Via social media, mass emails and other local news outlets, the university has made an effort to prepare students for the dropping temperatures by offering tips for students going to class. McGlone highlighted the importance of wearing appropriate gear and utilizing the Madison Metro Buses in order to minimize time spent outside.
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How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin
But in 1961 a young freewheelin’ Dylan made a vital stop in Madison, WI, where he checked out the folk scene and hung out with Marshall Brickman and Eric Weissberg. Brickman became a noted screenwriter, winning an Oscar for cowriting “Annie Hall” with Woody Allen; Weissberg went on to record the “Dueling Banjos” theme for “Deliverance.” Through the Madison folk scene Dylan caught probably one of the most pivotal concerts of his young life — Peter Seeger at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mystery outbreak of human viruses is killing chimpanzees in Uganda forest
’These are very common human viruses that circulate worldwide and cause ’the sniffles’ in kids,’ Tony Goldberg, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor, said.
Islwyn Watkins obituary
Together with Bruce Lacey, John Latham and others, they created the sTigma, a 1965 installation at Better Books in Charing Cross Road, London. Islwyn left for the US, taking a master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and taking part in other remarkable happenings.
Lakes ‘skating on thin ice’ as warming limits freeze
“The deeper the lake is, the more heat storage it has and it takes more cold weather to get the lake down to a temp where it could freeze,” said Prof John Magnuson, a co-author from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As Wisconsin farmers struggle, new effort aims to prevent suicide
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program started a farmer suicide prevention project this month. The effort, funded by a $50,000 grant from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Wisconsin Partnership Program, was prompted by an increase in stories about suicides or suicidal thoughts among farmers, said Wally Orzechowski, executive director.
UW-Madison hosts Farm and Industry Short Course Reunion
The University of Wisconsin is one of the only universities in the country to offer a short course program, a hybrid between attending a four-year university and a technical college. Most graduates go on to work in production agriculture or a related field.
UW System uses federal funds for $6.3 million agreement involving UW-Oshkosh Foundation
The University of Wisconsin System will use federal money to pay off bank loans taken out by the UW-Oshkosh Foundation, according to agreements released Friday.
Former UW sociology professor Erik Olin Wright dies at 71
Wright focused his research on inequality, alternatives to capitalism.
Editorial Board: Fake outrage over class syllabus shows that sometimes facts really don’t care about your feelings
Mayer’s choice to include this background information about our current president is not a product of his own bias — it is rather the product of an awareness that our current political moment is unlike anything we’ve seen before.
UW student alleging bias in political science prof’s syllabus now expects class to be objective
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student whose Facebook post alleging liberal bias by a political science professor went viral this week said that after attending two lectures, she doesn’t think the class will be slanted.
UW System uses federal dollars to pay off loans amid UW-Oshkosh Foundation bankruptcy
The UW System used money designated to administrative costs, meaning that no state taxpayer money was put towards the loans, according to UW System spokesperson, Heather LaRoi. This money comes from reimbursements for administrative spending by the system that came with federal grant activity.
Know Your Madisonian: UW-Madison professor talks Twitter, awkward job interviews
Q&A with UW-Madison geography professor Kris Olds.
Rutgers professor discusses racial tensions, disparities in public health policy
At University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s Diversity Summit Thursday, the keynote speaker sketched the racial tensions and inequities present within the field of public health, citing studies from life expectancy rates to demographic income disparities.
Political neutrality in question: UW-Madison professor receives backlash for course syllabus
After attending the first two lectures of “The American Presidency,” along with sitting down with Mayer to discuss her concerns about the course, McKenna Collins said she feels her voice will be heard in his class.
Renowned UW-Madison sociology professor Erik Olin Wright dies at 71
Erik Olin Wright, a renowned UW-Madison sociologist known internationally for his writings on inequality and “real utopias” published in his 42-year campus career, died Wednesday at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee. He was 71.
How Politics Are Reshaping the College Presidency
A board has a responsibility to a university, one that can be corrupted when political ideologies are introduced, Harris said. “That fundamentally damages a university, and that can take generations to recover from,” he said. He pointed to the damage that politics have done to the University of Wisconsin system as an example.
You can’t control what you can’t find: Detecting invasive species while they’re still scarce
Jake Walsh, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Most of the 10,000 ships lost to the bottom of the Great Lakes in wrecks over the past 400 years are still lost – hidden somewhere in 6 quadrillion gallons of water. Finding anything in a lake is a lesson in humility, so life as a freshwater biologist is always humbling. If we can’t account for huge steel freighters, imagine the challenge of finding a single tiny organism.
Report: Lots Of Access To Pre-K, But Quality Sometimes Lacking
Quoted: “Particularly in large urban areas they can’t afford to have a class that low,” said Graue, director of University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Research in Early Childhood Education.
