Noted: After stints in Switzerland and Canada, Khorana found a research position at the Institute for Enzyme Research, a “vanguard of chemical biology” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
In was his decade-long stint here, he “helped to decipher how RNA encodes for the synthesis of protein,” the ground-breaking research which helped him land the Noble Prize in 1968.
Noted: While some donations can be used at a university’s discretion, many are given as part of an agreed-to plan. As one example, the University of Wisconsin-Madison landed a $100 million investment — one of its largest gifts ever — from electronics maker Foxconn. It calls for the creation of an interdisciplinary research initiative based about 100 miles from Madison, near the future home of a Foxconn plant. UW-Madison must match Foxconn’s gift to be assured the full amount from the company.
Noted: A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the children the researchers examined who were in out-of-home placements consistently struggled with academics more than children in stable living situations.
Noted: Interview with Majid Sarmadi, a professor of textile science.
Noted: Nearly 19 percent of those 65 and older are working full time, according to Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor of business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Early retirees have helped Wisconsin’s rural and vacation communities, said Steven Deller, a professor and community development specialist with UW–Madison’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Noted: Hart Posen, an associate professor of management and human resources, is the guest.
Quoted: “Everything just grinds to a halt,” said Mike Ballweg, a University of Wisconsin Extension agent in Sheboygan County.
The rules and policies to put the massive piece of legislation in place are largely written by USDA employees at many levels.
“And that’s a mad scramble. They really work hard to get all that in place as quickly as possible,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The shutdown is “coming at a bad time, for sure,” Stephenson said.
USDA isn’t “writing the checks or doing the things to get payments out to dairy farmers, corn and soybean growers. So that’s a problem,” he added.
Quoted: One divide has been evident in the state for years: the rural-urban split. It was most recently studied by Katherine J. Cramer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and author of “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.”
“There have always been tensions between rural Wisconsin and Madison and Milwaukee,” she said. “What changed is now those tensions are on the surface and very obvious to people. I think Governor Walker, depending on where you stand, he either exacerbated that divide or he drew attention to some of the injustices a lot of people have been feeling for a while in rural Wisconsin.”
Quoted: “It’s always a little tough to tell exactly where rates are going to go in the near future,” said Clifford A. Robb, associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I do think 2019 will see a little bit more rate increases.”
Noted: Hawley, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, holds a master of fine arts degree from UW-Madison.
Noted: For his secretary of the Department of Safety and Professional Services, Evers chose Dawn Crim. She now assists Evers as assistant state superintendent for student and school success. Previously, Crim worked for two decades at the University of Wisconsin System in various rules, including assistant coach for women’s basketball and director of community relations for UW-Madison.
Noted: List includes Vel Phillips: A pioneer in civil and human rights in Milwaukee, Phillips’ career was full of firsts. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1951; in 1956, she became the first woman and first African-American to sit on Milwaukee’s City Council; she was the first female judge in Milwaukee County and the first African-American judge in Wisconsin; and from 1979 to 1983, she was the first female and nonwhite secretary of state in Wisconsin. Phillips died on April 17 at 95 years old in Milwaukee.
Noted: Deepak Shrestha went to school at UW-Madison, but the couple met in Nepal when he was home on summer break. They settled in Madison in 1988, and Archana says her family has felt “really welcome here.” She and her husband both work other jobs — he’s an engineer, she works for UW-Madison’s University Research Park. Adding a restaurant to the mix will keep them busy, but they’re up to the challenge. “We’ll see how it goes,” Archana says.
The Midwest doesn’t get much film representation. We’ve got Fargo (1996), 2004’s Dawn of the Dead remake, and my favorite of 2017, The Bye Bye Man. Wisconsinite Michael M. McGuire, who attended UW-Madison, adds another Midwestern entry with his first feature film, Aquarians. Shot in various locations throughout Marinette County and Menominee County, the movie succeeds at portraying the harsh Midwestern winter as the desolate, isolated wasteland that it is.
“Three…two…one…engine ignited, and we have liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket and Dragon.”
On Dec. 15, 2017, Simon Gilroy listened to that countdown as he gazed across a river separating a mass of scientists from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. He was a couple of miles from the site, but as close as you could get without being inside the rocket.
