For the first time, a fusion device at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has generated plasma, inching one step closer toward using nuclear fusion as a a new source of carbon-free energy.
Richland Center has a big problem. The local Universities of Wisconsin branch closed one year ago, due to declining enrollment and UW’s system-wide budget shortfalls that are also forcing other branch closings.
UW-Madison is studying the feasibility of both paving and lighting parts of the Lakeshore path between the Limnology building, just west of the Union Terrace, out to Willow Creek near the new Bakke Recreation Center and soccer fields.
Babcock Dairy Store: This treasure at UW-Madison has a long history of serving locally made ice cream.
“It seems like Biden has released (the delegates from their pledges). He didn’t say that formally, but they’re also not formally bound to him,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Elections Research Center told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
UW-Madison Police are warning the public about a scam targeting college students across the country.
Prosecutors dropped and amended charges against one of the four people arrested and charged during pro-Palestine protests on UW-Madison’s campus in May.
The fire was reported at 6:23 p.m. at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station at 8502 Mineral Point Road. That facility is used by UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
No one was injured Friday evening in a fire that destroyed a shed and a barn at UW-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station on Madison’s West side.
For the 13th year in a row, UW Health announced Tuesday it ranked first in Wisconsin on the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals list.
UW Health announced Friday it has made significant developments in its emergency stroke care, after receiving an “Acute Stroke Ready Hospital” certificate.
“If there were a lot of positives, that would have been an absolute cause for alarm, but this is not absolutely reassuring,” said David O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We need to look harder for asymptomatic infections before we declare mission accomplished.”
UW Health said in a statement Friday morning that patient care was not affected by the global overnight technology outages.
There were some similar unsettling vibes for Carlini, a four-time All-American setter for the University of Wisconsin, heading toward June 5 decision day when the 12-player team for the Paris Olympics would be announced.
Dana Rettke will never forget her first visit to Paris. But her second trip promises to be even more memorable.
Rettke, the former University of Wisconsin volleyball star, is making that second trip to Paris to compete for the United States in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
“May their memory be a blessing.”
This traditional Jewish saying is usually heard in the context of hearing of someone’s passing. I found myself writing these words earlier today when I learned of the death of Dr. Murray Katcher, a fellow pediatrician and consummate child health advocate. I could call him a personal hero and role model, but the reality is that he went well beyond: a hero to children everywhere, and a role model to anyone who wishes to know how to live a purpose-driven life.
Column by Castronovo, the Tom Paine professor of English and director of the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison.
Column by Owens, the George C. and Carmella P. Edwards professor of American politics at UW–Madison, and Tahk, associate professor of political science and the director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at UW–Madison.
UW Madison Cybersecurity Expert Dave Schroeder says this was not a security or cyberattack, but it left many vulnerable.
“You don’t have to be a CrowdStrike user or customer to be impacted by this.”
“When I first learned of this, my initial reaction was, here we go again, another major IT incident,” said Dave Shroeder, a cybersecurity expert at UW-Madison. “You wouldn’t expect a routine software update to cause such a severe issue.”
“It does seem like we have an awful lot of them out and about this year,” said P.J. Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Known on social media as “The Wisconsin Bug Guy,” Liesch grew up in Wisconsin and has worked at the lab for about 10 years.
Wisconsin has remained a closely divided state that gets an outsized share of attention from the national political parties, evenan outsized share of attention from the national political parties, even as other once-purple states have tipped more reliably in one direction — Colorado toward the Democrats and Ohio toward Republicans, for example.
“I don’t think there’s been another state that has stayed at that kind of knife-edge point for so long,” said Barry Burden, a political science knife-edge point for so long,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
“The suddenness with which this announcement was made, the lack of preparation or ceremony and the lack of institution that is there aren’t senior Democratic Party leaders making this announcement or gathering with him somewhere. It wasn’t a press conference. The almost casual way it was done feels very personal, very much like he woke up this morning and said, that’s it,” said Howard Schweber, political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Murray held the position of Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health. As such, he saw patients, conducted research, and published a ton of articles. He taught general pediatrics and injury prevention to a variety of health professions students.
Both of Harris’ parents worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during her childhood.
She spent long days playing with her younger sister, Maya. They posed for cheerful, hand-in-hand photos, which were taken by her parents, a pair of politically engaged scholars who divided their time between home and work on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Former UW-Madison student Brian Peck had a strong heart.
That’s how his younger brother, Colin Peck, a UW-Madison senior studying computer engineering, describes him. An adoring older brother, Brian nurtured a love of technology in Colin similar to his own and had a summer internship lined up at Medtronic, a Minneapolis-based global medical device company, where he thought he could improve people’s lives through technology.
