“Some banks are good at originating, and they don’t have the capacity to hold these loans on their balance sheet,” said Anthony DeFusco, associate professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And so it frees up resources for them if they sell your loan.”
What happened? Lauren Asprooth is a research scientist with the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at UW-Madison. As corn and soybeans shot up, she said, “every other row crop has gone down or stayed stagnant.”
“We have decoupled livestock production and crop production, so there’s not as much of a need for small grains in terms of forage,” Asprooth said. “We put a lot of funding into the markets for byproducts and R&D for corn, and therefore made other crops relatively less easy to grow.
Column by Reilly, president emeritus of the University of Wisconsin System and a member of the civic education nonprofit Keep Our Republic.
The student with active, contagious TB has not been on campus since December, said Sarah Clifford Glapa, spokesperson for UW’s University Health Services. The student lived in Smith Residence Hall.
A scientific paper by UW-Madison researchers about a medicinal plant’s potential to treat prostate cancer was retracted last month after the journal said several images appear to be alike.
The UW Board of Regents is planning to eliminate application fees at most Universities of Wisconsin schools, a proposal that is set to go before the board later this week.
As detailed in the new issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a novel 3D-printing approach for creating cultures that grow and operate similar to brain tissue. While traditional 3D-printing involves layering “bio-ink” vertically like a cake, the team instead tasked their machine to print horizontally, as if playing dominoes.
“We are only pointing out that as a wind-only-based measure of risk, climate change is making it progressively inadequate,” said co-author Jim Kossin of First Street Foundation and the University of Wisconsin.
Michael Wehner, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, said that “192mph is probably faster than most Ferraris, it’s hard to even imagine”. He has proposed the new category 6 alongside another researcher, James Kossin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Being caught in that sort of hurricane would be bad. Very bad.”
“Storms are getting stronger and stronger, so category 5 underestimates actual risk,” said James Kossin, an author on the paper and an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Bernard Cohen, a professor of political science who served in many leadership roles at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, including a year as acting chancellor, died on January 9. He was 97.
Other universities that have implemented differential tuition have put the extra bucks toward similar goals. The University of Wisconsin at Madison began charging extra tuition to juniors and seniors studying business in 2007 and has since expanded the practice to engineering and nursing majors as well as underclassmen majoring in business.
Persistent, unseasonably warm weather has prompted the Wisconsin Union to cancel the Winter Carnival’s snow- and ice-based events this week over concerns that the ice is too thin to be safe.
Dairy’s storyline for 2023 in Wisconsin and across the United States “was not the best storyline we could imagine,” said Chuck Nicholson, associate professor of economics, however he is seeing signs that point to milk price improvement in the coming year.
Nicholson, an associate professor of dairy economics at the UW-Madison spoke about dairy’s economics at the Renk Agribusiness Agricultural Outlook Forum in late January on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Growing from 20 to 50,000 students, a lot has changed at UW Madison since their first day of class on February 5, 1849.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a sexual assault which occurred early on Sunday morning.
A Monday afternoon water main break on Randall Avenue caused closures for Union South restrooms and some restaurants.
A water main on Randall Avenue broke at 2:30 p.m. Monday afternoon, according to University of Wisconsin Union South desk staff. The water break caused some Union South bathrooms and water fountains to stop working and disrupted the business of the in-building restaurants.
Students notified via email, investigation ongoing.
Vos said in October the raises would not be approved until the UW System made concessions on it’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to The Badger Herald. The Board of Regents voted to accept a deal in December exchanging pay raises and other funding for the “reimagining” of certain DEI positions, according to The Badger Herald’s previous coverage of the deal.
A sea of red, white and black snaked around the Kohl Center and slithered its way down to W. Dayton Street early Sunday morning.
The bill also has backing from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where around 365 students are currently enrolled in video game development programs. While 60% of that university’s graduates stay in Wisconsin, less than 20% of the video game program graduates stay, according to testimony from professor Andrew Williams, who has taught game design classes at UW-Stout and worked as an art director in the video game industry.
