Consider the stories a bowling pin from Antigo’s Vulcan Corporation might have to tell. While the average person might think in terms of the confines of a single bowling alley, another might consider its role in Wisconsin’s lumber industry, Milwaukee’s former title as “The Bowling Capital of America,” and Japan’s mid-20th century bowling boom.
It can be hard for Green Bay Packers fans to remember a time without consistency at the quarterback position.
Coinciding with National Beach Safety Week and Rip Current Awareness Week from June 4th to the 11th, the WIsconsin Sea Grant Program is continuing a couple of projects at the Park Point Beach in Duluth designed to save lives.
Quoted: Bruce Allison, an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the creator of a handheld device tree experts will soon be able to use to detect tree decay in its early stages.
A UW-Madison graduate is one of three people being called a hero after jumping into New York’s East River to save a man.
At first Giselle wasn’t sure what to put on her medical school application. She wanted to be a doctor, but she also wanted people to know about her own health: years of depression, anxiety and a suicide attempt. (We’re using only her first name in this story, out of concern for her future career.)
Madison, Wisconsin, and the world have lost a great voice for peace and justice. Poet and activist Daniel Kunene died this past week at the age of 93. Kunene was a professor emeritus in the University of Wisconsin Department of African Languages and Literature for the past thirty-three years. He authored sixteen books in English and Sesotho (a southern Bantu language of his native South Africa), as well as countless articles, essays, and individual poems.
Noted: “The fact that the cap set problem finally yielded to such a simple technique is humbling,” Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison told Quanta Magazine. “It makes you wonder what else is actually easy.”
The 2015-16 academic year has seen numerous shootings, some deadly, of students, and a national debate over guns on campus. On Wednesday, with the academic year winding down, an engineering professor was shot and killed in the engineering building at the University of California at Los Angeles.
An impressive cadre of researchers just launched a new initiative to install trail cameras throughout Wisconsin that will help scientists keep track of the state’s wildlife populations.
On May 20, the UW Colleges faculty council voted no confidence in our president, Ray Cross, and the Board of Regents. This followed no-confidence votes by numerous other UW campuses.
Gov. Scott Walker hinted Wednesday that additional support may be heading to Wisconsin’s public higher education providers.
Just in time for National Beach Safety Week and Rip Current Awareness Week June 4-11, beaches on lakes Superior and Michigan will be safer thanks to continuation of two projects, according to a press release from Wisconsin Sea Grant.
Quoted: “As long as there were at least a little carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a lifeless planet that had the environmental conditions of Earth [without] oxygen could probably be terraformed relatively quickly with Earth flora,” Kevin Baines, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me.
Daniel Hofstetter, who comes from a town in northeastern Ohio, is part of a growing demographic at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus: students from outside of Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas.
Quoted: But at times the process is onerous enough that property owners withdraw, according to University of Wisconsin Madison wetland policy expert Morgan Robertson: “The Corps will say that’s the process working — the permit compensating for the impacts.”
Believe it or not, there is a science to airport lines and some logistics that can help travelers. Laura Albert Mclay, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about it on Live at Four.
NEW HOLSTEIN, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Extension’s long-standing participation in Wisconsin Farm Technology Days is slated to shrink in scope over the next several years, due to state budget cuts and the resulting consolidation of UW-Extension county offices.
Gov. Scott Walker says a court order that directed his office to release records on proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement has clarified what his administration must share with the public.
Since the announcement of the University of Wisconsin-Extension reorganization in February, counties across the state have begun to indicate they do not support the proposed changes in theory or monetarily.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has been busy writing columns and posts critical of tenure for newspapers and right-wing news sites across the state. It must be a fun way for him to spend his downtime now that the Legislature isn’t in session. Vos (R-Rochester) has spent most of his adult life criticizing the UW System. Calling out professors is kind of his passion project.
By now the Mincome experiment is well known. In the 1970s, every resident of Dauphin, a small Manitoba town, was given the option to collect substantial cash payments without work requirements. Economist Evelyn Forget’s findings about Mincome’s positive effects on health and education helped to resuscitate the concept of a basic income in Canada. With basic income pilots on the horizon, it is worth considering new lessons from an old experiment.
Make no mistake, today’s wearables are clever pieces of kit. But they can be bulky and restricted by the devices they must be tethered to. This has led engineers to create thinner and more powerful pieces of wearable technology that can be applied directly to the skin. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led by Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, have developed “the world’s fastest stretchable, wearable integrated circuits,” that could let hospitals apply a temporary tattoo and remove the need for wires and clips.
Quoted: “It seems to me in developed and semideveloped countries there is emerging a new kind of politics for which maybe the best taxonomic category would be right-wing populist nationalism,” said Stanley Payne, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We are seeing a new kind of phenomenon which is different from what you had” in the 20th century.
Some people believe higher education’s financial woes in Wisconsin began the day Gov. Scott Walker took office in 2011. They would be mistaken.
Despite the budget cuts, weakened tenure protections and the general acrimony between state lawmakers and University of Wisconsin System staff, a UW-Madison professor is making the case for why faculty should stay at the school.
Amid budget cuts, weakened tenure protections, and a chilly atmosphere between UW faculty and staff and Governor Walker, some of the UW System’s faculty have been looking for jobs elsewhere or receiving offers from other universities. We hear from a professor and department chair who makes the case for staying at the UW.
Governor Scott Walker has released dozens of documents that detail staff discussions about changes to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, just hours after a judge ordered them to be made public.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will likely be the last campus this spring to hold a vote of no-confidence in the Board of Regents and UW System President Ray Cross.
