Ankur Desai, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead researcher for CHEESHEAD19, said meteorologists can use the findings as an extra element to provide more accurate predictions.
Noted: Already, hospitals, nursing homes and home-care agencies face a worker shortage. Three times more families need elder care services than the workforce can support. The responsibility will continue to fall heavily on friends and family, who in Wisconsin shoulder 78 percent of the unpaid long-term care needs of the elderly and disabled who need long-term support, according to research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Farmers’ market managers in Wisconsin, along with other people who support farmers’ markets, expressed interest in learning more about what practices and features are common across the state. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the UW-Madison College of Agricultural & Life Sciences conducted a survey in 2017 to help answer their questions.
The UW System has until the end of August to submit plans to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee on ways to improve security.
A committee of faculty, students, and staff at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has submitted a document with several ideas to help save some or all of the 13 programs that were proposed to be cut as part of a curriculum re-structuring proposal released in March.
Majors may not be completely cut at UW-Stevens Point. In March, UWSP officials said they were looking at cutting 13 majors and adding to several other programs instead.
Two suspects led a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer on a brief chase Wednesday evening, leading to a crash with another vehicle and ending in arrest.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison police said an officer was on patrol on Park Street at about 6 p.m. when the officer spotted a stolen vehicle traveling near Dayton Street.
The Henry family has also produced J. Henry & Sons Wisconsin Straight Bourbon since 2009. Since it came to market in 2015, it has been an award-winning, nationally and internationally acclaimed bourbon. They use grains developed at UW-Madison, follow sustainable practices, and their entire family is in the business working to create a legacy of Wisconsin production and to keep it growing.
Judging teams from across the state battled during the State 4-H Livestock Judging Contest held July 23 at the Stock Pavilion at UW-Madison. This annual venue allows the top junior and senior county 4-H Livestock judging teams the opportunity to apply their skills in evaluating beef, swine, sheep and meat goat classes in hopes of qualifying for a national livestock judging event this fall.
Honored: Chris Walker, artist director, First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble at UW–Madison
UW–Madison Center for the Humanities, Sara Guyer, director
Specific programs recognized are HEX-U, Humanities Without Boundaries and Humanities NOW
Johannes Wallmann, UW–Madison Jazz Studies
Tandem Press, printmaking studio and gallery, UW–Madison School of Education
Timothy Yu, poet and professor, UW–Madison English and Asian American Studies
Having grown used to the solo, acoustic performances and revivalist lyrics that flowed from Bob Dylan, his fans cried a united foul when he showed up defaced by commercialism at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has signed a new technology partnership with Oracle Cloud for its integrated health system, UW Health.
The Badgers came in at No. 7 in the preseason Amway Coaches poll when the poll was released Thursday. UW was ranked behind Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, Oklahoma and Washington.
Noted: UW–Madison engineering professor Dan Thoma, who is also the Director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering, has worked in the field and with 3D printing technology for around 25 years. He said there’s a lot more that goes into creating 3D printed items than simply hitting a button.
Noted: Amy Achter, director of partner development for Nature’s Bounty, a vitamin and nutritional-supplement manufacturer, will become managing director of the Office of Business Engagement at the University of Wisconsin at Madison this month.
Noted: “When people are moving to places they bring diseases with them that the home population might not be immune to, and on the flip side these people are moving into places where they might not have immunity to the diseases in the new place,” says Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: “Some of this may reflect the availability of the reinsurance program. As well, it may be that the carrier’s substantial increases last year occurred based on an overly-pessimistic expectation, given the relatively robust ACA enrollment that ended up occurring regardless — thanks largely to the ability of the federal premium subsidies to offset the rate increases for many people,” Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
Interviewed: Barbara Mergen Alvarado currently serves as the volunteer board president of the Madison Arcatao Sister City Project and has led numerous delegations to El Salvador. She is an honorary fellow at UW–Madison’s Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies program researching migration, human rights, and cross-border organizing in Latin America.
Wisconsin high school students are planning a protest from the UW campus to the Capitol Saturday, where they’ll push for stricter gun laws.
A Professor at UW-Madison is biking more than 1,200 miles to raise awareness for solar energy and money to create a solar project in the U.S. territory with a stop in La Crosse Thursday.
