The fire was reported at 6:23 p.m. at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station at 8502 Mineral Point Road. That facility is used by UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
No one was injured Friday evening in a fire that destroyed a shed and a barn at UW-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station on Madison’s West side.
Column by Castronovo, the Tom Paine professor of English and director of the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison is studying the feasibility of both paving and lighting parts of the Lakeshore path between the Limnology building, just west of the Union Terrace, out to Willow Creek near the new Bakke Recreation Center and soccer fields.
UW Health said in a statement Friday morning that patient care was not affected by the global overnight technology outages.
Column by Owens, the George C. and Carmella P. Edwards professor of American politics at UW–Madison, and Tahk, associate professor of political science and the director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at UW–Madison.
Babcock Dairy Store: This treasure at UW-Madison has a long history of serving locally made ice cream.
“The suddenness with which this announcement was made, the lack of preparation or ceremony and the lack of institution that is there aren’t senior Democratic Party leaders making this announcement or gathering with him somewhere. It wasn’t a press conference. The almost casual way it was done feels very personal, very much like he woke up this morning and said, that’s it,” said Howard Schweber, political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When she created the newly released indie video game Garage Sale, Amelia Zollner drew inspiration from the garage sales her family would have.
“I always loved that,” said Zollner, who is Garage Sale’s lead writer and director. “It’s super fun to have your driveway turned into a little store. You meet people through that.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension provides an abundance of resources to guide a producer’s decisions according to the 4 R’s of nutrient management: right source, right time, right rate, right place. But nutrient management is complex and site specific. To help producers and consultants get a better grasp of the nitrogen needs on individual farms, the Nitrogen Optimization Pilot Program (NOPP) was born.
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee were asked to provide housing, but the RNC withdrew those requests.
After developer LZ Ventures of Madison completes the new Porchlight building, it plans to demolish Porchlight’s existing facility at 306 N. Brooks St., near UW-Madison, and replace it with a 15-story, 189-unit student housing project.
But how the invasive fungus is able to infiltrate bats’ skin cells has remained unknown, until a new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Marcos Isidoro-Ayza, Ph.D. candidate in UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine and primary author of the study, said the discoveries were guided by an observation he and professor Bruce Klein made early in the research.
Work is underway to reduce the size of the ice sheet at the Kohl Center, a change that will allow the Wisconsin athletic department to create more premium seating in the 26-year-old arena.
Tony Granato, an avid fisherman, would probably be amused by the aphorism offered by the accomplished essayist, naturalist and poet Henry David Thoreau, a goal-seeker, if not a goal-scorer.
Wisconsin is narrowing the Kohl Center rink for the Badgers men’s hockey team and using the change to transform seating spaces near the event floor.
A dwindling amount of undeveloped land and an inability to expand puts limits on new single-family home construction in Madison. But in the broader metro, high land and construction costs, labor shortages and changing bank lending standards have stifled new building, said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at UW-Madison.
During his career at UW-Madison his successful work in cardiovascular research earned him the Wisconsin Heart Association Outstanding Researcher Award in 1974. He especially enjoyed teaching and was honored when his students voted to award him the Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award twice, in 1988 and 1993. In recognition of his many contributions to the University and the Physiology Department, he was awarded Emeritus Status in June 1996.
Wisconsin had become a national outlier in the authority that it gives to legislative committees, according to Miriam Seifter, a UW-Madison law professor and co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative.
Steph Tai is also a UW-Madison law professor and associate dean for education and faculty affairs at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. They said the ruling gives more free rein to agencies.
Cheese consumption is one of several lifestyle choices and circumstances that improves the mental health of aging Europeans, concluded a recent study out of China. Unsurprised is John Lucy, director of UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research, who joins us.
Zach Ziemek earned a return trip to the Olympics on Saturday and put himself in a class by himself when it comes to athletes who have come through the University of Wisconsin men’s track and field program.
