Vocal cords are small and complex — and, when badly damaged, they’re difficult to treat. Now, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have engineered lab-grown vocal cord tissue for the first time.
Quoted: Allyson Bennett, a developmental psychobiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, questions the decision to move them from research facilities to sanctuaries, which are not subject to the same strict oversight and welfare standards that govern NIH-supported centres. She adds that moving the animals to new facilities may create more stress for them.
A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has bioengineered vocal cord tissue capable of vibrating and generating sound as well as natural tissue. The feat is being hailed as a scientific first.
People with damaged vocal cords may one day sing again with the help lab-grown vocal cords.
Quoted: “El Niño is a naturally occurring phenomenon that involves the tropical ocean and atmosphere working together — it’s a complete rearrangement of heat in the tropical Pacific Ocean,” said Dan Vimont, an atmospheric and oceanic sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Climate change is a forced phenomenon that involves a net increase of energy in the ocean and atmosphere system globally. The anthropogenic change is due to human emissions.”
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War is a new book by veteran Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about soldiers’ musical memories and the impact of James Brown, Eric Burdon, Country Joe McDonald, and other popular artists on the Vietnam experience and our understanding of it.
Vocal cords are small and complex — and, when badly damaged, they’re difficult to treat.
The number of international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities jumped last year — in a big way. It’s up 10 percent, to roughly 975,000, according to a new report by the Institute of International Education and backed by the State Department.
Campus protests over racial issues continue to spread — and on Wednesday led to a revived debate at Princeton University over the legacy of Woodrow Wilson and the use of the word “master” to describe those who lead residential colleges.
Dozens of graduate students crowded around Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday afternoon to protest the university’s new payment policy for graduate assistants.
A record number of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are studying abroad.
Personal computers, cellphones, GPS devices, e-mail, the Internet — all of the technology driving today’s economy traces its origins to two inventions: the 1947 transistor from Bell Telephone Laboratories and the 1958 integrated circuit from Texas Instruments and Fairchild.
As the refugee debate continues in America, some note that a Syrian migrant living in Northern Nevada had a part in helping change the world. That man was Steve Job’s biological father.
Growing up in a hunting family in central Wisconsin has taught me the value of traditional hunting, dealing with firearms and safety. I am far from gun shy and understand the year-round hunting culture. I don’t look toward firearms as an evil force, but as a tool to be used with great responsibility.
There’s a lot of news coming out of our college campuses these days and much of it re-raises an old question: To what degree, if any, should colleges and universities be responsive to pressing social and political issues? To my mind, the definitive answer to that question was given in 2003 by the provost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison when he addressed students who were demanding that the university take a stand on the then impending invasion of Iraq. The provost said, “The University of Wisconsin does not have a foreign policy.”
Quoted: “The evidence is already very tantalising,” says Francis Halzen, an astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Usually cosmic ray physics is one puzzle and one explanation. This is one explanation for many puzzles.”
Quoted: Katy Culver, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and the associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics, told IBT that it’s a difficult issue to unpack.
Can governors legally block Syrian refugees from entering their states? Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and other governors have said they don’t want any Syrian refugees settled in their states. Don Downs, an emeritus political science professor at UW, says it’s less clear whether they can actually block such settlement.
Mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood often hears from children and adults about how they have a math phobia: They’ll profess to hate solving for X, or figuring out how to split the bill or take care of the tip.
Students at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse marched across campus Monday to call attention to what they see as discrimination on campus.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state could save more than $40 million annually by moving to a self-insurance model to cover public workers’ health care costs, according to a report that a consulting firm handed to the state insurance board Tuesday.
According to the authorized Steve Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson, in the early 1950s, Jandali went to study at the American University in Beirut, and eventually on to the University of Wisconsin.
I am an American professor teaching this year at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco and, like everyone, am horrified by the stories of escalating terror that cross our screens daily. I am also disturbed to see that as the violence escalates, the rhetoric on Islam is becoming louder and uglier. In trying to outdo Republican candidate Ben Carson who has expressed fear of having a Muslim president, Donald Trump has promised to close mosques if elected. Ayaan Hirsi Ali headlined her recent Foreign Policy piece: “Islam is a Religion of Violence.” Bill Maher wants to urge liberals to wake up about Islam after Paris attacks. Such generalizations feed into fears that most Muslims are terrorists or soon-to-be terrorists. Are they referring to all 1.57 billion people who live from Indonesia to Senegal, Kazakhstan and the U.S.? Such rhetoric is both dangerous and ignorant.
Quoted: Stacy Tauber, an assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, said it’s the federal government, not states, that get to make that call.
Noted: Mohammad Sabri, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s good to see non-Muslims supporting his religion.
This week our guest is UW-Madison bacteriologist Cameron Currie, who discusses not only dangerous bacteria, especially the antibiotic-resistant ones, but also the process of finding and developing new medicines and antibiotics.
Quoted: “They’re hedging their bets,” said Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin, and a long-time consultant to local governments on cable TV issues. If cable TV customers do stampede to the video streamers, Charter wants a way to corral them back.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, hundreds of students marched to the state Capitol Thursday night.
What is it like to oversee Wisconsin’s largest and highest ranking university, with over 43,000 students, billions of dollars in research funding, and the “Wisconsin Idea” of serving the state? In this hour, Chancellor Rebecca Blank discusses the pleasures and challenges of her role as UW Chancellor.
Interviewed: Irwin Goldman UW-Madison professor and vegetable breeder who develops new strains of beets and other vegetables.
One of the oldest student newspapers in the country is cutting production of its print edition from four to two days a week.
