Cost, location and the look of a campus have always been important factors in the college search. But in the wake of several college closures across the Midwest and Plains this year — Cardinal Stritch in Wisconsin, Finlandia University in Michigan, Presentation College in South Dakota and Iowa Wesleyan University — some families are paying more attention to finances.
Chairs in colors not normally placed on the Terrace, such as blue and yellow, will be arranged alongside the other colorful, sunburst chairs near the front steps of the Memorial Union from 2-5 p.m. on June 21.
Cytopoint claims more than nine out of 10 dogs experience itching relief after their third injection. According to the University of Wisconsin, dog owners will have a good idea of its efficacy after their pup’s first injection.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday in a newspaper report that he won’t sign the state budget if Republican lawmakers follow through on their plan to cut funding for the state university system’s diversity officers, escalating a bitter fight over dollars for the state campuses.
“There are researchers out there who, rightfully so, want really strong data. We all should be striving for very strong evidence, but it’s very hard to come by in environmental exposure cases like this,” said neuroscientist Julie Stamm, a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the consensus statement. She agreed that cohort studies will yield the best evidence regarding CTE, “but that’s going to take decades,” she said.
As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin—where he earned his master’s degree in economics in 1979 and PhD in economics in 1984—Spriggs served as copresident of the Teaching Assistants’ Association (American Federation of Teachers, Local 3220), a groundbreaking campus labor union that fought a successful battle to expand collective bargaining rights for graduate students.
On Thursday morning, Intel announced the release of its newest quantum computing chip, which it calls ‘Tunnel Falls’. The chip is aimed at the quantum computing research community, and as part of the announcement the hardware giant said that it will be providing chips to the Sandia National Laboratory as well as labs at the University of Maryland, the University of Rochester and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The work being done by Furlong and the other researchers at Realta Fusion is the result of a research project at the UW-Madison looking into plasma stabilization in the fusion process. The project is housed in the UW-Madison physics department and led by Cary Forest, a physics professor and Realta Fusion co-founder.
A mesonet is a network of weather and environmental monitoring stations that observe mesoscale meteorological events — that is, local events that affect certain areas more than others. That can include extreme weather like heavy rain, hail, flooding and wind gusts. The key is they happen over a few miles to a few dozen miles, said Chris Kucharik, director of the mesonet project and professor and department chair of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Evers said Wednesday during a stop at a cheese plant outside of Monroe that such a cut would be “a ridiculous effort” on Vos’ part.
“To cut, at this point in time, the University of Wisconsin System when we have a $7 billion surplus is irrational,” he said. “I’m hopeful that will change before the budget is passed.”
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday in a newspaper report that he won’t sign the state budget if Republican lawmakers follow through on their plan to cut funding for the state university system’s diversity officers, escalating a bitter fight over dollars for the state campuses.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team’s path to a fifth straight Big Ten Conference championship is known.
Republican political strategists have a new target. They are going after the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that are making colleges and universities across the country more welcoming to faculty, staff and students from all backgrounds.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday he would veto any state budget that includes a proposed $32 million, Republican-backed state funding cut aimed at eliminating University of Wisconsin System diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Madison’s Plan Commission unanimously approved a proposal from Chicago-based Core Spaces to develop a 12-story student housing complex on West Johnson Street, despite concerns about a lack of affordable units.
Letter to the editor: So what does the microwave of the future look like? Ask an engineer. She’s probably working on it now at the UW-Madison College of Engineering.
But she needs the support of the Legislature in the state budget for a new College of Engineering facility. The Joint Finance Committee unfortunately removed this proposed funding. This additional facility space will allow her and many more bright students to invent the “microwaves and computers of the future.”
“Not that it’s not a good job or anything, but I think sometimes people see us as fanciful. It’s just eating cheese,” said Brandon Prochaska, the center’s sensory coordinator.
“But when people see us operate, they’re kind of impressed with how intensive it is, how quickly we can evaluate things,” he said.
