In my view, the term ?bullying? risks understating the severity of the offense, like calling someone a ?troll? often soft-pedals the gravity of making sexist, racist and gratuitously incendiary online comments.
The elimination of a key milk production report that lost its federal funding could lead to uncertainty in the dairy industry and price hikes for some dairy products.
George Fabian is getting soft. The evidence is inescapable.For one thing, Fabian let Dick Geier make a documentary film about him. For another, I walked into the Park Street Shoe Repair this week without being insulted.Geier, the filmmaker, noticed it too. Geier recently retired from doing video production for the UW-Madison School of Education. He first met Fabian decades ago, and George growled at him.
A Milwaukee artist who earned a master?s of fine arts degree last year from UW-Madison is getting national attention for creating a portrait of former Pope Benedict XVI out of 17,000 brightly colored condoms.
Once again, a race for Dane County Circuit Court may largely be decided based on one candidate?s association with Gov. Scott Walker.
Quoted: ?The correlation with mood terms is not altogether surprising, as these longer constructions provide increased opportunity for expressing sentiments,? explains biologist David Krakauer of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, who with his colleagues has mined Google Books for changes in literary style.
Quoted: “The expectation is that they all do this,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wrote “With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power.” “That is the typical way of doing things.”
Quoted: “Several years ago people would have been shocked by the prevalence numbers but each year the estimates have been trending upwards,” said Matthew Maenner, an epidemiologist with the Waisman Center.
Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank may serve in the Obama administration, but her recommendation to be the new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has an enthusiastic Republican proponent: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Quoted: Funding for research ?for Alzheimer?s is totally insufficient,? says Alzheimer?s researcher Luigi Puglielli, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Lawyers say winning such a case would have been tough but not impossible. ?A successful case against Monsanto would have required very smart litigating,? said Peter Carstensen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and antitrust specialist who has studied the seed industry. ?(The) Microsoft (case) required an extraordinarily able set of lawyers.?
Quoted: ?This gives reassurance to smokers that the benefits of quitting still far outweigh any small health risks that may come with weight gain,? said Dr. Michael Fiore, founder of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, said Ryan?s budget could be a double-edged sword that cuts for him in a GOP primary and against him in a general election.
Noted: The companies acknowledge that completion rates are a concern and that their platforms are still works in progress. And to observers such as David Krakauer, that is as it should be. ?There are two ways to make something new,? says Krakauer, a biologist who directs the Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. ?You can design something that?s perfect on paper, and then try to build it. Or you can start with a system that?s rubbish, experiment and build a better one with feedback. That?s the Silicon Valley style ? but it?s also the scientific way.?
The University of Wisconsin will welcome the Dalai Lama to campus in May to participate in a panel moderated by nationally-acclaimed journalists Arianna Huffington and Daniel Goleman.
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit Madison along with other international thought leaders to take part in a series of panel discussions in May as part of the ?Change your Mind Change the World? event at the Overture Center.
Julie K. Underwood, dean of the School of Education of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and 1976 graduate of DePauw University, will discuss “The Privatization of Education” in a March 21 presentation at the Racine Marriott Hotel. The program, which is free and open to the public, is previewed in the Racine Journal Times. “Underwood will explore four challenges of privatization of education in America, and what they mean for the future of public education in this country,” it reports.
Quoted: But first, why do we get so riled up about these problems? People don?t usually get into fistfights at the bar over arithmetic, but these math threads are spectacularly vitriolic. A couple of factors are at work in these math debates, according to Robert Glenn Howard, a social psychologist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison who specializes in Internet communication and folklore.
When I found out the other day that Harry Miller had retired from the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), my immediate reaction was, “How can he do this to me?”
Quoted: Barnard supports his ideas with studies, but be mindful of the kind of studies he examined, says Sanjay Asthana, director of the Alzheimer?s disease research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most are epidemiological studies based on what people say they eat and on how their health changes over a period of years. The gold standard for research is a randomized controlled trial, in which participants would be put on different diets and their health monitored.
Quoted: “Maybe bioethicists have been a little bit too cavalier assuming that a mouse with some human brain cells in it is just your normal old mouse,” says Robert Streiffer, a bioethicist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Well, it?s not going to be human, but that doesn?t mean it?s a normal old mouse either.”
Noted: A number of other academics supported Wahl-Jorgensen?s comment. Kris Olds, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote for Inside Higher Ed: ?While I?ve never met [Dr George] I can state, with confidence, he would have been tenured here at UW-Madison. Indeed, given his record and in demand areas of expertise matched with actual experience as a journalist, he?d most likely be a tenured full Professor by now.?
Noted: But Robert Schwoch, an instructor at the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism and Mass Communications who has also worked for elected officials, says it is not that simple.
On Sunday, researchers from Johns Hopkins announced that a toddler in Mississippi is the first child to be “functionally cured” of HIV.
Henry Vilas Zoo is mourning the loss of Casey, a 31-year-old male chimpanzee, who passed away following a physical examination and diagnostic procedures. The examination was part of a preventive medicine program to evaluate his general health and was a collaborative effort between Henry Vilas Zoo animal and medical staff and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine, including Board Certified Veterinarians in Zoological Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Cardiology.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistant?s Association voted Monday to support a UW-Madison environmental group?s cause to persuade the university to end its investments in fossil fuel interests.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin found an increasing female mortality rate at a national level in a study one researcher called the first of its kind.
Quoted: ?Every time you put a needle into the brain, you run the risk of a hemorrhage and raise the risk of unwanted effects,? says Ian Duncan, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, who is not involved in Lim?s project.
