Noted: For guidance, we turned to Stephen Lucas, the Evjue-Bascom professor in the humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s the author of “The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence,” a paper that’s one of the first things you see on the National Archives’ webpages about the declaration.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Davidson has studied the brains of Buddhist monks and explored the ways that compassion is neurologically distinct from empathy. He even believes it to be an intrinsic trait like linguistic ability—something that must be fostered at a young age to be implemented throughout life, and something that can be strengthened through practice. To that end, he and his colleagues developed a “kindness curriculum” for preschoolers.
Quoted: Mark Richards with the University of Wisconsin-Madison department of animal sciences/poultry sciences is hesitant about such claims. Mostly because turkey is sensitive to oxidative rancidity or quality deterioration that leads to undesirable flavors and unhealthful compounds.
Plenty of people use Facebook to keep up with friends. Now, a new UW research project is using social media to keep up with the lives of local foxes and coyotes.The UW Urban Canid Project, headed by David Drake and Marcus Mueller, is reaching out to the community for help in tracking and researching red foxes and coyotes in Madison urban areas.
Noted: When Michael Jay McClure, associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, heard about the concept of the new exhibit “Warhol’s Nature,” he immediately knew one thing. He knew it wouldn’t work.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer says it’s time for state lawmakers to review Wisconsin’s college reciprocity agreements with Minnesota and other states.
Noted: The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a nonprofit group started by two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors to help prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted, has assisted Todd D. Frost in his attempt to have his first-degree intentional homicide conviction overturned.
Noted: The first $2 million endowment will be established at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Organic Valley, a farmer cooperative based in Wisconsin, matched Clif Bar’s contribution to the university.
WAUSAU – A Wausau physician’s in-depth study of Hmong health issues is one example of why a University of Wisconsin medical unit is changing its name this week.
When tires roll across the road, the energy that’s created due to the friction is simply wasted. But that could soon change — thanks to new technology aiming to convert tire friction that’s usually lost in transit into electricity.
During a presentation about the role of the Clery Act and Title IX in sex crime investigations, Susan Riseling, chief of police and associate vice chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said the Clery Act was a “cluster.” Riseling said McCaskill would like to see the Clery Act repealed or at least stripped down to simply requiring colleges to provide timely information and warnings about ongoing crimes. “That information is what might prevent someone else from becoming a victim, and timely warnings are really the point of Clery,” Riseling said. “Some of the best news I’ve heard was Sen. McCaskill saying ‘maybe we’d better throw out Clery.’ ”
More and more colleges and universities are hiking their minimum wage above what’s required by their states and the federal government.
The deal meant to resolve a month-long impasse over the state budget that Republican legislative leaders unveiled on Wednesday morning was anything but simple, and far from final.
They were considered, by most reasonable standards of college football, a laughingstock. An embarrassment. Young men who put everything into a season but lacked the overall depth of talent to compete with nearly every Big Ten team.
Regenerative braking systems are already used in electric cars to help recapture energy that’s wasted while the vehicle is stopping. But researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have also found a way to generate power while a vehicle is actually driving.
Christian Schneider proposes that the changes to tenure will be like an Act 10 for universities (“A Brawl Over Tenure on Wisconsin Campuses,” Cross Country, June 20). Tell that to the employees of the University of Wisconsin system that already experienced an effective pay cut through Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: “I’m fairly convinced that this is the future, for sure,” says Shanan Peters, a palaeontologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW Madison) who is co-leading an effort to use software to extract information from tens of thousands of palaeontology papers. “Building a database, per se, will be a thing of the past. Those databases will be dynamically generated based on the questions you’re interested in, and the machine will do the heavy lifting.”
Noted: Dr. Richard L. Page, who heads the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has studied survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest in traditional fitness centers, such as health clubs, and alternative exercise sites, including hotel gyms.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the constitutionality of the consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions cases. And many legal experts believe the justices are likely to be skeptical of such consideration.
For the apple and grape producers in Wisconsin hoping there’s room for the Badger State in the growing wine and cider industries, the University of Wisconsin has hired an enologist to help out.
Two conservative UW professors say Scott Walker’s proposed changes to tenure could leave conservatives on campus vulnerable.
