Susan Paskewitz is the chairwoman of the entomology department at UW-Madison and helped develop the app. She says researchers are collecting data on all types of ticks, but they’re especially interested in nymph data.
Farm tours of the Sternweis’ dairy operation will also be held throughout the day, along with Virtual Tours of Weber’s Farm Store, Heiman Holsteins and Nasonville Dairy at the University of Wisconsin-Extension Tent.
The University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County will go by a different name, offer several new degrees and waive application fees following its integration with the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
Illnesses from tick bites in Wisconsin have tripled since 2004, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The Wisconsin Department of Health reports that 2017 saw the highest number of Lyme disease cases in the state to date, indicating that Wisconsin is experiencing a “slow-burn epidemic” of Lyme disease, said UW-Madison entomology professor and department chairwoman Susan Paskewitz.
Bob Cropp, dairy professor emeritus at UW-Madison, said in his June “Dairy Situation and Outlook” that the market has taken a hit lately from the retaliatory effects of the U.S. decision to place tariffs on Mexico steel and aluminum and on a number of Chinese goods and products.
Researchers at UW-Madison have developed a new smartphone app to help them understand where ticks are active and how people expose themselves to ticks. The app is being released as Wisconsin faces an ever-increasing number of Lyme disease cases, sparking heightened concern about tick-transmitted diseases.
But the sheer amount of cheese in storage may be causing problems. Cheese prices have fallen in recent weeks, Fuess said, a response both to the surplus and to growing trade concerns.That fall is problematic, said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, because the price of cheese is a major factor in the equation that USDA uses to set the price that dairy farmers receive for their milk. The current price – $15.36 per 100 pounds – is about a dollar below the average for 2017 and well below the price that many farmers say they need to break even.
Monday’s move was to finalize the restructuring of UW-Barron County into the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire-Barron County.
Three UW-Madison/UW-Extension state specialists will be on hand to share the latest in research that will help ensure the decisions you make help reap a profitable harvest.
Innovative technologies that support Wisconsin’s agriculture will be on display throughout the University of Wisconsin – Extension’s Education Station.
We have observed a little Septoria leaf blotch in some fields in the lower canopy. However, this pathogen will not limit yield this season, as it has not reached the flag leaf yet.
Luke Odell is a PhD student researching tornado dynamics at UW-Madison. He pinpointed Montana days in advance based on detailed analysis, during what was otherwise a quiet weather pattern.
That means UW-Marathon County will soon become a UW-Stevens Point branch campus. Ahead of that, the Marathon County Extension, Education and Economic Development Committee met Tuesday night and decided to support a new name, UW-Stevens Point Wausau.
At least five sexual misconduct complaints against University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh employees alleged an inappropriate use of social media or texting to target students, according to an analysis of public records.
UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank discussed the importance of the CDR in collaborative research and how the grant will help with the CDR’s facility upgrade. And, CDR Director, John Lucey, highlighted the impact of the CDR’s TURBO program and the WEDC’s grant.
Governor Scott Walker today visited the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Great Lake Cheese to award $700,000 state grants to support and promote entrepreneurship within the state’s $43 billion dairy industry.
UW-Extension will feature several interactive displays, such as safe transportation of livestock, and a UW research project designed to help dairy farmers improve management decisions.
To promote safe hearing practices, the audiology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison traveled to the Budweiser Dairyland Super National Truck & Tractor Pull Friday to hand out ear protection and raise awareness of sustained exposure to loud noises.
We have set an important and difficult goal: Create a unified four campus university where all students have access to all programs (associates through graduate degrees) no matter where they enter.
A serial rapist was sentenced to 3 years in prison in Dane County Court. Alec Cook, accused of sexually assaulting 11 women around the UW-Madison campus. He will also be under extended release for five years after serving his jail time.
Supervisor Bob Mott announced the retirement of long time 4-H leader Lynn Feldman, who thanked the board.
“It is an insurance-type product,” said Mark Stephenson, an agricultural economist and director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a June 8, 2018 interview on Wisconsin Public Television’s Here & Now.
As they prepared for the contest, the teammates were also practicing skills they’d soon be using on a professional basis. All four graduated in May and now have jobs that involve troubleshooting dairy operations.
A nearly $7 million marketing campaign has been launched to get alumni from Wisconsin colleges and universities to come back ‘home.’ It’s targeted to young professionals who left to work in other states.
But other pursuits will keep Collins active after her reign. Two days after passing on the torch to the next Miss Wisconsin, she is to begin an internship with Channel 27 WKOW and then resume classes at UW-Madison, where she is studying communications.
A collaboration between the UW–Madison Carbone Cancer Center, UW Health and Foxconn will explore standards of care and cancer treatments that may include an exchange with the National Taiwan University Cancer Center, UW-Madison spokeswoman Meredith McGlone said.
Three Wauwatosa West Trojans are about to become three Wisconsin Badgers who are taking their next big step in life together.
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said the November election will likely draw more voters than Tuesday, but higher turnout doesn’t necessarily mean good news for Republicans.
Mental health advocates hope this bit of viral attention can be harnessed for lasting changes. Dr. Steve Garlow, a psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied suicide, said he hopes the growing awareness can finally build a lasting public health effort like those rallied around other leading causes of death.
The School for Field Studies in South Caicos sustained heavy damage when Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit back in September. Eight months later, two former UW-Madison students are doing their part to rebuild the center they love.
Foxconn Technology Group and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said they created an educational partnership that will enable UWM engineering students to study in Taiwan and work at a Foxconn facility there.
