Quoted: “The toy culture has contributed a lot to the movie,” said Jonathan Gray, professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Anyone who thinks that the movies were successful just for the movie is forgetting the huge impact that the toys had.”
With public demonstrations banned at the COP21 conference on climate change in Paris, climate activists are taking to social media to get out their message on climate justice.
The fundamental tenets of the Every Student Succeeds Act – the successor to No Child Left Behind – are now well known. It lessens the latter’s focus on standardized test scores and shifts much policy-making power from the U.S. Education Department back to the states. But many educators may be surprised to learn what it includes about teacher preparation. There are provisions in the bill for the establishment of teacher preparation academies – and they are written to primarily support non-traditional, non-university programs.
Makers of beer, wine and other products using yeasts may soon produce new flavours and entirely new products with a new method that creates yeast interspecies hybrids. The method delivers more strains of yeast for the industry to conduct experiments with and enhance their production.
The Supreme Court revisits affirmative action in college admissions Wednesday, the latest racially focused case to go before a court that has pared back government programs intended to benefit minorities. (Login may be required.)
Noted: Research released in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that “participants who engaged in cognitive activities like card games have higher brain volume, in specific regions, compared to peers who played fewer or no games,” said Ozioma C. Okonkwo, an assistant professor of medicine at the university and the study’s senior author.
When one of America’s first graduate-student unions was recognized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1969, organizers embraced a key principle: Graduate assistants should get equal pay for equal work. (Login may be required.)
Research released in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that “participants who engaged in cognitive activities like card games have higher brain volume, in specific regions, compared to peers who played fewer or no games,” said Ozioma C. Okonkwo, an assistant professor of medicine at the university and the study’s senior author.
Akatsuki’s 2-year mission aims to peel away some of the mystery of Venus’s dense, cloudy atmosphere. Mostly carbon dioxide, it includes a 20-kilometer-thick layer of sulfuric acid clouds, and it sweeps over the planet at speeds exceeding 300 kilometers per hour, or 60 times faster than Venus itself rotates. What drives the superrotation “is a fundamental physics question,” says Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and member of the Akatsuki scientific team. To try to answer it, the probe will use a suite of cameras to observe cloud formation and movement as well as heat flux from the planet’s surface to the upper atmosphere. It will also record lightning flashes and send radio signals through the atmosphere to receivers on Earth to probe its temperature and composition.
Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the statement, finalized over the course of two days, should be regarded as “another milestone in the public discussion.” Among the recommendations of the group was to create an international forum to more widely discuss the technology.
De-extinction could also resurrect traits lost to commercial breeding, like the great natural taste of tomatoes, bioethicists, R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Henry Greely of Stanford, wrote in a paper published Wednesday.
Quoted: “The major risk that people are concerned about — there are different kinds of risk — but the most significant right now is ’off-target’ side effects,” said Pilar Ossorio, professor of law and bioethics at the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The lesson from New York is you can have a great plan, but you need to have the right people in charge,” said Peter Miller, a professor at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Some of the programs in New York have become fractured, and that is never good.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS – The Mead Witter Foundation announced Thursday it is giving $25 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music has received a $25 million gift to help construct a new building featuring performance spaces and a large concert hall.
There also were notable advances for URM students at major public flagships such as Ohio State University (gap cut 8 points), University of Wisconsin (cut 7 points) and University of Maryland (cut 6 points).
In this edition of Greta Talk, Coach Ryan catches up with UW alumna and Badgers super-fan Greta Van Susteren to talk about all things basketball. The pair also discusses Ryan’s induction into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, the possibility of him retiring after this season, and they even debate the issue of whether or not college athletes should be paid.
Mike Webster’s death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games—220 of them—than any other player in Steelers history.
Central Time: We’re joined by a celebrated Cuban musician and bandleader who’s been working in-residence with students at the UW-Madison.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new method for screening the effectiveness of drugs for some cancers.
WASHINGTON — As student protests over racial injustice are exploding at campuses across the nation, the Supreme Court is preparing to hear a major case that could put an end to racial preferences in college admissions.
Noted: Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, reviewed the different approaches that countries have taken in trying to regulate gene therapy. She favored a precautionary approach that she said would not suppress innovation, arguing that responsible oversight would allow researchers to take more chances. “We have the chance to back up at the end, and change course,” she said.
Iowa State University’s student government is pushing back against a proposal to raise tuition $1,500 per year for international students.
A week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison held a candlelight vigil to mourn and commemorate the victims of that attack and others elsewhere. More than 100 Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and religiously unaffiliated students, after some moments of silence, began to comment on what had happened the week before. Despite their religious differences, there was a common thread in the short speeches that night. Every student rejected revenge and divisiveness and made a plea for the peaceful coexistence of people of all faiths. As they spoke, students acknowledged their religious differences and appealed to their common humanity.
Faculty leaders on three University of Wisconsin System campuses objected to proposed new tenure policies ahead of a systemwide task force meeting on the new guidelines Monday.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Vietnam is a visceral emotion as much as a memory for those who were part of the war that began in 1955 and didn’t end until 1975.
Noted: Dr. Christine Whelan, a thought leader for AARP’s Life Reimagined program and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says it’s a “good psychological trick” to mark a new beginning on a special date — say, your birthday, the new year or even just Monday morning. However, we’ve got to be careful that we’re not using this future date to justify delaying a life change.
Noted: The actual “sport shopping” classification is new, Joann Peck, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies consumer shopping habits, tells Yahoo Health. But she says there has always been some element of sport shopping for some people — it’s just becoming more common.
A free legal clinic for entrepreneurs has helped hundreds of Wisconsin businesses open up shop.
