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A UW-Stevens Point plan to transform its academic offerings — axing liberal arts degrees while adding them in science, engineering, business and technology — has some wondering if other University of Wisconsin System campuses will follow suit.
f you want to touch a hunk of roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite that predates Earth, view fossilized bones from two mastodons that wandered western Wisconsin during the Ice Age or learn more about the universe, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum is well worth a visit.
Noted: Resarch from Anita Mukherjee of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: As opioid usage has worsened in the United States, more and more jurisdictions have acted to increase access to naloxone. Not only first responders but also friends, family and even librarianshave started to administer it. These state laws were passed at different times, giving researchers Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee a sort of a natural experiment: They could look at what happened to overdoses in areas that liberalized naloxone access and compare the trends there to places that hadn’t changed their laws.
Quoted: The science has been slow to evolve on this because there was less demand for a constant stream of data when forecast models were run only every six hours, says Jason Otkin, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies in Madison. Now, agencies are shifting towards more-frequent forecasts, using models that can take advantage of larger amounts of high-resolution data. “If anything, the value of these geostationary sensors is only increasing with time,” Otkin says.
Excessive use of menthol cough drops might make coughs worse, perhaps because people develop a tolerance to menthol, a UW-Madison study found.
Irving Shain, a former UW-Madison chancellor, administrator and chemistry professor, died Tuesday. He was 92.
Quoted: Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate law professor who specializes in correctional policy, said DOC is in a difficult position when it knows some, or even many, of the alerts it receives are caused by equipment malfunctions. “Even short periods of jail are highly disruptive and can cause a person to lose his job, be unable to care for children or even lose stable housing,” Klingele said.
As former University of Wisconsin men’s college basketball player Kirk Penney retires from the New Zealand Breakers, take a look back on the former Badger’s time in Madison and his career in professional basketball and the Olympics.
Barry Davis, who has spent the last quarter-century leading the University of Wisconsin wrestling program and is the longest-tenured current Badgers head coach, announced Monday he’s leaving the program.
A loss to Minnesota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoff championship game cost the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team the top spot in the national rankings.
Former University of Wisconsin standout Nigel Hayes is getting another chance in the NBA.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and the rest of the city got a bit over 2 inches of snow before midnight on Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
A beaming, gold-medal-adorned Hilary Knight made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment this weekend.
Noted: Kimberlee Burrington of the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison judged the yogurt category with Jean Luc Boutonnier, a food science specialist from the south of France. They found few duds among the entries.
For all the words we columnists burn making arguments, the best ones are often won with a swift verbal punch.
In his column on Sunday, “Killers on campus,” Michael Arntfield tries to tie a series of unsolved murders of young women at UW-Madison to the student protests against the war in Vietnam. His thesis — that three serial killers were able to operate because “the white noise of activism and political agitation … obfuscate(d) their presence” is reprehensible and ludicrous.
Noted: In grasslands near Poyang, the kind and amount of food the cranes consume “may no longer be enough to fuel egg laying” at the levels the birds managed in the past, says James Burnham, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His group has documented a worrisome decline in the ratio of juvenile cranes to adults at Poyang between 2010 and 2012.
Not many colleges, it seems, are willing to stand up for free speech on campus these days. Fortunately, the University of Wisconsin is one of them.
Quoted: Young people have the lowest turnout rates of all because they are more transient and have not yet established the habit of voting, said Kenneth R. Mayer, a political-science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They don’t have concerns of property taxes, schools and other things that make older people go to the polls,” he said. The likelihood of voting increases steadily with age, until about 80, when illnesses begin to prevent habitual voters from casting a ballot, he said.
Noted: Adena Rissman, of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, studies the logging industry. She says hard, frozen ground makes it easier to move equipment in and out of forests without getting stuck in the mud or damaging soil and roads.
Noted: Plastic surgeon John Siebert had sex with a patient in New York, got his license suspended for three years and was permanently ordered to have a chaperone in the room with any female patients. But he operates free of medical board restrictions in Wisconsin. In fact, he was appointed to an endowed chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded in part by billionaire Diane Hendricks, a patient and a major political contributor to Gov. Scott Walker.
Bucky’s igloo is shrinking. Sure, a wintry mix of snow and rain is in Thursday’s forecast for Madison.
Noted: Also contributing essays to the volume are the two editors of the book, Gary Orfield, Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning, and co-founder and co-director of the Civil Rights Project, at UCLA; and Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Orfield and Hillman responded via email to questions about their new book.
Noted: Their new goal will be no small feat. They are working to create the endowment at UW Health for transplant research, with the help of a $500,000 donation. UW-Madison donors John and Tashia Morgridge will give $500,000 to create an endowment in Tony’s name, but to get the money the Arenas family must match that donation in five years.
Quoted: “This could absolutely give Amazon pause,” said Neeraj Arora, a marketing professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. “The company has taken a stance on social issues in the past.”
Noted: Krueger graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2006, where he served as editor of the Minnesota Law Review.
Students who defy school efforts to limit participation in next month’s national walkout to protest gun violence won’t have to worry about it affecting their prospects for being admitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After becoming a mother in her teens, Sandra Adell became a prominent professor – but a trip to a casino nearly derailed her life. Joined by addiction specialist Nancy Irwin, she tells Megyn Kelly TODAY about her addictions and recovery, as recounted in her book, “Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen.”
Haley Anya Schonter, 21, of Racine, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, topped eight other entrants to win the 2018 Miss Milwaukee pageant Saturday night at Pius XI High School in Milwaukee.
Noted: A study conducted by the Wisconsin School of Business found that increased use of e-visits might have unintended consequences.
