From afar, Patrick Herb wasn’t sure what to expect from the ESPN2 color analyst for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s late December game at the University of California in Berkeley.
He had known Bill Walton to be gregarious and maybe off-topic on the broadcasts. But he was pleasantly surprised with how much the former UCLA star put into his pre-game preparation.
Get ready for Friday games to start and end the 2024 regular season, University of Wisconsin football fans.
The study, conducted by UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health researchers, was funded in part through a partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook. The company, according to UW-Madison, played no role in the study’s design, analysis or reporting.
Atop detective at the UW-Madison Police Department has a two-decade history of being the subject of misconduct investigations and discipline for lying, berating and endangering the public and colleagues, refusing to follow orders, and more, according to documents obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal through an open records request.
Bob Atwell, one of two remaining members appointed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, told UW system leaders he planned to continue serving after his term expired on May 1. Atwell said his decision was based on advice he received from top legislative Republicans, which was confirmed by UW President Jay Rothman.
Evers on Friday named Tim Nixon, Jack Salzwedel and Desmond Adongo to fill vacancies created by the May expiration of three former appointees’ terms.
There’s a farm in the little town of Arlington, 20 miles north of Madison, that looks and smells like any other Wisconsin dairy operation. Its 550 cows are milked twice daily, once before dawn and again in the afternoon, like they are at thousands of dairy farms across the state.
But at this farm — the University of Wisconsin’s Agricultural Research Station — when a cow eats, gets milked and burps, a data point is created. That data collection is helping researchers at UW-Madison adapt Wisconsin’s herd to the challenges of climate change.
The project also brought in a range of local voices to shape its content — from not only the museum’s own education department but also from representatives from UW-Madison, Vilas Zoo, members of different cultural groups and others.
Mental illness isn’t just a pervasive problem in the U.S.—one in five adults experience it each year, per the nonprofit National Alliance on Mental Illness—it’s also an expensive one, costing the economy $282 billion annually. This, according to a new study by economists at Yale and Columbia universities and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Providing exceptional school meals for millions of US children won’t come without a collective struggle, and our analysis of school food politics around the world reminds us to raise the bar in what we’re fighting for.
-Jennifer Gaddis is an associate professor in civil society and community studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Evers announced that he has appointed Tim Nixon to succeed Robert Atwell. Nixon works on law firm Godfrey & Kahn’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Team. He holds a bachelor’s degree from UW-Green Bay and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Around the same time, James Kardatzke, an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, started scraping up congressional data. In 2020, he launched one of the first websites that tracked trades disclosed by Pelosi, whose venture capitalist husband, Paul, is a successful investor. (The former speaker has long maintained that she does not personally own any stock and has no knowledge of or involvement with her husband’s investments.
Native Americans have held widely divergent views about citizenship and voting, said Torey Dolan, a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School and citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Some view U.S. citizenship as incompatible with being Indigenous people; others see it more like dual citizenship.
“It’s a really pragmatic approach that’s put together in a very thoughtful fashion,” said Art Walaszek, a professor of psychiatry and medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who’s been involved in that effort.
Gov. Tony Evers announced three new appointments Friday to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents. Tim Nixon, Jack Salzwedel and Desmond Adongo are filling the spots of three members whose terms expired this month.
UW could benefit from independent governing system, new budget model, expert says
Evers appointed Tim Nixon, Jack Salzwedel and Desmond Adongo to fill the vacancies, which expired May 1st.
Low trust in campus administration remains in the month following the police raid on the UW-Madison pro-Palestine encampment.
The study, conducted by UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health researchers, was funded in part through a partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook. The company, according to UW-Madison, played no role in the study’s design, analysis or reporting.
In emails and communications that ticket customers shared with BadgerExtra, Wisconsin informed some fans with men’s basketball seats in the lower level, particularly on the sidelines near the court, that their location won’t be available in the same setup starting in the 2024-25 season.
