University of Wisconsin-Madison police and federal officials are investigating a report of a drone at Saturday?s football game between the Badgers and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini at Camp Randall Stadium, WKOW-TV (Channel 27) in Madison reported Monday.
Noted: The report is prepared by University of Wisconsin-Madison students who have been guided by Tom Eggert, executive director of the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council and a lecturer on sustainability.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison initially monitored about 20 students from Nigeria when they arrived for the semester, but that country was removed from the travel warning, said Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services.
Noted: Bill Lueders is the Money and Politics Project director at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism www.wisconsinwatch.org, which produces the project in partnership with MapLight. The center collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The suspect is described as white with four small propellers and a GoPro camera. Was last seen Saturday afternoon hovering high above thousands of jumping college students at Camp Randall Stadium.
Quoted: ?Every scientist that I?ve heard speak on the matter says the same thing,? said retired University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Nina Camic. ?It?s not possible to develop with no damage to the Lake Waubesa wetlands. Yes, you can mitigate, but you cannot avoid it.?
In a decision issued Thursday night, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin from implementing its Voter ID law for the Nov. 4 election.
Noted: She retired as professor emerita from the Department of Engineering Professional Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison when she was diagnosed in December of 2009.
Quoted: “When you put on your garb and you take off your garb, it?s a buddy system,” with another health worker watching to make sure it?s done right, said Dr. Dennis Maki, University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist and former head of hospital infection control.
Noted: Ronis, the temporary director of opera and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, started his career singing roles in “Carmen,” “The Magic Flute” and “The Marriage of Figaro.”
With the abundant assortment of State Street restaurants, food trucks, dining halls and instant food delivery services, it?s no secret that Madison is a utopia of delicious cuisine.
Dissatisfied with their jobs and daydreaming of new careers in other intriguing fields, workers sometimes face a double-barreled anxiety: Fear of the unknown and uncertainty about where to start.
Noted: And when ?the war drops its question mark,? Doerr, a former fellow with UW-Madison?s creative writing program, writes, everything changes.
Noted: This safety protocol is more restrictive than what is required of DNR-approved sharpshooters within a chronic wasting disease control zone in southern Wisconsin or at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum where the deer population is controlled to reduce damage to plants, Meyer said.
Noted: The company employs engineers from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Platteville and Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula, Blada said.
Noted: The last statewide project to map land cover, the Wisconsin Initiative for Statewide Cooperation on Landscape Analysis and Data or WISCLAND, used 1992 satellite imagery. The project has been inactive since the late 1990s. But work is underway to update the state?s land cover map. Called WISCLAND 2, the project is a cooperative effort of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Department of Natural Resources.
Quoted: Every emergency room needs to be prepared to isolate and take infection control precautions, because no one can control where an Ebola patient might show up, said Dr. Dennis Maki, University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist and former head of hospital infection control.
The signature dishes served at supper clubs that long served as Wisconsins culinary and social backbone will be under the microscope during next weeks statewide science festival.
News coverage of the Ebola outbreak this week entered a ?perfect storm? that spun the issue out of proportion, says UW-Madison professor of science communication Dietram A. Scheufele.
Jenna Freeman is interested in people.So the UW-Madison student began capturing people she encountered on campus ? and beyond ? in a blog she calls Humans of UW-Madison.
Thursday ? in a jammed sanctuary at St. Peter Catholic Church — the too-short life of Tom Mulhern was celebrated.As the State Journal?s UW football reporter, Badgers fans certainly know the name, and others have been introduced to it by sportswriters Tom Oates and Andy Baggott, each of whom wrote stirring tributes, Oates before his death, Baggott after. Both merit reading if you missed them.
Raising the minimum wage would help not only workers but the state?s economy, the UW-Madison?s Center on Wisconsin Strategy said Wednesday.
Noted: Greiner, 83, is an emeritus professor of electrical engineering at UW-Madison. He?s also the eldest of a group of four Madison-area amateur astronomers who take photographs and hunt asteroids, not from Madison ? that pesky light issue ? but from telescopes in New Mexico they can each operate with computers from their living rooms in Wisconsin.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been awarded up to $3.3 million for a project that would produce chemicals from biomass.
Green Bay is within 100 miles of five American Indian reservations.
The University of Wisconsin System is about to do some wholesale, strategic belt-tightening, according to its president.
Noted: The idea for Thermal Spray Technologies came through a graduate research program in the late 1980s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when a professor approached Richard L. Wilkey, owner of Fisher Barton Inc., about using coatings to make lawn mower blades last longer. The program was founded around the idea with funding from the Wisconsin Department of Development and Fisher Barton.
Noted: Goldman and UW-Madison horticulture professor James Nienhuis have grown giant pumpkins for several years ? though theirs top out at only 400 pounds, which they use for a giant pumpkin regatta for their students on Lake Mendota.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison influenza researcher has been recognized as a 2014 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award recipient for his efforts to understand and prevent pandemic influenza.
Noted: Foster co-founded the company as an 18-year-old with his brother, Bill Foster, and friends Gary Bewick and James Bradley, while they attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s.
