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UW-Madison beefing up efforts in Milwaukee to help minority, low-income students get to college

A pre-college program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that partners with schools to help prepare minority and low-income students for college is narrowing its focus to Milwaukee and Madison public schools, the university announced Monday.

Q&A: Carrie Kruse taps student experiences to lead UW-Madison’s College Library

When hundreds of students entered College Library in December 2014 for a silent die-in protest, it not only brought the Black Lives Matter movement to the University of Wisconsin campus, it also informed an emerging “beyond neutral” practice at the library.

UW-Madison Professor Archiving Podcasts For Future Generations

Jeremy Morris is a futuristic thinker. While some are heralding podcasts as a trendy new medium, Morris is worrying about what will become of them in the future when we may not use iPhones, iPods or MP3s. Morris, an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded PodcastRE, a project that aims to archive podcasts.

Addiction App From UW Researchers Up For National Award

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have come up with a smart phone app for addicts that’s getting recognition from Harvard’s Innovation in American Government competition.

UW Researchers: Study Shows Zika Virus May Be Wider Threat Than Thought

As scientists worldwide try to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus, they’re also trying to find out how widespread the virus is, since many pregnant women don’t have symptoms.

UW among 50 law schools with best job placements for 2016 grads

While things remain grim for many law schools, the one at the University of Wisconsin recently landed among the top 50 in a much-watched metric: the percentage of graduates who landed real lawyer jobs.

UW’s La Follette School director: Tommy Thompson Center a great idea

A new public policy center at University of Wisconsin-Madison named for former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is a great idea, said Donald Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs on campus.

Lawmakers Show Sympathy for Trump Plan to Squeeze Research Costs

As talk of extreme budget-cutting is again in vogue in Washington, that argument appears to have resonance. But an attempt to reduce research overhead could pose the most serious threat not to well-endowed institutions like Harvard, but to state research universities and cash-strapped private colleges.

At issue are grant payments known as indirect-cost reimbursements. Those are the additional amounts that agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation provide to universities that win research grants, to help cover administrative and facilities costs.

Former Avalanche coach Tony Granato makes graduation a family affair

BOULDER – College is called the best four years of your life. For former Colorado Avalanche, now University of Wisconsin head hockey coach Tony Granato, it could be considered the best four decades.

Your kids learn about money from the same people who teach them about sex

Noted: Parents don’t have to be money experts to talk about the importance of delayed gratification or the difference between wants and needs, says report researcher Elizabeth Odders-White, associate finance professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

A Call To Continue Federal Funding For Research

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank makes the case for continue federal funding for research done at colleges and universities.

UW-Madison nursing students help with tornado relief in Barron County

BARRON COUNTY (WKOW) — A team of UW-Madison nursing students is assisting in tornado relief efforts Saturday in northwest Wisconsin.

Not silent

One of this young century’s great literary feuds began on April 18, 2011, right here in Madison, at Union South.

The Feminist Consultants for “A Doll’s House, Part 2”

Lucas Hnath set out to write a sequel to Ibsen’s famous play, imagining the future of protagonist Nora Helmer. His producer, Scott Rudin, proposed a playwriting method you might call dial-a-feminist. Hnath reached out to several academics, including Susan Brantly, who teaches Scandinavian literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Toril Moi, an Ibsen scholar at Duke and the author of “Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory.”

Protecting Your Eyesight: The impact digital screens have on you

Sydney McCourt is a sophomore at UW Madison.  As the semester comes to an end, she’s spending more and more time in front of a screen.

Kindness in the Classroom

An ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds is working to incorporate mindfulness techniques into everyday activities for elementary students.

The Kindness Curriculum helps students focus on their minds and bodies, while also adding elements of kindness and empathy.

The Body is Not a Computer – Stop Thinking of It as One

In 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineer Justin Williams oversaw an effort that successfully used a brain-computer interface to send messages from the brain to Twitter.

“It was both a small and a big step,” he told Gizmodo. “Ten years later have we gotten much further? I’m not sure.”

Nigel Hayes showing NBA teams his full self

With Nigel Hayes, there’s always two stories to tell.

Fifty years later

When Lakshmi Sridharan moved from India to Madison in the late 1960s to attend graduate school at UW-Madison, the local Indian American community looked much different than it does today. There were no Indian restaurants, no colorful Holi celebrations, no theaters showing Bollywood movies. On campus, the community was so small and close-knit that whenever someone’s relative from India would visit, all the Indian students would get together to share news from home and eat traditional foods.

Picture of humanity’s mysterious cousin grows clearer through UW prof’s work

A multiyear effort coordinated by a UW-Madison professor to painstakingly excavate thousands of fossils from a cave in South Africa has now assembled one of the most complete skeletons of a near-human creature ever found.

Hawks: More secrets of human ancestry emerge from South African caves

Africa’s richest fossil hominin site has revealed more of its treasure. It’s been a year and a half since scientists announced that a new hominin species, which they called Homo naledi, had been discovered in the Rising Star Cave outside Johannesburg.

Dance program pairs UW students, community center youth

When she first moved from Monona to Madison’s East Side, 14-year-old Avenna Pickett felt like she didn’t know anybody — until another girl told her about Performing Ourselves.Avenna joined the dance group, which is taught by students from the UW-Madison Dance Department and meets weekly at East Madison Community Center and elsewhere.

Kindergarteners to College: 5-year-olds ask UW professor tough questions

UW political science professor Ken Mayer asked a group of kindergarteners to come up with the toughest question they could think of. Here’s what they asked

Center for black UW-Madison students opening Wednesday

UW-Madison will open a center for black students as the spring semester winds down Wednesday, in what one researcher called a positive step toward the university better supporting African-Americans on campus.

Unique project at UW helps change lives for adults near the poverty level

UW-Madison will hold a graduation ceremony this week for a unique program designed to change lives of adults near the poverty leve

UW-Madison Professor Part Of Formula For ‘Gifted’

A tiny, blonde 7-year-old girl stands in front of a chalkboard, hand whirring away at a complicated math formula in a scene from the new movie, “Gifted,” starring Chris Evans, Jenny Slate and Octavia Spencer.

Op-Ed: How Badger Promise could have helped me

A few weeks ago I accomplished one of my dreams, successfully defending my Ph.D. dissertation in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was a goal I didn’t even realize I could have as a high school student. I grew up on a farm near Marathon City in central Wisconsin. My roots are working-class — Dad grows ginseng and Mom works in a cheese factory.

Artist/scientist Peter Krsko bends nature to his will

Ask Peter Krsko to define the art he creates and he might pull a wasp comb out of his backpack and draw attention to its hexagonal cells.

Timothy Yu: Moon

This poem appears in “The Golden Shovel Anthology,” a collection that honors Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize.

Two University of Wisconsin professors win Andrew Carnegie fellowships