Republican state lawmakers on Tuesday suspended a vote on funding for University of Wisconsin campuses, just hours after a top GOP leader promised to slash the college system’s budget as part of an ongoing fight over diversity and inclusion initiatives.
After hours of negotiations behind closed doors, Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee put off any vote Tuesday on whether to slash the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $32 million in an attempt to gut funding for diversity, equity and inclusion offices and programming.
“We may see prices rise on certain things like gas or milk, but it’s not necessarily inflation unless you see prices rising sort of across the board, across many different products and services,” says Jordan van Rijn, who teaches agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Financial Security.
Lyric Bartholomay, a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies integrated pest management and public health entomology who was not part of the study, said “increasingly tailored genetic approaches” will be necessary in the future to protect crops and people from pests, especially as insecticide resistance increases.
Plus, while the impact of age on a couple’s fertility has historically focused on the woman, “there has been a lot of data gathered over the last 10 years that indicates that, as men age, their fertility potential does decline over time,” said Daniel H. Williams, a urologist who specializes in male infertility at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
“This is the first time I’ve ever experienced drug rationing in my career,” said Marina Sharifi, medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin’s Carbone Cancer Center.
Funding for the University of Wisconsin system is being held up by Republicans, who control the Legislature and who want to kill all spending on diversity, the Associated Press reported.
According to new numbers from UW-Madison, diversity is growing in the books read by kids, not only in the characters they read about but also in the people who make them.
Exercise can help your memory and learning ability, too. Moderate-intensity exercise is linked to an increase in cerebral blood flow and brain glucose metabolism, which are connected to cognitive functions, says University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Ozioma Okonkwo, who co-wrote two studies on the subject.
An MCS is a prolific lightning generator. A late-April 2014 MCS along the Gulf Coast produced 6,076 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in just 15 minutes, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s CIMSS Satellite blog.
It’s hard to say, says Bilge Mutlu, a professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin Madison. While the researchers expect that with repeated exposure, the uncanny valley reaction might diminish, Mutlu says that for him, the feeling has only gotten stronger.
The University of Wisconsin Women’s Hockey team was recognized on Monday at the White House for winning the 2023 NCAA National Championship.
Column by John P. Gross, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project. He teaches courses in criminal law, criminal defense and trial practice.
The McCarthy Era, the civil rights struggle in the 1960s, the history of Indigenous people in Wisconsin — the stories told in the new PBS Wisconsin documentary, “Wisconsin Pride,” are in some ways very familiar to students of state history.
They arrived from all over to be part of College Athlete Day at the White House, get a tour of the U.S. Capitol, meet Wisconsin’s senators and take in the sights.
Letter to the editor: So let me get this straight: It’s more important to spend state tax dollars to attract better talent to have a competitive Badgers football team than contribute to fund a new engineering building to produce more engineers to keep the Wisconsin economy competitive? Hmm. What am I missing here?
President Joe Biden and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff hosted College Athlete Day on the White House’s South Lawn on Monday, celebrating several women’s and men’s NCAA champion teams from the 2022-2023 season.
The last six-year term of former Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees expired in May. But the farmer-designated seat on the board has been empty, as the former seat holder, Viroqua-area farmer Paul Buhr, resigned in January to serve on the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board.
State Republicans have a long-standing tradition of supporting economic development in Wisconsin, but – bafflingly—they missed the boat recently when the powerful GOP-controlled state-budget-writing committee axed a proposal for a much-needed new engineering building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Dietram Scheufele, faculty researcher and chair in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has spent decades studying the ways in which the public responds to new technologies.
Members of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team are headed to Washington, D.C., on Monday to be feted for the NCAA title they won in March. But UW officials until recently thought they had been forgotten in the process.
Yonatan Mintz tries to keep both the promise and the peril in mind in his research on what he calls the “human-sensitive applications” of artificial intelligence. On the promise side, the UW-Madison assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering is working on a project to make diabetes treatment more efficient and effective in poor urban areas in India.
