After a stinging defeat by the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee, which last week rejected a new engineering building at UW-Madison, campus and University of Wisconsin System leaders vowed to bring the project to fruition.
Noted: Twenty years of research has standardized the dosage of the drugs used in clinical trials, but the therapy part has not received similar scrutiny. Instead, therapists’ work is often based on tradition rather than empirical evidence, said Dr. Charles Raison, the director of clinical and translational research at the Usona Institute in Wisconsin and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin.
Excerpt from “Cave of Bones” by Lee Berger and John Hawks, paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
What started in a lab in the 1990s has evolved into a mass volunteer effort to track the monarch butterfly. Karen Oberhauser was a professor at the University of Minnesota when she and her students started collecting data on the monarch butterfly population in 1996. The next year, they started recruiting volunteers to help what became the international Monarch Larva Monitoring Project.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department is assembling a team to design and build the next change to the landscape in and around Camp Randall Stadium.
A 26-year-old man arrested earlier this year for making threats to the University of Wisconsin-Madison pleaded guilty Friday to one felony count in the case, online court records show.
“We’re honoring one of our own — we tragically and unexpectedly lost Security Officer Peter Quilling last week. If you saw him out and about, Peter was a bright spot in your day. Our thoughts are with Peter’s family, friends, and all who were privileged to know him. We’ll miss you, ’Q.’”
The UW Police Department announced that a security officer passed away unexpectedly last week. Security officer Peter Quilling was a bright spot in people’s day, the department tweeted.
Michael, a native speaker (which is what the group calls its English-speaking volunteers) mentions how inclusive the organization is to volunteers as well. Students at the University of Wisconsin, referred to as Badger speakers, often join these events to help in any way they can.
The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel.
Poem by Paul Tran, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Their début poetry collection, “All the Flowers Kneeling,” was published in 2022. They teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jessica Calarco, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had a similar take. “This idea of ‘doing the work,’ is just the latest manifestation of the kind of self-improvement culture that has long permeated American society and that is closely linked to America’s obsessively individualistic bent,” she told me via email.
The University of Wisconsin had its men’s and women’s rowing teams competing for national titles in the IRA National Championships in West Windsor, New Jersey, but the squads closed their seasons on a down note when all was said and done Sunday.
Written by Mark Copelovitch, a professor of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kennedy ended his speech by recounting the 1960s obedience experiments by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, which were funded by the National Science Foundation, but which Kennedy said, without offering evidence, were actually part of the CIA’s mind-control research program. (He has previously attributed this claim to University of Wisconsin historian Alfred McCoy, who has made a circumstantial case of CIA interest.)
Stanley Temple, Beers-Bascom professor emeritus in conservation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and science advisor to the Aldo Leopold Foundation board, explained the history of sandhills to me and others on a December 2022 crane viewing tour at the foundation’s property on the Wisconsin River.
After returning to school, she worked for the State, having numerous brief jobs that created many silly stories: at DILIHR, University Hospital, and the UW-Madison Graduate School, where she retired in 2011.
