Stephen Small, University of Wisconsin-Extension human development and family relations specialist and professor of Human Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has studied the process of wisdom to better understand how people can make wiser decisions in their everyday lives. The research has involved dozens of interviews and builds on the recent work of scientists, as well as sages and philosophers across the ages.
Good news for women interested in #havingitall: New research shows that women who are more highly educated than their husbands are not at higher risk for divorce, reversing a decades-old trend. The paper, published online last week in American Sociological Review, takes a look at (heterosexual) couples who married in the 1950s through the first decade of the new millennium, and found that the tendency for couples in which the wife had more education to split up actually disappeared in the 1990s.
University of Wisconsin Madison grad student Rachel Mallinger is in the Northwoods Monday talking about the value of the state?s native bees. WXPR?s Natalie Jablonski spoke with Mallinger about wild bees and the online identification guide she developed to help people appreciate wild bee diversity.
There?s little objectively sexy about math. With its flummoxing sine curves and its formulae written as if in ancient cuneiform, the subject has driven countless people to such frivolous pursuits as writing and journalism. Even the stand-up comedian Louis C.K. recently took to Twitter to rail at the way public schools were dryly meting the subject out: ?My kids used to love math,? he wrote. ?Now it makes them cry.? But Jordan Ellenberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, has positioned himself as math?s Malcolm Gladwell with this crystalline, eminently digestible book. (It doesn?t hurt that the drawings therein are charmingly amateurish, as if scribbled on a napkin during animated repartee over cocktails.)
Noted: The FAA has a process for academic researchers to obtain special authorisation to use drones, but only if they are affiliated with public colleges or universities, not private schools like Smith. Researchers from Harvard and Stanford universities, both private institutions, also signed the letter. But so did researchers from large public universities like the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin.
A Wisconsin family has made it their mission to fight cancer through the power of music. Its why they started the Gray Matters Music Jam, which is now in its third year. The annual event features live music and a silent auction to raise money for the UW-Carbone Cancer Center. The Semmanns are using their personal story to touch the lives of others who are dealing with cancer.
If you can?t wait to communicate good news, you can pick up your smartphone and text or tweet it to the world. But bad news is different.
Noted: It?s also a sign that couples are embracing a new normal, as women?s education outstrips men?s and such marriages become more common, says lead author Christine Schwartz, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Abused children tend to develop lifelong emotional and physical problems, and now UW-Madison scientists may have found a biological reason: Maltreatment appears to turn off a gene that regulates stress.
US virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka has form when it comes to sparking controversy. Last month, his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published a paper that described engineering an entirely new flu virus that causes severe illness when transmitted between ferrets in sneezed, airborne droplets.
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2012, most of lower Manhattan went dark, and it was almost two weeks before most of the power was restored. But in one building in Greenwich Village, the lights stayed on and the heat kept working (and the building?s population doubled). That?s because, as University of Wisconsin engineering professor Thomas Jahns explained, that building had ?its own miniature version of a utility grid?: a microgrid.
A 19-year-old Chicago teen may one day hold the key to curing colon cancer.
Dwight Mueller, director of the 11 UW-Madison Agricultural Research Centers throughout the state, said the work being done by researchers highlighted at Potato Field Day is intended to help growers avoid having to deal with issues such as disease.
Smallpox. Anthrax. An especially lethal form of bird flu. The list of diseases caused by pathogens that appear to have been handled carelessly by federal laboratories is chill-inducing.
The recently documented mistakes at federal laboratories involving anthrax, flu and smallpox have incited public outrage at the government?s handling of dangerous pathogens. But the episodes were just a tiny fraction of the hundreds that have occurred in recent years across a sprawling web of academic, commercial and government labs that operate without clear national standards or oversight, federal reports show.
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.
Aaron Olver, who has led the city of Madison?s economic development office for the past three years, will be managing director of University Research Park (URP), starting Sept. 8.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are researching alternative methods by which growers can pollinate cranberries.
Research into why families with firstborn daughters are slightly more likely to divorce than those with firstborn sons has disproved the long-held reasoning that men simply prefer sons.
MADISON – There?s a new invasive species in Wisconsin: the Asian crazy worm. It?s called the crazy worm because it?s very active.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will simulate a terrorist bombing at Camp Randall Stadium early Thursday ? complete with explosive sound effects, billowing smoke and pretend victims ? to test its emergency preparedness plan involving everyone from police and fire squads to hospital emergency departments and the FBI.
Constance Steinkuehler never joined the Obamas to play Dance Dance Revolution at Camp David, but for more than a year, she played an important role shaping the White House?s policy on video games.
A foreign worm with a huge appetite has burrowed into the soil of the UW Arboretum, making scientists nervous about how the worm could affect the state?s forests.
MADISON, Wis. ? A foreign worm with a big appetite has burrowed into the soil of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, officials said Tuesday.
An isolated hail storm late Monday and early Tuesday forced snow plows onto the roads of Door County and caused significant crop damage.
Matt Stasiak, superintendent of the [UW-Madison] Peninsular Agriculture Research Station three miles north of Sturgeon Bay, said the hail storm destroyed virtually every crop at the facility and likely caused over $1 million in damage.
The UW-Madison dean discusses research findings that suggest financial concerns for young adults.
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.
A group led by a University of Wisconsin researcher has made a discovery that could lead to making human blood out of stem cells.
