As the nation’s secretary of education announced plans to change the way colleges and universities handle allegations of sexual violence on campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Thursday defended practices on her campus.
While Hurricane Harvey washed through neighborhoods in and around Houston last week, a small group of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists noticed something unusual off the coast of Africa.
“Meditation can help foster a mindful, rather than automatic or reactive response to chronic pain. Mindfulness builds awareness of the differences between pain sensations itself (i.e., sharp, shooting, stabbing) versus patterns of unhelpful reactions to pain such as emotional reactions or patterns of behavior. It disrupts the autopilot way of responding that isn’t effective and often causes additional suffering by giving us greater freedom to make healthier choices. Since difficult situations and painful stressors will always be a part of life, mindfully learning how to handle them can make all the difference,” says Shilagh A. Mirgain, UW Health Senior Psychologist.
Noted: Ebert holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also received a bachelor’s degree in political science from UW-Madison.
Noted: Laura Minero, 26, is a PhD student in counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has found strength in organizing and supporting other undocumented students. Her parents came to California from Mexico in 1995; her father works at a dairy and her mother at a meat-processing facility.
Even before Trump was elected, she and three other students founded a Dreamers organization at UW-Madison to raise scholarship money for undocumented students, who cannot apply for federal financial aid, and to provide emotional support for students because of the divisive campaign rhetoric.
By this fall, all employees at University of Wisconsin campuses — from custodians and residence hall staff members to professors and administrators — will have completed training on sexual violence and harassment as part of a new systemwide requirement.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s American Family Children’s Hospital will be one of 20 sites to offer one of the most promising and expensive new cancer drugs, one that will come with what amounts to a limited warranty.
Quoted: And CEOs should always be evaluating their businesses, said Brad Chandler, the director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They should understand whether their portfolio makes sense today and for the future,” said Chandler, a former investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin finance professor James Johannes said the move makes sense. “It’s pretty common for smaller banks to want to be state-chartered,” he said.
Quoted: But there are differences between the ways in which reporters are covering a hurricane this time around. Hurricane Katrina was later seen as “a real black mark on journalism,” says Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the assistant professor and James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Noted: David Brown of the Wisconsin School of Business was mentioned as a signatory of a letter sent to the Trump administration by a group of economists advocating repeal of the inheritance tax.
Noted: (translated from French) “Sponsored links redirect to manufactured stories, pure fake news,” says Tom O’Guinn, a marketing professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. If the traditional way of campaigning in the United States remains to bomb Americans from political spots on TV between two pubs for laundry or pizza, “these field spots are very, very expensive,” O’Guinn said, ‘conversely, buying links is cheap at all. Pubs are always more accurate, more targeted through social media and more advanced analytics. “
An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after sneaking into a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall and entering several women’s restrooms, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin System got more than half the bonding authority it wanted for capital projects by the time the Legislature’s budget-writing committee finished its work Monday, and it also got money for major maintenance, repairs and renovations to aging buildings that had been cut from the state’s last biennial budget.
Noted: Marquette University came in second in salary potential ($54,300 early; $103,100 mid-career), followed by UW-Madison ($53,400 early; $98,400 mid-career), Lawrence University ($47,000 and $95,100); UW-Platteville ($53,600 and $92,800); St. Norbert ($47,800 and $90,400), UW-Eau Claire ($49,100 and $87,500) and UW-Milwaukee ($47,700 and $84,900).
UW Anxiety Disorders Program Director Dr. Marcia Slattery talks about what parents can do to minimize the anxiety students feel when it’s time to go back to school.
Noted: Jihae Shin, Professor at the University of Wisconsin, designed an experiment to prove the most creative ideas come after procrastination. She asked people to come up with business ideas: one group shared ideas immediately, while another group was asked to play a simple computer game for 5 minutes before sharing their idea.
Capital, culture, active, isthmus, foodies, Bucky. Those half-dozen words are Madison in a nutshell, but particularly so in the fall, when the tone is set by the student-led hustle and bustle, the bounty of the harvest, and the ombré of colors from brilliant red to midnight blue. Whether traveling solo, as a couple, or with friends, a getaway to downtown Madison and the University of Wisconsin campus is ripe for the picking.
Noted: All technical college boards and UW chancellors could authorize a charter school under the proposal. Now, only the chancellors of UW-Milwaukee and UW-Parkside and the boards of Milwaukee Area Technical College and Gateway Technical College in Kenosha can do so.
