Nationwide international graduate enrollments were down for a second straight year, according to a report from the Council of Graduate Schools. But there has been a slight increase in graduate students from other countries at the UW System’s flagship institution.
“This has been kind of the holy grail for a long time,” said Joe Lauer, who grew up on a farm and is now a professor of agronomy at UW-Madison.
On Thursday, UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and other staff members presented a report to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents regarding student safety. The presentation took place at the monthly Regents’ meeting, which this week is taking place at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus.
The lawsuit states both the UW System and former professor Michael Beitz violated the former student’s rights under Title IX and the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The university, the compliant states, “acted with deliberate indifference to Beitz’ sexual harassment of the plaintiff.”
However, enrollment then dropped by about 20 percentage points from 2013 to 2018, which translates to a roughly $13 million loss of potential tuition revenue, according to university data.
The safety review of UW-Madison’s Athletic Department was requested by the department itself after witnessing what happened with Doctor Larry Nassar who was convicted of sexual misconduct involving athletes at fellow Big Ten school Michigan State.
Task Force Chairman Mark Stephenson of the University of Wisconsin says the meetings will provide an opportunity to discuss in-depth the issues that were identified at the group’s first fall meeting earlier this summer.
The project with the UW-Madison interns, overseen by professor Fred Madison, continued from 2010 to 2015. It examined the links between karst topography, groundwater, and dairy farm practices. As a result of those ventures, Geiser reports that mistakes were uncovered in the existing soil survey data.
The work was led by UW-Madison Professor of Bacteriology Cameron Currie and Hongjie Li, a postdoctoral researcher in the Currie lab.
I just had the best ice cream ever at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW Madison makes their own Babcock brand ice cream on campus. Why is the UW ice cream so much better than University of Nebraska?
Lloyd and Daphne Holterman will be recognized for their contributions to the dairy industry, their community and the University of Wisconsin-Madison at UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honorary Recognition Banquet, along with three other recipients.
After several years of enrollment decreases, the number of students attending UW-Eau Claire is up for the third straight year this fall. That’s no accident, according to Chancellor James Schmidt, who has set an ambitious goal of returning the university to its 2010 enrollment level of about 11,300 students in the next few years despite a shrinking supply of high school seniors from which to draw.
The University of Wisconsin’s Badger Band performed at Lambeau Field for the last time under band director Mike Leckrone Sunday afternoon. After 50 years of leading the band, he’s retiring.
Julie Underwood, former dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, said a closer look at recent budgets shows it would be more accurate to call Walker the “private school education governor and definitely not the public education governor.”
Basse, who grew up on a dairy farm in Waukesha and got his degree in agricultural economics at UW-Madison, said marketers within the dairy industry must better promote the benefits of their products at the grocery stores to regain consumers’ interest.
Quoted: “Currently 26 of our counties in Wisconsin do not have an Ob-Gyn and other counties might only have one or two,” said Jody Silva, program director of UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Rural Residency Program. “It’s a huge problem and maternity mortality is on the rise so it’s something we just can’t ignore.”
But, even with those dramatic increases in Wisconsin, the state still lags the nation, said UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden, who has studied changes in voting patterns.
Dr. Van Os’ research focuses on understanding, evaluating, and improving the welfare of dairy animals from a biological perspective. She shared her findings recently with dairy producers at the Dodge-Fond du Lac County Forage Council meeting at Lomira.
Corn is looking pretty rugged in many areas of the Wisconsin corn belt. Areas in southern, southwestern, and south-central Wisconsin have experienced major foliar disease epidemics including the new disease, tar spot.
WRAP began at UW–Madison in 1940 to foster creativity in rural areas. Now part of Continuing Studies, WRAP partners with the nonprofit Wisconsin Regional Artists Association (WRAA) to showcase artists in rural and urban areas statewide.
With partners in Wisconsin, Iowa and Pennsylvania, researchers will have the opportunity to conduct trials at various sites to test planter technologies, cover crop types, planting dates, weed management strategies and more in the first three years of the grant-funded project.
One crucial decision concerns timing a treatment that will eliminate more than three-quarters of the tiny fruits, says Amaya Atucha, a UW–Madison assistant professor of horticulture and Extension fruit crop specialist, who has been leading the effort to introduce the new technology.
