Noted: The result wasn’t a total surprise. A 2015 study by University of Wisconsin and US Department of Agriculture researchers found that bumble bee hives exposed to small amounts of chlorothalonil—which is widely used in fruits, vegetables, and orchard crops—”produced fewer workers, lower total bee biomass, and had lighter mother queens than control colonies.”
Noted: Ed graduated from Waukesha High School, where he was involved in football and tennis. He went on to attend the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he graduated in 1957 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Noted: In “An Assessment of When, Where and Under What Conditions In-Store Sampling is Most Effective,” the three authors – Sandeep R. Chandakula of Singapore Management University, Jeffrey P. Dotson of Brigham Young University, and Qing Liu of University of Wisconsin-Madison – find that sampling has both an immediate, if short-term, effect and a sustained impact on sales, but that the impact varies according to the size of the store conducting the event. They also found that repeated sampling for a single product produces increased returns and that sampling tends to expand a category rather than purely substitute for another product.
According to research out of the University of Wisconsin School of Business, buying the same thing for yourself makes the gift even more special to the recipient. There’s even a name for it: companionizing.
“Recipients end up liking the gift more because it’s shared,” says Evan Polman, a UW marketing professor, who conducted the research with Sam Maglio, a marketing professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. They published the results of their study in July in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
When Zach Bohannon was a junior forward on the University of Wisconsin basketball team, his Badgers played in a Thanksgiving tournament at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. During pregame warmups, Zach nearly fell when he slipped on a large Continental Tire decal that had been slapped onto the middle of the basketball court.
From the moment I arrived in Wisconsin last year, I loved the familiar energy, intellect, and passion for doing things well. I was happy to return to my Midwestern roots.
If you are a woman living in Wisconsin, you probably don’t think much about how your obstetrics/gynecology physician was trained; you just expect that he or she has completed a rigorous educational program in med school and then in residency training.
Noted: One small winery that had a close call and is now looking to the future is Hamel Family Wines in Sonoma County. The family has longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison connections and their wines sport a badger on the label, albeit not exactly Bucky.
The dean of UW-Madison’s College of Letters & Science acknowledged this week a failure to provide a safe environment in the wake of a Wisconsin State Journal report on a culture of persistent sexual harassment in a university department.
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UW-Madison got a lot of attention over the weekend. The Wisconsin State Journal published an article about the department’s struggle with sexual harassment surrounding one prominent professor, Harvey Jacobs. The article says Jacobs’ alleged conduct had long been known in the so-called “whisper network” of women in the department. A survey on sexual misconduct at UW-Madison in 2015 revealed that about half of the responding female graduate students had experienced sexual harassment during their time at the university. About one in five of those who experienced harassment said a faculty member was responsible for the misconduct. We talk to an expert about sexual harassment on college campuses.
VIDEO: The past is part of the present for Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst, who is influenced by the teachings of his father, George, who was a longtime coach at UW-Platteville before dying in 1992.
Noted: Three floors of the existing Grainger House will become a vertically connected education space. Set for completion in spring 2018, the $11 million project will include a new computer lab, business library, and finance and analytics lab. The Commons will also contain the Business Learning Center’s five classrooms with wireless displays.
UW-Madison selected design firm Potter Lawson (Madison), and MSR Design (Minneapolis) is serving as consultant and partner. Miron Construction (Neenah, Wisconsin) is handling construction.
When does a picture from a pulp magazine deserve a spot in a museum alongside exquisite fine art? Maybe when it takes the viewer into another world with its rich composition, beautiful technique and evocative detail. Such are many works in “Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection,” an exhibition on view at the Chazen Museum of Art through Feb. 4.
Noted: The Urban League has put on an IT Academy for seniors the last few years in partnership with UW-Madison Continuing Studies. Anthony got the idea after giving his mom an iPad and watching her connect to friends and family members on social media. (So much so that her grandkids blocked her on Facebook, he joked.) The Urban League also takes senior trips to American Players Theater, with golf carts available to transport patrons up the long hill to the stage.
