UW In The News
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UW weather satellite will speed-up critical data feed
Researchers at UW-Madison are keeping a close eye on a weather satellite that’s working its way into orbit.
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UW System officials express concerns over upcoming budget
Chancellors within the UW System are expressing concerns over the upcoming budget. They’re asking state legislators for more money after years of seeing cuts.
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New UW-Madison financial aid director wants to work with students before college
UW-Madison wants to serve more low-income and first-generation college students, says Derek Kindle, the university’s new director of financial aid.
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Wisconsin Electors Gear up For Official Presidential Vote
Noted: The Electoral College has been around for centuries, according to David Canon, political science professor at UW-Madison. He says the nation’s founding fathers set up the system because they didn’t give the electorate much credit.
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Five UW professors elected as fellows into science society
Five UW-Madison professors have been elected as fellows into the world’s largest general scientific society.
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UW-Madison student works to expand diversity in agricultural career field
UW-Madison fifth-year student Donale Richards is one of the few students of color who majors in biological systems engineering. He has made it his goal through his involvement in various groups that focus on the use of natural resources to change this and spark interest in incoming students of color of agricultural majors.
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2016’s Best Things to Buy on Black Friday
Interviewed: Professor Liad Weiss, Wisconsin School of Business.
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The Trump voters you don’t know
Noted: The promise to “Make America Great Again” “appeals to a time when white working-class men had a higher status in society than they do now, and race is in there,” says Katherine Cramer, who has spent the past nine years talking with rural Wisconsin voters for her book, “The Politics of Resentment.”
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Airbnb hosts can now also make money as tour guides
Quoted: “Airbnb is really feeling this is a huge threat to its business model,” said Andra Ghent, a professor of real estate and land use economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Deserving families go on shopping spree
The holidays are just around the corner and for some families, gift giving may not be possible.That’s why Nigel Hayes, UW-Madison student athlete and the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County teamed up to help local families by taking them on a shopping spree. Life hasn’t been exactly easy for the Schultz and Keaton families.
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Cramer: For years, I’ve been watching anti-elite fury build in Wisconsin. Then came Trump.
Something extraordinary happened in rural America in the 2016 election. Donald Trump appealed to folks in rural communities in an unprecedented way — yet polls failed to capture the depth of support for him in such places. Many pundits have since taken stabs at explaining the problem, yet little of the commentary is rooted in actual research.
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UW student’s invention makes insulin injections more efficient and safe
A University of Wisconsin business student has invented an add-on to insulin injectors ensuring a safer and surer injection for diabetics.
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Warm Fall Weather Could Be New Normal For Wisconsin
Noted: “We’ve been seeing this trend of later and later cooler temperatures in southern and western Wisconsin and we’re not really sure of the cause of that,” said Jordan Gerth, associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Trump’s Victory and the Politics of Resentment
Katherine J. Cramer is author of The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she heads the Morgridge Center for Public Service. Her work focuses on the way people in the U.S. make sense of politics and their place in it. Cramer’s methodology is unusual and very direct. Instead of relying polls and survey data, she drops in on informal gatherings in rural areas—coffee shops, gas stations—and listens in on what people say to their neighbors and friends. It is a method that likely gets at psychological and social truths missed by pollsters.
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Morgridge ‘Prototype Pathway’ creates new organ transplant technology
University of Wisconsin-Madison student engineers have designed a new prototype to transport organs.
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Why Do Raccoons Flourish As Urban Pests?
In Wisconsin, like most of the country, Raccoons are practically omnipresent. Their adaptability has allowed them to move from the country landscape as a wildlife creature to an urban life in cities and towns across the state. There are a few factors that make the raccoon especially adept at finding the food and shelter they need living among people, said University of Wisconsin-Madison professor David Drake.
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Wisconsin’s Nigel Hayes has unfinished business
Heading into one of the most important weeks of his life, Nigel Hayes had something else weighing on his mind. He was failing his Finance 300 class. He couldn’t even tell his mother. An F? He’s a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
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For the Record: Lori Berquam & Patrick Sims
Interviewed on UW Campus Climate: Lori Berquam & Patrick Sims
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Voting Early, and in Droves: Nearly 22 Million Ballots Are Already In
Quoted: According to Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, any increase or decrease in early voting between election cycles depends on three factors: whether the availability of early voting has changed, whether the state has become more competitive, and what the campaigns have done to promote early voting.
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Apollo 13 astronaut to give UW-Madison’s winter commencement speech
University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday that an astronaut who grew up in Milwaukee has been chosen as its December commencement speaker.
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UW focuses on increasing quality health care in rural areas
Thanks to a four-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the University of Wisconsin will increase the number of resident physicians in underserved rural areas in an effort to close the gap of health disparities.
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Using wood pulp and footsteps, a professor just found a new source of renewable energy
While thousands of people the world over continue to go solar to generate alternative energy, a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison just made a major breakthrough on a completely unique new conductive material: wood pulp. While the mention of wood pulp mention leave many scratching their head, the lab found a way to manufacture floorboards out of the commonly wasted material, and did so in a manner that took advantage of its composition of cellulose nanofibers. In other words, the team of engineers managed to develop a flooring material capable of generating electricity by something as simple as a footstep.
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Are millennials motivated to turn out to vote on Election Day?
Some polls suggest that Hillary Clinton’s support among millennials may be surging, but there is a lot of anger and disappointment from that huge bloc of voters. In the latest installment of our “Red, White and You” series, NBC’s Ronan Farrow investigates whether efforts to court millennials’ votes will pay off.
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How To Take Your Cat To The Vet And Live To Tell The Tale
Noted: “Cats now outnumber dogs when it comes to family pets, but we see fewer cats coming into the vet,” said Dr. Sandi Sawchuck, clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. “It’s not that (owners) feel like they don’t need vet care, it’s the transportation issues.”
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Gelbach: Trump helps Putin — and all dictators — when he calls U.S. elections ‘rigged.’
Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership, suggested that he would recognize Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, and questioned the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee.
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Greg Gard in law enforcement
Badgers basketball coach Greg Gard once worked part time as a park ranger and sheriff in Iowa County. Lori Nickel
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Why Struck-Down Voter ID Laws Trouble Would-Be Voters
Quoted: To Barry Burden, who directs the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, such spats mirror a growing and worrisome use of election rules as tools to win elections, not run them fairly.
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Hip-hop education summit creates new beat to learning
The beat of melodies and rhymes is a sound that’s catching the attention of hundreds of classrooms across the nation.
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Sims: ‘Bay’ imparted wisdom that shaped grandchildrens’ view of world
My grandmother, whom my family affectionately referred to as “Bay” because she was the youngest of her siblings, was one of the wisest people I’ve ever known—especially when you consider the fact that she only had an eighth-grade education. She would often tell me, “If you don’t stand for somethin’ you’ll fall for nothin’.”
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Taking Gard Way a good route for Greg Gard
The Cobb Corn Roast Festival was winding down. The softball, volleyball and bean bag competitions were over. The Texas hold’em poker games, garden tours and 5K run had raised money for the local library. As locals gathered at the burger and brat stand and beer tent on that sunny August afternoon, excitement was in the air. The proud citizens of Cobb—population 458, in the rolling farmlands of southwestern Wisconsin—gathered to celebrate the town’s most famous son, University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard.
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