Richland Center has a big problem. The local Universities of Wisconsin branch closed one year ago, due to declining enrollment and UW’s system-wide budget shortfalls that are also forcing other branch closings.
Former UW-Madison student Brian Peck had a strong heart.
That’s how his younger brother, Colin Peck, a UW-Madison senior studying computer engineering, describes him. An adoring older brother, Brian nurtured a love of technology in Colin similar to his own and had a summer internship lined up at Medtronic, a Minneapolis-based global medical device company, where he thought he could improve people’s lives through technology.
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.
Federal and state laws prohibit discrimination of public accommodation on the basis of religion. But Volkman-Bascome Professor of Law at UW-Madison Anuj Desai says it is legal to refuse some services based on the owner’s beliefs. “That’s where this gets tricky because those views might well overlap with certain religions,” he said. “And so they’re going to say ‘this is actually discriminated against me based on my religion, not just on my views.’”
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.
The device is called WHAM, which stands for Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror. It’s in UW-Madison’s Physical Sciences Lab in Stoughton. After working to build and test it for four years, scientists have now moved the device into operations mode.
“Respectfully, these are makeweight arguments designed to deflect attention from the Biden/DNC plan to run out the clock, which has been discernible since at least early last week,” University of Wisconsin Law School Dean Daniel Tokaji wrote on an election blog hosted by fellow respected expert Rick Hasen, a law professor at UCLA.
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee were asked to provide housing, but the RNC withdrew those requests.
The debate over how to balance environmental concerns and property rights is becoming more common, said Max Besbris, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in housing and climate change. “There’s a very real anxiety” over best practices, he said, especially since a house is the biggest purchase many people will ever make.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yi Fuxian said the censuses China carries out every 10 years are “seriously overestimated” in an effort to match official estimates. The annual data should be corrected with the census data, he said.
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.
Murtaza, who earned his medical degree from Aga Khan University Medical College in Pakistan and a doctorate in medical science at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge, is a cancer researcher and an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the school. Since 2021, he has served as the associate director of the center.
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 Athletics provided an update Tuesday on plans to create additional space and seating at the Madison sports arena. Construction is now underway on the new seating, which will be available starting with the 2024-25 season.
Doctor Alan Kaplan, Chief Executive Officer at UW Health, says this recognition reinforces the longstanding reputation for outstanding patient care, innovative therapies and exceptional patient outcomes at UW Health.
On Tuesday, Wisconsin Athletics revealed details and renderings for innovative premium seating option for the upcoming 2024-25 season.
University of Wisconsin Hospitals was ranked number 1 in Wisconsin for the 13th year in a row.
U.S. News & World released their Best Hospitals list ranking the University of Wisconsin Hospitals as number one in Wisconsin. This is the 13th year in a row that UW Hospitals have received this recognition.
Construction for the Kohl Center’s new and improved premium seating is underway but some longtime ticket holders say their game day experience and seats will change this upcoming season because of it.
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.
After the election, registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County were surveyed about why they didn’t cast a ballot. Eleven percent cited the voter ID law and said they didn’t have an acceptable ID; of those, more than half said the law was the “main reason” they didn’t vote. According to the study’s author, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Kenneth Mayer, that finding implies that between 12,000 and 23,000 registered voters in Madison and Milwaukee—and as many as 45,000 statewide—were deterred from voting by the ID law. “We have hard evidence there were tens of thousands of people who were unable to vote because of the voter ID law,” he said.
It was once easier for unions to influence how their members voted, because unions played a bigger role in their social lives, said Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.”But that’s a thing of the past in Wisconsin, as elsewhere,” she said.
“Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas, opens new tab” by Michael Light, sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and two other researchers.
The 2020 study was published in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.• The report, which used data from the Texas Department of Public Safety between 2012-2018, found a lower felony arrest rate for immigrants in the U.S. illegally compared to legal immigrants and native-born U.S. citizens and no evidence of increasing criminality among immigrants.
“You look at some of the cost of necessities — like rent, food, things like that — those things have been going up and they are felt much harder by medium and low income households,” says Steven Deller, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A hands-on encounter with Wisconsin’s newest and most troublesome open-records law.
Dr. Tiffany Green, one of the country’s leading health economists working in the area of reproductive health equity and maternal mortality disparities, has been named the new Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD, Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research. Green is the associate professor in the UW Department of Ob-Gyn Division of Reproductive and Population Health and the UW SMPH Department of Population Health Sciences.
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.
A dog’s typical body temperature is about 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Maria Verbrugge, a clinical instructor of veterinary medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. Once their temperature exceeds 102.5, she says, that’s too hot, and “104 is a danger zone.”
And, alarmingly, Americans are now much more comfortable with the idea of political violence. A 2021 study by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that 20 percent of Republicans and 13 percent of Democrats felt that violence was warranted in the current political climate.
UW said the “Temin Lakeshore Path Study” will look at potential impacts of proposed paving and lighting of the lakeshore path, which will run from Willow Creek to the UW Limnology Building. The study comes following reports of perceived safety risks for navigating the limestone gravel path at night.
Scientists are more equipped than ever before to make decisions about evacuations, development and other measures using computer systems that can predict the damage a certain storm will inflict, noted Shane Hubbard, a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner joins LiveNOW’s Austin Westfall to discuss the main topics hovering over next week’s Republican National Convention.
“Wisconsin is one of the handful of states that has flipped back and forth between the last two presidential elections, so for a party that’s concerned about winning the Electoral College, this is a state where they would naturally look,” explained Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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.
Similarly, a study from the University of Wisconsin, based on Texas data, found that U.S.-born citizens have substantially higher criminal rates than immigrants who are in the U.S. unlawfully: They are over two times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes and over four times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.
The debate, rather than helping Biden reset the race against Trump, confirmed voters’ preestablished fears about him, said Allison Prasch, a professor of rhetoric who researches presidential communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.“The president is a symbol,” she said, adding that Americans often look to the president as a mirror to reflect on their hopes and their fears.
Non-white voters are more than four times more likely to lack a current ID than their white counterparts. One study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that voter ID in Wisconsin discouraged up to 23,000 people in Milwaukee and Dane counties from voting in the 2016 election.
