Includes interview with Lesley Sager, a faculty associate in design studies at the School of Human Ecology.
Recently, I encountered a new-to-Wisconsin mother and toddler who had left behind a not-so-good environment. As we established trust with one another, it came out that she was concerned about her child’s mild speech delay. The upheaval in their lives meant they hadn’t been able to find a primary care clinic and schedule his regular checkups yet. What could I do that might offer some immediate benefit for them?
Interview with Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted, Diop is an assistant professor at the Wisconsin School of Business: A second paper, by economists James Conklin, Moussa Diop and Herman Li, used a very interesting method to evaluate one aspect of legal weed’s impact — they looked at house prices. When recreational cannabis was legalized, many medical marijuana dispensaries converted to retail marijuana stores. Conklin et al. found that near these stores, housing prices almost immediately rose by about 8 percent relative to houses in other areas.
Interview with Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business.
University of Wisconsin Regent Bryan Steil on Sunday launched his campaign for House Speaker Paul Ryan’s congressional seat, touting himself as a “problem solver” who would take on the political establishment.
Former Wisconsin and San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland credits Ann McKee with saving his life in a piece that he wrote for Time’s “The 100 Most Influential People of 2018.”
There are several Wisconsin connections to ‘Time’s’ list of the 100 Most Influential People of the year, including Megan Twohey, who worked at the Journal Sentinel, Oprah Winfrey, J.J. Watt, fashion designer Virgil Abloh and neuropathologist Ann McKee.
Some day, if billionaire inventor Elon Musk’s idea comes to fruition, humans will travel from city to city via Hyperloop.
Quoted: “Getting out in front of a story like this is textbook crisis management,” said Thomas O’Guinn Chair of UW Marketing Department. “What they did how they responded, they didn’t argue with the customer – didn’t say no you don’t understand this.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison will not remove from campus buildings the names of well-known student leaders who also were members of a campus Ku Klux Klan society in the early 1900s, the university announced Thursday.
Once a farm, almost a subdivision, the UW Arboretum has never been static.
Quoted: One reason the equable, fifty-six-year-old Baldwin “is being so heavily targeted,” Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, said, is that she is the most visible elected Democrat in the state. “Over the past eight years, Republicans have had tremendous success retaking the governorship, both chambers of the state legislature, and statewide offices,” Burden said. “The Baldwin seat is the most highly coveted prize for Republicans to gain.”
Noted: The only Democrat in the race is Ann Groves Lloyd, a Lodi alderwoman and University of Wisconsin-Madison academic adviser.
Noted: Even more significant are the blighting effects on survivors. Charlie Trevor of University of Wisconsin–Madison and Anthony Nyberg of University of South Carolina found that downsizing a workforce by 1% leads to a 31% increase in voluntary turnover the next year.
Quoted: “Many people are being revived with naloxone over and over again, and the drug is critical in saving these lives,” said Anita Mukherjee, one of the study’s authors and professor in the department of Risk and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business. “But we need to give them treatment so that they are not in the risky position again.”
Noted: After high school, Walsh studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she wrote for The Daily Cardinal newspaper. After college, she worked as a reporter and an editor for the Santa Barbara News and Review, and then she wrote for a progressive political magazine in Chicago called In These Times.
As students filtered in for the first session of class in Russell Labs room A228 at the University of Wisconsin, they were greeted with a snack of venison sausage.
Noted: The faculty contract promises academic freedom, which a University of Wisconsin-Madison expert witness hired by McAdams defines as “the freedom of scholars to pursue the truth in a manner consistent with professional standards of inquiry.”
Quoted: “Beyond question, patients should be informed that the ‘safety step’ of not undergoing surgery is theirs to choose,” wrote Dr. Kirk Hogan, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, in an article published earlier this year. “Each patient must determine if the proposed benefits of a procedure outweigh the foreseeable and material risks of cognitive decline after surgery.”
Quoted: Dr. Aleksandra Zgierska, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and expert in addiction medicine, believes that pharmaceutical companies misled doctors who prescribed the drugs. “The underlying messaging that clinicians and patients had been receiving was that opioids do not cause addiction in patients who are using it for pain,” she says. “And that opioids don’t have a ceiling dose, or upper limit, of dosing.”
Noted: Co-authored by Christine B. Whelan, a clinical professor of consumer science in the School of Human Ecology.
Noted: White was teaching high school math in Dallas when he left for law school at UW-Madison in 2005. “I didn’t know anybody up here, had no connections to Madison,” he said. Fortunately, that’s changed with time, and White now has friends to brunch with on weekends and is active in professional organizations. He’s also an adjunct professor of law at UW-Madison.
Noted: Holtzman assembled a team of friends with varying experiences to form Torq Labs’ group of six co-founders. The team first met in November 2015. By the beginning of 2016, they had a prototype and established a company, Torq Laboratories Inc. Five of the six co-founders graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The sixth went to UW-Milwaukee.
Undergraduate female students lodged seven sexual harassment complaints against University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, academic staffers and graduate students over the past decade, including one that resulted in a firing.
Cliff Robb quoted.
Noted: At the request of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the leading ACE researchers at UW-Madison aggregated five years of statewide data, from 2011 through 2015, and broke out results for the four ZIP codes that cover the City of Racine. The four main ZIP codes encompass the urban center but also reach well into the suburbs, including the affluent lakefront Village of Wind Point, home of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Wingspread campus for the Johnson Foundation.
The Wisconsin Idea — the concept that the knowledge and innovations from the university reach to the borders of our state and beyond — highlights the pre-eminent role that our university system plays in creating a better quality of life for citizens.
Students who graduate from two-year University of Wisconsin campuses starting in December will have a different name on their diplomas, but what that name will be is yet to be decided.
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.
