Written by Jay Hill, vice president of Advanced Technologies at GE HealthCare, and Anjon Audhya, senior associate dean for basic research, biotechnology and graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
In the 1990s, Kerwin worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Harlow Center for Biological Psychology and cared for 97 rhesus monkeys, the same species she cares for today.
The center was named after Harry Harlow, a scientist who used methods of isolation and maternal deprivation on infant monkeys to show the impact of contact and comfort on primate development in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1983, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Francis Hole petitioned the state of Wisconsin for Antigo Silt Loam. It is a very fine soil from the Antigo area. We actually have a roadside information sign there that talks about it. We even have a soil song.
Citizen scientists are hobbyists and passionate amateurs, and data they generate is as valuable as anything produced by professional scientists. UW-Madison Arboretum Citizen Science Coordinator, Annie Isenbarger, described citizen science as a way of “deepening the average person’s connection with the natural world.”
An experimental nasal spray flu vaccine being developed by a Madison company, based on UW-Madison research, boosted immunity in older adults who also got a flu shot, compared with those who got only a shot, a study found.
The Universities of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents will soon decide whether to lay off more than three dozen tenured professors at UW-Milwaukee.
North Lake Street on the UW-Madison campus will be restricted to one-way traffic going south beginning Monday so that a contractor can continue work replacing a sanitary sewer, the city’s Engineering Division said Friday.
This spring, UW-Madison diverted over 162,000 pounds of material from the landfill as students moved out of residence halls, including 7,515 pounds of futons and nearly 4,000 pounds of food.
To do this, the university recruits hundreds of student and staff volunteers and collaborates with various departments and community organizations, according to Malorie Garbe, sustainability coordinator for University Housing. Nonperishable food was donated to The River Food Pantry, Goodman Community Center and the on-campus Open Seat food pantry. Sergenian’s Floor Coverings and Reynolds Urethane Recycling took carpet and mattress toppers, Garbe said.
According to a Bias Incident Report obtained by the Badger Herald, the suspects targeted members of the multicultural Sigma Psi Zeta sorority. One of the suspects threatened to kill a student whom they mistakenly believed to be Saudi Arabian, further heightening the severity of the situation.
Lukas Nowak was formally charged Monday for disrupting a November sorority meeting with racist threats and disorderly conduct.
The second phase, which began in March, involved cleaning, painting and applying decorative gold leaf, and repairing and replacing glass beads and tiles that add to the elegance of the pavilion. The project is being funded by UW-Madison, which was gifted the pavilion more than 20 years ago.
The University of Wisconsin Badgers men’s and women’s hockey teams will play at Chicago’s Wrigley Field in January as part of “The Frozen Confines: Big Ten Hockey Series” showcase.
The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s hockey teams will play a doubleheader at Wrigley Field on Jan. 4 as part of a Big Ten event, which BadgerExtra previously reported.
Letter to the editor: While all Americans can be proud of the Team USA athletes in a variety of sports, I felt the results for women’s rugby bronze medalist Alev Kelter (who played women’s soccer and hockey at UW-Madison), women’s volleyball silver medalists Dana Rettke and Lauren Carlini (both standouts for UW volleyball) and especially women’s soccer gold medalist Rose Lavelle (perhaps the greatest UW women’s soccer player of all time) were particularly notable.
Steven Deller, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Fed increased interest rates to slow the economy and bring inflation down — and it looks like it’s working.
“They wanted to put the brakes on the economy,” Deller said. “They didn’t want to slam the brakes. That’s what happened in the early 1980s (when) inflation was so out of control.”
Kasey Keeler, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to discuss the reports.
Keeler teaches civil society and community studies as well as American Indian and Indigenous Studies. She is also an enrolled tribal citizen of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians and Citizen Potawatomi.
Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center attributed the success of donations to Wikler.
“Under Ben Wikler, the state Democratic Party has become one of the most prolific parties for fundraising in the country,” Burden said of the state party’s chairman. “During the height of the pandemic, he organized online events featuring celebrities and other notable figures to attract interest and donations from across the country. Protasiewicz is now benefitting from the national network of donors that has built up since 2020.”
After graduation, Jason continued his service to the University, transitioning to a full-time role in 1997 as an advisor in the International Student Services Office (ISS). Over the next two decades, Jason rose to the position of Associate Director of ISS, where he played a pivotal role in shaping the international student experience at UW-Madison. His leadership extended to various campus-wide committees, including the Exchange Coordinators Committee, the International Student Recruitment and Marketing ad hoc committee, and the Behavior Intervention Team (BIT).
