Graduate students from UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs presented a cost-benefit analysis of consolidation at a Jan. 18 Deer-Grove EMS meeting.
UW students Erwin Chen, David Harms, Ian Korpel, Ruanda McFerren, Zachary Petersen and Mathew L. Rohrbeck presented two consolidation models.
The opening session featured Dr. Kent Weigel, head of the UW-Madison Dairy Science Department, and dairy specialist Dr. Victor Cabrera.
Weigel reported on recent studies that examined the benefits of using genomic (DNA) analysis as a tool to improve dairy herd health and productivity.
The arboretum has joined more than 70 institutions in the venture dedicated to researching monarch butterflies, conserving their habitat and educating people about the charismatic insects.
“This partnership will more closely align M-WERC and our members to the premier research institution in the University of Wisconsin System and represents another significant step in reaching across the Midwest to foster industrial collaboration and realize our goal of more quickly transitioning technology innovation into economic growth and job creation in the energy power and controls sector,” Perlstein said.
The UW-Madison Arboretum began its 50th annual Winter Enrichment series in January. The event began in 1968 when professors from Wildlife Ecology, such as Joseph Hickey, Robert McCabe, and Robert Ellarson (who were graduate students under Professor Aldo Leopold) gave weekly winter presentations to Arboretum naturalists in an old Civilian Conservation Corps barracks.
A 2015 report from the Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin said about 10,000 people leave the state annually, a trend that has been dogging the state since the Great Recession a decade ago. Census data showed the state’s population growth from 2014 to 2015 was 11,900 people, 39th in the nation.
The program establishes a classroom to campus connection, pairing middle school teachers with two UW-Madison students who visit classrooms once a month from October through April. The UW students deliver instruction focused on college and career readiness.
Much work remains to be done, but if plans stay on track, UW-Rock County and UW-Whitewater officially will merge by July 1, UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper said Monday.
The pregnancy rate of Rollin Green Dairy’s Holstein herd jumped from 18 percent to more than 40 percent in just a matter of two years.
“I attended a couple of Paul Fricke’s seminars and that motivated me to fix things,” McNeely said.
Fricke is a professor of reproductive physiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: At the local level, McFarland High School will host a Wednesday, Jan. 31, presentation about the teenage brain led by UW Health psychologist and UW-Madison professor Dr. Jack Nitschke, an expert in psychology and neuroscience who specializes in teen mental health.
Unemployment rates in the badger state may be some of the lowest on record, but the types of jobs being created are generally on the low or high end of the wage scale, resulting in an absence of mid-level jobs, according to according to Dr. Steven Deller, economist with UW-Madison.
Two years ago, employees with University of Wisconsin-Extension and UW-Madison created the Wisconsin Fruit Website (fruit.wisc.edu). Previously there were many fruit-related UW publications online, but they weren’t easy to find. This website brought together publications about growing fruit from UW-Extension as well as a number of other universities with similar climates.
UW-Madison political scientist Barry Burden says Republicans were expected to hold on to the district and spent a lot of money on the special election race, making the outcome a surprise for many. Burden says low turnout from Republicans may be partly to blame for the loss, although he also sees national influences at play.
The Kenneth G. Weckel Scholarship is named for a University of Wisconsin food science professor who contributed greatly to the advancement of vegetable and fruit processing through his research and teaching.
Lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday on a proposal to create the first state-funded merit scholarships for Wisconsin high schoolers who attend University of Wisconsin System schools.
According to Wisconsinites, Madison has two of them and they’re both UW-Madison lecture halls.
Advocates say it’s needed to end livestock killing by the state’s healthy wolf population. But it’s the wrong approach, says UW Madison zoologist, Patricia McConnell.
Quoted: Brian Gould, an associate professor of agricultural and applied economics at UW-Madison.
“Mexico has been actively exploring trading relationships with some of our competing countries for their dairy imports and there’s a potential that we could lose those markets,” Gould said. “Even if we don’t lose NAFTA, we may lose those markets anyway.”