Column co-written by Laura Albert, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at UW-Madison.
After a year at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he was recruited to UW-Madison’s Department of Rural Sociology where he taught and conducted research from 1972 to 2001.
In 1979, he, Ellen, and their son, Jeremiah, moved to Wisconsin, where Marshall joined the Journalism Department and the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1988 until his retirement from UW in 2009, he helped to create and taught annually at a variety of workshops and retreats including the Weekend Retreat for Novelists, the Writer’s Institute, and Write by the Lake. In 2003, Marshall joined the fledgling UW Odyssey Project where for the next 18 years he passed along his enthusiasm for language and writing to nearly 600 Odyssey students.
“It can tell us about the virus without us needing to stick anything up anyone’s noses or even know who was in a space,” said Dave O’Connor, a UW-Madison researcher involved in the surveillance. “Air sampling should be something that lots of schools bring on board to understand what the respiratory virus transmission risk is.”
Monitors have been at seven schools in the Oregon School District for two years, where air sampling last school year tracked flu and COVID-19 activity as reliably as student absences, rapid tests at school and regular tests from samples collected at home, UW-Madison researchers recently reported. That research was part of a UW study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that has analyzed respiratory illness at Oregon schools since 2015.
The editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, a conservative watchdog group, filed Title VI complaints against several universities, including UW-Madison, for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic incidents.
Jack served in the U.S. Army. He earned his bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison and went on to earn a master’s degree in journalism from UW-Madison in 1953. After earning his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan, Jack joined the UW faculty in 1962. He served as a Journalism and Mass Communication professor for UW-Madison for 38 years, where he taught graduate students from all over the world.
Robert N. Golden, dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), announced Tuesday he will resign “once a successor is named,” according to a UW-Madison press release.
Office for Civil Rights aims to complete investigation of complaint in 60 days.
Walker-era changes felt today amid Board of Regents DEI decision, low student government voter turnout.
Adorned in a thrifted valentine pink skirt and REI boots, Dooley enchanted a Friday night crowd in UW-Madison’s Discovery Building during a storytelling event hosted by the university’s American Indian & Indigenous Studies program, along with the departments of Anthropology, English and Language Sciences.
For the past 25 years, UW-Madison has invited indigenous storytellers to breathe life into their languages through the annual event.
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek via email on Friday that Russia’s relative silence is unsurprising considering the ongoing conflict and a lack of incentives to publicly disclose the whereabouts and/or deaths of top military commanders.
You can 3D print a lot of things that remain lifeless objects, but no one’s 3D-printed living brain tissue — until a team of scientists here in Madison did. And living means operating, growing, and a whole lot more.
“It’s nice to have this as a cultural showcase for the Madison community,” said Chandra Chouhan, UW-Madison senior and executive director of Aa Dekhen Zara, the university’s annual Bollywood fusion dance competition. “Everyone looks forward to ADZ every year because that’s a taste of home for a lot of people.”
Badger fans bundled up and set up tents outside of the Kohl Center ahead of the Wisconsin versus Purdue matchup.
Joining us now is Julie Stam, assistant clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin. Madison and author of “The Brain on Youth Sports, the science them its and the future.” Julie, good morning. So Roger Goodell says the risk of concussion is the same as walking down the street as a medical professional. What’s your take on that?
For nearly 30 years, the UW-Madison student chapter of Habitat for Humanity of Dane County has dedicated the Saturday before the Super Bowl to host their annual community soup fest, the ‘Souper Bowl.’
“One example is planting corn when oak leaves are the size of a squirrel’s ear,” notes an article on phenology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You know that planting corn has nothing to do with oak leaves or squirrels. However, Native Americans made the observation centuries ago that the soil was warm enough to prevent seeds from rotting, yet it was still early enough to reap a suitable harvest if corn was planted at this time.”
