Cross’ plan includes merging the two-year schools with the four-year campuses. The 13 two-year campuses will become regional branches of the seven four-year campuses.
UW-Marinette, along with UW-Manitowoc and UW-Sheboygan, will join UW-Green Bay as of July 1, 2018.
For instance, two years ago, there were two full-time IT workers working here on the hundreds of computers at UW Marinette’s campus. And now, they have none. Instead, UW Madison’s IT workers come at odd hours in order to fix technology issues.
Faculty hope the merger means better support and the opportunity to teach juniors and seniors—that’s the best case scenario, they said.
That process will start Wednesday when Schmidt, accompanied by staff members as well as representatives from the University Senate, University Staff Council and Student Senate, visit the UW-Barron County campus in Rice Lake to meet with their counterparts there.
“There are many unanswered questions about how this new partnership will work, and we’ll be working collaboratively to answer those questions and find a path forward together,” Schmidt said. “Listening and working together through this is very important, and we’re ensuring that all are represented in the conversation.”
This year’s Go Big Read selection is “Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J. D. Vance. Chosen by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the book is the ninth Go Big Read title since the program was initiated by Chancellor Biddy Martin in 2009.
City leaders are officially asking the University of Wisconsin System to merge UW-Sheboygan with UW-Milwaukee instead of UW-Green Bay.
The idea first came up last month, and Common Council members voted Monday night to approve a resolution offering the recommendation, which would come as System leaders prepare soon to take up a proposal aimed at reorganizing the state’s public universities and colleges.
The long-time federal Perkins Loan Program for college and university students expired at the end of September after a two-year extension in 2015. Higher education officials fear the end of the program could mean a gap in financial aid for low-income students.
Republicans in Congress released their proposed overhaul of the nation’s tax laws on Thursday, including several measures that would place new tax burdens on colleges and students — and, critics said, could undermine charitable giving to higher education.
Investigations of plant metabolism (at UW–Madison) reveal how an enzyme variant with reduced feedback sensitivity may allow plants to switch their pigment palettes.
“That’s going to be a challenge for Walker to navigate,” said UW-Madison professor Barry Burden. “Whoever the Democratic opponent is will run ads showing Walker in the oval office standing next to Trump.”
Public universities in the Midwest have conducted some of the country’s most important research, leading to scientific and technological breakthroughs. And funding cuts to these universities can carry major economic impacts.
Most people aren’t able to say that they work with data from the South Pole, but Justin Vandenbroucke is the exception.
Vandenbroucke is an assistant professor in the physics department at UW-Madison, and specializes in high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. He works with data from the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory.
A recent article by Tamar Haspel argues that the local and organic food movement can’t fix our food system. If this movement were solely focused on “buy fresh, buy local” at farmers markets and upscale restaurants, we would agree. However, bigger changes are underway for sustainable agriculture. Farmers and others in the sustainable food movement pursue a broader vision of change in agriculture.
Despite the need for function, lots of use makes turf fields hard to maintain, said Soldat, an associate professor and soil scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With that in mind, he led a three-year grass study beginning in 2015 to determine the best lawn care approaches on sports fields at Racetrack Park in Stoughton.
The program that keeps watch over the management of dangerous pathogens at research laboratories still isn’t up to snuff, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).GAO’s acting director for health care, Mary Denigan-Macauley, will discuss the findings at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight and investigations subcommittee on Thursday, alongside representatives of CDC and APHIS.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior announced Tuesday it’s suspending 25 programs, including 9 majors, 15 minors and one graduate program. The university has now suspended 40 programs since 2014. The announcement surprised faculty, some of whom said they were unaware their programs were at risk.
Discussion in Christina Berchini’s English 272 class at UW-Eau Claire goes way beyond skin deep.
Students are asked to think and talk about one of the most divisive and uncomfortable issues in American society: race. And yet they relish the opportunity, even though the answers are not all black and white.
The proposed plan to merge the UW System’s 13 two-year campuses with one of the four-year universities was released earlier this month by UW System President Ray Cross, and caught some people off guard, including administrators, faculty, staff and students — stakeholders that have traditionally been able to share their opinions on big picture changes within the system before they’re made.
While much remains unknown, we do know this: Our top priority throughout the transition will be what is best for our students. Regardless of campus location, we will prepare our students to be successful in the careers that await them. We will educate them to succeed professionally and personally, to be leaders in the workplace and their community.
Another featured author, UW-Madison professor Jason Fletcher, has a different take on science’s role in today’s society as he looks through the lens of genetics. His book, “The Genome Factor,” examines the ways in which genetics advances are transforming the social sciences. He cites the recent rise in companies that offer cheap DNA testing like 23andMe and ancestry.com as factors in a genomic revolution.