Noted: Some resistance to using the predictive model stems from “click fatigue” as doctors deal with a wealth of electronic information, such as best-practice recommendations for treatment, that increasingly pops up on their computer screens, says David Feldstein, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
In the age of the Internet, you can do almost anything wirelessly. This is especially intriguing in the health care field where professionals can monitor the data of patients without having to be in the room.
PITTSBURGH — The decision to affix the “C” on Joe Pavelski’s jersey was an easy one.
A recent report from Education Northwest shows students who enroll at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after completing one pre-college prep program are 37 percent less likely to graduate in four years compared to the schools overall graduation rate.
College enrollment was down 1.3 percent across the country during the current semester, and Wisconsin saw the fifth-largest drop in students, according to a new study.
Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still explains how budget cuts will continue to affect the University of Wisconsin System’s ability to contribute to economic growth in Wisconsin. Still says a bipartisan effort is necessary in order for both the state economy and UW System to thrive.
Today’s elite college students face a unique set of pressures. On the professional side life is competitive, pressured, time-consuming, capitalistic and stressful. On the political side many elite universities are home to an ethos of middle-aged leftism. The general atmosphere embraces feminism, civil rights, egalitarianism and environmentalism, but it is expressed as academic discourse, not as action on the streets.
Noted: But paltry prices can work against developing countries, says James Cleary, a palliative-care specialist at the University of Wisconsin: they mean drug firms have little incentive to bring them to new markets. Tariffs, import licences and high costs for small-scale local production mean that morphine can cost twice as much in poor places as rich ones. Some countries, such as Jamaica, subsidise opioid painkillers. Many others do not.
Quoted: In a study last year, the CDC warned that drug-resistant infections would continue to rise. And while the medical community has been anticipating the strain’s arrival, the troubling part is that “this case seems completely home-grown,” according to Dr. Nasia Safdar, an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: Commenting on the reports Dr Nasia Safdar, from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said: “The results are very concerning.
An expert on political statistics told a panel of federal judges on Wednesday that Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn legislative map was about as biased as possible in favor of GOP candidates for the state Assembly.
Quoted: Paul Mitchell, associate professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said exports still have an impact on the local market.
Spring comes earlier to dense cities, and while that might be great for city gardeners and outdoorsy types, it might be bad for native birds and insects.
Amid budget cuts, weakened tenure protections, and a chilly atmosphere between UW faculty and staff and Governor Walker, some of the UW System’s faculty have been looking for jobs elsewhere or receiving offers from other universities. We hear from a professor and department chair who makes the case for staying at the UW.
Madison recently made the top 20 in a list compiling the drunkest cities in the country. We talk with a recent UW graduate about what it’s like to be a non-drinker at UW-Madison.
“Official” artistic canons have historically recorded a greater number of men than women among their ranks. But that discrepancy is shifting in both the present and the past, as female artists in the modern era stake their claims and female artists from the past are honored by research and scholarship.
Quoted: “The environment just isn’t right for the practice with low interest rates, balance sheets generally in good shape, plenty of heifers and milk prices are low,” said Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, who said it was more common in the 1990s. “Why would anyone want to lease what they could own?”
SAN JOSE, CALIF. – Until your hockey career is over, you won’t know the biggest game you ever played. Along the way, there are several.
The University of Wisconsin System is under fire following a series of alleged campus sexual assaults.
Noted: “Suddenly people were homeowners like never before … so these landscapes and suburbanization just mushroomed,” said Paul Robbins, author of Lawn People: How Grass, Weeds and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.
Close to 70 percent of UW-Eau Claire faculty, or 227 staff members, voted in favor of a resolution saying they have no confidence in UW-System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
NASA’s next search for life is headed somewhere close to home: into the woods of Wisconsin, where the space agency is partnering with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to create “one of the richest and most comprehensive caches of wildlife data for any spot on our planet.”
When Barry Alvarez was extended an offer to become the football coach at the University of Wisconsin in 1990, he approached some of his friends and mentors for advice before accepting.
A powerful and inexpensive technique for rewriting snippets of DNA — known as CRISPR-Cas9 — has two research institutions locked in a bitter patent battle. On one side is UC Berkeley, where faculty first reported using the gene-editing technology in 2012, on the other, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where faculty won a special expedited patent for the technique in 2014.
Gov. Scott Walker is annoyed at faculty “no-confidence” votes against the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and UW System President Ray Cross. It comes as the university system appears ready to make significant campus-by-campus changes.
The contrast couldn’t have been more stark. The reigning Republican governor of Wisconsin was in Green Bay at the annual GOP state convention railing about overpaid and underworked university professors and suggesting they should be happy that they make more money than most working people.
A modern-day “Romeo and Juliet”- romance blossomed on the University of Wisconsin campus when an unsuspecting guy wearing a Vikings jersey caught the eye of a female student on the university’s Snapchat story.
Every year as spring unfolds, fruit growers around Wisconsin start feeling anxious, wondering whether a late frost will harm their crop. Overall, temperatures are warming across the state amidst global climate change, but this pattern is accompanied by unseasonable cold weather events, such as the late spring frost much of the state experienced earlier this month.
Recognize: Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s speech at UW-Madison
Noted: Seth Pollak, a child psychologist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, says that it is unclear whether poverty harms cognition and mental health, or whether a person’s intrinsic biology increases the likelihood that he or she will be poor as adults. But epigenetic research, such as the new study, shows that genetic differences are not the only important factors. “You might have a particular gene — but depending on the experience you have or don’t have, the gene might never be turned on,” Pollak says.
Noted: In researching the effect of stricter voter ID laws, Dr. Hajnal found they resulted in lower minority turnout. That finding is consistent with a 2014 study by the US Government Accountability Office, Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who testified in 2014 against the Texas law, tells the Monitor.
