Noted: Gemma is undergoing extensive treatment and is set to have bone, skin and fur replacement. Help will come from the University of Wisconsin – Madison Veterinary Care hospital, along with a fur donation from a Seattle-based company. UWM doctors will 3D print a section of plastic to repair a hole in Gemma’s snout from the severe caustic burns.
Noted: “Scientists buy heavily into this argument that to know us is to love us,” said Sharon Dunwoody, professor of mass communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But that just isn’t backed up by empirical evidence. The problem with scientific literacy surveys, she and Besley told me, is that they’re often being interpreted by people who are starting from a couple of inaccurate premises.
“We had said that education was really important in contextualizing the play so when people go to see it they have a sense of this history and they understand why Asian Americans have organized to protest it in the past,” Lori Lopez, an associate professor of Asian-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who helped organize the panel, said by phone.
The slowdown seen in the most recent economic data is likely to be short-lived, and there is no need to talk about cutting interest rates, said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Thursday.
Noted: The cameras can gather a wealth of data about the health and diversity of plants, said Phil Townsend, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who uses remote imaging to study the functioning of ecosystems. A satellite with hyperspectral imaging could measure the pigments and structure of plant leaves, monitor nitrogen compounds in plants, or detect the presence of molecules, such as compounds that some plants use to defend against insects, which are invisible to human eyes.
In a raucous performance-inspired protest, students at Beloit College on Wednesday shut down a planned speech by Erik Prince, an associate of President Trump and the controversial founder of the security company Blackwater.
Noted: “He’s merely a propagandist, as far as I can tell,” said Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin. “He makes just egregious mistakes in fact and theory.”
“This is not how I thought today was going to go,” said Timothy Yu at the “teach-in” he helped organize on the sidewalk outside Overture Center on March 27. With the poster for the blockbuster musical Miss Saigon in the background, Yu, a UW-Madison professor of English and Asian American Studies, looked slightly chagrined as he surveyed the crowd that was gathering to hear concerns about Asian representation in the touring show, which is scheduled for eight performances, April 2-7 in Overture Hall.
Noted: Soaps dealt with controversial social issues in a more developed and thoughtful way than earlier forms of television, says Elana Levine, a professor in the department of journalism, advertising and media studies at the University of Wisconsin, which included abortion, race relations, sexuality and generational conflicts.
Noted: “There are certain stigmas attached to bed bugs, but they really go to where that people bring them,” said P.J. Liesch, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension. “They can be in low-quality motels all the way up to five-star hotels.”
A panel of Asian American activists and professors intending to add context and an Asian perspective to the controversial musical “Miss Saigon” ahead of its upcoming run at the Overture Center was canceled last minute following disagreements between the theater and panelists.
An anonymous listener in the Rhinelander area recently asked: What are snow fleas? Where do they live and what do they eat? Interviewed: P.J. Liesch, (UW) Extension entomologist and Director of the UW-Madison insect diagnostic lab.
Noted: “I expect her to win and potentially by a large margin,” Barry Burden, a UW-Madison professor of political science and director of its Elections Research Center, said in an interview last week. He speculated that the decision of outside conservative groups “not to invest in Hagedorn’s campaign tells me that they have concluded that the campaign is in trouble, and don’t want to throw good money after bad.”
Noted: Authorities have not released any additional details about Patterson’s treatment of Jayme. Soon after he was charged in Barron County, prosecutors in Douglas County — where Jayme was held — announced they had no plans to charge him for crimes there. It was a move widely seen as aimed at sparing Jayme further pain, and one that University of Wisconsin law professor Cecelia Klingele praised Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross stopped by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s aging chemistry building Wednesday to express his support for the governor’s plan to replace it with a new $129.5 million facility.
Noted: A spokeswoman from Wisconsin said the priority deadline allows the school to determine financial-aid offers earlier, allowing students more time to make their enrollment decisions. She added that the school has seen an increase in low-income students submitting aid applications by that deadline in recent years.
About 15 years ago, David Van Sickle worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a “disease detective,” looking for the preliminary signs of epidemics. That’s when he became fascinated with the curious case of a community-wide asthma attack in Barcelona, Spain.
