To use data that applies specifically to their dairy, producers can use an online “Heifer Replacement” tool developed by Victor Cabrera, a dairy science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Farmers who are hesitant about transitioning to no-till practices might consider doing a test and hiring someone to do the no-till planting. The Uplands Watershed Group has a no-till drill available to rent at an economical cost, said Daniel Smith, southwest regional specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nutrient and Pest-Management Program.
Wisconsin pork farmers are invited to join University of Wisconsin-Extension, the Wisconsin Pork Association, and the UW-Agriculture Colleges (Madison, Platteville, and River Falls) for the Badger Swine Symposium on Friday, November 9, 2018. The Badger Swine Symposium is being hosted at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the City of Madison have a long history of collaboration, including strong ties with the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The collaboration may continue in the future in a new way as the City of Madison and UW-Madison are being considered as the new homes of the USDA’s Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Across Wisconsin, universities are banning plastic straws, nonrecyclable takeout containers and plastic bags in campus dining halls. They are composting food scraps and collecting uneaten food for food pantries. And they are supporting local food growers or tending campus gardens to reduce the distance food travels.
Attorneys for the UW-Oshkosh Foundation, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and the UW System agreed this week to a one-hour deposition of Chancellor Andrew Leavitt after foundation officials say he and/or a staff member told three donors who had pledged money to the foundation to send their donations somewhere else.
Madison has been a leader in early voting efforts, with 14 places where early voting can be done, including all nine of Madison’s public libraries, and at Edgewood College and UW-Madison Union South.
In April 2017, two transgender women, one a UW-Madison cancer researcher, the other a UW-Madison teaching assistant, brought suit, contending that the ban was unlawful sex discrimination under Title VII and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
In recent years, some colleges and universities have set out on the long path of addressing their historic ties to systems rooted in white supremacy, including slavery, the Confederacy, and hate groups. Against the backdrop of a resurgence in white nationalism, this work has only grown in urgency and significance. At the same time, many institutions have deepened their commitment to atoning for their past by working to build a more inclusive future.
To compile these stories, she reached out to those she had met in UW-Madison’s Odyssey Project — a humanities course which studies topics such as the constitution, art and the literature of Emily Dickinson.
Mitchell says recent wet weather has delayed harvest and caused widespread mold problems in the field this year. While some soybean fields have been affected, Shawn Conley, soybean and small grains specialist at UW-Madison, said disease problems have been more prevalent in the state’s corn fields.
The board elevated deputy executive director Marta Bechtol to lead the state agency, which owns the majority of broadcasting licenses for Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television in partnership with UW-Madison.
We know some people are questioning the value of a higher education. But the data is indisputable: an investment in the University of Wisconsin System is an investment in Wisconsin.
With that motivation and skill on her side, Gray took a chance at auditioning for the UW Marching Band, hoping she’d find a special community within a school that has nearly 44,000 students.
Masatsugu Toyota led the work as a postdoctoral researcher in a UW-Madison laboratory. Those two collaborated with researchers from Michigan State University, the University of Missouri and the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Quoted: “If that holds up through election day that would be a real change from other recent elections,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, who has studied ticket splitting, the phenomenon of voters supporting candidates from both major parties.
The mid-April snowstorm that buried parts of east-central Wisconsin in more than 30 inches of snow left numerous collapsed barns and dead cattle in its wake. But those staggering Blizzard Evelyn snowfall totals — some of which were twice as high when factoring in drifts — didn’t cause the collapses, said David Bohnhoff, emeritus professor in the Biological Systems Engineering Department at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison agronomy professor and corn production expert Joe Lauer’s agronomy program includes 14 growing locations around the state. While he and his students have been able to make good progress on a lot of their trials, three locations, as of the middle of last week, had not been harvested yet as they haven’t been able to get into those fields.
An engineering research team at UW-Madison has invented a device which could dramatically speed up drug development.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying placentas from births at a local hospital to identify structural changes in fetal membranes that could help determine when a premature birth is likely to occur.
