During that ancient time, known as the mid-Pliocene epoch, temperatures were higher by about 2 to 4 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels were higher by roughly 20 meters (almost 66 feet) than today, explained Kevin D. Burke, lead author of the study and a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the moves defy his state’s long history of deferring to incoming officials — even those in the opposite party — after elections.
“We are living through, and causing, a geological-scale episode of global change, and are climatically rewinding the clock by millions of years,” John “Jack” Williams, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek.
‘We can use the past as a yardstick to understand the future, which is so different from anything we have experienced in our lifetimes,’ says paleoecologist John “Jack” Williams, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 1970, she became a laboratory technician at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. For over 20 years she was involved in cancer research.
“If we think about the future in terms of the past, where we are going is uncharted territory for human society. We are moving towards very dramatic changes over an extremely rapid time frame, reversing a planetary cooling trend in a matter of centuries,” says the study’s lead author, Kevin Burke, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison).
John Williams, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that in 25 years society had gone from expecting climate change to seeing its harmful effects.
Though he won’t be competing directly against star performers, Jim Leary, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian Studies, was nominated for his second Grammy, this time for writing the album notes for “Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924,” an album of folk tunes recorded by a Wisconsin label.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor, David Canon said depending if Walker vetoes, signs the bills, or makes changes, it will set the tone at the statehouse for the next four years.
UW–Madison alumna Velvalea “Vel” Phillips was the first woman judge in Milwaukee County and the first African American elected to the Milwaukee Common Council and to statewide office in Wisconsin.
With UW Colleges, Extension going through transitional period, funding for student services has become concerning.
Maintaining state infrastructure deemed crucial to Wisconsin, Mississippi Export Railroads.
From crime to politics and everything in between, there has never been a dull moment of reporting this semester.
The last, sustained ruffed grouse research in Wisconsin was conducted through the late 1980s by University of Wisconsin researchers Donald Rusch, James Holzwart and Robert Small. Their work was published in 1991 in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
Quoted: “Even though technically a naked-eye comet doesn’t have to be very bright, they’re still relatively unusual,” said Jim Lattis, director of University of Wisconsin Space Place, UW-Madison’s astronomy outreach center.
Noted: Between 2000 and 2013, more than three-quarters of all buildings destroyed by fire in California were in the state’s WUI, and more were destroyed there than in all the WUI areas across the rest of the continental U.S. combined, according to a recent study led by Anu Kramer, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Their understanding of who counts, and who ought to count, is tied to an urban and rural divide that encompasses divisions along race, economic class, education, and ideology. In The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness and the Rise of Scott Walker, Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shows how the state’s politics have been shaped by a rural sense of “distributive injustice—a sense that rural folks don’t get their fair share.”
The author, Evan Polman, an assistant professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, cites a paper he co-wrote about the different ways people make decisions for themselves and for others.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Republicans “seem to be under the impression that separation of powers refers to parties rather than branches of government.”
“We are not changing our building patterns to become more fire resilient if we just put houses in the exact same places,” said Volker Radeloff, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the lead author of the study.
NOTED: Howard Schweber is a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says Republicans seem to believe that separation of powers refers to parties rather than branches of government.
The Friends of UW Health’s Love Lights event on Saturday helped people who have lost loved ones over the past year cope with the difficulties of the holidays.
Members include Jonathan Scharrer, Restorative Justice Project, University of Wisconsin Law School.
University of Wisconsin System schools made their pitch to the Board of Regents this week at the UW-La Crosse. One topic discussed, focuses on more money in return for increased emphasis on helping students better prepare for successful careers in high demand fields.
Tuition for 2019-20 academic year set to increase $810, $828 in academic year 2020-21.
The Board of Regents approved lucrative raises for 10 of the 13 chancellors during a closed meeting Thursday at UW-La Crosse, saying the chancellors’ salaries must remain competitive to ensure quality leaders stay in their jobs.
UW–Madison freshman Max Bobholz started Angels at Bat, a nonprofit that collects and distributes baseball equipment for children in rural Kenya.
Nearly a quarter of UW-Extension faculty left in the 2018 fiscal year, the highest rate among all campuses or divisions within the University of Wisconsin System, according to an annual faculty turnover report presented Friday to the UW Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin System’s governing board behind closed doors denied its longest-serving chancellor a performance raise, an action UW System President Ray Cross already warned of last month following UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow’s decision to invite a porn star to speak on campus.
The session — involving Richard Russell, 74, of Madison, who works as a mock patient to help young doctors learn — is part of a growing effort at UW-Madison and around the state to better prepare health care providers to serve an aging population.
The Evers standard was particularly notable last Thursday, when the state superintendent of public instruction attended his last meeting as a member of the UW Board of Regents. Gracious and good-humored, Evers acknowledged that he had often disagreed with outgoing Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees to the board and added “there’s nothing wrong with that in a democracy.”
