Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a new species of ancient reptile in central Wyoming and named it in the language of the First Nations people indigenous to the area where it was found.
A federal judge has thrown out a Title IX discrimination lawsuit stemming from repeated sexual harassment by a former University of Wisconsin System chancellor’s husband.
MSC adds Middle Eastern and North African Heritage Month Chair, multicultural programming intern.
Honorees recognized for outstanding individual accomplishments in entrepreneurship.
As a clinical professor at the UW-Madison School of Nursing, (Gina) Bryan said she also sees many parts of the state struggle to attract psychiatric advanced practice nurse graduates, who go instead to Minnesota or Iowa where they can work independently. “Why would our students stay here and practice?” she said.
Bunmi Kumapayi, a UW Health nurse practitioner who has treated urologic conditions for more than 20 years, said the doctor she collaborates with allows her to work very independently. But for many newer advanced practice nurses around the state, that is not the case, she said.
The memorial, created by students and faculty at UW-Madison, seeks to honor those lost to COVID-19. Memorials will be published on the Madison Mourns website.
He already was a rock star at running hospitals and had options, but agreed to become chief executive officer of the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics (the predecessor to UW Health.) The mammoth hospital we see today on Highland Avenue opened five years after he arrived. Derzon navigated its evolution for 26 years before retiring in 2000.
Nick Herbig moved over 4,000 miles to play college football at the University of Wisconsin, and now he’s using his time as a Badger to propel him into the NFL.
The line is attributed to Teddy Roosevelt, but Chris McIntosh has heard it plenty of times over the years from a different source. It sometimes is directed toward one of his three children; other times, it’s aimed at the University of Wisconsin athletic director himself.
“A wise person once told me that comparison is the thief of joy, and that wise person is my wife, Deann,” McIntosh said. “And it’s a lesson that she has preached to everyone in our household.”
UW’s new major program has potential to benefit students from all backgrounds, areas of study.
Both the study and the statements at the congressional hearing don’t give the full picture, said Steve Vavrus, assistant director at the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the interim state climatologist.
“This is a quality issue, not a safety issue,” said Gina Mode, a butter researcher at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Dairy Research. Butter will eventually go rancid but that won’t make people sick, she said. Ms. Mode in an informal survey of her colleagues found that 24 of 31 keep butter out, a telling data point among experts.
David O’Connor, who studies primate genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the studies tackle deep questions.
One of the genes edited out in MEDUSA cells ― SLC8A1 ― “can impact the ability of heart cells to contract,” said Timothy Kamp, director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Still, he added, “I think the concept of editing these genes is powerful. Perhaps a simpler combination [of edits] may work.”
Smith, who’s lived in Madison since 2009, first heard the story of Dr. William F. Lorenz from Lorenz’s grandson, William F. Lorenz III. Smith said that Lorenz’s grandfather, after whom Lorenz Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute is named, was the first person to observe, in 1916, that chemistry could treat the mentally ill. He was a professor of neuropsychiatry at UW-Madison and developed the school’s psychiatry department.
