For UW-Madison professors Thomas Friedrich and David O’Connor, some of the biggest questions are how the virus made its way to humans in the first place, why it causes more severe illness than some other coronaviruses and how long it persists in the body.
UW-Madison has opened a second investigation into the professor at the center of a “toxic” engineering lab who was previously disciplined after the suicide of a graduate student.
Increasingly, radium in public water supplies has become a notable element for other municipalities in suburban Milwaukee — and much of the state, new research from a Wisconsin study has found.
One ironic twist is that the levels in Waukesha, a community which was forced to find a solution to meet federally mandated radium limits, may have actually improved, albeit marginally, in recent years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests.
To explore this possibility, my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Elections Research Center and I presented Democratic primary voters with a longer menu of reasons for their choice of candidates. In statewide surveys of 3,600 adults across the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we asked respondents whether they planned to vote in their states’ primaries.
The plan came in response to projected decline in traditionally-aged UW undergraduates.
UW-Stout Chancellor Katherine Frank was unanimously approved as the eighth chancellor of the university Nov. 26. Frank took over the position from Bob Meyer, the former chancellor of five years.
Political science professors at UW-Madison held a watch party at Ingraham Hall Tuesday.
After suspending study abroad programs in China, South Korea and Italy, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is advising those returning students to self-quarantine.
The UW-Madison Gender and Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC) hosted the event on UW-Madison’s campus on the second to last day of Black History Month. The exhibition of photos captures some of the most private moments between partners and their loved ones. “Queer Black Love: A Photo Series” began after Nicole posted a solicitation for Black couples on her Facebook page.
Prices for annual parking permits at the University of Wisconsin-Madison increased by up to 5% this academic year, nearing the end of a six-year process to streamline an outdated system from three to two price tiers.
Among the many Americans traveling back to the United States is Waunakee-native and University of Wisconsin graduate Robert Kueffer. Kueffer has spent the past year teaching English in South Korea and playing tourist across Asia. But all that changed in a flash.
The number is (608) 720-5300, and the line currently is staffed from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m.
The question should be, “How does the technology work for the kids?” said adolescent physician Megan Moreno, a professor of pediatrics at University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Why aren’t the kids getting outside? What is the reason? Is it the screen’s fault or part and parcel of our society? Taking away screens isn’t part of the solution.”
Quoted: “Wiping down surfaces on a plane won’t hurt, as long as it doesn’t give you a false sense of security,” Andrew Mehle, associate professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said, stressing that sanitizing your space on a plane should be done in conjunction with washing hands and following other best practices.
After high school, Williams was recruited by West Virginia University, the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana’s Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Connecticut, the University of Iowa, Virginia’s Old Dominion University and more, according to a 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer profile.
Quoted: “The goodwill impairment test is one of the most second guessed of the accounting tests that exist,” said Thomas Linsmeier, professor of accounting and law, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “In general, convention planners should be in touch with Milwaukee and state officials, particularly those in charge of preparedness, to assure the event maximizes safety for convention goers and prevention of any risks for disease transmission (airborne, food-borne, water-borne, etc.),” said Ajay K. Sethi, associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That communication between convention planners and local and state public health is already happening.”
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies voter turnout, says Trump’s huge levels of support defy historical trends about sitting presidents who run for reelection. “A sitting incumbent running for reelection — that shouldn’t stimulate much interest,” Burden says. “It all runs a little contrary to what I think we would’ve expected.”
Noted: In general, Indonesia’s timber industry has been on a decline, and many logging concessions in the Bornean provinces of East and North Kalimantan have recently paused or stopped timber extraction, Zuzana Burivalova, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, U.S., and her colleagues observed. This piqued their interest: what was happening in the inactive concessions?
Noted: “The goodwill impairment test is one of the most second guessed of the accounting tests that exist,” said Thomas Linsmeier, professor of accounting and law, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As an extension vegetable crops specialist and researcher with a joint appointment in horticulture and agricultural economics, John specialized in potatoes, developing a production and management program for growing the Russet Burbank variety successfully in Wisconsin.
Many biosafety officers rank their involvement in research, albeit in a supporting role, as one of the key attractions of the job. “One of the things I’ve loved most about this job is that I’m still involved in and helping the research community,” says Andrea Ladd, assistant director of the environment, health and safety office at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
