Federal ethanol subsidies aimed at slowing climate change instead helped trigger the annual release of 30 million tons of greenhouse gases as farmers cleared land to plant more crops for production of the renewable fuel, UW-Madison researchers said Wednesday.
As head of Access Services and a member of the Steenbock Planning Group, she contributed to planning and implementing many library improvements, including library remodeling projects and creating staff efficiencies. As operations manager for the UW-Madison/Google Book Initiative Jeanne supervised the scanning of books and research projects into digital media form. She developed and implemented the library’s Information Specialist Internship Program, managed the UW-Madison Shelving Facility, implemented software programs facilitating inter-library loan system and the on-campus document delivery. Her work touched the lives of many, many UW students.
The university ranks No. 1 among public institutions in the numbers of students going abroad for semester-long study, and ranks No. 14 among all universities and colleges for studying in foreign lands, according to the Open Doors Report, released on Monday as part of International Education Week.
Scientists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Initiative on Climate Change Impacts — an effort to identify climate change fallout and offer coping strategies — believe that the effects can be mitigated with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. They believe that policy makers and public agencies can take measures to adapt. But those measures are on indefinite hold. “It’s disappointing, particularly with the shutdown of the DNR science bureau that WICCI collaborated with,” said Michael Notaro, a UW-Madison professor on the front lines of climate research.
IAT tests unreliable, produce random answers about test-takers.
UW-Madison students like to study abroad, a recent report shows.
An after-hours van service might soon be an option for UW-Madison students who study at the library late at night to get home safely.
The coming weekend’s Wisconsin Badgers vs. Michigan Wolverines football game is expected to bring the largest surge of travelers to Madison in the history of Airbnb’s platform.
It has been less than a week since the UW Board of Regents voted to merge two-year campuses with four-year universities. Now University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s chancellor is contacting the campuses that will now join the university.
UW system schools are trying to figure out what the new merger means for them. UW-Baraboo/Sauk County and UW-Richland will merge with UW-Platteville next year.
Action by federal officials halts UW-Madison plans to offer students first-time, demonstration rides in a driver-less vehicle.
A UW-Police spokesperson says there will be no crime referral in connection with someone’s false report of a gunman in a campus building earlier this month.
A deal is in place for the University of Wisconsin and Notre Dame to play a men’s hockey game at the United Center in Chicago in the next two seasons.
Fresh off a championship in the Big Ten tournament, the University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team earned a bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament on Monday.
Dear Editor: Kudos to the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members for unanimously passing a resolution to become carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner!
Self-driving vehicle company Navya was supposed to demonstrate its driverless shuttle in Madison this week. But now passengers in Madison will have to wait until spring, said Peter Rafferty, a researcher in UW-Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory.
Committee approves Campus Women’s Center, SFFC budget for fiscal year 2019.
UW-Madison’s controversial new policy center, named after one of the state’s leading Republican figures, announced that its first event this month will feature speakers with varying political views.
About two years after a survey revealed that 22 percent of UW-Madison students had sought mental health counseling in the past year, University Health Services released an online mental health service program for students and faculty.
Controversy arose within UW-Madison’s student government this spring, as a national conservative organization provided campaign materials to candidates vying for spots on the student finance committee. Now, conversations about the group have sparked at another UW System institution—UW-Stevens Point.
he Associated Students of Madison’s internal budget made its appearance at the Student Services Finance Committee meeting Monday night, where members raised questions about the costs for student pay and leadership training — two potential points of contention as the committee will vote on the budget later this week.
He moved to Madison, Wis. in 1985 to study Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1991. He remained at the University of Wisconsin—Madison as a virologist until 2011.
Wayne was professor and two-time chairman of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in reading education. He retired in 1995 as emeritus professor after 30 years at UW-Madison.
He was a passionate supporter of the University of Wisconsin and worked there more than 35 years. Pat started as a payroll and benefits assistant, was departmental administrative head of two departments and retired as a valued team member of a large multi-city research consortium studying inner city asthma, for which he was the Director of the Administrative Center.
The Wisconsin Union hosted a ceremony to unveil a historic plaque on Friday morning.The plaque shows that the Memorial Union is listed on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
Wisconsin’s magical run in the 2017 Big Ten Men’s Soccer Championship had a storybook ending on Sunday afternoon against No. 2-seeded Indiana as the Badgers claimed their first-ever outright Big Ten tournament title on penalty kicks.
At UW-Madison, 11 percent of 8,652 students surveyed in 2016 in the first campuswide climate survey said they have been subjected to hostility, harassment or intimidating behavior.
It’s hard to make the case for lowering Wisconsin’s drinking age the same week as University of Wisconsin researchers release a study with new evidence of the causal effect of alcohol on a range of cancers.
