An annual update on the University of Wisconsin System reserves indicates overall, there’s less money on hand this year compared to last.
UW System Working To Reduce Reserve Funds
Wisconsin Public Radio
Author: jplucas
Report: Most Americans Will Receive A Late Or Wrong Diagnosis
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Dr. Lee Wilke, director of the University of Wisconsin Health Breast Center, said physicians would like to think that they don’t make mistakes.
Green Lake boat tour
Fox11online.com
GREEN LAKE — Keeping water healthy in and around Green Lake, was the goal of an environmental field trip Monday.
15-year-old Iowa fan assaulted at Camp Randall Stadium
KWWL-TV, Iowa
The UW-Madison Police Department is looking for an adult Badger fan they say assaulted a 15-year-old Hawkeyes fan following Wisconsin’s 10-6 loss to Iowa on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Hendricks gives $1.75 million gift to UW-Madison for breast cancer research
Janesville Gazette
BELOIT—Beloit businesswoman Diane Hendricks has donated $1.75 million for research into breast cancer and surgery at UW-Madison.
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 3 Scientists for Parasite-Fighting Therapies
New York Times
Three scientists who used modern laboratory techniques to discover anti-parasitic drugs long hidden in herbs and soil won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
UW graduate William Campbell awarded Nobel Prize
Wisconsin Radio Network
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin is one of three scientists who’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan were honored for discovering the drug Avermectin. Two derivatives of that drug helped reduce the presence of diseases caused by parasitic worms, mostly in Asia and Africa. The other Nobel Prize winner is Tu Youyou, China’s first medicine laureate. He created a drug that sharply dropped mortality rates for malaria.
UW Band Director Mike Leckrone surprised with Hometown Hero Award
WKOW-TV 27
UW Band Director Mike Leckrone was surprised during class Monday morning with the announcement he would be receiving a Hometown Hero Award.
“Today is a huge thrill:” Mark Mone inaugurated as UW-Milwaukee’s 9th chancellor
FOX6Now.com
MILWAUKEE — It’s a celebration that’s months overdue. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officially installs Mark Mone as its 9th chancellor. But the new guy in charge isn’t really all that new.
Limits on research needed to protect unborn children
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
As more and more videos are released by the Center for Medical Progress, the prohibition of the sale of aborted baby parts is a critical issue for Wisconsin, and for the nation. Now is the time to end the victimization of the unborn for profit, especially when they are dismembered in the womb for the harvesting of their organs.
Field day showcased benefits of organic practices
Agri-View
Successful organic farmers use agricultural practices that maximize crop production and benefit the environment. These organic management strategies were highlighted at the University of Wisconsin Organic Agriculture Field Day, held at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station Sept. 2.
Education took alumni award winner far beyond Holmen
LaCrosse Tribune
This year’s Holmen Viking Alumni Award winner is a fervent believer in the power of learning. “Education opened all kinds of doors for me that I never expected,” Merle Evenson said.
Jason Kidd and Badgers’ Bo Ryan form bond during Bucks camp
A training camp trip to the University of Wisconsin allowed the Milwaukee Bucks’ Jason Kidd to form a coaching bond with the Badgers’ Bo Ryan.
Work On Parasite Diseases Earns Nobel Prize For Medicine
National Public Radio
The medicines they helped develop are credited with improving the lives of millions. And now three researchers working in the U.S., Japan, and China have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Among the winners: William C. Campbell of Drew University in Madison N.J., for his work on the roundworm parasite. Campbell is a UW alum.
Midland Park math teacher, known for his audacious pranks, dies at 64
NorthJersey.com
In mourning Leon Varjian, a madcap math teacher who also imparted lessons in social responsibility, students brought box upon box of Mallomars to Midland Park High School this week.
