Morningstar Inc., GE Healthcare and PPD Inc. share why they recruit Badgers
Companies say UW provides a goldmine to meet their workfoce needs. Hear from three companies on what sets Badgers apart and the unique ways they are partnering with UW.
UW–Madison and the State
Companies say UW provides a goldmine to meet their workfoce needs. Hear from three companies on what sets Badgers apart and the unique ways they are partnering with UW.
On Friday, May 3, 2019, nearly 100 people packed a room at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, appropriately overlooking the world’s best-studied lake, Lake Mendota. They were there to think about and to talk about water. Not just any water, but Wisconsin’s water, in a year that Governor Tony Evers has …
Good news for dairy producers in Wisconsin. Funding for UW’s Center for Dairy Research creates a new beverage innovation center where Wisconsin dairy innovators can work with UW to foster new ideas and products.
Last year, after the state passed legislation making it legal to grow industrial hemp, around 200 Wisconsin farmers gave it a go. It proved challenging for many, and UW–Madison agricultural experts in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the Division of Extension did their best to help, gathering and sharing production practices developed …
On April 24, the UniverCity Year program (UCY) and Green County hosted their End of Year Celebration during the Green County Annual meeting. This celebration marked the end of the second year of this three-year partnership between UW–Madison and Green County and featured flash-talks from UW–Madison students who have been working with UW–Madison experts and …
UW–Madison Day at the State Capitol, an advocacy and outreach event, was held April 10. More than 20 graduate student research projects on display included pollinators in Wisconsin agricultural landscapes, glaucoma treatment, how to treat multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, learning companion robotics, chemotherapy drug effectiveness, and more. Legislators and staff heard flash talks by UW experts …
Despite the ongoing consolidation of Wisconsin’s dairy economy, entry-level workers remain in demand. Yet many incoming workers know little or nothing about dairying, and for a large percentage of them speak Spanish as their mother tongue. Workers from south of the border were already well established in America’s Dairyland by 2008, when University of Wisconsin …
When a patient arrives at a hospital with an infection, her doctor must decide which antibiotic might have the best chance of curing her — no easy feat when disease-causing pathogens are increasingly resistant to multiple antibiotics. For that reason, hospitals often track the antibiotic resistance profiles of infectious microbes that they isolate from sick …
Wisconsin middle school students will get a sneak peek at life on a college campus through the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom program. Rooted in the Wisconsin Idea, Bucky’s Classroom is designed to increase college opportunities for all students by building college access knowledge and providing classroom resources focused on career exploration. Presented through the …
Governor Tony Evers, Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes and state Representative Chris Taylor toured UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Tuesday to discuss the importance of state investments in higher education. They met with faculty and staff members and graduate students doing research in such fields as systems biology, psychology, data science, tissue engineering and others. All …