In recent years, many of the state’s UW campuses have seen declining enrollment, resulting in lost tuition revenue and creating tight budgets. Our guest says it’s time for the UW System to rethink its strategy going forward if it wants to remain sustainable well into the future.
A trio of Wisconsin attorneys, including two whose appearance in the first season of “Making a Murderer” launched them to international stardom, have started a nonprofit aimed at improving forensic science. Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, whose representation of Steven Avery in his homicide case for the murder of Teresa Halbach was featured in the Netflix docuseries, teamed up with Keith A. Findley, a University of Wisconsin Law School associate professor and co-founder of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
The curriculum is developed at University of Wisconsin-Extension and delivered in partnership with more than 50 host organizations like nature centers. It’s customized to explore natural history, flora and fauna. Courses in southern Wisconsin may focus on prairie habitats, while those in the northern part of the state may spend more time learning about different types of forests.
Communicating with families more clearly about college admissions and financial aid has become a higher priority for colleges than in the past, as more first-generation students enter college.
Our laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is also interested in the effects that fungicides might have on mycotoxin accumulation in silage corn hybrids. We are especially interested in the accumulation of deoxynivalenol (DON or vomitoxin).
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently received a grant to digitize recordings of scripts, correspondences and notes the prolific screenwriter recorded in the 1960s on a now defunct piece of technology, the dictabelt.
The story of NeuWave Medical, a medical therapy company that grew out of UW-Madison research before it was acquired a global health-care firm, shows how venture and angel capital often flows to suppliers and other businesses throughout the economy.
The University of Wiscosnin-Parkside is one of those institutions, as a recent lecture series and course has focused on answering what the term “smart city” — a term frequently used by Foxconn officials — truly means. The course was discussed before Foxconn decided to host a Smart Future Summit last August on Parkside’s campus.
“What the study that the university of Wisconsin is hoping to accomplish, is look at other things that we haven’t maybe focused on before,” said Calkins. “Now we have the technology to look further into what some of those risk factors may be from a biological perspective and not just those environmental risk factors.”
The cooperative received a USDA Local Food Promotion Program grant in September to further work on building a regional food distribution system. Project partners include the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, Willy Street Co-op, Epic Systems and Second Harvest Food Bank, among others.
“Students wanted to know where they could find positive internships and training opportunities for hands-on learning,” said Julie Dawson, University of Wisconsin-Extension horticulture educator and UW-Madison assistant professor of horticulture. “This really brought out the need for a more comprehensive training program.”
Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still estimates about $1.7 billion is spent on public research in the state each year, about $1.1 billion of which is at UW-Madison. He says the Medical College of Wisconsin makes up about $300 million, while UW-Milwaukee makes up $60 million.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeing an increase in international graduate students, bucking the nationwide drop in international graduate students.
A group of faculty and students trying to find ways to save some liberal arts courses and programs at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has been given more time to consider their options.
But another expert says applying the Brady standard to York’s actions here is a stretch. Ion Meyn, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said Brady is a “pretty demanding standard,” requiring disclosure only if a case goes to trial (about 5 percent of cases do) and only if the prior actions involved are so significant there’s a reasonable chance it could change the outcome of the case at hand.
Another lab at UW-Madison is also reporting progress toward the hydrogen economy. A team led by Materials Science and Engineering professor Xudong Wang is part of an effort to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Solar energy would be a much cleaner way to obtain hydrogen gas. But the team ran into a problem: the silicon panel used as the catalyst doesn’t last long enough.
Lawyers for University of Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus were working on two legal fronts Thursday — asking a federal judge to order UW-Madison to stop its investigation of sexual assault charges against Cephus and asking a Dane County judge to delay scheduling a trial on those charges.
When chef Jason Kierce took over as culinary director of Hillel, the Jewish student center on the UW-Madison campus, he didn’t have any idea of how to cook kosher. Now he makes meals for hundreds of students of faith, using food to cross cultures, comfort the sick and bring people together.
In 2008, North and Kaminski teamed up for a “Clip Cancer” fundraiser for the UW Carbone Cancer Center. The next year, North started his annual golf fundraising outing, Andy North and Friends, that benefits the cancer center.
