(Video) The Dictionary of American Regional English took researchers at UW 49 years to complete. The five volumes document dialects in all regions of the country. But they thought it would be time to update it. Joan Houston Hall talks about the project.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien [executive director, The Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence], says this trend of “online and not in-line” has been revving its engine for a while now. Online shopping may not be beating regular old shopping in person, but it’s getting there.
“The growth has been consistent. The past four years it’s had dramatic growth, so there’s obvious a trend where we have more people every year, and this past weekend it looks like more than 20 percent of the people took advantage of it so it’s a growing trend,” explained O’Brien.
Led by the league’s top linebacker, three key components of Wisconsin’s No. 1-ranked defense were named All-Big Ten on Monday.
Senior OLB Joe Schobert was named Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year and was a consensus first-team All-Big Ten selection, while senior S Michael Caputo earned consensus second-team honors and junior OLB Vince Biegel was named to the All-Big Ten third team by both the league’s coaches and media.
Another five Badgers earned honorable mention All-Big Ten recognition: freshman ILB T.J. Edwards (coaches), senior CB Darius Hillary (coaches), senior S Tanner McEvoy (consensus), sophomore DE Chikwe Obasih (media) and junior CB Sojourn Shelton (media).
It seems like a simple concept, but more often than not parents are making some big mistakes when buckling kids up in their safety seats.
Just because you hear that “click” of the buckle doesn’t mean your car or booster seat is properly installed. Nicole Vesley, the Safe Kids Coordinator at UW-Children’s Hospital says it’s not that simple.
“Here in Dane Co., about 90% of the car seats that we check have a misuse to them,” said Vesley.
Noted: “What happened to Target’s website this morning, to me, this doesn’t necessarily represent a hacking attempt or a theft of credit card information, but rather people showing they have confidence in the online retailers and Target’s site is just overwhelmed with shoppers,” UW-System Chief Information Security Officer Nicholas Davis explains.
Noted: Dr. Ryan Westergaard [assistant professor of medicine and Population Health Sciences] is an HIV doctor and researcher at UW Health. He says now the goal is to find more ways to prevent the spread of the virus, and ultimately find a cure.
Badgers running back Corey Clement has been cited with two counts of Disorderly Conduct in the fight that happened November 8 at the Hub apartment building in Madison. Three others are cited in the incident, as well.
Madison Police say the story released by Wisconsin Athletics earlier this month was not reflected in the video footage obtained during their investigation, going so far as to say the news release was not factually accurate.
University of Wisconsin running back Corey Clement was cited for two counts of disorderly conduct, after a fight inside The Hub, Clement’s downtown apartment building.
The fight was witnessed by a few residents and was captured on security and cellphone cameras.
One cellphone video shows the tail end of a fight. Clement heads down the stairway at the beginning of the clip, and a security guard and a few others remain by the elevators.
Wisconsin junior running back Corey Clement has been cited for two counts of disorderly conduct for his role in a Nov. 8 fight at his off-campus residence, according to a release from UW Athletics.
“We were informed yesterday by Madison police that Corey Clement was cited for two counts of disorderly conduct for his role in an incident on Nov. 8. When we first became aware of this incident, we knew this was a possibility,” the release said.
Quoted: In New York City, University of Wisconsin art professor Laura Anderson Barbata is preparing to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade a living social justice art piece called “Intervention: Indigo” she came up with with 17 other people, including two others from UW.
“It is a reminder and way of bringing back what the symbolism and protection of the color indigo is all about,” Barbata said.
The latest figures on academic research spending in the United States provide, on the surface, some reassuring news for Wisconsin. For starters, the University of Wisconsin-Madison held its position as the nation’s fourth-largest research and development powerhouse. Lurking under the waves, however, are currents that should send a chilling message to policy-makers who believe the state can continue to reduce support for higher education — especially basic research — without taking on water over time.
The Wisconsin women’s hockey program and head coach Mark Johnson announced the signing of seven student-athletes for the 2016-17 season on Tuesday.
Joining the Badgers next fall are goaltenders Alyson Baldwin (Richmond, Texas) and Nicole Cece (Oakville, Ontario), forwards Alexis Mauermann (Janesville, Wisconsin), Presley Norby (Shorewood, Minnesota) and Abby Roque (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) and defensemen Maddie Rowe (River Falls, Wisconsin) and MeKenzie Steffen (Centerville, Minnesota).
A University of Wisconsin football fan who was ejected from Saturday’s game signaled his disapproval to UW police by sending them 20 dozen coconut doughnuts.
Last year alone over seventy-three hundred people contributed over two-point-five Million dollars to more than 500 charitable organizations and causes. By the time this year’s campaign ends next Monday they’ll have done it again, mostly small gifts that add up to make life a little better for local individuals, families and communities.
