Quoted: “Not sure the state could do much of anything to convince Kraft Heinz to change their minds,” said Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in community development. “From a purely corporate perspective I can understand K-H wanting the top administrative offices … located at the K-H Chicago headquarters.”
decade ago, the University of Wisconsin was in the midst of a national championship season. It was churning out NHL players left and right and packing the Kohl Center.
The “future of higher education” landscape — already ringing with cacophonous predictions from all manner of task forces, books, conferences, and self-styled disruptors — is about to get another. This week the American Academy of Arts and Sciences will announce its own Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education.
A new commission promises to assess the future of undergraduate education based on research and data, rather than the anecdotes and hyperbole that undergird many analyses of higher education these days.
Quoted: People considering such foreign treatment “should understand they are taking a shot in the dark,” said R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin. “There is nothing proven about what these guys are doing.”
Herds of students bustle through University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus during class change. Some walk with headphones plugged into their ears, others zip through walkways on their bicycles — and every so often, a student stops in their tracks, raises their phone to face level, and takes a selfie.
Science seems obsessed with creating tiny objects that can do big things. Like a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which has created a new microlens with a 170-degree field of vision.
In the past few years, the Pentagon spent $6.8 million to pay for patriotic displays during the games of professional sports teams.
Jerry Apps never knows how his readers will react to a new book.
When UW-Madison sophomore Stefanie Henry and some of her classmates were told by an engineering professor to “cut their losses” after scoring poorly on a difficult exam, Henry knew she had two options.
Cartoonist Lynda Barry has a new exhibit at the Madison Children’s Museum called “Drawing Fast and Slow.” She joins us to talk about why children inspire her, the power of drawing and the stories behind some of her new creations.
As far away as Wisconsin, the tentacles of China’s one-child policy wrap around the people who grew up with it, making Dr. Fuxian Yi something of an oddball among his Chinese friends there. He has three children.
Brent Eisberner generally feels safe on the UW-Madison campus. But the possibility of an attack is always on the law student’s mind. A former Marine Corps captain and concealed carry instructor, Eisberner selects his seats in classrooms and lecture halls based on what position would best allow him to react to an active shooter.
There will be no more School of the Arts at Rhinelander.
College football coaches salaries have exploded over the last decade — something that a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist says speaks to how universities have turned their athletic departments into commercial enterprises and abandoned the academic missions of their schools.
Dan Vinmont, a University of Wisconsin climatologist shares projections for how el niño will affect Wisconsin this coming winter.
gBETA, a free, six-week accelerator for early-stage companies affiliated with colleges and universities in Wisconsin, now has a second powerful backer.
Quoted: If a prediction can be based on national and statewide trends, the answer is probably “yes,” said Noah Williams, an economics professor at UW-Madison.
Oscar Chamberlain, a senior history lecturer at UW-Eau Claire, said knowing students may be carrying firearms would be a distraction in a classroom setting.
Noted: Ordering defendants to give blood used to be more commonplace, particularly during wartime, according to “Flesh and Blood,” a history of blood transfusions and organ transplantation by Susan Lederer, a professor of medical history now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Paula McAvoy, the program director for the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — and, I should note, my son Amato’s fiancée — recently suggested a different idea: “Why don’t they spend their money on infrastructure instead?”
Biotech company Exact Sciences will no longer develop a downtown Madison headquarters, company officials revealed Monday.
Faculty members within the University of Wisconsin System lost a key battle when Governor Scott Walker and fellow Republicans in the Legislature removed tenure protections from state law. But professors are trying to preserve something like tenure as they know it through campus-specific policies.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patenting and licensing arm for the state’s flagship university, will announce Tuesday that it is partnering with gener8tor to produce more start-ups out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With higher education costs skyrocketing, Congress should be making it easier not harder to ensure students have access to an affordable college education. Yet, Senate Republicans, led by Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), have twice blocked the renewal of the longest standing federal financial aid program — the Perkins Loan.
Having spent six years in Silicon Valley earlier in my career, I am a Steve Jobs fan. A new biography, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader, contains important lessons for higher education.
You may recognize me as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a position I’ve proudly held for more than five years.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor J. Michael Collins called myRA an “exciting proposal” although it has its limitations: its capped at $15,000.
A new study shows that among families with healthy children, the chances of divorce tend to increase with each successive child. However, among families with at least one disabled child, there is no increase in the rate of divorce as the family grows bigger.
What is the environmental cost of a meal eaten at a student union? Thomas W. Bryan, a graduate student in environment and resources at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, sought to answer that question by tracing food-supply chains to determine the carbon footprint of each menu item.
Madison Laning, the chair of UW-Madison’s Student Leadership Council, spent last election cycle hustling to make sure her classmates were registered to vote. She estimates that she helped register about 3,000 of them.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has come under fire from faculty and a high-profile administrator for his changing stance on how the system should address tenure in light of recent changes to its legal status in the state. Faculty members and Chancellor Rebecca Blank of the University of Wisconsin at Madison have criticized Cross’s recent directive that new tenure polices can’t be written at the campus level, saying that the guidance contradicts Cross’s earlier assurances that tenure as it’s known would be preserved at the campus level — even though the Wisconsin state Legislature changed the law to make it easier to fire tenured faculty members.
