Christy Remucal, an associate professor with the UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and postdoctoral investigator Sarah Balgooyen looked at the water and sediments within 41 of the tributaries that feed water into the bay, and the impact water from tributaries broadly could be having on the Great Lakes.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and other universities recently published the findings of a four-year study called Baby’s First Years, which looked at the impact of “poverty reduction on family life and infant and toddlers’ cognitive, emotional, and brain development.”
The University of Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Lab is studying autonomous vehicle technology using a new autonomous shuttle called the Badger.
For most of human history, we kept time by Earth’s place in space. The second was a subdivision of an Earth day, and, later, an Earth year: The timespan was defined by where Earth was. Then came the atomic clock.
Recently, physicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced the discovery of one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever. They named their instrument an optical lattice atomic clock.
The lead author of the study, Tyler Lark, an assistant scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, told Reuters, “Corn ethanol is not a climate-friendly fuel.”
“Anyone who is in a position where they would benefit from greater than normal cognitive control, top-down attention, peripheral visual processing would benefit from playing action games, which are primarily first- and third-person shooter games,” said Dr. C. Shawn Green, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose work studying the effect of video games on cognitive performance was supported by the Office of Naval Research.
Driving the news: Wisconsin’s Gov. Tony Evers announced in his “State of the State” address this week that he’ll extend the University of Wisconsin’s tuition freeze for another year. The Democratic governor also renewed calls to funnel the state’s budget surplus back to taxpayers, giving every Wisconsin resident a $150 tax rebate.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson plans to decide by the end of April whether he will run for his old job.
A late entry into the Republican primary would further scramble a race that was disrupted a week ago when state Rep. Timothy Ramthun launched his bid for governor. Thompson said he’d been briefed on the findings of a recent poll and thought his chances were good.
Harvard is just one of many schools — including Columbia University, New York University, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin at Madison — with student organizations that center queer and trans people of color. Many law schools maintain chapters of OutLaw, an LGBTQ student group.
Noted: The sturgeon in Lake Winnebago and connecting waterways are unique; according to John Lyons, a fish biologist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, the lake sturgeon population within Lake Winnebago is the single largest population of lake sturgeon in the world.
Lyons estimates that, in total, there’s a very healthy adult fish population estimating numbers in the thousands. Which is good news for many reasons, he says.
“The White House and CDC are in a no-win position,” said David O’Connor, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin. “Not only is there not a one-size-fits-all solution that they can recommend to the entire country, but there are a spectrum of reasonable options given a receding Omicron surge in late winter.”
UW-Madison has begun considering serving alcohol at athletic events, the Director of Athletics told WTMJ Radio.
When students and fans head to Camp Randall for Badger Football, they have not been able to purchase any form of alcohol. From beer to hard liquor, nothing was available. That, however, could soon change.
The Athletic Directors at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are taking the changing landscape of college athletics in stride.
During a wide-ranging interview during WTMJ 2022, UW-Madison Athletic Director Chris McIntosh & UW-Milwaukee AD Amanda Braun both said they viewed recent changes to the NCAA that allows student athletes to make money off their likeness and their status as an athlete.
When it was first announced that Caleb Williams was picking between LSU, USC and the University of Wisconsin, the rumor was that he was thinking about Wisconsin because they have a good history of developing NFL players.
Quoted: UW-Madison Environmental Science expert Andrea Hicks says the news is fantastic.
“It’s really, really exciting, actually,” Hicks said. “We need to reduce the environmental impact of aviation.”
Aviation, Hicks explains, puts a considerable amount of carbon dioxide into air every year. “Biofuels” like the ones being produced at Virent are one solution.
“What’s really exciting is these are ‘drop in replacement’ biofuels,” Hicks said. “What that means is you can use them just the same way you use traditional aviation fuels, but they’re made from plants. And that has a lower carbon footprint. So there’s less environmental impact. It’s really, potentially the future of sustainable aviation.”
One such optical clock exists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This clock holds six strontium pancakes—in effect, six smaller clocks—in the same structure. (There’s nothing unique about that number; they could add more or less. “Six is somewhat arbitrary,” says Shimon Kolkowitz, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)
