Work has begun on the final phase of a $6.8 million effort to protect the UW Arboretum from urban runoff, which has washed out trails, eroded the land and helped invasive species gain a foothold in the world’s oldest restored prairie.
As a graduate of Middleton High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Fanning’s local roots are an important part of his business model and larger mission.
The two departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences have long existed “like a duplex, living right next to each other,” said professor and interim department chair Kent Weigel. “Now, you’ve taken the wall down.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday that it is suspending summer study abroad programs in China, Italy and South Korea due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Wisconsin Laboratory of Hygiene at UW-Madison started testing for the virus Monday and can test about 100 samples a day, said Dr. Allen Bateman, assistant director of the lab’s communicable disease division. Previously, samples had to be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Letter to the editor: Instead of worrying about how to explain away words to children, we focus on educating them about why those words are vulgar and what makes them inappropriate in a particular setting. They’re going to hear those words at school, but at least they can learn about them from home first.
Despite receiving fewer applications and enrolling its smallest class in at least a decade, UW-Madison’s traditional, full-time graduate business program won’t be shuttered anytime soon.
Letter to the editor: These systems highlight that impact matters regardless of intention. These forms are not so that we can tattle to “nanny campus bureaucracy.” They allow us to enact the change we want to see.
A $10 million, five-year effort at UW-Madison to curb obesity in Wisconsin, which ended in December, met a stark reality: The state’s obesity rate, which is slightly higher than the national average, continued to go up.
“He was more or less left for dead a few weeks ago,” University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communications Professor Michael Wagner said of Joe Biden.
It is not clear why the team is offering a promotion with a school outside of the state.
The renovation to the dairy plant and the addition to the Center for Dairy Research will be a $72.6 million dollar project.
Evers announced Thursday that he has selected Hector Colon, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, to replace Gerald Whitburn.
A new multiple day law enforcement youth academy is coming to UW-Madison this summer. UW-Madison Police Department announced the program on Friday.
More than 50 women were nominated and seven recognized for their work on campus and in the community.
Before she died, Miriam became an advocate for the McPherson Eye Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Associated Students of Madison group is hosting Voterpalooza from 11:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. at Union South, Library Mall, and East Campus Mall Friday, March 6.
Graduate students hope investigation ends in further disciplinary action.
Issues stemmed from inadequate student feedback during mental health funding decisions.
The “Our Shared Future” heritage marker represents the significance of the Ho-Chunk land and the government’s past efforts to remove Wisconsin’s indigenous population.
Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison’s expansion seeks to provide the space for Ho-Chunk people to tell their own story with their own voice in order to create a better understanding of their people among those who attend the facility, explained the executive manager and Ho-Chunk Nation member, Dan Brown.
While she felt no personal threat, Laura Buckman, a UW-Madison junior studying abroad in Italy, was disheartened to learn she must leave the country at the university’s request due to the recent outbreak of COVID-19, formerly known as Novel Coronavirus.
The school’s Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic received $50,000 this year as one of nine grant recipients through the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s Entrepreneurship Support Program, according to a press release. WEDC allocated $432,000 to activities assisting business owners in underserved communities.
Letter to the editor: It appears that sufficient time has passed to comment on the bothersome fact that not a single review of the UW Faculty Exhibition at the Chazen Museum, which began Feb. 1, has appeared in any of the local media.
The surest sign of spring for Madison movie fans is the release of the guide to the eight-day Wisconsin Film Festival, the campus-based event that brings independent film premieres, classic films, filmmakers and more to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and AMC Madison 6.
Héctor Colón, 47, will serve the rest of Gerald Whitburn’s term on the UW Board of Regents, which lasts through May 2025. Whitburn resigned in late January.
The report from professor Young Mie Kim found that Russia-linked social media accounts are posting about the same divisive issues — race relations, gun laws and immigration — as they did in 2016, when the Kremlin polluted American voters’ feeds with messages about the presidential election.
Five University of Wisconsin-Madison students and one faculty member spoke in opposition to proposed amendments to a UW Board of Regents policy that would require disciplinary sanctions for students who disrupt other people’s free speech.
The report from University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Young Mie Kim found that Russia-linked social media accounts are posting about the same divisive issues — race relations, gun laws and immigration — as they did in 2016, when the Kremlin polluted American voters’ feeds with messages about the presidential election.
Quoted: This is not to say that smartwatches for kids don’t have any benefits. As Heather Kirkorian, associate professor of| human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that, for example, their texting and phone call functionality can be useful in a world where pay phones aren’t available the way they used to be.
The percentage of students graduating from Wisconsin colleges within six years has improved. While the state fared better than most other states, administrators at public and private universities in Wisconsin say they are rolling out new initiatives to further boost graduation rates and shrink disparities between students of color and their white counterparts.
The similarities between Wallace and Taylor are strong. They are both from the south, queer, black, and felt deeply unhappy with the PhD programs they completed in the midwest. One day, fed up, Taylor decided to drop out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and commit himself to becoming a writer.
