The UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County campus will consolidate its operations from five buildings to one, leaving the four remaining buildings for other uses, in an attempt to remain viable as other Universities of Wisconsin branch campuses close.
Now that Krabbe is on the RUSP, “my guess would be that it would be approved” in Wisconsin, said Dr. Jennifer Kwon, a pediatric neurologist at UW Health who is on the federal committee that voted early this year to add it.
Letter to the editor: As the retired, long-time campus executive of the Fox Cities (Menasha) campus, the Cap Times editorial on branch campus closings (“Stop closing Universities of Wisconsin campuses,” Aug. 14) could not be more timely. I and another campus retirees are organizing our community to deal with our campus’ impending closure.
Thompson, who took on the role as Wisconsin DOT secretary five years ago as one of Evers’ first department head appointees, will leave the agency on Sept. 11 to take a position at UW-Madison, Evers said. On Sept. 16, Thompson will begin his new role as vice chancellor for university relations at UW-Madison, university officials announced Friday.
Kay worked the majority of her career in cancer research at the University of Wisconsin. Over the years she became the “lab mom” by her description. She spent 47 years working at the UW’s McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research.
The hall of fame plaques are moving to a new, unconfirmed location when the building they’re on, the Camp Randall Sports Center, is demolished later this year. Fences are up around the building to start that process.
North Lake Street on the UW-Madison campus will be restricted to one-way traffic going south beginning Monday so that a contractor can continue work replacing a sanitary sewer, the city’s Engineering Division said Friday.
The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s hockey teams will play a doubleheader at Wrigley Field on Jan. 4 as part of a Big Ten event, which BadgerExtra previously reported.
Letter to the editor: While all Americans can be proud of the Team USA athletes in a variety of sports, I felt the results for women’s rugby bronze medalist Alev Kelter (who played women’s soccer and hockey at UW-Madison), women’s volleyball silver medalists Dana Rettke and Lauren Carlini (both standouts for UW volleyball) and especially women’s soccer gold medalist Rose Lavelle (perhaps the greatest UW women’s soccer player of all time) were particularly notable.
The second phase, which began in March, involved cleaning, painting and applying decorative gold leaf, and repairing and replacing glass beads and tiles that add to the elegance of the pavilion. The project is being funded by UW-Madison, which was gifted the pavilion more than 20 years ago.
An experimental nasal spray flu vaccine being developed by a Madison company, based on UW-Madison research, boosted immunity in older adults who also got a flu shot, compared with those who got only a shot, a study found.
After graduation, Jason continued his service to the University, transitioning to a full-time role in 1997 as an advisor in the International Student Services Office (ISS). Over the next two decades, Jason rose to the position of Associate Director of ISS, where he played a pivotal role in shaping the international student experience at UW-Madison. His leadership extended to various campus-wide committees, including the Exchange Coordinators Committee, the International Student Recruitment and Marketing ad hoc committee, and the Behavior Intervention Team (BIT).
This spring, UW-Madison diverted over 162,000 pounds of material from the landfill as students moved out of residence halls, including 7,515 pounds of futons and nearly 4,000 pounds of food.
To do this, the university recruits hundreds of student and staff volunteers and collaborates with various departments and community organizations, according to Malorie Garbe, sustainability coordinator for University Housing. Nonperishable food was donated to The River Food Pantry, Goodman Community Center and the on-campus Open Seat food pantry. Sergenian’s Floor Coverings and Reynolds Urethane Recycling took carpet and mattress toppers, Garbe said.
Letter to the editor: Why on Earth would this not be supported? It benefits the schools and students. My siblings and my son went through this system. The difference between them was my siblings graduated without debt, while my son has debt. I’m especially disturbed reading that over 30 tenured faculty are slated to be laid off. Majors have been cut.
In 2011, the Madison School Board rejected the proposal for what has now become One City Schools. The board rejected a different charter proposal in 2017 for what now is the Isthmus Montessori Academy.
Both those schools, and the Milestone Democratic School, now operate through a charter with UW Office of Educational Opportunity.
On November 28, the man, 20, and two other men disrupted a student organization meeting in the Humanities building, making racist and profane comments and threatening people in multiple rooms, according to UW-Madison Police spokesperson Marc Lovicott. The man was originally arrested Dec. 1.
“I think constitutional amendments are something you see when we have control of the governor’s office and the Legislature in different political parties, because it’s a way for the Legislature to put things before the voters without having the governor’s approval or signature,” said Bryna Godar, staff attorney at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s State Democracy Research Initiative.
The final decision is up to the UW Board of Regents. This will be the first time the Regents will consider using a decade-old policy that allows universities to lay off faculty members whose program has been eliminated or because of financial difficulty, a policy made possible by the elimination of tenure protections from state law.
