In a new study published earlier this year, researchers at Lehigh University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found a link between the distance a woman travels to work every day while pregnant and the health outcomes for her child, including low birth weight, the likelihood of a C-section, and intrauterine growth restriction, or when a baby doesn’t reach a normal size as measured throughout the pregnancy.
But there’s another link discovered by researchers at Lehigh University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison—between infant health and the distance a woman has to travel to get to her job every day.
There was also a strong labor theme to the event. Sara Trongone, the co-president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants Association, introduced Sanders, emphasizing how union-busting in Wisconsin and across the country contributed to the erosion of the middle class.
Ethan Happ added one more honor to his outstanding career with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team on Friday.
Foxconn Technology Group announced Friday it will soon buy a building on Capitol Square as its off-campus hub to collaborate closely with UW-Madison faculty and students on research in medical, material, computer and data sciences.
Jake Bunz accepted the Hockey Humanitarian Award on Friday, becoming the third player from the University of Wisconsin to be recognized for citizenship.
Members of the Madison Latino community and the health issues they face “tend to be invisible for many reasons,” according to Dr. Patricia Tellez-Giron, co-chair of the Latino Health Council and associate professor in the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Mike Leckrone said goodbye Saturday night, after 50 years as director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band and 45 years of spring concerts.
According to a spokesperson for UW-Madison, Leckrone will also take part in the annual free concert and reception April 28 at 2 p.m. on campus. Leckrone will also take part in the commencement ceremonies on May 10 and 11.
Mike Leckrone knows how to make an entrance. Making an exit is much harder.
Since 2014, Wisconsin universities have received 74 AFRI grants totaling $38 million. These grants have gone to projects such as studying the impact of climate change on dairy production at UW-Madison and research on improved food access for rural, low-income communities at Northland College in Ashland. Locally, this means we are improving an industry that is a cornerstone to our economy. Globally, this allows us to maintain food-supply chains and remain a world leader in agriculture.
Tears streamed down Susannah Peterson’s cheeks as she thought about what she had just heard Saturday night. At the end of that evening’s Humorology variety show at Shannon Hall, UW-Madison students announced they were donating $405,000 dollars to the non-profit Peterson leads—The Badger Childhood Cancer Network (BCCN).
“The challenge for them is of growth, and many, many good companies have been felled by the challenge of growth,” said Hart Posen, who studies corporate strategy and strategic decision-making at the UW-Madison School of Business. “The key is understanding how to grow, but in the last 15 to 20 years, they’ve made a lot of very smart decisions.”
“It’s an amazing thing — this idea of commissioning playwrights to create work” for this age group, said Jessica Fisch, who teaches acting at the University of Illinois-Chicago and is directing “Twilight Bowl” for UW-Madison’s Department of Theatre and Drama.
Noted: Jennifer Van Os, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of dairy science, said she knows of no scientific research published on the effects of wind turbines on cattle.
Column by Samuel Ropa, Center for Religion and Global Citizenry interfaith student fellow.
More than 600 students from around Wisconsin convened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Saturday to vie in the state competition for National History Day.
Meanwhile, not a single study in the U.S. has shown that killing wolves reduces depredation, says Francisco Santiago-Ávila, a Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Carnivore Coexistence Lab.
Quoted: One strange event may be luck; two suggest something more interesting,” asserts John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Pedestrians wait to cross University Ave on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as snow falls in Madison, Wisconsin.
Kitty graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1962 and from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology.
Esther met Joshua Lederberg shortly before she graduated from Stanford. They married months later, when she was 23 and he was 21, and soon headed off to the University of Wisconsin, where they would begin years of fruitful collaboration and she would earn a Ph.D. Joshua, by all accounts a brilliant thinker, became famous for his big ideas. Esther, meanwhile, developed expertise as an experimentalist, doing the often tedious work of testing big ideas in the lab.
The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) hosted the 13th Annual Line Breaks Festival last week featuring performances, lectures, and discussions by First Wave student scholars, alumni and invited professional artists.
One of the most prestigious scholarships in the country, the Truman Scholarship provides recipients with a $30,000 award toward graduate school and opportunities to participate in public service leadership professional development.
Other than Leckrone himself, no one may be more aware of how many minutes are left before the curtain rises than Lois Levenhagen of Beaver Dam.
Developed in response to large deficit, plan received major backlash from faculty, students.
Music is ever-present in college students’ lives. Music education should be too.
The campus that started a tradition of celebrating planet Earth is connecting back to its environmentalist spirits, while integrating its most recent mission: inclusion.
After more than a year of deliberation, UW-Stevens Point humanities majors will be saved from potential cuts — but at a cost.
