“It’s complicated, because biodegradability changes depending on where you’re at and what happens to your plastic,” said George W. Huber, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who works on solutions for plastic waste. “And there are companies who make claims about biodegradable plastic that aren’t backed up.”
But its greatest strength may be its giant universities, such as The Ohio State University in Columbus, the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a number of others.
Anderson had been thinking about William H. Johnson (1901-1970) when Ethelene Whitmire, Chair and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, spoke at the National Nordic Museum in 2019. The pair of museum professionals had much in common. Both were past American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellows, both Fulbright Fellows, both spent time at the University of Copenhagen.
Colleges are also moved by research tying internships to better salaries and job prospects after graduation, said Matthew Hora, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies internships. “The market has been flooded,” he told me.
Organizers of the pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Wisconsin at Madison posted a thorough set of guidelines to their Instagram account, affirming that there would be “NO DESECRATION OF THE LAND … NO DRUG USE/ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION,” among other directives. Also: “DO NOT TALK TO THE MEDIA UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY MEDIA-TRAINED FOR THIS ACTION.”
According to Ryan Owens, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the decision “highlights the uncertainty going into the election and likely Democratic weakness. It’s unclear who will hold the White House in 2025.”
In a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, Nedergård and colleague Gary Lupyan from the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to investigate whether this lack of inner voice—which the duo have named anendophasia—could affect how people solve problems and retain information.
University of Wisconsin—Madison ranks 8th on the list in lowest average net price.
The Teaching Assistants’ Assn. at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which grew out of the anti-draft sit-in and campus demonstrations against Dow Chemical for its role in production of napalm and other weapons for the Vietnam War, is the oldest graduate union still in existence in the U.S.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) released eight satellite images of the storm on Tuesday, photographed by the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) fleet early Saturday.
“Library learning represents one of the most exciting frontiers in artificial intelligence, offering a path towards discovering and reasoning over compositional abstractions,” said Robert Hawkins, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a statement. Hawkins, who was not involved with the research, added that similar attempts in the past were too computationally expensive to use at scale.
Henry Bunn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says he remains sceptical of the hypothesis. Bunn thinks the method wouldn’t have worked in the bushlands where humans evolved, where hunters would quickly lose sight of fleeing prey. He also thinks endurance hunters would catch mostly young or old animals, but his team found teeth from butchered animals in their prime at one 2-million-year-old site.
“Even if only 85% of Black voters instead of 90% vote for Biden, additional turnout helps Democrats,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Concern No. 1 is just whether he will get a smaller share of the Black vote than he did last time around.”
As young Chinese-Americans raised (and, in Stephen’s case, born) in the United States, Helen and Stephen were in a rare position to guide Americans through this once-forbidden land. “We saw China through their eyes as Americans that could broker more easily into Chinese culture,” says Cindy I-Fen Cheng, author of Citizens of Asian America and professor of American history and Asian-American studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison. “We saw it with fresh eyes. We’re like, ‘Look at the wonders!’”
Outside the chancellor’s office at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, more than 100 protesters laid down side by side. Many had their palms up, painted red. Some wore graduation robes. Two of them, perched on a statue of Abraham Lincoln, held a banner listing Palestinian children who have died during the Israel-Hamas war.
Two thousand miles away, a handful of students held a largely silent protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Camp Randall Stadium. No arrests were made, the Associated Press reported.
That approach differed from one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where administrators in early May called in the police to break down the tents after negotiations failed. After the initial crackdown failed to end the encampment, Wisconsin-Madison later came to an agreement with protesters to break down the camp voluntarily before commencement ceremonies over the weekend.
Scientific discovery doesn’t always require a high-tech laboratory or a hefty budget. Many people have a first-rate lab right in their own homes – their kitchen.
Dr. Nick Hillman, a professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referenced a 2020 article written by Dr. Denisa Gándara and Dr. Sosanya Jones titled Who Deserves benefits in higher Education? A Policy Discourse Analysis of a Process Surrounding Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, telling Newsweek via email on Thursday that “they have found policymakers favor certain groups over others based on notions of deservingness.
A paper on the research – which also involved scientists from Case Western University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the Rhode Island School of Design – was recently published in the journal Advanced Materials.