Quoted: Studies show freshman year is the most important year in high school and Geoffrey D. Borman, UW-Madison Education Policy Professor, said it can make or break you.
Dr. Safdar said UW Health hospital leaders are also building out plans for three different scenarios: the occurrence of a “few” cases locally, “more than a few” cases coming in, and also a full-on outbreak.
We look down onto the court and see the Ab Nichols floor, named after the 1950s two-time all-Big Ten Conference guard and program philanthropist. We look up and see Frank Kaminsky’s No. 44 jersey, where it hangs in honor next to Nichols’ No. 8. And that’s it. The only two players who’ve been given that honor in the 100-plus years of Badger Men’s Basketball are white.
Wiscards to feature numbers for Rape Crisis Center and UWPD in additon to suicide prevention hotline.
Author of ’The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ urges students to stay curious.
The new student council of the Associated Students of Madison was announced Wednesday night with 11 out of 12 members who ran on the Unity ticket being named to the council.
University of Wisconsin senior center Abby Roque was named Wednesday as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association offensive player of the year.
Rick Giles, the president of event promoter Gazelle Group, said he wants the Holiday Face-Off that will feature the University of Wisconsin to be the top college hockey event of the season.
Whitted, who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons and Oakland Raiders during his NFL career, replaces Ted Gilmore, who left UW for Michigan State last month.
We can live with post-truth. We can’t live with post-analysis, post-criticism, post-interpretation, post-humanities. That would be the real crisis.Sara Guyer is Kellett professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directed the Center for the Humanities from 2008 to 2019. She is president of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and will be speaking at Times Higher Education’s Mena Universities Summit in Abu Dhabi.
Among the many Americans traveling back to the United States is Waunakee-native and University of Wisconsin graduate Robert Kueffer. Kueffer has spent the past year teaching English in South Korea and playing tourist across Asia. But all that changed in a flash.
Political science professors at UW-Madison held a watch party at Ingraham Hall Tuesday.
The number is (608) 720-5300, and the line currently is staffed from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m.
After suspending study abroad programs in China, South Korea and Italy, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is advising those returning students to self-quarantine.
The UW-Madison Gender and Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC) hosted the event on UW-Madison’s campus on the second to last day of Black History Month. The exhibition of photos captures some of the most private moments between partners and their loved ones. “Queer Black Love: A Photo Series” began after Nicole posted a solicitation for Black couples on her Facebook page.
The plan came in response to projected decline in traditionally-aged UW undergraduates.
UW-Stout Chancellor Katherine Frank was unanimously approved as the eighth chancellor of the university Nov. 26. Frank took over the position from Bob Meyer, the former chancellor of five years.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies voter turnout, says Trump’s huge levels of support defy historical trends about sitting presidents who run for reelection. “A sitting incumbent running for reelection — that shouldn’t stimulate much interest,” Burden says. “It all runs a little contrary to what I think we would’ve expected.”
After high school, Williams was recruited by West Virginia University, the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana’s Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Connecticut, the University of Iowa, Virginia’s Old Dominion University and more, according to a 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer profile.
Quoted: “The goodwill impairment test is one of the most second guessed of the accounting tests that exist,” said Thomas Linsmeier, professor of accounting and law, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The question should be, “How does the technology work for the kids?” said adolescent physician Megan Moreno, a professor of pediatrics at University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Why aren’t the kids getting outside? What is the reason? Is it the screen’s fault or part and parcel of our society? Taking away screens isn’t part of the solution.”
Many biosafety officers rank their involvement in research, albeit in a supporting role, as one of the key attractions of the job. “One of the things I’ve loved most about this job is that I’m still involved in and helping the research community,” says Andrea Ladd, assistant director of the environment, health and safety office at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Noted: In general, Indonesia’s timber industry has been on a decline, and many logging concessions in the Bornean provinces of East and North Kalimantan have recently paused or stopped timber extraction, Zuzana Burivalova, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, U.S., and her colleagues observed. This piqued their interest: what was happening in the inactive concessions?
To explore this possibility, my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Elections Research Center and I presented Democratic primary voters with a longer menu of reasons for their choice of candidates. In statewide surveys of 3,600 adults across the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we asked respondents whether they planned to vote in their states’ primaries.
Quoted: “Wiping down surfaces on a plane won’t hurt, as long as it doesn’t give you a false sense of security,” Andrew Mehle, associate professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said, stressing that sanitizing your space on a plane should be done in conjunction with washing hands and following other best practices.
For UW-Madison professors Thomas Friedrich and David O’Connor, some of the biggest questions are how the virus made its way to humans in the first place, why it causes more severe illness than some other coronaviruses and how long it persists in the body.
As an extension vegetable crops specialist and researcher with a joint appointment in horticulture and agricultural economics, John specialized in potatoes, developing a production and management program for growing the Russet Burbank variety successfully in Wisconsin.
Prices for annual parking permits at the University of Wisconsin-Madison increased by up to 5% this academic year, nearing the end of a six-year process to streamline an outdated system from three to two price tiers.
