“The last three months have only been about the fourth or fifth wettest, but out of 123 years, that’s a lot of precipitation,” said Ed Hopkins, assistant state climatologist through the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Amasino said some people may be expressing their opposition to monopolies in agriculture by being against the use of GMOs.
“It’s tough being a consumer these days when you’re confronted with all this information and misinformation,” he said. “But there is no question that certain technologies when deployed successfully by a company give that company a greater share of the market.”
“I think it’s important to get out of Madison and go to different parts of the state,” Chryst said. “Certainly, we’re lucky in Wisconsin. We’ve got a great following. People come from all over the state – obviously some from out of the state – but for us to then go out and thank them for what they’re doing, I think it’s important.”
Alvarez has been making similar treks across America’s Dairyland since accepting the job as coach at Wisconsin in 1990.
‘Udder’ happiness is the best way to get more milk from cows, that’s according to a new study by the University of Wisconsin.
It emphasizes the importance of healthy environments for cows and the impact of happiness on milk production.
Often, developers cut down trees to construct their buildings, then wait until the end of the development — when there often isn’t enough space left — to consider where canopy trees should go, said John Harrington, a professor of landscape architecture at UW-Madison who is a member of the task force.
In March, the rusty patched bumble bee was listed as an endangered species.One of the places this species is still found is right here in Madison. A visiting bee expert from California found a rusty patched bumble bee at the UW Arboretum in 2010, says Susan Carpenter, a native plant gardener there. Now the organization has a group of volunteers keeping an eye out for this species, as well as the 11 other bumble bee species found on the 1,200 acres.
Styer and Quilling have been accepted to the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) program of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, a nationally recognized initiative that prepares and supports students who intend to practice in rural Wisconsin and help improve the health of those communities.
The program was created due to the shortage of physicians in rural Wisconsin. While 29 percent of Wisconsin residents live in rural locations, only 13 percent of physicians in Wisconsin have rural practices.
The UW was the only institution in the U.S. to have frequent access to a ‘giant meat laboratory’ in its backyard. Students saw the application of meat science and technology at the plant. Company personnel (some became UW adjunct professors) provided lectures for UW classes and the company provided internship and employment opportunities for UW students.
For more than three decades, the Comparative Ocular Pathology Lab of Wisconsin has quietly helped veterinarians diagnose eye diseases while amassing an archive used by researchers in dozens of countries to study human and animal diseases.
At least four schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have chosen a best seller written by a young conservative: J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which explores issues of social breakdown among working-class whites, such as drug use and child neglect.
The committee that chose “Hillbilly Elegy” had a “vigorous discussion” about it, said Sheila Stoeckel, director for teaching and learning programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries. “We’re picking books there are not easy answers for. If we picked a book that there was an easy answer for, it wouldn’t be as lively of a discussion or exploration.”
UW–Madison Arboretum ecologist Brad Herrick interviewed on-site about the invasive asian jumping worm
There have also been efforts to reduce the amount of phosphorus—mainly in cow manure—from running off of farm fields into the Madison watershed. But things like manure digesters or voluntary management practices aren’t having much of an impact, according to Jake Vander Zanden, an aquatic biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Limnology.
The training was held Tuesday evenings at the Spooner Agriculture Research Station and involved a different horticulture subject each week including: annual, perennial and native plants, houseplants, landscape design, fruit and vegetables, weeds, wildlife, soils, insects, plant diseases and low input lawn care. Participants learned from a wide range of instructors from University of Wisconsin, UW-Extension, local experts and through on-line materials.
High levels of the air pollutant ozone still plague a few Wisconsin counties along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Over the past month, a team of scientists, including at UW–Madison, has been taking to the sky and water to better map the origin of some of the chemicals that create the harmful ozone in the lower atmosphere .
Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis with the UW, said that this spring’s events, with Wisconsin dairy farmers being told there was no market for their milk, created shock waves through the industry here and across the country. Even overseas, dairy people were aware of what was going on here and were “keeping their eye on the situation.”
While there were hundreds of headlines about the dairy industry during that time, the whole problem was more complex, he said. “Regional milk production has been evolving and that was a big part of the story.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 11 agricultural research stations across the state will soon be under new leadership. Mike Peters has been named director of the network of ag stations, where he will replace the retiring Dwight Mueller.
