As adults we have a lot of questions after Wednesday’s deadly school shooting in Florida, but children have their own concerns. Karyn Riddle is an associate professor at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communications where her research focuses on the effects of exposure to media violence.
Dorothy Farrar Edwards, a UW-Madison kinesiology professor who leads PROFS, a UW-Madison faculty organization, submitted written remarks to the committee calling the 4 percent increase a “much-needed boost” for UW-Madison employees but warned peer universities still pay professors and other university workers considerably more.
Foster children would not have to pay tuition at University of Wisconsin schools or state technical colleges under a bill approved by the state Assembly.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison knew the bald eagle population grew by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. They just didn’t know why.
The Wisconsin Assembly has unanimously approved a bill that would provide free tuition for some foster children at University of Wisconsin System schools and Wisconsin technical colleges.
Granato joined the New York Rangers after the Calgary games and went on to a 13-year playing career with three NHL clubs. He turned to coaching in 2002 and worked as an assistant or head coach with three NHL teams until taking over in 2016 as head men’s hockey coach at the University of Wisconsin, where he had a standout collegiate playing career.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison program, Bucky’s Tuition Promise, will cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for incoming Wisconsin resident students whose families make $56,000 or less per year. We talk with the school’s director of Financial Aid to learn more.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the growing list of colleges that now offer free tuition to certain students.
Seidenberg is a cognitive scientist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his latest book, Language at the Speed of Sight, he points out that the “science of reading” can be a difficult concept for educators to grasp. He says it requires some basic understanding of brain research and the “mechanics” of reading, or what is often referred to as phonics.
Although UW-Madison is one of her top choices, she knows her parents can’t afford the $10,533 in tuition each year.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has unveiled a plan to offer free tuition to students whose families make $56,000 or less a year.
If you’re a Wisconsin resident admitted as a new student to the University of Wisconsin-Madison next fall — and your family’s adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less — you’ve just been given a free ride.
New in-state University of Wisconsin-Madison students from low-to-moderate income families will get free tuition and fees for four years under a new program, university officials announced Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin Madison on Thursday announced a free tuition plan for many in-state students that will start in the fall, the latest development in the spread of free public college.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will now offer free tuition and fees for students from households that make less than $56,000 a year, The Associated Press reported.
UW-Madison officials say the university will cover tuition and fee costs for Wisconsin students from families with incomes below the state median, a move they say shows all state residents that an education at the state’s flagship campus is within reach.
As University of Wisconsin System Regents meet to discuss the merger of the System’s two- and four-year campuses, President Ray Cross faces new push-back from faculty for his handling of the merger — and what critics call his disdain for input from faculty, staff and students.
Another faculty backlash is brewing against University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross because Republican lawmakers got a heads-up about his far-reaching plans to restructure the two-year colleges while faculty, staff and students were kept in the dark.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members railed against UW System President Ray Cross on Tuesday for excluding them from the plan to restructure the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin System officials are being admonished to make progress on long-identified weaknesses in the university’s information technology security, as recommended in a report by the Legislative Audit Bureau.
Exactly 169 years ago today, a group of Badgers attended UW-Madison’s first classes. Now, Feb. 5 — Founders’ Day — is celebrated by students and alumni around the world.
Change is afoot at University Research Park — at least, if the park’s leaders and tenants have their way — and it could urbanize the sprawling tech-transfer center into a place where you can buy a cup of coffee, grab lunch or play a game of racquetball.
University of Wisconsin campuses are updating or introducing new sexual harassment and sexual violence policies, following a mandate from the regents in December 2016 saying each campus needed its own, set guidelines.
Administrators in the UW-Madison Department of Sociology are struggling to rebuild trust as graduate students challenge steps officials say are being taken to respond to sexual harassment and improve climate in the department.
The University of Wisconsin System has released new details on dozens of complaints of sexual harassment.
At least 11 complaints of sexual misconduct against University of Wisconsin System employees since 2014 led to the loss of their jobs or were followed by their resignations, newly released records show.
