UW In The News
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The 10 Best Universities on Twitter
Ranked No. 10, UW-Madison: This university has pride like none other. While many fail at the art of bragging modestly, UW-Madison proves through retweets from current students and big name publications like TIME, that whether it be their gorgeous sunsets or their outsourcing of the top CEOs, they are proud of their accomplishments.
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UW-Madison Marching Band preps for big weekend in Green Bay
With more than 50 hours of sweat and two-a-days, the badger marching band is preparing for a busy weekend ahead.
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Badgers sports: Lee Evans, Jeff Sauer among 8 members in UW’s Hall of Fame Class of 2016
The University of Wisconsin announced eight new members as part of its Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2016 on Monday.
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New UW Director of Community Relations Seeks to Fill Everett Mitchell’s “Beautiful Vision”
“I’m having all of these introductory meetings across the city, the county, and campus and all of these people I’m meeting are visionaries,” says Leslie Orrantia. “Whether its leaders of faith communities, leaders on campus, civic leaders … these people are saying that Madison has it. We can make it in Madison. That makes me very excited.”
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New rules for small drones set by FAA
Quoted: “The new regulations remove the requirement for a pilot’s license with a new license called the remote pilot command license, which is really just a written exam,” said drone expert Chris Johnson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor and pilot. “It’s not actually flight training, which has been the requirement up to now.”
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Map librarian finds 1966 crash site
Fifty years ago this November, a B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed into a hill in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, killing all nine people on board.
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Families grow with ‘snowflake’ adoptions
Quoted: According to Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the idea of embryo adoption is morally acceptable to most people. Even those who consider in vitro fertilization objectionable often consider the leftover embryos as humans deserving dignity and life. The Catholic Church, for example, has been at the forefront condemning in vitro fertilization, but has no official position on embryonic adoption.
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Wisconsin’s Veterans Law Center finds a new way to go where it’s needed
It was a phone call that Laura Smythe was tired of receiving. Every week, Smythe was fielding numerous calls from veterans or their family members or their friends, all with a similar refrain. While they had heard about the University of Wisconsin’s Veterans Law Center and were in need of its help, they lacked a means of transportation to get to one of the monthly clinics the center held in Madison.
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Our view: Increase investment in UW
It’s time for Wisconsin to increase its investment in its public universities. After too many years of huge cuts by both Democrats and Republicans, the University of Wisconsin System deserves the additional $42.5 million investment it is seeking in the next state budget. The key word is investment.
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Statewide K-9 training held at Camp Randall Stadium
Law enforcement agencies from around the state got ready for Badgers football game days at Camp Randall Stadium with a special training session.
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The Interesting Way Curiosity Can Improve Your Health
Noted: Are you squirming a little? Curiosity piqued? If you’re still reading to find out the answer to the riddle, you may exemplify a form of motivation identified in many psychology research findings, more recently a study led by Evan Polman, Ph.D., an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Big Question: Is Justice Department Right To Close Privately-Run Prisons?
Noted: Interview with Professor Cecelia Klingele. Private prisons are less safe and less effective than government-run prisons, according to the United States Department of Justice, and will soon no longer be used by the federal government.
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Eyes in the sky
A new generation of satellites is sending back an unheralded amount of data, measuring air pollution, pollen, smoke and much more. But is anyone paying attention? And is the data even available? NASA recently tapped Tracey Holloway, a UW-Madison environmental studies professor, to make sense of the data.
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Jorgensen dominates Olympic triathlon: Badgers alumna wins as favorite
Hot favorite Gwen Jorgensen produced the perfect race to win the Olympic women’s triathlon gold on Saturday, the American unusually staying with her rivals on the bike before surging clear of defending champion Nicola Spirig-Hug on the run.
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Berquam: UW program benefits all students
Christian Schneider’s Aug. 12 column dismissing the value of programs promoting cultural understanding at universities read like it was inspired by the sort of touchy-feely “diversity training” lampooned on TV shows like “The Office.”What we’re actually doing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this year is quite different. The issues we’re addressing are real and the new Our Wisconsin program is a rational, evidence-driven response to them.
