When Madison native Shawn Wiederhoeft received a kidney transplant in 2020, he did not expect to be at the forefront of a major medical breakthrough. But thanks to a clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, he is now five years post-transplant and living without the need for anti-rejection medications.
Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says this analysis shows why so many researchers “feel completely burnt out by the time they get to tenure”. A focus on metrics, such as number of publications or citation count, doesn’t emphasize quality, innovation or longer projects, she adds. “There’s a great deal of pressure on junior academics to do as much research as possible, to prove you deserve to keep that job.”
One month ago, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile released their survey telescope’s first images of vibrant new galaxies, asteroids and other astronomical phenomena. UW-Madison associate professor Keith Bechtol, lead scientist of the observatory’s systems engineering team, said the images, first released on June 22, create the most extensive map of the universe to date, kickstarting new scientific discoveries in the field of cosmic observation.
Wisconsin’s new workload requirement for the Universities of Wisconsin, intended to get faculty teaching more, is a misguided one-size-fits-all approach that, in practice, will cause a host of problems, faculty representatives argue.
There are few guardrails limiting how far oversight boards can change public institutions, said Isabel McMullen, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin who researches higher education.
“For a board that really does want to wreak havoc on an institution and overthrow a bunch of different programs, I think if a board is interested in doing that, I don’t really see what’s stopping them aside from students and faculty really organizing against it,” McMullen said.
Coldplay performed their first-ever Madison concert on Saturday with a sold-out show at Camp Randall Stadium.
The concert was one of the first Camp Randall has seen since The Rolling Stones in 1997 and was the band’s first performance in Wisconsin since 2009.
Snapshot Wisconsin, a community-based program utilizing cameras to monitor wildlife, was created a decade ago to involve community members in monitoring wildlife throughout Wisconsin. It was initially supported by a NASA community science grant received by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013.
She approached Tim with the idea and he encouraged her to do more research. So she enrolled in an ice-cream making course at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at the University of Wisconsin Madison and took a course from the University of Florida in Gainesville on how to run a successful ice cream business.
Before he became president, Usinger IV was studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has given back there over the years, helping build a Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery Building, which just opened in 2020.
