But now, the National Weather Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Sea Grant Program are working together like never before to improve prediction methods and better determine the strength of rip currents.
About 10,000 years ago, the teosinte plant underwent a mutation that would change the world. The tough greenish husks surrounding its golden grains disappeared, and the plant began its long evolution into what we now call corn.
A familiar face to viewers of Wisconsin Public Television has penned a book telling stories of Wisconsin Native Americans who helped sustain the land.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is not a particularly wealthy school.
Quoted: Kathy Cramer, a political science professor at the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin, said Walker’s attacks tap in to a “politics of resentment” that ripples through many communities outside the population centers of Milwaukee and Madison.
High blood sugar associated with prediabetes may increase the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests.
Sickening couples’ Facebook posts are a sign of true relationship commitment, according to a study published this week.
Technology originally designed to study homes and heath with UW-Madison’s School of Nursing is now being used at crime scenes. Researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are hoping 3D scanning will make some of the most complicated crime investigations more efficient.
Quoted: One lingering question about the animal, aside from its very existence, is its species. Tim Van Deelen, associate professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said cougars are known to be present in the state, though they usually show up farther north.
When Americans think about lobbying, they usually think about lobbying legislatures. Take the Affordable Care Act (ACA). According the Center for Responsive Politics, the ACA was one of the most lobbied bills in Congress over the last decade with more than 1,250 organizations registered on more than 5,000 issues.
Jeanne Bristol and Kay Cronin remember their dad as a proud man who worked hard to get ahead. “He put himself through college in his 50s,” Kay says. “It was important to him.”
When it comes to dementia research, UW-Madison is the new kid on the block. “But it is quickly reaching national status,” says Dr. Sanjay Asthana, who heads the UW’s Alzheimer’s research program. “Our young scientists are already leaders, and they are the future of the field.”
This week Adele C. Brumfield celebrated her 5th year anniversary as Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment at UW-Madison.
Researchers at the UW Center for Limnology Trout Lake Station near Boulder Junction are inviting the public to their annual open house Friday afternoon.
Wisconsin’s “cheeseheads” might someday have a wealth of local options to pair with the state’s most popular food. And they may have Nick Smith to thank for it.
Leaders at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse are concerned about the effect changes in state law on shared governance and tenure will have on the campus.
It’s well-known that children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to lag behind their better-off peers in academic readiness and school performance.
Quoted: “Once again it was an issue of unification, which pervades physics to this day,” said Marshall Slemrod, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: “Trust but verify,” said Brian Mayhew, who teaches auditing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Put in good controls.”
Anxiety disorders are among the most common type of mental disorder in the United States, affecting about 29 percent of adults at some point, according to National Institute of Mental Health statistics. These disorders often appear early on, and among children can cause trouble sleeping, difficulty concentrating, or avoidance of social events.
Noted: Thumbs Down to UW-Madison’s Sara Goldrick-Rab. This professor of educational policy and sociology searched out and sent tweets to prospective students, encouraging them to go elsewhere because state lawmakers jeopardized academic freedom by pulling tenure guarantees from state law. She also compared Gov. Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler.
American higher education is failing “far too many of our students,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan was scheduled to say Monday, as he calls for colleges to be held more accountable for graduating students with high-quality degrees that lead to good jobs.
Quoted: ‘‘Terry is what a great 21st-century mathematician looks like,’’ Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has collaborated with Tao, told me. He is ‘‘part of a network, always communicating, always connecting what he is doing with what other people are doing.’’
As I think about the state budget challenges posed during the last six months, one positive result is this: The greatest successes for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point came with strong support from our business and legislative partners throughout the region, as well as our students.
They’re a culinary tradition in the Upper Midwest. Hometown restaurants serving hearty meals and a taste of nostalgia. Dine in any one of these unique Wisconsin establishments and enjoy a winsome journey that goes beyond the food. WPT serves up the supper club experience with a bit of history, culture, and cutting edge research that’s making sure time-tested favorites stay on a classic menu. The show interviews UW faculty.
This marching band has played plenty of winning games, but Monday’s performance celebrated the greatest victory of all.
Sara Goldrick-Rab is a tenured professor of sociology and education policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is an outspoken public scholar with a prolific social media presence, and she is devastated about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s recent changes to tenure and shared faculty governance at her place of employ. For several months, as Walker’s agenda has turned from talking points to reality, Goldrick-Rab’s Twitter feed has become a juggernaut of links to news articles, document explication, and 140-character cannon fire. Her most controversial tweet compares the psychological profiles of Walker and Adolf Hitler. She has put into very public practice the exercise of the exact academic freedom whose death she foretells. And she can, because she has tenure—for now.
OK, while we’re on the topic today of batty things people blurt out let’s not forget a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor by the name of Sara Goldrick-Rab.
Dr. Jonathan Gray, a professor of media and cultural studies at UW-Madison, talks about why “Sharknado” is becoming a summer tradition and a social media sensation.
UW Colleges Chancellor Cathy Sandeen says that two-year schools will keep their traditional close ties to local communities, despite the sweeping reorganization announced Tuesday.
Quoted: Lydia Zepeda, an economist from the University of Wisconsin in Madison did a study of the impact of mobile markets for the USDA. She found that the people who shopped at mobile markets “ate 3 1/2 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. And the people who didn’t shop at the mobile markets ate just less than 2 servings of fruits and vegetables a day.”
Noted: The University of Wisconsin actually houses a nationally renowned State Smart Transportation Initiative, which is now advising 20 states—including Wisconsin’s three neighbors—on reforms that would advance more environmentally sustainable and economically equitable development.
When Ann Trachtenberg started chemotherapy at the University of Wisconsin’s Carbone Cancer Center about five months ago, she jokingly said a marching band should be on hand when she got through her final treatment.
