University of Wisconsin fans went crazy when Beata Nelson touched first in the 200-yard backstroke Saturday night to complete the greatest individual effort at the NCAA swimming and diving championships in program history.
For the first time in eight years, the Badgers are national champions, giving them a fifth NCAA trophy to finish the program’s 20th season.
Seventy-five Badgers — more than any other U.S. university — are currently serving a 27-month stint in developing countries promoting peace through community integration.
Andrea Hicks, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison published a recent study that looked at the environmental impact of polystyrene through its life cycle.
Column: Our Communication and Civic Renewal research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked 1,015 Wisconsinites who they thought should control redistricting in our state: the state Legislature or an independent, nonpartisan commission. Fifty-three percent of adults said they preferred the nonpartisan commission while only 13 percent favored the idea of state lawmakers controlling the process themselves.
Carol E. Lee, a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, will research the ability of plankton to adapt and evolve with the Earth’s changing climate, with funding from the Make Our Planet Great Again initiative.
Quoted: “When I started business school, I expected to be supplied with formulas and ample information to always make the right decision,” admits the University of Wisconsin’s Anders Larsen. “In reality, I learned that business is messy, and you never have all the information you want to make a decision. You learn to make decisions based off what information you have; and you learn when that information is enough or when you need to find more.”
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee lecturer and researcher is facing child pornography charges.
Evers told the state Senate Friday he has withdrawn those appointments and will fill them with his own picks. The posts include a University of Wisconsin System Regent, Scott Beightol, and commissioner of the state Public Service Commission, Ellen Nowak.
Some of the higher profile appointees include a pair of University of Wisconsin System regents and Ellen Nowak, chairwoman of the state Public Service Commission.
Quoted: “It’s very much a matter of your perspective,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison and chairman of Dairy Task Force 2.0, a committee of Wisconsin dairy farmers and others that aims to chart a course for the dairy industry’s future.
“It’s very much a matter of your perspective,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison and chairman of Dairy Task Force 2.0, a committee of Wisconsin dairy farmers and others that aims to chart a course for the dairy industry’s future.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Victor Cabrera wants to help farmers make better decisions through his project called Dairy Brain , which would collect and integrate data from all parts of the farm operation, then use artificial intelligence to analyze the findings and help farmers make smarter management decisions.
The No. 1 Wisconsin women’s hockey team won its fifth national championship Sunday with a 2-0 win over No. 2 Minnesota.
Suzy Favor burst on the scene with state track and cross country titles as a freshman at Stevens Point Area High School and continued that success over the next three years to become one of the most dominant distance runners in Wisconsin high school history.
Campbell became the first goaltender to go the distance in a Division I NCAA women’s hockey tournament without allowing a goal.
Quoted: “It’s a pretty straightforward cheese to make,” says John Lucey, a professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Even so, the process is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It begins with creating the curd, the lumpy matter found in cottage cheese.
Quoted: “There’s this underlying recognition,” said Bob Drechsel, an expert in media law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “that it’s extraordinarily important and unavoidable that librarians have a great deal of discretion to make decisions about what they think is in the best interest of their collections and their patrons.”
Quoted: Ranchan received her Masters in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. She commenced her teaching career at the Government College for Women, Patiala in 1964 which, however, remained a chequered one because of transfer of residence to varied locales. Excerpts from an interview with The Pioneer.
Quoted: “There are black-white achievement gaps in virtually every school district in the country, but Madison’s gaps have been, historically, among the largest in the country,” said UW-Madison professor Geoffrey Borman, whose research includes testing ways to close them. “I can’t point you to a particular district that has closed gaps.”
He retired from the University of Wisconsin Physical Plant after 22 years.
Before graduating from Yale in 1982, Jane went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Q&A with Tourism Secretary Sara Meaney, 44, grew up in Whitefish Bay, is a graduate of UW-Madison and has a long career in marketing and advertising.
