Quoted: Several of the panelists questioned why it was so difficult for women to find a doctor who was trained in removing the device. Many of the women, in desperation, simply had a hysterectomy, which Dr. Charles Coddington, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said was “like shooting flies with a cannon.”
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is optimistic he’ll be able to muster the votes needed to pass a bill banning research on tissue from aborted fetuses. Opponents of the measure – including some Republicans and the state’s largest business lobby – have expressed concerns that the bill will harm biomedical research in Wisconsin.
Quoted: “From a sociological standpoint, it looks like there are some ingredients missing in his recipe,” Erik Olin Wright, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told BuzzFeed News. “As a religious leader, moral discussion might be essentially what he can get away with. But mobilizing people might require more.”
Is the Republican drive to limit research using fetal tissue a product of the gerrymandered Wisconsin Legislature? Republicans have a partisan lock on the Legislature thanks to boundary lines they drew in 2011.
Republicans in the state Legislature apparently think they are making a principled stand against abortions, but the impact of their proposed legislation to outlaw research on tissue from aborted fetuses would probably do little to deter abortions and would very likely be extremely damaging to the University of Wisconsin’s future as a research institution.
Since the economic downturn signaled by the fall of Lehman Brothers, law practice has become more competitive. Firms have failed, they are hiring fewer entry-level lawyers and, as a result, student demand for legal education has plummeted. According to the Law School Admissions Council, the organization that administers the LSAT, the number of students taking the exams was at an all-time high during the 2009-2010 academic year — 171,514 — and dropped to 101,689 in 2014-2015. The 205 American Bar Association-approved law schools are now competing for the best students in this shrunken pool.
College boxing, decades removed from the days when fedora-clad fans filled smoky arenas to watch the sport, is making a comeback.
Before Wisconsin Badgers running back Melvin Gordon completed his then NCAA record-setting 408-yard rushing performance, the Nov. 15, 2014 Wisconsin-Nebraska football game in Madison was interrupted for a special announcement: University of Wisconsin alumni John and Tashia Morgridge would match up to $100 million in donations made by others to UW-Madison.
Interviewed: Lake Effect’s Mitch Teich spoke with Ken Vogel, Chief Investigative Reporter for POLITICO, and Mike Wagner, elections specialist and professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison.
The conversation about college campus safety is happening at universities across the state, including Oshkosh.It follows a recent national survey, that showed about one in four female college students have been sexually assaulted.
The top Republican in the state Assembly says a controversial proposal that would ban researchers from using most tissue from aborted fetuses likely does not have the votes needed to pass out of his chamber right now.
A bill that would make it a felony to use or sell aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin had its first state Senate hearing Tuesday, with public comments becoming heated at times.
Quoted: Jonathan Senchyne, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture (and a former grad school classmate of mine), made a keen observation when I spoke to him about the Hevelin Collection: Many of the cultural developments we most closely associate with the Internet actually precede its emergence.
University of Wisconsin climate scientist Dan Vimont said that while El Niños typically don’t have a big effect on Wisconsin, this winter’s cycle will have a widespread impact.
Noted: University of Wisconsin law professor Howard Schweber said in an email to News 3, “By any reasonable standard, Justice Crooks must certainly be remembered as a conservative judge. But unlike some of the more recent generation of conservatives he was eminently capable of forming coalitions with his more liberal colleagues on issues where they found points of agreement. Whether one is a conservative or a liberal, we should mourn the loss of a jurist who was capable of having strong beliefs without being narrowly partisan.”
A quarter of undergraduate women surveyed at more than two dozen universities say they experienced unwanted sexual contact sometime during college, according to a report released Monday.
More than one in four college women say they are sexually assaulted by graduation, even higher than previous estimates, according to a survey released Monday that is one of the largest of its kind.
Nearly one in four female undergraduates responding to a survey conducted by the Association of American Universities said that they had been the victim of sexual assault or misconduct, according to eagerly anticipated findings released on Monday.
