A number of programs, many of them student-led, redirect food waste from UW-Madison’s two largest food producers — University Housing, which runs multiple dining hall and food market locations across campus, and the Wisconsin Union, which oversees the Memorial Union and Union South — to student organizations or food pickup locations to give away free meals.
The latest Wisconsin Youth Risk survey revealed that LGBTQ+ students, particularly those identifying as transgender or questioning, often feel safer confiding in teachers and staff than in their own parents.
In a recently published study on the effects of visual art on emotions, interest and social media engagement, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Life Science Communications department Nan Li and a team of researchers discovered a positive correlation.
Conducted by the UW Survey Center and analyzed by UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, the survey went to around 3,500 people across the state. Researchers compared the responses of participants who have children under age 6 with those who don’t.
None of those findings are really “huge surprises,” said La Follette School professor Sarah Halpern-Meekin, who analyzed the results.
The amendment, introduced by Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, would include the University of Wisconsin System in another strike at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in state offices.
Helen Faith, director of the Office of Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said she worries that the delays will harm both students and schools.”What ends up happening is that our underrepresented and most fragile populations are the ones that are disproportionately affected,” said Hill.
In this episode, host Sarah Wesela interviewed writer Liam Beran on the recent Board of Regents meeting on cybersecurity.
This push comes after the COVID-19 pandemic shined light on “very high rates” of depression and anxiety among high school and college students, researcher with the University of Wisconsin Center for Healthy Minds Matt Hirshberg said.
Traffic on State Street will decrease starting Monday as the city begins construction on two bus rapid transit stations, closing the city’s best-known thoroughfare to a single, westbound traffic lane.
The University of Wisconsin Union is hosting the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine at Mead Witter Concert Hall Feb. 20. This orchestra, currently embarking on a national tour of the U.S., is among the best symphony orchestras of Eastern Europe according to the event’s posting.
The workers’ labor unions at the University of Wisconsin submitted a petition urging the university to amend its policy to include 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all graduate students, faculty, academic staff and university staff.
The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Frautschi Center will increase access to Lake Mendota’s 300-acre natural preserve, support hands-on learning for more than 25 University of Wisconsin-Madison academic programs and serve as a center for environmental education in the community.
Dr. Samantha Pabich, a UW Health endocrinologist who treats many patients with obesity, said the newer drugs can help obese people lose a higher percentage of their body weight than older drugs. That can help control diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, pain and other conditions, and prevent the need for treatments such as home oxygen therapy and liver transplants, she said.
Lawmakers are pushing Wisconsin agencies to consider how they use artificial intelligence tools to make their work more efficient, an effort state workers and their allies fear could be used to ultimately slim the number of human workers employed by the state.
Dr. Ed Schantz, a lieutenant in the army and later civilian employee at Camp Detrick, remained custodian of the culture for more than 40 years at the newly named Fort Detrick and later the University of Wisconsin Madison. During this time, he provided suitable portions of the toxin to more than 100 researchers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 1972, one of these researchers requesting the toxin was Alan Scott.
Barbara Bowers, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Nursing who has studied the long-term care industry, also said innovation is needed. Bowers said her research has found that the majority of resident concerns center around the lack of staff at facilities. On top of being short-staffed, she said the typical nursing home model is “stuck in the past,” with nurses and aides working separately instead of utilizing a team approach to patient care.
“If we had more staffing just by itself and didn’t do anything else, I don’t think we’d see the improvements we’re looking for,” she said.
In the last 55 years, UW Health’s living kidney donor program has seen more than 4,000 life-changing transplants. But while losing a kidney may seem like it would take a significant toll on your body, a group of living donors are out to prove giving up an organ to save another’s life doesn’t mean your life has to change at all.
Bo Ryan, Wisconsin’s coach of 15 years before retiring in December 2015, is one of 14 finalists in consideration for the 2024 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class. The finalists were announced on the Hall of Fame’s live show on NBA TV Friday afternoon, a lead-in to coverage of the NBA’s All-Star Weekend.
“For people who have certain injuries, a gait analysis can help us correct the mechanics that might cause it to recur,” said Dr. Bryan Heiderscheit, a professor in orthopedics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of Badger Athletic Performance in Madison.
Letter to the editor: For years we were stuck watching losing hockey on TV. Finally we have a product worthy of being televised each and every week. Even the local station used to show a few games every year. Evidently nobody seems to care.
Wisconsin college coaching legend Bo Ryan is on the doorstep of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame after being selected as finalist for the Class of 2024 on Friday evening in Indianapolis.
Letter to the editor: An education center on Picnic Point in Madison is not environmental stewardship, it is a form of development. While Madison builds gigantic buildings and races to “Manhattanize” the city, nature preserves and parks provide a refuge from culture and concrete.
Kyle Cranmer, a professor of physics and the director of the Data Science Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the emergence of Chat GPT has certainly sparked a major increase in artificial intelligence.
Undaunted by having no idea where Wisconsin was, in 1949, they caught a train to Madison. Performing well in her graduate studies with Konrad Akert, and after a six month visit to New Orleans (more on that later), she joined the UW faculty. She was drawn to study sports skills.
A humble gentleman and scholar, Glenn defined the field of Rural Population, and was a founder of the WIS Applied Population Lab. Yet his personal inspiration came from “his students,” now professors, authors, and mentors alike.
Phillips was also a trailblazer in the world of law. She was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1951 and the first female judge in Milwaukee County.
In recent decades, UW–Madison has begun to square its own history with the history of Indigenous peoples that occupied the land long before the university, and undergo its own repatriation process following the initial passage of NAGPRA.
