Noted: Brenda Plummer, professor of Afro-American studies at UW-Madison, said while some churches today are multiracial and multiethnic, King’s remark “still has some currency.”
Part of that is due to people self-segregating by race because of different worship-style preferences, Plummer said.
Noted: From the moment she interviewed for the then soon-to-opened University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, this veterinarian embraced her new community and its grand cow show at World Dairy Expo. Throughout the process, McGuirk helped transform dairy cattle health care.
Noted: Joseph T. Halford and Hung-Chia Hsu, researchers from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, tested whether the appearance of a company’s CEO is related to shareholder value.
They found stock prices rose higher for businesses with attractive CEOs after positive news about the company aired on TV.
Quoted: “It’s a shake-out. This is not just a bump on a trend line. This is a pretty big change,” said Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor Robert Radwin studies workplace ergonomics. He was not involved in the University of Pittsburg study but he instructs students on the qualities of sit-stand desks which he feels have gotten a lot of hype. He does not have one.
“I think they have their place. If people suffer from discomfort from sitting at their desk and they feel standing is beneficial, then such a desk might be helpful but you should be careful not to expect that a sit-stand desk is going to make sedentary work much healthier than if you just got out and exercised,” Radwin said.
During a visit to a Westby creamery on Monday, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., says she’s hopeful the Senate will approve an $18 million increase for the Dairy Business Innovation Initiative.
Milwaukee-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Steve Miller is renowned for his immortal hits: “The Joker,” “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Rock’n Me,” “Abracadabra” and others.
He’s also well-known for being outspoken. The day the Rock Hall announced Miller as one of the inductees in its Class of 2016, Miller in a Journal Sentinel interview called the hall “an exclusive private men’s club” and called on them “work more on music education programs and to make its museum something more than a place where they sell postcards, posters and T-shirts” — and he was critical of the Rock Hall, and the music industry at large, at the induction itself.
Noted: Henry Bunn, a paleoanthropologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has said more than once that a person would have to be “incredibly naïve” to believe the persistence hunting theory. Bunn recalls that he first heard discussion of the theory at a conference in South Africa, and he realised almost immediately that if you are going to chase an animal that is much faster than you, at some point it will run out of sight and you will have to track it. Tracking would require earth soft enough to capture footprints and terrain open enough to give prey little place to hide and disappear.
Noted: A recent study out of the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and the U.S. Forest Service found that more than 90% of homes destroyed by fire in California are outside of urban areas.
Noted: Wisconsin has experienced warmer temperatures, but is also starting to see an increase in total annual precipitation, according to Jack Williams, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geography professor and climate change expert.
One theory, Williams said, is a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor and is more energetic, and the energy releases bigger storms.
Quoted: In 2016, shortly after Mr. Trump’s victory, Katherine J. Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, summed up the attitudes she observed after years of studying rural Americans: “The way these folks described the world to me, their basic concern was that people like them, in places like theirs, were overlooked and disrespected,” she wrote in Vox, explaining that her subjects considered “racial minorities on welfare” as well as “lazy urban professionals” working desk jobs to be undeserving of state and federal dollars.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday several actions it is taking in response to blowback they have been receiving from releasing a video with a theme titled “Home is Where WI are” that, according to the university, “did not properly represent Black students and other students of color as essential members of our campus community.”
Quoted: “Certainly, there were areas where just everything got torched,” said Anu Kramer, co-author of the report and researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But it was not uncommon to see areas where the trees were still intact and the houses were gone.”
Noted: According to the UW-Madison College of Engineering website, Albert researches “modeling and solving real-world discrete optimization problems with application to homeland security, disasters, emergency response, public services, and healthcare.”
The research on emergency response, for example, focuses on how to match the right resources with the right needs at the right time. In one aspect of this research, Albert looks at how to get the right mix of vehicles to an emergency.
Brian Posick has been serving as radio play-by play man for hockey games at the University of Wisconsin since 2002, so it might seem strange that an early goal in a 7-0 early-season blowout would be among his favorite calls.
But on Friday, Posick called his daughter’s first goal with the Badgers. Maddie Posick made it 2-0 against Penn State in what became a blowout as the defending national champions moved to 4-0.
Ken Werner aims high. When he was 12, he decided to see every square inch of Earth and meet every person on the planet in his lifetime.
“So goal setting has always been a situation for me,” understates the Mukwonago man, who turns 73 on Monday.
Noted: An earlier pledged contribution by Foxconn of up to $100 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been slow to develop.
It’s no secret it’s another tight year for row crop farmers in the Corn Belt and Upper Midwest. Analysts say the uncertainty hasn’t changed.
“That’s the status of the farm economy,” said Paul Mitchell, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s waiting for results for this uncertainty while we go in to harvest.”
