Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies student access to higher education, quoted saying she was bothered by quotes in the Maveron press release comparing the idea of a black for-profit college to black media companies.
Noted: Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes by Robert A. Birmingham (University of Wisconsin Press; 255 pages; $24.95). A study of Indian mounds in Wisconsin built between AD 700 and 1100 in the shapes of animals and other figures.
As the Vilas Zoo kicks off its 100th year exhibiting animals, the beloved Madison institution is undergoing a transformation that began with a tragic death more than 20 years ago. In its most recent accreditation review, Vilas, one of only 15 free zoos out of 221 accredited zoos in North America, was flagged for several issues including insufficient staffing. To address those concerns, Dane County, which owns the zoo, asked the zoological society to fund three positions this year at a cost of $615,000 – the societyâ??s largest contribution ever toward operations. The zoological society last year hired veteran fundraiser Boris Frank, who teaches marketing at UW-Madison and has helped raise money for Olbrich Botanical Gardens and the UW Arboretum. Frank said his goal is to raise the $1 million for Arctic Passage this year, and he also wants to double zoo membership to 4,000.
Written by Stephen M. Born, UW-Madison emeritus professor of planning and environmental studies.
A Wisconsin has had tornadoes in every month of the year except February, say Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin of the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. We can have tornadoes almost anytime, although the chances of having one in winter are pretty small.
If you look closely at bread and cakes, there are open areas in the structure that provide a soft texture that yields when you bite into it, says Franco Milani, assistant professor of food science at UW-Madison.
Just blocks from the UW-Madison campus, Brothers Bar and Grill is a classic college tavern with sports-crazed patrons, 10-cent chicken wings and a line out the door on Saturday nights. But it now stands in the way of the very institution that has been feeding it a steady stream of customers over the years. The university has moved to take the land on which the bar sits at 704 University Ave. to build a new School of Music performance hall.Bar owners Marc and Eric Fortney sued the university, sparking a debate about when itâ??s appropriate and legal for government institutions to condemn private property for public purpose. The two sidesâ?? arguments will be aired in court during a trial scheduled for this week. Given the schoolâ??s ambitious long-term building plans that seep into surrounding neighborhoods, the results of this case could inform the way UW-Madison acquires property for future expansion. “If this works for them now, why wouldnâ??t they use it again?” asked UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs.
Quoted: Ellen Zweibel, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which tracked people who graduated from high school in Wisconsin in 1957.
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin.
Thanks to Newt Gingrichâ??s loose lips, the cat is out of the bag: The Republican Party, answering the call of a large part of its following, will continue its subtle and not-so-subtle uses of the â??race card.â? Gingrich said during the health care debate that â??much as Lyndon B. Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 yearsâ? when Congress enacted civil rights legislation, President Barack Obamaâ??s health care reform will prove as destructive. His audience needs no reminder of Republican divisiveness, but Gingrich, no stranger to distorting history, demands correction.
(Kutler is a UW-Madison professor emeritus of history and author of â??The Wars of Watergateâ? and other writings. This column first appeared on truthdig.com.)
Quoted: Bill Tracy, chairman of the agronomy department at UW-Madison.
References report by UW graduate students about impact of bicycling on the state’s economy.
Quoted: Bob Cropp a dairy market specialist with the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension in Madison.
Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul, a Thai analyst at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are free to spend money trying to influence the outcome of elections, we heard a lot of horror stories alleging that Big Business would soon have all the politicians dancing to its tune. What you wouldnâ??t know from those tales is that about half the states, including Illinois, already allow such spending. And what difference does it make? According to John Coleman, who chairs the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, not a bit.
Quoted: Kurt Squire, an associate professor of educational communications and technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political polling expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Allen J. Dines, president of the Midwest Research University Network and assistant director of the office of corporate relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Ron Kean, a University of Wisconsin-Madison poultry specialist who appeared as an expert in the documentary “Mad City Chickens,” which detailed Madisonâ??s successful drive several years ago to legalize chickens at the urging of urban local food enthusiasts.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies polling.
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin.
“The most important insect innovation was flight,” as evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, noted in a 1995 Nature journal study that described the role of genes in insect evolution.
Quoted: Stephen Carpenter, director of the UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
Quoted: Karl Malcomb, a University of Wisconsin researcher.
Quoted: John Lee, professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Janet S. Hyde, a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Ken Albrecht, an agronomist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Barry Orton, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of telecommunications.
Quoted: Susan Nitzke, a professor of nutritional sciences and extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Theyâ??re an integral part of Wisconsinâ??s agriculture: pollinating nearly all of the stateâ??s crops and much of the food we eat.
Quoted: Allan Odden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison education expert who is following the debate.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new piece of artwork on display at a museum in Madison is raising some eyebrows.
