The $1.5 million research station is being paid for through a public-private partnership that includes $750,000 in private funds and $650,000 from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. The property will include 30 acres of production cranberry beds to generate revenue to help support research, along with another five acres of beds for further research studies by faculty at UW-Madison and the USDA.
In 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineer Justin Williams oversaw an effort that successfully used a brain-computer interface to send messages from the brain to Twitter.
“It was both a small and a big step,” he told Gizmodo. “Ten years later have we gotten much further? I’m not sure.”
Lawns are the most grown crop in the U.S.—and they’re not one that anyone can eat; their primary purpose is to make us look and feel good about ourselves.
Dam removal is growing in popularity so that fish routes can be restored and they can be removed before they fail and cause harm. But which ones should be removed first? A recent study on barriers in the Great Lakes Basin looked to answer that question with a new tool called Fishwerks. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an online application to help decide which removal project is the best removal project.
“We are getting more and more requests from patients who say, ‘I want to avoid sedation if it’s not necessary,'” said Dr. Mike Ford, an anesthesiologist at UW Health. “Some patients don’t like the idea of losing complete control.”
John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Marina Elliott of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and their colleagues describe 131 new H. naledi specimens representing at least three individuals from another part of the cave system, the Lesedi Chamber, located about 100 meters from the Dinaledi Chamber.
“Thirty-one students from a variety of majors within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences worked diligently throughout the 2016-2017 academic year to develop the five-page executive summary, full scale marketing plan and competition presentation,” said Faculty Advisor Sarah Botham.
While Wisconsin had the second-highest per-capita participation among 35 states with high-risk pools, HIRSP was too expensive for many people and left more than half a million residents uninsured, said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
“What you’re seeing is a lot of universities offering online summer classes so (students) can work that summer job and stay on track or get ahead in their studies,” says Sarah Barber, assistant dean of summer term at UW—Madison. “Students might stay in campus town or might be off in another state doing something.”
One of the chief authors of a Republican bill that calls for the University of Wisconsin System to suspend or expel student hecklers who disrupt speeches says the measure’s language is too vague and may be unconstitutional.
“It’s now about a 20-year period,” Watras said.
The UW Trout Lake Station in Boulder Junction has kept records of lake levels since the 1940s. Those levels followed a consistent cycle for much of that time, but in the 2000s, when levels should have gone up, they continued to go down until the lakes reached their all-time low in 2013.
“We’ve just completed roughly 15 years of declining water levels,” said Watras.
Netflix’s new talk show, Bill Nye Saves the World, debuted the night before people around the world joined together to demonstrate and March for Science. Many have lauded the timing and relevance of the show, featuring the famous “Science Guy” as its host, because it aims to myth-bust and debunk anti-scientific claims in an alternative-fact era.
From leading astronomy writer, Phil Plait, on the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper: One of my favorite things is to learn something new. Especially when it’s something big. In this case, I mean it literally: The galaxy is filled with warm, ionized hydrogen gas, it forms a huge pancake-like structure 75,000 light years across and more than 6000 light years thick, and it has a name: the Reynolds layer. Even better, when it was discovered, it was a shock, briefly defying explanation until better physical models of the galaxy made it more clear.
“We’ve made difficult budget reductions at UW-Eau Claire, while doing our up most to try and protect the student experience,” said UW-Eau Claire Chancellor James Schmidt.
Schmidt was one of dozens of education leaders who made a plea to legislators to keep education a top priority in the state budget.
“There is no doubt that the three UW system campuses, including the three universities in this part of the state, Eau Claire, River Falls and Stout, are key to the future success of the State of Wisconsin,” Schmidt said.
UW-Stout Provost Patrick Guilfoile told the committee there is a need to raise the salaries of university faculty and staff to “attract new hires and to stop the exodus of valued employees from UW-Stout.”
“I hope this committee will find a way to support a pay increase for our employees because the quality of our faculty and staff make all the difference in the quality of education that we can offer our students, and competitive salaries help ensure we recruit and retain outstanding faculty and staff,” he said.
The mix of activities and programs and the amount of funding varies by campus because students decide for themselves what to support.
These fees fund what we call “campus life,” as they extend and enhance the college experience in valuable ways, especially on smaller UW campuses such as UW-Marathon County. Making allocable segregated fees optional would very likely devastate the programs they support and reduce, if not eliminate, extracurricular opportunities to live and learn on our campuses.
An innovative study in the University of Wisconsin-Madison could soon put an end to drug-resistant bacteria by using an edible version of CRISPR. This probiotic could target specific bacteria, making it more effective than antibiotics.
As resistance to antibiotics grows in the U.S., researchers are looking for new ways to fight germs like Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that can cause fatal infections in hospitals and nursing homes. Now scientists want to turn CRISPR into ultra-precise antimicrobial treatments to “specifically kill your bacteria of choice,” says food scientist Jan-Peter Van Pijkeren of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
That spurred Thao to join with several other Hmong-American undergraduates, forming an organization that is pushing UW-Madison administrators to hire more faculty who study the ethnic group and launch a program through which students can earn a certificate in Hmong-American studies.