Across the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, simple, yet powerful symbols of hope and help can be found. They’re in dining halls and dorms, classrooms and labs, sports facilities and student unions.
Noted: The new proof, by Will Sawin of Columbia University and Mark Shusterman of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, solves the twin primes conjecture in a smaller but still salient mathematical world. They prove the conjecture is true in the setting of finite number systems, in which you might only have a handful of numbers to work with.
Noted: “It’s incredible,” Jeff’s dad, Howard Erlanger, an emeritus University of Wisconsin–Madison professor, said last week. We spoke by phone and he sent me a link to the Vanity Fair piece.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin, Madison reported official enrollment of 45,319, an increase of 2% over 2018. Its entering first-year class grew by 10%.
Noted: Prior to Rockwell Automation, Nicolas worked for General Motors Corp. for nine years. He holds a master of business administration in operations management and master of science in manufacturing systems engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his bachelor of science in manufacturing systems engineering from Kettering University in Flint, Michigan.
Hate crimes have dropped five-fold since 2016 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus but sexual assault cases have increased since then, according to an annual security report required by federal law.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has apologized for a homecoming video that featured almost all white students.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is defending a 2015 policy that lifted a cap on out-of-state students attending UW-Madison, calling it a “double win” for the state.
Noted: This time, the house avoided demolition when a development firm called Webb & Knapp purchased the house from the Seminary, using it as offices for their Hyde Park operations. Two fraternity chapters with houses in the neighboring area—one of which briefly had Wright as a member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—also offered to vacate their premises, giving the Seminary ample space to expand and eliminating the need to demolish the Robie House.
It’s a commonly known fact that by the age of thirty-five, two-thirds of men will experience some form of balding. That figure only increases as males age and hair thinning progressively increases.
Quoted: “Family planning was an achievement for the People’s Republic at its 60th anniversary, there was an awkward silence at the 70th anniversary,” said Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a long-standing critic of China’s birth restrictions.
Quoted: “I think the most alarming thing about all of this is what bird declines may indicate about the declining health of overall ecosystems,” says Laura Farwell, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of the Biological Conservation study. “I know it’s a cliché, but forest interior birds truly are ‘canaries in the coal mine’ for Appalachian forests experiencing rapid loss and fragmentation.”
Noted: Bernstein first entered fashion with the intention of becoming a designer, transferring from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to New York’s famed Fashion Institute of Technology to do just that. With self-taught photo skills and inspiration from her fellow fashionista undergrads, Bernstein shot street fashion and posted it to Instagram, the then-newbie photo sharing platform.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is under scrutiny after a homecoming video featuring only white students was released on Sunday, immediately sparking backlash for the lack of inclusion of the school’s “underrepresented populations.”
Interview with Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics.
Homecoming. Oct. 10, 1998. Night game at Camp Randall stadium.
A Drew Brees-led Purdue team is driving toward the end zone when the quarter ends and the teams switch direction.
Noted: If Wisconsin were to legalize cannabis for medical uses, there would be a net $1.1 billion positive effect, bringing in additional fees and health benefits while potentially reducing opioid overdoses, addiction and traffic fatalities over five years, according to a cost-benefit analysis by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. If the state were to decriminalize cannabis, it would save an additional $30 million in decreased criminal justice costs.
I was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969 when black students launched protests about a list of problems when it came to being African American and a UW student. The strike they called grew quickly to involve thousands of students and days of marches and rallies. The National Guard and police officers from around the state were called in.
Quoted: “Is it backfiring?” Mark Hagedorn, a dairy expert at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, asked about farmers’ decision to back Trump. “I think we can argue that six ways to Sunday.”
A scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking back at least 125,000 years to try to figure out how climate change might impact humanity’s future.
Andrea Dutton and her work have been recognized with a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as a ‘genius’ grant.
Noted: According to Constance Flanagan, author of “Teenage Citizens: The Political Theories of the Young” and an associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology, social movements must build momentum over time, and the urgency of an issue like the environment can be difficult to sell because the consequences are long-term and abstract. It is harder to galvanize support to stop temperatures from rising slowly over several decades than to respond to a school shooting that left numerous children dead.
“There’s no one event that grabs media attention or people’s interest,” she said. “It really has to be cumulative, and climate
Noted: Last week I was primed for a conversation with Jennifer Gaddis, the author of “The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools.” I had just eaten a lukewarm cheeseburger (the cheese was totally unmelted) and then moved on to the accompanying banana, since I couldn’t stomach the wilted iceberg lettuce that was called “salad” or the soggy, undercooked fries that came with the “meal.”