Noted: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights currently has 358 active investigations into sexual violence cases at 252 colleges, including the new case at UWM, four at UW-Madison, two at UW-Whitewater, two at Medical College of Wisconsin, and one at St. Norbert College.
Noted: After launching at Marquette, the site started hosting listings for housing near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where about 80% of the 30,000 students live off campus.
Noted: The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau has projected that taxpayers won’t recoup their payments to the company until 2043, even assuming a substantial positive ripple effect in the local economy from the project. Another report by former Walker campaign adviser and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Noah Williams has pointed to other benefits of the project such as the more than $700 million in annual payroll it could bring to the area.
Interview with Tracey Holloway.
Quoted: “What difference does having a major research university in a place like Wisconsin make?” said University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank. “It’s the future of the state.” If Blank is right, then current trends put that future in doubt for much of the Midwest. Many of these same universities have suffered some of the nation’s deepest cuts to public higher education. Illinois reduced per-student spending by an inflation-adjusted 54 percent between 2008 and last year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The figure was 22 percent in Iowa and Missouri, 21 percent in Michigan, 15 percent in Minnesota and Ohio, and 6 percent in Indiana. While higher education funding increased last year in thirty-eight states, Scott Walker’s 2015–17 budget cut another $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system. The University of Iowa recently had its state appropriation cut by 6 percent, including an unexpected $9 million in the middle of the fiscal year.
The catastrophic rain and flooding in Houston from Hurricane Harvey (now a tropical storm) has left the nation’s fourth-largest city in a state of emergency as the storm is expected to continue for the coming days.
Quoted: Expressive writing is about emotional disclosure, said Dr. Adrienne Hampton, an assistant professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Wisconsin. “It can be trauma-focused, or it can be aspiration-focused,” Hampton said. “Really, the key is just that it involves either conscious or subconscious emotional processing around a given topic.”
Quoted: While the study didn’t look for dementia symptoms specifically, the authors point out that the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease is rising—and that minority communities are affected at disproportionate rates. “Adversity is a clear contributor to racial disparities in cognitive aging, and further study is imperative,” said lead author Megan Zuelsdorff, PhD, a research associate at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in a press release.
As the kids get back to school, lunches need to be packed again. Chef Julie Andrews RD of UW Health shows us a healthy, easy and delicious recipe for the kids — and maybe even you too — lasagna cups.
Quoted: Dr. Marcia Slattery, director of the UW Health Anxiety Disorder Program, said you’ll likely notice that younger school-age children may become more irritable as the onset of school approaches. “The grade school kids definitely start asking more,” she said. “They start wanting to have detail about what’s going to happen, basically trying to say, ‘What are the unknowns that I need to know about?’So, more questions, more seeking information.”
Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor Menzie Chinn’s research also suggests lawmakers in the United States should look to domestic fiscal policy if they want to reduce external imbalances.
Noted: In a separate study, Professor Menzie Chinn from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said that the Trump administration will likely not be able or willing to reduce the US foreign debt, as, amongst other reasons, the Treasury notes’ safe-haven status supports capital inflows in the US.
Noted: One of them is gravely ill now. Tim Mickelson, 68, a native of Deerfield who rowed at the University of Wisconsin and later helped energize the Milwaukee Rowing Club, was diagnosed in January with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease).
In 1980, when Tom and Kathie Brock’s children were 3 and 5, they considered buying a vacation home “up north,” where Tom, a University of Wisconsin-Madison microbiology professor, had done research on lakes.
Noted: The study was conducted by Evan Polman, marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Sam Maglio, marketing professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and was published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
One of Anne Massey’s main areas of expertise during her more than 20 years at Indiana University-Bloomington was how technology impacted the performance of teams. Now she’s taken that knowledge to work for her new team: Massey assumed the role of dean at Wisconsin School of Business on August 7.
Noted: I went to UW-Madison, planning (to be a) veterinarian. Plans changed. I got my undergrad in animal science and I minored in meat science and business. I always showed cattle in 4-H and I loved the cattle side of things. When I decided against veterinary medicine, I decided on meat science.
Startup accelerator gener8tor is launching a new program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to help students build products and start companies.
