UW In The News
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UW-Madison scientist to receive prestigious Japan Academy award
A UW-Madison virologist whose controversial work has sought to create more effective flu vaccines will receive a prestigious award from Japan’s scientific academy, officials announced Wednesday.
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Does eating bamboo make it harder for pandas to reproduce?
Most people get upset stomachs from time to time. Usually, a few trips to the bathroom or antibiotics solve the problem. For pandas, it’s an entirely different story. Our research into panda digestion shows that pandas get upset stomachs so frequently it may help explain why it’s so hard for them to reproduce. Our work may, as a result, highlight a new way to boost pandas’ breeding success in captivity.
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Discus standouts Card, Brooks hoping to make U.S. team
Last year, Kelsey Card finished second in the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the discus and the shot put, getting beat in the latter on an opponent’s last throw.
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An ‘arms race’ raging beneath our plants
There’s an arms race raging underground – well, between microbes and plants anyway. When bacteria attack crop roots, plants fight back by snaring the pathogens in a sticky trap made from their own DNA secretions. But a new study shows how the bacteria bust out, using a set of enzymes that act as molecular scissors, splitting the DNA like bubble wrap.
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The cool mind trick that helps you make better decisions
Noted: New research (by Evan Polman of the Wisconsin School of Business) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that might be key: If you can’t make up your own mind, pretend to make up someone else’s.
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UW women’s basketball coach Tsipis building relationships with local prep programs
EAU CLAIRE — Jonathan Tsipis hasn’t been the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program for very long, but he’s made one thing very clear in the time he’s had so far.
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How Public Universities Are Addressing Declines in State Funding
Public colleges and universities are grappling with diminishing resources, largely because of significant declines in state funding over the years. We asked three top educators about potential solutions to the funding problems: Janet Napolitano, the president of the University of California; Bernadette Gray-Little, chancellor of the University of Kansas; and Clifton Forbes Conrad, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Deadly Degrees: Why Heat Waves Kill So Quickly
Heat waves can kill. In 2003, during a major European heat wave, 14,802 people died of hyperthermia in France alone. Most were elderly people living alone in apartment buildings without air conditioning, according to Richard Keller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medical history and bioethics and author of “Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003” (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
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Top 10 Colleges of Fortune 500 CEOs: UW-Madison
With strong business and engineering programs, as well as a reputation as one of the top state flagship universities in the country, it’s little surprise UW is one of three public colleges to break into this top 10 list.
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Madison’s Ninja Warrior
Zack Kemmerer is unexpectedly chipper and doesn’t seem bummed at all that viewers have yet to see him full-on conquer the American Ninja Warrior course.Nor does he feel any awkwardness about attending his own watch party for the extreme athletic challenge — even though he barely appears in the season opening episode his fans gathered to view at Union South.Kemmerer, a Ph.D. student in UW-Madison’s biochemistry program studying mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell!), says most of his run on the show, which opened its season on June 13, wasn’t just challenging — it was actually fun.
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Dallas Jeanty goes from homeless to finding a home at Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — The smile creasing Dallas Jeanty’s face refuses to fade, a twinkling light he won’t extinguish, as he sits in the Camp Randall Stadium bleachers. He is an 18-year-old linebacker at the University of Wisconsin ready to embrace the wealth of possibilities in front of him: new friends, new surroundings, new start. He laughs while speaking reverently about playing football, eating Oreos, listening to Mumford & Sons and reading Harry Potter.
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VPL takes part in state event – Bike to the Library
Bike to the Library began in 2015 as part of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute’s “Climate Change Policy and Public Health” Massive Open Online Course. Bike to the Library Director, Terry Ross said he conceived of the idea as part of a larger effort to engage libraries with the important content of these MOOCs, beginning with “Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region.”
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The sound of science
Data collected from sensors on a buoy in Lake Mendota map the ebb and flow of the algal blooms that each year turn the lake green with phytoplankton. A look at the patterns created over time shows a confluence of interconnected cycles driven by season, temperature, sunrise and sunset.
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What happens when a gay person grows up in an anti-gay home
The stress caused by internal stigma can evoke a biological response. According to Stephanie Budge, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, there is broad consensus in the research community that “minority stress” — including internalized self-hatred — creates massive physical health problems.
