FoodWIse, a statewide program providing nutrition education to low-income families and community organizations, announced on Friday that its federal funding is being eliminated.
Dr. Michael Notaro, director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, launched the program several years ago.
“I think that’s inspired by my son Hayden,” Notaro said. “He’s autistic and a wonderful boy. My wife is also autistic. And based on my desire to support and foster neurodiversity, we created three STEM camps.”
Written by James Dahlberg, a professor emeritus in the department of biomolecular chemistry at UW-Madison.
After three successful shows in the last month at Camp Randall — the first in 28 years — Madison is back on the map for the biggest musical acts. The city, its boosters and the university should do everything it can to keep it that way.
A support group for parents of New York University students boasts nearly 8,000 members and averages several posts a day; one for the University of Wisconsin has nearly 9,000 parents.
The American Meteorological Society maintains a glossary of meteorological terms and defines a heat dome as “an exceptionally warm air mass at middle latitudes during the warm season that that is associated with a synoptic-scale area of high pressure aloft. This area of high pressure aloft can have a doming effect on the warm air mass below by suppressing rising motion and the development of clouds and precipitation.”
If there was a word to describe the essence of 2023 UW-Madison MFA graduate Meg Kim’s Invisible Cartographies, it would be lush: in language, in landscape, in memory, in longing. The winner of the 2023-2024 New Delta Review Chapbook Prize, Invisible Cartographies is rooted in place—geographies both physical and psychic made visible only by Kim’s careful practice of excavation, bred by her “mass of wanting.”
Hardtke said the department recognizes the importance of education and books as part of rehabilitation and maintains libraries at all institutions, offers books on electronic tablets and has educational partnerships with the University of Wisconsin System and the state’s technical colleges.
Among his losing battles was the 1970s fight over merging the University of Wisconsin in Madison with other state campuses to form the UW System. He was against it, as were his constituents on the Madison campus. He fought enacting a state lottery and opposed building the so-called SuperMax prison that Tommy Thompson later admitted was a big mistake.
Most of the money goes to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, which offers programming in 70 of the state’s 72 counties. While UW Extension is exploring ways to sustain some SNAP-Ed capacity through alternative funding sources, it has already begun winding down operations. Layoff notices went out to 92 SNAP-Ed educators, UW Extension director Karl Martin said.
Campus leaders have publicly disclosed only the overall scale of cuts, announcing in June that schools and colleges need to shrink their budgets by 5% and administrative units face a 7% cut. They’ve called the step needed “to help protect our long-term financial viability” and said layoffs should be considered “a last resort.”
“I am concerned that this legislation, and the broad adoption of stablecoins that it will facilitate, may trigger a crisis at the very heart of the banking system,” writes Mark Copelovitch, a professor of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Copelovitch is also the author of “The International Monetary Fund in the Global Economy: Banks, Bonds, and Bailouts” and co-author of “Banks on the Bank: Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises.”
“We have these negative associations with waste, particularly smellier waste, that is associated with poverty and disease – other things we don’t like to see or think about,” said Sarah A Moore, a professor in the department of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
You don’t want to forbid these foods entirely, says psychologist Katherine Schaumberg at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That strategy could backfire. “In our culture, food is connection. Having these foods in social settings can facilitate emotional health,” she says. “That can outweigh the physical cost of them.”
Researchers at Northwestern University, Northeastern University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison analyzed the careers of 12,000 U.S.-based faculty across 15 disciplines, including business, sociology and chemistry.
They evaluated publication outcomes over an 11-year span, which includes the five years before and after those scholars got tenure. Last week, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America published the results of that analysis in a peer-reviewed paper, “Tenure and Research Trajectories.”
UW-Madison police are investigating an assault involving pepper spray at Memorial Union Terrace on Wednesday night.
At about 8:45 p.m., UW police were sent to a disturbance involving seven to 10 people at the Memorial Union Terrace, spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
Nobody voted for higher costs, crowded classes and less research at the UW, writes Jordan Ellenburg in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Ideas Lab column. The UW-Madison math professor explains how federal budget cuts are undermining decades of the university’s contributions to industry and the dangers that presents to the economy.
University of Wisconsin students were notified via email Thursday morning of an aggravated assault that occurred on Wednesday at about 8:45 p.m. at the Memorial Union Terrace.
The UW-Madison Police Department was notified of a disturbance involving seven to 10 juveniles at the Terrace. An investigation found that the juveniles consisted of two groups and the incident was sparked by an altercation between them on State Street earlier that day, according to UWPD’s incident report.
“I think a bunch of J.J.’s message was, in my mind, grasping on to that idea of what humble and hungry looks like, and what being an underdog really is,” Badgers coach Luke Fickell said July 23 during Big Ten media day at Mandalay Bay Resort. “He didn’t say it, but I explained it to some of the leadership guys like you know. J.J.’s whole message was ‘I just want to be proud, and right now I’m not’.”
Two Republican lawmakers aim to restrict how much in-state undergraduate tuition can increase at University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greeville, and Sen. André Jacque, R-De Pere, began circulating the bill for sponsorship July 24, two weeks after the UW Board of Regents voted to raise tuition for the third consecutive year.