Nearly one-quarter of female undergraduate students who responded to a survey created by the Association of American Universities said they have experienced a sexual assault of some kind since enrolling in college. While the survey includes a broader definition of sexual assault than some researchers on the topic advocate using, it also breaks down types of sexual assault and found that 11 percent of female students reported that the sexual assault involved penetration.
Nearly 28 percent of female undergraduates responding to a campus survey at University of Wisconsin-Madison say they’ve been sexually assaulted.
Noted: Leaders of the University of Wisconsin’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project plan to meet with military officials in Washington this month to discuss collaborations utilizing the college’s DNA and genetics expertise. Last year, UW-Madison helped identify the remains of Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon, a Canadian-born U.S. soldier killed in France in 1944.
Quoted: Markus Brauer, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin?Madison and an expert in effective group work, said there is an “incredibly high” chance that new members of sororities or fraternities will adopt specific values if they are stated and endorsed by the organizations’ leaders.
As students return to campuses across the state, the impact of the GOP-led $250 million two-year budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System — combined with the extension of a tuition freeze — is drawing new attention.
Hunterdon County — where residents have a median household income of $106,143 — is the wealthiest county in New Jersey and also the healthiest for the sixth straight year, according to this year’s annual analysis co-sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Meanwhile, Cumberland County — with a median household income of $50,750 and a poverty rate of 18 percent — is the poorest and least healthy in the state.
Quoted: Dr. Heather Kirkorian, an assistant professor in the Human Development and Family Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of the few scientists trying to answer this very question. And for the past few years, she has been studying how touchscreen devices affect early childhood learning.
Quoted: “It’s dysfunctional to be charged with possession of your own image,” Justin Patchin, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin and cyber bullying expert, told the Guardian. “I don’t think it should be a criminal offense where there is no victim.”
Quoted: But don’t expect one party to sweep Wisconsin, said Mike Wagner, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies politics and media.
In 1896, the head of the College of Agriculture was (and remains) an important person on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A shortage of mental health care providers in Wisconsin and the U.S. can be addressed by connecting more medical students with practicing physicians through mentorships, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison psychiatrist.
Quoted: “This is an advance to be applauded, explored and hopefully replicated,” said James Stein, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Wisconsin’s medical school.
Aggressive state efforts to ban the use of fetal tissue in research are alarming some scientists who say such measures will set back efforts to cure the world’s deadliest diseases, including cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
This past Saturday, September 12, following an announcement in President Obama’s weekly address, the US Department of Education released its College Scorecard.
Quoted: Patricia Devine, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has proposed that implicit racial biases are like a habit, and like any habit, change requires a series of deliberate steps. Most importantly, according her 2012 article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, we can change.
A new study says that more first or second homes are being built in rural areas, raising concerns about fire and loss of animal habitat.
Quoted: Mr. Houle found that nearly 21% of student debtors were homeowners, compared with 13% of nondebtors, according to research he published in June with Lawrence Berger, a professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: John Rodstrom, a UW-Madison grad student who studies migratory fish was one of the volunteers Saturday at Goose Pond. “It doesn’t matter if you are a bird, a fish or a butterfly,” he says. “If you need to migrate in order to reproduce, then habitat loss along your migration route can be a significant problem.”
Tenure is a touchy subject right now within the University of Wisconsin System, given the new limitations placed on the concept this summer by the state’s conservative-dominated Legislature. So a survey that arrived in faculty members’ inboxes earlier this week, asking for their opinions on tenure, drew immediate interest and participation. Sure, the survey asked some provocative questions, such as how much of a pay raise faculty members would need to give up tenure in exchange for multiyear contracts. But the survey had the imprimatur of a prestigious research institution, the University of Chicago, and a well-known political scientist was running the project. Plus, some faculty members welcomed the opportunity to vent about the ongoing challenges to tenure.
A conflict is escalating over U.S. researchers’ use of human fetal tissue. Legislators in Wisconsin last week advanced a bill that would make it a felony for scientists working in the state to conduct studies using tissue or cells obtained from recently aborted fetuses. The measure, approved by a committee of the Wisconsin State Assembly, has drawn opposition from universities and research groups, who say it will stifle important disease studies. The bill is likely just the first of many similar state-level efforts, science policy observers predict.
