Karen Oberhauser, professor emeritus in entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told “Wisconsin Today” this data on insecticides is “exciting” because it measures the impact humans have on monarchs and other species.
“A lot of people come up to me and say, they’re just not seeing as many monarch butterflies as they have in the past,” she said. “(This study) is really our ability to dig into the data and think about the changing practices in agriculture.”
When opposing politicians discuss immigration and crime, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Michael T. Light said they often “talk past one another.”
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Wednesday five student organizations have been temporarily suspended after posting antisemitic language on social media accounts.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee temporarily suspended five pro-Palestinian student groups for a social media message the local Jewish community called intimidating and threatening.
Gregory Nemet, professor of public affairs at UW-Madison, and Morgan Edwards, associate professor of climate policy at the school, are two of the lead authors on the 222-page report. Titled “The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal,” it is the second in a series of annual reports and shows how steep the battle against climate change is.
Among public universities, UW-Madison covers tuition for students whose families earn $65,000 or less. The program launched in 2018 and is funded through a mix of private money and institutional resources, not taxpayer money.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone thought he’d be exhaling.
But the day after reaching a deal with student protesters, the campus crisis that consumed Mone in early May wasn’t over. In fact, it was intensifying.
While a sophomore at UW-Madison, Selig traveled down the road back to his hometown to ensure he was in-person to see the debut of Milwaukee’s first MLB squad, a 10-inning thriller ending with a Billy Bruton home run and a 3-2 Milwaukee Braves win over St. Louis.
“I teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as Marquette Law School and Arizona State University. And then at night, I still find myself in front of a television set watching every game of baseball I can. It really has been a remarkable journey.”
Somesh Jha, a computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison researching artificial intelligence, said the rapid development of AI is expected to lead to more efficiencies in the workplace. But he said it could also lead to job losses in some industries, as well as lead to the creation of new jobs.
He praised the task force for taking on “questions, like, ‘okay, what are we doing now that can be done much more efficiently using AI? And what new positions which we might need, given that new capability?’”
The Universities of Wisconsin is suspending work on required changes to campus Title IX sex discrimination rules after a federal judge in Kansas blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from expanding the definition of sex discrimination to include gender identity.
University of Wisconsin alumna Alev Kelter and her USA teammates pulled off an incredible upset Tuesday at the Paris Olympics in women’s rugby sevens, a buzzer-beating victory over favored Australia to land the bronze medal and net the first American medal ever in rugby.
Be aware of slick ads and false promises made by for-profit colleges in Milwaukee.
That’s the message members of the Milwaukee Common Council sent Monday in a joint statement about colleges that they said try to guarantee a quick degree or employment, in industries like health care.
A 2018 study published by University of Wisconsin and Dartmouth professors found tribal forests, such as the Menominee in northern Wisconsin, maintained their diversity of native plants beneath tree canopies much better than non-tribal forests.
On Saturday afternoon, hundreds gathered outside the Capitol for a historic moment: the unveiling of a sculpture honoring a Black woman. The first of its kind on state Capitol grounds. The woman is Vel Phillips, a Milwaukee native whose decades-long career as a community leader, judge and politician paved the way for countless others.
Duranceau was born and raised in Merrill, Wisconsin, where she graduated Merrill High School and still lives. She served in the U.S. Air Force National Guard from 2011 to 2018 and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2016 and also attended other UW campuses.
County fairs around the state have already gone through the additional testing requirements for avian flu this summer. The Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has received nearly 400 samples every week since June, according to director Keith Poulsen.
Poulsen said they could accommodate more tests, but there hasn’t been the demand.
Murv Seymour talks with Stephen Kantrowitz at the Wisconsin Historical Society about his writing on Black and Indigenous struggles, the politics of racism and the importance of learning about history.
The Weather Guys, Steve Ackerman and Jon Martin, are back to put into context just how hot and wet this summer has been in Wisconsin. They’ll also explain why more severe weather events are becoming the new normal.
Lawns that consist solely of turfgrass provide little-to-no resources for pollinators, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison extension division of horticulture. Also, letting lawns grow for the month of May and then mowing more than one third of the height is stressful to the turfgrass.
