Thomas Edison relied on a simple philosophy to guide research that led to world-changing inventions such as the first practical light bulb, the motion picture camera and an early version of the phonograph.
The longtime space crunch for students taking chemistry classes will finally begin to ease in a couple of years, the famous but antiquated Babcock Dairy Hall is getting a big addition and the meat science program will soon get a new building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Noted: Not only that, but WMEP is joining up with a productivity expert at the University of Wisconsin, Professor Enno Siemsen, who is suggesting the tools that companies will use, and who will help supervise the productivity effects.
The Madison-based food ordering and delivery app EatStreet is one of the recent success stories in the Wisconsin startup scene. The company founded in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010 has become a real player in the online food ordering business across the United States. EatStreet connects diners in more than 250 cities to more than 15,000 restaurants.
Minutes after Wisconsin’s season ended with a 63-60 loss to Michigan State in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament, Ethan Happ shared his short-range plans: Happ planned to enter the 2018 NBA draft without hiring an agent so he could obtain a clear picture of his stock while retaining the option of returning to UW for his final season
Wisconsin taxpayers have paid nearly $800,000 over the past decade to settle a dozen claims of sexual harassment and one more related case, newly released records show.
Noted: PerBlue began in a college apartment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. The company has raised millions of dollars in venture capital and has more than 40 employees. In 2016, it sold the game “DragonSoul” to GREE International Entertainment for $35 million.
Noted: The “Best and Brightest” piece on the BBA Class of 2018, features Alexis Pae and Bui Tan.
University of Wisconsin fans can relive past glory and support Easter Seals of Wisconsin this week.
Noted: The co-founders’ first project together was an app for students to more efficiently get around the UW-Madison campus.
Noted: Kubicek has a master’s degree in atmospheric science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For the first time, students in more than half of all U.S. states are paying more in tuition to attend public colleges or universities than the government contributes.
Quoted: So would a warning even be worth it? “I imagine perhaps if there was a public information plan, it would generate more hysteria than would be warranted for something so unlikely,” Ruth Rand, historian of science, technology, and the environment during the Cold War at the University of Wisconsin told me. “I imagine some people might respond with undue fear and you might have a crisis in your hands.” Instead, it might be better to just give people what information is available, and remind them not to touch any debris with their hands, as it might contain a corrosive fuel called hydrazine.
Quoted: “There’s been a push recently for companies, in particular, to start offering direct cash payments or reductions on premiums for insurance for people who engage in healthier activities, so exercising more, dieting, taking a health risk assessment,” said Justin Sydnor, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, who researches wellness programs.
Noted: Yaron Nili is an assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: Tracey Holloway, an air emissions expert and professor of atmospheric and ocean science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said federal laws dating back to the 1970s have led to cleaner air, but the regulations have also been marked by a tug of war between competing interests.
Cryptocurrency courses are coming to the Wisconsin School of Business as schools worldwide catch on to a new intersection of technology and finance.
Virgil Abloh was named the top menswear designer at Paris-based fashion brand Louis Vuitton Monday.
Noted: Screnock was inclined to go to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a visit in high school to a varsity band concert at the UW-Madison Field House sealed his decision.
In an era where truly unbelievable poll results are released every week, one result stands as one of the most surprising. In a Pew Research poll released in July of last year, 58% of Republicans said they believed American universities actually have a negative impact on the U.S. As recently as 2010, only 32% of Republicans thought colleges did more harm than good — but that number has spiked sharply since 2015.
Harold Olsen didn’t foresee the nuttiness known as March Madness.
Noted: Laura Albert, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and expert on lottery odds, agreed. Albert said some people play the lottery professionally, such as monitoring games’ payouts, and then buying tickets in bulk when the game’s payouts are far below normal.
Quoted: Maybe, said Hart Posen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, who studies corporate strategy and decision-making under uncertainty. “Gou (a multi-billionaire who runs one of the world’s biggest companies) is clearly a more powerful figure in the global sense than is Gov. Scott Walker, and he should rightly feel like the bigger player on the world stage,” Posen said.
Noted: A team that included University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Chris Wells found last month that at least 116 articles from U.S. media outlets included tweets from @TEN_GOP and other Russian-linked accounts, with the tweets usually cited as examples of supposedly ordinary Americans voicing their views. Wells said the tweets found by the Journal Sentinel seemed similar. “It looks very consistent with what we’ve seen in our research so far,” Wells said.
Noted: Kathleen Bartzen Culver is the James E. Burgess Chair in journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Center for Journalism Ethics. Erica Salkin is an associate professor of communication studies at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., and the author of the 2016 book Students’ Right to Speak: The First Amendment in Public Schools (McFarland).
Immigration is back in the headlines, as Dreamers await a resolution to their precarious status in the country and President Donald Trump, who championed an anti-immigrant agenda during his campaign, pushes Democrats to strike a deal on comprehensive reform of the law.
What is the State Journal thinking? Last Sunday’s column “Killers on Campus,” by Michael Arntfield, was an inflammatory piece clearly intended to promote the author’s book “Mad City” by making dubious correlations between student protesters and mass murderers.
Noted: A Madison native, Landsness was an accomplished student at East High School, class of 1969, and earned degrees in electrical engineering from UW-Madison and Stanford University.
Were he not a 6-foot-1, 215-pound former collegiate athlete, Trent Jackson wonders how things might have turned out differently one December night when he was accosted by two young white men, one of whom, Jackson said, called him the N-word while the other tried to attack him.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
Aaron Gochberg is getting ready for his big senior recital at UW-Madison on April 8, where he’ll perform on the vast world of instruments that a contemporary percussionist has to master. But first, he’s performing in one of the Mead Witter School of Music‘s most prestigious concerts: The Symphony Showcase, taking place March 18.
