Quoted: “I think that if the consumer is willing to pay more for a certain color, then it’s in manufacturers’ and marketers’ best interest to charge more,” said Christine Whelan, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin Madison and director of the university’s MORE (Money, Relationships, and Equality) program. “But I do mind that people don’t know about this.”
Typical Wisconsin seasons might not be so typical in the coming years, particularly the Badger State’s notoriously cold winters, according to two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors. “We’ll still have winters,” said Steve Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at UW-Madison and a professor of atmospheric sciences. “But they will be shorter and warmer.”
UW-Madison Assistant Police Chief Kari Sasso said her campus already has a similar policy in place, which has proven helpful in letting students know they can come forward and don’t have to worry. “We need to do all we can to encourage survivors of sexual assault to come forward to report the crime, so we can do our jobs as law enforcement to hold the perpetrator accountable for their actions,” she said.
A bill that aims to remove barriers to reporting sexual assault on college campuses in Wisconsin had a hearing before a state Senate committee on Tuesday.
Central Time talks about the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project, teaching poetry and literature to people in prison and its upcoming art exhibitition, Artists in Absentia.
From a medical perspective, the benefits have been unequivocal. One study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that a statewide rule that prohibited full contact during the first week of the season, and limited full contact to 75 minutes during the second week and to 60 minutes per week in the third week and beyond, had an immediate impact.
Quoted: Even better, our soliloquies prove useful. For example. when it comes to looking for something, saying the word out loud makes the thing easier to find, says Gary Lupyan, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
When the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute began surveying professors within the University of Wisconsin System last year about their views on tenure, many said they worried the institute might later use the findings to promote further changes to tenure policies in the state. That’s because tenure protections in Wisconsin were already weakened by a new state law, and because the institute had previously supported some conservative positions on state work and education issues.
Lamar, his sons and some other adolescent boys from their Milwaukee neighborhood are sitting around, playing cards and smoking blunts, when there is a loud and confident knock on the door, which could be “a landlord’s knock, or a sheriff’s.” Mercifully it is only Colin, a young white man from their church, who has come to read them passages from the Bible, most of which Lamar knows by heart. The subject wanders off to God and the Devil, with Lamar adding, “And Earth is hell.” “Well,” Colin corrects him, “not quite hell.” An awkward silence falls.
To describe different levels of human thought, the ancient Greek thinker Plato came up with the Allegory of the Cave. Essentially, he described a metaphorical situation in which some people (the ones with true knowledge) could see the world as it really is. But many more only experienced life as a series of shadows upon a cave wall, never really understanding what was going on.
Quoted: “It’s very difficult to weather a storm like this when you as a key leader of your faculty lose the confidence of the faculty,” said Jerlando Jackson, who specializes in higher education governance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Usually at this stage, campus leadership will do damage control to try to keep faculty from abandoning ship.”
Quoted: “It’s this notion of this growing equality between husbands and wives having this paradoxical effect of growing inequality across households,” said Christine Schwartz, a sociologist who studies the topic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she worked at the college paper, The Daily Cardinal, and met Mr. Norton, whom she married much later. Her previous marriage ended in divorce.
Noted: Fewer than 10 percent of children’s books released in 2015 had a black person as the main character, according to a yearly analysis by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And while the number of children’s books about minorities has increased in the last 20 years, many classroom libraries have older books.
A new analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Laboratory shows that poverty is on the rise in Wisconsin. In 2014, the most recent data in the study, the poverty rate reached 13 percent, the highest rate since 1984. The rate increased 20 percent in just five years between 2010 and 2014.
Poverty in Wisconsin is at its highest level in 30 years, according to a trend analysis of U.S. Census data by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have developed a new energy-harvesting technology capable of capturing energy produced as humans walk. WSJ’s Monika Auger reports. Photo: UW-Madison College of Engineering
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. — Hard times will continue at University of Wisconsin-Platteville for at least the next few months as the institution makes significant cuts, but Chancellor Dennis Shields said Wednesday that he is hopeful brighter days are ahead.
In March 2014, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison approved a $223 million referendum to overhaul the campus recreation facilities, badly in need of improvement. Since then, the recreation program has been busy planning, fundraising, vetting architects and much more. As the project progresses, Alex Peirce, UW-Madison Rec Sports Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications, will be offering an inside look at the process of coordinating such a monumental planning effort.
As I outlined back on 9 August 2015 in Inside Higher Ed, the unexpected leadership transition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in summer 2015 had all the ingredients to become a major crisis. And a ‘barn-burner’ of a crisis has certainly emerged, sad to say. As a concerned alum, I do hope my alma mater can move forward. From my perspective, nearly seven months later (amid a possible vote of non-confidence in the Board of Governors and an ongoing presidential search) it’s worth flagging two key problems, and then three correctional action suggestions.