America’s top universities unplug from China’s Huawei under pressure from Trump
The University of California at Berkeley has removed a Huawei video-conferencing system, a university official said, while the UC campus in Irvine is working to replace five pieces of Chinese-made audio-video equipment. Other schools, such as the University of Wisconsin, are in the process of reviewing their suppliers.
Downtrend in milk prices
“Exports as a percentage of U.S. milk production have been climbing,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Every major downturn in the U.S. all milk price corresponds to times when export growth has been off trend or down.”
Remembering Erik Olin Wright
Erik Olin Wright, a University of Wisconsin–Madison sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association, died from acute myeloid leukemia on January 23, 2019. He was 72.
How to Stop Rogue Gene-Editing of Human Embryos?
Quoted: In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, recommended a “comprehensive ecosystem of public and private entities that can restrain the rogues among us.”
Mosquito-fighting bacteria
Most of the candidates discovered to date have been based on plant products. But now, in an article published in Science Advances, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Mayur Kajla and his colleagues have discovered that chemicals produced by the bacterium Xenorhabdus can deter multiple mosquito species from feeding. And they do it with equivalent – or better – efficacy than DEET
Evers Walks Back Comments As Legislature’s Attorney Says He Can’t Stop ACA Lawsuit
Quoted: Howard Schweber, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, said it could be up to the judicial system to decide the dispute.
How noise pollution affects your mental health – Triggers anxiety, reduces learning and other effects on body
According to a child psychologist from the University of Wisconsin Madison, noise can act as a hindrance in the learning abilities of a child, especially a language. Constant background noise can lead to reduced ability of understanding words that the child already knows, and also of learning new ones.
The shutdown is Trump’s ultimate attack on American intellectual life
Today marks day 33 of the government shutdown. Some 380,00 government employees are furloughed, and an additional 420,000 are required to work without pay, with many of them pressed to find temporary jobs, start GoFundMe pages or hawk their personal possessions.
PHOTOS: Mike Leckrone recognized by Gov. Evers
The acknowledgement came at the end of the State of the State address.
The person they were meant to be
Noted: Things are slowly changing at the institutional level, says Mel Freitag, diversity officer and associate clinical professor at the UW–Madison School of Nursing. Today’s incoming students have been raised with more evidence-based and anecdotal education about gender identity, and they’re pointing out the gaps in class, a phenomenon known as “upteaching.”
Van Fleet, Rudy
Rudy spent 26 years with the University of Wisconsin Extension as a farm management agent in Columbia County
How low-income parents are working to to help their children with autism
That means the needs of an untold number of children aren’t being met. It also has serious ramifications for research, because it can skew estimates of autism, says Maureen Durkin, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: “It means that the prevalence of autism is probably even higher than we’re measuring.”
DreamUp Wisconsin finalists selected, strive for prosperous Dane County
After serious deliberation, the DreamUp initiative successfully narrowed down to three proposals aimed at boosting and strengthening Dane County’s middle class.
Teaching about Trump: Republican lawmaker criticizes UW-Madison professor’s syllabus
Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, leveled the criticism Wednesday in a letter to UW-Madison professor Kenneth Mayer, who is teaching “The American Presidency” this semester. The first lecture took place Tuesday.
Where Sloths Find These Branches, Their Family Trees Expand
For almost ten years, Jonathan Pauli and M. Zachariah Peery, professors at the University of Wisconsin, and their colleagues have been tracking a group of sloths in Costa Rica. The animals are equipped with radio collars that transmit their location five or six times a month, so the team knows where each sloth’s usual territory is.
American Family To Take Over Naming Rights At Miller Park In 2021
The Brewers deal is just the latest sports partnership for Madison, Wis.-based American Family. The company entered the sports marketing world in 2014 when it aired a Super Bowl spot featuring former University of Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson.
Alcohol-related disease overtakes hepatitis C as top reason for liver transplant
There is nothing magical about six months, according to Dr. Michael Lucey, medical director of the University of Wisconsin liver transplant program. He said it shows a poor understanding of alcohol abuse as a “very complex behavioral disorder.”
Protecting Monarch Butterflies Could Mean Moving Hundreds of Trees
Quoted: Rising temperatures and habitat destruction at the butterflies’ breeding sites in the United States and Canada are the major drivers of monarch declines, says Karen Oberhauser, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Letter to the Editor: A response to Econ 101 from Chancellor Rebecca Blank
John Roach’s recent column [“Econ 101,” January 2019] claimed that UW–Madison is inaccessible to all but the wealthy due to tuition increases and high student debt. This is a persistent myth that causes many students to wrongly assume that UW–Madison is beyond their reach.
Mike Leckrone recognized by Gov. Evers during State of the State address
“Before we get started, I also want to recognize someone else who’s here with us tonight,” Evers said at the beginning of his address. “He’s a Wisconsin institution and embodies both the soul of our campus and the spirit of our state.”
