Noted: The report, called “Strong roots: Building economically stable families mobilization plan,” is the combined effort of a group of more than 40 community leaders co-chaired by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.
Carl Gulbrandsen is so understated that even some people close to him didn’t know he played in a band growing up in Viroqua — or that his cousin is rocker Butch Vig of Garbage, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins fame.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Friday they have taken a step toward blocking transmission of the Zika virus.
A bacteria found in butterflies and bees can help prevent the spread of Zika virus, suggesting that mosquitoes could be infected with the bacteria and released into the wild to control Zika outbreaks, UW-Madison researchers said Friday.
For a precise definition, I asked an expert.Richard Amasino, a biochemist at University of Wisconsin, Madison, is also on the committee at the National Academy of Sciences, which produced a recent report on genetic engineering.
Here in Madison, a grand experiment is being carried out. Most of our professional and community theater groups have women in positions of artistic leadership.There are lots of reasons why that’s happened. UW-Madison has a great theater department, and this city boasts an outsized amount of artistic talent.
Barbara Wolfe and Jason Fletcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found children from lower income families have lower non-cognitive skills than children from richer families.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of only three public universities on the top 10 list of colleges that produce the most Fortune 500 CEOs. The list, compiled by Money Magazine, uses data from the educational backgrounds of the recently released Fortune 500.
New experiments have shown that one infection with Zika virus can provide immunity against subsequent exposure to the virus, a piece of good news published Tuesday as officials continue to wrestle with the mosquito-borne threat.
Fred Lee is not afraid to put himself out there. Lee is a radiologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, where his primary area of interest is the ablation, or elimination, of cancerous tumors. He says that around the year 2000, he decided that the radio frequency ablation devices he and his colleagues were using “were just not good enough.” But since Lee’s background wasn’t in engineering, he had to reach out for help.
What universities produce the captains of industry and finance in America? Harvard is a given, but what about the University of Wisconsin?
New research on monkeys found some good news that could have implications for humans: One infection with the Zika virus protects against future infections.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that a single exposure to the Zika virus protected monkeys against a second bout of the infection. That natural immunity may help in work to develop a vaccine.
The horrendous tragedy in Orlando has prompted fierce debates about how to prevent such attacks – should there be more restrictions on gun ownership? Different military and diplomatic policies combatting terrorism?Many of these debates break out along partisan lines with seemingly little room for compromise and action. But there is something we can do – each of us, whether parents or policy-makers, Republicans or Democrats.
Despite an increase in jobs, there was no reduction in poverty in Wisconsin between 2013 and 2014 under a broad measure developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin.
This week’s challenge was suggested by Jordan Ellenberg, a math-world superstar and current professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin. Jordan is the child prodigy who turned out well. After teaching himself to read at age 2, he attained a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT at age 12, won two gold medals in the International Math Olympiad (with perfect scores), and was a two-time Putnam Fellow at Harvard.
Walk into most macaque enclosures, and you might expect a ruckus: bird-like cooing if you’re bringing them food, or guttural barks if you aren’t.
The Rising Star cave system, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa, has been well mapped and was explored by cavers for many years, but without any fossils being noted there. That changed in September 2013, when two South African cavers, Rick Hunter and Steve Tucker, entered a remote, unmapped chamber and found the first-known fossil bones of what is now called Homo naledi strewn across its floor.
A visual artist who most recently taught arts education in Scotland has been named director of the Arts Institute at UW-Madison.
A UW-Madison virologist whose controversial work has sought to create more effective flu vaccines will receive a prestigious award from Japan’s scientific academy, officials announced Wednesday.
Most people get upset stomachs from time to time. Usually, a few trips to the bathroom or antibiotics solve the problem. For pandas, it’s an entirely different story. Our research into panda digestion shows that pandas get upset stomachs so frequently it may help explain why it’s so hard for them to reproduce. Our work may, as a result, highlight a new way to boost pandas’ breeding success in captivity.
Last year, Kelsey Card finished second in the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the discus and the shot put, getting beat in the latter on an opponent’s last throw.
There’s an arms race raging underground – well, between microbes and plants anyway. When bacteria attack crop roots, plants fight back by snaring the pathogens in a sticky trap made from their own DNA secretions. But a new study shows how the bacteria bust out, using a set of enzymes that act as molecular scissors, splitting the DNA like bubble wrap.
