UW–Madison and the State
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 …
Thanks to Rep. Dave Considine from Baraboo for taking the time to meet with students and teachers from Merrimac Community Charter School on their STEM field trip to the Discovery Building – at Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Research in the Rotunda at the the Wisconsin State Capitol features undergraduate research. UW System Ray Cross and UW-Madison Provost Sarah Menglesdorf were among the visitors. Undergraduate research is an important part of our campus and has an impact on all corners of our state.
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 …
Members of the legislative Joint Finance Committee, a bipartisan panel of lawmakers who deliberate on state budget matters, got a tour of the UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine on March 13 from Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Dean Mark Markel. Gov. Tony Evers has recommended $90 million of state-supported bonding to fund an expansion of 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 …
Trina Ford was already a nurse practitioner when she first started to recognize that addressing a patient’s mental health issues could improve their physical health. “When we controlled their depression, it was also easier for them to manage their diabetes. Their blood pressures went down,” Ford says. Yet most of the mental healthcare the patients …