In his UW-Madison lab, Su-Chun Zhang discovered a likely cause of ALS, the deadly neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after turning skin cells from ALS patients into stem cells.
The Wisconsin Union, often referred to as “the heart and soul” of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has enhanced the lives of members and visitors since it was founded in 1907. Since 1928, when the doors to Memorial Union opened, the Wisconsin Union has served as the living room of the UW-Madison campus. It employs 250 full-time and 1,400 part-time staff. At both Memorial Union and Union South, the union connects students, faculty, staff, members and visitors through shared cultural, social and recreational events and experiences.
Check out the State Journal’s gallery of some of the best signs from ESPN’s College GameDay show in Madison.
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.
Leslie Orrantia was not yet director of community relations for UW-Madison in April 2016, when leaders of Madison’s communities of color demanded accountability from Chancellor Rebecca Blank and then-Police Chief Susan Riesling for what they felt was poor treatment of minority students on campus.
The line to enter a pastel pink Google “Donut Shop” on UW-Madison’s Engineering Mall one cloudy morning earlier this month snaked around the grassy quad, filled with students and others who wanted to experience the pop-up promotion for the tech giant’s smart speaker.
In the summer of 1978 when Long Island native Monica Turner was an undergraduate at Fordham University, she volunteered as a naturalist in Yellowstone National Park.
Within a few days of starting a job in UW-Madison’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning, a now-former employee says, she noticed a male professor staring at her chest.
Noted: Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.
The office in Bo Ryan’s condominium on the Near West Side of Madison is small, especially compared to the one he had in his previous home.
The University of Wisconsin remained No. 5 in the Associated Press poll after its 24-10 win over Michigan on Saturday.
Quoted: “Consumer confidence is a big deal during the holidays, so Madison will probably do a little bit better than the national average,” said Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison. “It’s apparent that some people like shopping on Thanksgiving. We may have hit that balance, but the (stores) that are closing (on Thanksgiving) have had some good responses, too.”
Noted: Dan Cobian is a research scientist with Badger Athletic Performance and a faculty member in the physical therapy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s corporate partnerships bring in revenue for the institution but also raise ethical questions.
Quoted: “I think it’s encouraging, because although we might usually think that the more expensive the gift, the better it is, that’s often not the case,” University of Wisconsin marketing professor Evan Polman told CreditCards.com. “As a recipient, you’re usually just as happy to receive an expensive gift as you are an inexpensive gift. There is some truth to ‘It’s the thought that counts.’ “
Quoted: Evan Polman, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, adds that people tend to defer financial decisions when they’re mentally zapped. And of course, the longer you put off something like figuring out how to pay off your debt or when to start investing, the worse off you’ll be.
ESPN College GameDay returned to Madison for the first time in over a year to kick off Wisconsin’s game vs. Michigan at Camp Randall Stadium.
Long before Josh Gasser left Port Washington and donned a Wisconsin uniform for the first time, he was fascinated watching UW coach Bo Ryan stalk the sideline and banter with the officials.
Noted: After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he went to the Medical College of Wisconsin, then located on Milwaukee’s west side, and graduated in 1971.
Noted: Donald Downs was a guest.
Noted: A Journal Sentinel analysis of 2016 workforce data found that Wisconsin is worse than most states in its per-capita workforce of all types of mental health professionals: nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. Data were compiled by researchers at County Health Rankings & Roadmaps based at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that the shift of more than 7 million acres into cropland led to massive releases of carbon emissions into the atmosphere after a 2007 federal law mandated ethanol in gasoline.
Quoted: Neeraj Arora, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, said engaging in politics should not be a business’s main goal. “Ideally, a company is in the business to actually serve the customers and they kind of stay out of the politics,” Arora said.
Noted: Dr. Randy Brown, MD Ph, is an addiction specialist at the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He is Director of the American Board of Addiction Medicineand the Addiction Medicine Foundation, as well as the President Elect of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship Directors’ Association.