“Our study shows that giving patients email-like e-visit access to their doctors, does not reduce the patients’ use of office or phone visits,” said Hessam Bavafa, study author and Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management. “In fact, we find that e-visits lead to more office visits without obvious improvements in patient health. We also found that doctors accepted fewer new patients after they started using e-visits.”
Noted: Anthony J. Nyberg, a professor at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, and Charlie O. Trevor, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, write about the results of research in the Harvard Business Review. The recommend that company leaders focus on “communication.”
Noted: “Everyone from home has been fantastic,” said forward and team captain Meghan Duggan, who also played at UW. “There’s a big contingency back home and all of us, we wouldn’t be here without all that support, without the fans and the little girls and everyone that has supported us on this journey.”
A driver who was drunk and on drugs when he struck and killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Quoted: “These (changes) not only will prevent consumers from standing up for their rights but also allow unscrupulous rent-to-own businesses to open and thrive in Wisconsin,” said Sarah Orr, director of the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Brianna Decker sported a nasty-looking, purplish-red bruise just above the bridge of her nose, right between her eyes, courtesy of a wicked elbow from Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin that sent Decker sprawling to the ice at the Gangneung Hockey Centre.
An expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison business student accused of sexually preying on 11 women pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges involving five of them, closing the book on a high-profile case that shook the state’s flagship campus and drew national attention in fall 2016.
Considering his emotional investment in the never-ending battle against cancer, it should surprise no one that Bo Ryan decided to include a $500,000 donation to cancer research in his will.
Caregivers of cancer patients are just as likely to be depressed as the cancer patients themselves, but a new study finds that they’re less likely to seek treatment. We talk with a researcher about the study and what we can do to take better care of caregivers. Interview with Kristin Litzelman from the School of Human Ecology.
Jim Lattis, director of UW Space Place, University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department: We really don’t know if space goes on forever. The universe is big enough that we can’t see all of it for a number of reasons. And there are ways that we could live in a space that doesn’t go on forever, but still has no actual edge to it.
On college campuses across the country, free speech is one of hottest topics.
Conservative students and faculty say their First Amendment rights are threatened by a “politically correct” dominant campus culture that seeks to silence dissent, while others say the larger society’s embrace of “hate speech” is part of a system intended to subjugate people of color and other marginalized groups and that it shouldn’t be sanctioned on campus or anywhere else.
Black History Month started as a weeklong commemoration in 1926 called Negro History Week and was the brainchild of Carter G. Woodson, an African-American historian, UW-Madison professor Brenda Plummer said.
UW-Madison’s chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity has been suspended following several conduct violations last fall, including an incident in which a high school student was reportedly drugged at a party at the fraternity’s house, university officials said Monday.
The American Family Insurance Championship, a success story in its first two years as a PGA Tour Champions event, will continue to be played at University Ridge Golf Course at least through 2020, tournament organizers said today. American Family Insurance, the title sponsor, PGA Tour Champions and the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department signed two-year extensions that will go into effect following this year’s tournament, which will be held June 18-24 with three days of competition June 22-24. This year’s tournament marks the end of the original three-year contract.
The Theta Chi fraternity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been suspended from all university activities until October, due to a series of student conduct violations in November.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook, accused of sexual assault, stalking and other offenses mostly involving female UW students, will plead guilty on Wednesday to five criminal charges, one of his lawyers said Monday, days ahead of the first of seven anticipated trials against Cook that was to begin next week.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said the athletic department’s ticket office and senior staff are brainstorming ways to fill up the Badgers’ student section more quickly before football games — a problem in recent years despite success on the field.
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved a $3 price increase for student football tickets, to $27, for the 2018 season.
Noted: Barry Gerhart, acting dean and senior associate dean for faculty and research at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, to interim dean of the school.
Quoted: There’ll be plenty of flowers and candy given out today, but to make love grow, you need to have a talk with your honey about money. That’s the advice of Christine Whelan, a clinical professor who directs the Money, Relationships and Equality initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of her sayings is, “Roses are red, violets are blue; talk about money and grow your love, too.”
Noted: Just to make sure, I checked in by email with Scott Bachmeier, a research meteorologist with the University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. “Those are indeed ship tracks — a few cases are documented on our blog,” he wrote back. For more imagery, make sure to click on that link to the excellent CIMSS satellite blog.
With the intention of streamlining approval of cutting-edge research projects, the state Legislature is considering a pair of bills named in honor of a deceased UW-Madison professor.
At least 16 complaints have been taken up with ASM Student Judiciary this academic year — a 220 percent increase from the previous year.
Almost all 1,000 seats in Varsity Hall were full when Emmy winning screenwriter Lena Waithe, the Black History Month keynote speaker, set foot in Wisconsin for the first time to speak on her unique rise within the television and media industry.
We are appreciative on many levels for Dane County and UW-Extension’s annual free tax preparation help. First of all, it helps a lot of people. And second, it’s a quiet example of local government and the UW providing that help.
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and if you’re looking for love, chances are you may be thinking about looking online. News 3 sits down with Catalina Toma, an associate professor at UW-Madison, who has been researching online dating and the role of technology.
Dr. Karla Esbona, from the UW Carbone Cancer Center, talks about a new research study that looks at an FDA approved drug that may improve the prognosis for patients with dense breast tissue.
Bucky Badger will make you a promise. If you have the grades and the scores and the luck to get into the University of Wisconsin, and if your family’s income is less than the median, Bucky will give you free tuition and cover your fees.
Noted: She’s African-American and queer, and when Waithe addressed the crowd at Union South Tuesday night as the keynote speaker for the university’s Black History Month celebration, she made it clear that she views neither as a barrier to her success. They’re her hard-won birthright, and she uses them to her advantage — especially in white-dominated spaces.
