Freezing tuition for in-state students at public colleges and universities is welcome help for Wisconsin families. But state leaders need to be realistic. Unless the state can provide better funding, too, the freeze will continue to harm schools.
Kids and families got to explore the science behind healthy living on Saturday. It was part of UW’s Saturday Science, a program held on the first Saturday of each month at the Discovery Building.
Noted: “Sometimes we don’t know what to do with emotions,” so parents channel them into packing and shopping to feel productive, said Beth Miller, a coordinator for residence life at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But sometimes parents are purchasing things based on emotion and not necessarily based on need.”
A bicyclist traveling across the Upper Midwest wants to bring renewable energy to Puerto Rico.
A former UW-Madison employee pleaded guilty Friday to several felony charges after stealing more than $100,000 from the university’s housing division.
Ryan Sterry, St. Croix County UW-Extension agriculture agent, said the Johnson farm is unique in that they grew their business “in steps” to bring in the next generation, and they have dabbled in registered Holstein genetics, with bragging rights to some high-ranking genomic animals.
Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst doesn’t spend his free time researching how former UW players J.J. Watt and Jake Wood have dedicated time, energy and whatever resources were necessary to better the lives of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges.
Interview with Dan Thoma, professor and director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering
Noted: Zeratsky moved to Milwaukee with his wife, Michelle Zeratsky, in June and lives on the city’s east side. An alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he lived in Chicago and San Francisco, and on his sailboat for eight months, before returning to his home state.
University of North Dakota President Mark Kennedy has appointed Meloney Golombiecki Linder to serve as Vice President for Marketing and Communications. Linder will begin her new duties Sept. 4.
Noted: Eating crickets can be good for your health, according to a new clinical study from UW-Madison. Just ask Valerie Stull, a recent doctoral graduate from the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. She was 12 when she ate her first insect.
Quoted: “Know what items you’re looking for to buy and what the limits might be on those items,” said Cliff Robb, associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Increasingly, the lakes are rising above the maximum level set by the state, and the area may be on the cusp of flooding unlike anything in the last 100 years, said Ken Potter, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering and an expert on flooding and stormwater management.
Noted: Kathy Cramer, a UW-Madison professor of political science and author of a book about Walker’s rise in Wisconsin, said recent scholarship confirms that “policy decisions most closely correspond to the political leanings of the wealthiest people in the population, and not so much to other people.” … Kenneth Mayer, a UW-Madison professor of political science, said other states allow for more direct public input and responsiveness through initiatives and referenda in which citizens make laws directly.
Noted: Jacob Stampen, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of educational leadership and policy analysis, said his research reveals a growing partisanship that has made state lawmakers more indebted to party bosses than to the public. Stampen has been tracking voting in the Wisconsin Legislature since 2003. His first analysis of voting was as a graduate student at UW-Madison in the mid-60s.
Gilbert farmed all of his life in the Martinsville area, and was also employed at the Agronomy Dept. at UW-Madison for 25 years.
Soglin’s ad says shows Walker toppling the Abraham Lincoln statue at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times,” published this year by the Wisconsin History Society Press, draws on Apps’ diaries from the 38 years he spent as a professor of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and as an administrator for UW Extension.
