We’re almost five weeks away from the official merging of UW-System schools and local universities say they’re right on track for the July 1st deadline. But there were a few challenges facing the UW-Eau Claire and UW-Barron County transformation.
The banquet’s guest speaker, Bill Ferrario, was raised in Pennsylvania, earned a scholarship to play football at UW-Madison and played on the offensive line and special teams with the Green Bay Packers.
This event, which has been held annually since the 1990s, educates approximately 275 sixth-graders from public and parochial schools across the county. It is designed to teach the students about monitoring the fish population, wildlife habitats, benefits of trees, soil management, agricultural environmental regulations, wind energy and plastics recycling technology.
Penny S. Pritzker ’81, former U.S. secretary of Commerce and past Harvard Overseer, and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin, president of Amherst College and former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become the newest members of the Harvard Corporation in July.
A common assumption held by many was bats eat a ton of mosquitoes. The assumption has now been proven by UW-Madison researchers.
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumnus Sergio Fajardo is running for president of the South American country of Colombia. According to a release, Fajardo studied probability theory, earning a master’s degree in mathematics in 1981 and a Ph.D. in mathematics with a minor in economics in 1984.
RE: FRESH Radler, which began as class projects within the University of Wisconsin – Madison, is now in commercial production and available in stores. RE: FRESH is a blend of real grapefruit soda and a classic lager beer.
UW-Extension has a planting guide to help you figure out when to plant in the Madison area, based on the vegetable. However, if you live in a different region, those dates may be different.
This collaborative effort includes researchers here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Researchers at Iowa State University, including Dr. Daren Mueller.
“The Bachelor,” the ABC television dating franchise, seems to be in a love affair with contestants who have Wisconsin ties.
At the Wisconsin Technology Council, several of the corporate members have ties to UW-Madison, either in their initial formation, or over time as research partners. Many were apples that fell close to the tree. About 300 companies have spun off the UW-Madison campus and most have planted roots within a 30-mile radius.
Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat.
A lakes researcher says some impacts from a changing climate are already showing up in Northwoods fisheries.
However, injuries are all too common in high-intensity interval training environments. This is why engineers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison) recently designed a wearable that can directly identify muscle strain to help mitigate recurring injuries.
There’s still time to have a decent start to the growing season, said Mike Ballweg, a University of Wisconsin Extension agent in Sheboygan County. “But if it’s too wet, too muddy, there’s nothing you can do but wait,” he said.
Improved water infiltration is another benefit that doesn’t find its way into a crop budget but can have a major impact on crop yield. Research at Arlington Research Station showed that cover crops significantly increased water infiltration in a corn silage rotation with a rye cover crop.
Yeung, a UW-Madison chemical engineering graduate who coordinates Foxconn’s efforts in Wisconsin, said the company will work with higher education and others on a “Smart Cities, Smart Future” initiative – basically an “ideas competition” to engage students and faculty statewide.
The award, which is to be presented annually to a faculty or staff member, acknowledges CALS graduate Hemstead’s pioneering work in dairy science and dairy business, according to a joint statement.
The spirit of open trade with foreign markets reflected in recent trade policies has a direct impact on the Wisconsin economy. A 2010 study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics found that foreign exports generated about 115,000 jobs in Wisconsin, and about $10.5 billion in total income to Wisconsin households.
More recently there was the disclosure that UWS had hired a for-profit company to help boost online enrollment for some graduate education programs, an increasingly common but controversial partnership in the world of higher education.
UW-Madison introduced its class of 2018 Saturday during the spring commencement ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium.More than 6,500 received their degree during the spring commencement, crossing over from life as a student to begin the next phase of their journey.
UW-Madison students are all Badgers, class of 2018 president Ariela Rivkin told fellow graduates at Saturday’s commencement, but Badgers also bring their own individual identities to celebrate.
ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir will be giving the Commencement address to UW-Madison graduates Saturday.He spoke only with 27 News ahead of the ceremony.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students are working to add more diversity in post-undergraduate education.Black students are underrepresented in graduate school, according to a release from UW-Madison, and Anthony Wright and Brian Allen are trying to change that.
Nearly 42,000 people — which includes over 6,500 college graduates, were in attendance at Camp Randall Stadium for UW-Madison’s graduation ceremony Saturday morning.Chancellor Rebecca Blank and David Muir gave their speeches for the 165th spring commencement before the crowd on campus.
When Angeline Mboutngam first attended Madison Area Technical College in fall 2012, she was enrolled in a math class that covered basic concepts such as 1 + 1 = 2. She went on to conquer calculus.On Thursday afternoon, Mboutngam settled into a desk on the third floor of UW-Madison’s College Library to study for the last exam of her undergraduate career — organic chemistry.At 45, Mboutngam, who received no formal education growing up in the Central African nation of Cameroon, will walk across the stage Saturday at Camp Randall to receive her bachelor’s degree from one of the top-ranked public universities in the United States.
Patton, a senior outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin?Madison & Extension Nutrient and Pest Management Program, discussed the importance of promoting soil health in improving farm sustainability and water quality in the region, as well as the relevant agronomic practices farmers can use to improve the biological, chemical and physical properties key to a healthy soil.
A 14-page report produced by the committee presents a set of recommendations, a history of the issues at UWSP and a summary of the criticisms levied against administrators and their proposal to cut 13 humanities and social science majors and expand degrees in 16 more-technical fields.
