Wisconsin?s summer could be cooler than normal this year, according to a Wisconsin meteorologist, leaving it in uncertain territory when it comes to severe weather.
Chances are that when you think about math?which, for most of us, happens pretty infrequently?you don?t think of it in anything like the way that Jordan Ellenberg does. Ellenberg is a rare scholar who is both a math professor (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and a novelist.
A $25 million grant will allow the UW-Madison College of Engineering to hire 25 new faculty members with the goals of creating a more interdisciplinary teaching approach and focusing on manufacturing advances to boost the nation?s economic competitiveness.
Wisconsin?s reputation as America?s Dairyland was further solidified globally with last week?s announcement that UW-Madison has been selected to develop the curriculum for a new $400 million dairy training center in China.
The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is receiving $25 million to go towards a new research institute in its largest single gift ever.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, will develop the curriculum for a $400m Nestlé dairy training center in China.
The engineering of a flu virus similar to one that killed 40 million people in 1918 has some scientists sharply criticizing the work of University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who generated a virus that differed from its pandemic ancestor by only 3% of the amino acids that make up virus proteins.
The writer believes that “Madison media remain silent while the public is indoctrinated by UW with deceptive promises of breakthroughs for human diseases and false claims that medical progress requires using animals.”
Houston in the 1980s was a city of vacant office towers. Even as the oil boom turned to glut and the economy sank, real estate developers doubled the size of the office market from 1980 to 1986, according to commercial real estate performance tracker Reis.
Remember the Spanish Flu of 1918? Of course you don?t. That?s the freakishly deadly influenza strain that swept the globe in 1918 and 1919, wiping out 30 million to 50 million people. It infected about one in four Americans and killed about 675,000. It didn?t just kill little kids and the elderly, either, like most flu strains. This one was unusually devastating in young, healthy people?although why the “mother of all pandemics” behaved as it did is not fully understood.
When the U.S. housing market boomed and busted in the past decade, commercial real estate was comparatively placid.
Students have been taught that math is about right and wrong, rather than trial and error. Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. ?I?d be at a party, and I?d tell someone what my book was about, and then I?d be like ? ?Hey, where?d you go??? What topic was so awful and off-putting as to make people flee at its mere mention? Math.
Waisman Center experts discuss the cost and treatment of autism in this Wisconsin Public Radio talk show segment.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, whose bird flu research sparked international controversy and a moratorium two years ago, has created another potentially deadly flu virus in his lab at University Research Park. Kawaoka used genes from several bird flu viruses to construct a virus similar to the 1918 pandemic flu virus that killed up to 50 million people worldwide. He tweaked the new virus so it spread efficiently in ferrets, an animal model for human flu.
An experimental compound being developed by a Madison company could help doctors better detect and treat many types of cancer, a new UW-Madison study says. The compound, which is thought not to accumulate in healthy cells, ?is essentially a cancer-homing agent to which we can attach many different payloads,? Dr. John Kuo, a UW-Madison brain surgeon and an author of the study, said.
Cited: Center for Dairy Research.
Students who graduated college in the throes of the recession are still struggling to make it on their own.
On the surface, Gen Y, those ebullient 20-somethings smiling into their phones as they snap selfies, can seem glowingly optimistic about their futures. Despite the major recession they?ve already faced and seen their parents struggle with, they often tell researchers that they think they will eventually find their footing and establish a standard of living at least as good as the one they enjoyed growing up with their parents.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they have found a group of agents that can seek out and find dozens of kinds of solid tumors, a finding that may lead to new treatments.
A famous picture from the 1918 flu pandemic shows so many rows of bedridden soldiers that it looks like an optical illusion ? the double-mirror effect. It?s a jarring image to accompany jarring events that began in January 1918 and quickly subsumed the planet.
Scientists have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed an estimated 50m people in an experiment labelled as “crazy” by opponents.
The remains of a U.S. Army soldier killed during World War II are finally on their way home ? but not without a layover in the home state of a Middleton filmmaker who played a key role in solving the puzzle of the soldier?s whereabouts.
Experts have hit out at scientists who created a similar flu virus to one which killed 50 million people as part of an experiment.
Flu viruses currently circulating in birds closely resemble the one that caused the 1918 pandemic that killed about 50 million people worldwide, researchers say.
The first national study to focus on prevention of memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease is seeking older Wisconsin residents with normal memory and thinking abilities to be part of a clinical trial through the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. The study is seeking adults ages 65 to 85.
Cited: UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
Noted: While others have also developed systems to study the human retina in the lab, the current study extends these capabilities, according to coauthor David Gamm, director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute and an associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ?Outer segments, which are the business end of photoreceptors, have not been previously shown to form from scratch in culture. This study is important as it demonstrated the extent to which we can study the retina in a culture dish,? said Gamm.
Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. ?I?d be at a party, and I?d tell someone what my book was about, and then I?d be like??Hey, where?d you go??? What topic was so awful and off-putting as to make people flee at its mere mention? Math.
Quoted: Marianne Smukowski of the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research.
Noted: Researchers are just beginning to recruit volunteers. One of the locations is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; others are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Northwestern University and Rush University Medical Center, both in Chicago.
The writer opposes research on depression and anxiety that involves the use of monkeys.
The writer, who wrote a previous column critical of the research of Ned Kalin, professor of psychiatry, responds to a column by Robert Golden, dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health, which defends the research.
The writer opposes “maternal deprivation experiments” by Ned Kalin, professor of psychiatry.
