Noted: Entomologist PJ Liesch is director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, aka @WiBugGuy on Twitter. He’s been studying the not-so-little buggers for nearly 15 years and graciously agreed to share his insights, offer some tips and bust a few myths.
Noted: In the summer, peak energy demand is pretty well matched with peak solar generation, as University of Wisconsin at Madison professor Gregory Nemet notes. People crank up the AC most when it’s sunny out.
Written by Andrea Dutton, an international expert on climate change and sea level rise who is a MacArthur Fellow and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Noted: A study by the Medical College of Wisconsin and The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in March 2021 reported that firearm-related homicides in Milwaukee among non-Hispanic African Americans were 14.6 times greater than among white residents. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has also reported that there has been more than a dozen juvenile homicides as of late June.
A bomb threat prompted students and staff to be evacuated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s (UWM) campus in Waukesha on Thursday.
A bomb scare Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha proved false quickly enough, but not before disrupting the small number of students and staff still on the campus in the late afternoon.
Quoted: Jennifer Van Os researches animal welfare on dairy farms for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She said cow-calf separation is standard for dairy farms across the U.S. and the world. She said the practice started as a way to prevent newborn calves from contracting diseases from other cows in a herd.
“Newborn dairy cows are vulnerable to disease because their immune system is still developing,” Van Os said. “Their immune system develops in a way that’s a little bit different from that of humans. So it came from good intentions, and it was done for the sake of the animal.”
Noted: “Heat 2” is the first of three planned novels (one of which may be related to “Heat”), and an ambitious literary beginning for a man who had never attempted a work of fiction before. He majored in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with thoughts of becoming a teacher, but decided that would be “really immensely boring.” Asked to cite literary influences, he mentions John le Carre, but otherwise says he doesn’t read crime fiction. Instead, he looks to “primary sources,” the various killers, crooks, law enforcers and government agents he has met and befriended and whose stories he adapted for “Heat,” “Thief” and other films.
While it may be clear that doom-scrolling may have a negative effect on your mental health, a new report out of UW Madison shows that it may not just be negative news, but any negative news in excess.
Earlier today, WORT Producer Nate Wegehaupt spoke with Markus Brauer, a psychology professor at UW Madison, about the report.
Eight years ago, as John Jartz and his wife drove home to Barrington Hills, Ill., after their first visit with kidney transplant specialists at UW Health, he suddenly became overwhelmed with emotion.
“We found our place,” Jartz told his wife. “It just hit me.”
It’s not just Arike. The state of Wisconsin has produced a number of superb basketball players to appear (or get drafted) in the WNBA, including three in 2019 alone (all of whom remain in the league). These are the players.
The final round of the 121st Wisconsin State Amateur Championship golf tournament on the Sand Valley course at Sand Valley Resort will be discussed for a long time in the Obermueller family.
The fines paid by Michigan coach Juwan Howard and by UW on behalf of coach Greg Gard will be donated to charity, according to a conference spokesperson.Which charity? The Big Ten hasn’t worked that out yet.
Quoted: “The first place you should look is the human resources department of the prior employer,” says Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business. “There, they should have all of the information as to the whereabouts of the 401(k) account you had with them.”
Even though Michigan’s Abbott Nutrition, the nation’s largest manufacturer of baby formula products, is slowly coming back online after closing down a few times over contamination concerns and a torrential June thunderstorm, it could still be a few months before shelves are fully stocked, said Peter Lukszys, lecturer for the Department of Operations and Information Management at the UW-Madison Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management.
During the week, Elsayed Mogahed trained the next generation of engineers as a professor at UW-Madison. On weekends, he helped mold the next generation of Muslim leaders as the volunteer principal at the Islamic Center of Madison.
Noted: Battino is a radiologist from Wausau and a former University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Medicine fellow who worked in a variety of South American and Caribbean countries including Nicaragua and Guyana.