Just four days after he was brought in, Sarge was up and walking again and he has a referral to UW-Madison.
“He’ll be seeing a neurologist and an orthopod while he’s down there,” said Northwoods Animal Shelter Manager Sarah Erickson. “It’ll be the best possible place to get some care for him.”
Rasmussen will help make this Spring’s “Bucky on Parade” free public outdoor art event a success. “It’s a tourism draw for people,” said Rasmussen.
The parade will consist of 100 giant Buckys hitting the streets of Madison and Dane County this spring all decorated by Wisconsin artists.
The top three priorities on which the future University of Wisconsin-Extension communities educator in Jefferson County should focus were identified during a visioning session Thursday.
Jerry Clark, agriculture agent-department head for the Chippewa County UW-Extension office, said two major factors are related to this decline. One is that the industry is seeing a generational shift, he said, with the average age of a farmer climbing.
Peterson, who served as the Eau Claire County UW-Extension ag agent from 1987 until 2013, died Sunday. The Eau Claire resident was 71.
Karl Green, an assistant professor with the UW Extension service, studied assessments and found that the further the assessment ratio gets from 100 percent, the greater the variance among homes. So some homes might be assessed at 90 percent of their market rate while others at just 60 percent.
Rebecca Blank, acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2012 to 2013, became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in July 2013. That same year, the University of California system presidency was awarded to Janet Napolitano, a former Arizona governor who at the time was secretary of homeland security.
Loretta Ortiz-Ribbing, Dodge and Fond du lac County’s UW-Extension soils and crops agent, says “Research dollars are important for developing better ways to do things but there also has to be an education arm that allows Extension agents to deliver it to the farmers.”
Cambridge artist Kathryn Schnabel, owner of Windy Garden Studio at Galleria 214 in downtown Cambridge, has been selected to embellish a life-size fiberglass statue of the UW-Madison mascot as part of a Dane County-wide public art project, “Bucky on Parade.”
Although the result is most relevant to large, undisturbed habitat like Voyageurs, “the model can be used for other raptors, in other places, regardless of the level of disturbance,” says Zuckerberg. “Long-term monitoring data is really hard to fund, but it’s critical for conservation. This is a perfect example of the benefits of collecting data in a standardized way over a long period of time.”
While the number of international students enrolled at UWL has decreased over the past six years, the total number has actually increased throughout the entire UW System.
Wisconsin researchers issued a paper Wednesday that questions whether governments should kill wolves that are attacking livestock. Scientists at the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies looked at 230 verified wolf attacks on livestock in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from 1998 through 2014.
The project is led by Department of Natural Resources staff in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Extension.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host college dairy students at the Midwest Dairy Challenge next month in Madison. The event, which will be held February 7-9, is a prominent educational competition for students planning a career in the dairy industry. Over 100 dairy students from 12 four-year colleges and six technical schools are expected to participate.
Since its creation dozens of students have gone through the program, and all of them have selected residencies in urban areas. Milwaukee currently has up to 50 TRIUMPH students a year practicing medicine within its underserved communities.
It celebrates the 96th birthday of Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-American biochemist whose passion for science started under a tree in the small village of Raipur, India, and grew into Nobel Prize-winning research on nucleotides and genes while at UW-Madison.
Agriculture agent Mark Hagedorn with UW-Extension in Eau Claire says since it’s not as profitable for dairy farms to operate on a small scale so the likelihood is they’ll continue to decline.
“We’ve got 8,839 dairies in the state versus a year ago we had 9,520. So you’re losing a herd or two a day on average,” Hagedorn explained.
Steven Deller is a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Deller says it’s difficult for small-scale dairy farms to be profitable, so the number of commercial farms will probably continue to decrease.
Parkside draws much of its student population from regional school districts, Ducoffe said. The number of people graduating from high schools in Wisconsin has been relatively flat since at least 2012, according to the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison. The trend is projected to continue.
