A UW-Extension educator says an alternative for quality, mid-range housing could be come popular in the Northwoods where that type of housing isn’t in large supply.
Oneida County Extension’s Myles Alexander describes a growing trend called a Community Land Trust.
According to UW-Madison’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, around 11:50 p.m. Monday a bright meteor was observed in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
Rising highway costs are making the expense of delivering hay more of a consideration, which is resulting in very regionalized hay prices, according to Dan Undersander, a member of the University of Wisconsin Madison forage team.
Quoted: “The targeted user could be a decision-maker who has no programming experience,” says Jignesh Patel, one of DataChat’s co-founders and a computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Oneida County UW-Extension Family Living educator Sara Richie says the best way to approach the spending season is to set aside money at other times to use at this time. But she says that isn’t always possible…
Derek Kindle, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid at UW-Madison, said, “We know that having better informed students, makes for more responsible borrowers.
With biomedical scientists having a difficult time getting tenure-track positions at U.S. universities, UW-Madison is joining with nine other institutions to share data on career prospects for their life scientists.
Somersan, who had an exemplary career with UW-Extension and UW-Madison as a teacher, applied researcher, extension educator and university administrator, was a mentor to many.
Ten institutions on Thursday announced their commitment to providing life sciences Ph.D. students — current and future ones — transparent data on admissions, training opportunities and career outcomes. Most students aren’t going to end up in faculty jobs, and the founding members of the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science want potential trainees to know that up front.
In partnership with the Waisman Center at UW-Madison, he’s showcasing his line of greeting and holiday cards, and they are on sale this holiday season.
Quoted: “The people who provide it can charge what they want, they can treat various services differently if they want to,” said Barry Orton, a professor emeritus at UW-Madison. He’s an expert on telecommunications policy and internet utilization.
Since 2010, Cook has directed the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Dairyland Initiative, which focuses on providing dairy producers the information they need to build better housing using sound scientific principles that Cook and his vet school colleague Kenneth Nordlund developed.
In Wisconsin, pollinator-dependent crops account for over $55 million in annual production, but at the same time Wisconsin has been at risk for honey bee colony loss.
“Each of the 2017 Wisconsin 4-H Hall of Fame laureates has transformed the lives of children and families with whom they’ve worked and the communities in which they’ve lived,” says John de Montmollin, interim co-program director of Wisconsin 4-H Youth Development.
Also on Wednesday, the Building Commission approved two utility projects – one for nearly $17.2 million and the other for $32.7 million – at the UW-Madison campus.
Over the last 100 years, Cooperative Extension has been a bridge between University of Wisconsin institutions and county residents. Educational programs have grown with the county and kept current in meeting public needs.
University of Wisconsin Madison Agronomy Professor Dan Undersander told farmers attending the Vita Plus Dairy Summit held recently in Madison, that the bulk of nutrition of an alfalfa plant is in the leaves. Disease, rain, and harvesting equipment can strip the nutrition-packed leaves from the stem and leave cows wanting more.
Breads and cakes baked in glass jars and then sealed with canning lids are not safe to eat.
In central Montana, drones are dropping peanut butter pellets on prairie dog colonies. It’s part of an effort by biologists to save North America’s most endangered mammal — the black-footed ferret (or as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls it, the BFF). (The vaccine was developed by scientists at UW–Madison.)
“Camp Randall has so many memories for me and my brother — just growing up, enjoying that atmosphere of that stadium, it’s hard to compete with Madison. I think it’s just a great college town. I was lucky to be there,” Taft said.
The production facility will produce molybdenum-99, an isotope used to light up bone and soft tissue in medical tests, including bone scans, cancer scans and heart tests.
Meyer is most proud of her work when she has been able to disseminate this information to the community, and then the public latches onto it and makes it their own like the Strengthening Families program.
Noted: He served on the UW-Madison’s College of Ag and Life Sciences Board of Visitors and in 2011, was appointed by Governor Walker to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Board.
Noted: Wedig is a senior at UW-Madison where she is majoring in life sciences communications. She grew up in Darlington and got involved in agriculture through her dad’s landscaping business and FFA.
UW-Madison researchers have found a new way to potentially treat Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare, fatal and currently untreatable disorder.
