Despite challenging times for the agricultural economy, it appears more people are studying farming. A long distance learning class in Wisconsin is expanding its statewide reach.The Wisconsin school for beginning dairy and livestock farmers program has been around since 1996.
Based at UW-Madison, the school offered the long distance education program at ten sites in Wisconsin last year. This year, they?ll expand to 17 sites, as long as at least three students sign up at each location.
Some are calling it an epidemic.Perhaps out of confusion, perhaps out of fear, at least five gay teens have taken their own lives in just the last couple of weeks.
Noted: Stepan, who played two years at the University of Wisconsin, was captain of the United States? gold medal team at the 2010 world junior championships, where he led all scorers.
The education gap facing the nation?s work force is evident in the numbers. Most new jobs will require more than a high school education, yet fewer than half of Americans under 30 have a postsecondary degree of any kind. Recent state budget cuts, education experts agree, promise to make closing that gap even more difficult.
Spending on research at UW-Madison has for the first time topped the $1 billion mark, according to a survey by the National Science Foundation of research expenditures nationwide in 2009. Vice Chancellor for Research Martin Cadwallader said the milestone is important not just for the university but for the entire state.
On Nov. 11, Michael Jay McClure, UW-Madison assistant professor of art, gives the lecture, “Flash Forward: Instantiation and the Late Andy Warhol,” at 7 p.m.
When the Badgers host Minnesota on Saturday at 11 a.m., it?ll be 2,527 days since the Gophers? last win in the longest-running rivalry in college football. That was on Nov. 8, 2003, a 37-34 shootout at the Metrodome. Worse news for the Gophers: The last time they took a victory lap around Camp Randall Stadium with Paul Bunyan?s Axe was Oct. 22, 1994. Come Saturday, that?ll mark a span of 5,831 days.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein is a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The median age range of Wisconsin nurses is 45 to 49 years old, compared to 40 to 44 years old for the state?s work force overall, according to a survey released Thursday of the state?s 77,500 registered nurses. The future of nursing will be addressed in a free lecture at UW-Madison Oct. 15 by Donna Shalala, UW?s former chancellor.
Hallie Lieberman, a graduate student and teaching assistant at UW-Madison, is highly serious about her academic work on the subject of adult toys and their marketing in the United States.
Spending on research at UW-Madison has for the first time topped the $1 billion mark, according to a survey by the National Science Foundation of research expenditures nationwide in 2009.
Quoted: ?We consider a person?s experience of his or her own health, how they pay attention to their symptoms and changes in their condition, how well they know themselves and take healthy action as all part of health literacy and a patient-centered definition of health care [integral to health-care reform],? says Patti Brennan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.
At least two of three people killed early Thursday morning when a suspected drunken driver hit them as they tried to fix a flat tire on Interstate 39/90 near Madison, Wis., were University of Minnesota students, university officials said.
Quoted: Johnson?s lack of political experience could play well in a year when voters seem to prefer outsiders, said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Cornell and Princeton Universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are among the top-ranked institutions with ROTC programs that operate without incident. Leading public institutions including the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, all with histories of protests and activism, continue to offer ROTC to their students.
Noted: The genetically modified plants, called Bt corn, have had an economic benefit of $6.9 billion during the past 14 years in the five Upper Midwest corn-producing states studied, the researchers concluded. They were led by William Hutchison, head of the entomology department at the University of Minnesota, and Paul Mitchell, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin.
Three people, two of them recent University of Minnesota cheerleaders, were killed Thursday when an allegedly drunken driver slammed into their car as they tried to change a flat tire on an interstate near Madison, Wis.
Noted: Yi Gang, deputy governor of China?s central bank, acknowledged a link with other Asian currencies after watching a presentation in Washington Thursday where University of Wisconsin economist Menzie Chinn showed how the Korean, Thai and Singaporean currencies mirrored the yuan?s ups and downs.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein is a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is tracking ads in governor?s races in six Midwestern states. He says Barrett and his allies have an advantage in the air war but Walker?s allies played a crucial role while he replenished his campaign war chest.
When it comes to social media like Facebook, Twitter and texting, parents have a catch-up game to play, said Michael Swanson. ?We see a lot of alcohol, drug and mental health references on Facebook specifically,? said the research specialist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. ?It?s pretty scary in a way.?
