Firefighters are called on to do many types of rescues, but rescuing a woman from a tree is not a normal call. That’s what happened Thursday afternoon when a UW-Madison student climbed a tree on Henry Mall on campus, and didn’t know how to get down.
In partnership with Public Health Madison and Dane County, the city of Madison, Dane County and the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, the Clean Lakes Alliance has provided data for other local sustainability efforts as well.
Stig finished his working career with the UW Survey Research Lab, retiring as a Sr. Research Specialist in 1998.
He was appointed to the physics faculty at UW-Madison and subsequently was appointed Associate Dean for Physical Sciences, then Director of the Physical Sciences Laboratory, and then Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. While at UW-Madison, he designed and installed a computer system to analyze nuclear physics data.
The students — members of HOSA-Future Health Professionals, which was formerly called Health Occupations Students of America — have been partnering with the UW Carbone Cancer Center and the Pancreas Cancer Task Force to learn more about the disease and other medical-related topics.
Noted: Noah Williams, director of the conservative-leaning Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy at UW-Madison, said the main reason Wisconsin has lagged in overall job growth is that population growth here has been very slow over the past decade, less than half the national average.
Maggie Turnbull is a scientist who is running as an independent candidate. She is an astrobiologist who has worked with NASA on the search for extraterrestrial life. Her work has been profiled on CNN and in On Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin’s alumni magazine. She has served on the Antigo Common Council and has lived in Madison
Steil is from Janesville and is a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Those were the days, University of Wisconsin alumni from the 1960s recalled as they shared their stories for posterity during the Madison Reunion.
There’s a reason for renewed interest in the field, not only at UW but around the country: CRISPR, a gene-editing tool discovered in 2012. The “molecular scissor” allows researchers to remove genes that can cause immune rejection or transmit potentially dangerous viruses from animals.
Flashing back to the U.S. political scene of the early 1970s, the country was in revolt amidst the Vietnam War, the Watergate crisis, and an oncoming recession and gas shortage. One of the flash points for protest was liberal college campuses, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison being one of the most vocal.
Quoted: Though both cases involve challenges to partisan gerrymandering, Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the justices could be having a hard time reconciling the different legal theories being argued.
When UW-Stevens Point leaders announced a proposal March 5 to address fiscal challenges, the purpose was to invite dialogue to shape a plan for a sustainable future for our institution.
Noted: Chris Kucharik is a professor of Ergonomics and Environment at UW-Madison. He describes the distinct appearance of the algae.
A $2.3 million solar panel project that is underway at Madison College is expected to be the largest rooftop solar project in Wisconsin once it’s complete.
The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison won’t be funding any research in its first year of operation, members of its governing board learned Tuesday.
The UW-Madison Police Department is now aware of three burglaries that took place at University Hospital last week.
In preparation for the fall semester, first-year students are using Facebook to help them facilitate new relationships and learn about the UW-Madison campus.
The chicks are named after ice cream flavors from UW-Madison’s Babcock Dairy.
Studies of bees, climate change and Amish children are among the eight projects out of 70 receiving grants from one of UW-Madison’s largest endowments.
Olayinka Shiyanbola, an assistant professor in UW-Madison’s School of Pharmacy, is developing programs to encourage black people and veterans who have diabetes to take their medications as prescribed.
Keep an open mind about people’s backgrounds.
Mental health is a nuanced, deeply personal and often avoided subject, but the resolve of UW-Madison students and faculty is strong as they fight to eliminate stigma and raise awareness.
The student sale of UW-Madison season football tickets is in full swing, with tickets selling out on the first day of the two-day sale.
The study was conducted using various types of diets. The goal is to figure out which diet for specific cows will produce the lowest impact on the environment.
A study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that heavy rain and manure levels have been causing more algae blooms.
Two former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh top officials have pleaded not guilty to charges of misconduct in office in connection with a financial scandal involving some building projects.
The University of Wisconsin senior posted top-six finishes in each of Saturday’s three events and scored 6,146 points to win the heptathlon title at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
He worked for the University’s Department of Nutritional Science, where he made many contributions to medicine’s understanding of cholesterol and lipid function.
From 1959 until he retired in 1989, he was Professor of Agricultural Economics at UW-Madison.
Column by Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison
Wait for it . . . The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire – Barron County.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously re-elected the president and vice president of the board Friday.
Families and community members enjoyed the Art+Lake+Green+Bike event at Alumni Park Saturday.
