12, a female student went to police in Madison, Wis., and filed a complaint against a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook.
A University of Wisconsin student was arrested this month on charges that he sexually assaulted a female student, prompting dozens of women to contact the police about encounters they said they had had with the man, according to the police and several news reports.
An Edina High School graduate who attends the University of Wisconsin is expected to be charged this week with sexually assaulting four women while investigators look into additional cases.
As the University of Wisconsin system continues fretting over repair issues on campuses across the state, UW-La Crosse is feeling the need for repairs as well.
Cobb, Wis. – Before Greg Gard knew he wanted to coach basketball, before he wore a badge and carried a gun, before he played baseball at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, before he showed hogs at the county fair, before he cleaned tractors and dried up motor oil, before he wiggled the television rabbit ears to catch Badgers games, he knew that he most wanted to be like someone else.
Interviewed: WBEZ discusses Duterte’s rule, U.S.-Philippines relations and the current state of Obama’s “pivot to Asia” policy with Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. McCoy is the author of Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. McCoy calls Mr. Obama a “geopolitical genius.”
Noted: “Cats now outnumber dogs when it comes to family pets, but we see fewer cats coming into the vet,” said Dr. Sandi Sawchuck, clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. “It’s not that (owners) feel like they don’t need vet care, it’s the transportation issues.”
Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership, suggested that he would recognize Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, and questioned the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee.
On Oct. 12, in Madison, Wis., a female student went to police and filed a complaint against a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook. She said she and Cook had originally contacted each other via Facebook and gotten together four or five times since then, always in public.
Politicians (and plenty of educators) talk about the “skills gap” and suggest ways that higher education can do a better job of preparing students for careers. The authors of a new book very much want students to go on to successful careers. But their research in Wisconsin suggests that both employers and students need more from higher education.
SOMMERS — When Terrill Taylor graduated from Horlick High School he was looking for a college that was close to home, not too expensive and had a professional health program.
Quoted: To Barry Burden, who directs the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, such spats mirror a growing and worrisome use of election rules as tools to win elections, not run them fairly.
It will be a chance to meet amazing historical figures like Maya Angelou, Frida Kahlo, and Frederick Douglass while also supporting a great cause on Thursday at the University Club in downtown Madison as the Odyssey Project will host its 2nd annual “Night of the Living Humanities” fundraiser.
The University of Wisconsin’s (UWISC) first cohort of students to complete a significant number of their undergraduate courses primarily through the flipped classroom model is preparing to graduate in the spring.
My grandmother, whom my family affectionately referred to as “Bay” because she was the youngest of her siblings, was one of the wisest people I’ve ever known—especially when you consider the fact that she only had an eighth-grade education. She would often tell me, “If you don’t stand for somethin’ you’ll fall for nothin’.”
The Cobb Corn Roast Festival was winding down. The softball, volleyball and bean bag competitions were over. The Texas hold’em poker games, garden tours and 5K run had raised money for the local library. As locals gathered at the burger and brat stand and beer tent on that sunny August afternoon, excitement was in the air. The proud citizens of Cobb—population 458, in the rolling farmlands of southwestern Wisconsin—gathered to celebrate the town’s most famous son, University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard.
UW-Madison is giving out free meningitis-B vaccines after two students fell ill with the disease.
The current—Fall 2016—issue of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Badger Insider magazine contains a fun story by John Allen titled “Legends of the Fall Semester.”
Quoted: In recent years, however, some scientists have been trying to drum up interest again in a vaccine. They’ve demonstrated that the rhinovirus is not as harmless as it once seemed. “It’s getting more respect as a pathogen,” said Dr. James Gern, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine who studies colds.
Quoted: “There’s an interesting power dynamic that the elected D.A.s don’t have power over their employees like a factory manager,” said Ben Kempinen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. While a district attorney is hired and fired by the voters in a county position, the district attorney and assistant district attorneys are state employees.
Noted: Part D was conceived at a time when rapidly rising US drug costs were alarming seniors, prompting some to head to Canada and Mexico to buy medicines at dramatically lower prices. With the 2004 presidential election campaign coming up, Republican leaders saw “an opportunity to steal a long-standing issue from the Democrats,” said Thomas R. Oliver, a health policy expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the lead author of the 2004 paper about the adoption of Part D.
It’s difficult for adults who live at or below the poverty level to attend college. That’s something Emily Auerbach wants to change. Auerbach, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, serves as the director of the Odyssey Project, which provides a free college course for adults who are overcoming adversity. That one course, she says, followed up with practical help toward completing a college education, has transformed many lives. “We have students who have gone from being homeless to having UW master’s degrees, who were incarcerated and are now working in the community,” she says.
Richard Davidson and his team want to help create a kinder, wiser and more compassionate world. And it all started in 1992 when Davidson met the Dalai Lama. Davidson, founder of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, focuses his research on why some people are more vulnerable to life’s challenges than others. The Dalai Lama suggested shifting away from studying things like anxiety and depression to studying kindness and compassion.
