Today, Barnett runs Pyran, a 3-year-old startup providing plant-based materials to replace fossil fuels in plastics and paints. He subleases a lab space at University Research Park and runs a team of “young, scrappy chemical engineers … surrounded by some really good advisors,” including George Huber, the professor he once worked for, who co-founded the company.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has reported zero deaths from the seasonal flu among kids since October, and a massive reduction in flu cases. University of Wisconsin-Madison pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Greg Demuri said respiratory syncytial virus, a common illness in infants and toddlers that’s one of the leading causes of hospitalizations in children, has all but disappeared this year.
Make room for a sixth NCAA championship banner in LaBahn Arena. Watts scored a stunner from behind the net in overtime Saturday, and the Badgers had another title to celebrate.
A hard working man for 40 years, as a heat and frost insulator with Local 19, and UW Madison. His top priority was always providing for his family.
Lyle worked in the Astronomy Department at UW-Madison, as an instrument maker for 25 years, starting in March 1964, and retiring in 1990, at age 67.
Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said those situations aren’t comparable.
“It might be wise for us to take this out of the context of Fox News and ask whether the weather personality on our local station should be calling for the arrest of our mayor,” she said. “I think that would make people profoundly uncomfortable and justifiably so.”
Even with three COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the U.S. and others possibly available soon, two UW-Madison spinoff companies continue to pursue coronavirus vaccine candidates they say could find a niche.
UW-Madison professor Jonathan Martin, one of the writers of the State Journal’s “Ask the Weather Guys” column, answers that question in his new book “Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science,” which came out March 15. He’ll be discussing the book during a virtual event through Mystery to Me bookstore later this month.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team arrived back in Madison early Sunday morning after winning its sixth NCAA championship with a 2-1 overtime victory against Northeastern on Saturday night in Erie, Pennsylvania.
A newly published study done on Lake Mendota says climate change is linked to longer lasting dead zones. In the summer, lakes can settle into having two layers of water, a phenomena known at stratification. Warm water is lighter and sits on the top of the lake, while colder water sits at the bottom of the lake.
“It’s just been unmatched, really,” said UW-Madison student Harrison Logan, who joined Wurger on the trip. “Obviously it’s a unique year already, but it’s super nice to come out and support the team and support the Badgers.”
27 News spoke with Alec Lerner, who matched in psychiatry at Yale University. Lerner said his medical experience has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’ve been hurting a lot this week,” said UW-Madison student Juliet Chang. Another UW student, Manola Inthavong, said she fears what happened in Atlanta will not be the last act of violence.
The demonstration, organized largely by the UW BIPOC Coalition, attracted a diverse crowd of over 200 individuals to advocate for the safety of Madison’s AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islander) communities.
With schools across Wisconsin returning to in-person learning, pediatricians at UW Health provide tips and reminders for families as their kids once again join friends and teachers in the classrooms.
For that reason, requiring a vaccine passport to travel internationally could soon become a reality, according to a UW-Madison professor emerita of law and bioethics, Alta Charro.
The State Building Commission deadlocked on Gov. Tony Evers’ capital budget Wednesday, which includes over $1 billion in UW System projects.
UW-Madison’s University Health Services (UHS) opened a portal on Wednesday for the university community to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations.
The University of Wisconsin recorded its lowest seven-day average for positive COVID tests last week, at 0.1% positivity.
UWPD released receipts of purchases from early June and a resource list of chemical munitions UWPD currently owns following a public records request from ASM Chair Matthew Mitnick.
Daryl Watts finished in the top three of voting for the Patty Kazmaier Award, and now the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey forward will wait to hear whether she has won for the second time.
Afederally supported mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic will open on April 8 at UW-Eau Claire’s Zorn Arena, Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday.
The rally, organized by local activists and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s BIPOC Coalition, started outside Madison City Hall. Brenda Yang, a Hmong woman who works at Madison East High School and the Hmong Institute, welcomed the audience, encouraging young students to resist the “model minority” Asian myth and come together across ethnic lines.
The Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF), created in the CARES Act and funded again through a second relief package late last year, sought to ease pandemic-related financial tolls on universities and college students through money for both direct student aid and the institutions themselves. The federal government partially controls how some of that money is spent, but gives colleges a large degree of flexibility as well.
Cindy I-Fen Cheng, a professor of history and Asian American studies at UW-Madison, agreed. Cheng argues the shooting suspect’s trail across three different spas, killing six Asian women, was tied to racist stereotypes.
An example is a $600,000 item buried in Gov. Tony Evers’ $91-billion proposed two-year state budget. The money would expand a six-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison program designed to tap the expertise and energy of students on the flagship Madison campus to solve problems and improve lives in communities throughout Wisconsin.
So how is inflation even measured? Well, “there’s as many measures of inflation as there are economists studying it,” said Steven Deller, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But the inflation rates we hear about most often do include health care, energy and food. Economists will sometimes look at a number called “core” inflation that takes out food and energy prices because they can fluctuate quite a bit.
Another main measure is the personal consumption expenditures price index, or the PCE. This measure, run by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, updates how items are weighted in its formula to better reflect consumer behavior, said Menzie Chinn, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Because of this, the PCE is in some sense more representative of the costs consumers face, Chinn said.
“She presents herself very diplomatically. We haven’t seen her yelling at people in public or firing people in public. But she is a very shrewd politician,” said Aikande Kwayu, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States.
