This might be the most Wisconsin-y job yet — sorry, Culver’s and Kwik Trip employees.
The Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to hire people “passionate about all types of foods, but especially cheese, pizza and other dairy products,” according to the job posting.
Like others 80 and older who have superior memories for their age, Frantz is in a study of super agers at UW-Madison. Through cognitive tests, blood tests and MRI scans, the participants could help researchers identify biologic, behavioral, environmental and socioeconomic clues to keeping memories intact — and avoiding Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia — well into advanced age.
A new chief diversity officer hired by the University of Wisconsin System will start just weeks after Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called for eliminating DEI staff at the state’s 13 universities.
State Republicans have a long-standing tradition of supporting economic development in Wisconsin, but – bafflingly—they missed the boat recently when the powerful GOP-controlled state-budget-writing committee axed a proposal for a much-needed new engineering building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Legislative Republicans and Gov. Tony Evers reached an agreement on changes to Wisconsin’s shared revenue system. Two guests help us better understand how the local funding bill will affect communities across the state. Interview with Ross Milton, assistant professor of public affairs at UW-Madison.
Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Central Time” that the tight labor market has helped low-wage workers the most.
“The good news is that there’s a lot of demand for low-skilled workers beyond bars and restaurants now (with) the expansion of infrastructure and construction,” Smeeding said.
Menzie Chinn, professor of public affairs and economics at UW-Madison, said that wage gains haven’t been evenly distributed by economic sectors. He noted leisure and hospitality workers have seen the largest wage gains since the pandemic, while wages for workers in all other non-farm sectors have seen slower wage growth.
“As far as we can tell, (leisure and hospitality workers) are beating inflation, at least in terms of the wage rate,” he said. “Now, I don’t know how many hours they’re working, and it’s going to be spotty because not everybody is going to be in a restaurant that saw their wages rise.”
Beyond wages, Laura Dresser, associate director of the COWS economic think tank at UW-Madison, said the tight labor market also gives workers more leverage to negotiate with their employers for more flexible hours or to confront workplace harassment.
“I think there’s a lot of evidence that in this tight labor market, low-wage workers especially have found ways to ask more from work to see their own value,” she said.
Wisconsin has other fine engineering campuses, public and private, but demand for UW-Madison graduates is stronger than ever at a time when industry needs well-trained engineers in all disciplines. Let’s hope negotiations breathe new life into a project that will help Wisconsin’s economy for decades to come.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research is looking to hire a descriptive sensory panelist – in other words, a dairy taste tester – to join “a group of expert tasters” who can talk about their sensory experience, according to the job posting.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently put out a job advert for a “descriptive sensory panelist” at its Center for Dairy Research — basically, a fancy way of saying “food taster.”
Actor Hans Obma wrote and starred in an original film that was an official selection of one of the biggest film festivals in the world. The Wisconsinite and 4th generation University of Wisconsin-Madison alum wrote and starred in his original film “A Question of Service.”
If you’re looking to flex those creative and artistic muscles this summer, Wheelhouse Studios located on the lower level of Memorial Union invites you to indulge.
Members of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team are headed to Washington, D.C., on Monday to be feted for the NCAA title they won in March. But UW officials until recently thought they had been forgotten in the process.
Football or education? The priorities for our right-wing, gerrymandered Legislature seem to fit nicely with the UW-Madison athletics department’s desire for a new training facility and hopeless dreams of a national championship.
The University of Wisconsin’s men’s and women’s track teams turned in a well-rounded performance this week at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin, Texas.
Forget the well-worn adage that fusion energy and the promise of virtually unlimited green power is three or more decades away — a Madison startup believes it can develop a market-ready fusion reactor in a third of that time.
The longer time frame generally applies to utility scale reactors that some day could power the electric grid; Realta Fusion, a Madison company that spun off from the University of Wisconsin in September has more modest goals — modular reactors that within a decade could supply abundant energy for heat-intensive industries like plastics and fertilizer manufacturers, oil refineries and other companies that need massive amounts of heat for their processes.
Dietram Scheufele, faculty researcher and chair in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has spent decades studying the ways in which the public responds to new technologies.
Yonatan Mintz tries to keep both the promise and the peril in mind in his research on what he calls the “human-sensitive applications” of artificial intelligence. On the promise side, the UW-Madison assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering is working on a project to make diabetes treatment more efficient and effective in poor urban areas in India.
In many states, there’s either political pressure to keep tuition low or flat, or there are mandates, said Nick Hillman, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. For example, he said Wisconsin temporarily kept tuition frozen for nearly a decade.
Rhinovirus C, one of the most common cold-causing viruses, can lead to bacterial pneumonia in children who have or are susceptible to asthma, said Ann Palmenberg, a researcher and professor with the Institute for Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The boot camp occurs at a critical juncture in a Bowdoin education: just before students are required to declare a major. Matthew Hora, the founding director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that although sophomore year may seem early for a university to mandate a career-development workshop, it aligns with other career trends. Many freshmen and sophomores now apply for internships, for example, whereas such positions used to be sought primarily by rising seniors.
Prizes can furnish people with resources and access to live their lives. Until we live in a country with a more robust commitment to caring for people, if you find prizes distasteful, then resolve to not apply or accept them in hopes that someone with more pressing needs might get one.
-Nate Marshall, Providence, R.I.The writer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prizes can furnish people with resources and access to live their lives. Until we live in a country with a more robust commitment to caring for people, if you find prizes distasteful, then resolve to not apply or accept them in hopes that someone with more pressing needs might get one.
-Nate MarshallProvidence, R.I.The writer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“I think today we have more conversations about minimizing harm, and I think that’s a good thing,” said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Spriggs earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Williams College in Massachusetts and attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a master’s degree in 1979 and a doctorate in 1984, both in economics.
Dr. Spriggs graduated in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Williams College in Massachusetts. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1984; a fellow graduate student, Lawrence Mishel, said Dr. Spriggs was the only African American among roughly 150 graduate students in economics at the time.
