Rains like Monday’s downpour will help catch up on lost rain and relieve crop stress from the drought earlier this summer despite rainfall being “fairly normal” during the corn pollination period from July 15 to Aug. 4 compared to the past 30 years, said Joe Lauer, an agronomist at UW-Madison and expert in corn research.
UW-Madison Provost Charles Isbell Jr.’s new office overlooking Bascom Hill isn’t fully unpacked, but it’s already full of personality.
The Badgers will open the season Saturday with a 1 p.m. exhibition against University of Illinois Chicago at the UW Field House, the site of last December’s pulsating, emotionally draining five-set loss to Pittsburgh in the NCAA’s Regional Final. The defeat snapped Wisconsin’s 21-match winning streak dating to September.
Journalism professor Mike Wagner audited the studies that granted academic researchers around the nation access to Facebook’s internal records. The studies were produced in partnership with social scientists at Meta, the company that owns Facebook.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who pleaded guilty in 2018 to multiple felony charges related to a series of sexual assaults of female students has been ordered committed in Minnesota as a sexually dangerous person.
Many knew the date was approaching when their leases expired at noon, resulting in them having to deal with the morning’s rain whether they liked it or not.
UW Madison Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics, David Williamson Shaffer, says teachers at all levels of education are having to adapt quickly to this new wave of technology.
“We know that students are going to use it whether or not teachers plan for it, which means that teachers have to plan for it. Unfortunately, when change comes this rapidly, teachers are sort of left on their own to figure it out, and I think that’s a big problem,” said Professor Shaffer.
Without these compounds, meat would spoil. “Nitrite is especially important because it has inhibitory action against microorganisms and specifically against spores of Clostridium botulinum [which cause botulism], should they be present,” says Jeff J. Sindelar, a meat science professor and extension meat specialist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The Badgers spent a week working out in Platteville, about 70 miles from Wisconsin’s Madison campus. New Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell got the idea to train out of town from his coaching tenure at Cincinnati, which is spending a 25th straight year practicing about 30 miles from campus at Higher Ground Conference & Retreat Center in West Harrison, Indiana.
In the early 2000s, researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that Ricard’s brain produced gamma waves — which have been linked to learning, attention and memory — at such pronounced levels that the media named him “the world’s happiest man.”
Gov. Tony Evers called a special legislative session for Sept. 20 to address Wisconsin’s workforce shortage — included in his $1 billion spending proposal for consideration is money to shore up the child care industry, which UW-Madison social work professor Alejandra Ros Pilarz describes as a “failed market.”
UW-Madison announced in 2022 that it was ending the 16-week on-campus certificate program, with plans to transition to a mix of online and in-person trainings. University officials said enrollment had been declining over the last decade, and the smaller classes weren’t enough to support operation of the revenue-generating course.
“The regular lawmaking process in Wisconsin has basically broken down and become nonfunctional since Evers was elected in 2018 and has faced a really stalwart Republican majority,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison. “Aside from signing two budgets into law, both of which were acrimonious and left both sides somewhat dissatisfied, there hasn’t been any regular lawmaking to speak of.”
We each have a voice, and it’s our responsibility to use our voices to enact meaningful change. Gen Z could be the generation that champions nuclear energy and fights back against climate change. In fact, we have to. It’s time to seize this valuable opportunity to hold politicians accountable and take action to create reliable and zero-carbon energy.
-Grace Stanke is 2023’s Miss America and is studying nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Karly Matthews is the communications director for the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), a nonprofit organization that advocates for climate solutions such as nuclear energy.
University of Wisconsin meteorology professor Clark Evans posted a similar analysis on the X platform. The sheer severity of the Maui fires and the persistence of Hurricane (and Typhoon) Dora will prompt several scientific studies in the coming years.
Thomas is not the only justice who has failed to report sporting event tickets on their disclosures. Justice Elena Kagan attended a University of Wisconsin football game – sitting in the Chancellor’s Box – in 2017 that went unreported on her disclosure for that year, according to a Fix the Court review.
Michelle Somes-Booher, director of the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center at the UW-Madison School of Business, said that coming out of the pandemic, business owners have had to make lots of adjustments.
“We’ve had wage increases and whatnot,” she said. “And then with higher interest rates, that always causes business owners to have to do things maybe they wouldn’t have done in the past.”