Rieselbach & Crouse: Wisconsin needs teaching health centers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Teaching Health Centers are located in Community Health Centers to provide graduate medical education — that period of residency training after graduation from medical school that is required to practice as a physician in the United States. The content and effectiveness of this training are important factors in determining the cost and quality of health care. And the location of this training affects the size and geographic distribution of the physician workforce: Those who train in underserved areas are likely to remain in the same or similar settings, providing access to competent care for rural and inner city patients.
Big turnout for UW System listening sessions
Oshkosh Northwestern
About 60 people shared their input on the future of Wisconsin, and in turn, the University of Wisconsin System, at a listening session hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Thursday, Oct, 1.
Planned Parenthood critics have new target — universities
POLITICO
Officials of the nation’s leading universities have watched with dread as the fallout from the Planned Parenthood sting videos has threatened to engulf labs that depend on fetal tissue for research.
30-Foot Fingernails: The Curious Science of World’s Longest Nails
Live Science
Sure, nails look pretty all trimmed and polished, and they make opening a can of soda a lot easier, but these are not the reasons that humans have fingernails. So what is the reason? It’s because humans are primates, said John Hawks, a biological anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Unlike most mammals, which have claws for digging and climbing, humans and other primates have fingertips that are perfect for grasping tools and other objects, Hawks told Live Science in 2013.
A survey of prints at Promega
Madison Magazine
Madison is filled with fans of Tandem Press, the University of Wisconsin–Madison-affiliated organization that collaborates with artists from around the world to create contemporary fine-art prints. If you count yourself among them, don’t miss the new Fall Art Showcase at Promega.
Scientists Study Past In Hopes of Being Step Ahead of Future Earthquakes
WUWM-FM
If it seems to you that the earth has seen quite a lot of major seismic activity in recent years, you’re in the good company of scientists. One of the leading centers for research into these quakes is located not along the San Andreas Fault, but at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Harold Tobin is one of those scientists looking closely at seismic events in the Department of Geoscience.
Nobel Prize Winner Talks Climate Change In Northwoods
WXPR-FM, Rhinelander
While debate continues over the nature of climate change, the public next Tuesday can hear from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who says human health risks pose the largest of threats.
Paying it forward
Isthmus
Six decades have passed, but Ada Deer vividly recalls the words Eleanor Roosevelt said to her that day at the Roosevelt estate north of New York City.
UW regents to consider waiving out-of-state student limits
AP
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials plan to ask UW System regents next week for permission to lift the school’s cap on out-of-state students, a move they say would attract more young people to Wisconsin. It also would bolster the school’s coffers considerably as it struggles with deep budget cuts.
University of Wisconsin Madison Receives Major Collection and $8 Million Gift
artforum.com
The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin Madison has received a donation of artworks and cash valued at twenty-eight million dollars total from New York art collectors Jerome and Simona Chazen, who are both alumni of the school, reports the Wisconsin State Journal’s Gayle Worland.
Works by Motherwell, Lichtenstein Part of Chazen Family gift
ArtfixDaily.com
A decade ago, distinguished University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni Jerome and Simona Chazen made a $20 million donation in support of the school’s art museum expansion. Formerly known as the Elvehjem Museum of Art, the institution was renamed in honor of the Chazens.
Low-Nicotine Cigarettes Cut Use, Dependence, Study Finds
AP
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore and Timothy Baker, tobacco researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, wrote in a commentary in the journal that the study shows the potential for a policy to cut nicotine that “could help to end the devastating health consequences” of smoking.
Leon Varjian, known UW prankster, dies at 64
AP
Leon Varjian, who came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s to study in “the graduate school of fun” and ended up masterminding such famous pranks as the 1,000 plastic pink flamingoes on Bascom Hill and the Statue of Liberty head on frozen Lake Mendota, has died at age 64, a relative said.
Understanding The 2015 Wisconsin Avian Flu Epidemic
Wisconsin Public Radio
An unprecedented avian influenza epidemic struck the poultry industry in the U.S. over the spring and early summer of 2015.
