UW In The News

The women of U.S. hockey really hate Canada and really deserved a gold medal.

Hilary Knight was “crushed and heartbroken” after that come-from-ahead loss. “There was definitely an I-don’t-know-if-I-can-go-another-four-years kind of feeling,” she told NBC Sports’ Nick Zaccardi last year. Knight, who was a college star at the University of Wisconsin, had thought at one point that she wasn’t even going to make it to Sochi. She’d gone to Boston to train for the games, she told Fox Sports, and ended up calling her mom “bawling crying because my funding essentially wasn’t enough to live out here.

Teen spirit in the lab

Although still in high school, VanDommelen has logged hundreds of hours in a lab headed by biomedical engineer Melissa Skala at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The experience has sent the teenager down a career path that will probably include many more hours at the bench. “At first, I wasn’t sure that research was something that I wanted to do in my future,” VanDommelen says. “But after all of the positive experiences that I’ve had, I definitely want to continue this.”

Gold for 4 former Wisconsin Badgers as U.S. beats Canada in shootout thriller in women’s hockey

Captain Meghan Duggan, forward Brianna Decker and backup goaltender Alex Rigsby also were among the former Badgers players celebrating. On the other side, it was heartbreak for five former or current UW players with Canada: forwards Blayre Turnbull, Sarah Nurse and Emily Clark, defenseman Meaghan Mikkelson and backup goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens.

Give Peace Corps a chance: UW ranked No. 1 in volunteers for 2nd year in a row

For the second year in a row, Wisconsin’s flagship university tops the list of large schools providing volunteers to the Peace Corps, with 85 alumni currently volunteering worldwide.

David Muir, anchor of ‘ABC World News Tonight,’ to be UW-Madison commencement speaker

David Muir, an accomplished journalist and anchor of “ABC World News Tonight,” will provide advice and insight to UW-Madison graduates during the spring commencement ceremony.

Why social media appeals after mass shootings have done little to change gun laws

University of Wisconsin researchers found a similar trend in their study of Twitter conversations after 59 mass shootings from 2012 to 2014. That research, which has not yet been published, analyzed 1.3 million tweets and 700 related hashtags, using machine learning to sort them into various categories, said political science professor Jon C. W. Pevehouse, who co-authored the study with Dhavan V. Shah, a journalism professor, and several others.

Should You Exercise When You Are Sick?

There’s some evidence that very intense exercise—running a marathon, say—can briefly suppress your immune function, says Dr. Bruce Barrett, a professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. But in general, physical activity is a great way to shield yourself from illness, he says.

Has Donald Trump ‘been much tougher on Russia’ than Barack Obama?

“The Trump administration has repeatedly tried to undermine the credibility of the FBI and intelligence agencies in their investigation and assessment of the threat to the integrity of U.S. elections by Russian operatives,” said Yoshiko Herrera, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Is democracy decaying in Wisconsin? University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students investigate

A University of Wisconsin-Madison investigative journalism class is examining the health of Wisconsin’s democracy and residents’ power to affect state policy at a time when major forces have changed the political landscape.

The Importance of ‘White students having Black teachers’: Gloria Ladson-Billings on Education – Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo

Gloria Ladson-Billings retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison last month. She is the newly elected President of the National Academy of Education and a Senior Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute.

Bacterial sex: the promiscuous process driving antibiotic resistance

A year after the initial discovery of bacterial conjugation, Joshua Lederberg married Esther Zimmer, who had just earned a master’s degree in genetics from Stanford University while working in Tatum’s lab. The young Lederberg team — Joshua was 22 and Esther 24 — moved to the University of Wisconsin, where they began to explore the strange world of bacteria sex.Esther Lederberg was an exceptionally talented bench scientist.

Radio Chipstone: Bound Together by Cloth

If you look to your left as you walk into the School of Human Ecology on the UW Madison campus, you will see something wondrous in the Design Gallery window. The exhibit is called “Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egúngún Arts of the Yorùbá in Africa and Beyond.” The garment in the window is worn in what’s called a Masquerade.

“Bucky’s Tuition Promise” aims to make UW more accessible

The cost of tuition can be a deciding factor on where students go to college, but a recent decision by University of Wisconsin-Madison officials plans to make it possible for any Wisconsin student to become a Badger.

How to talk to children about school shootings

As adults we have a lot of questions after Wednesday’s deadly school shooting in Florida, but children have their own concerns. Karyn Riddle is an associate professor at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communications where her research focuses on the effects of exposure to media violence.

Why Is It So Hard for Democracy to Deal With Inequality?

