A new University of Wisconsin project aims to train pharmacists on responding to overdose deaths that, despite recent declines, continue to be seen as a public health issue in Wisconsin.
Extension Specialist for Poultry Science at UW Madison, Ron Kean, is urging farmers to take extensive measures to prevent the virus from spreading to their flocks.
“Keeping them indoors, if possible, certainly cleaning and disinfecting anything that’s coming into the flock,” said Kean. “People tend to be a big carrier, we think. So, changing clothes, changing shoes, especially, or designated footwear.”
Chris McIntosh was upbeat about the state of the University of Wisconsin football program while making the rounds at Big Ten media days in July.
“Every single season that came along just seemed to fit the bill,” said Jonathon Martin, UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
All the players, assistants and television reporters had left the floor after Tuesday’s practice. University of Wisconsin volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield sat down in the bleachers.
Her latest project, “The Garden Without Strangers,” is now a permanent installation at UW Health Eastpark Medical Center in Madison. The recently opened center specializes in adult cancer care and women’s complex care.
UW Health’s East Madison Hospital has been designated as a Level IV Trauma Center. That means it will provide quicker critical care for patients in and around the east side of Madison.
If the case goes to trial, finding non-biased jurors may delay the case, UW-Madison Political Science Professor Howard Schweber said.
“It’s really hard to say how it will play out, but the confident prediction can be that it’s going to be a circus,” Schweber said. “These state prosecutions may be the best opportunity that we ever have to develop a record of what happened.”
UW Health announced Wednesday one of their hospitals received a new designation.
Merrifield discussed her priorities, the tech system’s upcoming state budget request and how she’ll approach conversations with lawmakers in a recent interview with the Cap Times.
Letter to the editor: According to Open Seat Food Pantry, a student organization at UW-Madison that seeks to address food insecurity, it is estimated that 12% of UW-Madison students are food insecure. The Office of Student Assistance and Support houses Badger FARE, a program that only provides $75 per academic year for those who meet the criteria. The school additionally provides frozen meals, but distributes them through churches, limiting its effectiveness.
All 19 protesters who were arrested after disrupting the UW Board of Regents meeting last week have been cited for obstructing a university meeting, with one person receiving an additional citation for intentionally spitting on food.
Diversity may be a hot button topic in many corners these days, but for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team, diversity is an essential part of its culture.
While nurturing her family, she worked as a Staff Nurse at Methodist Hospital; UW-Madison Student Health Services as a Nurse Clinician (earning the first certification in Wis) and Health Information Materials Coordinator until her retirement in 2000.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor called incoming U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “moron” during a recent lecture to students.
Letter to the editor: I am writing to argue that the issue of divestment raised by the protesters should be taken seriously by the board.
Those who trained at the Camp Randall Sports Center during the winter months can attest it was no palace. But the Shell, as it colloquially was known, had a running surface and spots for pole vaulters, jumpers and throwers to work on their crafts.
Such was the case recently when nearly 150 people gathered in Madison to mark the 30th anniversary of an improbable venture capital investment in Third Wave Technologies, then a new company founded by two UW-Madison professors with the goal of producing diagnostic tests to detect genetic markers for diseases.
With the amount of free and discounted care fluctuating at Dane County hospitals and unpaid patient bills up last year at UW Hospital, a Madison advocacy group says financial assistance programs should better help patients get coverage or reduce what they owe.
“It becomes kind of a vicious circle if you don’t have success at some level on the ballot, some candidate who’s showing a path forward for the party, it becomes hard to then recruit people who want to run, and hard to recruit volunteers and donors,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In October, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, known as CORE, released a study on the demand for abortion medications. The report examined how many people in Wisconsin ordered pills from out-of-state providers. The data was collected by the organization #WeCount, a national effort to track how many clinician-provided abortions are performed each month.
It’s meat and potatoes time for the University of Wisconsin football team. Fickell, who’s entering his third year as Wisconsin’s coach, finalized a deal to hire Jeff Grimes away from Kansas, a BadgerExtra source said Sunday.
Milfred and Hands play clips from the Wisconsin State Journal editorial board’s meeting last week with Jay Rothman, the “change agent” president of the Universities of Wisconsin.
Letter to the editor: I am reaching out today from the standpoint of a concerned student at UW-Madison.
Having a city situated between two lakes has its advantages, but also its consequences. I’d like to express my concern and bring awareness to our area lakes, specifically their water quality.
Republicans have long urged government to run more like a business.
Well, the Universities of Wisconsin are doing just that, under the leadership of President Jay Rothman. The GOP-controlled Legislature should appreciate and reward his effort with greater funding in the state budget.
Plus, how to budget for the holidays with Clare Dahl, a financial educator with UW-Madison Division of Extension in Dane County.
In response to TAA concerns, UW-Madison said it has increased minimum graduate assistant stipends by 14% this year as part of a four-year planned increase, with some individual programs setting rates even higher to stay competitive.
Academic programs at Wisconsin’s public universities will face more scrutiny, with a new report classifying 30% of programs as “low-enrolled.”
AUW-Madison student was the only survivor in a single-vehicle crash of a Tesla Cybertruck that killed three college students in Northern California last week.
It’s been 50 years since Jerry Ringlien, an Eau Claire native and UW-Madison graduate, wrote what would become one of the best known jingles in advertising history.
The commercial was for Madison-based Oscar Mayer, where Ringlien was the company’s vice president of marketing, and featured 4-year-old Andy Lambros who, while sitting on a boat dock, taught the world how to properly spell B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
Van Os secured funding for the game titled “Mooving Cows”: Version 1.0 through the UW-Madison Research Forward Initiative.
UW-Madison staff worked collaboratively with dairy farm owners, professional bilingual trainers and veterinarians, inviting them to the campus to play the game prototype and provide critical feedback.
