UW In The News
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Science is king on campus during festival
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building on the UW-Madison campus will be a hive of activity Oct. 20-23 during the 6th annual Wisconsin Science Festival, where thousands of people will engage in science, often in unique ways.
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Dixon cherishes his savior, faith
Wisconsin’s D’Cota Dixon has pointed to Ohio State’s visit to Camp Randall Stadium for weeks, though the source of his anticipation isn’t what you suspect.
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Former Badger Gives Team Fresh Start, While He Finishes His Degree
MADISON, Wis. — Zigzagging through campus on the 15-minute walk to his 8 a.m. class in Nancy Nicholas Hall, a black backpack slung over one shoulder and sporting a red University of Wisconsin warm-up jacket, Tony Granato looks like an average college student.
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Know Your Madisonian: Pro bono program director helps bring legal help to veterans, others
When veterans seek out legal help from the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Veterans Law Center, Laura Smythe says they often tell the lawyers and students they’re working with, “I don’t even know what my first step should be.”
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UW-Madison billboard campaign features junior from Twin Lakes
Andrew Strother is a poster boy for the great outdoors. An image of the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison junior is featured, larger than life, on a billboard facing northbound Interstate 94 traffic just north of the Highway E overpass, where he is shown tying a fishing lure to his line on the shores of a Kenosha County lake.
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UW schools plead case
Wisconsin ranks second to last nationally in funding for higher education, according to one metric published by online news provider “Inside Higher Ed.”
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From the Amazon to Madison, new science writer in residence talks power of observation
It took getting a Ph.D. in genetics for Nadia Drake to realize she was more interested in writing about science than practicing it.
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UW-Madison campaign highlights local alum Brent Smith
La Crosse attorney and community leader Brent Smith is the local face of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Share of Wisconsin residents in UW-Madison freshman class stays steady
The number of out-of-state and international students in UW-Madison’s freshman class did not skyrocket in the first year after the university lifted its cap on the percentage of new students who can come from outside Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Falling food prices a win for consumers
Noted: Bruce Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and agricultural economist, said the decreases are an extension of the agricultural economy — commodity prices are down on most commodities farmers are producing, he explained. There are ample supplies of corn, soybeans and pork as well as increased milk production.
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Giving names to the nameless
Thongchai Winichakul just turned 59 this past Saturday, but the bloodiest moment of his life took place when he was a student 40 years ago. Now a successful scholar, the black hole remains even though he maintains that he has “dealt with that historical trauma” through a mechanism of rationale — and never vengefulness.
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UW System ranks high in Reuters’ World’s Most Innovative Universities
UW System students will have the chance to attend one of the world’s most innovative campuses, as the system ranked 13th in Reuters’ 2016 list of top 100 innovative universities.
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Do political fact-checks matter?
Lucas Graves, a former reporter and now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, argues traditional-style reporting — often characterized by what he calls “he said/she said” reporting — leaves too much room for abuse of the facts.
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UW-Madison Earns $8.6M Grant To Help Mend Broken Hearts
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and two other universities have received a seven-year, $8.6 million grant to study one of the biggest, and perhaps most difficult goals of stem cell scientists — creating heart tissue in the lab for people who’ve suffered severe heart attacks.
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Stress control
Seven and a half hours of boredom, plus 30 minutes of terror. That’s how Dr. Michael Spierer, a Madison-based psychologist, describes the typical police officer’s shift. Eight hours of paperwork and petty crime, with the knowledge that a high-pressure and dangerous turn of events may be just around the corner. Chronic stress is inherent to the job, he says.
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Veteran Law Center outfits services to extend reach to more veterans in need · The Badger Herald
Every fourth Thursday of the month, the front corner room of Porchlight Inc. turns into a makeshift law office.
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Thomson, Kauten win achievement awards
Stem cell pioneer James Thomson and biotech entrepreneur Ralph Kauten received achievement awards at the 2016 Wisconsin BioHealth Summit in Madison on Tuesday.
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Do Fact Checks Matter?
Noted: Furthermore, repeating a false claim can make it more believable, so real-time fact checks can mitigate that by following false statements with refutations, as Lucas Graves, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of a new book about the rise of fact checking, has said.
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Will efforts to fact check Trump’s claims sway voters?
Quoted: While Mr. Trump is an unusual candidate, he is not a total departure, said Lucas Graves, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has written a book on political fact checking.
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The grand design
He’s played concert halls around the globe, but today, Christopher Taylor, UW-Madison’s superstar pianist, is like a kid who’s unwrapping a new toy.
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UW’s mechanical engineering department now home to revolutionary technology
The College of Engineering is now home to a machine that could represent the future of advanced manufacturing.
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The importance of fact-checking the debate in real time, according to an expert
Noted: As it turns out, fact-checking experts tend to agree with Clinton’s campaign on this one: To have the highest impact, moderators should fact-check the debates live, Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, tells me.
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Getting down to business with a business consultant
“You’re making the face,” said a client to Michelle Somes-Booher, business consultant and director of the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. According to Somes-Booher, it’s the tough love face, the one she puts on when she says something that a client doesn’t want to hear.
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Insights on new African-American History Museum
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara from the UW-Madison Department of Afro-American Studies talks to News 3 This Morning about what’s to be learned from the new African-American History Museum opening in Washington D.C.
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Ceremony to honor UW-Madison’s Yiddish roots
On Sunday morning, a simple ceremony will be held at the Madison gravesite of an obscure man who was a visionary pioneer at the University of Wisconsin.
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UW-Madison student vested in debate
University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Jacquelyn Moss will be listening closely to the first debate Monday night between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Mile Bluff nurse practitioner honored by UW
Cris Custer is a proud University of Wisconsin graduate, but also a dedicated nurse practitioner at Mile Bluff Clinic.
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How Climate Change Is Cranking The Heat On Public Health Crises
Droughts, floods and heat waves are becoming more common in various parts of the world thanks to climate change. As part of our weeklong look at climate change, Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks with Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the public health impacts of global warming.
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University Of Wisconsin-Madison MBA Students Scrap The Paper, Go With iPads
Many college courses use online materials. But until this fall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison didn’t have an entire academic program that relied only on computers instead of paper.
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Ceremony to honor UW-Madison’s Yiddish roots
On Sunday morning a simple ceremony will be held at the Madison gravesite of an obscure man who was a visionary pioneer at the University of Wisconsin.
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