Wisconsin Republicans have delayed a vote on the state’s budget for the University of Wisconsin System, hours after a top GOP leader pledged the Legislature would cut the UW’s budget by tens of millions of dollars.
Lawmakers writing the next state budget spent eight hours behind closed doors Tuesday only to delay action on the University of Wisconsin System after the Legislature’s top Republican said UW campuses would see a $32 million cut in state funding − a move the Democratic governor characterized as a “war” on higher education.
After hours of negotiations behind closed doors, Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee put off any vote Tuesday on whether to slash the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $32 million in an attempt to gut funding for diversity, equity and inclusion offices and programming.
As part of the study, lead author Heather Inzalaco, a post-doctoral researcher at UW-Madison, gave blood with CWD-positive material to ticks in a lab. She found that the ticks both ingested and excreted CWD prions.
“They were taking it up, simultaneously eliminating some of it in their frass, which is just a fancy word for tick poo,” Inzalaco said. “So it was in both places.”
Republican state lawmakers on Tuesday suspended a vote on funding for University of Wisconsin campuses, just hours after a top GOP leader promised to slash the college system’s budget as part of an ongoing fight over diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Funding for the University of Wisconsin system is being held up by Republicans, who control the Legislature and who want to kill all spending on diversity, the Associated Press reported.
“Not that it’s not a good job or anything, but I think sometimes people see us as fanciful. It’s just eating cheese,” said Brandon Prochaska, the center’s sensory coordinator.
“But when people see us operate, they’re kind of impressed with how intensive it is, how quickly we can evaluate things,” he said.
Madison’s Plan Commission unanimously approved a proposal from Chicago-based Core Spaces to develop a 12-story student housing complex on West Johnson Street, despite concerns about a lack of affordable units.
According to new numbers from UW-Madison, diversity is growing in the books read by kids, not only in the characters they read about but also in the people who make them.
Some doctors are urging the return of masking mandates at hospitals. Dr. Kaitlin Sundling is a UW Health pathologist and an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health. She is trying to gather public support for overturning UW Health’s decision in early May to scale back its mask mandates.
“It really is a mistake to take that protection away and to put both patients and health care workers at risk,” she said.
Plus, while the impact of age on a couple’s fertility has historically focused on the woman, “there has been a lot of data gathered over the last 10 years that indicates that, as men age, their fertility potential does decline over time,” said Daniel H. Williams, a urologist who specializes in male infertility at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Letter to the editor: So what does the microwave of the future look like? Ask an engineer. She’s probably working on it now at the UW-Madison College of Engineering.
But she needs the support of the Legislature in the state budget for a new College of Engineering facility. The Joint Finance Committee unfortunately removed this proposed funding. This additional facility space will allow her and many more bright students to invent the “microwaves and computers of the future.”
Dr. Michael Cox, a biochemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin, told Unsolved that the scientists found examples where the genes only repeated between 10 and 30 times in the human population. Chromosome seven is one of the spots where those repeats occur.
“You inherit these alleles from your father and mother,” Cox said. “So you get one from dad and one from mom. So on chromosome seven at this one locus … you might get a repeat that repeats 12 times (from your mom). And from your dad, you get another chromosome seven and you might get one that repeats 17 times.”
“We may see prices rise on certain things like gas or milk, but it’s not necessarily inflation unless you see prices rising sort of across the board, across many different products and services,” says Jordan van Rijn, who teaches agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Financial Security.
Lyric Bartholomay, a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies integrated pest management and public health entomology who was not part of the study, said “increasingly tailored genetic approaches” will be necessary in the future to protect crops and people from pests, especially as insecticide resistance increases.
“This is the first time I’ve ever experienced drug rationing in my career,” said Marina Sharifi, medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin’s Carbone Cancer Center.