Aseem Ansari, a professor of biochemistry and genomics at UW-Madison and leader of the research team that made this discovery, says this method represent a “new precision-tailored path to personalized medicine.”
For those with ash trees in their yards, there are pesticides available to deter the beetles from infesting them and mitigate damage for those that already have minor infections.
“There are some preventative treatments that can be done for ash trees,” said Erin LaFaive, horticulture educator for the UW-Extension office in Eau Claire County.
After deciding to write the memoir, Bingham said it was five years before the book was published. She attended the UW-Madison’s annual Writers’ Institute to learn the ins and outs of having a book published. Going to the writer’s conference was “all good,” Bingham said. She learned how to “pitch” her books to agents at the conference.
Animal lovers should be among the biggest supporters of animal medical research. For example, researchers at the University of Wisconsin have identified a protein that’s present in greater-than-normal quantities in dogs with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that afflicts more than 10,000 dogs a year. Eight in ten of these dogs don’t live more than a year after their diagnosis. Future research could determine whether the protein actually causes tumor production – and which genes are responsible for ordering higher concentrations of the protein.
The team from Madison is on its third prototype. Members hope to submit their plans by the end of the month and possibly advance to the building stage next summer.
Badgerloop won innovation awards at the first two pod competitions at Space X headquarters, according to Ryan Castle, a Bradford High School graduate who is electrical director for the team.
“With the opioid epidemic, everybody has started looking more for alternatives,” said Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed, medical director of UW Health’s Pain Clinic.
From April to October of this year, graduate students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Water Resource Management Project sought to get to the bottom of that algae bloom. Literally.
(Geared toward health professionals) Newly identified biomarkers may be able to distinguish fatal from nonfatal Ebola infections, ultimately enabling clinicians to prioritize scarce treatment resources, researchers suggest. Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues used a technique called multi-platform ’omics (multi-omics) to analyze and compare 29 samples of peripheral blood mononuclear cells taken at initial diagnosis from 11 patients who survived the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and nine samples from nine patients who died.
Ballmer is a junior at UW-Madison, where she is majoring in dairy science with an agricultural education emphasis. She is a 2015 alumnus of Clinton High School and the Clinton FFA Chapter.
She said she hopes to earn a master’s degree in agricultural education after receiving her undergraduate degree in dairy science. She hopes to use her training to become an agriculture educator and FFA adviser or an Extension 4-H and youth development educator.
Instead of making projections about hypothetical storms, a research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thought the solution might be to show people what could happen if a real storm from the recent past happened somewhere else — a storm like the one that drained Lake Delton in 2008.
Marinas and related industries and services contribute more than $2.7 billion to Wisconsin’s economy.
The Wisconsin Clean Marina Program is administered by the WMA with assistance from the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and Wisconsin Sea Grant.
“Some people set aside a little money out of every paycheck or shop sales all year to get ready for the holidays,” said Karen Ehle-Traastad, UW-Extension Family Living Educator in Vernon County. “If the holidays have snuck up on you, there are steps to take now to prepare for the season and stay within budget.”
For the 12 – 0 Wisconsin Badgers football team, it’s been an amazing season. And alumni like Steve Pipp are excited the team’s journey may soon lead to a shot at the College Football National Championship.
“They’re on the verge of something real special and as a Badger fan, an alum, it’s really exciting to see where this team is at,” said Pipp.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study released on Nov. 15 has officials in the ethanol industry frustrated, disputing the methodology of the study saying the claims of the study are not supported by fact.
On Monday night, with the electrodes hooked up to recording machines and other sensors placed on Bochte’s chest and legs, he slept during the baseline portion of the study at Wisconsin Sleep, a joint venture between UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter.
More than 145,000 graduate students are attending college for free, according to an estimate by the American Council on Education, which represents 1,800 college and university presidents across the country. For these students, who are often living on minimum-wage stipends, working long hours, studying and attending classes, repealing the tuition tax break could have dire financial consequences.
That fatality rate has risen over the last two decades, University of Wisconsin-Madison geriatrics professor Jane Mahoney tells Wisconsin Public Radio .
“Our fall-related emergency department visits have also increased over that time and there are many reasons for this but one is just the sheer numbers related to the aging of the population,” Mahoney said.
