Category: UW-Madison Related

In 1948, in time for Wisconsin’s centennial, Raymond Dvorak, the director of the University of Wisconsin band, composed a theme song for the Century of Progress Cavalcade, a pageant traveling the state. “Forward! One and All!” was adapted from a Haydn melody, The Journal reported on April 16, 1948, with the idea it would become the state song.

Then, when I was researching what kind of research is going on at UW Madison, still hoping that I could figure out somebody who was working on some jellyfish, I came across that they had the study going on in primates. When I saw it, I was like, “Oh, my God. That’s it.” And I realized that the kind of fleshiness and humanity of being monkeys was what that section needed instead of this more celestial kind of eerie quality that the jellyfish had.

Wahl was part of a Peabody Award-winning team in 2013 for “The Race Card Project,” an NPR series in which people were encouraged to talk about race by sharing a six-word essay. She also was part of the “Morning Edition” team that received a Murrow Award in 2014 for “Crime in Latin America,” a three-part series from a Venezuelan prison. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Barraza completed his PhD in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison after arguing his thesis in November of 1967. By that time, he had already taken a job working as an economist in his home country of Mexico.

Dr. Jerlando Jackson of UW–Madison is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on education and educational policy.

According to UW-Madison’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, around 11:50 p.m. Monday a bright meteor was observed in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.

The kind of vituperative attacks we see today on the startup industry are neither novel nor unique. Throughout the 1960s as the Vietnam War heated up, protesters regularly fought against the rise of computing, which was concentrated on university campuses and often involved in classified work for the Defense Department. As just one stylized example from that time, Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was bombed by protesters to prevent this sort of research from continuing.

Wisconsin Sea Grant is providing backing for an evaluation effort of the Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast (RRAF) through the Environmental Resources Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and University of Wisconsin-Extension and thanks to funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative that was awarded to the National Weather Service.

The next year they returned to Wisconsin so David Fugina could earn his law degree at the University of Wisconsin Law School, but Fountain City was never out of their sights. Even during his undergraduate schooling, David Fugina would return to Fountain City in the summers and weekends to work and hunt. It was only during his time in the south that he ever truly left the bluffside town he had always called home.

But now, scientists have spotted a weakness. After years of domination, garlic mustard starts giving up the fight. Richard Lankau, who teaches plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-authored a recent study on this in the journal  Functional Ecology.

It’s not meant as a slight against Errol Morris’ recent films to say that the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and UW-Madison graduate has found a subject to sink his teeth into with “Wormwood.”

In central Montana, drones are dropping peanut butter pellets on prairie dog colonies. It’s part of an effort by biologists to save North America’s most endangered mammal — the black-footed ferret (or as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls it, the BFF). (The vaccine was developed by scientists at UW–Madison.)

It all started Thursday afternoon, when Lil B tweeted, “WHAT UNIVERSITY WHATS TO LET LIL B COME LEARN AT YOUR INSTITUTION? IM VERY INTERESTED IN SCIENCE AND BIO AND ALSO NUERO SCIENCE I WANT TO OFFER MORE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND GLOBALLY AS WELL AS ANIMALS WHAT UNIVERSITY WILL ACCEPT ME? I DID NOT FINISH HIGH SCHOOL!!!” In true Lil B fashion, his all-caps message spread quickly. Schools like Pennsylvania State University, the University of Oregon, Butler University, the University of South Carolina, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Texas at Arlington and Brandeis University threw their metaphorical hats into the ring, linking him to their applications and boasting about their academic programs.

“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.

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.

Consider it another dream come true for Stephen Thompson.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.