Quoted: Despite conflicting media reports, the Supreme Court’s decision does not affirm states the right to ban assault weapons, nor does it affirm the lower court’s decision that put the ban in place, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ryan Owens said.
The U.S. Olympic team trials for swimming kick off next week in Omaha, Nebraska.
Heat waves can kill. In 2003, during a major European heat wave, 14,802 people died of hyperthermia in France alone. Most were elderly people living alone in apartment buildings without air conditioning, according to Richard Keller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medical history and bioethics and author of “Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003” (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Since graduating from the University of Wisconsin a year ago, Ivy Martin’s full time work has been by the water.
With strong business and engineering programs, as well as a reputation as one of the top state flagship universities in the country, it’s little surprise UW is one of three public colleges to break into this top 10 list.
Travis Frederick has gone from puzzling first-round pick to Pro Bowl center in a matter of years. Here are 10 things you might not know about the man in the middle of the Cowboys’ prolific offensive line.
Noted: Paul Moberg, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin’s Public Health Institute, said the best funding model for such schools draws from sources in education and health care. He said there hasn’t been much health insurance funding, but some schools, such as Horizon High School in Madison, are partnering with county human services programs or nonprofits focused on improving mental health.
State budget crunches and political turmoil have set off rumblings about a mass faculty exodus from public colleges in some states. High-profile defections stoke the rumors. But have professors really fled in droves?
Noted: BadgerLoop, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received the Pod Technical Excellence award for its design.
It’s one thing to attend to due diligence, double-check your numbers and make sure final budget documents are correct before releasing them.
MADISON, Wis. — The smile creasing Dallas Jeanty’s face refuses to fade, a twinkling light he won’t extinguish, as he sits in the Camp Randall Stadium bleachers. He is an 18-year-old linebacker at the University of Wisconsin ready to embrace the wealth of possibilities in front of him: new friends, new surroundings, new start. He laughs while speaking reverently about playing football, eating Oreos, listening to Mumford & Sons and reading Harry Potter.
Girl meets boy. Opposites attract. These are common themes in romantic movies, which usually end happily, with love conquering all. The movie “Me Before You,” which opened June 3 to better-than-predicted crowds, adds an interesting twist: able-bodied girl falls in love with quadriplegic man.
Noted: Research by Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison published in 2014 shows that breathing-based meditation—specifically Sudarshan Kriya yoga, which is used by Project Welcome Home Troops and was chosen for its effectiveness at reducing PTSD symptoms among tsunami survivors, according to the study—reduced PTSD symptoms in U.S. veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Quoted: “I think the Trump candidacy has challenged journalism more than virtually anything in my memory,” said Kathleen Culver, associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I’m on some forums with educators trying to reason through how we’re going to teach this in the fall.
Quoted: Kansas’s gross domestic product is still less than it was at the end of 2011, said Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has been following Kansas’s economy. Meanwhile, the economy in the rest of the country continues to expand.
Last year, The Gazette’s editorial board criticized Janesville City Manager Mark Freitag for refusing to give the media copies of his budget he had passed to council members four days before his presentation.
During the first day of the Wisconsin Democratic Convention, Russ Feingold told delegates about what he experienced during his trip across Wisconsin — an effort marked by campaign stops in all 72 counties in his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.
Data collected from sensors on a buoy in Lake Mendota map the ebb and flow of the algal blooms that each year turn the lake green with phytoplankton. A look at the patterns created over time shows a confluence of interconnected cycles driven by season, temperature, sunrise and sunset.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos laments that only six tenured University of Wisconsin professors have been fired in the last 20 years. Vos says that, at the national level, an estimated 2 percent of tenured faculty are dismissed each year.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson can sure keep a cool head during a tight situation on the field, but that calm demeanor briefly escaped him when he was facing thousands of graduates.