Since she joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty last spring as an assistant professor of dairy science and extension animal welfare specialist, she has traveled the state to meet with milk producers, processors and others concerned about the well-being of Wisconsin’s signature farm animal.
Tiffany Bougie is a UW-Madison graduate research assistant. She says after the hatch, the young turtles were humanely captured and the turtles that were strong enough to carry the small transmitters were set up.
James Anderson, the UW-Extension Douglas County department head, hosted a discussion in May with agencies involved in the April 26 explosion, fire and evacuation. He said the document outlines that discussion, which focused on “What was supposed to happen? What worked well? What could be improved?”
At least 40 other current state lawmakers — 23 Republicans and 17 Democrats — also earned degrees from UW System schools more than two decades ago, when tuition was thousands of dollars less and state taxes did more to subsidize instructional costs, according to a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin analysis.
FluGen, founded in 2007, has been working on a universal flu vaccine designed to cover whatever strain of influenza is circulating, based on research from the laboratory of noted UW-Madison professor of virology Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
About three dozen patients have taken ketamine for depression at UW Hospital since last year. A campus study of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” found the drug to be safe in healthy volunteers.
There is potential in 2018 for abundant volunteer wheat in late-summer-seeded alfalfa stands, says Mark Renz, University of Wisconsin-Extension weed specialist.
“We hope to define a set of best management practices for maximizing organic grain production yield while minimizing environmental impact and improving soil health,” says Brian Luck, assistant professor of biological systems engineering at UW–Madison and project lead.
The Racine Zoo’s conservation education manager has been named a 2018 Rising Star by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin and honored for her environmental education work at the zoo.
In March 2018, the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, which serves 8,600 students, proposed axing all of its humanities degrees in response to a $4.5 million deficit, an amount equal to 0.01 percent of the state’s financial commitment to Foxconn.
On the Aug. 30, 2018 edition of Wisconsin Public Radio’s Route 51 show, two University of Wisconsin System scientists discussed where Wisconsin stands in the bigger picture of climate change. The ripple effects vary around the world — wildfires in California and above the Arctic Circle in Sweden, a deadly heat wave in Japan, the bleaching of coral in the Great Barrier Reef, and, closer to home, a worrisome toxic algal bloom on Lake Superior.
College is a time for personal growth, and for Wisconsin Badgers linebacker Zack Baun, that’s taking place on the field and on campus.
Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison chancellor, said the Center for Dairy Research is one of the country’s premier dairy-research and education facilities. The hub for discovery is the result of about 200 individuals and organizations that helped raise funds, she said. John Lucey, director of the Center for Dairy Research and a professor of food science at UW-Madison, thanked the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin that has funded the Center for Dairy Research for more than 30 years.
Even P.J. Liesch, who, as director of the University of Wisconsin’s insect diagnostic lab in Madison, called it far out of the ordinary. “We’re seeing very unusual numbers,” Liesch said. “Typically we have some of them around, but in general, in Wisconsin this time of year, they start quieting down.
Ruling in a lawsuit brought by two UW-Madison employees who are transitioning to female, U.S. District Judge William Conley said the rule set by the state Group Insurance Board (GIB), which excludes coverage for gender transition-related care, violates a federal prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex under the federal Civil Rights Act.
Adding more steps to opt out of mandatory vaccinations could cut the number of unvaccinated children, according to new UW-Madison research. Researchers from the university’s Applied Population Laboratory analyzed how a law change in California affected the rate of unvaccinated children in kindergarten.
Alvarez explains why Foxconn has partnered with Wisconsin for ginseng market development. “With ginseng, we also think that there are medical benefits. And so we’re partnering with UW-Madison and looking with the Carbone Cancer Center and looking at what some of those benefits can be. So we’re looking forward to selling those products not only in Asia but also here in the US.”
C’est en fait le calcium, un nutriment de la plante, qui produit un signal chimique et électrique pour donner l’alarme, comme vient de le montrer, dans une étude parue dans la revue Science du 14 septembre 2018, une équipe américano-japonaise dirigée par Silmon Gilroy, professeur de botanique à l’université du Wisconsin-Madison
Over the years, UW–Madison personnel have supported the organic ag sector through research, teaching and outreach, helping to develop knowledge and spread information to support organic systems, participating in the UW–Madison tradition known as the Wisconsin Idea.