The Babcock Hall Dairy Store is featuring its newest flavor, March on Leckrone, a vanilla ice cream with cranberry swirls and white chocolate flakes, at Memorial Union and Union South, as well as at the store at 1605 Linden Drive.
For the second time in three years, the UW-Whitewater Warhawks are searching for a director of intercollegiate athletics. Current A.D. Todd Garzarelli has accepted the same position at Indiana University Pennsylvania.
The program will be presented by Dr. Teryl Dobbs, a music professor and chair of music education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and researcher affiliated with the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.
Quoted: “This approach is much more labor intensive than the CDC’s approach,” says Maureen Durkin, professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who leads the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. “It’s true that the more you look for autism, the more you’ll find.”
Quoted: Moon will be looking for a South Korean exception to international sanctions on North Korea, said David Fields, the associate director of the Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin psychologist Shilagh A. Mirgain has offered tips on how to avoid a crash landing, such as savoring the memories and planning a new goal or happy event. “I’m a big fan of repurposing and thinking about what’s next,” Mirgain said. “When I come back from vacation I have my next travel destination chosen. Athletes can focus on the next race, and someone who just had a wedding could start thinking about the honeymoon or one-year anniversary.”
University officials said Wednesday they will retain majors in French, German, history, geography, geoscience and two art concentrations.
Gym houses diverse groups, acts as gathering place.
A photo slideshow.
A photo slideshow of the campus event.
Babcock Hall’s newest flavor is called March on Leckrone. The flavor is a vanilla cranberry swirl ice cream with white chocolate flakes.
University of Wisconsin Director of Bands Mike Leckrone has said over the years, he would know when it was time to retire.Now that the moment is almost here, Leckrone has mixed feelings.
The University of Wisconsin Law School’s graduating class has selected the Honorable Everett Mitchell to present the keynote address at its 2019 Hooding Ceremony, a special recognition for students receiving law degrees.
Panelists say UW needs to take more direct action in supporting minority students in STEM fields.
New Nat will have gender neutral bathrooms, locker rooms, Rec Sports director says.
The survey includes questions about students’ experience with the preserve in order to gain information on their understanding of the space.
Dr. Westman was on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Michigan until 1965 when he established the Child Psychiatry Division at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
A little over a year after proposing to eliminate 13 academic majors, UW-Stevens Point announced that no programs will be discontinued.
On Tuesday, just over 50 of Deltas came to the Capitol from across the state. There are three alumnae chapters and four collegiate chapters in Wisconsin, including one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Letter to the editor: Congratulations to the many people over the years who have created the UW Arboretum on Madison’s West Side. This Wisconsin treasure has recently been added to the National Register of Historical Places.
UW-Madison officials are hoping lawmakers will help pay to build a new veterinary school on campus.
UW administrators have taken (Terry) Fritter seriously, especially as the technician with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has advocated for strengthening the role of the University Staff Congress. The Congress is the largest representative shared governance body for university staff at UW-Madison.
Those who were not reappointed include Public Service Commissioner Ellen Nowak and University of Wisconsin Regent Scott Beightol. The Evers’ administration denied Nowak access to her building when she tried to return to work. The Regents took a different approach, allowing Beightol and student Regent Torrey Tiedeman to attend the board’s meeting last week.
Evers voided 82 appointments made during the lame-duck session and later reinstated 67 of them. Fifteen positions, including a spot on the Public Service Commission and University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, were not reinstated.
Noted: Reading Monica M. White’s new book, “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement” (University of North Carolina Press), I couldn’t help but think about the family farm my mother grew up on, and the supportive community of black farmers our family was a part of in Florida’s Panhandle.
Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US have developed a spectrometer so small and simple that it could integrate with the camera of a typical cellphone without sacrificing accuracy.
Next came a $100 million gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a venture fund, and competitions to design the innovation centers, with fast turnarounds — just two weeks to submit proposals — and plans to open in just months.
The more high-profile members Evers removed include Scott Beightol, Walker’s pick for the UW System Board of Regents, and Ellen Nowak, who served on the Public Service Commission.
Spectators want more than a show. They want to witness UW Bands director Mike Leckrone’s last “last”: the sold-out concert series — slated for Thursday, Friday and Saturday — that will cap an end to a storied 50-year career before he retires this academic year.
Former athletes including Melvin Gordon III, Carey Lohrenz and more posted tributes to the university in support of the fundraiser.
For 71 years each April, students in the campus Greek community have staged the competitive, juried musical variety numbers. The cast members from the fraternities and sororities also compete to raise the most money for a local non-profit.
