Those who support changing the name of the gallery said that any associations between the university and the KKK make spaces uncomfortable for marginalized students.
Community members spoke out Wednesday afternoon on whether two Memorial Union rooms — both named after alumni who were members of a 1920s campus organization called “Ku Klux Klan” should be renamed.
“Air conditioning saves lives from heat waves,” Jonathan Patz, who directs the University of Wisconsin’s Global Health Institute, told Earther. “But if the electricity to run air conditioners requires coal-fired power plants, then we have a problem.”
By the time Speaker of the House Paul Ryan declared in April that he would be returning home to Janesville rather than running for reelection, Wisconsin had experienced one of the largest declines of the middle class of any state in the country. Its poverty rate had climbed to a thirty-year high; the state’s roads were the second worst in the country; the University of Wisconsin–Madison had fallen, for the first time, out of the rankings of the country’s top five research schools. A study estimated that 11 percent of the state’s population was deterred from voting in the 2016 presidential election by Wisconsin’s new voter ID law, one of the strictest in the nation.
Quoted: “Sometimes we don’t know what to do with emotions,” so parents channel them into packing and shopping to feel productive, said Beth Miller, a coordinator for residence life at University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been involved in campus life for the past 17 years. “But sometimes parents are purchasing things based on emotion and not necessarily based on need.”
Quoted: “The good thing about dog ticks is they’re big enough that we typically pull them off. You see them, you get them off and need not worry,” said Lyric Bartholomay, associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. She also co-directs the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease.
According to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, increased use of air conditioners may only be making a bad problem even worse.
Roksa and her co-author, Peter Kinsley, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Madison, surveyed 728 students in their first year at a two- or four-year institution and who had applied for financial aid in Wisconsin. Roksa asked each student about the financial and emotional support they received from their families and how engaged they were on campus and collected information about their academic success to determine how the three measures were related. The results were recently published in Research in Higher Education. The abstract is available here.
Noted: In research published in March, scientists with the Forest Service and University of Wisconsin-Madison reported that 43 million homes now lie within the so-called WUI. After decades of new housing additions, the WUI footprint has swelled to 190 million acres — an expanse 10 percent larger than the state of Texas. Based on those trends, the U.S. wildfire problem could have as much to do with people’s preferences to live near forests and nature as it does a changing climate.
Forums will be held next week about the names of two spaces in Memorial Union, named for two men with links to the Ku Klux Klan.
As a way for individuals to be a part of the new Hamel Music Center, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is kicking off a new seat-naming campaign.
At the time of her retirement, she was department secretary in charge of supervising all non-academic staff at the U.W. Department of Psychology.
Wisconsin youth who are transgender, nonbinary and gender expansive/nonconforming, or TNG, say many doctors aren’t aware of their needs, according to a survey by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Mike Sussman, who ran the Biotechnology Center for over 21 years, will become director of the Genome Center of Wisconsin, which is in the Biotechnology Center.
“Sometimes we don’t know what to do with emotions,” so parents channel them into packing and shopping to feel productive, said Beth Miller, a coordinator for residence life at University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been involved in campus life for the past 17 years. “But sometimes parents are purchasing things based on emotion and not necessarily based on need.”
Members of the UW-Madison campus community and the general public will have a chance this week to discuss whether two spaces at Memorial Union — Porter Butts Gallery and Fredric March Play Circle — should be renamed because of links between the men they are named for and a 1920s campus organization named the Ku Klux Klan.
Annual listing of UW System salaries.
Jordan was a two-time national champion at the University of Wisconsin in the mid-1980s.
James Conway is frustrated. He’s a professor of pediatrics, medical director for immunization services, and chair of the immunization program and planning committee at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. That’s a long way of saying his career is all about making sure children are immunized properly, so they can become healthy adults.
Quoted: “What we see is devastation in family members and loved ones, and immediate support and acute trauma intervention to stabilize them is essential, otherwise they too can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder,” said Sharyl Kato, director of The Rainbow Project child and family counseling and resource clinic and a clinical adjunct professor at UW-Madison’s Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health.
Superior native and former South Shore basketball standout Jolene Anderson will be inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame, it was announced on Monday.
Rebecca Comfort recently began her new duties as the American Indian Nation Liaison at the Wisconsin Historical Society, housed on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A 2004 infrared composite image of the two hemispheres of Uranus obtained with Keck Telescope adaptive optics. Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory. (Image)
But that, say scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is killing us, too.It may be more subtle than a heat wave, but the toll air-conditioning takes could have a much deeper, long-term impact.
She worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Soil and Plant Analysis Lab.
The Mandela Washington fellowship works in correlation with the African Studies Program at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin wrestling team spent Friday processing the shock of losing one of its own.
But Alta Charo, a UW-Madison law professor who served in President Barack Obama’s administration, said the ban likely would be pre-empted by another state law that criminalizes abortion after the point of fetal viability. That law is much more recent — having been enacted after the Roe decision — and worded so as to imply the legality of abortion before viability, Charo said.
Mark Stephenson, the director of dairy policy analysis for UW-Madison’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, addressed the current double whammy faced by Wisconsin cheesemakers. “Even if we can kind of get this trade stuff behind us and we can start to successfully renegotiate trade pacts with other countries or blocks of countries, those other things are still in place and it makes it just that much harder for us,” Stephenson said. “It’s non-tariff barrier to trade and it’s going to take a long, hard time to recover from it.”
