UW In The News
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Science camp provides advanced opportunity for rural Wisconsin students
Students from high schools in rural Wisconsin are stepping into the shoes of UW-Madison scientists for the week. They’re working hands-on with projects related to research projects that are currently going on at the university.
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Zika Virus research at UW shows promising results towards creating a vaccine
The Zika Virus has been a major concern among public health officials and world leaders in recent months, especially now that the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil are just a few short weeks away.
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Biegel nominated for AFCA Good Works Team
Already known for his playmaking ability on the field, Wisconsin senior Vince Biegel has been recognized for his efforts beyond football.
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Donald Trump has ushered in a whole new era of fact-checking in journalism
Interviewed: Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of the forthcoming book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism. He argues that Trump is actually pushing journalism into a new era, emboldening newsrooms to be more aggressive in calling him out. Below is our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity.
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Chicago’s ‘Hamilton‘ Cast Announced
Angelica Schuyler will be played by Karen Olivo. Olivo, a Tony Award-winning actress, appeared in “West Side Story” and “In the Heights.” Prior to her role in “Hamilton,” Olivo taught musical theater performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent Broadway performance was in 2014.
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Author discusses his new book about the origins of a vision of public higher education
Last year, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s original budget suggested that his state move away from “the Wisconsin idea,” a much admired philosophy about the state university and its relationship to all the people of Wisconsin. Walker, a Republican, blamed the resulting furor on a “drafting error” and pledged not to erase the Wisconsin idea. What is this idea that is so powerful that supporters rose up to defend it against a governor who otherwise has won many of the changes he sought for higher education?
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UW-Madison retains No. 25 world ranking
University of Wisconsin-Madison retained its No. 25 ranking in the world in the latest Center for World University Rankings.
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Group from UW-Madison witness flooding up north first hand
A group from UW-Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication is in Ashland County working on a month long outreach program. They weren’t expecting their travels to take such a dramatic turn.
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More MBA Grads Are Piling On Six-Figure Student Debt
Noted: And there are plenty of schools where MBA debt is a mere fraction of the total load taken on by grads of elite business schools. At the University of Wisconsin’s Business School in Madison, the average debt burden for graduating MBAs was $15,481, $106,889 less than Wharton’s average, while the first-year median comp package was $114,694, just $31,609 below the median pay for a Wharton grad.
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Asifa Quraishi-Landes: Five myths about sharia
Clearly, Americans fear sharia, Islam’s legal framework. At least nine states have passed “foreign law” statutes banning sharia in American courts — even though no U.S. court has ever ruled based on sharia.
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Ex-UW basketball star finds calling at Hope Street Ministry
When Ashley Thomas graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012, she found herself at a crossroads.
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Tesla Investigations Could Question Viability of Semi-Autonomous Driving
Noted: John Lee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, also says the Tesla investigation should consider whether it is reasonable to expect humans to step in when Autopilot fails. He worked on a National Academies report into whether faults in vehicle electronics contributed to Toyota’s acceleration problems. It concluded that they didn’t, but chastised the NHTSA for not being better equipped to investigate electronic systems in cars.
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College Campuses Are Being Overrun by Pokémon Go
The University of Wisconsin at Madison got a call on Saturday saying a group of bicyclists on the campus had their heads buried in their smartphones, and were weaving in and out of traffic.
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Tony Nominee Carrie Coon Tapped for Lead Role in Fargo Season 3
Tony nominee Carrie Coon will soon join Ewan McGregor in the third season of FX’s hit anthology series FARGO, according to TVLine.
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For the Record: UWPD Chief Sue Riseling
UWPD Chief Sue Riseling interviews with Neil Heinen looking back on 25 years in policing.
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The Newberry Consort
The Madison Early Music Festival (MEMF) runs from July 9-16 with the theme of Shakespeare 400: An Elizabethan Celebration.
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Big Ten announces 2015-16 Distinguished Scholars
The University of Wisconsin saw a total of 54 student-athletes named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for the 2015-16 athletic season, as announced by the Big Ten Conference on Wednesday.
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You Can Thank A Mysterious Yeast Mutation For The Invention Of Cold Beer
The problem is that the origin of the hybrid yeast used in lager beer is relatively unknown. We know that a domesticated yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) combined with a recently discovered yeast (Saccharomyces eubayanus) at some point to create an interspecies hybrid — but we’ve never understood how the two halves met.
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Caregivers Should Seek Support To Avoid Burning Out, Expert Says
Caregivers should find support before becoming overwhelmed by the burdens associated with taking care of a patient with a chronic illness, according to a human development and family studies expert. “You have to take care of yourself to take of others,” said Kristin Litzelman, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If you’re not taking care of yourself, there’s no way you can provide help to someone else. You won’t have the physical strength or the emotional strength.”
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Evidence Grows Of Poverty’s Toll On Young Brains, Academic Achievement Gap
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes, she’ll pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
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Changes in brain networks may help youth adapt to childhood adversity
Family stressors can take a toll on children and approximately two-thirds of youth will experience some form of childhood adversity by the age of 18. Research has primarily focused on how adversity at a young age can lead to mood disorders in adolescence, but most children exhibit resilience to adverse experiences. So senior author Dr. Marilyn Essex, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, and colleagues followed 132 kids from infancy to 18 years old to search for a neurobiological mechanism of emotional adaptation.
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Building brains: UW researchers say early steps to improve children’s lives will help them succeed in school and life
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes she will pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
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‘Strong Roots’ task force advocates home visits, other early interventions
Noted: The report, called “Strong roots: Building economically stable families mobilization plan,” is the combined effort of a group of more than 40 community leaders co-chaired by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.
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Still: WARF’s Carl Gulbrandsen a quiet contributor to state’s economy
Carl Gulbrandsen is so understated that even some people close to him didn’t know he played in a band growing up in Viroqua — or that his cousin is rocker Butch Vig of Garbage, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins fame.
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Wisconsin Researchers Hope To Beat Zika With Benign Bacteria
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Friday they have taken a step toward blocking transmission of the Zika virus.
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Bacteria prevents mosquitoes from spreading Zika, UW-Madison study says
A bacteria found in butterflies and bees can help prevent the spread of Zika virus, suggesting that mosquitoes could be infected with the bacteria and released into the wild to control Zika outbreaks, UW-Madison researchers said Friday.
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Vermont’s GMO Labeling Law to Take Effect, But What Makes a Food ‘Modified?’
For a precise definition, I asked an expert.Richard Amasino, a biochemist at University of Wisconsin, Madison, is also on the committee at the National Academy of Sciences, which produced a recent report on genetic engineering.
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Front and center
Here in Madison, a grand experiment is being carried out. Most of our professional and community theater groups have women in positions of artistic leadership.There are lots of reasons why that’s happened. UW-Madison has a great theater department, and this city boasts an outsized amount of artistic talent.
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Researchers Examine Family Income And Children’s Non-Cognitive Skills
Barbara Wolfe and Jason Fletcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found children from lower income families have lower non-cognitive skills than children from richer families.
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UW in top for producing Fortune 500 CEOs
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of only three public universities on the top 10 list of colleges that produce the most Fortune 500 CEOs. The list, compiled by Money Magazine, uses data from the educational backgrounds of the recently released Fortune 500.
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