Quoted: “It’s actually remarkable to me that we haven’t had a case yet,” said Dr. James Conway, professor and associate director for health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Conway discussed the risks the state faces in a May 3, 2019 interview on Wisconsin Public Television’s Here & Now.
“I’m passionate about the Wisconsin Experience and ensuring that all students have the tools and resources they need to succeed,” she says. “After growing up and attending college in Minnesota, I’m thrilled to get to become a Badger.”
Christina Olstad was named the new dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a release announced Tuesday.
A professor in University of Wisconsin–Madison’s department of agricultural chemistry (which later became the department of food sciences), Babcock began teaching at the school in 1888. His accomplishments include developing a test to determine butterfat content in milk processing and the recognition of nutritional science as a course of study.
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Christina Olstad, currently the interim assistant vice president for student affairs, housing and residence life at Towson University in Maryland, will begin her new job as dean of students at UW-Madison on July 1.
Christina Olstad brings nearly 20 years of experience in higher education.
UW System president’s column: An investment in UW System will help us continue these successes and generate more graduates — especially in high-need areas such as nursing, engineering, business, computer science, information technology and data science. Across the System, our campuses have plans to expand these vital areas through our 2019-21 state budget capacity-building initiatives.
UW-Madison is one of a handful of universities in the Big 10 that do not require students to get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. But with measles outbreaks in several other states, university health officials are discussing whether their vaccination recommendation to students should be a requirement.
Behind the scenes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s bustling Union South, where many students are taking shelter from a rainy afternoon, Bret Kuhn is busy wrapping up a shift washing dishes in the lower-level kitchens.
Quoted: “The more we lose, the greater the impact will be,” states meteorologist Jordan Gerth, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the current issue of Nature. “This is a global problem.”
One of the four finalists to become University of Wisconsin Whitewater’s next chancellor, Guiyou Huang, has withdrawn his application.
A Wisconsin circuit court ruled in favor of releasing to the Wisconsin State Journal records relating to an investigation of alleged plagiarism by a UW-Oshkosh professor who sued to block release of the records.
My campus, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has had a tumultuous year of dealing with a projected budget deficit of $8 million over the next three years. It started as an announced administrative “document/plan” to cut 13 liberal arts majors, followed by a “reduced plan” to cut six majors and tenured faculty, and then ultimately a “pulled-back plan” to not cut those majors or lay off tenured faculty.
Madeleine Pape was an Olympic runner for Australia who once competed against Semenya. She’s now a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And she told us about when she competed against Semenya in 2009 at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin.
A UW-Madison professor who won the prestigious Passano Fellow award, as well as a second major prize earlier, could be in line for a Nobel prize. Robert Fettiplace, professor of neuroscience at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, won the 2019 Passano Fellow award for research into the mechanics of hearing.
In Dane County, visitors strolled around the state Capitol, biked the hills around Mount Horeb and came from around the world for events at Monona Terrace, UW-Madison, Alliant Energy Center and Epic Systems Corp. in Verona. And all of it helped Wisconsin to its ninth straight year of positive gains in tourism, one of the pillars of the state’s economy.
The University of Wisconsin System’s in-state student enrollment has dropped sharply over the past nine years, reflecting declining regional populations and System efforts to get students to graduation faster, according to a report state auditors released Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System’s in-state student enrollment has dropped sharply over the last nine years, reflecting declining regional populations and system efforts to get students to graduation faster, according to a report state auditors released Monday.
The Wisconsin Union is milking the popularity of its sunburst style Terrace chairs to raise money for the UW School of Veterinary Medicine’s expansion project.
Quoted: The fastest, cheapest, most efficient way to bring down greenhouse gases and mitigate some of the effects of climate change is to grow more trees around the world and preserve the ones we have, said Donald Waller, a botany and environmental studies professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
In the U.S., there are several locations with direct descendant trees, including at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brown University and Vanderbilt University.
The University of Wisconsin System’s in-state student enrollment has dropped sharply over the last nine years, reflecting declining regional populations and system efforts to get students to graduation faster, according to a report state auditors released Monday.
UW-Madison’s legendary band director is about to take his final bow.After 50 years, Mike Leckrone is preparing for one last commencement. He told WKOW his final year at UW-Madison has been “breathtaking.”
Quoted: A major factor in those distressed prices is the cost of production, that’s according to Simon Jette Nantel a farm management specialist at the UW-Extension. “As soon as there is new technology and new knowledge, that allows producers to start lowering their costs, then you can expect the market price to come down,” Jette Nantel said.
The report from the Legislative Audit Bureau found tuition revenue grew from $933.4 million in fiscal year 2008-09 to $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2017-18. Resident tuition grew from $125.4 million to $276.3 million. Nonresident tuition increased from $808 million to $1.04 billion.
When children face critical illnesses, it can be pretty scary, and make for some long days in the hospital. That’s where U-W School of Nursing student Tori Matson comes in. When she’s not learning the science of medicine, she’s learning how fiction also has some healing powers of its own.