Jason Fletcher, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, Sociology, Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences, has studied the intersection of genetics and social sciences for years.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members have adopted a resolution encouraging campus administrators to implement a plan to become carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf discussed the possibility with members of Associated Students of Madison on Nov. 7.
On Veterans Day, the Wisconsin Union along with the classes of 1963 and 1967 will unveil a new way to expand and update the memorial with an interactive, digital kiosk that will allow visitors to search through the stories of more than 900 veterans from UW-Madison who died in war.
As a student at UW-Madison who relies on public transportation to get around, I applaud Madison’s bold, forward-thinking proposal to spend $2 million on evaluating a bus rapid transit system (BRT).
It’s a disgrace that intercity passengers must wait for their transportation on a congested Downtown street corner next to the UW’s Memorial Library.
Dr. Toby Campbell, chief of UW Health’s palliative care program and a board member of Agrace Hospice and Palliative Care in Fitchburg, said he understands why death midwives are catching on.
The University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team is headed to the NCAA tournament — as champions.
After months of back and forth between campuses, system leaders, and legislators, the regents approved Thursday new rules for allocating student dollars. Now, as mandated by the Joint Finance Committee UW System schools will have uniform categories for fees.
UW-Madison faculty members adopted a measure last week calling for campus administrators to take action on climate change and limit the university’s carbon emissions.
The Audre Lorde Housing Co-op — a tall, pale green house on North Frances Street — stands like a lonely relic of its former self, now home to only one person rather than the 15 members that it holds when at full capacity.
The University of Wisconsin System regents approved a plan to merge the system’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents passed a resolution Thursday that will merge 13 two-year colleges with four-year institutions.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents by a split vote moved Thursday to merge financially struggling two-year campuses across the state with nearby four-year campuses to avoid forced closures down the road.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday to merge the system’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses, brushing aside opponents’ complaints that faculty and students weren’t consulted and the proposal is too vague.
Deggans, an NPR TV critic and the author of the book “Race Baiter,” spoke to University of Wisconsin-Madison students on Thursday evening about the ways that that TV and media represents race, for better or for worse.
Letter to the editor from former member of the UW Board of Regents and speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly.
The UW System will move forward with its “most significant re-organization” in over 45 years — a sweeping merge of the system’s two-year and four-year colleges — even though many questions remain unanswered.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a sweeping restructure plan to merge the system’s two-year colleges with its four-year universities and make changes to UW-Extension.
A letter sent to Chancellor Rebecca Blank this week alleged that former student government leader Carmen Goséy was the target of intense harassment following her remarks during a tumultuous argument about divesting from Israel.
Wednesday night, Youssef spoke to an audience of nearly 1,000 people at Shannon Hall at the University of Wisconsin as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.
In a recent letter sent to Blank, however, Palestine Legal staff attorney Rahul Saksena detailed alleged “discrimination” and “harassment” that Goséy faced along with current ASM chair Katrina Morrison, and the organization Students for Justice in Palestine after the divestment debate.
Think back to a time you felt wronged by someone. Does the memory still cause you pain? A professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison is teaching classes in the practice of forgiveness to students at the UW School of Education.
After months of back and forth between campuses, system leaders, and legislators, the regents approved Thursday new rules for allocating student dollars. Now, as mandated by the Joint Finance Committee UW System schools will have uniform categories for fees.
Do not forget to put students first as University of Wisconsin two-year schools are merged with four-year campuses, university chancellors and faculty urged Thursday, as the system’s governing board approved the reorganization.
Wisconsin’s two-year UW Colleges are set to become branch campuses of nearby four-year universities by the start of the 2018 school year after the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a sweeping and controversial reorganization of the schools Thursday.
On the eve of perhaps the most far-reaching decision in the University of Wisconsin System’s 46-year history, the architect of a proposed merger of two- and four-year campuses stood firm in his response to widespread calls to slow down.
She enjoyed a variety of nursing positions throughout her career including … IT system analyst at UW-Madison.
As a proposal to reorganize the University of Wisconsin System goes to the Board of Regents for approval Thursday, just a month after it was announced by system President Ray Cross, a former university official is wondering what Cross has done to resolve the issues he now cites as reasons to dismantle the system.
Heavy drinking greatly increases the risk of some cancers, and even moderate drinking boosts the risk of breast and colon cancer, says a report by a national cancer doctor group whose lead author is a UW Health oncologist.
The first trial of former UW-Madison student Alec Cook, accused of sexual assault and harassment of female students, scheduled to happen in December, was pushed back Wednesday after Cook’s lawyers filed motions to have the case heard by a jury from outside Dane County, and to suppress some evidence taken by police during a search of Cook’s apartment.
Latino students at UW-Madison feel as if they are not fully part of campus life, a graduate student told the school’s chief diversity officer Tuesday at the school’s annual diversity forum.