Letter to the editor: Looking back, this decision could have used more thought. The citizens of Richland County and the surrounding area deserve accountability that goes beneath the surface. So far, no one has borne responsibility for the demise of UW-Richland.
UW Health, which plans to open a large clinic on Madison’s East Side this fall, is preparing to crank up more construction cranes for other projects, including additions to UW Hospital and its East Madison Hospital.
The UW-Madison and Memorial Union are listed.
Franklin was nominated in the category for “best college athlete, women’s sports” alongside two-time nominees Caitlin Clark (Iowa basketball), Izzy Scane (Northwestern lacrosse) and first-time nominee Haleigh Bryant (LSU gymnastics).
“Even in water bodies that had relatively low PFAS concentration in the water, we still found concentrations in the foam that could be potentially concerning,” said UW-Madison civil and environmental engineering professor Christina Remucal, who co-authored the study.
Now, for the first time, the UW system is turning to a decade-old faculty layoff policy that expands the circumstances under which tenured faculty can be laid off and outlines the process for doing it. With Milwaukee’s branch campuses closing, the UW system is eliminating the College of General Studies and putting Decker and about three dozen UW-Milwaukee tenured faculty at risk of being laid off.
The decision comes almost one month after the committee and Gow battled over three charges in a public hearing: unethical conduct, lack of cooperation with a university investigation and misuse of campus technology.
After moving to Madison, he went on to work at the Babcock Hall Dairy at UW-Madison for many years.
In the last week of June, back-to-back U.S. Supreme Court rulings curtailed the power of federal agencies and restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations of air and water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.
That’s the view of Steph Tai, an environmental law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who says Wisconsin will feel the rulings’ effects on issues like drinking water quality differently than other states because some policies make Wisconsin an “unusual state.”
Leaders of Wisconsin’s public universities got another pay raise this week and could receive bonuses worth tens of thousands of dollars in the coming years.
There was no thoughtful plan to integrate the four- and two-year campuses, just a decision. There were no accountability measures or mandates for chancellors for the two-year campuses to succeed.
Following December’s deal between the University of Wisconsin System and the Republican-controlled budget-writing committee, a new committee will recommend legislation to address future plans for the UW System.
A mother and her 14-year-old disabled child are demonstrating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after the school notified them of unenrollment from a summer program.
“This summer, all those mosquitoes that were waiting in the ground for water have found it,” says Dr. Lyric Bartholomay, who works in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at UW-Madison. “So, the nonstop rain that we’ve had, and the warm temperatures just make them for the perfect storm, for the mosquitoes to have a place to grow and reproduce. And then come out hungry to feed on us.”
“We sampled several dozen different lakes and rivers in Wisconsin, and so we were looking at PFAS in foam,” said Christy Remucal, a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and interim director of the University of Wisconsin Aquatic Sciences Center. “It’s the white stuff you sometimes see on the side of the lake or in the river.”
After Porchlight transitions its operations and residents to the new building on East Washington Avenue, the developer intends to demolish the nonprofit’s four-story, 102-unit North Brooks Street facility and replace it with a 15-story, 189-unit student apartment building.
Shelby Ellison is an assistant professor of plant and ecosystem sciences at UW–Madison.
“A cannabis plant in the field is making CBDA and THCA,” Ellison said. “Only through a chemical process that normally happens when heated do you convert THCA into delta-9.”
A mistake by a researcher at UW-Madison could lead to a break through in t-cell therapy to fight cancer.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders approved pay raises Monday for more than half of the system’s chancellors, annual bonuses for chancellors that retain freshmen students and six-figure payouts to UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin every year she stays at the flagship university.
Anjon Audhya, senior associate dean for basic research, biotechnology and graduate studies at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Audhya brought the perspective of a biochemist to the team, with expertise ranging from genetics to mapping mechanisms and pathways that underlie human disease.