“Two hundred million dollars is not a lot of money when you have billions at stake, and any corporate person will tell you that,” said Donna E. Shalala, who was health secretary under President Bill Clinton and has led four schools, including the University of Miami and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Basically, they’re cutting their losses and ensuring their future — for at least a short period of time.”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD student said Thursday, UWPD officers heightened a conflict between two groups of juveniles through the use of physical force Wednesday evening at the Memorial Union Terrace.
UWPD is investigating the incident, which stemmed from an earlier altercation between the two groups on State Street. One group arrived at the Terrace prior to the second group, upon which the conflict escalated, according to an email sent to the campus community. One suspect used pepper spray on members of the other groups, and at least one individual punched another group member.
Earlier this month, the Universities of Wisconsin system Board of Regents approved a 5 percent tuition increase for undergraduate students for the 2025-26 academic year.
Legislative Republicans are now trying for a third time to cap tuition increases at the state’s public university system at no higher than the rate of inflation.
The proposal would limit the Board of Regents to “only increase tuition and fees for resident undergraduate students up to the rate of the Consumer Price Index.”
Written by ssistant professor of natural resource economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department responded to a report of 7 to 10 juveniles causing a disturbance at Memorial Union Terrace at about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Tso spent the rest of her childhood in India. In 2009, she moved to the United States with her husband, whom she met in India. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 with a nursing degree and has worked in healthcare ever since.
Henderson brushed off the experience, hoping it was a fluke. But after matching into residency at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, she overheard a medical student lamenting about their housing struggles and something clicked.
“The lightbulb went off in my head,” Henderson said. “I realized I think this is a nationwide issue and then really started to look into it from there.”
The conservative outlet Wisconsin Right Now reported that there are 495 staffers in Wisconsin’s university system who have the visa, which comes with roughly a $43 million annual price tag for salaries.
The education department drew attention to the University of Wisconsin’s Dreamer scholarship and Western Michigan University’s WMU Undocumented/DACA Scholarship.
Kay Jarvis, director of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin, responded to Wednesday’s announcement, saying, “The university has received a letter of notification relating to this matter. We have no further comment.” CBS Detroit has reached out to Western Michigan University for comment and is awaiting a response.
Last week, the same department announced it was launching a separate investigation into the University of Wisconsin following the arrests of Chinese nationals in a number of pathogen smuggling cases.
Written by Mark Copelovitch, a professor of political science and public affair, and director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A 2019 study found that a neighborhood has to be at least 40% covered by trees ‒ counting pavement and buildings ‒ to substantially limit heat. That amount of tree coverage can reduce temperatures by seven to nine degrees, according to the University of Wisconsin researchers.
The team’s strong performance “stemmed a lot from us being fearful of her and if we had done bad, and also the culture that was created at practice, which honestly was a pretty high-anxiety culture,” Badgers runner Victoria Heiligenthal said. “I think it motivated people but obviously from a bad place of motivation.”
On the same day in January 2022 that Mackenzie Wartenberger told her runners that she was resigning for family reasons, the University of Wisconsin sang the praises of the women’s cross country coach in a tweet.
Some members of that team said they couldn’t believe their coach was being celebrated. Five women who ran for Wartenberger told the Wisconsin State Journal in interviews that they experienced mental abuse and a toxic culture on her team. One former runner, Brogan MacDougall, and her mother reported the abuse to athletics officials and the academic side of the university.
J.J. Watt, a former Wisconsin All-American and one of the best defensive players in NFL history, told the players at his alma mater last week he hasn’t enjoyed being a Badgers fan lately. The energy in the air shifted as Watt delivered a message that Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell boiled down to: “I just want to be proud and right now, I’m not.”
Two other well-known Blue Moon ice cream makers, both based in Madison — Chocolate Shoppe and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Babcock Dairy — didn’t respond to interview requests.
Emily Callaci’s history of the international feminist movement examines the influence of their intellectual and political victories. The University of Wisconsin–Madison historian describes in “Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor,” that modes of protest were part of an emerging, dynamic wave of left-feminist activism.
Callaci’s book marks a significant contribution to the new Wages for Housework literature and serves as a reminder of the campaign’s true aims. Weaving together capsule biographies of five of its founders, it offers a history that reflects Wages for Housework’s global scope and radical ambitions.
All four of the anonymous researchers asked to assess its merit were sceptical. But Berger and his colleagues were undeterred. Earlier this year, they published an updated version of their study, offering a deeper dive into the evidence they had gathered from the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. The approach paid off: two of the original reviewers agreed to reassess the science – and one was won over.
“You rarely see that in peer review,” says John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a member of Berger’s team.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a leading influenza scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is among those who are skeptical, pointing to H5N1 infections in Cambodia, which has reported 27 cases since 2023, 12 of which have been fatal. The version of the virus circulating in that country is different from the one that has been infecting cows and poultry in the United States.
Written by Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When Madison native Shawn Wiederhoeft received a kidney transplant in 2020, he did not expect to be at the forefront of a major medical breakthrough. But thanks to a clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, he is now five years post-transplant and living without the need for anti-rejection medications.
