In a paper published last week in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, Prashant Sharma, a professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his colleagues are challenging the idea that horseshoe crabs are on their own very particular and individual branch on the tree of life.
The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, a federally funded research center led by UW-Madison, would receive an additional $5 million in funding each year through 2026 from legislation that passed the House earlier this month but still faces hurdles to its final passage.
Noted: Research from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison indicates a proposed ban on abortion after six weeks could affect women who don’t know they’re pregnant yet, preventing them from getting an abortion later after pregnancy is confirmed through a test.
“I think it’s important for policymakers to know there may be essentially no time between when a person discovers they are pregnant, the missed period, and fetal cardiac activity,” said Jenna Nobles, professor of sociology at the UW-Madison. “It’s particularly true for people with unpredictable cycles, which is more common in young people, Hispanic people and people with common medical conditions.”
The Black Voice is proud to announce our latest project, our first documentary that will premiere on Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. at UW-Madison’s Marquee Cinema! Check out the trailer below.
Most students voted to keep mask mandate till end of spring semester.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s decision to no longer require masks in indoor settings after March 12, the start of Spring Recess, has elicited puzzlement and irritation amongst members of student government and the Teaching Assistants Association.
On Thursday night, Manning gave her first in-person lecture since the beginning of the pandemic to an audience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For the 1,208 UW-Madison students studying abroad this semester across 24 countries, the pandemic has shifted expectations and changed the structure of international study.
The displacement of longstanding businesses on State Street to make way for modern mixed-use buildings could permanently alter the vibe and look of what is perhaps Madison’s most iconic area.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team saved its biggest for last in terms of home crowds on its way to its first NCAA championship. There were more than 7,000 people in the UW Field House for the regional final victory against Minnesota last December that sent the Badgers to the Final Four. Was it the biggest group ever to watch a UW volleyball home game? It’s hard to say definitively, but it’s at least in the top three.
Quoted: But John Gross of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School told the Kenosha News this month that Wisconsin is moving in a different direction from other states eliminating or restricting the use of bail.
“They’re not seeing spikes in recidivism, their costs are down and public safety is at the same level, but more people are out on the street,” he said. “And so I feel like Wisconsin is bucking the trend here.”
The end of the game was marred by an exchange of punches from players on both teams. Michigan head coach Juwan Howard and Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard got in each others’ faces before the fight, and Howard appeared to slap Wisconsin assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft in the face.
Michigan coach Juwan Howard slapped Badgers assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft after he disagreed with a timeout by Greg Gard following Sunday’s game. The conflict began when Wisconsin coach Greg Gard and Howard began exchanging words in the handshake line, at which point players and coaches began crowding around them.
Coach Gard’s late-game timeout and alleged touching of Juwan Howard sparked an eye-opening altercation after Sunday afternoon’s game.
When Virgil Abloh died in November after a two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare cancer, a group of University of Wisconsin athletes wanted to honor the contributions Abloh made to Black culture.
Finley had a brilliant four-year career at UW and was selected 21st overall in the 1995 NBA draft, the first of the amigos off the board: Ford (Illinois Chicago) was taken five picks later and Boyce (Colorado) went in the second round. Finley played 15 seasons in the NBA, making two appearances in the All-Star Game and winning a title with the San Antonio Spurs as a role player in 2007. He’s been just as successful off the court and is now the assistant general manager/vice president of basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks.
University of Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel denounced the actions of Wolverines men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard in a statement Sunday afternoon after No. 15 Wisconsin’s 77-63 victory Sunday at the Kohl Center in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin and Michigan men’s basketball teams had a heated exchange after the No. 15 Badgers defeated the Wolverines 77-63 on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022 at the Kohl Center in Madison.
It was just your garden variety handshake line after the end of a college basketball game.
And then Michigan coach Juwan Howard snapped…and then he slapped.
With Wisconsin’s 77-63 victory already decided Sunday, Howard was upset with Wisconsin coach Greg Gard’s decision to call a timeout with 15 seconds left.
Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh wasted little time in grabbing for his phone.
After seeing Michigan and UW players and coaches engage in a potentially ugly brawl during the handshake line after the Badgers’ 77-63 victory Sunday at the Kohl Center, McIntosh called Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren.
Most troubling was that Michigan coach Juwan Howard hit UW assistant Joe Krabbenhoft in the face with an open hand.
The report “is the equivalent of NOAA sending a red flag up” about accelerating the rise in sea levels, said University of Wisconsin-Madison geoscientist Andrea Dutton, a specialist in sea level rise who wasn’t part of the federal report. The coastal flooding the U.S. is seeing now “will get taken to a whole new level in just a couple of decades.”
He worked as a Landscape Architect at firms in the Chicago area, Rockford, and at UW-Madison. He was proud of his work on the Rockford Sportscore Complex and the UW Campus Master Plan. His landscape designs often featured native plants.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sharon was the first woman director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, serving from 1998-2003, and later served as UW-Madison’s Associate Dean for Graduate Education. In 2019, the Journalism School created the Sharon Dunwoody Early Career Award to honor outstanding PhD graduates of the school for their accomplishments in research and teaching.
Bob worked for U.W.-Madison, Animal & Dairy Science Department as a Dairy Herdsman for 36 years, retiring in 2000. He enjoyed taking care of the cattle.