The Cardinal-Hickory Creek fight is as much about legal principles as it is about the fate of the mile-wide section of the wildlife refuge the developers want to traverse. The actual environmental impacts of the current deal on the table are arguably not the worst outcome, explains David Drake, a wildlife specialist at the University of Wisconsin. With proper mitigation, he argues, the ecosystem could respond well to the proposed land swap. “After the transmission towers are constructed, there is a minimal impact at that point,” he explains, though he warns that construction would still pose dangers like habitat disturbance and invasive species.
Tensions persist between students and administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over an encampment at Library Mall, now in its tenth day of protest. Demonstrators are calling for the university to sever all ties with Israeli institutions.
UW-Madison officials and pro-Palestinian protesters said they’re willing to meet again Thursday, a day after protest leaders walked out of discussions.
Amy Boyle Johnston, author of the 2015 book “Unknown Serling,” found the story while looking through Serling’s papers at the University of Wisconsin. Serling, who died in 1975, had yet to start a family when he wrote “First Squad, First Platoon.” But he was already thinking about the next generation, including a dedication to his yet-unborn children urging them to remember “a semblance of the feeling of a torn limb, a burnt patch of flesh” and “the hopeless emptiness of fatigue” were as much part of war as “uniforms and flags, honor and patriotism.
“I was writing a memoir, called As I Knew Him, My Dad, Rod Serling,” Anne Serling, one of two daughters, told the Guardian. “And another writer, Amy Boyle Johnston, who had been doing a lot of researching of my dad’s early work and wrote a book called Unknown Serling, sent me the story. She’d found it in the archives in Wisconsin,” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Small, transient episodes of loneliness really motivate people to then seek out social connection,” said Anna Finley, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But in chronic episodes of loneliness, that seems to kind of backfire” because people become especially attuned to social threats or signals of exclusion, which can then make it scary or unpleasant for them to interact with others.
“Lawns seem to draw as much irrational hate as they do love these days,” said Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.”
“First Squad, First Platoon” was discovered in a collection of Serling’s writings at the University of Wisconsin by Amy Boyle Johnston, author of a book about his career called Unknown Serling. She gave the story to Anne, who included excerpts of it in her memoir As I Knew Him.
In fact, there’s a famous case, University of Wisconsin, when they were protesting against Dow Chemical, which was recruiting on campus, and they manufactured napalm, which was a chemical weapon used in Vietnam, which killed a lot of civilians and there was basically a police riot.
In fact, there’s a famous case, University of Wisconsin, when they were protesting against Dow Chemical, which was recruiting on campus, and they manufactured napalm, which was a chemical weapon used in Vietnam, which killed a lot of civilians and there was basically a police riot.
“The dairy industry has never had to deal with something like this before,” says Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and a former dairy veterinarian. “This is probably going to be the most important outbreak in my professional career.”
Cicadas are very loud indeed. Extension entomologist P.J. Liesch of the University of Wisconsin-Madison told CBS 58 in Milwaukee that a grove of trees with a bunch of singing and screeching cicadas could reach 70 to 80 decibels – a similar volume to a vacuum cleaner.
And for well over a decade Jo Handelsman, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been championing a state microbe. Among other things, Lactococcus lactis is used to make cheese, a big local industry. Professor Handelsman said the idea to make it a state symbol started off as a joke in a meeting of the bacteriology department.
Colleagues were considering how to educate people about the benefits of microbes, but then they decided “that’s actually a great idea”. The first attempt to pass it, in 2009, failed, but it’s back on the agenda.
In December he forced Universities of Wisconsin regents to freeze diversity hires, re-label about 40 diversity positions as “student success” positions, drop an affirmative action hiring program at UW-Madison in exchange for funding to cover staff raises and construction projects. Vos said after the deal was complete that he wanted an in-depth review of diversity initiatives across state government.
Dr. Sterling Johnson, a study author who leads the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention at the University of Wisconsin, said it would be very important for clinical trials to start to take participants’ APOE4 status into account.
This epiphany drove her (Patrice Willoughby) to law school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she began to understand generational wealth, the racial wealth gap, how school districts are funded through property taxes and how that plays out in the education of young people.
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with the UW’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, hosted the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics at the National Press Club, with the support of Don Graham and WaPo. This year’s award was presented to a team of NBC reporters who showed how authorities in Hinds County, Mississippi, were unceremoniously burying the bodies of missing people without notifying the loved ones still searching for them.
“I think folklore forecasts will continue to reside in our social communities and circles. They’re tradition,” says Steve Ackerman, retired professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He adds tactfully: “While old sayings of the coming weather still enter our social lives, I do think we rely more now on forecasts that better reflect our understanding of atmosphere circulations.”
