Quoted: Volker Radeloff, a forest ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is one of those voices. He was one of the scientists behind the 2018 study that measured growth of the WUI through a combination of census data and satellite images. He believes that certain fires are inevitable and thinks municipalities should prevent building on risky lots rather than just try to perform damage control afterwards.
As for the apple, the custom was started among Ashkenazi Jews in medieval Europe, when the apple as we know it had become more accessible due to cultivation, said Jordan Rosenblum, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies food and Judaism.
In July, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison concluded that up to a thousand people die annually in the eastern US alone due to the elevated fine particulate matter from increased use of fossil fuels to cool buildings. By saving ourselves, we’ll be killing ourselves.
Quoted: Self-driving cars already have LIDAR systems for direct imaging and could conceivably someday also be equipped with SPADs for seeing around corners. “In the near future these [laser-SPAD] sensors will be available in a format that could be handheld,” predicted Andreas Velten, the first author of Raskar’s seminal 2012 paper, who now runs an active-imaging group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A research team led by Xudong Wang, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of materials science and engineering, has developed a prototype wood floor designed to convert footsteps to electricity.
By using the Hüttenberg Formation, which formed between a billion and half a billion years ago, to study the time between Earth’s change from an anoxic environment (i.e. one lacking oxygen) to a more hospitable environment that heralded the animal kingdom, a team of researchers led by Dr. Huan Cui of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison discovered a sustained, high level of carbon.
A federal bankruptcy judge says the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh must pay $15 million to cover the debts of the school’s private foundation arising from a financial scandal involving five building projects.
A federal bankruptcy judge says the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh must pay $15 million to cover the debts of the school’s private foundation arising from a financial scandal involving five building projects.
University of Wisconsin football fans will have an opportunity to tailgate in an alcohol- and drug-free environment before the team’s season-opener against Western Kentucky University on Friday, in what organizers believe is the first official “sober tailgate” on a UW campus.
The finale party is September 29 at the Kohl Center. It will feature the Spirit Squad, UW Marching Band, MadHatters, and Bucky Badger.
Voting advocates used therapy dogs to encourage voter pledging Thursday on East Campus Mall.
With new Latinx Cultural Center, Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Cultural Center, UW now houses four cultural centers.
University Police stress they’re not walking around randomly testing people with breathalyzers. But if they find students causing problems for others, they will check to see if they’ve been drinking.
At the University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin, faculty members — including famed historian Frederick Jackson Turner — demanded that the Western Conference (later the Big Ten) meet to discuss ways to reform the game.
Foxconn has donated $100 million to UW-Madison. Gov. Scott Walker and the rest of the GOP are so proud.
Right now, much of the west is affected by wildfires.An unlucky minority will have to evacuate their homes, and some will lose their homes altogether — or even their lives. But for millions more across the west, “smoke season” is a real thing.
—OtherWords columnist Jill Richardson is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in San Diego. Distributed by www.OtherWords.org.
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