Three researchers share the neuroscience prize for studying how we hear: A. James Hudspeth of the Rockefeller University in New York, Robert Fettiplace of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Christine Petit of the College of France and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. They provided insights into how cells of the inner ear transform sound into electrical signals the brain can interpret.
This year’s Kavli Prize for neuroscience was shared by James Hudspeth of the Rockefeller University, Robert Fettiplace of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Christine Petit of the Pasteur Institute in France. Hudspeth and Fettiplace made independent, complementary discoveries about how our sense of hearing arises from the conversion of vibrations of the tiny hair cells in the inner ear into nerve signals.
The neuroscience award went to geneticist Christine Petit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and neuroscientists Robert Fettiplace at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and James Hudspeth at the Rockefeller University in New York City, “for their pioneering work on the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing”.
Emmanuel Urey could not read until he was a teenager. He grew up in a tiny, impoverished and embattled village called Gormue in an isolated part of Liberia. Only when he and his family fled to Guinea to escape the civil war destroying his country did Urey finally have access to a school.
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center found that adults living with autism spectrum disorder may face a higher risk of developing certain health issues — like cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive problems — than the rest of the population.
The Morgridge Institute for Research at UW-Madison has created a center to expand research on viruses and develop drugs or vaccines that target families of viruses.
For the University of Wisconsin, with more than $1 billion annually in research revenue, steeped in a tradition of “sifting and winnowing” for the truth and dedicated to broadcasting its findings throughout the state and beyond, the challenge is to strike a balance between academic freedom and the realities of a connected but politically fractious world.
A recently published study by University of Wisconsin researchers found the bats they studied ate 17 different types of mosquitoes, including nine that are potential carriers of the West Nile Virus.
Public education has been one of our greatest success stories as a nation.Our country pioneered in making public elementary and high schools available to all children and created land-grant public universities that made college possible for citizens from all backgrounds.
Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center , finds his students and fellow academics puzzled when he uses the hard G in speeches and lectures. “Sometimes a person will ask, ‘What word did you just say? What is that word?’” Mr. Burden said.
Madison is #1. Wisconsin’s capital has lots of young educated adults, in part because it’s home to the state’s flagship campus, the University of Wisconsin. Combined with its low unemployment rate and high percentage of workers in management, business, science or arts jobs, Madison vaults to the top. Though its median income for those 25 and older with bachelor’s degrees, $46,275, is average among other cities in the top 10, the median gross rent, $981, is relatively affordable. As a result, rent as a percentage of income, 25%, is among the lowest in the top 10, and about average for all cities in this analysis.
Can the University of Wisconsin-Madison discover innovative ways to boost the incomes of 10,000 people in Dane County over the next two years?
On Wednesday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that it was chosen as one of four universities across the nation tasked to achieve that goal, in partnership with the community, by 2020. They’re looking for creative ideas from throughout the community to build up the county’s middle class and hopefully narrow racial inequities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty will spend the summer collecting data and trying to identify community members’ needs in an effort to raise 10,000 Dane County families’ incomes by 10 percent in two years.
University of Wisconsin faculty, community leaders and Dane County officials met Wednesday to kick off a new collaboration between the university and the wider community that will attempt to raise the net income of 10,000 middle-class families in Dane County by 10 percent over the next few years.
Based on the regions of the brain that Homo naledi shared with modern humans, the authors suggested that it may have exhibited complex behavior. But what they did not say was what those behaviors may have been, said John Hawks, an paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an author on the paper.
UW-Madison introduced its class of 2018 Saturday during the spring commencement ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium.More than 6,500 received their degree during the spring commencement, crossing over from life as a student to begin the next phase of their journey.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students are working to add more diversity in post-undergraduate education.Black students are underrepresented in graduate school, according to a release from UW-Madison, and Anthony Wright and Brian Allen are trying to change that.
“We don’t think there’s going to be a lot of rain during the ceremony but there could be before and after,” said UW spokesperson, Meredith McGlone.
David Muir, anchor of “ABC World News Tonight,” is set to deliver the keynote address to the more than 6,500 graduates expected to participate. Starting at noon, the ceremony is scheduled to last 75 minutes and will go on rain or shine. A ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Friday will recognize about 900 doctoral, master of fine arts and medical professional degree candidates who plan to participate at a Kohl Center ceremony.
Madison College is teaming up with UW-Madison to help students get degrees.
A new agreement announced Thursday will help financially disadvantaged Madison College students continue their education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But a new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor Michael Light suggests people living in the country illegally are linked to a decrease in violent crime, not an increase.
Research shows the loss of young adults raises the cost of schools, public services, and recreation for individuals. The Applied Population Lab at the UW-Madison projected that 15 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties will have smaller populations in 2040 than they did in 2010.
Lori Reesor, a university administrator in Indiana, has been selected to fill the UW-Madison vice chancellor for student affairs position.
Using social media, two University of Wisconsin-Madison alums have created a movement among African-American students in higher education that has two goals: one academic, the other political.