Protestors gathered to demand that administrators and elected officials start making decisions that strengthen the UW system.
The Wisconsin Association of County Agricultural Agents (WACAA) recently recognized several members during their annual banquet in Wisconsin Dells.
Research shows the loss of young adults raises the cost of schools, public services, and recreation for individuals. The Applied Population Lab at the UW-Madison projected that 15 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties will have smaller populations in 2040 than they did in 2010.
heltering under tents and umbrellas, about 50 people called for legislators to better fund the University of Wisconsin System. This is one in a series of protests focused on funding cuts and tuition freezes at UW campuses across the state within the last several months.
Budget struggles at universities such as UW-Stevens Point have sparked worry in Smith and others across the state. UW-Stevens Point announced a proposal in early March that would eliminate 13 liberal arts majors. That institution is facing declining enrollment and a multimillion-dollar budget deficit, according to a 2017 state of the university address.
But in all her years of drawing, the Prairie River Middle School teacher has never had an art project this big.
On Monday the Madison Area Sports Commission unveiled Bucky on Parade, starring 85 6-foot-tall Bucky Badger statues on display throughout downtown Madison, the University of Wisconsin campus and beyond. They represent the work of 64 Madison area and regional artists including award-winning Milton artist Larry Schultz.
Two UW-Madison biomedical researchers have been awarded the prestigious Hartwell Foundation Award to help in their research advancing children’s health.
Two men were arrested and another cited Tuesday after a fight outside Sellery Hall early Friday morning left a UW-Madison student with a broken wrist and a concussion, the UW-Madison Police Department said.
A trial opened Tuesday for a homeless man accused of manslaughter in the 2016 drowning of a 19-year-old UW-Madison student whose body was found in the Tiber River soon after he arrived in Rome for a summer study program.
John Klatt, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs for UW-Madison, says most students in the Dairy Science program have an accepted job offer before graduation, or shortly thereafter.
A Madison area non-profit will now run on solar energy, thanks to the work of UW-Madison students.
On Sunday, Funk released the Arboretum Osage Orange beer. Stevens and Funk both wants the partnership to continue to showcase popular and unlikely fruits you can find in the Arboretum.
From curator to curated, Russell Panczenko follows his retirement last September as museum director of the Chazen Museum of Art with an exhibit of his own photography.
UW Health Senior Psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain reminds you why its important to get outside.
While speaking at the Extension Service’s semi-annual farm management update, Gould described the legislation which was passed on February 9 as “a gift” for dairy farmers, particularly for those with a history of annual milk production of up to 5 million pounds (the approximate equivalent of 200 cows with an annual milk production average of 22,000 pounds).
The Wisconsin Union Council has announced that the names of Porter Butts and Frederic March, both members of Ku Klux Klan-affiliated groups in the 1920s, will be covered up for the fall semester at least through December of 2018.
Photojournalist Jeremy Nichols shows you dozens of these statues, some familiar faces, and the stories behind some of them.
One thing is certain: Of the four men suspected of planting a bomb in the Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall on the UW-Madison campus in August 1970 — the resulting blast killed a young researcher — Burt is the only one who was never captured.
Osiecki is a muskie fisherman with many trophy fish. This year he is holding the 1st Annual Mark Osiecki’s Casting for Kids Musky Tournament. All the funds raised will go to benefit the Carbone Cancer Center and the UW Health and American Family Children’s Hospital.
It’s graduation season, and UW-Madison alums Anthony Wright and Brian Allen are promoting #BlackandHooded to black recipients of advanced degrees, inviting them to share photos celebrating their accomplishments.
Students and faculty from across the University of Wisconsin System plan to rally Wednesday in Madison to demand more funding for UW schools.
Linda Scott, Dean of the School of Nursing at UW–Madison, has studied this issue for decades and has a newly published paper on sleep deprivation and fatigue among American nurses and how to turn the problem around.
A student’s video shows a gang of people kicking and punching a single victim on the ground outside a UW-Madison dormitory.
If you follow the various paths of University of Wisconsin First Wave Program graduates — as teachers, social workers, attorneys and all forms of artists — these hundreds of students have made a difference in Madison, the state, and across the country.
The only claim that Circuit Judge Frank Remington left standing is one that Buckeridge has made against UW Health, an allegation that it failed to maintain the confidentiality of his medical records and failed to properly supervise Lucey.
Bucky on Parade, which officially launches with unveiling of the statues on Monday morning, is scheduled to run through Sept. 12.
Gordon Giampietro is qualified. He deserves a hearing and a vote by the Senate to determine whether he ought to be confirmed.
Quoted: “There are several of my colleagues at other universities across the country that are wanting to develop these programs, but this is the first,” says Dr. Ellen Hartenbach, UW Health OB/GYN Residency Program Director. “This is the model program.”
The governing body for UW-Madison’s Memorial Union announced it will cover the signs for two spaces named after alumni with affiliations to the Ku Klux Klan, but a final decision won’t be made until December.
The controversy over the planned elimination of 13 humanities majors at UW-Stevens Point has become a “communication nightmare,” Regent Regina Millner said Thursday in Madison.
UW-Madison’s housing division has made several changes to its financial practices after an external review prompted by an alleged theft by a former employee flagged more than a dozen issues needing attention.