Noted: New research (by Evan Polman of the Wisconsin School of Business) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that might be key: If you can’t make up your own mind, pretend to make up someone else’s.
EAU CLAIRE — Jonathan Tsipis hasn’t been the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program for very long, but he’s made one thing very clear in the time he’s had so far.
Public colleges and universities are grappling with diminishing resources, largely because of significant declines in state funding over the years. We asked three top educators about potential solutions to the funding problems: Janet Napolitano, the president of the University of California; Bernadette Gray-Little, chancellor of the University of Kansas; and Clifton Forbes Conrad, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Heat waves can kill. In 2003, during a major European heat wave, 14,802 people died of hyperthermia in France alone. Most were elderly people living alone in apartment buildings without air conditioning, according to Richard Keller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medical history and bioethics and author of “Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003” (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
With strong business and engineering programs, as well as a reputation as one of the top state flagship universities in the country, it’s little surprise UW is one of three public colleges to break into this top 10 list.
Zack Kemmerer is unexpectedly chipper and doesn’t seem bummed at all that viewers have yet to see him full-on conquer the American Ninja Warrior course.Nor does he feel any awkwardness about attending his own watch party for the extreme athletic challenge — even though he barely appears in the season opening episode his fans gathered to view at Union South.Kemmerer, a Ph.D. student in UW-Madison’s biochemistry program studying mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell!), says most of his run on the show, which opened its season on June 13, wasn’t just challenging — it was actually fun.
MADISON, Wis. — The smile creasing Dallas Jeanty’s face refuses to fade, a twinkling light he won’t extinguish, as he sits in the Camp Randall Stadium bleachers. He is an 18-year-old linebacker at the University of Wisconsin ready to embrace the wealth of possibilities in front of him: new friends, new surroundings, new start. He laughs while speaking reverently about playing football, eating Oreos, listening to Mumford & Sons and reading Harry Potter.
Bike to the Library began in 2015 as part of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute’s “Climate Change Policy and Public Health” Massive Open Online Course. Bike to the Library Director, Terry Ross said he conceived of the idea as part of a larger effort to engage libraries with the important content of these MOOCs, beginning with “Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region.”
Data collected from sensors on a buoy in Lake Mendota map the ebb and flow of the algal blooms that each year turn the lake green with phytoplankton. A look at the patterns created over time shows a confluence of interconnected cycles driven by season, temperature, sunrise and sunset.
The stress caused by internal stigma can evoke a biological response. According to Stephanie Budge, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, there is broad consensus in the research community that “minority stress” — including internalized self-hatred — creates massive physical health problems.
Cultural competency training could be in store for 1,000 new students at UW- Madison.
Op-ed by Kathy Cramer: “A job for life.” Those are the words Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is using to describe tenure. It may be a terrible tact to take for his state’s university system, but it’s a smart move politically.
Nearly 120 youth gathered at the recent University of Wisconsin-Madison for Badger Dairy Camp. This year’s camp attendance was an almost 30 percent increase from previous years, which usually totaled 85 to 95 youth.
The Materials Project has attracted more than 20,000 users since launching five years ago. Every day about 20 new users register and 300 to 400 people log in to do research.One of those users is Dane Morgan, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who develops new materials for a wide range of applications, including highly active catalysts for fuel cells, stable low-work function electron emitter cathodes for high-powered microwave devices, and efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally safe solar materials.
Since the 17th century, when Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed microorganisms through the lens of a rudimentary microscope, humans have slowly come to appreciate that ours is a germy world.
About 13,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students took summer classes last year, and out of all those students, only 12 got scholarship money from the university to help cover their summer tuition. But those numbers are now changing.
Quoted: “It’s best viewed when the sun is low and you have a nice long shadow,” said Steven Ackerman, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has experienced the phenomenon numerous times.
The case against Mr Barrientos will be presented by lawyers from Chadbourne and Parke, who said they will show evidence of the torture and summary execution of Mr Jara through the testimony of his widow, his daughters Amanda Jara and Manuela Bunster, renowned Chilean journalist Mónica González and Professor Steven Stern from the University of Wisconsin.
The remnants of this town, nestled along a shallow bend in the Crawfish River, have generated many other fantastic myths over time — myths that researchers like University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor Sissel Schroeder work to dispel.
