Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at noon the last Monday of each month.
On Aug. 5, U.S.Health and Human Services Secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy, Jr. announced the elimination of five hundred million dollars of federal funding for research on messenger RNA vaccines. Interview with Aaron Hoskins, the Wasson Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His lab focuses on understanding the role of messenger RNA in human cells.
New documents reveal the University of Wisconsin-Madison and drug developer Labcorp are among the clients of troubled beagle breeder Ridglan Farms, according to records obtained through open records requests.
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The University of Miami asked a judge to dismiss or scale back a case alleging it interfered with agreements for a former University of Wisconsin football player.
Miami filed a motion Friday to dismiss a complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court in June by Wisconsin and collective VC Connect that alleged Miami tampered with cornerback Xavier Lucas.
The secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, has long argued — first as a cable news host and then in his current position — that “woke” policies undermine morale in the military. But some who have studied military history disagree with that assertion.
“Nothing in my nearly 25 years of experience in the military substantiates that argument,” said John W. Hall, a professor of military history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Hall, a 1994 West Point graduate, said that the military had been an early champion of diversity initiatives, “not out of any sense of innate progressivism or certainly not wokeness.” Rather, he said, “they were necessary for the effectiveness of the military.”
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College’s Green Bay leaders have overhauled nearly every course in recent years, accelerating them to move twice as quickly. Administrators and instructors say the intensive pace helps students perform better and prevents them from dropping out when they face hardships outside of school.
NWTC is part of a growing national trend of colleges moving to shorter courses, but it’s one of fewer to offer eight-week classes almost exclusively. Many others have recently flirted with the idea by piloting a smaller share of shortened course options.
Carroll University is preparing for projected record enrollment this school year with a more than $50 million facilities plan for its Waukesha campus.
Starting this month and continuing through July 2030, Carroll will sell or repurpose several underutilized buildings and begin three new projects.
Edith Noriega never intended to become a teacher. But after working with students, Noriega transitioned to a bilingual resource specialist role at Schenk Elementary School on the city’s east side. She also enrolled last year in the school district’s new Grow Your Own program.
The program provides tuition, a $17,000 stipend and benefits for Madison Metropolitan School District staff to work toward an associate’s degree from Madison College. Participants are then guaranteed admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to work toward a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and teaching credentials.
Brown has critiqued some of the ways DEI has been carried out. When he read an audit of Universities of Wisconsin DEI programs conducted by the Legislative Audit Bureau on behalf of the Legislature, he was struck that there seemed to be no consistent definition throughout the system for DEI.
But he also considers the anti-DEI wave a backlash to the protests in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd. “That woke up the world,” Brown says. “There was a coming together, and it wasn’t even politicized like that.”
Police departments in Middleton and at UW-Madison restored their 911 services Monday afternoon after outages earlier in the day.
Around 3:30 p.m., UW-Madison issued an all-clear for the 911 system, which earlier in the day had problems taking calls from landlines. Middleton police Capt. Tyler Loether also confirmed to the Wisconsin State Journal Monday afternoon that the city had restored its 911 system too.
Hannah Berner never set out to be a comedian.
The 33-year-old stand-up originally had her sights set on tennis. She played all four years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduating, Berner gravitated towards making funny videos on social media. From there, she eventually found a passion being on stage and making people laugh.
Tinder may be a surprising place to start looking for a job in wealth management, but it worked for Lillian Turner, who now runs her own firm, Daring Greatly Wealth. While a finance major at the University of Wisconsin, Turner struggled to find anyone who would talk to her about wealth management, so she turned to the online dating app.
Menzie Chinn, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, reviewed the claims and found them wanting.
“The conclusion that real GDP is lower as of 2024Q2 than it was in 2019Q1 is not backed up by any calculation using defensible deflators a sensible economist would use. Second, other non-deflator sensitive indicators of real economic activity do not exhibit a downward decline from 2022 onward,” Chinn said.
A political scientist explains why Wisconsin and other states are fighting over redistricting. Then, we look at why seven of the 10 places with the worst air quality in the country last week were in Wisconsin. Then, we discuss the downfall of the Schlitz beer empire.
“If the state legislative districts were so gerrymandered that they violated the Wisconsin State Constitution, then the same is true of the congressional districts… Legally, the case is straightforward,” said Howard Schweber, affiliate faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
After returning to Wisconsin in 1963, he worked at the University of Wisconsin for over 30 years, first at the Primate Center and then at the center of Limnology, where he built testing equipment and maintained the research boats. He loved being near and on the water. Upon retirement from the University, he worked as a lock tender at Tenney Locks, where he made every boat patron smile. After fully retiring, Glen tended to all the local squirrels and birds, making sure they were fed every day. He often went fishing, even enjoying ice fishing.
Jerry graduated from Goodrich High School in Fond du Lac in 1965, before attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He left school after about two years to enter the workforce; however, returned to UW at age 43 when he completed his B.A. in 1994. He went on to earn his M.S. in Social Work at the Madison campus.
Beginning in 1979, Jerry began a concurrent career in law enforcement as a part-time police officer for the Village of Shorewood Hills. He rose to Lieutenant in 1981 and was appointed Chief of Police in 1996 where he remained until he retired in 2004. Jerry then moved to the UW-Madison Police Department, where he served for three more years, retiring again, as Assistant Chief in 2007.
She attended Luthor College in Decorah, Iowa, before transferring to UW-Madison, graduating in education. She was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. After graduation, she taught at Randall Elementary School and then at Midvale Elementary School in Madison. Later, she continued her education at UW, getting her master’s degree while working as a UW instructor supervising student teachers.
After graduating high school, she attended horticulture classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advancing her knowledge for running her own flower shop.