Lt. Gov. Energizes Crowd at UW MLK Event
Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes addressed University of Wisconsin- Madison faculty, students and community members in a inspiring keynote on Monday afternoon at UW’s annual MLK Day Celebration.
UW study finds black youths less protected in schools than white counterparts
Researchers hope their work may prompt more diverse, culturally-aware studies in the future.
UW study finds student athletes report better mental health than non-athlete peers
Researchers hope study will prompt review, reassessment of mental health programs at universities nationwide.
Scientists are learning how to farm on Mars through trail and error
Quoted: “Watering plants in space is really hard because water moves differently because there’s no gravity. If you get the water onto soil particles, it’ll just creep over the surface,” said Simon Gilroy, a botanist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches the effects of gravity on plant growth. He was not involved with the new study.
Smart Cities Competition selects 14 UW Madison students as first round winners
Foxconn sponsored competition encourages technological innovation, collaboration
Warning as researchers find common cold and other human viruses are killing wild chimps in Uganda
’These are very common human viruses that circulate worldwide and cause ’the sniffles’ in kids,’ Tony Goldberg, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor, said.
Yellowstone is in our hands
Just a few days ago, scientists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison issued a disturbing projection following a multiyear forest experiment: Expect the beloved forests of Yellowstone National Park to be replaced by grasslands sometime around mid-century.
Foxconn fails to receive state tax credits
After making progress on their Wisconsin headquarters throughout 2018, Foxconn Technology Group announced Friday they did not reach their set hiring goal of 250 full-time employees in order to receive state tax credits.
A history of hate on campus
“The degree of racism and anti-semitism … was just part and parcel of the university world at the time,” said Stu Levitan, a Madison historian and author.
UW-Madison student to appear in NBC’s “Titan Games”
A UW-Madison kinesiology major is the latest area resident to compete on a network athletic competition. Jack Kwan, 20, is scheduled to appear in “The Titan Games,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, on NBC at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Shutdown Stories : Campus research hindered, future of academic collaboration on the line
Before the government shutdown started, Dominick Ciruzzi, a PhD student in the hydroecology lab, had never considered how a lapse in federal funding might personally affect him. However, over the last 33 days, he and his colleagues have been unable to apply for federal grants or contact their collaborators in federal scientific research agencies, which could have long-term consequences on his research.
UW System finds unpreparedness of students in English, math: Does that mean Wisconsin high school education is failing students? | The Daily Cardinal
Students from 196 high schools throughout Wisconsin were required to take remedial math or English within the UW System in their freshman year. Thousands of students that are taking these classes are coming into college unprepared, according to a UW System report from fall 2017.
Wisconsin producers worry over hay shortage, high prices
Richard Halopka, a crops and soils agent with University of Wisconsin-Extension in Clark County, said he doesn’t believe there’s a hay shortage in Wisconsin, but rather the hay available is lower quality than people would like to purchase. Halopka said the biggest price increases have been for low quality hay.
Wisconsin farming history exhibit tours the state
“The Lands We Share” exhibit backed by the University of Wisconsin has been touring the state since October, Wisconsin Public Radio reported. The exhibit , comprising oral histories, artifacts and images, will make its last stop in Madison on May 8.
Losing the Humanity of Transplants
Surgeons like me, who work in the field of organ transplant, have been repeating a cliché for decades about the idea of using other animals’ organs to replace failing ones in humans: “It’s the future, and it always will be.” By: Joshua Mezrich
Turning moments into movements: Annual Wisconsin MLK ceremony honors women change makers
In her invocation, Rabbi Andrea Steinberger, a rabbi at the Hillel Foundation on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, pointed to powerful examples of women, ranging from the Biblical Hannah to civil rights activist Rosa Parks to “women who by their efforts of resistance led us on a path towards the women’s marches of today.”
Federal shutdown benches Madison scientists, research lab staff
“We have people with a Ph.D. who have taken a job cleaning houses,” said Lon Yeary, deputy director of Forest Products Laboratory, which employs about 140 people at its facility on the west side of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Horlbeck, Frank R.
Frank joined the faculty of the Art History Department at UW-Madison in 1958, retiring in 1995 after 36 years of committed service to the university and his students.
China seems to confirm scientist’s gene-edited babies claim
Quoted: The statement shows that “scientific leadership is taking this situation seriously,” said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin bioethicist and one of the leaders of the Hong Kong conference.
Bologna, sausages of all sorts and, of course, bacon star in international competition at UW-Madison
And while some of the stars of this week’s international competition at UW-Madison hail from Wisconsin, there is not a cheddar, Gouda or mozzarella to be found.
UW Engineering Centers building evacuated by smoke; nobody injured
Smoke inside the UW-Madison Engineering Centers building on Monday forced the evacuation of the facility, but nobody was injured.