Dr. Dudley Lamming is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. His latest study’s press release states that in 2014, Lamming was reading about an Australian study that had come upon something remarkable: The mice that had been fed the least amount of protein were the healthiest.
To be fair to the opponents of gain-of-function research, most experts agree that some extreme versions of this work are truly reckless, Moreover, as Jacobsen wrote, lab leaks have occurred with some frequency over the past few decades. An early controversy over gain-of-function research came to a head in 2011, when University of Wisconsin researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka announced that his lab had successfully modified the highly lethal H5N1 bird flu to make it airborne among ferrets.
Nearly 33,000 University of Wisconsin System employees, including about 20,000 at UW-Madison, are moving to a new pay schedule next month that some staff say has caused confusion and raises concerns for campuses’ lowest-wage workers.
When Dr. Laura McDowell finishes her obstetrics and gynecology training at UW Health this month, she will be the first person in the country to complete such a residency program focused on caring for women in rural areas.
A third former governor, current interim University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson, wielded a sledgehammer in a series of videos last year urging people to “smash COVID.”
Previously you pursued a biochemistry PhD [at the University of Wisconsin-Madison]. How did that compare?You were expected to participate in your own education, whereas at Iowa you’re not allowed to talk while people criticise your work – there’s this gag rule, to preserve the real-world encounter with the text.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will open the Big Ten season on the road, then return home for a Border Battle with Minnesota, according to the schedule released Friday by the conference.
Ann Sheehy, a member of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board who has worked with the Big Ten on its response to the pandemic, told the board Friday that the league’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors met last Sunday to set the course for the upcoming season.
Caufield was also named the Jim Johannson Award winner this past week. The award recognizes the accomplishments of the top American-born player in NCAA Division I men’s college hockey. In 2019, the award was renamed to honor the late Johannson, who was a USA Hockey executive for two decades and a college hockey player for the University of Wisconsin.
Tamara Flarup enjoyed a 40-year career in communications at UW Athletics and a front row seat for the rise of women’s sports.
UW-Madison announced contract extensions for 10 coaches Friday afternoon, largely for spring sports but also including volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield.
Mark Eppli, director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at UW-Madison, said the current climate is unlike anything he’s seen in three decades of studying the real estate market.
“We’ll work with our ecology team, the city’s ecology team and an ecology team from the University of Wisconsin to bring back native plants and species,” Keiser says. “Like our other Wisconsin properties, it’s a rebirth of a beautiful piece of ground.”
“They are very active,” Monica Turner, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, once told Wisconsin Public Radio. “They almost seem like worms that want to be snakes.”
UW Health’s Dr. Matt Anderson and UW Health nutritionist Jean Reiche say the effect this challenge has on the body is not a positive one.
In 1966, the University of Wisconsin’s School of Library and Information Studies invited Jerry to create a graduate education program in archives administration. The initial one-course offering expanded to a full degree program, and over the years he trained hundreds of students in the profession.
His research and teaching career is outlined in the University of Wisconsin MacArdle Lab Tribute found at the following address: https://mcardle.wisc.edu/2021/05/11/tribute-to-professor-emeritus-michael-nathan-gould/.
After a bout with polio during high school dashed his hopes to play tournament tennis and left him with a withered right hand, he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in education from Teachers College at Columbia.
