Dr. Dixon Kaufman, director of UW Health’s Transplant Research Center, worked with a team of UW-Madison researchers and specialists at Stanford University to optimize compatibility between host and recipient transplants.
The demonstration will begin at Union South and end outside Bascom Hall. The staff who participate will hand out fliers in an effort to gather signatures for a petition to be delivered to to UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt.
UW–Madison student organizations started off their Sunday afternoon outside Memorial Union with some friendly competition.Students decorated the windows with Bucky the Badger, bright colors and symbols to represent their organizations. Around thirty student groups participated in the activity.
WUD Cuisine’s new Cookbook Subcommittee announced plans to create a student-authored cookbook for the University of Wisconsin-Madison community earlier this month.
PJ Liesch is the director of the Insect Diagnostics Lab at UW-Madison. He said the insects leave behind a sticky sap material that can lead to the growth of bacteria and fungi.
“There are some pretty significant agricultural concerns for things like grapes, hops and fruit trees. … But on most other plants, it’s probably not going to kill them, but it can be a significant nuisance issue,” Liesch said.
Wisconsin Badgers fans will be familiar with the names behind the new voices on the radio broadcast for the 2023-24 men’s basketball season.
The university announced Thursday that former UW big man Brian Butch will join the Badger Radio Network as the lead men’s basketball analyst for game broadcasts, working alongside longtime play-by-play man Matt Lepay. Additionally, former Badgers forward Charlie Wills will fill in as analyst for some games.
Sunday’s CE3v3 event at Verona Athletic Center, a boys and girls grade six through college 3-on-3 tournament hosted by Essegian and partnered with the Derek Gray Foundation, started with a Tweet from Essegian in July about hosting an outdoor 3-on-3 tournament and grew into something that featured over 40 teams and around 150 participants.
Letter to the editor: In spite of many corporations and business embracing employee diversity and inclusion programs Vos sees the UW programs as ineffective and creating racial divisions by focusing support on these specific groups of students.
Column by Barry Burden, professor of political science and the director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.
When Dexter Patterson, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, got the call from a friend, he thought it was a joke, in part because Madison is the site of one of the greatest plastic flamingo pranks of all time, he said.
After completing his fellowship in gastroenterology at Boston University Hospital, he moved with his wife Peg (whom he met in a downhill ski club while Peg was a nursing instructor at Boston City Hospital) and their three children (Eric, Edward, and Julia) to Madison, WI, where he became a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He served as Head of the Gastroenterology Section, as well as Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans’ Hospital.
During his 42-year career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he instructed thousands of undergraduates, mentored dozens of graduate students, collaborated with colleagues, and produced a steady stream of innovative research. Pat’s area was analysis, the complexity of which is reflected in the title of his most cited paper according to Web of Science: “A theorem of Brown-Halmos type for Bergman space Toeplitz operators.”
She graduated from Central High School during the weekend of June 1960. That following Monday she started her job at the UW Sociology Department Center for Demography, where she worked for 43 years.
As of 2021, Madison is the fastest-growing city in Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The city is home to and in close proximity to major employers like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lands’ End, Spectrum Brands, American Girl and more.
2023 Miss Wisconsin USA Alexis Loomans, a Waunakee native, is set to graduate from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with a degree in political science. But, she’s taking home a title from Miss USA first.
The State Journal story, dated Oct. 16, 1945, noted that more than a dozen individuals who either taught or studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison spent time at Los Alamos. Three of them — Joseph McKibben, Joan Hinton and Hugh Richards — I found particularly compelling.
UW-Madison will be fairly isolated from impacts of the looming federal government shutdown in the short term.