Michael Wagner, a professor at UW-Madison, says most voters have already chosen if they’ll support Trump in the next election, but small differences between Biden and Trump could matter in a state like Wisconsin.
New research from UW-Madison shows smartphone use could have benefits for young people.
University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Adam Stevenson said he did not think the jury would come to a decision this soon. “The timing of the verdict was surprising as well as how quickly the jury agreed, all 12 of them, that all 34 counts were met and met at that felony level,” Adam Stevenson said.
Are there enough paid internships?No. Only two out of three internships offer compensation for students at four-year colleges. The situation is worse for students at two-year institutions, where 50% of internships are unpaid.
“It’s still pretty cool if you saw one, but it’s not — get ready — something out of the blue,” said Dan Young, director of the University of Wisconsin’s insect research collection.
First-year University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students Marian Azeem-Angel and Rusal Ferus were sitting at the Memorial Union terrace when they saw the news of the guilty verdicts.
The government has been trying to boost consumption by lowering the savings rate, but it has been unsuccessful because such an increase could only be achieved by raising household incomes and strengthening the social safety net, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Fuxian Yi wrote in an unpublished report he shared with Newsweek.
xecutive director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Podcast includes segment with Daniel Hummel, a fellow in the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
While researching a book on ruffed grouse in the late 1980s, I discovered that scientists from the University of Wisconsin had similarly identified a parasite (Dispharynx nasuta) that they hypothesized was causing populations of the woodland gamebird to decline.
Now, Matt Minich and Megan Moreno at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have gone further, showing a positive association with smartphones. They enlisted 253 children in the US to take part in a six-day study, sending them 30 short surveys via text at random times between 9am and 9pm.
The dozen new members of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame have a decorated history: Four won NCAA championships, seven were All-Americans and two won Rose Bowls.
Wednesday is the last day high school juniors in the Madison School District can opt in to the Universities of Wisconsin direct admissions program, which proactively offers admission to qualifying high schoolers and allows them to sidestep the traditional college application process.
A Madison man is facing a felony charge after police say he interfered with the May 1 raid of an unsanctioned pro-Palestinian encampment on the UW-Madison campus.
Still, this is a unique phenomenon that people in the Badger State won’t experience again until 2041. Known on social media as the “Wisconsin Bug Guy” P.J. Liesch is particularly excited about the swarms of cicadas that have already started to pop up and make noise here.
“I turn 40 years old next year, and I have not seen these yet with my own eyes,” said Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the state’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory used milk samples collected from infected cows on farms in New Mexico and Kansas.
Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said it was a bad call. And, she added, if she were at the Post she would have argued for the paper to be more forthcoming. While Martha-Ann Alito has the right to her own opinions, a flag like that shouldn’t be on display outside the home of a U.S. Supreme Court justice, Culver said. “It’s a flag that flies in the face of the neutrality that the Supreme Court is supposed to be observing,” she said.
In fact, there is data showing a lack of overt bias. A study of the University of North Carolina system, for example, found that direct discussion of politics comes up in only 8 percent of classes. In the University of Wisconsin system, “students reported substantially more frequent encouragement than discouragement of exploring a variety of viewpoints.”
“In order to make childbearing seem like an easy option, having more kids an easy option, you’d have to go even further than many of the states that have strong social-safety-net systems,” said Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin and the author of the forthcoming “Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net.”
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team rounded out its coaching staff with the addition of assistant Frozena Jerro, the program announced Wednesday night.
Dreamers live under a microscope; any mistake could jeopardize their status, said Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
“Someone who has DACA is already incredibly accomplished and has had no errors in their ways for their entire life because they basically have been forced to have a perfect life — in academics and employment and with their character — in order to qualify for DACA,” Barbato said.
“I think you can show what has happened to real wages for teachers in Wisconsin when they’re not allowed to bargain over wages,” said Michael Childers, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who researches organized labor issues. “And what does that do to every other aspect in terms of teacher turnover and the ability to recruit and retain people to come to the profession. We’re 10 years in, there’s enough data.”
