Though popular with Midwestern farmers and long hailed as an environmentally friendly alternative to imported oil, ethanol made from corn isn’t actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds. But UW-Madison researchers say there are home-grown alternatives being developed at laboratories in Madison.
Jay O. Rothman, chairman and CEO of the law firm Foley & Lardner, in Wisconsin, has been chosen as president of the University of Wisconsin system.
The days of Gabrielle Acevedo walking into class at Rufus King High school are ticking away one-by-one. As a senior, there are roughly 100 days until she graduates. But, she knows what she wants to do after the gets her diploma. “Personally, I’ve always known what I wanted to do,” Acevedo said. “I’ve had the same dream since I was a little girl.” That dream is to go to the University of Wisconsin and eventually become a physician assistant or a doctor. She credits her readiness for college to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, known as PEOPLE.
UW System President and Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson will address University of Wisconsin- Platteville students during this year’s spring commencement ceremony, the school announced Monday.
’I hope that the general campus community gains an insight into the impact and legacy that The Black Voice has had on the entire campus as a whole,’ former editor-in-chief says.
“One of the things that has been so beautiful being able to work on this documentary is that when I was interviewing people, it really just felt like I was talking to my homies about the experiences we went through and it was cool to get their perspectives,” says Nile Lansana, director of The Black Voice’s first documentary titled “We The Vision.”
Intentional conversations around farm succession and developing future plans for the farm provides a better chance of transition success. University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension will provide resources during the webinars to assist families in transition discussions and planning for the future.
Quoted: America’s Dairyland continues to set the bar high, and some of the credit can go to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research, which just added a cheese cave and copper vats to continue helping cheesemakers develop recipes and grow.
“This is part of our new building,” said Andy Johnson, who also holds the role of program coordinator for the Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker program. “Outside of Europe, the ripening caves, there is nothing like it particularly for research and development. We have 10 different ripening rooms or aging caves, each with their own controlled environment. We’ll be able to make any style of cheese.”
Republican legislators are setting their sights on the University of Wisconsin System, scheduling votes Tuesday on contentious bills that look destined for vetoes but will give the GOP talking points on the campaign trail heading into the November election.
The state Legislature plans to vote Tuesday on more than a dozen education bills that form a key plank of the Republican midterm election strategy: eliminating courses on racism and diversity, expanding private school vouchers and giving parents more control over their students’ education.
Juwan Howard, the head coach of men’s basketball at the University of Michigan, has been suspended and fined after slapping an assistant coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team in the head after his team’s loss on Sunday, The New York Times reported, citing the Big Ten collegiate athletic conference.
Michigan coach Juwan Howard and Wolverines players Moussa Diabate and Terrance Williams II also were suspended. Howard, who struck UW assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft in the face during the altercation, won’t coach in Michigan’s five remaining regular-season games and was fined $40,000.
Following the Big Ten’s official announcement which included fines and suspensions, UW Athletic Director Chris McIntosh issued a statement calling the $10,000 fine to be a “Wisconsin fine” and not a “Greg Gard fine.” McIntosh went on to add the university will assume the responsibility for paying the fine.
Michigan men’s basketball head coach Juwan Howard will be suspended for five games, through the end of the regular season, after he tried to throw a punch at Wisconsin’s assistant coach.
The wealthy voted for Trump, and Trump rewarded them with tax cuts. But rural political conservatism relates to rural economic conditions in other, more complicated ways. During the Great Recession, Katherine Cramer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, spent several years conducting ethnographic studies on rural, often white, Wisconsinites. She found a persistent sense that rural areas and the people who live there are mistreated, creating a recognizable “rural consciousness”. People felt not only that they had been abandoned by the government, but that cities and cultural elites hoarded power and prestige at the expense of rural areas.
“Cartels make a lot of money, even after you deduct what they have to pay out for damages,” says Peter Carstensen, a professor of law emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If the government can’t win a criminal conviction here, it will significantly decrease the probability of more criminal cases.”
This long-term process set the stage for the evolution of eukaryotes—organisms that encase DNA within their cellular nuclei—which eventually began to breathe oxygen and grow into bigger organisms, said Annie Bauer, an assistant professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Whether this happened roughly simultaneously across the globe or in geographically isolated pockets at different times is still being studied. By comparing the timing of oxygenation from place to place, she said, scientists can determine whether these first whiffs arose together as a globally synchronous exhalation or as discrete puffs.
In Wisconsin, if someone is arrested for a crime and charges have been filed against them, they appear in front of a court commissioner for an initial appearance. At that hearing, the court commissioner considers the conditions, if any, that someone can be released while their criminal case is pending, said University of Wisconsin Law School professor Cecelia Klingele. Posting bail can be a condition of release. However, as the state’s bail laws currently exist, judges can impose “monetary conditions of release … only upon a finding that there is a reasonable basis to believe that the conditions are necessary to assure appearance in court.”
Bernice moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970, where she had a postdoctoral position and was appointed a Lecturer in the Physics Department. It was there that she met her husband of 51-years, Loyal (Randy) Durand, a professor in the department. They were married after a whirlwind romance, and were extremely close, noted for always holding hands as they walked around campus or elsewhere. Bernice joined the tenure-track faculty in 1977, received tenure in 1986, and became a full professor in 1992.
Big Ten: Brawl a ’clear violation’ of conference sportsmanship policy.
