A group of researchers led by Dr. Valerie Stull at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to see how eating crickets affects gut microbiota and if it functions as an anti-inflammatory. The resulting experiment showed that crickets are, indeed, very good for one’s gut health.
The following is an satellite image brought to us by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This images shows us the the smoke drift trajectory across the state of Michigan. You can actually see the smoke partially obscuring lake Michigan and Superior.
Quoted: “On balance, the overall impact of social media on political knowledge appears to be negative,” write University of Wisconsin–Madison scholars Sangwon Lee and Michael Xenos. “Political social media use does not have a significant effect on political knowledge, while general social media use has a modestly negative effect.”
University of Wisconsin women’s soccer players Cameron Murtha, Victoria Pickett and Dani Rhodes were named to the 2018 Big Ten Preseason Honors List.
Earthling Interactive, a local online app developer, has organized the inaugural “Wisconsin Ag Innovation Forum,” a showcase of entrepreneurs and researchers working on technology geared toward farmers at the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Single-occupancy cells are reserved for inmates with disciplinary or mental health problems, or who lack the social skills to room with another inmate, said Kenneth Streit, emeritus clinical professor at the UW-Madison Law School and a supervising attorney in the clinical programs at Taycheedah in the 1990s.
The third installment in a four-part series.
During a coding boot camp run by UW-Madison, Armani and Malakai have both created game applications. Now, the teens say it’s an inevitable part of their futures.
Chancellor Beverly Kopper wrote a letter to the broadcast team who provided play-by-play and color commentary during last Thursday’s preseason between the Packers and the Tennessee Titans, blasting them for describing schools like UW-Whitewater as “nowhere schools.”
Attending an institution like UW-Madison is a privilege that changes the futures of thousands of young people each year. Because of this, getting into UW is not an easy feat.
After piloting the cashless system in Liz Waters residence hall two years ago, University Housing has decided to implement a cashless system at Gordon Dining and Event Center this fall.
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship
A study will begin this fall on the drug’s impact on pediatric tumors, and in 2019, in a collaboration with the UW-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center, it will be tested along with radiation for treating recurring head and neck cancer.
Second in a four-part series on concussions.
“Statewide rollout opens up a whole new realm of questions for looking at different kinds of species in areas from agricultural regions, to forests, to areas with more of a human footprint,” said Ben Zuckerberg, a UW-Madison forest and wildlife ecology professor.
Hack was a philosophy professor at UW-Madison from 1956 to 1993, serving twice as department chair.
Tom spent most of his influential career as a professor of Mathematics education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, at UW-Madison.
Edgewood College has landed one of the largest donations in its 90-year history, receiving an anonymous $7 million donation that will boost its endowment nearly 18 percent.
This is the first in a four-part series on concussions.
The UW Police Department responded: “We are disappointed in today’s decision by OutReach — in particular because of our continued efforts to find a method of participation that was acceptable to all of our community members (such as marching in the parade without uniforms or police vehicles),” the statement said.
In July, Gov. Scott Walker announced that, if re-elected, he would continue to support a tuition freeze for in-state students at UW System schools for the next four years.
With a new academic year on the horizon, returning and incoming students from two-year colleges will play a key role in determining the success of the integration of two-year and four-year institutions during a transition year.
Simplicity is the key to Bucky’s Promise, according to UW-Madison’s Strategic Communications Specialist Carrie Springer. “One of our goals is to clearly inform students in this income bracket that UW-Madison is a real possibility for them,” Springer said.
Hack was a philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1956 to 1993.
A 30-year-old man was arrested early Friday morning after Madison police officers heard a gunshot Downtown near the UW-Madison campus.
LaShya Washington, an 11-year-old Mendota Elementary School student, sat with a laptop in a classroom in the School of Human Ecology building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday afternoon, typing instructions to a robot.
Advocates for diversity in higher education emphasize a variety of reasons. They range from business oriented considerations, like the need for a diverse and well-educated workforce to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse marketplace or the belief that diversity fosters innovation and creativity. Another reason is based on the idea that diversity enriches the educational experience of all students on campus, not just minorities.
Noted: UW oncologist Dr. Noelle Loconte says getting needed research dollars for pancreatic cancer is difficult because there are no advocates.
Wisconsin is home to an estimated 308 farmers markets of all sizes and geographical locations. And now researchers from UW-Madison and UW-Extension have taken a dive into the numbers and issues that farmers markets face.
Coach Paul Chryst announced the news about the sophomore, a biomedical engineering major, Wednesday during the Badgers’ local media day at Camp Randall Stadium, saying Kasl made the decision after his involvement in a “really dynamic summer program.”
Wisconsin ranked No. 33 nationally, with a $29,569 average — down slightly (1.18%) from the state’s Class of 2016 debt. Sixty-five percent of the Class of 2017 across all Wisconsin colleges and universities left school with loan debt.
Coach Kelly Sheffield has an experienced but still young roster that includes just one senior, middle blocker Tionna Williams.
