UW In The News
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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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Hora: State must invest in experiential learning
As Gov. Scott Walker and the Legislature consider the request for $42.5 million in new state funds for the University of Wisconsin System in the 2017-19 biennial budget, they should not only accept this proposal but also embrace the teaching and learning functions of Wisconsin’s colleges and universities as the centerpiece of the state’s workforce development strategy.
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MacArthur Foundation Announces 2016 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
Winner: Anne Basting, 51, a professor of theater at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, recalled that when she wanted to write her doctoral dissertation about the social performance of aging, her advisers tried to talk her out of it. (Basting is a 1990 graduate of UW-Madison.)
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Effort fights ‘epidemic’ of deadly elderly falls
Noted: While studies are underway and advocacy groups and others scramble for better answers, specialists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison have teamed up with their counterparts in Oregon, as well as with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and health care records software giant Epic Systems, to build a program that helps predict whether an older person will fall. It not only calculates the risk — it steers physicians to preventative treatments.
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UW poverty institute to become national center
The nation’s longest-standing poverty research center right here in Madison has been selected to be the nation’s only federally-funded poverty research center.
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Scientists: With Climate Change, Some Species To Have New Neighbors
A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Aarhus University in Demark say they have an idea of where climate change will push more species together.
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Williams: Sticking with the University of Wisconsin
Column by Jack Williams, a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: In the wake of a $250 million state budget cut and weakened protections for intellectual freedom, I’ve thought carefully about my family, my career, the University of Wisconsin, and whether I still felt a calling to serve Wisconsin and The Wisconsin Idea. It hasn’t been easy. It’s difficult to express my pride in being a part of the University of Wisconsin.
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UW ad campaign celebrates Sauk County resident
Carol May is being recognized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her contributions to health care in Sauk County. The recognition is part of the university’s new ad campaign intended to celebrate the work of Badger alumni across the state.
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Badgers men’s hockey: ‘We had a lot of fun,’ Hall of Famer Jeff Sauer says of time at UW
Seeing his old players follow in his footsteps has been rewarding for former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Jeff Sauer.
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Local orchard owners embracing ‘eat ugly apples’ campaign
Quoted: There are plenty of ugly apples in Wisconsin this fall because of the hard frost that struck last May. But, overall, the quality of the apples is excellent across the state and the harvest is on schedule, according to Amaya Atucha, an assistant professor in horticulture for UW-Madison and the state fruit specialist for UW Extension.
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UW medical school program brings doctors to rural Wisconsin
Dr. Jenna Sebranek, a freshly minted doctor at Richland Medical Center, entered a room to greet one of her first patients — and paused, because she recognized the face.
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UW-Madison ranks high for entrepreneurs
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked 14th among all universities in the world in a count of how many venture capital-backed entrepreneurs it has spawned, according to a report by Pitchbook Data, a Seattle-based deal tracker.
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UW-Madison grows summer enrollment
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is reporting a 10% increase in enrollment and $4 million boost in new revenue for its recently completed summer term, and it is planning to continue ramping up the number of courses next summer to help students stay on track for graduation and bring in more money for the university.
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UW-Madison makes Top 10 of best public colleges in US, magazine says
UW-Madison is ranked 10th out of all public colleges in the United States in the newest ranking released Monday by U.S. News and World Report.
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Becoming a Badger
This week, stories about people trying their best to turn themselves into something else—like a badger. Or a professional comedian, in a language they didn’t grow up speaking.
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UW-Madison engineering student receives awards for developing noise cancellation theory
UW-Madison formally congratulated Chris Nguyen, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major, Monday morning at Engineering Hall for winning the grand prize in General Electric’s “Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition” competition.The challenge asked participants to debunk common idioms such as “A snowball’s chance in hell,” or, for Nguyen, “You can’t unring a bell.” Noise cancellation technology and research on sound waves were used to help Nguyen support his theory.
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2016 Could Be Fact-Checking’s Finest Year—If Anyone Listens
Noted: “We don’t behave at all like the ideal picture of engaged citizens neutrally and dispassionately analyzing the evidence before casting their ballot,” says Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism.. “It’s not how people work.”
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Why Supermarket Bacon Hides Its Glorious Fat
Quoted: “We’ve had the [rear window] regulation now for 40-some years,” said Andy Milkowski, who worked in research and development at Oscar Mayer for three decades and currently teaches in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s one of those automatic things you don’t even think about. But people understand what bacon is. They understand that when they fry it up, it’s going to have a lot of fat.” Exactly. Maybe it’s time for a package that embraces that reality.
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To stop sexual assault, alcohol abuse and racism, UW encourages bystanders to act
If your friend has had a few too many beers, you can take away his glass, or suggest going to get some food to distract him from drinking more.
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‘Facebook needs an editor’: media experts urge change after photo dispute
Noted: Still, it’s in Facebook’s best interest in the long run to become a reliable and reputable system for news, said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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For millennials, 9/11 and its aftermath shaped their view of the world
Noted: Connie Flanagan, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies young adults and civic identity, said the most reliable predictor of volunteerism, voting and other forms of engagement are the everyday values families share with their children at a young age. But she also acknowledged the importance of reflection that begins in the mid- to late teens as young adults face leaving home and think seriously about what they want to do with their lives.
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Mike Leckrone & the UW Marching Band “Wake Up” WKOW viewers during Badger Bash
You could say his face is just as famous as Bucky’s… UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone says the band is rearing to go for this season at Camp Randall.
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Sotomayor reflects being on the high court during UW-Madison visit
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called her job a “blessing and a curse” while speaking to a packed theater on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus Thursday.
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Professor talks about 50th anniversary of ‘Star Trek’
Derek Johnson, associate professor of media and culture studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about the 50th anniversary of Star Trek on Live at Four.
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Sotomayor: More needed on adequate representation
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a crowd Thursday that the nation should do more to make sure people have adequate legal representation.
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