An expert with UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology said a chemical used to eliminate invasive zebra mussel populations in Minnesota wouldn’t work in major Madison lakes infested by the mollusc.
Noted: Jeremy Hemberger is a graduate student with the department of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a volunteer with the campus Insect Ambassadors organization.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said it remains “quite difficult” for Trump to win the state. Burden said over the past two weeks, polling shows the state moving from a situation where Trump was in striking distance to a more lopsided race where Clinton has a wider lead.
Two UW-Madison students are recovering from the disease that can cause meningitis as officials try to determine if the two cases are related.
Noted: Bernier did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the mailer, but Bernier issued a statement in July 2015 objecting to the state budget and cuts proposed by Walker to the University of Wisconsin System.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents sought Friday to reassert its role in determining tuition by approving a plan that would end a freeze on in-state tuition imposed by the state Legislature with a small increase in those costs for the 2018-19 school year.
Noted: This State Journal editorial ran on Oct. 11, 1916, the day after Bascom Hall, which was then called Main Hall, lost its ornate dome to fire.
College GameDay will be heading to Madison next week for the first time since 2011.
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building on the UW-Madison campus will be a hive of activity Oct. 20-23 during the 6th annual Wisconsin Science Festival, where thousands of people will engage in science, often in unique ways.
Noted: Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “Each state has a number of (Electoral College) votes, equal to the number of seats it has in the House of Representatives,” said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at UW-Madison. States get two additional Electoral College votes for their U.S. senators.
Before she shows social work students a video about post-traumatic stress disorder that includes graphic images, UW-Madison professor Angela Willits warns them about the upsetting scenes.
Quoted: “I think Madison is a vibrant economic community,” said James Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the UW-Madison School of Business. “It has the lowest unemployment rate and the highest population growth in Wisconsin, based on last year’s data.”
Wisconsin students sell ‘all whites are racist’ hoodies: Blake Neff of the Daily Caller writes: “Several students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to sell a line of hoodies carrying provocative messages like, ’All White People Are Racist,’ and another variation that seems to promote anti-cop violence.
Wisconsin’s D’Cota Dixon has pointed to Ohio State’s visit to Camp Randall Stadium for weeks, though the source of his anticipation isn’t what you suspect.
About a dozen years ago, Willie Jude, a longtime Milwaukee Public Schools administrator who was principal of Custer High School at the time, told me that many Custer grads who went on to higher education (and there weren’t that many) realized quickly they were way behind many other students when it came to academic preparation.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to extend into a fifth year a tuition freeze for resident undergraduates, but drew the line for the following year, stating its intent to raise tuition for 2018-’19 by up to the rate of inflation.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students were hospitalized this week with meningococcal disease, and one has been confirmed to have a type of the rare, potentially deadly form that most students have not been immunized against.
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has released a report that may have imagined the most painful college experience in America, and the institute is hoping to bring it to Wisconsin.
Noted: PerBlue, which has about 40 employees, was founded by Beck and Andrew Hanson in June 2008. They funded it themselves, then raised $72,000 from family and friends in July 2009. Both graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with computer engineering degrees in 2009.
On a snowy Friday morning in 2005, Jeri Lake was riding her bicycle to the clinic where she worked as a nurse and midwife when a car suddenly drove into her path.
When veterans seek out legal help from the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Veterans Law Center, Laura Smythe says they often tell the lawyers and students they’re working with, “I don’t even know what my first step should be.”
Noted: Research from Anita Mukherjee of the University of Wisconsin, School of Business found no reduction in recidivism rates when using private prisons, indicating that the benefits touted by private prisons, such as higher efficiency and better results is tenuous at best.
Quoted: Cross-selling — in which bankers try to draw customers who had signed up for one account into starting other accounts or products — is part of most banks’ strategies, said Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the University of Wisconsin.
A 48-year-old Milwaukee man exonerated by DNA evidence in a sexual assault case was released from prison on Wednesday after serving 24 years for a crime he did not commit.
Preliminary fall enrollments are in for University of Wisconsin campuses and while many held steady or saw slight gains, the two-year colleges collectively took a 22.3% hit, UW-Stevens Point fell 6.8% and UW-Milwaukee lost 4.7%, compared with final enrollment numbers from last fall.
Controversial tuition money carried over by the University of Wisconsin System and its campuses now would cover about 45 days of instructional expenses in the event of an emergency or other unforeseen circumstance, according to a report the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will discuss Thursday and Friday at UW-Eau Claire.
The UW-Madison chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has been terminated due to violations of Student Organization Code of Conduct policies.
After three years of an in-state tuition freeze, University of Wisconsin System officials are considering lifting the cap after the 2017-18 academic school year.
