For those in the midst of moving days in downtown Madison, there is a place where one person’s junk can become another person’s treasure. That place is the UW-Madison We Conserve program’s temporary drop-off donation site located on Lot 45 at 165 N. Mills Street.
It’s a good day to be a Badger.The University of Wisconsin-Madison football team was recently ranked 24th in the Associated Press’ all-time Top 100 rankings. The AP has been ranking college football teams since 1936 and determined its top 25 of all time by counting how many times a team appeared on the poll (one point), the number of No. 1 rankings (two points) and AP championships (10 points).
Quoted: Robert Drechsel, who retired last week as the James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described the article as “thoughtless, insensitive and unethical.”
Veterans coming home from overseas wars face challenges in adapting to life as a civilian, and many of those challenges involve legal questions. That’s why the UW Law School opened the Veterans Law Center in 2012. Today, at the Appleton Public Library, the Center has a mobile unit staffed with attorneys, paralegals, and volunteers to help veterans with their legal questions.
Imagine a smartwatch that’s powered by the sun rather than a lithium-ion battery. Or a contact lens that taps solar energy to adjust its focus automatically to help you see better.
On the frigid central plain of Antarctica, where the sun rises only once a year, a set of 5,160 light sensors encased in a cubic kilometer of crystal clear ice sits poised to register the flash of passing quantum particles.
On a frigid seven-degree night last year, Brooke Evans, 23, entered the University of Wisconsin library in Madison, stomping her feet in her worn Adidas to get the feeling in her toes back.
About 400,000 records kept by UW-Madison Libraries will be available online to students, genealogists and researchers as part of a nationwide digital collection.
By the time Hans Sollinger helped launch a company for the first time, in 2004, he had performed hundreds of pancreas transplants. In the process, he had built a reputation as a prolific surgeon whose experience few of his peers could match. Sollinger, who practices at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, also known as UW Health, said that the high demand for his services over the years made his first foray into entrepreneurship somewhat jarring.
But samples from Pine Lake’s dead fish led to a scientific discovery in Goldberg’s laboratory at UW-Madison.
New research suggests that having a Plan B is not necessarily a good idea. In the study “How backup plans can harm goal pursuit: The unexpected downside of being prepared for failure,” Jihae Shin and Katherine Milkman, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, found that backup plans diminish the desire to achieve the primary goal in the first place.
A former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and a member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is calling on the state to take a no-nonsense approach to funding the UW System.
Quoted: “We don’t know what the claims that things will be fine are based upon. This is unacceptable considering the high stakes,” said Ian Baird, a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies Mekong fisheries. “If the measures don’t work well, it will be too late to undo the damage and there will be regional implications for food security and biodiversity.”
Sunday was Sue Riseling’s last day as chief of the UW Madison Police Department after 25 years of service to the UW community, and she leaves as one of the most respected campus police chiefs in the nation.
Heavy rainfall and flooding have made conditions ripe for mosquitoes in the area.The recent influx of the blood-sucking insects is the result of weeks of heavy rain as some varieties of mosquito breed in stagnant water, according to Phil Pellitteri, a UW-Madison entomologist emeritus.
“Trump’s erratic campaign has put state Republican leaders in a difficult position,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
Many of us are aware of the negative health effects from too much sugar, but what about the effects on kids and their eating habits? How can we better monitor their intake of sugar?Clinical Nutritionist Amy Caulum with UW Health Pediatric Fitness joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to share how to keep an eye on those sugars and added sugars.
Cellectar, a publicly-traded company, was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert.
Quoted: “I think it’s become clear to policymakers that the courts are going to be pushing back,” said Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Election Research Center, who testified against his state’s voter ID law. “It’s not one rogue judge. It’s a series of district courts and appeals courts that are saying to the states, you’ve gone too far.”
Noted: If unscrupulous test-preparation centers were to obtain the items, the impact on the SAT would be “devastating,” said James Wollack, director of the Center for Placement Testing at the University of Wisconsin.
The popular smartphone game “Pokemon Go!” has swept the country up in a craze to catch them all, but there are other branches of virtual reality from researchers and developers all over the world, and some of the best and brightest are right here in Madison.
You never know what’s around the corner, but you also know never to say never — because in four years or so, you just might know exactly what’s hiding there.
UW-Madison officials say the graduation rates of students from one of the university’s best-known outreach programs are poised to rise in the coming years, after a critical evaluation found participants in the pre-college program have been less likely than their peers to finish school.
Managing editor Deidre Green coordinates this year’s summer writing workshop program, an effort to reduce the academic “summer slide” for students. Her instructors include graduate students from UW-Madison. Green grew up in the Simpson Street neighborhood and now attends grad school at UW’s School of Education. She has worked for Simpson Street Free Press since she was in eighth grade.
Roelli credits John Jaeggi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research with helping him develop and perfect the Little Mountain cheese.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison swimmer with three school records under his belt last season will compete in the Rio Olympics. Matt Hutchins will swim the 400-meter freestyle and the 1500-meter freestyle.
When Jorgensen decided to become a triathlete at the age of 23, she had never even been on a road bike. Still, while in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she made the swim, track, and cross-country teams as a walk-on and became an all-American runner.
Marty remembers looking outside the window of his room, seeing cars go by and thinking to himself, “How do you get in your car and just go, you know, just go about your day?”
For many freshmen arriving at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall, it will be the first time they interact with students who don’t overwhelmingly look, love, experience and identify in the same way. Often that’s a mind-broadening experience.