Dozens of researchers from around the country are at UW-Madison this week for a “boot camp” to help increase the number of minority researchers investigating health disparities and health equity.
Noted: Timothy Smeeding, a UW-Madison professor who led the study, said the findings reflect that while more Wisconsinites are working, their earnings may not be increasing as quickly as costs such as housing, health and child care.
The Walsh family continues to raise money for vision research at UW-Madison, including work by researcher David Gamm.
University of Wisconsin System regents have decided to allow schools to share personnel files of employees looking to change institutions to ensure sexual misconduct allegations are disclosed.
System President Ray Cross told regents during a meeting Thursday at UW-Milwaukee that the move is designed to reassure students who may be uncertain about applying to a two-year school as the system merges those campuses with its four-year institutions.
The University of Wisconsin System is waiving application fees to its two-year schools for the fall semester.
State colleges must record sexual misconduct allegations in employee personnel files and share the details if a worker is up for a job at another institution or a state agency, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents decided Thursday.
Two games planned for the 2020 Wisconsin Football season are creating quite a buzz for Badger fans — yet another reason to look forward to the years to come.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s flagship program to prepare underrepresented students to enroll in and succeed in college will accept undocumented students starting next school year.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross told the Board of Regents on Thursday that the fast-approaching merger of its two- and four-year campuses is “on track” for a July 1 start.
University of Wisconsin System Regents are moving to require campuses to strengthen reference checks on employees who seek jobs elsewhere in the System — a move to help ensure they know if an employee was accused of, or investigated for, sexual misconduct or harassment.
The toxins can cause issues such as upset stomach, rashes and respiratory problems. Such blooms can also lead to fish kills once the bacteria sinks, according the UW Center for Limnology.
After graduating in 1939 from Brigham Young University in his home town, he studied biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, where he received a master’s degree in 1941 and a doctorate in 1943. He then did postdoctoral research at Stanford University before joining the Navy late in World War II.
In the summer of 2016, University of Wisconsin administrators met with urban- and regional-planning professor Harvey Jacobs to discuss his alleged behavior, according to a letter they sent to Dr. Jacobs in April 2017 that was reviewed by the Journal. (Subscription required)
The June 12 summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore seems back on the calendar. But it’s not likely to result in the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Andrew Kydd is a professor in the University of Wisconsin’s department of political science.
Berlin was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, receiving a Ph.D. in history in 1970. His books included “Generations of Captivity,” ’’Slaves Without Masters” and “Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America,” for which he won the Bancroft Prize. He also wrote the introduction for a tie-in book to the acclaimed movie “Twelve Years a Slave,” and was an adviser for HBO’s documentary about former slaves, “Unchained Memories.”
If you’ve ever felt like there just aren’t enough hours in the day just be glad that you didn’t live on Earth 1.4 billion years ago. A new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison reveals that ancient Earth had much shorter days, and the 24-hour days that we experience in modern times come courtesy of the Moon.
Apgar heeded Whipple’s advice, and spent six months training under Dr. Ralph Waters, who led the first department of anesthesia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She was discouraged from continuing her career as a surgeon, which was regarded as a very male discipline at that time, and instead trained in anaesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under Dr Ralph Waters, who had established the country’s first dedicated unit. After further study of the field at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, she returned to Columbia as director of its new anaesthesia division, its first female head of department.
Three sites—Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of California, Davis—plan to inoculate 800 middle-aged dogs for Johnston’s new study. For several years afterward each dog will each receive a booster dose and a physical exam.
If you’re a student in the University of Wisconsin System, you can can expect fees and room and board costs to go up.
Quoted: “Democrats are sure to make gains in this year’s midterm elections, but the monstrous wave that appeared to be building in late 2017 now appears to be more modest,” says Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
After unexpectedly being thrown into Lake Mendota, the Sunburst Bucky statue is now back in James Madison Park.
t’s not just you – the days really are getting longer. More than a billion years ago, the moon used to be about 40,000 kilometres closer, which made Earth spin faster. Back then, the days were less than 19 hours long. (Paywall)
Mark Koehn sits down with Stu Levitan and looks back at the events that took place on Bascom Hill, changing a city and a generation.
As the Earth’s rotation gradually winds down, the moon moves further away. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Stephen Meyers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Alberto Malinverno at Columbia University in New York calculate that over the past 1.4bn years the moon has drifted about 44,000km from Earth to a distance of 384,400km
