As potentially life-threatening temperatures settle into south-central Wisconsin, it’s a safe bet that just about anything you had planned to do outside the home Wednesday and Thursday has been canceled or delayed.
Many colleges across the Midwest have canceled classes during the cold snap, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of South Dakota and Kent State University.
Other state institutions closing campuses late Tuesday and throughout Wednesday include the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Minnesota, the University of North Dakota, the University of South Dakota and Iowa State University. The University of Michigan said it will make its decision later today.
Students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison know a thing or two about snow. Last year, after a blizzard, some of them built an igloo. The same students are at it again this year.
MADISON, Wis. — For the first half of Officer Kraig Kalka’s shift, the temperature outside hovered at about zero. Within hours, he knew, the air would dive toward negative double digits, part of a dangerous 48-hour deep freeze across much of the Midwest.
The university’s decision to close came from the latest weather forecast, noting it would impact safety of students, faculty and staff, according to UW-Madison’s News and Media Relations Director Meredith McGlone.
Conditions are more hospitable 30 miles above the surface. In fact, temperatures in this region of the atmosphere are much like those on Earth — “similar conditions to Miami, Florida in summertime,” said Kevin Baines, a planetary scientist at the JPL and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is leading one of the world’s largest health research efforts to personalize medical treatment for people of all backgrounds. Through the NIH’s All of Us Research Program, the agency is seeking one million volunteers to build a database of health and genetic information to speed up research breakthroughs intended to improve care.
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The cold prompted several major Midwest universities to close, including the University of Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, the University of North Dakota, the University of Wisconsin, the University of South Dakota and Iowa State University.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers began his State of the State address with a blunt statement about the disconnection between Wisconsin’s historic commitment to doing big things and the state’s diminished circumstance after too many years in which irresponsible Republicans — and some neglectful Democrats — have stood in the way of addressing fundamental issues.
As of 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, all four-year universities in the University of Wisconsin System had canceled classes, events and campus activities due to the severe cold.
Hundreds of public schools are closed from North Dakota to Michigan. The universities closing their campuses include the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Minnesota, the University of North Dakota, the University of South Dakota and Iowa State University.
Hairu Zheng started the petition to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. The petition notes the extremely cold temperatures and wind chills expected in the next two days.
Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, joined 14 of her assembly members in detailing their reasons for supporting the longtime political science professor.
A man suspected of robbing a South Side restaurant at gunpoint Tuesday, then running into the UW Arboretum, was arrested after more than two hours in the bitter cold, a pursuit that involved a large police contingent searching for the man before the extreme cold could make matters worse.
The suspect has been found and is currently in custody.
This year’s Wisconsin Agriculture Outlook Forum was held on Tuesday at UW-Madison. One of the main concerns touched on is that Wisconsin is losing twice the number of farms compared to years prior.
“There’s plenty of evidence” that even without an explicit memory of surgery, humans can form implicit or subconscious memories under anesthesia, said Dr. Aeyal Raz, an anesthesiologist at the University of Wisconsin.
“Stroke due to atrial fibrillation tends to be quite severe,” said Dr. Craig January of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who helped draft the new guidelines published in Circulation.
UW Stevens Point aims to cut majors with low enrollment, but still integrate liberal arts in meaningful way.
Lack of transparency about SNAP benefits leaves students confused, unable to take advantage of resources.
Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.
Quoted: “Anything that reduces vehicle miles helps improve air quality and reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming,” said Jack Williams, a professor who researches global climate change in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A sudden warming of the stratosphere 20 miles above the Earth can cause those swirling winds to slow, allowing a “lobe” of cold air to slip down into the middle latitudes — covering places like Wisconsin, said Stephen Vavrus, a senior scientist at UW-Madison’s Center for Climatic Research.
Although “ethnic labels .?.?. have pre-colonial origins, they became comprehensive and rigidly ranked categories only in the colonial period; they were heavily influenced by imperial codifications and further transformed by politicized actions in the last half [of the 20th] century,” writes Merwin Crawford Young, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The Pentagon-based job, sometimes referred to as director of J3, includes keeping tabs on all U.S. combat operations, said John Hall, a UW-Madison professor who is writing historical studies for the Joint Chiefs.
As Wisconsin temperatures dive to lows we haven’t seen in more than two decades, we remember a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad who kept us warm, even in the harshest winter weather.