The Madison Police Department Special Events Team was assisting the UW-Madison Police Department in breaking up a tent encampment at Library Mall. MPD spokesperson Stephanie Fryer said, while on campus, a man pulled an officer to the ground and attempted to disarm her of her wooden baton.
Mann Scholar Alum Remarks were given by Dr. Alisa King-Klemperer, the first ever Mann Scholar to get her doctorate degree. She is now the communications manager at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), a scientific center for astroparticle research located at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
The initiative, known as the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program, is launching for undergraduate, medical degree, law degree, and currently enrolled Native American students.
Each Thursday and Saturday beginning this week, the group will offer guided one- to two-hour walks focused on the Greenbush, Maple Bluff, Mansion Hill East, Westmorland and Vilas neighborhoods, as well as the UW-Madison agricultural campus, Orton Park and King Street areas.
Wells started taking classes at Madison College last year. But the chain of events that led to earning her degree stretches back to 2007, when Mary Wells participated in the UW Odyssey Project.
These are the voters whom Republican candidates risk losing if they take a strong stance on abortion bans, according to Mariel Barnes, a political scientist at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“This presents a problem for the Republican Party and Republican candidates,” Barnes told the Cap Times. “Because they’re trying to satisfy this more extreme wing in the party that wants to restrict abortion under almost all circumstances, when it is actually very unpopular with the center of the party, and you need the center of the party to get elected.”
In 1970 she was employed by the School of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, serving as Undergraduate Advisor in Music Education, and for ten years, from 1976 to 1986, also as administrator of the Summer Music Clinics for junior and senior high school students. She retired from the university in 1998.
Behnke, 63, who grew up in Madison and went to college and law school at UW-Madison, was nominated in February to be ABA president. If confirmed in a vote in August, she will be president-elect for a year before becoming president next year.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory gave droplets of raw milk from cows that were infected to five mice. On the first day they showed signs of sickness, according to the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Two renovation projects at Camp Randall Stadium have entered the final push now that the University of Wisconsin’s spring commencement is in the rearview mirror.
But this is still a chatbot. In just a week, Google users have pointed out all kinds of inaccuracies with the new AI tool. It has reportedly asserted that dogs have played in the NFL and that President Andrew Johnson had 14 degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
“Don’t drink raw milk — that’s the message.”Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led a study that added to existing evidence that unpasteurized milk may bring a risk for bird flu in mammals, including humans.
“These claims — I’m a chemist by trade — just make no sense whatsoever on any kind of science or chemistry basis,” University of Wisconsin–Madison food science professor John Lucey told The Hill. “I’ve been doing research on dairy products and milk for 20-plus years,” Lucey added. “In my field, nobody gives credence to these fantastic claims.”
Cameron Huss capped an exceptional four-year University of Wisconsin golf career with his first trip to the NCAA Division 1 National Championship, but the senior fell just short of reaching Monday’s final round in Carlsbad, California.
Here are five major Madison-area road projects to be on the lookout for this season.
Like humans, dogs can be allergic to pollens, dust mites, and mold spores, which typically shouldn’t pose a threat to the body. “You can think of allergy as an overactive immune system,” says Douglas DeBoer, a veterinarian and professor of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. “Your immune system normally is supposed to be protecting you from foreign things like bacteria and viruses. In some cases, your immune system becomes overactive and it starts responding to things in the environment that it shouldn’t be responding to.” He adds that allergies often develop in a dog’s first three years of life.
The research, conducted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, involved feeding raw milk to mice and stimulating different approaches to pasteurization, which uses heat to inactivate pathogens in milk, to see whether they could grow active virus from the heat-treated samples.
“It’s a really pragmatic approach that’s put together in a very thoughtful fashion,” said Art Walaszek, a professor of psychiatry and medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who has been involved in that effort.