Chris Kozina, assistant vice chancellor for industry engagement, UW-Madison. Kozina brought deep industry experience to the party as well as a collegial way of navigating the university’s many colleges, schools and disciplines. There’s little doubt that research universities such as UW-Madison bring important breakthroughs to the table; organizing them in ways they can be applied commercially or for society is the trick. Kozina brought that perspective to the table.
Juniper’s journey in the indie video game Garage Sale in some ways mirrors the journey of its lead writer and director, University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student Amelia Zollner. She started the game on her own while in high school isolated during the pandemic. Then she found a community of like-minded students around her on a quest to bring it to completion.
The UW Board of Regents, in a closed session meeting Monday, approved a new program that rewards chancellors for retaining students.
After a stint at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana he became a tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he worked for more than 20 years. He was especially proud of the numerous interdisciplinary student trips he led to China.
For Allison Prasch, a scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies political communication and presidential rhetoric, the crafting and publication of a platform tells a lot about the direction a political party will go in.
The event runs from Sunday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 21. Shannon Hall in UW’s historic Memorial Union will be home to four days of sessions. We will also use other venues across the city.
In a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Katy Jinkins typically starts her day at a filing cabinet full of thin, purple silicon disks that reflect green in the light.
Following a showdown between the Legislature and Universities of Wisconsin over funding last winter, a new group will study the future of the state’s public universities and issue recommendations.
Sixty students can’t sustain a college campus. That’s the hard truth that ended classes at the Universities of Wisconsin’s two-year campus in Richland Center a year ago. The closure is sad and difficult, yet justified.
University of Wisconsin-Madison volleyball player Sarah Franklin received a nomination for the Best College Athlete in the Women’s Sports category at the 2024 Excellence in Sports Yearly Awards (ESPYS).
In fact, the issue unifies all Wisconsinites — Democrats, Republicans and independents alike. It ranks at the top of issues residents rated as most significant problems they face. And while it is a common problem for all, inflation has an outsized impact on the young, according to the “WisconSays” survey of nearly 4,000 residents conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Survey Center in partnership with the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
A new study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison team of researchers looking at wolves on an island in Lake Superior is helping shed light on the role that certain species play in helping shape an entire ecosystem.
It is an Olympic trifecta for former Badger track and field legend Zach Ziemek as he becomes just the second U.S. athlete to qualify for the Olympics three times.
“There’s a shift of power from the (governor’s) administration to the Legislature,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor emeritus of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on public finance. “And is that good or bad? It depends on one’s politics. But in a very fractured political environment, the consequences could be substantial.”
Wisconsin’s application was submitted by a coalition of businesses (GE HealthCare, Accuray, Exact Sciences, Plexus and Rockwell Automation), colleges and universities (Madison Area Technical College, Milwaukee Area Technical College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and the Universities of Wisconsin), economic development agencies (Milwaukee7, Madison Region Economic Partnership and Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation) and workforce training organizations (Employ Milwaukee and WRTP | BIG STEP).
Zach Ziemek will represent the United States in the decathlon for the third time when he competes in the 2024 Olympics that will take place in Paris. He worked out at the McClimmon Track/Soccer Complex on Wednesday, but he wasn’t alone.
Terrace Art Zone: Easy, free craft sessions for all ages are held on the UW Memorial Union Terrace, 800 Langdon St., from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays through Aug. 17.
UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone is stepping down from the chancellorship of the Universities of Wisconsin’s second-largest school at the end of the upcoming academic year, continuing a years-long string of turnover in top leadership across the UW system.
Mone will have served as chancellor for 11 years, a tenure he noted exceeded any of UWM’s past chancellors, with the exception of its founder. Mone will return to teaching at the Lubar College of Business, effective July 1, 2025.
The Wisconsin hub focuses on personalized medicine, or tailoring treatments to a patient’s genetic makeup or other individual characteristics. Along with UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College, partners include Madison companies Accuray and Exact Sciences, GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation in the Milwaukee area and Neenah-based manufacturer Plexus.