Wisconsin’s new workload requirement for the Universities of Wisconsin, intended to get faculty teaching more, is a misguided one-size-fits-all approach that, in practice, will cause a host of problems, faculty representatives argue.
Snapshot Wisconsin, a community-based program utilizing cameras to monitor wildlife, was created a decade ago to involve community members in monitoring wildlife throughout Wisconsin. It was initially supported by a NASA community science grant received by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013.
She approached Tim with the idea and he encouraged her to do more research. So she enrolled in an ice-cream making course at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at the University of Wisconsin Madison and took a course from the University of Florida in Gainesville on how to run a successful ice cream business.
Before he became president, Usinger IV was studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has given back there over the years, helping build a Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery Building, which just opened in 2020.
Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says this analysis shows why so many researchers “feel completely burnt out by the time they get to tenure”. A focus on metrics, such as number of publications or citation count, doesn’t emphasize quality, innovation or longer projects, she adds. “There’s a great deal of pressure on junior academics to do as much research as possible, to prove you deserve to keep that job.”
Coldplay performed their first-ever Madison concert on Saturday with a sold-out show at Camp Randall Stadium.
The concert was one of the first Camp Randall has seen since The Rolling Stones in 1997 and was the band’s first performance in Wisconsin since 2009.
One month ago, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile released their survey telescope’s first images of vibrant new galaxies, asteroids and other astronomical phenomena. UW-Madison associate professor Keith Bechtol, lead scientist of the observatory’s systems engineering team, said the images, first released on June 22, create the most extensive map of the universe to date, kickstarting new scientific discoveries in the field of cosmic observation.
There are few guardrails limiting how far oversight boards can change public institutions, said Isabel McMullen, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin who researches higher education.
“For a board that really does want to wreak havoc on an institution and overthrow a bunch of different programs, I think if a board is interested in doing that, I don’t really see what’s stopping them aside from students and faculty really organizing against it,” McMullen said.
Two Madison Area Technical College students had just left the Kollege Klub bar near the UW-Madison campus early Saturday when one of them thought she recognized Coldplay’s lead singer.
Coldplay’s sold-out Madison show at Camp Randall Stadium Saturday had about 58,000 attendees, according to a UW-Madison official. It was the latest stop in the band’s Music of the Spheres world tour, which began in 2022 and spans 225 nights in 80 cities across 43 countries.
How well you can rise from sitting to standing may predict how long you live. Returning to talk about the sitting-rising test are physical therapists Lori Thein Brody and Jill Thein-Nissenbaum.
Dr. James Ircink, the nonprofit’s current medical director, first became involved through the Foot Care Clinic. As a medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ircink began volunteering at the clinics and remained committed to the organization.
Greg Nemet, a professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, knows this isn’t the first time people have declared the “dawn of the solar age.” People in the 1950s, the 1970s and the early 2000s all declared an imminent solar age, only to see fossil fuels continue to dominate.
Earlier this year it was announced that the Wisconsin basketball legend would be honored for his accomplishments on the hardwood as a member of the 2025 University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame. He’ll be back in Madison for the induction ceremony during the weekend of Sept. 5-6.
And Kaminsky will be inducted as a first-time dad. Kaminsky, along with his wife, Ashley Brewer, announced on Sunday, July 20, the birth of their first child, Francis Stanley Kaminsky IV.
Pete Long, an adjunct professor teaching strategic communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that every aspect of the design, both the graphics and the product, is intentional.
For Kleenex facial tissues, he said limited editions and seasonal graphics are created to help consumers navigate the shelf and ultimately convince them to purchase.
All in all, Coldplay at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison July 19 went off without a hitch — and without a viral moment.
There were only two arrests and no other ejections at the concert, according to Marc Lovicott, the executive director of communication for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department.
Smokers can earn $380 if they are willing to kick cigarettes for four weeks and participate in a University of Wisconsin-Madison study.
The UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is assessing whether nicotine pouches, like Zyn, can replace smoking.
Three weeks after the incident, Kaus is reportedly back at work, according to the local outlet. While she is not yet guarding beachgoers, the college student is reportedly checking for beach badges as she prepares to head back to school at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
“I thought it was very well done,” Freya Mowat, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who did not participate in the study, tells Popular Science’s Lauren Leffer, emphasizing that the team’s statistical approach made the survey-based study more credible.
Luis Hernandez, strategic communications director and associate athletic director for the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said the school has come up with other ways to fund its $198.9 million athletics budget, including new corporate sponsorships, such as adding the Culver’s logo to the Kohl’s Center basketball court.
They’ve also scheduled events like concerts and the chance to play indoor golf at Camp Randall Stadium. The upcoming Morgan Wallen and Coldplay concerts at the stadium are the first to be held there in nearly 28 years, Hernandez said.
UW students don’t pay athletic fees, and the university plans on spending the full $20.5 million on athletes that is allowed, he said.
With Fox and five other two-year UW campuses shuttered in recent years, local educators worry that students in rural parts of the state will miss out on educational opportunities without a campus in their community.