Cover letters are powerful tools in your quest for a new job. A good one can get you an interview and make you a top candidate. Even if the position you’re seeking doesn’t require much writing, it’s important to demonstrate your communication skills and tailor your message to both the employer and the job. Here are some tips for crafting a compelling message.
A UW-Stevens Point plan to transform its academic offerings — axing liberal arts degrees while adding them in science, engineering, business and technology — has some wondering if other University of Wisconsin System campuses will follow suit.
f you want to touch a hunk of roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite that predates Earth, view fossilized bones from two mastodons that wandered western Wisconsin during the Ice Age or learn more about the universe, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum is well worth a visit.
Noted: Resarch from Anita Mukherjee of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: As opioid usage has worsened in the United States, more and more jurisdictions have acted to increase access to naloxone. Not only first responders but also friends, family and even librarianshave started to administer it. These state laws were passed at different times, giving researchers Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee a sort of a natural experiment: They could look at what happened to overdoses in areas that liberalized naloxone access and compare the trends there to places that hadn’t changed their laws.
Quoted: The science has been slow to evolve on this because there was less demand for a constant stream of data when forecast models were run only every six hours, says Jason Otkin, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies in Madison. Now, agencies are shifting towards more-frequent forecasts, using models that can take advantage of larger amounts of high-resolution data. “If anything, the value of these geostationary sensors is only increasing with time,” Otkin says.
Excessive use of menthol cough drops might make coughs worse, perhaps because people develop a tolerance to menthol, a UW-Madison study found.
Irving Shain, a former UW-Madison chancellor, administrator and chemistry professor, died Tuesday. He was 92.
Quoted: Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate law professor who specializes in correctional policy, said DOC is in a difficult position when it knows some, or even many, of the alerts it receives are caused by equipment malfunctions. “Even short periods of jail are highly disruptive and can cause a person to lose his job, be unable to care for children or even lose stable housing,” Klingele said.
As former University of Wisconsin men’s college basketball player Kirk Penney retires from the New Zealand Breakers, take a look back on the former Badger’s time in Madison and his career in professional basketball and the Olympics.
Barry Davis, who has spent the last quarter-century leading the University of Wisconsin wrestling program and is the longest-tenured current Badgers head coach, announced Monday he’s leaving the program.
A loss to Minnesota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoff championship game cost the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team the top spot in the national rankings.
Former University of Wisconsin standout Nigel Hayes is getting another chance in the NBA.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and the rest of the city got a bit over 2 inches of snow before midnight on Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
A beaming, gold-medal-adorned Hilary Knight made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment this weekend.
Noted: Kimberlee Burrington of the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison judged the yogurt category with Jean Luc Boutonnier, a food science specialist from the south of France. They found few duds among the entries.
For all the words we columnists burn making arguments, the best ones are often won with a swift verbal punch.
In his column on Sunday, “Killers on campus,” Michael Arntfield tries to tie a series of unsolved murders of young women at UW-Madison to the student protests against the war in Vietnam. His thesis — that three serial killers were able to operate because “the white noise of activism and political agitation … obfuscate(d) their presence” is reprehensible and ludicrous.
Noted: In grasslands near Poyang, the kind and amount of food the cranes consume “may no longer be enough to fuel egg laying” at the levels the birds managed in the past, says James Burnham, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His group has documented a worrisome decline in the ratio of juvenile cranes to adults at Poyang between 2010 and 2012.
Not many colleges, it seems, are willing to stand up for free speech on campus these days. Fortunately, the University of Wisconsin is one of them.
Quoted: Young people have the lowest turnout rates of all because they are more transient and have not yet established the habit of voting, said Kenneth R. Mayer, a political-science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They don’t have concerns of property taxes, schools and other things that make older people go to the polls,” he said. The likelihood of voting increases steadily with age, until about 80, when illnesses begin to prevent habitual voters from casting a ballot, he said.
Noted: Adena Rissman, of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, studies the logging industry. She says hard, frozen ground makes it easier to move equipment in and out of forests without getting stuck in the mud or damaging soil and roads.
Noted: Plastic surgeon John Siebert had sex with a patient in New York, got his license suspended for three years and was permanently ordered to have a chaperone in the room with any female patients. But he operates free of medical board restrictions in Wisconsin. In fact, he was appointed to an endowed chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded in part by billionaire Diane Hendricks, a patient and a major political contributor to Gov. Scott Walker.
Bucky’s igloo is shrinking. Sure, a wintry mix of snow and rain is in Thursday’s forecast for Madison.
Noted: Also contributing essays to the volume are the two editors of the book, Gary Orfield, Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning, and co-founder and co-director of the Civil Rights Project, at UCLA; and Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Orfield and Hillman responded via email to questions about their new book.
Noted: Their new goal will be no small feat. They are working to create the endowment at UW Health for transplant research, with the help of a $500,000 donation. UW-Madison donors John and Tashia Morgridge will give $500,000 to create an endowment in Tony’s name, but to get the money the Arenas family must match that donation in five years.
Quoted: “This could absolutely give Amazon pause,” said Neeraj Arora, a marketing professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. “The company has taken a stance on social issues in the past.”
Noted: Krueger graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2006, where he served as editor of the Minnesota Law Review.
Students who defy school efforts to limit participation in next month’s national walkout to protest gun violence won’t have to worry about it affecting their prospects for being admitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