As someone who graduated with a degree in Computer Science from UW in 2011, I am deeply concerned by the proposed cuts and alterations to the legislative protections that have been granted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in this year’s proposed budget. In particular, I am distressed at the potential alteration of tenure protections. While it is true that Wisconsin is unique in that the state actually places tenure protections into state law, I fear the language of the proposed change to tenure will actually put our state’s universities behind other institutions in terms of faculty retention, and will potentially damage the quality of our state’s world-class academic research, scientific or otherwise.
Quoted: While many cheer this time of year, health professionals are appalled. “I cringe, and I imagine most everyone dealing with the health consequences of these foods does,” said David Allen, director of the Wisconsin Prevention of Obesity and Diabetes at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday again agreed to hear a legal challenge to the race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin, setting the stage for new arguments in a closely watched case that the justices decided once before, in 2013.
Tomah —They came to the Tomah tractor pull to behold the deafening roar of turbocharged, 3,000-horsepower machines.
David Krakauer, the departing director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, offers a sweeping critique about what’s wrong with higher education.
One of UW-Madison’s change agents, David Krakauer, is departing on June 30, proud of his work as head of the edgy and multi-disciplinary Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, but deeply frustrated by his dealings with the campus bureaucracy.
Quoted: “It gets overwhelming public support,” said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Depending on which poll, you might get 60 to 80 percent support.
Madison attorney and recently retired U.W. Law School Professor Ralph Cagle marched into office as the State Bar of Wisconsin’s 60th president last night in the presence of friends, family, colleagues, and former State Bar presidents.
Quoted: Xueli Wang, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, quoted numbers she obtained from the National Center for Education Statistics.
It’s easy for recruitment and retention to get lost in the shuffle among sexier topics like flipped learning, MOOCs, and the ongoing debates over funding and the cost of education. But for most institutions, the two Rs of admissions are still top of mind.
A number has a way of ending an argument. What can you say to it? There’s no nuance, no room for interpretation—it is what it is.
Some good economic news arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point last week. A comprehensive economic impact study by NorthStar Consulting of Madison showed that UWSP contributes $420.2 million annually to Wisconsin’s economy.
Now that the U.S. Department of Education has decided to ditch the ratings part of its college-ratings system in favor of a customizable, consumer-focused website, plenty of big questions remain.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank weighs in on the future of tenure at UW-Madison on WPR’s Central Time.
Noted: Comparing the fraction of vets who are unemployed in the state to the fraction of unemployed vets nationally makes sense, said Steven Deller, a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sitting here in Madison, Wisconsin, a chancellor of two UW institutions, I find myself at the vortex of an enormous national conversation about tenure and shared governance.
The 2015 NBA draft arrives Thursday with plenty of intrigue for Wisconsin basketball fans.
Noted: The tropical tchotchkes also carry on a tradition of generosity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to the school website. The school matches alumni donations by placing the city’s official bird — yep, the pink flamingo — on the campus green.
Quoted: Regardless of whether Mr. Brady was telling his story to Mr. Goodell under penalty of perjury, he still could have a lot to lose by not being truthful. Contradicting a sworn statement could hurt his credibility in the eyes of his fans or, should the case come before a court, the eyes of any judge hearing the matter, said University of Wisconsin sports law professor Brad Snyder.
This is not a crazy space rainbow. It doesn’t lead to a pot of gold. This is, in fact, shimmering light echoes caused by X-rays, and it leads to the location of a neutron star.
Many scientific breakthroughs, including the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming, have occurred by happenstance. This is also true of a new technology that could one day replace the use of antibiotics in livestock, and perhaps even humans, for a variety of pathogenic digestive tract infections.
The issues in the debate over proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System are fundamental and important. I do not to wish undercut this discussion but to expand it to include the ways that members of the UW System’s Board of Regents are selected. The current process is archaic and needs extensive reorganization.
Tick numbers in some parts of the Madison area aren’t just multiplying, they’re rising to record levels.”I was actually surprised,” UW Entomologist Susan Paskewitz says while showing a small deer tick on a white strip of paper.
