Kasey Keeler is an author and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. She is an enrolled citizen of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians and descendant of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
When you’re unclear about the responsibilities expected of you as a graduate student advisee or research assistant, or if you aren’t sure what you can expect from a faculty mentor, consider drafting together a mentee-mentor agreement. (Examples include Mentoring Compacts/Contracts Examples at UW-Madison.)
Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the latest fights over the state’s Supreme Court made clear that the line that once separated the justices from partisan politics had “completely disintegrated.”
“The kind of bare-knuckles politics that has defined the state for the last 15 years has now bled its way into every aspect of state political life, including the judicial branch,” he said.
John Gross, an associate clinical professor for the UW-Madison law school, said Pleasnick’s swift release from jail is not out of the ordinary.
“While people may be unnerved by the fact he was in the Capitol building with a firearm, it is still classified as a misdemeanor,” Gross said. “It’s not a felony offense.”
UW-Madison is home to the first collegiate glass program in the U.S. It turned 60 in 2022, and the glass program is kicking off a year-long celebration called Glass Madison, starting this month. October features six gallery shows on campus, all open to the public.
Sandra Stuttgen, a former veterinarian and current agriculture educator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension, said the new requirements are a part of the federal agency’s efforts to address how animal use of common drugs is contributing to the global problem of antibiotic resistance.
“As humans, if we have a condition where we need antibiotics, we want them to work,” she said. “They’re trying to protect the antibiotics that are of human significance, so it’s the drugs that humans and animals share.”
PBS Wisconsin Education, along with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Act 31 Coalition provide accurate and authentic educational resources for educators, learners and anyone looking to learn more about the histories, cultures and tribal sovereignty of Wisconsin’s First Nations through the Wisconsin First Nations website.
Amanda Gevens, potato and vegetable pathologist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension, said potatoes are already generating heat heading into harvest through a process called respiration. If weather conditions raise the temperature of the tubers even further, that can make it difficult for farmers to properly cool them down for storage.
“There may not be adequate cooling air available to get control of this heat load,” Gevens said in an email. “Refrigeration is a great option to cool potatoes at harvest, although the system must have the capacity to handle the high heat load and fresh air also must be provided to purge carbon dioxide.”
Philip Salamone is a classical portrait artist, learning the craft at both UW-Madison and Grand Central Atelier in New York City. In 2010 he returned to Madison, and in an effort to cultivate a community, to teach classes and workshops, and to learn from others, he founded the Atwood Atelier—an institution devoted to teaching traditional drawing and painting from life.
Education researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have secured a federal contract to open and operate a national center to combat growing mental health concerns in K-12 schools.
Republican lawmakers again held hearings on two bills that would ban transgender girls and women attending publicly-funded K-12 schools, University of Wisconsin System campuses and state technical colleges from competing in sports designated for women.
When Jeffrey Pickron moved to Wisconsin 20 years ago to join his wife at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, he says the school told him he would have a secure job as a lecturer for years to come.
Incoming University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students who come from households earning less than $62,000 will have their tuition and fees completely covered under a new tuition promise program launching next fall.
David Schwartz, a constitutional law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, said that although “there may be a handful of other (similar) cases around the country, it’s a relatively new area.”
The ruling does not set a binding precedent for other courts in Wisconsin, Schwartz said. While the ruling could be referenced in other cases, no other court is legally obligated to follow it.
This is the first installment of a 5-part series in which former University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Vice President Jim Langdon reflect on their experience guiding the system though the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chants of “Save our staff!” and “Education over administration!” echoed across the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Tuesday as protesters took aim at campus plans to eliminate more than 200 jobs.
Interview with Amy Williamson, associate director of the University of Wisconsin’s Collaboration on Reproductive Equity.
As most state universities in Wisconsin continue to deal with declining enrollment, the University of Wisconsin-Madison received a record 63,537 applications for just 7,996 open slots in the fall 2023 freshman class.
Wisconsin’s system of 16 technical colleges has mostly recouped students it lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing in about the same number of students last fall as in 2019.
In a fashion only fitting for the Dairy State, Wisconsin’s flagship university is celebrating its 175th birthday with a new ice cream flavor.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison created four new flavor ideas and is asking the public to vote for its favorite by Friday. The winner will be available at campus Babcock Dairy stores in early 2024.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student body is now the 13th largest city in the state, surpassing Sheboygan, Wauwatosa and Fond du Lac. It could potentially pass La Crosse in population size next year.