A $1.7 million, three-year agreement means UW-Madison professors and dairy management experts will head to the northeast province of Heilongjiang to design and help deliver a series of courses including milk quality, milking management, reproductive management, feeding and feed delivery, animal health, biosecurity and overall farm management skills for a $400 million dairy training center in China, established by Nestle. Quoted: Pamela Ruegg, professor of dairy science.
Jordan Ellenberg really wants you to like math. Not math in the sense of calculating a tip or doing your taxes, but math as the path to understanding, math as evidence, math as truth. Hence the title his new book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, which Penguin Press released this week.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying to end sexism with science. The college announced the launch of a “feminist biology” post-doctoral fellowship, in which students will attempt to “uncover and reverse gender bias in biology,” according to the official release.
The tale of how doctors solved Josh Osborn’s medical mystery appeared this week in the New England Journal of Medicine and The New York Times, generating enthusiasm for the new technique, called unbiased next-generation sequencing. It could lead to quicker diagnoses in other life-threatening situations, doctors say. Quoted: James Gern, professor of pediatrics and medicine.
With bold, newspaper ads topped by the question, “Are you DATING?,” UW-Madison researchers are recruiting study subjects to delve into the daily lives of young couples, and the potential impact of prescription drug use, and misuse, on their happiness.
The past few years have seen a welcome crop of fine mathematics titles that are intended for the general reader, but are also valuable as inspiration and sources of interesting material for those of us who teach the subject. Jordan Ellenberg?s outstanding book pretty much shares its subtitle with Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham?s classic Why Do Buses Come in Threes?, although the two books are very different in terms of style and content.
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin has exhibited a well-coordinated desperate backlash of attacks against Dr. Murry Cohen, who recently wrote against the cruel and regurgitated Harlow-type experiments of maternal deprivation being resurrected at the UW?s Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, with federal funding.
As a psychiatrist and academic medical leader, I feel compelled to respond to the distortions and misleading claims in the May 21 column in the Cap Times by Dr. Murry Cohen.
One of the most important processes in the human body occurs inside the cellular machines that make the proteins we need to live. Now a team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has produced high resolution images of these machines called spliceosomes.
Julian Barnes? The Sense of an Ending is a good novel. We know it?s a good novel because lots of people like it, and because it won the Man Booker, one of the biggest prizes in English-language literature.
Audio: Today on the Gist, the case for integrating math into everyday conversation. Mike talks with Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong.*
The neuroscientist whose research inspired the La Crosse Compassion Project visited the city on Monday to headline the ?La Crosse Compassion Project Live!? event.
Eight UW-Madison professors have each been awarded $50,000 fellowships for research.
Richard Davidson calls it revolutionary, the idea that compassion isn?t some pre-determined personality trait.
?Capital in the Twenty-First Century,? Thomas Piketty?s new book, has received a great deal of attention. But we shouldn?t neglect another important new book on income inequality, from a much different perspective. Titled ?On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City,? and written by Alice Goffman, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, it offers a fascinating and disturbing portrait of the economic constraints and incentives faced by a large subset of Americans: those who are hiding from the law.
Although most of the attention given to greenhouse gas has focused on the air around and above us, there?s another significant source of carbon that could contribute to climate change and has previously been unaccounted for: soot and fossils buried in soil that formed up to 15,000 years ago.
How Not to Be Wrong, the first popular math book by University of Wisconsin-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg, just hit the shelves. In addition to a Ph.D. in math, Ellenberg has an MFA in creative writing and has been writing about math for popular audiences for several years. Unsurprisingly, the book is witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read.
Most people consider never having missed an aeroplane something to be proud of. After all, what could be worse than the sinking feeling of arriving at an airport gate only to see the plane taxiing down the runway without you? (Paywall.)
Missing a flight would ordinarily be considered the worst possible start to a holiday. But not according to American maths professor Jordan Ellenberg.
The cult of the kid genius could do more harm than good, former child prodigy turned mathematics professor Jordan Ellenberg says. Mr. Ellenberg, author of “How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking,” joins Lunch Break with Lee Hawkins.
When I was a child, I was a “genius”?the kind you sometimes see profiled on the local news. I started reading at 2. I could multiply two-digit numbers in my head when I was 5. One of my earliest memories is working out a way to generate Pythagorean triples. In third grade, I commuted to the local junior high to take geometry. Kids on the playground would sometimes test me by asking what a million times a million was?and were delighted when I knew the answer.
In a letter to the editor of The Cap Times, Ron Kalil, UW?Madison professor of neuroscience, questions the newspaper’s judgment in publishing a guest opinion piece by a Virginia psychologist critical of a pair of UW?Madison researchers.
A letter to the editor from Eric Sandgren, director of the UW?Madison Research Animal Resource Center, in response to an opinion piece written by an animal rights advocate about monkey research.
Stan Temple looked out from atop a bucolic bluff in central Wisconsin on Sunday and imagined the sky darkening, the sound of wings flapping as millions of passenger pigeons passed overhead.
New research from the University of Wisconsin suggests that deforestation is promoting the spread of a disease called Nipah virus in Bangladesh. The virus has no cure, no vaccine ? and a mortality rate of more than 70 percent.
There is far more carbon stored in the Earth?s soil than previously thought, a new study has shown, and scientists fear disturbing it could unleash vast amounts of it into the atmosphere.
A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin is taking on deer ticks ? with hopes of giving people a tool to protect themselves from the bugs that can transmit Lyme disease.
