The University of Wisconsin–Madison and Wisconsin Public Television have partnered for “Wisconsin’s Homegrown Farmer,” a program about the challenges facing a new generation of farmers that will begin airing Sept. 8.
A Reedsburg Area High School graduate has seen the effect of her first community service project. Jordyn Schara, who launched the campaign to create 24/7 drug drop boxes in the area, returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her senior year this fall.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is offering a new major in dairy science this fall.
A U.S. Supreme Court justice is visiting Madison on Thursday to give a lecture and have lunch with law students.
Noted: Researchers from the Wisconsin School of Business found that group members who shared the same initials worked better together than groups that didn’t, which resulted in greater performance, collective efficacy, adaptive conflict, and accuracy.
How should we stop corporations from leaving the United States, as both presidential candidates have vowed to do? After Pfizer announced this year that it wanted to merge with the Ireland-based Allergan in a maneuver known as a corporate inversion, the Obama administration put in new tax rules that effectively scuttled the deal.
Dimanche 28 août, le candidat de l’opposition unie, Jean Ping (73 ans) déclare avoir gagné l’élection présidentielle.
Noted: Officials included evidence of a discarded envelope a city worker had found with a bag of trash in the alley. Exhibit A against Harpie the Violator was a photograph of that unopened envelope addressed to her from Bucky’s Buddies, a kids club for fans of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the alma mater of her mother, Theresa.
Each year the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation offers special tours of historic sites in and around Madison. This year the tour will feature the University of Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural Campus.
Noted: Estimating future migration patterns is dicey. David Egan-Robertson, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of the December 2013 report that contains the current state projections, joked a little about the difficulties.
The computing industry sees carbon nanotube transistors as something of a Holy Grail. They promise not just faster performance and lower power consumption than silicon, but a way to prevent the stagnation of processor technology and the death of Moore’s Law. However, their real-world speed has always lagged behind conventional technology… until now, that is. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have created what they say are the first carbon nanotube transistors to outpace modern silicon.
Jim Schmidt, the energetic chancellor of UW-Eau Claire, breaks it down to dollars and cents when he explains why students shouldn’t dally in their pursuit of a bachelor’s degree from his campus in northwest Wisconsin.
A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the UW-Madison is “sinister.”
Quoted: “We know anecdotes and perceptions don’t get us very far when we’re dealing with a problem like livestock predation,” says Adrian Treves, a conservation biologist from the University of Wisconsin who co-authored the paper. “The science of predator control has been slow and not very advanced.”
In Madison, if you put your ear to the ground, you can hear it. If you close your eyes on a fall night, you can hear it. If you wander down Monroe Street, you can hear it.
Quoted: “It doesn’t really change the landscape significantly other than insulate companies from lawsuits,” said Yaron Nili, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who focuses on corporate governance.
MADISON – For many Tiger fans, LSU’s match against Wisconsin signifies the start of the season. For LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander, it means a lot more.
The first Wisconsin Under Armour Brand House will open on Friday in Madison, the Baltimore-based retailer said Thursday.
Noted: Patrick Remington, a University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health professor, noted Wisconsin’s obesity rate technically has declined from last year when it peaked at 31.2 percent. But that’s not what’s considered statistically significant drop.
Last year, colleges were rocked by a series of protests over racial inequality on campuses and across the country. With signs pointing to those protests returning as students head back to campus this month, colleges and universities are preparing for another year of student activism.
Jerry Lang was a safety for the St. Norbert Green Knights in 1983 when they defeated Fordham, 18-9, in what turned out to be the last college football game played at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.
A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is “sinister.”
Few professors can be devoted to research, inspired by teaching, committed to service, and driven to lead—but all have different talents to contribute to an institution’s mission. That’s why business schools are adopting more formal, flexible, and comprehensive frameworks that enhance and reward all of the strengths they bring to the table.
