A neuroengineering doctorate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was appointed to the university’s student COVID-19 advisory committee in January, only to find out days later that the committee had been restricted to undergraduates only.
More than one in five employees at UW Health will soon see larger paychecks as the administrators announce they plan to increase its base wage this spring.
Another research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has also produced a new atomic clock set-up.
Shimon Kolkowitz and his colleagues used comparisons between six different strontium atomic clocks to measure a second. This comparative model, known as a multiplex clock, means the team can use a less stable laser than the JILA group’s clock, but still achieve a very high level of precision: the clock would lose just 1 second every 300 billion years.
David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who focuses on redistricting, told CNN, “It’ll be harder for states to follow what we thought was settled law when it comes to creating minority-majority districts or even influence districts.”
‘Unique’ is how University of Wisconsin Men’s Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach Jim Snider would describe his path to his profession.
University of Wisconsin students joined the national “Day Without Immigrants” protest Feb. 14, which asked immigrants and allies not to attend school or work or spend money at non-immigrant-owned businesses.
The 97-page Roth Report on the future of the UW System is extremely detailed and lays out several specific policy priorities for the UW System, minus UW-Madison, which “stands apart.” Because voters are busy, I thought it would be helpful to inform them of some of the more consequential elements of the Republican plan for the UW System.
When the troopers began popping up throughout the University of Wisconsin-Madison building at the beginning of February, campus employees were left scratching their heads. Some even speculated the toys were part of a Reddit challenge called r/GreenDawn. But the masterminds behind the invasion have since come forward to the Cap Times, saying they have no affiliation with the online forum — they’re just in it for the laughs.
Evers, who is seeking a second term this November, also touted the billions of dollars of federal stimulus funds he has allocated over the course of the pandemic to businesses and farmers. Adding to that, he announced on Tuesday plans to spend $25 million of those funds to freeze tuition at University of Wisconsin System for two years and another $5 million to expand counseling and provide mental health programs for members of the Wisconsin National Guard.
Evers also announced that he was tapping $25 million in federal pandemic relief money to pay for continuing a tuition freeze at the University of Wisconsin System for another year. The Legislature lifted the tuition freeze for this year, but the UW Board of Regents opted not to raise tuition. Evers is providing funding to pay for the current freeze and another year, the 2022-2023 school year.
UW Health is increasing its minimum hourly wage from $15 to $17 in May, a move that affects more than 20% of employees, the organization said Wednesday.
Citing a rapid decline in COVID-19 cases across the state, System President Tommy Thompson is working with chancellors to phase out the requirement no later than spring break, which at UW-Madison begins March 12.
“This is a red-flag warning, like, we can see this freight train coming from a mile away,” said Andrea Dutton, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the relationship between melting ice sheets and sea-level changes, who wasn’t involved with the report.
A jury Tuesday found a UW-Madison student not guilty of causing criminal property damage during the mayhem of vandalism at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party in April.
The report “is the equivalent of NOAA sending a red flag up” about accelerating the rise in sea levels, said University of Wisconsin-Madison geoscientist Andrea Dutton, a specialist in sea-level rise who wasn’t part of the federal report. The coastal flooding the U.S. is seeing now “will get taken to a whole new level in just a couple of decades.”
The state Senate has passed three Republican-backed bills aimed at preventing Chinese spies from infiltrating University of Wisconsin campuses, moves that opponents called racist and targeting a nonexistent problem.
Evers, who is the 46th Wisconsin Governor, gave his State of the State address at the Feb. 15 joint convention of the Wisconsin Legislature. In his address, Evers announced plans to address rising gas prices, a struggling job market and supply shortages. While Wisconsin families have faced much of the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, Evers said he wanted to account for students in higher education who have been under considerable stress throughout the pandemic.
We have experienced four school semesters tainted by COVID-19 and the policies the federal government, Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Wisconsin have put on us. If these policies are ever going to stop, they should stop now. Enough is enough.
Video: UW Health’s chief quality officer Dr. Jeff Pothof joins Live at Four to talk about the latest COVID-19 headlines.