Eighty years later, Stevens was finally buried in Florida National Cemetery. His daughter attended the service in March, along with Ryan Wubben and other members of a University of Wisconsin-Madison group who helped find Stevens’ remains.
“It’s an interesting feeling that the success of your project results in a funeral,” said Wubben, the field physician for the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project.
Weeks before a deadline to submit budget requests to Gov. Tony Evers, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman provided a glimpse of his ambitions for increased state funding of higher education.
Talks are underway with the Ho-Chunk Nation to schedule the official flag-raising.
“I’m sure the Indigenous student groups from UW-Madison will be a big part of the ceremony as they were a big part of helping me shape these inclusive measures,” Rose said.
The $7.75 million from base salary and an additional compensation agreement isn’t the only money Chris McIntosh will make over a new five-year contract as University of Wisconsin athletic director.
UW-Stevens Point leadership is warning that its two branch campuses in Marshfield and Wausau can’t survive unless enrollment increases.
June went on to become a Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, where she taught and advocated for women’s rights for over two decades until her retirement.
Strong social connectedness is a “protective factor” against depression and promotes stress resilience, said Shilagh Mirgain, UW Health distinguished psychologist. That makes it almost imperative to make friends, she said. She also said the health impacts of loneliness are as bad as smoking a dozen cigarettes a day. Friends help the immune system function more effectively and encourage a stable mood.
In 1986 he accepted a dual appointment at the University of WisconsinMadison in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Liberal Studies, Division of University Outreach. A consummate teacher-scholar, Professor Risley loved teaching undergraduate and graduate students, who appreciated his extensive knowledge, warmth and wit. While directing the University’s Spanish and Portuguese outreach programs, he enjoyed offering adult continuing education classes in the evenings and developing courses in new areas, especially in Latin American literature. He retired from the profession in 2011.
A Beaver Dam woman has two UW Health doctors to thank for creating a procedure that turned her life around 15 years ago this month.
Just look at all the big bucks being showered on Badgers coaches and administrators. It’s time to share more of the university’s haul from highly lucrative TV contracts with the players who make it possible.
The Universities of Wisconsin will ask, for a third consecutive biennium, for the state Legislature to fund the tuition waiver program the system cites as the reason for a boost in freshman enrollment last fall.
A long line of University of Wisconsin football players formed at the Mongolian Grill station Tuesday awaiting their freshly-made lunch, but the Badgers were still on the field when UW-Platteville’s diligent dining staff started preparation for this large meal.
In a largely symbolic gesture, UW-Milwaukee faculty have voted against a plan that would lay off three dozen faculty from the Waukesha and Washington County branch campuses.
A group of doctors at UW Health are trying out a tool that uses artificial intelligence to take notes on their visits, allowing them to focus more on patients and less on screens. Proponents say the approach could not only improve patient experience but also reduce burnout among overworked physicians.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman says he’s hopeful a college tuition promise program, direct admissions and increased state support will reverse an ongoing decline in college participation in the state.
The event starts at the Memorial Union on campus, with the half marathon stepping off at 7 a.m. and the 5K at 7:15 a.m. The route for the first is roughly around Lake Wingra and through the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. Among the streets it includes are Langdon and Regent.
This summer, UW Health and Verona-based Epic Systems organized a summit in Washington, D.C., with health care leaders, federal officials, academics, insurance industry leaders and tech companies to discuss how AI is being used and next steps for the technology.
When Tracey Holloway studied Madison’s air quality last year under a contract for Madison Gas and Electric, she walked away surprised that “transportation and coal-fired power plants weren’t a bigger part of the pie.”
Holloway is a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of energy analysis and policy, and a science advisor to Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. The mayor announced the installation of the new monitors on July 22.
Allison Prasch, a political rhetoric scholar from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks Walz’s approach to policy might be refreshing for voters turned off by the extremes.
“Walz has an ability to speak to voters in such a way that it brings the focus back to what we might call kitchen table issues — cost of child care, grocery budget, thinking about health care — and I think that that has a way of connecting with voters who understandably are exhausted by this looming, never-ending cycle of existential crisis,” Prasch said.
Almost 90% of Wisconsin residents with a bachelor’s degree from the Universities of Wisconsin were still living in the state five years after graduation.
“I think Democrats have had a messaging problem,” said UW-Madison political rhetoric scholar Allison Prasch. “There is this narrative that ‘we know what’s best for you,’ and if you vote for (former President) Donald Trump, you’re stupid or you don’t pay attention. And that’s just incorrect, and the more that you communicate that to voters, the more they won’t want to listen to you.”