Cultural competency training could be in store for 1,000 new students at UW- Madison.
iPS cells have made their mark in a different way. They have become an important tool for modelling and investigating human diseases, as well as for screening drugs. Improved ways of making the cells, along with gene-editing technologies, have turned iPS cells into a lab workhorse — providing an unlimited supply of once-inaccessible human tissues for research. This has been especially valuable in the fields of human development and neurological diseases, says Guo-li Ming, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who has been using iPS cells since 2006.
Quoted: “I don’t see anything here,” said Timothy M. Smeeding, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I see some broad generalities.”
Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for president in large part because of voters who have not graduated from college. In the Indiana primary, for example, Trump won 47 percent of the vote among college grads — but 60 percent among those who had not earned a bachelor’s degree.
About 13,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students took summer classes last year, and out of all those students, only 12 got scholarship money from the university to help cover their summer tuition. But those numbers are now changing.
Quoted: “It’s best viewed when the sun is low and you have a nice long shadow,” said Steven Ackerman, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has experienced the phenomenon numerous times.
Noted: Since being elected governor of Wisconsin in 2010, Scott Walker has made repeated cuts to that state’s system of 13 universities; $250 million in cuts are included in the 2015–17 state budget. “It all trickles down,” University of Wisconsin Press director Dennis Lloyd admitted, disclosing that the state previously funded about 10% of the press’s $3.6 million budget, but cut that sum by 2% in 2015–17. “It could have been better; it could have been worse,” Lloyd observed.
Campus sexual assaults are getting focused attention this week with news that a Stanford student received only a six-month jail sentence for committing sexual assault, considered by many to be too lenient.
Once you’ve recognized your biases, learned more about racism, and talked to people of different races, you need to start replacing biases and stereotypes with what you know to be true about people, according to Patricia Devine, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
PALO ALTO, Calif. — It could have been mistaken for any other late afternoon in the expectant days before graduation. Seniors shuttled four years of possessions from the Kappa Alpha fraternity into waiting U-Hauls that would carry them away from Stanford for the last time.
Quoted: In majority-minority districts, minority voters are, by definition, packed beyond that threshold. Ultimately, this is detrimental to the minorities. David Canon, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said, “If you have too high a percent African Americans in a House district, it does dilute the overall representation of African American interests.”
Two former University of Chicago medical researchers faked and falsified data in two federally funded studies into heart failure, according to federal records.
Noted: Edward Friedman, an expert on China elite politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that the response to Stalin’s death was pivotal in the birth of the Cultural Revolution.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System students will spend more on fees, housing and food this fall under a new annual budget that regents approved Thursday as they grapple with ways to raise money in the face of a tuition freeze and deep state cutbacks.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents have unanimously approved a 2016-17 totaling $6.2 billion.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have approved a new budget that raises students’ fees and charges them more for housing and food.
ATLANTA — Following his second day of work as an intern in the mental health program at the Carter Center last month, Chris Borland was driving home past a high school. On a field situated along the road, he saw a football team in the middle of a spring practice. Borland pulled over and watched for 10 minutes, not out of nostalgia for a game he left behind, but rather fixating on the players as their helmets collided repeatedly during a series of contact drills.
A job for life. ”Those are the words Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is using to describe tenure. It may be a terrible tact to take for his state’s university system, but it’s a smart move politically.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin.
Nearly 100 colleges and universities had at least 10 reports of rape on their main campuses in 2014, according to federal campus safety data, with Brown University and the University of Connecticut tied for the highest annual total — 43 each.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is asking the Board of Regents to approve a $19,152,300 increase to the Wisconsin Grant-UW program over the next two years.
Quoted: “The research is indicating that you don’t need extended, long-term therapy for most kinds of problems,” said Bruce Wampold, a psychologist specializing in counseling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Though some patients may seek therapy to help manage chronic conditions like depression, many seek treatment for problems that can be overcome relatively easily, like conflicts at work or in relationships. Therapy should be like seeing any other kind of doctor: You make an appointment, work to gain the tools you need to manage your problems, and eventually discontinue your time together.