“It could be that this gives the court a completely neutral basis for deciding the maps are no good,” said Kenneth R. Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
The sight of lightning near the McClimon Track/Soccer Complex stopped a University of Wisconsin men’s soccer home game against Tulsa last August just more than a minute shy of it qualifying as a complete contest.
The University of Wisconsin had 35 robots at its peak, including a few for off-campus neighborhoods that needed permitting from the city.
Calvin began teaching at UW-Madison in 1954, as an instructor and joined the faculty in 1959, in the Department of Agricultural Engineering. He taught the design and construction of agricultural buildings, later expanding to courses in the area of construction administration particularly residential construction.
He also worked as a professional electrical engineer at the UW Physical Sciences Laboratory, where he designed the precursor to the telephone answering machine.
“The world has produced nearly three billion solar panels at this point, and every one of those has been an opportunity for people to try to improve the process,” said Gregory Nemet, a solar power expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And all of those incremental improvements add up to something very dramatic.”
Maui experienced a two-category increase in drought severity in just three weeks from May to June, with that rapid intensification fitting the definition of a flash drought, said Jason Otkin, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Otkin co-authored an April study that shows that flash droughts are becoming more common as Earth warms by human-caused climate change. A 2016 flash drought was connected to unusual wildfires in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he said.
Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison political science professor, said the liberal justices’ actions are harming the court’s reputation.
“Disregarding procedure, purging state employees without notice and making blatantly political decisions is an institution-destroying cocktail that, for the public, will taste like ipecac syrup — and have the same effect,” said Owens, who briefly ran for attorney general as a Republican.
“What the emergency rental assistance proves is that you can stabilize housing and get better outcomes across a range of life situations,” said UW-Madison urban planning professor Kurt Paulsen. “You’re better able to focus on a job or school and deal with whatever problems life throws at you.”
But the challenge to noncontiguous districts could provide judges a way to decide the case without ever addressing whether partisan gerrymandering is illegal. “It could be that this gives the court a completely neutral basis for deciding the maps are no good,” said Kenneth R. Mayer, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Notable UW-Madison projects approved include releasing funds for the construction of Levy Hall — the proposed new College of Letters and Science academic building — the Veterinary Medicine Addition and Renovation project and the Chemistry Buildings Addition and Renovation project.
A University of Wisconsin- Madison student returned to campus Friday after witnessing her hometown of Lahaina being burned to the ground.
At about 4 p.m. Tuesday, Olivia Bozich looked outside her friend’s home in the Ka’anapali hillside to find “a big cloud of black smoke” and much of Lahaina, Hawaii, destroyed.
He’s also partnering with Alhaji Njai, founder of a Madison nonprofit, Project 1808, to build a college in Njai’s native Kabala, Sierra Leone. Njai, who has a doctorate from UW-Madison, is a research fellow in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the African Studies Program.
The Perseid meteors are visible around this time each year. Director of UW Space Place, James Lattis tells News 3 Now that a debris field left by comet Swift- Tuttle intersects with Earth’s orbit causing the astronomical phenomena.
Letter to the editor: I urge athletic director Chris McIntosh and head coach Luke Fickell to find a way to stop the continuation of the vulgar chant that fans shout back and forth at each other several times during the game.
Given current trends across the UW System, as well as other public and private colleges, UW-Oshkosh likely will not be alone in belt-tightening.
Letter to the editor: The state of Wisconsin could profit abundantly if the Legislature and the University of Wisconsin worked together instead of having State Street be paved with disrespectful and biased rhetoric.
Maui experienced a two-category increase in drought severity in just three weeks from May to June, with that rapid intensification fitting the definition of a flash drought, said Jason Otkin, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Mark Tauscher, whose playing career at UW included serving as one of the starting offensive linemen during Ron Dayne’s Heisman Trophy-winning season in 1999, will serve as color commentator alongside Lepay, UW announced Thursday.
Flux XII launched in 2021 and is the brainchild of Patrick Sullivan, CEO and graduate of UW-Madison’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and co-founder and UW-Madison assistant professor Dawei Feng.
Pat Richter was in grade school when Bob Teague broke a color barrier in the Wisconsin football program by becoming the first African American player to start for the Badgers. As he grew older, Richter began to better comprehend the historical significance of Teague’s breakthrough during the 1949 season.