Just something to think about next time somebody takes a gratuitous political shot at state workers.
Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens has made the adjustment from growing up in Quebec, Canada to going to school in Madison, Wisconsin.
Desbiens recently set an NCAA record of 543 minutes and 57 seconds of consecutive shutout hockey, breaking Jessie Vetter’s mark.
Quoted: Research shows graduation rates fall for students of color when they’re forced to pursue their collegiate education in a hostile environment.
“That struggle has been true on every campus I’ve been on as a student and a professor,” said Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor in curriculum and education at UW-Madison, who has also been at the University of Washington, Stanford University, and Santa Clara University. “It’s not always overt racism, either. They tend to be what is identified now as ‘micro-aggression’ or what is called ‘1,000 tiny cuts.’ Constantly little things. It’s constantly seeing the inequitable ways things play out on campus. That’s a frustration the students are facing.”
“I just hate to see students come out of the university as survivors rather than thrivers,” she said. “But that is the reality.”
Ashley Thomas, a Harlem native and senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, never thought she’d end up in the Midwest.When she started looking for schools, she was interested in diversity. But according to UW’s website, over 70% of the school’s students identify as white. So, why did Ashley choose UW? Because of a hip-hop and urban arts program called First Wave. UW is the only school in the country with anything like it.
It’s not easy for U.W. Rheumatologist Dr. Abdul Halabi to talk about Syria.
“That’s how I visit nowadays,” Dr. Halabi points to pictures he finds from Google Earth of his home.
“It’s basically how you see your place of birth.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association has sent an email to parents of current students telling them how to lobby on a bill allowing concealed weapons in campus buildings.
The email, sent Friday morning, tells parents about the bill and why UW System leaders oppose it. There’s no explicit request to lobby against the bill, but the email encourages families to discuss campus safety and the impact the legislation might have on learning.
UW-Madison’s computer sciences department has received a $5 million donation from a Milwaukee businessman and his wife.
The university announced the donation from Sheldon and Marianne Lubar on Friday. Other Badger alumni, John and Tashia Morgridge, matched $2 million of the Lubars’ donation, making the total donation $7 million.
(Video) Badgers fans braved the cold at Camp Randall Sunday for the team’s last home game.
(Video) Officials say a winter storm rolling through Southern Wisconsin Friday evening will cause increased wait times at Saturday’s Badger football game, as traffic moves slower and security personnel search fans’ coats. Dannika Lewis reports.
UW has become the first hospital in the Midwest to create a Brain Injury Peer Visitor program that brings together former brain injury patients with those currently being treated in the Neurosciences ICU unit.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni group has sent an email to parents of current students telling them how to lobby on a bill that would allow concealed weapons in campus building.
The UW Alumni Association sent the message Friday morning. The email tells parents about the bill and how UW System leaders oppose it. The message doesn’t explicitly ask parents to lobby against the measure but encourages families to discuss campus safety and the impact the legislation might have on learning.
Noted: The Village of Shorewood Hills received $22,400 for the University Avenue Trail extension connection between City of Middleton’s and UW-Madison’s trail system.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police report more than 100 fans were ejected from Saturday’s Big Ten football game against Northwestern at Camp Randall Stadium.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports fans threw snowballs and ice at each other and onto the field as the season’s first big snow hit Madison.
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and across the Middle East are weighing heavily on some international students at the University of Wisconsin as they prepare to experience their first Thanksgiving meal thanks to a citywide volunteer program.
A swarm of UW-Madison students and community members, led by the student organization Climate Action 350 and its city affiliate 350 Madison, protested in front of Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s office Thursday to demand the divestment from fossil fuels.
Divestment would include the university and the UW Foundation taking all the money that is invested in fossil fuels, which scientists have attributed as a cause of global warming, and putting that money into ethical and sustainable entities, according to the organization. Once it is removed, Climate Action 350 will have no control over where it is placed, but will have suggestions of what would be better.
A man once blacklisted from the silver screen is making a return. He’s Dalton Trumbo, one of the most famous screen writers of all time. A new movie chronicling his life is set to be released later this month. While many know him for his films, he actually has a tie to Madison.
“Not many people get to be down here,” said Mary Huelsbeck as she leads us to the basement of the Wisconsin Historical Society. There, more than 20,000 films are stored as part of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, WCFTR.
(Video) The movie “Martian” is based on a novel where an astronaut was mistakenly presumed dead and left behind on a mission to Mars. He fights to survive by growing plants on the red planet, which is a concept UW botanist Simon Gilroy says is based on real science.
