An anthropologist at Harvard University, Richard Wrangham is no stranger to wild animals. His long fieldwork with wild chimpanzees in the Kibale Forest of Uganda, and other African field sites, has done much to help scientists see the role of aggression and violence in our close relatives.
Noted: Some experts say the best way to block misguided uses of embryo editing is coordinated action by all public and private players involved in new scientific technologies, including regulatory agencies, patent offices, funding organizations and liability insurers. In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, recommended a “comprehensive ecosystem of public and private entities that can restrain the rogues among us.”
By national standards, for instance, Wisconsin has few people who are either very poor or very rich. As a result, the University of Wisconsin looks bad on national income mobility rankings, even though it enrolls a lot of students from the lower end of the state’s own income distribution.
A political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is being criticized by a Republican state lawmaker for how his course syllabus characterizes President Trump.
Noted: The University of California at Berkeley has removed a Huawei video-conferencing system, a university official said, while the UC campus in Irvine is working to replace five pieces of Chinese-made audio-video equipment. Other schools, such as the University of Wisconsin, are in the process of reviewing their suppliers.
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.
The ongoing federal shutdown is already creating headaches for scientists by hindering research planning and putting an abrupt halt to travel for some academics. But its worst effects will materialize in the coming weeks, should a stalemate between the White House, Republicans and congressional Democrats continue, researchers and university leaders said.
A bandage that generates a gentle electrical current could help wounds heal four times faster, research suggests.
Noted: J. Michael Collins is director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founder of a consulting practice that deals with household finances and financial coaching. Across all other types of financial counseling, professional standards are common, Collins said, making the resistance of housing counselors to being tested stand out.
Depuis le 24 octobre 2018, le Gabon retient son souffle, accroché aux péripéties d’un gouvernement affaibli par l’accident vasculaire cérébral dont a été victime le Président Ali Bongo Ondimba (alias «ABO»). Pendant que celui-ci est hospitalisé à Riyad (Arabie saoudite), le gouvernement se tait, avant de déclarer, le 28 octobre, que le chef de l’État souffre d’une «fatigue légère».
Noted: Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a long-time critic of China’s birth policy, said the problem was that the country’s rigid population controls had shaped the Chinese mindset.
The No. 1 goaltender on the top-ranked team in NCAA women’s hockey will admit the start to her season had some flaws — mental errors made in the heat of the moment.
Noted: But face-to-face contact is different. “You realize the humanity,” says Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “It reminds you that those of us who don’t agree are actually alike in so many ways. They’re real human beings.”
Noted: “A lot of environmental threats can pile up on top of each other,” says University of Wisconsin entomologist and director of the UW-Arboretum Karen Oberhauser. And the consequences can be hard to predict.
Noted: “It’s worrisome, because it appears to escalate the tactics that the parties are willing to use against one another,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: If you catch someone lying effortlessly and without flinching, be very alarmed. Psychopaths can pass polygraph tests because they don’t experience telltale reactions like an elevated heart rate when they lie. A University of Wisconsin-Madison study revealed that “psychopaths have reduced connections… between the part of the brain responsible for sentiments such as empathy and guilt, and the amygdala, which mediates fear and anxiety.” Study author Michael Koenigs, an assistant professor of psychiatry, says the study demonstrates “both structural and functional differences in the brains of people diagnosed with psychopathy.”
Interviewed: Professor Dominique Brossard [@brossardd], Chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on how media covers pandemics.
The University of Rochester has named a new president. On Monday morning, UR announced that Sarah Mangelsdorf, currently the provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will succeed interim President Richard Feldman.
MADISON, Wis. – More than a thousand University of Wisconsin-Madison students received their diplomas at the Kohl Center on Sunday morning with a commencement speech from a man well-known by Wisconsinites and baseball fans alike.
The hit that put Walker Williams’ brain over the edge — leaving him with ongoing headaches, mood swings, ringing in his ears, depression, anxiety and short-term memory problems — was nothing out of the ordinary.
There have been a number of questionable decisions coming out of the University of Wisconsin System in recent weeks.
Two weeks ago, Will Burlingham, a professor of transplantation at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, got a surprise call from the National Institutes of Health: Would he like a little extra money to create more laboratory mice?
For an executive who just watched a half-billion dollars swirl down the drain, Erik Iverson is a cool cucumber. Just maybe the right guy at a crucial moment for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
For many years, wisconsin had one of the finest public-university systems in the country. It was built on an idea: that the university’s influence should not end at the campus’s borders, that professors—and the students they taught—should “search for truth” to help state legislators write laws, aid the community with technical skills, and generally improve the quality of life across the state.
Minnesota produced about $20.7 billion more in goods and services than Wisconsin in 2008, and by 2017, the difference was $27.1 billion. The widening wage gap between Minnesota and Wisconsin over the same 10-year period is remarkable, too. Minnesota reported wages and salaries totaling $11.9 billion more than Wisconsin in the first quarter of 2008. By the first quarter of 2018, that gap had nearly doubled to $22.4 billion.
The Trump administration in September launched a comprehensive review of all research involving human fetal tissue, which has helped researchers make headway in studies of macular degeneration and infectious diseases like HIV and the Zika virus.
The University of Wisconsin system’s governing board has denied a performance raise to its longest-serving chancellor, Joe Gow, who leads the La Crosse campus, following a controversy over Gow’s decision to host a porn star’s speech on the campus, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
University of Wisconsin System officials say faculty turnover data highlights the need for more competitive salaries.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they’ve broken up a long-running campus theft ring.