There is one acknowledgement of Latinx Madisonians, but as a whole we’re left with the standard narrative of Wisconsin, Madison, and UW-Madison as an uncomplicated and not very diverse landscape in love with its German heritage and Frank Lloyd Wright and the marching band jet pack guy. Why not keep it short and just brain passerby with a Terrace chair?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will cover over two signs in its Memorial Union for areas named after alumni with affiliations to the Ku Klux Klan.
The Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin Madison will cover up the names of two rooms commemorating members of an organization affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
Photojournalist Jeremy Nichols shows you dozens of these statues, some familiar faces, and the stories behind some of them.
Bucky on Parade is sponsored by the Madison Area Sports Commission with support from the Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau and in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other associated entities.
Bucky on Parade is one of the largest public art projects to be held in the U.S.
Sixty-four local and regional artists took a 6 foot tall, 160 pound plank fiberglass Bucky canvass and turned it into something totally unique.
Quoted: “There are several of my colleagues at other universities across the country that are wanting to develop these programs, but this is the first,” says Dr. Ellen Hartenbach, UW Health OB/GYN Residency Program Director. “This is the model program.”
An endowed grant for the school was also announced today.
While “Bucky on Parade” adds fun to Dane County streets, it also gives back to the community.
wo former administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh face felony charges after allegedly funneling millions in taxpayer money to building projects for a now-bankrupt private university foundation.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh last week joined a small club of universities around the country that nobody wants to be in: Those with former presidents or chancellors who have been charged with felony crimes for financial misconduct.
Marsha Mailick had been on temporary leave since January, according to the university. Norman Drinkwater will continue his role as interim vice chancellor until a permanent replacement for Mailick is found.
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison refutes the assertion that more undocumented immigrants in the U.S. correlate to an increase in violent crime.
The Waisman Center has a new director. The organization at UW-Madison is one of only 14 Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers in the country. The new director Qiang Chang is our guest. He discusses current research on autism and Rett syndrome and explains how research and clinical service connect. Plus learn about the promise stem cell research holds for degenerative diseases such as ALS.
Wisconsin farmers and counties are making do with fewer agriculture agents statewide. The head of the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Cooperative Extension division said cuts to state funding are limiting their ability to meet local needs. However, some state and county officials argue the agency needs to better prioritize which positions should be filled.
Quoted: “Twenty-six out of 72 counties in Wisconsin don’t have any Ob-Gyn’s,” said Jody Silva, the rural residency program manager for the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison announced a new program Tuesday that will allow those ages 25 and older who dropped out of college elsewhere to finish their degrees at the state’s flagship university if they can prove they can do the work.
High-achieving, low-income students make up just 3 percent of enrollment at elite colleges. This week, 100 top U.S. universities are vowing to do something about it. Chancellor Blank is interviewed.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a multi-pronged effort Thursday to acknowledge the history of racism on campus, but she put aside a decision on whether the names of students with ties to the Ku Klux Klan a century ago should be removed from campus facilities.
There are several Wisconsin connections to ’Time’s’ list of the 100 Most Influential People of the year, including Megan Twohey, who worked at the Journal Sentinel, Oprah Winfrey, J.J. Watt, fashion designer Virgil Abloh and neuropathologist Ann McKee.
MADISON, Wis. – Virgil Abloh, Anne McKee and JJ Watt, three former University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, were listed as three influential individuals in TIME Magazine’s Most Influential List.
New research shows tribal forests in northern Wisconsin have older trees, and better plant diversity and tree regeneration than surrounding state or national forests. Researchers with Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison published their findings in a recent issue of the journal Ecology and Society.
University of Wisconsin-Madison will not remove from campus buildings the names of well-known student leaders who also were members of a campus Ku Klux Klan society in the early 1900s, the university announced Thursday.
Earlise Ward is set to take over as director of the center next January. Ward, who has been with the School of Nursing since 2007, will be replacing the former director, Kathy Cramer, after she stepped down to return to a full-time professor position in the Department of Political Science.
UW-Madison will spend $1 million to build a history exhibit recognizing those who battled prejudice on campus, following a new report probing the history of Ku Klux Klan groups at the university in the early 20th century.
UW-Madison will spend $1 million to build a history exhibit recognizing those who battled prejudice on campus, following a new report probing the history of Ku Klux Klan groups at the university in the early 20th century.
A study group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is not recommending to immediately change the names of buildings honoring former students and faculty, who were once affiliated with white supremacist groups.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is taking steps to improve inclusively and diversity in response to a new report outlining the Ku Klux Klan’s connection on campus.
According to the study, “In the fall of 1922, the Knights began recruiting on the UW campus, finding some success among the faculty and student body … The UW’s administration took no action against the group.”
UW-Madison is taking ownership of past campus groups with Ku Klux Klan affiliations. But the university has no plans to remove from campus buildings the names of student leaders who participated in the KKK in the early 20th Century.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students planned to occupy the UW System Board of Regents offices in Madison on Wednesday to protest the proposed elimination of 13 majors programs on their campus.
College access and affordability: It’s a common topic in higher education — because college is the one place that can really be a catapult when it comes to moving up the economic ladder. Interviewed: Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students and alumni from University of Wisconsin campuses held a sit-in at the UW Board of Regents office Wednesday. They read 26 letters to UW System administrators, calling for more funding and pushing back against planned program cuts.