Noted: But, says climate scientist Jonathan Martin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “There isn’t a direct link between the slowly changing climate and this event.”
Noted: As Robert Sanders, an anaesthetist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, puts it: “We’ve apparently ablated this period of time from that person’s experience.” (During the operation, the patient may also be given painkillers to ease their recovery when they wake up from surgery.)
The federal case announced this week charging parents with buying their kids admission to top universities is shining a light on the admissions process. Every year, U.S. colleges and universities are tasked with sorting through a mountain of applications. Some of the most selective schools, like Harvard, can get upwards of 40,000. So how do officials know if the information in all of that paperwork is truthful?
MADISON, Wis. – Among other positive changes from the election of a new governor in Wisconsin is the return of respect for state employees and their contributions to the quality of life that state government supports for all citizens.
An associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison is speaking out after Secretary of Education Betsy Devos says the department is looking into a recent college bribery scandal that violated federal education rules.
Noted: This restoration was backed in part by the University of Wisconsin, where Keene taught until her death at 52. It’s a fitting tribute to a filmmaker gone far too soon.
Gov. Tony Evers is proposing to restore $3.5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Extension under the next budget and boost the number of county agriculture agents.
Noted: This estimate takes into account measures already implemented by the state’s two medical schools to increase the pipeline of future doctors. For instance, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has a program called the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine where students receive training through regional medical centers based in Green Bay, Marshfield and La Crosse.
Noted: Nee wanted his son to have a practical job, so Abloh studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But I was, like, ‘I don’t want to be an engineer in the classic sense,’ ” Abloh said. “And the only way to not do that is to do fifty per cent engineering, fifty per cent life.” In Madison, Abloh and his roommate Gabriel Stulman, now a New York restaurateur, hosted farm-to-table dinners in their dorm room. On Wednesdays, Abloh d.j.’ed at the bar where Stulman bartended, and would walk back to campus carrying shoeboxes full of cash.
Horseshoe crabs have been crawling on our planet for nearly half a billion years, yet for all the brains we evolved in our measly half-million-year existence, we never did figure out what they actually are. Now a genetic study published this weekend in the journal of Systematic Biology finds evidence for the theory first postulated in the year 1881: the horseshoe crab is not a crab after all. It is a sister group to Ricinulei, the hooded tick spider.
MADISON, Wis. – Students and community members at UW-Madison gathered on Friday to celebrate International Women’s Day and petition a law change in Madison.
Photography has always been a combination of art and science, even as the techniques of making a photograph have evolved. An exhibition in Madison called Un/Seen wants viewers to think about the history of photography as not only about art and image making, but also how it’s connected to the histories of science, alchemy, and magic. According to Sarah Anne Carter of the Chipstone Foundation it’s the processes we don’t see that give us the final images we do.
UW-Madison police took action to prevent a possible tragedy Friday night when they stopped a driver for speeding.
Every few years, typically four to six, Congress dusts off the federal law that governs higher education—there are no penalties, per se, if it doesn’t, but the law can quickly become outdated, and if lawmakers want to ensure that federal college programs run smoothly, they keep that schedule. At least that’s what is supposed to happen.
The University of Wisconsin System says its launching an effort to improve retention and graduation rates, especially for students of color.
The NCAA is violating antitrust law by limiting payments to college athletes to scholarships covering the cost of attendance, a federal judge ruled on Friday. Judge Claudia Wilken, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ruled that the association cannot set limits on compensation to athletes related to educational expenses like tutoring or the cost of scholarships for postgraduate degrees.
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association and its members had violated federal antitrust law by artificially capping the value of scholarships for educational purposes — but stopped well short of creating the kind of free market for athletes’ compensation that the players and their lawyers had sought.
Governor Tony Evers’ proposed capital budget includes borrowing $2 billion over the next two fiscal years, a plan at least one legislative leader calls “alarming.” A release from the governor’s office says Evers is “recommending historic investments in state-owned vertical infrastructure.”
Along I-55 heading from Illinois into Missouri, just before St. Louis’s iconic Gateway Arch becomes visible, another monument rises into view—Cahokia Mounds, the remnants of the largest pre-Hispanic settlement north of the Mexican border.