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Inside the epic quest for a more perfect taffy
If you’re hitting the beach this August, you may find yourself indulging in one of those characteristic treats of America’s boardwalks: saltwater taffy, made by a process conventionally known as “pulling” taffy. But if you’re a fluid dynamics professor at the University of Wisconsin, you might prefer to characterize it as “mixing” — mixing air with sugar, essentially. And you might start to get curious about the mesmerizing spirograph patterns traced by the rods on those taffy machines, and wonder, above all else, if there isn’t a more efficient way to achieve that silky result.
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UW-Madison lab partners with teachers to create educational video games
Field Day Lab, a team of developers, researchers and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, wants to change that. By working with middle school science teachers across the state, the team developed nine video games, released this week, that better suit student and teacher needs.
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Olympics: Former UW runner Evan Jager earns silver medal in steeplechase with ‘perfect race’
Evan Jager knows steeplechase history about as well as anyone.
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ESPN GameDay to kick off at Lambeau Field
ESPN College GameDay will kick off the 2016 season at Lambeau Field.
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D’Amato: Ex-Badger Evan Jager wins steeplechase silver
The steeplechase has carried the stigma of being a last resort for American distance runners who can’t quite cut it in the faster 1,500 meters or the nobler 5K. Few actually aspire to run the 3,000-meter race, with its 28 leg-sapping barriers and seven water jumps. It’s always tough. It’s seldom pretty.
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Why making a backup plan may set you up to fail
Landing your dream job is a daunting prospect for anyone. So you might be forgiven for thinking that the smartest thing to do when pursuing an ambitious career is also thinking up a Plan B, in case your Plan A goes wrong. Right?
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Random Lake lawyer to feature in UW campaign
Come Sept. 5, a billboard featuring attorney John Hawley will be erected on 14th Street and Niagara Avenue in Sheboygan.
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UW-Madison study looks at concussions effect on academics
A new study being conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nurses and the School of Medicine and Public Health will look at how concussions affect student athletes when they return to the classroom.
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Fontes: The Demise of a Prison Lord
On July 18, Guatemala’s most infamous — and powerful — prisoner, Byron Lima Oliva, was shot to death in the Pavón prison outside Guatemala City. While it was a fellow prisoner who, the authorities said, put two bullets in Mr. Lima’s head, in all likelihood the intellectual authors of the killing hail from the highest echelons of the state and the moneyed elite. In Guatemala, it is often impossible to tell where the state ends and the underworld begins.
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How to Ease the Tensions in Milwaukee
Noted: Fascinating research by psychologist Patricia Devine from the University of Wisconsin deals with breaking the prejudice habit. She explains how even people who hold beliefs and attitudes that are opposed to prejudice can act in discriminatory ways. This essentially happens because of implicit biases, automatic processes we all hold.
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Wisconsinites Know More Than They Think About Financial Issues
In recent years, communities, schools and families have sought to help people be better able to avoid money troubles by promoting financial literacy and, in turn, financial capability. A new national study shows these efforts are finding success in Wisconsin.
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Sotomayor coming to Madison
Sonia Sotomayor grew up in a housing project in New York City. The daughter of native Puerto Ricans, her father died when she was just 9 years old. He never learned English. Her mother, an orphan, raised Sotomayor and her brother in the Bronx, in a neighborhood plagued by poverty and violence. Nevertheless, Sotomayor was always at the top of her class. In 2009, she became the first Latina and the third woman to be confirmed as an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A Look At Student Moving Days Past
When it opened on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1851, North Hall contained classrooms, offices, and housing; for four years, it was the entire university in a single building. About 30 students lived there with three faculty members and a janitor.
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Can curiosity help us make healthier choices?
Noted: With fortune cookies in hand, American researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University approached 100 people and offered them the choice between the plain cookie and the chocolate-dipped one, at first without the promise of a revealing fortune. In this control group, the less-healthy cookie was far more tempting — with around 80 per cent of participants picking it.
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Editorial: UW System budget request reasonable
Years of budget cuts under both Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his predecessor, Democrat Jim Doyle, have made for a lean UW System.
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