As the nation marks the 75th anniversary of the attack that started World War II, a team at UW-Madison is sharing the story of how they found and identified the plane of a service member who was killed in action 72 years ago.
Associate Professor Xudong Wang holds a prototype of the researchers’ energy harvesting technology, which uses wood pulp and harnesses nano fibers. The technology could be incorporated into flooring and convert footsteps on the flooring into usable electricity.
Earlier this year a prominent Republican business executive said to me that even as a conservative he recognized it was time to once again invest in the University of Wisconsin.
Anyone interested in catching a glimpse of what entrepreneurs say could be the future of mass transportation should head over to the Discovery Building at 330 N. Orchard St. tonight.
UW-Madison student activist Deshawn McKinney has been named a winner of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, awarded to 40 American students each year to attend graduate school in any field in the United Kingdom.
The Great Lakes have their own miniature version of tsunamis – more than 100 times per year. That’s according to new research led by the University of Wisconsin Madison. The name of these waves – and the danger that comes with them – are relatively unknown to those in the region.
Jo Handelsman describes herself as a “changemaker.” Judging from her dossier, the incoming director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is not wrong.
The simmering frustration from in both rural and urban areas has boiled over. This turbulence, whether evident through community demonstrations or election results, conveys an urgent message of discontent rooted in social and economic inequities that result in health disparities.
Neuroscientists have long tried to uncover the neuronal connectivity and patterns of activity that explain human cognitive behaviors. The prevalent theory of working memory—using information stored in short-term memory to complete a task—is that the brain’s connections that code for the needed information must fire continuously. Now, in a paper published today (December 1) in Science, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and their colleagues provide evidence for a different theory, in which information can be stored in working memory in an inactive neuronal state.
Though she said it can be difficult being person of color and an engineering student, Janera Allen has made her mark during her four years at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison social scientist Tim Smeeding, regarded as one of the preeminent researchers of poverty, has been named the 2017 John Kenneth Galbraith fellow from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Researchers at UW-Madison are keeping a close eye on a weather satellite that’s working its way into orbit.
Chancellors within the UW System are expressing concerns over the upcoming budget. They’re asking state legislators for more money after years of seeing cuts.
UW-Madison wants to serve more low-income and first-generation college students, says Derek Kindle, the university’s new director of financial aid.
Noted: The Electoral College has been around for centuries, according to David Canon, political science professor at UW-Madison. He says the nation’s founding fathers set up the system because they didn’t give the electorate much credit.
Five UW-Madison professors have been elected as fellows into the world’s largest general scientific society.
UW-Madison fifth-year student Donale Richards is one of the few students of color who majors in biological systems engineering. He has made it his goal through his involvement in various groups that focus on the use of natural resources to change this and spark interest in incoming students of color of agricultural majors.
Interviewed: Professor Liad Weiss, Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: The promise to “Make America Great Again” “appeals to a time when white working-class men had a higher status in society than they do now, and race is in there,” says Katherine Cramer, who has spent the past nine years talking with rural Wisconsin voters for her book, “The Politics of Resentment.”
Quoted: “Airbnb is really feeling this is a huge threat to its business model,” said Andra Ghent, a professor of real estate and land use economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The holidays are just around the corner and for some families, gift giving may not be possible.That’s why Nigel Hayes, UW-Madison student athlete and the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County teamed up to help local families by taking them on a shopping spree. Life hasn’t been exactly easy for the Schultz and Keaton families.
Something extraordinary happened in rural America in the 2016 election. Donald Trump appealed to folks in rural communities in an unprecedented way — yet polls failed to capture the depth of support for him in such places. Many pundits have since taken stabs at explaining the problem, yet little of the commentary is rooted in actual research.
A University of Wisconsin business student has invented an add-on to insulin injectors ensuring a safer and surer injection for diabetics.
Noted: “We’ve been seeing this trend of later and later cooler temperatures in southern and western Wisconsin and we’re not really sure of the cause of that,” said Jordan Gerth, associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Katherine J. Cramer is author of The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she heads the Morgridge Center for Public Service. Her work focuses on the way people in the U.S. make sense of politics and their place in it. Cramer’s methodology is unusual and very direct. Instead of relying polls and survey data, she drops in on informal gatherings in rural areas—coffee shops, gas stations—and listens in on what people say to their neighbors and friends. It is a method that likely gets at psychological and social truths missed by pollsters.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student engineers have designed a new prototype to transport organs.
In Wisconsin, like most of the country, Raccoons are practically omnipresent. Their adaptability has allowed them to move from the country landscape as a wildlife creature to an urban life in cities and towns across the state. There are a few factors that make the raccoon especially adept at finding the food and shelter they need living among people, said University of Wisconsin-Madison professor David Drake.
Heading into one of the most important weeks of his life, Nigel Hayes had something else weighing on his mind. He was failing his Finance 300 class. He couldn’t even tell his mother. An F? He’s a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
Interviewed on UW Campus Climate: Lori Berquam & Patrick Sims
Quoted: According to Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, any increase or decrease in early voting between election cycles depends on three factors: whether the availability of early voting has changed, whether the state has become more competitive, and what the campaigns have done to promote early voting.
University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday that an astronaut who grew up in Milwaukee has been chosen as its December commencement speaker.