While President Donald Trump’s travel ban is on the back burner for now, tied up in federal courts, the issue remains front and center for universities and international students such as the Iranian couple at UWM, Mohammad and Shi. Now is when international students accept admissions offers from universities and put down deposits.
“It was just silence, a sense of emptiness. It was like the energy was sucked out of the universe,” Karen Strier, an anthropological professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said upon her visit to the reserve in January 2017.
The 12th annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium is set for Wednesday, April 19, in Fitchburg. It features prominent stem cell researchers from around the world. One of the presenting scientists will discuss the latest developments in stem cell therapies and what advances are being made by researchers here at the University of Wisconsin and around the globe.
A Republican bill targeting an agreement between the University of Wisconsin and Planned Parenthood would jeopardize the school’s ability to train future obstetricians and gynecologists, according to university officials. But the lawmakers introducing the bill say there’s no evidence that would happen.
The rusty-patched bumblebee recently became the first bumblebee, as well as the first bee overall in the continental United States, to be listed under the Endangered Species Act. We talk with a native plant gardener Susan Carpenter about what can be done to help this bee and other native pollinators and how everyone…
You can access real-time images from GOES-16 and other satellites using the RealEarth tool maintained by UW-Madison’s SSEC. If that’s not enough, NOAA Satellites maintains a blog and a Twitter page where they post regular eye-candy from the newly-christened satellite.
Many University of Wisconsin students also stepped up to advocated against a budget provision that would allow them to opt out of paying some segregated fees that help fund student organizations. The move could result in funding cuts to campus services, such as crisis rape centers.
A 10km² area of forest, known as RPPN Feliciano Miguel Abdala, surrounded by agricultural land is now silent after losing the majority of its brown howler monkeys in an unprecedented epidemic. Karen Strier from the University of Winconsin-Madison visited the forest in January 2017 and has been studying primates there for decades.
Video: Science and discovery are all over the UW campus this weekend with the Science Expeditions event. The runs from Friday to Sunday.
Blank told the “Chronicle of Higher Education” last week that funding from the cut would be better spent on lower-income students rather than the entire student body. She favors increases in student aid, which is targeted based on financial need.
Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed, director of UW Health’s pain management clinic, plans to use a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to educate primary care doctors about appropriate use of opioids and alternatives such as other medications, steroid injections, nerve blocks and surgeries.
That ranking, from University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Professor Nicholas Hillman, is based on what’s known about a proposed performance-based funding system to allocate $42.5 million in new money for the 2017-19 budget.
UWVC has long provided care and other support for police dogs, but the new statewide K-9 health effort was created after the school looked for ways to do more to serve them and their departments.
Most of the monkeys that have perished from yellow fever are brown howlers. This creates an interesting opportunity for the critically endangered muriqui monkeys, according to a UW-Madison news release. Muriquis are less susceptible to yellow fever. Researchers are studying if their population will thrive in the absence of howlers.”No one really knows the consequences for the other primates or the forest when nearly the entire population of an abundant species dies from disease in just a few months,” says Karen Strier, PhD, professor of anthropology.
On March 21, the rusty-patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis, officially became the first bumble bee listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act. We must take action now to prevent the extinction of the rusty-patched and other imperiled bumble bees and foster native pollinators to maintain agricultural productivity and healthy ecosystems. It is still found in southern Wisconsin, including at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, where our restored prairies, savannas, and woodlands provide the diverse native plant habitat they need to survive.
Waisman Center’s Sigan Hartley talks to Channel 4 about Sesame Street’s new muppet, Julia.
University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Robert Hamers has a jam-packed day ahead: an hourlong lecture, a conference call with colleagues about nanotechnology, meetings and plans to check on students in the lab.
“High turnout has been maintained by a combination of three factors: a strong culture of civic participation, supportive election laws and competitive elections,” said Burden. “The participatory culture probably did not change substantially since the last election. The more likely culprits are changes in election laws and the competitiveness of the 2016 campaign.”
Wisconsin residents who are 64 years old, make $26,500 a year and buy health insurance individually would pay $5,300 to $13,000 a year more in premiums under the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, depending on where they live, a liberal watchdog group says.
“We are looking for a much improved year for dairy farmers,” said Cropp, professor emeritus with University of Wisconsin-Extension and UW-Madison. “Feed prices are lower and milk prices will be higher, which will improve margins — returns over feed cost. As of now it looks like milk prices could average about $2 per hundredweight higher than last year.”
A researcher from the University of Wisconsin said Julia is a welcomed addition to Sesame Street’s cast. Sigan Hartley led a study about the day-to-day lives of parents raising children with autism. She said Julia helps destigmatize negative images of children with autism and shows differences are not a bad thing.