Quoted: Now, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor believes he has evidence of what, for business owners, could be the most compelling reason of all: higher profits.”Thats what we find,” said Kristian Allee, an assistant professor in the UW School of Business. “It’s pretty interesting stuff.”
Noted: Howard and two other then-University of Wisconsin-Madison students founded EatStreet in early 2010.
Noted: Robert E. Drechsel is the James E. Burgess chair and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The only person who believes he?s innocent is his sister, played by Carrie Coon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison, American Players Theatre and Renaissance Theaterworks alum, as well as a Tony Award nominee, late of “The Leftovers.”
Noted: Kent, the chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, now has a $500,000 federal grant and is working with a team to develop the app.
Award-winning Wisconsin State Journal sportswriter Tom Mulhern ? well-known for his work covering the University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers and before that, the Green Bay Packers for the Milwaukee Sentinel ? died Friday.
Quoted: Genetic engineering, precision planting and fertilizer application have increased crop yields over time, said Paul Mitchell, an associate professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But in the coming decades it will be ?big data? that allows farmers to finally achieve the potential of these technologies.
A $3 million gift from University of Wisconsin-Madison supporters Sheldon and Marianne Lubar will create a unique opportunity to endow a Law School chair that will competitively rotate among faculty members to support research in a variety of areas.
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany has proposed for at least two years that leagues need to do more for athletes.
Noted: He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a journalism degree in 1958, then went to work for the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque, Iowa, for nine years, serving four years as city editor and two years as editorial page editor.
Noted: The most recent decrease, however, stands out because of the sharp drop in violent occupational deaths. They had spiked in 2012, more than doubling from the 2011 total, said Rebecca Adams, program policy analyst with the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, for example, 72% of 2012 graduates have outstanding student loans, with the average debt about $32,000. It?s only slightly better with 2012 UW-Madison graduates, with 49% still paying off student loans, owing an average of $24,700.
Nine University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members with expertise in areas ranging from cartooning and dance to medical engineering will highlight their work at a first-ever event called “Big Ideas for Busy People” in Madison later this month.
Noted: There are two schools of pharmacy in Wisconsin, at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon.
Quoted: “If you talk to the scientific community, there is no doubt that the bees are declining,” said Christelle Guédot, a University of Wisconsin-Madison entomology professor and extension specialist.
Quoted: In many cases, private businesses and their insurers choose to settle civil suits even if they believe they can win, said Peter Carstensen, professor emeritus of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”Often, it?s an economic calculus. How much will I risk if I stand and fight?” he said. “An insurance company is dependent on its revenue, (whereas) it?s very hard for the taxpayers to see the details of what the litigation costs are for the city.”
Quoted: Much of the wage pressure stems from low-cost rivals, said Steven Durlauf, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prominent Wisconsin manufacturers, including the likes of Briggs & Stratton Corp., Harley-Davidson Inc. and Mercury Marine Inc., have adopted tiered wage systems that often offer significantly lower pay scales to new hires.
A 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student may face paralysis after a diving accident at Lake Mendota.
Police issued 27 citations during Saturday?s Badger game against South Florida at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.
Noted: Separately, University of Wisconsin-Madison research released this week is projecting that the number of extremely hot days in the Midwest and eastern U.S. cities is likely to grow sharply by the middle of the century.
The fastest-growing campus in the University of Wisconsin System has set another record for fall enrollment, thanks in large part to an initiative that capitalizes on its proximity to Iowa and Illinois.
Stem cell pioneer Jamie Thomson and others at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research will receive about $7 million in grant money over the next three years to grow brain tissue that could provide a faster, more affordable way to screen for neural toxins.
Noted: Of course, water expertise isn?t confined to Milwaukee, and relationships are forming to leverage know-how at UW-Madison, UW-Stevens Point and other Wisconsin schools and companies. The goal is setting Milwaukee and Wisconsin apart as a global center of water technology ? a competitive advantage in a world where water may become the new oil.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is trying to figure out who lit a portable toilet on fire Saturday in Madison ? a fire that quickly spread to a second portable toilet and then damaged two cars.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fraternity is under investigation into whether its members may have slipped “date rape” drugs into alcoholic drinks at a party last weekend.
Noted: As he notes, tax law complexity inhibits the development of start-ups. Thats a shame, given the efforts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UWM, as well as elsewhere in the state, to nurture start-ups. Whats the point of trying to create new, dynamic businesses, if they are susceptible to die aborning because of our abstruse and oppressive tax laws?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to rank among the top 50 universities in the world in the 10th edition of the QS World University Rankings released this week.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Superior gives students IDs that meet those requirements, but other UW System schools? standard IDs do not include those features. UW-Madison plans to issue special IDs to students who ask for them that could be used for voting, but spokesman Greg Bump said the school is still in the planning stage and does not know when they will be available to students.
Quoted: The poverty increase among Wisconsin seniors is puzzling, said Robert Haveman, professor emeritus of public affairs and economics, and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “We will likely see some modest declines in the uninsured rate for sure and maybe some substantial declines next year,” said Donna Friedsam, director of health policy programs at the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
