Quoted: “There?s a little glimmer of hope that adult obesity rates may be starting to level off,” said Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health and professor of population health sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: Shine is not building a nuclear power plant to make mo-99, as the isotope is called. It has a novel accelerator-driven technology that involves fissioning low-enriched uranium. The technology, developed by Piefer and former University of Wisconsin-Madison medical physics professor Paul DeLuca, generates 3,000 times less radioactivity than a nuclear power plant, Piefer said.
On Tuesday morning, Wisconsin officials announced quarterback Joel Stave would be sidelined indefinitely because of persistent issues with his right shoulder.
The University of Wisconsin System can soon begin awarding federal financial aid to nontraditional students pursuing an associate of arts and science degree through the new online competency-based UW Flexible Option program, UW System President Ray Cross announced Tuesday.
Noted: In Wisconsin, the minimum wage has held steady with the national minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for more than five years. A University of Wisconsin-Madison poll conducted earlier this summer found that more than three out of four Badger State residents support a boost in the state?s minimum wage.
Quoted: One difference between the dairy program and home or auto insurance is that most people don?t know when they will have a car accident or home fire, but dairy farmers often have some warning of a milk glut or spike in feed prices, said Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The plan was developed with input from some of the best local and national experts ? including Don Sykes, the recently retired executive director of the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board; Julie Kerksick, who ran the New Hope Project in Milwaukee and W-2 for the State of Wisconsin; and Tim Smeeding, the economics professor who heads the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty.
Noted: Andrew and Ashlee Steele met when they were 12 in Saginaw, Mich., and later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison together.
Quoted: ?He?s popular among Democrats, wildly so, and so he can really be useful for generating excitement there, but he?s also disliked strongly among Republicans,? says Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two Wisconsin utility companies that previously expressed interest in buying state-owned power and heating plants have formed a joint venture that will consider bidding for them.
Beer, wine, cheese, sausage, soy sauce, sauerkraut ? it?s not hard to think of Wisconsin as a state in which fermentation is more than just a hobby.
An intoxicated University of Wisconsin-Madison student was taken to a hospital with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the level considered proof of intoxication for motorists in Wisconsin, UW-Madison police said Friday.
Noted: Their CBS bio lists them as PhD students in food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison police have released a sketch of a suspect in a recent sexual assault near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in which a woman woke up in her apartment to a stranger touching her.
Noted: Officials confirmed the states first case of the worm last fall in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Its been in the East and Southeast U.S. for 50 years.
Bucky Badger gets the smiles and high-fives. Abe Lincoln draws legions of photo-seeking graduates.
Noted: According to the sisters’ obituaries, Kacee Tollefsbol was studying to be a nurse and held a degree in English from the University of St. Thomas. A mother of four, she had just married Mark Tollefsbol a month before she died. Ashlee Steele, a mother of two, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught three-year-olds at a church preschool.
A year ago, Dominic Cizauskas was coming off one of his signature performances of the 2013 football season.
New University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced last week that state universities will seek to reduce the number of students requiring remedial education over the next five years.
Police used surveillance video and undercover officers to arrest a Madison man investigators believe sexually assaulted a 21-year-old woman in a campus-area parking lot early Wednesday.
Had everything gone according to plan, Dominic Cizauskas would have been gearing up this week for his first football game as a Wisconsin Badger, coming up Saturday against LSU.
Most of the more than 7,400 UW-Madison students who live in the university?s residence halls will move in on Wednesday and Thursday, and that means there will be some street closures, UW Housing said.
The University of Wisconsin-Extension has hired an official from North Dakota to lead the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center, an agency that provides assistance to entrepreneurs and business owners around the state.
Madison police have made an arrest in one of three sexual assaults by strangers reported last week near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Three-quarters of the phosphorus run-off that enters Lake Mendota arrives during 29 days each year, on average, according to a study published recently by UW-Madison researchers. The finding could have major implications in area efforts to clean up Madison-area lakes.
Noted: Silatronix, a Madison company making a key component for a new generation of lithium ion batteries, has closed on $2.8 million from investors led by the Madison venture capital firm Venture Investors and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Just after 3 a.m. on Aug. 24, 1970, Vietnam War protester Karl Armstrong lit the fuse to a 2,000-pound bomb packed inside a stolen Ford Econoline van on the UW-Madison campus and sealed a grim milestone in Madison?s history.
Noted: Lynch came to Wisconsin in 1958 and helped with the last years of the storied University of Wisconsin boxing program. Over the next decades, training and promoting, he became the face of boxing in Madison.
Noted: The early standard bearer for this tribe was Lewis ?Bus? Topp, who was a barber in the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus for 61 years, starting in 1928. Topp became a barber after the ice wagon he drove in Madison began pulling into driveways of homes that suddenly all had refrigerators. He figured hair would never stop growing and enrolled in barber school in Milwaukee.
