MADISON — For those keeping score, the only votes Thursday against budget requests the University of Wisconsin System will send to the state came from a Democrat and a Republican member of the Board of Regents running for high-profile political offices.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a pair of budget requests to state lawmakers, including a $1.9 billion capital budget request for building and renovation projects around the state.
Center is flooded due to Lake Mendota’s high water.
Noted: Rozalyn Anderson, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health, told Business Insider that her work in monkeys also suggests metabolism is at the center of the aging process.
A research trial was initiated in fall 2017 at the UW-Arlington Agricultural Research Station. The research team assessed the impact of delayed grain harvest on the yield and test weight of soft red winter wheat.
Noted: The study authors—Michael Light, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ty Miller, a graduate student at Purdue University—wrote that ramped-up border enforcement had not led to an overall reduction of crime in the U.S. because undocumented immigrants were not responsible for increased crime rates in the first place.
According to Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, a combination of high humidity and a very slow-moving storm is what caused the huge amount of rainfall.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Limnology is experiencing flooding from lake levels on Lake Mendota rising, a blog post from center said.
The regents approved the request 16-1 on Thursday. The request seeks an additional $82.5 million in tax dollars to meet performance-based goals Republican legislators have imposed on the system.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a $1.96 billion construction and maintenance budget request.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the System’s 2019-21 proposed operating and capital budgets on Thursday, with the only two dissenting votes coming from the two Regents running for political office.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a $1.96 billion construction and maintenance budget request.
Noted: Meanwhile, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials were watching Lake Mendota water levels, which are expected to rise when rain starts falling Friday, according to campus spokesman John Lucas.
Opposition to the Vietnam War had been escalating on college campuses across the nation and tensions were particularly high at UW-Madison. In an effort to recruit and hire students, Dow Chemical — a company that made napalm used in the war — was set to arrive at the university on Oct. 18, 1967.
On Aug. 22 the Group Insurance Board voted 5-4 to cover gender-affirming surgery for state employees. Wren Logan, a transgender woman and psychiatry resident at UW Health, who lobbied hard for the change, was there for the vote.
Four projects would be funded by increases in student fees, including a new field house and soccer facility at UW-La Crosse; a new UW-Madison natatorium and recreational center; and a new UW-Stevens Point student health center.
The suspect, using name “Bama Flow” online, was arrested earlier this summer for collecting rent on parking spot he does not own.
They claimed to have proof showing the two accusers were not impaired by alcohol on the night in question.
UW Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus was given a $5,000 signature bond in court Thursday morning.
The school announced it will present its Honorary Recognition Awards to Daphne & Lloyd Holterman, Anna Maenner and David Rhoda, and its Distinguished Alumni Award to Timothy Young. Each will be recognized during a special ceremony on October 25.
An exchange of blows to the body, a taste of tear gas and a peaceful protest turned violent — this is how the Day of Dow in Madison is remembered.
Greg Gard, head coach of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team, is doing what he can to help those who are impacted by cancer.
Gard made a stop in Wausau Thursday to talk about his off season projects and what’s next for Badgers Basketball.
MADISON – The sexual assault charges filed this week against Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus raised many questions.
Garrett Groshek appreciated the support but preferred to focus on the work rather than the reward.
Since President Trump took office last year, his administration has been working to undo many Obama-era regulations affecting clean water, national parks, energy production and more. Most recently, President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening Obama-era regulations on coal-fired power plants.
Quoted: If the company entered this market, “Google is going to hands down beat any other player just with the sheer number of advertisers that they already have,” said Paul Hoban, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school. “They already have the auction mechanism built up from the display ad framework.”
Noted: A recent study authored by Dr. Noah Williams, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides a state-specific example of these consequences. Williams looked at the series of increases implemented in Minnesota starting in 2014, and compared the state to neighboring Wisconsin where the minimum wage was held constant.
Noted: That is a key sign that the party is positioned to do better in the fall, said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Elections Research Center there.
Quoted: “A summer’s worth of rain in one day,” said Stephen Vavrus, a scientist at UW-Madison’s Center for Climatic Research. “We haven’t had anything like this in memory around here. Or even beyond.”
“It makes the physical work of a dairy farm more manageable by a family unit,” says Douglas Reinemann, professor of biological engineering systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For parents of very young children, sending your little ones off to school for the first time can be scary. But there are things you can do to prepare, said Beth Graue, chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UW-Madison, who has been teaching since 1990.