The University of Wisconsin announced there will be an increased police and security presence at Saturday’s football game versus Northwestern.
For the first time, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have grown this superhero-like tissue in the lab, using human vocal cord cells as their raw ingredients. Their hope is to one day implant these engineered vocal cords into patients so they can recover their voices.
With general safety protocols set in place for students abroad, the University of Wisconsin IAP office was put to the test in wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
To ensure the safety of UW students, the university has many security measures in place for students traveling abroad.
Members of the Teaching Assistants’ Association gripped posters and picket signs on top of a blustery Bascom Hill Wednesday, chanting “We are the TAA, we deserve fair grad pay.”
The first graduate student employee union in the nation, TAA formed in 1966 due to a lack of representation in educational policy.
UW-Madison administration announced a new policy Tuesday that will adjust the rate of pay to set a stipend amount for research assistants.
Noted: Experts testified that work on new reactors that would recycle nuclear waste into energy isn’t far off. China and Russia are already testing models and the technology is also being worked on at UW-Madison.
Noted: Driving home to Wisconsin, he realized “I really was a Woodland Indian,” says seventy-one-year-old Truman Lowe, professor emeritus at UW–Madison and an internationally renowned artist whose work has been shown in the White House garden. “There’s a certain aroma about the water and the land.”
It’s a sentiment echoed by Lowe’s former project assistant, Janice Rice, a Ho-Chunk who retired in 2015 from her longtime position as an outreach librarian at UW–Madison.
In an experimental first, scientists reported Wednesday that they have grown about 170 human vocal cords in a lab, starting from cells taken from four surgical patients and one cadaver. “We never imagined that we would see the impressive level of function that we did,” said study senior author Nathan Welham of the University of Wisconsin Medical School at a briefing for reporters.
For the second year in a row, Professor Kydd’s Terrorism 319 class is full.
Once again, more than 60 students and auditors alike are filling up the special political science class at UW Madison.
The emphasis is on the headlines. This week, the Paris Terror Attack is the topic. And this year, Professor Kydd says more than 2/3’ds of his class have ties to the Paris.
Freshman forward Andy Van Vliet has officially been ruled ineligible for the 2015-16 season after the NCAA upheld their initial decision following an appeal by UW.
Van Vliet has sat on the end of the bench through Wisconsin’s first two games of the regular season, waiting patiently for a decision to be made regarding his eligibility, and with the decision now final, that is where he will remain for his freshman year.
Noted: In a sense, this emergency check-in is changing the way we communicate, according to Catalina Toma at the University of Wisconsin communications department.
“International calls can be expensive and difficult to procure, whereas Facebook is readily and widely available to anyone with an internet connection,” explained Toma.
Wisconsin softball head coach Yvette Healy struck gold in the 2016 signing class. Healy and the rest of the softball coaching staff will bring in four top-notch softball players, including the 2015 Wisconsin Gatorade Player of the Year and some of the Midwest’s top talent, to Madison next fall.
“The class of 2016 is filled with some of the top Midwest talent in the country,” Healy said. “Anytime you can sign two prolific, first-team, all-state Wisconsin kids, like Kayla Konwent and Jordan Little, exciting things are happening in the state. Kate Menz and Sydney Lawson are two of the top athletes to emerge from the state of Iowa.”
Nestled in the northern Wisconsin woods, Peter Lake once brimmed with golden shiners, fatheads and other minnows, which plucked algae-eating fleas from the murky water. Then, seven years ago, a crew of ecologists began stepping up the lake’s population of predatory largemouth bass. Today, largemouth bass still swim rampant. “Once that top predator is dominant, it’s very hard to dislodge,” said Stephen Carpenter, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the experiment.
Quoted: “The bigger picture is that these are people fleeing for their lives, right, they’re fleeing a burning building,” countered Stacy Taeuber, an immigration attorney who serves as director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at UW-Madison.
While Taeuber disagrees with Speaker Ryan and several other politicians from a moral perspective, she also believes his plan has a lot of holes.
Noted: Some groups are already trying to open up those conversations and are investing significant money into those efforts.
The budget for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s group Sex Out Loud was just approved Monday night. A little more than $103,000 is allocated for the 2016-17 school year, all going toward the organization’s sex education workshops, World AIDS Day events and other outreach efforts.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has sent a record 2,276 students overseas for study abroad programs in the last year, and in light of recent terrorist attacks, students currently studying abroad are telling their peers those fear tactics shouldn’t deter them.
UW is ranked 10th in the country for the number of students studying abroad, according to the 2015 Open Doors Report on international educational exchange. Daniel Gold, of the university’s study abroad center, said safety has always been top priority.