ATLANTA ? Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spent much of Wednesday completing a report that would let the public see, in embarrassing detail, how the sloppy handling of anthrax by scientists at its headquarters here had potentially exposed dozens of employees to the deadly bacteria.
A new way of combating invasive smelt is meeting with mixed success ? literally ? at the end of a two-year study. The Crystal Lake Mixing Project was able to get rid of most of the smelt in Crystal Lake?but not all of it.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding a project involving the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Farmers? Market Coalition to better track sales at farmers? markets and collect other information that could be useful to vendors and communities.
Can feminism improve science? The organizers of University of Wisconsin-Madison?s new post-doctorate in ?feminist biology? ? alleged to be the first of its kind in the nation and probably the world ? would answer with an emphatic ?Yes!?
Noted: But there can be no doubt that recreating the virus from scratch would be hugely controversial ? scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently provoked a storm of criticism when they recreated the deadly Spanish influenza virus that killed millions in the aftermath of the first world war, using fragments of avian flu viruses found in wild ducks. The researchers claimed the virus could inform influenza vaccine development.
A June 25 editorial in the journal Nature should give Madisonians pause. The editors voiced serious concern over influenza research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When it comes to people attracting mosquitoes, everyone is a little different and the attractiveness level is somewhat controlled by genetics says P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Here to provide five straightforward, practical tips on how to incorporate meditation into your daily life (even during boring meetings), is Dr. Richard J. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the founder of its Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. He is also the co-author of ?The Emotional Life of Your Brain.?
At 4PM ET, the German soccer team will face Brazil in The World Cup semi-finals. The Germans might not have made it. Just a few days ago, the team could have been stopped, not by their opponent France, but by a virus that caused seven of the team?s players to come down with flu-like symptoms.
UW-Madison announced the launch of three new research projects last week relating to the state?s water supply and use.
By now, the poor sales of Hillary Clinton?s new book “Hard Choices” are well-documented. (Relatively poor, we will add, given the complex topography of bookselling.)
You need a book to take on holiday but you don?t want a ?summer read?, you want something that will broaden your mind.
Researchers at northern Wisconsin?s Trout Lake Station have taken the lead in forming a global network of 400 scientists who share data collected from lakes in 40 different countries.
Two years ago, after returning home to the University of Wisconsin?Madison from a research trip in the forests of equatorial Africa, Tony Goldberg discovered an unwanted souvenir. There was a tick, the size of a pencil eraser, nestled inside his right nostril.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child?s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion.
When Burke unveiled her jobs plan in March she made a point of saying that she would veto any legislation banning stem cell research ? which is vitally important at UW-Madison.
The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District is working on becoming more energy independent by transforming table scraps from UW?Madison into an energy resource.
The scientific community has been abuzz with word going around about a yet-to-be released study that manipulated mutant viruses from a devastating 2009 Influenza outbreak, in order to create a pandemic strain of the virus that could dodge the human immune system.
University of Wisconsin researchers have invented a new tool to control the invasive smelt population on inland waters: the Gradual Entrainment Lake Inverter (GELI).
One of the world?s leading vaccine experts has questioned the scientific rationale behind controversial research on the 2009 strain of pandemic flu virus undertaken by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Scientists theorize that catfish used to communicate by making bubbles. Other catfish would see messages in the bubbles and react accordingly.?
The UW-Madison Influenza Research Institute says its work is both necessary and safe.
The Higher Education Video Game Alliance was launched Tuesday at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo. It is comprised of video game design programs at 13 universities that will act as a forum to align efforts and information in a “drastically growing sector,” says Constance Steinkuehler, the alliance?s first executive director.
At UW-Madison, we do not take lightly our responsibility for its safe and secure conduct. The Influenza Research Institute is a high-level biosafety facility designated Biosafety Level 3 Agriculture, the highest in the Level 3 category. It operates under conditions very different from most other Biosafety Level 3 labs and was constructed expressly for the influenza work performed there.
Senior scientists have criticised an American university for allowing controversial research on enhancing a pandemic strain of flu virus to be undertaken in a laboratory with a relatively low level of biosecurity.
What was extraordinary about the great flu pandemic of 2018 was not only that it came exactly 100 years after the Spanish flu of 1918, but that it also killed 5 per cent of the world?s population.
According to articles in the UK press, Yoshi Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has “deliberately created a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system”. Some reports even allege the work recreates the deadly 1918 pandemic flu virus in a form that resists vaccines.
There is no such thing as zero risk when it comes to the study of pathogenic agents such as influenza. But the research, which has been deemed a priority by both the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization, is critical to our ability to forecast, combat and potentially prevent the outbreak of deadly pandemic disease.
In How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg celebrates the virtues of mathematics, especially when they?re taught well. He writes that a math teacher has to be a guide to good reasoning, and “a math course that fails do so is essentially teaching the student to be a very slow, buggy version of Microsoft Excel. And, let?s be frank, that really is what many of our math courses are doing.”
A controversial scientist who carried out provocative research on making influenza viruses more infectious has completed his most dangerous experiment to date by deliberately creating a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system.
A scientist who carried out research on making influenza viruses more infectious has deliberately created a potentially lethal strain of flu that can evade the human immune system.
APPLETON ? From Milwaukee to Menasha, dozens have dished on their local wordology for the Dictionary of American Regional English re-haul, but researchers are hoping for more.