Phoebe Bacon has been swimming since she was 2 years old, spending summer days at the pool with her family.
Now, the 21-year-old is heading to her second Olympics to compete in the women’s 200m backstroke.
Fall camp begins Tuesday morning at UW-Pletteville, but before the Badgers left town they held their local media day at the McClain Center where UW coach Luke Fickell, defensive coordinator Mike Tressel and offensive coordinator Phil Longo and a host of players met with reporters.
Cindy Rusher was a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s varsity eight national championship crew in 1986. She credits her coach Sue Ela for encouraging her and teammates to try out for the women’s national team. That led to Rusher competing in two Olympic games.
Lindsay resides in Cedarburg with his family and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to his legal career, he worked in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel from 2006 to 2008.
A new sculpture on the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds was unveiled Saturday afternoon, honoring Vel Phillips, a trailblazer for civil rights in Wisconsin, and the state’s first Black Secretary of State.
Alev Kelter and Team USA rugby are not easily slowed down. Ask Brazil’s Thalia Costa.
The University of Wisconsin alumna Kelter got some viral attention for her Sunday stiff-arm in her Team USA Olympic rugby match against Brazil, part of a 24-5 victory for the United States.
As the opening ceremony kicks off the 2024 summer Olympics in Paris Friday, plenty of athletes with Wisconsin ties will take the world stage to compete for gold.
About two in five Wisconsin adults are obese, according to findings by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Obesity rates are even higher in some pockets of the state, including in parts of Milwaukee’s north side where more than half of adults have obesity, according to the UW-Madison research.
As the 2024 Olympics get started in Paris, many Wisconsinites will get their chance to shine on the international stage. Will any come away with medals, like Kenny Bednarek’s silver or Molly Seidel’s bronze in 2021? Perhaps it will mark the second straight Olympics with a Wisconsin-connected athlete winning gold in men’s basketball after Bucks players Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday turned the feat in 2021, mere weeks after winning the NBA crown.
A legislative study group has been formed to discuss the future of the Universities of Wisconsin. We talk to two committee members, a state senator and a UW-Green Bay professor, about what’s at stake for higher education in Wisconsin.
There is a limited number of weather reporting stations in Wisconsin, leaving some areas like New Berlin in data gaps.
A new weather station network run by University of Wisconsin-Madison is hoping to change that. It is called WiscoNet and New Berlin just got one of the newest weather stations.
Kinship with the more-than-human world is both the philosophy and the feeling that guides Swan’s work today as an award-winning eco-poet and creative non-fiction writer, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches environmental literature.
After years of effort, Saturday will mark history for Wisconsin as the first statue commemorating a Black leader will be unveiled on the Capitol grounds in Madison.
Phillips holds significance in Wisconsin as a trailblazing Black woman who had a lasting impact on the state’s legal and political history.
The old joke about rowing, Lauren O’Connor said, is that it’s the only sport to have roots as a form of corporal punishment.
“You could go to prison, or you could row on the boats that were taking people across the ocean and doing this really, really hard labor,” she said.
O’Connor, who is from the village of Belleville — population 2,591 — is one of four women from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who will be competing in rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Universities of Wisconsin schools will soon be offering admission to tens of thousands of Wisconsin high school seniors without receiving applications.
The state Legislature has formed a study committee to discuss possible reforms and restructuring of the Universities of Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin turkey reintroduction was a partnership of the DNR and NWTF. Tom Yuill, a University of Wisconsin professor and wildlife disease expert, provided health testing of the birds.
Incoming high school seniors, check your inboxes: You may have just gotten into college without even applying.
Ten of the state’s public universities will send acceptance letters starting next week through a new “direct admissions” program. Eligible students at participating schools will be automatically admitted to universities based on their grades and coursework at the end of their junior year, essentially bypassing the traditional application process.
Christine Remucal, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison, graduate student Sarah Balgooyen and other researchers looked at foam and surface water samples collected between 2020 and 2023, from areas across the state.
As a graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wicks created ice cream that doesn’t melt even after four hours at room temperature. While her concoction isn’t ready for consumption, her work could change the way we eat, store, and transport the beloved dairy treat.
Barbara Bowers, a long-term care researcher and professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, said she is “astounded” by the medical complexity of the people in assisted living today.