The UW School of Veterinary Medicine is fundraising so they can double the size of their small animal hospital, and the Wisconsin Union is stepping in to help. WU Director Mark Guthier and School of Veterinary Medicine Associate Dean Kristi Thorson talk about the specially made chair.
On Monday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Class of 2019 unveiled its gift of a sculpture that pays homage to women who attended UW.
A new audit says tuition revenue at University of Wisconsin System schools grew $336.6 million over the last decade.
All public events related to Louisiana State University of Alexandria Chancellor Guiyou Huang’s visit are canceled, said mark Pitsch, the Public Information Officer with the University of Wisconsin System.
Jonah Larson, an 11-year-old from Lacrosse, has been getting attention from around the world for his crochet creations he sells to raise money for a Madison non-profit.
Jonah Larson, 11, is pretty good at crocheting needles. But on Friday he traded in those needles for surgical tools.
Authorities say Dorton was fired from her job at Delta Delta Delta sorority in early 2016 for violating terms of her contract. The complaint says student leaders at the house later came to suspect she had been making unauthorized purchases on a sorority credit card.
Jonah Larson has one of the firmest handshake of any 11-year-old you’ll ever meet. He might rival most adults in that regard.
Pawlik probably isn’t the only one of his classmates who will walk across the stage next weekend at UW-Madison’s commencement and take a job field not related to their major. Less than 30 percent of college graduates are working in a job related to their college major, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
“I think it’s hard to draw a biological line around the female athlete category,” said Pape, now a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin. “I want to make sure people understand the complexities and relate to these women as real people.”
Quoted: By late Thursday in India, Cyclone Fani had sustained winds of about 155 miles per hour, nearly in the range of a Category 5 hurricane, said Derrick Herndon, an associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. The World Meteorological Organization said the storm was “one of the most intense” in 20 years in the region.
Quoted: The greatest threat to residents was drowning — from flash flooding, storm surges that could reach 10 to 15 feet in some areas, and flooding from rivers in the days after the storm lands, said Derrick Herndon, an associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
Some University of Wisconsin graduate students are giving a severely injured cat new life.Sgt. Stubbs lost his back legs earlier this year in a train accident in Chicago.
The UW Madison Continuing Studies program sponsored the conference, now in its 4th year.
A Wisconsin-made sensor part of a cosmic observatory that was buried beneath the South Pole is on its way to the Smithsonian.
This is the first in a series of columns about UpStart, a free entrepreneurship program for women and people of color supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF.
The UW Veterinary Center offers discounted procedures to law enforcement dogs,
Thirty-two faculty members at UW-Madison have received research fellowships for the 2019-20 academic year, in arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences.
The former house director for a sorority near the UW-Madison campus was charged this week with embezzling more than $225,000 from the sorority over a period of more than six years.
Trilly, a 9-year-old Gordon setter with fluffy brown and black fur, lay down on a raised table surrounded by doctors, veterinary technicians and photographers in UW Veterinary Care’s Oncology Clinic.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an international research collaboration led by UW-Madison, buried more than 5,000 sensors beneath sheets of ice at the South Pole over a period of seven Antarctic summers that began in 2004.
In the 30 years that the University Book Store has provided graduation gowns to UW-Madison’s commencement speakers, company president Pat McGowan cannot recall needing to order a custom-size gown.
If approved, the lower fees would make college much more accessible.
The 2019 BWLC runs Thursday and Friday, May 2 and 3, at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard St. This is the fourth annual conference, which aims to empower and equip black women and girls through education, networking and leadership training.
Quoted: She said while studying sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, she realised that “biological sex and athletic ability are both far too complex for scientists to reduce to measures of testosterone.”
“It just doesn’t happen,” said Dr. Doug Laube, who used to be the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “If you’re going to switch to a specific plant, bamboo isn’t too bad, as it does have respectable plant protein levels, as well as a swath of different vitamins,” says Garret Suen from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kiley and Pashaj worked with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and the UW-Madison Molecular Structure Laboratory to devise an experiment to be done at the station based on the optimum growing conditions for their crystal.
The college will cut about 30 full-time positions, or about 5% of its 600-person employee base, at the end of the spring semester. It also plans to increase its student-to-instructor ratio from 9:1 to 15:1 over the next several years by eliminating about 10% of course sections offered.
The Badgers, ranked 35th nationally, will make their first NCAA tournament appearance in 14 years on Saturday when they play Syracuse in the opening round in Palo Alto, California.
Megan Miller, the Morgridge Center for Public Service assistant director for civic engagement and communications, said there’s a need to build a lasting commitment to civic engagement in the student body
Dairy Innovation Hubs to be established at three UW schools.
Brugel said this event, hosted by Wunk Sheek, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán and PAVE, is especially important because Native women are often left out of the discussion about sexual assault.