Pending approval of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents this Thursday, the College of Letters and Science and Career Initiative and Career Services may take residence above the University Bookstore.
It took getting a Ph.D. in genetics for Nadia Drake to realize she was more interested in writing about science than practicing it.
The University of Wisconsin’s Committee on Student Organizations has terminated Sigma Phi Epsilon after receiving evidence the fraternity had violated its suspension.
Graham Washburn from AT&T joined NBC15’s Meredith Barack for this week’s Tech Tuesday.Washburn shares a new Badgers Game Day app that gives fans a whole new inside look for Wisconsin sporting events.
– University of Wisconsin System regents are set to consider a resolution this week calling for raising in-state tuition after next year.
A new report shows the University of Wisconsin System’s balances have shrunk.
A fraternity chapter at UW-Madison has been terminated for violating the university’s code of conduct policies.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization for violating student organization code of conduct policies, according to a release.
VIDEO: Dr. Barbara Ingham, a professor of food science at UW-Madison, talks about common mistakes people make when canning the fruits of their labor.
Quoted: “Clinton is trying to shore up her weakness, which is young voters,” said UW-Madison political scientist Barry Burden. “Sanders is the best carrier of that message.”
University of Wisconsin officials soon will begin using metal detectors for all events at the Kohl Center and plan to expand their use to other campus venues.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty will hit the road over the next few weeks to host town hall meetings about election issues in Appleton, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities.
Quoted: Would increased diversity among investors result in more parity for women and people of color? In terms of peer reviewed research, there’s not enough robust literature on the subject to really say, said Sarada, a professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison who goes by one name. In fact, there isn’t even a clear understanding of why certain groups are so underrepresented in the realm of entrepreneurship, let alone private equity.
Every fourth Thursday of the month, the front corner room of Porchlight Inc. turns into a makeshift law office.
Gov. Scott Walker refuses to fund road repairs with the revenue sources dedicated for this purpose by law — the gas tax and license fees. This has resulted in a billion deficit in the roads budget.
Stem cell pioneer James Thomson and biotech entrepreneur Ralph Kauten received achievement awards at the 2016 Wisconsin BioHealth Summit in Madison on Tuesday.
A Wisconsin think tank that riled up faculty on University of Wisconsin System campuses several months ago with a report deriding tenure protections has issued another report likely to elicit similar reaction.
News 3 This Morning talks with Dr. Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business about the search for a new CEO at Lands’ End.
Noted: The partnership is the first gener8tor has forged with a university outside of Wisconsin. About a year ago, gener8tor partnered with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which provided an undisclosed amount of funding for gener8tor to provide coaching and other services to startups.
Noted: Catlin is a 2011 Marquette University graduate, with a degree in psychology and philosophy. Andersen and Fehrenbach are University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates with degrees in biological systems engineering and geography.
Quoted: “There’s no doubt in my mind split-ticket voting will be higher in this election than 2012 and 2008,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Dave Canon, who points to the number of voters in both parties who have qualms about their nominees, as well as the potential size of the third party presidential vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Quoted: “But it’s always been my opinion that the more we rely on export markets for taking off our excess supply, the more volatile it is because we are dealing in a marketplace we can’t control a lot,” said Brian Gould, professor of agriculture and applied economics at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “The task she was undertaking was very difficult and I think at best offered mixed results,” said Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources at UW-Madison’s School of Business. “She was asked to help Lands’ End stand out among a crowded field of mid-level fashion retailers where everyone already is having a difficult time succeeding.”
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara from the UW-Madison Department of Afro-American Studies talks to News 3 This Morning about what’s to be learned from the new African-American History Museum opening in Washington D.C.
Preliminary figures suggest the University of Wisconsin System could lose about 5,000 students this school year.
On Sunday morning a simple ceremony will be held at the Madison gravesite of an obscure man who was a visionary pioneer at the University of Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Executive MBA program is ditching paper and going digital.
Government regulators have no idea how often laboratories working with some of the world’s most dangerous viruses and bacteria are failing to fully kill vials of specimens before sending them to other researchers who lack critical gear to protect them against infection, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
Noted: While studies are underway and advocacy groups and others scramble for better answers, specialists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison have teamed up with their counterparts in Oregon, as well as with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and health care records software giant Epic Systems, to build a program that helps predict whether an older person will fall. It not only calculates the risk — it steers physicians to preventative treatments.
Seeing his old players follow in his footsteps has been rewarding for former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Jeff Sauer.
Virent — the Madison company with a process to turn sugars from corn stalks into the makings for jet fuel, polyester t-shirts and recyclable plastic bottles — will become part of a consortium of high-level, international companies that will work together to bring Virent’s biofuels and chemicals to market.
