The University of Wisconsin System recently hired a big-data consulting company to help campuses, other than Madison’s, identify at-risk students and save them from dropping out.
March 13, 2019
Top Stories
Research
Why The Scientific Debate Over A UW Bird Flu Study Isn’t Going Away
A University of Wisconsin-Madison laboratory is set to resume experiments that could build the foundation of an early warning system for flu pandemics.
Video: UW researchers work on cutting number of kids in poverty in half by 2029
UW professor of economics and public affairs Timothy Smeeding is one of the researchers who worked on the congressionally-mandated study.
Campus life
Fate of sculpture near Camp Randall in question
A 13-year-old icon near Camp Randall Stadium might be on its way out as part of planned renovations to UW Madison’s Field House.
Crime and safety
UW student charged with felonies, campus standing unaffected
A UW spokesperson says Mitchell’s criminal charges have no impact on his standing at the school.
Agriculture
Potato grower eyes seed
Administered by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the program consists of a full-time staff of experienced professionals dedicated to ensuring thoroughness and impartiality in inspection and certification procedures.
Can this radical approach to dairies save US farms?
But little by little, supply management is rising to the surface of the national conversation. University of Wisconsin-Madison director of dairy policy analysis Mark Stephenson told radio station WPR in January that he believed it could be an effective way to increase the price of milk paid to farmers — despite governmental hurdles. “Some version of that program… [could] be a little softer than a Canadian system and certainly might help moderate these prices when we get into these deep downturns,” he said.
Irwin Goldman is pushing this loved and loathed vegetable in new directions
Right now, Goldman is the nation’s only plant breeder at a public institution who works on table beets, making UW–Madison a key resource for all things beet research and breeding. This includes the development of new and improved varieties and serving as a repository for one of the world’s best collections of beet seeds.
UW-Madison tar spot video provides Wisconsin perspective on disease
If you are concerned about tar spot this year but haven’t been able to get to a winter meeting to learn more on how to control it, the University of Wisconsin has a solution.
Arts & Humanities
(Where) My Body Did Not End | New Voices
(Where) My Body Did Not Endafter Loose Strife by Quan BerryDraw a map with no beginning
you were not born but plucked from tree vast and placeless mark the spot in your mother’s garden( ) you broke water
Nesha Ruther is a poet hailing from Takoma Park, Maryland. She was a member of the 2015 DC Youth Slam Team and a 2016 YoungArts winner in spoken word. She currently attends the University of Wisconsin Madison as part of the tenth cohort of First Wave.
Health
UW Health hotline to assist in treatment of addiction patients
Hotline is first in the nation to help primary-care physicians manage addiction patients.
UHS Women’s Health Clinic Director discusses efforts for increased access to reproductive healthcare
Mary Landry hopes for the same open-access idea in women’s health that exists in the primary care clinic.
Athletics
3 Badgers volleyball players invited to train with Team USA
Middle blockers Dana Rettke and Tionna Williams and setter Sydney Hilley will travel to the national team’s training center in Anaheim, California, for the training March 16-23.
UW Experts in the News
Governors vs. senators: Hickenlooper, Inslee will test old theory
“In 2016, the Democrats had one of the most experienced candidates ever. That failed,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist who has written about the advantages governors hold in presidential races. “That might cause the party to rethink the value of experience, and especially Washington experience.”
UW-Madison Related
Miami Real Estate Developer Charged In College Bribery Admission Scheme Granted Bail
Shalala, former President of the University of Miami, Hunter College, and Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said greed and “naked ambition” has “stained the reputation of higher education.
Uhuru appoints Prof. Joseph Mathu Ndungú as new JKUAT Chancellor
Prof. Ndung’u’s profession has enabled him to establish linkages with African governments, professionals and universities making him serve as a visiting Professor of the University of Glasgow from 2001 also at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.