UW–Madison and the State
The State Legislature has finished their work for the current session. This update, from the Office of State Relations, provides a brief summary of the major budget items and includes an update on several bills of interest to campus, UW expert visits to the Capitol and a look into our outreach efforts involving elected officials. …
UW-Madison students shared their research findings with legislators, state leaders, UW alumni and others during Research in the Rotunda on April 11 at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The outreach event allows students and faculty advisors from across the UW System to connect and spread their knowledge. All Photos: Jeff Miller, University Communications
As some UW–Madison students flew south for spring break, 10 forest and wildlife ecology students from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences drove north. It’s rare that a distance learning course offers hands-on fieldwork. And how special it is when that fieldwork involves a week in the forests of Wisconsin’s Northwoods, still blanketed in …
UniverCity Year is traveling to Green County. The UW–Madison program, aimed at improving the sustainability, resilience and livability of Wisconsin communities, will work with the south central Wisconsin county for the 2018-19 academic year and is seeking faculty who want to help strengthen the university’s connection with communities across the state. “UniverCity Year helps faculty …
In more than one way, Luke Zoet’s research is groundbreaking. The assistant professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studies bluff landslides on the eastern coast of Wisconsin—a longstanding source of concern for the state. “Because of this historical problem in Wisconsin, people have done all sorts of things to protect the shoreline, like …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison awarded the second highest number of Ph.D.s overall and the most life sciences Ph.D.s of any U.S. university in 2016, according to the Survey of Earned Doctorates, a national project that collects annual data on doctoral graduates. The UW–Madison Graduate School conferred 823 doctoral degrees in 2016. The year before, the …
Wisconsin companies are making a move – setting up offices near UW-Madison to take advantage of campus solutions and resources to advance their business. Learn about Lands’ End and Oshkosh Corporation.
Each month, the Wisconsin Ideas newsletter gives you a closer look at how UW–Madison is making an impact throughout the state. Throughout this month’s edition, examples of how UW-Madison research and resources can better position the state’s economy. Whether researchers are reporting on the costs and benefits of river infrastructure maintenance and investment or convening …
UW-Madison researchers aim to give physicians the tools they need to quickly and accurately choose the best antibiotic for their patients. And to help them choose the best antibiotic first, they are drawing inspiration from another dynamic process — the weather.
The resistance that infectious microbes have to antibiotics makes it difficult for physicians to confidently select the right drug to treat an infection. And that resistance is dynamic: It changes from year to year and varies across a region. To help choose the best antibiotic first, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are drawing inspiration …