PJ Liesch is the director of the Insect Diagnostics Lab at UW-Madison. He said the insects leave behind a sticky sap material that can lead to the growth of bacteria and fungi.
“There are some pretty significant agricultural concerns for things like grapes, hops and fruit trees. … But on most other plants, it’s probably not going to kill them, but it can be a significant nuisance issue,” Liesch said.
Wisconsin Badgers fans will be familiar with the names behind the new voices on the radio broadcast for the 2023-24 men’s basketball season.
The university announced Thursday that former UW big man Brian Butch will join the Badger Radio Network as the lead men’s basketball analyst for game broadcasts, working alongside longtime play-by-play man Matt Lepay. Additionally, former Badgers forward Charlie Wills will fill in as analyst for some games.
In a statement, UW School of Medicine and Public Health Dean Robert N. Golden and UW Health CEO Dr. Alan Kaplan said they will continue to support transgender and nonbinary patients.
“UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are committed to providing gender-affirming care that is evidence-based, patient-centered, and that focuses on the health and wellbeing of patients seeking the bright future they deserve,” the statement reads. “We will continue to lead clinical, research and education endeavors that allow patients to live their best and most fulfilled lives.”
This time of year, yellow jacket wasps can be a bit ornery and aggressive. PJ Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, said there’s a good reason for that.
“To put it shortly, they’re basically ‘hangry,'” he said. “They are really hungry this time of the year because they’re running low on food.”
Republicans who are skeptical about the 2020 election have argued that hand-counting ballots is the way forward. Barry Burden, a professor of political science at UW-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center, explains when hand-counting makes sense — and when it actually makes results less accurate.
Two years ago, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction allocated $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to the University of Wisconsin System to analyze and improve literacy instruction programs, but the money went unused.
“Democrats don’t have much to gain within the state by redrawing the congressional districts,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison and director of the school’s Elections Research Center, wrote in an email. “Doing that would, at most, tilt one or two more of the eight districts in the Democratic direction.”
359 institutions, including UW-Madison, UW-Madison, UW-Green Bay and UW-River Falls, have agreed to standardize financial aid offers to undergraduates, a step towards transparency in a process that is often opaque and confusing for students. Karla Weber, communications manager for the Office of Student Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains.
An administrator from a Minnesota university will take charge of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, officials announced Tuesday.
Lynn Akey has served as vice president for student success, analytics and integrated planning at Minnesota State University, Mankato since 2019. The UW Board of Regents unanimously approved her hire in a closed-door meeting Tuesday.
Former University of Wisconsin star Sam Dekker, who just began his second year playing with the London Lions of the British Basketball League, apparently found a charming reminder of his old home in his new one.
The change isn’t unprecedented and stems from a case in the 1960s, according to Michael Childers, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Workers.
“What they’re basically saying now is that, if any unfair labor practice has is found to have occurred after an employer asks for an election, then they don’t need to have the election. The union will just be recognized and bargaining should commence,” he said. “That absolutely could have some impact on unions being formed in the private sector.”
Access gaps, economic adversity and school segregation in Wisconsin lead to racial disparities in educational outcomes, with efforts growing to expand learning options for diverse groups of students.
On Friday, Alliant Energy announced that they had received a $30M federal grant to build a CO2-based energy storage facility in Columbia County, Wisconsin—the first of its kind in the US, and the first ever on this scale. We talk with Mark Anderson, director of the Thermal-Hydraulics Laboratory at the UW-Madison, about what the new technology means for the future of renewable energy storage in the state and beyond.
Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan got candid about current events during a sit-down conversation hosted by the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday night.
After the University of Wisconsin-Parkside concluded that one of its tenured professors had “engaged in fraudulent grading” within a six-year time span, she quietly resigned at the end of the spring semester.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan sees a country on the rocks — divded by cults of personality, “unserious” politics and policy choices driven by “nihilism” — but he’s still “bullish” on the future of the United States.
“I am doing everything in my wheelhouse to be able to afford to live,” said Olivia Steele, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree and about $25,000 in debt. “I drive an old car; I don’t go on fancy trips or anything. Having payments come back will ruin me.”
Barry Burden is a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said the bill’s “chances are not great because there isn’t much legislation that has much likelihood of success in the Legislature today.”
Tom Owenby, the associate dean for teacher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the reading bill demonstrates a renewed commitment to supporting students across Wisconsin in being able to read proficiently, which is a goal everyone shares.