Thanks to a four-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the University of Wisconsin will increase the number of resident physicians in underserved rural areas in an effort to close the gap of health disparities.
While thousands of people the world over continue to go solar to generate alternative energy, a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison just made a major breakthrough on a completely unique new conductive material: wood pulp. While the mention of wood pulp mention leave many scratching their head, the lab found a way to manufacture floorboards out of the commonly wasted material, and did so in a manner that took advantage of its composition of cellulose nanofibers. In other words, the team of engineers managed to develop a flooring material capable of generating electricity by something as simple as a footstep.
Some polls suggest that Hillary Clinton’s support among millennials may be surging, but there is a lot of anger and disappointment from that huge bloc of voters. In the latest installment of our “Red, White and You” series, NBC’s Ronan Farrow investigates whether efforts to court millennials’ votes will pay off.
Noted: “Cats now outnumber dogs when it comes to family pets, but we see fewer cats coming into the vet,” said Dr. Sandi Sawchuck, clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. “It’s not that (owners) feel like they don’t need vet care, it’s the transportation issues.”
Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership, suggested that he would recognize Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, and questioned the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee.
Badgers basketball coach Greg Gard once worked part time as a park ranger and sheriff in Iowa County. Lori Nickel
Quoted: To Barry Burden, who directs the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, such spats mirror a growing and worrisome use of election rules as tools to win elections, not run them fairly.
The beat of melodies and rhymes is a sound that’s catching the attention of hundreds of classrooms across the nation.
My grandmother, whom my family affectionately referred to as “Bay” because she was the youngest of her siblings, was one of the wisest people I’ve ever known—especially when you consider the fact that she only had an eighth-grade education. She would often tell me, “If you don’t stand for somethin’ you’ll fall for nothin’.”
The Cobb Corn Roast Festival was winding down. The softball, volleyball and bean bag competitions were over. The Texas hold’em poker games, garden tours and 5K run had raised money for the local library. As locals gathered at the burger and brat stand and beer tent on that sunny August afternoon, excitement was in the air. The proud citizens of Cobb—population 458, in the rolling farmlands of southwestern Wisconsin—gathered to celebrate the town’s most famous son, University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard.
The Wisconsin Science Festival kicked off Thursday morning at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison and University of Iowa fraternity chapters are teaming up to run a football all the way to the Badgers-Hawkeyes game to raise money for local military families.
UW-Madison School of Education Dean Dr. Diana Hess visits News 3 This Morning to talk about how parents should be talking to their children about this year’s sometimes controversial election.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives will host its annual Passing the Mic event this weekend that will celebrate the transformational potential of hip hop arts in the Madison community and on the UW-Madison campus. This is the 12th annual Passing the Mic event, which is one of the truly diverse, multicultural events that the city of Madison will see.
A $4.8 million project more than doubling the size of the UW-Madison Police Department’s headquarters will improve officer training and make the booking process safer, officials say.
Starting Monday, Madison residents will be able to take care of their Election Day duties ahead of time at two early voting locations on the UW-Madison campus.
Quoted: “There is virtually no evidence of fraud at the polling places. It’s all myth,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Impersonation of voters, dead people voting, that stuff is outrageously false.”
Noted: But fact-checking itself can be an inherently controversial and “risky” form of journalism, as Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of the book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, told me earlier this summer.
David Bordwell, one of America’s foremost film scholars, has been thinking back on something the famous film critic Roger Ebert said to him a few years before Ebert died in 2013.
The third and last U.S. presidential debate takes place Wednesday.
The earlier debates were marked by political nastiness that many historians say is at its worst level in years. Some teachers, however, are working to make debates less angry. They are teaching their students about civil discourse.
Paula McAvoy is the program director of the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2015, she and Diana Hess published a book called “The Political Classroom.”
For Keven Stonewall, being a teenager meant embarking on a scientific journey of questions and discoveries. It meant taking risks and not being afraid to stand out from his peers. And it meant working to find a cure for colon cancer at the tender age of 17.
Kenny Dichter was a sociology major when he attended UW-Madison in the 1980s, a “low-SAT, low-GPA guy,” as he describes himself.
Yes, Rece Davis confirmed, it is as much fun on the ESPN “College GameDay” set as it looks on TV.
Though the “Goldberg Variations” by J.S. Bach have been interpreted in countless ways through the centuries, no one has heard the iconic work as it will be performed in Madison on Oct. 28.
In an effort to gauge how comfortable people from different racial, religious, political and other backgrounds feel on campus, UW-Madison is launching a survey of its student body that officials say could inform changes meant to improve the university’s climate.
After seven years of studying three-toed sloths, scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have made it official: the tree-dwelling animals are the slowest mammals on earth, metabolically speaking. “We expected them to have low metabolic rates, but we found them to have tremendously low energy needs,” says ecologist Jonathan Pauli.
Fight Colorectal Cancer and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center are working together to train survivors and caregivers to advocate for further research. The Colorectal Cancer Research Academy has drawn survivors and caregivers from across the country for two days of training.
Noted: Canon is a professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at UW–Madison. Susan Yackee is a professor of public affairs and director of the Board of Visitors of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
Two research teams — one with a potential vaccine for the Zika virus and the other with a new way of monitoring sedated patients — have won $10,000 each in an innovation competition organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