Noted: She was among the featured presenters at an all-day workshop on children?s and young adult literature that focused on Islam. The sponsors included UW-Madison.
Quoted: “We?ve had high butter prices (in past years) but this is really high,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist and former marketing committee member, wrote in an email that he is skeptical about the stated reasons for rejecting volume control.
Noted: Longtime “American Experience” executive producer Mark Samels, a Shawano native and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, was part of the team that won the Emmy for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special for “American Experience?s” “JFK.”
When a 15-year-old boy drowned in a rip current off a Port Washington beach two years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Chin Wu happened to be doing erosion research on a nearby bluff.
Year 2 of Gary Andersen?s run at Wisconsin is all about comfort.
The University of Wisconsin System set a five-year goal Friday to cut by one-third the number of incoming students needing remedial math, and to boost the first-year completion rate so students who do need it are more likely to succeed in college and graduate.
Noted: Seventeen projects have been chosen for the launch of the new Discovery to Product, or D2P, program. The partnership between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is aimed at taking promising campus inventions and helping to speed their entry into the marketplace.
Three women have been sexually assaulted by strangers on or near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this week, and police believe two of the assaults may have been committed by the same man.
Jignesh Patel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor who sold his company to Twitter, will discuss how to attract West Coast funding to state start-ups next week at the Forward Technology Conference, part of an eight-day event that is among the states biggest gathering of entrepreneurs.
Noted: With a degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master?s from Cornell University?s department of viticulture and enology, the 32-year Spada is one of a handful of independent wine consultants in the state.
Many college basketball analysts expect Wisconsin this season to give coach Bo Ryan his first Big Ten regular-season title since 2007-?08.
The University of Wisconsin System can no longer just be organized as a system of campuses; it must actively improve the well-being of state residents and bridge the talent gap that?s holding back Wisconsin?s economy, UW System President Ray Cross said Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Thursday it will receive $2.3 million from the National Science Foundation related to a project called CloudLab, which is bringing together university and industry teams to develop new technlogies for computer networking, storage and security.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been awarded $3 million for nuclear power research projects from the U.S. Energy Department.
When the NCAA voted to allow schools to provide all athletes with unlimited meals and snacks during the academic year, it gave schools the freedom to choose how much money to spend.
Noted: Cellectar earlier this yearmoved its headquarters back to Madison from Newton, Mass. It was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts.
Three unrelated sexual assaults were reported between Sunday and early Wednesday in neighborhoods near the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
Quoted: “The butter price is what determines the value of butterfat, and our butter prices have been going up, up, up the last several months,” said Mark Stephenson, who follows global dairy markets as director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “As butter goes, other products follow.”
When Willie Karidis graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, he took off for a summer job drilling for gold in Alaska because a friend said he was made for the place.
Noted: The company is based on technology developed by chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and Quallion LLC, a Palo Alto, Calif., battery maker.
Seventeen University of Wisconsin – Madison research projects have been chosen from a field of 170 ideas to participate in a new program designed to develop university research with the most commercial promise.
Quoted: “I wouldn?t call it a hostile environment, but it?s definitely chilly,” said Nadya Fouad, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, who presented the report.
Seventeen projects have been chosen from 172 proposals to fast-track toward the market through a University of Wisconsin-Madison program.
Quoted: “For me, the greatest part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been my experience with the Union. The Wisconsin Union Directorate WUD is the student programming board on campus responsible for planning student events like movies in our on-campus theater or concerts on the terrace. WUD also creates amazing friendships that last a lifetime. My work with the Union has given me a space on campus to learn and grow.?- Sarah Bergman, political science and history.
All rights come with limits and responsibilities. For example, US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously noted that the right to free speech does not mean that one can falsely shout “fire” in a crowded theatre.
Climate scientists have long been building models and analyzing available data to determine the effect of human activity on the global environment, but what about the time before humans? Was Earth in a warming or cooling period before human activity became a factor?
Noted: A study of adolescents in the Midwest by Tally Moses of the University of Wisconsin-Madison found 46 percent of participants experience ?stigmatization by family members, which often took the form of unwarranted assumptions, distrust, avoidance, pity and gossip.?
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison and a private lab on the East Coast both were involved in verifying the remains as belonging to Gordon.
Noted: While in Madison, Professor R. Bruce Allison of the University of Wisconsin-Madison spoke to us about the relationship between humans and trees throughout history. He used his most recent book, ?If Trees Could Talk,? as a reference to guide us through Wisconsin?s tree history.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will be featured four times on ESPN?s Super Tuesday schedule during the 2014-15 season, the network announced Wednesday.