The UW-Madison Police Department will be testing out an off-campus alert to warn students of emergency situations east of campus, while parents of students will now be able to receive WiscAlert notifications for on-campus incidents.
A jury has awarded $479,500 to a transgender UW-Madison employee and $301,000 to a transgender UW-Madison student after a federal judge found a state ban on insurance coverage for gender reassignment surgery to be sex discrimination.
For more than a decade, UW-Madison students studying food science or microbiology have had an on-campus brewery to study fermentation processes and conduct quality-control experiments. And in 2015, the university began partnering with Wisconsin Brewing Co. in Verona to bring student recipes to market.
The panel discussed how to deal with what Diana Hess, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, calls the “political education paradox” which refers to non-partisan teaching of democracy in a vitriolic and partisan political climate.
An emeritus professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology is the newest member of the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame. Ray Guries was inducted during a ceremony at the Wisconsin Society of American Foresters annual meeting in September.
The bigger stars and vocal leaders on that team were pitcher Warren Spahn and third baseman Eddie Mathews. DeMerit was a rookie on that team. He was signed after his junior year — there were no agents or a draft — at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
AgDay National Reporter Betsy Jibben talks with Harry Van Der Linden, President of Holstein Canada; Chris Galen, Communications Senior Vice President with the National Milk Producers Federation and Mark Stephenson, an Economist and Dairy Policy Expert with UW-Madison.
Maenner plans numerous educational events at which UW-Extension specialists make presentations. She strengthens connections between grower groups and UW-Extension, brainstorms educational-program ideas with growers, and manages research grants through associations, Guedot said.
A new private foundation aims to pool financial support for student scholarships at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh by giving alumni a chance to give back.
Jerry Clark, Chippewa County UW-Extension agricultural agent, agreed with Hagedorn that this is good news for local farmers. There is more milk produced in the U.S. than what can be used domestically. Both Mexico and Canada are major buyers of Wisconsin milk and dairy products, he said.
The festival will also include a session on why central Wisconsin is a great place to grow ginseng and a presentation from UW-Madison researcher Francis Halzen, who was involved in a recent groundbreaking astronomical discovery involving black holes and gamma-ray bursts.
A 600-stall garage could replace one of the last large surface lots on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and add needed visitor parking spaces under a proposal from the university.
Edgewood College’s $11,400 InTuition rate is slightly above UW-Madison’s $10,555 annual tuition for in-state undergraduates this year, and about $2,000 to $4,000 more than what smaller UW schools charge.
Suspended UW-Madison wide receiver Quintez Cephus, who was charged in August with sexual assaults of two women in April, sued the university on Tuesday alleging that it violated his constitutional rights by going ahead with a student disciplinary investigation despite Cephus’ inability to participate in it because of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Remembering the most memorable and important season in Badgers football history: 1993, when Wisconsin won the Big Ten and then the Rose Bowl, setting the stage for the quarter century of success that would follow.
In this month’s episode of Field Notes, Susan Knight of UW-Madison’s Trout Lake Station describes an unusual growth pattern of an aquatic plant, reminiscent of mushroom fairy rings.
In Wisconsin, researchers have raised similar concerns by showing that schools with more low-income families tend to produce lower FAFSA completion rates. Ellie Bruecker, a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student who studies FAFSA completion rates, said there hasn’t been much movement in Wisconsin’s numbers.
Those who vaped and smoked, known as dual-users, were better able to do both than those who smoked only cigarettes, said Doug Jorenby, a UW-Madison professor of medicine and the center’s director of clinical services.
Researchers at UW-Madison have helped develop a new system that could make it easier to capture clean energy from the sun and deliver electricity in remote areas.
The dip in enrollment is due to a stronger job market, more students graduating in four years, and declining enrollment at Wisconsin high schools.
A new study from NorthStar Analytics found that each year the UW System has a $24 billion impact on the Wisconsin economy, almost 8 percent of the total economy of the state. Moreover, the study found that 167,000 jobs are generated or supported by the UW System each year.