Noted: Two University of Wisconsin-Madison immigration experts are questioning whether states have the authority under the U.S. Constitution to reject placement of Syrian refugees.
“I think, at this point, there’s a widely held consensus that states do not have the authority to decide they are going to reject a specific nationality of refugees,” said Stacy Taeuber, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the UW Law School.
Sara McKinnon, an assistant professor of communication arts and expert on political refugees and asylum, said it’s also important to note the extensive screening of refugees prior to their admittance into the resettlement program, which can take up to 18 months.
Quoted: “People who have Type 2 diabetes are producing insulin, but their cells no longer know how to use it and it becomes a progressive chronic disease,” said Dr. Sandra Kamnetz, a family physician with UW Health [and clinical professor of family medicine]. “Insulin brings to patients with diabetes an increased risk of heart attack; increased risk of a stroke; increased risk of ulcers to the feet leading to potential amputation; and a risk of chronic renal failure even ending up in dialysis.”
The American Physical Society named a UW-Madison electron storage ring a historic site Friday, recognizing it as an imperative tool for many scientific studies over its 20 years of operation.
The electron storage ring, named Tantalus, was the world’s first source of synchrotron radiation in 1968, according to a university release. It used a powerful magnetic field to force fast-moving electrons to change direction, creating synchrotron light.
University of Wisconsin graduate students Chris and Katie Hardwick’s love story began when she saw him blindfolded, solving a Rubik’s cube.
The two met at a Mensa Convention — an event put on by the world’s largest high IQ society, Mensa International — in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Geographic Information Systems Capstone Certificate Program student Katie Hardwick said Chris Hardwick was delivering a talk on the process of blindfolded Rubik’s cube solving.
Noted: Panelists included Madison Laning, ASM chair; Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy; Noel Radomski, director of Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE); and Scot Ross, director of One Wisconsin Now (non-UW).
The Multicultural Student Center hopes to equip University of Wisconsin Police Department with the proper tools to combat issues of racial biases in a new training initiative program.
Racial biases against students and community members of color have sparked a conversation between UWPD and the student center about how biases should be addressed.
Do governors have the power to close their state borders to Syrian refugees? A clinical assistant professor at UW-Law said no. Stacy Taeuber is the Director of the Immigration Justice Clinic. She said refugees are protected under the federal Refugee Act of 1980.
“Once you’re lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a refugee, you have the same rights of anybody else that is lawfully in the U.S.,” said Taeuber.
The French House, near the UW-Madison campus, hosted a gathering in solidarity with the people of France on Monday evening.
UW students and staff members, many of whom have ties to France, said coming together helped them cope with last week’s attacks in Paris, which killed roughly 130 people and were carried out by militants of the Islamic State terror group.
Some Muslim UW-Madison students take personally moves by Governor Walker and other governors to try to suspend the resettlement of refugees from war-torn Syria to the U.S.
“I understand people’s concerns that they don’t want the terrorism attacks that happened in Paris to come back and happen here in the U.S.,” Syrian-American and UW-Madison student Rama Shoukfeh says. Authorities say one of the Paris terrorist suspects had credentials as a refugee from Syria.
Andrew Irving never imagined so many people would show their support in Madison.
“What’s been nice is the unexpected messages we get from people we barely know just saying we want to reach out and say we’re sorry or we’re thinking of you,” Irving said.
Irving, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison French House, decided the community needed a place to come together to mourn and stand in solidarity.
Noted: Andrew Irving, Director of the French House in Madison, said the attacks have taken a toll on locals who study and immerse themselves in French culture, as well as on French students currently living here in Madison.
“Emotions were very high Friday and also on Saturday. A lot of people just didn’t know what to think,” Irving said.
Irving said the French House, a private residence hall run by the UW-Madison’s Department of French and Italian, houses both American and French students.
“All of our residents speak French here almost all of the time,” Irving said.
Noted: UW-Madison has several students studying abroad in Paris and all of them are accounted for and safe.
UW-Madison says all of its students known to be studying in Paris are safe and accounted for.
The university made the announcement on its Twitter page Friday night.
The University of Wisconsin has issued a release detailing how running back Corey Clement suffered a cut to his hand following an assault at his off-campus apartment early Sunday morning.
According to the release, Clement was returning to his apartment building when he witnessed a dispute between a security guard and a group of people. Clement stepped in to the dispute. According to UW, Clement and the security guard were then assaulted by the individuals.
In arguably the best signing class of head coach Bobbie Kelsey’s tenure, Kelsey and the Wisconsin women’s basketball team have signed six recruits for 2016-17, including one top-100 recruit and three who have been in the top 100 at some time in their careers. The recruiting class is ranked as the No. 15 recruiting class in the nation by Blue Star Basketball.