Short spoke with the Cap Times about the universe, diversity at UW-Madison and tapping a market niche.
Meredith McGlone is a spokeswoman for UW Madison and says the school’s approach is consistent with the law and that it’s comprehensive, competitive, and selective for all levels of admission.
Quoted: “There’s a large fixed cost of buying a house; there’s also some ease of being a renter,”said Andra Ghent, the Academic Director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stickley was a member of Athletes in Action, a sports-focused spiritual group. They held a service Friday night in his honor.
Quoted: “There are many possible negative mental health concerns that appear to be associated with high ACE scores, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, suicide attempts,” said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, associate professor of pediatrics at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. “However, there are also many negative physical concerns, including higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.”
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s reminiscent of the “guns versus butter” model in economics.
“Air conditioning saves lives from heat waves,” said Jonathan Patz, a co-author on the study who directs the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute, to Earther. “But if the electricity to run air conditioners requires coal-fired power plants, then we have a problem.”
Stickley died in an Illinois car crash Thursday.
Quoted: With their control of the reins of government at both the state and national level, Republicans have found themselves in a somewhat unusual and tricky position for the midterms this fall, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist. Eleanor Neff Powell, associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and faculty affiliate of the Elections Research Center, said that the upcoming election will present challenges for GOP candidates.
One way of tackling this problem is to roll out more air conditioning systems, but according to Professor Jonathan Patz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this means trading one problem for another.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison forecast as many as a thousand additional deaths annually in the Eastern US alone due to elevated levels of air pollution driven by the increased use of fossil fuels to cool the buildings where humans live and work.
Dawn Dudley, scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, also lead author of the study, said the problem with studies of Zika in humans is they rely on symptomatic infections.
Now, a study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a disturbing new revelation: In a simulation of a three-month summer period, air pollution directly related to fossil fuel burning that powers air conditioning accounts for about 1,000 deaths.
“We’re always interested in how temperatures behave,” says Matthew Lazzara, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study’s authors. “In Antarctica, we still haven’t learned a lot of the basics.” His team found conditions need to be just so, in the right spot, to brew up the perfect freeze.
The national Kappa Sigma fraternity has terminated its University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter after people pushed a television off the chapter’s balcony and nearly hit a woman.
After the endangered species list was created and targeted conservation efforts began, eagle populations recovered. Researchers have found that one of the keys to recovery is protecting the nest of breeding pairs of eagles. Their results were published earlier this year in the Journal of Applied Ecology. Ecologist Benjamin Zuckerberg, an author on that study, explains what it means for the future conservation of eagles and endangered raptors.
Dawn Dudley, senior scientist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the lead author of the study called the high rate “alarming.” While Dudly believes the true rate of human miscarriage in Zika-infected pregnancies is somewhat lower than what they found in monkeys, she said it’s also likely higher than the 8 percent figure.
But that, say scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is killing us, too.It may be more subtle than a heat wave, but the toll air-conditioning takes could have a much deeper, long-term impact.In a study published in PLOS Medicine this week, the researchers suggest our AC dependency could kill as many as 1,000 more people every year in the eastern U.S. alone. The trouble, they note, is the burden air-conditioning puts on fossil-fuel burning electricity plants.
Quoted: “We’re going to meet a certain amount of corn acres in terms of corn silage for our dairy industry. So, those are pretty firm and they don’t move a lot in Wisconsin,” said Shawn Conley, an agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But we’re pulling acres from our small grains, and that could be either winter wheat or oats.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Marquette University shouldn’t have fired a conservative professor over his blog post criticizing a student instructor he believed shut down discussion about opposition to gay marriage.
The Kappa Sigma national organization has terminated the charter of its UW-Madison chapter, and the university has placed the fraternity on interim suspension while it investigates videos showing a television dropped from the fraternity’s house this weekend narrowly missing a woman who was walking by below.
The Trump administration’s call for race-blind college admissions won’t change practices at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The fraternity chapter at 124 Langdon St. was placed on interim suspension “for a safety-related incident during the weekend of June 30-July 1,” according to a news release Thursday from UW-Madison.
Many conservatives argue universities should have more latitude to fire tenured faculty, but this case played out differently.
Degree-seeking graduate and professional students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will have the chance to buy season football tickets on Monday, July 9.
Quoted: “You have the direct effect that happens at the farm,” said Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Then you have the indirect effect that happens to the labor that they hire for example or the dollars that they spend at their local feed store or vet.”
The incident happened on Langdon Street over the weekend of June 30, officials said.
For Benjamin Futa, the director of Allen Centennial Gardens, “gardening is a constantly evolving timeline, with moments that come and go, surprise and delight,” he says.
The University of Wisconsin suspended Kappa Sigma fraternity Thursday following a viral video which showed a woman narrowly avoiding being crushed by a falling television at a party.
Eleanor Neff Powell, associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and faculty affiliate of the Elections Research Center, said that the upcoming election will present challenges for GOP candidates.
Matt Kures, the UW-Extension community development specialist who authored the study, calculates that the payroll for the base’s 1,505 part-time and full-time employees makes up $45.7 million of this $99.2 million figure.
