When Charles W. Sorensen retired in August 2014, he said he couldn’t think of any other career that could have been more satisfying than serving as University of Wisconsin-Stout’s chancellor for 26 years.
We need to make innovation a priority. The scientist’s job is to winnow and sift, without any trepidation, revealing scientific truths and teasing the secrets out of nature.
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Extension points toward ways Wisconsinites can help their local farmers markets.
Farmers, the scientists said, are key actors in adapting to climate change or mitigating its effects. They manage 61 percent of the nation’s land. They are vulnerable to droughts, cold, heat and hail.
Kohler Co. provided $1 million in funding to create the Kohler Innovation Visualization Studio in Wendt Commons at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering. Leaders from the company and college dedicated the space on Thursday.
In 2017, federal lawmakers did not renew the popular “tuition and fees” federal income tax deduction. But halfway through tax season, it’s back on the books, and if you’re paying for someone’s college expenses, you won’t want to miss out.
Cross says Wisconsin has to be the state everyone continues to come to for answers or solutions for agriculture, and particularly the dairy industry.
Known as Research in the Rotunda, the annual event invites exceptional student researchers from across the University of Wisconsin System to the Capitol, where they share their research on a wide range of topics with legislators, state leaders, UW alumni and other supporters.
The pay raises for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus marks the first time since 2015 that employees there have gotten across-the-board raises.
He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a crew chief on a C47 transporting equipment and personnel throughout Western Europe. Joseph worked as a Steamfitter for over 30 years on the UW-Madison campus.
Mullins, who earned his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1980, was one of the founders of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s construction and public-contract law section. He also dedicated himself to teaching. In 1980, Mullins started teaching a course called Legal Aspects of Engineering, which is offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he had received a degree in civil and environmental engineering in 1977.
The University of Wisconsin Center for Agricultural Safety and Health is awarding over $19,000 in grant money to help sponsor farm safety and health education, training or informational programs.
One expert on the cutting edge of coyote research is Dr. David Drake with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Urban Canid Project. UWUCP is shedding a light on many aspects of coyote behavior, and those findings, in turn, are illuminating how to create smarter coexistence strategies between humans and wild coyotes.
Doctor Ryan Herringa is a UW Health Psychiatrist who studies how trauma affects children and their families. He has advice for parents on how people can heal from tragic events.
A new task force has been created to reintroduce the idea of a creative economy to the larger community. Through a partnership with the UW-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration, village officials are hosting town hall meetings and focus groups to create a new entity that will carry on the village’s efforts.
Kaminsky, who is in his third season with the Charlotte Hornets, stopped through Madison during the NBA All-Star Break to take part in the celebration.
Chickadees captured her heart when she was a field technician working for the UW-Madison Zuckerberg lab in well-below-freezing weather.
“I’d be sitting out in a wood lot at 8 degrees, waiting for birds to come by so I could catch and band them for tracking.”
Many of the panelists — including Mitman, who credited Wisconsin for his ability to undertake interdisciplinary — highlighted the Wisconsin Idea as one of the main reasons Wisconsin is a great place to foster planetary change.
UW-Madison’s Black Cultural Center also held a private viewing at the same cinema as part of its Black History Month celebrations. Program coordinator Karla Foster said “Black Panther” fit this year’s theme of “Reclaiming Blackness” because it lets black characters shine in roles of power.
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management hosted a lecture Thursday on sustainability-focused business and conservation.
First-generation, low-income students like myself are some of the most resourceful and diligent students I know, traits born out of necessity in order to keep up with everyone else. We cannot afford, literally or figuratively, to let any opportunities pass us by.
While UW-Madison student finance committee representatives deliberate over a recommendation to offer new types of free emergency contraceptives to survivors of sexual assault, other Big Ten universities are varied in their policies concerning the matter.
Kassem Fawaz, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, partnered with colleagues from the University of Michigan and the Ècole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland to create the program.
The vote of no-confidence comes only two weeks after an email correspondence where Cross criticized shared governance was made public, which has frustrated many UW System faculty members and students.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook is set to begin his first of seven trials on Feb. 26 in Jefferson County. Cook faces a total of 21 charges, six of which will be covered in the first trial.
For more than 25 years she was the consumer horticulture agent for the University of Wisconsin-Extension Milwaukee County, where she headed the Master Gardener volunteers program in Milwaukee and Waukesha.
U.S. News and World Report has stripped UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital of its No. 23 ranking in pediatric urology last year after the hospital acknowledged treating fewer patients than it reported.
During the 56th annual UW-Extension Cow College’s second session, Dr. John Goeser and Dr. Randy Shaver, from the UW-Madison Dairy Science Department, reviewed lab results from 2017 forage and grain, and offered strategies to help producers get the most milk from their feed.
Additionally, the city’s engineering division and UW-Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory will coordinate with Metro Transit to install units on buses that run the route several times a day.
Dorothy Farrar Edwards, a UW-Madison kinesiology professor who leads PROFS, a UW-Madison faculty organization, submitted written remarks to the committee calling the 4 percent increase a “much-needed boost” for UW-Madison employees but warned peer universities still pay professors and other university workers considerably more.
