He went on to complete his PhD in Physiology in 1970, and joined the UW faculty. Over the course of his career, he advanced engineering applications in medicine, taught, and mentored graduate students in Medical Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Radiology. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1994.
UW Health plans to build a new cyclotron, which makes radioactive atoms used in scans to detect tumors and other ailments, to expand research and treatment of cancer and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Thomas O’Guinn, professor emeritus in marketing at UW-Madison, said businesses typically gain cult-like followings by accident. But it’s the businesses that help fulfill a person’s need to belong that stick out from the pack, he said.
Sanders’s rally is part of a weeklong campaign swing in the Badger State. The Daily Cardinal, the University of Wisconsin’s student paper, provided audio of the Stevens Point event.
Another scholar who disagreed with Mr. Frank’s diagnosis was Kathy Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But like Mr. Frank, she was interested in the question of how social class shaped politics, and thought that the way to get an accurate picture was through fieldwork. Over five years, starting in 2007, she visited 27 small towns in Wisconsin.
Some of the fruits have long been given as gifts, especially in Japan and Korea. That trend is catching on in the United States, as is the taste for flawless berries and melons that travelers may have tried overseas, produce experts said. And as the luxury goods industry has grown, so too has the interest in luxury fruit, said Soyeon Shim, a scholar of consumer and financial behavior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The market has become much more global,” she said. Ms. Shim added, “you can buy anything you want.”
In a famous 1974 paper titled “Why the Haves Come Out Ahead,” the University of Wisconsin law professor Marc Galanter argued that litigation systematically favors repeat players with the wherewithal to take fullest advantage of the courts. Key to his argument was the point that courts are “reactive”: They only do something when someone asks them to. That favors “the claimant with the information, ability to surmount cost barriers, and skill to navigate restrictive procedural requirements.” And most repeat players, Galanter said, tend to be “larger, richer and more powerful” than single-shotters.
Inequitable access to high-quality education plays a role in systematically routing young Black Americans into a narrow set of jobs. “Although our schools should be preparing all students for well-paid satisfying work, far too many of our Black and Brown students are relegated to poorly resourced schools,” says Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor Emerita of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It’s a nudge encouraging federal agencies to do more to help people register,” says Dan Tokaji, an election law expert, who serves as dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. “Until recently, the complaints were really the federal government wasn’t doing enough, not that they were doing too much to advance voter registration.”
But those habitats are often understudied. While the stretch of river in northern Cambodia has been designated a Ramsar site—a wetlands area of international importance—little research has assessed the ecological damage to the flooded forest there. “What we have is basically interviews with people,” says Ian Baird, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied fisheries across the border in Laos for several decades.
Campers walked in for their morning practice Wednesday to find the Badger swimmer and two-time Olympian in the pool.
The University said the sensors detect nitrate in soil types that are common in Wisconsin, allowing farmers to make better informed soil nutrient management decisions and reap economic benefits. The sensors can also be used as an agricultural tool to monitor nitrate leaching.
Former University of Wisconsin standout women’s soccer player Rose Lavelle will try to improve on her last finish with the U.S. Women’s National Team at the Olympics.
If donors have a set sum they’re willing to give to the Wisconsin athletic department, which category should it go to: the facility that has been eyed for years or the NIL funding that might make the difference in putting together a winning roster?
Katie Ledecky and Phoebe Bacon have been “buddies’’ for decades. Or since Ledecky was in grade school and Bacon was in kindergarten and they were part of a “buddy’’ system.
The Wisconsin Union team is putting special colors of terrace chairs on display that aren’t usually seen at the terrace, including purple and blue. New this year, pink, brown and white have been added to the collection.
List includes multiple former UW-Madison student athletes.
The returning American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Americans are two of 14 college players who will represent the United States at the NORCECA Women’s Final Six Pan American Cup next week in the Dominican Republic.
SHINE Technologies in Janesville is founded by a UW alumnus, Greg Piefer, who came up with the idea for the company while he was a student at the university.
Bucky Badger, the Wisconsin Alumni Association and members of the UW band came to Janesville for a birthday party Tuesday.
Jake Vander Zanden is director of the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison, a research center focused on Wisconsin’s inland waters. He is exploring whether lake ecosystems can themselves keep invasives in check. But for now, a lake district’s best bet is to “manage to minimize” the negative impacts, Vander Zanden said.
“The wet springs become even wetter, the drier springs become even drier. That creates risk that these producers need to manage,” said Jeff Hadachek, assistant professor of agricultural and applied sciences at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison Police Department arrested a man on drug and weapons charges early Sunday morning after officers reported smelling marijuana coming from a vehicle during a traffic stop.
UW-Madison Police said that around 1:45 a.m., officers stopped a car on Langdon Street after noticing the plates were registered to a different car. The driver was a 19-year-old from Madison named Jaylen M. Smith. When officers approached, they said they could “clearly smell marijuana coming from inside.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a primate problem. No, there aren’t primates running amok on the campus, but there are significant concerns about the ethics of animal research and the treatment of the campus’ over 1,500 primates.
UW-Madison student veterans could receive new services and acknowledgements at Camp Randall under a UW System Board of Regents proposal amid construction near Camp Randall Memorial Park.
It’s been quintessential to the college experience of Parthenon Gyros’ co-owner, Erin Vranas, in ways far more personal than most. As a new college student at UW-Madison in 2006, the Black River Falls native was still adjusting to a world where people outnumbered cows when she met her now-husband, Dimetri, outside his parents’ restaurant on State Street. At the time, nothing Vranas was studying at UW-Madison felt right — interior design, consumer science and astronomy all piqued her interest but ultimately didn’t offer what she wanted.