This fall, UW-Madison began a four-year project to find out whether martens on the Apostle Islands are relatives of those that were introduced in the 1950s. It’s also possible the animals came from a group of martens that were reintroduced into northern Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, according to Jon Pauli, assistant professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison.
Master’s students in the department will work with UW alumnus and certified planner Mark Roffers, who serves as planner for the village of Prairie du Sac and a consultant for Sauk City at times. The students work to fulfill a degree requirement and gain practical knowledge and experience in planning.
In turn the villages will receive a visioning document with guidance on the latest in planning thought and practice, with emphasis on making Sauk Prairie a better place to live and work while furthering a high quality of life.
Some farmers can’t afford private consultants, and Cooperative Extension provides advice that’s not tied to particular companies and brands, said Heidi Zoerb, interim associate dean at UW-Extension.
“There are still a lot of people who feel much better talking with somebody local, somebody who is willing to come to their farm, who knows the community and marketplace, and who has a tie to the university,” Zoerb said.
“That’s the $64,000 question,” said University of Wisconsin veterinarian and Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory outreach coordinator Keith Paulsen. “Really what it shows us is that we don’t know enough about this disease and the argument that ‘This has been around forever and has never been a problem’ is really short-sighted. And this is new information that it could affect more than just one species and we need to know more.”
Public health officials have been worried about H7N9’s potential to eventually trigger a pandemic, or global outbreak.A new study could add to those concerns. Researchers at UW–Madison found that samples of H7N9 were easily transmitted among ferrets — an animal “model” that is considered the best proxy for human flu infection. And those infections were often lethal.
In a study published in Cell Host & Microbe, flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and colleagues tested a version of the new H7N9 strain taken from a person who died from the infection last spring.They found that the virus replicated efficiently in mice, ferrets and non-human primates, and that it caused even more severe disease in mice and ferrets than a low pathogenic version of the same virus that does not cause illness in birds.
A new version of the H7N9 avian influenza virus might be able to cause widespread infection and should be closely monitored, scientists say, although it currently doesn’t spread easily between people. Researchers at UW–Madison isolated the virus from a fatal human case and tested it and two genetically modified versions in ferrets, which are susceptible to both human and bird flu viruses.
In one year, H7N9 influenza’s highly pathogenic (“high-path”) strains have caused as many human infections as the previous four epidemics put together. As of September 20, there have been 1,589 laboratory-confirmed cases, and 39 percent of those people have died. “It was a matter of time,” says the flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It wasn’t surprising to see this change.”
The presentation, called “A Turning Point,” is online at 1967.wisc.edu. The Dow protest disrupted the campus for days as those opposed to the war clashed with supporters of the war and Dow. The Dow Chemical protests marked a very difficult time in the state, the nation and on the Madison campus.
Opponents to the plan say the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s OB-GYN training program would lose its accreditation if it were approved.
At a public hearing on the bill, Joseph Lalli, a medical school student, said he wouldn’t feel prepared to perform life-saving procedures for expectant mothers if he can’t get training on how to perform abortions.
“Though we understand and welcome bold reform when needed, it is the duty of the University of Wisconsin System to address the immediate needs of institutions and communities directly affected by this proposal,” the release said. “Student participation will be key to an implementation that will have a positive effect on our institutions in the present as well as the future.”
It targets an arrangement between Planned Parenthood and UW in which faculty members work part-time at the organization’s Madison clinic.
Now, a group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown a second, equally sensible result of the evolutionary pressure called predation: faster growth among the surviving fish.
The Treinens began the maze tradition in 2000, initially hiring a designer. Angie took over the designing duties in 2006 because designers are expensive, and she wanted to test her own wings. This year, for the first time, she granted an outside request and agreed to make a trilobite, at the suggestion of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.
The hope is the policy change will curb the shout-downs and disruption of speakers — typically conservative or otherwise controversial speakers — whose messages are opposed by other student groups on state campuses.
n 2014, a family of red foxes found a new home amidst the students and staff on the UW-Madison campus. Over the next several months, UW-Madison’s David Drake and his Urban Canid Project team invited members of the public to join them in their efforts to tag and track the foxes and coyotes roaming Madison’s streets. Quotes Drake and mentions University Communications’ Kelly Tyrrell.
Schuster’s Farm created a mural of Bucky Badger, a football and an arch honoring 100 years of Camp Randall Stadium, which is on the UW-Madison Campus.
