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.
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.