Quoted: Stephen Ward, a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism ethics expert, called her demotion draconian and chilling.
Marissa Mayer, raised in Wausau, Wisconsin, has been on the cover of Newsweek as ?one of the most powerful women of her generation.? Mayer, vice president of search product and experience and the first female engineer to join Google, returned to Wisconsin last week as a keynote speaker at the 12th annual Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Conference.
A tragic early morning crash leaves 3 dead and a University of Minnesota community grieving.It happened just after 2:30 this morning on the interstate in the Town of Burke.Franchon Johnson says, “Now my baby is gone, it?s just hard.”
Less than a month before midterm elections, students, faculty members, and advocacy groups held rallies on campuses across the country on Thursday to show elected officials their support for public higher education.
A driver who police said was drunk rear-ended a disabled car on the median shoulder of Interstate 39/90 near Madison early Thursday morning, killing three people including two University of Minnesota students.
An alleged drunk driver rear-ended a disabled car on the median shoulder of Interstate 39/90 near Madison, killing three University of Minnesota students.
Congratulations UW-Madison! The news that the state?s flagship campus now spends $1 billion on research, which is derived from various sources, including grants from the federal government, private fundraising and state aid, means UW is once again spending more money than the state?s entire budget for the Department of Corrections.
Democrat Tom Barrett has outspent his GOP opponent Scott Walker by 2-to-1 on TV in the race for governor since the Sept. 14 primary, but outside groups have outspent both candidates, effectively leveling the playing field, according to a study of campaign advertising this fall.
The study also finds that ? no great surprise ? the ads have been unrelentingly negative.
?In a negative year nationally and regionally, Wisconsin is leading the way,? said Ken Goldstein, political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is tracking ads in races for governor in six Midwestern states.
Dane County has agreed to pay $118,000 to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and three other media outlets to settle a legal battle over records in the case of a murdered University of Wisconsin-Madison student.
The amount owed took more than a year to determine and will cover attorney fees for the outlets, which sought the release of 911 tapes and other records in the case of Brittany Zimmermann, 21. A Dane County judge ruled last year in favor of the media groups in their suit, and most of the records were released.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold rallied student voters on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday and led them to register and vote.
Can it be that freedom of speech is truly alive and well at UW-Madison? As I listened to a pre-game interview with junior Bradie Ewing, he humbly acknowledged that he?d had a good start to this football season. Then he quickly and quietly gave credit to his lord and savior, Jesus Christ, for endowing him with a talent that allowed him to do well.
Not far from the sprawling storage area of the Wisconsin Historical Society is the society?s film vault, which lies under the grass and steps leading the society?s front door. Here, row after row of microfilm and negatives are stored as part of the collaboration between the society and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at UW-Madison.
Four Wisconsin media outlets have reached a financial settlement with Dane County in a lawsuit about the release of 911 calls in the slaying of a student. The outlets successfully sought the release of 911 tapes and other records in the case of Brittany Zimmermann, the 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was found stabbed in her Madison apartment on April 2, 2008. The 911 calls became important components of the investigation after county officials said a 911 dispatcher mishandled Zimmermann?s minute-long call.
Three UW-Madison students face an $86,000 party bill after police slapped them with 130 citations. But will they get in trouble with the university? UW-Madison will review the case to see whether the students violated non-academic misconduct rules, as they do with every case of student criminal behavior, a spokesman said.
Deep in a basement on the UW-Madison campus lies the story of our entire state: The cheesehead hat signed last year by President Barack Obama on his visit to Wright Middle School in Madison. The 1 millionth aluminum wheel cover cast at the Reynolds Metal Co. in Beloit in 1996 and signed by the employees. A wild rice threshing machine used on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation. They?re among the 98,000 historical objects and thousands more archaeological artifacts found in the storage of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Despite a steady increase over the past decade, only 26.5 percent of students in the University of Wisconsin system graduated in four years in 2008.
Quoted: “Charter can charge whatever it wants to, for whatever it wants to,” said Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin telecommunications professor. “They charge what they can get away with. Legally, they can charge anything they want; what they can get away with is what the market will bear.”
Thousands of dollars in federal funding will help researchers further sustainability efforts of Wisconsin?s cranberry growers, industry leaders said. State officials announced Wednesday the allocation of $107,700 in U.S. Department of Agriculture grants for three University of Wisconsin-Madison research projects.