Whispered warnings among women in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology Department, senior male faculty making promises about book co-authorship or shared research data while making sexual advances on graduate students, sexual misconduct by male Ph.D. candidates — all are included in a recently compiled rundown of sexual harassment incidents in higher education.
On Thursday, copies of Michigan State University’s campus newspaper sat in a stack atop the desk of Lorenzo Santavicca, the student-body president. He grabbed one and held it up. A teal banner under the nameplate read, in all caps: “Can you hear them now?”
Government money applied to things that we as a society think are important — from space travel to the internet — produces major results in every area, in the medical, mechanical, electric, and even retail space.To stay competitive in this global economy, we must value and support basic research. And that means allowing the “Ice Road Truckers of science” to pursue their curiosity in order to drive discovery.
Rebecca Blank is chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brad Schwartz is CEO of the biomedical Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison.
The program establishes a classroom to campus connection, pairing middle school teachers with two UW-Madison students who visit classrooms once a month from October through April. The UW students deliver instruction focused on college and career readiness.
Last month, researchers lobbed another salvo in the decades-long debate about the nature of these forms. They are indeed fossil life, and they date to 3.465 billion years ago, according to John Valley, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin. If Valley and his team are right, the fossils imply that life diversified remarkably early in the planet’s tumultuous youth.
UW-Madison’s new meal plan for the 2018-’19 academic year sparked backlash throughout campus. The university’s plan, however, is similar to others across the Big Ten Conference — and more affordable, too.
Students receiving federal financial aid to attend area colleges and universities won’t be immediately impacted by the government shutdown, UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said.
UW-Madison is moving to give faculty and staff a 4 percent pay increase in the next year, the university announced Thursday.
Since the 1960s, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been studying how plants will grow in space. We talk with a Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has been leading a research team to study the effects of growing plants in a zero gravity environment.
Would you consider yourself middle class? Chances are, whether you’re wealthy, lower income, or actually somewhere in the middle, you still identify as middle class. There are plenty of reasons why that is–“middle class” might be the most used word in modern politics–but a new University of Wisconsin study posits that it could also be because ads are telling us we’re middle class.
UW-Madison students planning to get in cardio between classes next year will be looking for the Nick.
A new student recreation facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be known as the “Nick” when it opens next fall on the site of the former SERF.
Their finding that the intensity of Arctic cold is easing in a warming world is supported by many other studies. For example, Jonathan Martin, a meteorology researcher at the University of Wisconsin, has documented considerable shrinkage of the pool of frigid air surrounding the Arctic in recent decades.
Scientists at the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies looked at 230 verified wolf attacks on livestock in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from 1998 through 2014.
“We’re monkeying with the very chemical foundation of these ecosystems,” said Emily H. Stanley, a limnologist (freshwater ecologist) at the University of Wisconsin — Madison. “But right now we don’t know enough yet to know where we’re going. To me, scientifically that’s really interesting, and as a human a little bit frightening.”
Amy Gilman has lived in Madison only a few months — but will likely become one of the more visible faces in the city’s art world.
A new plan proposed by the Department of Interior would open some federally protected waters to off-shore oil drilling. We speak Steph Tai of the University of Wisconsin Law School about the news and what the law says.
A different approach to the universal vaccine is under way at FluGen, a biotech firm in Madison, Wisconsin. Backed by both government and VC funding, the company is working with technology first discovered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Dr. Gabriele Neumann and exclusively licensed to FluGen. “Our vaccine, called RedeeFlu, is based on a premise that says what happens if you take a [naturally occurring] ’wild type’ of flu virus and modify it to infect the human body but don’t allow it to replicate and cause illness,” said Boyd Clarke, executive chairman of FluGen. (Coincidentally, his maternal grandfather died in the 1918 pandemic.)
In 1960, he move to the US for a role at the Institute for Enzyme Research in the University of Wisconsin. It was there that he made his Nobel-worthy discovery and became a naturalized American citizen. In 1970, Khorana joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the Alfred P. Sloan professor of biology and chemistry, the position he held until he died on Nov. 9, 2011 at age 89.
