Quoted: Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, said while Anthem’s decision will be a big change for the affected members, it won’t necessarily mean a huge change for Wisconsin’s individual health care market.
Noted: In 2013, Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his colleagues reported that even one day of mindfulness meditation can impact the expression of genes. In their study, 19 experienced meditators were studied before and after a full day of intensive meditation. For control, the researchers similarly studied a group of 21 people who engaged in a full day of leisure. At the end of the day, the meditators showed lowered levels of activity of inflammatory genes—exactly the kind of effect seen when one takes anti-inflammatory drugs. The study also showed lowered activity of genes that are involved in epigenetically controlling expressions of other genes. The state of one’s mind, it seems, can have an epigenetic effect.
None of the 10 players with Wisconsin ties who had pre-draft workouts with the Milwaukee Bucks, among other teams, were chosen in the NBA draft Thursday night.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison named Mike Peters director of the agricultural research station network.
Lawmakers late Wednesday voted to crack down on University of Wisconsin System students who disrupt other people’s speeches and events, pitting one set of free speech concerns against another.
Noted: Hart Posen with the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business joined Wisconsin’s Morning News to discuss what this deal would mean for you.
As the Assembly takes up a bill Wednesday to require University of Wisconsin campuses to enforce free speech protections with the threat of expulsion, another debate is raging on the money behind conservative speakers and how well college students really understand the First Amendment.
Noted: The plaintiffs are 12 Democrats, including activist Bill Whitford, a retired University of Wisconsin Law School professor.
One of the most prominent citizens of Wisconsin’s early history continues to recognize excellence in education today.
Jessie Vetter traces the origins of her annual golf outing to when she was a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said people shouldn’t view the stay as an indication of where the court stands on the case overall. He added, though, that because of the time it will take for the Supreme Court to decide the case, “In 2018, we’re very likely to be using the districts we have today,” regardless of how the court rules. He said he doesn’t believe the court will rule until possibly the middle of 2018.
To Tony Granato, a former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey player will have an advantage in becoming the team’s newest assistant coach. To a point.
Peering out onto the Milwaukee Bucks practice court from the wall of the Cousins Center, a sweaty Zak Showalter rattled off names like Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson and Ray Allen with ease.
Quoted: “Many women in the mindfulness group used the skills to avoid pain medication in early labor and then opted for epidural when things became more intense, but as a more intentional, mindful choice, versus out of fear of the bodily sensations of labor,” said lead study author Larissa Duncan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited from rural voters. But Democrat or Republican, they usually tell Katherine Cramer – who has spent a decade visiting residents of small-town Wisconsin – the same thing: it’s the cities that get all the breaks, and then have the gall to look down on them, too
Noted: Finally, Kremer is proposing to protect speakers on UW campuses by prohibiting students and faculty from protesting. In my opinion, every speaker should be heard respectfully, but responsible free speech by the audience should also not be curtailed. If, in rare instances, students or faculty see a speaker as lying, grossly misrepresenting the facts, or advocating discrimination, they should be allowed to protest, even if that means that views that Kremer might value are exposed to ridicule. That is democracy.
Noted: Screnock lives in Reedsburg with his wife, with whom he has three adult children. He received an MBA from Eastern College in Pennsylvania and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
People naturally open up to their hairdressers, said Andrea Nino De Guzman Ramirez, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Eight University of Wisconsin head coaches had their contracts extended by one year by the Athletic Board on Friday.
When Hannah DePorter’s plant breeding and genetics lab at UW-Madison grows beets, only a fraction of what the students harvest winds up being used for research.
Every summer, about 60 graduate students with diverse backgrounds and interests come together at the UW-Madison School of Business for a week of intensive schooling about what it takes to start a tech-based company.
The day of the Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic is usually a special one on the calendar for the charity game’s namesake.
Noted: He plans to return next year to UW-Madison, where he got his bachelor’s degree, to do a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at UW Health. He will also pursue research on using stem cells to treat chronic pain.
Noted: The students also met with Lesley Sager, assistant faculty associate in the design studies department of the School of Human Ecology at UW Madison, and some university students who took part in the study-abroad program, UW Design Studies in Kenya, which she led. The college students talked about their experiences there and the East students did an exercise that involved cutting out magazine pictures that depict things teenagers value.
Those who want to enjoy the bunker-like weight room and labyrinthine hallways of UW-Madison’s Southeast Recreational Facility before the popular campus gym is demolished have until Aug. 18 to do so.
Noted: Melih Eriten is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “How Not to Be Wrong.”
Noted: Screnock has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MBA from Eastern College in Pennsylvania and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin.
Every day while working in a university lab, biology student Hannah DePorter sees produce grown for research wasting away in compost piles.
