“My mom’s a nurse. My dad’s an engineer,” she said. Nimmer enrolled at UW-Madison “because it’s a good science school” with a plan to study biology. But while taking a couple of theater electives she found her true calling. Soon, Nimmer won the role of female lead Janet in a stage version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and more roles followed.
The production facility will produce molybdenum-99, an isotope used to light up bone and soft tissue in medical tests, including bone scans, cancer scans and heart tests.
Adults who experienced high-stress childhoods are less likely to notice when a potential loss or disaster is right around the corner, often getting themselves into health, legal or financial trouble that could have been avoided, according to a new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After deciding to write the memoir, Bingham said it was five years before the book was published. She attended the UW-Madison’s annual Writers’ Institute to learn the ins and outs of having a book published. Going to the writer’s conference was “all good,” Bingham said. She learned how to “pitch” her books to agents at the conference.
Animal lovers should be among the biggest supporters of animal medical research. For example, researchers at the University of Wisconsin have identified a protein that’s present in greater-than-normal quantities in dogs with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that afflicts more than 10,000 dogs a year. Eight in ten of these dogs don’t live more than a year after their diagnosis. Future research could determine whether the protein actually causes tumor production – and which genes are responsible for ordering higher concentrations of the protein.
Noted: The result wasn’t a total surprise. A 2015 study by University of Wisconsin and US Department of Agriculture researchers found that bumble bee hives exposed to small amounts of chlorothalonil—which is widely used in fruits, vegetables, and orchard crops—”produced fewer workers, lower total bee biomass, and had lighter mother queens than control colonies.”
The medical story lines share a Madison connection: Dr. Jonathan Kohler, a pediatric surgeon at UW Health, who works on the side as a medical adviser for Hollywood.
Noted: One small winery that had a close call and is now looking to the future is Hamel Family Wines in Sonoma County. The family has longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison connections and their wines sport a badger on the label, albeit not exactly Bucky.
Consider it another dream come true for Stephen Thompson.
Noted: The Urban League has put on an IT Academy for seniors the last few years in partnership with UW-Madison Continuing Studies. Anthony got the idea after giving his mom an iPad and watching her connect to friends and family members on social media. (So much so that her grandkids blocked her on Facebook, he joked.) The Urban League also takes senior trips to American Players Theater, with golf carts available to transport patrons up the long hill to the stage.
Noted: After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he went to the Medical College of Wisconsin, then located on Milwaukee’s west side, and graduated in 1971.
A former Badger is back in town, sharing his story of service and inspiring others to setp up.
The line to enter a pastel pink Google “Donut Shop” on UW-Madison’s Engineering Mall one cloudy morning earlier this month snaked around the grassy quad, filled with students and others who wanted to experience the pop-up promotion for the tech giant’s smart speaker.
Noted: Greco holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning it in 1995. She has been recognized as an instructional leader and advocate for student learning at the state and national level.
At UW-Madison, 11 percent of 8,652 students surveyed in 2016 in the first campuswide climate survey said they have been subjected to hostility, harassment or intimidating behavior.
Jason Fletcher, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, Sociology, Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences, has studied the intersection of genetics and social sciences for years.
Donna E. Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services under former President Bill Clinton, discussed her experience in healthcare policy in a panel at the Harvard School of Public Health Wednesday afternoon.
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.
Everyone knows Veterans Day is set aside to honor those who serve in the U.S. military, but few know how it started.
FactCheck.org examines claims made by Tennessee Sen. Rend Paul about research by psychology professor Kristin Shutts and a collaborator at Cornell on how children decide which foods are good and safe to eat.
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.
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.
After the successful introduction of a UW-Madison pilot program that put free menstrual products in university bathrooms, a state representative from Madison is once again attempting to implement a similar policy on a statewide level.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is already world renowned for its food science programs, said Shelley Jurewicz, executive director of FaB, Food and Beverage Wisconsin, an industry cluster organization based in Milwaukee.
UW-Madison’s highly ranked School of Pharmacy was turned down for all but one of the faculty job offers it made last year, according to a university report released this week.
A partnership between UW-Madison and Madison Public Library, the two-day session drew nearly a dozen Madisonians who provided first-hand accounts of the protest and how it shaped their lives.
Although the DOJ hopes to have all 4,000 kits designated for testing to be sent to labs for processing by Fall 2018, UW-Madison’s genetic programs cannot join the effort.
I have lived the majority of my adult life in Madison, coming here, as many others have, to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I chose UW–Madison knowing only that it was a Big Ten school. As a first-generation Chicana/Latina/Mexican American and a person who doesn’t follow sports, I had no idea that the Big Ten was the sports conference that the Badgers belong to.
It targets an arrangement between Planned Parenthood and UW in which faculty members work part-time at the organization’s Madison clinic.
Noted: Jacob said because of his business, he’s on track to graduate the University of Wisconsin-Madison debt free.
