UW In The News
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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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Pick ’em For Yourself And The Rhinelander Area Food Pantry
If you want to get your hands dirty next week you can get some food for yourself and benefit local food pantries. The UW-Madison Agricultural Research Station east of Rhinelander, along with the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association and area food pantries host a ’A Night On The Farm’.
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‘I’m A Justice, But Also A Human,’ Sotomayor Says At UW-Madison
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made the nation’s highest court seem much more human during her remarks Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Who decides what’s true in politics? A history of the rise of political fact-checking
Fact-checking may have gone mainstream in recent years, but it’s still controversial. That’s according to Lucas Graves, a professor and former magazine journalist who wrote the newly released “Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism.”
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UW partners with WPT for show on new farming challenges
The University of Wisconsin–Madison and Wisconsin Public Television have partnered for “Wisconsin’s Homegrown Farmer,” a program about the challenges facing a new generation of farmers that will begin airing Sept. 8.
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UW-Madison research team receives grant to study reversal of blindness
A research team at UW-Madison was selected to work on a project designed to reverse blindness.
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Biegel: Here’s to You, Madison
In Madison, if you put your ear to the ground, you can hear it. If you close your eyes on a fall night, you can hear it. If you wander down Monroe Street, you can hear it.
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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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