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Is One To Look Out For This Season, Entomologist Says
Wisconsin Public Radio
The first frost of the season is usually a trigger for bugs to start invading the house for fall and winter, according to a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist.
Professor Says Russian Airstrikes In Syria Aim To Keep Assad In Power
Wisconsin Public Radio
Noted: David McDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor and expert on the politics of contemporary Russia, said the one thing underlying Putin’s whole approach to Syria is to defend the principle of the sovereignty of established governments.
Why State Campaign Ads Are Getting Nastier
Time
Quoted: “Negative ads insulate the campaign,” said Kenneth R. Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s not the candidate going negative; it’s someone else.”
World Bank rethinks poverty measure
Marketplace.org
Quoted: The move is meant to reflect changing standards of living, worldwide, according to Valerie Kozel, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked with the World Bank on poverty for many years.
A Q&A with Esty Dinur
Madison Magazine
Interviewed: Esty Dinur, chair of artistic selection, Madison World Music Festival; director of marketing and communications, Wisconsin Union Theater; host of ’A Public Affair,’ WORT 89.9 FM
University of Wisconsin Receives $28 Million in Gifts for Art Museum
Philanthropy News Digest
The University of Wisconsin Foundation has announced gifts totaling $28 million from alumni Jerome and Simona Chazen in support of UW’s Chazen Museum of Art.
Donna Shalala, President of Clinton Foundation, Has Stroke
New York Times
Donna Shalala, the former president of the University of Miami who was brought in to lead the Clinton Foundation this year, had a stroke shortly after the closing ceremonies of the organization’s major fall event early Tuesday evening, officials said.
Local researchers — a sociologist, an economist and a neuroscientist — named MacArthur fellows
The Boston Globe
UW grad Matthew Desmond, who spent months living in a mobile home park and a rooming house in Milwaukee to study eviction, is one of 24 fellows, including four in New England, announced Tuesday by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
24 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners Announced
AP
“You think it’s a prank until you hear everyone on the (conference) call describing your work,” said Matthew Desmond, the sociologist, who works at Harvard University. Desmond is a 2010 UW-Madison graduate.
U. of Wisconsin Gets $28 Million for Museum and Art Program
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $28-million pledge of artworks and cash from patrons of its on-campus art museum, reports the Wisconsin State Journal. The gift from Jerome and Simona Chazen includes 30 pieces by major 20th-century painters, including Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, and David Hockney, that will join the permanent collection at the Chazen Museum of Art.
Brain Series 3, Episode 3: Charlie Rose
Bloomberg News
On “Charlie Rose,” a look back at moments from the Charlie Rose Brain Series 3: Episode 3, the brain and gender identity. We are joined by Ben Barres of Stanford University, Norman Spack of Boston Children’s Hospital, Catherine Dulac of Harvard University, Melissa Hines of the University of Cambridge, Janet Hyde of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel of Columbia University. (Source: Bloomberg)
The World Will Be 6 Degrees Warmer by 2100: 6 Scary Effects That’ll Have on Our Health
Quoted: Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison echoes the sentiment, telling Yahoo Health that climate change is one of the “largest threats to public health.”
Quad-City native helps scientists study particles in Antarctica
Quad-City Times
Davenport native David Glowacki, 56, is part of a project that’s preoccupied with minutiae. Through the software Glowacki develops, scientists observe minutiae — specifically, nearly mass-less particles called neutrinos — at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a powerful telescope at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.
Participation In UW-Madison Online Courses Outstrips National Average
Wisconsin Public Radio
Participation in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “massive online open courses” — also known as MOOCs — has skyrocketed to well above the national average following an overhaul of the university’s offerings.
80 colleges and universities announce plan for new application and new approach to preparing high school students
Inside Higher Education
Eighty leading colleges and universities on Monday announced a plan to reverse a decades-long process by which colleges have — largely through the Common Application — made their applications increasingly similar.