Monrovia — Emmanuel Urey and his family’s struggle is the subject of a gripping documentary production by Independent Lens which trails Urey, a Liberian going to school in Wisconsin but who was in Monrovia with some of his children when the Ebola virus broke out. The film is both an intimate portrait of a family in the center of a terrifying crisis, but also a fascinating look at how a country in the aftermath of a long civil war handled a major health scare.
Quoted: “Research has consistently shown that making public statements about your goals is an excellent ‘commitment strategy,’” says Christine Whelan,? a consumer science faculty member and director of the Money, Relationship and Equality initiative at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Human Ecology. In other words, she says, people are more likely to follow through on something if they tell others about their intentions.
As far as college campuses go, we’re a rare, endangered species: two long-tenured professors who lean right and libertarian. But we’re increasingly worried that in trying to take up another conservative crusade, our governor, Scott Walker, is going to silence the very voices he claims to support.
Noted: “The university doesn’t deserve this cut,” said Senator Luther Olsen, a Republican, as lawmakers voted last month to restore $50 million of the governor’s cuts. “We are fools if we go around bashing one of the best things in the state of Wisconsin.”
Quoted: “It’s an issue that’s multidimensional and may generate opposition for a wide range of reasons,” said Dominique Brossard, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies public perceptions of G.M. foods and serves on a National Academy of Sciences panel evaluating their use. “People are concerned over potential health and safety issues. Others bring up environmental concerns, and European countries are concerned more about monopolies or the consequences of technology on small farms.”
In the past few weeks, I’ve been in the midst of a debate over tenure for college professors in Wisconsin.
Quoted: “So can cats….hibernate?” A preposterous thought, I’m aware, but I decided to entertain the idea—enough to call up Hannah Carey, a professor and hibernation specialist at the University of Wisconsin. “There’s no evidence that your classic pets in the wild and even domestic are capable of hibernating,” Carey told Fusion.
Ab and Nancy Nicholas pledged $50 million to the foundation for undergraduate and athletic scholarships and graduate fellowships for University of Wisconsin at Madison students. The university will have to match the donation from other donors to receive the money.
Quoted: Its stated mission to “appeal to a common patriotic spirit” recalls a successful media venture that came before it, said James L. Baughman, chairman of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin.
One hundred years ago this month, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin dedicated a bronze plaque commemorating a historic victory for academic freedom. When a distinguished faculty member, economist Richard T. Ely, had been accused of promoting socialism and fomenting disorder through his pro-labor speeches and writings, the regents had cleared him of wrongdoing, even though he had spoken out at a time of violent nationwide industrial conflict. In the words of the tablet:
First, Gov. Scott Walker defeated public-sector labor unions. Then, he declawed their private-sector counterparts. Now, just weeks before his expected entry into the presidential race, the Wisconsin Republican is staring down another conservative target: college professors.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin researcher Susan Stewart said housing prices in some areas have pushed more people into exurbs in fire-prone wildland. She also said baby boomers looking for scenery are retiring to rural areas.
It’s common to fret over unintended consequences. But what about intended consequences?In Wisconsin, lawmakers are debating a proposed change to state law that would weaken tenure protections at the University of Wisconsin system’s schools . If it passes, faculty could be terminated whenever “such an action is deemed necessary due to a budget or program decision.” Twenty-one scholarly associations, including the American Historical Association, the Association of College & Research Libraries and the Modern Language Association, denounced this effort for its threat to shared governance and academic freedom. And, to be sure, those are threats not to be minimized. In the age of “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings,” academic freedom is under siege.
Noted: No one has found a (46, 6, 5) design so far, Colbourn said, but designs exist that are close enough to be useful. Did any of the betting cartels use such a design “to siphon money from the Lottery at no risk to themselves?” wrote Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who discussed the Cash WinFall lottery in his book How Not to Be Wrong. If they didn’t, Ellenberg wrote, they probably should have.
Noted: A representative of WARF — the university’s alumni research foundation — attended BIO and UW-Madison’s Office of Corporate Relations sent two people, including Kathy Collins, who describes herself as a business liaison for the university.
For the past seven summers, UW professor Kathy Cramer has visited rural gas stations, small cafes and bait shops on off-the-beaten-path county highways that snake their way around the state. In those places, she interviews the locals who gather on weekday mornings.
