Every weekday, a steel machine inside the concrete vault basement of a research building near UW Hospital produces radioactive atoms used to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
Madison and Dane County officials say the area is in a housing crisis. Home values and median rent in Madison have been on the rise for years, according to a city report from August. And a University of Wisconsin-Madison study found about a quarter of all people in Dane County spend more than half their income on rent.
Elsewhere in the midwest, the students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are just now learning whether or not that town’s snowy weather will keep the newly arrived Starship robots from making food deliveries.
The 2,000 tickets to UW-Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri’s two free holiday science shows this year were snatched up almost immediately.
Ford, the PEOPLE program’s new director, embraces UW-Madison’s mission statement “to attract and serve students from diverse social, economic and ethnic backgrounds.”
The Student Services Finance Committee heard a budget increase request from The Adventure Learning Program and heard the second General Student Services Fund eligibility request from the Wisconsin Black Student Union, Monday night.
Foxconn also had intended to invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at UW-Madison to help fund a new building for the College of Engineering if the university raised the same amount.
The panelists advocate for legalization and regulation
“Children and adolescents are really the place we have to look the most,” said Dr. Angela Janis, director of psychiatry for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University Health Services.
Coming off sweeps of Iowa and Nebraska, the Badgers (21-5, 17-1 Big Ten) moved up one spot to No. 2 in the RPI, a significant component to the NCAA tournament seeding.
The Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame will induct Stephen Born, Jens Jensen and Stanley Temple in its 2020 class.
Quoted: Dane County’s prosperity appears to drive both Democratic votes despite Democratic support for higher taxes on the affluent and rural conservative resentment. University of Wisconsin political scientist Katherine Cramer spent years meeting with small groups of residents in rural Wisconsin.
Quoted: “Wisconsin has been one of the major states in helping provide the samples and making the determinations that have moved the investigation forward,” said Noel Stanton, chemical response coordinator at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
