Another lab at UW-Madison is also reporting progress toward the hydrogen economy. A team led by Materials Science and Engineering professor Xudong Wang is part of an effort to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Solar energy would be a much cleaner way to obtain hydrogen gas. But the team ran into a problem: the silicon panel used as the catalyst doesn’t last long enough.
After eight years of searching, UW-Madison scientists found the cause of a rare genetic blood disorder.
Elizabeth Haynes and Jiaye He from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, US, shot the winning video of the developing zebrafish over 16 hours using selective plane illumination microscopy.
A group of faculty and students trying to find ways to save some liberal arts courses and programs at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has been given more time to consider their options.
Concerns among UW-Oshkosh faculty are rising as the school plans to reduce positions.
hree years ago a survey on campus sexual assault drew national attention over its finding that one in four college-student respondents said they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, either by force or after being incapacitated by substances like drugs or alcohol.
In August, authorities in Wisconsin charged Quintez Cephus, a University of Wisconsin at Madison wide receiver, with raping two women.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police began a pilot program Wednesday, offering off-campus safety alerts to students and faculty who sign-up.
Wisconsin’s attorney general candidates will debate three times before Election Day, not four as originally scheduled.
Dan Egan, author of “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Oct. 16.
Suspended Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus pleaded not guilty Thursday to the Dane County judge responsible for his upcoming trial for the sexual assault of two women.
Lawyers for University of Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus were working on two legal fronts Thursday — asking a federal judge to order UW-Madison to stop its investigation of sexual assault charges against Cephus and asking a Dane County judge to delay scheduling a trial on those charges.
The UW-Madison Police Department will be testing out an off-campus alert to warn students of emergency situations east of campus, while parents of students will now be able to receive WiscAlert notifications for on-campus incidents.
For more than a decade, UW-Madison students studying food science or microbiology have had an on-campus brewery to study fermentation processes and conduct quality-control experiments. And in 2015, the university began partnering with Wisconsin Brewing Co. in Verona to bring student recipes to market.
But another expert says applying the Brady standard to York’s actions here is a stretch. Ion Meyn, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said Brady is a “pretty demanding standard,” requiring disclosure only if a case goes to trial (about 5 percent of cases do) and only if the prior actions involved are so significant there’s a reasonable chance it could change the outcome of the case at hand.
Quoted: “Wisconsin, in recently adopting its reinsurance program, joined other states in embracing this model after a similar ACA-run program had expired,” explained Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute.
Quoted: “Given the history of Act 10, all the budgets cut to K-12 early in the Walker tenure, and with a somewhat more positive budget now for education and the governor claiming to be the ‘education governor,’ you knew the Democratic challenger was going to talk about (education) no matter what,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon. “Then, when the Democratic challenger is Tony Evers, the state school superintendent, it’s ready-made to have education be the focus of the campaign.”
Quoted: “Unemployment is lower than the national average, the tax cuts have gone over well, but, he has benefitted in the past when he has had President Obama to run against as a foil,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, told Fox News.
The panel discussed how to deal with what Diana Hess, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, calls the “political education paradox” which refers to non-partisan teaching of democracy in a vitriolic and partisan political climate.
Quoted: “Scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but the details are determined by the wavelength of the light and the size of the particle,” University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists said.
In 2008, North and Kaminski teamed up for a “Clip Cancer” fundraiser for the UW Carbone Cancer Center. The next year, North started his annual golf fundraising outing, Andy North and Friends, that benefits the cancer center.
Boyden and Andrews both have gender dysphoria and both identify as women, although they were born male. Boyden is a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin and Andrews is an associate researcher in the Carbone Cancer Center at UW Hospitals and Clinics.
When chef Jason Kierce took over as culinary director of Hillel, the Jewish student center on the UW-Madison campus, he didn’t have any idea of how to cook kosher. Now he makes meals for hundreds of students of faith, using food to cross cultures, comfort the sick and bring people together.
Shannon supervises a cancer research lab at the University of Wisconsin. Like other state employees, she gets health care insurance through the state.
A jury has awarded $479,500 to a transgender UW-Madison employee and $301,000 to a transgender UW-Madison student after a federal judge found a state ban on insurance coverage for gender reassignment surgery to be sex discrimination.
Boyden is a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Andrews is an associate researcher at the Carbone Cancer Center at UW Hospitals & Clinics focused on cancer research, according to the ACLU. Both were denied medical insurance coverage by their state employer on the basis of their transgender status.
Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of Shannon Andrews, a cancer researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Alina Boyden, a University of Wisconsin graduate student.
Prior to serving as a Superior Court judge, Brnovich was a court commissioner and a county prosecutor. She earned her law degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
