The University of Wisconsin-Madison is going to be part of a massive new effort in which 130 public universities and systems will work together to increase college access, close the achievement gap, and award hundreds of thousands more degrees by 2025.
Quoted: John Lyons, a fisheries scientist now retired from the DNR, said he and others at the agency spent considerable time planning to move fish through the dam.
“The issue of invasive species, particularly invasive Asian carp, was always a big issue,” said Lyons, now curator of fishes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s zoological museum.
Letter to the editor: The State Journal recently published several articles and an editorial asserting that UW-Madison is the epicenter of the discovery of stem cells and their utility in medicine. This representation is far from the truth, and several laboratories worldwide have been active in stem-cell research for many years prior to UW-Madison’s culture of embryonic stem cells in 1998.
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin opened his lunchbox. Inside, he had three aluminum tubes, two filled with pureed meat and one with chocolate sauce. A peculiar lunch, indeed, but for Gagarin it was a peculiar day. He was in the middle of the first human spaceflight, and his less-than exciting spread was the first meal consumed in space.
Hilary Dugan is researching rising salt levels that are showing up in water across much of the U.S.
Noted: Nationally, about 36 percent of university students and 42 percent of community college students indicated feeling insecure about food in the 30 days before they were surveyed, according to an April report from the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, a group of researchers based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The survey took into account responses from more than 43,000 students at 66 higher education institutions nationwide.
Republican Bryan Steil is resigning his position on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents effective immediately to focus on his first congressional term, according to a statement he released Friday.
The public has just under 60 days to tell the Department of Education what it thinks about new guidelines recently proposed by Secretary Betsy DeVos. The new changes specifically address how college campuses should handle cases of sexual assault and harassment, replacing Obama-era policies on how to implement Title IX, which bars gender discrimination in schools receiving federal funds. Critics of the new guidelines say the changes will make it harder to convict offenders because the proposed changes raise the level of proof needed.
Bryan Steil is resigning as a University of Wisconsin System regent to focus on his first congressional term.
When Madison College was considering a new textbook rental program that would significantly lower book costs for students, Tina Marshalek talked to her fellow students about what saving money on textbooks would mean to them.
Letter to the editor: University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is reprimanding UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow for retaining an adult film actress as a campus speaker. President Cross may feel like he has punched his politically correct dance card, but reality speaks otherwise.
UW-Stout’s science education program has tried to fill a persistent science teacher shortage across the state, particularly in mostly rural northwest Wisconsin. But under a proposed revision to a University of Wisconsin System policy, the program would be eliminated because it produces too few graduates — about three graduates each of the past five years, according to UW-Stout Science Education program director Kevin Mason.
University of Wisconsin System Regent Bryan Steil says he will resign as he begins his first term in Congress.
UW-Madison’s Lowell Center purchased the “Ringo” Bucky statue by Kari Fisher from this summer’s Bucky on Parade event and held a location unveiling event Friday with its namesake, former Badgers men’s hockey player Rob Andringa. Lance Baldus and Matt Vieth from the Lowell Center and Andringa speak.
Wisconsin Republicans planned to forge ahead Monday with a rare lame-duck session to give outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker a chance to limit the powers of his incoming Democratic successor, move the 2020 presidential primary date to benefit a conservative state Supreme Court justice and enact a host of other changes almost certain to spur legal challenges.
The Psi chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity has ended its participation as a UW-Madison registered student organization after the university’s investigation into misconduct resulted in unsubstantiated findings.
Soil health” is a phrase that has been thrown around a lot lately, but what exactly makes a soil healthy? The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has their own definition, as do well-known soil scientists John Doran and Timothy Parkin. But according to Richard Lankau, assistant professor in UW-Madison’s Plant Pathology Department, each farmer, too, has their own definition of what makes a soil healthy.
“Soil health is up to us to define,” he said. “Ask yourself, what do you want your soil to do for you?”
An orchestra comprised of University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health faculty, staff and students performed their inaugural concert Sunday evening.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face its second consecutive West Coast Conference opponent when NCAA tournament regional play begins Friday.
The University of Wisconsin football team will once again end its season against Miami.
A federal district court this week ordered UW-Madison’s patent-licensing arm, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), to pay another university $31.6 million for breach of contract.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and director of the school’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, said it’s typical for justices to steer clear of talking about legislation because it might eventually come before the court in a legal challenge.
“He cares a lot about the court and the legitimacy of the institution,” said Owens, who like Kelly is a member of the conservative Federalist Society. “It’s not surprising to me he’s not commenting on this. … From the justice’s perspective, trying to stay out of the fray is the right thing to do.”
Quoted: “This is a great thing for Aurora to do,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The idea that you are willing to help your least well-off employees — just at a minimal level — says how you value labor,” he said. “That’s a really important message in my mind.”
Noted: At the same time, this procedure exposed the twins to risks that we can’t fully catalog and don’t currently understand. As University of Wisconsin bioethicist Alta Charo said, “Having listened to Dr. He, I can only conclude that this was misguided, premature, unnecessary, and largely useless.”
Noted: “This is a great thing for Aurora to do,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Dr. Marcia Slattery, from UW Health, talks about how to balance out your child’s holiday gifts.
Noted: Among the jobs sought by Mariani Packing Co. in Wisconsin Rapids is a position for food science technician, a job requiring a science background and a bachelors degree. The last three hired by the company have come from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Thomas is a Milwaukee native who went to MPS’ 65th Street School and graduated from Rufus King High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined Teach for America, the program that recruits college grads to teach in high-needs schools. As a high school teacher in Atlanta, he was named the Teach for America national teacher of the year a decade ago.
Jeremy LaGoo studied atmospheric science at UW Madison, from where he graduated in 2010. He now works at the KTVA-TV in Anchorage, which suffered widespread damage from an earthquake.
