NASA is releasing new images from deep space thanks in part to a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate.
Doctor Ken Sembach is the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute and helped launch the James Webb telescope back in December. Sembach stood with President Joe Biden while the first images from the telescope were released Monday night. Sembach graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992.
Wisconsinites have the weight of the nation’s problems on their minds heading into the 2022 midterm elections, a nod to a state whose voters might be pivotal to the balance of power in the U.S. Senate this fall.
That was a key finding of the La Follette Policy Poll, a written survey sent to 5,000 state residents last fall, which asked about the issues that matter to them most and the problems they most want solved. Nearly 1,600 responded.
“The main goal was taking a pulse on what are the policy topics Wisconsinites care about most with the hopes of steering our elected officials and candidates toward those topics,” said Susan Webb Yackee, a professor of public affairs and director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
Alexandra Villa has spent her summer examining rocks on the ocean floor in order to learn more about carbon dioxide in the sky.
Villa, a UW-Madison geoscience graduate student, is a scientist on board the International Ocean Discover Program’s Expedition 393. Her research will help examine ways to help combat climate change and make predictions about the Earth’s future climate.
Quoted: Rob Yablon, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School who specializes in election and constitutional law, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel earlier this year that there is no legal way for state lawmakers to decertify the 2020 election
“At this point, the bell cannot be unrung,” he said.
Howard Schweber, a UW-Madison political science and legal studies professor who is an expert in constitutional law, also said the fact that officials elected in 2020 have held office for more than a year “makes the whole thing even more preposterous.”
At the second Dairy Exchange of the year sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, cheesemakers and allied industry people gathered to hear a dairy market update from Mark Stephenson.
As it turns out, it will be the last market update Stephenson will present as he will be retiring from his post as director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin. Fortunately he was able to impart some good news to dairy farmers.
Bassist Richard Davis, who played with bebop and rock titans alike, lives in Madison, where he started a second act as a beloved teacher himself at the University of Wisconsin.
Urologists at UW Health have seen roughly 30 vasectomies per week in the past month, double the number they saw during the same period last summer.
The inductees cover a range of sports, from football to basketball and hockey, as well as supporters of the university’s athletics programs.
Jason King has seen the transformation of the newest space at Camp Randall Stadium from high-level concept in a facility master plan five years ago to weeks away from completion in a tight construction window.
Now King, a senior associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, is picturing what the new facilities created in the 105-year-old stadium’s south end zone can bring to the department.
“The reversal of Roe, the Dobbs decision, just again brought lots and lots of new people to the realization that we don’t actually have much data privacy and that can be a problem,” said Dorothea Salo. It’s been on the mind of Salo, Distinguished Faculty III at UW Madison’s Information School, before the Roe decision.
UW Health’s Dr. Bill Hartman joins Live at Four to talk about the latest COVID-19 news.
Noted: The moon reaches its closest point to Earth every 27 days, Jennifer Stafford, an astronomy graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in an interview last month. A full moon occurs every 29½ days.
The Buck Moon name is rooted in Indigenous history.
Native Americans, Stafford explained, attribute wisdom and reverence to the moon and use it as a way of tracking the seasons.
In 2001, he began work as an operating engineer at the University of Wisconsin power plant in Madison. He retired from that job as a supervisor in 2014.
Noted: For this effort, Parr will draw from his master’s degrees in water resources management and public policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He will also build upon his past work implementing the Flood Resilience Scorecard, a community assessment of flood risk and resilience.
Unusually for a young woman in the early 20th century, Anna self-funded her education abroad, earning both an undergraduate degree and a Master’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Anna was inspired by America’s democratic freedoms and education system, which she came to believe was crucial to progress and the healthy functioning of a free society.