“It’s a good day for science, for wolves, for ecosystems, and for the people who value wolves,” says Adrian Treves, a wolf researcher and professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Mathematics included 20 Fellows, two each from the University of California, Irvine; the University of Wisconsin and the University of Toronto.
The joint action with attorneys from the Climate Defense Project follows similar recent legal efforts at Cornell University, Boston College, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Marquette University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of New Mexico.
“Our study is bringing some much-needed answers to not only the people who live around the bay of Green Bay, but also to all of the Great Lakes communities because it’s an interconnected water system,” Christy Remucal, a University of Wisconsin – Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering, said in a statement.
Now “The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert” (Oblivion), a performance of Taylor’s quartet recorded at New York’s Town Hall in November 1973, is out now on select streaming platforms. In the years leading up to the show, Taylor had been teaching at Antioch College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Even though the jazz avant garde, of which he is a founding father, was thriving, Taylor was creating recordings on his own Unit Core label in only limited editions. He released the second half of this concert in 1974 as “Spring of Two Blue-J’s,” pressing only 2,000 copies.
“We have been studying influenza viruses more than 70 years, and we are trying to make universal influenza vaccines, and we still haven’t been able to do it,” said Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who is working on a pan coronavirus vaccine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “But this is a different virus, and I think it’s worth trying. What I’m trying to say is that it may not be easy
A U.S. program requiring the use of corn-based ethanol in the nation’s gasoline supply hasn’t curbed greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison published Monday.
Lichtenstein, a tech entrepreneur who goes by the nickname “Dutch,” was born in Russia, and his family emigrated to the United States to avoid religious persecution, settling in suburban Chicago. He studied at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and co-founded MixRank, a sales firm initially funded by Y Combinator and investors, including Mark Cuban, according to the company’s website. He described himself as a “tech entrepreneur, explorer, and occasional magician” in a 2018 blog post.
Knight’s coach at the University of Wisconsin, Mark Johnson, said longevity comes to mind when he thinks about his former player. But it all comes back to that keyword: consistency.
Where did Carrie Coon go to school?Coon went to college at the University of Mount Union in her home state of Ohio, where she played soccer and ran track and field. She also got a full-tuition scholarship to attend grad school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting in 2006.
The student radio station at the University of Wisconsin- Madison is mourning the loss of inaugural general manager Dave Black Monday, who was set to be honored for his retirement this weekend. He was 66 years old.
About once a month, Carlos the greyhound eagerly walks with UW Veterinary Care Blood Donor Coordinator Emma Doubleday to an examination room, where he does something that could save another dog’s life–he donates blood. Carlos, a retired racing track dog, is one of 29 canines and 14 cats that donate blood regularly at the UW Veterinary Care Blood Bank. The blood is used to treat sick or injured animals in need of transfusions.
UW-Madison history professor David McDonald says several things led to this being the perfect time for Russia to stir the conflict that has simmered for decades.
After 26 years leading the radio station, which he helped launch as a UW-Madison graduate student, Black retired in September 2021. Prior to his death, WSUM planned to honor the station’s 20th anniversary and Black’s retirement with a virtual celebration this year on Feb. 22 — the same day WSUM first went live on air.
It’s been more than a year since the Cap Times last sat down with our go-to pandemic explainer Malia Jones for her take on the ever-changing COVID situation. These days, Jones, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory, homeschools her kids by day (her solution for protecting her kids and their grandparents), works her day job on the swing shift, and somehow squeezes in time to run a pandemic information site called Dear Pandemic.
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden told the Cap Times last fall that the term “forensic audit” had never been used in the election administration world until 2021 — when unfounded claims about widespread electoral fraud began circulating.
Quoted: Matt Kures, a community development specialist with UW-Madison Extension, and Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director of UW-Madison think tank COWS.
Three Republican-backed bills up for a vote Tuesday in the state Senate aim to prevent foreign influence on University of Wisconsin campuses.
Bobby Engram’s contract with the University of Wisconsin will see him earn $1 million this year as the football team’s offensive coordinator.
UW-Madison in January extended its mask requirement until March 1. “We expect to be announcing a decision before the end of the month on what will happen after that,” spokesperson Meredith McGlone said Monday.