The NFL and football industry more generally have taken pains to portray their sport as safer in recent years. The league points to the dropping number of reported concussions. Youth leagues point to a purportedly safer tackling technique known as Heads Up. More and more often, medical examiners can be seen on the sidelines, ready to pull a concussed player from the field. The sport was once dangerous, the thinking goes, but it’s safer now.
Teaching assistants at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are planning to protest next week over a proposed restructuring of their working conditions and compensation.
Noted: In 1952 he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It was in graduate school that his interest in the nascent field of digital computers took root. For his Ph.D. thesis, he drafted a design for what became known as the Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer, or W.I.S.C., an early digital computer.
Neil Heinen talks about the University of Wisconsin comprehensive campaign that’s aiming to review the UW’s focus on its goals and raise money to help reach those goals.
When Ron Wallace accepted a teaching position in the University of Wisconsin’s English department in 1972, he got some practical advice from Frank Miller, a family friend and professor at Washington University School of Law.
Despite decades of public discourse and hand-wringing, the racial achievement gap persists across the country. Attention to this troubling pattern intensified once again this fall in response to the results of a new test in California — written specifically to reflect the recently implemented Common Core education standards.
Noted: The study involved people over 50 whose top reading was over 130. People with diabetes were excluded, so the results do not apply to them. The results also may not apply to people with previous strokes, the very old, those with severe kidney disease or people already taking a lot of different drugs, said Dr. James Stein, who heads the high blood pressure program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Noted: In a telling article Click wrote for a University of Wisconsin publication, The Antenna, in 2010, she discusses her feelings about the role of television newscasters during a crisis.
New research from a pair of Princeton economists finds that the death rate among white Americans aged 45 to 54 is rising. Lisa Berkman, Director for the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studie and Dr. Patrick Remington, Associate Dean for Public Health and Professor of Population Health Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison joined MPR News with Kerri Miller to discuss the negative health trend.
At a cranberry marsh where more than 2 percent of the world’s cranberries are grown, Wisconsin’s officially designated state fruit sat in two bowls available to guests.
Noted: Mr. Ridgel went on to earn a doctorate in economics at the University of Wisconsin and pursue an academic career at institutions across the South.
2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior. Our guest weather expert, Steve Ackerman, talks about the November gale responsible for one of history’s most well-known shipwrecks.
Can you tell anything about politicians’ accuracy by analyzing how they speak? A new analysis finds that lying politicians tend to be more verbose. Michael Braun, Lyn Van Swol, and Lisa Vang at Millikin University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, they recently analyzed several hundred claims made by politicians that had been fact checked PolitiFact.
Quoted: “It was the first real shot in the arm here for the Space Race growth of planetariums in the coming decade,” says Jordan D. Marché II, an astronomy lecturer who has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mary Beth Mackin, 57, of Milton passed away on Saturday, November 7, 2015 in her home.
Last month, a jury found Apple Inc. guilty of infringing a patent of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and ordered the tech giant to pay $234 million. The university scored a big financial victory, but this hardly meant any gain for the good name of the university.
The brutal shooting death of a 9-year-old boy is just the latest headline-grabbing act of gang violence on the streets of Chicago.
On Saturday evening, black football players at the University of Missouri announced that they were boycotting practice and even a crucial game if the system’s president, Timothy M. Wolfe, didn’t resign over his response to racist incidents on the Columbia campus.
Tim Wolfe’s undoing may have been the moment he refused to step out of his car during the University of Missouri homecoming parade last month.
Quoted: “In any instance where a person would have good reason to think, Whoa, what’s going on here, is this some kind of harassment or abuse of an animal? certainly you have an obligation to explore further before you would use it,” says Robert Dreschel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There’s a lot of disagreement about where is the line between cute animal behavior and behavior that involves something that would be abusive. I would err on the side of caution.”
DULUTH, Minn. — Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have confirmed the phenomenon of rogue waves on Lake Superior — waves double the size of others at the same time and which have been named as a potential cause of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Meditation has long been used to induce calm and physical relaxation. But research on its potential uses for treating medical problems “is still in its very early stages,” and designing trials can be challenging, said Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist who founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So it’s not surprising the scientific literature is filled with mixed findings at this point in time.”
On a recent bus trip to visit her daughter in La Crosse, Gerrie Martini came across what would be an amazing sight for many in Madison: a modern, indoor bus station.
A group of University of Missouri faculty plan to walk out of their classrooms for the next two days to “stand in solidarity with the Mizzou student activists who are advocating for racial justice on our campus.”
Quoted: Surprisingly, there isn’t even a good map of the Internet’s highways and byways to clearly show locations that, if taken out, would severely hamper the system. “Everybody assumes somebody knows, but after a while you find out nobody actually knows,” said Paul Barford, a professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin who has made it his mission to find out where the vulnerabilities are.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Students at the University of Missouri have been demonstrating for weeks for the ouster of the university president, protesting the school’s handling of racial tensions. But their movement received a boost over the weekend when dozens of black football players issued a blunt ultimatum: Resign or they won’t play.
An information and intelligence shift has emerged in America’s national security state over the last two decades, and that change has been reflected in the country’s educational institutions as they have become increasingly tied to the military, intelligence, and law enforcement worlds. This is why VICE News has analyzed and ranked the 100 most militarized universities in America.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Bill Battle is near the 30-yard line with his fellow alumni, gripping hands and flashing a lighthouse smile, reassuring one and all that all is right in the University of Alabama athletics department, which he runs. Near the edge of the field, Molly Brautigan and fellow sorority sisters laugh and plot their postgame festivities.
Expect to pay more for your Thanksgiving dinner turkey this year, thanks to the outbreak of the bird flu last spring. UW-Madison poultry expert Ron Kean says prices will probably be up 10 to 15 percent, to around $1.15 to $1.20 per pound.