Quoted: “We are not quite there yet, but that’s what the next level will be,” said Raj Veeramani, founding director of the Internet of Things Systems Research Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Medical “e-visits”—electronic communications between patients and physicians, primarily via secure messaging—have been touted as a low-cost method for doctors and patients to stay in touch without the time and expense involved with office visits. But, so far, they seem to be doing more harm than good, according to new research from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Noted: On Monday, a report by a UW-Madison economist found the massive manufacturing complex could generate nearly $4 in gains for the state for every $1 in taxpayer subsidies.
Compiling a list of 100 individuals who have combined to provide wonderful memories from Camp Randall Stadium’s first 100 years wasn’t easy.
Tuesday provided a good news-bad news moment for Wisconsin football fans hungry to see UW reach home-and-home agreements with other marquee programs.
If you happened to be walking down State Street in Madison in May of 1920, you may have been confused about what you were witnessing. You may have seen more than a dozen young men wearing their finest suits and top hats while pushing baby carriages up and down the street.
Quoted: The average American consumes more than 23 pounds of ice cream per year, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. That said, Bill Klein, dairy plant manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Babcock Dairy, sees a growing interest in adding “good for you” ingredients to ice cream. “We recently came out with a cherry-flavored ice cream, Frozen Fuel,” he added. “That has additional ingredients that are considered good for you, such as whey and milk proteins, probiotics, Omega 3.”
A massive manufacturing complex planned by Foxconn Technology Group could generate broad gains for Wisconsin “that go far beyond the direct job estimates and tax revenue costs which have dominated the recent discussion,” according to a report by a UW-Madison economist released Monday.
Wisconsin will enter the 2017 college football season with expectations – from outside the program – not seen in a decade
For most patients, the ability to send an email to their doctor can feel like a quick way to get their health concerns addressed. For doctors, these “e-visits” were touted as both a potential time-saver and a way to bring down health care costs. However, an updated study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Madison-Wisconsin found e-visits were less of a time and money saver than previously believed.
Noted: It argued that “efficient government required control of institutions by the voters rather than special interests, and that the involvement of specialists in law, economics, and social and natural sciences would produce the most effective government,” according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. The child of poor Irish immigrants in Boston, McCarthy arrived at UW-Madison to study for a Ph.D. In addition to his studies, he took a job to support himself: coach of the UW men’s football team.
Noted: “It’s like an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging machine, used in medicine) at nanoscale,” said Kelly, whose research as a UW-Madison engineering and material science professor led to development of Cameca’s LEAP, or Local Electrode Atom Probe, specialized microscope.
Noted: Since 2005. MTS has been gathering tango aficionados and novices alike. The organization began as a student-run group at UW-Madison, but after the founding members graduated it became a separate organization. UW-Madison does currently have its own tango organization called Tango Club UW.
Quoted: Benjamin Cox is an assistant engineer in the Morgridge Institute for Research fabrication lab at UW-Madison and a graduate student in the medical physics department who has been working in 3D printing for seven years. He said comparing printing Filamet on a home 3D printer to the larger metal printers is “a bit of a false comparison”.
The number one rule for watching the solar eclipse on Aug. 21 is not to look directly at the sun without special eyewear, even when it is partially obscured, said Jim Lattis, who directs the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s astronomy outreach center Space Place.
Emails between patients and doctors lead to more office visits and don’t improve health, contrary to the intent of the increasingly popular exchanges, according to a UW-Madison study.
As an undergraduate nursing student at UW-Madison, Maichou Lor tried three ways of getting information about cancer screening from Hmong adults: using written surveys with true-false or check-box answers, and reading questions out loud.
During Jim Leonhard’s first season as a college football coach, the defensive backs he was tutoring sounded like a broken record.
The final minute of the game Sunday provided a valuable learning experience for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
UW-Madison does not require supervisors or human resources officials to keep records of anonymous sexual harassment complaints that are brought forward by students or employees, administrators say.
There’s never a good time to suffer an injury, especially one that requires surgery. Still, it was rather easy for University of Wisconsin kicker Rafael Gaglianone to take a glass-half-full approach to his absence from the field for the final 11 games of last season.
Andy Mendez, who will be a junior at McFarland High School this fall and is interested in becoming a pharmacist, said his eyes were opened when he attended the UW-Madison Pharmacy Summer Program.
Noted: Dave Mickelson is an emeritus professor in geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in glacial geology and the history of Wisconsin’s landscape.