Nothing will make you feel like hopelessly out-of-touch fuddy-duddy like perusing the UW-Madison Memes for Milk-Chugging Teens group on Facebook.
The Wisconsin Assembly has unanimously approved a bill that would provide free tuition for some foster children at University of Wisconsin System schools and Wisconsin technical colleges.
Beginning this fall, incoming freshmen and transfer students from Wisconsin households with adjusted gross incomes of $56,000 or less will receive free tuition and segregated fees. For freshmen, that is a commitment of eight consecutive semesters tuition free, and for transfer students it’s up to four semesters free.
Erin Davisson is one of the signature faces of Local 5, but what you might not know is that her life was saved thanks to an organ donor. A very special thank you goes to UW Health for sharing this feature story with Local 5.
The program started on Dec. 17 and Kuhn says it has already helped a handful of individuals in both locations.
Aurora Health Care stated in the press release that the program was made possible by a grant from the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery (WIVFR) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies. The grant is for two years.
The gap in well-being between black and white children in Wisconsin is the largest of any state, according to one recent report. Another recent study from a UW-Madison think tank found racial disparities in Wisconsin extend to areas including poverty, unemployment, education and incarceration.
For UW-Eau Claire’s Chancellor, James Schmidt, restructuring and the conversations around it isn’t new, having experienced it multiple times in higher education in Minnesota.
The program is funded through a grant from the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies, which focuses on helping communities in the battle against opioid abuse across the state.
The University of Wisconsin system plans to review its sexual assault and harassment policy.
Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn is interested in UW-Madison research that includes artificial intelligence and automated vehicles, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday.
Quoted: “Many low-and middle-income families in Wisconsin are simply uncertain whether they can afford to send their child to UW-Madison,” said UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank “Our goal is to ensure that anyone who is admitted can afford to be a Badger.”
New in-state University of Wisconsin-Madison students will get free tuition if they come from families making $56,000 or less. Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced the initiative, dubbed “Bucky’s Tuition Promise,” at a UW System regents meeting Thursday.
UW Regents will meet Thursday and Friday at UW-Madison. Their agenda includes an update on the merger, which is making the two-year UW Colleges into branch campuses of nearby four-year universities, starting in the 2018 school year.
Cramer was the keynote speaker at the Jan. 25 Ag Outlook Forum in Madison where she talked candidly about her research and conclusions.
John Gaska, Senior Research Agronomist with the ‘Cool Bean’ project at UW-Madison, spoke about the benefits of including a small grain cover crop in your corn and bean rotation. Most of Gaska’s research has been conducted on winter wheat and oat cover crops, with some focus on barley and triticale as well.
UW Health is bringing social workers, pharmacists and doctors together in a new clinic for lupus, an autoimmune disease that often strikes women at childbearing age.
The audit says the UW System finds it failed to develop a “comprehensive IT security program” as recommended in prior audits — and as required by the policy of its Board of Regents.
Ted Halbach, UW-Madison faculty associate in dairy management quoted: “No other university has the number of progressive dairy operations located within a 30-mile radius of campus that we do, and there is a concentration of industry professionals who deliver them their services.”
The next speaker at the monthly “Science on Tap” program in Minocqua has Northwoods ties and will discuss Wisconsin’s land ethic. Dr. Tim Van Deelen is a professor in the department of forest and wildlife ecology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “There is a huge distrust within the political sphere and it would be surprising if it did not extend to formal institutions like schools,” said Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education and co-author of the 2015 book “The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education.”
What the dairy industry has been going through the past few years is more than an ordinary, cyclical price trough, according to Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison. It’s really more like a “long scrape,” with milk prices staying persistently low for an extended period, he says.
Research efforts at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center received a $352,000 boost this weekend when The Ride announced the winners of 14 scholarships during the Badger hockey game Saturday night.
The good news is that the multi-year decline in farm income nationally and in Wisconsin seems to have stabilized, summarized Paul Mitchell, Professor Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, at the UW-Madison, leadoff speaker at the 2018 Ag Outlook Forum.
Tax breaks only go so far. The next step is reversing cuts to the state university system.
As a dozen “students” of all ages buzz around a pilot plant at Babcock Hall on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, drips of vanilla or chocolate ice cream ooze from five batch freezers.
A bipartisan group of Wisconsin legislators has proposed waiving tuition and fees for foster children attending University of Wisconsin schools and state technical colleges, saying the children lack a permanent family when they age out of the foster system and need help to succeed.
Newly released records show nearly a dozen sexual misconduct complaints in recent years have led to the firing or resignation of employees within the University of Wisconsin system.
“The fact that I went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison helps my business a lot, especially among dairy farmers,” Ueno says. “For Japanese people, ‘Wisconsin’ creates an image of a dairy state. Many farmers study dairy in Wisconsin as trainees. When I speak with dairy farmers and let them know I went to UW, they immediately think I am a specialist.”
Noted: State general-fund support for UW System down 6.3 percent. State government’s subsidy of the 26-campus UW System was $1.1 billion in fiscal 2011 and $1.03 billion six years later.