Mackie, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of medical physics and engineering physics and director emeritus of medical engineering at the Morgridge Institute for Research, is co-founder of two of the finalists in this year’s contest, Asto CT and Linectra, as well as one of last year’s finalists, OnLume.
Once you’ve recognized your biases, learned more about racism, and talked to people of different races, you need to start replacing biases and stereotypes with what you know to be true about people, according to Patricia Devine, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Northwestern Medicine and University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) scientists have identified a gene that causes severe glaucoma in children. The finding, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, validates a similar discovery made by the scientists in mice two years ago and suggests a target for future therapies to treat the devastating eye disease that currently has no cure.
Schools like Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin are already piloting VR technology in specific majors to measure student experience outcomes, and while some experts believe the industry for “immersive experiences” will grow to be as big as the mobile revolution, cost and pairing between technology and mission may settle VR to be an enhanced professional training resource for students in STEM and military disciplines.
Noted: Edward Friedman, an expert on China elite politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that the response to Stalin’s death was pivotal in the birth of the Cultural Revolution.
When a man drowned during a triathlon that Pat Hughes was also competing in several years ago, it was a life-changing moment for the shaken Hughes.“It seemed like a very preventable tragedy,” said Hughes, a 2012 Wisconsin School of Business graduate.
ATLANTA — Following his second day of work as an intern in the mental health program at the Carter Center last month, Chris Borland was driving home past a high school. On a field situated along the road, he saw a football team in the middle of a spring practice. Borland pulled over and watched for 10 minutes, not out of nostalgia for a game he left behind, but rather fixating on the players as their helmets collided repeatedly during a series of contact drills.
UW-Madison has been in the forefront of distance education, offering the world’s first correspondence course in 1891, and the leadership by the state’s flagship university continues to this day, with a three-day conference in August.
Academics have consistently found that making “gives kids agency” over their learning in ways that traditional classes often don’t, said Erica Halverson, an associate professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There’s also mounting evidence that making is a good way to teach academic content. “The fear out there is that schools have to choose between making and academic work, but empirically that turns out not to be true,” Halverson said.
Quoted: “The research is indicating that you don’t need extended, long-term therapy for most kinds of problems,” said Bruce Wampold, a psychologist specializing in counseling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Though some patients may seek therapy to help manage chronic conditions like depression, many seek treatment for problems that can be overcome relatively easily, like conflicts at work or in relationships. Therapy should be like seeing any other kind of doctor: You make an appointment, work to gain the tools you need to manage your problems, and eventually discontinue your time together.
Alex Kubicek, a UW-Madison grad, moved Understory back to Madison weeks ago after developing it with his team in Boston. The company’s hardware tracks weather events to provide better data for companies, and it’s returned after closing a $7.5 million fundraising round that included Monsanto’s venture capital arm. The lead investor, Wisconsin fund 4490 Ventures, had asked Kubicek whether they’d be willing to come back to Madison.
“The extent to which parents are tied up with these devices in ways that disrupt the interactions with the child has potential for a far bigger impact,” says Heather Kirkorian, who heads up the Cognitive Development & Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If I’m on the floor with a child but checking my phone every five minutes, what message does that send?”
While most smaller cities may never become information hubs, some clearly will. For the most part these will be either university towns such as Chapel Hill (home to the University of North Carolina), Provo-Orem (Brigham Young) and Madison (University of Wisconsin).
If you’re not familiar with Gwen Jorgensen, you will be soon. The two-time reigning ITU World Triathlon Champion, Jorgensen promises to become a household name during this summer’s Olympics, where she will be the heavy favorite to bring home the gold in Rio.
University of Wisconsin researchers this week installed an underwater wave pressure sensor along Duluth’s Park Point beach that could help detect deadly rip currents.
Quoted: “Most studies show that election reforms don’t affect turnout very much, and when they do, the people who turn out look a lot like the people who are already voting,” said Barry C. Burden, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center.
UW-Madison vector biologist Matthew Aliota joined Steve Ketelaar on Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News to look at the latest case of the Zika virus in Wisconsin, if it could start to spread locally, and if athletes should be concerned about it in Rio for the Olympics.
For aspiring thespians, the coasts typically offer the best opportunities in both training and job prospects.
