Republicans on the state’s budget-writing committee approved a 2% annual wage increase for most state employees Tuesday, plus a 14% boost to the minimum wage for state prison employees.
Alta Charo, a UW-Madison law and bioethics professor, said patients might not realize that stem cell injections from umbilical cord tissue are different from bone marrow transplants — which are approved and have been performed for decades — and experimental therapies using embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells, for which clinical trials are in early stages or have not begun.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, Director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison, said that now more than ever, retailers should cater to their customers.
Here is a look at some of the commencement speakers who have spoken, or are scheduled to speak at commencement events this season: University of Wisconsin: NFL star JJ Watt
Kim Phúc, 56, will speak at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., on June 8 at 5:30 p.m. The photographer, Nick Ut, will also be there to speak about his Pulitzer-prize photo.
Quoted: At a time when two out of every three undergraduates enroll in a two-year or four-year degree program within 25 miles of their home, according to the Department of Education data, Nick Hillman, associate professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says it’s time policymakers and politicians begin paying attention to geography inequality, one of the most overlooked aspects of college access and opportunity.
University of Wisconsin junior Dana Rettke has been named to the 14-player roster for the U.S. Women’s National Team that will open play in the FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Ruse, Bulgaria.
The declining lake trends ice are one way to show Wisconsin residents the different influences and economic effects climate change can have on a community, said John Magnuson, aquatic ecologist and emeritus director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “We are losing winter as we knew it,” Magnuson said. “We are degrading our sense of place.”
Quoted: “Stress makes us choose more energy-dense foods, more comfort food,” says Myoungock Jang, one of the researchers and a University of Wisconsin–Madison nursing professor, in the press release. “When young kids are exposed to this kind of food environment, that influences the eating patterns they are learning.”
“We saw these areas where everything was combusted and we hadn’t seen that previously,” says Turner, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has closely studied Yellowstone’s response to fire since 1988. “That was surprising.”
Researchers from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health worked with more than 2,700 players from 88 high schools around the Midwest. They found that players who wore headgear were just as likely to get a concussion as those who did not.
“I had a great experience at [the] UW. There was one woman in particular, Dr. Colleen Capper, who really left an impression on me, and I will never forget her class. It has the most impact on me,” Greendeer explains.
Noted: Linsey Steege, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, studies how to improve the health, safety and performance of health professionals. Her work points to what she calls the “supernurse” phenomenon.
A recent study, conducted by a team of scientists from University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin, has looked at a type of molecule from the immune system of lampreys, called “variable lymphocyte receptors” (VLRs).
In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, scientists led by Eric Shusta from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, detail how molecules extracted from sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) – a common northern hemisphere jawless species – could be used to ferry medications to targets within the brain.
A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin used mouse models with brain cancer. Their findings now appear in the journal Science Advances.
For the past year or so, organizers have been working with park staff to prepare Wisconsin’s busiest state park for the 2019 Big Ten Women’s Rowing Championships. It’s the first time the event has been outside Indianapolis since 2010.
Born in Rockford, Illinois U.S.A. in 1980 – Virgil Abloh is an artist, architect, and fashion designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed a Master’s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Madison Police Department responded to several incidents downtown this weekend, from a weapons violation to a sexual assault.
Despite the chaos that comes along with the end of the year, a few members of Uprise Poetry Collective, a group of student poets at UW-Madison, took time to reflect on their slam poetry season, which culminated in their success at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in Houston, Texas.
Bringing the Big Ten Conference women’s rowing championships to Devil’s Lake State Park on Sunday is the culmination of years of wishing, hoping and planning on the part of University of Wisconsin officials.
Lynsey Addario graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995 with a degree in international relations and Italian. With no formal photography training, she started taking pictures a year later.
Record turnout shows more voters were interested in the election, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor. It isn’t proof about whether voter suppression occurred.
Quoted: Professor of geoscience Stephen Meyers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “As the moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out.”
At the Chicago Immigration Court, the median bond in 2018 was $5,000. Erin Barbato, the director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said much higher bonds are not uncommon.
A Republican bill introduced in the Legislature last month is looking to offer financial incentives to out-of-state University of Wisconsin System graduates who stick around for at least two years following graduation.
[R]ather than abruptly canceling contracts with local suppliers, UW Health should have taken an approach similar to the city of Madison’s response to SSM Health’s plans — seeking ways to avoid an unnecessary choice.
Not a single University of Wisconsin campus requires students to receive the measles vaccine, and just one of the 13 campuses requires students to submit immunization records.
It may be that more money needs to be appropriated to research at University of Wisconsin System campuses to help the struggling dairy industry. But state Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, and 27 other Republicans have taken a partisan path to address the problem.
It’s a self-contained electric system that can seamlessly connect and disconnect from the main power grid, said Bob Lasseter, the UW-Madison professor who coined the term in the early 2000s.
