A Republican legislator warned Thursday that a University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor’s decision to assign an “offensive” essay on gay men’s sexual preferences could have budget ramifications for the entire UW-System next year.
SACRAMENTO — Over three generations, the Michael family forged a deep bond with the University of California, dating back nearly 50 years to when Jay Dee Michael Sr. was the university system’s vice president and chief lobbyist.
In Dane County, several initiatives and programs are underway that attempt to blunt the impact of generations of poverty on children and their parents.
ROME — Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of an American college student whose body was found in the Tiber River this week, a victim of what the police are calling robbery and murder.
The problem is that the origin of the hybrid yeast used in lager beer is relatively unknown. We know that a domesticated yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) combined with a recently discovered yeast (Saccharomyces eubayanus) at some point to create an interspecies hybrid — but we’ve never understood how the two halves met.
Research has shown that approximately two-thirds of the population have experienced some form of childhood adversity by the age of 18. So why do so many people emerge from difficult childhoods seemingly unscathed, while others develop various forms of mental illness? And are there any evident brain differences between the two types?
Caregivers should find support before becoming overwhelmed by the burdens associated with taking care of a patient with a chronic illness, according to a human development and family studies expert. “You have to take care of yourself to take of others,” said Kristin Litzelman, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If you’re not taking care of yourself, there’s no way you can provide help to someone else. You won’t have the physical strength or the emotional strength.”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced a proposal on Wednesday to eliminate tuition at in-state public colleges and universities for families with annual incomes up to $125,000 — largely embracing a core position of Senator Bernie Sanders, who had pledged to make tuition at public institutions free for all students.
Beau Solomon, the American student whose body was recovered from a river in Rome days ago, is one of several American students who died while studying abroad in Italy in recent years. But research shows that students are actually safer while on international exchanges than on American college campuses.
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes, she’ll pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
Gov. Scott Walker said he’ll look at whether the University of Wisconsin System needs more money to make major repairs on buildings at various campuses.
New details are emerging about the death of a University of Wisconsin student killed while studying abroad in Italy.
Rome police detained a homeless man on suspicion he pushed a 19-year-old American student into the Tiber River after a fight, as details emerged about Beau Solomon’s final hours in the thick of Rome’s summertime nightlife.
Police at UW-Madison are investigating a strong-arm robbery that occurred on campus early Friday morning.
Quoted: “There’s a high probability in the weeks ahead that we get hot and humid weather,” said Dr. Robert Cropp, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Cows then are under more heat stress and milk production per cow drops.”
Carl Gulbrandsen is so understated that even some people close to him didn’t know he played in a band growing up in Viroqua — or that his cousin is rocker Butch Vig of Garbage, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins fame.
The body of an American teenager was found in Rome on Monday, after a four-day search for the student who went missing hours after arriving in Italy to attend a summer school program.
Noted: But are patients with private insurance bearing just some, or all the burden of low Medicare rates? University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor Justin Sydnor said most of the studies looking at cost shifting haven’t found it to be the main driver behind increasing health costs.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Friday they have taken a step toward blocking transmission of the Zika virus.
ROME — A homeless man was detained on Tuesday in connection with the death of a 19-year-old student from Wisconsin who disappeared just hours after he landed in Rome, the Italian authorities said.
A homeless man was charged with murder Tuesday in connection with the death of U.S. college student Beau Solomon, who vanished just hours after arriving in the Italian capital last week.
Barbara Wolfe and Jason Fletcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found children from lower income families have lower non-cognitive skills than children from richer families.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a UW-Madison professor of political science who reviewed Kelly’s application at Isthmus’ request, calls him a competent lawyer otherwise lacking qualifications for the state Supreme Court, aside from “an unwavering commitment to an ideology that is shared by Gov. Walker and the Republican leadership in the Legislature.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of only three public universities on the top 10 list of colleges that produce the most Fortune 500 CEOs. The list, compiled by Money Magazine, uses data from the educational backgrounds of the recently released Fortune 500.
The University of Wisconsin System announced Wednesday that Stephanie Marquis — a familiar face in state government — will become its new spokesperson. She will start next week in an interim strategic communications role.
New experiments have shown that one infection with Zika virus can provide immunity against subsequent exposure to the virus, a piece of good news published Tuesday as officials continue to wrestle with the mosquito-borne threat.
MADISON – Wisconsin’s public university system has wasted more than $100,000 on airline tickets in recent years that ultimately were never used and allowed to expire.
Fred Lee is not afraid to put himself out there. Lee is a radiologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, where his primary area of interest is the ablation, or elimination, of cancerous tumors. He says that around the year 2000, he decided that the radio frequency ablation devices he and his colleagues were using “were just not good enough.” But since Lee’s background wasn’t in engineering, he had to reach out for help.
Scientists have developed a nonhuman primate model of Zika virus infection to better understand its course in humans, especially in pregnant women. David O’Connor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues injected eight rhesus macaques—two of them pregnant—with the Asian strain of the virus currently circulating in South and Central America. The non-pregnant and pregnant monkeys were still infected 21 days and up to 57 days later, respectively, and all animals were immune to reinfection 10 weeks post-injection, the researchers reported today (June 28) in Nature Communications. Prior to publication, the team was posting its data online in real time.
New research on monkeys found some good news that could have implications for humans: One infection with the Zika virus protects against future infections.
