This has been an unusual growing season. Garden Talk regulars Lisa Johnson and Brian Hudelson are in to talk about what they’ve seen regarding plant disease, insects and the effects of a wet spring and dry fall. And then we talk to an expert about how to grow ferns – both inside and out – and learn a little of the history of this ancient plant.
Kaul also asked two University of Wisconsin System attorneys to look into allegations Virgil raised against three top administrators. The report did find some problems in the agency but concluded the three officials did not contribute to a hostile workplace environment.
A modern, thriving Wisconsin requires universities rated in the top tier of research institutions, ones that produce productivity enhancing innovations making modern life possible, while also imparting knowledge enabling citizens to create and think. Thus armed with these capacities, graduates of these Research One, or R1, universities find success in the arts, professions, sciences and as entrepreneurs.
Alobbyist organization for Madison-area landlords and property owners hoped to stall UW-Madison’s push to build a new residence hall, according to a letter to the UW Board of Regents shown to the Wisconsin State Journal last week.
Rabbi Andrea Steinberger of Hillel at University of Wisconsin-Madison she set tables for a pre-fast meal Friday and prepared for services that hundreds of students were expected to attend.
Those hoping to see British band Coldplay take the stage at Camp Randall next summer might have a hard time snagging tickets to the stadium’s first concern in nearly three decades.
On Friday, over 50 students came to UW-Madison’s Library Mall to protest its investments in Israeli companies. Protesters took aim at how the university treated ongoing calls for divestment and new rules on free speech that followed late Spring’s encampment. The protest from SJP marks the last demonstration in its “Week of Rage” during the anniversary week of the genocide in Gaza’s start.
The revised Creando Comunidad program aims to bring together students interested in addressing systemic oppression by engaging with communities of color.
Protest leaders criticize university police, administration’s response to demands.
SJP marched from Library Mall to Bascom Hill, calling for the university to divest their funds and for an end to violence in Gaza as a part of their final event during their “week of rage.”
Trump regularly invokes anecdotes about immigration and crime. But despite some high-profile individual cases, University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Michael Light says research shows increased immigration is not tied to higher crime rates.
“Criminologists have been studying the issue of immigration and crime for over a century and, generally speaking, what we find is that immigrants tend to have lower crime rates than native-born U.S. citizens,” he said. “It’s a fairly consistent finding.”
Beginning farmers will be eligible for financial planning and technical assistance under new U.S. Department of Agriculture projects delivered through the University of Wisconsin System, the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, and the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship.
UW Health’s seven-story Eastpark Medical Center, under construction for more than two years in the American Center Business Park on Madison’s Far East Side, will open for patients this month.
There was an extra step of paperwork necessary as part of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team’s interest in participating in the 2024 Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
The man known for his attention to detail during a legendary coaching career that included stops leading University of Wisconsin men’s basketball programs at Platteville, Milwaukee and Madison is still a stickler for the little things when preparing for something.
Written by Denia Garcia, an assistant professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. Garcia’s work examines the role of space and organizations in shaping how inequalities are experienced and reproduced.
UW is facing a decline in the number of Black students in its freshman class, pointing to deeper issues in diversity, equity in higher education.
Hateful political rhetoric has become commonplace in the 2024 presidential campaign and much of it is directed at migrants coming over the southern U.S. border — UW-Madison political science researcher and author Nathan Kalmoe said that kind of rhetoric can tip into violence.
“The number of people who could fit into the Kohl Center would be enough to tip the outcome of the election in Wisconsin, and potentially in the electoral college,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Elections Research Center. “Students, if they choose to vote in Wisconsin, have a lot of power.”
“The quick and dirty answer is that [we] discourage it,” Amy Nichelason, a veterinarian and clinical assistant professor of primary care services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, tells Inverse. She says it’s not difficult to understand why dogs might enjoy riding with their heads out the window. With their keen sense of smell, “it really is just like sensory overload,” Nichelason says. “It’s like me in the candy store.”
If you’re hoping to keep the stink bugs out, your options are slightly limited. The best way is physical exclusion, according to PJ Liesch, the director of the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab who is aptly referred to as “the Wisconsin Bug Guy.”
Apart from this niche-use case, it’s not clear whether these statistics are even helpful for the people who watch games with the FanDuel app open. When I called up Michael Titelbaum, a philosopher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who works on probability, he told me that these statistics are easy to misinterpret. “Decades of cognitive-science experiments tell us that people are really, really bad at making sense of probability percentages,” he said.
Lucas Graves, a journalism and mass communications professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that publicly chafing at fact-checking has become a form of tribalism among some Republicans.
“A big concern for me [is] that the kids who are already poorly served will fall further behind because there won’t be anything that requires states” to use the funding equitably, says Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor emerita of education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Bill served as director of the graduate program in school psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held appointments as principal investigator at the Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development and as discipline chief of Psychology of the University Affiliated Program at the Waisman Center.
Carla dedicated a significant part of her career to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working in both the School of Agriculture and the Art Department.
He served as an Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science, working with students and staff for thirty two years, which seemed a job made in heaven for him.
The UW Odyssey Project empowers adults to overcome adversity and achieve dreams through higher education.
