Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the study is consistent with recent work by other scientists, including his own research on heat waves and hospital admissions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over a 17-year period, he said. Patz and his co-authors found that high temperatures impacted admissions for self-harm, including attempted suicide.
Quoted: Another factor working in the Montana researchers’ favor was the fortuitous and improbable fact that they seemed to have found the very individuals that had been introduced, rather than their offspring, says Jake Vander Zanden, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies aquatic invasive species.
“Typically when you discover a new population of what might be considered an invasive species, you’re not going to capture the individuals that were themselves transported,” Vander Zanden says. He calls the otolith findings “pretty striking.”
Quoted: Local and state governments can take action to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We need better water management. We need new policies for our lake levels,” said Robbins. “We need to look at our combined sewer overflows coming out of Milwaukee — the sewage system there, as well as how we manage our drainage across the Yahara watershed, plus any other parts of the state.”
Quoted: Ryan Owens, director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said “excessive panic [among liberals about abortion] … is, frankly, overblown.”
Noted: In the first article, the authors, experts in science communications, Michael Dahlstrom from Iowa State University and Dietram Scheufele from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, both in the US, argue that we must exert the utmost care in telling the stories of science.
Noted: According to research reported in Science Daily, this coloring of the sky is due to a phenomenon called scattering. “Scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but the details are determined by the wavelength of the light and the size of the particle,” University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists said.
Two transgender Wisconsin state employees will receive $780,000 after previously being denied healthcare coverage for treatments such as sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. A jury awarded the damages this week.
Each year the University of Wisconsin-Madison picks a common book for the entire campus to read and discuss called the Go Big Read program. The book for the 2018-2019 school year is “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan, a Milwaukee Journal reporter and senior water policy fellow at UW-Milwaukee.
The UW-Madison Police Department will be testing out an off-campus alert to warn students of emergency situations east of campus, while parents of students will now be able to receive WiscAlert notifications for on-campus incidents.
Noted: In Wisconsin, researchers have raised similar concerns by showing that schools with more low-income families tend to produce lower FAFSA completion rates. Ellie Bruecker, a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student who studies FAFSA completion rates, said there hasn’t been much movement in Wisconsin’s numbers.
“Wisconsin’s got some work to do,” she said.
In a brief arraignment hearing Thursday morning in Dane County Circuit Court, suspended Badger receiver Quintez Cephus pleaded not guilty in his sexual assault case.
Wissconsin Brewing Co., Heineken and University of Wisconsin–Madison students are partnering to brew the first wild lager brewed in North America.
To keep the community and parents more informed, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Police Department is launching Off-Campus Alerts and is expanding WiscAlerts to parents.
Quoted: Connie Flanagan, a UW-Madison professor and expert on youth and politics, notes that the size and diversity of this generation of young voters is unique.
“This generation is huge, and it’s far more demographically diverse than many of its predecessors,” she says. “So the tolerance of diversity in a lot of dimensions is true in part because they are a diverse generation, and because the issues have been ones they’ve grown up thinking about.”
The song that shakes the stadium, “Jump Around” is celebrating 20 years after debuting in 1998 at Camp Randall.
Quoted: “Our global climate has warmed by about a degree Celsius already, so this report looks at what our climate would look like if we were to stop that warming at one and a half degrees Celsius, so about three degrees Fahrenheit global warming,” said Daniel Vimont, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin, and the director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.
A UW-Madison football standout charged with sexually assaulting two women is pleading not guilty. Madison Police say the incidents happened in April.
Twenty years ago when the Badgers took on Purdue at Camp Randall Stadium, the “Jump Around” tradition was born, a Madison quirk known nation-wide in which the entire stadium channels its inner House of Pain while the famous 1992 song is played before the start of the fourth quarter.
When Earl Edwards – a farm boy from near Cedar Falls, Iowa – arrived at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the fall of 1954 on a wrestling scholarship, he took up residence in a tiny room in the field house at Camp Randall football stadium.
Suspended Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus has sued the University of Wisconsin to try to stop an expected expulsion over a sexual encounter with two students in April.
A federal jury in Madison has awarded $780,000 to two transgender state employees who were wrongfully denied insurance coverage of transition surgeries.
UW-Madison’s oldest tree, cut down three years ago, is getting another lease on life. In 2015, UW-Madison had to say goodbye to the President’s Oak. It was the oldest tree on campus, estimated to be around 300 years old.
Suspended Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus is suing the university, claiming it violated his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Multi-factor authentication process will be implemented at UW-Madison in order to create a safer online experience for students and staff.
The proposed parking structure on Linden Drive could increase parking accessibility for UW-Madison’s campus visitors.
Quintez Cephus, the Badgers wide receiver who was suspended from the team following two counts of sexual assault, announced he is bringing federal charges against UW-Madison for violating his constitutional rights to a fair investigation.
Nobody does science like the Wisconsin Science Festival.
With more student DJs than hours of airtime to give them, WSUM?—?the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s radio station?—?started an online-only livestream earlier this year. Called FreeFlow, it abides by looser rules than the station’s federally regulated FM stream.
Quintez Cephus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison football player facing multiple sexual assault charges, filed a lawsuit against the school on Tuesday, claiming the administration violated his constitutional rights.