There’s endless data and statistics that tell the story of what it’s like to be an African-American student at a predominantly white college. Those numbers across the nation paint a dismal picture.
There was something fishy about the dozens and dozens of coconut doughnuts delivered this week to the campus police at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: In recent weeks, scientists and researchers have been speaking up. Adrian Treves, a University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental studies professor, has co-authored a paper in the journal Biological Reviews that says by allowing hunters to shoot and trap wolves, Wisconsin legislators violated the Public Trust Doctrine that says governments must maintain natural resources for the use of current and future generations of the general public.
A new website has been launched to help educators teach their students about Wisconsin’s Native American tribes.
New research from the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center could lead to better treatment for the most common form of breast cancer.
Noted: To be ostracized from your tribe was a death sentence, says Charles Raison, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who did not work on the study. “Literally they would die. There was no human way to live in isolation,” he says.
Noted: Innovation is not a silver bullet, however. “Neither better technology, nor changing to low-carbon behavior will be sufficient on its own; both will be necessary,” Gregory Nemet, a professor of public affairs and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the New Republic. “It’s hard to imagine that technology alone will enable people in the highest per capita emitting countries (e.g. the U.S.) to reduce their emissions by 90-95 percent without substantial changes to how they travel and what they consume.” But while politicians hash out the political framework by which to curb carbon emissions, scientists have been attacking climate change from all directions. Here’s a rundown of some of the innovative solutions researchers are pursuing.
Quoted: “This essay is, in essence, a plea — let’s not ignore the nonhuman part of the biosphere,” Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin and Henry T. Greely of Stanford University cautioned in an article titled “Crispr Critters and Crispr Cracks,” to be published in The American Journal of Bioethics next month. “Not only is it much larger than the human part, but it is much more susceptible to unobserved or unfettered — but not unimportant — changes.”
Quoted: Wilson, who also nominated an African-American for register of the Treasury (the nomination was withdrawn after Southern Democrats in the Senate raised a furor), did not spearhead those efforts, though he did go along with them, noted John Milton Cooper, a retired historian at the University of Wisconsin and the author of an admiring 2009 biography of Wilson.
Every university responds to student protests in its own way.
Protests over racial discrimination on college campuses are leading to some swift responses and pledges of reform by college administrators. Even as the protests themselves appear to be quieting down ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, activists are pledging a prolonged fight.
Quoted: Dr. William E. Cayley, a family medicine professor at the University of Wisconsin who wrote a synopsis of the Cochrane evidence in American Family Physician, said cranberry products should not be recommended to prevent U.T.I.s, but, “If someone says they want to try drinking it, I’m not going to tell them, ‘Don’t do it.’”
A California man sent 20 dozen coconut doughnuts to police officers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as payback for getting kicked out of a Badger football game.
A $5.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund a collaboration between the state Department of Public Instruction and the University of Wisconsin-Madison aimed at helping schools narrow the achievement and opportunity gaps among Wisconsin students, the DPI and the university announced Tuesday.
Caitilyn Allen has had an early glimpse at the devastation climate change might bring. A professor of plant pathology at the UW-Madison, Allen studies how climate change is likely to increase disease in crops and other plants. The possibilities aren’t pretty.
Why are cranberries and sugar a seemingly inseparable pair? The typical fresh cranberry is an acrid thing to put on the tongue without sugar to balance it out.But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. Cranberry breeders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an experimental variety that’s naturally sweet. It’s called the “Sweetie.”
The emergence of “White Student Union” Facebook groups claiming links to more than 30 universities has caused alarm among students and education officials, although the authenticity of many of the pages is being questioned.
A Q&A with this early advocate for Madison’s startup community.
Quoted: Dominique Brossard, who studies science and communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “People have a tendency to equate the (GMO) technology with something that they may not like — big monopoly from corporations and very modern agriculture.”
The study of 373,189 elderly married couples by Nicholas A Christakis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found an 18 percent increase in ‘all-cause mortality,’ in men whose wives had died before them – and a 16 percent increase for women.
The recent sighting of a Confederate flag on a construction worker’s truck on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus was said to have created fear and angst and “personally offended” some students.
There’s endless data and statistics that tell the story of what it’s like to be an African-American student at a predominantly white college. Those numbers across the nation paint a dismal picture.
PRINCETON, N.J. — Few historical figures loom as large in the life of an Ivy League university as Woodrow Wilson does at Princeton.
The Wisconsin cheerleaders were forced to leave the field and hide in a stadium tunnel after being pelted by snowballs thrown by the Badgers faithful, according to multiple reporters on the scene.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student said Sunday he plans to use his Rhodes scholarship to study how governments can better focus their environmental policies on meeting people’s needs.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Xenos warns against limiting Facebook friends to only those you agree with.”Whether online or offline, people benefit from being exposed to political views that are different from their own,” said the University of Wisconsin-Madison communication professor.
Noted: Front-row filmgoers have a champion in David Bordwell, the esteemed film scholar and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s 68, a notable exception to Marshall’s maxim about youthful inhabitants of the row Bordwell calls the “raccoon lodge.”
A Milwaukee businessman and his wife have donated $5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s computer sciences department.
Throughout history, the natural world has inspired important scientific breakthroughs. For example, the Wright brothers incorporated the concepts of lift and drag into airplane designs after they observed how birds in flight tilted their wings back and forth.
Mike Randall knows what it takes to spark children’s interest in science. On Thursday the former rocket scientist with a Santa Claus bearing donned a suit of chain mail and stepped between musical Tesla coils.
When it comes to kicking fans out of Big Ten football games, Wisconsin is the runaway leader and Penn State hovers near the middle, according to data obtained by PennLive from the five conference schools with the largest stadiums.
