Steve Holtzman is easy to spot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. At the back of a classroom in the psychology building, he and his wife Jane sit amid students decades younger than them as they take notes for a lecture on the Civil War. “You won’t have any problems seeing us,” Holtzman said, laughing. “We’re the only old folks in there.”
Diana Hess, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, will become interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs on June 1, when Provost John Karl Scholz takes over as the interim chancellor, UW said on Tuesday.
UW-Madison announced Tuesday that Lennon Rodgers, who directs the Grainger Engineering Design and Innovation Laboratory, conducted the scans at the invitation of Wisconsin State Archaeologist James Skibo and Scott Roller, a senior collections manager for the Wisconsin Historical Society. The canoe, being preserved and housed at the Wisconsin State Archive Preservation Facility on Madison’s Near East Side, was out of its tank for about a day in order for Rodgers, who oversees the College of Engineering’s makerspace, to do his work.
According to a UW-Madison professor, there’s a big return to work in Wisconsin right now. Laura Dresser is an assistant clinical professor with the university’s Institute for Research on Poverty.
“There are more workers in the labor force today than there were in February of 2020 before the shutdowns,” she said.
She added the labor force participation rate is about 66% in the state.
“That doesn’t mean women’s lives aren’t really stressed by the pandemic, but I think we haven’t seen a kind of permanent shift in work as a result at least here in Wisconsin,” Dresser said.
The director of UW’s Grainger Engineering Design and Innovation Laboratory, Lennon Rodgers, scanned 3D renderings of the 15-foot fishing boat that was discovered last June and pulled ashore at Spring Harbor Beach five months later.
A man has been found guilty of fatally shooting a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband, who were the parents of his girlfriend, and leaving their bodies at the school’s arboretum.
Residents evacuated from an apartment complex near UW’s campus Monday afternoon after a carpet cleaning van left running outside pumped potentially lethal levels of carbon monoxide into the building, the Madison Fire Department said.
These are among $1,571,500 in community and University of Wisconsin grants announced today by the Foundation’s board of directors. Of the total, 56 area nonprofits shared in $1,249,000 while $322,500 went to 26 efforts at UW-Madison. One of those was a $12,500 grant, the first of five installments, for the scholarship endowment at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication established by Washington Post editor David Maraniss in honor of his late father and editor of The Capital Times, Elliott Maraniss.
Add another career first for former University of Wisconsin women’s hockey player Hilary Knight. She was named the Bob Allen Women’s Player of the Year by USA Hockey on Tuesday after she led the U.S. Olympic team in scoring.
“Right now, it’s a giant white-elephant-type project,” said Steven Deller, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The water lines that they ran into it, the highway infrastructure that they ran into it, the electric lines that they ran into it—it’s all way overcapacity,” he said.
Noted: Wisconsin is seeing “warmer and wetter” weather, like much of the world, according to Stephen Vavrus, a senior scientist for the Nelson Institute for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Over the past decade, heavy rains and flooding have become more common, leading to flooded lawns and basements, and leaking roofs for homeowners.
UW Health’s Michelle Swader has some tips for preserving vegetables.
County officials noted that Parker is an accomplished local government scholar and theorist, having earned a Master’s in Public Affairs and Public Administration from the Robert M. Lafollette Institute of Public Affairs, at the University of Wisconsin. Her undergraduate studies were likewise in Government and Policy Studies.
