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The Red Shirt returns to celebrate a century of song
For Badger alumni, students and fans looking for a fashionable way to give back, The Red Shirt, Second Edition, has arrived.
Will a well-mixed, warmer lake doom invasive fish?
The rainbow smelt, an invasive fish that threatens native species such as walleye and perch, may soon be feeling the heat - literally.
Irrigation system manages stormwater
This summer, Doug Soldat is saving for a not-so-rainy day. The UW–Madison soil scientist is banking rainwater, up to 8,000 gallons of it, enough to keep the lawn at UW–Madison's O.J. Noer Turfgrass Research and Education Facility lush through the driest weeks of summer.
Memorandum from the Provost to Category A Academic Staff
MEMORANDUM TO Academic Staff Members (Category A) FROM: Julie Underwood, Interim Provost RE: Letter from the Wisconsin Professional Employees Council (WPEC) to Selected Academic Staff…
RAs: Message to Faculty from Chancellor Martin
A message from Chancellor Martin to faculty regarding collective bargaining for research assistants.
RAs: Message to Graduate Students and University Community from Chancellor Martin
A message from Chancellor Martin to graduate students and the university community regarding collective bargaining for research assistants.
Curiosities: Does a dark-colored car heat up more in the sun than a light-colored car?
The external color does not significantly affect how much the inside of a car heats up in the sun, says Sanford Klein, director of…
Curiosities: Why do cats hate water?
Because we teach them to hate it. There are plenty of cats that love water, according to Sandi Sawchuk, a clinical instructor at the…
Curiosities: Why do onions make us cry when we cut them?
Chopping onions unleashes a “chemical defense that onion plants have to protect themselves against insects and microbes,” says UW–Madison horticulture professor Irwin Goldman. We’re…
Curiosities: Are there more geese in Wisconsin than there used to be?
The number of Canada geese in Wisconsin is very much on the rise, increasing exponentially since standardized bird counts began in 1966, according to…
Faculty aim to strengthen technology, science education by blending them
A group of UW–Madison researchers and Thermo Fisher Scientific scientists will bring together high school students and teachers to build and use diagnostic equipment that would not be out of place in university research labs.