A few dozen protesters were forcibly removed from a UW Board of Regents meeting Thursday after disrupting the meeting’s proceedings.
Franklin became the first Wisconsin player to be named Big Ten Conference Player of the Year twice as she received that honor for the second consecutive year, the conference announced Wednesday.
The collaboration, called Forward Pediatric Alliance, brings together pediatric heart care at Wisconsin’s two academic medical centers: UW’s American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison and Children’s Wisconsin hospital near Milwaukee.
The Badgers had six players earn All-Big Ten honors, but just one make the first, second or third teams. Senior guard Joe Huber, who moved from left guard to right guard this year, made the coaches third-team list. Punter Atticus Bertrams, cornerback Ricardo Hallman, left tackle Jack Nelson, running back Tawee Walker and safety Hunter Wohler received unanimous honorable mentions.
Miffland, as the neighborhood around West Mifflin Street is known, doesn’t look all that different from a half-century ago. Many of the single-family and multifamily houses with distinctive porches, balconies and yards that were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s are still there — and are still sought after by students. But now the way the neighborhood looks is changing, too.
A 2021 study done by UW-Extension researchers found the proposed trail connection could attract hundreds of thousands of cyclists and snowmobilers from across the region, generating more than $6 million a year in direct economic impact.
Dr. Keith Poulsen from UW-Madison’s Diagnostic Laboratory told Brownfield Ag News that a nationwide bulk tank or milk silo milk testing requirement is likely to be enacted this month. Poulsen says the new federal order should have more specific guidance about how officials can effectively perform a national surveillance. He said the Colorado model is likely to be adopted nationwide.
The Universities of Wisconsin are set to fare better financially than earlier projected, largely due to sizeable increases in tuition at a handful of schools and unaccounted-for donation dollars for UW-Madison, the system said Monday.
It’s like it was meant to be. That’s the only way Julia Orzol can explain how a chance meeting on a hillside in Slovenia more than five years ago would come to change her life.
After three years, they returned to Madison, Wis., and Kristine obtained a position in the Secretary of State Office. Uncomfortable with elections changing office conditions, Kristine resigned and took a position at the University of Wisconsin Department of Engineering in the continuing education office.
Her professional life was equally commendable, serving as the Director of the Medical Library at Mercy Hospital in Janesville followed by a career at the UW Madison School of Medicine.
UW-Madison police reported that 29 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 19 people were arrested during Friday’s frigid football game between the Badgers and Minnesota.
University of Wisconsin football fans at Friday’s final home game were ready to turn the page on the 2024 season and look ahead to 2025.
On the crisp afternoon of Oct. 22, Shanglin Yang walked down State Street, a route he had taken countless times since beginning his computer science studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Passing a farm bill or extending the current Farm Bill is really seen as a necessity,” Andrew Stevens, an assistant professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW-Madison said.
“Food prices are not where they were before the pandemic, and I don’t expect they ever will be,” Andrew Stevens, an assistant professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW-Madison said.
UW Health will be the official medical provider for LOVB Madison, a new Madison professional volleyball team.
UW-Madison would greatly benefit from a program similar to Carroll’s Wellness Advocate initiative. 43% of UW students were positive for significant symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to the university’s 2022 Healthy Minds survey.
The 10-story apartment building that Trinitas Ventures of Lafayette, Indiana, plans to build at 619 and 699 W. Mifflin St. would add hundreds of student beds near the UW-Madison campus, where housing is in high demand.
“Regardless of who got elected, we would have said that there’s these deep structural crises in the housing system. And there are some really thorny trade-offs involved,” said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And you cannot just cut your way to housing affordability.”
UW Health Med Flight and some Milwaukee County fire departments are giving critically injured patients whole blood, not just blood products or saline solution, in the field to try to save lives.
To be considered frozen over, lakes Wingra and Monona must have at least half ice cover. Mendota, the largest of Madison’s lakes, is subject to another rule developed by limnologists Edward Birge and Chancey Juday in the early 1900s because of its odd shape: The lake is considered frozen when you can’t row a boat between Picnic Point on UW-Madison’s northeast side to Maple Bluff.
“If you are protected and layered appropriately, you should be safe even in the temperatures that we’re expecting,” said Patrick Shahan, an assistant professor with the Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and an acute care surgeon. “You just have to be mindful of being too cold.”
Unions representing Universities of Wisconsin faculty and graduate workers are lobbying to meet directly with chancellors to discuss workplace conditions, saying the government councils representing them are no longer effective.
Bry left the Marshfield Clinic in 1992 and, after a brief stint as a farm hand in Illinois, he began a faculty position at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He treated patients and taught medical students until his 80th birthday. In his later practice, he focused on irritable bowel syndrome and other chronic functional disorders. Patients who had suffered debilitating symptoms for years remain grateful for the healing he gave them.
Leaders of Wisconsin’s higher education systems were cautious Tuesday in predicting what could come from President-elect Donald Trump’s call to close the U.S. Department of Education. Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said he spent time in Washington, D.C., last week where he asked Wisconsin’s delegation about this issue.
“I think the general consensus that I was hearing … was that, is it likely that the Department of Education, as it currently exists, is voted out of existence? Not highly likely, in their mind,” Rothman told a crowd in Madison.
The privately funded program, known as the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise, covers the full cost of attendance for in-state students who are enrolled members of one of the 11 federally recognized tribes in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin marching band already was in game mode despite more than 10 hours remaining before kickoff of the Badgers’ football game against No. 1 Oregon.
An on-field interaction between a UW-Madison Police officer and a Nebraska football assistant coach after Saturday’s game was a “misunderstanding” that ended in an apology, a police spokesperson said.