Scientists have successfully infected a group of rhesus macaque monkeys with Zika, marking the first time that non-human primates have been shown to be susceptible to the mosquito-borne virus. That’s good news for researchers, as it potentially opens up a new animal model to study Zika. Scientists could use the monkeys to trace how the virus spreads and test new vaccines or treatments on the animals.
A new animal study adds to the complexity of Zika infection during pregnancy
Infection with the Zika virus may protect against future infection, but pregnancy seems to extend how long the mosquito-borne virus stays in the body, a new study in monkeys suggests.
A batch of new studies show the Zika virus is trickier than it appeared at first glance, lurking for months in pregnant females and interfering with the immune system’s response.
I was annoyed and incredulous when I read in The Northwestern that “Wisconsin football fans, clamoring for more night games, will be giddy in 2016,” because ESPN announced that the Ohio State and Nebraska home games will be at night. This ruffled my feathers. I do not believe that fans want more UW–Madison football games at night.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that a single exposure to the Zika virus protected monkeys against a second bout of the infection. That natural immunity may help in work to develop a vaccine.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday proposed opening up federal financial aid to alternative education providers, softening student loan repayment requirements for entrepreneurs and granting green cards to STEM students as part of wide-ranging tech and innovation agenda.
This week’s challenge was suggested by Jordan Ellenberg, a math-world superstar and current professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin. Jordan is the child prodigy who turned out well. After teaching himself to read at age 2, he attained a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT at age 12, won two gold medals in the International Math Olympiad (with perfect scores), and was a two-time Putnam Fellow at Harvard.
Walk into most macaque enclosures, and you might expect a ruckus: bird-like cooing if you’re bringing them food, or guttural barks if you aren’t.
The Rising Star cave system, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa, has been well mapped and was explored by cavers for many years, but without any fossils being noted there. That changed in September 2013, when two South African cavers, Rick Hunter and Steve Tucker, entered a remote, unmapped chamber and found the first-known fossil bones of what is now called Homo naledi strewn across its floor.
Noted: “The Johnson campaign needs to do something,” said Barry Burden, the head of the elections research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I think they’re looking for a way to claw back to make this a competitive race.”
Those of us who have been around Madison for a while can be forgiven for not getting too excited about a recent front-page Wisconsin State Journal story with a headline noting the Mosse Humanities Building “could be demolished.”
Walking into Mrs. M—–’s Cabinet at the Milwaukee Art Museum is more like walking into a home than an traditional museum space. Located in the Constance and Dudley Godfrey American Wing, Mrs. M—-’s Cabinet is an interactive exhibit which invites viewers to create a narrative through objects collected by Mrs. M—-, a character who “exists somewhere between fact and fiction.”
Most people get upset stomachs from time to time. Usually, a few trips to the bathroom or antibiotics solve the problem. For pandas, it’s an entirely different story. Our research into panda digestion shows that pandas get upset stomachs so frequently it may help explain why it’s so hard for them to reproduce. Our work may, as a result, highlight a new way to boost pandas’ breeding success in captivity.
Last year, Kelsey Card finished second in the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the discus and the shot put, getting beat in the latter on an opponent’s last throw.
There’s an arms race raging underground – well, between microbes and plants anyway. When bacteria attack crop roots, plants fight back by snaring the pathogens in a sticky trap made from their own DNA secretions. But a new study shows how the bacteria bust out, using a set of enzymes that act as molecular scissors, splitting the DNA like bubble wrap.
John Baldacchino will be the next director of the Arts Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He comes from the University of Dundee in Scotland, where he was chair of arts education at the School of Education and Social Work. He will take over his new role in August.
The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) announces it has hired Susan Riseling as its new executive director. She will assume the position effective, Aug. 8.
The nation’s colleges and universities have been on pins and needles waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether race can be a factor in their admissions policies.
Matthew Desmond had little to distinguish himself from other applicants when applying to Ph.D. programs in sociology. As he remembers it, only one acceptance letter arrived at his door — from UW-Madison.
Katie Brenner knows how exasperating it can be for women who are struggling to get pregnant.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions. Some parts of the decision in the case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, related to features unique to that university.
EAU CLAIRE — Jonathan Tsipis hasn’t been the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program for very long, but he’s made one thing very clear in the time he’s had so far.
Quoted: Steve Barnet, who works with a University of Wisconsin astronomy team at the polar station but is in the US now, lauded the rescue crew.He said: “The courage of the pilots to make the flight in extremely harsh conditions is incredible and inspiring.”
Quoted: It is less efficient for companies to hire multiple regional insurers, and the merger could allow the few remaining national insurers to raise their rates, said Peter Carstensen, an antitrust expert and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Public colleges and universities are grappling with diminishing resources, largely because of significant declines in state funding over the years. We asked three top educators about potential solutions to the funding problems: Janet Napolitano, the president of the University of California; Bernadette Gray-Little, chancellor of the University of Kansas; and Clifton Forbes Conrad, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After 25 years of service to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW police Chief Sue Riseling will retire in August, the university said Wednesday.
Ohio State University has hired its medical school dean from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after a two-year search.
Quoted: Kristen Bernard, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was not involved in the study, praised the work, but told Scientific American that reducing infection by treating bug bites seems “far-fetched” because the person being bit would have to notice the bite and have medication at-the-ready.
How did a political novice with no governing experience and a faint grasp of policy become the Republican presidential nominee? The rise of Donald Trump becomes less of a mystery once you’ve done what I’ve been doing these last few years: Talk to the voters. What I’ve found is a burbling disdain that has now been given voice by the Trump campaign.