Before reform, Byron Shafer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, writes in “Quiet Revolution: The Struggle for the Democratic Party and the Shaping of Post-Reform Politics,”

there was an American party system in which one party, the Republicans, was primarily responsive to white collar constituencies, and in which the other, the Democrats, was primarily responsive to blue collar constituencies.

Jobs, relationships elude adults with autism

Understanding the daily lives of adults with autism will help researchers identify the types of resources they need to succeed in various areas of life, says lead researcher Megan Farley, a senior psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Waisman Center.

University of Wisconsin will have huge influence in USA-Canada women’s hockey game

There’s red in the red, white and blue. There’s red in the Canadian flag. And when Team USA and Team Canada face off in a women’s hockey preliminary game Thursday at the Pyeongchang Olympics, they’ll be seeing red.

Emmy award winning screenwriter, actor talks being black, queer

Lena Waithe, an Emmy award winning screenwriter, producer and actress, spoke as the Black History Month keynote speaker, fielding questions on her experience in the entertainment industry and identity as a queer woman of color.

Congress debates DACA and immigration: The psychology that makes America a nation of immigrants

Smiling, and showing emotions in general, is more common in countries that are historically diverse than in homogenous places, say researchers from Niedenthal Emotions Lab, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Individuals in diverse societies have to rely on emotional expression to navigate the panoply of foreign cultures, social norms, and languages they came across during the course of everyday life.

There’s a Type of Tsunami on the Great Lakes You May Not Have Heard of Before

Lake Michigan and Lake Erie typically have the most frequent meteotsunami activity, according to Dr. Chin Wu, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

UW-Madison Study Finds Reason Behind Bald Eagle Recovery

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison knew the bald eagle population grew by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. They just didn’t know why.

22 jokes you have to be a current UW-Madison student to understand

Nothing will make you feel like hopelessly out-of-touch fuddy-duddy like perusing the UW-Madison Memes for Milk-Chugging Teens group on Facebook.

USA’s Granato Takes Anonymous Squad on Olympic Mission

Granato joined the New York Rangers after the Calgary games and went on to a 13-year playing career with three NHL clubs. He turned to coaching in 2002 and worked as an assistant or head coach with three NHL teams until taking over in 2016 as head men’s hockey coach at the University of Wisconsin, where he had a standout collegiate playing career.

High cancer-related expenses take a toll on quality of life

“When cancer patients spend more on their cancer treatment and other health care, they have less to spend on activities they enjoy and other needs, which can negatively affect their well-being,” said coauthor Joohyun Park, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy.“It turns out that financial burden is directly related to health and well-being,” Park told Reuters Health by email. “The more a cancer patient spends on health care, the worse the quality of life and mental health.”

UW-Madison Program To Cover Four Years Of Tuition For Incoming Freshman Whose Family Income Is $56,000 Or Less

A University of Wisconsin-Madison program, Bucky’s Tuition Promise, will cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for incoming Wisconsin resident students whose families make $56,000 or less per year. We talk with the school’s director of Financial Aid to learn more.

UW-Madison Program To Cover Four Years Of Tuition For Incoming Freshman Whose Family Income Is $56,000 Or Less

A University of Wisconsin-Madison program, Bucky’s Tuition Promise, will cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for incoming Wisconsin resident students whose families make $56,000 or less per year. We talk with the school’s director of Financial Aid to learn more.

How to Stay Warm At a Bitter-Cold Olympics? Face Tape and a Whistle-Like Gadget

In 1988, University of Wisconsin researchers studied the device, called a Lungplus, when used by 91 subjects in various cold-weather conditions. Over all, Lungplus users reported more comfort breathing in very cold temperatures. The researchers noted that Lungplus breathing at minus 15 degrees Celsius received similar scores, in terms of comfort, as regular breathing in 20 degrees Celsius, according to the research published in Applied Ergonomics.

Sinclair Broadcast Group solicits its news directors for its political fundraising efforts

Given that tradition, Sinclair’s policy “violates every standard of conduct that has existed in newsrooms for the past 40 or 50 years,” said Lewis Friedland, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin and a former TV news producer. “I’ve never seen anything like this. They certainly have the right to do it, but it’s blatantly unethical.”

University of Wisconsin-Madison offers free tuition to financially strapped freshmen

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the growing list of colleges that now offer free tuition to certain students.

The Price-Fixing Scandal Rocking Big Chicken

Because these lawsuits are private litigation, they will likely not result in structural reform to the poultry sector, says Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches competition and regulation in the meat sector. And, he says, the lawsuits probably won’t have “much effect” on the “very serious problem” of how processors “exploit the farmers who raise their chickens.”