A project on French Island near La Crosse aims to define the movement of PFAS in groundwater and to determine whether a deep aquifer could serve as a source of safe drinking water for residents with contaminated wells.
On Monday, a team of partners will drill to create three wells at depths ranging from 85 to 400 feet within the town of Campbell on French Island. Researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison will collect samples of sediment and rock beneath the surface.
Jason Fletcher, professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said during the early 20th century, producers of tree crops like apples commonly used the chemicals when preparing for an emergence.
“Because cicadas are known, when they’re coming and where they’re going to be in general terms, certainly in the past, farmers tried to protect their crops by dousing everything with pesticide,” he said.
We Wisconsinites who value the natural world and outdoor recreation hold Aldo Leopold in especially high esteem.
Not only was Leopold a pioneering ecologist, forester and author who profoundly influenced the modern conservation movement, but he spent much of his adult life in the Badger State as a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and cultivator of his family’s “shack” on an old farm near Baraboo along the Wisconsin River.
The study, conducted by UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health researchers, was funded in part through a partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook. The company, according to UW-Madison, played no role in the study’s design, analysis or reporting.
There’s a farm in the little town of Arlington, 20 miles north of Madison, that looks and smells like any other Wisconsin dairy operation. Its 550 cows are milked twice daily, once before dawn and again in the afternoon, like they are at thousands of dairy farms across the state.
But at this farm — the University of Wisconsin’s Agricultural Research Station — when a cow eats, gets milked and burps, a data point is created. That data collection is helping researchers at UW-Madison adapt Wisconsin’s herd to the challenges of climate change.
Mental illness isn’t just a pervasive problem in the U.S.—one in five adults experience it each year, per the nonprofit National Alliance on Mental Illness—it’s also an expensive one, costing the economy $282 billion annually. This, according to a new study by economists at Yale and Columbia universities and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The NCAA and its Power Five conferences recently agreed to an antitrust settlement that would allow colleges to pay student athletes directly. But it’s still unclear how schools in those conferences, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will implement the new framework.
In April, the Peace Corps announced that UW-Madison was its No. 1 volunteer-producing university for 2023. Since President John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps in 1961, more than 2,700 volunteers have come from UW-Madison.
Three of those volunteers joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” from across the world to talk about their experiences and lessons from the organization.
Bob Atwell, one of two remaining members appointed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, told UW system leaders he planned to continue serving after his term expired on May 1. Atwell said his decision was based on advice he received from top legislative Republicans, which was confirmed by UW President Jay Rothman.
Evers on Friday named Tim Nixon, Jack Salzwedel and Desmond Adongo to fill vacancies created by the May expiration of three former appointees’ terms.
Gov. Tony Evers announced three new appointments Friday to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents. Tim Nixon, Jack Salzwedel and Desmond Adongo are filling the spots of three members whose terms expired this month.
UW could benefit from independent governing system, new budget model, expert says
Evers appointed Tim Nixon, Jack Salzwedel and Desmond Adongo to fill the vacancies, which expired May 1st.
Elsdon is a Presbyterian minister and executive director of Pres House, a campus ministry and student housing community at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a co-founder of RootedGood, a nonprofit organization that helps churches think creatively about how to use their spaces.
Low trust in campus administration remains in the month following the police raid on the UW-Madison pro-Palestine encampment.
Evers announced that he has appointed Tim Nixon to succeed Robert Atwell. Nixon works on law firm Godfrey & Kahn’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Team. He holds a bachelor’s degree from UW-Green Bay and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The project also brought in a range of local voices to shape its content — from not only the museum’s own education department but also from representatives from UW-Madison, Vilas Zoo, members of different cultural groups and others.
Though he also began a career in competitive cycling (even competing in the 1986 Tour de France), he started college at the University of Wisconsin in his native Madison, then transferred to Stanford and ultimately became an orthopedic surgeon; he’s been based in in Park City, Utah, since 2006, and many of his patients are injured athletes.
Get ready for Friday games to start and end the 2024 regular season, University of Wisconsin football fans.
Providing exceptional school meals for millions of US children won’t come without a collective struggle, and our analysis of school food politics around the world reminds us to raise the bar in what we’re fighting for.
-Jennifer Gaddis is an associate professor in civil society and community studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Native Americans have held widely divergent views about citizenship and voting, said Torey Dolan, a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School and citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Some view U.S. citizenship as incompatible with being Indigenous people; others see it more like dual citizenship.
“It’s a really pragmatic approach that’s put together in a very thoughtful fashion,” said Art Walaszek, a professor of psychiatry and medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who’s been involved in that effort.
Born in Stevens Point, Behrendt earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Aho was an accomplished tennis player at Waukesha North High School where he graduated in 2015. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019, and in 2023 combined his passion for sports and business to launch his direct-to-consumer company.
Atop detective at the UW-Madison Police Department has a two-decade history of being the subject of misconduct investigations and discipline for lying, berating and endangering the public and colleagues, refusing to follow orders, and more, according to documents obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal through an open records request.
Around the same time, James Kardatzke, an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, started scraping up congressional data. In 2020, he launched one of the first websites that tracked trades disclosed by Pelosi, whose venture capitalist husband, Paul, is a successful investor. (The former speaker has long maintained that she does not personally own any stock and has no knowledge of or involvement with her husband’s investments.
