The production of ethanol as fuel for vehicles is likely harming the habitat of scores of endangered species. That’s the conclusion of a new study by a lead scientist at UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. The author of the study joins us.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Astronomy Club hosted a talk with scientist Dr. Stephanie LaMassa at Chamberlin Hall last Wednesday.
A new project will see a network of more than 90 weather stations built to better monitor local soil and weather conditions across the state. We speak with the head of the project to learn how researchers and farmers may benefit from more data.
NBC Sports – the new home for primetime Big Ten football – is coming to Madison this week to record part of a promotional campaign. The spots will air all summer and before games this fall and the network needs 300 UW students to come to the stadium and be a part of it.
A University of Wisconsin at Madison art professor allegedly bared her breasts to a student on campus, resulting in a disorderly conduct citation and current removal from teaching duties.
With its direct connection to the heart, its vivid hue (from wine-dark to cherry bright and cobalt blue), and its spilling in both birth and death, blood has historically served as a metaphor for humanity, as Susan Lederer, a professor of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues in her 2008 book, Flesh and Blood. “Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in the 1880s. “All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood,” wrote Rainer Maria Rilke in 1921. “Blood is memory without language,” added Joyce Carol Oates, more recently.
Ojibwe ponies, a horse breed almost driven into extinction, will make an appearance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus for an event on Friday, April 21, 1-4 p.m. at Babcock Hall, room 205.
For example, the University of Wisconsin has been awarded a $5 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a system that can detect and “strategically correct” what the government perceives as misinformation relating to COVID, elections, and vaccines. This new grant adds to the previous $7.5 million grant awarded by the NSF to ten universities to develop anti-misinformation tools as part of the “Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems” initiative.
It’s easy for people else to appreciate what the Wisconsin capital has to offer too. Apartment Advisor just released their 2023 Top 10 Best Cities for College Grads list. And Madison was number 1.
“Planting early with soybeans especially can be really profitable,” said Sam Bibby, a regional crops educator with the UW Extension, covering Sauk, Vernon and Juneau counties.
When Allana Randall was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she turned to the canvas to help pull her through.
Sunday is National Healthcare Decisions Day, and UW Health is encouraging people to develop an advance care plan now to avoid stress and save money later.
This past fall, in what would be his last season as an eminent transplant surgeon after more than four decades at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Anthony D’Alessandro — “Tony” to friends — decided to do some pre-retirement housekeeping.
They returned to Madison on the anniversary of Sarah’s death to sponsor the Out of the Darkness Walk for suicide prevention.
Rabab Nasim is a critical care fellow at UW Health and works in the Intensive Care Unit. She says it’s challenging to fast on-the-job, especially when she works day coverage.
Video: The Investiture Ceremony is part of a long tradition in academia for the campus community.
A private luncheon is being held Saturday inside the Champions Club at Camp Randall Stadium, part of a massive fundraising campaign designed to take care of Moore’s healthcare needs for the remainder of his life.
UW-Madison tribal relations director Carla Vigue’s two sons will grow up differently than she did.
Vigue was raised on the Oneida reservation west of Green Bay, but her sons will be urban Indians, defined as a population of people who have ancestral ties to First Nations but who don’t live on a reservation. Vigue’s role as the university’s tribal relations director, which she started in January, will be one way to not only strengthen her sons’ ties to their culture, but introduce them to other Indigenous cultures.
A report from the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found civic fracture is growing across Wisconsin.
If the Wisconsin Film Festival seems a little daunting to you, with 160 films crammed into eight days, director of operations Ben Reiser knows just how you feel.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin has officially joined an elite group of campus celebrities: Those who have a Babcock Dairy ice cream flavor named after them.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s life was personally changed by UW-Madison nearly a year and a half before she took the reins last summer.
The Babcock Hall Dairy Plant celebrated UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s investiture Friday by revealing her favorite ice cream, “Mnookie Dough.”
Meet “Mnookie Dough”: a new Babcock Dairy ice cream flavor that’s creamy, sweet, topped with cookie dough, and named after University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin.
A master’s student at UW-Madison is speaking out in hopes of protecting other students after they say a professor exposed herself to them in an act of anti-trans hate.
Several former UW athletes will be playing basketball tomorrow at Madison College in the Easterseals 4th annual Celebrity Basketball Experience.
Glass will serve in the position while current Vice Chancellor for Finance & Administration Scott Menke serves as the interim chancellor of the university. Menke replaces Debbie Ford, who will become the chancellor of Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Ind. She has been at UW-Parkside for over 13 years.
