Research that deprives monkeys of their mothers is scientifically vacuous and morally repugnant.That?s why Ned Kalin?s resurrection of maternal deprivation research at UW-Madison is so controversial and wrong.
What has amazed Kyle Costigan the most are all the letters. They arrive daily to the tidy home in Wind Lake, so many different postmarks and so much good will tucked inside.
They climb on him, sit on his shoulders, kiss his cheek ? all without asking.
University of Wisconsin-Madison plant scientists intend to employ some highly sophisticated instruments to evaluate new varieties of organic vegetables: the palates of the people who produce or prepare them for discerning customers.
The president and CEO of UW Hospital will retire next month amid restructuring of the organization.
Noted: In the GOP primary for the 43rd Assembly District, Leon Hebert trumped Herschel Brodkey, a 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student, by 46 votes.
Noted: Grothman, first elected to the Assembly in 1993 and the Senate in 2004, said he has been a productive member of the Legislature authoring numerous important bills. The University of Wisconsin Law School graduate stressed he would go to Congress seeking changes in entitlement eligibility he believes work against having strong, two-parent families and subsidize a certain kind of lifestyle.
Quoted: The research was undertaken by University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Professor Zhengyu Liu.
Quoted: We spoke to one of the preeminent researchers in this area, Dr. Mark Berres, assistant professor of avian biology with the Department of Animal Sciences at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the Shazam-like app he?s been developing for a few years, called WeBIRD.
When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently requested a figure for its annual report, to show global temperature trends over the last 10,000 years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Zhengyu Liu knew that was going to be a problem. ?We have been building models and there are now robust contradictions,? says Liu, a professor in the UW-Madison Center for Climatic Research. ?Data from observation says global cooling. The physical model says it has to be warming.?
While out on a run last week, a student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison came across an envelope filled with cash. But, instead of pocketing the money, the runner returned the missing envelope to the police.
Quoted: The logic of the wording of the amendment is that if there?s no law governing a game in question, it?s against the law to use the game unless the Legislature says otherwise,? said Richard Monette, a UW-Madison law professor and director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center. ?In other words, the amendment says we can?t gamble unless the Legislature says we can. That flies in the face of logic of everything else we do in this state. It?s anti-democratic and anti-Wisconsin.?
UW-Madison field crops pathologist Damon Smith has been getting calls, photos and plant samples of soybeans showing abnormal growth and leaves with varying degrees of interwoven green and yellow areas, symptoms indicative of alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV).
George Rushing doesn?t golf.”Not at all,” the freshman wide receiver said Tuesday after Wisconsin?s 14th practice of preseason camp.
Kyle Costigan wasn’t prepared for the phone call.There is no game plan that adequately prepares anyone for the message Wisconsins fifth-year senior guard Costigan received Feb. 14: “Mom has cancer.”
Noted: This summer, a University of Wisconsin mathematician, Jordan Ellenberg, created a small stir by inventing what he called the ?Hawking Index? in honor of Stephen Hawking?s much-praised, if not necessarily much-read, A Brief History of Time.
Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon is the subject of feature story in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, the college football preview edition.
Noted: A graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Hines is now one of three justices who have law degrees from an institution other than Harvard.
Noted: Gary Sandefur, dean of letters and science and professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been appointed as provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Oklahoma State University.
Noted: Dan Schaefer, professor and chair of the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes it could be as late as 2018 before the beef market rebounds.
Noted: Alfonso Morales, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor in urban and regional planning, said the beginning of the rise in farmers markets can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s, when middle and upper classes began to demand fresher produce, tired of processed, grocery-store food.
Noted: Jordan has no degrees or diplomas from the University of Wisconsin-Madison or the London School of Economics (LSE), the two institutions cited on his CV.
A multi-institutional team has resolved a long-unanswered question about how two of the world?s most common substances interact. In a paper published recently in the journal Nature Communications, Manos Mavrikakis, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his collaborators report fundamental discoveries about how water reacts with metal oxides.
Noted: The Clinic will work as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison regional coordinating center along with several other Wisconsin health care institutions.
Quoted: ?At the moment, Burke has an important quality: the potential to defeat Walker,? says Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. ?Although some liberals expressed hesitation about her candidacy early on, they are now almost uniformly behind her rather than letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.?
Noted: Spang is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher who lives in Billings and exhibits his work all over the world. After receiving his bachelor?s degree from Montana State University Billings, Spang earned a master?s in fine arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996.
Noted: Another public institution, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, dealt with a Veishea-like tradition by bringing the party on campus instead.
Quoted: ?I don?t think independents were pleased with the small reduction, but it was clear that OSC (Ocean Spray) wasn?t willing to go any higher,? Ed Jesse, UW-Madison agricultural economist and former CMC member, said in an email interview. ?It won?t do much to bring the industry back to a balance, but I guess it?s a start toward that goal.?
Noted: John Hoffmire is director of the Impact Bond Fund at Saïd Business School at Oxford University and directs the School of Business and Poverty at the Wisconsin School of Business at UW-Madison.
The biggest schools in college sports are about to get a chance to make their own rules.The NCAA Board of Directors voted, 16-2, on Thursday to approve a historic package of changes that allows the five richest football conferences ? the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC ? to unilaterally change some of the rules that have applied to all Division I schools for years. Representatives from those leagues representing 65 universities will also benefit from a new, weighted voting system on legislation covering the 350 schools in Division I.