Quoted: “They almost certainly came from prisoners, either executed or deceased prisoners… people who may have died under uncertain circumstances. There?s no record about consent,” said Dr. Norman Fost, directof of the UW School of Medicine?s bioethics program.
A post-game kegger has left three University of Wisconsin-Madison students with more than the usual headache.
Noted: It?s All in the Preparation: Contents from the New York-based Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection, which includes 250 drawings and over 70 sculptures by Alexander Calder, David Smith, and Picasso, among other artists, has been donated to the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where the collection will serve as an educational tool, emphasizing the mysterious nature of the artistic process through an emphasis on preparatory drawings.
Three UW-Madison students are fined $86,000 after police busted their drinking party. The high fine is now making some UWM students think twice.
Quoted: “The greatest consumption period is during irrigation and frost protection,” says Rebecca Harbut, an associate professor of Horticulture at UW-Madison.
UW-Oshkosh is responding to current trends by creating mobile phone applications compatible with iPhones and other versions of smart phones.
Senator Russ Feingold made a pitch for support from students on the UW Madison campus Wednesday.
Several Wisconsin media outlets — including WISC-TV — have reached a financial settlement with Dane County officials in a lawsuit about the release of 911 calls in the Brittany Zimmermann slaying.
It was well after midnight, and the invitation-only party for Yale University undergraduates was reaching a peak. In the upscale nightclub Elevate, not far from campus, more than 100 students in semiformal attire were on the dance floor as Journey?s ?Don?t Stop Believing? pulsed over the sound system. In a throwback to childhood, a buffet table held platters of chicken nuggets and French fries.
It must have been some party.Madison?s city attorney?s office has slapped three University of Wisconsin-Madison students with fines totaling more than $86,000 – that?s about $28,000 apiece – for hosting a house party last month that led to more than 130 citations, Madison police said Tuesday.
Letter by Michael L. Rothschild, emeritus professor, UW-Madison School of Business.
Where have all the candidates gone? According to a report published Tuesday by Politico, many candidates are doing just about anything to avoid spending too much time in the public eye during the weeks leading up to the election.” The article, titled “Year of the missing candidate,” includes a shout-out to Wisconsin?s Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Ron Johnson, saying Johnson?s campaign has refused to share his daily schedule with the press As for U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, his staff members have said they notify reporters once public appearances are scheduled. For example, he?ll be at UW-Madison?s Library Mall on Wednesday afternoon to encourage early voting.
Three UW-Madison students just wanted to throw a post-game party. Now they face $86,000 in fines. One of the three, Travis W. Ludy, says the fines ? which authorities said were higher than any others in memory for just three people in one incident ? are out of proportion.
If you?re trying to lose weight, you may have more to worry about than what you eat, or how much exercise you get, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that not getting enough sleep may sabotage weight loss efforts because of an association between less sleep and an decrease in fat loss.
Interviewed: Barry Burden, political scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ron Johnson has been able to convince voters that — at least some voters — that he?s responsible for many of the things happening in Washington that they don?t like at the moment: government spending, health care, stimulus funds and the like. (Video and text.)
Quoted: “What you?re looking at here is people at the bottom trying to hang on,” said Timothy Smeeding, public affairs professor and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “You can?t go below a certain level.”
Quoted: Dr. Megan Moreno, an expert on cyberbullying with the University of Wisconsin, said what makes online bullying so serious is how public it becomes.
In this episode, we hear from Romaine Quinn, 20, a second-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Barron County, about going between campus and city hall, where he serves as mayor.
Graduates of the University of Wisconsin Law School and Marquette University Law School won?t be forced to sit for the state bar examination anytime soon.
Noted: What these findings mean for those of us who work out regularly is still being determined by scientists. But one message is clear. ??The evidence suggests that antioxidants are not needed?? by most athletes, even those training strenuously, said Li Li Ji, a professor of exercise physiology and nutritional science at the University of Wisconsin and one of the authors of the rat study. ??The body adapts,?? he said, a process that can, it seems, be altered by antioxidant supplements.
Quoted: The ad points to Verizon?s large investment in fiber optic cable to the home, said Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That results in fewer slowdowns when lots of people in the same neighborhood are using the Internet, he said.
Rain and flooding that wreaked havoc on central Wisconsin in September could become more common because of global climate change, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
