Kaçar is an assistant professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin and the director of NASA’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Astrobiology Research program. Through her work, Kaçar ties together the cosmos and biology to address several questions regarding past life on earth and possible otherworldly life — where did life evolve from? Are humans alone? Are there other forms of life to exist?
Amid rising education costs, UW Law School must provide students with upfront tuition information.
The U.S. News rankings’ metrics do not make room for world-class legal education at an affordable price, the UW Law School Dean said.
The impending fate of another branch campus has added anxiety to an atmosphere of worry at UW-Washington County. With just 60 degree-seeking students enrolled, UW-Platteville Richland will end in-person classes at the end of this spring semester. While UW System has pledged to maintain some sort of presence at the Richland Center campus, community members see the loss of in-person instruction as effectively closing the campus.
According to an article on the Wisconsin Historical Society website, 13 U.S. presidents have come to Wisconsin’s capital city — though the list was compiled before President Barack Obama visited Madisonians during his tenure. The University of Wisconsin-Madison also compiled a list in 2010 of past, sitting and future presidents who have visited campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was closing in on tech rehearsals for “The Wolves” in 2020 when COVID-19 sent everyone home. Director Audrey Lauren Standish knew immediately that they would return to it.
University Theatre presents the play in the Hemsley Theatre Feb. 16-26.
“Experience necessarily involves failures, and you certainly shouldn’t miss the meaning of those,” writes Jeffrey Russell, Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning and Dean of Continuing Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. ”Failures can prepare you to be a leader — as long as you take the time to reflect on them. When you’re reflective, you think about outcomes and impact. You develop judgment.”
The UW-Madison Human Powered Vehicle Club’s attempt to create a human-powered recumbent bike didn’t quite pan out. But the bike the HPVC ultimately created never fails to turn heads.
The Thompson Center is set to host a summit addressing concerns on declining early literacy rates across Wisconsin at the Monona Terrace on Wednesday.
Ice skating, free hot chocolate, Lady Liberty, other free events last all week.
Another individual recipient of an award is Dr. Lori Kido Lopez, professor of communication arts and director of Asian American Studies Program at UW-Madison, who strives to build diversity, equity, and inclusion across areas of UW-Madison.
UW Health, the health system for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reported that its pediatric emergency department saw more than 40 patients a month who required psychiatric care in 2022, up from about 15 a month in 2012.
Video: Members of the UW-Madison Human Powered Vehicle Club have created a bike that’s not-so-human powered, as the competition they’re preparing for this spring has since allowed batteries to be integrated as e-bikes grow in popularity.
Letter to the editor: Considering the very cold and snowy weather there was a very good attendance. The audience clearly appreciated both the performances by the Wisconsin Singers, UW-Madison’s Broadway caliber touring production, and Beaver Dam’s own Good Old A Capella under the direction of Mark Lefeber.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a massive effect on the sports world. Surprisingly one of the biggest impacts was on game day attire for coaches.
Prince, a nationally renowned equity advocate who in 2021 retired from her alma mater UW-Milwaukee after more than 20 years, has been appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former regent Tracey Klein on the 18-member board that passes policies and rules for University of Wisconsin System campuses.
A surging population and high costs for the construction materials to build new apartment complexes and houses are exacerbating the problem, said UW-Madison professor of urban planning Kurt Paulsen.
Jim received a BS in physics (’73) from Missouri University of Science and Technology and a PhD in physics (’78) from UW Madison. In the two years after earning his doctorate, he was a research associate at Stanford University; he then returned to UW Madison, where he was a professor from 1980-2022 when he retired. He was an atomic, molecular, and optical physicist with a focus developing and applying laser spectroscopic techniques for determining accurate absolute atomic transition probabilities.
And the flip-flopping in state court rulings that could come out of the North Carolina Supreme Court’s rehearing for this case could become more common in other parts of the country, explains Robert Yablon, an associate professor of law who helps lead the University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative.