Quoted: John Witte, professor emeritus of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the union’s statement is “clearly overstating the case.”
Quoted: John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in either study, agreed that both teams’ data showed a lot of similarities. He was inclined to put more stock in the Science study, he said, because it depended more heavily on ancient DNA sequences in drawing its conclusions. He added that more sampling in the future might uncover evidence of a second ancient migration, however.
Out of 121 institutions surveyed by Inside Higher Ed, the top pick was Bryan Stevenson’s memoir, Just Mercy: A Story of Redemption and Justice, with 10 institutions electing to use the book as its common reading. Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and a law professor at New York University, writes about his experiences trying to help — and sometimes failing — to overturn death and prison sentences for criminals Stevenson believes to be wrongly convicted. The majority of those criminals are black men.
Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, The Count, Mr. Snuffleupagus — they’re all characters that are instantly recognizable for anyone who grew up watching “Sesame Street.”’ As it turns out, those same characters also very effective educators.
The University of Wisconsin is eliminating 83 administrative and staff positions at two-year college campuses across the state in a sweeping reorganization that was announced Tuesday.
Quoted: But Director of the Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis Brian Hellmer said it’s important to know what these people do to understand why they make so much money.
July in the United States is about barbecues. July is also the month for an important birthday in America — passage of the Morrill Act, on July 2, 1862. The act established the land-grant college system, which would eventually include the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois, Purdue University, Iowa State University, University of Minnesota and many more.
Growing up poor has long been linked to lower academic test scores. And there’s now mounting evidence that it’s partly because kids can suffer real physical consequences from low family incomes, including brains that are less equipped to learn.
A new study suggests that growing up poor affects brain development at an early age, and those brain changes can have huge effects on academic achievement.
Poverty appears to affect the brain development of children, hampering the growth of gray matter and impairing their academic performance, researchers report.
Quoted: In the private sector, the situation has been far more stable, though not universally. “Bankruptcies in the airline and automobile industries have provided opportunities for these companies to get out from under what they viewed as long-term cost obligations,” says Barry Gerhart, professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. The pension commitments “were playing a key role in preventing them from being competitive or even turning a profit.”
Quoted: Of course, inconsideration isn’t new, or particular to theatres. But as technology and social media blur lines between personal and public, “there’s been an erosion in people’s norms of public space,” said Lewis Friedland, a University of Wisconsin sociology and communications professor.
Quoted: Joe Glass, assistant professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the testing could hinder the use of social services and do more harm than good.
Edward Friedman, a professor of Chinese politics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the US, said Xi’s priority now was to ensure that the bursting of the stock market bubble did not lead to a rise of anti-party movements.
It’s a widely noted fact that colleges and universities are under new pressure to justify their value and function. The same is true of tenure-track faculty members, who are at the heart of the higher education system whose benefits much of society now claims to find mysterious, and whose job security is increasingly criticized.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, and affordable college advocate, is now taking heat after a series of tweets she sent to incoming freshmen about changes to the System under the new state budget.
The new, 542-page independent review commissioned by the ethics committee of the American Psychological Association has generated considerable attention, replete with a front-page story in The New York Times. Documenting the alleged involvement of some of the nation’s leading psychologists in enhanced interrogations conducted by the military and intelligence agencies in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on America, the report accuses some association leaders of using their positions to protect the interrogation program from critics within the Central Intelligence Agency. Furthermore, it concludes, the APA itself “chose its ethics policy based on its goals of helping DOD, managing its PR, and maximizing the growth of the profession.”
Quoted: Robert Bradley, who’s taught cheese-making at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for 50 years, agrees. “It takes personal attention. It’s a very fragile product,” he says.
It started off like a fairly typical campus political spat: liberal professor criticizes conservative politician; conservative campus group criticizes liberal professor, who in turn criticizes the conservative group. Much of the criticism on both sides is through social media. And, as has been the case in several recent campus controversies, the professor is a sociologist and one who has never been accused of holding back on her views.
The development of fuel cell technology has been hamstrung by the need for expensive and difficult-to-manufacture catalysts like platinum, rhodium or palladium. But a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe they’ve found an ingenious alternative that employs a molecular, rather than solid, catalyst.
Political observers say the ruling opens the door wide to unlimited coordination between special interest groups and candidates with no government oversight or regulation. Howard Schweber, a UW-Madison political science and legal studies associate professor, said the line between issue advocacy and express advocacy is already thin and the ruling will allow political action committees to run a candidate’s campaign without disclosing their spending.
With the $5.2 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin Extension, officials say there’s no doubt programming will be impacted at UW-Extension Rock County.
A professor’s tweets to incoming students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have drawn the ire of the campus’s College Republicans as well as a prominent faculty group, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
A key talking point in the Obama Administration’s efforts to convince Congress and the public to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a proposed trade and investment treaty between the U.S. and 12 nations in the Asia Pacific region, now being negotiated—is that the U.S. needs to “write the rules” of trade in the Asia Pacific region before China does. Obama warned in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal that China would be able to “muscle other countries in the region around rules that disadvantage us” if the United States fails to participate in the TPP.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, an associate professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said prosecutors could seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court if they lose. And outstanding civil suits allege overreach by the John Doe prosecutors and Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board, which the plaintiffs say inappropriately helped initiate the investigation.
Quoted: “I think every bit of new evidence that we get is useful,” said Sanjay Limaye, senior scientist at UW-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center. “So in that sense, these images are a great feat.”
Noted: “Unfortunately, we did learn that the Wisconsin DNR leadership has banned their staff from attending the conference, including their lead wolf biologist,” Adrian Treves says. He heads UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies’ Carnivore Coexistence Lab.