Noted: The Treinen Farm corn maze in Lodi, Wis., features Wisconsin’s state fossil, the trilobite. The idea behind the famous award-winning corn maze came from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum
Noted: Because the conference emphasized collaboration between cities and universities, the panels were comprised of both university representatives and representatives of home-city governments. For instance, both Paul Soglin, the mayor of Madison and Charles Hoslet, the vice chancellor for university relations at UW-Madison attended the event.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and Lynsey Addario has several to share.
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.
Jeffrey Lewis, an outreach specialist for under-served communities at the University of Wisconsin Extension, will retire Nov. 3, after being recognized next week as a “distinguished prefix,” a title reserved for a small number of high-level academic staff “whose superlative accomplishments are evidenced by widespread peer recognition.”
University of Wisconsin political science professors involved in the creation of a new publicly funded policy center expressed concern that there wasn’t enough balance between Democratic and Republican speakers at its first planned major event, newly released emails show.
Alex Walker graduated last year from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and had been chairman of the college Republicans in Wisconsin.
Sara and Charles Rippey first locked eyes at their elementary school in tiny Hartford, Wis., close to 90 years ago. “They’ve basically been together ever since,” said one of their sons, Mike Rippey. The couple, who were 98 and 100 years old, died together on Sunday in Napa, Calif., when a fast-moving wildfire whipped into their house and they were unable to escape. Both were UW alums.
The Treinen Farm Corn Maze, in Lodi, WI features Wisconsin’s state fossil, the trilobite.
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.
After an hour of celebration and exploration of UW-Madison’s Alumni Park, visitors at Friday’s grand opening gathered for the unveiling of the new Bucky Badger statue.
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. Diego Calderon, a research fellow at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and an immigrant from Colombia, encouraged legislators to attend the upcoming World Dairy Expo in Madison and ask the farmers there how the bill would affect them.
MILAN — In the latest installment of our video series exploring the private working worlds of designers, Virgil Abloh — a designer, D.J. and first-generation American whose parents immigrated to the United States from Ghana — talks about his goal of having his Off-White label bridge the gap between street wear and haute couture, his unlikely path into fashion and the importance of using his platform as a multi-hyphenate Instagram phenomenon to promote messages of tolerance and inclusivity. The interview has been condensed and edited.
For more than two decades, he has been one of the top decision-makers at one of the nation’s most prominent TV networks, determining what shows make it to the airwaves – and which disappear.
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!”
Noted: The article credits much of Madison’s reputation as a sports city to the University of Wisconsin-Madison sports teams, mentioning back-to-back Final Four runs in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament in 2014 and 2015.
From famous scientists to accomplished actors and politicians, many notable people graduated or attended UW-Madison. Here’s a sampling.
Podcast: In centuries past, few children other than those of wealthy, aristocratic families received a formal education, certainly not one that had them sitting in a classroom for hours on end, from morning through early afternoon. That all started to change around the time of the Industrial Revolution, according to Andrew Ruis, medical historian at the University of Wisconsin and author of a new book, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States.
From Marshall Shepherd, who visited UW–Madison on 9/7/17. Includes image from and link to UW AOS: Our weather models tipped us off many days ago that Irma might be a long and dangerous storm. However, there were some things that did surprise me.
Noted: Supporters of the legislation are touting the economic advantages of mining. They’re also going on the attack, with one organization, the newly organized Natural Resource Development Association, using Twitter to highlight the conviction of a leading mining opponent for attempted arson and possession of a fire bomb at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Army ROTC building in 1970.
At University of Wisconsin-Madison, undergraduate tuition, room and board and fees will cost $25,699.60 this year for Wisconsin residents and double that for out of state students. McKinley calls that a bargain compared to other public and private universities.
Noted: Ebert holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also received a bachelor’s degree in political science from UW-Madison.
The audio clips were recorded by fieldworkers with the Dictionary for American Regional English (DARE) in the late 1960’s, as part of a five-year project to uncover regional pronunciations and vocabulary.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison economist who published a positive analysis of the impact of the proposed deal that would bring a Foxconn plant to southeast Wisconsin just opened a think tank on campus funded by the conservative Koch and Bradley foundations.
There is a lifesaving drug that owes its existence to moldy hay, sick cows and rat poison.The drug is called warfarin sodium. It prevents blood clots, and it can be a lifesaver for patients who’ve had a heart attack or stroke. It’s one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world.
Noted: The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau has projected that taxpayers won’t recoup their payments to the company until 2043, even assuming a substantial positive ripple effect in the local economy from the project. Another report by former Walker campaign adviser and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Noah Williams has pointed to other benefits of the project such as the more than $700 million in annual payroll it could bring to the area.
The executive creative director on the work is a Wisconsin native and University of Wisconsin alumni.
The catastrophic rain and flooding in Houston from Hurricane Harvey (now a tropical storm) has left the nation’s fourth-largest city in a state of emergency as the storm is expected to continue for the coming days.
Noted: One of them is gravely ill now. Tim Mickelson, 68, a native of Deerfield who rowed at the University of Wisconsin and later helped energize the Milwaukee Rowing Club, was diagnosed in January with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease).