Want to rock the world? You can do it at a new website geophysicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created which allows users to model the Earthâ??s 25 interlocking tectonic plates crashing into each other. The scientists describe it as “a dynamic three-dimensional puzzle of planetary proportions. Dubbed MORVEL, for Mid-Ocean Ridge VELocity (because much of the data comes from the mid-ocean ridges) it was created by University of Wisconsin-Madison geophysicist Chuck DeMets and collaborators Richard Gordon of Rice University and Donald Argus of NASAâ??s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Digital and new media games are already part of kidsâ?? recreational time at home. A research group at UW-Madison is looking at ways to integrate this activity into the classroom. Moses Wolfenstein with Games, Learning and Society looks at games such as World of Warcraft, its methods of interaction and potential applications in education.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist David Canon.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor whoâ??s considered a national expert on campaign advertising.
Walker and Neumannâ??s ads may have started a tad early in the campaign season, but they follow the standard mold of early, introductory spots, said Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor whoâ??s considered a national expert on campaign advertising.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professors Barry Burden and Ken Mayer.
A University of Wisconsin professor whose animal research privileges were revoked last year due to multiple conduct violations was recently reinstated with stricter research oversight requirements.
Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, studied publicly released horse race surveys from the 2000 and 2002 elections and found that polls identified as partisan by The Hotline tended to skew in favor of their candidate by about 2.9 percent and against their opponent by roughly the same amount.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison suspended an associate professor last year based on what officials said was a “clear pattern” of animal-welfare problems in her laboratory, according to records obtained by The Wisconsin State Journal.
It turns out that only four times in the last 60 years has the tournament been free of snow – that is, only 6.7 percent of the time does no snow fall during the duration of the tournament, say Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin.
Feature about Suzanne Dove, outreach director for the UW-Madison Center for International Business Education and Research, or CIBER, a job she has held since 2007. CIBER works with other organizations to help Wisconsin businesses sell their products in other countries.
Jeff Kirsch, who teaches Spanish and Portuguese at the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies, is a spelling bee coach.
Noted: Research from the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Richard Weindruch, a professor of medicine in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and an expert on aging.
Quoted: Marsha Seltzer, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Waisman Center, which focuses on developmental disabilities.
Quoted: “The recognition you get from winning in a contest like this is invaluable for your business,” said Gary Grossen, a cheesemaker at UW-Madisonâ??s Babcock Hall.
Quoted: “Looking back over time, it is clear that women have lived longer than men in nearly all countries,â? says Richard Weindruch, a professor of medicine in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and an expert on aging.
The case of a young Wisconsin girl who died in 2008 from untreated diabetes after her parents opted for prayer rather than medical care is likely headed to the state Supreme Court, say Constitutional experts and others, with the UW-Madison Law School representing the mother in the appellate process.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, UW-Madison associate professor of political science and legal studies, and Byron Lichstein, director of the UW Law School’s Criminal Appeals Project
Quoted: Paul S. Boyer, emeritus professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of several of the most popular U.S. history textbooks, including some that are on the approved list in Texas.
On Friday night some UW-Madison students will gather in a classroom, choosing to attend a war policy debate instead of â?? or at least before â?? a keg party. It may sound more befitting the UW campus of the 1960s, but thatâ??s kind of the point.UW-Madison is hosting a “teach-in” on the war in Afghanistan this weekend, reviving a practice common during the campusâ?? turbulent Vietnam War years.Some of the faculty members giving lectures at the event say there are many parallels between that war and the nine-year conflict in Afghanistan.
Quoted: Shawn Francis Peters, a University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor and author of “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law,” and Barbara Knox, a University of Wisconsin Childrenâ??s Hospital doctor who reviews child abuse cases.
Some textbook authors expressed discomfort with the state boardâ??s changes, and it is unclear how readily historians will go along with some of the proposals.
“Iâ??m made uncomfortable by mandates of this kind for sure,” said Paul S. Boyer, emeritus professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of several of the most popular U.S. history textbooks, including some that are on the approved list in Texas.
Quoted: States across the country exempt members of religious groups from prosecution if they choose prayer over doctors. Many of the laws were enacted in the 1970s, pushed by the Christian Science church, a religious group that embraces faith-healing, said Shawn Francis Peters, a UW-Madison instructor and author of “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law.”
The road ahead of you is aglow with thousands of tiny sparkling snowflakes, like diamonds in the distance. The air on your face is brisk and refreshing, but it harmonizes with the warm sun. There is bliss in these moments of winter, experienced in the solitude of a long run, where your only purpose is to continue to put one foot in front of the other.But what if you could no longer run?
Noted: Kate Reilly, wife of University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly, has a paid staff appointment on the UW Madison campus and an unpaid appointment as “associate to the president” – an “honorary title” that does not include pay or benefits but allows her to have access to UW facilities, as well as fleet vehicles for official functions, according to UW spokesman David Giroux.
