Despite a violent clash with police in Madison on Wednesday, pro-Palestinian encampments continued Friday at both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at UW-Milwaukee.
Trees often send out new growth later in the spring. Heat and drought stress can also kill trees, especially new plantings with a limited root system. Serviceberries are susceptible to fireblight that can quickly kill a plant. The University of Wisconsin Madison has a helpful factsheet on this disease.
Sleep apnea has become more common in recent years, with an estimated 30 million Americans affected by the condition. Interview with Dr. Stacey Ishman from UW Health.
Beth Olson, an associate professor of nutritional sciences in the Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently spoke to WPR’s “Central Time” about
Wednesday marked day three of a demonstration on UW-Milwaukee’s campus. Despite tension at UW-Madison, there are no signs of the Milwaukee encampment shutting down.
Perhaps it was an example of progressive policing or Madison-centric policing or the “Madison Model.” In any case, a pro-Palestine encampment protest on UW-Madison’s Library Mall got through two overwhelmingly peaceful days and nights—full of speeches, chants, praying, reading, sharing food, card games, and studying—before police violently attempted to break it up on Wednesday morning.
A meteorite found in Wisconsin 15 years ago is now on display at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Geology Museum.
UW-Madison graduate student and Students for Justice in Palestine spokesperson Dahlia Saba discusses why protestors continued to assemble on campus after police officers moved to end an encampment.
Campus and state police officers broke up University of Wisconsin-Madison students’ anti-war encampment protest Wednesday morning — physically removing tents and arresting several protesters in the process.
Police swarmed a University of Wisconsin-Madison encampment Wednesday morning and arrested 34 people, two days after pro-Palestinian protesters took over Library Mall.
Many people brush off measles outbreaks as a problem for the unvaccinated, or dismiss spikes in mpox as an issue mainly for men who have sex with men, Ajay Sethi, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. And they shrug off just about any epidemic that happens abroad.
UW Health’s Dr. Jeff Pothof joins News 3 Now Live at Four to discuss the importance of being vaccinated against measles.
The announcement Tuesday from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force makes official a draft recommendation announced last year. The recommendations were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Several University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers aided in the study, including UW School of Medicine and Public Health professor Amy Trentham-Dietz, who’s the lead author of the study.
An innovative program at UW-Madison is connecting communities throughout Wisconsin to education, outreach, technical assistance and research to help local governments solve challenges and improve livability and wellbeing.
PJ Liesch, an entomologist with the Division of Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said defoliation could slow the growth of trees that may be logged for lumber. From a forest health perspective, it could also leave them vulnerable to secondary pests like the two lined chestnut borer. The insect, a native relative of the invasive emerald ash borer, typically targets weaker oak trees and starts killing branches in the upper canopy.
With spongy moth increasing for several years now, Liesch said there’s a lot of stressed oak trees. “So the secondary insects and problems can start popping up, and then it’s a very slippery slope leading to tree death in some situations,” Liesch said.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are leading a new nationwide hub for school mental health grants.
Katie Eklund, Stephen Kilgus and Andy Garbacz are in charge of METRICS, a new center dedicated to addressing students’ mental health needs. They’re co-directors of the School Mental Health Collaborative, under UW-Madison’s Department of Educational Psychology.
Police cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison early Wednesday morning, just two days after the student protest began.
Hummel did her residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, and was part of the Class of 2023.
“Any habitat that provides more flowers is going to be a benefit to pollinators. That being said, if your lawn is all grass with no flowers at all, not mowing for the month of May is not going to have any impact on pollinators,” said Hannah Gaines-Day, research scientist at UW-Madison’s department of entomology. “So, if you’re participating just to participate but you have no flowers, then the pollinators are not going to see a benefit.”
“While opioids are involved in the majority of overdose deaths in the United States, we are increasingly seeing deaths involving a variety of other substances as well,” says Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, associate professor in the department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “Substance use trends also look quite different from one region to another.”
University of Wisconsin–Madison Vice Provost and CIO Lois Brooks shares how an internal group supports a vibrant, collegial IT community at the university.
The state’s top disease official says reports of public exposure to two infectious diseases in Wisconsin last week show new emphasis is needed on the importance of vaccines.
Early this morning, hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Library Mall to protest in solidarity with Gaza.
A pro-Palestinian encampment remained in place late Monday night on the UW-Madison campus. Throughout the day, university leaders warned demonstrators any kind of camping on campus was illegal.
Students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee joined the wave of protests occurring at campuses across the United States to support Palestinian liberation, speak out against Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 30,000 people and to urge their universities to cut ties with Israel.
“I’m excited that states and institutions are thinking about ways to streamline the pipeline into college,” said Taylor Odle, assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied college admission policy extensively.
With Colorado becoming the ninth state to confirm bird flu in dairy cattle last Friday, Wisconsin farmers are becoming increasingly concerned about the spread of the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza virus.
College students across Wisconsin are protesting Israel’s war in Gaza and standing in solidarity with Palestinians.
Campus protests against the war in Gaza have reached Wisconsin universities. Hundreds of students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison gathered on the Library Mall on Monday to demand that the university divest from Israel.
