A special project brought a team of volunteers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to northern France in the summer of 2016.
Charles Konsitzke, associate director of the UW’s Biotechnology Center, was leading the nascent University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project (UW MIA RIP). It was hard work, involving hours of digging and sifting soil in a large area roughly 60 by 80 feet.
Xinyu Zhao, a researcher on an NIH-funded brain organoid project at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center, said one challenge is that brain development is a dynamic process. Gene activity and cellular behavior can change over time, making it difficult to determine whether a model accurately reflects what happens in a developing human brain.
Sam Warfel is a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research focuses on the ionized interstellar medium and HII regions. Outside of school, he enjoys astrophotography, aurora chasing, bicycling, hiking, and woodworking.
Wisconsin’s universities, already shaken by federal shifts and leadership changes at the UWs, may see even more turbulence after Tuesday’s election results.
A “blue wave” swept the nation Nov. 3 as Democrats were elected from coast to coast to seats of power many haven’t held in decades. In Wisconsin, that led to a Democratic “trifecta,” meaning the party controls the Wisconsin Assembly, Senate and governor’s office.
Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison, said Democrats “are likely ready to roll with a lot of pretty significant initiatives that have been kept on hold because of Republicans having a place somewhere in state government to stop them.”
UW-Madison police reported the fewest ejections and arrests of the season during Saturday’s football game between the Badgers and Rutgers at Camp Randall Stadium: 12 ejections and eight arrests.
University police issued eight citations for underage drinking at Saturday’s Badgers-Rutgers game. Six of these citations went to UW-Madison students.
Eight people were arrested, six of whom were students.
There’s a level of awkwardness attached to carrying an 18-inch pizza box into the student section seating area of Camp Randall Stadium during a University of Wisconsin football game.
Last week, three finalists from the search for UW-Madison chancellor were revealed. Only one of the three finalists reportedly has a past connection with Wisconsin, which ended in 2014.
Federal and state officials are encouraging people directly working with dairy cattle, livestock, and poultry to take extra precautions as highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks continue to circulate.
Mike Wagner, Director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, joins the Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz to speak with Andy Moore about Tuesday’s midterm results and what they say about the country’s shifting political climate.