Noted: A UW-Madison assistant professor of Family Medicine and Community Health says innovation in attacking the opioid crises can be a good idea. But Dr. Aleksandra Zgierska says there should be caution, too.
Before he dedicated his life to studying how emotions are generated in the brain, neuroscientist Richard Davidson was an activist, protesting the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s. And he was very angry.
Quoted: “This clearly is an indication of how polarized politics have become,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon said. “It’s really not consistent with how we’ve had transfers of power in the past. We should be alarmed at this. I hope it’s not the new normal.”
Chancellor Joe Gow touted record enrollment, increased diversity and a brand-new science center Thursday as the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents visited UW-La Crosse for the first time in five years.
The University of Wisconsin System will not have to pay several million dollars in UW-Oshkosh Foundation debt while the foundation’s ongoing lawsuit against the university heads to mediation, a federal judge ordered Thursday.
Noted: “I think there’s no doubt that some of this is going to be contested in court. It’s possible still that Gov. Walker could veto parts of this,” said David Canon, a professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
LA CROSSE — Regents have approved a plan to increase pay for employees of the University of Wisconsin System by 3 percent each of the next two fiscal years, which includes employees at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
The public has just under 60 days to tell the Department of Education what it thinks about new guidelines recently proposed by Secretary Betsy DeVos. The new changes specifically address how college campuses should handle cases of sexual assault and harassment, replacing Obama-era policies on how to implement Title IX, which bars gender discrimination in schools receiving federal funds. Critics of the new guidelines say the changes will make it harder to convict offenders because the proposed changes raise the level of proof needed.
Noted: At the same time, this procedure exposed the twins to risks that we can’t fully catalog and don’t currently understand. As University of Wisconsin bioethicist Alta Charo said, “Having listened to Dr. He, I can only conclude that this was misguided, premature, unnecessary, and largely useless.”
Noted: “This is a great thing for Aurora to do,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin opened his lunchbox. Inside, he had three aluminum tubes, two filled with pureed meat and one with chocolate sauce. A peculiar lunch, indeed, but for Gagarin it was a peculiar day. He was in the middle of the first human spaceflight, and his less-than exciting spread was the first meal consumed in space.
University of Wisconsin System Regent Bryan Steil says he will resign as he begins his first term in Congress.
Wisconsin Republicans planned to forge ahead Monday with a rare lame-duck session to give outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker a chance to limit the powers of his incoming Democratic successor, move the 2020 presidential primary date to benefit a conservative state Supreme Court justice and enact a host of other changes almost certain to spur legal challenges.
Back in a 4k digital restoration, “The War at Home” returns this week to the Gene Siskel Film Center. The legitimate question: What can a nearly 40-year-old documentary, covering a decade (1963-73) of anti-war turbulence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, offer anyone contending with the societal casualties of 2018?
UW-Madison’s Discovery To Product program was launched in 2013 asking the still vital question: What could be done to bring the great breakthroughs produced by the nation’s sixth largest research university to the broader public?
One year after passing a free speech policy that campus chancellors are required to enforce, the University of Wisconsin System formally reprimanded a chancellor for inviting an adult film star to lecture during his campus’s inaugural free speech week.
When Warrington Colescott died on Sept. 10, staff at the Chazen Museum of Art knew they had to do something. The 97-year-old teacher, satirist and printmaker was a giant, not only at UW-Madison but nationally.
The UW system and UW-Madison have responded to a proposal by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to overhaul the way colleges handle complaints of sexual misconduct.
Here’s a simple idea I bet most Americans agree with: No qualified high school student should ever be barred entrance to a college based on his or her family’s bank account. Yet it happens all the time.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a proposed rule Friday that would significantly reduce the obligations of colleges to investigate complaints of sexual misconduct.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a proposed rule Friday that would revamp expectations for colleges’ handling of campus-based sexual misconduct.
The ingredients for freezing rain are sensitive to individual storm systems, so these events are a bit difficult to discuss on a climatological level. However, UW-Madison meteorology professor Jon Martin said that as the planet warms, we’ll find ourselves on the fence in regards to temperatures.
In addition to establishing the Wiscon Valley Technology Park in Racine County, Wisconsin, the Hon Hai Foxconn Group in Taiwan is also cultivating more scientific and technological talents through cooperation with local universities. This is the School of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We interviewed the Dean of the School of Engineering and asked him to talk about cooperation with Foxconn. (In Chinese.)
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is proposing a major overhaul to the way colleges handle complaints of sexual misconduct.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow recently apologized for his naivety about the media coverage of his decision to pay $5,000 of public money to porn star Nina Hartley to give a talk on campus.
NEW ORLEANS—Universities can turn challenges into opportunities through resilience. That was the central focus of the annual Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) meeting that brought senior-level college administrators together to strategize on how best to serve their students.
LA CROSSE, Wis. — The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is apologizing for the attention he generated by inviting a porn star to speak on campus.
A proposal from the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point this week would cut six humanities majors and and aims to change the school to one that mixes liberal arts into career-minded majors. Our guest journalist joins us to offer the latest details on the plan and what next steps would look like.
Noted: Nicole Werner, an industrial and systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is preparing to pilot a social platform that would help people caring for a relative at home to organize assistance from a network of friends and relatives without having to ask for it.
The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point plans to cut six mostly humanities majors, less than half of the cuts proposed in March, as part of its strategy to offer more career-focused programs, the university announced on Monday.
New enrollments of international students fell by 6.6 percent at American universities in academic year 2017-18 compared to the year before, marking the second straight year in declines in new enrollments, according to new data from the annual Open Doors survey.