Since its creation dozens of students have gone through the program, and all of them have selected residencies in urban areas. Milwaukee currently has up to 50 TRIUMPH students a year practicing medicine within its underserved communities.
A week-long stay by the University of Wisconsin football team at a Florida resort owned by President Trump is providing new potential fodder for a lawsuit alleging that the president’s private business has put him in violation of the Constitution.
“The growth is really in the medium- to large-size dairy operations,” said Steven Deller, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The growth in those sectors and the increase in productivity of being a bigger operation, the volume of milk is actually not being affected by this.”
Born in 1922 as the youngest of five children in a rural village that is now part of eastern Pakistan, Khorana learned to read and write with help from his father, according to the Nobel Prize’s biography of the biochemist. With a number of scholarships, Khorana went on to earn a doctorate in organic chemistry in 1948. He conducted his Nobel Prize-winning research on nucleotides at the University of Wisconsin, and he later became the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“When we’re throwing down road salt, we might be thinking about the fact that we’re putting salt into the water, but we’re not thinking that it may also mobilize lead,” says Hilary Dugan, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who was not involved in the study. Dugan has studied lakes in North America, which she also found to be increasing in salinity.
After 16 years and more than $1 trillion, this Guardian piece argues western intervention has resulted in Afghanistan becoming the world’s first true narco-state. “Washington’s massive military juggernaut has been stopped in its steel tracks by a small pink flower – the opium poppy,” Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alfred W McCoy, writes. “Throughout its three decades in Afghanistan, Washington’s military operations have succeeded only when they fit reasonably comfortably into central Asia’s illicit traffic in opium – and suffered when they failed to complement it.” In this piece, McCoy outlines how the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan.
Researchers at UW-Madison (Natalie Guyette) are looking at how stress affects the symptoms of asthma in a four year study looking at how the mind and body communicate in stressful situations. We talk with one of the key professors about their findings.
YouTube star Logan Paul has been weathering a barrage of controversy following his video depicting an alleged suicide victim in Aokigahara, a forest in Japan. The video–coupled with others posted on his YouTube channel–highlights a growing concern over what is being produced on social media platforms. We speak with Kathleen Culver, assistant professor and Director of UW-Madison’s Center for Journalism Ethics, about the news and what these videos say about internet culture.
It’s called “digital self-harm,” and its rates are similar to traditional means of self-harm, such as cutting or burning, researchers say.The study, led by Justin Patchin, professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, found that 6 percent of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 engage in digital self-harm.
Neuroscientist Chiara Cirelli of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sleep and Consciousness, who conducted the study, explained at the time, ‘I don’t think we know of any cognition function that isn’t affected by sleep deprivation.’
Soglin, who protested against the Vietnam War as a University of Wisconsin student in the 1960s, was first elected mayor in 1973. He has been in the position off and on since then, serving a total of 20 years. He traveled to Cuba three times as mayor in the 1970s, meeting with Castro twice.
“It’s just inconclusive at this stage,” said the University of Wisconsin’s Martin. “I think the jet is getting wavier, I’m not sure it’s connected to the Arctic,” he added.
Alan Attie, whose University of Wisconsin lab studies the genetic and biochemical processes underlying genetics, called it “beautiful and elegant work.””An exciting development in the diabetes field is the discovery of extraordinary plasticity in alpha and beta cells,” he told Gizmodo. “Work such as that from the Gittes Lab demonstrates the way in which this plasticity can be harnessed for therapeutic purposes.”
“They’re going to get through this. They are going to make it because they have experienced these kinds of conditions before, and they don’t get wiped out. Maybe we’ll get a little suppression of the ticks, but we’ll see,” says Susan Paskewitz, the chair of the Department of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Paskewitz’s research focuses on disease-carrying arthropods like mosquitoes and ticks, which tend to be the ones that we worry about most in the summer.
