A new cow pen created by a UW-Madison researcher includes a feed bunk, salt blocks and and beds of straw on which the animals can lounge between milkings. Only the pen isn’t on a plot of prime Dane County farmland or nestled in the rolling hills of Green County.
Instead the pen is part of a new game on an app designed to help dairy farmers better understand and learn more about how to interact safely with their cows.
UW–Milwaukee at Washington County enrollment fell by 55% in past five years according to spokesperson.
Non-graduating students at two University of Wisconsin System two-year campuses will transfer or shift to virtual learning after UW-Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and UW-Milwaukee at Washington County end in-person learning in June 2024.
This is the third chapter of a 5-part series in which former University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Vice President Jim Langdon reflect on their experience guiding the system though the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Somali Student Association, a new Registered Student Organization partnered with the Multicultural Student Center, was recently formed to create a space for Somali students to have a community and educate others about their culture, according to SOSA President Mohammud Ibrahim.
7 additional tour guides hired to double number of tours given, educate campus on Indigenous history, Ho-Chunk Nation.
Not a moment too soon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has chosen a paradigm-shifting book on truth, persuasion and social change for its 2023-2024 Go Big Read common reading program.
“How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney (Penguin Random House 2022) tackles the psychology that drives our bitterly divided, tribal politics, and sheds light on the path to a more civil, democratic and constructive future.
The festival is headquartered out of the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin campus and is a collaborative partnership with campus researchers and other community organizations.
The 17th annual Passing the Mic Intergenerational Hip Hop Festival will be taking place this weekend with the Day One Showcase tonight from 7-9 p.m. at MYArts on E. Mifflin St. and the Day Two Showcase on Saturday, Oct. 21, 7-9:30 p.m. at the Union Playcircle Theatre in UW-Madison’s Memorial Union.
Letter to the editor: The same university that opens its mouth to speak on countless social issues and found it necessary to remove a “racist” rock suddenly finds itself unable to comment on students supporting terrorists who murder children.
Interview with Lindsay Palmer, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison
Photo caption: Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick had been filming about the invasive quagga mussel in Lake Huron, which is “bordered by the province of Ontario and the state of Michigan,” according to the University of Wisconsin. (Inspired Planet Productions/FOX Weather)