Ranked No. 10, UW-Madison: This university has pride like none other. While many fail at the art of bragging modestly, UW-Madison proves through retweets from current students and big name publications like TIME, that whether it be their gorgeous sunsets or their outsourcing of the top CEOs, they are proud of their accomplishments.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard confirmed last week that his program likely will no longer play road games at either UW-Green Bay or UW-Milwaukee.
New students will discuss social differences, black students will get their own cultural center and more students will be allowed into ethnic studies courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of a multi-faceted plan to give minorities a better experience on campus, university leaders said Wednesday.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks posted an essay about why Kappelman’s analysis is problematic, especially given that he and his colleagues didn’t compare the fractures in her bones to other fossils from the same era. Hawks points out that there is a much simpler explanation for Lucy’s “injuries” than a severely traumatic fall: “becoming a fossil.” The process of fossilization often fragments bones in exactly the way that Lucy’s bones are broken, and animals who were fossilized at the same time as Lucy have similar fractures. So Hawks isn’t discounting the idea that Lucy died of a fall, but he believes that we need more evidence before confirming it.
“I’m having all of these introductory meetings across the city, the county, and campus and all of these people I’m meeting are visionaries,” says Leslie Orrantia. “Whether its leaders of faith communities, leaders on campus, civic leaders … these people are saying that Madison has it. We can make it in Madison. That makes me very excited.”
Noted: But they and University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor Pamela Oliver, whose research work includes the Wisconsin Racial Disparities Project, told us there simply isn’t city-level data nationally in order to rank Milwaukee.
Friday, Aug. 26, 2016: Minnesota and Wisconsin university leaders, spouses and mascots enjoy the giant slide at the Minnesota State Fair.
Improving faculty and staff compensation is UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer’s number one priority.Meyer spoke Monday in his opening address to the campus as the school year prepares to kick off.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is ranked the top party school in the nation in the annual rankings released Monday by the Princeton Review.
Over the past year, efforts by political leaders have been introduced to replace the “Wisconsin Idea” with an updated and, what some would believe to be, a more current University of Wisconsin mission statement.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are chafing under a state-imposed tuition freeze and the football team didn’t crack the Top 25 preseason rankings. But no school in the country throws a better party, according to the Princeton Review’s 2017 edition of “The Best 381 Colleges.”
Those tasked with writing letters to incoming freshmen frequently wonder if anyone reads them. John Ellison, dean of students at the University of Chicago, need not worry. His letter to new students has been read and scrutinized not only by Chicago students but by professors and pundits nationwide.
Hoping to benefit from Illinois’ economic hardships, public universities in states bordering Illinois have aggressively sought to recruit Illinois students in recent years.
Noted: So, along the way, Maniilaq got in touch with UAF’s Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center, and Dr. Eric Johnson, a botulism specialist and professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Quoted: “I don’t expect it to have much actual impact on prices,” Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told us in an email. “The Chicago Mercantile Exchange spot prices for cheddar cheese were down following the announcement.”
It was a phone call that Laura Smythe was tired of receiving. Every week, Smythe was fielding numerous calls from veterans or their family members or their friends, all with a similar refrain. While they had heard about the University of Wisconsin’s Veterans Law Center and were in need of its help, they lacked a means of transportation to get to one of the monthly clinics the center held in Madison.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison geology major Ethan Heyrman spent the summer creating the “Digital Docent” on a fellowship through the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
It’s time for Wisconsin to increase its investment in its public universities. After too many years of huge cuts by both Democrats and Republicans, the University of Wisconsin System deserves the additional $42.5 million investment it is seeking in the next state budget. The key word is investment.
With $8,000 to go and 30 hours left to her Kickstarter campaign, Sagashus Levingston walked into Divine Transformation Salon on Madison’s south side, looking for help. After hearing about the project, the salon’s owner, Fontainious Webb, made a generous contribution and offered ideas for more funding possibilities. As clients trickled in, support began to swell.