Kelly-Van Domelen entered the crystal growing and the art design contest for the UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition in 2017 and won. She was then asked to be part of a team to develop crystal experiments to grow aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
A new study by NOAA’s James Kossin takes a look at one portion of it—whether hurricanes are moving more slowly than they did in the past. (Does not mention UW–Madison but links to his SSEC page.)
Aerica Bjurstrom, University of Wisconsin-Extension agriculture agent in Kewaunee County, said there’s interest in compost bedding for cow comfort and agronomic reasons.
The geography professor at UW-Eau Claire is one of the editors of the recently released “Atlas of the 2016 Elections”, but, the recent case of realigning Wisconsin’s legislative districts has made him analyze how the state aligns its votes.
The company also holds vacant land outside its manufacturing campus, and has talked about research and development partnerships with UW-Madison.
Addie Lathers plans to wring every last molecule of knowledge out of her professors at UW-Madison.
“A lot of times when you hear that term task force, it’s really, it’s a group coming together identifying those problems and developing solutions,” Kaitlyn Lance, Agriculture Educator at UW-Extension La Crosse County, explains.
The refrigerator was warm inside yet was still being used to store vaccines, which were likely useless. He was told there was no electricity to power the refrigerator because there was no kerosene to fuel its generator.
That’s the kind of problem NovoMoto, founded by two UW-Madison doctoral students, hopes to solve through its pay-as-you-go approach to providing solar power to people, schools and communities in places such as sub-Saharan Africa.
The UW Madison Obesity Prevention Initiative developed Wisconsin’s first obesity map broken down by zip code rather than by county.
Walker has appointed UW-Madison Director of Dairy Policy Analysis Mark Stephenson to chair the committee. His first task will be to assemble the rest of the team. Walker says that will include stakeholders in the dairy industry from across the state.
NBA player and former UW-Madison Badgers star Sam Dekker, a Sheboygan native, and ESPN reporter Olivia Harlan are getting married July 14th in Door County, but the couple doesn’t want a table full of wedding gifts. Instead, they’re asking their guests and fans to take the money they would’ve spent on presents and donate it to the Children’s Cancer Family Foundation which a cause that’s near and dear to their hearts.
Titletown Brewing Company and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are teaming up for “UW-Madison Presents: The Rise of the Craft Brewery” this Thursday at the Titletown Brewing Company taproom.
“I think we’re in a good situation today because of what was done (by the first task force) back then. I sort of hope we can be half that good,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison, who will lead the new group of experts dubbed by Gov. Scott Walker as Wisconsin Dairy Task Force 2.0.
Past estimates have put the state’s obesity level at nearly 31 percent, but a new study associated with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health puts obesity 10 percentage points higher. And researchers have zeroed in on what parts of the state are the heaviest.
The task force will be chaired by Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said he wants to listen to those in the dairy industry to better understand and prioritize the biggest concerns.
The Task Force will be chaired by Mark Stephenson, who is the director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison. It will seek to gain consensus on issues facing the dairy industry and release recommendations for the industry going forward.
UW-Madison research reveals how optimum plant populations for corn silage differ from those of corn grown for grain. In recent years farmers have increased corn-plant populations at the rate of 250 to 300 plants per acre per year, Lauer said.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Stevens Point Journal, and Oshkosh Northwestern have been delving into cases of UW employees moving from campus to campus — with their misconduct undisclosed — and documents about allegations and investigations missing from personnel files.
Bassam Shakhashiri, who pushed for chemistry graduate education reform as ACS president, hopes every chemist will read this important report. Its findings echo many of the recommendations an ACS committee made in 2012. Shakhashiri adds, “This really is about the future of the university.”
Mone is leading a partnership of nearly two-dozen colleges, universities and tech colleges in southeast Wisconsin in an unprecedented effort to respond to the Foxconn project — as well as the workforce challenges facing other Wisconsin employers. He and others agreed those challenges are forcing a lot of businesses and institutions to raise their game.
Along the way, the yeast is forging partnerships between the UW–Madison Departments of Genetics and Food Science, the Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona, and Clasen’s European Bakery in Middleton.
The University of Wisconsin System will consider tightening its hiring processes and reference checks, after a news report that a UW-Stevens Point administrator resigned while under investigation for sexual harassment and landed the same job at UW-Eau Claire.
At UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural & Life Sciences (CALS), the department as a whole has seen an increase in enrolled female students, from 57.2 percent in 2008 to 61.6 percent in 2017.
The Wisconsin Historical Society Press’ book Somos Latinas (“We Latinas”): Voices of Wisconsin Latina Activists first began as part of a UW-Madison course in an effort to engage students in documenting the lives of Latina women in Wisconsin.
Keynote speaker at this year’s Twilight meeting is Dr. Jennifer Van Os, UW-Madison Extension specialist on animal welfare, who will talk about “Why millennials care about animal production practices and what it means to you.”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher is examining ways to improve athletes’ reporting of brain injuries — a key to preventing long-term neurological damage.
In a paper published in the journal PLOS One, University of Wisconsin-Madison soil sciences professor Joel Pedersen and collaborators determined that soil and water can serve as reservoirs for the deadly prions.
Just in time for summer, dairy producers are slowly starting to reap the benefits of good domestic sales and stronger exports. That’s the assessment of Dr. Bob Cropp with the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center , finds his students and fellow academics puzzled when he uses the hard G in speeches and lectures. “Sometimes a person will ask, ‘What word did you just say? What is that word?’” Mr. Burden said.