When a storm caused flooding, electrical outages and washed out roads in northern Wisconsin in July, Patty Loew showed her students how journalists pivot quickly to cover breaking news. Loew, a professor in the department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was teaching at her annual summer program on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe reservation when the devastating storm hit.
Since a long time, the world has been going gaga over the benefits of generating electricity from sunlight and water. But if we tell you that even your footsteps can be converted into usable electricity, wouldn’t that surprise you? Thanks to a green flooring invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers. It is with the help of this flooring that footsteps can be converted into usable electricity.
Quoted: “There is virtually no evidence of fraud at the polling places. It’s all myth,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Impersonation of voters, dead people voting, that stuff is outrageously false.”
Quoted: With Election Day three weeks away, there are several groups of undecided voters who could affect the Nov. 8 outcome, said Chris Wells, a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism and mass communication professor.
Noted: Marcus Cederström, who’s finishing his Ph.D. in Swedish culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, tells Science of Us the word itself fuses samman, or together, and boende, or accommodation.
For a soldier patrolling a city street in a warzone, seeing what’s around the corner of a building could be the difference between life and death. The Morgridge Institute for Research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to make a camera that can recreate scenes that are out of sight using what is known as scattered light technology. The project is being supported by a $4.4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Noted: But fact-checking itself can be an inherently controversial and “risky” form of journalism, as Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of the book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, told me earlier this summer.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators are hoping a first-of-its-kind campus climate survey launched this week will help to improve inclusivity.
David Bordwell, one of America’s foremost film scholars, has been thinking back on something the famous film critic Roger Ebert said to him a few years before Ebert died in 2013.
The average student loan debt for 2015 Wisconsin graduates of four-year public or nonprofit private institutions was $29,460, according to a new report from the Institute for College Access and Success.
The U.S. Supreme Court is clear: Children are not the same as adults, even when they’re tried as adults, and their sentences should reflect that. That’s the analysis of Eileen Hirsch, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, to whom USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin turned for an explanation of the things Wisconsin judges consider when sentencing juveniles.
EdTech speaks with the chief data officer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison about early successes and emerging applications in data analytics.
University of Wisconsin-Madison spent $23.6 million in retention efforts this past year, according to a report released Friday by the university.
The third and last U.S. presidential debate takes place Wednesday.
The earlier debates were marked by political nastiness that many historians say is at its worst level in years. Some teachers, however, are working to make debates less angry. They are teaching their students about civil discourse.
Paula McAvoy is the program director of the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2015, she and Diana Hess published a book called “The Political Classroom.”
With the release of her book in June 2016, “Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of Visual and Performing Arts,” Pamela Potter said she hopes people will have a different view of the arts in a Nazi-dominated Germany.
Noted: “The Fight for $15 and the simultaneous benefits is an amazing, unprecedented thing that I don’t think anyone five years ago would have expected, given our hyper-polarized political environment,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of low wages. “This is a workforce that’s coming out of the shadows.”
Noted: Some of the people most affected by trade—white, working-class older men—are those who have eschewed traditional candidates from both parties and supported the anti-trade platforms of Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump in the election. Both candidates had pledged to stop trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership. “In theory, the winners should repay the losers, but we don’t in our country,” Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me, a few months ago.
Quoted: “It certainly doesn’t feel right when they have a clear interest in the matter,” said Robert Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “but I don’t think there’s any way to classify what they’re doing as illegal.”
Noted: “This is an old idea whose time has come,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who directed the Institute for Research on Poverty there from 2008 to 2014. Daniel P. Moynihan, who advised former President Richard Nixon and was a Democratic senator from New York, actively supported this idea. So did Milton Friedman, the guru of conservative economic thinking from the 1960s through the 1980s.
For Keven Stonewall, being a teenager meant embarking on a scientific journey of questions and discoveries. It meant taking risks and not being afraid to stand out from his peers. And it meant working to find a cure for colon cancer at the tender age of 17.
After seven years of studying three-toed sloths, scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have made it official: the tree-dwelling animals are the slowest mammals on earth, metabolically speaking. “We expected them to have low metabolic rates, but we found them to have tremendously low energy needs,” says ecologist Jonathan Pauli.
For the second time in seven years, violent unrest has followed the presidential election in the small country of Gabon in West Equatorial Africa
Noted: There is no precedent in American history, four professors said in interviews Monday, for Trump’s claim that the election is rigged. In fact, said prominent fascism scholar Stanley Payne, even 20th-century European fascists did not go so far.
As Shakespeare’s first folio of work from the year 1623 comes to Wisconsin, WPR talks with two celebrated interpreters of his work about what the plays of Shakespeare have meant to them in the course of their lives.
