Wednesday Nite @ the Lab, which started in February 2006, allows the public to hear campus scientists — and occasionally researchers from other universities — share their expertise.
Jerell Moore, the son of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore, was released from a Michigan hospital on Monday, according to school officials.
How resilient are Yellowstone forests when it comes to frequent fires? Kelly April Tyrrell of the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides this look at how researchers are addressing the issue.In August 2016, areas of Yellowstone National Park that burned in 1988 burned again. Shortly after, in October 2016, ecologist Monica Turner and her team of graduate students visited the park to begin to assess the landscape.
In a recent study, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin documented significant temperature increases and lower precipitation levels that threaten the biodiversity and ecosystems of the parks: Glacier National Park — loss of greenery, melting glaciers; Yellowstone, the world’s first national park — devastation of whitebark pine forests.
Guest column: My beautiful child was 20 years old when he died of a vaccine-preventable disease as a UW-Madison student in the University of Wisconsin System. The horror and pain was unspeakable. That was 17 years ago.
The university’s Faculty Senate approved the use of the titles last month, though individual academic departments will decide whether to appoint academic staff to the roles. At a meeting earlier this month, the Faculty Senate considered a third title, professor of practice, but decided to refer that topic to a committee for more discussion.
Isaac Wells graduated with top honors and earned a nearly full scholarship, but college didn’t always seem like an option throughout his life.
If a trend continues, the University of Wisconsin soon will be in the minority among Big Ten Conference schools in beer sales at athletic events.
University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore and his son are on the road to recovery after the horrific Michigan car crash that killed Moore’s wife and daughter.
Jennifer Moore, the wife of University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, was killed in a multiple vehicle crash caused by a wrong-way driver on M-14 in Michigan on Saturday, May 25, 2019 , according to Michigan State Police.
The University of Wisconsin said Monday assistant men’s basketball coach Howard Moore was up and walking at a hospital after a weekend automobile wreck in Michigan that killed his wife and daughter.
Christine DeSmet, faculty associate in writing for UW-Madison Continuing Studies and director of the June 17-21 Write-by-the-Lake Writer’s Workshop and Retreat, said there are likely three big reasons Wisconsin is home to so many mystery writers .One is the support writers receive from UW-Madison, UW-Extension and associations throughout the state, DeSmet said in an email. “It certainly helps to have conferences like the annual UW-Madison Writers’ Institute that brings in literary agents looking for mystery books as well as suspense and thrillers,” she said.
Column: It would be a shame to lose the moral high ground and esteem of those of us who have enjoyed bragging about UW Health’s commitment to the broader community and not just the bottom line.
“I’m thankful he’s alive. But he’s going to need support from our community for many, many years to come,” says Michael Johnson, a family friend of Moore, who visited him in the hospital on Sunday.
Police: The family was hit by a wrong-way driver.
Howard Moore, his family were struck by a car going the wrong way on a highway outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Moore and his son, Jerrell, survived, although the severity of their injuries remain unclear.
The wife and daughter of University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore were killed in a head-on collision Saturday in Michigan.
Noted: When Barry Alvarez became head football coach at the University of Wisconsin, the Badgers hadn’t had a winning season since 1984. But from 1990 to 2005, he turned the program around, bringing it to its first Rose Bowl in 30 years and winning that game in 1993 and then two more. Today, he’s the UW athletics director, overseeing a program that has enjoyed sustained success in football and basketball, along with cross country and women’s hockey.
University of Wisconsin sophomore Alissa Niggemann broke the school record in the steeplechase late Friday night at the NCAA West Preliminary Track and Field Championships en route to qualifying for the NCAA championships.
University of Wisconsin officials were still reeling Sunday in the wake of the automobile crash that one day earlier claimed the lives of the wife and daughter of men’s basketball assistant Howard Moore.
Quoted: “If the past is any guide, consumers, both households and firms, have taken the entire hit from the tariffs,” says Menzie Chinn, professor of Public Affairs and Economics in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Theory says in principle Chinese producers could absorb some of the cost, but, in practice, recent studies have indicated the entire burden has fallen on U.S. purchasers.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz said she expects we are going to see a lot more mosquitoes over the next week or two.
Quoted: “Now we are saying we kind of have to start all over again,” said Michael Notaro, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The original thinking was in error.”
Evelyn worked for over 40 years as a cook at UW-Madison campus. During that time, she met many students who became lifelong friends, and exchanged greeting cards for years even after they had graduated and moved on.
From 1970 to 1990, he served as administrator of the Department of Physics at UW-Madison.
To understand what intersectionality is, and what it has become, you have to look at Crenshaw’s body of work over the past 30 years on race and civil rights. A graduate of Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin, Crenshaw has focused in much of her research on the concept of critical race theory.
He was the spring 2019 commencement speaker for University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The first flights of bald eagles often leave the bird stranded on the ground, but their parents generally keep feeding them until they fly again, according to the Journey North citizen science center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.
Upham Woods Outdoor Learning Center is an education center for youth and families on the Wisconsin River, located about an hour away from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. But now, the waters around the center will be patrolled by officers from the UW-Madison Police Department.
Though applicants come from across the country — the incoming class includes graduates from Texas to Connecticut — the company actively recruits at four colleges: the University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Texas at Austin and Pennsylvania State University.
