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.
Derek Clark didn’t think twice when UW-Madison researchers asked him to take a health survey, and provide blood and urine samples, six years ago.
When the University of Wisconsin dropped varsity baseball in 1991, there were valid reasons. The athletic department faced a $2.1 million budget shortfall, spending was outpacing revenue and the financial outlook was bleak.
Jerry Evans hit a three-pointer from the corner with 2.7 seconds left and host Melbourne United edged Wisconsin, 90-89.
Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies insurance and risk said that Molina did not offer plans in all areas of Wisconsin, but the company sold more ACA policies overall in the state than other companies. It was also the largest seller in particular areas, including Milwaukee County.
Sometimes in order to get to the gym, all we need is a little extra push. A new study suggests that money might not be a good enough push though. UW Madison researcher Justin Sydnor and his colleagues studied a group of people of all ages and fitness levels who just joined a gym.
The start of another school year, just a couple weeks away, can trigger some anxiety among younger students, but there are things you can do to help minimize your child’s concerns. 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.
A new study by UW-Madison researchers finds there can be such a thing as “too many fish in the sea”: having so many romantic options, you’re less satisfied with your choice.
Quoted: “The hope would have been that by targeting this, you could especially capture some of the people who early on fall off and get them to keep going for longer,” said Justin Sydnor, one of the report’s authors and a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact.”
Noted: Author 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.
Although officials from Wisconsin and Notre Dame began talking more than a decade ago about seeing their football programs meet on the field, the final push toward a successful two-game agreement was UW’s 2016 opener against LSU at Lambeau Field.
The parents of Wisconsin student who died while studying abroad in Rome are suing his university in Italy for failing to notify him about previous deaths of students at the school.
Noted: The funds would go to the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, a UW-Madison master’s degree of business administration program with a focus on arts administration, to partner with the village.
When an opening for a historian for the Joint Chiefs of Staff opened a few months ago, applicants needed a unique set of qualifications.
Quoted: All things considered, talking about past pay can offer employers some insight into a candidate, says Barry Gerhart, senior associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “You can glean useful information from knowing [an applicant’s] salary history, because it does show the degree to which, or whether, a person has successfully moved through positions of increasing responsibility,” says Gerhart.
Noted: Well, “sharing” to the extent that two people have matching copies of the same object. “The fact that a gift is shared with the giver makes it a better gift in the eyes of the receiver,” says Evan Polman, marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They like a companionized gift more, and they even feel closer to the giver.”
Noted: Neis points to GE Healthcare, which employs 6,800 people and has 870 suppliers in Wisconsin, supporting another 21,000 jobs. GE has worked closely with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he noted, and executives have left the company to start their own ventures, including TomoTherapy, NeuWave Medical and Healthmyne. Foxconn could have the same halo effect.
Noted: Berens studied broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to work with MTV on their election-season “Choose or Lose” campaign.
Noted: It’s not as if we do anything meaningful with the records we manage to collect despite the protections provided to private prisons. In 2015, researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Business secured inmate disciplinary report records from a private prison in Mississippi. Using the reports as proxy for rehabilitation (reformed prisoners, presumably, wouldn’t misbehave while incarcerated) revealed that private prisons issue more disciplinary “tickets” — twice as many, in fact — than their public counterparts.
Quoted: “The hope would have been that by targeting this, you could especially capture some of the people who early on fall off and get them to keep going for longer,” said Justin Sydnor, one of the report’s authors and a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact.”
Noted: A few years after retiring as an Air Force colonel in 1968, Haig came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become executive director of the Space Science and Engineering Center, where he was instrumental in the development of the first global meteorological system.
A smile, like a picture, is worth a thousand words. Although most commonly associated with happiness, smiles can indicate nervousness, embarrassment and even misery. To add to their mystique and versatility, smiles can express sophisticated messages that influence the behavior of others in social situations.
Derrick Tindal loves comic book superheroes.
The University of Wisconsin System is looking to “streamline” its process for filling top posts on campuses to speed up hiring and attract applicants from the private sector and government.
After lawmakers finished grilling members of the Walker administration over the details of a proposed incentive package to bring Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin, the mood in Thursday’s public hearing audibly changed.
Noted: The state sells these products to prisons in Wisconsin and Minnesota. It also sells some cream to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the university’s famous ice cream at Babcock Hall.
Quoted: “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact,” said Justin Sydnor, a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and co-author of the report.
Quoted: This, FYI, is called “companionizing”. Ie, that yoga mat is a “companionized gift”. “The fact that a gift is shared with the giver makes it a better gift in the eyes of the receiver,” says study co-author Evan Polman, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business. “They like a companionized gift more, and they even feel closer to the giver.”
Noted: UW Law School Professor Keith Findley interviewed.
Noted: Like several other sources, Gonzalez pointed to UW-Madison as an important factor for Foxconn in considering Dane County. In addition to the research there, UW is also an alma mater for executives and scientists in Taiwan who are connected to Foxconn, sources said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison lost its top spot among party schools in the latest Princeton Review survey released this week, but it’s still got the most beer and the best health services.
Noted: In another local connection, the head of the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently met with representatives of the medical equipment division within Foxconn about potential collaboration with cancer researchers in Taiwan. “I will hope and expect that there will be a give and take … such that patients in Taiwan would benefit and patients in Wisconsin would benefit,” Howard Bailey, the center’s director, said in an interview.