Football or education? The priorities for our right-wing, gerrymandered Legislature seem to fit nicely with the UW-Madison athletics department’s desire for a new training facility and hopeless dreams of a national championship.
The University of Wisconsin’s men’s and women’s track teams turned in a well-rounded performance this week at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin, Texas.
Wisconsin has other fine engineering campuses, public and private, but demand for UW-Madison graduates is stronger than ever at a time when industry needs well-trained engineers in all disciplines. Let’s hope negotiations breathe new life into a project that will help Wisconsin’s economy for decades to come.
Like others 80 and older who have superior memories for their age, Frantz is in a study of super agers at UW-Madison. Through cognitive tests, blood tests and MRI scans, the participants could help researchers identify biologic, behavioral, environmental and socioeconomic clues to keeping memories intact — and avoiding Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia — well into advanced age.
Dr. Spriggs earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Williams College in Massachusetts and attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a master’s degree in 1979 and a doctorate in 1984, both in economics.
In many states, there’s either political pressure to keep tuition low or flat, or there are mandates, said Nick Hillman, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. For example, he said Wisconsin temporarily kept tuition frozen for nearly a decade.
Dr. Spriggs graduated in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Williams College in Massachusetts. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1984; a fellow graduate student, Lawrence Mishel, said Dr. Spriggs was the only African American among roughly 150 graduate students in economics at the time.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research is looking to hire a descriptive sensory panelist – in other words, a dairy taste tester – to join “a group of expert tasters” who can talk about their sensory experience, according to the job posting.
Rhinovirus C, one of the most common cold-causing viruses, can lead to bacterial pneumonia in children who have or are susceptible to asthma, said Ann Palmenberg, a researcher and professor with the Institute for Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The boot camp occurs at a critical juncture in a Bowdoin education: just before students are required to declare a major. Matthew Hora, the founding director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that although sophomore year may seem early for a university to mandate a career-development workshop, it aligns with other career trends. Many freshmen and sophomores now apply for internships, for example, whereas such positions used to be sought primarily by rising seniors.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently put out a job advert for a “descriptive sensory panelist” at its Center for Dairy Research — basically, a fancy way of saying “food taster.”
Prizes can furnish people with resources and access to live their lives. Until we live in a country with a more robust commitment to caring for people, if you find prizes distasteful, then resolve to not apply or accept them in hopes that someone with more pressing needs might get one.
-Nate Marshall, Providence, R.I.The writer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prizes can furnish people with resources and access to live their lives. Until we live in a country with a more robust commitment to caring for people, if you find prizes distasteful, then resolve to not apply or accept them in hopes that someone with more pressing needs might get one.
-Nate MarshallProvidence, R.I.The writer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“I think today we have more conversations about minimizing harm, and I think that’s a good thing,” said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Actor Hans Obma wrote and starred in an original film that was an official selection of one of the biggest film festivals in the world. The Wisconsinite and 4th generation University of Wisconsin-Madison alum wrote and starred in his original film “A Question of Service.”
If you’re looking to flex those creative and artistic muscles this summer, Wheelhouse Studios located on the lower level of Memorial Union invites you to indulge.
A bill that would renegotiate the Wisconsin-Minnesota tuition reciprocity agreement and allow University of Wisconsin System schools to retain more tuition dollars amid financial strain is again moving through the state legislature.
The University of Wisconsin System has hired a new chief diversity officer amid a Republican push to dismantle diversity programming on campuses and under threat of budget cuts.
Dr. Dixon Kaufman says the center is one of six in the U.S. and the only one in the Midwest that actively does heart, kidney, liver, lung and pancreas transplants for adults and kids.
Children in need of heart transplants will now be able to receive them in Madison. UW Health’s Transplant Center just launched a new pediatric heart transplant program at American Family Children’s Hospital.
Advice for taking the road less traveled.