“SnapPlus solves several problems at once, related to distributing manure and fertilizer efficiently while meeting guidelines for protecting groundwater and surface water,” says Laura Good, the soil scientist who has led development and testing. “The program helps to maintain crop fertility without wasting money or endangering natural resources.”
The program is used on 3.36 million acres, or about 37 percent of the state’s cropland, says Good.
In recent years, dairy farmers have become accustomed to cheap, flexible labor, said Jill Lindsey Harrison, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty member who studied the rise in immigrant dairy workers in Wisconsin, a trend that started around 2000.
Ane says that the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center, a plant biotechnology center at UW-Madison, provides the expertise that would be required to translate findings from poplar research to cereals like corn, wheat and rice.
Republican state lawmakers are once again looking to put restrictions on the use of human fetal tissue in research being done in the state.
Students and state lawmakers are calling on the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents to reconsider plans to take up a resolution that would create new penalties for those who disrupt events on campus.
Plants producing their own nitrogen would require less fertilizer and reduce environmental pollution, and researchers at UW-Madison will be studying it thanks to a grant from a federal agency.UW-Madison and University of Florida researchers will share a $7 million grant from the Department of Energy to study how some plants partner with bacteria to create usable nitrogen, then transfering this to the bioenergy crop poplar.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents are set to consider two policy changes that mimic recent proposals put forth by Republican lawmakers.
If approved, the resolutions would alter how campus and system leadership is picked and open the door to expelling students who repeatedly disrupt freedom of expression.
Dreaming big can pay off — if you are passionate and persistent. That was the message from four University of Wisconsin alumni who told their stories to several hundred students Thursday night at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase at Gordon Commons.
Dr. Ken Mayer published his findings based on surveys filled out by 2,400 registered voters in the two counties who did not vote last November.
“It’s a new class of astronomical events. We know very little about FRBs in general,” explains Justin Vandenbroucke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who, with his colleagues, is turning IceCube, the world’s most sensitive neutrino telescope, to the task of helping demystify the powerful pulses of radio energy generated up to billions of light-years from Earth.
Another site with oral history interviews is the UW-Madison’s library’s Wisconsin farms history section or history departments at the UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, or UW-Whitewater. The UW has over 300 oral history interviews.
To get an idea of how dire the situation is in hurricane-battered Puerto Rico, take a look at these before-and-after photos of the island.The images, from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite [and the UW–Madison Cooperative Institute of Meteorological and Satellite Studies], offer aerial views of the US commonwealth.
After Hurricane Harvey’s widespread flooding resulted in the surfacing of millions of mosquitos that hampered recovery efforts, two UW-Madison students headed to Houston last Wednesday to assist with the infestation.
Two UW-Madison students are helping to control an issue plaguing cleanup crews in southeastern Texas: a post-floodwater mosquito boom.
“There still have been no known instances of humans contracting CWD, but hunters should know the new study demonstrates the risk isn’t nonexistent,” Keith Poulsen, of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, told the Wisconsin State Journal last week. CWD is related to incurable illnesses, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease found in humans, which can cause dementia and death.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students traveled to Houston after Hurricane Harvey to aid in mosquito control and study mosquito-borne diseases.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students are in Texas helping identify the millions of nuisance mosquitoes that are hampering Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts and raising concerns about mosquito-borne diseases as floodwaters recede.
Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at UW-Madison, said addressing the state’s workforce needs won’t happen one employer at a time, but rather with an investment in infrastructure, education and workers.
The giveaway is part of the university’s inititative to give back to the citizens of Wisconsin’s 72 counties that support UW Madison year-round.
UW Madison’s world-famous Babcock Hall ice cream will be given out on Wausau’s 400 Block Friday during the kick-off of the Wisconsin Ginseng Festival.
Noted: To put the effects of storm winds into perspective, Steve Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, compared a brisk wind to hurricane-level gusts.
A macaque monkey in the Canadian study contracted CWD after eating meat from a CWD-positive deer. It’s a scary development said Keith Poulsen with the Wisconsin Vet Diagnostic Laboratory.
As for the name? Gehl and Wright are both UW-Madison grads. And the beer’s name is pulled directly from the Camp Randall tradition of “Wisconsinizing” the popular commercial jingle composed by Steve Karmen with the lyrics “When you say Wisconsin, you’ve said it all!”
What will happen to the forests of Yellowstone if a changing climate means not only old forests burn, but young ones, too? That’s what (former UW graduate student) Brian Harvey and his colleague, Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, are here investigating. Yellowstone’s recent fires offer a rare natural experiment to see how forests regenerate after burning and reburning at short intervals.