Students at the Universities of Wisconsin in Madison and Milwaukee joined the nationwide campus movement demanding their schools to support Palestinian liberation and divest from pro-Israel companies and causes. Both universities held rallies and established encampments Monday.
Students, staff, and members of the public organized a pro-Palestinian rally and encampment at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Madison campuses.
At least three University of Wisconsin System schools are eliminating jobs. In addition, three campuses will end in-person instruction at the end of this school year. Private institutions are also downsizing. Concordia University Wisconsin is laying off 24 people at its Mequon campus by the end of this school year.
It’s having a deep impact on the labor force. According to a 2023 report from High Roads Strategy Center, part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin’s women labor force participation dropped below 60% for the first time since the late 1980s.
“Our relative (workforce) advantage shrank quite substantially over the last two years,” said Laura Dresser, associate director of High Roads Strategy Center. “We know that child care has been in crisis, even before the pandemic. Our structures for taking care of kids tend to weigh heavily on women and on women’s work.”
She has the distinction of being the first to do a lot of things. In 1951, she became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
“My son is represented up there,” Denning said of his prayer tie on the teepee without a cover, adding that the incomplete teepee represents how it feels when we lose someone.
His son, Sawyer, was a bright, young man who did well as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Denning said Sawyer was a good student throughout high school and hadn’t been exposed to drugs. But, at college, someone gave him an anti-anxiety drug to help step up his studying. Sawyer would then drink alcohol to help himself level out, so he could sleep after long study sessions fueled by the drug. He started to crash and struggled with addiction.
Across the U.S., college students are building “Gaza Solidarity Encampments” to demonstrate support for Palestinians. But as tensions rise, many students have wondered what rights they have to demonstrate on the campuses where they live and pay tuition.
In 2012, a group of law students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison saw a need for free legal assistance among undocumented immigrants.
Around 200 immigrants were facing deportation in Wisconsin at that time, but there were few legal resources for them, especially in the Dane County area. In response, the students established the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Immigrant Justice Clinic.
Photo coverage of protests.
On Saturday several blocks of Mifflin Street were closed off and crowded with college students as they made their way to the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
A recent Journal Sentinel article reported how a consulting firm was paid $2.8 million to study the finances of the University of Wisconsin System (“Are UW campuses financially viable?” April 13).
More than 80 people were arrested Saturday at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party in Madison, where partygoers flipped over a car and a deck failed, according to the Madison Police Department.
As pro-Palestinian encampments pop up at colleges across the country, student groups have scheduled Monday morning rallies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
On the Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz with Andy Moore, Dean Diana Hess from UW-Madison’s School of Education discusses the critical need for teachers in Wisconsin and the innovative Wisconsin Teacher Pledge program.
In some areas of the state, “from a distance, they can actually look like plumes of smoke because there are so many, probably tens or hundreds of thousands, in some of these mating swarms that they form,” said P.J. Liesch, director of the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Demonstrations intensified on college campuses across the country over the last week, a sign of students’ growing discontent over their schools’ responses to the war in Gaza.
Wisconsin Policy Forum issued a report Thursday on its findings after reviewing data from Community Maps, a real-time crash tracking application developed by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It wasn’t until he studied Spanish, history and secondary education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that he began to learn about the extensive history of Latinos in the Midwest.
Across the country, state lawmakers are cutting funding to their most prominent public universities.
That dwindling support for higher education was the subject of a panel at UW-Madison earlier this evening – and the School of Education’s Dr. Taylor Odlewas one of the panelists.
The Universities of Wisconsin will vacate a former two-year college in Richland County this summer, despite months of discussions with local officials who once hoped to save the former two-year college. County leaders say they’re now facing a potential “economic crisis.”
While public perceptions of the value of going to college have diminished in recent years, experts argue the lifelong earning potential for someone with a bachelor’s degree is worth the investment.
That was the message Wednesday from a forum about the future of flagship universities held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While ideological battles over diversity programs, curriculum and funding continue, universities must forcefully advocate for their value to society, the panelists said.
Hummel attended St. Olaf College for undergrad and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for medical school, according to her University of Wisconsin Emergency Medicine profile.
She did her residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, and was part of the Class of 2023.
Three Wisconsin football players (Joe Tippmann, Keeanu Benton and Nick Herbig) were taken in the 2023 NFL draft, marking the seventh straight year that three or more Badgers were selected in the annual event.
More students who commit to teaching in the state after graduation will receive free tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thanks to a program extension announced this week.
Susan Carpenter, native plant garden curator and gardener at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, told WPR’s “Central Time” that Wisconsin’s native bees have different ecological functions and needs than domesticated honey bees.
UW-Madison professor John Rudolph says instead of focusing on jobs and college prep, educators should teach what science is and establish trust in scientists. Rudolph joins us to discuss his book “Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should).”
Outside reports released earlier this month showed warning signs for the financial viability of the University of Wisconsin System’s universities and signaled future cuts to the state’s public campuses.
In the last five years, the village has held educational sessions, commissioned a survey, and worked with students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a strategy for preserving historical buildings.
Column by Menzie Chinn, professor of Public Affairs and Economics in the UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Economics.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting Earth Fest this week to promote sustainability and pay tribute to the mission of Earth Day’s founder.