Dave Black, who transformed a small, student-run radio station on the UW-Madison campus into a full-fledged FM station where thousands of students learned under him during a nearly 30-year university career, died in his sleep Saturday. He was 66.
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at UW-Madison John Scholz presented new degree programs to the Education Committee. Three of the programs — the Master of Science in school psychology, Doctor of Philosophy in school psychology and a BA and BS in information science — would be implemented at UW-Madison.
Unless there are deficits in care or a stressful family environment, extra time at home may have benefitted the very young. For babies, caregivers are their whole world, and their greatest need is responsive, sensitive care. “There’s really no indication that their social development is going to be impacted at all,” says Seth Pollak, a psychologist and brain scientist who studies child development at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A trio of professors from Michigan State University, Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison collected data from 37 online daters and found that describing yourself in profiles can be “ambiguous” because of lack of self-awareness, conscious efforts to disguise the self and the technical limitations of the online platform’s choices.
Ivermectin’s popularity can be traced, in large part, to two men: Dr. Pierre Kory, a former critical-care specialist at the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. Paul Marik, the former chief of critical care at Eastern Virginia Medical School. The duo formed the FLCCC in April 2020, along with six other doctors and two former journalists.
Lichtenstein has a lower online profile than his wife; he described himself as a “tech entrepreneur, explorer, and occasional magician” in a 2018 blog post. According to court documents, the dual Russian and American citizen grew up in Glenview, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founded MixRank, a sales firm initially funded by Y Combinator and investors including Mark Cuban, according to the company’s website.
The Associated Students of Madison, the student government body of the University of Wisconsin, held a meeting Wednesday night to elect the new Shared Governance Campaign Director and approve ASM’s finalized internal budget with a wage increase. They also discussed resolutions to reduce plastic waste on campus.
Vickie graduated from Madison West High School in 1953 and went to work for the University of Wisconsin business offices, until the age of 55 when she retired.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved raises for the system president and campus chancellors.
The contracts, which passed the state Assembly and Senate last month, cover the previous and current fiscal year and amount to raises ranging from 1.23% to 1.8%. Similar raises were approved for UW-Madison and University of Wisconsin System tradespeople.
Quoted: Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts co-directors Dan Vimont, a professor of atmospheric science at UW-Madison, and Stephen Vavrus, a senior scientist at UW-Madison’s Center for Climatic Research.
Tommy Thompson, the 80-year-old former governor who has spent more than 50 years in public service, said in a sometimes emotional farewell address Friday that the University of Wisconsin System has emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger than before he took over as interim president.
Some of the Midwest’s best freestyle snowboarders and skiers were on Lake Mendota this weekend. UW-Madison hosted Rail Jam at Winter Carnival on Saturday afternoon.
Tommy Thompson, the 80-year-old former governor who has spent more than 50 years in public service, said in a sometimes emotional farewell address Friday that the University of Wisconsin System has emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger than before he took over as interim president.
In an emotional farewell speech to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, UW System President and former Gov. Tommy Thompson called on state lawmakers to direct part of a record budget surplus into public universities. He said UW System campuses shouldn’t be considered an expenditure but rather an investment in the future.
UW Health is offering congenital heart disease patients an alternative to open heart surgery. Doctors believe the new therapy will improve the quality of life and recovery time for the many patients living with the disease, including local youth hockey coach Cole Hefty.
With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, many students who would otherwise spend the holiday swiping through dating app profiles are giving the once-a-year matchmaking service Datamatch a try.
Application fees at most University of Wisconsin System campuses will be waived indefinitely. The shift started with the pandemic but administrators credit it with boosting the number of applicants and freshman enrollments.
“I honestly let out a woo-hoo of elation that reason and science had prevailed, and that they actually really did do the right thing,” said Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted the study with 80 overweight adults between ages 21-40 who sleep less than 6.5 hours a night. The clinical trial extended their sleep hours for two weeks.
Since 2018, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have received an email ahead of Valentine’s Day offering a chance to find new friends or even a shot at love. The message comes in the form of a survey from Datamatch with 20 humorous questions, many of them ones that only UW-Madison students would understand.