Noted: The DNA Sequencing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center analyzed the DNA, along with a private lab on the east coast, and concluded it belonged to Gordon. Forensic scientists in Madison in June examined the skeletal remains of the soldier for further forensic evidence when Gordon was brought back by his family from the German ossuary in France to U.S soil.
An armed suicidal woman who prompted several alerts, evacuations and a massive search effort Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Wednesday.
Noted: The firm was founded by Timur Yarnall, co-founder of Clickability, and Paul Barford, a computer sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are searching Tuesday for a suicidal woman who is possibly armed.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a record number of freshman applications for this fall and accepted nearly three of every four Wisconsin residents who applied, the university announced Tuesday.
While Kyle Costigan and his Wisconsin teammates prepared to open preseason camp Monday, a fund was set up and a benefit scheduled for his mother?s fight with cancer.
Quoted: “Cheese melting is really all about the milk proteins,” said John A. Lucey, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Dairy Research.
Noted: Dee had been an assistant district attorney for 14 years, concentratiing on child protection cases, according to his appointment announcment. He had also been an assistant city attorney in Kenosha and Madison, and worked in private practice. He obtained both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Leute, whose great-grandfather ran a resort on the river nearly a century ago, studied photography in college and went on to pursue a career as a commercial shooter. But his heart stayed with the river, and a decade ago ? with the encouragement of a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor ? he began to document the river through the Dells in his own way.
Quoted: “Prices have been a bit erratic, but they have typically gone in three-year cycles,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I think we are at the peak of one of those cycles.”
Out-of-pocket contributions to cover the price of college grew in 2014 after three years of decreases, while borrowing declined, according to the seventh annual “How America Pays for College” study released Thursday by lender Sallie Mae.
The arrest and eventual conviction of Dominic Cizauskas, a touted linebacker prospect who sexually assaulted a University of Wisconsin student during his official visit in December, sparked questions about how UW officials handle on-campus visits involving football recruits.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is seeking help to solve a case of graffiti sprayed on one of the fire pits at the popular Picnic Point on the shores of Lake Mendota.
When a student nicknamed Cookie took his life in 2009, his name and picture were left out of the yearbook at Milwaukee?s High School of the Arts.
Nakila Robinson, an accomplished spoken word poet and recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died suddenly last week.
Raising teens can be a challenge, and a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and graduate student are recruiting participants for a study exploring the role of wisdom in parenting and raising teens.
Home watering his trees that border a golf course in Madison, Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen recently entertained an unexpected visitor:Quarterback Joel Stave, who was in the middle of his round when he saw his coach doing yard work.
Imbed Biosciences Inc. has received a federal research grant of $1.5 million to continue developing biologic dressings that could be used to prevent wound infections and promote cell growth and healing.
Protein Foundry LLC, a start-up formed by four Medical College of Wisconsin scientists, may be the first in a string of spinoffs to be incubated at the school under a new program aimed at helping move more companies out the door.
Noted: IceCube is designed to detect neutrinos ? ghostly subatomic particles with no electric charge and minuscule mass. Wisconsin universities are heavily involved in the experiment ? the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a lead institution on the project, and UW-River Falls has played a key role in the research as well.
Ald. Scott Resnick plans to run for mayor of Madison, a source close to the common council member told the Capital Times.Resnick, 27, is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who has represented the student-dominated 8th District for three years. He told the Capital Times Thursday he would have a final decision by next week.
University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks 25th among the best universities in the world in a new list released this week by the Center for World University Rankings.
Stu Jackson, who coached Wisconsin basketball to two post-season appearances from 1992 to 1994, has been named the Big East?s senior associate commissioner for men?s basketball.
Noted: UW-Madison students tend to be more predisposed to starting companies than their counterparts at other big universities, said Jeff Carter, co-founder of Hyde Park Angels, a Chicago angel investing group.
We have a new invasive species in Wisconsin.It?s known as the Asian crazy worm and can reproduce without mating and is capable of wreaking havoc in the soil.The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Tuesday that the invasive worm, Amynthas agrestis, was discovered last fall at the UW Arboretum, a longtime refuge for Wisconsin plants and animals.
Cranberries are blooming this month in Wisconsin ? each delicate blossom awaiting a visit from a bee to pollinate it before the plants can produce their famously tart, red berries.
Noted: The new film “Abnormal” digs into the history of the racial dynamic that still both unites and divides New Orleans, nine years after Hurricane Katrina. But Alvarez ? who attended Washington High School ? is no tourist. After studying film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he spent a decade working at a video collective in New Orleans.
Jordan Taylor is still chasing his basketball dream.The former University of Wisconsin point guard has faced his share of challenges since his college days ended in 2012, including undergoing hip surgery in February.
The state Department of Public Instruction ? and not the University of Wisconsin System ? should determine how much school districts pay for high school students to take UW System courses through a dual enrollment program, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in an opinion released Thursday.
Noted:Perennial nominee Mark Samels, a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, was nominated as executive producer of “JFK: American Experience,” and “The Amish: Shunned.” Samels has 16 previous nominations and has won five times.