The bill would set new rules for free speech and expression on system campuses. That includes penalties for people who disrupt free expression on campus by engaging in, “violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, obscene, unreasonably loud or other disorderly conduct.”
Opponents to the bill argue the changes would violate the free speech rights of students who want to protest campus speakers. Supporters say the changes would encourage a greater diversity of political viewpoints on campus.
There are about 300 agriculture-related research projects going on at the Arlington Agricultural Research Facility, a part of the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
But only one of them – the dairy research facility, opened in 2008 – was a focus of Saturday’s event.
You’d think I’d be in favor of the “campus free speech” bills the Wisconsin Legislature is considering. I’m a strong proponent of free speech on campus, and I believe that our students benefit from being exposed to all kinds of views, even those that mock or directly attack the values they were raised with by their families.
When Hannah DePorter’s plant breeding and genetics lab at UW-Madison grows beets, only a fraction of what the students harvest winds up being used for research.Some of the rest goes to local food pantries and to students such as DePorter, who takes beets home to cook and give to friends. But there’s always plenty left over.
Every day while working in a research lab, Hannah DePorter sees produce wasting away in compost piles. “There were just hundreds of pounds (of vegetables) left there,” DePorter said. “I would just come home with a ton of vegetables and my friends would take it within three seconds and it would all be gone.” That put the University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s wheels in motion to develop Food Shed, an initiative to support local farmers and reduce food waste.
The H7N9 bird flu virus has influenza scientists on edge, due to an unexpected surge of human infections — hundreds of cases — caused by the virus this spring. Some new scientific findings aren’t likely to ratchet down those concerns. Refers also to unrelated work at UW–Madison.
On Friday (6/16), University of Wisconsin archaeologists will host a public event displaying artifacts at Aztalan State Park. Central Time spoke with Professor Sissel Schroeder about what the public can learn from these digs.
Earth and its parent galaxy are living in a cosmic desert — a region of space largely devoid of other galaxies, stars and planets, according to a new study. The new study shows this model of the KBC void is not ruled out based on additional observational data, Amy Barger, an observational cosmologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was involved with both studies, said in a statement from the university.
If you’ve ever traveled between Portage and Madison on Highway 51, you’ve driven past it – the flagship research facility for the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, the Arlington Agricultural Research Station will play host to a crowd likely to number in the hundreds. It’s the site of the 40th annual Moo-Day Brunch, Columbia County’s traditional salute to the dairy industry.
“It’s always exciting to be here,” said Schroeder as she watched members of her team check the measurements on the westernmost pit. “This is the third consecutive summer on this project to discover and explore what daily life at Aztalan was like 900 to 1,000 years ago.”
For twin brothers Cogan and Cole Kirchenwitz, joining the U.S. Marine Corps continues a family legacy, but the road ahead is the result of decisions they made entirely on their own.The Pardeeville brothers, 22, received their commissioning certificates in May in a ceremony after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Reserve Officers Training Corps. They were among 35 graduates who completed ROTC training, and in the military they will follow in the footsteps of their father and grandfather.
After dedicating his ride at the 2016 Ride to Farm to the two men, Ann and Merle came up with the idea of creating a bicycle ride around Bloomer that focuses on farm safety.
Just over two years after the accident, on July 8, the Tour de Farm Safety Awareness Ride will visit five Chippewa County farms for presentations on the safety precautions taken on each of the farms.
Proceeds from the ride will go to the UW-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course’s Ram and Jeremy Seibel Scholarship fund and to participating FFA chapters. Jeremy was a graduate of the short course.
Recognizing poisonous plants and knowing proper livestock management are important steps in minimizing the potential for poisoning according to Mark Renz, University of Wisconsin-Extension weed scientist at UW-Madison.
“We often receive questions about toxic plants, the level of toxicity, and what animals they are toxic to,” Renz said.
The panelists also addressed the nagging problem of the “valley of death” in funding startups in Wisconsin. While the seed round is relatively easy to raise, many startups struggle to get additional investment beyond that stage.