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UW-Madison to implement cultural competency training in the fall
Cultural competency training could be in store for 1,000 new students at UW- Madison.
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Tenure as a wedge issue
Op-ed by Kathy Cramer: “A job for life.” Those are the words Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is using to describe tenure. It may be a terrible tact to take for his state’s university system, but it’s a smart move politically.
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UW dairy camp offers surprises
Nearly 120 youth gathered at the recent University of Wisconsin-Madison for Badger Dairy Camp. This year’s camp attendance was an almost 30 percent increase from previous years, which usually totaled 85 to 95 youth.
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Massive trove of battery and molecule data released to public
The Materials Project has attracted more than 20,000 users since launching five years ago. Every day about 20 new users register and 300 to 400 people log in to do research.One of those users is Dane Morgan, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who develops new materials for a wide range of applications, including highly active catalysts for fuel cells, stable low-work function electron emitter cathodes for high-powered microwave devices, and efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally safe solar materials.
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University of Wisconsin – Madison seeks to capitalize on push to harness helpful microbes
Since the 17th century, when Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed microorganisms through the lens of a rudimentary microscope, humans have slowly come to appreciate that ours is a germy world.
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UW-Madison Offers Unprecedented Amount Of Summer Scholarships
About 13,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students took summer classes last year, and out of all those students, only 12 got scholarship money from the university to help cover their summer tuition. But those numbers are now changing.
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How to Become a Shadow Angel in the Morning Dew
Quoted: “It’s best viewed when the sun is low and you have a nice long shadow,” said Steven Ackerman, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has experienced the phenomenon numerous times.
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Senior Pinochet aide to face civil suit over Chilean folk hero killing
The case against Mr Barrientos will be presented by lawyers from Chadbourne and Parke, who said they will show evidence of the torture and summary execution of Mr Jara through the testimony of his widow, his daughters Amanda Jara and Manuela Bunster, renowned Chilean journalist Mónica González and Professor Steven Stern from the University of Wisconsin.
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Ancient Wisconsin comes to life at Aztalan digs
The remnants of this town, nestled along a shallow bend in the Crawfish River, have generated many other fantastic myths over time — myths that researchers like University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor Sissel Schroeder work to dispel.
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UW-Madison’s ‘Rock’ Mackie rocks business plan contest
Mackie, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of medical physics and engineering physics and director emeritus of medical engineering at the Morgridge Institute for Research, is co-founder of two of the finalists in this year’s contest, Asto CT and Linectra, as well as one of last year’s finalists, OnLume.
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It’s possible to train your brain to be less racist. Here’s how.
Once you’ve recognized your biases, learned more about racism, and talked to people of different races, you need to start replacing biases and stereotypes with what you know to be true about people, according to Patricia Devine, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Disease that causes blindness in children tied to new gene
Northwestern Medicine and University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) scientists have identified a gene that causes severe glaucoma in children. The finding, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, validates a similar discovery made by the scientists in mice two years ago and suggests a target for future therapies to treat the devastating eye disease that currently has no cure.
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Classroom tech may become question of what to wear
Schools like Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin are already piloting VR technology in specific majors to measure student experience outcomes, and while some experts believe the industry for “immersive experiences” will grow to be as big as the mobile revolution, cost and pairing between technology and mission may settle VR to be an enhanced professional training resource for students in STEM and military disciplines.
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Anti-Soviet genesis of Cultural Revolution set stage for Chinese diplomatic revival
Noted: Edward Friedman, an expert on China elite politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that the response to Stalin’s death was pivotal in the birth of the Cultural Revolution.
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Wingman, a skinny flotation jacket, wins business plan contest
When a man drowned during a triathlon that Pat Hughes was also competing in several years ago, it was a life-changing moment for the shaken Hughes.“It seemed like a very preventable tragedy,” said Hughes, a 2012 Wisconsin School of Business graduate.
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The ‘most dangerous man in football’ traded an NFL career for an internship
ATLANTA — Following his second day of work as an intern in the mental health program at the Carter Center last month, Chris Borland was driving home past a high school. On a field situated along the road, he saw a football team in the middle of a spring practice. Borland pulled over and watched for 10 minutes, not out of nostalgia for a game he left behind, but rather fixating on the players as their helmets collided repeatedly during a series of contact drills.
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