Recent research from UW-Madison surveyed dozens of fathers and more than 30 community partners to learn what fathers in Wisconsin need. Interview with Margaret Kerr, an assistant professor of human development and Family Studies at UW-Madison.
Noted: If the upper Mississippi River had to shut down for one season because of lock and dam failures, the amount of agricultural goods displaced would equal between 367,000 and 489,000 loads by truck, according to a 2017 study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with the Mid-America Freight Coalition. It could cost up to $283 million to move those loads by truck, and upwards of $300 million if road damage is taken into account, the report said. And those estimates — the most recent available — were from six years ago. Today, according to the Consumer Price Index, the cost likely would be above $350 million.
Between 2018 to 2022, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education found that less than 1% of children’s and young adult books released by US publishers were about Arabs. The only group with less representation was Pacific Islanders.
As Republican state lawmakers consider limiting future University of Wisconsin System tuition increases for residents, UW officials say most campuses cannot meet ongoing expenses with current revenues.
Two recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, Akshay Kalra and Samantha Angelina, helped lead the project through a grant from the Morgridge Center for Public Service’s Wisconsin Idea Fellowship program.
The confirmation came Saturday, six days after the Badgers finished sixth out of eight teams at the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis. It was the second straight season that UW finished in that spot and missed the NCAA Championship after 13 consecutive appearances from 2009 to 2021.
After 19 years, Wisconsin Women’s Rowing Coach Bebe Bryans announced she is stepping down.
Phil Hands’ illustration in the May 3 State Journal featuring UW Athletic Director Chris McIntosh with recently hired UW football coach Luke Fickell and UW men’s hockey coach Mike Hasting told quite story. The illustration also featured former athletic directors Barry Alvarez and Pat Richter. But one important person was missing: Donna Shalala.
If Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, had his way, Charleston would be the one removed from campus. Just days after the video emerged, triggering outrage, Vos called for cutting all positions focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion across the University of Wisconsin System.
“The current environment of declining deposits and runs on banks raises questions about whether most deposit amounts are sustainable, especially uninsured deposits, reducing deposit-franchise value,” said Tom Linsmeier, an accounting professor at the University of Wisconsin and a former Financial Accounting Standards Board member.
As opposed to turf grass and its related weeds, “our native plants, which are adapted to drought, which are adapted to extreme weather events, they have the ability, with deep roots, to deal with deluges of water,” said Liz Anna Kozik, a University of Wisconsin–Madison Ph.D. student in environment and resources.
“It’s a spectacularly cool paper,” Anne Pringle, a mycologist who studies death caps at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and did not contribute to the findings, tells the New York Times’ Alla Katsnelson. “They do this amazing amount of work and end with this hypothesis that they’ve found an antidote.”
Though midges are “astonishingly abundant,” and form “humming clouds” that annoy many across the upper Midwest — and other parts of the northern hemisphere — they are harmless, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: He earned a Ph.D. in food science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972.
It was also used in a 1970 bombing on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus that led to one death and several injuries, and in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people.