Noted: List includes “What We Were Promised” by Lucy Tan, who earned her master’s of fine arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: First, we hear from Aaron Bird Bear (assistant dean of student diversity programs) and Omar Poler (American Indian curriculum services coordinator) from the UW–Madison School of Education to discuss the tremendous success of the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour.
For the second year in a row, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ranked the No. 1 feeder school for the Peace Corps.
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The former Wisconsin School of Business dean who served one semester and then resigned amid a plan to discontinue the Master of Business Administration program will head the management school of Massachusetts’ flagship school.
Noted: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Products Laboratory, located on the UW-Madison campus, also has been closed. Its employees include 60 research scientists.
Noted: Nordby’s professional life was in orthopedic surgery. He and his classmates graduated a few months early from the UW-Madison Medical School so they could help in the war effort. Nordby spent his time doing surgery in Okinawa, Japan, and in what is now South Korea. When he returned to the States in 1947, he began practicing at Madison General Hospital and later partnered with Dr. H. Lewis Greene in a private orthopedic practice.
Noted: After graduating from UW-Madison and declining to seek a third council term in 2007, King earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University and law degree from New York University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
Noted: Millennials themselves, Soha Javaherian, a UW-Madison graduate and his wife, who designs the pieces, said their approach appeals to the tech-savvy, younger generation that wants to know their purchases aren’t causing harm.
Noted: Nehemiah’s program includes lectures by Gee and his sister, Lilada, as well as UW-Madison faculty Christy Clark-Pujara, Alexander Shashko, Steve Kantrowitz and Neil Kodesh.
Noted: Simms started out with two friends to compile a list of people who might share their family’s history, and began her research in 2003, the year after receiving her Ph.D in educational administration at UW-Madison. A lifelong Madisonian and educator, Simms has received many civic honors, and in 1992 was named Wisconsin Elementary Principal of the Year.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences
Kevin Soucie fired up his laptop one day in June.
He typed “peacecorps.gov“ into the address bar and up popped a photo on his screen. He can’t quite remember which one; it was either of a young man pumping water from a rural village well or a young woman teaching a class full of children, chalk in hand.
Marsha Howard has a sticky note in her locker that’s been there since her freshman year with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team.
The message on the note was the product of an early meeting with the then-coaching staff: “Freshman year is not too early to be a leader.”
UW-Madison’s patent-licensing arm actively concealed information from another university about their shared patent, misled its research partner about the patent’s true financial value and kept 99 percent of the patent’s royalties to itself, according to a federal judge’s ruling.
Noted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers may have come up with a new solution for treating morbid obesity: A small device that when surgically attached onto a person’s stomach can make someone feel more full after eating.
If you resolve to meditate or exercise this year — and follow through — you might reduce your chance of getting a cold or the flu, according to a UW-Madison study.
A tiny weight-loss device developed by UW-Madison researchers could someday be implanted on people’s stomachs to trick their brains into thinking they’re full.
Noted: Annie Stumpf is a medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Noted: Nordby earned his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin and volunteered for the U.S. Army, serving in Okinawa during World War II and South Korea after the war. He served his adopted home of Madison for decades as an orthopedic surgeon, healing thousands of people.
Noted: Brad Pierce, who directs the Space Science and Engineering Center at the UW-Madison, says you could also try to understand the difficulty by considering the mathematical models and resulting graphs that became known as the Lorenz Butterfly.
Noted: Lindsey Day Farnsworth, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, said such a facility would reduce the barriers to entry for small- and medium-size growers to getting their products into the Madison area.
Noted: Lipscomb said she and her team — Terence Johnson at the University of Notre Dame, Laura Schechter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jean-Francois Houde at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — did not set out to oversee the system long-term. The professors worked with an NGO and handed the project off to Senegal’s government after finishing their research in 2016.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and the University of Oshkosh Foundation have come to an agreement to stave off bankruptcy for the non-profit. When the deal is finalized in the coming months, the foundation will look to merge with another foundation on campus.
Noted: Fundamental changes made to the language describing the Wisconsin Idea in the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement were the result of a “drafting error.”