Like some humans, giant pandas struggle with digestion due to changes in diet – an affliction that could be interrupting their reproduction, according to a new study.
Noted: That would be three election cycles from now, which University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon said implies that Democrats could win a few seats this year and a few seats in each election after that.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wants permission to spend an $800,000 donation as she sees fit to help alleviate the school’s budget crunch.
At a time when UW-Madison continues to face deep state cuts and legislative attacks on its mission and integrity, a group of prominent alumni, donors and supporters has formed a new, independent advocacy organization that will lobby state government on behalf of the internationally renowned research institution–and fund candidates for office.
Quoted: Heather Kirkorian, who heads up the Cognitive Development & Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees. “The extent to which parents are tied up with these devices in ways that disrupt the interactions with the child has potential for a far bigger impact,” she says. “If I’m on the floor with a child but checking my phone every five minutes, what message does that send?” How much parents play with and talk to their kids is a very powerful predictor of how the kids will develop, she adds.
AZTALAN — Ancient Aztalan was a prehistoric Native American village in southern Wisconsin occupied by Mississippian and Late Woodland peoples 800 to 1,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence suggests it was an ethnically diverse community — some residents were local to the area, but others were newcomers who brought their exotic beliefs, practices and ways of living with them.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are looking to give students an additional $12.7 million in financial aid over the next biennium.
Any decision regarding the future of the University of Wisconsin-Extension Columbia County is, by definition, one made with insufficient information, members of the County Board’s Agriculture, Extension and Land and Water Conservation Committee declared Monday.
Quoted: “Sex offenders are maybe the most typical older inmates,” said Walter Dickey, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor emeritus and an expert in corrections and sentencing. “There are certain sex offenders for whom time is no cure, so to speak. They’re going to continue that behavior even when they’re in the most debilitated position.”
If you’re not familiar with Gwen Jorgensen, you will be soon. The two-time reigning ITU World Triathlon Champion, Jorgensen promises to become a household name during this summer’s Olympics, where she will be the heavy favorite to bring home the gold in Rio.
Noted: This stereotype is often held up as proof that some racial stereotypes can be favorable, even flattering. But the model-minority image brings with it a number of problems. For instance, research done by Stacey Lee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, shows how this image can deter Asian American high-school students from seeking help when they’re struggling in school, socially isolating them and, ironically, causing them to fare worse academically.
University of Wisconsin researchers this week installed an underwater wave pressure sensor along Duluth’s Park Point beach that could help detect deadly rip currents.
Madison will be thrust into the national sports spotlight as the PGA Tour Champions descends on University Ridge Golf Course for the American Family Insurance Championship. The inaugural event held June 24-26 features a 54-hole format and $2 million purse for the Champions Tour, which is comprised of professional golfers age 50 and older.
Quoted: “Most studies show that election reforms don’t affect turnout very much, and when they do, the people who turn out look a lot like the people who are already voting,” said Barry C. Burden, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center.
UW-Madison vector biologist Matthew Aliota joined Steve Ketelaar on Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News to look at the latest case of the Zika virus in Wisconsin, if it could start to spread locally, and if athletes should be concerned about it in Rio for the Olympics.
While she posted the first regular-season goal for the orange and blue, Dayton Dutch Lions starter Rose Lavelle also suits up for the red, white and blue.
You can always find a surprising tidbit while reading a newspaper, but the May 26 edition of The Post-Crescent takes the cake. That day’s column by state Rep. Jim Steineke should be given an award for brazen misrepresentation. Mr. Steineke writes how much he appreciates those who work in education, yet for the past five years, Mr. Steineke has been at the forefront of those legislators who have led the attack against public education in Wisconsin.
Quoted: Because so many factors are driving this mortality, it’s hard for policy makers to know what to do, said Dave Kindig, professor emeritus of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