Natural selection is tricky to catch in action. As Darwin put it, “A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die.” The grain in the balance—the slightly increased chance that organisms carrying one gene variant will fail in the struggle for existence—is the cost of selection. It is almost invisible, only becoming statistically evident when viewed across thousands of individuals, who may display only subtle differences in the affected character.
Richard Keller tells students in his medical history and global health classes not to look for happy endings.
Noted: For decades, researchers have theorized that deceleration starts as energy stored in the muscles is used up. “All mammals engaged in intense exercise, be it a human marathoner, a cheetah trying to catch prey or the prey trying to avoid becoming a meal, rely on energy stored in the body, usually as glycogen,” said Karen Steudel, a professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin. “Once this is depleted, the human or cheetah is basically out of gas.”
U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl will donate $1.5 million to support faculty research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that addresses difficult public policy and governance issues, the university announced Wednesday.
Dr. Richie Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been meditating for more than 40 years, but it was the Dalai Lama himself who convinced him to dedicate his life to researching the effects of meditation on the brain.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will be providing about $5 million for 14 research and infrastructure projects at UW-Madison, the university announced on Tuesday.
Having a job that requires complex social interactions — like mentoring and negotiating — might protect the brain from developing symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease by building up what researchers call cognitive reserves.
Serotonin is best known for eliciting feelings of happiness in the human brain, but scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have learned the hormone plays a role in milk production in dairy cows — and may have health implications for breastfeeding women.
Wisconsin senior running back Corey Clement was among the 10 Big Ten Conference players to earn preseason recognition Monday in conjunction with the start of Big Ten Media Days in Chicago.
Quoted: Matthew Aliota, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin who was was part of the team that first detected Zika in Colombia, said the virus could be in an “inter-epidemic period” and that cases could surge again at some point.
Flooding in northern Wisconsin has been devastating for many who live in the area but a group at UW-Madison is offering some help.
Madison — Dare Ogunbowale has been forced to modify his plan for life after the University of Wisconsin, a plan that was built meticulously over the course of several years.
Noted: When all that context drops out, you’re left with the mere content of the map, which can make it harder to understand in truly historical terms. Jonathan Senchyne, director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (and a graduate school colleague of mine), says that this can sand down the historical texture of an object. “There’s always a temptation to think about something that’s been [digitized] in presentist terms,” Senchyne told me. In other words, it’s challenging to break free from our own ways of understanding and moving through space when we only access the past through a digital lens.
Toddlers make their fair share of noise. But they also have a lot of noise to contend with — a television blaring, siblings squabbling, a car radio blasting, grownups talking.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to explain the sloth lifestyle and what makes it so special. Among other herbivores, and even other vertebrates, the sloth stands out and the research provides some insight into that specialty.
When a sheriff’s deputy found a van parked at the edge of Sparkling Lake in Vilas County at 2 a.m. on July 7, chances are he expected to find something nefarious afoot. Instead, he got a crash course in fresh water ecology from graduate student Alex Linz.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have used DNA sequencing to unravel an 85-year-old mystery, pinpointing the genetic cause for Mauriac syndrome, a rare condition that affects children with poorly controlled Type 1 diabetes.
Iverson outlines vision as WARF hits ’inflection point’7/21/2016 Erik Iverson says he’s taking over the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation as the 91-year-old organization is hitting a major “inflection point.”
UW-Madison is collecting donations for the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe after flooding in northern Wisconsin last week hit the band’s reservation particularly hard.
The University of Wisconsin’s Hancock Agricultural Research Station is celebrating 100 years of research, vegetables, farmer partnerships, education and innovation.
AZTALAN — Now that the artifacts have been unearthed, the next phase of work — analyzing and trying to decipher what they mean — is under way.
Serious about competition as a young boy in 1988, David O’Connor allowed himself a sly smile of contentment as his parents snapped a Polaroid portrait of the sixth-grader posing with his medals. Taking second-place in the individual competition, O’Connor helped his team from James W. Riley Elementary School in Arlington Heights win the “Future Problem Solving Bowl” state championship. His team advanced to the international competition, where they worked on a birth-defect problem, but didn’t win.
MADISON, Wis. — Of the hundreds of monkeys in the University of Wisconsin’s primate center, a few — including rhesus macaque 827577 — are now famous, at least among scientists tracking the Zika virus.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison 2015 graduate is being honored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association in a national campaign. Haley Frieler is one of ten people with Muscular Dystrophy who are featured in the “Live Unlimited” summer campaign.
UW-Madison’s Molecular Archaeology Group performed the tests for the Veteran’s Museum for free.
Noted: UW-Madison professors Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire comment.
For budding scientists, the University of Wisconsin-Madison annual summer science camp is one of the best places to be on a sunny summer day – even though school is officially out.
The classic Wisconsin soda ‘Jolly Good’ are making a comeback with products soon to be sold by retailers statewide. Interviewed: Page Moreau is the John R. Nevin Chair in Marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business and Assistant Professor of Marketing at Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado. She is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Consumer Research.
UW-Madison added another high ranking to its dossier, and it wasn’t for an athletic achievement.
Students from high schools in rural Wisconsin are stepping into the shoes of UW-Madison scientists for the week. They’re working hands-on with projects related to research projects that are currently going on at the university.
The Zika Virus has been a major concern among public health officials and world leaders in recent months, especially now that the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil are just a few short weeks away.
