UW In The News
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On Campus: UW-Madison forecasts better graduation rates for PEOPLE program
UW-Madison officials say the graduation rates of students from one of the university’s best-known outreach programs are poised to rise in the coming years, after a critical evaluation found participants in the pre-college program have been less likely than their peers to finish school.
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Simpson Street Free Press summer writing workshops challenge ‘summer slide’
Managing editor Deidre Green coordinates this year’s summer writing workshop program, an effort to reduce the academic “summer slide” for students. Her instructors include graduate students from UW-Madison. Green grew up in the Simpson Street neighborhood and now attends grad school at UW’s School of Education. She has worked for Simpson Street Free Press since she was in eighth grade.
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Big cheese: Wisconsin artisan producer wins ‘Oscar’ of the industry
Roelli credits John Jaeggi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research with helping him develop and perfect the Little Mountain cheese.
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Big Ten Competition Is Good Preparation For Rio Olympics, UW-Madison Swimmer Says
A University of Wisconsin-Madison swimmer with three school records under his belt last season will compete in the Rio Olympics. Matt Hutchins will swim the 400-meter freestyle and the 1500-meter freestyle.
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Gwen Jorgensen Looks for the First U.S. Triathlon Win in Rio
When Jorgensen decided to become a triathlete at the age of 23, she had never even been on a road bike. Still, while in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she made the swim, track, and cross-country teams as a walk-on and became an all-American runner.
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UW-Madison and collaborators launch website on patients’ experiences
Marty remembers looking outside the window of his room, seeing cars go by and thinking to himself, “How do you get in your car and just go, you know, just go about your day?”
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UW-Madison rolls out new freshman training after racial incidents
For many freshmen arriving at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall, it will be the first time they interact with students who don’t overwhelmingly look, love, experience and identify in the same way. Often that’s a mind-broadening experience.
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Hawks: Humans Never Stopped Evolving
Natural selection is tricky to catch in action. As Darwin put it, “A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die.” The grain in the balance—the slightly increased chance that organisms carrying one gene variant will fail in the struggle for existence—is the cost of selection. It is almost invisible, only becoming statistically evident when viewed across thousands of individuals, who may display only subtle differences in the affected character.
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Q&A: Richard Keller says social interventions are helping minimize world health crises
Richard Keller tells students in his medical history and global health classes not to look for happy endings.
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The Science Behind Sprinter Usain Bolt’s Speed
Noted: For decades, researchers have theorized that deceleration starts as energy stored in the muscles is used up. “All mammals engaged in intense exercise, be it a human marathoner, a cheetah trying to catch prey or the prey trying to avoid becoming a meal, rely on energy stored in the body, usually as glycogen,” said Karen Steudel, a professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin. “Once this is depleted, the human or cheetah is basically out of gas.”
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Herb Kohl gifts $1.5 million to support public policy and governance research at UW-Madison
U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl will donate $1.5 million to support faculty research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that addresses difficult public policy and governance issues, the university announced Wednesday.
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Neuroscientist Richie Davidson Says Dalai Lama Gave Him ‘a Total Wake-Up Call’ that Changed His Research Forever
Dr. Richie Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been meditating for more than 40 years, but it was the Dalai Lama himself who convinced him to dedicate his life to researching the effects of meditation on the brain.
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UW research, infrastructure projects to be funded by WARF
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will be providing about $5 million for 14 research and infrastructure projects at UW-Madison, the university announced on Tuesday.
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Complex Jobs Might Offer Protection from Alzheimer’s, According To UW Researchers
Having a job that requires complex social interactions — like mentoring and negotiating — might protect the brain from developing symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease by building up what researchers call cognitive reserves.
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Happy cows make better milk
Serotonin is best known for eliciting feelings of happiness in the human brain, but scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have learned the hormone plays a role in milk production in dairy cows — and may have health implications for breastfeeding women.
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Clement named to Big Ten preseason honors list
Wisconsin senior running back Corey Clement was among the 10 Big Ten Conference players to earn preseason recognition Monday in conjunction with the start of Big Ten Media Days in Chicago.
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Colombia declares its Zika epidemic is over
Quoted: Matthew Aliota, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin who was was part of the team that first detected Zika in Colombia, said the virus could be in an “inter-epidemic period” and that cases could surge again at some point.
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UW group collects donations for tribal community hit by flooding
Flooding in northern Wisconsin has been devastating for many who live in the area but a group at UW-Madison is offering some help.
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Dare Ogunbowale has two solid game plans for life after UW
Madison — Dare Ogunbowale has been forced to modify his plan for life after the University of Wisconsin, a plan that was built meticulously over the course of several years.
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Digital maps at the Osher Map Library show promise and perils of digitization.
Noted: When all that context drops out, you’re left with the mere content of the map, which can make it harder to understand in truly historical terms. Jonathan Senchyne, director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (and a graduate school colleague of mine), says that this can sand down the historical texture of an object. “There’s always a temptation to think about something that’s been [digitized] in presentist terms,” Senchyne told me. In other words, it’s challenging to break free from our own ways of understanding and moving through space when we only access the past through a digital lens.
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Loud Background Noise Interferes With Toddler’s Learning
Toddlers make their fair share of noise. But they also have a lot of noise to contend with — a television blaring, siblings squabbling, a car radio blasting, grownups talking.
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There’s A Reasonable Explanation As To Why This Sloth Won’t Move
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to explain the sloth lifestyle and what makes it so special. Among other herbivores, and even other vertebrates, the sloth stands out and the research provides some insight into that specialty.
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UW-Madison lab devotes days, nights to decoding lake bacterial cycles
When a sheriff’s deputy found a van parked at the edge of Sparkling Lake in Vilas County at 2 a.m. on July 7, chances are he expected to find something nefarious afoot. Instead, he got a crash course in fresh water ecology from graduate student Alex Linz.
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UW team unravels mystery with DNA sequencing
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have used DNA sequencing to unravel an 85-year-old mystery, pinpointing the genetic cause for Mauriac syndrome, a rare condition that affects children with poorly controlled Type 1 diabetes.
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Iverson outlines vision as WARF hits ‘inflection point’
Iverson outlines vision as WARF hits ’inflection point’7/21/2016 Erik Iverson says he’s taking over the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation as the 91-year-old organization is hitting a major “inflection point.”
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On Campus: UW-Madison seeks donations for northern Wisconsin flooding victims
UW-Madison is collecting donations for the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe after flooding in northern Wisconsin last week hit the band’s reservation particularly hard.
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Hancock station celebrates 100 years
The University of Wisconsin’s Hancock Agricultural Research Station is celebrating 100 years of research, vegetables, farmer partnerships, education and innovation.
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Archaeologists begin studying Aztalan artifacts from summer dig
AZTALAN — Now that the artifacts have been unearthed, the next phase of work — analyzing and trying to decipher what they mean — is under way.
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Constable: AIDS lessons help scientist tackle Zika
Serious about competition as a young boy in 1988, David O’Connor allowed himself a sly smile of contentment as his parents snapped a Polaroid portrait of the sixth-grader posing with his medals. Taking second-place in the individual competition, O’Connor helped his team from James W. Riley Elementary School in Arlington Heights win the “Future Problem Solving Bowl” state championship. His team advanced to the international competition, where they worked on a birth-defect problem, but didn’t win.
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Zika Data From the Lab, and Right to the Web
MADISON, Wis. — Of the hundreds of monkeys in the University of Wisconsin’s primate center, a few — including rhesus macaque 827577 — are now famous, at least among scientists tracking the Zika virus.
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