University of Wisconsin-Madison is receiving more applications from international students as nearly 40 percent of colleges across the country report receiving fewer such applications.
A windsurfer killed when he was struck by a University of Wisconsin rescue boat on Lake Mendota was identified by the Dane County medical examiner’s office Friday as Yu Chen, 43, of Madison.
Quoted: If this activation is prolonged, it could “trigger a chain of events” that leads to cellular degeneration, which is related to cognitive impairment, say neuroscientist Chiara Cirelli, who led the research. Sleep is “very, very important” to normalize the functions of the brain’s synapses, she said. “I don’t think we know of any cognition function that isn’t affected by sleep deprivation,” added Cirelli, a physician who directs the Wisconsin Center for Sleep and Consciousness and is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s medical school.
Bruce Haight grew up in Beloit, studied at University of Wisconsin-Madison and went off to California to be an eye doctor.
State Rep. Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) says a bill he is pushing that would create stiff penalties for some student protesters in the University of Wisconsin System is aimed at protecting free speech on campus. That may be his intent, but the effect more likely will send a chill over the free speech of all students, faculty and staff.
Noted: Walker will appoint someone to fill out the rest of Brey’s four-year term. The only finalist had been Derek Dominguez, an assistant prosecutor in Wood and Eau Claire counties since graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School in 2012. But Brey’s assistant, LeShea Morrow, recently applied and would likely be considered a favorite for the appointment.
Quoted: Susan Nitzke, professor emerita in nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says most people know the benefits of healthy eating and “if they have kids, they know the importance of being a good role model.”
Quoted: Further, the continuing weakness across much of brick-and-mortar retail could mean lower real estate costs for firms that are doing well enough to expand, Hart Posen, a business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said by email.
Assembly Republicans moved closer to creating tougher penalties for University of Wisconsin student protesters Tuesday, advancing a bill that would suspend or expel students who disrupt speakers.
A slate of Republican-authored changes to the state budget includes new rules to ensure University of Wisconsin System chancellors can come from non-academic backgrounds and a requirement that lawmakers weigh in before any taxpayer money can be sent to UW- Oshkosh’s troubled private foundation.
Quoted: Increasing the penalty for not having insurance and increasing the subsidies to offset the costs of insurance could bring more people into the market and help spread that risk, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Big Ten officials announced last fall that Wisconsin’s 2017 football opener against visiting Utah State would be a night game on Friday, Sept. 1.
While things remain grim for many law schools, the one at the University of Wisconsin recently landed among the top 50 in a much-watched metric: the percentage of graduates who landed real lawyer jobs.
The Legislature’s budget committee on Thursday approved freezing resident tuition at University of Wisconsin schools for two more years, discarding Gov. Scott Walker’s plans to cut it.
Quoted: “We are seeing a pattern now that the recession is over, the large-core metro counties are starting to lose population again,” said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Lab. “And that’s true around the country.”
Noted: About the same time Machado was watching the monkeys die in Itapina, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Karen Strier was discovering that a similar tragedy had already played out on a reserve 140 miles to the west.
Noted: Shaken by the tragedy, the University of Wisconsin-Madison senior business major vowed to invent a lightweight, minimalist life vest that would appeal to triathletes, surfers, kayakers, anglers, standup paddle boarders, sailors and anyone else who should, but probably doesn’t, wear a personal flotation device.
Quoted: Dan Olszewski, the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship for the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said failure is common when people go into business for themselves.
A leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will carry the name of former Gov. Tommy Thompson, honoring the longest-serving head of the state on the 30th anniversary of his taking office.
Boosted by a growth in jobs, poverty in Wisconsin dropped from 10.8% in 2014 to 9.7% in 2015 according to the Wisconsin Poverty Measure.
Quoted: “The key to a high-quality [program] is not the activities, but the way the teacher can engage with the children during all the activities and also manage behavior,” says Katherine Magnuson, a professor at the school of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Legislature’s budget committee is to decide Tuesday whether to go along with Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut college tuition – an idea key lawmakers have been reluctant to embrace.
Quoted: “Place matters,” as UW-Madison poverty researcher Tim Smeeding puts it in the spring issue of the Stanford center’s magazine. “The poverty-generating effects of place can be reduced by moving poor children to better neighborhoods.”
Noted: Donald Downs, professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at UW-Madison, agreed that while the end goal is good, the bill clearly goes too far, and would not be held up by the courts as currently written. He also said, however, that if universities across the country “don’t get our own house in order, we’re opening the door to this.”
Noted: UW Health plans to start offering corneal cross-linking by July, spokeswoman Emily Kumlien said. Unity Health Insurance will cover it there, spokeswoman Jennifer Dinehart said.
The idea of a culture change is pervasive around the University of Wisconsin’s Porter Boathouse.
The fault lines of a national debate over free speech in higher education were on display Thursday during a lengthy hearing on Republican legislation that would require University of Wisconsin institutions to discipline students who interrupt speakers.
Quoted: A system for examining and sharing the factors that contributed to an incident with an eye toward prevention is the next step, said Cecelia Klingele, associate professor at the UW law school. “A key feature of a good review system … is the recognition that we have to be focused on helping people prevent future incidents rather than blaming people for past mistakes,” she said.
Interview with Frank Tuerkheimer of University of Wisconsin Law School.
