Gary Grossen talks about cheesemaking poetically, even almost romantically. “Copper vats have a special place in my heart,” he said, arm extended toward some machinery in Babcock Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
A new project from a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to answer the question: What do dogs like to watch on television?
She’s asking dog owners to contribute to her research by sharing their own pups’ preferences.
The survey is part of a larger and more ambitious research project by Freya Mowat, a veterinary ophthalmologist and professor at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, to learn more about how canine vision degrades over time and what factors contribute to it. That research could have implications for the treatment of human eyesight, as well.
A new report is highlighting how much the Great Recession widened racial wealth gaps, particularly on the basis of income and homeownership.
“Racial Disparities in Household Wealth Following the Great Recession,” authored by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Fenaba R. Addo and Duke University Professor William A. Darity Jr., found that Black and Latino households continue to lag behind white households in wealth and income statistics.
The report was published this month through the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty and used Survey on Consumer Finances data to come to its conclusions.
More than 100 life-size orange statues of women are scattered around the National Mall, clustered in the gardens at the Smithsonian Castle and tucked inside the Natural History and Air and Space museums. The women hold globes, notebooks, tools, brains — symbols of their work — and one of them is UW-Madison geneticist Ahna Skop.
Aside from the babble of Brush Creek and an occasional car pulling up to the small cluster of brick buildings capped with sloping metal roofs, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland in rural Richland Center is mostly quiet on a February morning.
Enrollment at UW-Platteville Richland has fallen by nearly 87 percent, from a peak of 567 students in 2014 to 75 students in fall 2021. It’s the sharpest decline of any UW campus. Still, UW-Platteville officials have said there are no plans to shut the campus down.
A dozen of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the boards overseeing Wisconsin’s higher education systems remain unconfirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, a status unlikely to change this year now that the legislative session has ended.
A new transfer agreement will guarantee admission into some online programs in the Wisconsin School of Business for Madison College students who meet requirements.
In 2011, Kelsey Brannan hosted her first radio show on WSUM 91.7 FM as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More than a decade later, Brannan is back at WSUM, this time as general manager — a role she took over from cofounder Dave Black, who retired in November and died in February. He served as WSUM’s general manager for 26 years.
A new project led by professors at the University of Wisconsin plans to take student learning outside of the classroom by making the campus’ native history available digitally. The project called “Mapping Dejope”, after the name given to the Madison area by the Ho-chunk people to mean four lakes, will highlight sites on the UW campus especially linked to indigenous history via an app or website.
The UW MIA Recovery and Identification Project has located and recovered the remains of three American WWII soldiers since 2014. Now that the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions are being lifted, they hope to recover many more.
Ballot includes referendum question on $15 per hour minimum wage for student workers
“UW-Madison strives to ensure that our learning and working environments are places where everyone feels valued and can succeed,” Blank said.
These elections decide the 33 student representatives that make up the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) student council. The council serves as the official student voice on critical issues that affect UW-Madison students such as plastic use and COVID-19 policy on campus.
Noted: Instead of limiting milk production, the plan focuses on reducing the negative impacts of uncontrolled expansion and sending stronger market signals to farms about whether they should produce more milk. The group worked with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create models for what a mandatory management program could look like and how it would affect farmers’ and consumers’ prices.
People in the Madison area are working this weekend to help out those in Ukraine. A UW-Madison researcher hosted a bake sale Saturday at the Goodman Community Center.
The New Yorker relies on an algorithm from Robert Nowak, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nowak said on WPR’s “The Morning Show” that the algorithm collects the ratings and over time pushes more successful captions to the top of a sorted list. It’s similar to how a search engine such as Google tracks how many times a website is chosen after a given search.’
So roughly speaking, the funnier the caption, the more ratings it receives, providing a more statistically accurate estimate of just how funny it is,” he said.
If you place a mic in front of Bonnie Oleson, she’ll feel right at home.For nearly two and a half decades, Bonnie Oleson has been the public address announcer for several UW sports including volleyball and women’s basketball. She added another team to the mix on March 24: the 2020-2021 NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks.
Whether the 2022 avian flu will affect the price of eggs and poultry depends on how widespread it becomes, says Ron Kean, a poultry science expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences.
Douglas Kelly had an illustrious career as a medievalist, teaching for 43-years at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and as a scholar of the Middle Ages.
Bruce taught at Hunter College, UC-Berkeley, and Arizona State before accepting a position at UW-Madison in 1967, becoming a full Professor in 1977. While at UW-Madison, he held every faculty post within the Department, including 3-D Area Chair, Undergraduate Chair and Department Chair, retiring after 37-and-a-half years.