Quoted: Adrian Treves, a predator-prey ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who sits on Peer’s board, said no proper studies exist on whether the hunts protect livestock. Rather, more studies have been conducted on how the kills affect populations of caribou, moose, elk and other wildlife, and a 2020 meta analysis of available science found little evidence that they increase populations.
Research shows two much bigger factors in herd health are weather and habitat, Treves said, but hunts are still pushed by state game agencies because “hunter perception is a big part of it, and their attitudes are typically negative toward predators”.
Quoted: Among cats, an increase in vocalization, meaning more crying or howling — an obvious and frequently reported sign. “With cats, there is excessive vocalization and disorientation and changes in interaction with humans or other animals, such as hissing and swatting,” said Starr Cameron, clinical associate professor in small animal neurology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine, who studies cat dementia. “Some cats are up all night and vocalizing. They go outside the litter box or can’t find it.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison population geneticist Aaron Ragsdale, who wasn’t involved in the research, says the study raises some very intriguing questions about human evolution during a time period from which both genetic and fossil data are relatively scarce. “I am eager to see if their results are replicated using other methods,” Ragsdale says.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine’s Shelter Medicine Program will help MADACC manage the current population and help transfer healthy animals to other shelters for adoption to make space at the shelter.
The FBI Milwaukee Field Office on Thursday released age-progressed photographs of Leo Frederick Burt, who is wanted for his alleged participation in the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Each of the University of Wisconsin campuses has detailed guidelines governing such situations, as do many corporations around the country, especially since the #MeToo movement brought to light the widespread abuses of power by those in leadership positions.
Quoted: “The federal due process standard is viewed as setting a really high bar for recusal,” said Rob Yablon, a professor and co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: The question signaled to candidates that climate change is something young conservatives take seriously, said Dominique Brossard, a professor and chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The fact that they did ask the question at a Republican debate for the primary, that there was a young conservative on video — that already tells you that this is an issue that has made the public discourse in a way that’s not a fringe issue,” Brossard said.
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter fills us in on a state Senate public hearing this week — filled with debunked claims of 2020 election fraud — to discuss reappointing Meagan Wolfe to be administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. State Attorney General Josh Kaul has said the proceedings are illegal under Wisconsin law. Then David T. Canon, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, analyzes the situation, and this instance of the governing style of Republican legislative leaders.
After 17 years, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow has announced he will step down. During his tenure, the campus has bucked declining enrollment trends and is now one of just three state colleges not running a budget deficit.
From UW-Madison student to CNN chief congressional correspondent, Manu Raju credits persistence and hard work. He’s now covering the likelihood of Republicans triggering a government shutdown and President Joe Biden potentially facing an impeachment inquiry. We discuss national politics.
Joe Gow, the longest-serving current chancellor in the University of Wisconsin System, announced plans Wednesday to step down as leader of UW-La Crosse at the end of the 2023-24 school year.
Recent research from the Wisconsin Paper Council examined the often-overlooked role of the state’s paper converters in the state’s paper industry. Scott Bowe, a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains what paper converters do and why they’re booming in Wisconsin.
As kids head back to school, we take a look at the politics of school lunch, including compensation issues among school lunch workers, parental involvement with school meals, and the role of farmers in school lunches. Interview with Jennifer Gaddis, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies at UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology.
“It is really revolutionary,” said Roseanne Clark, a clinical psychologist and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s postpartum depression research treatment program.
Written by Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, distinguished professor and John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Steven Running is professor emeritus of ecosystem and conservation sciences at the University of Montana.
“The concern is, could that cause a very similar spike epidemiologically, with more spread, more hospitalizations, more death?” said Ajay Sethi, professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It doesn’t have to replicate what we saw the last time (with omicron), … but it certainly is on everybody’s mind.”
A research team at the UW-Madison is using drones to study erosion along Lake Michigan. We hear from the lead scientist about methods to track where eroded soil ends up and how the research might prevent more shoreline loss.
After a lull following the pandemic, more Wisconsin high school students are starting to take Advanced Placement courses and exams again.
But data shows students of color and lower socioeconomic backgrounds continue to fall behind in enrolling in the courses and taking the exams, which give kids the chance to earn college credits in high school.
The Wisconsin volleyball team moved up just one spot in the national rankings, but it’s a big one.
The Badgers took over the No. 1 spot in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll that was released Monday. The move came after UW opened the season in the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge with a four-set win over No. 15 Baylor on Friday and a straight set victory over TCU on Saturday.
