It was dark with a wind chill of 25 below zero when they walked onto frozen Lake Mendota at 7 a.m.Still, a group of UW-Madison’s weather scientists and students stood outside for a little over an hour to conduct their latest experiment as the sun rose Thursday morning.
“Those who frequently attend a house of worship may have more people they can rely on for information and help during both good and bad times,” the report said, citing scholars Chaeyoon Lim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Robert Putnam of Harvard University.
New research from the university released this week reports 15,000 lakes in the northern hemisphere that once froze regularly during the winter don’t anymore.
Lake Mendota in Madison has frozen, thawed and frozen over again this winter, and a new study – with help from a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist – shows the consequences of less lake ice are much bigger than fewer games of pick-up hockey or a shorter ice-fishing season.
Competitions will take place at five UW System campuses — Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, Platteville and Rice Lake.
A Madison icon returned to Lake Mendota Friday for the first time since 2010. An inflatable, to-scale replica of Lady Liberty’s head, arm and torch can be seen rising from the lake’s waters.
It’s not often college kids get a snow day – especially at UW-Madison.
The 11th cohort of Outstanding Women of Color awardees will be honored at a reception on Tuesday, March 5.
Foxconn has committed to creating a Wisconsin-focused venture fund, as well as investing $100 million into a research facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — but the original vision of making Wisconsin the center of high-tech manufacturing in the U.S. will almost certainly not come to fruition.
The Walnut Street Greenhouses were constructed to meet the needs of researchers in the UW-Madison departments of agronomy, genetics, horticulture, plant pathology, soils and entomology.
Jaworski began milking his cows in 2014, using a business plan heavily shaped by the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy & Livestock Farmers, one of several “Short Courses” Jaworski started at the UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in November 2008.
Milk prices paid to farmers are expected to be better this year but not by much, University of Wisconsin dairy economist Mark Stephenson said. He predicts an increase of about a $1 per hundredweight, or hundred pounds of milk.
Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, says he expects prices to be better this year than in 2018, but not by a lot.
U.S. and Canadian farmers will often export chicken wings with the flappers still attached to Asian markets such as Hong Kong, Thailand and Cambodia. Those markets have more of an appetite for the wingtips, according to Ronald Kean, an expert in poultry production at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Fred Stonehouse says he has a privileged view of Wisconsin politics. He lives in a working class and deeply red neighborhood in Slinger, teaches art in the “leftie bubble” of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and considers himself “a Milwaukee guy,” he says. Like a lot of artists, he leans left, but he’s hip deep in conservative circles too, including family and the monied collectors who buy his work. It’s one of the reasons his subtext is subtle.
“This is valid research, and I think it’s important research,” says R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It has value not only for the possible use in the future for some number of conditions that would involve a live birth, but it has value for basic understanding of embryology, basic understanding of development,” Charo says.
Families and kids will have the opportunity to cheer on the Badgers this season with Sunday Kids’ Days. Each regular season Sunday home event will have something specifically designed for kids, according to a release from UW Athletics.
The situation in Venezuela is, undoubtedly, difficult. But when it comes to Latin America, Washington has a long history of making difficult situations worse. It is precisely because Venezuela deserves a better government than it currently has that the United States should not play a role in choosing it.Patrick Iber is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of “Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America.”
When a student takes notes on a laptop in a class that doesn’t allow them, they immediately stick out like a sore thumb. To their peers, not only does this immediately identify them as someone who receives McBurney services, it also makes them seem like someone who directly refutes the researched claims the professor has given for their technology policy.
Google isn’t the only tech company based outside of Wisconsin that has been drawn to Madison by its lower costs, hard-working culture, and relatively strong talent pool, driven in part by a respected computer science program at UW-Madison. Other tech firms with Madison offices include San Francisco-based software company Zendesk, which in October opened new local digs with room for more than 400 employees.
Quoted: These developments are deeply troubling for sj Miller, an internationally known gender identity educator and social justice activist who works as a faculty assistant at UW-Madison’s School of Education. “I’m worried sick,” says Miller, who is transgender. “You talk about hope, but I’m scared. [The Trump administration’s policies on gender identity] are going to open up this maelstrom of possibilities for putting prejudice back into practice.”
Noted: NOAA’s GOES-East satellite detected the arctic air as it collected in northern Canada on Jan. 28, then followed its plunge south into the Upper Midwest by Jan. 30, as noted by University of Wisconsin-Madison satellite research meteorologists Scott Bachmeier and Tim Schmitt.
Quoted: Such comments are frustrating to scientists sounding the alarm on climate change, including Steve Vavrus, senior scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.
