More research labs are retiring primates to sanctuaries like Primates Inc., a 17-acre (7-hectare) rural compound in central Wisconsin, where they can live their remaining years, according to the sanctuaries and researchers. For some monkeys, it’s their first time hanging out in the fresh air.
“Just to see them look around in amazement. You know it was all very calm and peaceful,” said Amy Kerwin, who worked for 15 years to get the Westfield, Wisconsin, sanctuary off the ground after being employed in a University of Wisconsin research lab.
Watras and Rubsam walk onto frozen Little Rock Lake in Vilas County near their base at the University of Wisconsin’s Trout Lake Station. They are scientists for UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology and the state Department of Natural Resources.
Nearly 40 K-9 teams have been training over the last three days at the Kohl Center to complete their National Odor Recognition Testing. The test, developed by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and brought to Madison through a joint effort with the UW-Madison Police Department, establishes a national standard for K-9 teams used by police and other agencies.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is rejecting the voters’ message. They are cutting the budget requests to fund our public schools and the UW.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department hosted almost 40 different K-9 teams from across the Midwest for an ATF odor recognition training and certification session at the Kohl Center.
Noted: Dr. Amy Kind is a physician and Ph.D.-trained researcher in geriatrics with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the way people’s environment affects their well-being. That can mean the ways housing or income-levels in a neighborhood can affect population health. She said another big factor in her aging patients’ health is their ability to maintain social connections.
After picking up NCAA championships in the Men’s 5K race, Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald has been named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Year.
Among the reasons, say the partners in business and in marriage, are the cost of living, the young talent-for-hire coming out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the easy access to learning.
Quoted: Similar moves haven’t yet been seen in Democratic-controlled legislatures with incoming Republican governors, said Howard Schweber, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Now that it’s an established strategy, I’m sure we’ll see it again,” he said.
Quoted: Police Sergeant Nic Banuelos with the University of Wisconsin-Madison said he would support any additional measures to protect his K-9 Maya and other dogs. “Anything that will raise the threshold there to hold people accountable for their actions, I’m sure everybody’s on board for that,” said Banuelos.
He went on to earn his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he was the sports editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal.
Greg seems to be interested in the exact same things: He owns his own learning center, the Mathnasium of Lake Wylie, which tells us he’s successful, smart, and enjoys helping others as well. In fact, he also has a Masters — his is in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This event changed the life of an Appleton native and UW-Madison alumna, then-NBC15’s D.C. bureau chief Greta van Susteren.