“These groups are exploring,” says John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin–Madison anthropologist who was not involved in the study, to NBC News. “They’re going to new places. They live there for a while. They have lifestyles that are different. They’re comfortable moving into areas where there were Neanderthals.”
One of the legislative vetoes blocked conservation projects selected by the Department of Natural Resources. Evers also challenged a veto that blocked already approved pay raises for 35,000 University of Wisconsin system employees, but after he filed the lawsuit, Republicans and the university system reached an agreement approving raises if the school cuts back on diversity initiatives.
University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison) researchers have successfully 3D-printed brain tissue that grows and functions like a typical brain.“This could be a hugely powerful model to help us understand how brain cells and parts of the brain communicate in humans,” said Su-Chun Zhang, the study’s corresponding author. “It could change the way we look at stem cell biology, neuroscience and the pathogenesis of many neurological and psychiatric disorders.”
Wisconsin state agencies — including the Universities of Wisconsin — would be barred from doing business with certain government-run companies under a GOP bill circulating in the Capitol.
Laura Dresser, associate director of the left-leaning COWS economic think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said state policies like Act 10 and Wisconsin’s “right to work” law have played a major role in the decline.
Firing a chancellor can be executed swiftly. In the case of former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow, it took just eight days from the time the UW System said it learned of his appearance in porn videos to the closed-door meeting when the UW Board of Regents ousted him as chancellor.
Firing a professor is much more laborious. Even so, the UW System is investigating whether to revoke Gow’s tenured faculty status as a communications professor, a position he announced in August he planned to return to next school year.
We called Dr. Megan Moreno to talk about this because she teaches medicine at the University of Wisconsin and she’s a co-medical director of a center at the American Academy of Pediatrics dedicated to social media and youth mental health. And she was at the White House yesterday to talk about kids’ online safety and health.
Dear Editor: The recent article by Capital Times reporter Kayla Huynh (“UW campus closures leave ‘bitter’ feelings about lost opportunities”) highlights the mess related to higher education in this state.
Jonathan Martin, UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and one-half of the Wisconsin State Journal’s Weather Guys column, wasn’t able to provide much hope for merchants dependent on more consistent, more typical winter weather.
Madison police said Thursday morning that they are investigating after several eggs were launched at UW Hillel Foundation, 611 Langdon St., on Tuesday night.
When you give in to the spectacle, you give her a platform.
An overview of diversity, equity and inclusion related disputes after the UW System’s approval of a controversial deal which capped DEI positions for pay raises and building funds.
The Rohr Chabad House at UW-Madison is planning a five-story expansion of their current house on W. Gilman Street to accommodate increased student demand during Jewish holidays.
The Chazen Museum boasts a dazzling new exhibition highlighting the history of printmaking as an artform.
UW leaders offer support to students, condemn antisemitism.
$900 of over $100,000 budget will be moved to Urban Agricultural Programming after composting policy change.
In her career as a playwright, Anna Deavere Smith has rooted her projects in civil rights issues, according to the Wisconsin Union. Smith is credited with creating a new type of theater where the performance centers around interpretations of journalistic interviews, according to New York University.
Eggs hurled at the UW Hillel Foundation on Tuesday night are expected to cost thousands of dollars to clean up, staff told the Madison Police Department.
Dr. Robert Golden, dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health since 2006, is stepping down once a successor is in place. A search will begin this spring, UW-Madison said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced yet another delay in the already-turbulent FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) timeline: The department says it won’t be sending students’ FAFSA data to schools until the first half of March. Previously, it had said it would start sending that data in late January.
The grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund neuroimaging, particularly PET scans, to better understand Alzheimer’s and other dementias in living people. The hope is that by identifying how Alzheimer’s affects the brain, future researchers will be able to eventually prevent, slow or delay the onset of the disease and better treat its symptoms.