Quoted: The death cap is an invasive species in the United States. It typically poisons a few people a year in California, often immigrants from Southeast Asia who confuse it with paddy straw mushrooms from their homelands, according to Anne Pringle, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who studies toxic mushrooms.
Noted: The official poverty measure was developed by the Social Security Administration’s Mollie Orshansky in 1963 and defined as three times the “subsistence food budget” for a family of a given size. As former acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank (then a Brookings Institution fellow, now chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Madison) explained in 2008 congressional testimony:
The slang term “gaydar” is the alleged ability to discern if someone is straight or gay. But a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and published in the Journal of Sex Research shows gaydar is fueled by stereotypes, and not a sixth sense.
National attention on issues facing boys and men of color has been elevated in the wake of My Brother’s Keeper, President Obama’s initiative to improve life outcomes for boys and men of color in the United States.
Some professors in the University of Wisconsin System are expressing concern over a survey they received via email about faculty tenure this week.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are continuing to travel throughout Wisconsin to build stronger connections between businesses, citizens and higher education.
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took around four years to produce. He believes it could make the Internet more resilient to accidents, disasters, or intentional attacks.
Top educators from around the state shared their views about the future of learning at a forum hosted by the University of Wisconsin System on Tuesday.
The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate said Tuesday that he wants to pass a bill banning the sale of tissue obtained from aborted fetuses, but he doesn’t know yet how it would apply to research.
Quoted: “To pursue his presidential bid, Trump has already sacrificed some significant business relationships, including his hit television program,” said Barry Burden, who heads the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He should be taken as a genuine candidate who is competing to win. It is an unconventional campaign but it is real.”
During Apple’s most recent annual tech-fest, the company unveiled new iPhone features in front of a packed arena in San Francisco. Some of its lawyers, meanwhile, are preparing for a different stage: A courtroom in Madison, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin scientists are reporting a cheaper way to create hydrogen to be used in fuel.
Sherlock Holmes’s creator might have called it “The Case of the Precocious Pinheads.”
Noted: 54. University of Wisconsin-Madison
The UW Madison’s Big Read program is meant to be a shared experience on campus of reading a selected book together. This year, five thousand students who attended Chancellor Becky Blank’s Convocation prior to the start of classes each received a copy of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. It’s the seventh year of the common book program.
The year-long reign as Miss Wisconsin-USA was coming to a close Sunday for Haley Denise Laundrie, 22, of Lake Mills.
When it comes to determining the sexual orientation of someone we don’t know, many people subscribe to the idea of ‘gaydar’ – that supposed intuitive ability to identify gay people by sight and sight alone. But a UW scientist says the idea of gaydar is a myth, and contributes to the stereotyping of LGBT people. He explains his latest research into the subject.
Two top leaders within the University of Wisconsin System are hitting the road this fall to make new connections and strengthen existing relationships between Wisconsin businesses, residents and the public higher education system.
Proposed legislation banning research using tissue from aborted fetuses would have a devastating impact on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. That was the warning of Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Friday, who told the UW System Board of Regents that the restriction currently being considered by the Legislature could have potential impacts on the university that are “greater than anything we have discussed around budget cuts.”
MULTIPLE TIMES OVER the past few years we have expressed concern about Wisconsin state government’s declining support for the University of Wisconsin system. The percentage of student education costs paid by the state — the same thing is happening all around the country, by the way — has been declining for years, while the percentage burdening families and students has risen rapidly.
Noted: Because the structure of glasses is usually random, finding one of these materials that has most or all of its molecules “pointing” in the same direction is rare. And not only is a molecularly structured glass hard to come by, it’s also really desirable, according to lead study author Shakeel Dalal, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The scurrilous attacks on Planned Parenthood — based on hidden-camera videos falsely purporting to show that it illegally sells fetal issue — have turned into attacks on fetal tissue research in Congress and in several state legislatures.
