UW In The News
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UW-Madison teams snag innovation awards
Two research teams — one with a potential vaccine for the Zika virus and the other with a new way of monitoring sedated patients — have won $10,000 each in an innovation competition organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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Wisconsin Badgers’ very loud, secret weapon against Ohio State Buckeyes? Camp Randall Stadium
MADISON, Wis. — David Gilreath never planned on becoming a Wisconsin Badger. Instead, he arrived for a visit intent on reaffirming his commitment to Minnesota. The wide receiver prospect attended high school 12 miles from the Metrodome and hadn’t experienced a college game anywhere else.
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Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig lead off the court
Wisconsin teammates Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig met earlier this year for a frank discussion that had nothing to do with basketball.
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Local resident highlighted in U.W.-Madison initiative
Imagine seeing yourself on a billboard showcasing your achievements for a day. One local individual doesn’t have to dream up this scenario – she was featured on a billboard during the whole month of September.
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Badgers men’s basketball: Nigel Hayes named Big Ten’s preseason player of year
For the second time in three seasons, a member of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is the Big Ten Conference preseason player of the year.
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Nigel Hayes named Big Ten’s preseason POY
With every significant contributor back from the team that reached the NCAA Sweet 16 last season, Wisconsin coach Greg Gard understands the lofty expectations his team will face in 2016-’17.
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State should grant UW Regents’ modest budget request
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is right: It’s time to reinvest in Wisconsin’s universities after a $250 million cut in the last state budget.
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The last 100 days: Obama still has lengthy to-do list
Noted: Presidents actually have a lot of things that they can do,” said Kenneth Mayer, who studies executive orders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “What was once considered to be a low point of presidential activity actually has high levels of presidential activity.”
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Metaphorically Speaking, Men Are Expected to be Struck by Genius, Women to Nurture It
Noted: Ann Fink, a neuroscientist and feminist biology fellow at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, says their study supports emerging evidence that harassment, discrimination and unconscious bias discourage women from breaking into male-dominated fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The study, she said, shows that implicit associations affect how people judge someone’s competence in the sciences — in this case, genius.
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Men’s basketball team, students aim to shoot down cancer
Hundreds of students stepped onto the Kohl Center floor for the fifth annual “Shooting Down Cancer” Monday in an event that brought together the Wisconsin basketball program and its student body.
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$8.6 million awarded to team working with UW scientists to treat heart disease
Stem cell research might be the key to treating heart disease.Researchers at University of Wisconsin, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Duke University are developing “heart patches” — collections of fabricated heart cells — that will be used to mend unhealthy hearts.
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Shooting Down Cancer strong as ever
The hosts of the event may have changed, but Greg and Michelle Gard picked up right where things left off hosting the fifth-annual “Shooting Down Cancer” event with the Wisconsin men’s basketball program at the Kohl Center on Monday.
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Photos: A look back at ESPN College GameDay’s previous trips to Madison
ESPN’s College GameDay pregame show will come to Madison for the sixth time in the show’s history when the Badgers host Ohio State on Saturday. Here’s a look at each of the previous five times GameDay visited UW.
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Badgers women’s hockey: Despite tie, UW stays atop national poll
A tie didn’t cost the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team the top spot in the USCHO.com Division I women’s poll.
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Badgers volleyball: Program ranked No. 1 for first time in history
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team accomplished a first for the program Monday, earning the No. 1 ranking in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.
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UW business programs become first in country to receive STEM designation
Two University of Wisconsin Masters in Business Administration courses became the first to receive a STEM designation in the country Thursday, which could make the degree more valuable to students and employers.
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Bascom Hall fire stirs strong sentiment
Noted: This State Journal editorial ran on Oct. 11, 1916, the day after Bascom Hall, which was then called Main Hall, lost its ornate dome to fire.
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Badgers football: College GameDay headed to Madison for UW-Ohio State game
College GameDay will be heading to Madison next week for the first time since 2011.
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Science is king on campus during festival
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building on the UW-Madison campus will be a hive of activity Oct. 20-23 during the 6th annual Wisconsin Science Festival, where thousands of people will engage in science, often in unique ways.
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Dixon cherishes his savior, faith
Wisconsin’s D’Cota Dixon has pointed to Ohio State’s visit to Camp Randall Stadium for weeks, though the source of his anticipation isn’t what you suspect.
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Former Badger Gives Team Fresh Start, While He Finishes His Degree
MADISON, Wis. — Zigzagging through campus on the 15-minute walk to his 8 a.m. class in Nancy Nicholas Hall, a black backpack slung over one shoulder and sporting a red University of Wisconsin warm-up jacket, Tony Granato looks like an average college student.
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Know Your Madisonian: Pro bono program director helps bring legal help to veterans, others
When veterans seek out legal help from the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Veterans Law Center, Laura Smythe says they often tell the lawyers and students they’re working with, “I don’t even know what my first step should be.”
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UW-Madison billboard campaign features junior from Twin Lakes
Andrew Strother is a poster boy for the great outdoors. An image of the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison junior is featured, larger than life, on a billboard facing northbound Interstate 94 traffic just north of the Highway E overpass, where he is shown tying a fishing lure to his line on the shores of a Kenosha County lake.
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UW schools plead case
Wisconsin ranks second to last nationally in funding for higher education, according to one metric published by online news provider “Inside Higher Ed.”
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From the Amazon to Madison, new science writer in residence talks power of observation
It took getting a Ph.D. in genetics for Nadia Drake to realize she was more interested in writing about science than practicing it.
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UW-Madison campaign highlights local alum Brent Smith
La Crosse attorney and community leader Brent Smith is the local face of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Share of Wisconsin residents in UW-Madison freshman class stays steady
The number of out-of-state and international students in UW-Madison’s freshman class did not skyrocket in the first year after the university lifted its cap on the percentage of new students who can come from outside Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Falling food prices a win for consumers
Noted: Bruce Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and agricultural economist, said the decreases are an extension of the agricultural economy — commodity prices are down on most commodities farmers are producing, he explained. There are ample supplies of corn, soybeans and pork as well as increased milk production.
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Giving names to the nameless
Thongchai Winichakul just turned 59 this past Saturday, but the bloodiest moment of his life took place when he was a student 40 years ago. Now a successful scholar, the black hole remains even though he maintains that he has “dealt with that historical trauma” through a mechanism of rationale — and never vengefulness.
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UW System ranks high in Reuters’ World’s Most Innovative Universities
UW System students will have the chance to attend one of the world’s most innovative campuses, as the system ranked 13th in Reuters’ 2016 list of top 100 innovative universities.
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