“There is a real regional strength here in the state. You look at what comes out of UW-Madison, -Milwaukee, the other institutions here—there’s a lot going on,” Arida said. “There’s not a lot of follow-one capital. There has been a disproportionate surge in seed investing relative (to later stage investment).”
The fairly common habit of talking aloud to yourself is what psychologists call external self-talk. And although self-talk is sometimes looked at as just an eccentric quirk, research has found that it can influence behavior and cognition. “The idea is, if you hear a word, does that help you see something?” said Gary Lupyan, a researcher and psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
While she had tried to get sober before, it wasn’t until her doctors treated her disease in several ways that she began recovering. Her treatment regimen includes enrollment in a methadone program, outpatient care and the use of a new smartphone app called A-CHESS, created by a UW-Madison professor.
Addiction CHESS, or A-CHESS, is designed to aid recovery and prevent relapse for people after they leave treatment for substance-use disorders.
A collection of more than 2,000 mosses has been discovered at a University of Wisconsin-Madison building known for its plant specimens. The collection was found inside a cabinet at Birge Hall, where the Wisconsin State Herbarium is housed.Director Ken Cameron said the mosses were gathered in the 1920s by several people including retired Herbarium curator Lellan Cheney. Cheney, who served as served as curator 1891-1903, died in 1938.
A native of the Midwest, Liz Anna Kozik spent much of her childhood surrounded by prairies. Yet it wasn’t until Kozik left her home in Naperville, Illinois, for her undergrad studies in Rhode Island that she began to appreciate their beauty. She opted to go to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin – not just so she could be close to the prairie again, but also to study the grassy habitat’s history.
Wisconsin lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would require University of Wisconsin institutions to punish students who participate in disruptive or violent protests.
Legislative critics say a controversial campus free speech bill advanced by an Assembly committee Tuesday intrudes on the University of Wisconsin System’s authority to run its campuses.
The committee endorsed the bill after it was amended to diminish the UW System’s latitude on the punishment of students found to have interfered with the “expressive rights” of others.
The Governor’s Steering Committee on Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Testing and Deployment will advise Walker on how best to advance the testing and operation of self-driving vehicles in Wisconsin. It will include a mix of industry, technology, regulatory and academic members, and build upon the selection of the UW’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory as a test bed.
Red Arrow American Pale Ale became available in stores May 1, and in just a few short weeks is nearly sold out. The high demand shows that the UW-Madison Fermentation Sciences Program (Campus Craft Brewery) has met its educational goals, while its partner, Wisconsin Brewing Company has exceeded its commercial goals.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have come up with a smart phone app for addicts that’s getting recognition from Harvard’s Innovation in American Government competition.
As talk of extreme budget-cutting is again in vogue in Washington, that argument appears to have resonance. But an attempt to reduce research overhead could pose the most serious threat not to well-endowed institutions like Harvard, but to state research universities and cash-strapped private colleges.
At issue are grant payments known as indirect-cost reimbursements. Those are the additional amounts that agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation provide to universities that win research grants, to help cover administrative and facilities costs.
Chinese people cheering on their country’s ascent sometimes comfort themselves with the idea that Asia’s other behemoth, India, is years from surpassing China’s population and decades from emerging as a potential economic peer. But Yi Fuxiang, a Chinese scientist based in Wisconsin, boldly challenged that assumption this week in Beijing. He laid out arguments that India may already be more populous than China, a view that has created a controversy about whose numbers to believe in forecasting China’s demographic and economic destiny.
In other words, funding models that encourage all universities to hit the same performance targets won’t be as successful. Rather, Snyder says, goals should be tailored to each individual school, because for instance, UW-Madison offers something different than UW-Milwaukee, than UW-Oshkosh.
The legislature’s Joint Finance Committee didn’t vote on the performance-based funding proposal as expected Tuesday, but it’s something they’ll need to address moving forward.
Scientists in Sheboygan will be measuring the area’s air pollution problem by land, air and sea.Sheboygan County has long had the reputation of having some of the worst air quality in the state — but scientists have not been able to pin down exactly way.“Having those high ozone levels along the Lake Michigan shore has been a perplexing science problem for a long time,” R. Bradley Pierce, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said.
