Two rooms at the Wisconsin Union named for members of a campus Ku Klux Klan group will be changed before the school year begins, if a Union Council resolution passed Monday is approved by University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
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.
The Union Council voted Monday night to rename the Porter Butts Gallery to the Main Gallery and acknowledge Porter Butts’ professional accomplishments through an interactive kiosk in another permanent location, according to a release.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is biking across several Midwestern states to raise money and awareness for a renewable energy project in Puerto Rico. Friday, he passed through southeastern Minnesota, visiting several solar sites in the region.
Klondike Cheese Co. is expanding production as it enters its second century of cheesemaking, under the leadership of six Master Cheesemakers certified by UW–Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
Mark Stephenson, director of UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Profitability, told Wisconsin Public Radio that farmers had avoided making large purchases during the past few years of low commodity prices.
Wisconsin’s prison population is growing and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health is responding.
MADISON (WKOW) — The NHL season is two months away. Two-time Olympian and NHL all-star Joe Pavelski made a stop to the American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison on Monday.
Offensive linemen famously don’t get the attention they deserve, but the big fellas on the Wisconsin Badgers football team will get their day in the sun on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week.
Noted: Jacob Stampen, a University of Wisconsin-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.
Interview with Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: “A warmer climate is making more favorable conditions for heavy rainfalls,” explains Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin. Warmer air can hold more moisture, and climate models also predict storms will move more slowly, dumping rain for longer and resulting in more floods.
Quoted: “Extreme droughts and high winds are increasing as climate is warming,” said Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has spent three decades researching fires at Yellowstone National Park. “That’s the ultimate driver behind what’s happening in California.”
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor David Baum is a botanist who has studied boabs and baobabs for more than 30 years and he says that despite decades of research we still cannot say how boabs came to be in Australia.
Quoted: “One tick can crank out females in fairly large numbers,” said Thomas Yuill, a retired pathobiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was one of the first to raise alarms about the invaders.
Noted: While many commenters on Chinese social media speculated that the limit would be raised to three, Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—and longtime critic of China’s birth policy—went further.