The ways the health care market would be affected if the state were to switch to self-insurance for its workers was a topic in focus at a University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty forum Tuesday.
Balance is like breathing. It’s essential, and we take it for granted when it comes easily. Without a reliable sense of balance dressing, cooking, driving and many job skills become exhausting tasks.
“Why do kids like making marks that make shapes that make stories? Adults are scared to do this. Why?”This is the central thesis of “Drawing Fast and Slow: The Compbook Art of Lynda Barry,” on display at the Madison Children’s Museum through the end of March.
Researchers in the United States who have infected monkeys with Zika virus made their first data public last week. But instead of publishing them in a journal, they have released them online for anyone to view — and are updating their results day by day. The team is posting raw data on the amount of virus detected in the blood, saliva and urine of three Indian rhesus macaques, which they injected with Zika on 15 February. “This is the first time that our group has made data available in real time,” says David O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a leader of the project, whose scientists have dubbed themselves ZEST (the Zika experimental-science team). He hopes that releasing the data will help to speed up research into the nature of the virus that has spread across the Americas.
For the most part, eye floaters — spots in the eye that can look like specks, strings or cobwebs — are annoying, but for the most part, the viewer doesn’t have to do anything about them.Most eye floaters are caused by age-related changes, according to the Mayo Clinic. Here’s how they can happen, according to Dr. David Gamm, who is the director of the McPherson Institute of Eye Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As people age, the jelly substance in the middle of the eye, vitreous, loses its firmness and becomes more liquid. As that happens, the proteins and molecules that make up that substance band together and form strings or balls. They then float around in that core liquefied area in the center of the eye.
Quoted: Mike Wagner, associate professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is studying post-Act 10 politics in Wisconsin, says passage of the law and Walker’s recall win not only demoralized progressives, it also severely curtailed the political capital and political power of Democrats’ biggest allies—public sector labor unions. In 2015, Walker signed a right-to-work law that weakened Wisconsin’s private sector unions as well.
Quoted: “What we want folks to know is if they see a coyote, it’s not necessarily a bad thing,” said Marcus Mueller, a graduate student at UW-Madison working on the project, during a Feb. 22 public information meeting on coexisting with the animals.
I’ve only been to a couple of Chicago City Council meetings in my journalistic career. I distinctly remember just one, a debate over whether elephants should be barred within city limits.
Last year, when Gov. Scott Walker’s administration tried to erase the “Wisconsin Idea”—a principle rooted in the progressive era of the early 1900s—howls of protest rose across the state.
The selling of sociology’s next great hope began with a long talk between a literary agent and her potential client. Jill Kneerim was a veteran dealmaker known for helping Boston-area academics publish trade books. She’d done it for Stephen Greenblatt, shepherding the Harvard Shakespearean’s Will in the World (W.W. Norton) onto the bestseller list. She’d done it for Caroline Elkins, also of Harvard, whose history of colonialism in Kenya, Imperial Reckoning (Henry Holt and Company), won the Pulitzer Prize. Now here was Matthew Desmond, an urban ethnographer eager to fight poverty. Another Cambridge star paying a visit to her office near Boston’s North Station.
Faculty members opposed to Texas’s new campus concealed carry law have argued that it will chill academic freedom and free speech. A set of recommendations from the University of Houston’s Faculty Senate on how to teach under campus carry is the new exhibit A in the case against the law for those concerned about its effects on academic freedom. Its advocates, meanwhile, say faculty fears are overblown. The debate is being renewed the same week Georgia’s House of Representatives passed similar legislation.
Quoted: During a public Monday night meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife expert Dr. David Drake said that killing rather than trapping would open the door for other packs to move in.
The pending upheaval and restructuring in the University of Wisconsin-Extension Service is disturbing in several ways.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s lecture “The American Scholar,” which he delivered in 1837, implicitly raises radical questions about the nature of education, culture, and consciousness, and about their interactions. He urges his hearers to make the New World as new as it ought to be, urges his audience to outlive the constraints that colonial experience imposed on them and to create the culture that would arise from the full and honest use of their own intellects, minds, and senses.
The University of Wisconsin officially announced the hiring of new defensive backs coach Jim Leonard over the weekend.
The first time the sociologist Matthew Desmond rode along during an eviction, he was shocked by the suddenness of “seeing your house turn into not your house in seconds.”
About 60 years ago, renowned University of Wisconsin-Madison Botany Professor John Curtis and some of his students did a survey of plants growing in hundreds of prairie remnants in southern Wisconsin. Thirty years later, researcher Mark Leach returned to those same sites to find that many of those species had disappeared.