If you find them, remove them before they start flowering or seeding, said Susan Carpenter, native plant garden curator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Native plants should be your first choice to replace invasives, but you can also opt for noninvasive ornamentals, Carpenter said.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, has studied how best to teach African American students. She told us an encouraging teacher can change a life.
“We still don’t fully understand some of the core aspects of their biology,” said PJ Liesch, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin. Though there are theories about the insects counting the years through the compounds in tree sap, soil temperatures and their own underground communication, none manage to completely unravel the cicada’s mystery.
“If it had liquid water in the past, and if we can really confirm that, then yes – Venus would likely be the planet I would place my bet on,” University of Wisconsin-Madison planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye tells Inverse.
ssistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Richard Thau, who conducts focus groups with swing voters, said his recent work finds that many young voters support the goals of the protests but are only lightly committed to the cause. “Support was a mile wide and maybe three inches deep,’’ said Thau, who conducted two focus groups this week with independent voters from across the University of Wisconsin system, all of whom were too young to vote in 2020. “It became clear that these students had empathy for what the people in Gaza are experiencing, but most would not go the extra mile to relieve the suffering of the Palestinians.’’
If concerns around bird flu persist, milk’s relevance may continue to slide. Even the slightest bit of consumer apprehension could cause already-struggling dairy farms to shut down. “An additional contributing factor really doesn’t bode well,” Leonard Polzin, a dairy expert at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Division of Extension, told me. For the rest of us, there is now yet another reason to avoid milk—and even less left to the belief that milk is special.
I spoke to Tyler Lark, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose 2022 study questioned ethanol’s climate credentials and concluded that it can be more carbon-intensive than gasoline. He told me that the margins on ethanol’s benefits are thin enough that, depending on the model you chose to calculate its effects, the results can be radically different. His paper prompted rebuttals from the Renewable Fuel Association, an industry group, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
There are some educational interventions that could help those at the lower end of the income-distribution spectrum. Educating consumers on certain kinds of fraud or teaching them how to negotiate or dispute debts are examples of some effective interventions, said J. Michael Collins, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and faculty director of the school’s Center for Financial Security.
Months later, molecular testing revealed the culprit: human metapneumovirus (HMPV), one of a collection of viruses that presents in people as a common cold but is “a well-known killer” in our closest primate relatives, says Goldberg, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More than 12% of the community that Stella belonged to died in the outbreak. Others were lost as a result of being orphaned. “Stella had a baby that was clinging to her body for a while after she died,” Goldberg says. “The baby subsequently died.”
Representation for people of color has been steady over the years – books for children and teens that have Asian representation are up from an estimated 2.9% in 2002 to 11.7% in 2023, according to research by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center.
If Trump continues to defy a lawful order of the court, Justice Merchan shouldn’t hesitate to use the only effective deterrent the law allows: imprisonment. John Gross is a clinical associate professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.
His colleague, Sainath Suryanarayanan, a researcher who wrote a 2017 book on environmental threats to bees and is also an associate director of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote the first Freedom of Information Act requests.
These critters might also be known as May bugs, June beetles or even screen-thumpers, depending on where you live, and are characterized by a reddish-brown or almost black color, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fewer construction workers means less — and slower — residential construction, which in turn leads to higher home prices, according to a 2023 report from researchers at the University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
These days Cornell, for example, admits roughly 40 percent of its incoming class without a test score. At schools like the University of Wisconsin or the University of Connecticut, the percentage is even higher. In California, schools rarely accept scores at all, being in many cases not only test-optional, but “test-blind.”
Two decades later, in cases in 1991 and 1993, this precedent led lower courts to rule for students who had been disciplined by the University of Wisconsin and George Mason University for “hate speech.”
That same year, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Black students called for a campus-wide student strike until administrators agreed to 13 demands. Along with “thousands of white allies,” they held rallies, boycotted classes, marched to the state Capitol, took over lecture halls and blocked building entrances, leading the governor to activate the Wisconsin National Guard.
rofessor of Political Science, Director of the Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Police use tear gas and night sticks to break up anti-war demonstrations at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Oct. 18, 1967.
That’s what led him to share the discovery on Reddit. From there, the poster was able to source the expertise of John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He regularly writes about paleoanthropology, the study of human evolution through fossil and archaeological records.
The phenomenon attracted the attention of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who shared thermal imagery of the ring on social media and then studied the warm water, revealing the cause in a blog on its website.