There’s an online dating site for nearly everybody, but can too many choices be problematic? Live at Four talks with professor Catalina Toma, one of the authors of a recent University of Wisconsin study, that reveals choice overload can raise the stakes.
Noted: Interview with Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are seeking to do what has only become possible in recent years: use imaging technologies to illuminate the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and its effect on the still-living brain.
A federal judge in Madison on Tuesday upheld a jury’s $234.3 million damages award against computer maker Apple, which in October 2015 lost a patent infringement lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, UW-Madison’s intellectual property arm.
After running hundreds of miles in his career at the University of Wisconsin, Malachy Schrobilgen has only 10,000 meters left.
Noted: “The way people are doing murals now is wanting to get their work out there as an artist,” said Buie, a 2010 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MFA program. “They’ll find a building, they’ll find a space, they’ll put up a mural. But it’s not reflective of the community.
Noted: April McHugh is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Noted: Dykes was among 13 finalists to participate in the contest, organized every year by the Wisconsin Technology Council. The council’s president, Tom Still, announced Dykes as the winner of the competition at an award ceremony at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union South, as part of the council’s Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference.
Noted: Erica Kanesaka Kalnay is a former early childhood teacher. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English literary studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
UW-Madison is hard at work trying to whittle down the alarming cuts to higher education and research spending in President Donald Trump’s proposed $4.1 trillion 2018 budget, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a blog post Tuesday.
Another kickoff time on the University of Wisconsin football team’s 2017 schedule was announced Tuesday when the Big Ten Network released its lineup for the season’s first three weeks.
The expulsion of Alec Cook, a UW-Madison student accused of serial sexual assault and harassment, is final despite his attorneys’ attempt to appeal a disciplinary panel’s recommendation.
Quoted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics professor Noah Williams said Wisconsin’s manufacturing jobs losses would have been steeper without the tax break. “Job growth would have been lower in manufacturing and overall,” the economist said in an email.
Quoted: Can a governor radically change the course of a state’s economy?” asked Steven Deller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension. “Not really, but they can influence on the margins, or around the corners. As you know, the larger macroeconomy (what is happening to the U.S. economy) is the 800-pound gorilla in the room. But a governor can set the tone of how the state thinks about the business climate.”
With 168 patents issued last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison moved back into sixth place among 100 universities surveyed around the world last year, according to a news release from the school.
Quoted: The hope is for those 150 cuttings to sprout into hearty trees in the next few years so they can be replanted elsewhere on the property, said Curt Meine, adjunct associate professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Forest and Wildlife Ecology Department.
A pre-college program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that partners with schools to help prepare minority and low-income students for college is narrowing its focus to Milwaukee and Madison public schools, the university announced Monday.
Noted: The latest crop of contest finalists will present Tuesday at the 15th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at Union South in Madison, where 500 or more people will gather to hear speakers, panel discussions and more over two days ending Wednesday afternoon.
Noted: Nass earned a degree in art education from UW-Madison. Along with having artwork featured in corporate, museum and gallery collections, she also teaches colored pencil classes nationwide.
Noted: In Wisconsin, we are fortunate to have researchers who study effective ways of reducing crime at the Remington Center at UW Law School and at Marquette University Law School.
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.
Quoted: There are options on the market for weed killers that have less of a negative impact, but there aren’t any products that have zero risk to the environment, UW-Madison professor Paul Koch said.
Noted: The magazine article focuses on the history of the BrainPort, created in the 1960s by the late UW-Madison professor Paul Bach-y-Rita, and how mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer uses the device.
Noted: The UW Board of Regents decided to sell the Mansion Hill property due to costly renovations. The UW-Madison Physical Plant estimated it would cost nearly $1.9 million to renovate the facility and make it compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, UW System Administration capital planning and budget representative Ellen Rosner said.
Dane County officials Friday released the name of the windsurfer killed this week.
Not long ago, running back Corey Clement had what many felt was a realistic goal of taking the same path predecessor Melvin Gordon did — leave the University of Wisconsin football team a year early to become a high pick in the NFL draft.
When hundreds of students entered College Library in December 2014 for a silent die-in protest, it not only brought the Black Lives Matter movement to the University of Wisconsin campus, it also informed an emerging “beyond neutral” practice at the library.
Noted: Virent’s BioForming process, whose roots came from UW-Madison research by Randy Cortright and James Dumesic, can turn waste agriculture products, such as corn cobs and stalks, into fuel that has the same chemical makeup as gasoline or jet fuel and can be used as a substitute for the petroleum products.
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. Engaged in primary care pediatrics, early literacy, medical education, and advocacy, he covers a variety of topics related to the health and well-being of children and families.
The secret ingredient to building a robust investment fund for startups might just be Badger pride. That’s the idea behind a new venture capital fund called Bascom Ventures, anyway.