Ranked: No. 6. UW-Madison is a land-grant university considered by many to be one of the best public colleges in the country. The school offers 132 distinct undergraduate degrees over 25 broad fields of study with the most popular majors being economics and biology.
Quoted: Restricting these chemicals, however, may not be enough. Claudio Gratton, a UW-Madison entomology professor who helped develop the state’s plan, said pesticides probably aren’t the only factor causing bee decline. Disease, habitat loss, low food availability and “other stresses” are also taking a toll, he said.
The complete restructuring of the University of Wisconsin-Extension system announced last week is a “drastic” and “unjustifiable” reaction to a relatively small budget shortfall, La Crosse County officials said Thursday.
Faisal Abdu’Allah has not shied away from controversial topics since joining the UW-Madison faculty.
An ambitious project to map the human brain by the National Institutes of Health has funded a four-year, $5 million statewide study to image the brains of people with epilepsy. Researchers at UW-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin have joined the NIH Human Connectome Project, a national library of medical imaging data being used to create maps of human brain connectivity.
Noted: Lindsay Palmer, a journalism professor at UW-Madison, said she realizes the challenges an independent journalist faces when covering conflict in foreign countries.
The state Assembly has approved a broad package of legislation aimed at improving the services and care of those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Free memory screenings and caregiving workshops will be part of a University of Wisconsin Health event in Madison dedicated to raising awareness of Alzheimer’s disease in African-American communities.
Sen. Klobuchar was in Madison on Wednesday promoting her new book, “The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland.” She also gave a talk on UW-Madison’s campus titled, “Internationalism in the Heartland.”
The state Assembly passed a package of college affordability bills backed by Gov. Scott Walker during a late-night legislative session on Tuesday.
Noted: Unofficial returns show Justice Rebecca Bradley winning the three-way primary by only about 1.5 percent, with Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg just behind her. UW-Madison political scientist Barry Burden says it was a surprising outcome, given the fact that the incumbent Bradley’s name has been much more visible to voters in the weeks leading up to the election. “I would have thought her advantage would have been greater…but it ended essentially in a tie,” he says.
Noted: While expensive, it’s projected to have already saved nearly $10 million, according to an analysis by the Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I think the conditions are there for Zika outbreaks,” said Jorge Osorio, a professor of pathobiological science at the University of Wisconsin who arrived this week in Misiones to advise the provincial government and investigate dengue prevention methods. “We have a mosquito population and we have people traveling from Argentina to Brazil.” Misiones is in northeast Argentina, bordering three Brazilian states and Paraguay.
Noted: Dr. Paul Smith has been working toward improving health literacy in Wisconsin for years. He’s a physician and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the medical advisor for Wisconsin Health Literacy, a division of Wisconsin Literacy, Inc.
Quoted: “Tidal’s trying to position itself as having these exclusive deals,” said Jeremy Morris, a professor of media and culture studies at the University of Wisconsin. He credits West for the Tidal bump.
Noted: Dating expert Catalina Toma studies online dating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Initially, when online dating came to the scene it was regarded a crutch for the desperate,” said Toma. “It was really stigmatized initially. But the tool has proven to be quite useful for people looking to find partners in a more low-pressure environment.”
Noted: None have been given so prominent a place, however, as Abraham Lincoln, whose statue sits atop Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The statue is modeled on the original created by Adolph A. Weinman in Lincoln’s hometown in Kentucky and was commissioned by UW alumnus Richard Lloyd Jones. Many cities and universities hoped to receive the replica, but Jones won out. The statue was unveiled in 1909, 100 years after Lincoln’s birth. It’s become a campus landmark, as the above image shows, with students decorating Lincoln for homecoming.
It was 10 years ago this past November that the artist Donald Lipski perpetrated the sculpture known as Nails’ Tales on an unsuspecting Madison public.
Some members of the University of Minnesota governing board are challenging President Eric Kaler to lower tuition for Minnesotans, but others are questioning a key piece of his plan for controlling in-state tuition: a proposal to hike nonresident tuition significantly.
Margaret Spellings (right), former U.S. secretary of education, on Friday outlined her agenda for leading the University of North Carolina system, of which she becomes president March 1. In a speech to a retreat of the board, she invoked the UNC system’s history — twice invoking Bill Friday, the late legendary system president.
Despite the constant media attention the Zika virus has received so far in 2016, University of Wisconsin-Madison pathologist David O’Connor thinks people shouldn’t panic.
University of Wisconsin-Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen has announced a series of major changes to cooperative extension, with the change prompting some county officials and community members to worry about how a major consolidation will affect access to university resources.
For more on why the high court issued this precedent setting stay, Dylan Brogan spoke with UW-Madison Political Science Professor Ryan Owens.
