UW In The News
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Rebecca Blank and Marsha Mailick: Drop in research ranking signals need to reinvest in UW
Maybe you’ve heard someone say, “My wife has cancer, and her treatment isn’t working.” Or, “I need equipment that performs better in my plant and saves me time and money.” “My child has autism, and I need better ways to help him.”
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UW team shares story of first successful missing service member
As the nation marks the 75th anniversary of the attack that started World War II, a team at UW-Madison is sharing the story of how they found and identified the plane of a service member who was killed in action 72 years ago.
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Foot power
Associate Professor Xudong Wang holds a prototype of the researchers’ energy harvesting technology, which uses wood pulp and harnesses nano fibers. The technology could be incorporated into flooring and convert footsteps on the flooring into usable electricity.
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Editorial: Time to invest in University of Wisconsin again
Earlier this year a prominent Republican business executive said to me that even as a conservative he recognized it was time to once again invest in the University of Wisconsin.
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‘Hyperloop’ pod built by UW students goes on display tonight
Anyone interested in catching a glimpse of what entrepreneurs say could be the future of mass transportation should head over to the Discovery Building at 330 N. Orchard St. tonight.
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UW-Madison activist wins prestigious scholarship; follows becoming Rhodes finalist
UW-Madison student activist Deshawn McKinney has been named a winner of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, awarded to 40 American students each year to attend graduate school in any field in the United Kingdom.
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The Great Lakes Have More Than 100 “Mini-Tsunamis” Every Year, According to New Research
The Great Lakes have their own miniature version of tsunamis – more than 100 times per year. That’s according to new research led by the University of Wisconsin Madison. The name of these waves – and the danger that comes with them – are relatively unknown to those in the region.
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New Wisconsin Institute for Discovery director sees a ‘hunger’ for change at UW
Jo Handelsman describes herself as a “changemaker.” Judging from her dossier, the incoming director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is not wrong.
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Partnerships in health care could help heal rural, urban discontent
The simmering frustration from in both rural and urban areas has boiled over. This turbulence, whether evident through community demonstrations or election results, conveys an urgent message of discontent rooted in social and economic inequities that result in health disparities.
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Retrieving Short-Term Memories
Neuroscientists have long tried to uncover the neuronal connectivity and patterns of activity that explain human cognitive behaviors. The prevalent theory of working memory—using information stored in short-term memory to complete a task—is that the brain’s connections that code for the needed information must fire continuously. Now, in a paper published today (December 1) in Science, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and their colleagues provide evidence for a different theory, in which information can be stored in working memory in an inactive neuronal state.
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UW student paves path for stroke, epilepsy patients with brain scanning research
Though she said it can be difficult being person of color and an engineering student, Janera Allen has made her mark during her four years at the University of Wisconsin.
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UW poverty researcher Tim Smeeding named Galbraith fellow
UW-Madison social scientist Tim Smeeding, regarded as one of the preeminent researchers of poverty, has been named the 2017 John Kenneth Galbraith fellow from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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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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