Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently investigated the matter, NPR reports. For their 2024 study, they asked 1246 dog owners to examine their pet’s behaviors around screens. Eighty-six percent (1077) of participants stated that their dogs appeared to watch the content. Additionally, most animals exhibited behaviors associated with excitement.
Some researchers, including John Womersley, a former chief executive of the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, and Tulika Bose, an LHC physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, want to see higher-energy machines developed as quickly as possible.
Millions of Americans who hold federal student loan debt are facing uncertainty after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week in an effort to dismantle the Department of Education, which currently manages $1.6 trillion in student loans.
UW-Madison continues to make adjustments to its financial plans with ongoing uncertainty about federal funding cuts, stop work orders and inflationary impacts from tariffs.
UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt, one of the Universities of Wisconsin’s longest-tenured leaders, will leave the university this summer to take a new role as the president of James Madison University in Virginia.
UW-Madison leaders are limiting the freedom vice chancellors and other officials have over their budgets following the discovery of thousands in “questionable” expenses by the former chief of the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
To help students engage in career wellness, a group of students from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona—supported by advisers from Cal Poly Pomona—created Tune In to Strive Out, which encourages students to channel their inner potential for future success and collective well-being.
Showings will be at the UW Cinematheque, Music Hall, Chazen Museum of Art, The Marquee, Barrymore Theater, Bartell Theater and Flix Brewhouse.
March 30 honors physicians who care for the health and wellness of their patients. UW Health is looking to celebrate their 1,800 physicians with notes of gratitude.
UW Hospital spent $20.1 million, or 0.8% or revenue, on charity care — free or discounted care — in 2023, while St. Mary’s, spent $2.1 million, or 0.5%. Meriter spent $4 million, or 0.7%, and Stoughton Hospital spent $200,000 last year, or 0.4% both years. The state average was 0.7%.
“This temporal boundary, however, was nearly breached in 2019,” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Temte was part of the team who declared measles eliminated in 2000.
Long before John Tonje’s baseline jumper fell short against BYU, his final shot as a collegian, University of Wisconsin coach Greg Gard was taking questions on the future.
College basketball’s future.
Louise Robbins, a retired professor of library studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the money might be the only source of funding for some tribal libraries.
“It’s very heavily used by people of all ages, income levels, needs, abilities, and [the order] would really severely damage services and have a huge impact, a multiplying impact, because people often use the funding from ILMS to match other funding,” Robbins said.
Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said while there are potential conflicts of interest with the volume of money in court races, funding that is less traceable presents a different challenge.
He graduated from UW-L in 1969 with a degree in art education. In 1973, he completed his Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture at UW-Madison through the Ford Foundation Fellowship.
After a brief time at Emporia State University in Kansas, Lowe returned to teach at UW-Madison in 1974. He became a full professor of sculpture in 1989 and served as chairman of the art department from 1992 to 1995.