Co-founders of Madison-based startup EatStreetMatt Howard and Alex Wyler were named to the Forbes 2018 30 Under 30, released Tuesday. Howard and Wyler were selected in the consumer technology category. Their company, an online and mobile food ordering and delivery service, started in 2010 in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ESPN College GameDay, the popular pregame television show, returns to Madison on Saturday for a battle between nationally-ranked Big Ten foes Wisconsin and Michigan.
Noted: Greco holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning it in 1995. She has been recognized as an instructional leader and advocate for student learning at the state and national level.
Noted: A coalition opposing restrictions on fetal tissue research called Cures for Tomorrow includes BioForward, representing the state’s bioscience industry, the Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Madison, UW Health and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
A forum this month put on by the new policy center at UW-Madison named for former Gov. Tommy Thompson will feature speakers from across the political spectrum.
While a majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel welcome, safe and able to thrive on campus, worrisome disparities exist among students of color, and those with non-conforming gender identities or disabilities, according to results of a campus climate survey released Wednesday.
Quoted: “I would say that algorithms and mathematical modeling are fairly pervasive and ubiquitous, from the time someone wakes up in the morning until the end of the day,” said Anthony Gitter, an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics and medical informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Daniel Feiler, Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business’s assistant professor along with his co-authors Jordan Tong, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business and doctoral student Anastasia Ivantsova investigate this paradox in a recent study.
Wisconsin will start from the No. 9 position in its quest to secure one of the four spots in the College Football Playoff.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is already world renowned for its food science programs, said Shelley Jurewicz, executive director of FaB, Food and Beverage Wisconsin, an industry cluster organization based in Milwaukee.
“A dictionary is never done,” said George Goebel, the third and, it turns out, final editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, also known as DARE.
Noted: Health care providers can protect babies by testing women of childbearing age for hepatitis C and curing those with the infection, said the research team led by Theresa Watts, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.
Noted: David Andes, MD, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, says the term he likes for this imbalance is “dysbiosis.” “It’s not that there weren’t fungi there before, but now there are different fungi and different bacteria, in different proportions,” Dr. Andes says. “And when they experimentally combined the fungi and bacteria they found in patients with Crohn’s disease, they provoked inflammation, which may contribute to the disease process in Crohn’s.”
Noted: A second study, from the University of Wisconsin School of Business and economics researchers from two additional universities, focused on property values in Denver and found that homes near retail cannabis outlets — within just 0.1 miles — gained 8.4 percent more in value than houses just steps further away, from 0.1 to 0.25 miles. That big increase amounted to almost $27,000 for an average house.
Noted: A study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found property values in the immediate vicinity of Denver’s retail marijuana establishments showed an 8 percent increase since Amendment 64 took effect in January 2014.
There’s a lot of buzz in some parts of the dairy industry — and among consumers — about A2 milk. A CBS News story recently highlighted the push toward A2 milk and how some people think it relieves them of dairy intolerance symptoms.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is suspending the planned revamp of its master’s of business administration program after a backlash over an imminent cutback.
Quoted: For example, in the death care services industry (10.8% profit margin), which includes businesses such as funeral homes and crematories, price wars are less intense because customers make decisions more quickly based on emotions and are less likely to shop around, says Dan Olszewski, director at the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Wisconsin Badgers basketball head coach Greg Gard and his wife, Michelle, issued the challenge and UW-Madison students answered. At the sixth-annual “Swish Upon A Cure,” UW students helped raise the Gard’s donation to $20,349 in the fight against cancer.
A man with a gun was reported near Union South, according to a tweet sent out by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department on Monday at 8:15 p.m.
UW-Madison students joined in some fun and philanthropy at the Kohl Center on Monday
Madison Police tell 27 news a Subway restaurant on University Ave. was robbed at gunpoint around 8:00 pm Monday night, prompting UWPD to issue a campus alert.