When bones of a new human species were found deep in a South Africa cave a few years ago, they looked 2 million years old.
Quoted: “When you have farmers themselves saying there’s too much milk out there, you know that’s a problem,” said Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist.
The state would sell more than 70,000 acres of public land and use the money to create merit scholarships for Wisconsin students attending college in the University of Wisconsin System, under legislation announced by three GOP officials Tuesday.
Noted: Grossman received a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a masters of business administration degree from Marquette University. He leads the company’s UW-Madison campus recruiting team.
Noted: Interview with Jessie Wright of the Wisconsin School of Business
Noted: Erisman, an infantry officer who served 10 years in the Marines, including two tours of Iraq, learned of the reading group through a University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni newsletter. His first meeting was at last month’s book group to discuss “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko.
UW political science professor Ken Mayer asked a group of kindergarteners to come up with the toughest question they could think of. Here’s what they asked
In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on his way to a speaking engagement in Madison, libertarian political scientist and co-author of “The Bell Curve” Charles Murray commented on the climate of college protests against speakers with a conservative viewpoint, efforts to pass new speech laws and his own take on the rise of President Donald Trump.
A couple of protesters blew kazoos and air horns, one pounded on an empty pizza box, and they all chanted that a libertarian speaker inside the Madison Club should go home.
Noted: Helfer, 29, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, and a designer for Kohl’s. Harnack, 27, graduated from Illinois State University and is a product development coordinator.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty from the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy invited Murray to the dinner before things got out of hand at Middlebury in March. Murray, a political scientist and conservative writer, has spoken at Notre Dame, Vanderbilt and two universities in New York since Middlebury, and protests at those campuses have not interfered with his lectures.
It’s rare that huge changes come right before a new dean takes over. But even before London Business School welcomes a dean known for innovative curricular changes — current Wisconsin School of Business Dean François Ortalo-Magné — a recalibration, if not a complete overhaul, of the LBS MBA is underway.
UW-Madison will hold a graduation ceremony this week for a unique program designed to change lives of adults near the poverty leve
Quoted: “We know the CARD Act reduced the use of credit cards by young people,” says Andra Ghent, an associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. “But the public policy benefits of that change are less clear.”
Noted: Interview with Alfred McCoy.
Noted: To find out, I got in touch with Prof. Steven C. Deller at the University of Wisconsin-Madison-Extension, who has followed the state’s economy closely and who dug up a wide range of data for me to review. I also took a close look at a recent Politifact Wisconsin report by Tom Kertscher that rated Walker’s statement — “Wisconsin’s economy is in the best shape it’s been since 2000.” — as only half true.
Quoted: First, it becomes a habit, said Cliff Robb, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Second, you get the advantages of compounded returns. “You are at a unique advantage at a young age,” said Robb, faculty director of Consumer Finance & Financial Planning at the School of Human Ecology.
Quoted: Many, and maybe most, jobs bring rewards that go beyond just earning a living. Most entail making a product or providing a service, notes Barry Gerhart, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: He and his wife have donated tens of millions to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, including the business school, the Peck School of the Arts and most recently a Center for Entrepreneurship. At UW-Madison, the Lubars donated to the law school, the business school and the Department of Computer Sciences. They’ve made endowments at Alverno College, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Carla Lundeen never imagined she’d need to find a way to go back to school for nursing—again. But like many nurses in Wisconsin and around the nation, Lundeen found herself caught between the way nursing education used to be and new expectations that are affecting nursing students, jobseekers and employed nurses alike.
Noted: His remarks came at the first in a series of Muster Across Wisconsin events produced by Bunker Labs Wisconsin in concert with the UW Small Business Development Centers and the Wisconsin Technology Council. In addition to Weber’s talk, the La Crosse event featured seminars on the basics of building a business, finding the right resources and attracting capital. Future Muster Across Wisconsin events will follow similar outlines.
Noted: Domestic milk production is outstripping domestic demand, meaning export markets are increasingly important to U.S. dairy producers, according to UW-Madison professor of agricultural and applied economics Brian Gould.
Noted: Two Wisconsin natives and UW graduates, Andrew Walker and Christopher Eckstrom, have moved back to Wisconsin from Chicago to start the fund. Walker recently was CEO of a data analytics startup in Chicago that was acquired; Eckstrom had worked for an international investment bank.
Noted: The company’s technology began as a project at UW-Madison by Fernandez and EnsoData co-founders Sam Rusk and Nick Glattard.
Noted: Then in 2012 I decamped to Madison for several months. I had an appointment at the Institute for Research on Poverty (at UW-Madison).
Six University of Wisconsin head coaches had their contracts extended Friday by the school’s Athletic Board.
The text messages have been arriving at a steady pace on Dean Oliver’s cell phone, most of them congratulatory in nature.
Hardly any starters played for the University of Wisconsin football team during its spring game, but one of the Badgers’ most important position battles was still on display Friday night at Camp Randall Stadium.
As the nation’s top party school prepares for its annual spring bash, with no campus-sanctioned alternative event this year, there are signs that heavy drinking among UW-Madison students may be declining.
Noted: Blue Sky Science is a collaboration of the Wisconsin State Journal and the Morgridge Institute for Research.
UW-Madison is partnering with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office on a two-year, federally funded study to measure the effectiveness of virtual reality tools and 3-D-capture technology on crime scene investigations.
