UW-Madison students are signing up in record numbers to study computer science, elevating the program to be the most popular undergraduate major on campus in each of the last two years.
As the agronomist at the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station, Cavadini has been integrating no-till and cover crops practices to support the station’s dairy herd. He also grazes a small herd of about 40 Black and Red Angus beef on his family’s 80-acre Cavern Point Farm near Stratford.
Jennifer Van Os, an assistant professor and Extension specialist at UW-Madison’s Department of Dairy Science, also wouldn’t be surprised if the age of group housing was on the horizon.
The All of Us research program has a goal of recruiting one million participants over the next five years, and 100,000 of them will come from Wisconsin.
Noted: Some examples of campus-based convenings that I know about are ASU’s ShapingEDU, the Distance Teaching & Learning Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Digital Pedagogy Lab at the University of Mary Washington.
Fifteen people are caught in the middle of a legal and political war between Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The Fourth District council member is having a neighborhood meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St., to discuss ways to keep the April 27 party a safe success.
UW-Madison graduate Phil Johnston will be back in town at the 2019 Wisconsin Film Festival Friday to present two films, his own Disney animated hit “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and the classic Yasurijo Ozu film “Good Morning.”
It was 40 years ago on Monday that UW Hospital moved from its old building at 1300 University Ave. to its current facility at 600 Highland Ave. The operation was carefully choreographed and involved moving 199 patients.
Students from Helios, a student organization that aims to create renewable energy sources on campus, along with university officials from the Office of Sustainability, University Housing and Facilities Planning and Management have worked for over a year to create, test and implement solar panels on the roof of Gordon.
Sandy Stuttgen has spent a lot of time around cows. She grew up a dairy farmer’s daughter in Marathon County, leaving the farm to become a large animal, predominately dairy, veterinarian before joining the staff at UW-Madison Division of Extension as an associate professor.
Cropp, emeritus professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, said a slowdown in milk production, reduced cow numbers and a falloff in heifer numbers could mean good news.
Noted: The conversations are led by volunteer facilitators, recorded on a “digital hearth,” then transcribed and posted on the LVN.org website. In Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer, author of “The Politics of Resentment,” is a partner in the effort.
The term “scientific glassblowing” sounds almost aggressively unartistic; step aside marble-makers, this is glassware for science. But Tracy Drier, the scientific glassblower at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, considers it “industrial art.”
Bio: Karen L. Garst, PhD, is the editor of Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion and Women v. Religion: The Case Against Faith… and for Freedom. She has a blog at www.faithlessfeminist.com and is on YouTube as the Faithless Feminist. Dr. Garst received a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She served as the Executive Director of the Oregon State Bar prior to retiring in 2008.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone’s illustrious 50-year career is coming to an end, culminating with his final spring concert series in April.
An experimental cancer drug developed by Cellectar Biosciences, which has operations in Middleton and in New Jersey, will be studied on children and adolescents with a variety of solid tumors at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital.
“When we deliver care to older adults, there’s nuanced ways that we have to kind of think about things,” said Dr. Steve Barczi, professor of medicine in the geriatrics division.
Quoted: India has already instituted a Warren-like rule to prevent e-commerce platforms from selling their own products on the platform. “We should go back and understand the wisdom of that kind of separation,” said Peter Carstensen, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “We would never want the interstate highway system to be owned by Walmart. It simplifies the market functions if you separate them out.”
“As somebody who was a high school social studies teacher … it’s extremely difficult to do a good job as a history teacher and also at the same time have the time to do everything that needs to happen in a high-quality civics class,” said Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. “You’re just cramming way too much into a course.”
One reason is people tend to care more about politics after finishing their education, getting a job and starting a family, said Connie Flanagan, associate dean of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology and an expert on youth and politics — milestones that millennials and Gen Zers are hitting at later ages than previous generations.
Noted: Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director of UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute, said Boasberg’s criticism of work requirements could be applied in other cases that challenge such rules. She said the threat of litigation could also persuade some states to think twice before implementing their requirements.
A few months after majorities of Wisconsin voters re-elected Democrat Tammy Baldwin to the US Senate with a 10-point cushion but only sent Republican Governor Scott Walker packing by a razor-thin margin, the Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez announced that the city of Milwaukee will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
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.”
Pam was employed at Northwestern Mutual Insurance for nine years and the UW Health Sciences Library for 24 years.
Sue retired from the UW Memorial Library after 34 years.
Bob was associated with the University of Wisconsin Agricultural & Applied Economics Department with major responsibilities in farm management, as well as teaching in the Farm and Industry Short Course program. He retired from the University in 1988.
She worked at the UW Hospital, retiring after 25 years of service.
The Wisconsin Badgers are not dancing in the tournament anymore, but Bucky was in Eau Claire on Sunday, doing a different kind of dancing at Azura Memory Care.
Noted: He was placed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he spent 2018.
Noted: She was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in international business. She wanted to go into the Peace Corps and then work in the United Nations. She was a Dean’s scholar. And she was an extremely good singer. Her love was music.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the newsHealth · SportsBucky Badger goes to the Big DanceBob Collins April 1, 2019, 8:14 AM 0 CommentsHere’s your daily dose of sweetness:Dolly Bauer still has good memories of watching her daughter, Amy, play basketball for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s women’s basketball team, the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram says.