Management decisions made now can impact how alfalfa stands do during winter. In spring 2018 there were a lot of reports of alfalfa surviving winter, but much alfalfa was weak and yields were less. Winter weather was to blame.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said this project, however, is a unique one in that it has been six years in the making and includes one of the largest private/public partnerships in the university’s history. In eight months, almost 200 partners came together to donate $16 million toward the project.
Facebook and the U-W School of Medicine and Public Health will partner to study teens’ use of digital technologies – and their mental and social health.
UW-Madison Botany Professor Simon Gilroy reveal a communication system within plants.
Plants have a sense of touch – and they can even ’feel’ you picking their leaves.A new study has shown how plant leaves can fire pain signals, which are similar to those found in humans, to warn neighbouring leaves of impending danger.
Science is just beginning to understand the subtle but intricate ways that plants — once thought of as an inert branch of life — can communicate and process information about the world around them. Now new research out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has revealed nervous system-like mechanisms within plants that might be our most stunning look yet into the communicative world of flora.
A new study just published in the journal Science uncovered that plants can feel any tactile stimuli that touch their leaves, including the imperceptible movement of a caterpillar’s tiny toes. What’s more, they have a unique system of passing on the message to other leaves, warning them when an assailant is on the prowl and alerting them to brace for an imminent attack.
“You’ve got to think like a vegetable now,” says Simon Gilroy, a botanist who studies how plants sense and respond to their environments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A thousand miles from Hurricane Florence, in a room nicknamed the Cave, Derrick Herndon and a team of UW hurricane researchers in Madison study every angle and aspect of the storm to assist those on the front lines.
New research published today in Science is providing an unprecedented view of the signaling action that happens within plants when they’re under attack. A second or two after a plant receives an injury, like a chomp from a caterpillar, a warning signal radiates from the location of the wound, spreading out through the entire plant in a process that takes fewer than 120 seconds.
“Plants look like they are just so intelligent—they do the right thing at the right time, they sense a huge amount of environmental information, and they process it”, says Simon Gilroy, who runs the botany lab that at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But they don’t have the brain, the information processing unit that we think should be necessary to make those really elegant calculations”.
Researchers of a new study found that an injured leaf may send distress signals to other undamaged leaves when under threats such as being eaten. The fluorescent experiment shows how quickly plants’ internal communication really works.
According to new research, plants use the same signalling molecules that animals use in their nervous system. Our green friends don’t have nerves, exactly – but they certainly have something surprisingly similar.
When plants are under attack from a very hungry caterpillar, a warning signal flashes through the plant to the other leaves, revealed for the first time in the video above.The video, captured by Masatsugu Toyota at the University of Wisconsin was created using a plant modified to fluoresce in response to calcium signals. The details were published in Science.
“[For] the first time, it’s been shown that glutamate leakage at a wound site triggers a system-wide wound response, and the first time we’ve been able to visualize this process happening ,” says Simon Gilroy, professor of botany at the Gilroy Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and senior author on the paper out today in the journal Science.
Plants have no eyes, no ears, no mouth and no hands. They do not have a brain or a nervous system. Muscles? Forget them. They’re stuck where they started, soaking up the sun and sucking up nutrients from the soil. And yet, when something comes around to eat them, they sense it. And they fight back.How is this possible?“You’ve got to think like a vegetable now,” says Simon Gilroy, a botanist who studies how plants sense and respond to their environments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “It has been a long-term dream to transfer the ability to associate with nitrogen-fixing bacteria from legumes to cereals,” said Jean-Michel Ane, a professor of bacteriology and agronomy at UW-Madison and a co-author of the new study.
“Until (cancer) hit really close to home and as close as possible, you never really grasp the full scope of how this disease can be devastating to a person and to their family and friends,” Gard said.
Wisconsin is practically synonymous with dairy for many people, and the title of “America’s Dairyland” is even enshrined on the state’s license plates. While Wisconsinites may take the prominence of cows for granted, though, it turns out Wisconsin wasn’t always the Dairy State — at one point in history, it might have even been called the Wheat State.