The Joint Finance Committee is in the midst of rewriting Walker’s budget before sending it on to the full Senate and Assembly for votes. The committee’s work is key because the panel essentially finalizes the spending plan. Rarely does the Senate or Assembly make further changes to the document before sending it back to the governor, who signs it into law. Walker can use his partial-veto power to make changes to whatever lands on his desk.
Simon and Krenz have been great friends for the majority of their lives. Both excelled at prep track and field during high school and ran cross country as well.
But both took different paths to join the rowing team. The duo started school at UW-Madison last fall.
Now a student in his second year at UW-Madison, Roberts was born in Fitchburg, where his parents, Brian and Heather, still live, and attended schools in the Fitchburg portion of the Verona School District since kindergarten.
In French (use Google Translate): Karen Strier will never forget this January 20, when she returned to the Federal Reserve Feliciano Miguel Abdala, Brazil. The American primatologist had just granted himself a few months’ absence, far from the 1,000 hectares of forest he has been scrutinizing for more than thirty years. (May be behind paywall).
All hospitals and doctors who were Medicaid-certified could be used by high-risk pool recipients. That included all hospitals in the state and the vast majority of doctors, said Sam Austin, a health policy analyst at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute and the author of a 2013 Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau report on the state’s high-risk pool.
His lawyers are with the Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons (LAIP). They’re not part of the better-known Innocence Project but part of the U.W. law school.
Walker notes Wisconsin is poised to lead on driverless technologies – the UW-Madison was chosen as one of 10 U.S. Department of Transportation testing sites.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed tuition freeze for technical college students was rejected on Thursday by the Legislature’s Republican-led budget committee.
The committee instead opted to set aside $5 million over the course of the two-year budget for the need-based Wisconsin Grants financial aid program.
The move frees up $2.5 million per year to be spent elsewhere in the budget.
University of Wisconsin System officials confirmed Thursday that they and the Department of Justice are in “preliminary discussions” on a settlement that Regent Michael Grebe said would protect the System’s assets if the UW-Oshkosh Foundation was not able to pay back its loans.
“The metrics that might work for UW-Madison or UW-Eau Claire or UW-La Crosse are not the metrics that are going to work at UW-Parkside,” Ford said. “We want to make sure all students are counted and we feel like we’ve been heard. Every time we go into a legislature’s office, they say they know one size doesn’t fit all.”
Scientific breakthroughs surrounding human gene editing, for instance, have moved medical treatments that seemed science fiction just a few years ago within scientists’ reach. Today, tools like CRISPR/Cas9 allow making modifications to the human genome in ways that are more efficient and safer than ever before. And the science emerges rapidly, constantly offering new venues for treating what used to be incurable diseases.The idea of editing the human genome raises questions that science alone cannot answer.
The University of Wisconsin System will host its first-ever Dairy Summit next month in Madison to bring industry leaders together with world-renowned UW researchers.
Expensive specialty drugs — such as Sovaldi, a drug for hepatitis C, which can cost $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment — account for a growing share of pharmacy revenue, UW Health pharmacist Joe Cesarz said at a forum in Madison last month.
Lucas Hnath set out to write a sequel to Ibsen’s famous play, imagining the future of protagonist Nora Helmer. His producer, Scott Rudin, proposed a playwriting method you might call dial-a-feminist. Hnath reached out to several academics, including Susan Brantly, who teaches Scandinavian literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Toril Moi, an Ibsen scholar at Duke and the author of “Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory.”
A UW-Madison endeavor to create spinal tissue from scratch is one step closer to changing how your doctor treats your ailments.
The lab at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery has received a grant from the National Science Foundation that will fund experiments to create spinal tissue in a dish for the next five years.
An ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds is working to incorporate mindfulness techniques into everyday activities for elementary students.
The Kindness Curriculum helps students focus on their minds and bodies, while also adding elements of kindness and empathy.
What do you think UW-Madison Astronomy Professor Eric Wilcots eats on his pizza? Or what his greatest fear is working in the field? Find out during this edition of Science Slam! New show from WPR’s Central Time, in partnership with Discover Magazine.