“It’s difficult for small-scale dairy farms to be profitable, so the number of commercial farms will probably continue to decrease,” Deller said. “Farms that aren’t profitable don’t contribute to the local economy,” he said.
We shouldn’t need a professional to tell us to be civil, but Dominique Brossard is here for us. She chairs the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and studies the effect of rudeness on discourse. Unsurprisingly, it isn’t good; rudeness can increase polarization and entrench disagreements even further.
The bit of extra downtime that winter brings provides an opportunity to focus on family, community and for the New Year’s resolution-makers, on healthy living and eating.
A big part of our nation’s food system rests on these aging shoulders, but young farmers are out there, some waiting to take over the family farm business and others working (or struggling) to gain a foothold in the industry.
While Grimm’s work has been displayed and recognized internationally, she continues to teach ceramics at UW-Madison and is represented locally by Tory Folliard Gallery in the Third Ward.
Quoted: “I think it’s a promising move. It makes a lot of sense in light of problems both with children being confined at Lincoln Hills,” said Cecilia Klingele, a UW-Madison associate law professor.
David Egan-Robertson, a demographer with UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory, attributes the increase to fewer people leaving the state.
He said the census estimates Wisconsin lost about 2,000 people to domestic migration. The state has seen more people leaving than moving in since the Great Recession began in 2007.
The openings for both jobs are expected to be posted within days, and with luck and strong candidates, Hoffman said, the hope is to have someone in place for each position by April.
State judicial races are officially nonpartisan. Still, the primary is likely to center on Burns and Dallet courting Democratic and liberal voters, said Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison political science and law professor who studies the courts.
Providing farmers with unbiased performance comparisons of hybrid seed corn for both grain and silage available in Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences recently released the 2017 hybrid performance trials.
Quoted: “Risk of heart disease, heart attack or stroke goes down after six to 12 months after quitting smoking, we see the blood vessels relax as quickly as two weeks after quitting smoking, risk of lung disease, which there’s a whole range of lung disease that smoking effects improves within two to four weeks as well,” UW cardiologist Dr. James Stein said.
Noted: The state’s justice department on Dec. 13 announced a program providing expanded access and affordability on University of Wisconsin-System campuses for Narcan, the antidote used in overdoses.
For the next few months, University of Wisconsin professor Simon Gilroy will have an extension of his lab that is sky high. Well, actually, it will be more than sky high; it will be 254 miles above the surface of the earth and travelling at a rate of 4.76 miles per second. And his research assistants will be the crew of the International Space Station.
UW-Madison epidemiologist Dr. Agustina Marconi said “our findings and the standards we create will benefit other universities moving forward.”
In a tweet, Jo Handelsman, a molecular biologist and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, called Barres “a great scientist, leader, mentor, and friend.”“His impact on our understanding of glia was rivaled by his impact on diversity in science,” she wrote. “Ben … you leave a towering legacy of goodness.”
Just as many universities believed that the financial wreckage left by the 2008 recession was behind them, campuses across the country have been forced to make new rounds of cuts, this time brought on, in large part, by a loss of international students.
The experiment was installed on the space station Wednesday by astronaut Scott Tingle. Botanists Simon Gilroy, Sarah Swanson and Richard Barker watched a live stream from space, and held their breath as Tingle placed petri dishes in a growth chamber under LED lights.
The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is sponsoring the initiative with support from UW-Madison, UW-Extension and the Department of Natural Resources.
A team of botanists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has sent seeds to the International Space Station to learn more about how plants grow in space. The seeds were delivered to the space station by a SpaceX Dragon capsule launched by a reused Falcon rocket Friday.
According to Bob Cropp, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension and Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin, both the EU and New Zealand are having stronger milk production years.
These two will compete with the U.S. for dairy export markets.
Barraza completed his PhD in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison after arguing his thesis in November of 1967. By that time, he had already taken a job working as an economist in his home country of Mexico.
Life on Earth is, at the very least, about 3.5 billion years old. That’s what researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have determined through analysis of microscopic fossils found in a rock in Western Australia.