“Unfortunately, his story has not received the attention it so richly deserves,’’ opined Richter, a former University of Wisconsin All-American tight end and the school’s athletic director during the Badgers’ football renaissance of the 1990s. “Many who could have benefited from hearing about his tales of perseverance may now finally have that opportunity.’’
He was employed by the UW Madison Athletic Department. He provided massage therapy to Badger student athletes, mainly football and wrestling.
Paul credited Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, with originating the vampire allegory in a 2013 blog post. The economist Russ Roberts, in turn, credited Paul in his 2022 book, “Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us.”
HUANG: So here’s what’s happening. The salt draws water out of the cabbage leaves, breaking down cell walls, and that releases sugars that feed the kimchi-making microbes. I called up fermentation professor Victor Ujor at the University of Wisconsin. He loves fermentation, and he loves talking about microbes.
VICTOR UJOR: So I think they are such beautiful things.
Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argued that, even if Biden’s age has not affected his ability to do the job, “some members of the public may nonetheless believe he is not mentally sharp enough or that he lacks the necessary physical stamina.”
Naomi Livesay was a mathematician who had been told by the University of Wisconsin that she could not pursue a PhD in math because, as one of the professors in the math department put it, “there is no place in higher mathematics for any woman, however brilliant,” according to the book, “Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project.”
A spokesperson for UW Health, another major provider for Madison-area residents, also confirmed with the Cap Times that it will “continue to serve (its) transgender, gender expansive and nonbinary patient communities.”
This achievement is a milestone, according to Gerald Kulcinski, director emeritus of fusion technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It doesn’t change any physics, but what it does is that we can now say with confidence that there’s a nuclear process going on and we can tell where it’s located,” he said. “It’s confirmation of something that we’ve known for a long time, but now we actually have visible evidence of it.”
Downtown Madison can expect to see the worst of off-campus student moving over the weekend and into early next week. With virtually every off-campus student housing lease turning over between Aug. 14 and 15, streets near campus quickly become congested as students and their families park all along the streets for moving days, the curbsides become temporary landfills, and the city of Madison Streets Division attempts to mitigate it all starting with 4 a.m. shifts.
“I try to build machines and systems that are really smart — and not just smart in a room, but smart in a social context with human beings,” Isbell told UW News. “It’s all about modeling and understanding human behavior and building systems that are part of a person or a group of people, as opposed to something that is just faster or smarter at whatever little thing it does.”
DEI programs prepare UW students for the workforce. Cutting the UW System’s budget cripples Wisconsin’s economic engine.
University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor and researcher Nan Li is helping to bridge the gap between scientific research and the creative arts by sparking conversations about the importance of visual representation in understanding scientific concepts.
The plan will serve as a framework for an estimated 30 years of initiatives and construction projects for the research and work-focused zone of UW-Madison.
Teaching assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
Many students avoid using Lakeshore Path at night due to safety concerns. But is the path truly as dangerous as many believe?
The drinks are non-alcoholic, gluten-free, sparkling beverages, called Terrace Lemonade and Terrace Strawberry Lemonade. They will soon be available at all Wisconsin Union-run dining locations.
Summer’s heating up and the Wisconsin Union Terrace will soon have a new way to cool down. The Union teamed up with Karben4 to create two new non-alcoholic, sparkling drinks.
Senator Tammy Baldwin is celebrating millions of dollars for the Marshfield Agricultural Research station– or MARS.
Baldwin toured the facility in Stratford in which she helped them get $6-million dollars.
The senator met with officials from UW Madison and their facility in Stratford to talk about the importance of funding for the school’s Wisconsin Rural Partnership program, and how crucial it is that farms receive adequate funding.
Evers on Tuesday proposed spending $197 million to build a new engineering building on UW-Madison’s campus. He also proposed spending $66 million for the UW System’s general operations.
The GOP-led Legislature rejected funding the engineering building earlier this year and reduced the UW System’s overall budget despite Evers’ calls to spend hundreds of millions more.
Word started getting out to University of Wisconsin athletic department employees about a change in the men’s hockey coaching staff shortly before 3 p.m. March 6.
Evers’ $1 billion plan would allocate more than $365 million to child care programs, guarantee 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for Wisconsin workers, invest $66.4 million in UW System schools, award nearly $200 million for UW-Madison’s proposed engineering building and millions more for workforce education and grant programs.