Two spaces in UW-Madison’s student union — named after prominent alumni who, while students in the 1920s, belonged to a campus group called “Ku Klux Klan” — will be renamed before the beginning of the 2018-19 school year.
“Hip-Hop U: The First Wave Scholar,” produced by Wisconsin Public Television, follows three scholarship participants while exploring the First Wave community, its emphasis on activism and the difficulty of attending UW-Madison as a person of color.
The Porter Butts Gallery will now be called the Main Gallery and the Fredric March Play Circle will be considered the Play Circle.
The resolution was an effort to honor the voices of students and community members who felt that displaying March and Butts’ names created a hostile campus climate, while also acknowledging the complicated history of the KKK fraternity on campus.
“(My father) devoted his career to making sure Memorial Union is a place where everyone feels welcome,” said the daughter of Porter Butts. “It would break his heart to know that even one student feels uncomfortable there.”
The Union Council voted Monday night to rename the Porter Butts Gallery to the Main Gallery and acknowledge Porter Butts’ professional accomplishments through an interactive kiosk in another permanent location, according to a release.
Kids and families got to explore the science behind healthy living on Saturday. It was part of UW’s Saturday Science, a program held on the first Saturday of each month at the Discovery Building.
Noted: Eating crickets can be good for your health, according to a new clinical study from UW-Madison. Just ask Valerie Stull, a recent doctoral graduate from the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. She was 12 when she ate her first insect.
Quoted: “Know what items you’re looking for to buy and what the limits might be on those items,” said Cliff Robb, associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Soglin’s ad says shows Walker toppling the Abraham Lincoln statue at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times,” published this year by the Wisconsin History Society Press, draws on Apps’ diaries from the 38 years he spent as a professor of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and as an administrator for UW Extension.
Gilbert farmed all of his life in the Martinsville area, and was also employed at the Agronomy Dept. at UW-Madison for 25 years.
A former UW-Madison employee pleaded guilty Friday to several felony charges after stealing more than $100,000 from the university’s housing division.
Freezing tuition for in-state students at public colleges and universities is welcome help for Wisconsin families. But state leaders need to be realistic. Unless the state can provide better funding, too, the freeze will continue to harm schools.
Noted: Increasingly, the lakes are rising above the maximum level set by the state, and the area may be on the cusp of flooding unlike anything in the last 100 years, said Ken Potter, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering and an expert on flooding and stormwater management.
Ryan Sterry, St. Croix County UW-Extension agriculture agent, said the Johnson farm is unique in that they grew their business “in steps” to bring in the next generation, and they have dabbled in registered Holstein genetics, with bragging rights to some high-ranking genomic animals.
Noted: Kathy Cramer, a UW-Madison professor of political science and author of a book about Walker’s rise in Wisconsin, said recent scholarship confirms that “policy decisions most closely correspond to the political leanings of the wealthiest people in the population, and not so much to other people.” … Kenneth Mayer, a UW-Madison professor of political science, said other states allow for more direct public input and responsiveness through initiatives and referenda in which citizens make laws directly.
Two suspects led a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer on a brief chase Wednesday evening, leading to a crash with another vehicle and ending in arrest.
The Badgers came in at No. 7 in the preseason Amway Coaches poll when the poll was released Thursday. UW was ranked behind Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, Oklahoma and Washington.
Noted: UW–Madison engineering professor Dan Thoma, who is also the Director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering, has worked in the field and with 3D printing technology for around 25 years. He said there’s a lot more that goes into creating 3D printed items than simply hitting a button.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison police said an officer was on patrol on Park Street at about 6 p.m. when the officer spotted a stolen vehicle traveling near Dayton Street.
Wisconsin high school students are planning a protest from the UW campus to the Capitol Saturday, where they’ll push for stricter gun laws.
Noted: Experts like UW-Extension Horticulture Educator Vijai Pandian said Japanese Beetles are going to be horrendous this year, with a bigger population than years past.
A Brookfield father, whose daughter is enrolled in the UW System, told Ehlke that he was out of touch and a threat to society. “The common consensus around here is that you don’t understand justice,” he wrote in a letter filed with the court.
Quoted: “This is a site that had an enduring importance to people for 12,000 years,” said Sissel Schroeder, a UW-Madison anthropologist who in 2001 began studying the 37 acres that rises over the river a few miles south of McFarland.
Mitchell promises to raise wages, fight racism and return money that “Walker stole from our schools.” Mitchell spokeswoman Kirsten Allen says he’s referring to a $250 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System in the 2015-17 state budget and an $800 million cut in public school funding in the 2011-13 budget.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Jim Tinjum is biking 1,300 miles (2,000 kilometers) throughout the Upper Midwest to raise funds for Solar Para Niños, a project to install solar panels at an orphanage in Puerto Rico.
Move-out day for Edgewood College and University of Wisconsin-Madison students and primary election day both fall on Aug. 14 this year.