“With no mitigating measures in place and now no #Evusheld, immunocompromised patients are at even higher risk. Better meds must arise to make this world safe for all,” tweeted University of Wisconsin-Madison anesthesiology associate professor Bill Hartman.
Chris Frakes is the group director of the Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program, an anti-poverty agency. Every three years, it does a community needs assessment for the five counties it oversees. In 2017, Frakes had heard so many stories of farmers struggling to get by, she expected them to reach out for help. But few did.
The silence and the growing farm crisis led to the program getting creative about upstream prevention. In 2021, it received nearly $1 million from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to target farmers’ mental health over a five-year period.
Ryan will be speaking at UW-Madison on February 22nd. His speech will cover some of the topics he seeks to address in his book, including ways to maintain the nation’s social contract.
From themed ice skating to maple taffy making, the Wisconsin Union’s free wintertime revelry series the Winter Carnival returns for an 83rd year Feb. 6-11, 2023.
New events join a giant list of longstanding traditions during Feb. 6-11 festival.
Letter to the editor: Nowhere in this article is there any information which would lead me to believe that those who responded — a 12.5% response rate, incentivized with a $10 reward — are necessarily representative of the student population as a whole. If there is such information, let us know, and I will reconsider.
Earlier this week, animal activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) put out a statement saying its protests had pushed the Navy to nix the partnership with UW-Madison. But it was lack of funding that prompted the university and the Navy to jointly agree to end the experiments, Michelle Ciucci, UW-Madison Animal Program faculty director said.
The Ojibwe were not out of place in this land of the Ho-Chunk.
Jim received a BS in physics (’73) from Missouri University of Science and Technology and a PhD in physics (’78) from UW Madison. In the two years after earning his doctorate, he was a research associate at Stanford University; he then returned to UW Madison, where he was a professor from 1980-2022 when he retired.
When incoming museum director Amy Gilman first saw “Emancipation Group” on display at the Chazen Museum of Art in 2017, she reacted like many visitors: She stopped in her tracks.
Deciding whether or not a child is ready to own a smartphone should be based on their own development rather than a specific age, according to Megan Morena, a pediatrics professor at the University of Wisconsin.
“I wish I had a clear answer,” said Steve Vavrus, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin. With Jennifer Francis, now at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts, Dr. Vavrus wrote a seminal 2012 paper that presented the idea that Arctic warming was affecting the polar vortex. “Unfortunately the state of things is still ambiguous,” he said.
“That’s one of the most amazing things about the Malagasy baobabs,” says Nisa Karimi, a botanist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “One species occurs all across continental Africa, and then you get to Madagascar, and you have six.”
“There was a particular audience consuming this and it was divided along generational lines,” said Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a Caribbean historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is penning an article for the Bad Bunny Enigma, an academic journal analyzing the star. “It’s really interesting how Bad Bunny became this global superstar while in conversation with things that were happening in the archipelago. He was basically making music for people in the archipelago, referencing things that only Puerto Ricans would understand.”
The EPA uses higher dollar amounts for deaths in higher-income countries and lower dollar amounts for deaths in lower-income countries. Or, as Paul Kelleher, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, puts it…PAUL KELLEHER: The badness of a death from climate change in India is treated as not as bad as exactly the same death if it happened at exactly the same time in the United States.
“Forgiveness is a special kind of moral virtue that always and without exception occurs when the other person has been unfair to you,” professor of education psychology at the University of Wisconsin Robert Enright tells Vox. “When that person is unfair to you, and you willingly choose to forgive — it’s not forced upon you — you are basically good to the one who was not good to you. You’re deliberately trying to get rid of the resentment and offer goodness of some kind: respect, kindness, anything that is good for the other person.”
“There’s a kind of prima facie appearance of: ‘you scratch my back, I scratch yours,’” said Yaron Nili, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School who specializes in corporate and securities law.
Lawrence Shapiro is a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ChatGPT has many of my university colleagues shaking in their Birkenstocks. This artificial-intelligence tool excels at producing grammatical and even insightful essays — just what we’re hoping to see from our undergraduates.
