New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that when fathers come home after military service they must re-establish their parental skills and their relationships with their children.
The search for the next chief academic officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been narrowed to four finalists, who will give public presentations on campus starting March 13.
Noted: In addition, there would be two nonvoting members, one from the Medical College of Wisconsin and one from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialize in community-based care.
A suspected three-time drunken driver was arrested by University of Wisconsin-Madison police early Tuesday after the vehicle he was driving was found crashed into a light pole.
Even though the creature crawling on Phil Pellitteris telephone cord in his cluttered office on the University of Wisconsin campus was as tiny as an ant, it didnt escape the entomologists notice.
Noted: Wisconsin Sea Grant is a statewide program of basic and applied research, education, and outreach and technology transfer dedicated to the stewardship and sustainable use of the Great Lakes and ocean resources. Its headquarters are at UW-Madison.
Noted: Kelsey Mullane is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying art history and history. After graduation, she hopes to go on to graduate school and pursue a PhD in American history.
Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign team is learning which supporters it should hype on its website.On Wednesday, the campaign website featured a tweet from David Hookstead, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who caused a major stir with his opinion piece in November suggesting some women “feel the need to exploit anything that may be rape for publicity.”
Noted: Bruce Barrett is a tenured professor and practicing family physician with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Margaret Mooney, Pam Kleiss, Dick Smith and Madeleine Para contributed to this op-ed, which is dedicated to physician-activist Jeff Patterson, who died on Jan. 24.
Noted: According to a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist who consulted with the French investigators, the mitochondrial profile from this tooth is present in less than one-half percent of the population. In other words, it?s not definitive evidence, but researchers argue that ? coupled with all the other evidence ? it?s enough.
Quoted: In general, “you can’t buy now and expect a big gain,” says Morris Davis, an associate professor in the real-estate department at the University of Wisconsin’s business school in Madison. “There’s more risk than there was.”
Noted: James J. Shaw, PhD, of Lake Mills is an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the retired superintendent of the Racine Unified School District.
If you’re scratching your head, trying to figure out financial aid for college, the University of Wisconsin-Madison just completed a Web chat to answer parent and student questions, and the transcript is now available.
Quoted: Lauren Papp, Ph.D., a University of Wisconsin human development and family studies professor who has extensively researched intimate relationships, agrees. “[Chronic jealousy] is not a positive sign for the relationship. It might be tempting to think that someone is more interested in you, or cares for you more, because they express more jealousy or possessive behavior. But jealousy really is a negative sign of insecurity in the relationship.”
Noted: EatStreet was founded in 2009 by Howard and two other University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, Eric Martell and Alex Wyler.
As Millennials lead a national shift away from driving, universities like University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are looking to become transportation innovators, according to a new report released Thursday.
Quoted: Robert Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison, is quoted as saying: “I havent encountered anything quite like this before, and it does make me queasy.”
Noted: Rowe, a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin ? Madison, is a former member of the Waverly Consort.
Noted: Formed in 2006 around University of Wisconsin-Madison technology, AquaMost was named one of 13 “frac water” firms to watch in the March issue of Global Water Intelligence, an industry publication.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher is piloting an Australian exercise program designed to help reduce falls among the elderly — the leading cause of injury for that age group.
Three finalists have been named for the job heading the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discovery to Product initiative, which is intended to boost campus entrepreneurism.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison now leads the nation as the top producer of Peace Corps volunteers with 90 alumni currently serving in 42 countries, the Peace Corps plans to announce Tuesday in Madison.
Skiers, bikers and other silent sports enthusiasts spent $26.4 million in trips to three northern Wisconsin counties in 2012, resulting in $14.7 million being pumped into the counties economies, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Jesse Boell had never handled documents like this before, at least none secreted in salt mines.
Noted: Ken Mayer and Barry Burden, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and redistricting experts, also are expected to speak.
The states flagship campus is at the bottom of the Big 10 in the amount of space it devotes to student fitness, but that could change if students agree next month to pay higher fees toward a $223 million expansion.
Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen and his staff identified three areas of critical need for the 2014 freshman class:Offensive line, wide receiver and secondary.
SeatGeek.com, an online ticket search engine, is reporting that the secondary ticket market is heating up for this Sunday’s Big 10 basketball game between Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin at the Kohl Center.
Noted: He held a doctorate in composition from UW-Madison.
