Written by Mariel Barnes, an assistant professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs. Her research examines everyday forms of violence against women, gender, and the politics of the welfare state.
Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Insect Diagnostics Lab PJ Liesch received the first reports of Brood XIII cicadas in Wisconsin this year out of the Lake Geneva area just over a week ago. With some of the best-documented historical cicada activity in the state, Lake Geneva could very well be Wisconsin’s “bug central” this summer. Residents have already shared photos of cicadas covering tree trunks, sidewalks and other surfaces.
The Main Street Agenda is a project designed to focus on the issues Wisconsinites rank as most important heading into the 2024 election. The topics come from a survey of nearly 4,000 residents conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Survey Center in partnership with the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
While researching a book on ruffed grouse in the late 1980s, I discovered that scientists from the University of Wisconsin had similarly identified a parasite (Dispharynx nasuta) that they hypothesized was causing populations of the woodland gamebird to decline.
Now, Matt Minich and Megan Moreno at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have gone further, showing a positive association with smartphones. They enlisted 253 children in the US to take part in a six-day study, sending them 30 short surveys via text at random times between 9am and 9pm.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the state’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory used milk samples collected from infected cows on farms in New Mexico and Kansas.
Based in Madison and Milwaukee, Venture Investors Health Fund is investing $12 million on commercializing early-stage healthcare innovations developed at universities like the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Wednesday is the last day high school juniors in the Madison School District can opt in to the Universities of Wisconsin direct admissions program, which proactively offers admission to qualifying high schoolers and allows them to sidestep the traditional college application process.
University of Wisconsin officials announced in February that the width of the ice rink at the Kohl Center would be reduced to 85 feet from 97 in time for the 2024-2025 season.
What wasn’t known at the time was whether that reduction would eventually affect seating for men’s basketball. It will.
A Madison man is facing a felony charge after police say he interfered with the May 1 raid of an unsanctioned pro-Palestinian encampment on the UW-Madison campus.
Still, this is a unique phenomenon that people in the Badger State won’t experience again until 2041. Known on social media as the “Wisconsin Bug Guy” P.J. Liesch is particularly excited about the swarms of cicadas that have already started to pop up and make noise here.
“I turn 40 years old next year, and I have not seen these yet with my own eyes,” said Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Ott and Schultz, along with Marinette’s Ty Kretz and University of Wisconsin player Coalter Smith, will get their chance to play their way into the U.S. Open on June 3, as they compete for eight spots at the Scarlet Course at the Ohio State University Golf Club.
The dozen new members of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame have a decorated history: Four won NCAA championships, seven were All-Americans and two won Rose Bowls.
xecutive director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Podcast includes segment with Daniel Hummel, a fellow in the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