Noted: Nike didn’t invent the idea that tapping into the earning potential and selfless spending patterns of impoverished women can ignite economic development. It’s been promoted by the World Bank and other international development organizations since the 1980s; before that, attention to girls was substantially absent in global development efforts. But by coining and investing in the Girl Effect, the Nike Foundation, the company’s philanthropic arm, “gave it authority and made it catchy,” says Kathryn Moeller, an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who is writing a book about the Girl Effect. “Without them, we wouldn’t hear poverty and development experts talking all the time about the importance of prioritizing girls in development.”
TEMPE, Ariz. – Students at Rollins College in Florida are designing custom “I voted” stickers for absentee voters. The University of Southern California has partnered with county officials to host voter registration events with prizes, games and free food. And at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the student government plans campuswide voter registration drives as well.
Noted: In the early part of the 20th century, states tried to step in and provide grants to districts so that school funding was equitable, according to Allan Odden, an expert in school finance who is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But then wealthier districts would spend even more, buoyed by increasing property values, and the state subsidies wouldn’t go as far as they once had to make education equitable.
The University of Virginia has spent the past decade building an investment fund that now totals $2.2 billion, a pile of money so large that officials say it could finance the entire school and medical center for nine months.
MILWAUKEE —University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials were on the offensive Thursday, trying to set the record straight after being accused by some of trying to censor student speech.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire plans to increase enrollment to offer pay raises to faculty and staff. The goal? Stem the tide of employees leaving for higher paying jobs at out-of-state universities.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School, co-chairs the National Academies study group looking at human gene editing, and was also part of the study focused on mitochondrial replacement therapy. She says the use of the term “heritable” in the bill’s language that refers to the genetic modification being banned could prove important to the fate of mitochondrial replacement therapy.
Ray Cross says dialogue between students, professors key to learning.
WAUSAU – University of Wisconsin Marathon County students have lost advisers and administrative support since the state drastically cut UW finding in 2015, but university leaders have a new plan and funding proposal to help students stay on track and better connect to the business community.
In light of ongoing political pressure on the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a group of influential alums plans to boost lobbying the state Legislature for support and hired Matt Kussow — who recently lobbied for UW in the state capitol — as the first executive director for the group called Badger Advocates.
By any measure, Jon Hardin is the portrait of millennial entrepreneurial success. His name is on the door of one of Madison’s oldest and most successful tech companies. And he made the UW-Madison Alumni Association’s Forward Under 40 list when he was just 25 years old.
A new generation of satellites is sending back an unheralded amount of data, measuring air pollution, pollen, smoke and much more. But is anyone paying attention? And is the data even available? NASA recently tapped Tracey Holloway, a UW-Madison environmental studies professor, to make sense of the data.
Quoted: “(It provides) a signal that the Secretary (of Agriculture) does recognize the problem and couched with the fact that milk prices look like they’re increasing in the near term. So it could be a positive on both of those fronts,” said Brian Gould, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Punctuating a string of Obama-era moves to shore up labor rights and expand protections for workers, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that students who work as teaching and research assistants at private universities have a federally backed right to unionize.
Mark Louden, author of “Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language,” surely has written the definitive guide to the subject. He also has definitively answered such burning questions as: “Is it ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’ or ‘Pennsylvania German’?” and “Is ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’ (or ‘German’) dying?”
My job as a professor teaching European politics in the US revolves around explaining European political events to Americans. But as a dual citizen who grew up in Germany, I also spend much time during my frequent visits to Europe trying to help Europeans make sense of American politics.
Swimming almost a mile through open water, biking 25 miles and then running more than six miles around Rio de Janeiro might inspire some athletes to take a break, particularly if the effort had earned them the first Olympic triathlon gold medal in United States history.
Noted: Many companies make “really big mistakes” when they start getting involved in big data, said Jignesh Patel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor who is the conference’s keynote speaker.