A thin piece of silicon that serves as the brain of the latest high-end iPhones and iPads is at the heart of a lawsuit the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed against Apple Inc.
Noted: The two non-voting members would be doctors from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both of which specialize in community-based services.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist, internationally renowned for his groundbreaking research on how flu viruses in animals can adapt to humans, has received the 2014 Excellence in Research Award from the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges.
Nearly 54 years after boxing was banned at the University of Wisconsin, students once again are getting ready to start sparring and hitting the heavy bag on campus.
Four MBA candidates and a public health graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has teamed up to try to improve chronic disease care in urban slums by 2019.
Noted: Obama also welcomed University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Becky Blank, a former Obama administration official.
Noted: Ozanne’s campaign consultant, Melissa Mulliken, said Ozanne was cited by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police and that records of the violation no longer exist. The UW-Madison police chief, Sue Riseling, confirmed the agency does not maintain such records.
Noted: In Wisconsin, the company already has a research partnership with the University of Wisconsin, funding construction of labs at both UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s athletic department wants a sign swiped from Camp Randall to be returned.
Noted: Similar research is underway by researchers at University of California at Irvine; a group from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin; another group from MIT, Yale and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and a fourth from Stealth Software Technologies, a Los Angeles-based technology company.
A team of four engineering students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is among 300 teams chosen from a field of 10,000 applicants to compete for the $1 million, winner-take-all Hult Prize.
One bottle in professor Jim Dumesic?s chemical engineering lab stands out from the rest these days.
Everyone knows the University of Wisconsin-Madison doesn?t do much to work with companies and institutions in Milwaukee, and its relationship with UW-Milwaukee is practically nonexistent. Right?Wrong.
Wisconsin farmers earned about $3.75 billion in profit last year, coming close to the record $3.8 billion earned in 2011.
Noted: The division also worked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in connection with the construction of the Kohl Center and was named the owner?s representative for the new $975 million Minnesota Vikings football stadium in Minneapolis.
Quoted: ?The construction is short term,? said Steven Deller, a UW-Madison economist who has studied the economic impact of hospitals across the state. ?Once the project is done, those impacts go away.?
Quoted: Robert Batt teaches operations management at UW-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business and has studied the health care industry. He notes that many hospitals get low marks for keeping people waiting when in fact the waits are quite short.
Quoted: Thus, companies such as Campbell have to “think pretty hard” before removing traditional products from grocery store shelves or making substantial changes to them, said Barbara Ingham, professor in the food science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank proposed initiatives to help expand access for low-income students to the state?s flagship university during a White House summit Thursday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison employee died after a truck backed into her as she was walking near campus Thursday morning, a news release from the Madison Police Department said.
Quoted: “It’s a very convincing study” and large enough to give a clear answer, said one independent expert, Dr. Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Davis was recognized as one of the premier bassists in jazz history and an “eclectic musician” who has performed on some 3,000 recordings, including albums by Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison. In his acceptance speech, the bassist noted some career highlights, including working with jazz legends Sarah Vaughan and Sun Ra, performing with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The selection committee for the University of Wisconsin-Madisons common-reading program, Go Big Read, is seeking suggestions of both fiction and non-fiction books that could fit the 2014-15 academic year theme of service.
Its a sign of the times that the first stop for the new University of Wisconsin System president after a news conference Friday was the state Capitol to meet with lawmakers.
The University of Wisconsin System didnt have to look far, after all, for its next president.
One team performed with the efficiency, poise and scoring balance of a top-five team.
The most unconventional and potentially controversial finalist for president of the University of Wisconsin System is out of the running, just one day before the Board of Regents was to announce its selection.
Robert King is out as a candidate for president of the University of Wisconsin System, leaving Ray Cross and Peter Garland as finalists, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Wednesday.
Noted: He received a law degree in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin law school and was a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame. He received a doctorate in 1986, a master?s degree in 1984, and a bachelor?s degree in 1979, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.1
Noted: Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the state-based schools that received marketing materials, Burke said.
New research from scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has linked a protein to the spread of breast cancer to the brain.
Mostly empty lecture halls at University of Wisconsin System campuses across the state greeted three finalists for system president on a frigid Monday as they took questions via video conference on topics ranging from how they would rebuild trust with lawmakers to how they would balance the different needs of 26 campuses.