“The Chávez-led constituent assembly in Venezuela is the cautionary tale par excellence — and the conservative opponents to the process in Chile bring it up all the time,” said Alexandra Huneeus, a Chile-born professor at the University of Wisconsin who examines law and rights in Latin America.
Evers’ latest capital budget includes $1 billion worth of projects at the University of Wisconsin System, in addition to funding for a new state office building in Milwaukee and facilities to treat juvenile offenders once the Lincoln Hills juvenile prison is closed.
John Joseph Pombe Magufuli was a man who deftly played the long political game. He was nevertheless a puzzle both to Tanzanians and the world.
-Aikande Clement Kwayu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship.
The store, slated for 610 State St., will fill the space left vacant after Under Armour closed last August. According to Target’s website, the new store will be 15,000 square feet, less than an eighth the size of the store’s typical full-size store.
Panel moderator LaVar Charleston, the associate dean of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in UW-Madison’s School of Education, stressed that conversations on being anti-racist in schools need to continue.
As COVID-19 cases continue to decline, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has lifted testing requirements for students and staff who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community can now check their COVID-19 vaccine eligibility status and make appointments through an online portal, instead of waiting to receive an email invitation.
The State Building Commission on Wednesday failed to make any recommendation on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ $2.4 billion capital budget, potentially jeopardizing the cost and construction timeline for dozens of state building projects.
A new study at the University Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine is combining canines, cancer and the military.
UW Health explained Tropp was preparing for surgery at the UW Carbone Cancer Center exactly one year ago from Wednesday. Her surgery was also just a few days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
UW-Madison announced Wednesday that all employees and students who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will no longer be required to participate in on on-campus testing.
Traditionally, students are able to curb this exhaustion with a nine-day spring recess before they finish up their last few weeks of the spring semester. But this year, in the hopes of minimizing student travel and activity amid the COVID-19 pandemic, UW-Madison has abandoned its spring break.
Thomasen, a UW-Madison sophomore, began the Badgers Branch Out Instagram page and website over the summer as a class project. The account reflects her academic interests in life sciences communication, environmental studies and graphic design.
Snider is the longtime strength and conditioning coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team. He also has been leading the strength and conditioning efforts for the Badgers men’s basketball team since Erik Helland’s controversial departure midway through the 2019-20 season.
Evers’ plan is funded by nearly $2 billion in new borrowing and includes $1 billion for the University of Wisconsin System. Among the projects Republicans rejected were a new state office building in Milwaukee, a host of projects at UW-Madison including the removal of two residence halls, an expansion of the Mendota Mental Health Institute’s Juvenile Treatment Center and more.
On March 1, the University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate passed a resolution urging the UW Foundation to divest from fossil fuel companies. But, before we take a victory lap, let’s flash back and remember that a similar effort failed in 2014 because it was too ‘divisive.’
Kids are seeing more of these possibilities in the books they read as authors make a bigger push to reflect the diversity around them. Racial diversity in children’s books has been picking up since 2014, reversing a 25-year plateau, according to Kathleen T. Horning, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center.
From 1968 to 1971, leftist militants carried out over 400 bombings to protest the war in Vietnam and police violence in Black communities. While the majority of these attacks targeted empty buildings, a handful were deadly, including an armed raid on a courtroom in Marin County, Calif. and a bombing at the University of Wisconsin, both in August 1970.
Jennifer Hyland Wang is an Adjunct Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jenny Stoever is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University and Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog.
Throwing it out was out of the question. “I have a great fondness for books and I really regard them with honor,” said Ms. Diamond, who, in case readers need further proof, ultimately received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and would later go on to teach literature at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in social and welfare policy and families living in poverty, recently spoke with WPR’s “Central Time” host Rob Ferrett about the legislation.
Fu-Xian Yi, senior scientist of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has been critical of China’s one child policy according to CNBC, said, “The whole economic and social pattern is planned for the one-child policy, which is difficult to change. Therefore, China’s fertility rate is very low.”
When the pandemic hit, UW’s Discovery Building and its Discovery Outreach team wanted a virtual way to continue bringing science to students who would typically visit the building on field trips. “Our sweet spot was really connecting students in Wisconsin to researchers at UW-Madison,” said Val Blair, senior outreach coordinator at the Morgridge Institute for Research.
The University of Wisconsin Madison is looking to the community for input on the future of the Library Mall area, as campus planners are looking to make sure it’s an inclusive space.
The Student Services Finance Committee met Monday night to discuss their standing rules, policies and procedures.
As the one-year anniversary of the pandemic arrives in the U.S., state and local officials reflect on the trials and triumphs of public institutions’ responses to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The University of Wisconsin partnered with the Associated Center for Agro-Based Development, an organization promoting youth economic empowerment through agriculture, and a student organization to create new internship opportunities for UW students.
University of Wisconsin students and employees can now access information about vaccine eligibility and appointment options using their MyUHS account portal.
Electrodes placed on the foreheads of patients to check for consciousness during general anesthesia might work better if moved to the back of the head, according to UW-Madison researchers who studied electrical activity in the brains of monkeys.
UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone says she is encouraged to see the steady decline. “We think this is a terrific sign. We also want to make sure that folks don’t let their guard soon. We are in what I think we all hope will be the homestretch of the pandemic,” McGlone said.
A virtual community workshop will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on March 23. The meeting will define project goals based on stakeholder input, provide conceptual alternatives and prepare cost estimates — which will be entirely funded by private funds.
