“Wisconsin is no less a swing state than Ohio,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, who has developed a new battleground state polling project in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania through his Elections Research Center.
When it comes to tortoises and the Galapagos islands, most people know of the connection with Darwin and have a vague knowledge of breeding efforts to repopulate the species thanks to randomly watched nature documentaries, but that’s about it. UW-Madison assistant professor Elizabeth Hennessy says this is not unusual.
A UW-Madison scientist’s experiment at the International Space Station, scheduled to be launched by rocket Sunday, could help identify new treatments for antibiotic-resistant bacteria and keep astronauts healthy during space travel.
Undergraduate tuition rates for students from Wisconsin have been frozen for seven years through a combination of regent action and state legislation. But the board overseeing the state’s University of Wisconsin System has raised tuition for students in master’s degree programs. Last year, regents increased graduate tuition slightly at campuses in Eau Claire, Green Bay, La Crosse, Oshkosh, Parkside, Stevens Point, Stout and Whitewater.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire say classes will continue Monday despite a weekend fire that did extensive damage to a second-floor student research lab in Phillips Hall.
The Statue of Liberty is up to her head in frozen water in Wisconsin. Or so it appears on Lake Mendota.
Metro Transit is asking the city’s Transportation Commission to set a public hearing to get feedback on a series of proposed service changes that would effect at least 15 routes, including some that travel through Capitol Square, UW-Madison and the East, North and West sides.
When China stopped its milk-buying spree, there was already oversupply from both American and European Union producers, said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin.
The New Yorker said of Don’t Call Us Dead that Smith’s poems “can’t make history vanish, but they can contend against it with the force of a restorative imagination”. That imagination was honed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Smith studied before going on to form the Dark Noise Collective with other artists including Franny Choi, with whom Smith co-hosts the poetry podcast VS.
When he set out to write a novel, Brandon Taylor, a former doctoral student in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, approached it like a scientist.
This was a day to reminisce, to celebrate the past and to honor a coach and a group of players who helped lay the foundation for the heights the Wisconsin men’s basketball program has since reached.
The abrupt resignation of Erik Helland, the strength and conditioning coach for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team for the last six-plus seasons, appears to have hit the players hard.
Words of support poured out for Erik Helland a day after he resigned as the strength and conditioning coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
The proposal, which Big Ten athletic directors submitted to the NCAA in October, calls for student-athletes across all sports to be allowed one transfer in their five-year eligibility window without sitting out a year-of-residence at their new school.
The solution is right in front of us. When kids eat school lunch, they and their parents are supporting the efforts to improve the national program for current and future generations.
Jennifer Gaddis is an assistant professor of civil society and community studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools.”
Quoted: If the number of people who vote early is small, folding the early votes into the process on caucus day should be fairly easy for the volunteers in charge of the caucuses to handle, according to Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Any number of those societal things,” said Jordan Gerth, a research meteorologist who recently left the University of Wisconsin-Madison to join the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C.
Those who track the telecommunications industry say Frontier’s problems largely stem from the industry’s push beginning about 20 years ago to, as UW-Madison professor emeritus and telecommunications expert Barry Orton put it, “hollow out the regulation state by state.”
In 1984, she received her Ph.D. in Social Welfare and Sociology and took a position as Assistant Director at the UW-Madison Waisman Center.
Cecilia Miao graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 — and currently lives in Beijing. She said the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is taking a toll. Normally crowded streets, she said, are now empty.
Danez Smith was born into a devout Baptist household in St Paul, Minnesota. Smith’s grandmother still lives there, in one of only two black households on a street that was mixed but is becoming increasingly white. Smith grew up, on this border between the blacker areas and the white middle-class enclaves of the city, as a black, queer, God-fearing child.
The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership is hosting its second event about increasing independence for people in Wisconsin with disabilities on Friday, this time focused on services for children.