Eleven patients at UW Hospital have developed Legionnaires’ disease, apparently from the hospital’s hot water system, and four of them remain in the hospital, officials said Friday.
A Madison man who slipped into a UW-Madison dormitory last year and groped two female students as they slept in their beds was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison.
Don Stanley started teaching a course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about podcasting, blogging and social media in 2008. That’s eons in social media years. It also dates back to a time when brands like Facebook and Twitter were more associated with fun and community than identity theft and fake news.
The UW UniverCity Year program is sending a team of senior students from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to Juda’s 300 student K-12 school to create a proposal that would lower the facility’s energy expenses by 25 percent.
The Board of Regents unanimously approved the pay plan at a meeting in La Crosse Thursday. Regents also backed an identical pay plan for UW-Madison.
Jonathan Taylor’s Heisman Trophy chances slipped further from reality as the University of Wisconsin continued to fall down — and eventually out of — the national rankings.
From the Crazylegs Classic race to Maxwell Street Days, Downtown Madison is a magnet for events. But a city staff proposal could force many popular ones to change starting times, routes or days and perhaps deter new ones.
Gov.-elect Tony Evers, at his last meeting as a member of the UW Board of Regents, briefly outlined a vision for higher education that has often been at odds with a board governed almost entirely by Gov. Scott Walker appointees.
Though anti-Semitism among students manifests itself in graffiti or harassment, it finds a stable home online.
In attempting to focus on Wisconsin residents, UW risks discouraging out-of-state applicants.
Housing Director Jeff Novak said cost of living is increasing to compensate for rising operational costs.
The Faculty Senate voted to reject a new proposal aimed at extensive and expedited reviews of majors in the UW System Monday in an effort to send a message to system officials.
For the last 25 years, the Center for Educational Opportunity has served the UW-Madison community. This Friday, an event will be held to honor the accomplishments of the program and it’s students.
Concerns of future enrollment growth accomodations paved the way for discussion on housing accessibility and affordability.
The number of international graduate students’ enrollment at UW-Madison is significantly higher than the national average — it was close to 2,703 in Fall 2017, nearly half as many as the 4,791 American students, according to UW-Madison’s Office of the Registrar.
The University of Wisconsin’s new policy protecting free speech is about to be put to a test thanks to a brouhaha over a campus speaker. But it isn’t students who feel triggered and are raising a stink—it’s the university system president, Ray Cross, who claims to be a protector of free speech.
Quoted: These actions are also unfolding quickly. In Wisconsin, less than a week elapsed between the rough outlines of that state’s legislation becoming public and lawmakers sending the bill to the governor’s desk, said Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: “Isn’t it interesting that there are some few states — places where redistricting is the hot topic — and the stakes around voting rules are higher,” Barry Burden, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, said. “Wisconsin is going to be ground central for the next presidential election.”
As an example, he pointed to the state’s voter identification law, one of the most restrictive in the country. In 2017, as reported by the Journal Sentinel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study estimated that “thousands of registered voters in Dane and Milwaukee counties were deterred or prevented from voting” in the 2016 election as a result of the law, a form of suppression that “more heavily affected low-income people and African-Americans.”
Quoted: Wisconsinites have been bitterly at odds ever since. Katherine Cramer, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the elections in November confirmed that “stark division” especially as urban liberals in places like Madison and Milwaukee lined up against rural, conservative Republicans.
Quoted: In order to better understand both the radical nature of the legislature’s actions and what it will mean for the future of democracy in Wisconsin, Salon spoke by email with Michael Wagner, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in “research, teaching, and service are animated by the question, ‘how well does democracy work?’”
Quoted: Barry C. Burden, a professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin -Madison says that the session was so unprecedented that political scientists are still examining the details of what was passed, but some of the threatened measures that would have certainly spurred legal challenges were removed before passage.
“He entered office with protesters of Act 10, and he’s leaving office with protesters of these last minute actions,” said Michael Wagner, a political science and journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referring to 2011 legislation intended to curtail public employee union powers.
Five University of Wisconsin football players earned Associated Press All-Big Ten first-team honors when the teams were released Wednesday, including the only unanimous selection in the conference.
Wisconsin. Just a few of the changes being debated by the lame-duck GOP legislature would affect voting rights, but they’d all have teeth. One rule would limit Evers’s ability to curtail the state’s voter ID; academics at the University of Wisconsin estimated that the voter ID law kept around 17,000 registered voters from the polls.
The appointees include naming Scott Beightol to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
It’s been a struggle for decades to get transplants and associated expenses covered by insurance, said Dr. Maryl Johnson, a heart failure and transplant cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “We know that humans are social animals and they need close contact and support,” said Felix Elwert, professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “To go from decades of not being alone ? from being with someone who actually loves them to solitude ? it’s very difficult for people to manage.”
“This is an opportunity where I get to go back home to my community and serve the people of our community and do something really special for them,” said Zach Schranm, Marine and UWPD Security Officer.
