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.
A University of Wisconsin engineer who creates innovative health promotion technologies was named to the National Academy of Engineering Tuesday.
A Senate committee held a public information hearing Wednesday to address education initiatives in the state and look at the issue of meeting workforce needs.
Quoted: This is, quite simply, untrue. ?There is tons of research on this,? says Joanne Cantor, professor emerita of communications at the University of Wisconsin, and an expert on the effect of violent movies and video games. ?Watching violence makes kids feel they can use violence to solve a problem. It brings increased feelings of hostility. It increases desensitization.? Every parent understands this instinctively, of course, but those instincts are backed by decades of solid research.
Alzheimer?s disease researchers at the University of Wisconsin identified the first signs of brain function decline, bringing them closer to winning the battle against the disease.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are one step closer to finding a cure for carpal tunnel syndrome through the use of video technology to record and analyze workers? upper body movements.
Noted: “We now have evidence that engaging in pure mental training can induce changes not just in the function of the brain, but in the brain?s structure itself,” Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told an audience at the New York Academy of Sciences on Thursday (Feb. 6) evening.
President Barack Obama established a broad foundation of initiatives, ranging from education-based economic reform to gun control in his fifth State of the Union Address Tuesday, which drew mixed responses from University of Wisconsin-Madison?s two college party chairs.
Quoted: ?We know things like radiation might cause breast cancer, but we don?t know much that we can say specifically causes breast cancer in terms of chemicals,? said Michael Gould, a professor of oncology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a co-chairman of the 23-member committee that prepared the report.
In a new paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison archaeologist T. Douglas Price and a Welsh researcher report that studies of prehistoric teeth found in modern Romania and Serbia indicate farming was introduced to Central Europe by colonizers from the Near East.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin are suing the state Department of Administration over its requirement that demonstrators in the state Capitol obtain permits.
Lately our fair city has been the recipient of continuous dustings of light snow evoking images of a Brueghel painting. In fact, Thursday was the ninth consecutive day with measurable snow, tying a record set only one other time (Feb. 23-March 3, 2007) in Madison?s history.
The exhibition opening Saturday at the Chazen Museum of Art was ? fittingly ? put together by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as a way to cope with an economic downturn.
Noted: Planck data may hold evidence for what members of the physics community, like Peter Timbie from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, commonly refer to as inflation?s smoking gun: a massive collection of propagating bends and kinks in space itself, called gravitational waves.
University of Wisconsin faculty addressed the evolving partnership between Madison and China during a panel event at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Wednesday.
Quoted: ?I wouldn?t criticize him for not knowing a lot of details about evolutionary biology,? said Elliott Sober, a philosopher of biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was highly critical of ?Mind and Cosmos? in Boston Review. But Mr. Nagel?s arguments, he continued, are marred by flawed reasoning about probability: ?He sees the origins of life and consciousness as remarkable facts which had to have had a high probability of happening. I don?t buy that.?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked seventh nationally in the 2013 Best Value public colleges and universities Tuesday by the Princeton Review.
Enlarge PhotoAfter years of trying, the city?s effort to develop a $7 million to $9 million, world-class agricultural and biology research center on the Southeast Side may be over.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward told the Faculty Senate Monday that university funding in the upcoming state biennial budget looks as though it will remain ?steady.?Ward said although the budget remains largely unclear until its release later this month, he is not expecting large cuts.
University of Wisconsin and other research institutions alike may have been awarded millions or billions of dollars to fund essentially identical research projects, according to a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University study.
Claims concerning increases in norovirus cases among University of Wisconsin students appear to be inconclusive, despite what recent reports suggest.
group of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors will discuss the university?s international connections in China at a panel Wednesday.UW-Madison opened the UW-Madison Shanghai Innovation Office as part of the university?s commitment to international educational opportunities such as study abroad programs and research collaboration.