This week and next, the four finalists for chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be interviewed by a committee of the UW Board of Regents with a selection expected in April.
IN the beginning, the technology gods created the Internet and saw that it was good. Here, at last, was a public sphere with unlimited potential for reasoned debate and the thoughtful exchange of ideas, an enlightening conversational bridge across the many geographic, social, cultural, ideological and economic boundaries that ordinarily separate us in life, a way to pay bills without a stamp.
Jane Goodall will be the keynote speaker at the seventh annual Nelson Institute Earth Day conference April 15 at Monona Terrace, UW-Madison said in a news release.
Quoted: Other research has found that around 81 percent of people misrepresent some aspect of their real identity in their profiles. But according to a study led by Catalina L. Toma, an assistant professor in the department of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the lies usually tend to be small. (You are, after all, going to meet in person soon enough.)
Noted: Don Nelson, the director of state relations for University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the committee that he serves as the custodian of hundreds of thousands of student records. He said that when he responds to open records requests he has to consider student and employee privacy and federal laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which protects patient privacy.
Gov. Scott Walker and other Republican governors criticized the president?s across-the-board spending cuts scheduled to take effect this week during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
Research on the bird flu may start up again on the University of Wisconsin campus after scientists voluntarily put the project on hold more than a year ago.
Noted: Unanswered or deflected questions. “I don?t know, but I will find out” is an acceptable response?but not regularly, and you shouldn?t get the feeling there?s something to hide. “If staff are evasive with your questions, unable to answer your questions, or refuse to discuss your loved one?s care with you, this is a big red flag that care may be suboptimal,” says Amy Jo Haavisto Kind, an assistant professor in geriatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
University of Wisconsin researchers have discovered a new way to detect and quantify proteins, which could potentially lead to more efficient cancer research and diagnosis.
Noted: Alfred W. McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of ?Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation? (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), was blunt when he discussed the policy with Democracy Now?s Goodman.
Madison has begun testing trees for emerald ash borers, an invasive Chinese insect that has been devastating much of North America?s ash trees.
For UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling, the idea that people caught in a mass shooting might have to find a way to fight for their lives is not a new concept.But her recent comments to that effect are gaining national attention.
Willie Ney, a self-described ?multicultural activist? on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the 1990s, heard teens performing poetry and saw revolutionary potential.
By this point, the ?UW Madison Confessions? Facebook page should need no introduction. The page, which allows anyone to post confessions anonymously through an online survey system, has gained 13,698 likes in less than 10 days since its creation on Feb. 11. According to the administrator of the page, who is remaining anonymous, it is a great place for debates and funny stories.
Government-funded scientists here in the U.S. are a step closer to being able to resume some controversial experiments with lab-altered bird flu viruses. That includes Yoshihiro Kawaoka’s UW-Madison lab, visited by NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce earlier this month.
The finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s chancellor position speak
One Madison woman has made it her life?s mission to help families in Africa. Now she?s taking UW-Madison students along on her journey.
Gov. Scott Walkers proposed income tax cut would give more money back to the rich than it would the poor, despite his billing it as targeting the middle class.
Kevin Kluender humbly dismisses the notion that he coordinates one of the most prominent, enduring attractions in the state.Kluender is the assistant director for marketing and promotions for the University of Wisconsin athletic department
(0) CommentsAron Ralston, the outdoorsman who famously amputated his own arm after being trapped beneath a boulder, spoke at Union South Wednesday as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series to discuss his accident and the effect it has had on his life.
Donald A. Nichols was a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for more than 40 years, shaping economic policy as an adviser to Wisconsin governors and a president.
Days after a meteorite struck Russia and left more than 1,000 injured, University of Wisconsin scientists concluded a study of a meteorite that hit Wisconsin with findings of its complex geological history after three years of investigation.
As schools across the country are focused on security, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling is getting national recognition for her strategy for dealing with a shooter on campus.
Quoted: “These incidents are becoming a fact of life,?? University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling told a meeting of law enforcement colleagues gathered here. “If there is no other option, take the shooter out.??
Board of Regents2013 Meeting Notices for Special Committee MeetingsUW-Madison Chancellor Search and Screen Committee andSpecial Regent Committe for the UW-Madison Chancellor Search Date and Time: Monday, Feb. 18, 2012 | 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Location: 260 Bascom Halll, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
Whether the trend could be due to the state of the United States? economy or increasing demand from employers, the University of Wisconsin experienced a major surge in students graduating with economics majors in the last six years.
David McDonald, the Russian history professor who chairs the search committee to find the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s next chancellor, says he?s happy to be handing off the top five names to a committee of the UW Board of Regents this week.David Giroux, the top spokesman for the UW System, says the identities of those finalists might be publicly disclosed by midweek.
Quoted: Children watch a mix of ?prosocial but also antisocial media,? said Marie-Louise Mares, an associate professor of communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ?Merely being exposed to prosocial media doesn?t mean that kids take it that way.?
It all started with a crushed orange velvet couch.
?This lovely down-filled couch showed up in the bathroom,? said Linda Zwicker, an assistant dean at the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?And its always been a puzzle ? how the hell did it get in there?
To understand whether life exists on Mars and other planets, University of Wisconsin scientists are contextualizing these planets by first researching the origins and evolution of life on Earth.
From UFO sightings to reports of alien activity, scientists have searched for answers to questions about extra-terrestrial life for decades.
As Madison voters prepare to cast ballots Tuesday in important primary elections for the state Supreme Court and the Madison School Board, it is vital to recognize that the most critical challenge facing school districts across Wisconsin is the assault on public education that has been launched by out-of-state special interest groups and the politicians who do their bidding.
