We learn about a UW connection to experimenting with growing tomatoes beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Next we talk about the art of doing nothing in particular. Then we hear what to know about the rise of the respiratory virus RSV. And we explore the problems American parents face compared with those in other countries. Interviews with Simon Gilroy and Dr. James Conway.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are one step closer to understanding how and when cleft lip and palates form during pregnancy.
The discovery, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could mitigate the risk of the birth defect that affects about 1 in every 1,700 babies born in the United States.
Low-wage workers have found it especially hard to afford higher housing costs, even before a spike in prices in 2022, explained Laura Dresser, associate director of the High Road Strategy Center (formerly COWS, a left-leaning think tank) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dresser’s research has found that increasing the minimum wage to $15 over the next five years would increase wages for one in seven workers in Wisconsin. That includes one of every four Black and Hispanic workers.
“It can tell us about the virus without us needing to stick anything up anyone’s noses or even know who was in a space,” said Dave O’Connor, a UW-Madison researcher involved in the surveillance. “Air sampling should be something that lots of schools bring on board to understand what the respiratory virus transmission risk is.”
Monitors have been at seven schools in the Oregon School District for two years, where air sampling last school year tracked flu and COVID-19 activity as reliably as student absences, rapid tests at school and regular tests from samples collected at home, UW-Madison researchers recently reported. That research was part of a UW study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that has analyzed respiratory illness at Oregon schools since 2015.
You can 3D print a lot of things that remain lifeless objects, but no one’s 3D-printed living brain tissue — until a team of scientists here in Madison did. And living means operating, growing, and a whole lot more.
“One example is planting corn when oak leaves are the size of a squirrel’s ear,” notes an article on phenology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You know that planting corn has nothing to do with oak leaves or squirrels. However, Native Americans made the observation centuries ago that the soil was warm enough to prevent seeds from rotting, yet it was still early enough to reap a suitable harvest if corn was planted at this time.”
University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison) researchers have successfully 3D-printed brain tissue that grows and functions like a typical brain.“This could be a hugely powerful model to help us understand how brain cells and parts of the brain communicate in humans,” said Su-Chun Zhang, the study’s corresponding author. “It could change the way we look at stem cell biology, neuroscience and the pathogenesis of many neurological and psychiatric disorders.”
A lawsuit filed by Gov. Tony Evers against Republican lawmakers who blocked pay raises for university employees and funding for conservation projects has been accepted by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Gov. Tony Evers signed two bills, now 2023 Wisconsin Act 92 and 2023 Wisconsin Act 93, on Friday that will release long-awaited pay raises to employees of the University of Wisconsin System.
At first glance, it looked like Richard Brunson had outrun his past.
The former professor resigned from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Marshfield in 2022 after an investigation found he had sexually harassed students. He landed a new teaching job at a school district less than an hour away and had moved on.
The bill also has backing from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where around 365 students are currently enrolled in video game development programs. While 60% of that university’s graduates stay in Wisconsin, less than 20% of the video game program graduates stay, according to testimony from professor Andrew Williams, who has taught game design classes at UW-Stout and worked as an art director in the video game industry.
One of the legislative vetoes blocked conservation projects selected by the Department of Natural Resources. Evers also challenged a veto that blocked already approved pay raises for 35,000 University of Wisconsin system employees, but after he filed the lawsuit, Republicans and the university system reached an agreement approving raises if the school cuts back on diversity initiatives.
A sea of red, white and black snaked around the Kohl Center and slithered its way down to W. Dayton Street early Sunday morning.
The editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, a conservative watchdog group, filed Title VI complaints against several universities, including UW-Madison, for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic incidents.
Robert N. Golden, dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), announced Tuesday he will resign “once a successor is named,” according to a UW-Madison press release.
Office for Civil Rights aims to complete investigation of complaint in 60 days.
Walker-era changes felt today amid Board of Regents DEI decision, low student government voter turnout.
Adorned in a thrifted valentine pink skirt and REI boots, Dooley enchanted a Friday night crowd in UW-Madison’s Discovery Building during a storytelling event hosted by the university’s American Indian & Indigenous Studies program, along with the departments of Anthropology, English and Language Sciences.
For the past 25 years, UW-Madison has invited indigenous storytellers to breathe life into their languages through the annual event.
“It’s nice to have this as a cultural showcase for the Madison community,” said Chandra Chouhan, UW-Madison senior and executive director of Aa Dekhen Zara, the university’s annual Bollywood fusion dance competition. “Everyone looks forward to ADZ every year because that’s a taste of home for a lot of people.”
For nearly 30 years, the UW-Madison student chapter of Habitat for Humanity of Dane County has dedicated the Saturday before the Super Bowl to host their annual community soup fest, the ‘Souper Bowl.’
In the years following World War I, the Catholic Church was intent upon regaining lost ground and entered into a variety of political alliances to do so–some of them with unexpected outcomes. Interview with Giuliana Chamedes, an associate professor of history from UW-Madison.
Badger fans bundled up and set up tents outside of the Kohl Center ahead of the Wisconsin versus Purdue matchup.
Column co-written by Laura Albert, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin Law School clinical instructor and immigration attorney Erin Barbato described what she witnessed at the U.S.-Mexico border on a recent fact-finding trip.
Jason Lopez’s studies of sports betting throughout history show this: The act of traveling to gamble is about as old as gambling itself.
Lopez, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of media and cultural studies, wonders if the recent steps to expand sports betting in Wisconsin’s neighbors could pressure the Badger State to change its laws.
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek via email on Friday that Russia’s relative silence is unsurprising considering the ongoing conflict and a lack of incentives to publicly disclose the whereabouts and/or deaths of top military commanders.
Joining us now is Julie Stam, assistant clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin. Madison and author of “The Brain on Youth Sports, the science them its and the future.” Julie, good morning. So Roger Goodell says the risk of concussion is the same as walking down the street as a medical professional. What’s your take on that?
“These groups are exploring,” says John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin–Madison anthropologist who was not involved in the study, to NBC News. “They’re going to new places. They live there for a while. They have lifestyles that are different. They’re comfortable moving into areas where there were Neanderthals.”
After a year at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he was recruited to UW-Madison’s Department of Rural Sociology where he taught and conducted research from 1972 to 2001.
In 1979, he, Ellen, and their son, Jeremiah, moved to Wisconsin, where Marshall joined the Journalism Department and the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1988 until his retirement from UW in 2009, he helped to create and taught annually at a variety of workshops and retreats including the Weekend Retreat for Novelists, the Writer’s Institute, and Write by the Lake. In 2003, Marshall joined the fledgling UW Odyssey Project where for the next 18 years he passed along his enthusiasm for language and writing to nearly 600 Odyssey students.
Jack served in the U.S. Army. He earned his bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison and went on to earn a master’s degree in journalism from UW-Madison in 1953. After earning his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan, Jack joined the UW faculty in 1962. He served as a Journalism and Mass Communication professor for UW-Madison for 38 years, where he taught graduate students from all over the world.