Piscatory portraits
Isthmus
Artists find their muses in different places. For example, Kandis Elliot recently finished rendering every single kind of fish in Wisconsin.
Q&A with Bud Selig on Cubs’ turnaround, Wrigley Field renovations
Chicago Tribune
Cubs fever spread last week to a classroom on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus during a lecture for a 600-level history course titled “Baseball and American Society Since World War II.’’
Stone’s Throw Urban Farm finds city spaces to grow produce
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Quoted: Urban agriculture has always been part of cities, said Julie Dawson, assistant professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a specialist in urban and regional food systems.
UK fan who received bone marrow transplant from Wisconsin student dies
WKYT-TV, Lexington
Scott Logdon, a life-long University of Kentucky fan who received a bone marrow transplant from Wisconsin student, has died. He was 45.
“Brain in a Dish” Could Replace Toxic Animal Tests
Scientific American
Scientists in Wisconsin have succeeded in growing three-dimensional brainlike tissue structures derived from human embryonic stem cells. Unlike previous miniature model brains, the new structures can be easily reproduced and they contain vascular cells and microglia, a type of immune cell.
Wisconsin’s Adult Obesity Rate Up In 2014
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: “It’s a number we really need to keep track of and hopefully see levelling off and going down in the future,” said Dr. Patrick Remington, an associate dean at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Fitness trackers: healthy little helpers or no-good gadgets?
The Guardian
Quoted: Lisa Cadmus-Bertram of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, took a group of 51 overweight, postmenopausal women and gave 25 of them Fitbits, while the remaining 26 used pedometers.
J.P. Cullen gives gift to UW-Madison Department of Neurosurgery
Janesville Gazette
JANESVILLE — The J.P. Cullen Foundation is donating $250,000 in honor of J.P. Cullen’s birthday to the department of neurosurgery at UW-Madison.
UW: Fetal cell line research key to biomedicine advances
AP
MADISON — High in a laboratory overlooking Lake Mendota, University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Gail Robertson is looking for the next breakthrough in medical science. If Republican lawmakers will let her, that is.
Hsia: Jesuits as science missionaries for the Catholic Church
A Catholic, a Jesuit and a scientist walk into a bar. What do they have to talk about? And just how do those conversations go?
Goldrick-Rab: Essay on the need to consider which institutions should bear the brunt of state cuts in public higher ed
Inside Higher Education
State spending on public higher education has been in a free fall since the Great Recession. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, in 2013-14, average state support for higher education was 23 percent less than it was prior to the recession. For many colleges and universities, reductions in state spending have left sizable budgetary holes that cannot be filled exclusively with spending cuts.
The science supporting gender-neutral marketing
CNN.com
Quoted: A few common perceptions held, according to psychologist Janet Shibley Hyde of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Compared with women, men could throw farther, were more physically aggressive, masturbated more and held more positive attitudes about sex in uncommitted relationships.
Hawks: Homo naledi: determining the age of fossils is not an exact science
Age is nothing but a number when it comes to unravelling the relationships of species from our past. We do not know the actual geological age of the Dinaledi fossils, the single largest fossil hominin find in Africa, but the discovery of Homo naledi still provides insight into how our ancestors evolved.
Goldrick-Rab: To cut costs, college students are buying less food and even going hungry
Studies have long shown that a college student’s odds of achieving financial security and a better quality of life improve when he or she earns a degree.
Researchers at UW Madison hope their work will optimize teachers’ time with students
Inside Higher Education
Imagine if schoolteachers and college professors were immediately able to identify how each of their students learns, what learning style works best for each child and what new topics he or she is struggling with.Research faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are hoping that this can be the future of education.
Fiorina hitches rise in Iowa to untested strategy
Des Moines Register
Quoted: “What we’re seeing is campaigns experimenting with new techniques. Some will work. Others will not,” said campaign finance analyst Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s almost a legal fiction that they are separate from the campaign, but as long as that distinction is permitted, campaigns will leverage that.”