This State Journal report ran on June 23, 1854:
This engraving represents the university as it is to be when completed. At present, only the first dormitory building at the right of the central building is completed. The first one at the left is in the process of construction and will be finished the present season.
The University of Wisconsin swim program is going to have to adjust its wall of Olympians.
That’s because senior Phoebe Bacon earned a spot on Team USA with her second-place finish in the 200-meter backstroke finals Friday at the USA Swimming Trials in Indianapolis. That means she’ll be part of the U.S. Olympic team this summer in Paris.
UW Health is opening a new regional Med Flight base at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville, allowing faster response times for patients in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
Zach Ziemek knows what it takes to reach the Olympic stage, having earned top-10 finishes in the decathlon at the 2016 Rio Games and the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
He retired from UW-Madison in 1997 as Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology and as Director of Training at the University Counseling Service.
The Richland campus will officially close at the end of June, since UW system leadership has ended negotiations with Richland County officials over the future of the campus. The real death of the campus came a year ago, when classes ended.
Sarah Franklin, the reigning national player of the year, and Carter Booth both were selected to play for Team USA at the NORCECA Women’s Final Six Pan American Cup in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The tournament runs Wednesday through June 30.
The meeting would have held a first reading for a faculty-written resolution condemning police action taken against pro-Palestinian protesters by the University of Wisconsin May 1, according to previous reporting from The Badger Herald.
In 1991, he applied to work at the School for Workers in Madison, WI, and started another chapter of his life.
Column authored by Steven Wright, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he directs the Constitutional Litigation, Appeals, and Sentencing Project.
Thirty years ago, when the idea that would give rise to Mirus Bio took shape in a UW-Madison laboratory, scientists were only beginning to piece together the puzzle of human genetics.
Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow pushed back on claims that he used university computers to visit pornography websites during a hearing on whether the university has grounds to dismiss him from faculty.
She worked in several Madison-area laboratories, most recently with the UW-Madison Carbone Center.
Kelly Sheffield’s salary as University of Wisconsin volleyball coach is getting a boost, with more on the line for continued success by the Badgers.
Susan Carpenter, the native plant garden curator at UW-Madison’s arboretum, said she also likes to keep an eye out for the yellow bumble bee. It’s one of the species in Wisconsin in need of conservation, she said.
After two days of fiery exchanges at the Omni Center, former Chancellor Joe Gow and UW-La Crosse officials concluded their arguments Thursday about whether Gow should be allowed to keep his tenured faculty position.
A team of scientists from the UW-led Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center mapped millions of acres of abandoned farmland across the U.S. over several decades in a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Knowing where this abandoned land is could help people evaluate it for different uses, including climate solutions, the team theorized.
Dr. Kaiping Chen is an Assistant Professor in computational communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication.
Dr. Nathaniel Chinis medical director and Clinical Core Co-Leader for the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) and medical director for the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP).
Chundou Her is a graduate student in Curriculum & Instruction at UW-Madison, researching the intersection of storytelling, youth activism, art, transformative justice, and participatory methods.
Authored by Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist at UW-Madison and the manager of the Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet. Vagasky is an expert on topics related to lightning data and lightning safety, meteorological measurements, and applications of weather measurements.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, in collaboration with the UW-Madison Animal and Dairy Science Department, is set to host a series of four in-person workshops focused on Beef X Dairy crossbred cattle from July 29 to August 1, 2024.
A BadgerExtra source said Thursday morning that director of player personnel Max Stienecker will be getting a new title and the Badgers will look to hire a new director of player personnel.
For UW-La Crosse, the hearing is the first step in a two-part process to finally purge Gow from its payroll and move on from what many see as an embarrassing chapter that damaged the university’s reputation.
That’s particularly true in the state’s dairy farms, which are routinely staffed by undocumented immigrants, according to a 2023 report from the UW-Madison School for Workers. This has created new coalitions advocating on immigration issues in the state.
Among the recipients are Luiz Ferraretto, UW-Madison Dairy Nutrition Extension Specialist, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, and PJ Leisch, Extension Entomologist, Director, Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Former UW-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow and his former colleagues engaged in a harsh battle of words over Gow’s disputed faculty position Wednesday afternoon.
Wouldn’t it be great if ice cream didn’t melt in your hand? UW-Madison scientists want to make that a reality.
Sirinda Pairin is an Engagement and Communications Manager at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Pasha Thao is program manager for diverse alumni engagement at the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association, where she coordinates and supports a number of affinity groups for University of Wisconsin Alumni.
In Wisconsin, rather than push back against the austerity imposed by the Legislature, the UW System has acquiesced to its own defunding, a pattern that’s led to the closure of several two year campuses, including the recent announcement of the closure of the UW-Oshkosh, Fox Cities campus on June 30, 2025.
Dr. Catherine Chan is the assistant vice provost for high impact practices in the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement at UW-Madison, where she provides administrative, operational, and strategic leadership for the DDEEA’s high-impact educational efforts.
Susan Tran Degrand currently serves as the Director for Equity, Inclusion & Employee Well-Being for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Human Resources.
Dr. Ryan Tsuchida is Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs for Health Professions Learners and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Amid a statewide wave of branch campus shut downs, the Menasha-based campus will close June 2025 due to low enrollment rates.
The Badgers’ annual I-94 Rivalry game with Marquette has been scheduled for Dec. 7 at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin announced Tuesday in a post to Twitter. No time has been announced for the game.
A 2023 study from a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrated the promise of fragmentomics. Researchers used machine learning to identify patterns in fragments of circulating tumor DNA, which is genetic material that cancerous tumors shed into the bloodstream as they grow. The researchers trained an algorithm to not only detect cancer in blood samples but also to identify the specific type of cancer present.
A good schedule is on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion website.