But the public-school culinary experience isn’t what makes Gaddis’ new book important. It is required reading for anyone who wants this part of our students’ school day to be nourishing — not only for the kids, but for the women who feed them.
“So much of the work of feeding children is gendered — the majority of workers in food service, especially frontline food service, are women,” Gaddis told me. “Whether it’s happening at school or in the homes of the millions of students who take lunch from home to school, feeding students is typically done by women.”
School’s back in session, and every day, 30 million kids head to the cafeteria to chow down. On this episode of Bite, Tom returns to the lunchroom at his elementary school alma mater and finds that the grey mystery meat he remembers has been replaced by tasty, fresh offerings that are free to every student. And he catches up with Jennifer Gaddis, author of the book The Labor of Lunch, who explains the economic forces that figure into school food, from “lunch shaming” to fair wages for cafeteria workers.
Quoted: He and fellow jumping worm expert Brad Herrick, a University of Wisconsin ecologist, stress that since there are not yet any proven silver bullet methods to kill off these slithery pests, information may be their worst enemy. “Since humans are the main vectors for spread, education and best management practices can go a long way to slowing the spread,” Herrick said. “Gardeners informing other gardeners” is the best weapon we have right now.
Graphic novelist, cartoonist and creativity educator Lynda Barry of Madison is one of this year’s winners of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, commonly known as a “genius” grant.
While the Wisconsin Badgers student section was jumping around — as they do — one Michigan Wolverines fan was not having it.
Quoted: Of the new DTC brands, Hart Posen, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s school of business, said, “You get the sense from looking at all of them that this is not your Ikea construction set. This is a high-quality product with a superior flat-pack to construction technology.”
We all have frustrating days at the office, but how do you know when it’s just that, or when it’s time to think about moving on? Wisconsin School of Business Senior Lecturer for the Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship, Dr. Phil Greenwood is in the studio — he says there are five clear signs it’s time to leave your job.
Jennifer Gaddis, assistant professor at UW-Madison and author of The Labor of Lunch spoke with America’s Work Force on Sept. 17 about getting better school lunches in schools.
Noted: Author Jennifer Gaddis discusses her new book about The National School Lunch Program.
Noted: The report was described as an enhancement of the nationwide County Health Rankings & Roadmaps compiled through a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Noted: The Queen isn’t the only old oak the Meyers have on their property. The farm is home to a dozen oaks that are at least 200 years old, Tizza said. In 1988 a group from the University of Wisconsin collected bore samples from 12 trees on the farm. They were studying weather changes in old trees, Tizza said, and ended up finding the champion tree and other centuries-old oaks in the process.
But many oaks did not survive European settlement and subsequent development and fire suppression, and Tizza said because Wisconsin was logged, big trees like the Queen are rare in the state.
Take, for example, the 300-year-old bur oak on the UW-Madison campus known as the President’s Tree that was taken down in 2015.
Patients at Mile Bluff Center in Mauston can walk in and have a retinal photograph taken in a matter of minutes. Dr. Yao Liu is an assistant professor of opthalmology at the UW School of Medicine.
Noted: Foxconn has partnered with the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Wisconsin Technical College System on the “Smart Cities-Smart Futures” competition. Foxconn said it will be visiting colleges and universities across Wisconsin as part of a campus tour to promote the competition and encourage innovative thinkers to put forth their ideas and apply.
Noted: If approved by lawmakers, the state would pay $180,000 annually to the University of Wisconsin MIA Recovery and Identification Project, which has helped find and identify the remains of three service members killed in Europe during World War II. While those military members were from other states, the dedicated group of UW volunteers and researchers will begin concentrating on bringing Wisconsin MIAs back home.
Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard may never forget the phone call he received early on the morning of May 25.
Gard had driven out of town with his wife and three children and planned to spend Memorial Day weekend relaxing and bonding with his family.
Quoted: “You can see why states might think this is a good solution,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “For one it provides a kind of balance that you have representatives from both parties at the polling place so they can keep a check on one another.”
Noted: In fact, the giant Canada goose received serious consideration for protection under the Endangered Species Act when the program was created in 1973, according to Stan Temple, Beers-Bascom professor in conservation and professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Schulz stayed in Germany until the fall of 1945, arriving home in Clintonville by Christmas. He used the G.I. Bill to earn a degree in business administration and an MBA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he met his wife, Eleanore. They raised five sons.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced on Thursday the creation of its first new school in two decades, responding to high demand from students and a burgeoning need in the state’s workforce.
Noted: Under one bill, $224,000 would pay for two new employees within the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability in Madison to help farmers with financial decisions related to the transfer of their operations to a new generation or new owners.
Noted: When Amann was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, she competed and won “Team Ninja Warrior: College Madness,” a college edition of the program, with two schoolmates.