This finding is an exciting discovery, said Dr. Kathryn Miller, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.
“We’ve always had this idea that muscle mass matters and helps protect joints,” said Miller, who was not involved with the study. “Now here is one study that starts to build on the idea that muscle mass is important to function and also to possibly decrease the risk of developing osteoarthritis.”
The proportion of children’s and young adult books written by an author with Latino heritage grew from 6.3% in 2018 to 11.8% last year, according to data from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at University of Wisconsin’s School of Education.
She began acting in high school and continued her involvement in the theater at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1972.
Susan L. Thibeault from the Division of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, is an additional research author.
Richard J. Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, notes that even modest amounts of meditation—under 10 hours of practice in beginners—can change brain plasticity. But he cautions against commercializing the jhanas prematurely. “People saying this benefits them is all well and good, but without real scientific evidence, we have no idea,” he says. “Anyone trying to monetize this should raise red flags.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is awarding $11 million to 15 organizations, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to establish new medical residency programs in rural areas.
“People who are on dialysis, unfortunately, have very high mortality to begin with,” said Dr. Matthew Blum, a nephrologist at UW Health and lead author of the study. “An 18 percent jump (in risk of death) just because of the weather is a pretty profound risk for people.”
“The idea that we’re breaking heat records, having record floods — this is all consistent with what scientists have been projecting for decades. But the terminology is still what we used in the 1900s: ‘natural disasters,'” said Tracey Holloway, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a member of Science Moms. “We’re building terminology that captures the reality of what’s happening.”
Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Walz was “mostly likely to have a positive electoral impact in Wisconsin” out of the final handful of candidates Harris had considered. He said Walz “conveys more of a working-class background” that could appeal to rural voters around the Midwest.
“He is best positioned to relate to Wisconsin voters and will be a familiar figure to people who live in northwest Wisconsin and are within the Twin Cities media market,” said Burden, who is also director of UW’s Elections Research Center.
“There’s very little authority behind these positions,” said Richard C. Keller, a historian of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wrote a book about extreme heat in Europe. “They can issue recommendations, they can help establish policy, but they’re going to have a very hard time enforcing those policies.”
One such proposal will come from the WiSys, a nonprofit supporting organization of the Universities of Wisconsin. It is the technology transfer office for 11 public universities, meaning it protects the intellectual property of academic inventors and aims to move such discoveries into the marketplace. The WiSys proposal, which got a Phase 1 nod from NSF, seeks to make Wisconsin a global leader in sustainable agriculture and involves about 30 partners.
What struck University of Wisconsin volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield about his trip to the 2024 Paris Olympics was how emotional it was and the pride spectators had for their countries.
The sport’s emergence and continued growth has led to another match moving to the home of Wisconsin basketball and men’s hockey. The Badgers will play their I-94 rivalry match against Marquette at 7 p.m. Sept. 17.
WRN’s Bob Hague spoke with University of Wisconsin Political Science Professor Yoshiko Herrera about the risks for Americans in Russia, and the complex negotiations leading the release of American and European hostages in exchange for Russian criminals.
The science comes together in a “balancing act for women,” according to Dr. Stav Atir, assistant professor in the Management and Human Resources Department at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, who has studied how gender affects the way we talk about professionals.
Atir was lead author of a study that found people were more than twice as likely to describe a male professional by surname in “high-status” fields, including politics. In the medical field, other research indicates that female physicians are more than twice as likely to be called by their first names instead of “doctor,” compared with their male counterparts.
It’s possible more heat waves like this will happen in future winters, which could leave the icy continent less fortified for its hottest season – summer – and more vulnerable to melting during subsequent heat waves, said David Mikolajczyk, a research meteorologist with the Antarctic Meteorological Research and Data Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She attended the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, and DePaul University, where she earned a master’s degree in the subject.
The Perseid meteor shower is active from about the end of July to the end of August, said James Lattis, director of the UW-Madison Space Place. Wisconsinites have the best chance of seeing the meteor shower Aug. 12-13. The moon sets just after midnight, leaving the skies dark.
The Universities of Wisconsin’s tuition-waiver program that erases any remaining tuition fees for lower-income students has been revived after receiving millions in grant funding.
The Universities of Wisconsin’s Direct Admissions program is now live and in the inboxes — and soon, in mailboxes — of tens of thousands of high school seniors.
But the bug can be indicative of a larger pest problem and can often have a foul odor, according to the Dane County UW-Extension.
“I am getting a number of submitted photos of plants with holes in the leaves and no obvious culprit,” said Lisa Johnson, horticulture research specialist with the UW-Extension. “These are likely to be earwigs or slugs. Populations of both are high this year due to excess moisture.”