The university’s tenet of education extending beyond the classroom has propelled her as chancellor, she told the audience. In December 2020, she donated a kidney to her father, who was diagnosed with late-stage kidney disease. A synthetic solution created at UW-Madison, which increased preservation times for organs outside of the body, allowed her kidney to safely travel on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to her dad in Boston.
The University of Wisconsin held an Investiture ceremony April 14 at the Hamel Music Center to officially recognize Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin as the 30th leader of the University of Wisconsin.
The investiture took place at the Hamel Music Center, and there were a variety of speakers, including past chancellors, students, UW System faculty and Gov. Tony Evers.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and freshman Jessica Randall started a project collecting clothes for sexual assault survivors.
An art professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was cited with disorderly conduct for exposing her breasts to a student on campus in late March, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
The positions include the Anti-Violence Coordinator, Diverse Engagement Coordinator, Outreach Director, Shared Governance Campaign Director and Sustainability Campaign Coordinator.
April 11-17 marks Black Maternal Health Week, a week-long campaign officially recognized by the Biden administration as a time to address racial inequities in Black maternal health and to “amplify the voices, perspectives and lived experiences” of Black during pregnancy.
–Tiffany L. Green, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of any institutions or organizations.
“I saw this post where somebody said, ‘Reading wars are over, science of reading won,’” said Mark Seidenberg, a cognitive scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Competing for the University of Wisconsin, he won two N.C.A.A. wrestling titles, including one over John Smith, arguably America’s greatest wrestler. Mr. Jordan says he applies the lessons he learned from wrestling to his current role.
Keeping global warming under control will require the removal of between 450 billion and 1.1 trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2100, according to the first global report dedicated to the topic, released in January. That would require the CDR sector “to grow at a rate of about 30 percent per year over the next 30 years, much like what happened with wind and solar,” said one of its authors, Gregory Nemet.
“Deflation is rare in America for any time longer than a year,” says Menzie Chinn, economics professor at the University of Wisconsin. “But over the last 30 years, we’re more accustomed to low inflation, rather than the inflation we’ve been seeing.”
John Karl Scholz, provost and Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been selected as president of the University of Oregon.
Sarah Shulze was a star student athlete, passionate about politics and making the world a better place.
The iconic Terrace chairs returned to the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Terrace Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin Men’s Basketball team celebrated its 125th year as a program by helping an alumni and coach who was severely injured in a car accident.
Hundreds of people showed up to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Saturday afternoon to show their support for a student organization dedicated to mental health awareness.
Batchelor dated the stalagmite using a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry instrument from UW professor John Valley’s Lab. Valley said the SIMS instrument provided a more accurate record of data compared to other studies that have been conducted up until recently.
Dance Elite is allowed to practice at the Nicholas Recreation Center regularly for no cost because of their relationship with RecWell, according to member Erin Anderson. They also receive university funding for their organization.
Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development announced the University of Wisconsin System was awarded $1.1 million through the Wisconsin Fast Forward Program.
rom a campus-wide cleanup to a sustainable cooking competition, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Sustainability will launch a free week of nature-centered events from April 17-April 22.
Another sudden drought happened in the U.S. Southeast in 2016 and was a factor in devastating wildfires in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, said Jason Otkin, a study co-author and an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Another speaker has sparked controversy on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after students received an email Wednesday morning that Catholic author Kim Zember would discuss her experiences with homosexuality and life with Christ Thursday evening.
Upgrades provide Center for Dairy Research more opportunities for success.
Letter to the editor: In college, I worked for two years as a student animal caretaker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Harlow Primate Laboratory.
Madison is a little brighter Wednesday, as the iconic sunburst chairs return in full force to the terrace at Memorial Union.
A research center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus left a lasting impact on students, and the class of 2023 is leaving a legacy to recognize and support that center’s mission.
“Who influences students to go to college or not to go to college?” Jennifer Blazek, the Director of the Emerging Leaders Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, asked. In the coming months, the work she’ll be doing with the new Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) Network will seek to answer and address that question.
Upgraded commercial, research and educational facilities in Babcock Hall continue to support dairy farming research in Wisconsin.
Students are frustrated with UHS’s limited sessions, long wait times and lack of staff.
Interfaith religious organizations join university in conversations of religious pluralism, spiritual, mental health.
Undergraduate research interns find low levels of imposter phenomenon within program compared to similar programs.
Instead of signals moving through a nervous system like ours, Simon Gilroy, professor of botany at University of Wisconsin-Madison, says in plants, it’s more like plumbing.
“Our whole program was ~24 hours, which isn’t that much time in the grand scheme of how much time other observatories have looked at it,” said Michael Maseda, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a statement. “But, even in this relatively short amount of time, we’re starting to put together a new picture of how galaxies are growing at this really interesting point in the history of the Universe.”