Quoted: “You need a boat to get into some fields,” quipped Kevin Jarek, a University of Wisconsin Extension agent in Outagamie County.
Quoted: Thomas O’Guinn, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the gas station spots are part of a trend of putting ads anyplace where they might capture people’s attention.
The enrollment rate for international graduate students at UW-Madison has risen steadily in recent years, increasing by over 5 percent in the past decade.
New research at the University of Wisconsin surrounding the effects of alcohol access found no evidence to corroborate parental supervision arguments supporting a lowered drinking age.
The University of Wisconsin is scheduled to build a new chemistry building featuring more organic chemistry labs and rooms adjacent to laboratories where students can work with data.
Getting more women into construction, that’s the goal of new pre-apprenticeship program in our area.
The UW School for Workers and Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin (WDBSCW) is introducing Madison Women In Trades, a series to recruit more women into careers like electricians, carpenters and heavy equipment operators. Applications are being accepted now and the program is free for up to 20 women. It is sponsored by grant money from the state to the University of Wisconsin system.
UW Dr. Joe McBride reminds everyone six months and older to get their flu shot.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez’s ties run deep in Wisconsin.
His wife is from Wauwatosa, they were married in Milwaukee and one of their daughters attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The main reason that DOC administration and guards take a hard line on inappropriate relationships between staff and offenders is fear of loss of secure operations,” said University of Wisconsin Law School professor Kenneth Streit, who studies the state’s prison systems.
Quoted: Ellie Bruecker, a doctoral student in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said she expects higher filing rates for the 2019-20 award cycle, which started Oct. 1. But that’s because of ongoing efforts in local school districts and states like Louisiana, which last year began requiring all high school seniors to complete the application.
“I’d guess you’ll see some schools and their college counselors advertise the app as an easy way to complete the FAFSA, but I think that’s just part of the larger push to get more students to file and will likely happen in schools that are already making these efforts,” she said.
Alexander Shashko, a lecturer in the Afro-American Studies department at UW-Madison, spoke to students about misogyny and hypermasculinity in hip-hop at a Men Against Sexual Assault meeting Wednesday evening.
Noted: Mr. Kellogg has been called a consummate newsman — serving not only as an editor for newspapers in South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota, but also as a television news journalist and as a communications professor at UW – Madison for over 20 years.
People are gathering to combat hate in the Madison area. A non-profit organization called We are Many — United Against Hate hosted an event Sunday at Union South on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison released its 2018 TV spot during Saturday’s football game, featuring themes of challenge and achievement.
Campus activists are calling on the Gender and Women’s study program to change the name of its class “Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease,” arguing that the name excludes and marginalizes trans and nonbinary students.
Decades-old murals depicting Paul Bunyan and various associated folktales officially returned to the Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin on Friday.
Noted: Blake was a professor of communications at UW-Madison Extension for 21 years, retiring in 1995. During his tenure at UW, Blake developed and taught courses on newsletter editing and design to more than 10,000 editors and led his department into the computer age. He was a frequent consultant to weekly newspapers throughout Wisconsin. His dedicated service to the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) resulted in his being awarded the coveted WNA red jacket.
UW Health receved the 2018 National Disability Exemplary Employer Award on Thursday for their program called “Project Search.”
Quoted: Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin Agriculture Associate Professor, says this season is tough. “It’s really not a good place for farmers to be in this fall, this harvest of 2018,” Conley says
Quoted: The swipes underscore the fact that “the public is not enamored of Washington at the moment,” said political scientist Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Health has been awarded a 2018 National Disability Exemplary Employer Award for its commitment to employing disabled persons.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that mouse couples who successfully make it through infidelity talk to each other in calm tones.
Over 100 University of Wisconsin students and community members met on Library Mall to protest Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and support sexual assault survivors.
The Memorial Union, a Madison staple since 1928, first opened its doors exactly 90 years ago Friday.
This time will be different. That’s the hope of politically active students on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in advance of the Nov. 6 midterm election. Wisconsin was one of three states in the country where student turnout was down for the 2016 presidential election.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will participate in the Association of American Universities Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Assault Climate Survey in the spring semester.
David Burkemper always had the itch to coach.
The former University of Wisconsin basketball player enjoyed the game so much that upon graduating in the late 1990s he considered a career in coaching before deciding to get married and start a family.
Noted: Money spent by the firm elsewhere in Wisconsin, such as the $14.9 million it paid for a downtown Milwaukee office building or the up to $100 million it has pledged to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will not count toward the investment tax credits.
Twelve University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professors signed a nationwide petition asking the United States Senate not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court.
Quoted: “Once you get to that kind of industry concentration, it’s not about differentiation, it’s about pricing power,” said Hart E. Posen, an associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business. “With two or three big competitors dominating the industry, it’s not about rivalry because one firm knows that if they lower prices, the other firm will have to lower prices. If one firm invests in substantial differentiation, then the other firm will — and no one will necessarily be better off.”
Noted: UW-Madison genetics professor Chris Hittinger co-authored the study describing the breakthrough. He continued his wild yeast research in Wisconsin, and a few years later, he and a team of students found Saccharomyces eubayanus in a park near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It was the first — and so far the only — time the species had been identified in North America. “Because Saccharomyces eubayanus has been so rarely isolated from the wild, this is really a unique opportunity for study,” Hittinger says. “It seems to be very rare.”