Recent graduate Jake Walczyk started Madison Industry for Madison Students to fill a void plaguing the music scene on campus. He asked himself why this club was needed on campus and what purpose should it serve.
Madison police are investigating a situation that happened early Sunday morning near UW-Madison’s campus.
Of the three dozen departments that responded to NBC15 Investigates, University of Wisconsin Police Department Chief Kristen Roman was the only one who said she has seen a bit of an increase in the number of applicants the last three to five years. Roman credits, in part, their creative and sometimes comical recruitment techniques noting a recruitment video that involved a number of staff from her department.
A 2017 study by the University of Wisconsin found that more than half of transgender and nonbinary youths said they had negative experiences with mental health professionals based on their gender.
The idea that satellites could be used to forecast weather sprang from the sharp mind of a little known atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Verner Suomi is in fact widely known within the meteorological community as the rock star of weather satellite technology.
All told, there are nine Wisconsinites on the team that plays Notre Dame on Friday night in the first round of the NCAA tournament’s Norman regional.
Quoted: “I think this will be a huge opportunity for many state employees to improve their health,” said Dr. Luke Funk, a bariatric surgeon at UW Health who had urged the state to offer the coverage.
UW System officials announced Thursday that Slippery Rock University Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Philip Way has withdrawn from consideration.
As a companion to Advance Now 2.0 is a series of in-depth analyses conducted by MadREP and UW-Madison Extension over the past several years that explores each of the sectors determined to be the area’s main employment clusters: information and communication technology; bioscience; health care; agriculture, food and beverages; and advanced manufacturing.
A new art installation on State Street on Tuesday, and it’s has been nearly three years in the making.
After part of it was covered with blue tarps for months, a new sculpture was completed on Library Mall.
Quoted: “All farmers know the good times end and the bad times come,” said Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at UW-Madison.
Projects to clean up the exterior of the University of Wisconsin Field House and construct a new plaza outside its south doors have been given a thumbs-up.
When an institution the size of UW Health stops buying from a small producer, it affects not only that smaller company’s bottom line. It also impacts these producers’ visibility to a local audience with a vested interest in healthy food. Many of those partnerships came about under the leadership of Ellen Ritter, UW Health’s executive chef, who left the company at the end of 2018 and has not been replaced.
He said “Ultimate Tag” takes a childhood game to extreme levels with “insane obstacles” and “incredible athletes. The show is expected to launch in early 2020.
The online hospitality company said this was the second largest surge of guests to Madison in the history of the platform, only behind the Crossfit Games in August.
Quoted: Psychiatrists at UW-Health, like Dr. Marcia Slattery, stress that isolation can make an everyday problem worse. “People hold a lot of these illnesses quiet and silent because they’re not sure how to talk about it and they’re confusing,” said Dr. Slattery. “For teens, I think the stress is also there. We’ve become a much more isolated society.”
Dahlquist has ties to UW-Madison. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art from the university in 1980.
Quoted: “We should expect exceptional voter turnout in Wisconsin in 2020,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden, another turnout expert.
The company said the plan will rely on “significant” new renewable-energy resources and reducing the use of fossil fuels, as well as helping customers become more energy efficient. MGE said it will work with scientists at UW-Madison to evaluate the goal and ensure it is consistent with the IPCC assessment.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s attorney, Liam Dixon, said Tuesday that Summerwill is “devastated” and has the support of his family members, who are “disappointed” in the charges. Dixon says the woman’s death was a “horrible accident.”
UW (40-12), making its third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance for the first time in program history, faces Notre Dame (36-16) at 6 p.m. Friday in the four-team, double-elimination regional in Norman, Oklahoma. The game is on ESPN.
It was going to take a special proposal for the Big Ten Conference women’s rowing championships to leave Indianapolis. The University of Wisconsin came up with one, and eight Big Ten rowing teams will dip their shells into the waters of Devil’s Lake State Park on Sunday in Baraboo.
Each dollar of net farm income results in an additional 60 cents of economic activity, according to University of Wisconsin research.
The 63-year-old was tracked down using the Milwaukee Police Department’s CyberTip, which discovered that an IP address, which eventually traced back to Dobberke’s computer, had viewed child pornography on Feb. 13, the complaint said.
At the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where he was a professor, Akhtar created an accredited fellowship program that trained hundreds of electrophysiologists.
Months after being found on the streets of Chicago missing the bottom half of his hind legs, a brown tabby cat has a new name, a new home and now — with the help of some University of Wisconsin-Madison students — a pair of prosthetic legs.
Rice asked for a sentence of three years in prison and eight years of extended supervision. He argued in the sentencing memorandum that Campbell was plotting a bomb attack on the UW-Madison campus, and drew comparisons between Campbell and infamous domestic terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski.
A man who was convicted of stockpiling dangerous chemicals and building explosives inside his westside Madison apartment was sentenced to two years in prison Monday.
Chuck Todd, NBC’s Political Director, was in Madison speaking to recent graduates of UW Madison’s journalism school.
