At a typical university, many units can venture into the study of food — starting with, obviously, schools of agriculture. But academic institutes devoted to food have cast a fresh, interdisciplinary spotlight on the subject in recent decades. The University of Wisconsin at Madison has a Food Research Institute focused on food safety.
May 23, 2023
Research
Arts & Humanities
Book Review: Brandon Taylor is back with a new campus novel, ‘The Late Americans’
The novel follows the lives and loves of a group of graduate students and townies in Iowa City, home of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where Taylor earned an MFA after getting a master’s degree in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Experts in the News
Russia Removes Nuclear Munitions From Belgorod Amid Conflict: Ukraine
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees with Sokov, and told Newsweek in an email that it’s “strange” Russia did not previously remove such munitions considering the facility’s proximity to the borde
Obituaries
Buddy Melges, American Sailing Champion, Dies at 93
He worked and sailed with his father and was a talented basketball and football player for Badger High School in Geneva Lake. His studies at the University of Wisconsin, however, were cut short when he was drafted into the Korean War.
Douglas Jones Obituary (1936 – 2023)
Upon his return from the service he started his apprenticeship with the Steamfitter Union, Madison Local 394 working for Johnson Controls and later University Wisconsin Madison until he retired.