But now, engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have come up with technology that enables energy to be harvested from moving tires.
The five-year grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program will link the 160 churches in the WISDOM network with public health experts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine. A group of ex-prisoners will help lead a study of the health barriers that many returning prisoners and their families face.
Madison Laning, the chair of UW-Madison’s Student Leadership Council, spent last election cycle hustling to make sure her classmates were registered to vote. She estimates that she helped register about 3,000 of them.
Quoted: Yi Fuxian, a Researcher at the University of Wisconsin, urges the Chinese government to follow up with better population policies.
Quoted: Owners often leave the radio or a playlist on for cats alone in the house, assuming they will share human musical tastes, be it classical, country or the lyrical tones of NPR hosts. But cats’ hearing develops differently and “we mindlessly turn on music” for them, said Charles Snowdon, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who worked with Mr. Teie on the project. With its special instruments and tonal mixing, “Music for Cats” aims to bridge that sensory gap, he said.
Since the late 1960s, psilocybin mushrooms have been illegal in the United States due to their hallucinogenic effects on the human mind.
Newly elected Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made a University of Wisconsin “W” hand gesture after he ascended the Speaker’s podium on Thursday.
Northeastern Juneau County boasts some of the best cranberries in the world, and on Tuesday, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank spent time knee-deep in the bogs, talking to growers, researchers and scientists on the forefront of cranberry production.
What began as an uproar over undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials callously discussing how to collect fetal tissue is now threatening research vital to finding treatments for devastating conditions from Alzheimer’s to blindness.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied blaze pink’s visibility for Milroy and Kleefisch earlier this year, assured the committee earlier this month that blaze pink would be safe in the woods, saying it stands out better than orange against Wisconsin’s orange-brown fall landscape. He also said deer have an easier time seeing blaze orange than blaze pink, suggesting the color might camouflage hunters.
When and why do people get involved in mass violence? What pushes individuals in a precariously tense region into brutality and blood — and what can prevent such slaughter? With gut-wrenching stories reaching us daily from Syria, Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan, North Korea, Central African Republic, Libya, Nigeria and Congo, that urgent public policy question is being tackled by a number of academics, researchers and policymakers, including the Early Warning Project, a public prevention system for mass atrocity and genocide that combines statistical modeling with insights from an expert opinion pool. A month ago, the EWP released a detailed risk assessment for such violence.
Quoted: There may be more farming bees to be found. “Given the substantial diversity of bees, many of which are poorly studied, it is likely that other bees engage in similar associations,” says Cameron Currie of the University of Wisconsin.
Head coach Dave Aranda?
Noted: The majority of studies have shown that the injury rate for youth football is quite low, and is actually significantly lower than the injury rates of high school or college football, said Dr. Gregory Landry, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, and the lead author of the policy statement.
Bobbi Cordano, a vice president at the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul, is heading to Washington, D.C., in January to become president of Gallaudet University, the nation’s premier university for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
A contingent from the University of Wisconsin-Madison band is serenading the state Assembly.
Quoted: “We have seen that clinic closures lead to burdens for women in a variety of states,” said Jenny Higgins, an assistant professor in gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a board member with the Guttmacher Institute. “This is true for Planned Parenthood, but is also true for any clinic that offers abortion care.”
The identification of zebra mussels in Lake Mendota in Madison was the result of a class project from UW-Madison.
Noted: In her drawn and written introduction to “The Best American Comics 2008,” Ms. Barry copies other cartoonists’ styles, demonstrating the ventriloquial skills that helped her learn her craft. Also featured: 18 original drawings from Ms. Barry’s latest book, “Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor,” inspired by her students at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Kenneth R. Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, warned against drawing firm conclusions from these preliminary examples in a paper, “Public Election Funding: An Assessment of What We Would Like to Know”
UW’s chief of police shares techniques and procedures for staying safe in an active shooter situation.
With the launch of a $1 billion fund drive, the College of William and Mary on Friday joined the big leagues of higher education philanthropy.
Inside the administration building on Lake Superior State University’s campus is a room with more than 100 student-owned guns.
Quoted: Even before these proposed changes, elected officials received special treatment under Wisconsin law. While the average citizen is tried for crimes where they allegedly occur, public officials are tried for violations of ethics and election laws in their home counties. Law professor Ben Kempinen, who runs the Prosecution Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that requirement coupled with the move to grand juries will present big challenges to a DA from a small county.
Should concealed weapons be permitted in buildings on college campuses? It’s a question being debated in Wisconsin after a couple GOP lawmakers put forth legislation that would allow students and staff to carry concealed guns and knives.
For months, Dane County officials and student groups have been talking with the University of Wisconsin-Madison about the need to help students navigate Wisconsin’s Voter ID law in the upcoming presidential election year.
It has been nearly four months since videos surfaced showing Planned Parenthood employees discussing their role in making the organs of aborted fetuses available for medical research.
A new report links processed meats to cancer, although one University of Wisconsin expert is urging consumers to consider a more moderate approach before tossing out the bacon.