In fact, Walker’s administration had insisted to UW System officials on making the changes, giving detailed instructions on passages to be removed from state law. And eventually Walker himself acknowledged that the UW System had objected to the changes before his budget was put into final form.
Noted: Toomer entered an agricultural program at the University of Wisconsin—where he was apparently taken by many for a Native American—but dropped out after only a year.
Panelists include Monica White, an assistant professor of with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Community and Environmental Sociology.
Noted: List includes story about research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center.
Adults living with autism spectrum disorder may face a higher risk of developing certain health issues — such as cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive problems — than the rest of the population.
Noted: Emma Sarappo reported Sam Alhadeff, a newly minted University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, created a housing résumé to maneuver the veritable Tetris that is the DC housing game. The document extolled his “roommate perks,” like taking calls from his mother into another room, and language skills—he’s a natural at “reading the room.” Alhadeff successfully secured a home and 15 minutes of Washington, D.C. Housing, Rooms, Apartments, Sublets Facebook fame: His post now has over 1,600 likes and almost 200 comments.
A new study finds University of Wisconsin-Madison Division 1 athletes are in better mental shape than their classmates.
December 2018 graduates have made it across the stage this month, putting away another eventful calendar year for higher education. These are the top higher education stories covered by the Cap Times.
Nothing that happened in the Pinstripe Bowl was going to erase the memories of a season that went awry for the University of Wisconsin football team, but that didn’t mean the Badgers had nothing to gain Thursday at Yankee Stadium.
Noted: Taylor, who was the agency’s first female black assistant state superintendent, moved to Wisconsin from Marks, Mississippi, to study elementary education at UW-Madison.
Noted: Vying with Stockhausen for busiest Badger at the movies this year was Carrie Coon. The actress who got her start on stages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Madison-area theater played small but key roles in three movies in theaters this year, also very different: “Widows,” the sci-fi thriller “Kin” and “Avengers: Infinity War” (as one of Thanos’ minions).
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists believe they may have come up with a way to stem the tide of obesity-related disease and illness and improve quality of life for hundreds of millions of people worldwide who suffer from weight problems. These scientists have created what they say is a safe and easily implantable weight-loss device that in lab experiments, aided rats in shedding nearly 40% of their body weight.
The Empire State Building will shine in the colors of the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the University of Miami on Wednesday, December 26 to celebrate the 2018 New Era Pinstripe Bowl. The world-famous tower lights will be split, with the North/South sides of the building lit up in the University of Miami green and orange and the East/West sides in the University of Wisconsin – Madison red and white.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin System in 2016 prohibited faculty from dating any student, graduate or undergraduate, if there was even the potential for an advisory or supervisory relationship. As is common at many universities, a pre-existing relationship between faculty and student, where one or the other later joins the UW System community, must be disclosed.
Noted: Emory University got three citations and University of Wisconsin, Madison, got two citations in the same period. Each of those institutions has about 1,900 primates.
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, said Georgia’s 3 percent rejection rate is significantly higher than the national rate. More troubling is the variation by county, he said. Some counties reported rejecting 10 percent of their absentee ballots, while others reported almost no rejections. “The variation … indicates that different standards are being applied across the state,” he said.
Anne Massey resigned as UW School of Business dean in December 2017, reportedly due to differences with UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank over the direction of the business school.
On December 28, 1958, a national television audience of 45 million people watched former UW–Madison fullback Alan Ameche fulfill every football player’s dream, scoring the winning touchdown during the first ever sudden-death overtime in NFL history.
Quoted: But face-to-face contact is different. “You realize the humanity,” says Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “It reminds you that those of us who don’t agree are actually alike in so many ways. They’re real human beings.”
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a small implant that could prove to be a major breakthrough in the battle against obesity. Using the recent strategy of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), the implant has led to a 40 percent body weight loss in rats.
It’s not often that folks in Madison pay attention to the happenings in Stevens Point, but this past month was different. Just 109.5 miles north of Madison, the leaders of the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point made seismic waves that registered an 8.2 on the higher education Richter Scale. The aftershocks were surely felt on the Madison campus.
