The flight path to these experiments began when a research team led by Iowa State’s Shan Jiang, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, and Hantang Qin, formerly of Iowa State who’s now an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wondered if their ink and printer technologies would work in the zero gravity of space.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study estimated the law prevented 4,000-11,000 Milwaukee and Dane county residents from voting in the 2016 presidential election.
“The survey data shows just how strongly people feel about abortion policies,” said corresponding author J. Michael Collins, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“We try to extrapolate from these other worlds how quickly planet formation might have taken hold in the early solar system,” says Melinda Soares-Furtado at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Researchers in the Genetics-Biotechnology Center at UW-Madison published a study in September, raising concerns over issues found in AI-assisted genome-wide association studies and offer new statistical methods for improvement.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh started its first-ever women’s wrestling program this fall, becoming the fourth school in the state to add the sport along with UW-Stevens Point, Lakeland University, and Carthage College.
Marquette University Provost Kimo Ah Yun was unanimously elected the 25th president of the university by the school’s board of trustees.
The University of Wisconsin is also on track to collect $628 million this year. UC San Francisco received $562 million from the federal budget in 2023. The USCF School of Medicine received the most funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of any public university in that same year, totaling $789,196,651, according to the university website.
At UW-Madison, campus wards swung 14 points to the right.
“Material Intelligence” exhibit in the School of Human Ecology invites individuals to think about how materials shape the spaces around us.
The Associated Students of Madison passed legislation to create a new committee, after Black student leaders expressed the need for greater support from student government.
Only preliminary possibilities have been floated so far. One idea is to charge for parking at Vilas Park during home UW football games.
“Hayes’ term was absolutely being described as a kakistocracy,” said Kelly Wright, assistant professor of language sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (1880 was also a general election year in the UK, another country known for its contributions to the English language. That year, William Gladstone became prime minister for the second time; perhaps his opponents were among those giving the word a boost.)
Since September, more than 20 UW-Madison students have been diagnosed with whooping cough, University Health Services said Wednesday.
An invasive insect that kills fir trees is threatening Michigan’s Christmas tree industry. And the woolly adelgids “are likely on their way to Wisconsin,” according to the Wisconsin DNR. Entomologist Phil Pellitteri joins us to talk about the tiny invasive insects.
Jenny Higgins, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the scope of her work with CORE, the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity housed in the School of Medicine and Public Health, has not shifted as a result of Trump’s victory in the Nov. 5 presidential election.
However, “the landscape of contraceptive care in the state is likely to change drastically,” Higgins said.
Babcock Dairy, an ice cream and cheese plant housed within UW–Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in Madison, is voluntarily expanding its recall on Orange Custard Chocolate Chip ice cream that may be labeled as Chocolate Peanut Butter.
