Data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) shows an estimate of 7,000 fewer abortions took place in Wisconsin in the year after the Dobbs decision than the year before.
The two main viruses that cause the flu — influenza A and B — have existed for centuries and, although some antiviral advances have been made, these bugs have proven extremely difficult to eradicate. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) have identified at least one secret to the success of influenza A, a finding that might arm researchers with another way to combat it.
The 2023-24 Wisconsin legislative session is underway, with debates brewing on issues ranging from public safety, abortion access, tax cuts and the state’s projected $7 billion budget surplus, funding for schools and more.
Core Spaces signed an agreement with the city of Madison and the University of Wisconsin to provide discounted rates for qualifying students who receive financial aid for UW, but rates have not been decided upon yet.
Afour-story UW Health clinic nearly three times the size of UW’s Digestive Health Center on Madison’s West Side is expected to open next to that facility in early 2026, according to plans going before city officials for approval beginning this month.
Imagine a Big Ten West Division with the University of Wisconsin football team joined by familiar foes Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern along with newcomers UCLA and Southern Cal.
University of Wisconsin running back Braelon Allen hosted his second annual charity softball game inside Herr-Baker Field on Saturday afternoon. A press release by the Fond du Lac Spiders, a Northwoods League team, in February announced that proceeds would “benefit The Braelon Allen Fund, the Fond du Lac Boys & Girls Club, the Fond du Lac YMCA, and the Fond du Lac Junior Football League.”
Letter to the editor: I’m sure many readers reacted with disbelief to the decision of UW-Madison’s Music School to axe the Choral Union, the 130-year-old partnership of students, alumni and community members, ostensibly to maximize “opportunities for UW students.”
Letter to the editor: It does matter to the minorities who are a part of the university. For them, removing these programs says, “You are not wanted here. If you want to be here, you will have to expect to be kept in your place. This is a white man’s campus. Deal with it.”
“There’s a real irony there … that Republicans finally got what they wanted, in a way, after more than 50 years since Roe v. Wade, but it is costing them electorally,” UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said. “The Dobbs (v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization) decision helped keep Democrats competitive in an election cycle where they should have suffered pretty significant losses.”
The EPA’s proposed limit amounts to one drop of water in twenty Olympic-size swimming pools, said Christy Remucal, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin.
Nick Buttrick, a psychologist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, wanted to know whether firearms provided similar comfort to gun owners, serving as a sort of psychological security blanket.
But plenty of America’s infrastructure was laid down even earlier, meaning it was designed to specifications that are probably even more obsolete, said Daniel B. Wright, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 1963 he was appointed to the faculty in the English Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and moved his family (then including two daughters, Lisabeth and Sheila) to Madison. At UW he established a program in English as a second language (ESL) for the instruction of international students at the university.
He joined the faculty of the UW-Madison college of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Department of Agronomy, with responsibilities for statewide UW extension weed management education programs. Ron was particularly proud of the Pesticide Applicator Certification program that he developed for the state of Wisconsin which became “The Model” for many other states.
In 1968, he joined the professorial faculty at the UW-Madison College of Engineering. Structural mechanics was his principal research focus, which included the vibrations of aerospace shells, the design of nuclear fusion reactor chambers, the fabrication of microsensors and microactuators, and nanoscale mechanics analysis for the semiconductor industry.
After two years of military service, Joe completed his B.S. degree from UW-Madison in 1959, and his M.S. in 1960. He received his Ph.D. in 1964, and joined the faculty of the Department of Food Science as an Assistant Professor.
Victoria Solomon is Associate Professor in Community Development with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension.
Szyryj is a 2022 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Szyryj serves as an associate producer at NBC15 and was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022.
Szyryj graduated from UW-Madison in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication.