“They look a lot like, 10 years ago, the people in nursing homes,” she said.
“I just always wondered: Does the money really get where they’re telling me it’s going?” Grimm asked Public Investigator. “Do they get a tax break?”
The short answer is yes and no.
Yes, the money customers donate at the cash register does go to the appropriate organization or cause, said Ross Milton, assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and tax expert.
“Assuming that they are following the law,” Milton added. And no, businesses can’t receive a tax break for donations raised by customers, Milton said. If the donations aren’t made with the business’s money, it can’t collect the tax benefits, Milton explained.
A partnership led by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the University of Wisconsin-Madison received $10 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agricultural Systems program earlier this summer.
Football fans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon be allowed to buy alcohol throughout the stadium.
It used to be that mainstream news media would develop narratives about who candidates were, and those narratives shaped attitudes about the candidates. But social media has upended that model, according to Michael Wagner, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We have two candidates who use social media well, but in different ways: Trump uses it to get attention. Harris uses it to shape attitudes,” Wagner said.
Co-authored by Morgan Edwards, an assistant professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. She also leads the Climate Action Lab and holds an affiliation with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Zachary Thomas is a graduate student in UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and member of the Climate Action Lab.
Wisconsin Athletics announced on Monday that, for the first time ever, they plan on selling beer, wine, and pre-packaged alcoholic products like hard seltzers in the general seating areas at Camp Randall Stadium and the UW Field House this fall.
UW-Madison’s Shawn Robinson shares his journey with dyslexia and creation of the “Doctor Dyslexia Dude” comic book superhero.
For the first time, a fusion device at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has generated plasma, inching one step closer toward using nuclear fusion as a a new source of carbon-free energy.
The university’s physicists and engineers have been building and testing the device at a lab in Stoughton for the last four years, which is referred to as the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror or WHAM. The magnetic mirror device became operational on July 15.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists has taken a major step toward creating a clean, reliable and powerful source of energy.
Four years in the making, it is part of a broader approach to using nuclear fusion energy that, unlike existing nuclear technology, does not create large amounts of radioactive waste.
“In the short run, I think it trips up the Republicans, who have had a really wonderful week (with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee),” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”(Biden’s) age, his feebleness, his mental capacity, those were the things that the public had major concerns about. … that’s now gone as an issue.”
For the first time, a fusion device at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has generated plasma, inching one step closer toward using nuclear fusion as a a new source of carbon-free energy.
Both of Harris’ parents worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during her childhood.
“It seems like Biden has released (the delegates from their pledges). He didn’t say that formally, but they’re also not formally bound to him,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Elections Research Center told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Members of the Wisconsin football team made a stop at the Salvation Army of Dane County’s day camp.
Team members played games with the kids. Cornerback Amare Snowden says the goal is to give back to the greater Madison community.
The Badgers will open their 2024 season on Friday, August 30 when they take on Western Michigan at Camp Randall.
Coaching at the Power Five level has been on Fro Jerro’s radar ever since she began coaching career over three decades ago.
Opportunities to make the jump from the mid-majors and personal matters never seemed to coincide, however.
When the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team was in search of a new assistant following the departure of Tiffany Morton in late April, Jerro felt compelled to make another push.
The closure of six Universities of Wisconsin branch campuses has left their counties with an extensive, and expensive, problem: Finding a purpose for the buildings and land the UW system left behind.
“If anything, we’re gaining from undocumented immigrants,” said Karen Holden, a UW-Madison professor emerita of public affairs and consumer science who focuses on Social Security.
Despite recent reports of the problematic rollout of the 2024-25 Free Application for Student Financial Aid, commonly known as FAFSA, the revised form does have some good news for low-income students.
Another 15-story student housing development could go up on the corner of North Frances and West Johnson streets Downtown.
Chicago-based Core Spaces announced plans Thursday for 392 apartments, a rooftop pool and other “premier” amenities at 305 N. Frances St., where the Saxony Apartments stand today.
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team will spend Thanksgiving in a warm climate for the second straight year.
The Badgers will compete in the Cancun Challenge Nov. 28-30 at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya in Mexico, the program announced Thursday.
