A new study has found that when droughts cause water levels to drop, the levels of mercury found in fish also plummet. In wetter weather, water levels rise and levels of mercury in fish increase.
From perhaps the first ever meme, to a proposal to get to class in a tauntaun on a snowy day, Twitter had lots of fun and news posts about @UWMadison in 2018.
A thoughtful snowman in Library Mall. Graduates water-skiing with their robes and mortarboard flying. State Street in a snowstorm. Posts on Instagram illustrated the beauty and energy of UW-Madison in 2018.
A UW-Madison professor helped start program that offers a way for patients with diabetes to easily access eye screenings, and now she and her fellow researchers are studying how to make such programs more widely available across Wisconsin.
Composer and music educator John Harbison, winner of both a MacArthur Fellowship “genius” grant and a Pulitzer Prize in composition, has created a new work for Sally Chisholm, violist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Pro Arte Quartet, that will have its world premiere in February at UW-Madison.
NOAA cooperative institutes, like the University of Wisconsin–Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), play a key role in mitigating weather-related losses by increasing innovation and research opportunities.
To prepare them for that next step in their careers, this class’ format not only reflects the structure and pace of an actual advertising agency, but it also gives them experience working for real clients.
A UW-Madison School of Nursing professor is using activity trackers on nurses to uncover important data about what causes fatigue in the work environment and what health systems can do to minimize its impact.
Thanks to a new educational video game — “Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case” — created by UW–Madison’s Field Day Lab and Wisconsin Public Television (WPT), learning about Wisconsin history, is “really cool,” a student says.
New research assesses the developmental trajectories of antisocial behaviors in both black and white youths.
What better way to get a break from finals then to pet a contented dog? Plenty of students took the chance to pet Charlie and Nugget during what was called a “Paws and Relax” de-stress session hosted by the University Bookstore on Dec. 13.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will award degrees to about 3,320 undergraduate, graduate and professional students this semester, with just over 1,000 of them expected to take part in winter commencement.
There’s nothing like being a Badger for the holidays. Holiday decorations are starting to appear all over campus; and red-and-white UW-Madison decorations are seeping into the homes of Badgers all over. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqkmhObBc9D/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=uu1vpq2nx9d3 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq-A6Z9nrad/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=u9p8amh22py2 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrJdavADw6-/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=11g6vqzhlcue7 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrL97_Wg-ma/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=7miluacshmyi https://www.instagram.com/p/BrER_S-j69V/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1orlp7o1wt297 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrCgEIxliCq/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1ro59e1lgszcp
The Wisconsin Language Roadmap emphasizes the importance of providing language learning opportunities for all Wisconsin students to develop skills needed to succeed around the world.
“I want students to walk away from my classes with a sense of understanding that enables them to have a critical eye to analyze the world around them.”
This Sunday, thousands of winter graduates will earn degrees from UW–Madison. Each has an impressive story to tell. Here are just a few of the remarkable tales behind the names you’ll hear at the Kohl Center.
“I would not have made it to UW–Madison without the military,” Noah Ash says. “I was given this amazing opportunity, and I have tried my best to make the most of it.”
The nomination is for Leary’s album notes for “Alpine Dreaming,” whose content comes from a record label, Helvetia, launched in 1920 by Ferdinand Ingold, a Swiss settler in Monroe, Wisconsin. Several UW-Madison departments contributed to the project.
Taylor is the fourth different Badgers ball-carrier to win the Doak Walker Award, joining Ron Dayne in 1999, Montee Ball in 2012 and Melvin Gordon in 2014.
Now’s your chance to vote for IceCube’s groundbreaking discovery as Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year, an annual competition that surveys the past year’s biggest scientific advances and elevates one to the top slot.