Students at UW-Marshfield/Wood County and those at our 12 other campuses in the state want a smaller, more personal educational environment to start, with University of Wisconsin coursework taught by University of Wisconsin teachers. Some want to get acclimated to college and learn better study habits. Some want to get more hands-on help to ensure success in their careers. Others want the reassurance of an environment where they won’t get lost.
The northern muriqui monkeys of Brazil — popularly known as “hippie” primates — are vegetarians, begin their day with a group hug, and are one of the planet’s most peaceful and egalitarian animals. They normally share their forest habitat with noisy howler monkeys that eat their food and appear to get on their nerves, but the hippies are now in flux. A yellow fever epidemic just wiped out thousands of howlers, leaving the hippies as the only thriving primates in the forest.Karen Strier, a University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist, just visited the forest, which lies within the federally protected RPPN Feliciano Miguel Abdala reserve near the Brazilian city of Caratinga.
Recently, Wisconsin has lagged by this measure even as the cost of renewable energy has fallen, said Greg Nemet, a UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs professor who specializes in energy policy.
On a recent Saturday morning walk through the UW-Madison Arboretum, Christy Lowney stops to examine the newly formed buds on a stately magnolia tree. They’re lovely to see and touch — fuzzy little proto-blossoms bursting forth from dormant wintry branches. But they’ve arrived several weeks early. “Our curator is kind of in a panic,” says Lowney, an Arboretum ranger. “This normally happens much later.”
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NEA and NEH money can also function as a multiplier. Many grant recipients use an agency’s seal of approval as a basis to solicit matching funds from charitable foundations, often at a rate of three private dollars for each federal dollar, according to Lea Jacobs, associate vice chancellor for research for arts and humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
When Leigh Orf, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, strives to unravel the mysteries of tornado formation, he needs something way bigger than a laptop. Phenomena like the huge, supercell thunderstorms he studies involve such vast amounts of data, only a supercomputer will do.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison showed up on several of the lists and typically was the highest ranked Wisconsin university.
UW Researcher Peter Rafferty from the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory (TOPS Lab) in the College of Engineering discusses testing driverless cars.http://www.wsaw.com/search?searchKeywords=UW
Dr. Carlo Croce, a prolific cancer researcher at Ohio State University, has repeatedly been accused of scientific misconduct. New York Times reporters went to Ohio State and inquired about scientific practices there and about who was in the best position to police scientific standards, and acquired troves of public records. The university has since taken a fresh look at allegations made against one of its biggest rainmakers, and organized an independent, external review. Rarely do reporters encounter as few obstacles as they did in this case. The story, one of the reporters says, is a reminder of the importance of keeping public information where it belongs, open and accessible to the public.
Findings of fraud in biomedical research have surged in recent years, whether from an actual increase in misconduct or from heightened caution inspired in part by an internet-age phenomenon: “digital vigilantes” who post critiques of scientific papers on anonymous websites. Yet the primary burden for investigating and punishing misconduct falls to inherently conflicted arbiters: universities like Ohio State that stand to reap millions of dollars from the federal grants won by star researchers like Dr. Croce.
We are all doing well in our golden years and enjoying our retirements; two here in Wisconsin and one in Illinois. I can unequivocally state that the reason why we are doing well is the education we received from this great university.
Under Walker’s budget, college students would receive more need-based financial aid and those attending technical schools would have their tuition frozen. Ballweg said Thursday that only half the students who attend a Wisconsin Technical College and qualify for financial aid actually receive it.
Those who disregard science and scientific consensus as not for them simply don’t have the knowledge – the facts, according to this thinking. And, as Dietram Scheufele, a professor of science communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison pointed out in a talk at the AAAS meeting, in the current “fake news panic” that mentality can fuel an impression that “if they just had the correct facts, they could make better decisions.
The head of the University of Wisconsin says taxpayers are going to pay for work on campus, sooner or later. UW System President Ray Cross issued a statement yesterday thanking Governor Walker for the investments in his schools. But Cross also warned that delaying or deferring a number of projects will only drive-up costs in the future.
Melander noted those funds go to organizations on campus that in many cases are professional groups for students to learn more about their chosen majors and future careers.
A new center dedicated to providing executives, and subsequently their businesses, with the skills and tools they need to be more innovative and excel in an increasingly competitive and fast-changing business climate is now open at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The governor’s companion budget bill calls on the UW Board of Regents and the campuses across the state to “guarantee all members of the System’s community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge and learn.”
Is this week’s announcement that the UW Green Bay student newspaper is ditching print, and going solely digital, a sign of the times?
With a special ceremony Thursday, UW Green Bay said goodbye to its print version of The Fourth Estate.
Walker’s budget simultaneously requires the UW System to create new three-year degree pathways while also adding on a requirement like this that only serves to lengthen the amount of time that students are in school.
A proposed science and technology center near the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will get a significant boost Friday when Gov. Scott Walker announces $5 million in funding for the project.