As you pass the turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberries to friends and family this Thanksgiving Day, you can thank many Wisconsin residents, University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni, and UW researchers for making this meal so special.
The second generation of the device is also getting more technical, adding a touchscreen interface to track patient process and apps developed in conjunction with bio-medical engineering students at UW-Madison to help patients with cognitive impairments.
The ingredients dairy farmers feed their cows impact overall cow health so much that Dr. John Goeser believes that universities should merge veterinary science with nutritional science. Goeser, an adjunct assistant professor in the UW-Madison Dairy Science Department, is also the nutrition director at Rock River Lab, Inc.
Over the past 100 seasons at Camp Randall Stadium, few people have had as much of a lasting impact on the game day atmosphere as UW marching band director Mike Leckrone. After 49 years at the university, he has helped create traditions and familiar sights and sounds for Badgers fans attending a home football game.
While most of his job is centered around music, TV and movies, the UW-Madison grad rarely misses an opportunity to mention his beloved Packers (or Badgers) from his NPR platform.
Wisconsin farmers working feverishly to get crops harvested before the snow flies may find themselves exposed to a variety of dust. Breathing grain dust can affect your comfort and is a health concern for all in the grain industry.
The findings could allow clinicians to prioritize the scarce treatment resources available and provide them to the sickest patients, said the senior author of the study, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virology professor at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Doug Reinemann, chairman of the UW-Madison Department of Biological Systems Engineering, has been named College of Agricultural and Life Sciences associate dean for Extension and outreach.
In this role, Reinemann will be in charge of the organization, content and effectiveness of the college’s Extension and outreach programs, as well as aligning CALS programs with those of UW-Extension Cooperative Extension.
In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published Nov. 16, 2017 in Cell Host and Microbe, a scientific team led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified signatures of Ebola virus disease that may aid in future treatment efforts.
“UW-Madison is unique, according to my colleagues at other universities,” says Steele, co-founder and CEO of Lactic Solutions and UW–Madison Winder-Bascom Professor of food science. “UW–Madison may be ahead of its peers in providing support to entrepreneurial faculty and staff. However, most faculty and staff, including us in the early years, are not aware of the resources available to them.”
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories partnered with other institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as the university had the rare opportunity to obtain blood samples from 20 patients sickened with Ebola virus during a major outbreak that began in Africa’s Sierra Leone in 2014.
The LGBT Campus Center is the only university-based center with a position dedicated to servicing queer students of color with its Crossroads program which was created in 2011, according to the center’s interim Assistant Dean and Director, Katherine Charek Briggs.With a permanent staff of four the center is small, but mighty in its work, impact and reach.
The competitors discussed how Farm Bureau can help first-generation farmers and ranchers get started in agriculture.
Alison Wedig and Connor Willems will be advancing to the state competition at the Young Farmer and Agriculturalist Conference Dec. 1-3, 2017 in the Wisconsin Dells.
“We provide information and inspiration to help new growers make smart business decisions about production, markets, pricing, capitalization and labor,” says John Hendrickson, the school’s coordinator and outreach specialist with the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.
The unions weathered a similar case that deadlocked last year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and they have since taken steps to build confidence among their membership so they will keep paying dues even if it’s no longer required.
“As a result of the dress rehearsal that they got, they all in their own ways have taken steps to be as prepared as they can be,” says Michael Childers, director of the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s not like they haven’t seen this coming.”
Joe Benish (Mike’s son) is a part of the farm’s livestock and equipment LLC and fully expects to be the next generation farmer in the family. The 26-year-old UW-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course graduate, has always planned on a farming career and started a custom farming business early on.
“My two years in Farm Short Course was a great experience,” Joe says. “I and two other former classmates talk almost daily. If I have a problem, chances are one of them have had the same problem and have an answer that I can use.”
The Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine or WARM program is designed to attract future doctors to rural communities to help combat the doctor shortage.
It is an education program within the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Aurora BayCare Medical Center is one of it’s extension campuses.
Noted: The CIG’s Geodynamo Working Group, led by Aurnou, includes researchers from UC Berkeley, UC Boulder, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, the University of Alberta, UW-Madison and Johns Hopkins University.