Vigue plans to take experience as a public servant to raise awareness about different Indigenous cultures and histories, and further how the university and tribal nations can connect and help each other.
Students in small groups worked together for 48 hours to develop their own video games for a worldwide competition.
We’re only a few hours beyond Groundhog Day, and our local groundhog, Jimmy, thinks winter will be around for a few more weeks. But nevertheless it’s February, and you know what that means: Baseball is just around the corner.
“African Americans lead in Alzheimer’s disease. And yet, in terms of being participants in the research, our numbers are very small,” said study recruiter Dr. Fabu Carter. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Black Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to develop Alzheimer’s. However, they are often severely underrepresented in research.
Virent, founded in 2002 and located on Madison’s North Side, uses what’s known as a “BioForming” process to turn agricultural waste products, like corn cobs and stalks, into a compound called synthesized aromatic kerosene that has the same chemical composition as gasoline and jet fuel. That process has roots in UW-Madison research.
UW-Parkside Chancellor Deborah Ford is resigning, adding Parkside to a growing list of University of Wisconsin System schools that have undergone a leadership change over the past three years.
“It’s very odd,” said Hillary Dugan, who studies lake dynamics at the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison, after viewing satellite images of the open area.
A graduate of Brookfield Central High School who was a consensus All-American at Wisconsin as a senior in 2006, Thomas should soon be headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Our health crisis will not be solved with increases in government spending or price-controlled medicine. Instead, people must reclaim their agency, working every day to improve their lifestyles and achieve their goals.—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
More than $389,000 in taxpayer money was awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the “gruesome decompression experiments,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said in a press release.
“So much of our sense of identity is caught up in the stuff that we could afford to buy,” UW Madison Clinical Professor of Consumer Science Christine Whelan said.
Nurse played college hockey for four years at the University of Wisconsin. As a Badger, Nurse helped the team win the WCHA Championship, scoring two goals on the way to defeating Bemidji State.
The survey found that a majority of students across the political spectrum felt comfortable expressing their opinions and exploring new ones, but the proportion of conservative students who reported feeling this way was smaller. Further, it indicated that liberal students are generally more comfortable expressing their opinions on controversial issues than their conservative counterparts.
Feb. 1 marked the kickoff of the Life Sciences Communication Department’s 2023 science communication colloquium series. Professor and Taylor-Bascom Chair Dietram Scheufele was the first to present for the weekly series, speaking on “The pitfalls of not being scientific about science communication … especially after COVID.”
University of Wisconsin System students statewide have a strong interest in free speech and expression — that’s the finding of a survey released Wednesday in Oshkosh.
A survey of more than 10,000 University of Wisconsin System undergraduate students shows stark differences in opinion on free speech when broken down by political affiliation, gender and race.
To determine what factors were associated with age of cancer diagnosis, Flory and her team at PetDx evaluated previously collected data from 3,452 dogs in three separate groups. Two of those groups of samples came from academic sites within the U.S.: one from the University of California, Davis, and another from a consortium that included Colorado State University, the Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and others.
Article 51 cannot credibly apply to Russia’s actions against Ukraine because Ukraine did not carry out an “armed attack,” Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek.
The University of Wisconsin System on Wednesday released a survey of its students’ views on free speech, and the results are likely to be both heartening and distressing to those concerned about the state of campus expression.
Robert Yablon, a professor and co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said Protasiewicz’s comments reflect a campaign practice utilized by Supreme Court candidates in past races and have so far not crossed a legal line.
Maty Wilke’s adjustments make sense. The college game is faster and it’s more physical, so of course the freshman on the Wisconsin women’s basketball team is trying to match that fire with her own. The players are older and the teams are better prepared, so there are some mental gymnastics to navigate, too.
More than half of University of Wisconsin System students reported wanting to express their views about a controversial topic in the classroom but opting not to, according to results of a free speech survey released Wednesday.
The University Club has a long history at the University of Wisconsin, having first opened in 1907. The building is considered part of the Bascom Hill Historical District and is a Tudor Revival Style building.