Horseshoe crabs have never quite fit in with the rest of the ocean’s animals. Considered living fossils, their circular bodies and sharp tails are often presented as frightening. But horseshoe crabs aren’t scary, they’re just misunderstood. A new scientific study has created a definitive family tree for horseshoe crabs, showing that they’re best classified as arachnids.
A healthcare offshoot of Time’s Up will officially launch on March 1 to try to bring safety and equity to the workplace. Several healthcare providers have joined the effort as signatories including the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Touching on lame-duck laws, criminal justice reform and repealing Walker legislation, Governor Tony Evers has given his first biennial budget address.
Cahokia was an agrarian Native American community that rose to prominence around 1100 AD as the largest settlement north of Mexico prior to the colonial occupation of the Americas.
VERONA, Wis. – When you talk about Kenzi Valentyn, no last name is really needed.
There is no evidence of race or gender bias in the initial peer review of research grant proposals submitted to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to a new analysis from a team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.1 The overall impact scores of white male principal investigators (PIs) applying for grants were not significantly different to those of female or ethnic minority PIs. This pattern held true regardless of grant proposal quality or scientific topic area.
MADISON, Wis. – In his first budget proposal, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will increase Wisconsin’s minimum wage, raise the gas tax, provide new funding for schools and give income tax cuts to middle income families.
Highlights of the two-year Wisconsin budget proposal released Thursday by Gov. Tony Evers:
Wisconsin’s gas tax would go up by 8 cents per gallon, state government would pick up a bigger share of school funding than it has in more than a decade and Medicaid would be expanded to an estimated 82,000 residents under the state budget proposal unveiled on Thursday by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Internationally acclaimed Turkish historian Kemal Karpat died on Feb. 20 in the United States aged 96, a Turkish official said.
The first time Jim Leary was nominated for a Grammy, it went to Joni Mitchell. This time around, Joni isn’t part of the competition, though an homage to Bob Dylan is probably a crowd-pleasing favorite. Even so, who says there isn’t time to throw some Grammy love at yodelers? That’s the hope of Leary, a folklorist who is up for his second Grammy Award nomination for Best Album Notes for a release of archival music with a Wisconsin connection.
Winter is fully here in Wisconsin Dells, but at Upham Woods preparations are already underway for summer even as the camp operates snowy activities.
Noted: “It’s very interesting work,” says Chiara Cirelli from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She and others have identified genes in flies that are important for a good night’s rest and, when disabled, result in less sleep. But this is the first time anyone has done the reverse: increase the activity of a gene, and trigger more sleep.
MADISON, Wis. — Electronics giant Foxconn reversed course and announced Wednesday that the massive Wisconsin operation that was supposed to bring a bounty of blue-collar manufacturing jobs back to the Midwest — and was offered billions of dollars in incentives from the state — will instead be devoted mostly to research and development.
For its fifth annual social justice conference, UW-Madison’s School of Social Work wanted to hear from people who know the social work system better than anyone: those who have grown up in it.
Students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison know a thing or two about snow. Last year, after a blizzard, some of them built an igloo. The same students are at it again this year.
MADISON, Wis. — For the first half of Officer Kraig Kalka’s shift, the temperature outside hovered at about zero. Within hours, he knew, the air would dive toward negative double digits, part of a dangerous 48-hour deep freeze across much of the Midwest.
Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.
Noted: Scott Rankin, head of the Food Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the extension reflects how complicated the issue is.
Noted: It’s “like a band of warm air just cutting right through the puddle of cold air,” John Martin, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained last week.
MADISON, Wis. – Jack Kwan, a 20-year-old kinesiology student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is competing Thursday night on NBC’s “The Titan Games.”
Erik Olin Wright never gave up on the dream of a just and equitable society in which human beings might treat one another as kindly as the University of Wisconsin sociology professor and internationally renowned public intellectual treated his students, his colleagues, and the communities that he nurtured in the United States and around the world.
Noted: “It was a shock,” said Cecelia Klingele, assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: So even the big hit of warmth the Arctic experienced 10,000 years ago “wasn’t enough to annihilate that ice,” says Shaun Marcott, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the study.
